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In Stuttgart, The Wa turns a house into a childlike drawing

With bright colours, simplified windows and playful shapes, the artist brings the visual language of A Kid Could Do It onto an urban building.

PT
8 Oct 2026
3 min read
Small white building among sand dunes, decorated with colourful drawings of doors, windows, flowers, plants and trees. Tufts of grass grow around it beneath a wide blue sky covered with scattered clouds.
↳ Foto: Colossal · EDITORIAL

In Stuttgart, The Wa transforms a house through a visual language that recalls the immediacy of a child’s drawing. Saturated colours, schematic windows, doors and decorative shapes alter the way the building is perceived without hiding its original structure.

The intervention belongs to A Kid Could Do It, a series begun in 2021. Its title echoes the familiar phrase “My kid could do that” and turns it into a working principle based on direct, unfiltered visual logic.

The series first developed on military structures and other rigid surfaces. In Stuttgart, the same visual language moves onto a house, shifting the project into an everyday, domestic setting.

The contrast is the key to the work: forms associated with childhood are placed over real architecture, temporarily changing the way it is read. The building does not become something else, but is seen through a different visual code.

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