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WERKSHOW: 25 Years of the Nexialist Organization – A Monumental Archive Release Spanning Universes! Architecture as text, text as sound, sound as architecture: This guiding principle has defined the Nexialist Organization since its inception in the year 2000. To mark our 25th anniversary, I am looking back at decades of transdisciplinary inquiry and sonic constructivism. With WERKSHOW, I am releasing a comprehensive archive that goes far beyond a best-of compilation—it is a sonic DNA analysis of more than a quarter-century of work. Inside the Vault (100 Tracks & 10 Films): This release bundles milestones that document the evolution from human-machine synthesis to spatial analysis: Full albums, including Angel Position: The "opus magnum" recorded under the Fragment King alias as a synthesis of lyrical defiance and conceptual critique; Generating Space: An experimental study in sonic architecture under the alias Torso, where digitally processed sound explores imaginary spat...

2025 im Rückspiegel der Nexialist Agency for Research and Communication 2025 war ein Jahr voller Überraschungen und mit überraschend vielen Aufträgen – in allen Bereichen, in denen ich "kreativ aktiv" bin oder publizistische Dienstleistungen anbiete. Architektur, Städtebau, Stadtplanung, Umwelt: Mein Kollege Ifte Ahmed von der University of Newcastle lud mich ein, das Kapitel "Infrastructure Recovery" für die Encyclopedia of Disaster Risk Reduction (Springer Nature) zu schreiben. Für den Katalog der Ausstellung "Democratic Design" im Architekturforum Aedes in Berlin verfasste ich im Auftrag der Architekten von Hirner & Riehl den Beitrag über Bellevue di Monaco unter dem Titel "Democratic Design – The Bellevue Code". Und mein Kollege Alexander Gutzmer lud mich erneut ein, bei urban.matters mitzuwirken, dem Magazin für Stadtideen von Ehret+Klein. Das Essay "Arbeitersiedlungen: Eine Antwort auf die Wohnungskrise?" erschien in Ausgabe 5...

Here's a double German and English post on participatory housing projects and two publications I authored that recently came out. Zeitgenössischer und gemeinnütziger Wohnungsbau – partizipativ geplant, individuell angeeignet, architektonisch angemessen – verspricht mehr als nur Raum. Ihre prozesshafte Entstehung bietet Beständigkeit. In einer Welt, in der Anonymität und Wandel zum Risiko werden, können sich Bewohner auf diese Weise Orte aneignen, die als fester Bezugspunkt dienen – unverwechselbar, verlässlich, bezahlbar. Oft sind sie Zentren sozialen und nachbarschaftlichen Lebens. "Arbeitersiedlungen – eine Antwort auf die Wohnungskrise?" ist erschienen in urban.matters 05/2025, herausgegeben von Alexander Gutzmer für Ehret + Klein. Inhalt: Sie funktionieren wie Kleinstädte, sind aber letztlich künstlich konzipierte Räume: die Arbeitersiedlungen, in denen große Unternehmen lange ihre Arbeitenden unterbrachten. Interessant – aber auch ein Modell für die Zukunft? Arbeit...

Critical Void encapsulates everything the Nexialist Organization set out to do: create projects at the intersection of architecture, music, and visual design through shared creative methods and theoretical inquiry.  A site-specific audio analysis and performance, Critical Void examined the planning crisis of Munich’s MaximiliansForum through sound, dialogue, and documentation. Critical Void performance, MaximiliansForum München. Photos: Andreas Graf  Critical Void is an analytical audio work based on an urban study of Munich’s MaximiliansForum and its complex planning history. Developed by Z’EV and Mark Kammerbauer, the project combined interviews, archival research, and live performance into a sonic investigation of urban transformation. The MaximiliansForum, located beneath the intersection of Maximilianstraße and Altstadtring, was originally conceived as a traffic tunnel but repurposed as a pedestrian underpass and later as an art space. Its ambiguous spat...

Urban Evolution was a key performance that materialized the ethos of the Nexialist Organization as a transdisciplinary platform connecting architecture, music, and visual design through shared creative methods and theoretical inquiry. A public-space performance in Weimar, Urban Evolution visualized cycles of construction and destruction to explore the city as a living, self-transforming system. Cities embody the continuous processes of building, destruction, and renewal — processes triggered by crisis, politics, or market forces. Urban Evolution sought to make these transformations visible and experiential through a live performance on the Theaterplatz in Weimar, Germany. Developed within a research project at Bauhaus-Universität Weimar, the work reimagined urban history as a performative cycle of creation, collapse, and rebirth. Temporary structures made of wooden frames and cardboard (3.5 × 3.5 × 7 feet) were moved by individual performers across the square. As they...

The Mimesis Operation was a true manifestation of what the Nexialist Organization was about: a transdisciplinary platform connecting architecture, music, and visual design through shared creative methods and theoretical inquiry. A site-specific sound operation conducted within an architectural space, Mimesis transformed a building’s pneumatic facade into a resonant instrument, revealing the acoustic identity of architecture itself. Nexialist Operation Mimesis was realized with technical assistance from N. Tezkosar.   On May 15, 2004, the Nexialist Organization conducted an operation in the studio building Mimesis in Putzbrunn, near Munich, designed by architect Peter Haimerl. The building itself — two cube-shaped structures approximately six meters per side — served as the sound creation device. One of these cubes featured two pneumatic transparent vinyl facades that became the focus of the experiment. The operation used electroacoustic, digital-acoustic, and video recording m...