Lipp, Wilfried in conversation with Florian Hertweck, Silke Langenberg, Alex Nehmer, and Markus Krieger. 2023. “Repairing as Preparing.” Edited by Florian Hertweck, Christian Hiller, Markus Krieger, Alex Nehmer, Anh-Linh Ngo, and Milica Topalović. ARCH+, The Great Repair – Politics for the Repair Society, 56 (250): 46–49. https://archplus.net/en/archiv/english-publication/The-Great-Repair/#article-7068.
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.