The publication brings together Julia Gaisbacher's years-long engagement with the artist's house of Hanne Darboven. Darboven (1941-2009) lived and worked in Hamburg and is one of the outstanding international artists of the twentieth century: in the 1960s she founded conceptual art together with artist friends, and she was an attentive observer of her own time and of the history and development of politics, culture and society. Gaisbacher, who trained as a sculptor and works through artistic research, looks at architecture and the urban landscape as a human habitat.