"Köbberling & Kaltwasser's book - Hold it! - serves as a summary of
the outfit's work so far. In it the authors stress that their role, rather
than that of a traditional architect, is to offer 'examples of empowerment
and the temporary popular appropriation of urban space... Architects could
help to convey how to do things yourself, how to experiment, and how to
harness potential'. So bicycles are built from the spare parts of a Peugeot
205; a disused bus shelter becomes a forum for community life in Linz;
small, shanty-type booths offer an escape from CCTV surveillance in
Nottingham; a pavilion near the stock exchange in Zürich becomes a meeting
place, a lecture hall and a soup kitchen; and a family house is erected
overnight on a vacant field close to Gropiusstadt housing estate in Berlin."
Tony Minichiello in MARK magazine No. 31
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