Architecture

The gardens of Versailles are perhaps the most famous in the world. Seemingly open to the horizon, their scale is monumental. Their grand east-west axis celebrates the Sun King, even as they offer an expression of the scientific spirit of the age in their geometrical layout and exploitation of the optical properties of reflecting water. The original park design, realized by André Le Nôtre, a few advisers, and Louis XIV himself—author of The Way to Present the Gardens of Versailles—remains largely intact. Yet Louis XV made his own original contribution to the gardens at the Trianon, where later still Richard Mique and Hubert Robert designed the English garden and the delightful village beloved by Marie Antoinette.

Michel Baridon traces the history of the gardens from their inception through three centuries of their history. He stresses the cultural importance of the landscape, provides a chronology to show the stages of its growth, and discusses the contemporary challenges posed by its conservation and historical interpretation. Beautifully illustrated with archival images and commissioned photographs, A History of the Gardens of Versailles provides visitors and enthusiasts with a guide to these legendary grounds.

When Philadelphia's iconoclastic city planner Edmund N. Bacon looked into his crystal ball in 1959, he saw a remarkable vision: "Philadelphia as an unmatched expression of the vitality of American technology and culture." In that year Bacon penned an essay for Greater Philadelphia Magazine, originally entitled "Philadelphia in the Year 2009," in which he imagined a city remade, modernized in time to host the 1976 Philadelphia World's Fair and Bicentennial celebration, an event that would be a catalyst for a golden age of urban renewal.

What Bacon did not predict was the long, bitter period of economic decline, population dispersal, and racial confrontation that Philadelphia was about to enter. As such, his essay comes to us as a time capsule, a message from one of the city's most influential and controversial shapers that prompts discussions of what was, what might have been, and what could yet be in the city's future.

Imagining Philadelphia brings together Bacon's original essay, reprinted here for the first time in fifty years, and a set of original essays on the past, present, and future of urban planning in Philadelphia. In addition to examining Bacon and his motivations for writing the piece, the essays assess the wider context of Philadelphia's planning, architecture, and real estate communities at the time, how city officials were reacting to economic decline, what national precedents shaped Bacon's faith in grand forms of urban renewal, and whether or not it is desirable or even possible to adopt similarly ambitious visions for contemporary urban planning and economic development. The volume closes with a vision of what Philadelphia might look like fifty years from now.

With case studies of neighborhood developments from North and South America, Europe, and Africa that span more than forty years. this book offers a seminal treatise on the community based design practices of participatory planning an advocacy architecture.

"To transform their good intentions into tangible results in neighborhoods jittery over gentrification, the mayor and his planners should read Building Together: Case Studies in Participatory Planning and Community Building." - Sam Roberts, The New York Times

With case studies of neighborhood developments from North and South America, Europe, and Africa that span forty years, Building Together offers a seminal treatise on the community-based design practices of participatory planning and advocacy architecture. The authors describe the challenges, opportunities, and rewards of grassroots collaboration through vivid personal accounts chosen for their practical lessons. Their case studies range in scale from regional urban planning to smaller architectural projects, and geographically from Harlem, Greenpoint, and the greater New York Metropolitan region to sites in coastal Colombia, southern France, and Burkina Faso, Africa.

Building Together is designed to appeal to a diverse audience of community development specialists, faculty and students of planning, architecture, community health, and the social sciences, practicing professionals and decision-makers in economic development, and community-based organizations.

Museums have become ground zero in America's culture wars. Whereas fierce public debates once centered on provocative work by upstart artists, the scrutiny has now expanded to mainstream cultural institutions and the ideas they present. In Displays of Power, Steven Dubin, whose Arresting Images was deemed "masterly" by the New York Times, examines the most controversial exhibitions of the 1990s. These include shows about ethnicity, slavery, Freud, the Old West, and the dropping of the atomic bomb by the Enola Gay. This new edition also includes a preface by the author detailing the recent Sensation! controversy at the Brooklyn Museum. Displays of Power draws directly upon interviews with many key combatants: museum administrators, community activists, curators, and scholars. It authoritatively analyzes these episodes of America struggling to redefine itself in the late 20th century.

Open churches are valuable public spaces that embrace new possibilities while continuing to fulfill their liturgical function. The focus of Kirche Raum Gegenwart is the sustainable transformation of these locations in a way that goes beyond purely architectural intervention. Using four case studies from dioceses in southern Germany, the book and traveling exhibition of the same name provide concrete examples of what these changes might look like. Together with relevant stakeholders from the local communities, artists and architects have taken widely varying approaches to the supplementary uses of church spaces. The designs presented in the volume are complemented by fourteen particularly successful church transformations that have already been implemented in southern Germany. In addition to this, written contributions provide deeper insights into the changes occurring within the two largest Christian denominations and the unique requirements of these increasingly frequent spatial transformations.

Das Handbuch in erweiterter 6. Auflage

Die erweiterte deutsche 6.Auflage dieses Standardwerks für die Baukonstruktion wurde inhaltlich weiterentwickelt: Das neu hinzugefügte Kapitel „Anschauungen zum Klima" thematisiert die Grundlagen des klimagerechten Bauens. Historische und aktuelle Bautypen werden auf ihre architektonischen, bauphysikalischen und haustechnischen Strategien hin untersucht, um daraus Grundlagen für eigene nachhaltige Klimamaßnahmen zu entwickeln.

Systematisch gegliedert und didaktisch aufbereitet, vermittelt das Buch auch weiterhin in einem Band das nötige technische und konstruktive Grundlagenwissen, um vielfältige Entwurfsziele baulich umzusetzen. Es hat sich deshalb in über 20 Jahren nicht nur bei Studierenden und Dozierenden, sondern auch bei Architektinnen und Architekten zu einem unverzichtbaren Handbuch zum Nachschlagen und Vertiefen etabliert.

• Das weltweit anerkannte Konstruktionsbuch für Architekturschaffende in erweiterter Auflage
• Neues Kapitel "Anschauungen zum Klima"
• Bewährt systematisch gegliedert und didaktisch aufbereitet, mit Plakat im Weltformat als Navigationshilfe
• Auch als Hardcover (978-3-0356-2664-3) sowie auf Englisch (978-3-0356-2666-7) und Französisch (978-3-0356-2667-4) erhältlich

Dynamic artificial light in museums

In galleries and museums, one’s perception of art, space, and atmosphere is largely determined by lighting. But which light settings should art and museum experts and exhibition designers choose, and on what basis are those choices made? Pioneering LED technologies make customized lighting scenarios possible, turning artificial light into an interactive material in museum architecture – not only in terms of design practice, but also in terms of real-time spatial experiences.

Computer-controlled lighting technologies are breaking boundaries, allowing the individual to take full control of lighting design. Light Up explores the potential of dynamic artificial lighting technologies in museum architecture, offering new insights into the use of light in exhibition spaces.

The question of what heritage is and how we deal with it is not a neutral one. Recent events such as the Black Lives Matter movement and the toppling of monuments have made evident how much the colonial past is inscribed in our built environment; at the same time, colonialism affects memorialization and historiography. Hence, those involved in architectural history are challenged to re-consider their positionality. Whose heritage are colonial sites? Which conflicting memories are attached to them? How are archives and material evidence reassessed to bring forward the stories of marginalized subjects? Following the call for decolonization, this volume explores historical methodologies and shows the entanglement of narratives at architectural sites, bringing together archaeology, architectural history, and heritage studies.

• A contribution to the current debate on decolonization and memorialization
• Interdisciplinary perspectives on architecture and heritage
• International range of authors

Setting the standard for modern cob construction – from design, engineering, and building code compliance, to sculpting beautiful structures

Cob – a mix of clay, sand, and straw – is one of the most popular and well-known natural building methods. Yet cob is often difficult to permit and can be used in inappropriate ways due to a lack of sound engineering and design information. Recent research and a newly developed building code promise to make cob building more accessible than ever.

Essential Cob Construction sets the new standard for cob construction. Incorporating rigorous, up-to-date engineering and building science and decades of practical lessons learned, coverage includes:

• Appropriate use of cob in different climates and contexts
• Thermal performance and moisture management
• Structural and architectural design considerations, including fire and earthquake resistance data from extensive laboratory testing
• Hands-on cob construction, including mix design, testing, manual and mechanical mixing, wall building, strong connections with foundations, roofs, and other structural elements, and finishing options
• Building code development and the permitting process for cob
• Planning, budgeting, and quality control
• The complete Cob Construction Appendix of the International Residential Code.

Essential Cob Construction is required reading for engineers, architects, designers, contractors, and owner-builders working with this ancient, aesthetically pleasing, low-carbon building material.

Frauen in der Architektur sicht- und hörbar zu machen, ihnen eine Bühne zu geben, ihre Leistungen zu zeigen – das war das Anliegen des Women in Architecture Berlin Festivals 2021. Institutionen, Verbände und Initiativen im Bereich der Baukultur waren aufgefordert teilzunehmen.

70 Jahre nach dem Tod von Emilie Winkelmann, der ersten erfolgreichen deutschen Architektin, sollte Bilanz gezogen werden: Wer sind die starken Frauen von heute? Werden sie wahrgenommen? Wie steht es um die Gleichstellung in der Baukultur und den Umbau des Berufsbildes? Die Publikation zeigt auf, was Institutionen aus Politik, Lehre und Wirtschaft, was Chef*innen und Mitarbeiter*innen, Hochschulleiter*innen und Professor*innen tun können oder schon getan haben, damit es vorangeht auf der Baustelle Gleichstellung.

Im südlichen Graz, dort, wo Einfamilienhäuser, Gewerbe und Industrie aufeinandertreffen, entstand im Rahmen des Grazer Kulturjahres 2020 der Demonstrativbau Club Hybrid. Mit wechselnden Gästen und täglichem Programm wurde der Club im Sommer 2021 zur Werkstatt und Bühne in der urbanen Nebelzone der Stadt. Es wurde experimentiert, ausgestellt und diskutiert.

Club Hybrid. Ein Sommer in der Nebelzone bringt die beteiligten Menschen, Objekte, Räume und Ereignisse in einem Buch zusammen. Entlang von sechs Themenfeldern wird die Genese des Clubs von der Standortsuche über die Architekturkonstruktion bis zur Programmfindung erzählt. Gastbeiträge von Bernd Vlay, Agency Apéro, Emily Trummer, Rudolf Kohoutek und Oliver Elser ergänzen und vertiefen einzelne Themen und blicken über den Rand des Projekts hinaus.

Travel across Ontario and pay a visit to Ontario's nearly 50 heritage jails. Built before the modern era of the OPP, they range in size from single cell lockups to massive monuments such as the Kingston Pen and the Don Jail. Although Spartan inside, many are architectural wonders on the outside and have been declared heritage buildings. A few have been converted to museums and show the harsh conditions that convicts had to endure. Behind Bars also tells of the many hilarious escapes, gruesome hangings and unusual trials which made Ontario's old jails the centre of attention.

Highlights include ghost-town jails in Silver Islet and Berens River; torture devices on display at the Penitentiary Museum in Kingston, along with the "shower" and the coffin-sized "box"; the man who was executed but didn't die; mysterious escapes; the battle over Ontario's smallest jail; Woodstock's death mask; love stories gone wrong; Ontario's first terrorist attack; the worst mass murderer; and haunted jails.

"Noboby knows Ontario like Ron Brown."

- CBC Radio

The Ontario landscape is dotted with places of worship, from the simple log cabin to lofty cathedrals. Behind each lie personal stories of exceptional individuals and historical events, all of which have helped shape our lives.

The lovers of Anne of Green Gables may be pleasantly surprised by Lucy Maud Montgomery's long association with the Leaksdale Manse just north of Toronto. From the James Bay lowlands comes an unusual example of ingenuity involving a historic Moose Factory landmark, while the poignant love story involving Florence Nightingale and a local minister is depicted in the attractive stained glass window of a church in Elora. A more recent page of history is captured through the side-by-side relationship of a synagogue and mosque. Throughout, Foundations of Faith will delight the armchair traveller and invite the mobile history buff to explore Ontario.

Black Creek Pioneer Village: Toronto's Living History Village is a recreation of a typical crossroads community found in Southern Ontario during the 1800s. Nestled on 56 acres of tranquility, the village is a step-back-in-time, a respite from the towering buildings and bustling traffic of the 21st century. Here, visitors discover the joys and daily realities of living in early Ontario. Here at the village, the sights, sounds and smells are tangible reminders of our past. Meet the blacksmith, the tinsmith, the weaver, the miller, the printer .... Meet the people who "live" at Black Creek and bring our yesteryears to life.

How do governments design their strategy for heritage property? What do they try to accomplish in their laws and their tax systems to favour the re-use of older buildings, districts, and cities? What institutional framework can assist the restoration of tourist designations and the conservation of neighbourhoods? In this international study, eighteen experts from ten countries describe the legal challenges and solutions relating to such property. Beyond a carefully described theoretical framework, actual case studies demonstrate how communities and countries can make adjustments to their legislation so that older buildings can be better protected

This book stems from an international conference at Smolenice Castle in Slovakia, in November 1994.

Churches of Nova Scotia is as much a human interest book as it is about ecclesiastical buildings. Both text and photographs tell the story of more than 30 Nova Scotia churches, but in the telling, the relationship between the interior life and history of the churches and the exterior and architecture of the church buildings is explored. The book is well balanced, containing a selection of churches from all parts of the province and representing a variety of denominational and ethnic identities, time periods, and architectural styles.

One hundred years ago, the City of Brantford advertised itself as the most important manufacturing centre in Canada. During the century that followed, its industrial economy boomed, faltered, and finally collapsed. By the end of the twentieth century, Brantford was known for unemployment, hard luck, and the infamy of having "the worst downtown in Canada." For twenty years the downtown was in steep decline. Significant attempts at urban revival had failed until Wilfrid Laurier University decided to locate a campus in the heart of Brantford's crumbling city centre.

Leo Groarke revisists the grandeur of the city's past, explores the economic downfall, and tells the story of the arrival of the university, its early struggles, its commitment to historic restoration, and its ultimate success as a catalyst for urban renewal. The compelling story he recounts will engage anyone interested in the plight of the North-American city core and the role that universities and colleges can play in re-establishing downtowns as vibrant centres of historical and contemporary importance.

Cartography as an instrument for the analysis of urbanisation processes

The speed, scale and scope of urbanisation have increased dramatically in recent decades, transforming fundamentally the character of urban territories. To decipher the rapidly transforming land-scapes across the planet, we need a radical change of perspective.

This book presents an expanded vocabulary of urbanisation through a comparison of Tokyo, Hong Kong – Shenzhen – Dongguan, Kolkata, Istanbul, Lagos, Paris, Mexico City, and Los Angeles.

Based on a novel cartography, and on detailed ethnographic and historical explorations, it systematically analyses the diversity of responses to urgent contemporary urban challenges. This results in a series of new concepts that allow us to assess the practical consequences of different urban strategies in everyday life.

• Essential book on urbanism
• New evaluation models for urbanisation processes
• Comprehensive analyses and illustrations of the urban patterns of international metropolises
• Comparison of urbanisation processes in eight metropolises around the world

Although public spaces in the former East Germany were elaborately refurbished after reunification, many small towns and villages continue to suffer from population exodus and high vacancy rates. The same is true for Tribsees in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, where seventy of the 240 houses in the downtown area are currently unoccupied. In 2020, a team of artists and students led by Ton Matton engaged with a number of these buildings, sounding out possibilities and concepts for the future of the town in collaboration with residents. This resulted in new narratives of coexistence—not always in adherence to the letter of the law, and involving large amounts of improvisation—based on individual responsibility, self-sufficiency, and local production.

Slow Urban Planning does more than document this project and its artistic interventions, some of which were implemented in the context of the "Tribsees Centenniale." It also illuminates how urban planning processes tend to proceed in general, and how regulatory structures can be adapted in order to better integrate performative processes. This publication hopes to offer an impetus for a decelerated urbanism—for Slow Urban Planning.

Extended methods of analysis for urbanisation processes illustrated in eight world regions.

Urbanisation processes are unfolding far beyond the realm of agglomerations, profoundly transforming agrarian areas, rain forests, deserts and oceans. Inextricably bound to the earth’s ecologies, these developments are causing manifold planetary crises which require urgent scrutiny and call for new conceptions and cartographies of the urban beyond-the-city.

Through detailed analysis and fieldwork captured in text, photographs and hand-drawn maps, the book portrays the effects of extended urbanisation in eight world regions. It offers a redefinition of the very notions of the “city”, “urban” and “urbanisation” and outlines new urban agendas developed to address planetary challenges.

This book decenters the perspective on the urban, foregrounds urban struggle, and transcends rural-urban and north-south divides.

• Fundamental book for urbanism studies
• Redefinition of the terms "city", "urban" and "urbanisation"
• Analysis of urbanisation processes in eight world regions

Dare more experiment!

The book documents the teaching philosophy developed at the chair of experimental design by Frank Stepper and his team at the University of Kassel. The approach places an emphasis on fostering and developing aesthetic and formal imagination through experimentation. Thinking the "impossible" helps to formulate architectural concepts that progress beyond predictable causalities and functional constraints. For the emergence of innovative designs and novel construction typologies analogue models are augmented with computational strategies and digital fabrication methods.

• 20 Years of teaching Experimental Architecture, from introductory to thesis level projects
• Experimental videos with QR code links
• With contributions by Hitoshi Abe, Marie Therese Harnancourt-Fuchs, Steffanie Hennecke and others

A classic in German for the first time

China has a long history of garden design, resulting in the emergence of a unique style and diverse forms of expression. Common to all Chinese gardens is that they follow the principle that less is sometimes more, and are designed to evoke a sense of the infinite.

Chen wrote his text in five essays between 1978 and 1982, and these appeared in succession in the Journal of Tongji University. Due to continuing demand, they were eventually published as a book with 32 photographs and Chinese calligraphy by Jiang Qiting. This first German edition is based on that edition.

• Brief history of Chinese garden design
• Convenient format with calligraphy, over 30 photos and 10 hand drawings by the author
• A book for anyone who appreciates beautiful gardens

Chen Congzhou (1918-2000) was a renowned garden designer and an internationally recognized expert in Chinese architecture and garden history. He advocated the preservation of the natural environment and the restoration of many historic buildings. His numerous publications on traditional Chinese buildings and gardens have also been translated into English.

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 the interactions between this school of thought and the histories of architectural construction sites. By closely studying the microhistories of construction, the author considers the theoretical problems of collective production through different narratives: voluntary youth actions in the construction of New Belgrade through the lens of Marxian praxis, participative prefabrication as a way of addressing housing shortages in Yugoslavia, and the transfer and adaptation of the Yugoslavian prefabricated system to the Cuban context by the microbrigade movement.

HOLODECK architects work on a wide variety of projects, from urban development to exhibitions. Their impressive body of work is proof that sophisticated architecture need not ignore ecological and social issues. The latter are consciously reflected from concept to realization. For example, HOLODECK have developed strategic solutions as alternatives to single-family homes, apply a sensitive approach to existing structures, and design buildings that make consistent use of natural conditions such as passive solar energy, airflow, cross-ventilation, and natural lighting.

This volume also reinterprets the typical architecture book. It consists of two separate yet connected parts; the first presents sketches, plans, studies and models, while the second features texts and lavish photo series.

·       Analytical thinking and holistic concepts

·       Low-tech buildings with strong architectural identities

·       Selected works from 25 years of international architectural practice

(Bilingual Edition: English / German)
Festivals celebrate occasions and moods and generate their own realities that manifest as living memories. Festivals transform people, allowing them to take on unfamiliar roles. Festivals also change places, give rise to new public spheres, and are capable of bringing together critical as well as joyful, angry and enthusiastic groups with resulting impacts on cities and societies. The festival is also closely linked to the display of political or social power. Those who take part suspend existing rules or create new ones. The MAK exhibition DAS FEST brings art, cultural and social history to life. The book that accompanies the exhibition brings together the expert opinions of the MAK team as well as those of renowned authors and explores essential aspects of festival design.

• Festivals as a source of inspiration: from happenings to religious holidays
• With contributions by Chiara Baldini, Brigitte Felderer, Lili Hollein, Werner Oechslin and many more
• MAK exhibition, which runs from 14 December 2022 to 7 May 2023

Festgestaltung fordert zum Experiment auf!

Feste zelebrieren Anlässe und Stimmungen, erzeugen ihre eigenen Wirklichkeiten, die sich als lebendige Erinnerungen manifestieren. Feste transformieren Menschen, lassen sie ungewohnte Rollen einnehmen. Feste verändern Orte, lassen Öffentlichkeit entstehen und sind imstande, kritische wie fröhliche, zornige wie begeisterte Gruppen zu versammeln, zusammenzubringen und einzuwirken: auf eine Stadt, auf eine Gesellschaft. Das Fest ist untrennbar mit der Darstellung politischer oder gesellschaftlicher Macht verbunden. Wer feiert setzt auch Ordnungen außer Kraft oder schafft neue.

Die MAK-Schau DAS FEST verlebendigt Kunst-, Kultur- wie Sozialgeschichte(n). Das Buch zur Ausstellung versammelt die Expertisen des MAK-Teams sowie jene namhafter Autor:innen und vertieft dabei wesentliche Aspekte künstlerischer Festgestaltung.

• Feste als Inspiration: vom Happening bis zur religiösen Feier
• Mit Beiträgen von Chiara Baldini, Brigitte Felderer, Lilli Hollein, Werner Oechslin u.v.m.
• Publikation zur gleichnamigen Ausstellung im MAK, 14.12.2022–7.5.2023

Autor:innen des Buches:

Chiara Baldini, Portugal/Italien

Bogomir Doringer, Niederlande/Serbien

Brigitte Felderer, Universität für angewandte Kunst Wien

Werner Oechslin, Stiftung Bibliothek Werner Oechslin, Einsiedeln

Peter Sandbichler, Wien

Olga Wukounig, Universität für angewandte Kunst Wien

Lilli Hollein, Rainald Franz, Sebastian Hackenschmidt, Kathrin Pokorny-Nagel, Anne-Katrin Rossberg, Lara Steinhäußer, Bärbel Vischer, Mio Wakita-Elis, Marlies Wirth, MAK, Wien

Seit über 70 Jahren dominiert das private Auto den öffentlichen Raum deutscher Städte. Mit dem Manifest der freien Straße stellt eine kreativ-wissenschaftliche Allianz dieses Dogma grundsätzlich infrage und thematisiert vergessene und unerkannte Qualitäten und Möglichkeiten der Straßennutzung. Damit nimmt sie eine kommunale Raumressource in den Blick, die wir in Zeiten von Klimawandel, Digitalisierung und sozialer Ungleichheit dringend anders zu nutzen lernen müssen.

Mit Bildern, Comics, Grafiken und knackigen wissenschaftlichen Erkenntnissen weist das Manifest der freien Straße den Weg in eine chancenreiche Zukunft und zeigt: Straßen sollten mehr sein, als bloß ein Raum, um von A nach B zu kommen.

Bauhaus Earth conference, June 2022

The built environment is a critical factor in the climate equation since buildings and physical infrastructure are directly responsible for about 40 percent of global greenhouse gas emissions.

Fortunately, there are many new ways to build better. These include timber high-rise buildings, AI-assisted design, serial prefabrication of building components, smart recycling technology, multifunctional land use, integrated regional resource management, and community-based urban development, to name just a few.

This volume compiles the papers presented by world-renowned academics, architects, spatial planners, and policymakers at the “Reconstructing the Future” conference, which was held at the Vatican in June 2022.

• First publication of the Bauhaus Earth think tank
• Ideas to transform the anthroposphere
• Contributions by Hans Joachim Schellnhuber, Ursula von der Leyen, Diébédo Francis Kéré, Wanjira Mathai, Xu Tiantian, Amanda Yates, Shigeru Ban, and many others

(Bilingual Edition: English / German)

• 30 brickwork buildings from all over the world, from small to large
• Compendium with construction drawings in 1:20 scale
• Traditional building material with potential for the future
• Source of inspiration for your own practice

Bilingual edition (English/German)

Supply chain problems and labor shortages caused by the Covid-19 pandemic have resulted in an ongoing global delay in the completion of projects. However, despite these challenges, over a thousand high-rises with a height of at least 100 meters were erected over the past two years—a third of them in China.
Best High-Rises 2022/23 presents thirty-four of the most exciting high-rise projects recently completed around the world. These buildings are distinguished by their design, sustainability, energy- and cost-efficiency, and user-friendly design. Each project is presented in detail and illustrated with photographs and design plans.

Lieferkettenprobleme und Arbeitskräftemangel aufgrund der COVID-19-Pandemie sorgen für einen anhaltenden weltweiten Fertigstellungsrückgang. Trotz dieser Herausforderungen wurden in den letzten beiden Jahren über 1000 Hochhäuser mit einer Mindesthöhe von 100 Metern errichtet, jedes dritte davon in China. Best High-Rises 2022/23 präsentiert 34 der spannendsten, kürzlich fertiggestellten Hochhausprojekte, die sich weltweit durch Design, Nachhaltigkeit, Energie- und Kosteneffizienz sowie nutzer*innenfreundliche Gestaltung auszeichnen. Jedes dieser Projekte wird umfassend anhand von Fotos und Plänen vorgestellt. Der Internationale Hochhaus Preis wird alle zwei Jahre vergeben. Zu den bisherigen Gewinner*innen zählen u. a. OMA (2020), Benjamín Romano (2018), BIG (2016), Stefano Boeri (2014), Ingenhoven Architects (2012), WOHA (2010) und Foster and Partners (2008).

The anthology Theorien des Wohnens systematically collates the twentieth century’s central theories of dwelling for the first time. The key philosophical and sociological texts presented here provide an overview of the various approaches to understanding dwelling as an anthropological reality, as a social practice, and as a cultural form. The philosophical and architectural-historical contexts of the individual contributions are provided by the editor’s commentary, demonstrating that each theoretical concept of dwelling refers directly or indirectly to spaces of dwelling that were being designed or already extant during the same period. The texts collected in this stimulating inventory of knowledge remain as relevant as ever, and offer a basis for engagement both with current crises in dwelling and with transformations of its temporary and collective forms.

With contributions by Gaston Bachelard, Ernst Bloch, Pierre Bourdieu, Michel de Certeau, Paul-Henry Chombart de Lauwe, Luce Giard, Martin Heidegger, Henri Lefebvre, Georges-Hubert de Radkowski, Amos Rapoport, and Hermann Schmitz

Co-Corporeality beruht auf der Hypothese, die gebaute Umwelt als biologische Einheit zu begreifen, die einen Raum der Koexistenz und Interaktion zwischen Menschen und mikrobiellem Leben eröffnet. Ausgehend von designgeleiteter Forschung wird ergründet, wie wir Umgebungen für eine Multispezies-Welt entwickeln können. Im Fokus steht die Handlungsfähigkeit menschlicher wie nicht menschlicher Akteure: Neue Sensortools ermöglichen die Beobachtung von und Interaktion zwischen diesen verschiedenen Akteuren.

Co-Corporeality verbindet Mikrobiologie, Materialwissenschaft, künstliche Intelligenz, Architektur. Im Zentrum steht die Frage, wie mikrobielle Aktivität neue protoarchitektonische Materialien schaffen kann, wie lebende Systeme in Architektur integriert werden und innerhalb verschiedener Zeitskalen kooperieren können.

• 20 Projektdokumentationen mit ergänzenden Interviews
• Einblicke in die traditionelle Allgäuer Haustypologie und ihrer Weiterentwicklung
• Ratgeber für Bauherren zu geeigneten Sanierungsmöglichkeiten

News on Ludwig Hilberseimer!

Ludwig Hilberseimer (1885–1967) is regarded as one of the leading theorists of the Neues Bauen movement in pre-War Germany, and of modern, functional urbanism. This set of accomplishments still dominates the public image of the architect, urban planner, teacher and art critic to this day. His development beyond that period has long been neglected.

The essays in this collection seek to fill this gap, offering an exciting and wide-ranging new perspective on the work of a central protagonist of modernism. Until now, most critical studies of Hilberseimer's work came from his place of exile in Chicago and his work in Germany/Europe and the USA tended to be viewed separately; this volume is the first to attempt to end this separation and encourage a complete overview of is work.

• Previously unknown archival discoveries
• With contributions by Alexander Eisenschmidt, Magdalena Droste, Christine Mengin, Philipp Oswalt, Robin Schuldenfrei, Charles Waldheim and others

Frauen in der Wiener Architektur

Noch immer ist die Pionierarbeit der Architektinnen Österreichs unzureichend erforscht und ihre Namen weitgehend unbekannt. Viele von ihnen waren Mitglieder in der ZV Österreich, der bis 1959 wichtigsten Standesvertretung freischaffender ArchitektInnen. Ein Blick in das Archiv der ZV lohnt sich daher: die vorliegende Publikation widmet sich diesen Frauen, dokumentiert ihre Namen und stellt ihre Lebenswege und Karrieren exemplarisch vor. Die Architektur-Werke dieser bereits oftmals international tätigen Architektinnen umfassen Bauten des Wohnbaus, Sakralbaus, Industriebaus, der Innenarchitektur sowie der Stadtplanung, bis hin zum Kraftwerksbau.

• Spannende Lebenswege Wiener Architektinnen zwischen 1938–1959
• Ausbildungswege, berufliche Praxis, historische Hintergründe und Zusammenhänge
• Mit hochkarätigen Beiträgen ausgewiesener Expertinnen

Collective Urban Planning in Research, Teaching and Practice

This practice orientated handbook aims at all urban actors wishing to develop and realise complex urban planning concepts. It sets out a series of techniques, methods and process models that range from analytical approaches and concept strategies to the creation of participatory projects.

Creative open-ended experiments have been proven as effective academic practice driven methods within applied participatory urban mediation. The book proposes a method-catalogue of immediately realisable approaches for experimental urban research as part of a design and planning procedure within education and practice.

• Cross-disciplinary methods and working methods for urban planning
• Case studies from Berlin, Düsseldorf, Cologne, London, Madrid and Wuppertal
• Foreword Barbara-Ann Campbell-Lange and contributions by Theo Lorenz, Mohamed Fezazi, Alexia Radounikli and Vera San Payo de Lemos　

When it comes to climate change, circularity has become a major topic. Closed loops, reuse, recycling, and renewable materials are already fashionable ideas in architecture and product design. In order to establish the new paradigm of circular design, this book introduces a territorial dimension to the goal of transforming living spaces for resilience and sustainability—and to the use of design-led research and design-thinking as effective forces for analysis, developing concepts and strategies, and cooperative processes of transformation. Featuring case studies from all over Europe that merge creative narratives in urbanism with social innovation and creative industries, Circular Design aims to activate dynamic fields and networks of ideas, people, and space oriented to circular principles.

Trilingual edition (English/German/Slovenian) / Dreisprachige Ausgabe (deutsch/englisch/slowenisch)

Günther Domenig died in 2012, having become internationally known for his iconic Steinhaus and the architecturally important Nazi Party Rally Grounds Documentation Center in Nuremberg. The trilingual volume In Resonance takes an unusual approach to his work, offering an outsider's view of the Carinthia- born architect’s oeuvre—ne that stands apart from both the dominant perspectives on his work and from the norms of architecture books in general. The intimate picture series by photographer Gerhard Maurer comprises over thirty of the buildings designed by Günther Domenig and stands in dialogue with writer Anna Baar’s essayist approach to the architect’s work. The essays and photos capture the architecture in its current context and create space for contradictions, for lacunae, for the unusable—nd for the beautiful.

Dreisprachige Ausgabe (deutsch/englisch/slowenisch) / trilingual edition (English/German/Slovenian)

Der dreisprachige Band In Resonanz setzt sich in ungewöhnlicher Weise mit dem Werk Günther Domenigs auseinander. Der Blick auf den in Kärnten geborenen und 2012 verstorbenen Architekten, der international für sein ikonisches Steinhaus und für das signifikante Dokumentationszentrum Reichsparteitagsgelände in Nürnberg bekannt ist, erfolgt von außerhalb: außerhalb dominanter Perspektiven auf das Werk, außerhalb der Normen des Architekturbuchs. Die intime Bilderserie des Fotografen Gerhard Maurer umfasst über 30 Bauten Domenigs und steht im Dialog mit einer essayistischen Annäherung an das Werk des Architekten durch die Schriftstellerin Anna Baar. Essay und Fotos fangen die Architektur in ihrem aktuellen Kontext ein und schaffen Platz für Widerspenstigkeit, für Leerstellen, für das Unbenutzbare, aber auch für das Schöne.

Lange wurde viel und kontrovers über das linke Bauhaus gestritten. Mit der Erforschung der Kommunistischen Studentenfraktion (Kostufra) rücken endlich die linken Studierenden selbst in den Fokus. Ihre Zeitschrift: bauhaus. sprachrohr der studierenden. organ der kostufra war das Medium für schonungslose Kritik an Ereignissen, Lehrinhalten und Lehrenden.

Die Zeitschrift ist zwischen1930 und 1932 in Dessau und Berlin in 15 hektografierten Nummern in einer losen Blattsammlung erschienenen und wird hier erstmalig von Forschenden aus der Kunst- und Kulturwissenschaft, Architektur und Editionswissenschaft kritisch diskutiert. Deutlich wird, dass die experimentelle Bedeutung des Bauhauses von politischer Radikalität nicht zu trennen ist.

New edition of the popular handbook

The Modern Construction Handbook has become a classic of advanced construction literature, not least due to its regular revisions and clear structure with chapters titled "Material", "Wall", "Roof", "Structure", "Environment" and "Applications".

For the sixth edition, the 3-D illustrations have been brought up to date and in some cases redrawn, and all six chapters have been critically reviewed and updated.

Tried and tested component details, examples focusing on sustainability and energy consumption, and an update on finite element analysis (FEA) and computational fluid dynamics (CFD) introduced in the last edition set new standards for this handbook which serves as a foundational textbook in many architecture courses.

• Updates of all details and examples
• The most important aspects of building design covered in six chapters
• Project-neutral drawings

Dieses praxisnahe Handbuch richtet sich an alle urbanen Akteure, die vielfältige städtebauliche Planungskonzepte entwickeln und umsetzen möchten. Kompetenzorientierte Anwendungsmethoden und Prozessmodelle werden von der analytischen Herangehensweise über die Konzeptstrategie bis hin zur Realisierung partizipativer Projekte dargestellt.

Im Rahmen der partizipativen angewandten Stadtvermittlung haben sich kreative und ergebnisoffene Experimente als wissenschaftlicher und praxisorientierter Ansatz bewährt. Das Buch vermittelt als Methodenkatalog konkrete und unmittelbar umsetzbare Handlungsprinzipien für eine experimentelle Stadtforschung innerhalb eines entwerferischen und planerischen Vorgehens in der Lehre, Forschung und Praxis.

Climate change and increasing resource scarcity together with rising traffic volumes force us to develop new environmentally friendly and people-oriented mobility options. New forms of smart mobility are becoming possible thanks to the expansion of digital information systems, and we will soon be able to reconfigure different modes of climate-friendly transport depending on our needs. These developments represent a significant challenge for the design of a wide range of different mobility spaces. While Volume 1 of this series focused on practical aspects, Volume 2 collects research methods and findings from the fields of design, architecture, urban planning, geography, social sciences, traffic planning, psychology, and communication technologies. The book’s consideration of the possibilities and prospects of user-centred mobility design offers an important contribution to the ongoing debate around the mobility revolution.

Bilingual edition (English/German) / Zweisprachige Ausgabe (deutsch/englisch)

How can we use innovative projects and planning processes in the urbanized spaces of our cities to counter social, economic, and cultural inequalities and climate change? How can we turn neglected, unused, empty, stigmatized, and monofunctional city spaces into lively, integrated, and diverse ones? In the context of the E16 competition, projects demonstrating local opportunities and transformative processes were developed for five German locations. The ongoing COVID-19 pandemic acted as a catalyst for many of the questions considered, identifying lively cities as desirable locations and as necessary models for the future. This catalog collects the competition entries for the German sites as well as the winning entries for European sites from German competitors.

With contributions by Andrea Benze, Kaye Geipel, Saskia Hebert, Timo Munzinger, Iris Reuter, Ali Saad, Anne Schmedding, Marika Schmidt, and Tatjana Schneider

Wie können wir in den urbanisierten Räumen unserer Städte und Kommunen dem Klimawandel und den sozialen, wirtschaftlichen und kulturellen Ungleichheiten mit innovativen Projekten und neuen Planungsprozessen begegnen? Wie kommen wir von vernachlässigten, brachliegenden, leeren, stigmatisierten und monofunktionalen zu lebendigen, integrativen und durchmischten Stadträumen? An fünf deutschen Standorten wurden anlässlich des E16-Wettbewerbs Projekte entwickelt, die Möglichkeiten für Transformationsprozesse in Kommunen aufzeigen. Die parallel zum Verfahren einsetzende COVID-19-Pandemie wirkte für viele der angesprochen Fragestellungen wie ein Katalysator: lebendige Städte als Sehnsuchtsorte und notwendige Visionen. Der Katalog fasst die Wettbewerbsbeiträge der deutschen Standorte sowie der deutschen Gewinner*innen an europäischen Standorten zusammen.

Mit Beiträgen von Andrea Benze, Kaye Geipel, Saskia Hebert, Timo Munzinger, Iris Reuter, Ali Saad, Anne Schmedding, Marika Schmidt und Tatjana Schneider

From casting to sculpture

• Alternative ways of manufacturing, presenting, and shaping casting molds
• Concrete and plaster sculptures, parametric designs, and the further development of conventional formwork models and casting processes
• With numerous large-format photographs

Annoying tasks are as much part of our lives as easy ones. We all have to wait for the bus on cold winter days, do the washing up, take out the bins, or spend long commutes in the car. David Sim, however, says that the solution to these problems is just around the corner. He believes that life in the city could be made easier and more pleasant through simple, cost-effective measures and by focusing on the human scale: simply put, it could become softer.
Sim demonstrates that the deciding factor in achieving these improvements lies in finding a balance between density and diversity, as well as in making use of the possibilities that already exist in the urban environment. The goal is to create comfortable neighborhoods that are easy to live in and adapt to our constantly changing needs. David Sim paints a picture of the good life in urban neighborhoods that are slower, better apportioned, and quieter.

Treatise on digital architecture

Hovestadt’s treatise strictly follows the model of the famous treatises by Vitruvius (De architectura) and Alberti (De re aedificatoria), based on the supposition that we find ourselves in a comparable situation today. Vitruvius and Alberti expressed the meaning of architecture in their eras: Roman antiquity and the Renaissance. Hovestadt has done the same for the present day, incorporating considerations of physics, mathematics, technology, literature, and philosophy.

Books 1 to 3 deal with the role of the architect and the objectivity of architecture.

Books 4 to 6 address the modalities of speaking about and encoding architecture: the secret, the public, and the private.

Books 7 to 10 are dedicated to actual digital mechanisms: artificial intelligence, natural communication, gnomonics, and cultural heritage. 　

• An architectural treatise for our age in 10 books
• Inspired by the works of Vitruvius and Alberti
• Published in three volumes in the Applied Virtuality series

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 fest mit dem Alltag aller Menschen verwoben und beeinflusst ihr Zusammenleben und Wohlbefinden. Die Frage, wie wir dieses Zusammenleben gestalten wollen, treibt nicht nur Architekturschaffende und Stadtplanende um, sondern beschäftigt auch weite Teile der Gesellschaft. Anlässlich ihres zwanzigjährigen Bestehens richtet blickt die IG Architektur als Impulsplattform für Architektur und Baukultur mit diesem Buch nicht nur auf zwanzig Jahre kollektives, solidarisches Engagement für Architektur und Baukultur zurück, sondern richtet den Blick vor allem in die Zukunft: Welche Themen werden für die Baukultur in den kommenden zwanzig Jahren wichtig sein? Reden wir darüber!

Mit Beiträgen von Wojciech Czaja, Jens S. Dangschat, Franz Denk, Matthias Finkentey, Daniel Fügenschuh, Gabu Heindl, Nikolaus Hellmayr, Angelika Hinterbrandner, Kurt Hofstetter, Susanne Helene Höhndorf, Thomas Kain, Wolfgang Kil, Elke Krasny, Ramona Kraxner, Christian Kühn, Isabella Marboe, Karoline Mayer, Maik Novotny, Paul Ott, Katharina Ritter, Reinhard Seiß, Bernhard Sommer, Lukas Vejnik und Kai Vöckler.

In einer Zeit des gesellschaftlichen Aufbruchs plante die Werkgruppe Graz im Jahre 1965 die Terrassenhaussiedlung in Graz-St.　Peter, die zwischen 1972 und 1978 gebaut wurde. Die Planer – Mitglieder der avantgardistischen Künstlervereinigung Forum Stadtpark – wandten sich gegen das verfestigte System des Wohnbaus, das von monotoner Gestaltung und Zersiedelung durch Einfamilienhäuser geprägt war. Sie vertraten den utopischen Anspruch einer Beteiligung der Bewohner*innen am Planungsprozess, der seine bauliche Entsprechung in einer strukturalistischen Grundstruktur mit anpassbaren Wohneinheiten fand. Internationale Anerkennung erlangte die Siedlung, die sich in vier terrassierten Blöcken aus Sichtbeton am Grazer Stadtrand erhebt, durch ihre brutalistische und skulpturale Erscheinung.
Gelebte Utopie liefert erstmals eine Sammlung von architekturhistorischen und -kritischen Texten über die Siedlung, gibt Einblicke in die Lebenswelten der Bewohner*innen und ist angereichert mit künstlerischen Projekten.

(Bilingual edition:English / German)

Conceptual architecture from the 1970s

This book offers an in-depth look at the work of one of the most important phenomena of Austria’s avant-garde art and architecture scene of the 1970s, MISSING LINK. The group founded by Angela Hareiter, Otto Kapfinger, and Adolf Krischanitz took on interdisciplinary projects that sought lines of connection between people, architecture, art, urbanity, and the social fabric, and expanded the repertoire of architecture to include experimental concepts. The result was a multi-layered and highly regarded body of work that includes artistic installations, objects, paintings, drawings, and posters, as well as urban sociological studies, actions, and experimental television films. This volume combines a comprehensive ‘catalogue raisonné’ with numerous, mostly hitherto unpublished images.

• Accompanying a major exhibition at the Vienna MAK from 11 May to 2 October 2022
• First monograph on the Viennese experimental group MISSING LINK
• Installations, objects, posters, paintings, drawings, in mostly previously unpublished images

Konzeptarchitektur der 1970er-Jahre

MISSING LINK bietet einen ausführlichen Einblick in das Werk einer der wichtigsten Erscheinungen der avantgardistischen Kunst- und Architekturszene Österreichs der 1970er-Jahre. Die von Angela Hareiter, Otto Kapfinger und Adolf Krischanitz gegründete Gruppe suchte mit ihren interdisziplinären Projekten nach Bindegliedern zwischen Mensch, Architektur, Kunst, Urbanität und sozialem Gefüge und erweiterte das Repertoire der Architektur um experimentelle Konzepte. Es entstand ein äußerst vielschichtiges und vielbeachtetes Werk, das neben künstlerischen Installationen, Objekten, Malereien, Zeichnungen und Plakaten auch stadtsoziologische Studien, Aktionen und experimentelle Fernsehfilme umfasst. Der Katalog enthält ein umfassendes Werkverzeichnis und zahlreiche, größtenteils unveröffentlichte Bilder.

• Große Ausstellung im Wiener MAK 11.5.–2.10.2022
• Erste Monografie über die Wiener Experimentalgruppe MISSING LINK
• Installationen, Objekte, Plakate, Malereien, Zeichnungen in großteils unveröffentlichten Bildern

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 Aufenthaltsqualität. Hinzu kommt eine neue Lebendigkeit durch mehr Wohnen, Arbeiten und Kultur in der City. Aus der durch die Pandemie noch verstärkten Krise des Handels könnte eine Chance werden: Wie wollen wir unsere Innenstädte neu gestalten?
Die Konferenz zur Schönheit und Lebensfähigkeit der Stadt widmet sich seit mehr als einem Jahrzehnt grundlegenden Fragen der Stadtentwicklung. Die Beiträge des vorliegenden Bandes verbinden ökonomische, soziale, ökologische und mobilitätstechnische Fragen der Innenstadtentwicklung mit städtebaulichen und architektonischen Aspekten.

Scenography of a visitor center

The old city of Regensburg is an outstanding example of a medieval German trading city, and was awarded World Heritage status by UNESCO in 2007. The specially designed Regensburg World Heritage Visitor Center, which opened in 2011, showcases the urban development of this city, shaped by its economy, resilience, and citizenry, using the latest methods of presentation and communication. The book is the result of a joint initiative between the Visitor Center and FH JOANNEUM University of Applied Sciences in Graz, presenting a best-practice example of exhibition design and scenography. Academic contributions on the topics of “Visitor Centers” and artistic photographs by Elisa Wüntscher depicting visitors and rare city views create a complementary whole.

• The book on the Visitor Center, which will reopen in 2022
• Didactic concept of the exhibition by FH Joanneum University of Applied Sciences in Graz
• History of this UNESCO World Heritage site in the context of current discourses

Monograph questioning

What if research, science and architecture were merged? LAVA is an architecture studio founded by Tobias Wallisser, Chris Bosse, and Alexander Rieck with offices in Germany, Vietnam, and Australia. The German Pavilion for Expo 20 is an example of the eloquence with which LAVA responds to issues of the day. The three core themes of the book – Cities of the Future, Biodiversity, as well as Energy and Sustainability – are complemented by the subjects “Connecting Minds,” meaning social and political architecture, “Digital Processes and Technologies,” and “New Work” and explored together throughout the six chapters of this book. In addition to projects and their derivation, architectural and sociological thinkers elaborate on their ideas on these topics – creatively, speculatively, and thoughtfully.

• Themes: City – Energy – Biodiversity – Connecting – Work – Digital Processes
• Selected projects as case studies
• With contributions by Amy Frearson, Georg Vrachliotis, Giovanna Carnevali, Maria Aiolova, Gilles Retsin, André Wilkens, Marjan Colletti, and Raoul Bunschoten

Free thinking, unconstrained by facts

The book is based on the thesis that we live in a world of abundance, full of natural riches and cultural artifacts, full of human intellect and powerful technologies. Our thinking, however, is dominated by the opposite, the notion of scarcity. The limits of nature act as an inevitable necessity.

In his book, David Schildberger adopts a novel approach to the subject of resources, with the help of intelligent instruments that introduce new foods, such as chocolate made from cocoa cell cultures, and even a fruit-bearing vine raised far from a vineyard. With his imagined scenarios, the author invites the reader to dare stretch their intellectual imaginations and ultimately presents nature as a contingent.

• Conceptual models on the subject of nature and alternative ways of producing food
• Recommended reading for architectural IT specialists
• New volume in the Applied Virtuality Book Series

• Comeback des traditionellen Baustoffs
• Holz als nachhaltiges Material der Zukunft
  nachwachsender Rohstoff, recycelbar, klimaschonend
• lokal verfügbar, vielseitig einsetzbar
• warmer und sinnlicher Baustoff mit Innovationskraft

Manual for Urban Design

Second and revised edition of the successful edition with new projects

Urban design is based on planning and design principles that need to meet functional demands on the one hand, but on the other hand bring the design elements together into a distinctive whole. The basic compositional principles are, for the most part, timeless. Designing Cities examines the most important design and presentation principles of urban design, using historical examples and contemporary international competition entries designed by practices including Foster + Partners, KCAP Architects & Planners, MVRDV, and OMA.

At the core of the publication is the question of how the projects were designed and what methods and tools were available to the designer: such as parametric design, in which variable parameters automatically influence the design and provide a range of possible solutions.

• Tools for urban design
• Current projects and award-winning competition entries by renowned international practices
• A textbook for students and a practical design aid for practicing architects and planners

The mind’s eye as a design principle

Lucius Burckhardt (1925–2003) outlined his theory of the smallest possible intervention back in the early 1980s. The idea of minimal intervention runs through his entire oeuvre, from his critique of urbanism to the science of walking. The “smallest possible intervention” denotes a planning theory that assumes two “views” within landscape design: that which is actually visible and that in our mind’s eye. The theory of the minimal intervention means not interfering excessively with the existing landscape, but instead working with the landscape in our minds to develop an aesthetic understanding of the environment. In this book, available for the first time in English, the Swiss sociologist applies this formula to many areas of design.

• Intellectual distillation of Lucius Burckhardt's theories available for the first time in English
• Exploration of the relationships between planning and building
• Rationalization and needs

Die vier Bände über Bauen mit Stahl von Terri Meyer Boake präsentieren innovative Methoden, die beim Entwerfen und Bauen mit Stahl zur Anwendung kommen, und bieten eine umfassende Übersicht von Spezialthemen, die den revolutionären Wandel bei der Verwendung von Stahl in der Architektur in den letzten Jahren widerspiegeln, wie etwa Diagridkonstruktionen, unverkleidete Stahlkonstruktionen (AESS) sowie nicht-orthogonale Geometrien. Boakes Bücher „unterstreichen die Aktualität architektonischer Entwürfe, die die tektonischen Ausdrucksmöglichkeiten von Stahl mit besonderer Aufmerksamkeit für die Ausführungs- und Detailplanung verbinden" (Journal of Architectural Education).

Jeder Band umfasst thematische Kapitel, die einen Überblick zum jeweiligen Fachsujet bieten, als auch Analysen gebauter Beispiele weltweit.

Willkommen im hybriden Heim. Das Bad wird zum Wellnesstempel, das Wohnzimmer zur Online-Couch neben der Wohnküche. Alles wirkt aufgeräumt und chic, perfekt zu posten. Im Instagram-Zeitalter mutieren selbst Mikrowohnungen zu halböffentlichen Orten.

SZ-Autor Oliver Herwig beschäftigt sich seit Jahren mit dem Wandel von Wohnräumen und Wohnträumen. In diesem Buch porträtiert er zugleich eine Gesellschaft im digitalen Wandel. Unsere vier Wände verschwimmen zu temporären Vielzweck-Arbeits-Spaß-und-Multimedia-Räumen, das Büro dringt ins Zuhause vor und die smarte Einkaufswelt ist mittels Alexa und Co nur ein Wort entfernt. Nichts will mehr passen. Doch alles muss Platz haben. Willkommen im hybriden Heim.

Bilingual edition (English/German) / Zweisprachige Ausgabe (deutsch/englisch)

Awarded the Styrian Architecture Award 2021, the Graz Museum Schlossberg by studio WG3 plays with the idea of dissolving spatial boundaries. The transformative architecture has turned the self-contained former fortress into an open space and a setting for cultural participation. Walls that had enclosed the grounds for centuries were opened up; flowing sequences of interior and exterior spaces that merge into one another, playful spatial interventions, and communication areas were created. This volume comprehensively presents this exceptional project, illustrating in particular the development process and the involvement of various planning partners.

Additionally, the book presents the three projects awarded honorable mentions in 2021: the KAI 36 hotel by LAM ARCHITEKTUR STUDIO, the Leopoldinum—SmartCity primary school by alexa zahn architekten and the Schneebauer Geschwister buildings ensemble by KUESS Architektur.

Mit Beiträgen von Janika Döhr, Lisa-Marie Dorfleitner, Ema Drnda, Florian Eichelberger, Christian Fleck, Flora Flucher, Max Florian Frühwirt, Daniel Gethmann, Nicole-Melanie Goll, Heimo Halbrainer, Georg Hoffmann, Matthias Hölbling, Thomas Hönigmann, Waltraud P. Indrist, Thomas Lienhart, Lung Peng, Anna Sachsenhofer, Alice Steiner, Milan Sušić, Katharina Url, Viktoriya Yeretska, Armin Zepic

Die Grafik dieses Bandes stammt von SOYBOT – Marie Fegerl, Gerhard Jordan

This volume examines periodic changes in color design in medieval churches during the 19th and 20th century. What thus catches the eye is the alternation of phases that brought forth sacred spaces with reduced color and even visible stone and such spaces that strove for colorfulness. The ideologies that stand behind this process are analyzed by considering exemplary restoration measures in individual church buildings against the backdrop of the respective self-conception of monument maintenance, but also more general societal notions. It is shown how much artistic design is inherent in the practice of preserving.

Klimawandel und Ressourcenverknappung, aber auch der stetig steigende Verkehrsaufwand machen es unabdingbar, neue Lösungen für eine umweltschonende und menschenfreundliche Mobilität zu entwickeln. Mit dem Ausbau digitaler Informationssysteme werden neue, intelligente Mobilitätsformen möglich: Zukünftig werden wir unterschiedliche umweltschonende Verkehrsträger entsprechend unseren Bedürfnissen leicht kombinieren können.
Diese Entwicklungen stellen für die Gestaltung unterschiedlicher Mobilitätsräume eine große Herausforderung dar. Lag der Schwerpunkt in Band 1 auf der Praxis, versammelt Band 2 nun Forschungsmethoden und -ergebnisse aus den Bereichen Design, Architektur, Stadtplanung, Geografie, Sozialwissenschaft, Verkehrsplanung, Psychologie und Kommunikationstechnologie. Die aktuelle Diskussion über die Verkehrswende wird um die Perspektive des nutzer*innenzentrierten Mobilitätsdesigns erweitert.

Willkommen im hybriden Heim. Das Bad wird zum Wellnesstempel, das Wohnzimmer zur Online-Couch neben der Wohnküche. Alles wirkt aufgeräumt und chic, perfekt zu posten. Im Instagram-Zeitalter mutieren selbst Mikrowohnungen zu halböffentlichen Orten.

SZ-Autor Oliver Herwig beschäftigt sich seit Jahren mit dem Wandel von Wohnräumen und Wohnträumen. In diesem Buch porträtiert er zugleich eine Gesellschaft im digitalen Wandel. Unsere vier Wände verschwimmen zu temporären Vielzweck-Arbeits-Spaß-und-Multimedia-Räumen, das Büro dringt ins Zuhause vor und die smarte Einkaufswelt ist mittels Alexa und Co nur ein Wort entfernt. Nichts will mehr passen. Doch alles muss Platz haben. Willkommen im hybriden Heim.

(bilingual edition: English / German)

New and cutting-edge forms of pedagogy such as distance learning, design-build, collaborative learning, and peer-to-peer practices are increasingly calling conventional teaching and learning environments, in architecture and other design disciplines, into question. Academic institutions in Western Europe, in particular, are faced with the challenge of rethinking standardized spatial structures and institutional hierarchies and adapting them to unconventional and radical teaching and learning concepts. GAM.18 explores anew the area of conflict between architecture teaching in universities and the teaching environment. It calls for spatial structures and working environments that enable the contemplation and design of architecture, and investigates teaching and learning methods that include critical consideration of the spaces and institutions in which the teaching takes place.

With contributions from Helene Frichot, Charlotte Malterre-Barthes, Lucia Pennati, Jean-Louis Violeau, and others

What does a collective process in architecture entail and how does it influence the planning of our built environment? Although the hierarchically organized office with its claim to individual authorship is still the dominant form of architecture firm, more and more horizontally organized collectives with alternative approaches to architectural planning are emerging. In this insightful survey of renowned European collectives, Natalie Donat-Cattin offers an overview of their working methods, organizational forms, goals, and projects.

The book includes statements and projects by: A-A Collective, (ab)Normal, Assemble, baukuh, CNCRT, Colectivo Warehouse, Collectif Etc, constructLab, false mirror office, Fosbury Architecture, la–clique, Lacol, n’UNDO, orizzontale, raumlabor, X=(T=E=N), and Zuloark.

Infrastructure and Society

• Infrastructure as an integral aspect of architecture
• Social and political contexts and suggestions for more relations of care
• From public, private, and commercial space to mobility and migration

Urban gardening and agriculture have become important elements of sustainable urban planning in the context of persistent urbanization amid limited resources. However, a consideration of the cultural-historical dimension has been lacking up to now. The editors present the first comprehensive outline of traditional forms of food production in cities to help preserve this valuable knowledge. On the basis of current research findings, they develop new perspectives and guidelines for recognizing traditional food production systems as an aspect of cultural heritage and for dealing with urban agriculture worldwide.

• First interdisciplinary synopsis worldwide on this topic
• Contributions from landscape architecture, urban planning, agricultural history, sociology, and geography
• Showcases perspectives for recognizing and developing urban agriculture

(bilingual edition: English / German)

The "Frauen- und Carolinenbad" bathing facility was opened in Baden near Vienna in 1821. Two hundred years after this event, which was significant from the perspective of both culture and economic and architectural history, this book documents the history of the planning and construction of the building, which has been dedicated to the painter Arnulf Rainer since 2009.

The Frauenbad is one of the most important Classical buildings in Austria. Its designer, the Frenchman Charles de Moreau (1758–1840), was one of the leading architects of this epoch in Austria. The book communicates the results of new research on the architecture of this key European period between the Enlightenment, revolution, and reaction.

Treatise on digital architecture

Hovestadt’s treatise strictly follows the model of the famous treatises by Vitruvius (De architectura) and Alberti (De re aedificatoria), based on the supposition that we find ourselves in a comparable situation today. Vitruvius and Alberti expressed the meaning of architecture in their eras: Roman antiquity and the Renaissance. Hovestadt has done the same for the present day, incorporating considerations of physics, mathematics, technology, literature, and philosophy.

Books 1 to 3 deal with the role of the architect and the objectivity of architecture.

Books 4 to 6 address the modalities of speaking about and encoding architecture: the secret, the public, and the private.

Books 7 to 10 are dedicated to actual digital mechanisms: artificial intelligence, natural communication, gnomonics, and cultural heritage.

• An architectural treatise for our age in 10 books
• Inspired by the works of Vitruvius and Alberti
• Published in three volumes in the Applied Virtuality series

Electric brain or creativity?

• Cybernetics—a hitherto neglected chapter in the history of architecture
• A critical look at the relationship between architecture and information technology
• A new chapter on the issue of Big Data and architecture

With contributions by Vanessa Carlow, Grace Abou Jaoude, Chantal Karadag, Olaf Mumm, Marie Scheer, and Kristin Schoning