Deutschlandscape/Deutschlandschaft: Epicentres at the Periphery/Epizentren Der Peripherie

by Ferguson, Francesca

• ISBN13: 9783775714822
• ISBN10: 3775714820
• Edition: Bilingual
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2004-11-15
• Publisher: Distributed Art Pub Inc

Summary

The German pavilion at the 9th Venice Architecture Biennale offers an overview of more than 35 contemporary architectural projects in Germany which have manifested in peripheral urban areas, suburban spaces and de-industrialized zones. The projects reveal the transformation and reactivation of banal everyday architecture--business parks, switching stations, water purification plants, and strictly coded and conventional housing types--to open up a new perception of the "deutschlandscape." Here, architectural norms are reworked and given a new aesthetic twist through ironic self-reflection. These built projects by a critical young generation of German architects reveal highly innovative use of new materials, generate suburban "plug-ins" (temporary and mobile architecture) and skillfully rework the familiar to create solutions for hitherto underrepresented yet vital areas on the urban fringe. Accompanying essays and interviews reveal the personal narratives behind the architecture. Contributions include: "urban therapist" Sonja Beeck on dealing with the psychological dimensions of shrinking cities in the former GDR; artist and urbanist Kai Vockler on the German psychoscape; Omar Akbar of the Bauhaus Dessau on the wider implications of urban sprawl; Peter Cook on tuning suburbia; Angelika Fitz on strategic answers to restrictive building regulations; Peter Wilson on the marketing of place; and Rudolf Stegers on multi-layered meanings behind the architectural image.

Table of Contents

Preface	6	(4)
Manfred Stolpe
Deutschlandscape	10	(6)
Francesca Ferguson
Lakeland with Strong Houses	16	(6)
Gerd De Bruyn
Building by the Wayside	22	(14)
Eurolandscape and the Story of Loddenheide	24	(12)
Peter Wilson
Bolles + Wilson	28	(2)
Regina Schineis Architektin	30	(4)
Hild Und K Architekten	34	(2)
The Edge Condition	36	(24)
Fact Sheet: Urban Sprawl	38	(2)
The Peripheral Gaze	40	(6)
Stefano Boeri
Francesca Ferguson
Architecture at A Second Glance	46	(4)
Arno Lederer
Fact Sheet: Urban Development on Disused Military Land	50	(10)
Lederer Ragnarsdottir Oei Architekten	52	(4)
Jurgen Mayer H.	56	(4)
Homely - Uncanny	60	(56)
The German Psychoscape	62	(38)
Kai Vockler
Bjorn Severin in Rheinflugel Baukunst	70	(4)
Titus Bernhard Architekt	74	(4)
Bottega + Ehrhardt Architekten	78	(4)
Bayer Uhrig Architekten	82	(2)
Allmann Sattler Wappner Architekten	84	(6)
Archifactory.De	90	(4)
Diezinger & Kramer	94	(2)
Florian Nagler Architekten	96	(4)
Blending in Ahnlich Werden	100	(16)
Angelika Fitz
Seifert + Stockmann Architekten	104	(4)
Heide Von Beckerath Alberts Architekten	108	(2)
Benjamin Foerster-Baldenius [Raumlabor_Berlin]	110	(2)
Exilhauser Architekten	112	(2)
Bayer Uhrig Architekten	114	(2)
Mining the Gap	116	(16)
Law and Architecture: To Hell with Synthesis	118	(14)
Manuel Herz
Manuel Herz	122	(4)
B&K+B, M	126	(4)
Deadline -- Office for Architectural Services	130	(2)
[Sub-] Urban Cut and Paste	132	(44)
Hafensafari	134	(4)
Leftover in Atopia	138	(38)
Peter Lewis
Bruckner & Bruckner	144	(6)
Bottega + Ehrhardt Architekten	150	(4)
Carsten Roth Architekt	154	(4)
Sander Hofrichter Architekten	158	(4)
Bernd Kniess Architekten Stadtplaner	162	(4)
Sauerbruch Hutton Architekten	166	(4)
Gewers Kuhn Und Kuhn Architekten	170	(2)
Dirk Paschke/Daniel Milohnic	172	(4)
The Plug-In and the [Sub-] Urban Generator	176	(28)
Tuning Suburbia -- Inspired Tinkering	178	(26)
Peter Cook
Francesca Ferguson
Werner Aisslinger	184	(2)
Peter Haimerl -- Studio Fur Architektur	186	(2)
Meixner Schluter Wendt Architekten	188	(4)
Gruntuch Ernst Architekten	192	(2)
Regina Schineis Architektin	194	(4)
Professor Han Slawik Architekt	198	(4)
F.R.E.D. Rubin	202	(2)
Building Back Ruckbau	204	(40)
Fact Sheet: Shrinkage	206	(2)
Shrinking Cities -- Don't Panic!	208	(4)
Omar Akbar
Hotel Neustadt	212	(4)
The Slide	216	(4)
Kyong Park
Architecture Acts Out	220	(4)
Gunnar Luetzow
Benjamin Foerster-Baldenius
Cities on the Couch	224	(4)
Sonja Beeck
Time Dyslexia	228	(6)
Ines Weizman
Act More Rationally!	234	(10)
Muck Petzet
Muck Petzet in Msp Meier-Scupin & Petzet, Mayr, Hehenberger	238	(2)
Zimmermann + Partner Architekten	240	(4)
Appendix	244