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Unsettled Urban Space
While urban life can be characterized by endeavors to settle stable and safe environments, for many people, urban space is rarely stable or safe; it is uncertain, troubled, imbued with challenges and perpetually under pressure. As the concept of unsettled appears to define the contemporary urban experience, this multidisciplinary book investigates the conflicts and possibilities of settling and unsettling through open and speculative analysis. The analytical prism of unsettled renders urban space an indeterminate ground unfolding through routines, temporalities and contestations in constant tension between settling and unsettling. Such contrasting experiences are contingent on how urban soci...
The ^AOxford Handbook of Critical Improvisation Studies, Volume 2
The Oxford Handbook of Critical Improvisation Studies gathers contributions from more than sixty authors pioneering new scholarly approaches to improvisation in the arts, humanities, social, and natural sciences.
B & K+, Brandlhuber & Kniess +
The '+' in their name stands for the various partners from the worlds of art, science, music, etc. which architects Arno Brandlhuber and Bernd Kniess bring into their projects. Guidelines established together with these partners ensure that the standards for unusual architectural solutions developed by b & k+ are maintained. All the projects are accompanied by inventions which are also part of the unique charm of the buildings. Photographer Marc Raeder has captured this particular aesthetic quality for his series of pictures at the beginning of the book. the book itself is also a kind of invention - an index with chapters entitled Landscape, Material, Structure, Object and Tools. A manual which can be used as a set of instructions and which demonstrates the processual nature of successful architecture today through the example of b & k+'s work.
Daring the Gap
A gap yawns between two buildings constructed in the 1960s.Nothing unusual.A gap 2.56m wide and around 33m long . Hardly wide enough to park a couple of bicycles. In many buildings this corresponds to the space required for thermal insulation.
Deutschlandscape
The German pavilion at the 9th Venice Architecture Biennale offers an overview of more than 35 contemporary architectural projects in Germany which have manifested in peripheral urban areas, suburban spaces and de-industrialized zones. The projects reveal the transformation and reactivation of banal everyday architecture--business parks, switching stations, water purification plants, and strictly coded and conventional housing types--to open up a new perception of the "deutschlandscape." Here, architectural norms are reworked and given a new aesthetic twist through ironic self-reflection. These built projects by a critical young generation of German architects reveal highly innovative use of...
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Both architect and urban planner, Kniess' practice extends beyond the classic one of designing buildings into the exploration of new areas of responsibility, work forms, and functional fields of architecture. This monograph presents a collection of extensively documented projects, including residential designs, research projects, and installations.
Groundscapes
Groundscapes explores the 'comeback' of the idea of the ground onto the scene of contemporary architecture. With the decline of heroic modernism in the late 1960s a new generation of architects eager to discover this forbidden land initiated a reterritorialisation of architecture which continues today. As a consequence, we can understand built space and ground space no longer as opposites but as equal elements of the architectural body. Ilka Ruby is an architect and Andreas Ruby is an architectural critic and theorist. Since founding their office textbild in 2001 they have been committed to a cultural engineering of the discourse on contemporary architecture, writing texts, designing books, curating exhibitions, consulting architects and organising architectural symposia for a wide array of cultural and corporate clients. Their publications include Images. A Picture Book of Architecture (Prestel, 2004), The Challenge of Suburbia (Wiley-Academy, 2004) and Hans Scharoun: Haus Moeller (Walther Koenig, 2004). They have been teaching architecture at a variety of universities in Europe. Currently they are visiting critics at Cornell University. For more information see www.textbild.com
Lexikon der Kölner Architekten vom Mittelalter bis zum 20. Jahrhundert
Mit dem hier vorgelegten Lexikon der Kölner Architekten wird ein Lebenswerk von Wolfram Hagspiel (14.05.1952-03.06.2021) postum veröffentlicht, das seinesgleichen sucht. In über vier Jahrzehnten hat der Kölner Kunsthistoriker, Architekturhistoriker und Denkmalpfleger detailreich Informationen über Leben und Wirken von über 10.300 Architekten ausgewertet und erfasst. Über viele war bisher nur wenig bekannt. Hagspiel hat Archivquellen, graue Literatur und Monographien ausgewertet. Aufnahme fanden auch Personen, die bis ins 20. Jahrhundert aus der Bauwirtschaft stammend Architektur entwarfen, wie Baumeister, Maurermeister und Statiker. Der Autor, der nach 45 Jahren ein umfangreiches Oeuvre zur Kölner Architekturgeschichte hinterlassen hat, gibt damit erstmals einen Überblick über die Personen, die die Stadt seit Jahrhunderten gestalterisch erlebbar machten und machen.
