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Since 1981 the DAM (German Architecture Museum) has been recognizing the best architecture its country has to offer. Opening with the DAM-prizewinning project--the new art museum in Ravensburg designed by Lederer + Ragnarsdottir + Oei--this volume also features a number of stunning buildings that include a synagogue and community center in Ulm, the new reading room at the Staatsbibliothek Unter den Linden in Berlin, a villa in South Germany, and an environmentally conscious glass house. The book's feature essay investigates the challenges associated with large-scale construction in Germany and beyond. AUTHOR: Peter Cachola Schmal is an architect and the director of the DAM (German Architecture Museum) Frankfurt/Main. Yorck Forster is a freelance curator at the DAM (German Architecture Museum) Frankfurt/Main. SELLING POINTS: This architectural yearbook brings together a varied cross section of the best recent architecture in Germany as well as the most exciting and innovative projects by German designers and builders abroad. 180 illustrations
Foucault coined Heterotopia as parallel social worlds which display a different network of social order - such as prisons. In this collection, Heterotopia refers to the Outsider Art, produced outside the mainstream, by authors who are pushed to the fringes of society and exposed to extreme mental strains. These texts are illuminated by images - outsider art - taken from the collection at the German Architecture Museum.
Johannes Peter Hölzinger studied architecture at the Städelschule in Frankfurt am Main from 1954 to 1957. After a residency fellowship at the Deut-sche Akademie Villa Massimo in Rome he founded a "planning association for new forms of the environment" in 1965 together with Zero artist Hermann Goepfert, who has since died. One of the most successful results of his work with Goepfert was a new design for the Schloßpark in Karlsruhe on the occasion of the Bundesgar-tenschau in 1967, which won a major German architectural prize, the Hugo-Häring-Preis. From 1991 until his retirement in 2002 Hölzinger directed the art and public-space course at the Aka-demie der bildenden Künste in Nuremberg...
Peter Kulka is a major German architect. His buildings have been characteristically succinct and minimalist. This book accompanies the show of his work in the Deutsches Architektur Museum in Frankfurt am Main from late 2005 to early 2006.
The German Architecture Annual, edited by the Deutsches Architekturmuseum (DAM) in Frankfurt am Main, has been documenting current architectural events in Germany for almost 40 years. Contributions by renowned authors present the shortlist of 22 buildings as selected by a jury for the 2019 DAM Prize for Architecture in Germany. Curators of the museum, architects, and architectural critics visited around 100 nominated buildings. The 2019 edition offers a detailed portrait of a smaller selection of finalists along with an in-depth appraisal of this year's winner. Moreover, three buildings are presented in a separate chapter dedicated to projects by German architects abroad. Finally, the annual presents two essays: the first explores the history of the 'Neue Altstadt' project in Frankfurt am Main and the debate surrounding the Dom-Römer area, while the second delves into the political conditions underlying the exceptional planning processes in Singapore.
The German Architecture Annual, published by the Deutsches Architekturmuseum (DAM) in Frankfurt am Main, has been documenting the architectural events taking place in Germany for almost 40 years. This year's annual presents a number of interviews with distinguished authors who discuss 22 buildings in Germany shorlisted by a jury for the DAM Prize for Architecture in Germany 2018. In order to make this selection, curators of the museum as well as prominent architects and architecture critics visited around 100 buildings that were nominated for this year's award. The 2018 edition of the annual presents the shortlisted works in greater detail in addition to giving special recognition to the win...
The German Architectural Annual, edited by the German Architecture Museum (DAM), has been documenting contemporary architectural projects in Germany for the past 40 years. This year ́s edition of the annual presents the shortlist of 26 buildings selected by the jury for the 2022 DAM Preis for Architecture in Germany. The building reviews, written by architectural critics, along with large-format photographs, provide a deep insight into those works. Bilingual in English and German.
The German Architecture Museum (DAM) Annual identifies buildings constructed in Germany as well as the most significant developments in architecture created by Germans around the world. This year's winner of the DAM Award for Architecture in Germany is Bruno Fioretti Marquez Architects for their interpretive reconstruction of the Masters' Houses, which were originally designed by Walter Gropius and László MoholyNagy to house professors at the Bauhaus art school in Dessau, Germany. The book also celebrates a number of other notable projects, such as the Abraham Building by Raimund Abraham in Hombroich and the pavilion built by Barkow Leibinger for the American Academy in Berlin, and features essays that explore the often controversial practice of interpretive reconstruction and the question of architecture and responsibility.
The German Architecture Annual, edited by the German Architecture Museum (DAM), has been documenting contemporary architectural projects in Germany for almost 40 years. This year's edition of the annual, with contributions by renowned authors, presents the shortlist of 26 buildings selected by a jury for the 2020 DAM Prize for Architecture in Germany. Architects, architectural critics, and curators of the museum visited around 100 nominated buildings to determine the shortlist. The volume also offers a portrait of three outstanding projects by German architects realized in a foreign country. This year's winner of the DAM Prize is the James-Simon-Galerie in Berlin by the London-based practice...