Something Fantastic is a design practice founded by three architects, Leonard Streich, Julian Schubert, and Elena Schütz. Since 2016 they direct the Master of Advanced Studies in Urban Design at the chair of Marc Angélil at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH Zurich) with a focus on informal and rapidly developing urban contexts. Other research and educational projects include collaborations with Harvard University and Yokohama GSA. They designed the German Pavilion at the 15th International Architecture Biennale in Venice (2016), have been nominated for the Iakov Chernikhov Prize, and won numerous awards for their design work. Forthcoming publications in 2017 include Desert Cities and The Index for Those Who Want to Reinvent Construction.
It Will Be…
Architecture hence will be something fantastic
By Something Fantastic
High-tech is fascinating, progressive, efficient, but not resilient. Low-tech is imprecise, simple, heavy, but it’s available, abundant and resilient.
— Something Fantastic
In thinking about the future, the question “what will it be” concerns both form and identity, which for architecture touches on questions of materiality, function and representation. For design practice Something Fantastic, the notion of “being” is related not only to what we see in the world and the conclusions we draw from this but also to the architecture we should both hope for and aspire to create.
