With the exhibition “Tools for Better Cities by KSP Engel”, the Museum Angewandte Kunst in Frankfurt presents a fascinating insight into the work of the renowned architecture firm KSP Engel. Always characterised by curiosity, a love of design and high quality standards, the firm’s offices, residential buildings, museums and public urban spaces are characterised by formally restrained yet identity-forming architecture. The show provides a direct insight into the team’s wealth of experience and reveals how a particular clarity of function and aesthetics emerges in the creative process — always focussed on sustainable solutions in an urban context.
Six central themes — place, city, house, structure, space and culture — not only structure KSP Engel’s projects, but also form the framework of the exhibition. The highlights are tower-like structures, each of which illuminates different aspects of realised and future projects and invites visitors to actively engage with them. A revolving “workbench” provides additional insights into methods, strategies and solutions that serve as “tools” for sustainable architecture and resilient neighbourhoods. This creates a vivid picture of how creativity and expertise can be used to develop individual, robust and flexible answers to the challenges of modern cities.
