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Yasmeen Lari
A rich exploration of the extraordinary life and work of celebrated architect Yasmeen Lari, winner of the 2023 RIBA Royal Gold Medal. After more than three decades as a renowned global architect, Yasmeen Lari, the first woman to open her own architecture firm in Pakistan in 1964, developed Zero Carbon Architecture, which unites ecological and social justice. This volume, edited by Angelika Fitz, Elke Krasny, and Marvi Mazhar, presents Lari’s trajectory from exemplary modernist to zero carbon revolutionary, with a focus on her remarkable contributions to the global architectural movement to decarbonize and decolonize. The book includes extensive photographs, drawings, and plans from Lari’...
Critical Care
How architecture and urbanism can help to care for and repair a broken planet: essays and illustrated case studies. Today, architecture and urbanism are capital-centric, speculation-driven, and investment-dominated. Many cannot afford housing. Austerity measures have taken a disastrous toll on public infrastructures. The climate crisis has rendered the planet vulnerable, even uninhabitable. This book offers an alternative vision in architecture and urbanism that focuses on caring for a broken planet. Rooted in a radical care perspective that always starts from the given, in the midst of things, this edited collection of essays and illustrated case studies documents ideas and practices from a...
Reserve der Form
>Reserve der Form präsentiert über neunzig Arbeiten aus Architektur, Kunst und Alltagskultur. Form ist hier weit mehr als das Formale. Formale Reserven bewirken vielfältige Parallelaktionen in ästhetischen, sozialen, ökonomischen und rechtlichen Zusammenhängen. Räume tauchen an Orten auf, wo sie weder baukulturell noch baurechtlich vorgesehen waren. Künstlerische Verfahrensweisen überschreiten die symbolische Ebene und zeitigen politische Effekte. Die assoziative Gruppierung der ausführlichen Projektdokumentationen ermöglicht ein Sichtbarmachen von Zusammenhängen jenseits stilistischer oder medialer Vorlieben. Gleichzeitig ist die Publikation auch ein Lesebuch zu Reserven der Form
Linz Texas
Linz is European Capital of Culture in 2009. This exceptional situation calls once more for a new pitch. Who can Linz learn from and what can others learn from Linz? What does Linz share with Madrid or Galati? An urban road movie that looks for the answer.
Yasmeen Lari
A rich exploration of the extraordinary life and work of celebrated architect Yasmeen Lari. After more than three decades as a renowned global architect, Yasmeen Lari, the first woman to open her own architecture firm in Pakistan in 1964, developed Zero Carbon Architecture, which unites ecological and social justice. This volume, edited by Angelika Fitz, Elke Krasny, and Marvi Mazhar, presents Lari’s trajectory from exemplary modernist to zero carbon revolutionary, with a focus on her remarkable contributions to the global architectural movement to decarbonize and decolonize. The book includes extensive photographs, drawings, and plans from Lari’s archive, most of which have not previous...
Reality Bytes
Reality Bytes is a collection of essays by Bart Lootsma, written in the years from 1998 to 2009. "Byte" is a unit of digital information used in information technology and most commonly consists of eight bits. Reality Bytes is also the title of an essay by Bart Lootsma, in which he investigates the relationship between society and architects and town planners. Bart Lootsma, Professor of Architecture as well as architectural historian, critic and curator, is one of the most multi-faceted figures amongst contemporary architectural theorists. He has produced numerous publications, including "Superdutch", an appraisal of contemporary architecture in the Netherlands published in 2000. In Reality Bytes he has now for the first time compiled hitherto (mostly) unpublished texts on architectural theory, on Second Modernism, on populism and architecture, on landscape architecture and on the changing role of architects in society.
Hot Questions-Cold Storage
A new survey of the last 150 years of Austria's architectural history. The new permanent display of Architekturzentrum Wien's (Az W) collection is a milestone in the presentation of architecture and its social dimensions. Hot Questions--Cold Storage is published alongside this comprehensive exhibition on Austrian architecture of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, featuring color images of all exhibits, concise texts, and thematic essays. This book reexamines the country's architectural culture of the last 150 years, situating it in its cultural, social, and political contexts. Each chapter is prefaced by a question, asking, for example, about the impact of capitalism on our cities and...
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Contemporary Perspectives on Jane Jacobs
Jane Jacobs's famous book The Death and Life of Great American Cities (1961) has challenged the discipline of urban planning and led to a paradigm shift. Controversial in the 1960s, most of her ideas became generally accepted within a decade or so after publication, not only in North America but worldwide, as the articles in this volume demonstrate. Based on cross-disciplinary and transnational approaches, this book offers new insights into her complex and often contrarian way of thinking as well as analyses of her impact on urban planning theory and the consequences for planning practice. Now, more than 50 years after the initial publication, in a period of rapid globalisation and deregulat...
ACTOPOLIS
All over the world, the cities of today are facing many challenges. How is it possible to expand and preserve urban space as a common area of society even in times of economic exploitation and privatisation? What is the role of art, culture, architecture, self-organised action and activism in these processes? Over the past few years, artists, architects, philosophers, urbanists, and activists have been tackling these questions in seven different European cities: Ankara/Mardin, Athens, Belgrade, Bucharest, Oberhausen, Sarajevo and Zagreb. Their work is contained within the framework of the international project ACTOPOLIS: The Art of Action. ACTOPOLIS is a call to action, and for communities to co-author their cities across disciplines, national boundaries, and cultural differences. 160 colour images
