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Bob campus – von der magie des gemeinsinns
Gesellschaftlicher Zusammenhalt braucht Vertrauen, Gemeinsinn und manifeste Orte. Der BOB CAMPUS in Wuppertal ist ein solcher Ort, ein soziales Gebilde und ein Lernraum, von vielen Menschen gemeinsam erschaffen und gestaltet. Dieses Buch erzählt davon – persönlich, ehrlich und inspirierend. Nach ...
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Mobility and transportation
The increasing ubiquity of megacities, with their complex transport networks, poses daunting challenges both for city planners and municipal administrators--and for their overstrained budgets. However, this phenomenon also offers a real-time laboratory in which experts can attempt to identify mob...
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Innenstadtleben
Wenn die Innenstadt in Zukunft weniger dem Einkauf als vielmehr dem besonderen Erlebnis dienen wird, dann rückt vor allem die Schönheit des öffentlichen Raums in den Mittelpunkt. Straßen- und Platzräume mit den stadtbildprägenden Fassaden der Häuser werden zum entscheidenden Kriterium für die Au...
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Gustav klimt: der kuss
„Wieder will mein froher Mund begegnen Deinen Lippen, die mich küssend segnen, Deine lieben Finger will ich halten Und in meine Finger spielend falten.“ Diese Verse aus dem Gedicht „Liebe“ könnte Hermann Hesse zu Gustav Klimts wohl berühmtesten Gemälde „Liebespaar“ (Der Kuss) geschrieben haben. E...
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Renewable energy and landscape quality
This book compiles guidelines for assessing the suitability and vulnerability of landscape for renewable energy projects and provides a multilingual glossary of terms for discussing landscape and renewable energy production, equipping the reader with tools and strategies for garnering public part...
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New power
(English / German)Berlin, the Electropolis: architecturally and aesthetically, they are still impressive, but technical and economic progress has made the buildings of electricity supply redundant today. Innovative concepts are needed to uncover the huge potential of these masterpieces of ind...
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Die ambivalente stadt
In welchen Städten möchten wir heute und in Zukunft leben? Wie verändern die Angst vor Terror und die großen Migrationsbewegungen, aber auch soziale Unterschiede unsere öffentlichen Räume? Welche Akteure sind an den komplexen Transformationen beteiligt?Die ambivalente Stadt setzt sich mit der zun...
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Wulf & partner
With their designs for Adidas and the Metro Group, the Stuttgart-based architecture firm Wulf & Partner has distinguished itself with a pragmatic, playful, adaptable and sustainable practice. This is the company’s first comprehensive overview (as well as the first book in a new series), and i...
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Tokyo: an urban portrait
Tokyo’s seemingly endless sea of buildings has grown incrementally over the past centuries, leading to an urban condition that is both coherent and contradictory at the same time. The understanding of Tokyo as a continuous and interdependent urban complex is a much-neglected perspective in pr...
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Gestaltungsleitlinien stadtraum am beispiel dresden
Architektur ist ein langwieriges Geschäft – was heute gebaut wird, wurde schon vor Jahren geplant; was heute geplant wird, wird erst viel später gebaut werden. Aber ohne eine Vision, die uns dem Ziel einer lebenswerten Stadt näherbringt, werden Absichtserklärungen nicht zur Wirklichkeit werden. S...
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Dot.city
Seit langem schon nutzen wir Handys, Bankautomaten oder Internet als etwas Gewöhnliches in unserem urbanen Alltag. Grundsätzlich anders scheint das Leben dadurch nicht geworden zu sein. Oder haben wir uns unmerklich an die Existenz des Unsichtbaren gewöhnt?Wie lassen sich neue digitale Möglichkei...
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Der entwerfende ingenieur
Für den entwerfenden Ingenieur vollzieht sich der Tragwerksentwurf zwingend als das Denken von Kräften und Materialien im architektonischen Raum. Das außergewöhnliche Schaffen des Bauingenieurs Joseph Schwartz ist geprägt von einer subtilen Verschmelzung einer großen gestalterischen Sensibilität ...
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Mittendrin und rundherum
The architect plans, the builder gives his blessing, the population is presented with the finished result. Fortunately, this planning culture, handed down over many centuries, has changed in recent decades. A pioneer of this development is the architectural office nonconform, based in Austria...
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Smart city konkret
Smart Cities werden weltweit diskutiert. Mit Hilfe neuer Informations- und Kommunikationstechnologien sollen Beiträge zur Lösung gegenwärtiger und zukünftiger gesellschaftlicher Herausforderungen der Städte geleistet werden. In dem Buch wird gezeigt, wie in einer Public Private Partnership zwisch...
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Tokyo void
Tokyo's urban landscape is full of contradictions: a densely packed megalopolis, it affords thousands of vacant spaces. This volume explores possibilities for rethinking these spaces in creative ways such as "space agencies" and various architectural interventions.
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Digital city science. researching new technologies in urban environments
How will science and technology shape future cities—and how do cities shape science and technology in return? Who are the actors behind these processes? Driven by a transdisciplinary approach, Perspectives in Metropolitan Research 6 elaborates on the intertwinements of science, technology, and ci...
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Städte für menschen
Seit mehr als 40 Jahren befasst sich der Architekt und Stadtplaner Jan Gehl damit, Plätze, Straßen, ja ganze Stadtviertel zum Wohle der Bewohner neu oder umzugestalten. Er stützt sich dabei auf Erkenntnisse, die er durch langjährige Untersuchungen von Großstadtsituationen in verschiedenen Länder...
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Die vergessenen alternativen
Anfang der 1950er Jahre befand sich die europäische Architektur in einer Krise. Die neuen, nach funktionalistischen Kriterien geplanten Stadtviertel und Siedlungen, die nach dem Zweiten Weltkrieg innerhalb kurzer Zeit realisiert werden mussten, konnten die Versprechen nicht einlösen, die einst d...
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Architecture in context
Attempting to explore untapped potential in urban planning, Architecture in Context debates such topics as strategies for user-financed urban construction, transport in Copenhagen and urban planning in Africa. Contributors include architects, planners and theorists such as Christoph Laimer, Klaus...
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Praxis of collective building
New Belgrade represented a material and social experiment for a new society in post-war Yugoslavia. As the city and the country were being simultaneously built, the philosophy of praxis was developing in both the Yugoslavian and the international scene. Praxis of Collective Building deals with th...
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Radically local
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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Spacetimes matter
How can mapping capture the dynamic entanglements of space and time in a rapidly changing world? Spacetimes Matter is an invitation to rethink mapping as a critical tool for understanding multiple spacetimes—and how they come to matter. Introducing methodologies of spacetime mapping, the antholog...
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Back to earth
The Senegalese building collective Studio Suddo Neuve is calling for a paradigm shift in the West African construction sector. The collective has been focusing on substituting the ubiquitously-present concrete blocks with earth-based materials. While this volume primarily documents the practical ...
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Freie sicht:
Der österreichische Maler Adam Jankowski lehrt seit 1987 Malerei an der Hochschule für Gestaltung Offenbach. Im Sommer 2013 beendet er nach 26 Jahren seine dortige Lehrtätigkeit. Aus diesem Anlass zeigt der Nassauische Kunstverein Wiesbaden die Gruppenausstellung FREIE SICHT, die Arbeiten von ihm...
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Guide to common urban imaginaries in contested spaces
In an exploration of contested territories, this publication investigates the political agency of architecture and urban design in Famagusta, Cyprus, presenting stories about the future common spaces in their city.
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Handbuch der stadtbaukunst
Das Handbuch der Stadtbaukunst vermittelt grundlegendes Wissen für den städtebaulichen Entwurf. Stadträume, Hofräume, Platzräume und Straßenräume werden anhand von 150 Beispielen aus über 70 deutschen Städten maßstäblich dargestellt, analysiert und verglichen. Das vierbändige Werk dokumentiert e...
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Power and energy
Like the onetime industrial facilities that have become Dia:Beacon, Mass MoCA and the Tate Modern, among other factory conversions, Berlin's Rummelsberg electric plant is characterized by wide expanses of brick, glass and, most importantly, space. Today, the huge power station with its extraordin...
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Monuments of everyday life
Monuments can fulfill many functions in cities: they can serve as receptacles for local memories and histories, as places to spend time, as meeting points and as landmarks. However, despite this potential flexibility, the concept of the monument and its relation to the city are in crisis in conte...
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Citámbulos mexico city
Mexico City, one of the most populous and dense conurbations in the world, faces some of our most daunting contemporary architectural challenges. This unique, incisive volume invites readers on a journey through the everyday life of the city. Not only are its citizens called upon to demonstrate b...
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Gmp: the shanghai oriental sports center in china
When the 14th FINA World Championships in swimming were held in Shanghai in 2011, a new sports center, with sports and swimming stadiums, an outdoor swimming pool and a media center, was constructed. This publication celebrates this monumental complex.
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Das urbane
Vergangene Epochen glaubten zu wissen, was Stadt ist. Die planerischen Systeme, die in diesem Glauben entstanden sind, gingen sogar davon aus, zu wissen, was eine wahrhaft gute Stadt ist. Heute allerdings verfügen wir nicht mehr über diese Sicherheit. Doch dieser Verlust könnte sich als Gewinn he...
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Europe: co-operative housing
This publication provides insight into communal living in 11 European countries, focusing on social concepts, architectural details and funding schemes. Exemplary residential projects from Austria, Switzerland, the Netherlands, France, Great Britain, the Czech Republic, Denmark, Sweden, Norway, F...
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Metropolis no.2: resources
Half of mankind lives in cities, and the tendency is on the increase. Urban people use the greater part of the world's energy and yet also produce the most pollutants--with far-reaching consequences for the world climate. Looking at this phenomenon the other way around, climate change has an impa...
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Urbanizing the mojave desert: las vegas
Bilingual edition (English/German) / Zweisprachige Ausgabe (deutsch/englisch) Flashing facades, high-end-casinos and neon lights—isn´t that how one knows the gambling metropolis of Las Vegas? But what picture does the city have to offer beyond the pulsing pleasure boulevard The Strip? Urbanizi...
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All the queens gardens
In his second book exploring the urban vernacular of Queens, New York, Rafael Herrin-Ferri shifts his focus to the green spaces that accompany the houses and small multi-family buildings of the "World’s Borough." As varied and colorful as the façades featured in All the Queens Houses (JOVIS, 2021...
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Mobility design
Climate change and increasing resource scarcity together with rising traffic volumes force us to develop new environmentally friendly and people-oriented mobility options. In order to provide a positive mobility experience, the transition from one mobility mode to another must be managed smoothl...
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Meinhard von gerkan – aus freier hand.
Meinhard von Gerkan hat in den vergangenen 50 Jahren gemeinsam mit seinen Partnern Architekturgeschichte geschrieben: Sie begann mit dem Entwurf des Flughafens Berlin-Tegel, heute sind über 380 Projekte realisiert.Anlässlich der Ausstellung „Aus freier Hand“ erscheint ein Katalog, der anhand von ...
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Jswd
Bilingual edition (English/German) / Zweisprachige Ausgabe (deutsch/englisch) Kiosks, Clinics, and Corporate Spaces—25 years ago, Konstantin Jaspert, Frederik Jaspert, Jürgen Steffens, Rolf Watrin, and Olaf Drehsen founded the Cologne-based architecture firm JSWD. Time for a review: In 25 c...
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Territorial urbanism now!
What if urban planning and design were to prioritize rather than merely accommodate the unbuilt environment? Territorial Urbanism Now! calls for a paradigm shift in the conception of urban transformation. It urges us to favor sustainable systems in order to collectively tackle the challenges of c...
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Gmp: the hans-sachs-haus in gelsenkirchen
The modernist cultural establishment Hans-Sachs-Haus, in the industrial town of Gelsenkirchen, Germany, has served many functions since opening in the 1920s—library, concert, reading room. This publication highlights the process of building into the old facade.
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Hamburg - positions, plans, projects
Hamburg is growing. Germany’s largest port city is preparing to have a population of around two million residents by 2030. For some time now, the city has been pursuing an ambitious construction programme, focusing on internal city development: the new buildings on the northern banks of the Elbe,...
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Erhalten – ertüchtigen – erneuern
Stadt | Raum | Geschichte Band 2 Erhalten durch Weiterbauen. Dass Denkmalschutz vom Bewahren und Konservieren ausgeht, aber darauf aufbauend auch Weiterdenken und -bauen bedeuten kann, zeigt das Beispiel des Wolfsburger Theaters. Das 1965 entworfene und am 5. Oktober 1973 eingeweihte Spätwerk des...
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Pfp architekten: theaters
Theaters have always been an essential part of the urban landscape in Europe; where new theaters spring up, they signal that regeneration is underway in a particular district. The Hamburg firm PFP Architekten is a leader in the field of innovative theater architecture. This volume surveys the fir...
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Reden wir über baukultur
Baukultur ist als gemeinsame kulturelle Leistung nicht Privatsache, sondern physisches Abbild unserer Gesellschaft. Sie beschreibt nicht nur die Gestalt unseres Lebensraums auf allen Maßstabsebenen, sondern aber auch den Prozess seiner Entstehung, Aneignung, Nutzung und Erhaltung. Baukultur ist f...
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