We visited a museum for architectural drawing here in Prenzlauer Berg today — apparently, that’s a thing. It makes me so happy that museums like this exist, for things that are niche enough to make people like me wonder „Huh, I didn’t know that’s a thing.“
The exhibition about the Austrian architect Otto Wagner was small and nice. I found it absolutely wild how much care he and his team poured into these drawings. There were often perfect. Like digital-perfect. But instead of filling the full sky with one click, they had to cover up everything else and apply some color evenly. This alone took properly a day. And somebody — well, the whole company — to say: It’s worth it. Let’s do it. It’ll look better.
I’m glad that such people and institutions exist. That go the extra mile. That don’t do the thing that makes the most sense economically, but makes the most sense aesthetically, or ideologically, or emotionally. Thanks to every one out there who acts this way.