The leitmotif of the German contribution to the 12th Architecture Biennial in Venice, „desire“, is at the same time the topic of a survey among architects ; answers are given through drawings. What are you longing for? The response drawings are highly individual, diversity becomes programme: both in picture language and in the presentation in terms of content, reactions are quite different. But there is one thing they all have in common: the burning desire of something concrete. Sometimes it spreads lightning-like on the observer, sometimes time is required for a contemplative involvement with form and content. The architectural sketch, as it may seem, degenerated into a side product of architectural work within the last years, is back!

„Desire“ was the leitmotiv of the German contribution to the 12th Architecture Biennial in Venice. This was also the topic of a survey among contemporary architects who express their answers through drawings. The architectural sketch is back!