Principles in the labyrinth: Clashes between Nature and Culture.

Just as the vast Khumbu Glacier keeps pushing giant rocks down the valley at the foot of Mount Everest, glaciers of the distant past deposited large boulders on the bedrock beneath Manhattan. This foundation molded by ice now anchors the iconic skyline. Such linkages between nature and culture, with all the geopolitical eruptions they have provoked, are central to the work of Felix Breidenbach (b. Langen near Frankfurt, 1986; lives and works in Frankfurt). In his practice he reflects upon architecture...