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The Potential of Form
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 ...
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Sensing Space
The incorporation of new technology into architecture continues to define our everyday lives, whether it be tiny sensors woven almost invisibly into materials, buildings which communicate with their surroundings via the facades, or "intelligent" houses that adapt to fit their inhabitants. Sensing...
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Toufic Beyhum: Emotions in Motion
Reminiscent of Walker Evans’ 1966 classic, Many Are Called, Lebanese-born, English photographer Toufic Beyhum’s photographs of passengers on Berlin’s U-Bahn capture a diverse cast of characters. Beyhum reveals what so many of us see on our daily commute: lovers and loners, the young and the old, ...
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Hochweit 2019
Hochweit gibt ein Statement zur aktuellen Lehre und Forschung der vielfach ausgezeichneten Fakultät für Architektur und Landschaft der Leibniz Universität Hannover und ist ein Sprachrohr für die Fakultät mit ihren neun Instituten, das die bereichernde Kraft der interdisziplinären Zusammenarbeit ...
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Perspectives in Metropolitan Research 3
Science and the City tracks the history of Hamburg’s path into architectural academia.
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Mäusebunker und Hygieneinstitut
Vom Abriss bedroht, als Ikonen des Brutalismus gefeiert: Der Mäusebunker von Gerd und Magdalena Hänska und das Hygieneinstitut von Hermann Fehling und Daniel Gogel in Berlin-Steglitz bilden ein einmaliges Ensemble von Solisten. Die unterschiedliche Architekturauffassung, die den beiden gegenübers...
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Landscape Vision Motion
The first volume in a new series from Jovis on landscape architecture today, Landscape Vision Motion asks the question: what objectives can be achieved in the theoretical exchange between visual studies, digital media, film, space and motion in the field of landscape architecture? Professionals f...
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Theorien des Wohnens
Die Anthologie Theorien des Wohnens versammelt erstmals systematisch die zentralen Wohntheorien des 20. Jahrhunderts. Die hier ausgewählten philosophischen und soziologischen Schlüsseltexte geben einen Überblick über die verschiedenen Ansätze, Wohnen als anthropologische Tatsache, soziale Praxis ...
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Lederer Ragnarsdóttir Oei 2
Bilingual edition (english / german):Nine years after publication of the first major monograph on the work of the architectural office Lederer Ragnarsd.ttir Oei, a second volume marks the tentative culmination of many years of harmonious collaboration between the three partners. From the outset, ...
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Intentionen Reflexiven Entwerfens
How do intentions enroll into the practice of architecture and landscape design and research? How do they become operative to orientate, clarify, and energize the creative process, and in what ways do they inform design and knowledge processes? Contributions in this edited volume describe, recons...
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Seeking Sustainable Tourism
Could tourism heal more than it harms? Seeking Sustainable Tourism brings together over 40 artists, architects, community leaders, and tourism practitioners to find ways that travel might serve both people and planet. Born from PRAKSIS’s three-year project An Urgent Situation, this visually rich ...
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A Utopia of Modernity: Zlín
Located in the Czech Republic, the city of Zlín is a curious example of civic planning in which domestic living, education and recreation were all geared towards a single goal: the profitability of the Bata shoe company, one of the first footwear manufacturers to operate globally. In spring 2009,...
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Suburban Constellations
In a world of growing and multiplying cities, suburbanization is the most visible and pervasive phenomenon. While the single-family home subdivisions of North America continue to proliferate, many other forms of suburbanization are now emerging around the globe. The highrise housing estates aroun...
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Adaptive Re-Use
In prosperous regions, housing markets are under significant pressure. With the focus on preserving land and developing brownfield sites, post-war housing estates are being earmarked for densification, as their density is perceived as rather low and the ownership is often concent...
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Stone Voids
From cavernous quarries carved by centuries of stone extraction to vibrant public spaces, Stone Voids tells the story of how architect Xu Tiantian and her studio DnA Design and Architecture transformed the Huangyan stone quarries in Taizhou, China. Through her "architectural acupuncture" approach...
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Slow Urban Planning
Obwohl der öffentliche Raum im Osten Deutschlands nach der Wende aufwendig saniert wurde, leiden viele Kleinstädte und Dörfer unter Wegzug und Leerstand. So auch Tribsees in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, wo zurzeit 70 von 240 Häusern in der Innenstadt unbewohnt sind. Ein Team aus Künstler*innen und Stu...
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Mixed Matters: A Multi-Material Design Compendium
When describing a proposal to send the world’s first 3D-printed satellite into space by 2020, scientists from the European Space Agency pointed out that composite materials are now predominant in the sciences. Although the capabilities of multi-materials have been recognized in the sciences for d...
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Neo-Historismus?
Das Aufgreifen historischer Formen ist ein fester Bestandteil des heutigen Bauens. Von einigen strikt abgelehnt und von anderen gewünscht, wird es seit Beginn der Moderne kontrovers diskutiert. Mit seiner behaupteten Kontinuität und seinem Anspruch auf Allgemeingültigkeit ist das historisierende...
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Infrastructures of Freedom
Infrastructures of Freedom sheds light on the impact of inadequate public lighting in self-built communities in Cape Town. In democratic South Africa, where infrastructure provision still reflects deeply embedded notions of citizenship, informal neighborhoods with minimal infrastructure provision...
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Neuroarchitektur (DE)
Architektonische Räume sind Anker unserer Erinnerung. Mittels unseres sensorischen Bewusstseins verorten wir uns im Raum: Das Gehirn nutzt Oberflächen und räumliche Systeme, um unsere Lebenswelt zu speichern und zu ordnen. Diese Erkenntnis bildet die Grundlage für die Übertragung aktueller neurow...
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Von Mosaikpflaster und Schmuckbeeten
In Wolfsburg lebt es sich anders. Die durchgrünte Stadtlandschaft mit zahlreichen Plätzen und Grünanlagen ist überwiegend in den 1950er und 1960er Jahren entstanden. Sie stellt heute eine besondere Qualität dar, die wesentlich zu einem naturnahen Leben der Einwohner beiträgt. Nach mehr als fünfzi...
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Metabolism of an Emerging Town in Ethiopia
The emergence of densely populated towns within extremely rural landscapes is the hallmark of urbanization in Ethiopia. This book examines one such town, Amdework. The authors construct a profile that reveals a broader geographic view of the processes that underpin the functioning, growth and dev...
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GMP: The Chongqing Grand Theater in China
The Grand Theater in Chongqing is often likened to a large, moving ship, as it appears to glide over the great Yangtze River on which it is situated. This book allows a glimpse into its multiple performance halls, event spaces and intricate glass façade.
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Urban-Rural Assembly
As our planet is becoming increasingly urbanized, the ways we think about cities and urbanism are also being fundamentally reconfigured. However, current urban planning approaches often remain stuck in urban-rural dualisms that do not reflect the multilayered interrelationships and material flow...
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Zweifellos
Ton Matton – Stadtplaner, Indie-Urbanist, bekennender Fan des performativen Urbanimus, Zweifelnder, Briefeschreiber. Zu Beginn seiner Karriere als Stadtplaner schrieb Matton Briefe, in denen er sich mit nachhaltiger Stadtplanung befasste (damals für Stadtplaner*innen ein noch ganz neues Arbeitsfe...
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Märklin Moderne
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.
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Der Eckhausgrundriss
Die Grundlagenforschung Der Eckhausgrundriss des Deutschen Instituts für Stadtbaukunst systematisiert Grundrissbeispiele aus den letzten 200 Jahren und erläutert anhand unterschiedlicher Wohnungsgrundrisse die Prinzipien für den Umgang mit dem städtischen Eckhaus. Sie dient als Hilfestellung für ...
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Architecture: A Woman’s Profession
In the western world, the number of women studying architecture now roughly equals that of men. As women increasingly come to the fore as practicing professionals, the question of how this shift will affect the profession and the teaching of the discipline is of greater and greater interest. In t...
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Der Architekt Ernst Zinsser
Der Architekt Ernst Zinsser hat mit seinen zwischen 1937 und 1970 in Hannover entstandenen Bauten das Bild der Stadt nachhaltig geprägt. Die Bauten gelten als beispielhaft für die Nachkriegsmoderne in Deutschland und geben einen umfassenden Überblick über die Bauaufgaben dieser Epoche. Sie zeichn...
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Activism at Home
Activism at Home offers a unique study of architects’ own dwellings; homes purposely designed to express social, political, economic, and cultural critiques. Through thirty case studies by architectural scholars, this book highlights different forms of activism at home from the early twentieth...
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Shanghai Urban Public Space
Since 1992, when Deng Xiaoping famously declared Shanghai the “Head of the Dragon,” effectively making it China's economic motor, the city's housing developments have multiplied with breathtaking speed: entire districts have been demolished, residents relocated and numerous districts selected for...
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Dobrovic in Dubrovnik
Dobrovic in Dubrovnik traces the history of a project of avant-garde modern architecture constructed in the 1930s in the Mediterranean landscape of the south Dalmatian coast of the Adriatic Sea. Architects Krunoslav Ivaniflin and Ljiljana Blagojevic contribute comprehensive historical, theoretical...
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Discovering Downtown Cairo
This scholarly guide presents a detailed survey of the plans and typologies of apartment buildings from the nineteenth and twentieth centuries in downtown Cairo. It also maps the changes in use of these spaces over time and shares some of the inhabitants' stories.
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Metropolis No. 3: Education
Arguing for a radical approach to educational architecture—one in which education is embodied and enhanced by architecture—this volume proposes solutions towards the constructive development of inspiring educational buildings.
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New Landscape Lusatia
The International Building Exhibitions (IBA) has been an instrument of urban development in Germany for over 100 years. Since 2000, IBA has worked to restructure the former coal-mining region of Lusatia, also known as Fürst-Pückler-Land, located between Berlin and Dresden. This publication presen...
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Europan 17: Lebendige Städte 2 / Living Cities 2
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,...
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Lederer + Ragnarsdóttir + Oie 1
Architects Lederer Ragnarsdóttir Oei have been specialized in architecture for more than three decades, consistently adhering to the guiding principle: “First the city, then the house.” This involves the following key issues: How can a new building be integrated in such a way that the distric...
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Tel Aviv: The White City
Bilingual edition (English/German) / Zweisprachige Ausgabe (deutsch/englisch) Due to its more than 4,000 white Bauhaus buildings, Tel Aviv is often called “the White City”. The city center, created in the nineteen-thirties and -forties under the influence of international modernism, was decla...
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Exhibiting Matters
Bilingual edition (English/German) / Zweisprachige Ausgabe (deutsch/englisch) 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 develo...
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Einfach Grün – Greening the City
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 ...
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Uwe Schröder Werkverzeichnis I
Der Architekt, Hochschullehrer und Autor Uwe Schröder prägt mit seiner klaren Haltung seit mehr als drei Jahrzehnten die Debatte zu grundlegenden Themen der Architektur: Topologie und Typologie, Raum und Ästhetik. Die beiden hochwertig ausgestatteten Bände bilden sein vielfach preisgekröntes Werk...
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Perspectives in Metropolitan Research 4
The latest issue of Perspectives in Metropolitan Research examines the culture of hybridity in urban planning, asking, “What happens when artists act as developers or architects act as social workers?”
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Bibliothek
„Gibt es denn ein schöneres Bild für den Frieden unter den Menschen als den Lesesaal einer großen Bibliothek?", fragt Peter von Matt in seinem Beitrag für dieses Buch. Mit dem Bau der Bibliothek der Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin hat Max Dudler einen ebenso modernen wie zeitlosen Ort für die Büch...
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Haus Ideal
Haus Ideal, by German architect Oda Pälmke, serves as an instruction manual for nonlinear processes of generating new solutions to architectural problems and discovering ideal architectural forms. Images of architectural models demonstrate different stages of these unconventional design processes.
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Architectures terrestres
Based in Nancy in eastern France, studiolada is an architectural collective founded on values such as commitment to the common good, responsible use of resources, service to the public sector, collaborative dialogue, short supply chains, and circularity. These principles shape a collective practi...
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Zweifel
Ton Matton – Stadtplaner, Indie-Urbanist, energetischer Vortragender, bekennender Fan des Bautyps EW58, Zweifelnder. Noch als Student, Ende der 1980er Jahre, hielt Matton an der TU Delft Vorträge, in denen er sich mit nachhaltiger Stadtplanung befasste (damals für Stadtplaner ein noch ganz neues...
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Territories
Territories – Rural-urban Strategies studies the dynamics of larger rural-urban spaces from a design perspective. Perception and concepts involving the overlaying of the urban and the rural require new impulses, in order to be able to discuss visions of a spatial future. Contrary to outdated dyst...
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Space, Planning, and Design
This publication--volume five in the Future Megacities series--focuses on five emerging megacities and urban regions across the globe. Based on various case studies, the book shows the early conceptualization and organization of integrative spatial planning and urban design for sustainable and en...
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The Depth of The Landscape
Throughout history, the relationship between landscape and architecture has formed the basis of culture and the development of human settlements. The unfolding of a site, its transformation through the construction of buildings or of entire cities, translates into this basic idea: that histor...
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Christian Helmle: Waterpower
A wide variety of twentieth-century architectural trends can be found in the power stations, dam walls and reservoirs that Swiss photographer Christian Helmle has documented in Waterpower. The deeply impressive and powerful shapes of these massive structures are put in perspective by the landscap...
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Urban Design Lab Handbook
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, wh...
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visions4people
Visions4people offers an overview of artistic research in the context of psychiatric residential environments and conveys their particular challenges. What form can design visions and interventions take where people are central? Tyyne Claudia Pollmann has addressed this question and studied it as...
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Hasenheide 13 (English edition)
After its careful renovation by David Chipperfield Architects, the ballroom at Hasenheide 13 will serve as an exhibition venue for the Wemhöner Collection from 2022 onwards. Reason enough to review the eventful and lively history of the site in order to respectfully continue its history as a mee...
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Produkte reflexiven Entwerfens
Forschendes Entwerfen und entwerfendes Forschen in Architektur, Städtebau und Landschaftsarchitektur befördern, strukturieren und generieren Produkte spezifischer Figuration und Qualität. Die Beiträge dieses Buches loten anhand von vielfältigen Beispielen diverse, ineinander übergehende Modi des ...
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Arabella Schwarzkopf: City Lives
From Rear Window to Friends, city dwellers have been known for a sometimes fervent but typically detached interest in their neighbors. Schwarzkopf breaks the social barriers between apartments by using her camera to facilitate her introduction. She knocks on fellow tenants' doors in New York, Tok...
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METAPOLIS. TOPOI. SCENARIOS.
Urban and rural areas alike witness severe dynamics. Moreover, understandings of what constitutes the urban and the rural are changing, too. Metapolis conceptualizes the network of urban and rural settlements interconnected by flows of people, goods, and information. How can this Metapolis be und...
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Kamel Louafi Landscape Architects: Landscape Interventions
Algerian-based firm Kamel Louafi Landscape Architects approaches landscape as a product of human activity, thinking about a site with regard to its context and history. The firm has designed such interventions as the gardens for the World Exposition 2000 in Hanover and the Garden of the Islamic W...
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Bastienne Schmidt: Topography of Quiet
In Topography of Quiet, the internationally acclaimed German-born, New York–based photographer Bastienne Schmidt (born 1961) uses painting, drawing and photography to explore the patterns and typologies of nature. Her color and black-and-white photographs of ocean tides and patterns in sand and w...
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Dortmund bauen – Masterplan für eine Stadt
Dortmund, drittgrößte Stadt Nordrhein-Westfalens, hat wie kaum eine andere europäische Montanregion integrative Methoden zu Strukturwandel, Landschaftsgestaltung, kultureller Urbanisierung und sozialer Modernisierung entwickelt. Dieses Programm- und Zukunftsbuch dokumentiert in thematischen Clust...
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Architectures of Science
A detailed look at how science has shaped Berlin’s infrastructure and urban planningThis 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...
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Uwe Kowski: Weiss
Leipzig-born painter Uwe Kowski (born 1963) creates colorful abstractions in which gestural lines blur into jumbles of typography (the latter perhaps influenced by his apprenticeship as a sign painter), establishing a vibrant, “all-over” effect. This volume presents new canvases made between 2008...
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Das gelobte Land der Moderne
Gustaf Dalman hielt nicht viel von Knipsern. Wenn der deutsche Palastinakundler ab 1899 zwischen Aleppo und Alexandria unterwegs war, lies er sich Zeit. Er beobachtete, griff zum Notizbuch und zur Plattenkamera: sachlich, stilvoll, immer auf Augenhohe mit seinem Gegenuber, sei es nun ein Mensch o...
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Anna Meyer: Internetionale 2001-2006
In Meyer's work, the glittering temptations of a global consumer culture are set opposite that culture's losers--figures hapless in the face of the promises of happiness made by the mass-media, advertising and shopping culture. Whomever cannot keep up with this system is brutally pushed to its pe...
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WerkBundStadt Am Spreebord
Mit Texten von Thorsten Dame, Benedikt Goebel, Albrecht Göschel, Claudia Kromrei, Michael Mönninger, Matthias Noell, Gerwin Zohlen Wie wollen wir heute wohnen? Mit der WerkBundStadt gibt der Berliner Werkbund eine profunde Antwort und macht einen konkreten Vorschlag. Unter Berücksichtigung der h...
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Kirche Raum Gegenwart
Aufgeschlossene Kirchen sind wertvolle öffentliche Räume, die liturgische Orte bleiben und sich gleichzeitig für Neues öffnen können. Im Zentrum von Kirche Raum Gegenwart steht die nachhaltige Transformation dieser Räume, die über eine rein architektonische Lösung hinausgeht. Anhand von vier Proj...
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Komplexe Probleme Lösen
Wer Großes plant, steht schnell vor Problemen – tagtäglich hören wir davon. Je größer das Projekt, je komplexer die Aufgabe, desto mehr hat man es mit diffizilen, multidisziplinären Aufgabenstellungen zu tun. Häufige Aufgabe der Architektur, Stadt- und Raumplanung – aber auch der Politik sowie je...
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Vegetarian Architecture
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,...
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Performative Urbanism
This volume examines the relationship between architectural design and its realization in an urban environment. It proposes an interplay between architectonic material and urban usage and action, and interprets our interaction with architecture as a performative activity.
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HOCHWEIT 2023
The new HOCHWEIT yearbook provides an overview of the current teaching at research at the multiple-award-winning Faculty of Architecture and Landscape Sciences at Leibniz University Hannover. The volume focuses on student projects and designs both within Germany and abroad that grapple with t...
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Otto Zitko: Retroprospektiv
(English / German / Spanish)Otto Zitko is known for his concept of drawing executed from a painter’s perspective. The seemingly endless continuous line he applies to large-scale canvases, sheets of paper, and walls has established itself as a recurring constant which sometimes dissolves into...
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Put People First!
The 7th Hamburg Bauforum in August 2019 put the topic of Magistralen, or arterial roads—the large access routes through, in, and out of the city—on its agenda. International planning teams developed various scenarios for Hamburg’s Magistralen, taking the neighborhoods on either side of them i...
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HerStories in Graphic Design
Bilingual edition (English/German) / Zweisprachige Ausgabe (deutsch/englisch) By and large, women have been left out of the history of graphic design. If, however, we look beyond the surface of this familiar account, the influence women have had on the discipline right from the start becomes...
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GMP: The Tianjin Grand Theater in China
This volume details the architecture of the remarkable Tianjin Grand Theater in China. The circular form of the roof corresponds to that of the nearby Natural History Museum, creating an architectural dialogue between the earthbound museum and the seemingly floating roof construction.
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Understanding Color
In Understanding Color, writer and designer Friederike Tebbe (author of Color Spaces, 2009) invites you to explore various ideas on color and your own personal color spectrum, aiming to promote design competence through a more conscious approach to color. Practical exercises and pictorial analyse...
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Sketch for Green
The era of analog drawing is coming to an end. Computergenerated visualizations are pushing sketches and drawings increasingly into the background and fundamentally changing the representation of landscape architecture. For the Berlin-based landscape architect and sculptor Udo Dagenbach, ske...
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Hold It
Collaborators since 1998, German artists Folke Köbberling and Martin Kaltwasser (also an architect) have created "amorphous forms out of trash that retain a childlike simplicity in spite of rigorous engineering," according to the UK's The Guardian. Their "magical, structurally sound and user-frie...
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Baukollegium Berlin
Baukollegium Berlin is an independent advisory board in Berlin whose members are experts from the fields of architecture, spatial planning and urban development. Compiling interviews, an essay and eight building project studies, this volume provides insights into the methodology behind urban deve...
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Future Public Spaces
What is required to renew and articulate public spaces? The need for, and demands of, public spaces are highly specific to the local spatial and social conditions under which people live. Action at neighborhood level is crucial, and must involve interacting and co-creating with residents to disco...
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Moravia Manifesto
Bilingual edition (English/Spanish) In view of rapidly progressing urbanization worldwide, informal settlements, especially in the cities of the global south must be a focus of our attention–because in the future, the majority of new city inhabitants will settle in these unplanned extension...
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GMP: The State Ballet School in Berlin
The Berlin State Ballet School is unique in Germany, because it combines a general school education with professional training. For the restructuring of the school and the new building, a design was required that takes into account the flow of movement between the dance school and the school, as ...
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Eventisierung der Stadt
Events sind ein fester Bestandteil unseres Alltags geworden. Sie werden professionell geplant, mittels ausgeklügelter Dramaturgie gestaltet und vermitteln ein Gefühl von Exklusivität. Der Eventbegriff steht für ein spezifisches Spannungsfeld zwischen ökonomischen Verwertungskontexten und populär...
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KostenBewusstBauen
Fragen der Baukosten zählen zu den elementaren Anforderungen der Architektur. Eine verlässliche Kalkulation ist im Interesse des Bauherrn unabdingbar. Kostenbewusstsein kann allerdings je nach Bauaufgabe unterschiedlichen Überlegungen folgen: Eng bemessene Spielräume in der Finanzierung verlange...
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Europan 15:The Productive City 2
The disintegration of European cities and the loss of identity threatened by this decay is proceeding at a seemingly unstoppable rate. Europan 15 is dedicated to the Productive City and seeks to identify concepts for synergies between living and working in the future. The theme focuses o...
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Baugeschichte Berlin / Baugeschichte Berlin
Band 2 der Baugeschichte Berlin stellt die wohl wichtigste Periode der Berliner Architekturgeschichte vor, die mit Namen wie Ernst von Ihne, Friedrich Hitzig, Paul Wallot, Martin Gropius, Heino Schmieden, Alfred Messel bis zu Peter Behrens verbunden ist. Mehr als 800 Abbildungen und Pläne präsent...
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Chromatophoric Architecture
A "voxel" ("volumetric" + "pixel") is the three-dimensional equivalent of a pixel, and one of the most important developments in design technology. Where spatial designs were previously constrained by the physical attributes of construction materials, voxel displays enable surface attributes such...
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Atsushi Kitagawara Architects
Jovis’ Portfolio series presents the work of innovative, international architects in the informal style of a magazine. This new volume is the first monograph, outside of Japan, to examine the ideas of Atsushi Kitagawara (born 1951), known for his expressionistic architectural style that celebrate...
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Spatial Expeditions
Bilingual edition (English/German) / Zweisprachige Ausgabe (deutsch/englisch) Space is experienced not only visually, but with all the senses. Despite this, the design and reception of architecture often barely take haptic, acoustic, and osmic perceptions into account. Consequently, in the archit...
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Berlin, Genova: City, Street, House
These 22 original house plans were drawn up under architect Klaus Theo Brenner's supervision with the "redensification" of historic urban space in mind. The young architects who worked on them addressed Berlin and Genoa as urban areas where new construction must take into account--and take inspir...
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Ethics in Aesthetics
In 1790, Immanuel Kant elevated “the beautiful to a symbol of the morally good.” Two hundred years later, “more ethics, less aesthetics” was the tagline chosen for the 2000 Venice Biennial for architecture. This volume tackles this ever-present struggle between ethics and aesthetics, querying whe...
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Wingårdhs
Already regarded as the most successful Swedish architect of all time, Gert Wingårdh is nevertheless not a “pure product” of Swedish architecture—the solutions he devises for his various projects are too multifarious and cosmopolitan. Eschewing both dogma and predefined individual style, with eac...
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Cubity
With minimized individual rooms and maximized communal areas, Cubity is a residential spatial design concept that meets an energy-plus standard. This volume documents the stages of the concept’s development, providing an exemplary model for sustainable forms of communal living.
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ZOLLVEREIN
Das Ruhrgebiet ist seit der impulsgebenden Internationalen Bauausstellung (IBA) Emscher Park (1989–1999) Vorreiter bei der Umwandlung großer Industrieareale. Leuchtturm dieses Prozesses ist die stillgelegte Zeche und Kokerei Zollverein in Essen, seit 2001 UNESCO-Welterbe. Das wichtigste Industrie...
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Gelebte Utopie
In einer Zeit des gesellschaftlichen Aufbruchs plante die Werkgruppe Graz im Jahre 1965 die Terrassenhaussiedlung in Graz-St. Peter, die zwischen 1972 und 1978 gebaut wurde. Die Planer – Mitglieder der avantgardistischen Künstlervereinigung Forum Stadtpark – wandten sich gegen das verfestigte Sys...
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Der Kornversuchsspeicher in Berlin
Der 1898 gebaute Kornversuchsspeicher war zunächst ein konzeptionell ambitioniertes Experimental- und Musterbauwerk für die Lagerung von Getreide zur Versorgung der Millionenstadt Berlin. Nach verschiedenen Zwischennutzungen durch Speditionen und nach Leerstand ist der denkmalgeschützte Speicher ...
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Die Bodenfrage
Wir leben auf und mit dem Boden. Er ernährt uns und kühlt die Atmosphäre. Wir brauchen ihn zum Wohnen, nutzen ihn in der Freizeit und für die Arbeit – ohne freien Zugang zum Boden ist unser Wirtschaftsmodell nicht denkbar. Seit der Weltfinanzmarktkrise ändert sich dies. Da sich konservative Gelda...
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GMP: Volumes Volume 4 Private Houses
The architects GMP, von Gerkan, Marg and Partners, are famous for their transportation hubs, museums, theaters, offices and shopping complexes. They also build homes. The houses and villas showcased here--in photos, plans and conversations with the architects--are outstanding examples of their ge...
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Max Dudler Die neue Dichte
Zürich wächst. Doch wie viele Städte in der Schweiz, hat Zürich nur wenige geeignete Möglichkeiten zu wachsen, ohne den Landschaftsraum weiter zu zerstören. Schon deshalb müssen für eine zukünftige Entwicklung bestehende Strukturen verdichtet und letzte Reserven, wie das unter dem Namen „Europaal...
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The City as Resource
The City as a Resource proposes a model of the city as a resource containing untapped possibilities and potentials for both individuals and society as a whole. This resource, however, is not inexhaustible; it will only be able to meet the needs of future generations if it is handled sustainably, ...
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Landscape Observer: London
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...
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The Salons of the Republic
The political climate of our time is being shaped by a dwindling ability to engage in public dialogue, putting democratic practices under increasing pressure. In order to counter the trend towards retreating into the realm of self-affirmation, we need new spaces in which public debate is not o...
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