Theo Deutinger

Theo Deutinger (born 1971) is an Austrian architect, illustrator, academic, and author. He is the a co-founder of the Minus20degree art and architecture exhibition, and the author of the 2018 non-fiction book Handbook of Tyranny.

Career Deutinger the owner-operator of Dutch company TD Architects

In 2018, Deutinger made a series of graphics to illustrate the small number of countries that permit visa-free travel.

Along with Stefanos Filippas, Ana Rita Marques, Eliza Mante, and Heinz Riegler, Deutinger founded the Minus20degree biennale contemporary art and architecture exhibition.

Works

Handbook of Tyranny (book)

Deutinger's Handbook of Tyranny (Lars Müller Publishers, 2018) documents how the architecture of refugee camps, prisons, slaughter houses and migration control systems are used to control animals and people.

Ultimate Atlas (book) Ultimate Atlas: Logbook of Spaceship Earth is a 2019 book that contains data visualisations of global politics. Wojciech Czaja and Maik Novotny called it "radically abstract" and "beautiful" in their review published in Der Standard. map Walled World illustrates how walls, fences, borders and security forces divide the earth into a lower populated wealthy area and a densely populated poorer zone.

Walled World details how the Korean demilitarized zone, activities of the Australian Defence Force, the United States-Mexico border, Spain's Melilia border fence, Europe's Schengen border and the Israeli West Bank barrier form a global anti-migration loop. Inside the loop are 14% of the world's population who generate 73% of the world's income, outside the loop are 86% of the earth's population, who generate 27% of the world's income. Professor Sabine Niederer of the Amsterdam University of Applied Sciences described the map as "poignant".