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The Neue Nationalgalerie on the Berlin Kulturforum is an architectural icon as well as the crowning conclusion of architect Ludwig Mies van der Rohe’s life work. An outstandingly successful and sensitive refurbishment and modernization project was carried out for the building’s most significant overhaul since its opening in 1968. It complies with the requirements of a contemporary museum exhibition facility, as well as monument-preservation guidelines. David Chipperfield Architects developed the renovation concept under the motto of "As much Mies as possible." This publication provides deep insight into the planning, execution, monument preservation, and restoration from the perspective of those involved. The exemplary handling of the historical fabric is presented in design documents and numerous large-format photographs that impressively illustrate the design stage, the construction site, and the refurbishment results. With articles by David Chipperfield, Bernhard Furrer, Gunny Harboe, Joachim Jäger, Dirk Lohan, Fritz Neumeyer, Alexander Schwarz, Gerrit Wegener, and some 30 project managers

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Zweisprachige Ausgabe (deutsch/englisch) / Bilingual edition (English/German) Im Brückenbau sind Beton-Stahl-Verbundkonstruktionen mit ihrem Verhältnis von Schlankheit zu Robustheit unerreicht. Für den Freistaat Bayern entwarfen die Bauingenieure BPR Dr. Schäpertöns Consult und SRP Schneider & Partner in Zusammenarbeit mit SBR Schultz-Brauns & Reinhart Architekten einen 550 Meter langen Brückenzug, bestehend aus einer Galerie und einer mehrfeldrigen Schrägseilbrücke mit sechs radial nach innen geneigten Pylonen. Die Schorgasttalbrücke besticht baulich wie optisch mit ihrem selbstbewussten Auftritt, ihrer Harmonie, Transparenz und Signifikanz. Detailreich schildert die vorliegende Monografie den zehnjährigen Entstehungsprozess dieser besonderen Brücke anhand zahlreicher konstruktiver Betrachtungen und einer umfangreichen Bebilderung.

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Embedded in politically and economically charged sites in the Pearl River Delta, Mongolia, and the European Union, 51N4E (Johan Anrys and Freek Persyn) and Rural Urban Framework (Joshua Bolchover and John Lin) operate in expanded ecologies of architectural practice, questioning the role of the architect today. By collaborating with policymakers, local contractors, and NGOs, and by engaging their respective labs at ETH Zürich and the University of Hong Kong as key research locations, both offices investigate new forms of cooperation and dialogue as crucial strategies for design.51N4E and RUF work at the seams of urbanization, with projects situated in transitional settlements in Ulaanbaatar, the rural regions of China, the transforming neighborhoods of Brussels, and Albania’s shifting public spaces. This publication compares their research and design processes in order to question the extents and certainties of architecture against backdrops of indeterminate notions of citizenship, unstable stages of urbanization, and insecure economies and ecologies. The Things Around Us: 51N4E and Rural Urban Framework is co-published with the Canadian Centre for Architecture (CCA) in Montreal.

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The topic of the 7th international Marianne Brandt Award—“I am all of glass”—quotes a poem by the Bauhaus member, designer and artist. This bilingual volume does more than merely present the sixty competition entries: accompanying texts convey the utopian charge held by glass as a material in Modernism. Linda Pense, for example, writes about historical “glass states” that continue to be inspiring today. Freyja Hartzell reflects on the ways in which fantasies of glass shaped the foundational vision of Bauhaus. Using the artist Josef Albers as an example, Jeannette Redensek illustrates the metaphorical and functional importance of glass in Bauhaus design. The tension between poetry and functionality, which also characterizes the competition entries, demonstrates that glass remains a fascinating concept and material to this day.

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Shaping Design presents a wide range of creative design documents from architectural practice. Following the processes from analysis to final design, these manifestations form continuities. In many cases, the tools, ways of thinking, and approaches used are deeply interrelated. Overarching features, as well as the specific characteristics of individual instruments and methods of interaction, are introduced and exemplified. In doing so, the authors explore the potentials of hand drawing, language, geometry-based representation, model, diagram, mapping, photography, collage, and tableau for investigative creative analysis, as well as for generating, evolving, and transmitting design and knowledge. The publication opens up new perspectives on the (un)common media involved in architectural work.

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The borough of Queens has long been celebrated as the melting pot of America. It was the birthplace of North American religious freedom in the seventeenth century, hosted two World’s Fairs in the twentieth, and is currently home to over a million foreign-born residents participating in the American experience. In 2013, Spanish-born artist and architect Rafael Herrin-Ferri began to paint a portrait of the “World’s Borough”—not with images of its diverse population, or its celebrated international food scene, but with photographs of its highly idiosyncratic housing stock. While All the Queens Houses is mainly a photography book celebrating the broad range of housing styles in New York City’s largest and most diverse county, it is also a not-so-subtle endorsement of a multicultural community that mixes global building traditions into the American vernacular, and by so doing breathes new life into its architecture and surrounding urban context. With an introductory essay by Joseph Heathcott.

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In the 1930s, Walter Christaller used new media to work out his central place theory by counting telephone lines to identify centralities that connected multiple spaces: Today, digitization has a formative effect on space—on cities, the countryside, and mobility. Or when it is lacking, disruptions are the result. The contributions to the book offer an introductory examination of the effects of digitization on space and deal with the topicality of Christaller’s central place theory. The book does so both theoretically and practically, by examining spatial policies of current regional development programs, different conceptions of public services, and the tasks medium-sized centers in urban and rural areas. The second part of the book discusses which structural changes are to be expected in the course of digitization, especially through new mobility, and how this might affect the attractiveness of rural areas and the tasks of medium-sized towns. Finally, it examines the causes of populist tendencies and experiences of loss produced by processes of globalization and social division, as well as right-wing extremist developments in rural areas.

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This volume investigates one of the most significant shifts in contemporary urban research: the shift from an object- to an action-related perspective on the city. Outlining a critical urban theory from an improvisational perspective, the book shows why this transition might change our understanding of the city at large and make us reconsider the role of architecture and urban design, as well as their representations. German theorist, composer, and musician Christopher Dell, widely known for his performances and teaching in urban design, explores the question of making in a constellation of matter, things, embodiment, active living, and discourse. Insightful and engagingly written, this extraordinary volume offers, for the first time in English, a far-reaching narrative that examines the improvisation of space and reflects multifaceted aspects of the city today. The book assembles a unique collection of images and essays, providing a substantial new contribution and advancement in the field of urban research.

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Viewing architecture and city planning from the perspective of developers is a significantly neglected theme in histories of art and architecture. If mentioned at all, developers often figure as adversaries of architects—their actions taken to be driven by profit alone, with little regard for aesthetic or social factors. Yet it was often developers—with their resolute entrepreneurial spirit and creative drive—who made it possible for architectural ideas to be realized at all. This book is dedicated to the multifaceted actions of six selected developers who made decisive and indispensable contributions to Berlin as it flourished to become a world city. The compact essays about these men’s life and work aim to illustrate their far-reaching though largely unknown impact on the cityscape and architecture of Berlin.

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Thresholds are an—often overlooked—anthropological constant found in every era and every culture. From the spatial understanding of Greek antiquity to the establishment of the private sphere in the eighteenth century and the transparency of modern architecture, the threshold has always been a central architectural element. Like a visual symbol of a boundary or a transition, thresholds divide spaces, but are also a connecting element, opening up ways through and across, which have a subtle influence on one’s own perception of space.It is only in recent decades that thresholds have lost significance as part of our everyday experience with architecture. What remains is a growing emptiness between people and the spaces in which they live.Sensual City Studio not only provides an inspiring overview of this important architectural stylistic feature from all eras and cultures, but also shows in particular: thresholds can and must be rethought and rebuilt. In this respect, this book is a plea for the renaissance of the threshold and therefore also a manifesto for a human architecture.

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Bilingual edition (English/German)One of the Cologne architecture office JSWD’s strong points is working in the area of tension between large-scale city planning and the construction of individual tall buildings. Many designs are based on the interplay of several buildings, which together—as a campus or neighborhood—form ensembles of different sizes. The spectrum of projects ranges from the sensitive integration of new buildings within historical contexts to the architectonic placement of new corporate head offices. All projects are developed using the location as a starting point, and are based on creative discussions with the client. JSWD’s planners do not consider the restrictions, fixed reference points, and constraints of assignments within a developed city context to be limitations; rather, they see them as a challenge and a source of design inspiration. This monograph presents a selection of constructions and competition designs in Germany and the rest of Europe. Some of these were developed through long-standing cooperation with various partner agencies.

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Volumes 1-3 of the 6 volume monograph on Jun Yang - the architecture echoing the name changes over the years.

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Bilingual edition (English/German) / Zweisprachige Ausgabe (deutsch/english) The realization is gradually dawning in Europe that many immigrants from Muslim countries are here to stay and are seeking to be naturalized— and therefore have the right to build buildings in which to practice their religion. The current building activities frequently cause tension, also for esthetic reasons, within society well into the mosque associations. The question of how the structure and appearance of a mosque can gain acceptance by society is a subject of heated debate especially in Western Europe.14 interior architect students from RheinMain University have pursued this question and studied the traditional spatial concepts of mosques creatively. The range of ideal-typical designs shows not only the rich design potential harbored by this construction task, but also how contact between Islam and a western context could lead to a new, intercultural architecture, which reflects the reality of our living environment, without compromising commitment to tradition.

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Bilingual edition (English/German) / Zweisprachige Ausgabe (deutsch/englisch) Our living space is subject to permanent flux, with far reaching changes in the areas of mobility, the environment, demography, energy, and not least the climate, which increasingly require new strategies and concepts with regard to spatial planning and the transformation of our urban landscapes.This publication presents viable, innovative, and holistic approaches and solutions for the development of such landscape transformations, put forward by six renowned universities as part of the International Doctoral College ”Spatial Research Lab“. The range of subjects comprises spatial planning, urban development, and district planning, as well as new usage and building development typologies and the role of infrastructures in design processes. Scientific experiments show the impact of actions and decisions on the transformation of urban landscapes.

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Monograph on the architect Norihiko Dan showcasing his extraordinary range of work.

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Creative practice, whether in free and/or the applied arts, is a dynamic process. But where exactly is the borderline between art and design? Annett Zinsmeister has developed interdisciplinary teaching based on her wideranging educational experience and personal artistic practice. Her studies investigating creative processes and our perceptions of places, spaces, and objects along with their significance and capacity for transformation are exciting for artists, but equally so for designers and architects. This illustrated volume shows the outcome of experimental exercises that oscillate between free and applied art and so re-actualize the boundaries between the disciplines.

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Tokyo's urban landscape is full of contradictions: as a densely packed megalopolis it affords thousands of vacant spaces. While creative design practices and informal appropriations activate the urban voids in European and Northern American cities, an understanding of integrating this spatial capital in to the public realm remains largely overlooked in Tokyo. Tokyo Void describes Tokyo's void spaces through their distinct morphology and explores possibilities for rethinking these spaces in creative practice such as space agencies and design interventions. Tokyo Void questions the notion of a finished ideal in the urban landscape and aims to establish an understanding of a continuous and dynamic landscape that could renew the urban discourse with an appreciation of the imperfect and flexible.

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Since the instigation of the International Building Exhibition (IBA) Emscher Park (1989-1999), the Ruhr area has been a pioneer for the transformation of large industrial areas. The beacon for this process is the disused coal mine and cokery Zollverein in Essen, a UNESCO World Heritage Site since 2001. The most significant industrial monument in Germany is now a tourist attraction, an economic hub, and at the same time an educational campus. This success is based on continuous urban planning that brings together listed existing structures and new ideas. The specially developed master plan by Rem Koolhaas (OMA) and the principle of 'preservation through reutilisation' form the basis for all construction activities on the site. The developments of the last thirty years on the UNESCO World Heritage Site Zollverein are an answer to the question of how heritage protection can be aligned with the diverging aims of urban development, the creative industry, and architecture. This volume presents the individual projects that will be largely realised by 2018, and documents through text and images the successful metamorphosis of the former industrial site into an international best practice model for handling industrial heritage.

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People have always been interested in the cities in which they live. With the world‘s stark urbanization, the engagement of citizens to improve their urban environments is also growing. Far from the traditional urban planning culture, they make use of limited resources, offering solutions to face the challenges these cities offer. They focus on the provision of social infrastructure aiming to improve the living conditions of the residents at the local scale. Handmade Urbanism showcases 15 projects realized mostly in less favored areas of five major cities in emerging countries, examining the potential of urban transformation embedded in community initiatives. What is the basis for such initiatives? Which are the instruments and tools they use? Illustrations depict their operational modes, reveal the actors involved and trace the steps they made in the organization of the initiatives. Interviews with experts, actors and different stakeholders clarify their meaning towards the local challenges. At a global level, common threads and differences are made clear. Handmade Urbanism drafts a possible urban vision of the city impacted by those processes and organizes a discussion that promotes participatory initiatives while exploring their potential to impact on the city at large – to the benefit of all. The publication includes the documentary "Urban Future", which provides the reader with further information from the ground.

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Landscript 5 examines Material Culture in landscape architecture theory and design. Designed landscapes are temporal assemblages of extant and introduced materials, constructed and maintained through the efforts of human labor, mediated through non-human forces, and shaped by constantly changing cultural relations. Sites are bounded by property lines, yet their material relationships—from the transport of construction commodities to global water cycles—extend to untold limits. Designed landscapes are models of human-nature relations, at the same time they are human-nature relations, simultaneously representing and actualizing the co-production of the world. Landscript 5 looks at the aesthetic implications and design opportunities engaging landscape’s extended Material Culture.

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Nature is not simply “green” or the “opposite of culture.” Essentially, it is an intellectual construct. The relationship between man and Nature, for instance, articulates itself architectonically. Now what could one see as the possible role of Nature in projects of architects representative of the International Style (including successive echoes in postwar modernity), and how does Nature itself only become “visible” through the built environment? Based on key architecture projects, this fourth volume of the Landscript series attempts to instigate a change of perspective. In series of investigations, renowned researchers analyse architecture through the lens of its own inherent understanding of Nature. Their essays try to gain insights both into concepts of Nature in modernity, whose entire range of characteristics have yet to be explored, and into an architecture, whose relationship to Nature is usually only negotiated in disciplines like garden history. How does this finally relate to our present condition?

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Landscript 2: Filmic Mapping examines forms of “land measurement” primarily through documentary and essay films of the past 10 years. It investigates the meaning of landscape for contemporary society through phenomenological film analysis and makes an open plea for a complex view on the landscape of today and its visual representation.

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The home is often the perfect stage for domestic bliss and self-observation. The award-winning artist Bastienne Schmidt challenges this domestic utopia in her new series Home Stills, in which she photographs herself in the role of a 'Housewife'. Schmidt gives a visual interpretation of Virginia Woolf's idea of 'a room of one's own'. She follows the Highway 27 on Long Island, from Patchogue to Easthampton, recreating interiors from cheap motel rooms to upscale Hamptons mansions as imaginary rooms of her own. The sense of quiet meditation reminds one of Vermeer's interiors and the melancholy and empty spaces of Edward Hopper. The light casts long and clear shadows, dense with rich colour. In this world, the silhouetted female figure walks seamlessly from open landscape into suburbia. She seems to be stepping out of a film of Wim Wenders, only instead of a lonely cowboy she is a lone housewife walking out of the picture and away from her family, into the sunset. This is Bastienne Schmidt's fourth photography book. Her most recent book was ShadowHome, published in 2005, which won the award for the best photo book in Germany.

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Bilingual edition (English/German) / Zweisprachige Ausgabe (deutsch/englisch) After its foundation in Weimar in 1919, the Bauhaus developed into an exemplary and internationally known teaching model. Despite its brief existence and a changeable profile, it acquired world-wide influence. It is still possible to discern the basic approaches of the Bauhaus model in fine and applied art practice and teaching today. As an interdisciplinary but also contentious model of training, the Bauhaus prompts a discussion of its current relevance from various perspectives.Including essays by Gerd de Bruyn, Jeannine Fiedler, Sokratis Georgiadis, Kai-Uwe Hemken, Hans Dieter Huber, Nils Emde/niko.31, Philip Ursprung, Karin Wilhelm and Annett Zinsmeister

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What goes into forming a sense of place? In what way is a place specific? How can the hidden potentials of a place be revealed and celebrated? In this erudite essay containing a host of plans, drawings and photographs the architects Hutterreimann + Cejka demonstrate their unconventional response to these questions.

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“Many would consider a country without building materials uninhabitable.” With these words, Minister of Industry Gylfi Þorsteinsson Gíslason opened Iceland’s first and only cement plant in 1958. More than a century before, Portland cement was first used as plaster on the walls of the Reykjavík cathedral. At the time, most rural and urban dwellings were still being built from local turf or expensive imported timber. Just a few decades later, Icelandic architects, engineers, and masons were building their country exclusively in concrete. How did this material become so popular that the first decades of the twentieth century are referred to as “the age of concrete”? The Icelandic Concrete Saga focuses on over one hundred years of Icelandic architecture, construction, and technology. It traces the history of an architecture in constant struggle with material scarcity and the natural elements, its outcomes intertwined with Icelandic politics, culture, and society.

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Zwei Architekten sind in den Publikationen zum Wiederaufbau (West-)Berlins nach 1945 bisher wenig gewürdigt worden, dabei haben sie dessen stadträumlichen Charakter nachhaltig geprägt: Paul Schwebes und Hans Schoszberger, die ab 1956 in einer Bürogemeinschaft zusammengearbeitet haben. Einige ihrer Bauten repräsentieren bis heute die City West und prägen zwischen Kurfürstendamm und Tauentzienstraße, Ernst-Reuter-Platz und Breitscheidplatz, Budapester Straße und in anderen Bezirken das urbane Flair der Stadt. Der vorliegende Band rekonstruiert über 160 Projekte aus den Vor- und Nachkriegsjahren, die wesentlich dem tertiären Sektor und seltener dem Wohnbau angehörten. Dabei werden auch die politisch-ökonomischen Voraussetzungen deutlich, die diese Architektur nach 1945 zu Symbolen einer neuen Zeit und eines offenen Gesellschaftsbildes werden ließen. Zentrales Kapitel der (West-)Berliner Architekturgeschichte nach 1945 Umfangreicher Werkkatalog der Bürogemeinschaft Paul Schwebes und Hans Schoszberger Ausführliche Bilddokumentation mit bislang unveröffentlichtem Bildmaterial

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Gerhard Trieb's minimalist orientated sculpture and prints on the theme of "The Magic Square" confront the traditions of modern art. The confrontation between nature and art, the natural and sculpted stone, and his occupation with space and landscape are recurring themes in his work.

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In a world in which already more than half of the population lives in cities and that has seen a digital revolution, new ideas are needed for the rapidly growing field of smart cities from a user-experience perspective. More people than ever before will share the same urban infrastructure in future, leading to a plethora of challenges. In order to prepare for this, governments around the world are heavily investing in smart city technologies. At the same time thought leaders and scholars argue for a movement towards smart citizens and more participatory approaches to city making. A frequently overlooked aspect within the smart city discourse is the design of the interface between citizens and smart city systems. In Making Cities Smarter, Martin Tomitsch dedicates himself to this issue: he translates principles from user-experience design and their application into the urban environment to tackle challenges that are unique to this environment, such as designing for a wide range of uses and users and integrating physical and digital experiences. The handbook is the first comprehensive publication to unpack the experience design of smart city applications that focus on the citizens as the end users.

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Modern urban development is a complex process involving many parties. Self-organizational practices raise new questions with regard to urban space, the adaptation of legal regulations to new conditions, and the reorganization of the financial planning of investments in the real estate sector. Planning Projects in Transition is a roadmap for urban professionals, planners, and urban researchers who face these challenges. Through an extensive set of in-depth case studies and a comparative framework of analysis, the book explores cooperative processes and addresses the key aspects of urban transformations: interventions, regulations, and investments.The book is the result of an internationally funded research project coordinated by the University of Amsterdam and comprises a collection of urban projects from Turkey, Denmark, The Netherlands, and Finland.

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Die Geschichte der jüngsten Großprojekte in Deutschland ist in weiten Teilen eine Geschichte von Misserfolgen. Hinlänglich bekannte Beispiele wurden zum Sinnbild für Planungsfehler, kostspielige Mehrausgaben und übermäßige Verzögerungen. Trotz dieser systembedingten Risiken, die den massiven, hierarchisch gesteuerten Eingriffen in die urbane Struktur innewohnen, haben Großprojekte seit jeher einen entscheidenden Anteil an der Entwicklung von Städten. Als „selbstinduzierte Schocks“ schaffen sie einen Ausnahmezustand, der äußerst effektiv zu einer konzentrierten Bündelung von Finanzen, Expertise und öffentlicher Aufmerksamkeit führt. So können Ziele verwirklicht werden, die in der alltäglichen Praxis nicht erreichbar wären. Diese Publikation untersucht mit internationalem Fokus den inhärenten Zwiespalt von Großprojekten als Motor der urbanen Transformation einerseits und als potenzielle Auslöser unkontrollierbarer Dynamiken andererseits. Sie beleuchtet verschiedene Formen und Facetten von Großprojekten: als Mittel zur Stadtentwicklung, als temporäre Großereignisse, als organisatorische Herausforderungen und als Elemente einer sich wandelnden Stadtentwicklung im Kontext von „Eco-Cities“ und „Smart Cities“.

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Trilingual edition (English/German/French) / Dreisprachige Ausgabe (deutsch/englisch/französisch) The Cologne architecture firm JSWD demonstrates the long-term benefits of an international presence. JSWD Architekten are currently involved in major projects in Italy, Luxembourg, Belgium, Switzerland, and Austria, in some cases with European partners. An understanding of building quality, urban design, and competence in the field of sustainable construction are always central aspects of these. JSWD are involved in a wide range of building projects—from a school to a research institute, from a residential building to a museum—and each project is conceived from scratch. “Architecture and urban development have to reflect diversity”—this credo underpins the designs by JSWD. They have shown on many occasions that they are not afraid of size, nor do they have any reserve about designing the smallest of details within their particular context. The common feature of all their work is the search for homogeneity with regard to the building volume, form, materials, and color. This harmonious architecture by JSWD is therefore multifaceted and coherent at the same time.

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Bilingual edition (English/German) / Zweisprachige Ausgabe (deutsch/englisch) Oerlikon, a district in the north of Zurich, marks the start of a linear city parallel to Zurich, which is in the process of becoming the most populous conurbation in Switzerland. This interface is also the location of the largest high-rise ensemble in Switzerland, which represents a radical feature of this new urban formation and was designed jointly by atelier ww and Max Dudler. The four high-rises surround a square and form an urban quad, which was intended to be the catalyst for the development of the surrounding district. “Finally there is a square again”, was how Raymond Hood described the Rockefeller Center in 1929, and both back then and now in this case it was about importing a very particular urban vision. The high-rise ensemble in Oerlikon is a consequential and emblematic group of buildings, a city within a city. This publication documents the complex design and planning history of this building complex through texts, photographs, plans, and sketches.

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Artists who make photographic portraits of celebrated colleagues engage in something rather special: arguably the most existential form of artists’ portraits. Birgit Kleber has portrayed international photographers who have decisively shaped the history of photography and whose images have changed the way we see. Her portraits are always carefully orchestrated; she gives stage directions and asks her artist subjects to assume static postures, making close-ups of their faces and demanding their full attention over the course of several minutes. In doing so, she looks for precisely the moment at which her portrait subjects begin to resist, allowing her to emphasize and reinforce the sense of suspense of the existing photographic setting while carrying this concept to its extreme: since both sides are familiar with all the tricks of the trade, evasion becomes impossible, resulting in artists’ portraits that are unsparingly frank and impressively human. Foreword by Klaus Honnef.

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Bilingual edition (English/German) / Zweisprachige Ausgabe (deutsch/englisch) Gert Wingårdh is already recognised as the most successful Swedish architect of all time, but he is not representative of a genuinely Swedish architecture. The outgoing architect’s work on the national and international stage is too cosmopolitan and his architectural solutions are too varied for that, demonstrating a wealth of ideas and frequent surprises. Because he is untrammelled by a predefined style or a fixed theoretical or conceptual orientation, with every new design he succeeds in finding the most suitable architectural language and the ideal expression for the task in hand. In the interests of its users, he places great emphasis not only on the functional but also on the aesthetic and atmospheric qualities of architecture—and regards the ecological sustainability of his buildings as quite indispensable.

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Das neue Jahrbuch HOCHWEIT gibt einen Einblick in die aktuelle Lehre und Forschung der vielfach ausgezeichneten Fakultät für Architektur und Landschaft der Leibniz Universität Hannover. Im Zentrum stehen dabei studentische Projekte und Entwürfe im In- und Ausland, die sich auch mit den aktuellen Themen der Nachhaltigkeit und Resilienz im Städtebau, in der Baukunst sowie in der Landschaftsarchitektur befassen. Zahlreiche Entwurfs- und Lehrveranstaltungen, Forschungsaktivitäten, Vorträge, Exkursionen, Workshops, Ausstellungen und Fachdiskussionen vermitteln ein Bild vom Lehren und Forschen und zeigen die bereichernde Kraft der interdisziplinären Zusammenarbeit.

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WohnWissen: 100 Begriffe des Wohnens is dedicated to one of the most multi-layered conversations of our time: the question of land and housing. Short, incisive texts by numerous experts explain key concepts related to the concept of housing. From basic terms such as single-family home, vacancy, and loneliness to specialist terminology such as the brownfield dilemma and new concepts of non-profit housing, this interdisciplinary glossary addresses discourses within the field, political debates, and different housing needs, considering topics that have thus far received little attention in the process. In this way, WohnWissen offers a multi-faceted overview of the topic of housing as a basic need.

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Die Transformation einer ehemaligen Textilfabrik zum BOB CAMPUS in Wuppertal-Oberbarmen zeigt, wie aus einer urbanen Brache ein offener Ort der Stadtteilgesellschaft wird. In zwei Bänden werden die Gestaltungsabläufe des preisgekrönten Areals sichtbar. Der zuerst erscheinende Band 1 widmet sich dem Bauprozess und den sich nach und nach entwickelnden Raumqualitäten: Durch das Zusammenspiel aus innovativen Lösungen für architektonische Herausforderungen, dem wertschätzenden Umgang mit dem historischen Ort und der vorhandenen Bausubstanz sowie einem kontinuierlich koproduktiven Prozess vieler Akteur*innen entsteht eine einzigartige Nutzungsmischung aus Kita, Schulräumen, Büros, Wohnungen und Gemeinschaftsflächen. Starke Bilder veranschaulichen, wie es gelingen kann, Gemeinwohl zu bauen – und welche Chance für die Gesellschaft darin liegt. Eine Anregung zum Nachahmen.

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This first English-language biography of Hermann Mattern (19021971), one of Germany's principal twentieth-century landscape architects, critically assesses the idiosyncrasies of his organic-functionalist position while offering a new reading of German garden culture of his time. Mattern's work embodies several themes of the German landscape discourse as well as the central ambivalence of his generation: a life spanning the artistic avant-garde of the 1920s and an apparently apolitical career under the Nazi regime and in the postwar period. Based on comprehensive archival research, Hopstock's richly illustrated study uncovers the professional networks, debates, and rivalries that shaped the profession of landscape architecture in Germany during its formative decades. First English biography of landscape architect Hermann Mattern A new reading of German garden culture since 1900 Formerly unpublished archival material and illustrations from rar

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Bilingual edition (English/German) / Zweisprachige Ausgabe (deutsch/englisch) Architects Ben van Berkel and Caroline Bos from the Amsterdam office UNStudio are undeniable stars on the international architectural scene. In their interdisciplinary united net of experts they promote creative and integral design processes, aiming to further the progressive path of contemporary architecture. The outcome is dynamic buildings like the Magnet Resonance Institute at the University of Utrecht or the Mercedes-Benz Museum in Stuttgart; buildings of extreme conceptual and technical complexity and conviction that also offer a rare level of architectural experience. Surely one of the office’s most outstanding qualities is the fact that a sense of atmosphere and beauty is never neglected in these buildings and objects designed with such artistic fervour.

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Arguably the future of architecture has increasingly more to do with technology: tiny sensors woven almost invisibly into materials, buildings which interact with their surroundings via the facades, or 'intelligent' houses that adapt to fit their inhabitants. "Sensing Space" investigates the potentials of interactive technologies and to the response by architects and designers to the needs of a mobile, globally networked society.

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English edition with Greek abstracts / Englische Ausgabe mit griechischen Abstracts Taking Action brings into focus the sustainable design of urban transformation and the preparation of densely-structured urban spaces for future challenges. How can climate change and spatial inequalities be tackled under crisis conditions and in view of limited spatial and other resources? How can we relate our ambitious and broadly defined goals to the reality of local conditions and everyday spaces? How can knowledge be translated into action? While basic spatial relations are currently being renegotiated in cities throughout Europe, it is in Athens that some of the most pressing urban problems have been crystallized in order to establish unique spaces of experimentation. Approaching these multi-dimensional questions from different perspectives, the authors seek to identify possible sites of intervention, suggest new models of transformation, and unleash the potential in urban landscapes as a means of stimulating positive urban change.

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