Raumtaktik

Friedrich von Borries and Matthias Böttger were both born in 1974 and set up raumtaktik (spatial tactics) together in 2003 to pursue an investigation of space and spatial intervention.

Both architects are concerned with an interest in the means of production of space, and the cultural, economic and political parameters that determine the shape of architecture and urban development. Globalisation, migration, economic transformation, commercialisation, the event character of space, as well as the activation of urban space are the underlying conditions which their work investigates.

In 2006 Friedrich von Borries and Matthias Böttger were commissioned by the Bundeszentrale für politische Bildung/bpb (Federal Agency for Civic Education) to curate the tour exhibition entitled: Fanshop der Globalisierung (Fan Shop for Globalisation) and edited an accompanying publication of the same name. A year later they published Space Time Play – Computer Games, Architecture and Urbansim which dealt with the defi nition of virtual space in computer and video games. As general commissioners of the German Pavilion Friedrich von Borries and Matthias Böttger presented "Updating Germany - Projects for a Better Future" at the 11th International Architecture Exhibition, Venice Biennale 2008.

Work by raumtaktik has featured in exhibitions such as Shrinking Cities, with archilab Orleans, at the Rotterdam Architectural Biennale, the Berlin Jewish Museum, at the Designmai Berlin, the ZKM in Karlsruhe, at the Zurich Architekturforum, at Nai in Rotterdam and at the transmediale in Berlin. Matthias Böttger was selected for residences in 2009 with Akademie Schloß Solitude in Stuttgart.

Friedrich von Borries and Matthias Böttger have been visiting professors for art in public space at the Nuremberg Akademie der Bildenden Künste in 2007/08. Matthias Böttger teaches since 2007 at the ETH Zurich, since 2009 Friedrich von Borries is professor for design theory and curatorial practice at the Hochschule für Bildende Künste Hamburg. 

Raumtaktik are:

Prof. Dr. Friedrich von Borries, Matthias Böttger

and:

Moritz Ahlert, Jens-Uwe Fischer, Christoph Herrmann, Christian Hiller, Anne Levy, Wilma Renfordt.

formerly:

Ines Bergdolt, Wiesje Bijl, Etta Dannemann, Felix Demme, Martin Germann, Florian Heilmeyer, Anne Horny, Benjamin Kasten, Ragna Körby, Philipp Kreß, Tobias Kurtz, Thomas Möhring, Alexandre Mussche, Marzia Panai, Nicolas Rauch, Katharina Rohde, Nilgün Serbest, Alon Trostanetsky, Giulia Tubelli, Füsun Türetken, Keke Ye.