Comments on: Brandldude’s Progressing House

By: R.S.T.

R.S.T. — Wed, 02 Dec 2009 12:59:25 +0000

Since your comment function doesn´t seem to handle HTML, the clean link to Brandlhüber is:
http://img51.imageshack.us/img51/4827/bandfotosmall.jpg

By: R.S.T.

R.S.T. — Wed, 02 Dec 2009 12:51:43 +0000

Does this “Brandlhuber” or “Brandldude” guy really exist? I doubt it and think you created an artificial character referring to the hardly known mid-eighties NWOBHM-Band “Brandlhüber”.
See this poster included in a German teenmagazine from 1984:
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By: O.M.

O.M. — Thu, 26 Nov 2009 00:13:12 +0000

yeah, Albert Frey’s the guy…I was scratching my head trying to remember a specific place where I’ve seen a detail like this before and that must be one of the images going through my mind, He was a fave of mine during the latter stages of my education and during the short period that I actually worked as an architect.

By: I.W.

I.W. — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 12:23:39 +0000

Maybe there’s a lot of Albert Frey in The Brandldude. Those triangulated cables remind me of the free-hanging staircase Frey had installed in his first house during extension work in 1953. There’s also a similarity between The Dude’s rough-as-a-lumberjack’s chin plasterwork out front, and the monolithic concrete slab-job Frey did around the edge of his pool – complete with pre-cast, floor-height seating.

It could be time to update the Teutonic Favela comparrison you’d made, and have a stab at naming this bizarre piece of displaced desert modernism, washed up, as it is, in the Berlin glacial valley. Let’s call it ‘Urstromthal Moderne’ …