Particular conception of design processes; derived from Claude Levi-Strauss’s analysis of Edgard Allan Poe’s short story of two brothers who suffered a shipwreck caused by a whirpool. During the ‘Descent into the Maelström’, one brother, in awe of his immediate circumstances, is overcome with fear and drowns (engagement); the other brother detaches himself from reality, ensuring his survival by clinging to a floating drum (distance).
Gunther Vogt cit. Alice Foxley (ed.), Distance and Engagement (2010)
Günther Vogt, Basel Novartis Campus (2011) (Christian Vogt photos)
landscape theory 