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Collector's Edition
This Collector's Edition of the award-winning Architectural Guide series by DOM publishers presents 200 buildings from twenty-one different cities which have produced outstanding architecture in recent years. THe authors are members of the global network Guiding Architects which is dedicated to the promotion of architecture, open spaces and urban development. EAch of these critics based in Europe, the Middle East or the USA presents ve Highlights and ve Hidden Gems comprising both modern buildings and landscape architecture. All authors are trained professionals with degrees in the eld of architecture and most of them run independent architectural practices in their respective cities. THey conduct guided tours for experts and non-experts, hold lectures, publish specialised texts, organise workshops and symposia, or work in teaching and research. 20 booklets in a slipcase: Amsterdam, Barcelona, Berlin, Bilbao, Budapest, Doha, Dubai Abu Dhabi, Frankfurt Main, Hamburg, Istanbul, Milan, Moscow, Munich, New York, Oslo, Rome, Rotterdam, Turin, Venice, Vienna
Histories of Urban Planning and Political Power
Urban planning has always been a preeminent instrument of political power. In this volume, contributions from Europe and Latin America provide insight into the functions of planning under very different political and societal constellations over the last hundred years: dictatorships, parliamentary democracies, and illiberalism; capitalism and state socialism; state interventionism and neoliberalism; societies in times of peace and societies marked by colonial, civil, world, or cold wars. The dictatorships of the 1920s and 1930s made extensive use of the potential of planning for economic growth, for brutal repression, but also for the integration of certain population groups and as an effect...
Structure and Type
Form, space and construction are inextricably linked as a triad. For wulf architekten, based in Stuttgart, Berlin and Basel, the creative impulse plays a particularly important role. It makes it possible to interpret supporting structures in a space-defining way and to develop an atmospheric effect of the architecture. The concept of structure and type underpins the principles and objectives of this approach. This can be seen in forward-looking projects in the fields of education, research, culture and security. In their new book, wulf architekten present 17 buildings completed between 2014 and today. In a dialog with the renowned architecture critic Hubertus Adam, wulf architekten discuss questions that determine the current discourse on building culture. Identity through search - architecture in balance Helmholtz Pioneer Campus, Bosch Customer Center, Straubenhardt Fire Station Continuation of the monograph Rhythm and Melody published in 2014 Also available in German language
European Planning History in the 20th Century
The history of Europe in the 20th century is closely tied to the history of urban planning. Social and economic progress but also the brute treatment of people and nature throughout Europe were possible due to the use of urban planning and the other levels of spatial planning. Thereby, planning has constituted itself in Europe as an international subject. Since its emergence, through intense exchange but also competition, despite country differences, planning has developed as a European field of practice and scientific discipline. Planning is here much more than the addition of individual histories; however, historiography has treated this history very selective regarding geography and conte...
Inventing Berlin
This book comprehensively examines post-1989 changes to the symbolic landscape of Berlin – specifically, street names, architecture, urban planning and monuments – and links these changes to concepts of contested cultural memory and national identity in Berlin and Germany in the post-Wall period. The core of the book is made up of an analysis of built space changes in the eastern half of the city before and after the Berlin Wall, flanked by an introduction to the theoretical underpinnings of the topic and a wider interpretation of the events in Berlin in relation to other geographic and historical contexts. It furthermore offers an explanatory model for the phenomenon of the "symbolic foreigner" whereby former citizens of the GDR feel disenfranchised and excluded from today's German society. This book is a valuable resource for researchers, students, and also appeals to a wider, non-academic audience with an interest in both cultural memory and Berlin.
