Margitta Buchert Boeken

How do intentions enroll into the practice of architecture and landscape design and research? How do they become operative to orientate, 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 und Margitta Buchert

(bilingual edition: English / German) The concept oflandscape-ness is gaining increasing importance in architecture notleast due to the rising threat of climate change. Based on internationalexamples, Margitta Buchert analyzes the potential of architecture fordealing with contemporary challenges, including socio-culturaltransformations and questions of lifeworld orientations within thetensions of global networking and local exposure--between natural spaceand urban space. Which architectural understandings and characteristicsflow into architecture and urban projects by introducing the concept oflandscape-ness? Which spatial articulating qualities are emphasized? Andwhat sensibilities and capacities are enriched? Dimensions of landscapeas nature--however, shaped and reshaped by humans--are in focus, as wellas the connection between aesthetics, architecture, ecology, and thecity.

Forschendes Entwerfen und entwerfendes Forschen in Architektur, Städtebau und Landschaftsarchitektur befördern, strukturieren und generieren Produkte spezifischer Figuration und Qualität. Die Beiträge dieses Buches loten anhand von vielfältigen Beispielen diverse, ineinander übergehende Modi des Wissens und Gestaltens von Produkten und ihrer Hervorbringung im entwurflichen und forschenden Tun erkenntnisreich aus, setzen sie in Relation zum Reflexiven Entwerfen und geben Impulse für zukunftsweisendes Handeln. Mit Beiträgen von Tom Bieling, Margitta Buchert, Andrea Canclini, Diana Gouveia Amaral, Valerie Hoberg, Susan Jebrini, Andreas Lechner, Gennaro Postiglione, Martin Prominski, Sarah Wehmeyer.