TATLIN NEWS #43

новые перспективы | Мариенберг, Германия | 4a Architekten | EvAngElischEs gymnAsium BAd mAriEnBErg | фото guido Kasper | текст евгения Бахтурова

New perspectives | Marienberg, Ger- many | 4a Architekten | evangelisches Gymnasium Bad Marienberg | photo Guido Kasper | text by eugenia Bakhturova Combination of German pragmatism with fauvism of Paul Klee and Hoffmann’s phan- tasmagorias has almost always been an all- prize lottery. In Holland and Germany it has become decent to decorate the windows with color louver or to clad the piers with color panels. The school complex designed by ‘4a Architekten’ is not an exception. Profession- ally designed and at the same time not with- out an intrigue presented space has become one of the main benefits of the project. In general the Germans always work very careful- ly with the context, and probably that is why the building plans are always close to squares and only on the upper levels or in the interi- ors they may acquire some special features. On the other hand the German and Dutch de- signers are not afraid of experimenting with color, and this work with surface harmlessly to the space, which is impossible to be spoiled

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