Zara Pfeifer – ICC Berlin
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- Category: Book
- Topic: Architecture, Photography
- Publisher: Jovis
- Country: Germany
- Language: English, German
- Release: 2022
- Cover: Hardcover
- Binding: Thread
- Size: 21 × 28.5 cm
- Pages: 128
The ICC Berlin is a total work of art. A gigantic time capsule that has been waiting for a new utilization concept for almost a decade. Planned in the 1960s and opened in 1979, the trade fair building designed by Ursulina Schüler-Witte and Ralf Schüler with Frank Oehring's unmistakable guidance system continues to attract attention. While the exterior of the brute building is overwhelming, the interior has a calm aura and offers a view of the suddenly silent traffic outside through the panoramic windows.
Zara Pfeifer has dedicated her photographs to this interior of the building. With an unsentimental sobriety, she documents the interior of the "Koloss von Witzleben", the "Panzerkreuzer Charlottenburg", the "Halle Größenwahn", which has been preserved as true to the original as possible. Her photographs trace the remarkable details of the building and capture the state of limbo it has been in for years.
With a text by Florian Heilmeyer
Zara Pfeifer is a photographer and architect. Her work demonstrates her interest in social and spatial phenomena. Whether in social life in the modernist Alterlaa housing project or as a truck co-driver on a route through Europe: in long-term projects, Pfeifer inserts herself into the world she documents - not just as an observer, but as an active participant.
