Arrows in the Fog
Or
The Hair of the Tortoise
By
Günther Bach
Günther Bach
Arrows in the Fog
© 2004 by Verlag Angelika Hörnig
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Illustrations: Günther Bach
© quotation: Hans Magnus Enzensberger,
Vom Blätterteig der Zeit, aus:
Die Elixiere der Wissenschaft © Suhrkamp Verlag
Frankfurt am Main 2002
poem: Hans Magnus Enzensberger,
Das Einfache, das schwer zu erfinden ist, aus:
Die Elixiere der Wissenschaft
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Translation: Robert Dohrenwend
Cover design: Angelika Hörnig
according to a photo of Silke Lübbert
Lecturer: Mitch Cohen
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ISBN: 978-3-938921-26-5
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Author
The Beginning
Evidently the time is gone
when you could believe that
it was possible to live
your life in step with the times.
Hans Magnus Enzensberger
For life doesn’t allow trial runs,
it’s happening – right now.
James Ogilvy
Bärger was packing up.
Even after four years with the company, he didn’t have a lot to pile into the two banana boxes. Really, Bärger thought, I shouldn’t lug all this stuff around with me anymore. Not after I finally figured out that domestic utilities were never my strong point. One more bit of misinformation passed on to me when I was a student, like statics. How did the professor put it: “As an architect, you need to understand only enough statics to make it clear to a construction engineer what you need from him.”
Right, Professor, but your exams looked a lot different!
That was a long time ago.
Bärger lifted the last pile of books from the shelves on the wall, building construction and building design texts; good old Neufert, the 33rd edition since 1936. The book had grown three times as thick since his days as a student in Dresden. Neufert, who had collaborated with Gropius on Measurements, Standards, and Codes, and then Bauhaus and the beginning of industrial construction.
How mixed all that was now, how easily blending ideas could
