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Josef Paul Kleihues
Josef Paul Kleihues is one of the great, internationally renowned German architects of the present day, who has had a far-reaching impact on both theory and practice of construction since the 1970s. Early on, Berlin was the geographical focal point of his work: his most important building projects in this city include the main workshop of the Berliner Stadtreinigung, the Kantdreieck Tower, the reconstruction of the Museum Hamburger Bahnhof as well as the Liebermann house and the Sommer house on Pariser Platz. On the occasion of Josef Paul Kleihues' seventieth birthday, this richly illustrated book for the first time systematically and comprehensively introduces the world famous architect's life achievements. Renowned authors direct attention to the different facets of his important work, thus providing fascinating insights into the architectural history and theory of the past decades. Text in English and German.
Josef Paul Kleihues
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Josef Paul Kleihues
Josef Paul Kleihues (1933-2004) was one of the most prolific architects of postwar Germany, famous both as the Director of the International Building Exhibition Berlin in 1987 and for his design for the Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago. He was also known for his sensitive interventions into older buildings, an instance of which is the former Hamburger Bahnhof--now the Museum für Gegenwart--in Berlin, where Kleihues intermixed glass walls and light installations by the American Minimalist Dan Flavin with the building's original nineteenth-century Neoclassical design. (His reconstruction was widely deemed to rival or even surpass Gae Aulenti's overhaul of the interior of the Musée d'Ors...
The Museum Projects
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Josef Paul Kleihues
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Josef Paul Kleihues
Kleihues' buildings and projects of the last three decades are presented here as the practical applications of his theoretical positions. In particular, his theories on Poetic Rationalism," the Critical Reconstruction of the City" and the Antithetical and Contradictory as Ends and Means" have greatly influenced contemporary architectural debate. This volume has been structured so as to allow a study of his works according to building type. Michael Hesse, Wolfgang Schache, Walter Kambartel and others have contributed essays on urban planning; apartment, industrial and hospital building; on Kleihues' office and commercial buildings, and on his museums.
Open Architecture
The International Building Exhibition 1984/87 in Berlin constitutes one of the most remarkable examples to discuss "open architecture". Almost 10,000 dwellings were constructed or restored in the Kreuzberg districts adjacent to the Berlin Wall, inhabited about halfway by immigrants. The renowned author Esra Akcan, related in many ways to Turkey, Berlin and the USA, narrates the history and reverberations of this architectural-political event.
