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In a time of climate crisis and housing shortages, a bold, visionary call to replace current wasteful construction practices with an architecture of reuseAs climate change has escalated into a crisis, the reuse of existing structures is the only way to even begin to preserve our wood, sand, silicon, and iron, let alone stop belching carbon monoxide into the air. Our housing crisis means that we need usable buildings now more than ever, but architect and critic Aaron Betsky shows that new construction—often seeking to maximize profits rather than resources, often soulless in its feel—is not the answer. Whenever possible, it is better to repair, recycle, renovate, and reuse—not only from an environmental perspective, but culturally and artistically as well.Architectural reuse is as old as civilization itself. In the streets of Europe, you can find fragments from the Roman Empire. More recently, marginalized communities from New York to Detroit—queer people looking for places to gather or cruise, punks looking to make loud music, artists and displaced people looking for space to work and live—have taken over industrial spaces created then abandoned by capitalism, forging a unique style in the process. Their methods—from urban mining to dumpster diving—now inform architects transforming old structures today.Betsky shows us contemporary imaginative reuse throughout the world: the Mexican housing authority transforming concrete slums into well-serviced apartments; the MassMOCA museum, built out of old textile mills; the squatted city of Christiana in Copenhagen, fashioned from an old army base; Project Heidelberg in Detroit. All point towards a new circular economy of reuse, built from the ashes of the capitalist economy of consumption.

Modern Architecture: The Basics examines technological, stylistic, socio-political, and cultural changes that have transformed the history of architecture since the late 18th century. Broad definitions of modernity and postmodernity introduce the book, which comprises 24 short thematic chapters looking at the concepts behind the development of modern and postmodern architecture. These include major historical movements, key figures, and evolving building typologies. There is also an emphasis on the changing city during the 19th and 20th centuries. Approaches to representation and its impacts on architecture are studied, along with the changing global role of architecture as cultural expression. The book introduces new topics, including gender, race, postcolonialism, and indigeneity. An undaunting, contemporary, and inclusive account of modern architectural history, this is a must-read for all students of architecture as well as those outside the discipline approaching the subject for the first time.

Desde su primera edición en 1980, la Historia crítica de la arquitectura moderna de Kenneth Frampton se ha convertido en un clásico imprescindible dentro de la bibliografía académica sobre historia de la arquitectura moderna. En esta quinta edición ampliamente revisada y actualizada, el autor ha añadido una nueva y extensa sección que explora al detalle la evolución del Movimiento Moderno en la arquitectura en todo el mundo a finales del siglo xx y principios del xxi. En ella, se examinan las diversas formas en que los arquitectos no solo responden a los contextos geográficos, climáticos, materiales y culturales, sino que siguen también distintas líneas de enfoque en relación a la topografía, la morfología, la sostenibilidad y la forma cívica.

The Routledge Companion to Contemporary Architectural History offers a comprehensive and up-to-date knowledge report on recent developments in architectural production and research. Divided into three parts – Practices, Interrogations, and Innovations – this book charts diversity, criticality, and creativity in architectural interventions to meet challenges and enact changes in different parts of the world through featured exemplars and fresh theoretical orientations.The collection features 29 chapters written by leading architectural scholars and highlights the reciprocity between the historical and the contemporary, research and practice, and disciplinary and professional knowledge. Providing an essential map for navigating the complex currents of contemporary architecture, the Companion will interest students, academics, and practitioners who wish to bolster their understanding of built environments.

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's archive, most of which have not previously been shown or published. Lari's architectural thinking and activism have always gone beyond the quest for a singular built solution. Rather, she strategically plans systemic approaches and solutions, be it for housing, a heritage foundation, or zero-carbon shelters with communities at risk. Original essays from diverse international contributors contextualize Lari's work; investigate architecture and the postimperial, postcolonial, and postpartition condition; and examine the intersections of architecture and human rights, climate change, decolonization, gender, care, activism, and vernacular innovation. More than a tribute to Yasmeen Lari's extraordinary career, this volume brings her legacy forward and shows how to create change todayContributors:Abira Ashfaq, Cassandra Cozza, Angelika Fitz, Runa Kahn, Anne Karpf, Elke Krasny, Marvi Mazhar, Chris Moffat, Anila Naeem, Raquel Rolnik, Helen Thomas, Rafia Zakaria

Without environmental justice, there can be no social justice. This volume sets the table for inclusive architectural engagement during a time circumscribed by pandemic, climate change and inequality. An esteemed group of international voices amplify interactions involving sexism, racism, classism, homophobia, transphobia and environmental catastrophe, exploring how they inextricably linked. Without acknowledging the interconnectedness of these injustices, we will not find effective ways to halt the deepening crisis. Features: Marcos Cruz, Casper Laing Ebbensgaard, Antón García-Abril, Alexandra Daisy Ginsburg, Ariane Lourie Harrison, Kerry Holden, Walter Hood, Joyce Hwang, Kabage Karanja, V. Mitch McEwen, Débora Mesa, Timothy Morton, Stella Mutegi, Brenda Parker, Carolyn Steel, McKenzie Wark, Kathryn Yusoff and Joanna Zylinska.

A deserted Paris house holds the mystery of a brilliant Viennese modernist who worked alongside Le Corbusier and Adolf Loos before vanishing. A leading painter still highly regarded in South Africa, Jean Welz's prior architectural career has been virtually unknown until a string of discoveries unfolded for author and filmmaker Peter Wyeth, allowing him to narrate this amazing true tale of genius. Trained in ultra-sophisticated, but conservative Vienna, Welz was sent to Paris for the 1925 Art Deco exhibition by his influential employer, renowned architect Josef Hoffmann. There he met preeminent modern architects Le Corbusier and Adolf Loos. The latter employed him to assist in building a house for the founder of Dada, Tristan Tzara. They all mixed in avant-garde circles at the Dôme Café in Montparnasse along with Welz's classmate from Vienna, later Chicago-based architect Gabriel Guevrekian; Welz's future employer Raymond Fischer, whose archive was mostly destroyed by Nazis; and photographer André Kertész. Through Welz's South African family archive, author Wyeth retrieves stories, letters, portfolios, and photographs generations after Welz's death that unravel his heroic designs, his stunning built critique of Corbusier's “Five Points of Architecture,” a gravestone for Marx's daughter, and the many ways that Welz disappeared amongst his collaborators, intentionally and not. This account of why Jean Welz did not become a famous name in architecture takes us through his brother's Nazi-art-dealings, illness, betrayal, emigration, and an uncompromising artist's vision at the same time sifting through significant, literally-concrete evidence of Welz's built projects and visionary designs.

Gesamtschau der Moderne in Südostasien Der zweite Band von Rowe und Fu über die Entstehung und Entwicklung moderner Architektur im Fernen Osten befasst sich mit Südostasien und Austronesien, einschließlich der 12 Nationalstaaten Vietnam, Kambodscha, Laos, Myanmar, Thailand, Malaysia, Singapur, Indonesien, Brunei, Osttimor, Philippinen und Taiwan sowie der Ozeanvölker Polynesiens, Melanesiens und Mikronesiens. In der modernen Architektur dieser kulturell und politisch heterogenen Regionen spiegeln sich lokale Traditionen und koloniale wie postkoloniale Hegemonien, aus Ost und West, wider. Das Buch erzählt die Geschichte dieser unterschiedlichen Wurzeln und ihre Kulmination in der zeitgenössischen Architekturproduktion und analysiert die besonderen Merkmale und Eigenschaften von etwa 65 Bauprojekten, die im letzten halben Jahrhundert entstanden sind. Zweiter Band über die Geschichte moderner Architektur im Fernen Osten Exzellente photographische Dokumentation von ca. 65 Gebäuden Wichtiger Beitrag zum Verständnis der Globalisierung von Architektur

Gevork Hartoonian presents a retrospective reading of the first edition of Kenneth Frampton's Modern Architecture: A Critical History, published in 1980. He provides novel insights into the significance of Frampton's historiography of modern architecture and beyond. In exploring selected themes from Frampton's ongoing criticism of contemporary architecture, this book leads us to a critical understanding of the past, the modernity of architecture's contemporaneity. It unpacks classificatory modes governing the three-part organization of Frampton's book, the constellation of which allowed him to hold on to an anteroom view of history amidst the flood of temporalities spanning the period 1980–2020. Contemplating Frampton's book as an artifact stripped of temporality, this original work reads Frampton's historiography in the intersection of selected epigraphs and three images illuminating the book's classificatory mode. Hartoonian presents a valuable companion to Frampton's A Critical History for readers interested in the successes and failures of contemporary architecture's philosophical and theoretical aspirations.

A lo largo de la historia, algunos edificios se han mantenido, mientras que otros desaparecieron, ya sea por efectos de la intemperie, fallas estructurales, desastres naturales, actividades humanas o, simplemente, por antigüedad. Estos edificios desaparecidos fueron considerados obsoletos por tales razones, y reemplazados por otros nuevos. Pero algunos permanecieron. La mayoría de los que pudieron sobrevivir lo hicieron gracias a sus méritos arquitectónicos. Así, quienes los vivieron en momentos críticos tomaron la decisión de que tenía más sentido conservarlos que renunciar por completo a ellos. Motivados por este propósito, Balerdi y Giacchetti presentan Reciclajes arquitectónicos. Arquitectura limeña doméstica transformada, un libro que analiza la evolución de las ideas a través del ejercicio académico de la Transformación, practicado en el curso Taller III - Arquitectura y Entorno, de la Facultad de Arquitectura de la UPC. Para ello se analizan 15 trabajos, elaborados por alumnos de ese taller, sobre diversos edificios domésticos y casas diseñadas por notables arquitectos del Movimiento Moderno a mediados del siglo xx en Lima. Los resultados demuestran la validez de una alternativa que —en vez de demoler para volver a edificar, interrumpiendo la continuidad cultural del'hacer ciudad'— transforma creativamente y capitaliza los valores físicos e inmateriales de la arquitectura del pasado local. Una alternativa sostenible que refuerza los vínculos de identidad con el lugar, su historia y el tiempo.

The conservation of our Modern architectural heritage is a subject of vehement debate. When do buildings become old or significant enough to warrant special heritage status and protection? Should Modern listed buildings be treated differently from those of earlier periods? And what does all this mean for building users and owners, who might be better served if their buildings were less authentic, but more comfortable and usable?Presenting a clear line of sight through these complex questions, this book explores the conservation, regeneration and adaptive re-use of Modern architecture. It provides a general grounding in the field, its recent history and current development, including chapters on authenticity, charters, listing and protection. Case studies drawing on the author's extensive practical experience offer valuable lessons learnt in the conservation of Modern heritage buildings.Looking beyond the specialist field of ‘elite'heritage, Revaluing Modern Architecture also considers the changing culture of conservation for ‘sub-iconic'buildings in relation to de-carbonisation and the climate emergency. It suggests how revaluing the vast legacy of modern architecture can help to promote a more sustainable future. Features leading conservation projects, such as the celebrated Penguin Pool at London Zoo, Finsbury Health Centre by Lubetkin & Tecton and Wells Coates'Isokon (Lawn Road) Flats, as well as previously unpublished projects. Analyses key Modern conservation controversies of recent years Illustrated with over 160 photos and drawings. An essential primer for architectural students and practitioners, academics, those employed in conservation and planning, property owners, developers, surveyors and building managers.

Este libro tiene como propósito reconsiderar la influencia de Le Corbusier en la formación arquitectónica y académica del autor. Éste confronta su proyecto final como alumno (1959) con nueve obras de maestros y arquitectos destacados del siglo pasado que operaron como sus referentes y que pertenecían al llamado movimiento de arquitectura moderna. Las categorías analíticas aplicadas en la confrontación constituyeron un cuerpo de conceptos instrumentales claves para el aprendizaje proyectual -por esa razón se adoptaron- y fueron ordenadas en base al grado de visibilidad de su presencia en los casos. Esta operación contribuyó a afirmar el alcance de lo que se entiende como influencia, ya que, en los momentos iniciales de la formación del arquitecto, cabe reconocer que el peso de lo visible adquiere mayor trascendencia por su impacto en el dominio de lo visual. En cambio, a medida que se logra mayor experiencia proyectual, la riqueza potencial de las incidencias profundas -escasamente perceptibles- obtiene mayor significación, al ampliar y ahondar el campo de las posibles asociaciones referenciales que concurren a la generación de las propuestas y proyectos. Se advierte así que algunas obras de referencia tienen mayor resonancia en el proyecto final del autor debido a que comparten con él, varios atributos. Por consiguiente, la concurrencia de varias semejanzas entre los casos refuerza la noción de influencia, sobre todo cuando éstas se despliegan en aspectos que otorgan integridad, identidad y carácter a la obra. La interpretación crítica y analítica de la confrontación permitió reconocer la diversidad de las influencias -visibles y ocultas- de esas obras sobre el proyecto final, y al mismo tiempo, contribuyó a revelar la amplitud, hondura y participación de Le Corbusier en el devenir del pensamiento, la enseñanza y la producción arquitectónica de la Escuela de Arquitectura de Rosario en ese momento.

La ciudad de Rosario no tuvo fundación precisa, originándose a partir de un alto en el camino que conectaba a Buenos Aires con el interior del país, motivando un punto de descanso en el trayecto monótono de los viajeros. El espacio que sirvió de asentamiento inicial para las tropas de carretas, dio lugar a la configuración de una plaza. Así, se fue generando un incipiente villorrio que por la cercanía de una ensenada natural favoreció el intercambio fluvial por el río Paraná. Surgieron a partir de 1900 los primeros edificios de renta en altura que quebraron el horizonte chato rosarino. El proceso se cierra en 1948 porque la ley de propiedad horizontal cambia la orientación en la inversión de renta. Más de cincuenta casos fueron detectados dentro del periodo en estudio, determinándose que se inscribieron dentro de dos paradigmas separados por una etapa intermedia a modo de zona gris. El primero, cuyo común denominador fue la idea de traslación de modalidades de diseño ya probadas; mientras que el ultimo, agrupó obras de marcada sinceridad en sus planteos generales, propiciando organismos únicos de notable coherencia todos diferentes entre sí.

People involved in architecture need to be familiar with construction methods in order to be in control of their designs. New technical requirements impact on our buildings and call for up-to-date specialist knowledge, which leads to new forms of architecture. This handbook uses clearly comprehensible 3D isometric diagrams to introduce the world of contemporary construction, from concept through to the detail; photographs are used to illustrate the content. The three main chapters deal with the structure, the building envelope, and the fit-out, starting with a clear introduction to the construction principles of modern building methods. Using drawings of selected built examples at scales of 1:10 and 1:20, a deeper examination of details is possible.

Vor der Revolution 1959 und in den Jahrzehnten danach ist in Kuba eine aufregende und eigenständige Architektur entstanden. Dieser erste umfassende Überblick zeigt luxuriöse Nachtclubs und Hotels, Sportanlagen, elegante Privathäuser und Apartmentgebäude. Geschickt verknüpften die kubanischen Architekten althergebrachte Bauweisen mit der Moderne und schufen eine Architektur zwischen Tradition und Avantgarde.Gewagte Betonschalen, geschwungene Rampen, elegante Brises-Soleils und fließende Übergänge zwischen Innen- und Außenraum sind charakteristisch für eine luftige, oft farbenfrohe Architektur, die an die tropische Umgebung angepasst ist. Für die Publikation wurden Bauten neu fotografiert und Pläne neu gezeichnet. Ein biographischer Überblick porträtiert die 40 wichtigsten kubanischen Architekten dieser Epoche.

Steel Architecture offers a re-interpretation of Modernist design through an examination of the history of metal-framed buildings, from the mills, warehouses and spectacular glasshouses of the nineteenth century to the multi-form, tall towers which currently characterize the skylines of the world's major cities. Based on extensive research, this insightful book reassesses the development of a signature landscape of Modernism through the lens of contemporary issues, and critically appraises some of the most prominent works of architecture of the Modern age, including Mies van der Rohe's Barcelona Pavilion, Richard Neutra's Lovell Health House, and Frank Gehry's Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao. Topics covered include: the early commercial steel buildings; steel and mid twentieth-century consumerism; the Chicago skyscrapers of the 1970s; High Tech architecture and finally the'formalist'architecture of the late-Modern period. Extensively illustrated and accessibly written, Steel Architecture discusses the meanings behind the visual vocabulary of Modern steel architecture, and places the style in the broad context of the social, political and economic preoccupations of its age.

Unbuilt tells the stories of the plans, drawings and proposals that emerged during the 20th century in an unparalleled era of optimism in architecture. Many of these grand projects stayed on the drawing board, some were flights of fancy that couldn't be built, and in other cases test structures or parts of buildings did emerge in the real world. The book features the work of Buckminster Fuller, Geoffrey Bawa, Le Corbusier, Frank Lloyd Wright and Archigram, as well as contemporary architects such as Norman Foster, Zaha Hadid, Will Alsop and Rem Koolhaas. Richly illustrated with photographs, drawings, maps, collages and models from all over the world, it covers everything from Buckminster Fuller's plan for a'Domed city'in Manhattan to Le Corbusier's utopian dream of skyscraper living in central Paris, from a proposed network of motorways ploughing through central London to a crazy-looking scheme for'rolling pavements'in post-war Berlin. This is an important book, not just for the rich stories of what might have been in our built world, but also to give understanding to the motivations and dreams of architects, sometimes to build a better world, but sometimes to pander to egos. It includes plans that pushed the boundaries – from plug-in cities, moving cities, space cities, domes and floating cities to Maglev, teleportation and rockets. Many ideas were just ahead of their time, and some, thankfully, we were always better without.

The Arts and Crafts Movement produced some of the country's most popular, loved and recognizable buildings. This book guides the general reader through its history from the mid-nineteenth century to the early twentieth. Of equal interest to those with a more informed interest, it will open your eyes to the richness and beauty of one of the most important artistic movements the British Isles ever produced. This beautifully illustrated book includes a comprehensive thematic introduction; an up-to-date history of Arts and Crafts architecture, the key individual and the characteristics of the buildings. In-depth case-studies of all the major buildings are given, as well as those overlooked by the current literature. There is a useful accompanying guide to places to visit and, finally, a list of stunning Arts and Crafts buildings you can stay in.

Anthony Fontenot's staggeringly ambitious book uncovers the surprisingly libertarian heart of the most influential British and American architectural and urbanist discourses of the postwar period, expressed as a critique of central design and a support of spontaneous order. Non-Design illuminates the unexpected philosophical common ground between enemies of state support, most prominently the economist Friedrich Hayek, and numerous notable postwar architects and urbanists like Robert Venturi, Denise Scott Brown, Reyner Banham, and Jane Jacobs. These thinkers espoused a distinctive concept of'non-design,'characterized by a rejection of conscious design and an embrace of various phenomenon that emerge without intention or deliberate human guidance. This diffuse and complex body of theories discarded many of the cultural presuppositions of the time, shunning the traditions of modern design in favor of the wisdom, freedom, and self-organizing capacity of the market. Fontenot reveals the little-known commonalities between the aesthetic deregulation sought by ostensibly liberal thinkers and Hayek's more controversial conception of state power, detailing what this unexplored affinity means for our conceptions of political liberalism. Non-Design thoroughly recasts conventional views of postwar architecture and urbanism, as well as liberal and libertarian philosophies.

Gesamtschau der koreanischen Moderne Die Entwicklung der modernen Architektur in Korea und später in Südkorea ist eng mit den Umwälzungen verbunden, denen das Land seit dem späten 19. Jahrhundert ausgesetzt war. Die Autoren untersuchen die wichtigsten Perioden von der späten Joseon-Dynastie bis zur demokratischen Gegenwart und zeigen, wie die Architektur mittels technologischer und stilistischer Sprünge seit langem einen wesentlichen Beitrag zur Identitätsstiftung der koreanischen Nation leistet. Die architektonischen Analysen konzentrieren sich auf Gebäude, an denen die Herausbildung eines spezifisch koreanischen Modernismus besonders gut zu beobachten ist: Sie reichen von der Festung Hwaseong bis zu Bauten des 21. Jahrhunderts wie der Paju Book City, dem Ssamziegil Shopping Center, dem Wolkenkrater Boutique Monaco und dem Bauzium Sculpture Museum. Überblick über die Entstehung und Entwicklung moderner Architektur in Korea Wichtiger Beitrag über den Zusammenhang von Architektur und Identitätsstiftung Von führenden Experten für ostasiatische Architektur und Stadtentwicklung geschrieben

How can the fundamental digital change taking place in design and construction be actively used to bring about cultural change in architecture? By exploring robotic production methods and innovative material developments, Achim Menges and Jan Knippers have succeeded in developing genuine digital building systems that combine architectural elegance with effective construction. The book provides an insight into ten years of joint research at the ICD and ITKE Institutes of Stuttgart University. Taking completed pavilions and buildings as examples, the authors demonstrate the viability of the underlying hypotheses that impressively push the limits of construction. Articles from international experts contribute to the current debate on architecture.

Within a relatively short time, Augmented and Virtual Reality have emerged centre stage in architecture and the arts as novel means for exploring how their creative output is produced, mediated and experienced. Feeding the continuous spectrum between the'fully real'and the'fully virtual,'the underlying technology of these media present machine-generated sensorial input where to date the image-based dominate. With these inputs, corporeal existence see'virtual'experiences thrown on the scale with'real'ones as the concepts and models for how we understand perceptional dynamics are shifting. While teasing the disciplines with creative opportunities, the use of the media presents a staggering number of acute questions, not the least with respect to corporeal experience, the human-machine interface and what constitutes the'real.'Augmented and Virtual Reality invite to re-examine established ways of thinking and making within architecture and the arts and open onto an uncharted territory of what comprises architectural and artistic experience. With Breaking Glass: Spatial Fabulations & Other Tales of Represen- tation in Virtual Reality, select topics central to Augmented and Virtual Reality in architecture and the arts are addressed. It is published in conjunction with the conference Breaking Glass III: Virtual Space, the third and last in a series hosted by the Städelschule. The publication includes texts by, among others, Martine Beugnet, Michael Young, Curtis Roth and Lara Lesmes and Fredrik Hellberg as well as conversations that Daniel Birnbaum respectively had with Sanford Kwinter and Sven-Olov Wallenstein. In addition, a series of visual portfolios by architects and artists presents works. Finally, the publication features the award winning projects of Städelschule Architecture Class'AIV Master Thesis Prize 2019. The issue has been edited by Yara Feghali and the editorial team of the Städelschule Architecture Class. It has been made possible with the generous support of the Aventis Foundation and the Dr. Marschner Foundation.

Der Bau von Hochhäusern ist oft von emotionalen Diskussionen begleitet: Der Gebäudetyp wird einerseits als Lösung für die aktuellen Herausforderungen an die Städte gesehen, anderseits als ästhetische Unmöglichkeit oder Ausdruck einer unerwünschten Gentrifizierung. In aktuellen Entwürfen zeigt sich eine typlogische Erschöpfung, die in starkem Kontrast zum strukturellen Reichtum der Hochhäuser früherer Jahrzehnte steht. Anhand eines Katalogs von 100 Projekten gibt Falk Schneemann einen kritischen Überblick über die Entwicklung der Hochhäuser Westdeutschlands zwischen 1945 und 1980. Mithilfe technikphilosophischer und technikgenetischer Ansätze zeigt er Brüche und Innovationsmomente auf, die zu einem grundlegenden Verständnis des Bautyps beitragen und eine bessere Einschätzung aktueller Entwicklungen ermöglichen.

This book proposes alternative interpretations of broadly-debated concepts within architectural modernity. Bringing into view the work of lesser-known architects from across the globe, alongside previously unexplored aspects of mainstream masters of the Modern, Rethinking Modernity puts forward a compelling case for the range and diversity of architectural projects encompassed by this term. Exploring themes such as the use of colour, materials, ornament, local traditions and identities, Rethinking Modernity challenges readers to build a better understanding of a crucial moment in architectural history, and of design trends shaping the present-day production of the built environment. Complementing the RIBA Publishing titles Redefining Brutalism and Revisiting Postmodernism, this book sits within a series of books aiming to explore new interpretations of well-loved architectural movements, richly illustrated with rarely-seen archive photography and lesser-known projects.

Die Villa le Lac, die seit 2016 zum Weltkulturerbe zählt, hat Le Corbusier 1925 am Genfer See für seine Eltern projektiert und gebaut. Aufgrund seiner sparsamen Raumdisposition bezeichnete er es selbst als „Wohnmaschine“. Bis heute ist es der moderne Prototyp des „kleinen Hauses“ geblieben, das mit einem Minimum an Grundfläche und ineinander übergehenden Räumen alle Funktionen des Wohnens erfüllt. Das Buch erscheint erstmals in drei getrennten Sprachausgaben und folgt der Originalausgabe, in der Le Corbusier die Geschichte des Gebäudes dokumentiert hat: mit Fotos, Skizzen und einem poetischen Text. Sie greift dabei aber auch auf die Originalfotografien zurück und bietet so eine maßgeblich verbesserte Abbildungsqualität; zudem enthält sie ein Nachwort der Architekturhistorikerin Guillemette Morel-Journel.

Ce livre examine l'évolution de l'architecture occidentale depuis l'an mil. Cet examen phénoménologique joue d'une antinomie entre curviligne (typiquement, le roman et le baroque) et rectiligne (typiquement, le gothique et le classique). Pour le moderne, se distinguent le moderne en général et un monde transmoderne, qu'on découvre avec l'architecture de Le Corbusier à la chapelle de Ronchamp ou encore avec l'architecture de Gehry au musée de Bilbao.

Although race—a concept of human difference that establishes hierarchies of power and domination—has played a critical role in the development of modern architectural discourse and practice since the Enlightenment, its influence on the discipline remains largely underexplored. This volume offers a welcome and long-awaited intervention for the field by shining a spotlight on constructions of race and their impact on architecture and theory in Europe and North America and across various global contexts since the eighteenth century. Challenging us to write race back into architectural history, contributors confront how racial thinking has intimately shaped some of the key concepts of modern architecture and culture over time, including freedom, revolution, character, national and indigenous style, progress, hybridity, climate, representation, and radicalism. By analyzing how architecture has intersected with histories of slavery, colonialism, and inequality—from eighteenth-century neoclassical governmental buildings to present-day housing projects for immigrants—Race and Modern Architecture challenges, complicates, and revises the standard association of modern architecture with a universal project of emancipation and progress.

A provocative case for historical ambiguity in architecture by one of the field's leading theoristsConceptions of modernity in architecture are often expressed in the idea of the zeitgeist, or'spirit of the age,'an attitude toward architectural form that is embedded in a belief in progressive time. Lateness explores how architecture can work against these linear currents in startling and compelling ways. In this incisive book, internationally renowned architect Peter Eisenman, with Elisa Iturbe, proposes a different perspective on form and time in architecture, one that circumvents the temporal constraints on style that require it to be'of the times'—lateness. He focuses on three twentieth-century architects who exhibited the qualities of lateness in their designs: Adolf Loos, Aldo Rossi, and John Hejduk. Drawing on the critical theory of Theodor Adorno and his study of Beethoven's final works, Eisenman shows how the architecture of these canonical figures was temporally out of sync with conventions and expectations, and how lateness can serve as a form of release from the restraints of the moment.Bringing together architecture, music, and philosophy, and drawing on illuminating examples from the Renaissance and Baroque periods, Lateness demonstrates how today's architecture can use the concept of lateness to break free of stylistic limitations, expand architecture's critical capacity, and provide a new mode of analysis.

Cities across the world have been resorting to star architects to brand their projects, spark urban regeneration and market the city image internationally. This book shifts the attention from star architects to star architecture, arguing that the process of deciding about and implementing relevant architectural and urban projects is not the product of any single actor. Star architecture can, in fact, be better studied and understood as assembled by multiple actors and in its relationship with urban transformation. In its 18 chapters, the book presents a multidisciplinary collection of expert contributions in the fields of urban planning, architecture, media studies, urban economics, geography, and sociology, consistently brought together for the first time to deal with this topic. Through a vast array of case studies and analytical techniques touching over 20 cities in Europe, the book shows the positive and more problematic impacts of star architecture with reference to the preservation of built heritage, tourism and media. The book will be of interest to architects, sociologists, urban planners, and public administrators.

'Licht, Luft, Sonne, Hygiene'avancierten in der Weimarer Zeit zu allgegenwärtigen Schlagworten, insbesondere im Zusammenhang mit Architektur und Moderne. Im Gegensatz zu den Zentren des Neuen Bauens wie Stuttgart, Frankfurt oder Berlin galt Bayern als rückständig. Gebäude aus dieser Epoche sind nicht immer auf den ersten Blick dem Neuen Bauen zuzuordnen, da die Adaption der Moderne im jungen Freistaat gegenüber der Avantgarde eigene Akzente setzte. Um den komplexen Hintergründen von Bauprojekten in unterschiedlichen Städten Bayerns gerecht zu werden, wählt Franz Hauner für seine regionalhistorische Untersuchung einen interdisziplinären Ansatz und geht über einen rein kunsthistorischen Blickwinkel hinaus. Die Studie zeigt, dass das traditionsbewusste katholisch geprägte Bayern sich nicht einem wie auch immer gearteten Kunstdiktat des protestantisch-preußischen Norddeutschland unterwerfen wollte, sondern bestrebt war, eine eigene Ausprägung des Neuen Bauens zu entwickeln und seine Deutungshoheit über Kunst und Architektur zu verteidigen.

Die Alternative zur Stadt ist das Leben auf dem Land. Aber was macht attraktive Orte und intakte Dorfstrukturen aus? Welche planerischen Strategien und Instrumente helfen, diese lebendig zu halten anstatt Freiflächen mit Einfamilienhaussiedlungen und Gewerbegebieten zu zersiedeln? Wie kann Architektur dazu beitragen, Identität zu schaffen beziehungsweise zu bewahren? In Bayern haben Katinka Temme und Daniel Reisch viele gute Beispiele gefunden. Sie untersuchen zusammen mit ihren Co-Autoren die Möglichkeiten von Lückenschluss, Nachverdichtung, Neuplanung, Umgestaltung, Nachnutzung – kurz architektonische Mittel zur Stärkung regionaler Identität. Das Buch liefert 20 Architekturbeispiele, die zeigen, wie eine tatsächliche Perspektive Land gelingen kann.

La arquitectura es más que una'poética casual'y este libro busca ahondar en sus rimas. Para ello, mediante un recorrido por las principales corrientes arquitectónicas con espíritu inconformista, Lorenzo Rocha busca darle el peso funcional y teórico que merece. A través de la obra de Le Corbusier, Giancarlo de Carlo, Lacaton, Vassal, Alejandro Aravena y los principales ejemplos de la Costa este de Estados Unidos, este libro recorre las principales tendencias de los últimos años para encontrar los cimientos que comparten los espíritus más libres.

Transformation statt Abriss und Neubau, Entwicklung statt Bruch: Zunehmend rückt das Prinzip Weiterbauen als Gegenposition zum Neubau-Paradigma der Moderne in den Fokus von Architektur und Bautechnik. Es versteht das Bauwerk weniger als abzuschließendes Produkt denn als kontinuierlichen Prozess, thematisiert die Kontinuität von Orten und Bauten und wirft neue Fragen nach ihrer Abgeschlossenheit und Autorenschaft, nach Haltbarkeit und Nachhaltigkeit auf. Im Fokus des Bandes stehen neben den technischen und künstlerischen Prozessen von Umbau und Anpassung auch die sich ändernden gesellschaftlichen Wertvorstellungen und Interpretationsmuster, die in der Neuausrichtung vorhandener Bausubstanz durch das Weiterbauen ihren materiellen Ausdruck finden.

This edited volume, Modern Architecture and the Sacred, presents a timely reappraisal of the manifold engagements that modern architecture has had with'the sacred'. It comprises fourteen individual chapters arranged in three thematic sections – Beginnings and Transformations of the Modern Sacred; Buildings for Modern Worship; and Semi-Sacred Settings in the Cultural Topography of Modernity. The first interprets the intellectual and artistic roots of modern ideas of the sacred in the post-Enlightenment period and tracks the transformation of these in architecture over time. The second studies the ways in which organized religion responded to the challenges of the new modern self-understanding, and then the third investigates the ways that abstract modern notions of the sacred have been embodied in the ersatz sacred contexts of theatres, galleries, memorials and museums. While centring on Western architecture during the decisive period of the first half of the 20th century – a time that takes in the early musings on spirituality by some of the avant-garde in defiance of Sachlichkeit and the machine aesthetic – the volume also considers the many-varied appropriations of sacrality that architects have made up to the present day, and also in social and cultural contexts beyond the West.

How socialist architects, planners, and contractors worked collectively to urbanize and develop the Global South during the Soviet eraIn the course of the Cold War, architects, planners, and construction companies from socialist Eastern Europe engaged in a vibrant collaboration with those in West Africa and the Middle East in order to bring modernization to the developing world. Architecture in Global Socialism shows how their collaboration reshaped five cities in the Global South: Accra, Lagos, Baghdad, Abu Dhabi, and Kuwait City.Łukasz Stanek describes how local authorities and professionals in these cities drew on Soviet prefabrication systems, Hungarian and Polish planning methods, Yugoslav and Bulgarian construction materials, Romanian and East German standard designs, and manual laborers from across Eastern Europe. He explores how the socialist development path was adapted to tropical conditions in Ghana in the 1960s, and how Eastern European architectural traditions were given new life in 1970s Nigeria. He looks at how the differences between socialist foreign trade and the emerging global construction market were exploited in the Middle East in the closing decades of the Cold War. Stanek demonstrates how these and other practices of global cooperation by socialist countries—what he calls socialist worldmaking—left their enduring mark on urban landscapes in the postcolonial world.Featuring an extensive collection of previously unpublished images, Architecture in Global Socialism draws on original archival research on four continents and a wealth of in-depth interviews. This incisive book presents a new understanding of global urbanization and its architecture through the lens of socialist internationalism, challenging long-held notions about modernization and development in the Global South.

Warum vergolden die Österreicher ihre Baudenkmäler selbst dann, wenn sie zu Staub zerfallen? Wieso bauen die Deutschen ihren Automobilen Tempel? Und was passiert, wenn Ernst Neufert in Graz auf Buster Keaton trifft? Seit 1992 bereichern die Texte Christian Kühns im Feuilleton der Tageszeitung „Die Presse', das als Leitindex der österreichischen Architekturentwicklung gilt, die kritische Diskussion über Architektur und Städtebau. Kühns Texte richten sich vor allem an neugierige Stadt- und Hausbewohner, die Architektur als Medium gesellschaftlicher Veränderungen kennenlernen und verstehen wollen, nicht nur an das Fachpublikum. Ringstraße ist überall versammelt seine besten Texte von 1992 bis 2007: 120 Essays, die der Baukunst unserer Zeit auf den Zahn fühlen.

The firm schlaich bergermann partner has been designing and building ambitious civil engineering projects around the world for more than thirty years. Its portfolio ranges from long-span support structures and bridges to high-rises, special-use buildings and leading-edge solar power stations. The wellspring of the firm's innovative work lies in its unique planning culture. Beneath the Surface showcases this culture through sketches, drawings, photographs and texts from a wide selection of projects realized by schlaich bergermann partner. This impressive, richly illustrated volume brings into relief the firm's philosophy and the methods of its interdisciplinary engineers as they work together on equal footing with architects.