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Handbook of Tyranny - Exhibition I
January 10, 2018In April 2018 the “Initiative Architektur” hosted the “Handbook of Tyranny” exhibition. The design concept by Brendan McGetrick presented fragments of the book chapters Slaughterhouse, Walls and Fences and Prison Cells in the scale 1:1. Visitors blend with the technical illustrations and inhabited them for the time of the exhibition.
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Handbook of Tyranny - the book
January 08, 2018Handbook of Tyranny portrays the routine cruelties of the twenty-first century through a series of detailed non-fictional graphic illustrations. None of these cruelties represent extraordinary violence – they reflect day-to-day implementation of laws and regulations around the globe.
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The Colours of Terror
August 25, 2017Currently, there are over 180 terrorist organizations worldwide. Unlike secret criminal societies like the Mafia, whose main objective is economic profit, terrorist organizations are threatening the power monopoly of existing nation states. To be recognized as a genuine opponent of a sovereign state and to distinguish itself from comparable movements,...
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Green Fortress
July 25, 2017Nothing is more deceptive than human preconceptions, one of the more persistent being that beauty is good and ugly is evil. Today there is hardly anything that can compete with our image of nature as something good and beautiful.
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Bunker Busters
February 23, 2017Contemporary warriors are retreating more and more from the battle field and exchange guns for computers like the one this article is written with. But unlike me, these warriors are sitting in maximum security installations like bunkers.
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Slaughter House
October 03, 20161,3 Billion Chicken Wings are munched away by Americans just for the event of Super Bowl. Thus it should come to no surprise that in order to satisfy our appetite for meet, worldwide 6.000.000 chicken have to be slaughtered every hour, as well as several million cows, pigs and sheep.
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Free Entry
August 01, 2016Let’s imagine the earth as a large house, a palace. This palace would be divided into 198 rooms, called nation states. This is not a lot of rooms, if one considers its vast surface and its 8 billion inhabitants.
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Human Race
June 03, 2016Since the introduction of the steam locomotive in 1804, the acceleration of human speed has for a very long time been the prime focus of infrastructural developments. A major bifurcation occurred in the 1840s with the invention of the electrical telegraph, which disconnected the speed of the message from the...
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Europe in Africa - Mail Online
June 02, 2016Sara Malm from Mail Online wrote an article about our project "Europe in Africa" featuring images of the projects and an interview with Theo Deutinger.
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Europe in Africa - The Washington Post
June 01, 2016Adam Taylor from The Washington Post wrote an article about our project "Europe in Africa" featuring images of the projects and an interview with Theo Deutinger.