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4a Architekten : wasserwelten

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The exhibition illustrates the variety of leisure spas and thermal baths realized by the architectural practice 4a Architekten from Stuttgart, Germany. Accessible for visitors from viewpoints resembling starting blocks, the room installation is made up of models and platforms suspended over a water pool. Enhancing the experience of visiting an actual swimming pool, in-depth information to each project is provided in a row of lockers. Via projections on the walls and on the water surface, visitors also become emotionally involved in the bathing activities and the architectural diversity of 4a Architekten.

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Moderating urban density

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The architects Alfredo Brillembourg and Hubert Klumpner, over the last ten years, have developed the Caracas/Venezuela based Urban-Think Tank (UTT) into an international network to face the challenges of uncontrolled urban growth in the dense informal centers of the 21st century Mega-cities. The exhibit will include photos, videos and projects that question the notion of contemporary architecture and urbanism that pulls together some of the Urban Think Tanks most consistent propositions. UTT has moved to propose design solutions, to make that crucial passage from protest to project in an effort to make a real impact in Caracas and in Europe and North America, presenting the relevance of their ideas for the Stadtwerk in Salzburg and for a Vertical Gym in Spanish Harlem, New York. ‘Moderating Urban Density’ exhibit shows how negotiation and design can work in the interface between the social conflicts and the production of new urban infrastructures, architecture, and sustainable human environments in the so called “barrios” of the informal mega city.

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Kazuyo Sejima + Ryue Nishizawa : Saana : the Zollverein school of management and design - Essen, Germany

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Monography of the project by the architectural firm SANAA about the building that will house the Zollverein School of Management and Design in Essen, Germany. The cube-like building fuses the site's industrial past with its aesthetically driven future. This study of the structure and its designers includes drawings, plans, and models that depict the complexity of the project. It chronicles the development of the building's concept and construction and includes enlightening interviews with the architects. With contributions by Floris Alkemade, Nicole Berganski, Ralph Bruder, Kristin Feireiss, Kazuyo Sejima + Ryue Nishizawa, Matthias Schuler, Tom Sieverts, Deyan Sudjic and Roland Weiss.

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Swiss shapes

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Since the nineties Swiss architecture has gained worldwide recognition beyond mere circles of experts. With its minimalist masterpieces between Basel and the Grisons, the so called Swiss Box achieved highest acclaim. In the meantime, a new generation of young architects has left the path to abstraction and turned to new objectives: Moving interest from surface to space marks the works on display. Selected were projects presenting in exemplary fashion these new spatial, functional, constructive, ecological and urban planning qualities.

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Zvi Hecker : the Heinz-Galinski School in Berlin

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Documentation of this Israeli architect's design for the Jewish School in Berlin.

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Artengo Menis Pastrana : morphologische architektur

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Catalogue from the 1997 exhibition at Aedes in Berlin of the work of the Canary Islands firm AMP.

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The Why Factor(y) and the futur city

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Founded by Winy Maas, The Why Factory concentrates on the production of models and visualizations for future cities. It runs independent research projects, PhD programs, architecture and urbanism studios, postgraduate studios at the Berlage Institute in Rotterdam, and workshops and debates. One component of the thinktank is publishing a series of books and producing films. This volume is based on Maas' inaugural address upon assuming the position of Chair of Architecture and Urban Design at Delft University of Technology in 2009. It also includes transcripts and addresses from “My Future City,” a Why Factory symposium, in which students, architects, urban planners, philosophers, politicians and engineers shared their visions for the city of the future.

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Architecture in times of need

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The first book to document the projects and progress made by the Make It Right Foundation, established by actor Brad Pitt, in response to the destruction wrought by Hurricane Katrina of homes throughout New Orleans' Lower Ninth Ward.

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Passion city: St-Raum a. landschaftsarchitektur

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This illustrated monograph details forty projects by ST raum a., whose goal is to provide vital open spaces in urban environments. Divided by categories-relaxation, education, work, residences, and public spaces, the projects in this book are illustrated with photographs and plans, and accompanied by short texts by the designers and clients. Also included is an interview with renowned Dutch landscape architect Winy Maas, who lends his perspective to the work of this team.

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Architecture of change 2: sustainability and humanity in the built environment

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In today's changing world, architects and engineers must address issues of sustainability when designing buildings, homes and urban developments. Through groundbreaking architecture, innovative urban planning and social engagement, the awareness of how sustainable architecture can make an environmental impact are becoming increasingly grounded in public consciousness. Like its successful predecessor, Architecture of Change: Edition 2010 presents an unrivaled collection of the most innovative architecture projects that make a considerable contribution to a brighter future. Over forty exemplary projects by internationally renowned architecture practices such as Pritzker Architecture Prize winners Renzo Piano and OMA founder Rem Koolhaas are profiled with the newly built California Academy of Sciences and the master plan for a wind farm in the North Sea. From a zero emission ice station facility in Antarctica to the High Line public promenade in Manhattan, the book represents a broad range of environmentally mindful concepts that are not only outstanding in their architectural form but are also devoted to regional environmental and social conditions as well as their global impact.