1952 wird Gera Bezirksstadt. Damit hält moderne Architektur Einzug in die Stadt. Die ostmodernen Bauten haben jedoch seit den 90er und 2000er Jahren ein Imageproblem und so verschwanden viele spannende Einzelbauten, städtebauliche Ensembles und Kunstwe …

Photography by Walker Evans, Nigel Henderson, Ed Ruscha, New Topographics, Thomas Ruff, and Thomas Demand; and architecture by Robert Venturi and Denise Scott Brown, Alison and Peter Smithson, Herzog & de Meuron, and Caruso St John

Sitting somewhere between sourcebook and picturebook, An Unfinished Encyclopedia of Scale Figures Without Architecture by New York based-MOS Architects represents an endearing combination of novelty and follow-through. The publication presents numerous …

Die italienisch-brasilianische Architektin Lina Bo Bardi (1914–1992) prägte mit ausdrucksstarken Entwürfen einen eigenen gestalterischen Weg: In der Architek­tur, im Bühnenbild, im Mode-und Möbeldesign so­wie in der Grafik nahm sie Impulse der Internat …

Erik van der Weijde presents a series of photographs of Bollenveld, a futuristic housing project by Dutch architect Dries Kreijkamp, situated in a residential area of ‘s-Hertogenbosch, the Netherlands. The 50 ‘bolwoningen’ (“ball-” or “bulb-houses”) we …

An East German mordernism existed in parallel to West German modernism in the fields of architecture and design. Walter Scheiffele shows the interplay between the two by looking at furniture making, for which the Deutsche Werkstätten Hellerau had been …

Alison Hui is a travel sketcher, doodler and writer. After publishing two books with her sketches and illustration, she try to explore the alternative art form to present her travel sketches with the riso printing. Short description of the architecture …

‘Sleeping districts’ of Moscow, Plattenbauten of East Berlin, modernist estates of Warsaw, Kyiv`s Brezhnevki: although these are home to the vast majority of city dwellers, post-war suburbs of central and eastern Europe have been invisible for decades. …

The English architect, historian, critic, and educator Kenneth Frampton received the Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement at the latest Venice Biennale 2018. There is no architecture student that is not familiar with his book ‘Modern Architecture: A Cr …

Housing Cairo: The Informal Response is a publication that aims to illuminate the architecture of informality and its mechanism, focused on the neighborhood of Ard-el-Liwa. It challenges the usual negative perception attached to informal areas. Instead …

With his residential buildings, office blocks, schools and factories, Boris Velikovsky (1878–1937) made a definitive contribution to Russian avant-garde architecture. His early constructions, such as Gribov House in Moscow, are still very much bound to …

Art works inspired by Mies van der Rohe by international artists such as Rita Ernst, Daniel Libeskind, Sarah Morris, Erwin Wurm, Rem Koolhaas, Konstantin Grcic, Kurt Schwitters, Carl Andre, Peter Eisenman, Isa Genzken, Alexander Calder, Thomas Ruff, Ed …

Jahrzehntelang war die Designerin und Architektin Eileen Gray (1878-1976) so gut wie vergessen. Heute wird sie im selben Atemzug mit Le Corbusier, Mies van der Rohe oder Marcel Breuer genannt, und einige ihrer Entwürfe – etwa der Tisch E-1027 oder der …

Le Corbusier planned and built five Unités d’Habitation in Marseille, Nantes, Berlin, Briey, and Firminy in the period from 1945 to 1967. Owing to the acute shortage of housing after the war, he also developed a new type of building, a multifunctional …

How do we make sense of the Earth at a moment in which it is presented in crisis? Geostories is a manifesto on the environmental imagination that renders sensible the issues of climate change and through geographic fiction invites readers to relate to …

The Anarchitecture group show at the fabled 112 Greene Street gallery – an artistic epicenter of New York’s downtown scene in the 1970s – in March 1974 has been the subject of an enduring discussion, despite a complete lack of documentation about it. A …

Der Umgang mit dem Erbe des Bauhauses in der DDR ist widersprüchlich: Frühen Ansätzen einer Wiederbelebung in Architektur und Städtebau folgt eine heftige Anfeindung in der Formalismus-Debatte während der Hochphase des Kalten Krieges. Eine vorsichtige …

Possible Mediums presents a collection of sixteen speculative design mediums by emerging architects. Each chapter defines an active medium in contemporary architecture through descriptions, drawings, and objects. Possible Mediums arranges projects acco …

Konrad Wachsmann played an exceptional role among modern architects in helping to industrialize architecture and fostering the potential this contained for an architectural turn. Wachsmann’s universal wedge connector, invented in the shadow of World Wa …

Die globale Rezeption bis heute – Die globale Ausstrahlung dieser Ikone der europäischen Moderne – das Buch zur zentralen Ausstellung zum Jubiläum 100 Jahre Bauhau

100 Jahre nach der Bauhaus-Gründung wird mit der Zeitschrift bauhaus ein bedeutsames Schriftzeugnis dieser Ikone der Moderne wieder zugänglich gemacht. In der von 1926 bis 1931 periodisch erschienenen Zeitschrift kommen bedeutende Stimmen der Bewegung …

Since 2014, CARTHA has provided a platform for critical thinking on architecture and society. Each year, CARTHA initiates research and publishes issues on a topic in its online magazine, which are then brought together in an annual book. In 2016, CARTH …

Home Economics proposes alternative futures for the home, asking us to re-examine how we live through the lens of time. The book is the first print publication from The Spaces, produced to accompany the British Pavilion’s exhibition at the 15th Venice …

Poetic spaces, surreal structures and dramatic visions. The extraordinary career of Ricardo Bofill is collected in this monograph, which reveals his inspiring approach to architecture, and to life.

Typical buildings in four metropolises presented with plans, images and brief texts: the continuation of Christ & Gantenbein’s proven concept of building analysis.

Der Band wirft einen neuen Blick auf Hannes Meyer – dem zweiten Bauhausdirektor in Dessau, der 1930 politisch aus dem Amt gedrängt wurde. Das Buch dokumentiert anhand von Faksimiles programmatischer Schriften, wie der engagierte Architekt und Sozialist …

Parallel Cities examines the history of the multilevel city with a focus on elevated pedestrian systems as a recurrent concept in urban planning and design. The book chronicles the evolution and migration of this concept from 19th-century French social …

Denise Scott Brown hat die Entwicklung der Architektur seit den 1960er-Jahren in vielfältiger Weise mitgeprägt. Ihr rebellisches Leben führt sie durch drei Kontinente – von der Kindheit in Südafrika in den 1930er-Jahren über die Ausbildung in England i …

Sachsen ist nicht bekannt für avantgardistische Modernität – doch es lohnt sich, genauer hinzuschauen und zahlreiche Bauhaus-Spuren zu entdecken. Da wären zum die Anwendungen von Bauhaus-Künsten in der seriellen Produktion in Leipzig, Weißwasser oder H …

Karl Nawrot is a graphic designer whose work has a pronounced architectural sensibility. His oeuvre includes typography, illustration, and abstract graphic compositions, and he uses techniques usually associated with architectural processes to create l …

The Average as Norm is a polyphonic critical analysis of upgrading processes in Zurich, a city that has few options at its disposal for countering the pressure of rising property prices, and other European metropolises that are feeling the effects of n …

The World of Apartamento: Ten Years of Everyday Life Interiors features a collection of the most inspirational people and interiors featured in the publication over the last decade.

Olgoj Chorchoj is a legendary poisonous sandworm of giant proportions which is supposedly found in the Gobi desert in Asia. It is said that nobody has seen it and lived to tell the tale. Mongolian herdsmen are even afraid to speak its name; for many of …

We Are The Market! claims a liberal ALL-INCLUSIVITY to push the stretch of our cultural offer in the eye of the final commonplace; the capitalist commons of the high street. Anticipating to a hegemonic culture encroaching on the city centre, one that’s …

Contributions by Armen Avanessian, Benjamin H. Bratton, Kathleen Ditzig, Daniel Falb, Anke Henning, Victoria Ivanova, Markus Miessen, Luciana Parisi, Patricia Reed “Xeno” speaks to the turn away from “what is” toward “what could be”: the (as yet) unkno …

The Object of Zionism: The Architecture of Israel is a critical study of Zionist spatial planning and the architectural fabrication of the State of Israel from the early decades of the twentieth century to the 1960s and 1970s. It scrutinizes Israel as …

Rather than a catalog of works, Solid Objectives: Order, Edge, Aura is a visual and textual manifesto introducing an attitude towards the design and realization of architecture in an interconnected and global environment. Taking the form of a radical m …

Make New History, the companion publication to the 2017 Chicago Architecture Biennial, invites speculation on the status and importance of historical material to the field of architecture today. The book brings together an eminent collection of histori …

The 100th issue of OASE takes the journal’s long-standing collaboration with its graphic designer Karel Martens as a starting point to explore the relationship between architecture journals and graphic design. In doing so, it challenges the conventiona …

Today the architecture museum is one of the most significant instruments in architecture’s disciplinary apparatus. By collecting archives, producing exhibitions, funding publications, organising discussions, and commissioning work, these museums contin …

Preservation is Overtaking Us brings together two lectures given by Rem Koolhaas at Columbia University’s Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation, along with a response (framed as a supplement to the original lectures) by Jorge Otero …

Roberto Burle Marx (1909–1994) remains one of the most important landscape architects in the history of the field. His distinctive and widely acclaimed work has been featured and referenced in numerous sources, yet few of Burle Marx’s own words have been published. This collection of a dozen of Burle Marx’s lectures, most of which have never before been available in English, fills that void. Delivered on international speaking tours, they address topics such as Concepts in Landscape Composition, Gardens and Ecology and The Problem of Garden Lighting. Their publication sheds light on Burle Marx’s distinctive ethic and aesthetic of landscape, as “the real art in living.” The lectures paint a picture of Burle Marx not just as a gardener, artist and botanist, but as a landscape architect whose ambition was to bring radical change to cities and society. The lectures are framed by photographs, by Leonardo Finotti, of a selection of Burle Marx’s realized projects.

Edited by Jennifer Sigler and Leah Whitman-Salkin When Yoshi Tsukamoto and Momoyo Kaijima of the Tokyo-based firm Atelier Bow-Wow arrived at the Harvard University Graduate School of Design as guest professors, in the winter of 2016, they challenged st …

Novosibirsk is the third biggest city in Russia after Moscow and St Petersburg. The young metropolis in Western Siberia is regarded as one of the most important cultural, industrial, and scientific centres in the country. Using the example of specific …

Trotz des baldigen 100-jährigen Gründungsjubiläums der legendären Hochschule für Gestaltung ist das Bauhaus bis heute höchst lebendig und aktuell. Der Qualitätsbegriff steht ungebrochen für formschöne und fortschrittliche Architektur, Kunst und Designo …

Immer wieder, besonders aber im 20. Jahrhundert wurden zwischen Skulptur und Architektur modellierte und konstruierte Formen ausgetauscht. Die moderne Plastik bedient sich – etwa mit der Auflösung des Körpers im Konstruktivismus oder der Besinnung auf …

2On 9 December 2016 the Architectural Association in London hosted the event “The Bedford Tapes”, which brought together architects and experts from all over Europe. New Commons for Europe captures the vitality and the doubts of a new generation of arc …

The postgraduate research programme Bauhaus Lab took the India Lounge or 24/42 Chair as the starting point for a study of transcultural design discourses between the Ulm School of Design (1953 – 1968) and the National Institute of Design in Ahmedabad ( …