Architecture

With contributions by Dieter Hoffmann-Axthelm, Wolfgang Haber, Werner Konold, Rolf Kuhn, Hansjörg Küster, Peter Latz, Martina Löw, Holger Magel, and Jürgen Wenzel, among others

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.

Es gilt – auch im Sinne einer nachhaltigen Stadtentwicklung –, sich intensiver mit dieser architektonischen Ressource auseinanderzusetzen: Wie können gebäudegerechte, innovative Nutzungskonzepte erarbeitet werden? Anhand bereits erfolgter oder geplanter Umnutzungen stellt diese aus einem Forschungsprojekt der Bundesanstalt für Immobilienaufgaben und der Technischen Universität Dortmund entstandene Publikation mögliche Mittel und Methoden vor und gibt damit Architekten, Bauherren und Investoren einen umfangreichen Werkzeugkasten für den baukonstruktiven Umgang mit Hochbunkern an die Hand.

Das Buch ist ein wertvolles Stück Zeitgeschichte und ein ideales Weihnachtsgeschenk für all jene, die schon alles haben, aber offen für neue Einsichten sind. Aber auch für jene, die wenig Zeit haben und mit dieser Form der Aufbereitung viele Informationen in kurzer Zeit „verschlingen“ können.

– 03.12.2015 / Brigitte Kranner auf http://urbanmining.at

Der Band begleitet die Ausstellung „Alle wollen wohnen. Gerecht. Sozial. Bezahlbar“ des Museums für Architektur und Ingenieurkunst NRW.

Architektur und Städtebau der 1960er und 1970er Jahre sind mittlerweile im Denkmalpflegealltag angekommen und Teil eines fachübergreifenden Diskurses. Dabei hat sich die Sanierungspraxis als die eigentliche Hürde beim verantwortungsvollen und pfleglichen Umgang mit diesem Erbe herauskristallisiert. Nicht die grundsätzliche Denkmalwürdigkeit der Bauepoche wird angezweifelt, sondern die Chancen für eine erfolgreiche Erhaltung. Dementsprechend gilt es, Beispiele und Belege zu schaffen, dass und wie diese Denkmalbestände an wirtschaftliche, sicherheitstechnische und ökologische Bedürfnisse der Gegenwart angepasst werden können. Denkmal Ost-Moderne II beruht auf der gleichnamigen Tagung und präsentiert aktuelle Positionen sowie Beispiele aus der Denkmalpflegepraxis, einschließlich der Inventarisation: Wie lässt sich eine nachvollziehbare Auswahl aus dem riesigen Bestand vornehmen und begründen? Auch hiervon hängt die Glaubwürdigkeit der Denkmalpflege für die Nachkriegsmoderne ganz wesentlich ab.

„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

Mit einem Essay zur Hochhausentwicklung von Franziska Bollerey

Mit Beiträgen von u. a. Werner Oechslin, Dieter Bartetzko, Michael Mönninger, Adrian von Buttlar, Sven Kotulla.

WeiterWohnen gibt anhand von 16 beispielhaften Lösungen von Innen-, Außen- und Stadträumen, die im Rahmen des Architekturpreises „Auszeichnung vorbildlicher Bauten im Land Hessen 2014“ prämiert wurden, nützliche Anregungen für Neubau wie auch Umbau oder Sanierung. Begleitende Texte beleuchten den aktuellen Diskurs zum Thema Wohnungsbau aus verschiedenen Perspektiven.

Mit Texten von Alexandra Busch und Thomas Geuder sowie Sonderbeiträgen von Robert Kaltenbrunner, Bettina Rudhof, Petra Hagen Hodgson

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.

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

Flashing facades, high-end-casinos and neon lights—isn´t that how one knows the gambling metropolis of Las Vegas? But what picture does the city have to offer beyond the pulsing pleasure boulevard The Strip? Urbanizing the Mojave Desert: Las Vegas shows us the unknown, desolate side of Las Vegas and its environs. There, where the suburbs in the desert encroach on nature and change it, the book reveals the surprising connenctions between the abstract architectonic sculptures which mark the image of Las Vegas, and the spacious abstractions of nature in the Mojave Desert.

In Learning from Las Vegas Robert Venturi and Denise Scott-Brown focused on the glamour of the Las Vegas Strip, analyzing the city for its postmodernist qualities while ignoring the Mojave desert immediately beyond. Exploring the city at the same time as Venturi and Scott-Brown, the renowned architectural historian and critic Reyner Banham focused his attention on what he saw as the strikingly modernist spaces of the Mojave desert and disregarded the postmodernist lure of the Strip. Urbanizing the Mojave Desert: Las Vegas presents neither a modernist nor a postmodernist view of the city and its environment. The text and images do not project ideals of urban development, nor do they solve social and environmental problems. Rather, they present a hybrid landscape shaped and reshaped by practices of everyday urbanization for a city now characterized as the “first” city of the 21st century. They offer a “third site”, exposing the complex but often interstitial spaces of everyday production and consumption tied to physical and virtual place making as well as contemporary local and global investment. This perspective reframes the seamless surfaces of draped neon lights, curtain walls, and landscape features layered onto the Mojaveʼs stark topography, uncovering distinct strata that respatialize the social, cultural, and environmental implications of urbanizing a fierce yet fragile desert.

Tokyo’s seemingly endless sea of buildings has grown incrementally over the past centuries, leading to an urban condition that is both coherent and contradictory at the same time. The understanding of Tokyo as a continuous and interdependent urban complex is a much-neglected perspective in previous readings of the city.
An attachment to the land, strong civic commitment, and a deep appreciation of the immaterial has produced a nested megastructure of smaller communities. These places have all evolved in a related way, briefly and temporarily disrupted by earthquakes and a devastating war. Over time, a set of distinct urban patterns emerged through centralization processes, the “manshon urbanization,” the relocation of various types of manufacturing, and other developments.
What might appear homogeneous in composition and rhythm is in fact a configuration of distinctly different spaces, created by the routines of everyday life that make the district of Shinjuku different from Shimokitazawa or Kitamoto.

This book not only provides the first comprehensive reading of the many urbanization processes shaping Tokyo today, but also seeks an entirely new approach for looking at megacity regions: through their differences, and the way those differences are are produced in the course of everyday life.

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.

Majestically austere photographs of monastic interior spaces by Friederike von Rauch

Berlin-based artist Friederike von Rauch (born 1967) uses a medium-format camera to depict monastic interiors. Collected here, these photographs—absent of human figures with a delicate balance of light and dark—capture the contemplative power of monastic spaces without an emphasis on their religious context.

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.

Make City collects contributions from architects, planners, landscape designers and municipal policymakers on the crises facing contemporary cities, presenting a variety of strategies to reconfigure and reimagine urban life. The intertwined problems of continuous development and rising real estate prices are rendering cities increasingly uninhabitable for many, a situation that will continue to be exacerbated by the mounting pressure of climate change on metropolitan infrastructures. This volume proposes models of localized food production, community-centered planning and sustainable architecture design that renew and optimize existing structures in alternative models of urban economy. Developed in tandem with Berlin’s Make City festival, design proposals are displayed across over 350 color illustrations and writings from contributors including AFF Architects, Anupama Kundoo, Michel Bouwens/P2P Foundation, Francesca Bria SESC, Tessy Britton, Bureau SLA, Marco Casagrande, Eva de Klerk, De Urbanisten, FAR frohn&rojas and Kraftwerk 1.

Built between 1957 and 1958, Le Corbusier’s Unité d’habitation in Berlin stands as an exceptional work of postwar architecture in Berlin. Although it follows the basic concept of a “vertical village” as envisioned by the architect, the gigantic block, containing 530 apartments, clearly differs from the Marseille original. However, as a result of modifications required by the client, the construction occupies the position of an outsider in Le Corbusier’s oeuvre. Authors from the fields of architecture, urbanism, art history and cultural studies precisely set out the genesis of the listed building for the first time. In addition, they investigate the development of the Unité d’habitation model, and the Berlin variant’s unique color concept, and carry out a comparison with the four typologically related buildings in France. In looking at the significance, ingenuity and creative impact of Le Corbusier’s unique creation in Berlin, the so-called Corbusierhaus, the publication fills a gap in the literature on postwar modernism and the architect’s body of work.

Urban design—understood as a transdisciplinary field at the intersection of architecture, urban and regional planning, landscape architecture and sociology, plus the stakeholders involved in any project—requires a compendium of methods to collapse boundaries between theory and praxis. This book collects a range of approaches intended to support urban designers with this aim.

Groundbreaking projects in German landscape design since 1995

Profiling the German landscape design firm geskes.hack, In the Park includes such projects as the Kienbergpark in Berlin and the Sauerlandpark in Hemer. Alongside documentation of geskes.hack’s projects, the monograph presents theoretical discussions on the elements and potential of contemporary parks in urban design.

Narrating Spaces examines the interior and furniture design of Swiss architect Max Dudler. Five texts and a photographic essay by Berlin-based photographer Stefan Müller focus on the varied elements—light, texture, material, geometry, dimensions—of his interiors.

Plants and architecture: two seemingly opposite elements. How can we combine them to plan future cities that are closer to nature? What synergies can we explore? Hortitecture seeks to discover the creative and construction potentials of vital plant material, and explores its applications in ecosystem services and urban food production.
Through research at the intersections of architecture, biology, and technology, IDAS (Institute for Design and Architectural Strategies) explores this topic with the aim of transferring the knowledge gained to the design of buildings. This book documents the projects, ideas, and experiences shared by thirty-three international experts at symposia held at TU Braunschweig. Their critical reflections advance the awareness and expertise needed to develop a nature-based urban architecture.

Experts in urban design advocate for communal living spaces in the face of contemporary challenges

Responding to growing inequality, diverse social relationships and the dissolution of traditional work and family, GAM.16 advocates for communal living and collaborative organizational systems, gathering contributions by Massimo Bricocoli, Heike Delitz, Marson Korbi, Nikolai Roskamm, Sabine Storp, Fritz Strempel and more.

Documenting the restoration of the Neues Palais in Potsdam, this book records the castle’s architectural features and atmosphere through photographs taken by Berlin-based photographer Friederike von Rauch and an essay by writer Rudolf Prinz zur Lippe.

This catalog accompanies an exhibition by the Deutsches Architekturmuseum (DAM) on assembly kits of postwar German architecture for model-railway systems. It reveals the coexistence of historic and modern in model railways of postwar Germany.

The 21st issue of Speech: presents a series of case studies illustrating the functions and forms of the community center, revealing how such spaces help communities to join together in tackling important social issues and illustrating how centers adapt to the scale and geography of their surroundings.

What lies at the root of Japanese creativity and its architectural artifacts? In his new book, the Japanese architect Yuichiro Edagawa explores this question in detail. By analyzing a wide variety of unique exemplary buildings from the sixth century to the present, he determines twelve distinctive characteristics of Japanese architectural creativity and composition, including: intimacy with nature, importance of materials, bipolarity and diversity, asymmetry, devotion to small space, and organic form. The key understanding, which pervades all these characteristics, is that “parts precede the whole.” The Japanese process of creation begins with designing parts and details and ends with combining them to one edifice.
With Japanese Creativity—Contemplations on Japanese Architecture Edagawa provides a personal and comprehensive understanding of Japanese creativity and the architectural process. The book gives us an inspiring insight into Japanese culture and identity, which in its essence is deeply traditional and modern at the same time.
With a preface by Kengo Kuma.

New Urban Professions investigates the possibilities of urban design production outside of disciplinary boundaries. Designers reflect on approaches to collaborative creativity and address the future of urban design coproduction.

Roadside "weeds" and other routinely overlooked aspects to urban nature provide a fascinating glimpse into complex global ecologies and new cultures of nature that are emerging across the world. This unique essay collection explores the botanical dimensions to urban space ranging from scientific efforts to understand the distinctive dynamics of urban flora to the way that spontaneous vegetation has inspired artists and writers.

The book comprises five thematic sections: histories and taxonomies; botanizing the asphalt; the art of urban flora; experiments in non-design, and cartographic imaginations. The essays explore developments in Berlin, London, Lahore and many other cities, as well as more philosophical reflections on the meaning of urban nature under the putative shift towards the Anthropocene.

Urbanism as musical score: how improvisational behavior in cities can be documented and implemented

The great French theorist Henri Lefebvre famously argued that urban space is socially produced. German theorist and composer Christopher Dell proposes that, today, Lefebvre’s argument must be refined: while the term “production” traditionally has a teleological connotation, the city can no longer be defined as a teleological process. Based on Dell's concept of the “open-ended city score,” The Improvisation of Space studies the improvisational possibilities of cities in relation to planning. Drawing on his training as a composer, Dell shows how various types of creative notation can be used to track the indeterminate behavior of citizens, and how models of improvisation, indeterminacy and stochastic theory from avant-garde music (Xenakis, Berio, Earle Brown) can be applied to urban analyses, also drawing on situationist dérive theory and the work of Rem Koolhaas.

Christopher Dell is the author of Haus Ideal – The Making Of, ReplayCity and La Ville comme partition ouverte.

This book presents research in architectural and spatial design, targeting three areas in the region of Hamburg. The book demonstrates the preliminary processes and methods of analysis involved in the creation of designs for Regiobranding.

London has undergone a massive urban transformation over the past 15 years, with a significant focus on improving the public realm across its 32 boroughs.

Extensive infrastructure and housing market investments are fueling the need for a range of quality public spaces. Changes include the creation of new public spaces and good quality housing, revitalization of “brownfields” and the upgrading of existing parklands and gardens. Landscape Observer: London provides an overview of around 90 projects that were implemented in recent years, ranging in scale and budget. Photographs capture the spaces in their everyday setup and operation and details of the hard and soft landscape elements are labeled to provide readers with essential information on key materials and plants used in each individual project. An index at the end of the book enables a quick search of the projects and locations.

Viewing architecture and urban development from the perspective of building contractors is a much-neglected topic to date in architectural and art history. If mentioned at all, contractors are often seen as potential adversaries of architects, their actions allegedly determined solely by the maximization of returns; artistic or social aspects of buildings supposedly have no noteworthy importance for them. However, it is the determined entrepreneurial and often very creative spirit of contractors that allows architectural ideas for buildings to be realized in construction.

Building Berlin is dedicated to the multifaceted activities of six selected building contractors who were active when Berlin flourished to become a world city. The compact articles about their life and work also seek to illuminate their far-reaching but largely unknown influence on the development of Berlin’s cityscape and architecture.

A case study on Egypt’s new paradigms of landscape design in an era of climate change and rapid urban growth

Characterized by its dependence on the Nile and its constant agricultural transformations, Egypt is both one of the globe’s oldest agrarian civilizations and one of the fastest-growing countries in the world today. As the country experiences rapid changes strongly influenced by increasing water and food scarcity, accelerated urbanization and the negative impacts of climate change, its current modernist, lifestyle-oriented landscape designs are in need of renovation and innovation.

Landscaping Egypt focuses on the new and innovative landscape design models from local and international researchers and design professionals, with the goal of making these models and ideas more popular, aesthetically valuable and widely applicable. While the examples included focus on the primarily arid ecosystems of Egypt, this volume also offers multidisciplinary approaches and site-independent concepts and theories that could be applied to other environments and situations all around the world.

Volume five of the Landscript series examines material culture in the context of landscape architecture theory and design, positing the constructed landscape as a site for the investigation of human-nature relations and the factors that mediate their production, from labor to physical materials.

This interdisciplinary volume investigates the legacy of detached single-family homes built between the ’50s and ’80s in Germany—from their place in everyday life and popular culture to how they are affected by changing welfare regimes, demographics and the implementation of ecological frameworks in the construction industry.

This book documents the transformation of Zollverein, a disused coal mine in Essen, Germany, into a UNESCO World Heritage Site designed on the basis of a plan by Rem Koolhaas. The text and images show how design and monument preservation have turned the structure into a thriving cultural attraction.

Thresholds are anthropological constants: they can be found in every culture and every era. Like limits and borders, they express one of humanity's fundamental relations to space. Places where spaces are separated and connected, thresholds are also metaphorically potent across cultures, as passageways where subjectivity is transformed.

A History of Thresholds: Life, Death and Rebirth uses the threshold as a guiding thread to explore the meaning and importance that humans have invested in built spaces. The book is a visual narrative about the life, death and—eventually— rebirth of these thresholds: from the Ancient Greeks to the emergence of the private domain and the transparency of contemporary architecture, which seems to diminish the liminal space of the threshold. A History of Thresholds argues for the need to reinvent the threshold in order to establish a new contract between architecture and humanism.

The Liebling Haus in Tel Aviv was built in 1936 to designs by architect Dov Karmi for Tony and Max Liebling after they fled from Europe. With its bright plaster facades, deep balconies, clear proportions, and a layout tailored to the regional climate, it serves as a prime example of the locally adapted International Style that is typical of the White City of Tel Aviv. From 2015 to 2019, the building was extensively restored by Israeli and German planners, renovation experts, and craftspersons, reopening as a vibrant exhibition and community center. The Liebling Haus is supported and funded by the German Federal Government, the City of Tel Aviv, and the Tel Aviv-Jaffa Foundation.

The book, published in three languages, tells the eventful history of the structure and gathers detailed historical materials about its architecture and residents. Current interviews, an atmospheric tour by Israeli photographer Yael Schmidt, and other documents showcase the new use of the Liebling Haus since its reopening.

Incorporating architecture, urban design and territorial planning, this atlas provides concepts and strategies for building new community centers and livable spaces in both urban and rural settings, and explores periphery as a chance and model for future development.

Mit Beiträgen von: Hugo Bachmann, Philippe Block, Santiago Calatrava, Luca Deon, Aita Flury, Carlo Galmarini, Dieter Geissbühler, Niklaus Graber und Christoph Steiger, Lorenzo Giuliani und Christian Hönger, Julia Hemmerling, Heribert Huber, Walter Kaufmann, Christian Kerez, Neven Kostic, Massimo Laffranchi und Armand Fürst, Paul Lüchinger und Daniel Meyer, Akos Moravanszky, Christian Menn, Aurelio Muttoni, Stefan Polonyi, Mario Rinke, Markus Schaefle, Jörg Schneider, Maximilian Schrems, Laurent Stalder