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Text in English and German. In the summer 1978, the cover of the magazine Bauwelt showed a photograph of an unusual building. It was tersely introduced to readers as a 'private house with office in Bad Nauheim', but it was immediately obvious that this was a built manifesto. What appeared was a strictly symmetrically articulated, steeply rising facade, emanating dignity and composure. It also seemed able to manage without windows, which further enhanced its austere elegance. And then there were the strikingly slender, sharp-angled wall elements, which seemed captivatingly graceful, or even delicate and fragile -- as though folded from paper. The fact is that, long before Gilles Deleuze had cast his spell on a new generation of aesthetically ambitious architects, Johannes Peter Holzinger was putting his folding skills into practice as a matter of course.

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Gerd de Bruyn was appointed professor of architectural theory at the University of Stuttgart in 2001 and has been director of the Institut Grundlagen moderner Architektur und Entwerfen since then. He is also a member of the board of the Internationales Zentrum für Kultur- und Technikforschung. Dieter Leistner studied communication design at the Folkwangschule in Essen and the Bergische Universität in Wuppertal. He started to work as a free-lance architectural photographer in 1982. In addition, he has been professor of photography at the Fachhochschule Würzburg since 1999.

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