WS 2014/2015 Gas Stations* Catalogue
Gas Stations* Catalogue
Winter 2014/2015
The gas station was the only true modern typology: with no history and no place. It was universal in that it addressed neither country nor countryside, but the technological being on the road. The gas station was the absolute architecture icon of the twentieth century. If its evolution reflected functional or infrastructural demands, it more importantly exhibited socio-cultural, economic, and political ideologies—from the fifties, when mobility used to mean freedom, to the nineties grocery hybrids. The gas station always stood for both models, the decorated shed and the duck: cover and (liquid) core, promotion and routine. It has been film set, ready-made, experiment, and corporate design.
What is happening to the gas station today and tomorrow? Are there programs, interpretations, or visions for the dinosaur? Is it a museum of the twentieth century?
The project investigates the gas station as a historical artifact in its layered social, political, and aesthetic meanings. It is set up to speculate on the future of the gas station, as a monument, a Wunderkammer, a church, a villa, etc.
Eras of research:
1) 1950–1960: Heroic Gas Station (Rimini vs. Beat Generation)
2) 1970–1980: Branded Gas Station (Oil crisis, economic turbulences)
3) 1990–2000: Convenient Gas Station (Hybrid typologies)
4) 2000–2014: [E]SPRIT Gas Station (Post-Oil, post-typologies)
Language: English
Page Length: 291 pages
Trim size: A5 (148 x 210 mm)
Edited by Mona Mahall and Asli Serbest
Graphic design by Julia Zumkeller
Stuttgart, 2015
Contributing Students: Lina Müller, Johannes Sack, Valentin Spaeth, Müller Hannah, Benjamin Böhringer, David Weber, Antje Ehret, Hisham El-Hitami, Christina Steinke, Vanessa Falkenberg, Teresa Würth, Tobias Bösl, Sümeyye Yigit, Hannes Kalau v. Hofe, Johannes Riekert, Radoslava Guirguinova, Britta Weißinger, Diane Stein, Michaela Wengert, Burak Kalkan, Julien Schmidtke, Julia Zumkeller, Milena Erdle, Maxim Tolk, Miriam Stierle, Ioannis Michailidis, Tobias Hees, Freya Dorbritz, Galina Rogers, Kyra Mootz, nanda kirsch, Julika Bergholz, Ewelina Rantamaula Jaskolka, Katarzyna Jakubowska, Gizem Mutlugeldi
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