City and Wind. Climate as an Architectural Instrument
Climate as an Architectural Instrument
Published in April 2014
Book
Paperback/Softback
208 pages
978-3-86922-310-0 (ISBN)
Description
Spatial production is inevitably linked to climate issues.
In the course of the last fifteen years the debate on sustainable architecture and ecological urbanism has risen like a phoenix from the ashes. Architects and urban planners, as well as administrative bodies and developers, face a new responsibility in terms of the complexity of their conventional design and planning methods.
Increasing awareness of climate issues in the design process has the potential once more to make architecture in the future more site-specific, giving it back its contextual relevancy.
City and Wind - Climate as an Architectural Instrument is a call to see architecture not just as a means of protecting us against the climate, but also as a way of bringing us back to it.
In the course of the last fifteen years the debate on sustainable architecture and ecological urbanism has risen like a phoenix from the ashes. Architects and urban planners, as well as administrative bodies and developers, face a new responsibility in terms of the complexity of their conventional design and planning methods.
Increasing awareness of climate issues in the design process has the potential once more to make architecture in the future more site-specific, giving it back its contextual relevancy.
City and Wind - Climate as an Architectural Instrument is a call to see architecture not just as a means of protecting us against the climate, but also as a way of bringing us back to it.
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Mareike Krautheim is an architect and researcher. Worked in several international offices in Hamburg, Copenhagen and Rotterdam. As Visiting Professor she is affiliated to the Rotterdam Academy of Architecture and Urban Design and the Utrecht Graduate School of Visual Art and Design, both the Netherlands. Her main field of work addresses design projects and spatial processes that operate at the interface between architecture and research in the context of global transitions.
Ralf Pasel is professor for architecture at the Technical University Berlin and principal of Pasel.Kuenzel Architects in Rotterdam. He has taught at various Universities world-wide, most importantly at the Academy of Architecture and Urban Design Rotterdam, the Utrecht Graduate School of Visual Art and Design, TU Delft, TU Dresden and the Universidad Catolica de Santiago de Chile. He and his team work on international projects, addressing all levels of scales, from research to architecture, from urbanism to exhibition design.
Sven Pfeiffer is professor at the Department for Digital Design and Construction at the msa münster school of architecture. Taught at several schools in Europe, such as the TU Berlin, UdK Berlin, the KTH Stockholm and the Architectural Association, London. In 2010 he founded SPARC, an architectural research and design studio which applies computational design and fabrication strategies in architectural and artistic contexts.
Joachim Schultz-Granberg is professor for urban design at the msa münster school of architecture. His teaching and research covers innovative design tools, contemporary pluralistic urbanity, strategic planning endeavours and organizational thinking aimed at current urban research topics at local, regional, national and international scales. Schultz-Granberg founded his office in Berlin in 2001 with projects ranging from urban masterplanning to interdisciplinary research.
Ralf Pasel is professor for architecture at the Technical University Berlin and principal of Pasel.Kuenzel Architects in Rotterdam. He has taught at various Universities world-wide, most importantly at the Academy of Architecture and Urban Design Rotterdam, the Utrecht Graduate School of Visual Art and Design, TU Delft, TU Dresden and the Universidad Catolica de Santiago de Chile. He and his team work on international projects, addressing all levels of scales, from research to architecture, from urbanism to exhibition design.
Sven Pfeiffer is professor at the Department for Digital Design and Construction at the msa münster school of architecture. Taught at several schools in Europe, such as the TU Berlin, UdK Berlin, the KTH Stockholm and the Architectural Association, London. In 2010 he founded SPARC, an architectural research and design studio which applies computational design and fabrication strategies in architectural and artistic contexts.
Joachim Schultz-Granberg is professor for urban design at the msa münster school of architecture. His teaching and research covers innovative design tools, contemporary pluralistic urbanity, strategic planning endeavours and organizational thinking aimed at current urban research topics at local, regional, national and international scales. Schultz-Granberg founded his office in Berlin in 2001 with projects ranging from urban masterplanning to interdisciplinary research.