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Das Wissen um die Bedeutung der Baukultur und unserer gebauten Umwelt muss Teil der Allgemeinbildung werden

The first comprehensive collection of Nest , the magazine that revolutionized the way we look at interior space and decoration The brainchild of artist and designer Joe Holtzman, Nest magazine, published from 1997 to 2004, eschewed the conventionally b …

Duplex Architekten demonstrieren beispielhaft, wie innovativer Wohnungsbau in der Schweiz funktionieren und welchen Beitrag damit für die Stadtentwicklung geleistet werden kann.

Duplex Architects, founded in 2007 in Zurich and with offices also in Düsseldorf, Hamburg, and, most recently, also in Paris, have gained an excellent reputation internationally for their designs of various scales and vast range of typologies. This fir …

Im frühen 20. Jahrhundert war Sachsen ein Zentrum der Textil-, Leuchtenbau- und Möbelindustrie, die für die Serienfertigung und Verbreitung wichtiger Bauhausentwürfe eine wesentliche Rolle spielte. Bauhaustypografie und -bildästhetik fanden Eingang in …

American publisher and DIY architect Lloyd Kahn made a name for himself in the 1970s with publications on the self-build movement. As an eclectic meta-manual, Shelter Cookbook explores the content of these now iconic publications and relates their ways …

Casco Issues is a magazine published by Casco – Office for Art, Design and Theory, which explores recurring issues that emerge from Casco’s program. The twelfth edition of Casco Issues, Generous Structures, is a playful enquiry into “playfulness” as a …

Charles-Édouard Jeanneret, bekannt als Le Corbusier (1887–1965), beeinflusste die Gestaltung, Funktion und Bauweise von Gebäuden und Wohnhäusern ebenso wie die Kunst und das Design des 20. Jahrhunderts. Eine ausführliche, präzise Betrachtung seiner Rol …

Private Views: A High-Rise Panorama of Manhattan is a book by Andi Schmied, showcasing the views of twenty-five of Manhattan’s most luxurious private residential skyscrapers, which she documented while posing as an apartment-hunting Hungarian billionai …

Author Vítezslav Nezval (1900 – 1958) is considered one of the most important figures in the Czech avantgarde. Barbara Bausch and Eva Dymáková have now produced the first complete German version of Akrobat, the cycle of poems Nezval published in 1927. …

Not only was Moisei Ginzburg (1892 – 1946) one of the most important architects of the Soviet avant-garde but his theoretical work was also the pioneering force in constructivism. Rhythm in Architecture (1923) provides an insight into Ginzburg’s early …

Helmut Jahn, amerikanischer Stararchitekt deutscher Herkunft (geb. 1940), setzt seit den 70er Jahren in den Metropolen der Welt spektakuläre Zeichen: Von Chicago bis Singapur und Shanghai, von Frankfurt, München, Berlin und Brüssel bis Las Vegas und To …

The Handbook for Social, Ecological and Existential Utopia is published on occasion of the exhibition Life on Planet Orsimanirana. It understands itself as a ”collidoscope“ of a decentralised, non-hierarchical and generative process of world building b …

In Prospector – A Casting Eye on Haus-Rucker-Co and Post-Haus-Rucker Zamp Kelp, one of the founders of the legendary Viennese collective of architects and artists, sets out his intellectual cosmos and examines his performances, objects, and architectur …

Published on the occasion of a major solo exhibition of Thomas Demand’s work at Belgium museum M Leuven in October 2020, this book focuses on Demand’s relationship to architecture and his engagement with architects over almost fifteen years. The starti …

“Before every beginning, many other beginnings will lie. The word ‘ark’, as in Noah’s Ark, derives from the Latin word for box, arca. And this box was also some kind of archive structure. A heritage backup. The concept of reproduction is crucial for No …

1957 brachte die Sowjetunion einen Satelliten in die Erdumlaufbahn und gewann so die erste Etappe im „Wettlauf ins All“. Der Westen reagierte auf den „Sputnik-Schock“ mit einer nie dagewesenen Bildungsoffensive, die bald die gesellschaftliche Debatte b …

Das Haus der Kultur (HdK), heute Kultur- und Kongresszentrum (KuK), ist für Gera seit 40 Jahren stadtbildprägend. Das Gebäude verdeutlicht das kulturelle Selbstbewusstsein der während der DDR rasant wachsenden Bezirkshauptstadt Gera. Seine multifunktio …

With the world’s population growing by 2.6 people per second, by 2050 we will need twice as many homes, highways, streets, and schools–all kinds of built infrastructure—if we are to maintain our standard of living. That will require vast quantities of …

Architecture on Display is a research initiative by Aaron Levy and William Menking that consists of interviews with each of the living directors of the Venice Biennale for Architecture. Architecture on Display is a research initiative by Aaron Levy and …

The first of its kind, a substantive guide to over 220 modern buildings in Cairo and the basis of an exhibition at New Yorks Center for Architecture entitled, Cairo Modern. The city of a thousand minarets is also the city of eclectic modern constructio …

In the context of climate change, environmental degradation and related natural disasters, architectural photography takes on another dimension beyond aesthetic criticism, namely documenting processes for building sustainable and social housing. ‘Rebui …

Der Architekt, Hochschullehrer und Senatsbaudirektor von West Berlin Werner Düttmann wäre am 6. März hundert Jahre alt geworden. Zu seinen bekanntesten gebauten oder als Senatsbaudirektor betreuten Werken gehören neben dem Brücke-Museum die Akademie de …

In this provocative intellectual biography, architectural historian Mark Wigley makes the surprising claim that the thinking behind modernist architect Konrad Wachsmann’s legendary projects was dominated by the idea of television. While architecture is …

Frederike Lausch herausgegeben von der Wüstenrot Stiftung und dem CCSA mit einem Vorwort von Oliver Elser und Philip Kurz 276 Seiten 16 x 23 cm Gestaltung: Matter of (MO-P-072), Stuttgart Reihenlayout 191 schwarz-weiße Abbildungen Broschur Deutsch/ Eng …

October 2017 marks the centenary of the admission of the first female students to the Architectural Association. Published to coincide with a symposium, exhibition and series of talks all celebrating this event, AA Women in Architecture puts forward th …

Since the dawn of humankind, our planet has been profoundly affected by the constant, exponential increase in the world’s population. Having gone from being a flat disc to a sphere, the Earth is now architecture. This does not mean that it has been sup …

Contributions by DELE ADEYEMO, BENJAMIN BRATTON, STEPHANIE CARLISLE, EMANUELE COCCIA, KELLER EASTERLING, SWARNABH GHOSH, MACARENA GÓMEZ-BARRIS, JOSEPH GRIMA, PHINEAS HARPER, ELSA HOOVER, JANE HUTTON, INTERIORS AGENCY, ELISA ITURBE… more As the true u …

The Wüstenrot Foundation’s research project on modern architecture in the GDR takes preliminary stock of the country’s architectural heritage. It examines how this heritage was handled and looks at the challenges involved in the work of preserving it. …

Architect Hannes Meyer made substantial changes to the Bauhaus educational programme, reshaping it in response to the crisis created by Walter Gropius’s concept of a new unity of art and technology. From 1928 to 1930, as director at the Dessau Bauhaus …

Enzo Mari curated by Hans Ulrich Obrist with Francesca Giacomelli examines over 60 years of activity of one of Italy’s greatest masters and theorists of design. The exhibition consists of a historical section and a series of contributions from internat …

It was close, but we made it. The global ecological, social and economic disasters of the 2020s brought people, states, institutions and companies together. They committed themselves to fundamental rights and jointly created viable, adaptable systems a …

New and revised edition of Iñaki Ábalos’s highly acclaimed book on seven iconic 20th-century houses, some of them actually built, others merely imagined or realized as film sets.

Andreas Gehrke’s new book Berlin, presents a portrait of a city many of us thought we already knew. In an extraordinarily intimate way, his photographs lay bare the radical upheavals, discords and new beginnings that have shaped Germany’s capital so un …

peter Behrens (1868-1940) ist ohne Zweifel einer der bedeutendsten europäischen Meister der Moderne. Nach Anfängen als Maler wird er um 1900 schnell zu einem Protagonisten der Kunstgewerbereform und des Deutschen Werkbundes. Seien Arbeit als Chefgestal …

In The Death and Life of Great American Cities durchleuchtet Jane Jacobs 1961 die fragwürdigen Methoden der Stadtplanung und Stadtsanierung in Amerika, der “New Yorker” nannte es das unkonventionellste und provozierendste Buch über Städtebau seit lange …

Critique of Architecture entwirft einen neuen und radikalen Theorieansatz über die Verbindung zwischen Architektur und Kapital. Das Buch legt die theoretische Akrobatik offen, mit der die Architektur ihre Dienste für den Neoliberalismus legitimiert, un …

WBS70 fünfzig Jahre danach bietet eine Bandbreite an Aspekten und Zugängen rund um das Erbe des sozial(istisch)en Wohnungsbaus in Deutschland und Polen an. Es sind kurz gefasste Chroniken von Prozessen, die seit rund fünfzig Jahren in der Architektur u …

REVELO – to unveil, to lay bare in Latin – proposes an immersion on the field of a building site by developing a collaborative process which aims to valorize its ­actors and their works. Through various chronicles, the contributors of this edition pres …

Homma lernte erst 2013 bei einem Besuch in Chandigarh das Werk von Le Corbusier kennen. Danach beschloß er, die Vielfalt der Fenster im Werk von Le Corbusier auf der ganzen Welt zu photographieren. Seine Arbeit ist Teil eines Forschungsprojekts zur Ges …

This atlas of more than one thousand Modernist architectural masterpieces uncovers hidden gems while offering new perspectives on old favorites. In 2006, architectural designer and curator Adam Štěch embarked on a photographic project to document the b …

In 1989, the Office for Metropolitan Architecture (OMA) developed a daring architectural typology—a “project without form”. The setting is a laboratory headed by Rem Koolhaas, in which actors from different disciplines work on three competition challen …

In diesem Band wird mittels zusammengetragener Echt-Foto-Ansichts- karten der DDR ein vielfältiger Blick auf die Ostmoderne Architektur in Gera möglich. Sie zeigen eindrucksvoll die einstige Neubauarchitektur, Inneneinrichtung sowie die Bildkunstwerke, …

Sprache: Deutsch Format: 25,0 x 30,0 cm Seiten arabisch: 312 Abbildungen SW: 380 Verlag: Birkhäuser Jahr: 2015 Zielgruppe: Stadtplaner, Architekten, Freiraumplaner

Edited by Benjamin H. Bratton, Nicolay Boyadjiev and Nick Axel 1st edition, 2020 Text in Englisch Paperback 548 pages, 470 color and 146 b/w illustrations 20 x 27 cm ISBN 978-3-03860-220-0 In cooperation with Strelka Institute for Media, Architecture, …

The groundbreaking new study on the early Soviet Union’s Higher Art and Technical Studios, known as Vkhutemas, and their pioneering curriculum that has been a source of inspiration for generations of architects, designers, and artists until the present …

In February 2010, Christoph Schlingensief laid the foundation stone for Operndorf Afrika in Burkina Faso. An extensive illustrated book with over three hundred images is being published in 2020, the tenth anniversary of the “opera village”, offering an …