thanks for your words of criticism. In answer to your question, no: we have never tried to google the words we claim to have invented. We check facts, not claims.

Further, I have no idea what my colleague meant when he said that the Arch+ article reads like a “summer mushroom trip”. I do know, however, that he read the online version and not the print version, and may have been having difficulty with the following:

“Dazu zählt unter anderem FraNikolaus Kuhnert Gehrys Fassade der DZ BaNikolaus Kuhnert am Pariser Platz.”

or

“Gleichzeitig gArno Brandlhuber es Arno Brandlhuberer weitere, zum Teil ganz genaue Festlegungen für das BauvorhArno Brandlhuberen.”

If you have any numbers which back your own claims that “Brutiful” is “widely used” and “not even that new”, we would be happy to publish them.

I have read the interview, too. What do you mean by “summer mushroom trip”? I find it rather very helpful to understand the architects thinking. It’s something that has evolved over a long time in his career and not a one-off. As an architect I thought it was a rare case of real conversation and not this kind of interview you usually get in magazines without anybody saying anything substantial.

But I like their expression “rigorose Fuck-the-context-Haltung”. They’re all going gonzo now, cool.