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13/09/2024

OUT NOW: ARCH+ 257 Umbau / Adaptive Reuse – Maßstäbe der Transformation / Scales of a Transformative Practice (in German)

Most buildings are made to last, yet the societies that build them change. The second volume of a double issue on adaptive reuse, ARCH+ 257 looks at some of the major challenges of the twenty-first century and explores how adaptive reuse, understood as an everyday societal task beyond the singular object, charts a path forward for a transformative architectural practice. In times of socioecological crises, this path will have to transcend the fixation on particularity and begin to find new purposes in the unspectacularity and mundanity left by previous generations of builders.

Bauwerke sind oft für eine langjährige Nutzung bestimmt, doch die Gesellschaften die sie errichten, verändern sich. Dieser zweite Band der diesjähringen Doppelausgabe zum Thema Umbau befasst sich mit einer Auswahl großer Herausforderungen des 21. Jahrhunderts und erforscht, wie Umbau, verstanden als alltägliche, gesamtgesellschaftliche Tätigkeit, Wege für eine Architekturpraxis der Transformation aufzeigt. In Zeiten sozioökologischer Krisen führen diese Wege über die Fixierung auf das besondere Einzelobjekt hinaus und finden im Umgang mit dem unscheinbaren und alltäglichen Bestand neue Aufgaben.

Available online and in stores now.

Projects and essays by/with: & (l'AUC) .vassal.um .architecture .jp .atelier , Niklas Maak, Esra Akcan, Stefan Rettich & Sabine Tastel, & Luise Rellensmann, Nalbach + Nalbach Architekten, BARarchitekten

12/09/2024

Did you know many ARCH+ back issues are available in English? Last year, for example, we released ARCH+ Contemporary Feminist Spatial Practices together with .

The discourse on feminist spatial and artistic practices at the center of this issue had a big influence on last year’s , co-curated by ARCH+ together with and . Head over to your nearest bookstore or to the link in bio to order!

With contributions by/on: .ngo .gdk .lab .cllctv .design among others.

Editorial team: in collaboration with guest editors , Daniela Ortiz dos Santos, Gabriele Schaad

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Cover: ©️ AFI

27/08/2024

20/08/2024

The transformation of the Laurie Grove Baths into the by is one of the groundbreaking adaptive reuse projects featured in our latest issue. For this project, the London-based collective decided to move into the building during the construction phase to fine-tune their thoughtful interventions at every scale.

Find out everything about Assemble’s practice in the issue, ARCH+ 256 Umbau / Adaptive Reuse - Approaches to a Transformative Practice (in German).

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Slides 1, 3–4: ©️ Assemble
Slide 2: ©️Jim Stephenson

16/08/2024

📢📢📢“Economy does not stand in the way of ecology, on the contrary: With 33.3 percent of the means still 100 percent of change is possible.” – of

One of the six European offices portrayed in ARCH+ 256 — Umbau / Adaptive Reuse: Approaches to a Transformative Practice (in German only)

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15/08/2024

(Too Much) Information Work�
Roundtable discussion� with Peggy Deamer, , Jiajia Zhang, .platzgummer, and
Wednesday, August 21, 7 p.m.�
Location: , Limmatstrasse 270, 8005 Zurich, Switzerland

“(Too Much) Information Work” is a roundtable event within the “Building Information” program series. It fills a discursive gap on labor practices and struggles in digital work environments by bringing together perspectives from architecture, art, and curating. This roundtable at Kunsthalle Zurich features architects and educators Peggy Deamer and Charlotte Malterre-Barthes, artist Jiajia Zhang, architecture theorist Klaus Platzgummer, and curator and architect Lennart Wolff. Drawing on the Visiting School’s theme, “Exhibiting Architecture,” the roundtable discusses exhibiting as a particular form of “information work.” Exhibition practices collide media forms, carve out discursive arenas, transcend disciplinary boundaries, and have become integral to contemporary architectural discourse. Can the understanding of exhibitions as a form of “information work,” with its ambiguous division between immaterial and material labor, between the merely categorical separation of life and its institutional production mechanisms, enable alternative practices and agencies? Within today’s information environments, can exhibitions become forums where these labor practices are not only represented but tested? Amidst omnipresent data exhaustion, can this particular form of “information work” act as discursive and spatial interventions into the ever-accelerating processes of resource, labor, and data extraction?

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Image:� Jiajia Zhang: Window (Script), Kunstmuseum St. Gallen 2023, Photo: Sebastian Stadler

13/08/2024

: U-Halle. For the 2023 German national garden show in Mannheim, the Berlin-based office transformed these former US military barracks into a multipurpose building with alternating outdoor and indoor spaces. In the future, the flexible structure will be repurposed as a community center.

Find out all about this and two other of ‘s projects in our latest issue, ARCH+ 256 — Umbau / Adaptive Reuse. Approaches to a a Transformative Practice. The issue is a deep dive into six European offices’ experiences with adaptive reuse.

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Slides 1, 3: ©️ Hütten und Paläste; Photo: h7photo.com / Lukac & Diehl
Slide 2: ©️ Hütten und Paläste

05/08/2024

“We simply cannot afford to waste our intellectual resources as a society anymore. And that’s good news: If planners manage to position themselves as transdisciplinary and and collaborative, and if they put the usability of the city front and center once again, there will be more than enough work for them even without demolition.”

and its affiliates , .reuse and have been pioneers in circular design for the better part of the last three decades. The Basel-based companies act in concert to extend the life cycle of materials, buildings, neighborhoods, and cities and develop new models of city-making, with a focus on former industrial areas.

Find out all about their work and read their interview with us in ARCH+ 256 Umbau / Adaptive Reuse: Approaches to a Transformative Practice (in German), where you’ll also find profiles of 5 more offices focused on working with the existing building stock.

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02/08/2024

, the London-based collective working on (but far from limited to) the adaptive reuse of various built structures, is among the six offices featured in ARCH+ 256 Umbau / Adaptive Reuse - Approaches to a Transformative Practice (in German).

The issue stakes out how adaptive reuse can serve as a political language of transformation and features six European offices that have built a strong practice based on the existing building stock.

A socio-ecological future does not depend on technical developments that have yet to be invented. Change can already be implemented in the existing, in the here and now with the resources of our time.

Find out everything about Assemble’s practice in the issue, out now in stores and in our online store.

Slide 2: Goldsmiths Centre for Contemporary Art, London, 2018 / Photo: © Assemble
Slide 3: The Cineroleum, London, 2010 / Photo: © Morley von Sternberg
Slide 4: Lot 8, Arles, 2023, with BC Architects and Atelier LUMA / Photo: © Joseph Halligan / Assemble

31/07/2024

Diese Woche (29. - 04.08.2024) in der .
Donnerstag, 01.08.2024
.hat.frei mit Sounds von den Igitten Schwestern und einer Umrahmung ihres Auftrittes durch ein DJ Set von Monika Bluse & Tim Lenz.
Start: 18 Uhr an der VerhandelBar, Sandstrassd 47a, 80335 München
Freitag, 02.08.2024
Kartierungsspaziergang #2 in Sendling. Treffpunkt Sendling, Alramstrasse - Sendlinger Loch.
Start um 16:30 Uhr. Eine Kooperation mit der
Weitere Infos auf unserer - www.verhandel-bar.de
VerhandelBar - unter Einschluss der Öffentlichkeit ist ein Projekt von , und n_r, gefördert durch .
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23/07/2024

: Sala Beckett. Transformation of a Barcelona union‘s former neighborhood center into a theater and cultural center. One of and ‘s office’s most instantly recognizable projects of careful yet poetic adaptive reuse, Sala Beckett features in ARCH+ 256 Umbau / Adaptive Reuse: Approaches to a Transformative Practice (in German).

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Photos: © Adrià Goula
Drawing: Constance Lieurade © Flores & Prats

22/07/2024

Reposted from RE:CAP ➡️ Es wurde wild verhandelt, diskutiert, gelacht und getanzt bei der Eröffnung der VerhandelBar am 18. Juli 2024. wir sind immer noch ganz verzaubert.

Danke an alle Beteiligten 👯‍♀️💕
.hat.frei und natürlich alle 🐻‍❄️🍦

VerhandelBar – unter Einschluss der Öffentlichkeit ist ein Projekt von in Kooperation mit und , gefördert durch .

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Danke an .buettner für die 📸

16/07/2024

The Toulouse-based office BAST (a French acronym for Office for Untitled Architecture, ) has been transforming buildings across the south of France for a decade. Their uncompromising approach emphasizes bold spatial transformation over expensive finishes, making elements from different eras clash without pretensions.

Here, a community center for the village of Montjoire, near Toulouse, which was previously a single-family home. Find out all about the project and read their interview with us in ARCH+ 256 Umbau / Adaptive Reuse: Approaches to a Transformative Practice, where you’ll also find profiles of 5 more offices focused on working with the existing building stock.

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11/07/2024

“The built fabric is the reflection of a social behaviour. It speaks of a way of using the ground, the sky, of a way of inhabiting... To read the memory contained in buildings and in people is to think about a future that counts on that past.”

, the Barcelona-based office run by and , has a longstanding and specific relationship with adaptive reuse. The latest issue of ARCH+ shines a light on their and five other offices’ approach to dealing with the existing built fabric.

Out now: ARCH+ 256 Umbau / Adaptive Reuse — Approaches to a Transformative Practive (in German)

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09/07/2024

in the city. Short break from the second issue on adaptive reuse. The ARCH+ team sends happy vibes to all of you.

09/07/2024

ist eines der sechs Büros, deren langjährige Umbaupraxis wir in ARCH+ 256 - Ansätze der Transformation vorstellen.

Alle Projekte und Büros jetzt in der neuen ARCH+. Jetzt online bestellen!

Slide 2: Ossietzky-Hof Nordhausen. Die neue vorgesetzte Gebäudeschicht erweitert den Wohnraum und dient darüber hinaus als Klimapuffer, was den Energiebedarf der Wohnungen verringert, ohne dass eine zusätzliche Dämmung aufgebracht werden muss.

Slide 3: Scheune Prädikow. Mit transluzenten Stegplatten beplankte Holzständerwände unterteilen den Hauptraum der Scheune in drei neue Abschnitte.
Slide 4: U-Halle Mannheim. Die intensive Begrünung und Bepflanzung sorgt für ein kühlendes Mikroklima und schafft biologische Habitate für einheimische Tierarten.

08/07/2024

Nachdem ARCH+, SUMMACUMFEMMER und Büro Juliane Greb auf der letzten Architekturbiennale den deutschen Pavillon kuratiert und umgestaltet haben (siehe Foto), ist heute bekanntgegeben worden, dass das TEAM STRESSTEST – bestehend aus Prof. Elisabeth Endres, TU Braunschweig, Prof. Dr. Daniele Santucci, Climateflux und RWTH Aachen, Nicola Borgmann, Architekturgalerie München und Prof. Gabriele G. Kiefer, TU Braunschweig – den Zugschlag für die Kuration des Deutschen Pavillons auf der 19. Architekturbiennale Venedig 2025 erhalten haben.
Wir gratulieren und sind gespannt auf den Beitrag.






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05/07/2024

OUT NOW: ARCH+ 256 Umbau – Ansätze der Transformation
Adaptive Reuse – Approaches to a Transformative Practice (in German)

Mit / With
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English below

Die sozial-ökologische Zukunft hängt nicht von technischen Entwicklungen ab, die noch erfunden werden müssen. Die Veränderung ist im Bestand, im Hier und Jetzt mit den Mitteln der Zeit schon umsetzbar. Das zeigt dieser erste von zwei Bänden zum Thema Umbau.

Aufbauend auf der diskursiven Vorarbeit der letzten Jahre werden in ARCH+ 256: Umbau– Ansätze der Transformation architektonische Strategien der Transformation in den Fokus genommen. Die Ausgabe umfasst beispielhafte Werkbiografien von sechs Architekturbüros aus sechs europäischen Ländern. Breit angelegte Projektpräsentationen, die jeweils von Statements oder Gesprächen zum Verständnis der Umbaupraxis eingeleitet werden, reflektieren programmatische Ansätze der Transformation.

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A socio-ecological future does not depend on technical developments that have yet to be invented. Change can already be implemented in the existing, in the here and now with the resources of the time. That is what this first of two volumes on the subject of adaptive reuse shows.

Building on the discursive preparatory work of recent years, ARCH+ 256 focuses on architectural strategies for transformation. The edition includes exemplary professional biographies of six architectural practices from six European countries. Programmatic approaches to transformation are reflected on the basis of extensive project presentations, each of which is introduced by statements or discussions on the respective understanding of the practice of transformation.

20/06/2024

Reposted • karin sander: kitchen pieces memo game

the edition »kitchen pieces memo game« produced exclusively for is a memory game for people of all ages featuring photographs from the series »kitchen pieces« each pair shows one type of fruit or vegetable in a fresh state and its wilted counterpart.

client: design team: .sander fotos: studio karin sander (1)

07/06/2024

Initiative Schlossaneignung

Am 13. Juni stellt sich die Initiative Schlossaneignung im Aedes Architectural Forum erstmals vor und präsentiert ihr erstes Projekt: einen Ideenaufruf an Künstler*innen, Architekt*innen und Gestalter*innen für die künstlerische Umgestaltung des Humboldt Forums.

Vorstellung der Initiative bei
Donnerstag, 13. Juni, 18:30 Uhr
Christinenstraße 18-19, 10119 Berlin


Alle Infos auf schlossaneignung.de

Eintritt frei, Anmeldung erbeten https://www.eventbrite.de/e/initiative-schlossaneignung-ideenaufruf-fur-das-humboldt-forum-tickets-919439798187?aff=oddtdtcreator

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28/05/2024

Empfehlung! .poller : Frankfurter Kopien

31. Mai – 16. Juni 2024 auf dem f/stop – Festival für Fotografie Leipzig

Zwischen 2012 und 2018 wurde die sogenannte Neue Altstadt in Frankfurt am Main gebaut. Alte Bauelemente (Spolien) und ein Farbleitplan basierend auf historisierenden Fassadenfarben bildeten die Gestaltungselemente. In der öffentlichen Debatte wurden diese wahlweise entweder als Kronzeugen historischer Authentizität oder als deren Persiflage gelesen. Die Serie Frankfurter Kopien des Künstlers Daniel Poller bringt Fotografien jeder Spolie und die Farben des jeweiligen Gebäudes durch Überdrucken und manuelle Eingriffe zusammen. In der Galerie Tobias Naehring wird nun erstmalig eine größere Auswahl dieser Arbeiten gezeigt.

ARCH+ hat 2019 eine Auswahl der Frankfurter Kopien in ARCH+ 235: Rechte Räume publiziert.

Vernissage:
31. Mai 2024
19:00 – 21:00 Uhr

31. Mai – 16. Juni 2024
Galerie Tobias Naehring
Spinnereistraße 7, Halle 20
04179 Leipzig

27/05/2024

Exciting news! Our editor-in-chief .ngo has been elected Vice-President of , one of Europe’s oldest cultural institute, where ARCH+ co-curated the exhibition The Great Repair last year. He will be deputy to the Akademie’s new President, .tsangaris. Congrats to both on their election!



Picture: Markus Lieberenz

20/05/2024

on in our latest issue.

OUT NOW: ARCH+KUNST – Karin Sander ( #255)
For this monographic issue, ARCH+ has invited the artist , whose work—as an artist and as a professor of Art and Architecture at —has always been intrinsically connected to a sense of space.

Beyond their purpose of mediating an artist’s practice, artists’ books are often media of artistic expression in their own right. We expressly wanted to be influenced by Karin Sander’s practice, which hinges on interventions in the structures of spaces and institutions in order to modify and recontextualize them, offering a new legibility and possibilities of reappropriation. She applied this principle to ARCH+ and devised an issue reflecting on the relation between art and architecture as neighboring disciplines.

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15/05/2024

Reposted from

In ihrer Kunst beschäftigt sich Karin Sander mit den Strukturen von Räumen und Institutionen. Durch gezielte Eingriffe verändert sie die bestehende Ordnung, schafft neue Bezüge und andere Lesarten.

Mit diesem Ansatz wird aus der Zeitschrift für Architektur und Urbanistik ein Magazin für Architektur und Kunst. Die aktuelle Ausgabe ist von der Künstlerin konzipiert und verhandelt das Verhältnis zwischen Kunst und Architektur. Neben Essays und Interviews dokumentiert sie zwei ihrer Werke.

„Neighbours“, ihr Beitrag zur Architekturbiennale 2023, wo sie den Schweizer Pavillon mit dem Venezolanischen verband und „Kitchen Pieces“, in denen sie Gemüse zum Kunstwerk macht.

Beim Editorial Design des Hefts dient uns die Herangehensweise von Karin Sander als Grundlage für das typografische Prinzip. In den Headlines des Magazins verschieben wir Buchstaben irritieren den Lesefluss und stellen so neue visuelle Zusammenhänge her.

07/05/2024

Tomorrow at ARCH+: The official Launch Event to celebrate the publication of ARCH+KUNST – Karin Sander ( #255), together with the artist herself.

May 8, 2024
7 p.m.

For this monographic issue, ARCH+ has invited the artist , whose work—as an artist and as a professor of Art and Architecture at —has always been intrinsically connected to a sense of space.

Beyond their purpose of mediating an artist’s practice, artists’ books are often media of artistic expression in their own right. We expressly wanted to be influenced by Karin Sander’s practice, which hinges on interventions in the structures of spaces and institutions in order to modify and recontextualize them, offering a new legibility and possibilities of reappropriation. She applied this principle to ARCH+ and devised an issue reflecting on the relation between art and architecture as neighboring disciplines.

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06/05/2024

A look inside our latest issue, ARCH+KUNST – Karin Sander ( #255)

For this monographic issue, ARCH+ has invited the artist , whose work—as an artist and as a professor of Art and Architecture at —has always been intrinsically connected to a sense of space.

Beyond their purpose of mediating an artist’s practice, artists’ books are often media of artistic expression in their own right. We expressly wanted to be influenced by Karin Sander’s practice, which hinges on interventions in the structures of spaces and institutions in order to modify and recontextualize them, offering a new legibility and possibilities of reappropriation. She applied this principle to ARCH+ and devised an issue reflecting on the relation between art and architecture as neighboring disciplines.

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