Focusing on architectural projects in neglected urban and rural areas, this book showcases designs that aim for social change and highlight architecture's responsibility. The featured works, primarily schools, public spaces, and housing, emerge from close collaboration with future users. Set in locations with inadequate infrastructure, these projects illustrate a transformative dialogue between architecture and ethics, reflecting a commitment to improving communities through thoughtful design.
Aga Khan Award for Architecture 2019
Aga Khan Award for Architecture 2019 The Aga Khan Award for Architecture is one of the most prestigious and renowned awards for architecture worldwide. Since 1980 the Award has been given every three years to projects that combine social and ecological aspects and translate them into innovative and exemplary design. The Award seeks to identify and encourage building concepts that successfully address the needs and aspirations of societies across the world, in which Muslims have a significant presence. This publication presents the shortlist of the 2017–2019 award cycle. From a group of almost 400, 20 projects have been shortlisted by the Master Jury and evaluated by an expert group of technical reviewers. Some of these projects have been honoured with the Aga Khan Award. In addition to detailed descriptions of all projects, this book gathers a series of personal statements from the members of the Steering Committee and the Award’s Master Jury on key issues that were crucial in the discussions for the final selection and assignment of the award recipients. Assembled together, this book presents a selection of the outstanding examples of sustainable and socially relevant architecture in the world today and opens up fundamental perspectives for the planning of the future.
As one of the worlds megacities, São Paulo has for decades seen an investment in architectural infrastructures that attempt to mitigate its open space shortages as well as fulfill the constant need for recreational, cultural, and sports programs. These buildings and open spaces - which can be public, semi-public, or privately-owned - arguably attempt to create inclusive places for urban society. This exhibition catalogue presents projects at different scales, focusing on their programmatic characteristics rather than the formal qualities usually emphasized in scholarship on Brazilian architecture. While many cities around the world are still chasing the so-called "Bilbao Effect" - the creation of a monofunctional "signature" architectural work by a famous architect that can attract tourism - this exhibition catalogue advocates for architectural infrastructure that adds programs of different natures, and that are aimed at social sustainability for local citizens. This aspect of urban growth in São Paulo - quite a vertical and densely-populated city; a city of great resources and also tremendous poverty; a city with high crime rates; a city with severe traffic issues; a city with public-health problems - illustrates how architecture and infrastructure can contribute to a city's urban development in multiple ways.
Die Entwicklung des Hochhausbaus ist seit den Anfängen Ende des 19. Jahrhunderts eine faszinierende Erfolgsgeschichte. Diese Symbole des Erfolgs und der ökonomischen Macht sind mit einer Vielzahl von architektonischen, technologischen, ökologischen und urbanistischen Aspekten verbunden. Entstanden ist diese Bauform in den USA, heute werden die spektakulärsten Skyscraper in Asien und Europa gebaut. In diesem visuell überzeugenden Band wird die spannende Entwicklungsgeschichte des Wolkenkratzers in seinen weltweit bedeutendsten Beispielen aufgerollt und ein Ausblick in die Zukunft dieses Bautyps gewagt.
Wer kennt das nicht? Dinge, die man sich eben erst gekauft hat, gehen bereits nach kurzer Zeit kaputt. Die Reparatur ist nicht vorgesehen, Ersatzteile sind nicht erhältlich. Was tun? Repaircafés versuchen zu helfen, doch eigentlich braucht es ein Umdenken schon bei der Konstruktion und Produktion der Dinge. Um der Entwicklung entgegenzuwirken und für einen nachhaltigen Umgang mit Ressourcen zu sensibilisieren, ist an der Architekturfakultät der Hochschule München ein Reparaturkurs initiiert worden. Für die unterschiedlichsten Objekte wurden Reparaturkonzepte entwickelt und durchgeführt - sowohl handwerklich als auch mit Hilfe digitaler Fabrikationstechniken. Auf Süddeutschlands größtem DIY-Festival Make Munich sind der Maker-Szene bereits einige Projekte vorgestellt worden. Diese Publikation zeigt nun erstmals die ganze Bandbreite. Damit soll nicht nur zum Nachdenken - sondern vor allem auch zum Nachahmen angeregt werden. Denn Austausch oder vollständiger Ersatz dürfen weder im Produktdesign noch im sehr viel größeren Maßstab der Architektur die Reparatur als Konzept ablösen.
Homelessness, Architecture, and Cities
Homelessness?the state of having no home?is a growing global problem that requires local discussions and solutions. In the face of the coronavirus pandemic, it has noticeably become a collective concern. However, in recent years, the official political discourse in many countries around the world implies that poverty is a personal fault, and that if people experience homelessness, it is because they have not tried hard enough to secure shelter and livelihood. 0Although architecture alone cannot solve the problem of homelessness, the question arises: What and which roles can it play? Or, to be more precise, how can architecture collaborate with other disciplines in developing ways to permanently house those who do not have a home?0Who?s Next? Homelessness, Architecture, and Cities seeks to explore and understand a reality that involves the expertise of national, regional, and city agencies, nongovernmental organizations, health-care fields, and academic disciplines. Through scholarly essays, interviews, analyses of architectural case studies, and research on the historical and current situation in Los Angeles, Moscow, Mumbai, New York, São Paulo, San Francisco, Shanghai, and Tokyo, this book unfolds different entry points toward understanding homelessness and some of the many related problems. The book is a polyphonic attempt to break down this topic into as many parts as needed, so that the specificities and complexities of one of the most urgent crises of our time rise to the fore
Ludwig II of Bavaria (1864—1886) is more internationally known for his royal palaces than hardly any other regent of the 19 th century. They are the symbol of a personal architectural vision which, to this day, fascinates people from all over the world. However, the fame of his palaces has eclipsed other construction activities in the Kingdom of Bavaria: urban developments, hospitals, and schools, theatres and museums, but also factories, railway stations, apartment blocks, churches, and synagogues were created under his regency. This book, for the first time, sheds light on the broad architectural activities in this epoch. Essays and overview illustrations of the building projects of the time provide insights into the diversity of the then building culture and, at the same time, open up a new perspective on the royal palaces.
How durable must urban planning be? From the Oktoberfest in Munich to the world's largest pilgrimage festival Kumbh Mela in India and the Burning Man Festival in Nevada to many other major events, it is apparent that flexible structural structures are used worldwide to supply very large crowds in the short or medium term supply. The ephemeral structures fulfill various functional tasks and serve religious and cultural festivals, as military and refugee camps or mining towns. The exhibition is based on a long-term study by Rahul Mehrotra, Graduate School of Design, Harvard University, and Felipe Vera, Centro de Ecologia Paisaje y Urbanismo, Santiago, and describes a global phenomenon that is particularly relevant in times of global migration
The catalogue World of Malls is devoted to a type of building that was invented in the United States just less than sixty years ago and quickly spread throughout the world. Due to urban planning’s increasing orientation toward the automobile, the mall became a substitute for lost urbanity. Yet what direction is the development of the shopping mall taking today? On the one hand, there continue to be spectacular new openings in America, Asia, the United Arab Emirates, and Europe. At the same time, however, many malls are empty, and some are being converted and repurposed. There is hardly any other building typology that is being discussed as controversially: does the shopping mall mean the death of the city, or does it stimulate its revitalization? In their essays, urban planners, economists, and architectural historians such as Anette Baldauf, Bob Bruegmann, Dietrich Erben, Richard Longstreth, Alain Thierstein, June Williamson, and Sophie Wolfrum examine the transformation processes of the shopping mall from the twentieth to the twenty-first century. (German edition ISBN 978-3-7757-4138-5) Exhibition: Architekturmuseum der TU München in der Pinakothek der Moderne, 13.7.–22.10.2016