CHUBE / CHROME: ARCHITEKTONISCHE PROJEKTIONEN / ARCHITECTURAL PROJECTIONS / PROJECTIONS ARCHITECTURALES by Robert Slutzky, Peter Versteegh and Bruce Dunning

Architekturmuseum Basel, 1988, First edition, 77 pp., 9" X 9 1/2", Softcover

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Research carried out by painter and theorist Robert Slutzky and EDFL architects Peter Versteegh and Bruce Dunning.

Slutzky was a student of Josef Albers and thus clearly stands in the American tradition of the Bauhaus. He became known in German-speaking countries through the book "Transparency", which he published in 1974 together with Colin Rowe, with commentary by Bernhard Hoesli. As a painter, Slutzky consistently deals with the color wheel as Itten worked on it at the Bauhaus.

Slutzky's years of work as an architecture teacher led him to develop a three-dimensional system based on this color wheel, which can be understood as a design theory, as a model of thought. The plans, drawings and models in this exhibition are not templates for conceivable buildings, but illustrations of a mental model. It seems important, especially today in a time of pluralism and complexity, to illustrate a theory that concerns the roots of architecture.

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