When WENDY, the MoMA PS1 installation was built, I was sitting in the courtyard of the museum, reflecting on the last few crazy weeks of work, and realized that we did not just design an architectural installation, we created something unforgettable. The project became a social media sensation, but even more so, a local celebration with visitors coming back multiple times over the summer.
When I visited the museum a year later, one of the guards recognized me, and said; “Hey Matthias, where is WENDY?” This was the moment when I realized that our work is not about a style, a theory, or a form—it is about the memories that architecture can create, which people carry with them for a very long time.
