Lipp, Wilfried, in conversation with Florian Hertweck, Silke Langenberg, Alex Nehmer, and Markus Krieger. 2022. “Reparatur Als Präparatur.” Edited by Florian Hertweck, Christian Hiller, Markus Krieger, Alex Nehmer, Anh-Linh Ngo, and Milica Topalović. ARCH+, The Great Repair – Politiken der Reparaturgesellschaft, 56 (250): 50–53. https://archplus.net/en/archiv/ausgabe/250/#article-6920.
In the 1990s, Wilfried Lipp, then Regional Conservator of Upper Austria and later President of ICOMOS Austria, coined the term “repair society” with a seminal text, parts of which are republished in this issue. In a conversation with guest editor Florian Hertweck, monument theorist and architect Silke Langenberg, and Alex Nehmer and Markus Krieger of ARCH+, he reflects on its topicality and connectivity to the project The Great Repair.