- Bernhard Hoesli - collage and architecture

Hoesli’s collages were personal explorations that
reveal a lot about his way of seeing and working.
They brought up challenges interpreted as testing
grounds for the design process he implemented
in teaching. Hoesli’s commentary in the
seminal Transparency essay is more concise and
applicable than Rowe and Slutzky’s overly specific
comparisons. For Hoesli, “this was a matter of
implied as opposed to literal visual continuities
and overlaps, and the perception of deep space
constantly opposed to the implication of shallow
space.” Transparency allows us to see structures
through a lens independent of the differences
between historical and modern – a tool for the
production of complex systems of order during the
design process.
“Collage was not the celebration of our victory over
modernity. It was living out the true promise of
modernity as something both existentially fateful
and socially cohesive.”
Bernhard Hoesli Monograph: Kevin Pappa