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Zweifel
Ton Matton – Stadtplaner, Indie-Urbanist, energetischer Vortragender, bekennender Fan des Bautyps EW58, Zweifelnder. Noch als Student, Ende der 1980er Jahre, hielt Matton an der TU Delft Vorträge, in denen er sich mit nachhaltiger Stadtplanung befasste (damals für Stadtplaner ein noch ganz neues...
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Territories
Territories – Rural-urban Strategies studies the dynamics of larger rural-urban spaces from a design perspective. Perception and concepts involving the overlaying of the urban and the rural require new impulses, in order to be able to discuss visions of a spatial future. Contrary to outdated dyst...
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Space, planning, and design
This publication--volume five in the Future Megacities series--focuses on five emerging megacities and urban regions across the globe. Based on various case studies, the book shows the early conceptualization and organization of integrative spatial planning and urban design for sustainable and en...
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The depth of the landscape
Throughout history, the relationship between landscape and architecture has formed the basis of culture and the development of human settlements. The unfolding of a site, its transformation through the construction of buildings or of entire cities, translates into this basic idea: that histor...
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Christian helmle: waterpower
A wide variety of twentieth-century architectural trends can be found in the power stations, dam walls and reservoirs that Swiss photographer Christian Helmle has documented in Waterpower. The deeply impressive and powerful shapes of these massive structures are put in perspective by the landscap...
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Urban design lab handbook
After North America, the second-most urbanized region in the world is Latin America and the Caribbean, 78% of whose population lives in cities. The result of five years of recent research by Vienna’s Urban Design Lab, this handbook contextualizes emergent planning issues at hand in the region, wh...
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Visions4people
Visions4people offers an overview of artistic research in the context of psychiatric residential environments and conveys their particular challenges. What form can design visions and interventions take where people are central? Tyyne Claudia Pollmann has addressed this question and studied it as...
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Hasenheide 13 (english edition)
After its careful renovation by David Chipperfield Architects, the ballroom at Hasenheide 13 will serve as an exhibition venue for the Wemhöner Collection from 2022 onwards. Reason enough to review the eventful and lively history of the site in order to respectfully continue its history as a mee...
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Produkte reflexiven entwerfens
Forschendes Entwerfen und entwerfendes Forschen in Architektur, Städtebau und Landschaftsarchitektur befördern, strukturieren und generieren Produkte spezifischer Figuration und Qualität. Die Beiträge dieses Buches loten anhand von vielfältigen Beispielen diverse, ineinander übergehende Modi des ...
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Arabella schwarzkopf: city lives
From Rear Window to Friends, city dwellers have been known for a sometimes fervent but typically detached interest in their neighbors. Schwarzkopf breaks the social barriers between apartments by using her camera to facilitate her introduction. She knocks on fellow tenants' doors in New York, Tok...
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Metapolis. topoi. scenarios.
Urban and rural areas alike witness severe dynamics. Moreover, understandings of what constitutes the urban and the rural are changing, too. Metapolis conceptualizes the network of urban and rural settlements interconnected by flows of people, goods, and information. How can this Metapolis be und...
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Kamel louafi landscape architects: landscape interventions
Algerian-based firm Kamel Louafi Landscape Architects approaches landscape as a product of human activity, thinking about a site with regard to its context and history. The firm has designed such interventions as the gardens for the World Exposition 2000 in Hanover and the Garden of the Islamic W...
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Bastienne schmidt: topography of quiet
In Topography of Quiet, the internationally acclaimed German-born, New York–based photographer Bastienne Schmidt (born 1961) uses painting, drawing and photography to explore the patterns and typologies of nature. Her color and black-and-white photographs of ocean tides and patterns in sand and w...
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Dortmund bauen – masterplan für eine stadt
Dortmund, drittgrößte Stadt Nordrhein-Westfalens, hat wie kaum eine andere europäische Montanregion integrative Methoden zu Strukturwandel, Landschaftsgestaltung, kultureller Urbanisierung und sozialer Modernisierung entwickelt. Dieses Programm- und Zukunftsbuch dokumentiert in thematischen Clust...
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Architectures of science
A detailed look at how science has shaped Berlin’s infrastructure and urban planningThis architectural guide examines how Berlin’s growth has been linked to the development of science, including how universities realize demands for research, teaching and housing scientific collections. The book’s...
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Uwe kowski: weiss
Leipzig-born painter Uwe Kowski (born 1963) creates colorful abstractions in which gestural lines blur into jumbles of typography (the latter perhaps influenced by his apprenticeship as a sign painter), establishing a vibrant, “all-over” effect. This volume presents new canvases made between 2008...
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Das gelobte land der moderne
Gustaf Dalman hielt nicht viel von Knipsern. Wenn der deutsche Palastinakundler ab 1899 zwischen Aleppo und Alexandria unterwegs war, lies er sich Zeit. Er beobachtete, griff zum Notizbuch und zur Plattenkamera: sachlich, stilvoll, immer auf Augenhohe mit seinem Gegenuber, sei es nun ein Mensch o...
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Anna meyer: internetionale 2001-2006
In Meyer's work, the glittering temptations of a global consumer culture are set opposite that culture's losers--figures hapless in the face of the promises of happiness made by the mass-media, advertising and shopping culture. Whomever cannot keep up with this system is brutally pushed to its pe...
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Werkbundstadt am spreebord
Mit Texten von Thorsten Dame, Benedikt Goebel, Albrecht Göschel, Claudia Kromrei, Michael Mönninger, Matthias Noell, Gerwin Zohlen Wie wollen wir heute wohnen? Mit der WerkBundStadt gibt der Berliner Werkbund eine profunde Antwort und macht einen konkreten Vorschlag. Unter Berücksichtigung der h...
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Kirche raum gegenwart
Aufgeschlossene Kirchen sind wertvolle öffentliche Räume, die liturgische Orte bleiben und sich gleichzeitig für Neues öffnen können. Im Zentrum von Kirche Raum Gegenwart steht die nachhaltige Transformation dieser Räume, die über eine rein architektonische Lösung hinausgeht. Anhand von vier Proj...
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Komplexe probleme lösen
Wer Großes plant, steht schnell vor Problemen – tagtäglich hören wir davon. Je größer das Projekt, je komplexer die Aufgabe, desto mehr hat man es mit diffizilen, multidisziplinären Aufgabenstellungen zu tun. Häufige Aufgabe der Architektur, Stadt- und Raumplanung – aber auch der Politik sowie je...
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Vegetarian architecture
What is “good” architecture? This seemingly simple question is connected to a wide range of criteria—just like the radical quest for “good” food, which has produced a wealth of insights over the past few decades.This book showcases buildings whose construction has been based on simple technology,...
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Performative urbanism
This volume examines the relationship between architectural design and its realization in an urban environment. It proposes an interplay between architectonic material and urban usage and action, and interprets our interaction with architecture as a performative activity.
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Hochweit 2023
The new HOCHWEIT yearbook provides an overview of the current teaching at research at the multiple-award-winning Faculty of Architecture and Landscape Sciences at Leibniz University Hannover. The volume focuses on student projects and designs both within Germany and abroad that grapple with t...
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Otto zitko: retroprospektiv
(English / German / Spanish)Otto Zitko is known for his concept of drawing executed from a painter’s perspective. The seemingly endless continuous line he applies to large-scale canvases, sheets of paper, and walls has established itself as a recurring constant which sometimes dissolves into...
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Put people first!
The 7th Hamburg Bauforum in August 2019 put the topic of Magistralen, or arterial roads—the large access routes through, in, and out of the city—on its agenda. International planning teams developed various scenarios for Hamburg’s Magistralen, taking the neighborhoods on either side of them i...
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Herstories in graphic design
Bilingual edition (English/German) / Zweisprachige Ausgabe (deutsch/englisch) By and large, women have been left out of the history of graphic design. If, however, we look beyond the surface of this familiar account, the influence women have had on the discipline right from the start becomes...
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Gmp: the tianjin grand theater in china
This volume details the architecture of the remarkable Tianjin Grand Theater in China. The circular form of the roof corresponds to that of the nearby Natural History Museum, creating an architectural dialogue between the earthbound museum and the seemingly floating roof construction.
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Understanding color
In Understanding Color, writer and designer Friederike Tebbe (author of Color Spaces, 2009) invites you to explore various ideas on color and your own personal color spectrum, aiming to promote design competence through a more conscious approach to color. Practical exercises and pictorial analyse...
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Sketch for green
The era of analog drawing is coming to an end. Computergenerated visualizations are pushing sketches and drawings increasingly into the background and fundamentally changing the representation of landscape architecture. For the Berlin-based landscape architect and sculptor Udo Dagenbach, ske...
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Hold it
Collaborators since 1998, German artists Folke Köbberling and Martin Kaltwasser (also an architect) have created "amorphous forms out of trash that retain a childlike simplicity in spite of rigorous engineering," according to the UK's The Guardian. Their "magical, structurally sound and user-frie...
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Baukollegium berlin
Baukollegium Berlin is an independent advisory board in Berlin whose members are experts from the fields of architecture, spatial planning and urban development. Compiling interviews, an essay and eight building project studies, this volume provides insights into the methodology behind urban deve...
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Future public spaces
What is required to renew and articulate public spaces? The need for, and demands of, public spaces are highly specific to the local spatial and social conditions under which people live. Action at neighborhood level is crucial, and must involve interacting and co-creating with residents to disco...
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Moravia manifesto
Bilingual edition (English/Spanish) In view of rapidly progressing urbanization worldwide, informal settlements, especially in the cities of the global south must be a focus of our attention–because in the future, the majority of new city inhabitants will settle in these unplanned extension...
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Gmp: the state ballet school in berlin
The Berlin State Ballet School is unique in Germany, because it combines a general school education with professional training. For the restructuring of the school and the new building, a design was required that takes into account the flow of movement between the dance school and the school, as ...
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Eventisierung der stadt
Events sind ein fester Bestandteil unseres Alltags geworden. Sie werden professionell geplant, mittels ausgeklügelter Dramaturgie gestaltet und vermitteln ein Gefühl von Exklusivität. Der Eventbegriff steht für ein spezifisches Spannungsfeld zwischen ökonomischen Verwertungskontexten und populär...
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Kostenbewusstbauen
Fragen der Baukosten zählen zu den elementaren Anforderungen der Architektur. Eine verlässliche Kalkulation ist im Interesse des Bauherrn unabdingbar. Kostenbewusstsein kann allerdings je nach Bauaufgabe unterschiedlichen Überlegungen folgen: Eng bemessene Spielräume in der Finanzierung verlange...
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Europan 15:the productive city 2
The disintegration of European cities and the loss of identity threatened by this decay is proceeding at a seemingly unstoppable rate. Europan 15 is dedicated to the Productive City and seeks to identify concepts for synergies between living and working in the future. The theme focuses on thre...
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Baugeschichte berlin / baugeschichte berlin
Band 2 der Baugeschichte Berlin stellt die wohl wichtigste Periode der Berliner Architekturgeschichte vor, die mit Namen wie Ernst von Ihne, Friedrich Hitzig, Paul Wallot, Martin Gropius, Heino Schmieden, Alfred Messel bis zu Peter Behrens verbunden ist. Mehr als 800 Abbildungen und Pläne präsent...
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Chromatophoric architecture
A "voxel" ("volumetric" + "pixel") is the three-dimensional equivalent of a pixel, and one of the most important developments in design technology. Where spatial designs were previously constrained by the physical attributes of construction materials, voxel displays enable surface attributes such...
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Atsushi kitagawara architects
Jovis’ Portfolio series presents the work of innovative, international architects in the informal style of a magazine. This new volume is the first monograph, outside of Japan, to examine the ideas of Atsushi Kitagawara (born 1951), known for his expressionistic architectural style that celebrate...
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Spatial expeditions
Bilingual edition (English/German) / Zweisprachige Ausgabe (deutsch/englisch) Space is experienced not only visually, but with all the senses. Despite this, the design and reception of architecture often barely take haptic, acoustic, and osmic perceptions into account. Consequently, in the archit...
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Berlin, genova: city, street, house
These 22 original house plans were drawn up under architect Klaus Theo Brenner's supervision with the "redensification" of historic urban space in mind. The young architects who worked on them addressed Berlin and Genoa as urban areas where new construction must take into account--and take inspir...
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Ethics in aesthetics
In 1790, Immanuel Kant elevated “the beautiful to a symbol of the morally good.” Two hundred years later, “more ethics, less aesthetics” was the tagline chosen for the 2000 Venice Biennial for architecture. This volume tackles this ever-present struggle between ethics and aesthetics, querying whe...
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