Selected Works/Ausgewahlte Arbeiten 19712023

Geoffrey Jellicoe's note to the edition of Neue Landschafts-architektur/New Landscape Architecture published in 1994 compares his drawing considerations with the works of Paul Klee. He believes that art does not reproduce the visible, but makes visible, and that architectural problems and their solutions are multi-layered. He is interested in the past, present, and future of an urban or landscape site and wants to integrate archaeological working methods as much as functional fulfillments and imaginative-surreal, sometimes utopian efflorescence. However, he has only been able to realize a few architectural and visual productions and has been increasingly pushed into the areas of stage design and other design areas.

Format: Hardback
Length: 120 pages
Publication date: 31 March 2023
Publisher: Edition Axel Menges

In his note to the edition of Neue Landschafts-architektur/New Landscape Architecture published in England in 1994 as Landscape as Inspiration, Geoffrey Jellicoe compares my drawing considerations with the works of Paul Klee. What at first sounds a bit highfalutin is correct insofar as I do not move exclusively in the banal everyday and functional space in everything I draw, design, and realize, but always reflect second and third surrealities as well. Art does not reproduce the visible, but makes visible, how Paul Klee formulated the process. Every viewer and reader could rightly ask the question: What do such expressions of art have to do with everyday architecture? I think: a great deal. And that is because all architectural problems and their solutions are multi-layered. Just like pure works of art. Every building summarizes and redefines its architectural, urban, village, and landscape surroundings. Intentionally or unintentionally, exaggerated or restrained, each building can look like a meteorite or bomb strike, an inconspicuous remark or a beautification attack. I am interested in the past, the present, and the future of an urban or landscape site. My view wants to integrate archaeological working methods just as much as functional fulfillments and imaginative-surreal, sometimes utopian efflorescence. I would never go so far as to formulate: Architecture is the necessary, and art is the unnecessary. Of course, every artist-architect who embarks on this complicated-complex path will have difficulties with the banal, seemingly superficial everyday reality in nature, the landscape, and the city. It is therefore, therefore, not surprising that I have only been able to realize a few architectural and visual productions, and that, in the course of the last decades, I have been increasingly pu.

Dimension: 297 x 242 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9783869050331