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If data is the greatest collective treasure of a digital society,
basic material for business and politics: Why are the places where
it is stored still so invisible? Niklas Maak, architectural critic
and Professor for Architecture at Stadelschule Frankfurt, explores
this question in his new publication and envisions radical
solutions for the future.
The "decisive moment" is what counts, said the legendary
photographer Henri Cartier-Bresson. For more than half-a-century,
the theater photographer Ruth Walz schooled her eye to capture
fleeting moments on stage so that they still grip us today. In
doing so, she gives us exciting after-images of irretrievably lost
theatrical productions. She provided audiences of the time with
matchless memories and new insights; anyone looking at her pictures
today undergoes a journey into the fascinating world of the
theater. After working for around fifteen years as a photographer
for the Schaubuhne in Berlin, she spent the ensuing years
accompanying directors, set designers, and actors on their paths
through European theater and opera. Her precise gaze and her
curiosity about the art of the stage remain undiminished to this
day. This illustrated volume with texts by Gerhard Stadelmaier,
Niklas Maak, and other authors, as well as interviews with Robert
Wilson and Peter Sellars, is a companion to the extensive
exhibition of her photographs at the Museum fur Fotografie in
Berlin.
How do we want to live? How shall we build? Where can we find ideas
for the houses and cities of the future? Niklas Maak and Johanna
Diehl focus their attention on these highly topical questions in
their joint project "Eurotopians". In times of change this volume
casts its backward gaze on the work of European utopians in order
to find visions for the present. During the 1960s and 1970s
visionary architecture was created in Europe which raised
fundamental questions about our current ideas of how we should
live. Many of these buildings are in ruins and their architects
forgotten - although they still live there. Maak visited them and
created an "archaeology of the utopian", which shows that important
ideas for the world of tomorrow can be found in the ruins. Johanna
Diehl has taken impressive photographs of great intensity. In the
ruins of these utopias of the modern age she discovered pictures of
revolutionary approaches to life which seem surprisingly topical.
Our cities are atrophying: What was once an open system inhabitable
by all and that was about freedom and self-determination is
becoming a zone in which architecture focuses only on comfort and
security: a walk-in investment portfolio of luxury properties,
offices and token patches of green. The masses, meanwhile, continue
to live in the endless housing developments of the suburbs.
Accommodation is characterised by a mania for barricades and
comfort. The construction industry is booming - and builds the same
houses over and over again. But do those buildings have anything to
do with the way in which most people want to live today,
considering dramatic demographic, technological and social change?
Where does the dream of the detached house come from? Which ideal
form of living are we taught by children's books, lifestyle
magazines and DIY shops? Who benefits from us living the way we
live? Niklas Maak shows how the interests of the construction
industry, overextended policies mired in regulations and the habits
of planners prevent us from rethinking construction, living
arrangements and the city. This humorous, controversial and very
well researched book is a precise economic analysis of the
architectural world, a brilliant cultural history of living
arrangements and a political manifesto for a new kind of
architecture.
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