Something Fantastic

Something Fantastic is a young architectural practice committed to smart, touching, simple architecture. Its principals Julian Schubert, Elena Schuetz and Leonard Streich were educated at ETH Zürich and the University of the Arts Berlin. Their book Something Fantastic – A Manifesto by Three Young Architects on Worlds, People, Cities and Houses was published by Ruby Press in 2010. Next to Something Fantastic Schubert, Schuetz, and Streich operate a creative agency called Belgrad to be able to work in a broader field and context of creative production and are currently also teaching a programme at the University of the Arts Berlin. The course is called The Science of Science – Lernen lernen durch Fragen fragen. On a didactic level the class tries to reduce the inhibition threshold of the students in the pursuit of getting their own questions answered. On a content level it investigates ways of gaining knowledge on fields that are not considered part of the architecture discipline as such but nevertheless are instrumental from the view point of Something Fantastic: The belief that architecture is affected by everything and vice versa does affect everything is the basis of their claim that working as architects today involves a general interest and involvement in the world.