Dagmar Richter Studio (USA) Dagmar Richter (1955)
After studying at the Royal Art Academy in Copenhagen and the Frankfurt Städeschule, where she was taught by Peter Cook, Dagmar Richter divides her time, and work, between Europe and the United States, and more specifically Berlin and Los Angeles, where she set up his agency in 1987, and where she has also been teaching at UCLA since 1998. Dagmar Richter's architecture is intended to be radically critical and analytical, no more inscription, but description, as a temporary way of understanding and representing this world, whose instability and liquidness it is acutely aware of. Her Wave project (a sports and water complex at Aarhus) mingles landscape and architecture in an artificial topography, a complex and fluctuating medium embracing many sporting disciplines (inside and out, in water, on ice, on the floor, alone or in groups, etc.). Meshworks, which she has been working on since 2000, is an urban project for a problematic neighbourhood on the outskirts of Wolfen Nord (in former East Germany). Basing her idea on statistical data (pollen, movement of people, deterioration, etc), she proposes an active diagram and an operational modelling capable of introducing alternative strategies for recycling and retrieving this abandoned landscape.