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Renaissance der Bahnhöfe
Bahnhöfe und Gleisanlagen haben im 19. Jahrhundert die Stadt grundlegend verändert. Die Bahnhöfe wurden gleichsam zu Kathedralen der Mobilität. Aus weitgespannten Konstruktionen von Architekten und Ingenieuren als erfindungsreichen Protagonisten der Modernisierung entwickelt, räumliche Inszenierung der Sehnsucht nach der Ferne wie des Heimwehs, sind die großen, auch die metropolitanen Bahnhöfe inzwischen zu mediokren, oft armseligen Orten geworden. Der Siegeszug der Automobile und die Ausweitung des Luftverkehrs verliehen dem Reisen mit der Eisenbahn den Rang der Drittklassigkeit. Dem beginnenden Verfall der ursprünglichen Attraktivität sekundierten der Krieg und die Abrißmentalit...
Damir Ocko
Published on the occasion of the artist's exhibition at Kunstlerhaus KM-, Halle fur Kunst & Medien (Graz) the publication is shaped as a hybrid format and following a fragmented narrative of a collage structure, that includes various range of visual, graphic and textual material, ranging from visual poetry, a scenario/ film script, collage, pages of an artist book, film stills, installation views and is fully illustrated.Along with the exhibition it unfolds various 'Studies on Shivering' as a conceptual framework through which the artist questions his approach to the process of film-making, which, besides central film work, includes an array of creative expressions, such as poetry, musical scores, collages, research, music, and even cinematic studies on 16mm film.It unfolds the artistic process by which the artist, Damir Ocko seeks to establish a space where film, research, and poetry meet.English and German text.
Ursula Mayer
The title 'But We Loved Her' was taken from a picture in the April 17 2013 issue of the British newspaper The Independent the day Margaret Thatcher was interred. The London-based artist collected all the newspaper articles in the days that followed Thatcher's death, progammatically positioning these four words at the forefront of her exhibition in Vienna, and in a phase of her work that foregrounds questions about the opportunities offers by neoliberal identity, about consumer culture in a post-capitalist society, and about their precursors.
Willst du wirklich wohnen wie deine Mutter?
Mit dem Fokus auf zukunftsweisende Wohnformen zählt PPAG Architects zu den führenden Protagonisten zeitgenössischer Baukunst in Österreich. Seit 1995 arbeitet das von Anna Popelka und Georg Poduschka gegründete Wiener Architekturbüro mit dem Anspruch, durch innovative Lebensräume eine Weiterentwicklung unserer Gesellschaft zu stimulieren. "Willst du wirklich wohnen wie deine Mutter?" zeigt ein 1:1 Modell ihrer Idee einer elastischen Raumkonfiguration für eine Wohnung. In der Installation finden sich Pläne, Zeichnungen und Filme über geplante und realisierte Gebäude von PPAG, darunter Wohnbauten sowie städtebauliche Projekte in Wien und Berlin. Die Ausstellung vermittelt neue und spannende Lösungen, die den Ansprüchen vielfältiger Lebensweisen und -phasen gerecht werden.00Exhibition: Aedes Architekturforum, Berlin, Germany (09.12.2017-18.01.2018).
Caring Culture
In an intensive series of texts from a symposium called Speculations on the Cultural Organization of Civility, this book examines changing political uses of the concept of care in democracies. Editors Markus Miessen and Andrea Phillips pose the question of how artists, architects, and designers both contribute to and critique its social manifestations. Includes case studies of artistic and design interventions within health and social care institutions and broader essays and interviews from curators, artists, politicians, architects, and healthcare professionals. The first volume in the Actors, Agents and Attendants series of publications and symposia commissioned by SKOR (the Dutch-based Foundation of Art and Public Domain) to investigate the role of cultural practice in the organization of the public domain.
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Defining Urban Design
The members of the International Congress of Modern Architecture (CIAM), such as Josep Lluis Sert, Le Corbusier, Walter Gropius, and their American associates, developed the discipline now called "urban design, " which has had a significant influence on both university departments and building projects around the world.
Paul Bonatz 1877-1956
This richly illustrated monograph furnished with a works catalogue and commentary presents Paul Bonatz (1877–1956), one of the most influential architects and teachers of architecture in the 20th century. He left behind a multifaceted legacy of modern and traditional work from the German Empire to the early Federal Republic of Germany. Bonatz also earned a reputation as a designer of technical buildings. His fruitful dialogue with engineers was widely admired by many other architects.The book is a companion to the exhibition in the Deutsches Architekturmuseum Frankfurt am Main, January 21st until March 20th 2011, and in the Kunsthalle Tübingen, March 26th until May 22nd 2011.
