Berlin transfer : open living structures (to be completed by the user) / Rainer Hehl & Ludwig Engel.

Title & Author:

Berlin transfer : open living structures (to be completed by the user) / Rainer Hehl & Ludwig Engel.

Publication:

Berlin : Ruby Press, [2016]

Description:

235 pages : photographs, plans ; 25 cm

Notes:
Book has special paperback binding with only one side fixed to the book (spine not attached).

Summary:

What happens if you take the conceptual essence of a design that has worked well in one place and invest it in another? This is the scenario proposed by 'Berlin Transfer'. Inverting the direction in which knowledge has been exported since colonial times, the book reveals the potential of architectural and urban design concepts from non-Western contexts to inform unconventional approaches of urban development in Europe. The third volume of the series, 'Open Living Structures' revisits the ideas of the Polish architect Oskar Hansen (1922-2005) on "open forms", or architectural forms that allow for completion through the user. At the 1959 CIAM in Otterlo, Hansen questioned the modernist practice of providing social housing through standardized models, instead he called for incomplete systems and for architecture as living structures. Updating this concept for the modern age, this books looks at eight historical and contemporary case studies from Japan and analyzes how they make use of flexible floor plans that can be reconfigured by their residents themselves. What lessons does this performative dimension of architecture prevalent in Japan have for the modern Western architect? The answer is explored in a series of practical applications, in which principles derived from the Japanese case studies are translated into a series of interventions for sites in Berlin.

ISBN:

9783944074191 (pbk.)
394407419X

Subject:

Space (Architecture)
Space (Architecture) Designs and plans.
Space (Architecture) History.
Space (Architecture) Philosophy.
Space (Architecture) Germany Berlin History.
Espace (Architecture)
Espace (Architecture) Dessins et plans.
Espace (Architecture) Histoire.
Espace (Architecture) Philosophie.
Espace (Architecture) Allemagne Berlin Histoire.
Germany Berlin.

Form/genre:

Architectural drawings.
History.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 294437
Call No.: BIB 239986
Status: Available

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