Marusa Sagadin. She in Caps

18.01.2018 - 03.03.2018

Koenig2, Wien / Österreich

I lived on the top floor of Erno Goldfinger's brutalist icon, Balfron Tower for a few years and a rumour pervaded the building while I lived there. The rumour was that Goldfinger had the idea to take a street from the ground and lay it like a template onto a floor of the Tower. A street became a floor. So if you took Andrew Street from the ground, where Mrs Smith lived next to the Singhs' and in turn they lived next to the Folleys'. These people and their tethered neighbour relations were lifted from the street to a single floor in the Tower.... Now Andrew Street became floor 21 say and still Mrs Smith lived next to the Singhs' and in turn they lived next to the Folleys'. The thing is, because of the design of the interior of the tower, the chains of connection no longer simply went left and right as they did on the ground. They were not laid 1:1 like in Borges' tale, well in appearance yes but in truth not quite. Goldfinger left the surface image of the building intact but he folded the unseen meta-structure inside. In essence he sort of hacked the expected code within the building machine. (quot. Paul Knight)

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