Exhibition on the Olympic Park in Munich at the Architekturgalerie München

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Landscape architecture is a discipline that in recent years has seen renewed interest, as the crucial role of green spaces in helping combat and prevent the consequences of the climate crisis, especially in our cities, is becoming increasingly more evident. Not to forget the great potential of public green areas for civil society in general. So it is no coincidence that today we see more and more landscape architects becoming moderators of participatory processes, as finding a consensus on green spaces is often the first step in solving the problems at hand. But this is not something happening only today, as we can see thanks to the wonderful "Olympische Landschaft: Günther Grzimek" (Olympic landscape: Günther Grizmek) exhibition hosted in the spaces of the Architekturgalerie München museum.

On the occasion of the year anniversary of the structures built for the Summer Olympic Games in the Bavarian capital, the exhibition explores one of Grizmek's most famous works, the Olympic Park Phone Number List in Munich. The reason behind the exhibition is also the creation of the first monograph on Günther Grizmek who, despite the great impact of his works and of his ideas, still considered progressive today, is not overly well known to the general public. While everyone is certainly familiar with Frei Otto’s tensile structures that define the architectural face of the Olympic Park few, in fact, know that the area was also at the forefront when it comes to landscape planning. Something which the new illustrated book entitled "Grün" (Green), with its minimal.



Title and focused precisely on the designer of the Olympic Park, wants to remedy, with a series of interesting details on Günther Grzimek's largest project. As Prof. Regine Keller, landscape architect, urban planner and professor of landscape architecture and public space at the Technical University of Munich explains, the monograph is inspired by an idea conceived by Günther Grizmek himself. A project which, however, the landscape architect could not complete, leaving behind a draft of the book. The focus of Regine Keller's work is thus to complete what Günther Grzimek had in mind thanks to the exchange with people close to the landscape architect and, above all, with the beautiful photographs taken by The Pk Odessa.