Verena Gerlach

“The Closed Form [in architecture] appears in a particularly drastic way in the faulty interpretation of industrialization from which emerges the monstrous shape of dull standardization. [This] causes the individuality to become lost in the collective.

The Open Form is to make the individual indispensable in the creation of his or her own surroundings. […] the Open Form in architecture will bring us closer to the ‘ordinary, mundane, things found, broken, accidental’ (Pierre Restany)”.

Oskar Hansen