Haus am Waldsee as a place for contemporary art has been presenting international architects who maintain their offices in Berlin in an informal ongoing sequence. In the summer of 2020, Haus am Waldsee will be showcasing the American-German architect duo Frank Barkow (*1957) and Regine Leibinger (*1963), whose work has been developing globally from Berlin since the 1990s.

Barkow Leibinger is one of the forerunners of a generation of architects who are constantly trying to expand the boundaries of their discipline through material research, digital fabrication techniques and the system-based production of buildings. Simultaneously they maintain close relations to other like-minded artistic-experimental practices.

Through this process the boundaries between accessible sculpture, building component, ornament and function dissolve. Through digitalization, working methods and construction become fluid. Architecture lies between in dialogue with technology while mediating between well established and emerging forms of production and making.

The centre piece of the exhibition in the sculpture park is the newly interpreted pavilion, which Barkow Leibinger developed in 2016 as a „Summer House“ for the Serpentine Gallery in London.

▼夏日小屋，Summer House ©Roman März