Full Description
Applies the concept of "Baukultur" to specific architectural practices to study their built environment.
The notion of "Baukultur" marked a fundamental step towards a comprehensive definition of the environment. The idea that landscape, historical architectural heritage, and the existing built context could converge to portray the richness and complexity of our future habitat now points to a collective strategic approach to design. In this context, the value of architecture emerges in several economic aspects, but also and essentially as a tool to convey the culture of transition within the Baukultur. Baukultur structures a theoretical framework around these concepts leaning on the research, design, and academic experience of six architectural and urban design practices, as specific readings of the existing built environment.
Contents
Introduction, by Paola Viganò, Valentin Bourdon, Anna Livia Friel // Time, space and the production system, by Pierre Caye // The Future of the Project, by Ludovic Pépion // What architecture won't be, by Valentin Bourdon // Reading the existing: what discarded material bring to the project, by Célia Küpfer, Maxence Grangeot, Corentin Fivet // The contribution of 'sauvegarde'to the culture of socio-ecological transition, by Franz Graf, Giulia Marino // To engineer existing structures: a pressing pedagogical project, by Eugène Brühwiler // Rather than, by Anja Frölich, Martin Frölich, Tiago Borges // Use, space and material, by Jo Tailleu // "Are we ready for the transition?", by Paola Viganò // Principles for continuation
