24 Houses - Jonas von Ostrowski digital culture as in: we see them

as in: we see them and we want to touch them

With riveting clarity

Kenneth Frampton’s updated essay frames Kuma’s work in the context of post-war Japan’s flourishing architecture scene and influential figures

the world is by turns subversive

24 Houses - Jonas von Ostrowski digital culture as in: we see them24 Houses contains a selection of ink drawings from Jonas von Ostrowskis series, Houses (2015 2020): detailed layouts of imaginary houses, each provided with its respective title. The houses act less like plans for actual houses to be built, and more like expressions of emotional states, spatial equivalents of various sensitivies or as stages for humankinds predicaments. Ostrowski uses the blueprint as a legible form, similar to a text, through which