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Fast forward
Bilingual (English/German)Fast Forward is the first magazine for the German-speaking area that addresses the big questions about the future of the city at the interface between architecture and the real estate industry.Inspired by the Architecture Matters conference, diverse voices—from the c...
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Alexa kreissl & tim trantenroth: rapport
Rapport presents works by Berlin-based artists Alexa Kreissl and Tim Trantenroth from their 2017 exhibition in Dresden. Inspired by the shapes and patterns of modern architecture, Kreissl uses metal and wooden rods to create sculptural environments, while Trantenroth incorporates architectural el...
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Filmic mapping
Filmic Mapping, the second volume in Jovis’ new LandScript series, examines forms of land measurement, primarily in documentary and essay films of the past ten years. Contributors from a variety of disciplines weigh in on the state of contemporary landscape architecture and its visual representat...
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Urbanism as civic art
Urbanism as Civic Art presents essential expertise in the art of building cities. Showcasing 150 examples from over 70 German cities, it illustrates, analyzes, and compares a wide range of urban spaces, courtyards, squares, and streets. The book impressively documents the distinctive qualities of...
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Rave architekten 1960–2010
Das Büro Rave Architekten gilt ohne Frage als eine Institution in Berlin. Es hat mit seiner vielschichtigen Arbeit maßgeblich die Architektur der zweiten Hälfte des 20. Jahrhunderts mitbestimmt. Betrachtet man das komplexe Werk der Brüder Jan und Rolf Rave, spiegeln ihre Bauten gleichsam exemplar...
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New social housing
European experts comment on neighborhood developmentIn 2016, Vienna announced the upcoming International Building Exhibition in 2022, asking how cities can remain inclusive, livable and affordable. The 2020 interim IBA presentation—documented here—invites experts in research, planning, politics a...
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St. hedwigs-kathedrale berlin
„Deckel drauf, das Loch muss zu“, sagen die einen. Den Erhalt des Gesamtkunstwerks fordern die anderen. Der Innenraum der St. Hedwigs-Kathedrale bestand nach dem Luftangriff auf Berlin 1943 aus einem Trümmerfeld. Hans Schwippert schuf dort von 1956 bis 1963 einen Raum, der die Zerstörung zum Them...
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Frieder heinze: tagträume
Großformatige Bildleinwände, zarte Seidenpapiere, Stein, Ton oder Eisenguss: Die Vielfalt der Motive und Techniken kennt kaum Grenzen und doch sind Bilder von Frieder Heinze (geb. 1950 in Leipzig) unverwechselbar und charakteristisch. Er vertraut den unbewussten Steuermechanismen der eigenen Intu...
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Die zirkuläre stadt
Ob Kaufhaus, Kaserne oder Kirche: Immer wieder fallen städtische Gebäude aufgrund gesellschaftlicher Veränderungen aus der Nutzung. Die Treiber für diese urbanen Obsoleszenzen wurden aber bislang nicht systematisch untersucht. Aktuell stehen durch die Megatrends Digitalisierung, Verkehrswende und...
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Bauhaus dessau: architecture-design-concept
Walter Gropius's Bauhaus Dessau was, from 1925 to 1932, the headquarters of the famous Bauhaus School of Design. After a dozen years of National Socialist use and then half a century's worth of restoration, it is now a UNESCO world cultural-heritage site, attracting some 80,000 visitors a year wh...
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Building together: chipperfield dudler, gigon/guyer
In the center of Zürich, three renowned architecture firms—David Chipperfield Architects, Max Dudler, and Annette Gigon/Mike Guyer—have designed four individual commercial buildings that form an ensemble, rather than a megacomplex. This publication documents this extraordinary collaboration, with...
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Post-pandemic urbanism
Working from home, online shopping, undertourism: the disruptive upheavals caused by the COVID-19 pandemic challenge architecture and urban planning. New spaces for action are opening up, but are they being utilized? From dividing traffic space fairly to urban food policies, from new places f...
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Free street manifesto
For over 70 years private cars have dominated public space in German cities. In the Free Street Manifesto, a creative-academic alliance fundamentally challenges this status quo, highlighting forgotten or unrecognized qualities of streets and the opportunities they present. In doing so it focuses ...
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Next 3 stadia: warsaw bucharest kiev
A sequel to 3 Stadia 2010, Next 3 Stadia highlights new projects by German architectural firm von Gerkan, Marg und Partner, and engineers Schlaich Bergermann und Partner, famed worldwide for their stadium construction. These new three stadia, located in Warsaw, Kiev and Bucharest, are examples of...
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Fagus
Fagus ist die Geschichte eines Gesamtkunstwerkes und ein frühes Beispiel für corporate identity: Das von Walter Gropius und Adolf Meyer ab 1911 errichtete Fagus-Werk in Alfeld an der Leine gilt als Ursprungsbau der Moderne. Den Architekten gelang es, einem mittelständischen Betrieb ein völlig ung...
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Leben zwischen häusern
Der dänische Architekt Jan Gehl, einer der weltweit wohl bekanntesten Stadtplaner, erläutert in seinem Buch Leben zwischen Häusern die fundamentale Bedeutung sensibler Raumplanung für ein gutes Zusammenleben in unseren Städten. Dabei nennt Jan Gehl entscheidende Eckpfeiler für die Verbesserung de...
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3+1 stadia for brazil
This publication documents the most important stadia of the soccer world championship 2014--the Brasília national stadium, the Arena Amazônia in Manaus, the Minerão in Belo Horizonte and the Maracanã in Rio de Janeiro.
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Dynamics of periphery
Incorporating architecture, urban design and territorial planning, this atlas provides concepts and strategies for building new community centers and livable spaces in both urban and rural settings, and explores periphery as a chance and model for future development.
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Mäusebunker and hygieneinstitut
Threatened with demolition, celebrated as icons of brutalism: Gerd and Magdalena Hänska’s Mäusebunker and the Hygieneinstitut—designed by Hermann Fehling and Daniel Gogel—make for an idiosyncratic pairing. This volume explores the different architectural principles underlying these closely situat...
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Density, architecture, and territory
Worldwide urbanization inevitably produces densification. This volume espouses a model of density as a tool for sustainable urban development, examining five European urban planning projects alongside discussions with architect Kees Christiaanse, philosopher Marc Armengaud, landscape architect He...
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Transformation und mischung
Cities and regions worldwide are faced with sweeping processes of transformation: social and demographic change, digitalization, and new technologies all represent significant challenges. Many cities and regions have already demonstrated ways in which transformation processes can succeed—prov...
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Raummaschine
Launched in 2016, the Raummaschine—a kinetic installation of 384 motor-driven hanging ball chains which move as visitors manipulate a touchpad—took space and movement as starting points for exploring the manifold relations between body, space and architecture. This book provides an account of the...
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Designing spaces for children
Meeting children as equals, on their own level, is not only a question of educational theory. Räume für Kinder shows how architecture and interior design can promote childhood development. Based on historical and current concepts of progressive education, the book sketches design principles for b...
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Christian helmle: white elephants
In postcolonial Africa, “White Elephant” was the ironic moniker given to buildings erected with international money and never put to use. They remain as blights--eroding reminders of enormous waste. Europe has its own collection of these contemporary ruins, such as Santiago Calatrava’s practicall...
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Konstruktion und transformation
Entwerfen und konstruieren Sie ein Sitzmöbel aus Holz! Ein experimentelles Studienprojekt zum Möbelbau mit strukturellen Impulsen führte zu Holz mit unerwarteten Gesichtern: Holz als Gewebe, als Kleinstgitter, als dünner Hohlkörper, als skulpturales Stabgebilde, als weicher Stapel, als Feder, als...
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Zusammenhalt braucht räume
Die Rückkehr der Wohnungsfrage, die sich von den Problemen der Wohnkosten, der Zuwanderung und der Segregation herleitet, ist in der breiten Öffentlichkeit auf große Resonanz gestoßen. Das Wie des Wohnens hat erneut Aufmerksamkeit erlangt. Kleinbürgerliches Wohnen in einer abgeschlossenen Einheit...
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Courage! transformation of mobility space / courage! transformation von mobilitätsräumen
(English / German) Courage! is a call for greater boldness in mobility planning. The book outlines the steps toward successfully implementing the mobility transition and encourages decision-makers in politics, public administration, and urban as well as rural planning. Twelve European case studie...
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Das hochhaus als gewebe von gestaltung und technik
The construction of high-rise buildings is often accompanied by highly emotional debate. On the one hand, this building type is seen as a solution for the current challenges facing cities; on the other, it is viewed as aesthetically unacceptable or as an expression of undesirable gentrification. ...
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Speech: 19, regulations
Issue 19 of Speech: explores the theme of regulations—from broader conventions that dictate how and when new areas and cities are built to routine technical standards like energy efficiency and fire safety. Regulations determines how these factors influence the visual and operational characterist...
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Düsseldorf. metropole am rhein
Düsseldorf wächst, stadträumlich wie ökonomisch. Dabei erfindet sich die Rheinmetropole nicht neu, sondern gewinnt Qualitäten hinzu. Wie in vergleichbaren europäischen Metropolen ist der Entwicklungsschub eine Chance, Architektur und Städtebau weiter zu profilieren und Projekte im öffentlichen Ra...
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Tezuka architects: the yellow book
Building on the wide interest in the popular TED talk, “The Best Kindergarten You’ve Ever Seen,” delivered in 2015 by Japanese architect Takaharu Tezuka (born 1964), Tezuka Architects: The Yellow Book is an in-depth, monographic study of the work and design philosophy of Tezuka’s architecture stu...
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Grundrisse gegen die krise
Bevölkerungswachstum, Wohnraummangel und Profitinteressen befeuerten im Berlin der 1920er Jahre die Wohnungsmisere. Wie heute, beschäftigten sich auch in der Weimarer Republik Architekt*innen mit Lösungsansätzen für diese Krise, unter ihnen: Alexander Klein. Seine Entwurfsmethodik, die Aspekte de...
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Make city
Make City collects contributions from architects, planners, landscape designers and municipal policymakers on the crises facing contemporary cities, presenting a variety of strategies to reconfigure and reimagine urban life. The intertwined problems of continuous development and rising real estat...
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Best highrises 2020/21
For some time now, major developments in highrise architecture have been primarily shaped by projects in China. But although roughly one in every three buildings that reaches a height of 100 meters or more is now built there, the highrise typology is also increasingly establishing itself in o...
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Shaping design
SHAPING DESIGN presents a wide range of creative design documents from architectural practice. Following the processes from analysis to final design, these manifestations form continuities. In many cases, the tools, ways of thinking, and approaches used are deeply interrelated. Overarching f...
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Unterwegs in die moderne
Die Bauten des 1871 geborenen Friedrich Pützer prägen zusammen mit seinen stadtplanerischen Werken das Darmstädter Stadtbild weit mehr, als allgemein bekannt. Sie sind Zeugnisse der Aufbruchs- und Reformphase des Großherzogtums Hessen und insbesondere seiner Hauptstadt Darmstadt um 1900. Pützers ...
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Kritisches wörterbuch der architekturtheorie
Das Wörterbuch stellt rund 70 Begriffe der Architekturtheorie in kurzen Essays prägnant und allgemein verständlich dar. Dazu zählen aktuelle Ausdrücke wie Agency, Baukultur oder Rechte Räume, klassische Grundbegriffe wie Architektur, Funktion oder Raum, aber auch Slogans wie Form Follows Function...
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Anderhalten architekten: kunstmuseum dieselkraftwerk cottbus
One of Germany's most beautiful defunct twentieth-century power stations was recently converted into a contemporary art museum for the city of Cottbus, Brandenburg. The designers, Anderhalten Architects, left the original architecture of this national monument intact, inserting concrete cubes to ...
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Berlin und seine bauherren
Architektur und Städtebau aus der Perspektive von Bauherren zu betrachten, ist ein bis dato in der Bau- und Kunstgeschichte signifikant vernachlässigtes Thema. Sofern überhaupt erwähnt, werden sie nicht selten sogar als potenzielle Widersacher der Architekten begriffen, da ihr Handeln – so die Un...
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Neue nationalgalerie berlin: sanierung einer architekturikone
Die Neue Nationalgalerie am Berliner Kulturforum ist eine Architekturikone von Weltrang sowie der Schluss- und Höhepunkt im Lebenswerk des Architekten Ludwig Mies van der Rohe. Mit der ersten Grundinstandsetzung seit ihrer Eröffnung 1968 ist ein herausragendes Projekt gelungen, das die behutsame...
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Open architecture
Sustainability, the author argues, is an integral part of architectural design and construction. For its realization, he has developed a holistic approach: a flexible timber building system that centers design on the interaction of the users of the building. The system achieves sustainable constr...
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Transformative partizipation
Transformative Partizipation explores participation projects for various large housing estates in Germany and Austria. Protagonists from the fields of architecture, urban planning, sociology, history, and art use specific case studies to reflect on current and historical forms of participation. T...
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Urban open space+
Gemeinschaftlich genutzte und gestaltete Freiräume sind Ankerpunkte in der Stadt und eine mögliche Antwort auf die Folgen von Urbanisierung und Klimawandel sowie auf soziale und kulturelle Unterschiede. Das Buch untersucht die Rolle von Add-ons in urbanen Freiräumen: spezifischen Nutzungskomponen...
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Schulen planen und bauen 2.0
Wie plant und baut man eine gute Schule? Das 2012 erstmals erschienene Standardwerk für einen neuen Schulbau liegt seit 2017 in einer komplett überarbeiteten Auflage vor. Im Mittelpunkt steht die Frage, wie Pädagogik heute zeitgemäß und qualitätvoll in Architektur umgesetzt werden und wie eine ge...
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