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The book contributes to a recontextualization of authenticity by
investigating how this value is created, reenacted, and assigned.
Over the course of the last century, authenticity figured as the
major parameter for the evaluation of cultural heritage. It was
adopted in local and international charters and guidelines on
architectural conservation in Europe, South and East Asia.
Throughout this period, the concept of authenticity was constantly
redefined and transformed to suit new cultural contexts and local
concerns. This volume presents colonial and postcolonial
discourses, opinions, and experiences in the field of architectural
heritage conservation and the use of site-specific practices based
on representative case studies presented by art historians,
architects, anthropologists, and conservationists from Germany,
Nepal, India, China, and Japan. With more than 180 illustrations
and a collection of terminologies in German, English, Sanskrit,
Hindi, Nevari and Nepali, classical Chinese and standard Mandarin,
and Japanese, these cross-cultural investigations document the
processual re-configuration of the notion of authenticity. They
also show that approaches to authenticity can be specified with key
analytical categories from transcultural studies: appropriation,
transformation, and, in some cases, refusal.
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CityLight (German, Hardcover)
Wolfgang Rang; Text written by Michael Batz, Niels Gutschow, Roger Narboni, Werner Oechslin
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Text in English & German. The ongoing paradigm change in regard
to the use of energy, its efficient usage and the consumption of
resources is giving rise to new light systems and lighting
appliances. This development might also lead to the use of light as
a building material in its own right, comparable to traditional
building materials, making it possible to create light space
productions something that did not seem feasible up to now due to
the high cost of energy and of light systems. The goal of this book
is to develop temporary light spaces that re-interpret the existing
urban environment on a seasonal basis or over a cycle of several
years. As a result, the city will literally appear in a new light.
Strollers in the city streets will experience their familiar
environment in a new way. Illuminated planes interlacing with
planes made by linear fields of light beams will create immaterial
material space experiences: still lifes of light within which one
can move about and light choreographies that move barely
noticeably, creating still lifes in motion. Current research aims
at exploring, imagining and inventing stand-alone spatial
structures of light, adding on to and transforming existing spaces,
creating a new spatial awareness that may enable people to
experience urban space in a different way. Similar to the process
of architectural design, where haptic built volumes create
interspaces, the light spaces that are currently being designed
make these interspaces visible and allow urban dwellers to
experience unexpected spatial constellations. In addition to the
presentation of light-planning examples in Paris, Shanghai,
Helsinki, Mekka and Frankfurt am Main the book includes a number of
essays relating to the subject, among them: "Light architecture"
(Werner Oechslin), The Potemkin city (Adolf Loos), Glass
architecture and letters about glass houses (Paul Scheerbart),
Alpine architecture (Bruno Taut), The unvisible cities (Italo
Calvino), Architecture must burn (Coop Himmelb(l)au), In search of
light (Wolfgang Rang), City light. About the social power of light
(Helmut Bien), Light or the loss of darkness (Manuel Cuadra),
Visible and unvisible light (Andreas Danler), Light concepts for
Frankfurt am Main (Michael Hootz), Light planning for cities in
China (Hao Luoxi), City light. An instrument of urban planning
(Roger Narboni), Light for the public space (Susanne Seitinger),
Sustainable urban lighting (Mark Burton-Page), Borders, places,
light (Niels Gutschow), Earth and spirit (Wolfgang Rang). With
texts by Michael Batz, Niels Gutschow, Hao Luoxi, Roger Narboni,
Werner Oechslin, Wolfgang Rang and others.
Text in English, German and Japanese. The architecture of Japan,
both historic and contemporary, has attracted architects from all
over the world since the early 60s. In search of the 'Japaneseness'
of place (ma), space and architecture several dissertations have
been written, especially about the Japanese house and rituals,
Conservation, however, was largely neglected. Only recently, with
the listing of Japanese sites as Unesco World Heritage in 1994 and
the Nara conference on authenticity in 1995, has the Japanese
approach to conservation emerged as an intriguing issue. The
practice of dismantling and reconstructing complex timber
structures represents an essentially Japanese approach. Moreover,
the refined documentation and structural research prior to any
intervention are much admired by the international conservation
community. The articles for this publication were prepared in the
context of a Japanese-German co-operative programme in
architectural and urban conservation in 1996-98. For the first time
ever a Western publication attempts to portray the Japanese
practice of repair -- hozon -- of historic structures. Detailed
photographic documentations demonstrate the beauty of timber
structures that are otherwise concealed by roofs and walls. It also
becomes evident that an architectural object is not an entity that
is defined once and for all, but an object that allows for change.
Documentations of ongoing projects, with emphasis on the Fudo-do on
the sacred mountain of Koyasan, explain and justify various kinds
of interventions that are aimed at structural reinforcement and
disaster prevention.
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