Architecture Art

Architecture urban space
UnGEWÖHnLIcH
WoHnEn!
Bremer Perspektiven
Dirk Meyhöfer
Edited by Bremer Zentrum
für Baukultur (BZB)
Hardcover
16.8 x 24 cm
160 pages witH ca. 100 col.
eUr (d) 24.80 sFr 32.80
isbn 978-3-86859-158-3
JUly 2012
What challenges does urban residential building
face today? How can cities adapt to changing
demographic, economic and ecologic
circumstances, as well as to the new requirements
of future residents? What is currently
considered as exemplary residential building?
These were the questions posed by the
“Ungewöhnlich Wohnen!” (“Unusual Living”)
contest, held by the city of Bremen in 2011.
It sought proposals for five housing developments
from the nineteen-fifties and nineteensixties.
The objective was to amalgamate hybrid
usages, such as living and working etc.,
integrating them into the city and society.
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The city was also to be made more attractive
for newcomers.
This book provides detailed documentation of
the five winning designs by Spengler-Wiescholek
(Hamburg), Arno Brandlhuber, Finn Geipel,
BarArchitekten (all from Berlin) and Kempe Thill
(Rotterdam). These exemplary models of qualitative,
sustainable and achievable residential
buildings are complemented by twenty further
projects in Bremen, whose standards and aspirations
are on a par with the award-winning
designs.
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LEbEn // GESTaLTEn
In Zeiten endloser Krisen
Deutscher Werkbund
Hessen (ed.)
soFtcover
17 x 24 cm
224 pages
eUr (d) 29.80 sFr 42.00
isbn 978-3-86859-156-9
october 2012
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Under what cultural conditions is qualitative
design possible at the beginning of the twenty-first
century? What concrete impact does
successful design have?
The answers to these questions are to be
found less in the objects themselves than in
the people who use these objects and are
defined by their use. This book considers
the cultural environment in which designing
takes place, as well as its impact on people’s
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German
lives. Successful design is understood as responsible
design and therefore has ethical
connotations, because design as long-term
action sets standards that it has to adhere to.
The contributions to the book are based
largely on the presentations made at the
Werkbund conference in September 2011
(German Work Federation of Architects, Artists
and Builders), held at Goethe University
in Frankfurt/Main.
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