this is modern!

German Werkbund Exhibition
Venice 2014

Claudia Kromrei (ed.)

Hardcover
16,8 x 25 cm
384 pages with approx. 350 col.
English
EUR (D) 38.00 SFr 50.00
ISBN 978-3-86859-300-6
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German Version:
this is modern!
Deutsche Werkbund Ausstellung
Venedig 2014
ISBN 978-3-86859-283-2

German Werkbund Exhibition Venice 2014:

Press release

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With the catalog this is modern, the German Werkbund Berlin presents the status of contemporary architecture in Germany: 22 renowned architecture firms show their designs for a German exhibition pavilion on the Biennale site in the Giardini in Venice. The existing pavilion, built in 1909 and modified in 1938, was hypothetically stated as needing renewal, reopening the question of a contemporary national exhibition building for the whole world to see. The fact that the Werkbund is questioning its status specifically in the year 2014 and in the context of this year’s Architecture Biennale – which is concerned with theFundamentals of architecture and with 100 years of Absorbing Modernity – is of course linked to the emblematic event of the Werkbund exhibition of 1914 in Cologne. 100 years after this first large-scale exhibition, the German Werkbund Berlin also addresses the question of what insights have been gained by the experience of 100 years of modernity, in the search for an appropriate approach to architectural creation.

Architecture in Context

Developing Urban Living Environments 
Beyond the Master Plan and Facade Discussions

Kay von Keitz/Sabine Voggenreiter (eds.)

Softcover
14.8 x 21 cm
192 pages with 30 col.
English/German
EUR (D) 25.00 SFr 32.00
ISBN 978-3-86859-297-9
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Architecture brings together, in a wide range of specific types of buildings with different functions, complex criteria such as perception, experience, understanding, imagination, and planning, especially within the polymorphic conglomerations that we call a city. It is only those who use a building and live in it that make it “complete”, which is particularly true with regard to cities and urban living: the city as a “communal living space”, but also as a multilayered infrastructural system with technical, social, political, cultural, esthetic, and ethical components. Therefore the publication is primarily oriented towards objectives, strategies, and methods for the further development of the city, on different levels and scales. Local, regional, national, and international concepts that can be regarded as innovative or alternative are central. The focus of the content is especially on structural, as well as design sustainability, on unexploited potential, on the planning of the unplannable. Architecture and urban development, public spaces and mobility are observed and analyzed, as wide-ranging and comprehensive urban development subjects, which also always incorporate a social dimension.

3+1 Stadia for Brazil

Brasília – Manaus – Belo Horizonte – Rio de Janeiro

Falk Jaeger (ed.)

Half-cloth
24 x 32 cm
232 pages with approx. 150 col.
English/German
EUR (D) 38.00 SFr 50.00
ISBN 978-3-86859-326-6
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The architects gmp von Gerkan, Marg and Partners and the structural consulting engineers schlaich bergermann und partner are leading stadium builders worldwide. This partnership of architects and engineers from Germany was significantly involved in the development of four emblematic stadia for the soccer world championship 2014 in Brazil. Apart from a completely new stadium on the Amazon, they are also working on the restructuring and renovation of legendary arenas. This book not only presents the Brasília national stadium, the Arena Amazônia in Manaus, the Mineirão in Belo Horizonte, and the Maracanã in Rio de Janeiro, but also conveys impressions of the fascinating cities they were built in and portrays the local enthusiasm for football as an expression of the Brazilian zest for life.

Raumunternehmen

Wie Nutzer selbst Räume entwickeln

Lisa Buttenberg, Klaus Overmeyer, Guido Spars (eds.)

Hardcover
17 x 24 cm
168 pages with approx. 200 illustrations
German
EUR (D) 22.00 SFr 28.60
ISBN 978-3-86859-319-8
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A new type of city and land activist has emerged on the scene: Raumunternehmen – self-determined space and project developers who gradually appropriate abandoned sites, form special usage mixes and networks, and build up long-term prospects through clever fi nancing strategies. They create testing grounds for the urgent issues facing the city of the future. They involve new models of participation and community, cooperation between civic society and the state, and relocalisation and sustainable economic activity. Based on six practical case studies, this book presents the spatial strategies, development approaches, and alternative value creation concepts of spatial ventures, and relates these insights to the current debate about user-financed urban development.

Gerd Lange Design

In the Context of Serial Production 1962–2007

Alfred Hablützel (ed.)

Hardcover
21 x 28 cm
104 pages with numerous col. 
and b/w
English
EUR (D) 32.00 SFr 42.00
ISBN 978-3-86859-313-6
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German version:
Gerd Lange Design
Im Blickwinkel der seriellen Produktion. 1962–2007
ISBN 978-3-86859-335-8

Though without even knowing it, almost everyone has sat on a chair by Gerd Lange or picked up one of his products at some time or other. The furniture and product designer has created countless everyday objects, and the production runs of his chairs have been spectacularly large. In short, Gerd Lange tremendously influenced the history of design in Germany in the 1970s and 80s. After learning the carpenter trade, Lange studied at Offenbach University of Art and Design and, in 1961, opened his own design studio in Kapsweyer, a hamlet in southwestern Germany. Just seven years later, in 1968, he designed a stacking chair made of a polyamide seat and tubular steel legs. More than a million units were produced over the course of forty-five years. The plain, functional chair with the succinct name “SM 400 K” received Germany’s Federal Prize for Occupational Seating, the U.S. Design Award, and the iF Design Award at the Messe Hannover. It can now be viewed at the Guggenheim Museum and at Rockefeller Center in New York. In 1973 Lange created the first plastic chair with wooden legs, manufactured by Thonet. The designer and author Alfred Hablützel, a profound authority of Gerd Lange’s work, has written the first study of “Gerd Lange Design”. Richly illustrated and with insightful commentary, Hablützel’s book introduces readers to Lange’s most important designs.

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