JOVIS Catalog Fall 2021

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++ Topical contributions towards the creative
and artistic design research process ++ Multifaceted
discourse around intentions in the creative
process in architecture and landscape ++
Intentions of Reflexive
Design
Design and Research in Architecture and
Landscape
Margitta Buchert (ed.)
How do intentions enroll into the practice of architecture
and landscape design and research? How do they
become operative to orient, clarify, and energize the
creative process, and in what ways do they inform design
and knowledge processes? Contributions in this edited
volume describe, reconstruct, and analyze a multitude of
capacities and arcs of tension that occur between alignment
and implementation, agency and contextualization,
as well as across exploration, imagination, and projection.
Contributors demonstrate further driving forces
that interplay generatively with intentions in the design
and research processes, offering new perspectives into
the relevance of a reflexive design practice in support of
creating a high-quality living environment.
With contributions from Matthias von Ballestrem, Maria
del Pilar Barba Buscaglia, Katja Benfer, Steffen Bösenberg,
Ricardo Carvalho, Edoardo Cresci, Valerie Hoberg,
Luciano Motta, Caroline Voet, Cyrus Zahiri, and Margitta
Buchert
Softcover with flaps
256 pages, 90 col. and b/w ill.
16.5 × 24 cm
Print 978-3-86859-696-0
E-Book 978-3-86859-969-5
€ 34.00 (DE) | $ 39.99 (US) | £ 31.00 (GB)
07.2021
English/German
++ A manual for epistolary political
action ++ The follow-up to Zweifel.
Performative Stadtplanung in 13 Vorträgen
++
Zweifellos
Aktivistische Stadtplanung in 13 Briefen
Ton Matton
Ton Matton is a city planner, indie urbanist, self-confessed
fan of performative urbanism, doubter, and epistolarian.
At the start of his career as a city planner, Matton began
writing letters on the subject of sustainable urban planning,
which at the time was still a very new field in the discipline.
He wrote one to a government minister, explaining that
housing estates are a compromise, not a replacement for
life in the city or the countryside. He wrote another one to
a Chancellor of Germany, reminding her that the energy
generated by solar and wind power still needs to be stored
in electric toothbrushes and cell phone batteries. Since
then, he has written many more letters—to politicians, project
developers, and people of greater and lesser renown.
All Matton’s letters express his passionate enjoyment of
doubt. With a lot of humor and his usual provocativeness,
he challenges the recipients of his letters to look at things
in a new light, and in doing so encourages readers to seize
the initiative themselves.
Softcover
160 pages
10.5 × 14.8 cm
Print 978-3-86859-674-8
E-Book 978-3-86859-946-6
€ 16.80 (DE) | $ 19.99 (US) | £ 15.50 (GB)
08.2021
German
Related title:
Zweifel
Ton Matton
Print 978-3-86859-553-6
€ 16.80 (DE) | $ 19.99 (US) | £ 15.50 (UK)
01.2019