Christian Sternhagen applies the ideas of French ethnologist Claude Lévi-Strauss, who coined the term "wild thinking", to architecture by exploring the tension between art and science, rationality and intuition, theory and practice. In the idea of "das wilde Bauen" (wild building), he sees great potential in the (re)organisation of seemingly different positions in order to develop innovative approaches in architecture. In his master's thesis, he explores "the aesthetics of the processual and the effects of expanding and redefining the concepts of resources and tools“. Christians' current project, focuses on the vacant Galeria Kaufhof building in the centre of Hanover. My photographs illustrate this way of thinking, capturing the connection between past and present, as well as the improvisational creativity that lies in bricolage.
