Architecture

This book considers architectural models not as stable objects but as a question: What is a model, really? And where in the design process does it assume its powers or perform its tasks? Thirty essays respond to nine pointed questions, discovering surprising affinities and interweaving observations from diverse disciplinary, geographical, and scholarly perspectives, all framed by an introductory essay and a dialog between historian Annabel Wharton and artist Thomas Demand. Are You a Model? approaches models as phenomena and architectural tools without seeking to determine conclusive answers. Compiled by a group of architectural and art historians, historians of science, software engineers, architects, and curators, it views models as an epistemologically diverse practice rather than objects sorted by periods, genres, or materials.

With contributions by Giulia Amoresano, Yana Boeva, Giulia Boller, Stefanie Brünenberg, Alberto Calderoni, Daniel Cardoso Llach, Wonseok Chae, Diana Cristobal Olave, Carlotta Darò, Cansu Degirmencioglu, Kai Drewes, Ruth Ezra, Jia Yi Gu, Erik Herrmann, Carolin Höfler, Deniz Avci Hosanli, Christian Janecke, Sebastian Loosen, John McMorrough, Christina Moushoul, Ana Carolina Pellegrini, Eliza Pertigkiozoglou, Andreas Pilot, Stéphanie Quantin-Biancalani, Salome Schepers, Ecaterina Stefanescu, Simona Valeriani, Mara Trübenbach, Annabel Wharton, Matthew Wells, Baris Wenzel, Holger Zaunstöck, Maxime Zaugg, and Tamar Zinguer.

Botschaftsneubauten sind prestigeträchtig und identitätsstiftend zugleich. Ihre primäre Aufgabe, einen Staat im Ausland zu vertreten und sein gesellschaftliches Selbstverständnis widerzuspiegeln, macht sie zu politischen Symbolen. In den vergangenen 150 Jahren suchte Deutschland in seinen auswärtigen Staatsbauten stets einen individuellen architektonischen Ausdruck. Insbesondere die während der vierzigjährigen deutschen Teilung von der Deutschen Demokratischen Republik und der Bundesrepublik Deutschland errichteten Neubauten für diplomatische Vertretungen dokumentieren die enge Verknüpfung von politischen, kulturellen und personellen Entscheidungen sowie deren Rahmenbedingungen. Die Bauwerke eröffnen aus ihrer exterritorialen Position heraus einen erweiterten Blick auf die Geschichte und das Selbstverständnis. Sie prägen den auswärtigen Repräsentationsbau bis heute.

The socially and ecologically conscious transformation of the built environment—whether urban or rural—calls for productive discussions with the community. The sharing of collective experiences gives rise to inspiring ideas and concrete visions for the climate-neutral reconstruction of our lifeworld. Starting from these principles, architects and urbanists present ten strategies for transforming residential and office buildings, urban districts, and traffic infrastructures. They shape processes that rely on discussion and trial and error, taking lived reality seriously, experimenting with temporary utilizations, and encouraging shared responsibility rather than simple acceptance. Together, they are developing a vision of a possible future.

With an interview with John von Düffel and contributions by Frank Adloff, Leona Lynen, Susanne Wartzeck, Andreas Willisch, and others

• Collective approaches to the transformation of existing architecture
• Visions of a climate-neutral future

Currently, the two largest Christian communities in Germany find themselves in a far-reaching process of disintegration, one that is not imposed from outside. Instead, the faithful themselves are leaving the churches of their own free will. They are voting with their feet, possibly bringing about the demise of Germany’s largest cultural associations. This erosion is attributable to institutional realities rather than to lived religious experience. It therefore appears imaginable that Christian principles will soon be reconceived and practiced in new ways in the central buildings of our cities and villages.

Offene Enden (Open Ends) investigates the new and to some extent hybrid programs for sacred buildings that were hitherto exclusively devoted to religious functions. Are we witnessing the beginnings of a different type of church, one no longer based solely on membership, but instead on the involvement of a variety of individuals over time?

With contributions by Thomas Erne, Karl-Heinz Hörning, Hans Joas, Kerstin Menzel, Claudia Neu, Detlef Pollack, Martin Sturm, Andrée Volkmann (Comics), and others

• New perspectives regarding the reutilization of churches in Germany
• The potential of church spaces as public places for communities
• Features new and practical forms of parish work

Wie können wir die planetare Urbanisierung vor dem Hintergrund der Klimakrise kartografisch darstellen? In Data-Spheres of Planetary Urbanization widmet sich das Urban Theory Lab dieser Frage, indem es eine Reihe experimenteller Visualisierungen des weltweiten urbanen Gefüges zusammenstellt. Das Buch kehrt die allgemeine, stadtzentrierte Sicht auf die Urbanisierung um und zeigt stattdessen, dass die gegenwärtige Urbanisierung einen Großteil der Erde umfasst, und damit auch scheinbar entlegene Gebiete, Wildnisgebiete und Ozeane. Städte produzieren nicht nur Werte, sondern sind auch entropische schwarze Löcher, die andernorts entstandene Überschüsse aufnehmen und Abfälle in die Biosphäre zurückgeben. Nichtstädtische Räume bilden daher die metabolischen Grundlagen der planetarischen Urbanisierung.

Mit einem Vorwort von Jason W. Moore, einem Nachwort von Alexander Arroyo sowie Beiträgen von Martín Arboleda, Danika Cooper, Kian Goh, Julie Michelle Klinger, Roi Salgueiro Barrio und Hashim Sarkis

• Zeigt die Auswirkungen der weltweiten Urbanisierung in 500 aufschlussreichen Geodatenvisualisierungen
• Unterstreicht die Bedeutung von dienenden Landschaften außerhalb der Stadt
• Versammelt theoretische und methodologische Texte des Urban Theory Lab sowie kritische Kommentare

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

No one can really know what will prove sustainable in thirty years—and that is precisely why we need a plurality of building practices and ongoing conversations about them. The large-scale exhibition WEtransFORM in Bonn provides plenty of inspiration for both. As part of its thematic year on ecological transformation, the Bundeskunsthalle is showcasing outstanding projects in sustainable architecture and urban development from across Europe. This companion book to the exhibition conveys key insights, tells personal stories, and encourages readers to get involved in building a more sustainable world. Our shared goal: to reduce resource consumption.

• A richly illustrated companion to the exhibition WEtransFORM in the Bundeskunsthalle, Bonn, June 6, 2025–January 25, 2026
• Featuring works by Anna Heringer, Céline Baumann, Daisy Ginsberg, ecoLogicStudio, Florian Nagler, heri & salli, ITKE, Julia Lohmann, Marjan van Aubel, Martin Rauch, Mischer’Traxler, MVRDV, Office for Political Innovation, OMC°C, Powerhouse, raumlaborberlin, Superflux, 51n4E, and more

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

How can we build in a contemporary and resource-efficient way today? Following Structure in Mind (2009), the new monograph on the work of Burkhard Pahl and Monika Weber-Pahl will be published in 2025. It documents their precise use of forms and materials and their innovative approach to structural systems, drawing on their award-winning buildings and projects: including the spectacular subway station in Bochum, the delicate footbridge of the IBA Emscher Park, the FIS World Cup ski jump in Willingen, and the bold canopy of the bus terminal in Leverkusen. Through their numerous recent research and cultural buildings, Pahl and Weber-Pahl’s architectural practice has made a significant contribution to construction with reduced CO₂ footprints.

With a foreword by Peter Cachola Schmal

• The work of architects Burkhard Pahl and Monika Weber-Pahl
• Projects from 35 years of architectural practice documented in images and plans
• Recent contributions to resource-efficient construction and energy-neutral operation

‟Living here is like life on a permanent holiday,” reads an advertisement, published in 1932, for the newly inaugurated Werkbund housing development Neubühl in Zurich. Even today, with its intelligently conceived outdoor spaces, residential infrastructure, and compact, rational floor plans, it remains a significant living witness to the New Building (Neues Bauen) in Switzerland. It is still so beloved by its residents that many spend most of their lives here. This is made possible by the skillful integration of a variety of housing types—from small studios to six-room townhouses. In their book, the editors assemble contributions on the history, typology, and significance of the housing development, supplemented by portraits of women currently in residence designed to illuminate their lived environment and their experiences.

With a contribution by Nina Hüppi

• Women as users and protagonists of modernist architecture
• Interviews with contemporary witnesses as a research and teaching method
• Shows the discrepancy between male construction and female use

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), these spaces introduce an organic, botanical element to the streetscape. Semi-formal lawns in the French and Italian traditions sit cheek by jowl with the improvised arbors of Chinese vegetable gardens, Caribbean-inspired flower gardens, brightly colored Hindu courtyards, elaborate hand-crafted water features, life-size replicas of fauna, and countless other displays of idiosyncrasy and cultural diversity. Through its photographs and text, this book paints another portrait—softer and greener this time—of the dynamic and multicultural landscape that is Queens.

How do you design and build a good school? First published in 2012 and reissued in 2017, this standard work on designing new school buildings will soon be available in an updated handbook format. The question of how pedagogy can be translated into contemporary, high-quality school architecture is central to the guide, as is that of how joint planning can succeed. New typologies and developments in school design are described in detail, with attention paid to the implementation of a pre-planning phase in school design. The volume provides exciting insights into the fundamentals and processes of school design in Germany for all relevant professions and interested stakeholders.

• A foundational work on the subject of innovative school design
• Contains basic information on the relationship between education and architecture
• Provides a practical guide to implementing a pre-planning phase (Phase 0) in school design

How can we explore adaptations of old buildings from a fresh, postfunctional perspective? Exploring the concept of transformative potential, this book shows how the repurposing of existing buildings uncovers untapped possibilities that go beyond traditional categories. Analyzing several European examples in depth, it asks how architectural designs change over time and what this means for sustainability and preserving heritage. Drawings illustrate how architectural forms interact with their functions and environmental effects, providing a dynamic exploration of adaptive reuse. The Potential of Form suggests that adapting buildings involves balancing their design interventions, their consistency across time, and the latent energy embedded in their architectural form.

• Explores new methods for repurposing old buildings, using an innovative framework
• Presents detailed case studies of adaptive reuse in European architecture (i.e. Bourse de Commerce, Elbphilharmonie, Duperré Playground, Vitali Sheds, PC Caritas, Alvéoles)
• Richly illustrated with drawings by the author

Globalization, as it is conceptualized in the early twenty-first century, is undergoing significant transformations. While we continue to live in a globalized world where markets, technologies, and cultures remain deeply interconnected, we are also confronted with trade wars, global health crises, technological decoupling, and escalating environmental damage. Traditional theories of globalization are insufficient to fully analyze these shifts. Drawing on empirical research from the Re-Figuration of Spaces Collaborative Research Center, the book tests the interplay between analytical, narrative, and visual thinking, translating theoretical figures of thought into spatial stories. Three-dimensional table configurations by Nikolaus Gansterer allow the reader to think visually while navigating the research topics. Atlas of Spatial Figures proposes new spatial imaginaries to better capture the complex realities of our world.

• Significant contribution to the transformation of spatial thinking
• Comprises sixteen research projects from the fields of sociology, anthropology, geography, communication studies, architecture, planning, and visual arts
• Innovative visualization techniques including sixteen mixed-media table configurations

Between Land and Water reveals topologies within the changing rurban landscape of the Yongning river plain in China. It explores the interwoven relationships between the cultural meanings of places associated with water, the ecological conditions of a water-based landscape, techno-natural water infrastructures, everyday water practices, and rapid urbanization processes in a formerly rural landscape. The authors carefully weave together cartographic narratives about land use and industrialization, water scarcity, housing resettlements, and state administrative redistricting practices. This careful re-reading of the landscape raises questions about the sustainable water-based future development of the rurban landscape of the Yongning river plain. Visually narrative yet analytic in focus, the volume draws on historical cartographic records and extensive empirical field data to trace the dynamic interplay of technical visions, cultural heritage, ecological conditions, and migration in the creation of a water-based rurban landscape.

• Reveals the intrinsic logic of a rurban landscape balanced between land and water
• Extensive empirical field data and historical cartographic records of the Yongning river plain
• Part of the “Urban-Rural Assembly” research project, funded by the German Ministry of Education and Research

(English, German)

Compelled by the global environmental crisis, the building industry is moving toward a paradigm shift that significantly impacts the way we build, design, and interact with the natural environments around us. The built spaces of the future need to disrupt the conventional design practices that have "elevated" the building sector to the largest contributor of manmade CO₂ emissions globally. Achieving net-zero embodied and operational emissions in future construction will require the active participation of design, construction, and building professionals, as well as the prompt implementation of decarbonization solutions. These solutions, which restructure the way humans interact with their ecosystems, entail a reevaluation and reinterpretation of architecture and its role as a transformative agent. GAM 21 collects perspectives and proposals on how to make a radical shift towards environmental transformation successful.

With contributions by Greg Foliente, Guillaume Habert, Monica Lavagna, Alice Moncaster, Chrisna du Plessis, Philippe Rahm, and others

• Explores contemporary approaches to decarbonizing the construction industry, one of the world’s largest emitters of CO₂
• Includes contributions from international authors and experts

Die globale Umweltkrise zwingt die Baubranche zu einem Paradigmenwechsel, der die Art und Weise, wie wir in Zukunft bauen, gestalten und mit unseren natürlichen Umgebungen interagieren wollen, stark beeinflusst. Gebaute Räume der Zukunft müssen konventionelle Planungspraktiken überwinden, die den Bausektor zum größten Verursacher von CO₂-Emissionen weltweit gemacht haben. Das Erreichen von Netto-Null-Emissionen beim Bau und Betrieb künftiger Gebäude erfordert eine aktive Beteiligung von Entwurfs-, Konstruktions-, und Baufachleuten und die rasche Umsetzung der Dekarbonisierung. Diese Ansätze, die die Interaktion zwischen Menschen und ihren Ökosystemen neu strukturieren, haben auch eine Neubewertung und Neuinterpretation der Architektur und ihrer Rolle als Triebkraft der Transformation zur Folge. GAM 21 sammelt Perspektiven und Vorschläge, wie ein radikaler Wandel hin zu einer ökologischen Transformation gelingen kann.

Mit Beiträgen von Greg Foliente, Guillaume Habert, Monica Lavagna, Alice Moncaster, Chrisna du Plessis, Philippe Rahm und anderen

• Aktuelle Ansätze zur Dekarbonisierung der Baubranche als einer der größten Verursacherinnen von CO₂-Emissionen
• Beiträge internationaler Autor*innen und Expert*innen

Der Qualität der gebauten Stadt – ihrer Häuser und ihrer öffentlichen Räume – kommt unter den heutigen Nachhaltigkeitsanforderungen eine besondere Bedeutung zu. Doch viele Kommunen klagen, es sei kaum mehr kompetentes Personal zu finden, das Städte, Stadtviertel und Stadträume entwerfen könne. Aufbauend auf der Kölner Erklärung zur Städtebau-Ausbildung „Die Stadt zuerst“ (2014) fragt die 14. Konferenz zur Schönheit und Lebensfähigkeit der Stadt nach den benötigten Fachkompetenzen: Was müssen Städtebauer*innen können, um nachhaltige und resiliente Städte zu entwerfen und zu realisieren? Es braucht fundiertes Wissen über angemessene Straßennetze, Blockgrößen- und formen, Grundstückszuschnitte und Haustypen. Es braucht Fähigkeiten, die Stadträume und ihre Oberflächen so zu gestalten, dass sie langfristig schön sind und eine ortstypische Atmosphäre entfalten können.

• Kritische Auseinandersetzung mit der Hochschullehre in den Bereichen Städtebau und Stadtplanung
• Impulse zu aktuellen Fragen wie der Aufspaltung von Planungsprozessen
• Beiträge renommierter Expert*innen aus Praxis und Wissenschaft

Die Kritik der gegenwärtigen Abrisspraxis wird angesichts der Klima-, Biodiversitäts- und Energiekrisen lauter. In Deutschland werden wohl über 50.000 Gebäude pro Jahr abgerissen, die Bau- und Abbruchabfälle verursachen gut 55 Prozent des gesamten Abfallaufkommens. Die Abrissfrage macht das Phänomen Abriss im Gebäudesektor aus unterschiedlichen Perspektiven greifbar. Mit Ansätzen aus Architekturgeschichte und -theorie, Denkmalpflege, Feminismus, Aktivismus und Kunst werden die ökologischen, politischen, sozioökonomischen sowie kulturellen Folgen der auf den fossilen Logiken der Moderne beruhenden Praxis von Abriss und Neubau analysiert. Die Beiträge thematisieren die historische Entwicklung, gegenwärtige Akteursnetzwerke, Gentrifizierung und ideologische Einflussnahmen von Abriss, aber auch die sich seit den 1960er Jahren formierenden Anti-Abriss-Bewegungen.

Die Publikation bildet den Auftakt einer neuen Schriftenreihe, die aktuelle Fragestellungen des umwelt- und sozialgerechten Bauens thematisiert. Zudem werden wichtige Pionier*innen des ökologischen Bauens im 20. Jahrhunderts in den Blick genommen. Herausgeber der Reihe sind Philipp Oswalt und Alexander Stumm.

Mit Beiträgen von ANA, Elisabeth Broermann, Laura Calbet, Dina Dorothea Falbe, Maximilian Hartinger, Maria Hudl, Katrine Majlund Jensen, Adrian Nägel, Yulia Ostheimer, Luise Rellensmann, Tim Rieniets, Charlotte Schaeben, Martha Seeger, Lukas Strasser und Alexander Stumm sowie den Architekturkollektiven AbbrechenAbbrechen (München), Abrisskollektiv (Hannover), Europaviertel retten (Freiburg) und ufoufo (Berlin)

• Aktueller Stand, Argumente und Zahlen zur Abrissdebatte
• Umfangreiche Recherche und Dokumentation zu vom Abriss bedrohten oder jüngst abgerissenen Gebäuden
• Geschichte und Netzwerke der deutschen Anti-Abriss-Bewegung seit den 1960er Jahren

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 der Wirtschaftlichkeit, Hygiene, Nutzung und Behaglichkeit vereint, basierte auf einer Analyse der ökonomischen und gesetzlichen Grundlagen des Wohnungsbaus. Ausgehend von einer intensiven Auseinandersetzung mit Grundrissen entwickelte er eine systematische Herangehensweise, um qualitativ hochwertigen Wohnraum mit begrenzten Ressourcen zu schaffen. Angelika Hinterbrandner beleuchtet die Entwicklung von Kleins Methoden und zieht Parallelen zu den aktuellen Herausforderungen der Wohnungsknappheit. Was lässt sich aus Kleins Ansätzen lernen?

• Alexander Klein als Pionier des Kleinwohnungsbaus – wiederentdeckt und neu interpretiert
• Umfangreiche Analyse seiner Entwurfsmethodik aus den 1920er Jahren und relevanter Parameter des Wohnungsbaus heute
• Stimmen zur KI-gestützten Grundrissoptimierung, dem Kleinwohnungsbau und der Wohngesetzgebung

Climate change is severely impacting cities and their surrounding areas, highlighting the need for new visions of the future in multiple facets of our lives. Building on its previous work in metropolitan planning and design, MetroLab has developed a visionary mapping approach to address the climate crisis on the urban scale. It aims to identify real needs for action and to show new pathways with a particular focus on the Vienna metropolitan area.

The creative mapping approach reveals multilayered spatial phenomena, functional linkages, and spatial relationships between the city and its surroundings, visually communicating key trends and illustrating how climate goals can be achieved through integrated, cross-border development.

• Innovative approach for regional and city planning
• Mapping as a central method for integrated development
• Developed by Vienna’s award-winning urban design think tank MetroLab

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. So ist der vorliegende Band der Gestaltungsleitlinien Stadtraum am Beispiel Dresden vor allem als Leitfaden zu sehen, an dem sich Bauherr*innen, Planer*innen und Architekt*innen im Sinne eines gemeinsamen Bildes orientieren können.

„Ja das möchste, nach vorne die Ostsee, nach hinten die Friedrichstraße …‟. Es geht hier nicht um Traumgespinste im Sinne Kurt Tucholskys. Die Städte, in denen wir leben, sind bereits gebaut, und sie mögen Lücken und Brüche aufweisen, in denen sich auch gesellschaftliche Umbrüche widerspiegeln. Wie also gehen wir mit dem Bestand um, damit eine lebenswerte Stadt entsteht oder bestehen bleibt?

• Anschauliche Zeichnungen zu stadträumlichen, städtebaulichen und architektonischen Gestaltungsprinzipien
• Analyse der Stadtstrukturen Dresdens und Vorschläge zur Weiterentwicklung des Bestands
• Neun Thesen zur baukulturellen Entwicklung Dresdens

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 European cities: their beauty, durability, mixed usage, social diversity, density, and the clear separation between public and private space. Editor Christoph Mäckler builds on the foundations laid by early twentieth-century urban design pioneers such as Cornelius Gurlitt, Raymond Unwin, and Josef Stubben, offering a comprehensive framework for city planning.

Featuring contributions by Vittorio Magnago Lampugnani, Christoph Mäckler, Werner Oechslin, Alexander Pellnitz, Jan Pieper, Birgit Roth, Mirjam Schmidt, Wolfgang Sonne, Jürg Sulzer and Anne Pfeil, and Thomas Will

• The definitive guide of the foundations of urban design, now in English
• Comprehensive analysis of 150 case studies from 70 cities
• Outcome of decades of research at the Deutsches Institut für Stadtbaukunst

Als öffentliche Bauaufgabe sind Theater ein exponierter Schauplatz für ideologische Konflikte, soziale Fragen und gesellschaftliche Repräsentationen. Dieses Buch widmet sich dem Theaterbau des 20. Jahrhunderts erstmals als Wissensobjekt und stellt die Frage, wie unser Wissen über den Theaterbau und Bühnentechnik produziert, verbreitet und geformt wurde. Die Autor*innen nähern sich dem Thema anhand unterschiedlicher Objekte und Diskurse, von der Architekturausbildung über das kulturelle Erbe bis hin zur Architekturfotografie. Die einzigartigen Sammlungsbestände des Architekturmuseums der Technischen Universität Berlin offenbaren Archivmaterial zu so bekannten Häusern wie dem Schauspielhaus Bochum, dem Burgtheater Wien oder der kürzlich abgerissenen Berliner Komödie am Kurfürstendamm.

• Der Theaterbau des 20. Jahrhunderts als Wissensobjekt
• Interdisziplinärer Zugang zu Theaterbau und -technik
• Erstmalig zusammengestelltes Archivmaterial aus der weltweit umfangreichsten Sammlung zum Theaterbau des Architekturmuseums der TU Berlin

Color has always been a powerful tool in architecture: it can influence perceptions of space and form, conveys meaning and intention and guides the viewer’s sensory experience. However, it has lost importance in architectural practice and teaching.
With the volume Colors, the Graz-based research collective Diskursiv conveys a mood of contemporary architecture in its use of color. The contributors approach the topic on a theoretical level and, by stressing the potential impact of color, make an impassioned case for its return to the architectural discourse: against the dogma of the universal white box and for a rediscovery of color as a central instrument of architecture.

• Considers the positions, approaches, and working methods of various architecture offices with regard to color and colorfulness

The majority of the peripheries and in-between spaces of the planet’s urban regions are living spaces and working landscapes. Despite this, we understand little about the centrality of urban peripheries as the sites and spaces for some of the most imaginative, anticipatory, and purposeful instances of urbanism. This volume demonstrates the centrality of urban peripheries in all their variety with a view to reworking urban, architectural, design, planning, infrastructural, sociological, ecological, and geographical theory from the outside in. The book also examines the relationships of these new centralities to the metabolisms, assemblages, and urban political ecologies beyond the built and imagined materialities of their immediate situation.

• Features pioneering writing and illustrations on designed centralities in urban peripheries
• Presents a range of international examples covering most continents
• Offers novel theoretical interpretations from across the built environment disciplines

„Forschen, lehren, lernen – am Land fürs Land": Nach diesem Motto schuf die TU Wien 2022 mit der „landuni" einen Ankerpunkt im niederösterreichischen Drosendorf, um gemeinsam mit Bewohner*innen über eine lebendige, nachhaltige Zukunft für ländliche Regionen nachzudenken. Vom Hörsaal zum Dorfplatz beleuchtet die vor Ort verhandelten Themen wie Umbaukultur, räumliche Transformationsprozesse, Kreativwirtschaft, Klimawandel, Zukunftsbilder und Mobilität – und nimmt dabei auch die „landuni" selbst als Methode der Regionalentwicklung in den Blick. Finden Forschung und Lehre zum ländlichen Leben sonst vor allem in den städtischen Zentren statt, inspiriert das Buch dazu, das Nachdenken über das Leben auf dem Land lokal zu verankern.

• Pilotprojekt für eine lokale Verankerung des Forschens zum ländlichen Raum
• Stellt die „landuni" als zukunftsweisendes Format der Regionalentwicklung vor
• Hochwertig ausgestatteter Band mit dreifarbigem Farbschnitt

In 1970s Vienna, civic protests against the demolition and replacement of old buildings with new ones led to both a paradigm shift and a more “gentle” approach towards interventions in the city’s historic neighborhoods. After years of investigation and experimentation, the Sanfte Stadterneuerung (gentle urban renewal) programme was adopted to promote the renovation of existing residential buildings and participatory processes in neighborhoods. This volume illustrates the historic roots and evolution of this multi-award-winning approach through written contributions from experts, interviews with pioneers of the programme, building and neighborhood case studies, and perspectives on the future of urban renewal. Today, the first phase of the Sanfte Stadterneuerung programme in Vienna serves as inspiration for tackling current challenges in the development of strategies for the existing building stock.

• Considers the potential of gentle urban renewal as a powerful tool in designing and implementing urban transformation projects
• Features interviews with historical witnesses and projects across five decades
• Offers inspiring insights into Vienna’s practice of gentle urban renewal

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

How are we to move from urban spaces that are neglected, disused, vacant, stigmatized, or monofunctional toward those that are lively, integrated, and mixed-use? At eight German locations, among them Berlin, Leipzig, and Munich, projects were developed in relation to the thematic foci "multifunctional urban components," "health city," "development of existing structures," and "sustainable transformation of existing infrastructures," all of which highlight the potential for inclusive processes of transformation in municipalities in states of change. This catalog assembles the competition entries for the German locations, along with the German prizewinners for the European locations. Living Cities 2—visions for preexisting sites and spaces.

With contributions by Andrea Benze, Julio de la Fuente Martínez, Kaye Geipel, Elke Krasny, and Elisabeth Merk

• New concepts for neglected, just used, vacant, stigmatized, or monofunctional sites
• The essential competition for young architectural talent European wide

Wie kommen wir von vernachlässigten, brachliegenden, leeren, stigmatisierten und monofunktionalen zu lebendigen, integrativen und durchmischten Stadträumen? An acht deutschen Standorten, unter anderem Berlin, Leipzig und München, wurden entlang der Themenschwerpunkte „Multifunktionale Stadtbausteine", „Health City", „Weiterentwicklung des Bestandes" und „Nachhaltige Transformation für bestehende Infrastrukturen" Projekte entwickelt, die Möglichkeiten für inklusive Transformationsprozesse für Kommunen im Wandel aufzeigen. Der Katalog fasst die Wettbewerbsbeiträge der deutschen Standorte sowie der deutschen Gewinner*innen an europäischen Standorten zusammen. Lebendige Städte 2 – Visionen für den Bestand.

Mit Beiträgen von Andrea Benze, Julio de la Fuente Martínez, Kaye Geipel, Elke Krasny und Elisabeth Merk

• Neue Ideen für vernachlässigte, brachliegende, leere, stigmatisierte oder monofunktional genutzte Flächen
• Wichtigster städtebaulicher Wettbewerb für Nachwuchsarchitekt*innen europaweit

In recognition of the dire threats of climate collapse and mass extinction, the global initiative Bauhaus Earth convened a team of scientists, architects, spatial planners, and policy makers from around the world to author a manifesto.Toward Re-Entanglement is a call for radical action. It challenges all those with a role in the conception, production, operation, and governance of the building sector, to address the systemic ecological, climatic, and social impacts incurred by its activities.

Twelve principles of re-entanglement guide the re-design of the entire life cycle of the urban realm: the re-formation and re-materialization of the physical artifacts that comprise it, the reconfiguration of the socioeconomic structures that underpin it, and the re-engagement of the bioregions that might sustainably supply it. In this way, our unprecedented convergence of environmental and social crises offers us powerful opportunities for systemic change.

Lead authors: Philipp Misselwitz, Alan Organschi

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 aspects of building with earth, it also examines urbanization and construction processes in the region. The detailed manual for the production and application of earth blocks underlines the contribution nature-based products can have for the transformation toward regenerative building practices and suggests its potential for global application. The project showcases how local materials can be adapted to contemporary building demands while retaining a minimized environmental impact.

• A handbook on building with earth blocks
• A West African perspective on the global reorientation of building practices

Das Handbuch der Stadtbaukunst vermittelt grundlegendes Wissen für den städtebaulichen Entwurf und liegt nun auch als Studienausgabe vor. Stadträume, Hofräume, Platzräume und Straßenräume werden anhand von 150 Beispielen aus über 70 deutschen Städten maßstäblich dargestellt, analysiert und verglichen. Das vierbändige Werk dokumentiert eindrucksvoll die in der Leipzig-Charta beschriebenen Qualitäten der europäischen Stadt: Schönheit und Dauerhaftigkeit, Nutzungsmischung, soziale Vielfalt, Dichte und die Trennung in öffentliche und private Räume. Herausgeber Christoph Mäckler knüpft an die Lehrbücher von Cornelius Gurlitt, Raymond Unwin und Josef Stübben aus dem frühen 20. Jahrhundert an und liefert eine fundierte Anleitung zum Bauwerk Stadt.

Die Studienausgabe ist als Set (Band 1 bis 4) erhältlich. Darüber hinaus können die einzelnen Bände separat erworben werden.

Mit Beiträgen von Vittorio Magnago Lampugnani, Christoph Mäckler, Werner Oechslin, Alexander Pellnitz, Jan Pieper, Birgit Roth, Mirjam Schmidt, Wolfgang Sonne, Jürg Sulzer und Anne Pfeil sowie Thomas Will

With a Latourian Actor-Network Theory approach, Urban Design on the Move follows a young design team’s transformative journey of implementing the Europan 4 winning project at Heraklion’s old city waterfront in Crete, Greece. During the design trajectory, the team mediates several controversies that become decisive for the project’s outcome. Together with Hercules, a fictional character and friend of the team, they accompany the transformation of the competition’s design strategies into implemented urban practices. In a unique storytelling format, the author unpacks the team’s design diplomacy skills in promoting their idea of an open and porous city welcoming heterogeneous publics—laying bare the informal and unsaid aspects of the design implementation process.

With forewords by Didier Rebois and Albena Yaneva

• a compelling analysis of urban design in the making
• written in a unique storytelling format
• an inspiration for urban designers in uncertain environments

Volume 1 of the four-volume work Handbuch der Stadtbaukunst offers examples of nine types of urban structures as a guide to designing them. It depicts urban spaces in Berlin, Braunschweig, Bremen, Dresden, Düsseldorf, Essen, Frankfurt am Main, Halle (Saale), Hamburg, Hannover, Kassel, Cologne, Leipzig, Ludwigshafen, Mainz, Munich, Oldenburg, Potsdam, Stuttgart, and Weimar for comparison. Featuring essays by Christoph Mäckler, Werner Oechslin, Birgit Roth, Jürg Sulzer and Anne Pfeil, and Thomas Will.

Now available in a student edition, the Handbuch der Stadtbaukunst is a compendium of essential urban design expertise. Using 150 examples from over 70 German cities, it illustrates, analyzes, and compares a wide range of urban spaces, courtyards, squares, and streets. Editor Christoph Mäckler builds on the textbooks of the early twentieth century by Cornelius Gurlitt, Raymond Unwin, and Josef Stübben and offers a well-grounded framework for city planning.

The student edition is available as a set consisting of volumes 1–4. The individual volumes can also be purchased separately.

Volume 2 of the four-volume work Handbuch der Stadtbaukunst offers examples of five types of courtyards as a guide to designing them: residential courtyards, commercial spaces, schoolyards, entrance courtyards, and hybrid courtyards. It depicts courtyards in Augsburg, Berlin, Bochum, Dresden, Frankfurt am Main, Hamburg, Kiel, Cologne, Leipzig, Lübeck, Munich, Nuremberg, Passau, Potsdam, Regensburg, Stuttgart, Weimar, and Wiesbaden for comparison. Featuring essays by Alexander Pellnitz and Wolfgang Sonne.

Now available in a student edition, the Handbuch der Stadtbaukunst is a compendium of essential urban design expertise. Using 150 examples from over 70 German cities, it illustrates, analyzes, and compares a wide range of urban spaces, courtyards, squares, and streets. Editor Christoph Mäckler builds on the textbooks of the early twentieth century by Cornelius Gurlitt, Raymond Unwin, and Josef Stübben and offers a well-grounded framework for city planning.

The student edition is available as a set consisting of volumes 1–4. The individual volumes can also be purchased separately.

Die Debatte zur Nachhaltigkeit des Materials Beton wird hitzig geführt und von unterschiedlichen Interessengruppen geprägt, von der Bauindustrie bis zu Klimaaktivisten. Felix Sommer gehört mit seinem in Berlin gegründeten Unternehmen SB5ÜNF nach über 1600 abgeschlossenen Baustellen zu den bekanntesten Spezialisten für Betonkosmetik, Betoninstandsetzung und Betonsanierung in Deutschland. In kurzweiligen Erzählungen gibt er Einblicke in teils spektakuläre Bauprojekte, in die Perfektionierung des Handwerks sowie in kooperative Prozesse auf Augenhöhe mit allen am Bau Beteiligten. Das aufwendig gestaltete Buch bereichert die Diskussion über einen der prägendsten Baustoffe der Moderne um eine außergewöhnliche Perspektive.

The debate on the sustainability of concrete as a building material rages on, shaped by interest groups from the construction industry to climate activists. With over 1600 completed projects, Felix Sommer and his team at Berlin-based company SB5ÜNF are one of Germany’s best-known experts specializing in concrete repairs, maintenance, and renovation. His engaging stories provide an insight into spectacular building projects, into perfecting the craftsmanship, and into cooperating equitably with all parties involved in a project. This lavishly designed volume offers an extraordinary perspective that enriches the conversation around one of modernism’s most impactful construction materials.

Band 4 des vierbändigen Werks Handbuch der Stadtbaukunst enthält Beispiele von Straßenräumen als Anleitung zum Entwurf: die Allee, das Zielgebäude, die Biegung, die Arkade, die Anmutung und Breite. Außerdem werden Straßenräume aus Augsburg, Bad Arolsen, Bad Tölz, Berlin, Bremen, Chemnitz, Dinkelsbühl, Dortmund, Dresden, Düsseldorf, Frankfurt am Main, Freiburg, Halle (Saale), Hamburg, Heidelberg, Karlsruhe, Köln, Landshut, Leipzig. Lindau, München, Münster, Potsdam, Regensburg, Speyer, Stralsund, Wiesbaden und Wismar im Vergleich gezeigt. Mit einem Essay von Vittorio Magnago Lampugnani.

Das Handbuch der Stadtbaukunst vermittelt grundlegendes Wissen für den städtebaulichen Entwurf und liegt nun auch als Studienausgabe vor. Stadträume, Hofräume, Platzräume und Straßenräume werden anhand von 150 Beispielen aus über 70 deutschen Städten maßstäblich dargestellt, analysiert und verglichen. Herausgeber Christoph Mäckler knüpft an die Lehrbücher von Cornelius Gurlitt, Raymond Unwin und Josef Stübben aus dem frühen 20. Jahrhundert an und liefert eine fundierte Anleitung zum Bauwerk Stadt.

Die Studienausgabe ist als Set (Band 1 bis 4) erhältlich. Darüber hinaus können die einzelnen Bände separat erworben werden.

In an age of glossy architectural visualizations and slick photography, today’s media is saturated with images of projects mummified in their ideal, untouched, and unused state. Every design and technical publication on landscape architecture tries to teach us how to do things based on best practices. Rarely do we see a landscape project that has been in use for five or even ten years. To counterbalance this status quo, it is time to review and scrutinize the Sh*tscapes: typical mistakes in the design of our public realm. This publication is a compendium of a hundred failures made in the design, construction, or maintenance processes of urban landscapes. Looking at these unsuccessful examples, the authors propose simple and practical solutions aimed at preventing common mistakes, predicting future scenarios, and averting or accepting failures.

Die Stadtstraße bildet das Rückgrat des öffentlichen Raums. Sie dient neben der Mobilität dem Einkaufen, dem Flanieren, der Unterhaltung und vielem anderem mehr. Sie ist ein städtischer Raum, der durch die Fassaden der Häuser gebildet und geprägt wird. Wie sollen Stadtstraßen unter heutigen Klimaanforderungen als einladende und charakteristische Stadträume gestaltet sein?

Die Konferenz zur Schönheit und Lebensfähigkeit der Stadt widmet sich seit mehr als einem Jahrzehnt grundlegenden Fragen der Stadtentwicklung. In den Beiträgen dieses Bandes diskutieren Vertreter*innen unterschiedlicher Fachdisziplinen aus Theorie und Praxis sowie Planungsdezernent*innen deutscher Städte, wie sich die verkehrstechnischen und funktionalen Anforderungen an eine Stadtstraße mit ihren städtebaulichen, architektonischen und ökologischen Notwendigkeiten zusammenzubringen lassen.

Bilingual edition (English/German)

Do plants improve the climate in cities? How can greenery in architecture help reduce urban heat build-up and pollution by fine particulate matter, lower noise levels in the city, and enhance people’s wellbeing?

The manual on building greenery in its third extended edition is aimed at citizens, architects and developers alike. It provides answers to the frequently asked questions – from greening existing buildings to greenery with new builds, from grants, subsidies, and practical tips on choosing the right plants to the ecological impact on the urban climate. It’s high time – and many examples in Germany and around the world show that greened buildings are already a fast-growing reality.

• Third, expanded edition of the popular volume with a new foreword and contribution on the history and effectiveness of espalier trees on façades

• Numerous richly illustrated case studies from all over the world, including both well-known projects and new findings

• Offers concise answers to the most frequently asked questions about urban greening

Verbessern Pflanzen das Stadtklima? Wie kann Grün in der Architektur die urbane Hitzebildung reduzieren, die Feinstaubbildung vermindern, den städtischen Lärmpegel senken und das Wohlbefinden der Menschen steigern?
Das Handbuch zum Gebäudegrün in seiner dritten erweiterten Auflage richtet sich an die Bürgerschaft ebenso wie an Architekt*innen und Bauherr*innen. Es liefert Antworten auf die am häufigsten gestellten Fragen – von der Bestands- bis zur Neubaubegrünung, von finanziellen Förderungen und praktischen Tipps zur Pflanzenwahl bis zu ökologischen Auswirkungen auf das Stadtklima. Es ist an der Zeit – und viele Beispiele in Deutschland und weltweit zeigen, dass Grünbauten möglich und wachsende Realität sind.
• Dritte, erweiterte Auflage des Publikumserfolgs mit neuem Vorwort und Beitrag zur Geschichte und Wirkkraft von Spalierbäumen an Fassaden
• Reich bebilderte Case Studies aus aller Welt mit berühmten Projekten und Neuentdeckungen
• Kompakte Antworten auf die häufigsten Fragen zur urbanen Gebäudebegrünung

Band 3 des vierbändigen Werks Handbuch der Stadtbaukunst enthält Beispiele von Platzräumen als Anleitung zum Entwurf. Außerdem werden Platzräume aus Aachen, Alsfeld, Ansbach, Berlin, Braunschweig, Bremen, Celle, Dresden, Frankfurt am Main, Freiburg, Freudenstadt, Görlitz, Hamburg, Hannover, Heidelberg, Karlsruhe, Kassel, Kempten, Leipzig, Lindau, Lübeck, Lüneburg, Ludwigsburg, Mannheim, München, Putbus, Regensburg, Rosenheim, Schwäbisch Gmünd, Stralsund, Trier, Tübingen, Wangen, Warendorf, Weimar, Wismar und Wuppertal im Vergleich gezeigt. Mit Essays von Jan Pieper und Mirjam Schmidt.

Das Handbuch der Stadtbaukunst vermittelt grundlegendes Wissen für den städtebaulichen Entwurf und liegt nun auch als Studienausgabe vor. Stadträume, Hofräume, Platzräume und Straßenräume werden anhand von 150 Beispielen aus über 70 deutschen Städten maßstäblich dargestellt, analysiert und verglichen. Herausgeber Christoph Mäckler knüpft an die Lehrbücher von Cornelius Gurlitt, Raymond Unwin und Josef Stübben aus dem frühen 20. Jahrhundert an und liefert eine fundierte Anleitung zum Bauwerk Stadt.

Die Studienausgabe ist als Set (Band 1 bis 4) erhältlich. Darüber hinaus können die einzelnen Bände separat erworben werden.

European experts comment on neighborhood development

In 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 and practice to respond.

Finland’s 1998 architectural education policy: did it work, and could it be used elsewhere?

Architectural historian Turit Fröbe assesses the impact of Finland’s 1998 policy to integrate architecture into education. Fröbe consults various experts to examine the policy’s success and to determine if other countries might adopt this model.

Through speeches, articles and interviews, this book highlights some of the more significant architectural developments that have run parallel with Greek architect Vassilis Sgoutas’ own career in architecture. Although this is a personal book, it describes the journeys taken by many architects today.

What is “good” architecture? This seemingly simple question is connected to a wide range of criteria—just like the radical quest for “good” food, which has produced a wealth of insights over the past few decades.

This book showcases buildings whose construction has been based on simple technology, good craftsmanship and careful choice of local and natural materials, as well as local development initiatives that demonstrate excellence in building quality, landscape restoration and community revitalization.

The selection of case studies is broad and definitely unconventional: it encompasses Europe and Japan, and privileges lesser-known authors, unobtrusive works and marginal localities where radically fresh attitudes have been able to develop.

In 1970, Henri Lefebvre put forward the radical hypothesis of the complete urbanization of society, a circumstance that in his view required a radical shift from the analysis of urban form to the investigation of urbanization processes. Drawing together classic and contemporary texts on the “urbanization question”, this book explores various theoretical, epistemological, methodological and political implications of Lefebvre’s hypothesis. 

It assembles a series of analytical and cartographic interventions that supersede inherited spatial ontologies (urban/rural, town/country, city/non-city, society/nature) in order to investigate the uneven implosions and explosions of capitalist urbanization across places, regions, territories, continents and oceans up to the planetary scale.

Through his buildings and city planning work, Friedrich Pützer (born 1871) shaped Darmstadt’s cityscape far more significantly than is generally known. His buildings are evidence of the Grand Duchy of Hessen’s period of flourishing and reformation around 1900—particularly in its capital, Darmstadt. Pützer’s works are comprehensively represented in this volume. They include the modern and highly functional central station, which connected the city to the constantly growing rail network, and various parts of the chemical company Merck’s headquarters. Competing with the Darmstadt Artists’ Colony, he planned residences in Mathildenhöhe that proposed independent concepts for a new way of living, and designed innovative institutional buildings and lecture theatres for the city’s technical university. Pützer also conceived and realised the Paulusviertel neighbourhood, with its Pauluskirche church ensemble. This work is recognised as one of the major examples of the painterly style in city planning.

In 2020, Darmstadt’s twelfth city photographer Vitus Saloshanka set out to document Pützer’s impact. His photographs illustrate the sophisticated creativity, environmental sensitivity, and technical accomplishment of the Aachen-born architect’s buildings.

Wherever people live closely together, there is competition and displacement. We practically take it for granted that many public places cannot be used equally by different groups of people. This assumption goes almost unnoticed, and is counter to the ideals of a democratic, open society with equal rights for all its members. How do people who exist at the margins of society (or see themselves as existing there) experience public urban spaces? Where do they feel welcome, and where do they feel unwanted? Where, how, and why do use conflicts arise? The project Die fragmentierte Stadt—the fragmented city—pursues answers to these questions. A collection of observations, walks, and encounters that took place over the course of three years in Berlin, Graz, and Zurich form the foundation of four artistic ethnographic approaches to experiences of exclusion and appropriation strategies. Photographic, audio-visual, performance, and verbal investigations led to the development of the ideas, insights, and products introduced by the texts, images, and videos in this volume.

As an enriched e-book, the ePUB includes video works by Aya Domenig and Thomas Schärer.

Diese Publikation untersucht das Phänomen des historisierenden Städtebaus anhand von 14 internationalen Fallbeispielen, darunter das Dom-Römer-Areal in Frankfurt, die Altstadt Elbing in Polen, Hallstatt in China, Poundbury in England oder die Old Town in Dubai. Es werden Entwicklungsgeschichte und Status quo der Projekte ebenso vorgestellt wie gesellschaftspolitische Hintergründe und die Debatten widerstreitender Interessen der Beteiligten. Namhafte Experten definieren grundlegende Fachbegriffe in einem Glossarteil, der das mit zahlreichen Plandarstellungen und Abbildungen ausgestattete Buch ergänzt.

Cities are to a great extent shaped by political, economic, and social development. Such processes used to occur over long periods of time, but today our cities are changing their appearance at a tremendous pace: there seems to be a need to redefine the relations of city, space, and time. The publication examines this phenomenon in three chapters: Stadt: Stadt und Zeitgeist, Raum: Stadträume und Zeiträume and Zeit: Urbane Zeithorizonte. Essays describe phenomena, investigate present changes of urban space with their contexts of cause and effect, and present integral ideas, visions and criteria for cautious future development of the city as a cultural asset.

„Viele halten ein Land ohne Baumaterialien für unbewohnbar.“ Mit diesen Worten eröffnete Industrieminister Gylfi Þorsteinsson Gíslason 1958 Islands erstes und einziges Zementwerk. Mehr als ein Jahrhundert zuvor war beim Bau der Domkirche von Reykjavík erstmals Portlandzement zum Verputzen von Wänden zum Einsatz gekommen. Seinerzeit fertigte man die meisten städtischen Wohnhäuser noch aus vor Ort gestochenem Torf oder teurem importiertem Bauholz. Nur wenige Jahrzehnte später bauten isländische Architekt*innen, Ingenieur*innen und Maurer*innen ihr Land fast ausschließlich aus Beton. Wie konnte das Material so enorm an Beliebtheit gewinnen, dass die ersten Dekaden des 20. Jahrhunderts auch als „Zeitalter des Betons“ in die Geschichte eingingen? The Icelandic Concrete Saga befasst sich mit über hundert Jahren isländischer Architektur, Baupraxis und Technologie. Das Buch begibt sich auf die Spuren einer Architektur, die unablässig gegen Materialknappheit und die Elemente der Natur ankämpft und eng mit der isländischen Politik, Kultur und Gesellschaft verwoben ist.

After the Wall came down, Berlin was faced with unprecedented city planning tasks. The partition of the city needed to be remedied, and ideas for the as-yet uncertain future needed to be developed and implemented within an extremely short time. Fifteen of the planners from East and West Berlin responsible look back on the concepts that were created, how the decision processes were organized, what conflicts were resolved (or not), and whether key decisions have stood the test of time. In interviews about this challenging period of transformation, eyewitness accounts provide a lively record of the mood during the first five years of reunification and illustrate contemporary contexts and backgrounds. Images of urban developments, some previously unpublished, offer a new perspective on the Berlin of the early nineties.

With contributions by Dorothee Dubrau, Bruno Flierl, Volker Hassemer, Bernd Hunger, Urs Kohlbrenner, Ulla Luther, and others as well as photos of the city by E.-J. Ouwerkerk

For the past decade, bilingual architectural magazine Speech: has been devoted to the most important topics in contemporary architecture. Issue 22 investigates the space of media—an essential form of architecture in today’s society—from television studios to the facades that create artificial boundaries between the physical and virtual.

Issue 17 of Speech: is devoted to the concept of contrast, focusing on architecture that is intentionally far brighter than its surroundings.

Exploring the use of solids versus voids, light versus dark and old versus new, the issue analyzes the conditions for the harmonic coexistence of such extremes.

This book is a critiqued collection of over 200 terms regularly used to name the urban void, from terrain vague to buffer zone. As the landscape architect James Corner has pointed out, a void cannot be labeled because "to name it is to claim it in some way." By listing existing terms, A Glossary of Urban Voids attempts to name the unnamable, to define that which should have no precise definition. It records terms, names, and labels used to designate leftover spaces, resulting from processes of urban abandonment, that originate from some kind of obsolescence or loss. In addition to their obvious consequences, these processes of abandonment open up space, liberating it from existing ideological frameworks (financial, capital, cultural …), allowing divergent spatialities to emerge, and ultimately offering opportunities to imagine and conceptualize an alternative type of public space. Using the glossary as an intellectual tool, this book presents the most relevant questions on the issue of the urban void and its potential role as public space.

The fields of art and architecture are currently witnessing an expansion of the exhibitionary complex: permanent and temporary exhibition spaces proliferate, blending with sites of consumption. Responding to this development, GAM.14 focusses on the act of exhibiting, which reconfigures the spatial limitations of the exhibition, thus creating dynamic sites of contestation and political confrontation. GAM.14 is a collection of current positions from the disciplines of art and architecture assembled around the conceptual effort to distinguish the act of exhibiting from exhibition, opening the potential of exhibiting as an exploratory space to address urgent social and political challenges of our time.

With contributions by Bart De Baere, Ivana Bago, Ana Bezić, Nicolas Bourriaud, Maria Bremer, Ekaterina Degot, Ana Dević, Anselm Franke, Andrew Herscher, Christian Inderbitzin, Branislav Jakovljević, Sami Khatib, Wilfried Kuehn, Nicole Lai Yi-Hsin, Bruno Latour, Ana María León, Armin Linke, Antonia Majača, Doreen Mende, Ana Miljački, Museum of American Art in Berlin, Vincent Normand, Christoph Walter Pirker, Dubravka Sekuli, Antje Senarclens de Grancy, Katharina Sommer, Anna-Sophie Springer, Barbara Steiner, Kate Strain, Žiga Testen, Milica Tomić, Etienne Turpin, What, How & for Whom/WHW

Raum wird nicht nur visuell, sondern mit allen Sinnen erlebt. Dennoch werden in Entwurf und Rezeption von Architektur haptische, akustische und osmische Wahrnehmungen oft kaum berücksichtigt. Dementsprechend gibt es in der Architekturdisziplin keinen kontinuierlichen Diskurs zum Thema Raumwahrnehmung. GAM.13 Spatial Expeditions möchte diese Lücke schließen. Die Methode der Expedition ermöglicht dabei einen experimentellen Umgang und bietet die Chance, neue Erkenntnisse und Sichtweisen auf den gebauten Raum zu gewinnen. Dabei werden Techniken der Wahrnehmung aus Architektur, bildender Kunst, Musik, Tanz und anderen artverwandten Disziplinen erprobt. GAM.13 stellt damit selbst eine Expedition zu experimenteller Architektur und den unerforschten Aspekten des gebauten Raumes dar. Das Heft enthält Beiträge von unter anderem Sam Auinger, Irmgard Frank, Malcolm McCullough, Philippe Rahm, Karen Van den Berg.

After North America, the second-most urbanized region in the world is Latin America and the Caribbean, 78% of whose population lives in cities. The result of five years of recent research by Vienna’s Urban Design Lab, this handbook contextualizes emergent planning issues at hand in the region, where cities are continuing to grow at considerably high rates. Case studies conducted between 2013 and 2018 in over 20 cities, accompanied by 250 color illustrations, offer a detailed survey of the issues facing Latin American and Caribbean urban planning in the 2010s.

Topics covered include social participation in the planning process, the role of culture in urban transformation, “human-scale” city development, and creative reinterpretation of existing municipal structures. Several detailed examinations of specific buildings—including Panamanian and Argentinian railway stations, airports and gardens—present focused and practical accounts of these new urban strategies.

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 characteristics of architecture.

The 18th issue of Speech: focuses on districts developed or developing beyond city centers. Drawing on various case studies, contributing architects and planners reveal strategies for creating new, sustainable centers to urban hubs.

In the face of growing territorial inequalities in the distribution of and access to resources, the 15th issue of Graz Architecture Magazine is devoted to social justice in the fields of land-use planning and urbanism. Contributions in this issue examine the dynamics of change in rural landscapes.

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 contemporary architecture, urban design and public discourse.

Monuments of Everyday Life calls for a rediscovery of the monument as an essential and creative part of the city. Based on a rereading of four monumental sites in São Paulo, this book locates specific spatial patterns around monuments that can offer alternatives to the instability, rampant commercialization and homogenization of urban space. These monuments can serve as reference points for collective life and material representations of collective values. Drawing conclusions from history, Monuments of Everyday Life addresses a question for urban futures—why do cities need monuments?

A detailed look at how science has shaped Berlin’s infrastructure and urban planning

This architectural guide examines how Berlin’s growth has been linked to the development of science, including how universities realize demands for research, teaching and housing scientific collections. The book’s five chapters—dedicated to various locations—trace the evolution of Berlin’s university landscape over two centuries.

In this issue of Speech:, the theme of landscape is investigated in the interaction between architecture and nature in both rural areas and larger cities. The projects presented in this issue illustrate a variety of designs and techniques that integrate manmade structures and natural elements.

Kosovo’s Mitrovica is a divided city. The bridge separating the Serb North and the Albanian South is one of the emblematic sites in the ongoing dispute over Kosovo. Beneath this layer of ethno-political division and post-conflict reconstruction, however, lies the fascinating heritage of the city's rapid industrial and urban development under the Socialist Yugoslav ideological premises.

Layers of Time in the Urban Landscape is a unique cooperative endeavor at the intersection of photography and history, aiming to document the overlaps in the socialist and post-conflict transformations of the city of Mitrovica. It powerfully demonstrates that the material remnants of the socialist metamorphosis of the city are more than passive leftovers of a lost age. Rather, they continue to give meaning to post-socialist, postindustrial and post-conflict socio-spatial configurations in Mitrovica.

This book discusses the relationships between urban planning, artistic practice and cultural institutions. Collected contributions from different disciplines—German cultural theorists, urban planners, journalists, architects and scholars—reflect the ever-changing hierarchies and power structures of urban design practice.

Theorists from across Europe contemplate how to strengthen social cohesion in increasingly diverse cities

In Europe today, social cohesion is challenged by radical ecological and political change. Contributions to this volume—from science, administration, social work and urban planning—demonstrate how such challenges are being met.

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 participation in urban planning.

Recent projects by innovative German architectural firm Tchoban Voss Architekten (founded in Hamburg, Germany in 1931) are documented here. Interviews and texts by German architects and designers accompany photographs of the firm’s varied projects, including residential, educational and office buildings throughout Germany.