the NRW-Forum Duesseldorf (Germany) invited renowned architects, designers, and artists from around the world to submit designs for container architecture.

obviously we didnt miss the chance!

and we were not the only ones... as they say the response was overwhelming. submissions included not only existing container buildings, but also new designs that were created especially for the exhibition. two dozen of these designs have been reconstructed as models on a scale of 1:5 for the 'Container Architecture' exhibition; the highest of the models breaks through the ceiling of the museum. over 100 designs were submitted for consideration and every one of them will be included in a frieze of pictures running around the walls of the exhibition space.

but why organize an exhibition about containers? 'Containers are a symbol of the way we live and dwell in our globalized, mobile, nomadic age,' says exhibition organizer Werner Lippert when asked to explain what gave him the idea for the exhibition. he also quotes ethnologist Hartmut Boehme, who described the container as a 'fetish of the modern age' that stands for cataclysm, mobility, and change. for architecture critic and urban planner Dieter Hoffmann-Axthelm, 'the container is the building type of the near future'.

the exhibition highlights the container as the pictogram for a new, urban way of life and/or simultaneously as an object of modern architecture.

submissions came from PLATOON, Graft, Jure Kotnik, Adam Kalkin, Massimiliano Fuksas, Ingenhoven Architects, Han Slawik, Stefan Sous, Luc Deleu, and many others around the world.

08.June until 04.September 2011