1984 Hall Hotel Plaza Basilea [Trix + Robert Hausmann] ALL YOU CAN EAT ARCHITECTURE

"The instruments.

We have obtained these instruments on the basis of a conceptual and operative method we have been elaborating and perfecting since the end of the 1960s: the CRITICAL MANNERISM. In this case, our interest was directed particulary to the following points:

- visually evidencing historical references in their complexity

- illusion, doubting, irony, also of a self-critical type

- estrangement, destruction, parody

- metaphors

-poetry."

HAUSMANN, Tris; HAUSMANN, Robert. Basilea: Hotel Le Plaza. En: Domus, nº668, 01/1986. pp.40-43.