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Peter Fritz

For the moment this is a very short piece simply linking to an article elsewhere on the web. Not new by any means. It dates from 2013 when the work of Peter Fritz was displayed at the Venice art biennale. The buildings are considerably older, apparently from the 1950s and 1960s. Peter Fritz was an Austrian insurance clerk. His work, consisting of 387 model buildings, was discovered in a junk shop in 1993.

They are described as "a near-encyclopedic inventory of all manner of provincial architectural styles, from farmhouses to bank buildings, churches to traditional single family homes, villas to gas stations..... assembled with care from a combination of easily acquired materials: cardboard, matchboxes, wallpaper scraps, adhesive foil and magazine pages."

Take a look at the Designboom article for yourself. Founded in Milan in 1999, designboom claims to be the world’s first online magazine and to be "the go-to designation for all things architecture".

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David, February 2021