Dynamic Forces COOP HIMMELB(L)AU
BMW Welt Munich

The plan was to publish a book about BMW Welt by Coop Himmelb(l)au, covering everything from winning the competition to the completion of the building: a formidable task given the complexity of this mega project. What ultimately resulted goes far beyond this initial objective. In a view of the extraordinary cultural and spatial dimensions of what is a unique building in recent architectural history, the entire theoretical and architectural scope of the oeuvre of Wolf D. Prix unfolds here, with analogies drawn to earlier works and an intensification of his theoretical insights. (Excerpt Foreword Kristin Feireiss)