With Photo Essays by Paul Ott and an Epilogue by Angelika Fitz

Whoop to the Duck! is both a comprehensive retrospective and a preview of the work of the SPLITTERWERK label, active in the conflictive context between engineering and art since 1988. The publication covers the spectrum from urbanistic designs for our „post-urban society“ to the return of the ornament and the exemplary implementation of new housing designs. Frank Lloyd Wright's open plan, Adolf Loos' Raumplan or Margarete Schütte Lihotzky's Frankfurt Kitchen find their contemporary continuation in the Graz Apartment. In the 21st century, the walls have become a sort of custom-made wallpaper, a world of images which allows functions to be added „on demand“. The investigation of experimental surfaces has led SPLITTERWERK to fundamentally reassess imagery in architecture. It is a revival of a different nature for the „duck“ (R. Venturi / D. Scott Brown) which calls for a further paradigm shift in architecture.