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Sensing space
The incorporation of new technology into architecture continues to define our everyday lives, whether it be tiny sensors woven almost invisibly into materials, buildings which communicate with their surroundings via the facades, or "intelligent" houses that adapt to fit their inhabitants. Sensing...
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Toufic beyhum: emotions in motion
Reminiscent of Walker Evans’ 1966 classic, Many Are Called, Lebanese-born, English photographer Toufic Beyhum’s photographs of passengers on Berlin’s U-Bahn capture a diverse cast of characters. Beyhum reveals what so many of us see on our daily commute: lovers and loners, the young and the old, ...
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Hochweit 2019
Hochweit gibt ein Statement zur aktuellen Lehre und Forschung der vielfach ausgezeichneten Fakultät für Architektur und Landschaft der Leibniz Universität Hannover und ist ein Sprachrohr für die Fakultät mit ihren neun Instituten, das die bereichernde Kraft der interdisziplinären Zusammenarbeit ...
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Perspectives in metropolitan research 3
Science and the City tracks the history of Hamburg’s path into architectural academia.
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Mäusebunker und hygieneinstitut
Vom Abriss bedroht, als Ikonen des Brutalismus gefeiert: Der Mäusebunker von Gerd und Magdalena Hänska und das Hygieneinstitut von Hermann Fehling und Daniel Gogel in Berlin-Steglitz bilden ein einmaliges Ensemble von Solisten. Die unterschiedliche Architekturauffassung, die den beiden gegenübers...
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Landscape vision motion
The first volume in a new series from Jovis on landscape architecture today, Landscape Vision Motion asks the question: what objectives can be achieved in the theoretical exchange between visual studies, digital media, film, space and motion in the field of landscape architecture? Professionals f...
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Theorien des wohnens
Die Anthologie Theorien des Wohnens versammelt erstmals systematisch die zentralen Wohntheorien des 20. Jahrhunderts. Die hier ausgewählten philosophischen und soziologischen Schlüsseltexte geben einen Überblick über die verschiedenen Ansätze, Wohnen als anthropologische Tatsache, soziale Praxis ...
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Lederer ragnarsdóttir oei 2
Bilingual edition (english / german):Nine years after publication of the first major monograph on the work of the architectural office Lederer Ragnarsd.ttir Oei, a second volume marks the tentative culmination of many years of harmonious collaboration between the three partners. From the outset, ...
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Intentionen reflexiven entwerfens
How do intentions enroll into the practice of architecture and landscape design and research? How do they become operative to orientate, clarify, and energize the creative process, and in what ways do they inform design and knowledge processes? Contributions in this edited volume describe, recons...
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Seeking sustainable tourism
Could tourism heal more than it harms? Seeking Sustainable Tourism brings together over 40 artists, architects, community leaders, and tourism practitioners to find ways that travel might serve both people and planet. Born from PRAKSIS’s three-year project An Urgent Situation, this visually rich ...
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A utopia of modernity: zlín
Located in the Czech Republic, the city of Zlín is a curious example of civic planning in which domestic living, education and recreation were all geared towards a single goal: the profitability of the Bata shoe company, one of the first footwear manufacturers to operate globally. In spring 2009,...
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Suburban constellations
In a world of growing and multiplying cities, suburbanization is the most visible and pervasive phenomenon. While the single-family home subdivisions of North America continue to proliferate, many other forms of suburbanization are now emerging around the globe. The highrise housing estates aroun...
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Adaptive re-use
In prosperous regions, housing markets are under significant pressure. With the focus on preserving land and developing brownfield sites, post-war housing estates are being earmarked for densification, as their density is perceived as rather low and the ownership is often concent...
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Stone voids
From cavernous quarries carved by centuries of stone extraction to vibrant public spaces, Stone Voids tells the story of how architect Xu Tiantian and her studio DnA Design and Architecture transformed the Huangyan stone quarries in Taizhou, China. Through her "architectural acupuncture" approach...
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Slow urban planning
Obwohl der öffentliche Raum im Osten Deutschlands nach der Wende aufwendig saniert wurde, leiden viele Kleinstädte und Dörfer unter Wegzug und Leerstand. So auch Tribsees in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, wo zurzeit 70 von 240 Häusern in der Innenstadt unbewohnt sind. Ein Team aus Künstler*innen und Stu...
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Mixed matters: a multi-material design compendium
When describing a proposal to send the world’s first 3D-printed satellite into space by 2020, scientists from the European Space Agency pointed out that composite materials are now predominant in the sciences. Although the capabilities of multi-materials have been recognized in the sciences for d...
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Neo-historismus?
Das Aufgreifen historischer Formen ist ein fester Bestandteil des heutigen Bauens. Von einigen strikt abgelehnt und von anderen gewünscht, wird es seit Beginn der Moderne kontrovers diskutiert. Mit seiner behaupteten Kontinuität und seinem Anspruch auf Allgemeingültigkeit ist das historisierende...
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Infrastructures of freedom
Infrastructures of Freedom sheds light on the impact of inadequate public lighting in self-built communities in Cape Town. In democratic South Africa, where infrastructure provision still reflects deeply embedded notions of citizenship, informal neighborhoods with minimal infrastructure provision...
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Neuroarchitektur (de)
Architektonische Räume sind Anker unserer Erinnerung. Mittels unseres sensorischen Bewusstseins verorten wir uns im Raum: Das Gehirn nutzt Oberflächen und räumliche Systeme, um unsere Lebenswelt zu speichern und zu ordnen. Diese Erkenntnis bildet die Grundlage für die Übertragung aktueller neurow...
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Von mosaikpflaster und schmuckbeeten
In Wolfsburg lebt es sich anders. Die durchgrünte Stadtlandschaft mit zahlreichen Plätzen und Grünanlagen ist überwiegend in den 1950er und 1960er Jahren entstanden. Sie stellt heute eine besondere Qualität dar, die wesentlich zu einem naturnahen Leben der Einwohner beiträgt. Nach mehr als fünfzi...
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Metabolism of an emerging town in ethiopia
The emergence of densely populated towns within extremely rural landscapes is the hallmark of urbanization in Ethiopia. This book examines one such town, Amdework. The authors construct a profile that reveals a broader geographic view of the processes that underpin the functioning, growth and dev...
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Gmp: the chongqing grand theater in china
The Grand Theater in Chongqing is often likened to a large, moving ship, as it appears to glide over the great Yangtze River on which it is situated. This book allows a glimpse into its multiple performance halls, event spaces and intricate glass façade.
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Urban-rural assembly
As our planet is becoming increasingly urbanized, the ways we think about cities and urbanism are also being fundamentally reconfigured. However, current urban planning approaches often remain stuck in urban-rural dualisms that do not reflect the multilayered interrelationships and material flow...
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Zweifellos
Ton Matton – Stadtplaner, Indie-Urbanist, bekennender Fan des performativen Urbanimus, Zweifelnder, Briefeschreiber. Zu Beginn seiner Karriere als Stadtplaner schrieb Matton Briefe, in denen er sich mit nachhaltiger Stadtplanung befasste (damals für Stadtplaner*innen ein noch ganz neues Arbeitsfe...
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Märklin moderne
This catalog accompanies an exhibition by the Deutsches Architekturmuseum (DAM) on assembly kits of postwar German architecture for model-railway systems. It reveals the coexistence of historic and modern in model railways of postwar Germany.
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Der eckhausgrundriss
Die Grundlagenforschung Der Eckhausgrundriss des Deutschen Instituts für Stadtbaukunst systematisiert Grundrissbeispiele aus den letzten 200 Jahren und erläutert anhand unterschiedlicher Wohnungsgrundrisse die Prinzipien für den Umgang mit dem städtischen Eckhaus. Sie dient als Hilfestellung für ...
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Architecture: a woman’s profession
In the western world, the number of women studying architecture now roughly equals that of men. As women increasingly come to the fore as practicing professionals, the question of how this shift will affect the profession and the teaching of the discipline is of greater and greater interest. In t...
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Der architekt ernst zinsser
Der Architekt Ernst Zinsser hat mit seinen zwischen 1937 und 1970 in Hannover entstandenen Bauten das Bild der Stadt nachhaltig geprägt. Die Bauten gelten als beispielhaft für die Nachkriegsmoderne in Deutschland und geben einen umfassenden Überblick über die Bauaufgaben dieser Epoche. Sie zeichn...
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Activism at home
Activism at Home offers a unique study of architects’ own dwellings; homes purposely designed to express social, political, economic, and cultural critiques. Through thirty case studies by architectural scholars, this book highlights different forms of activism at home from the early twentieth...
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Shanghai urban public space
Since 1992, when Deng Xiaoping famously declared Shanghai the “Head of the Dragon,” effectively making it China's economic motor, the city's housing developments have multiplied with breathtaking speed: entire districts have been demolished, residents relocated and numerous districts selected for...
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Dobrovic in dubrovnik
Dobrovic in Dubrovnik traces the history of a project of avant-garde modern architecture constructed in the 1930s in the Mediterranean landscape of the south Dalmatian coast of the Adriatic Sea. Architects Krunoslav Ivaniflin and Ljiljana Blagojevic contribute comprehensive historical, theoretical...
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Discovering downtown cairo
This scholarly guide presents a detailed survey of the plans and typologies of apartment buildings from the nineteenth and twentieth centuries in downtown Cairo. It also maps the changes in use of these spaces over time and shares some of the inhabitants' stories.
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Metropolis no. 3: education
Arguing for a radical approach to educational architecture—one in which education is embodied and enhanced by architecture—this volume proposes solutions towards the constructive development of inspiring educational buildings.
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New landscape lusatia
The International Building Exhibitions (IBA) has been an instrument of urban development in Germany for over 100 years. Since 2000, IBA has worked to restructure the former coal-mining region of Lusatia, also known as Fürst-Pückler-Land, located between Berlin and Dresden. This publication presen...
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Europan 17: lebendige städte 2 / living cities 2
Bilingual edition (English/German) / Zweisprachige Ausgabe (deutsch/englisch) How are we to move from urban spaces that are neglected, disused, vacant, stigmatized, or monofunctional toward those that are lively, integrated, and mixed-use? At eight German locations, among them Berlin, Leipzig,...
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Lederer + ragnarsdóttir + oie 1
Architects Lederer Ragnarsdóttir Oei have been specialized in architecture for more than three decades, consistently adhering to the guiding principle: “First the city, then the house.” This involves the following key issues: How can a new building be integrated in such a way that the distric...
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Tel aviv: the white city
Bilingual edition (English/German) / Zweisprachige Ausgabe (deutsch/englisch) Due to its more than 4,000 white Bauhaus buildings, Tel Aviv is often called “the White City”. The city center, created in the nineteen-thirties and -forties under the influence of international modernism, was decla...
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Exhibiting matters
Bilingual edition (English/German) / Zweisprachige Ausgabe (deutsch/englisch) The fields of art and architecture are currently witnessing an expansion of the exhibitionary complex: permanent and temporary exhibition spaces proliferate, blending with sites of consumption. Responding to this develo...
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Einfach grün – greening the city
Bilingual edition (English/German) Do plants improve the climate in cities? How can greenery in architecture help reduce urban heat build-up and pollution by fine particulate matter, lower noise levels in the city, and enhance people’s wellbeing? The manual on building greenery in its third ...
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Uwe schröder werkverzeichnis i
Der Architekt, Hochschullehrer und Autor Uwe Schröder prägt mit seiner klaren Haltung seit mehr als drei Jahrzehnten die Debatte zu grundlegenden Themen der Architektur: Topologie und Typologie, Raum und Ästhetik. Die beiden hochwertig ausgestatteten Bände bilden sein vielfach preisgekröntes Werk...
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Perspectives in metropolitan research 4
The latest issue of Perspectives in Metropolitan Research examines the culture of hybridity in urban planning, asking, “What happens when artists act as developers or architects act as social workers?”
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Bibliothek
„Gibt es denn ein schöneres Bild für den Frieden unter den Menschen als den Lesesaal einer großen Bibliothek?", fragt Peter von Matt in seinem Beitrag für dieses Buch. Mit dem Bau der Bibliothek der Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin hat Max Dudler einen ebenso modernen wie zeitlosen Ort für die Büch...
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Haus ideal
Haus Ideal, by German architect Oda Pälmke, serves as an instruction manual for nonlinear processes of generating new solutions to architectural problems and discovering ideal architectural forms. Images of architectural models demonstrate different stages of these unconventional design processes.
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Architectures terrestres
Based in Nancy in eastern France, studiolada is an architectural collective founded on values such as commitment to the common good, responsible use of resources, service to the public sector, collaborative dialogue, short supply chains, and circularity. These principles shape a collective practi...
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