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JOVIS Verlag Eckhard Gerber Baukunst 2: Bauten und Projekte 2013–2016
Bilingual edition (English/German) / Zweisprachige Ausgabe (deutsch/englisch) Eckhard Gerber is one of the most significant architects of our time. Over a number of decades he was able to realize many public and private buildings that meet the highest of architectural standards. Signature Buildings in European, Asian and Arabic countries have cemented his reputation as a creative, internationally renowned architect and his works have been awarded national and international prizes. The scope of his realized projects ranges from landscape planning and urban redevelopment to high-rises, from administrative buildings to train stations, from residential buildings to university buildings and cultural venues.Eckhard Gerber Baukunst 2 follows up the monograph about Eckhard Gerber published by JOVIS in 2013 and presents the most significant projects of recent years. The accompanying texts explain the relevance of the building projects with regard to contemporary history and architecture theory. Projects that have not been built and an index of his œuvre round off the volume edited by the architecture historian Frank R. Werner.
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JOVIS Verlag Kunst Haus Graz
Today, the Kunsthaus Graz is integral to the urban identity of Austria’s second-largest city. The “friendly alien” designed by architects Peter Cook and Colin Fournier has become a familiar object in the city since landing in 2003. But views on the building have changed with the times. Looking back at nearly twenty years of history since the building's creation, the book opens up a kaleidoscopic perspective with a primary focus on how the Kunsthaus is used. It contextualizes the Kunsthaus Graz both locally and globally while exploring its relation to those who use it. With written contributions by Barbara Steiner, Sophia Walk, Pablo von Frankenberg, Anselm Wagner, Katia Huemer, Niels Jonkhans, Elisabeth Schlögl, Peter Cook, and Colin Fournier, and photographic contributions by Arthur Zalewski and Martin Grabner
£22.50
JOVIS Verlag Density, Architecture, and Territory: Five European Stories
Worldwide urbanization brings seemingly inescapable and uncontrollable forms of densification with it. Increasingly, cities are no longer defined by clearly visible borders. Instead they form open territories that are honeycombed with infrastructures and immaterial networks. This development requires a new understanding of density: density is not the product of piling square feet on top of one another, instead it is the result of vital connections between the different urban levels. Apart from a physical and economical dimension, density also has a social significance in particular, as a means of promoting and structuring human relations and therefore contributing to a good urban life.Density, Architecture, and Territory puts forward a model of density as a tool for sustainable urban development. Based on five European urban planning projects in Saintes, Utrecht, Copenhagen, Nantes, and Bregenz, various densification strategies are presented and analyzed. Discussions with the architect Kees Christiaanse, the philosopher Marc Armengaud, the landscape architect Henri Bava, and the economist Allain Sallez round off the publication.
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JOVIS Verlag Slow Urban Planning: Tribsees’ Zukunft machen
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 Student*innen rund um Ton Matton bespielte im Jahr 2020 einige dieser Häuser, um gemeinsam mit den Bewohner*innen Möglichkeiten und Konzepte für die Zukunft ihrer Stadt auszuloten: Mit viel Improvisation und nicht immer ganz im Rahmen des Gesetzes entstanden neue Erzählungen eines städtischen Miteinanders, das auf individueller Verantwortung, (Selbst-)Versorgung und lokaler Produktion basiert. Slow Urban Planning dokumentiert nicht nur das Projekt mit seinen künstlerischen Arbeiten, die etwa im Rahmen der Tribsees Centenniale entstanden. Es beleuchtet auch, wie stadtplanerische Prozesse gemeinhin verlaufen und wie Regelwerke angepasst werden könnten, um performative Prozesse besser zu integrieren.
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JOVIS Verlag Asmara: Africa's Jewel of Modernity
Impressive photographs by Stefan Boness convey the unique atmosphere of Asmara as a living museum of modernity. Asmara, the capital of Eritrea, has one of the most extensive surviving ensembles of modernist architecture in the world. To this day, the influence of the former colonial power of Italy from the early 20th century remains visible. Many of the buildings, erected in the futuristic, expressionist, cubist or rationalistic style have been preserved and dominate the cityscape of Asmara. In 2017 UNESCO made the city a World Heritage Site in recognition of its outstanding modernist architecture. New, changed and revised edition of Asmara The Frozen City (2006). Text in English and German.
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JOVIS Verlag Thomas Schütte: Houses II
Zweisprachige Ausgabe (deutsch/englisch) / Bilingual edition (English/German) Spätestens seit der Auszeichnung mit dem Goldenen Löwen der Biennale in Venedig 2005 zählt Thomas Schütte zu den prominentesten deutschen Gegenwartskünstler*innen. Anlässlich der Einzelausstellung Westkunstmodelle 1:1 im De Pont Museum in Tilburg erscheint Thomas Schütte: Houses II und versammelt die architektonischen Arbeiten des Künstlers. Mit zahlreichen Aufnahmen und Konstruktionszeichnungen präsentiert das Buch erstmals 18 Projekte aus den Jahren 2003 bis 2023 und ihre Entstehungsgeschichten. Das Besondere an Schüttes Ansatz ist der Sprung zum Maßstab 1:1, der die Entwürfe zum Leben erweckt. Auf diese Weise verwandelt Schütte Architektur zum Medium der Kunst, schafft neue Impulse zur Großplastik und verwischt die Grenzen zwischen Bildhauerei, Architektur und Konzeptkunst. Mit Texten von Dieter Schwarz und Maria Schnyder
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JOVIS Verlag Best Highrises 2020/21: Internationaler Hochhaus Preis 2020
Die Entwicklungen der Hochhaus-Architektur werden längst in großem Maße in China geprägt. Obgleich ungefähr jedes dritte Gebäude mit einer Höhe von mindestens 100 Metern eben dort entsteht, etabliert sich die Typologie Hochhaus vermehrt in anderen Teilen der Welt. So treiben mittlerweile europäische Städte ihre Hochhausentwicklung voran, und auch in Afrika entstehen sukzessive neue Türme. Der Internationale Hochhaus Preis 2020 präsentiert 31 der spannendsten, kürzlich fertiggestellten Hochhausprojekte, die sich weltweit durch Nachhaltigkeit, Energie- und Kosteneffizienz sowie nutzerfreundliche Gestaltung auszeichnen. Jedes dieser Projekte wird anhand von Textmaterial, Fotos und Plänen vorgestellt.Der Internationale Hochhaus Preis wird alle zwei Jahre vergeben. Zu den bisherigen Gewinner*innen zählen u. a. Benjamín Romano (2018), BIG (2016), Stefano Boeri (2014), Ingenhoven Architects (2012), WOHA (2010) oder Foster and Partners (2008).
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JOVIS Verlag Passage: Nujoom Alghanem
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JOVIS Verlag Polylemma (English edition)
For a quarter of a century, the architectural collective raumlaborberlin has been pioneering new spaces for action, charting unique paths in cooperative urban development, and creating places to foster encounters. Together with experts across various fields, they explore forms of urban practice, participation, and the joint production of space. Polylemma tells the story of this work: its nine members visit the sites of their work, come together with long-standing colleagues and critics, dissect the mechanisms behind their actions, and reflect on the tools and methods of their research-based practice. Topics discussed across numerous projects include strategies for learning together, experimental building, and radical recycling. Polylemma challenges us to open up our notion of space. How do we want to live together in the future? The book is a plea for the city as a sphere of action.
£40.00
JOVIS Verlag Designing Parks: Berlin’s Park am Gleisdreieck or the Art of Creating Lively Places
Landscape architecture can be more than aesthetically innovative: it can contribute to integration in society, social stability, and a vibrant public life. But how does a park become an intensively used stage, a well-visited everyday location? What constitutes the “boon of life” (Jane Jacobs)? And what makes a park urban?The Park am Gleisdreieck in Berlin—developed between 2007 and 2014—was initiated by citizens and built in dialogue with them. This publication presents the principles underlying its design. They form a toolbox for big city parks that can be used in diverse ways, stimulate interaction, and appeal to the senses. Furthermore, the book situates the park within the contemporary work of landscape architecture and shows how visitors perceive the park and its atmospheres. Overall, this work lays out the design elements that model a successful citizens’ park in the twenty-first century: Many voices have contributed to its development; its design is dynamically complex, and the park invites change and appropriation.
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JOVIS Verlag Implosions /Explosions: Towards a Study of Planetary Urbanization
A rethinking of the Henri Lefebvre's hypothesis that society has been completely urbanised. "I'll begin with the following hypothesis: society has been completely urbanized." - Henri Lefebvre, La révolution urbaine (1970) In 1970, Henri Lefebvre put forward the radical hypothesis of the complete urbanisation of society, a circumstance that in his view required a radical shift from the analysis of urban form to the investigation of the urbanisation processes. Drawing together classic and contemporary texts on the 'urbanisation 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 urbanisation across places, regions, territories, continents and oceans up to the planetary scale. Neil Brenner is Professor of Urban Theory at the Harvard Graduate School of Design (GSD). His writing and teaching focus on the theoretical, conceptual, methodological and cartographic dimensions of urban questions. His work builds upon, and seeks to extend, the fields of critical urban and regional studies, comparative geopolitical economy and radical sociospatial theory. Major research foci include processes of urban and regional restructuring and uneven spatial development; the generalisation of capitalist urbanisation; the problem of spatial visualisation in urban studies; and processes of state spatial restructuring, with particular reference to the remaking of urban governance configurations under neoliberalising capitalism. In 2014, Brenner was selected as a Thompson Reuters Highly Cited Researcher (www.highlycited.com). Based on Web of Science data, his publications were ranked among the top 1% most cited globally in the general social sciences between 2002 and 2012. http://www.gsd.harvard.edu/person/neil-brenner/
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