Book by Stein, Jean, Slager, Daniel, Hopps, Walter, Brecht, Bertolt, Hoch, Hannah, Davis, Mike, Muller, Heiner, Grubein, Durs, Schulze, Ingo

Grand Street 69: Berlin (Summer 1999)

BRECHT, BERTOLT

Stein, Jean

Hopps, Walter

Schulze, Ingo

Müller, Heiner

Davis, Mike.

Höch, Hannah

Slager, Daniel

Grubein, Durs

Literature & Fiction

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Multiple City details worldwide trends in urban development against the backdrop of the field's evolution over the past 100 years. As this volume demonstrates, though the discourse around urban development enjoys temporary popularity, development itself leaves behind enduring traces; multiple parallels emerge between today's trends and historical evidence. In this book, 16 of the most pressing urban-development debates are unpacked by leading urban planners, architects, artists and scientists. Also included are contemporary photographs and historical planning materials, which cover everything from the early-twentieth-century garden city to the urban landscape concepts of the early postwar period to contemporary notions of the mobile city and the telepolis. The book is published in conjunction with an exhibition at Munich's Pinakothek der Moderne.

Multiple City: Urban Concepts 1908-2008

Arts & Photography

Architecture

Upon completing the eponymous Le Corbusier Building in Berlin in 1958, the pioneering Modernist architect Le Corbusier described the building as rising up to, a monumental size without taking from any of its parts their respect for the individual, physical and subjective dimension. Le Corbusier had confronted Berliners, in their divided city, with his concept of communal living--a 17-story reinforced-concrete building containing 557 apartments, with only nine corridors to provide access to all of them. Le Corbusier's "machine for living" still influences the inhabitants of the building, yet no matter the architect's intention, it is ultimately the building's residents that give a house its life. Ethnologist and photographer Bärbel Högner was well aware of this when she moved into the Le Corbusier building as artist-in-residence in 2007. Her findings are published in this stunning volume, which features images of the interplay between residents and Le Corbusier's architectural masterwork.

Typ Berlin: Le Corbusier's Building in Charlottenburg

For the German philosopher Martin Heidegger, "Dwelling" ("Wohnen") was a crucial development of his fascination with "Being" ("Sein"), an ontological extension whose practice humankind had to learn and relearn. In his landmark essay "Building Dwelling Thinking," Heidegger linked this approach to "dwelling" to an ethic of "building," asserting that "man's relation to locations, and through locations to spaces, inheres in his dwelling," and that consequently "only if we are capable of dwelling can we then build." Dwelling and Architecture: From Heidegger to Koolhaas explores the influence of Heidegger's conceptions on the various disputes regarding the major narratives of modern and contemporary architecture. Concentrating on the philosopher's intimate approach to the Positivism of Le Corbusier, it traces Heidegger's thinking into the current debate on architecture generated by modern-day architects and thinkers such as Aaron Betsky and Rem Koolhaas.

Dwelling and Architecture: From Heidegger to Koolhaas By Pavlos Lefas

Pavlos Lefas

EinSparHaus: Energieeffiziente Architektur (German Edition)

The modern city always exerts a semiotic bombardment: we are surrounded on all sides by a pictographic labyrinth, whether in notices, posters, graffiti or advertising. But with the use of digital cameras and GPS receivers, this bombardment can be turned into a tool for creativity, for the pursuit of chance associations and synchronicities. In Signs of the City, teenagers and young adults in Barcelona, Berlin, London and Sofia do just that, with the aid and encouragement of professional artists. The book is the result of a project that lasted one year, incorporating workshops, online activities, conferences and exhibitions, and that initiated a network between over 30 institutions. The perspectives that emerge from the lenses of these teenagers and young adults are of course fresh and surprising, and offer new takes on the four European metropolises, through the most innovative possibilities of data processing.

Signs of the City: Metropolis Speaking

Graphic Design

This architectural guide beats a path from Breslau to Dessau to conduct the reader on a tour of the World Cultural Heritage highlights of Bauhaus and German Modernist architecture, from the Centennial Hall and the Bauhaus Dessau building to the numerous highlights in between, and taking in such cities as Görlitz, Dresden-Hellerau, Leipzig and Chemnitz. Along the way we encounter all of the great German Modernist architects, from Hans Poelzig and Henry van de Velde to Heinrich Tessenow, Richard Riemerschmid, Hans Scharoun, Erich Mendelsohn and Walter Gropius. An overview of World Cultural Heritage Bauhaus architecture, the focus of this guide is also on the cities themselves, and on the progressive building councilors who were among the pioneers of European urban development, initiating top-quality housing schemes for the masses, and commissioning these architects to redesign the face of Germany's urban architecture for a new era.

The Path of Modernism: From the World Heritage of Breslau to That of Dessau, The Architecture, 1900-1930

An enormous, electronically operated umbrella stretches across a courtyard, flexible panels replace solid walls, an air-filled bubble is turned into a performance hall: this volume presents promising projects that envision a future when textiles are widely and innovatively employed as architectural elements. Though they are frequently reduced to a decorative afterthought in contemporary interior design, textiles are extremely versatile, with a range of tactile qualities and surprising strength, which gives them tremendous architectural potential, ranging from simple solutions to high-tech applications. Presenting projects by prominent architects such as Rem Koolhaas, Herzog &amp; de Meuron, Kengo Kuma and Graft Architects, this richly illustrated edition--which serves as a resource book as well as a source of inspiration--provides an overview of the wide ranging possibilities for the application of textiles in building design.

Textile Architecture

The socialist ideals of the early twentieth century argued for a radical overhaul of architectural philosophy, reasserting the value of public space and redefining all forms of creative endeavor towards the benefit of the collective. These ideals were realized in the design of public buildings, streets and squares, as well as in films, literature and the visual arts. Urban planning under Eastern European Socialism is consequently inseparable from its ideological aspirations, and while its governmental structure may have collapsed, its architectural expressions remain. Over the last decade, however, many classic buildings of this era have been stripped of their political import, being repurposed or even destroyed. The Post Socialist City reveals that many cities across Eastern Europe remain dominated by the industrial complexes and panel buildings erected by Socialism, and analyzes the implications of the uses to which they have subsequently been put.

The Post Socialist City: Continuity and Change in Urban Space and Imagery

The Toyko firm Tezuka Architects, headed by Takaharu and Yui Tezuka, is enjoying an increasingly international reputation for its refined blend of traditional and contemporary Japanese aesthetics, developing solutions which seem refreshingly unconventional while remaining anchored in the scale and needs of everyday life. (The names of their recent projects--"Roof House," "Wall-less House" and "Sky House"--convey the flavor and feel of this amalgam.) Tezuka buildings often sport such features as large sliding-door fronts and verandas, and make particular use of wood and lightweight steel in order to effect a smooth back-and-forth flow between building and environment. In this respect their buildings call to mind centuries-old Japanese architectural tradition, which is absorbed into present day developments in design and construction technologies. Large public buildings such as the Fuji kindergarten and the Natural History Museum in Matsunoyama demonstrate the popularity of this synthesis.

Takaharu & Yui Tezuka: Nostalgic Future: Nostalgic Future/Erinnerte Zukunft

Takaharu Tezuka

Yui Tezuka

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