JOVIS Catalog Spring 2021
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4<br />
Polylemma<br />
raumlaborberlin (ed.)<br />
“No Trust, No City!” was the longtime credo on their<br />
website; “Some Ideas for Better Cities” was their first joint<br />
lecture series; and Acting in Public was their first book.<br />
For over than twenty years, the architecture collective<br />
raumlaborberlin has been searching for new spaces of<br />
encounter and for ways of achieving cooperative urban<br />
development. Together with experts from various disciplines,<br />
they experiment with new forms of urban practice,<br />
participation, and the joint production of space. Polylemma<br />
explores the work of the collective from diverse perspectives.<br />
Its nine members visit the sites of their work, come<br />
together with long-standing colleagues and critics, dissect<br />
the mechanisms behind their actions, and reflect on<br />
the tools and methods of their research-based practice.<br />
Examining numerous projects, they discuss strategies for<br />
learning together, experimental building, radical recycling,<br />
and cooperative urban development. The book is a call to<br />
action: space becomes an actor that fundamentally questions<br />
design itself and the role of architects. It offers an<br />
extensive collection of photos and drawings, analyses and<br />
ideas, and tutorials and building instructions that continually<br />
test and explore the parameters for action in urban<br />
space. Polylemma asks: How do we want to live together<br />
in the future? It is a request to think space openly; a plea<br />
for the city as a sphere of action.<br />
Softcover<br />
400 pages, 350 col. ill.<br />
21.5 × 28.5 cm<br />
ISBN 978-3-86859-672-4<br />
€ 35.00 (DE) | $ 40.00 (US) | £ 32.00 (GB)<br />
05.<strong>2021</strong><br />
English/German<br />
++ First monograph by the internationally<br />
renowned architecture<br />
collective raumlaborberlin ++<br />
Discusses methods and tools for<br />
cooperative urban development ++<br />
Documentation of groundbreaking<br />
projects ++<br />
Making Futures School holding their morning plenum at Haus der Statistik. © Lena Giovanazzi Opening night at the Floating University Berlin 2018. © Pierre Adenis