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Christopher Alexander is a Vienna-born, British-American architect
and theorist and the father of the pattern language movement,
popularised in his pivotal 1968 book, A Pattern Language, with Sara
Ishikawa and Murray Silverstein, as well as the 1979 follow-up, The
Timeless Way of Building. Lesser known but as essential to
understanding Alexander's work is his theory of 'systems generating
systems' which explains that systems as a whole are created by
'generating systems', and, if we wish to make things which function
as 'wholes', we shall have to invent generating systems to create
them. Taking the Eishin Campus outside Tokyo, built between 1983
and 1989, as its example, Shifting Patterns is the first book to
examine Alexander's theory of 'systems generating systems' and its
application to a building design. It brings together essays from an
interdisciplinary, international cast of experts, including Eva
Guttmann, Gabriele Kaiser, Ernst Beneder, Walter Ruprechter, Hisae
Hosoi, Christian Kuhn, Ida Pristinger, and Norihito Nakatani, as
well as conversations with Hajo Neis and Takaharu Tezuka to
investigate the application of this theory to the school and
university complex, the largest project Alexander has realised
based on pattern language. Among the issues discussed are
topicality, interdisciplinary and internationality, and culture
transfer. The essays also look at the design-build movement as an
antithesis to today's standardised and commerce-driven
architectural production.
The Werkgruppe Graz played a major role in post-war Austrian
architecture. All four of its members were educated at the
Technical University in Graz and began their collaboration in the
late 1959, with the first building completed in 1963. The group was
an important precursor of what became known as the Graz School in
Austrian architecture. Socially progressive, with a participatory
as well as scientific approach they created projects that remain
significant milestones until the present day. Werkgruppe Graz
1959-1989 is the first comprehensive documentation of the group's
work; putting it in historical and international context. With
comprehensive details of 30 building projects, it is a complete
catalogue of their work.
Das Buch ist die Dokumentation des weit uber die Landesgrenzen
hinaus bekannten Architekturpreises des Landes Steiermark, der alle
zwei Jahre vergeben wird. Die handwerklich hervorragend gearbeitete
Publikation besteht aus zwei gebundenen Teilen, die parallel
gelesen werden koennen. Der Textteil ist eine Art Reisebericht, der
die Projektbeschreibungen der zehn nominierten Projekte und die
Preistrager integriert. Parallel dazu gibt es eine Kommentarebene,
in die der Reisbericht eingebettet ist und die die steirische
Architekturszene im Nationalen wie Internationalen sowie
ubergeordnete Fragen der Architekturdiskussion behandelt. Diese
Texte betreffen die "Grazer Schule", Verbindungen zwischen Graz und
der Schweiz oder auch Fragestellungen des Entwurfs. So wird uber
die reine Dokumentation des Architekturpreises hinausgegangen und
mit dem Blick von Aussen Inhalte mit ubergeordneter Gultigkeit
transportiert. Damit gibt es in mehrfacher Hinsicht Verbindungen zu
"Dialogues in Time - New Graz Architecture" von Peter Blundell
Jones. Der zweite Teil des Buches besteht aus einer Fotostrecke von
Schwarz-Weiss-Fotografien von Hertha Hurnaus, die alle nominierten
Projekte neu fotografiert und damit interpretiert hat.
This is the sixteenth time the Styrian Architecture Award is
awarded. For the third time, the winner was selected by a curator,
who is also responsible for the design of the corresponding
publication, instead of a jury. Nathalie de Vries, of the MVRDV
architecture office in The Netherlands was chosen to be the curator
of this year's award. Her choice includes six projects of varying
typologies and sizes. What these buildings in different regions of
Styria have in common is their great awareness for the individual
urban and suburban contexts as well the intensive, discursive
process that characterized their planning and completion. This
publication describes the projects and features commentaries by the
architects, users and clients that accompany the expressive images
both in context and detail.
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