CRUCIAL WORDS - Conditions for Contemporary Architecture

Book Presentation: Crucial Words - Conditions for Contemporary Architecture Welcome: Kristin Feireiss, Aedes Berlin Introduction: Rasmus Wærn, Stockholm, and Prof. Gert Wingårdh, Gothenburg, Editors Reading: Prof. Dr. Falk Jaeger, Berlin, from Crucial Words "Atmosphäre" CRUCIAL WORDS: The conditions in which present-day architecture is produced are partly local and singular and partly global and universal. Understanding contemporary architecture means understanding all of these aspects. What are the pivotal themes? Gert Wingårdh and Rasmus Wærn, Sweden’s most active architect and its best-known architecture critic, asked themselves this question and made a selection of approximately fifty terms and concepts, including Branding, Collaborators, Corporate, Desire, Future, Everyday, Ornament, and Wheelchair. The result is a very special dictionary with humorous illustrations and original articles by interesting protagonists such as Denise Scott Brown, Massimiliano Fuksas, Hans Ibelings, Peter Blundell Jones, Vittorio Magnago Lampugnani, Hans Ulrich Obrist, Juhani Pallasmaa, Joseph Rykwert, Jaime Salazar, Axel Sowa, and Wilfried Wang. A special highlight is the text by Nobel laureate Ohran Pamuk. ------------------------------------------------------- On Thursday, 13. November 2008 at 7 pm: Lecture of Prof. Gert Wingårdh at the Technical University of Berlin, Auditorium A 153, on the conditions of contemporary architecure. ------------------------------------------------------- Gert Wingårdh; Rasmus Wærn (Eds.) Crucial Words - Conditions for Contemporary Architecture 212 pages. 25 colour illustrations 17,0 x 24,0 cm. Softcover. € 24.90 ISBN-13: 978-3-7643-8645-0. English © 2008, Birkhäuser