Deutschlandscape by Urban Drift An exhibition staged at the V&A documents 38 built projects throughout Germany dating between 2000 and 2004 in a deliberate focal shift away from metropolitan urban centres to the more peripheral areas on the urban fringe. Deutschlandscape is an assemblage, the word itself a laconic parody of a typology.
A hybrid scape, it intends to provide a variable frame for a heterogeneous selection of architectural projects that undertake to reactivate spaces within the urban sprawl, suburban and de-industrialised zones. These are residual, often overlooked spaces, the amorphous in-between spaces which evade description, or those which have outlived their former usefulness.
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