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The new urban elite live a lifestyle that benefits from and heavily depends on the service economy, a development with potential consequences for architecture and urban planning. Serve City explores this latest challenge to the city via an Australian study: the development of an urban-planning strategy for a new service site in Sydney where information and communication technologies play decisive roles in the plan.

From the Tower of Babel to the Leaning Tower of Pisa, from European cathedrals to the Twin Towers and the currently scandalous Freedom Tower, highrises have always been a symbol of mankind's cultural aspirations and technological achievements. The biennial International Highrise Award specifies that an ideal contemporary tower should make exceptional use of aesthetics, design and technology, and show cost-effectiveness, sustainability and integration into town planning. This album of the 2006 contenders honors foremost the winners, Jean Nouvel and Fermin Vasquez, who designed the Torre Agbar building in Barcelona. The Agbar Tower's distinctive rounded crown had already earned it a nominee spot in Cabinet Magazine's Most Phallic Building in the World Contest. Here, the Highrise Award's more serious honor cites the building's "expressive shape," "pulsating dynamism" and "a multi-layer outer skin that generates its varied and exciting appearance." Runners-up include Santiago Calatrava's Turning Torso in Malmo, Sweden.

The book Practices of Reflexive Design provides a revealing and initiating insight into the scope of research-oriented design and design-oriented research in architecture and landscape architecture and shows what aims can be associated with this.Similarities and differences, as well as the benefits arising from these approaches, become apparent and comparable. Many contributions present a spectrum of reflexive practices for generating knowledge and design, encompassing the whole cycle of analyzing and synthesizing, conceiving, inventing, specifying, implementing, and communicating and therefore illuminating relationships between thought, knowledge, and action.

What role should a city's historic architecture play in its future? In areas facing demographic shifts towards lower populations and, in a vicious cycle, economic slowdown--in the European and American heartlands--the question is crucial. And any answer requires innovative methods of preservation for monuments and historic buildings, beyond the current standards. Ideas for the reevaluation of structures at hand, for subsequent discourse, and for preservation itself are illustrated here with cases from the European cities of Quedlinburg, Halle-Neustadt, Le Havre, Ljubljana and Novi Beograd. The organization behind The Other Cities series, International Building Exhibition (IBA) Urban Redevelopment 2010, is an innovative project established by Saxony-Anhalt in the face of urban attrition there. Town and Heritage is the sixth volume of their Other Cities series.

Los Angeles and New York are ever more crammed with domestic and international migrants; Hartford, St. Louis, Gary, Baltimore and Flint are ever lonelier. This pattern of growth in urban supercenters and flight from midland cities is not just an American phenomenon. The pioneering German project IBA Urban Redevelopment 2010 begins from the premise that our present methods of urban planning will prove inadequate for the long-term demands of shrinking cities. How can new instruments be developed? What disciplines should be involved? The fifth IBA title on this topic presents the current tools of planning for urban redevelopment--political, developmental and public-private--and suggests new ground; from new methods of information exchange and cooperation to broad interdisciplinary approaches and practical new forms of project communication and quality management.

Which cities would we like to live in today and in future? How have the fear of terrorism and large-scale migration movements, as well as social disparities, changed our public spaces? Who is involved in the complex transformations?The Ambivalent City addresses the increasing fragmentation of our cities as a reaction to growing political, economic, and social pressure. The focus is on the increasing demand for security and monitoring and on the associated diminishment of freely accessible public spaces, social mixing, and communal participation. This is supplemented by the presentation of participative and self-governed movements that go against these occlusive tendencies. Furthermore, the role of photography in urban research is illuminated. The book advocates social diversity--even in seemingly uncertain times--and a new relevance of the concept of the Open City.

In his minimal sculpture and prints, Gerhard Trieb ponders the theme of the "magic square," dealing with the traditions of modern art, exposing dissonances, and triggering related thought processes. Interested neither in portraying nature nor in using colors, Trieb has spent the last 20 years confronting the battle between nature and art, the natural and sculpted stone. As the artist himself has said, "I produce art because there is nothing else left for me."

Reminiscent of Walker Evans' 1966 classic, Many Are Called, Lebanese-born, English photographer Toufic Beyhum's photographs of passengers on Berlin's U-Bahn capture a diverse cast of characters. Beyhum reveals what so many of us see on our daily commute: lovers and loners, the young and the old, punks and businessmen, people sleeping, dogs, graffiti, litter. Captured in the flat light while traveling together underground, everyone seems more similar than they might on the street. Like Evans, Beyhum seems to capture the private thoughts of his subjects as they space out, unaware of the people around them--though some do stare defiantly into the camera, while in other shots Beyhum pulls back to include more of the train or station. Also a senior art director in advertising, Beyhum's work is colorful, dynamic and precise. This is his first monograph.

Tilo Schulz (b. 1972) grew up with the split he examines here: Formalism was degenerate, "the cult of the ugly and the immoral," and Socialist Realism was creating the utopia to come, reflecting "strengths, nobleness and beauty." Here--as a victor writing history--he reinterprets the struggle of ideologies through his current work.

Each Sunday, tens of thousands of domestic workers from South and Southeast Asia gather in Hong Kong's renowned financial and shopping district, reclaiming the public space for the day. Since 2002, artist Moira Zoitl has explored the living and working conditions of these migrant workers. Photographs by Corazon Amaya-Canete.

The great German architect Josef Paul Kleihues' (1933-2004) reincarnation of the iconic East Berlin department store Centrum brings that massive architectural volume a well-proportioned, balanced new identity. This final work from the creator of the Chicago Museum of Contemporary Art is a testament--and a substantial contribution--to the power of his evolving home city.

In postcolonial Africa, "White Elephant" was the ironic moniker given to buildings erected with international money and never put to use. They remain as blights--eroding reminders of enormous waste. Europe has its own collection of these contemporary ruins, such as Santiago Calatrava's practically unused railway station near Lyon and the partially completed Aldo Rossi shopping mall in Berlin. On his search for the remains of these architectural wastelands, Swiss photographer Christian Helmle discovered numerous other examples throughout Europe--in both urban and rural locations. There is no connection between the barren structures and their communities, since they have never fulfilled their intended function; nature has claimed them instead. In light of their instant obsolescence, these sites have a surreal air--and a sense of melancholy--that Helmle heightens to great effect.

Jovis' Portfolio series presents the work of innovative, international architects in the informal style of a magazine. This new volume is the first monograph, outside of Japan, to examine the ideas of Atsushi Kitagawara (born 1951), known for his expressionistic architectural style that celebrates the experience of space without losing sight of functional requirements.

Dutch painter Koen Vermeule (born 1965) has said that the title of one of his paintings, "Out and About," would be "a good title for the rest of my work," as his subject material is found from his travels around the world. Brightly lit figures in the street and on the beach dominate this collection of his paintings.

Cornelia Schleime's (born 1953) works on paper depict a world in which women morph into antlered creatures and rabbits wear hunting coats. Immigrating from East Germany to the West in 1984, Schleime left her early works behind; this catalogue collects her work from that year to the present.

Every summer season, the sun-drenched coasts of Bulgaria and Croatia turn into densely inhabited, intensively exploited tourist hotspots. Holidays after the Fall traces the various architectural and urban-planning strategies pursued in these countries since the mid-1950s. It portrays late-modern tourist architecture and resorts of a remarkable diversity, which have endured as playgrounds for both the Bulgarian and Croatian working classes and the international market. These surprisingly glamorous architectural and urban endeavors were often ahead of their time in scope, design and refinement. The authors focus above all on how, in the wake of political change and the privatization of business, individual resorts and outstanding buildings have been economically and physically restructured, leaving a mixed and fascinating legacy of deserted ruins, cautious renovations and ongoing public protest.

Leipzig-born painter Uwe Kowski (born 1963) creates colorful abstractions in which gestural lines blur into jumbles of typography (the latter perhaps influenced by his apprenticeship as a sign painter), establishing a vibrant, "all-over" effect. This volume presents new canvases made between 2008 and 2011.

Wolves, owls, falcons, alligators and horses are the subject of German sculptor Dieter Finke's work, collected here. Much reduced in form, Finke's delicate bronzes, cast from unusual materials like wood or cardboard, convey inherent drama and expressiveness, perhaps alluding to the brittle nature of relations between man and animal.

The Styrian Architecture Award is presented every two years. It highlights the particular importance of building culture in Austria's second-largest province. Alongside the historic center of its capital Graz, which was awarded UNESCO World Heritage Site status in 1999, more recent architectural history is well-represented here. The Grazer Schule gained international acclaim from 1960 onwards, and the Kunsthaus Graz by Peter Cook and Colin Fournier, opened as part of the European Capital of Culture 2003 festivities, has been similarly celebrated. These elements form a fertile basis for the high-quality local architectural scene. This volume introduces a selection of new architectural projects in the province of Styria chosen by the Dutch curator Indira van 't Klooster, director of Arcam (Architecture Center Amsterdam).

Responding to the rise in digital communication, more young architects are working in teams, with such technological advances as video chat facilitating cooperation across countries. Tracing these international networks, this book discusses the conditions of production shaping the next generation of European architects.

Metropolis 7 provides an overview of projects taken on by the International Building Exhibition, Hamburg. It explores three themes--Cosmopolis, Metrozones, and Cities and Climate Change--as well as celebrating all those whose participation has played a key role in the success of the IBA Hamburg.

Collaborators since 1998, German artists Folke Köbberling and Martin Kaltwasser (also an architect) have created "amorphous forms out of trash that retain a childlike simplicity in spite of rigorous engineering," according to the UK's The Guardian. Their "magical, structurally sound and user-friendly" sculptural works make use of repurposed materials, volunteer labor and offbeat public spaces.

Is there an "imaginary GDR?" How reliable are our recollections? What fixed patterns are followed by fictionalization of the past? Spanish artist Dora García asks these questions in this dense collage of photographic stills, archival material from the Ministry of State Security, sections of surveillance videos and literary excerpts.

These 22 original house plans were drawn up under architect Klaus Theo Brenner's supervision with the "redensification" of historic urban space in mind. The young architects who worked on them addressed Berlin and Genoa as urban areas where new construction must take into account--and take inspiration from--the network of streets around it, the living city.

In spring 2010, the International Building Exhibition (IBA) Hamburg organized a major presentation of its plans for the construction and development of future sites in Germany. Exploring themes of coexistence, accessibility and sustainability, this detailed and fully illustrated publication examines the background for each project location.

This book presents a selection of more than 60 noted architects who are members of the BDA (Association of German Architects) Berlin. In addition to essays on the creation and positioning of building culture in everyday life, it investigates reconstruction and current trends. Finally, it offers an overview of BDA activities from the past three years.

In 1790, Immanuel Kant elevated "the beautiful to a symbol of the morally good." Two hundred years later, "more ethics, less aesthetics" was the tagline chosen for the 2000 Venice Biennial for architecture. This volume tackles this ever-present struggle between ethics and aesthetics, querying whether "more aesthetics" might in fact be just what is required to stimulate reflection on the ethical dimensions of architecture, art and design. Ethics in Aesthetics? gathers controversial reflections about the ethical and political dimensions of aesthetic, curatorial and philosophical practice. The contributions--by authors Stephan Bohle, Christian Demand, Raphie Etgar, Renate Flagmeier, Johan Holten, Leiko Ikemura, Derrick de Kerckhove, Césare Peeren, Michaela Ott, Rainer Leschke and Annett Zinsmeister--range across disciplines and styles, from historical reviews to speculative writing.

Havana in the 40s and 50s was a gambling haven, much like Las Vegas. Today this pre-revolutionary boom still characterizes the city, which is a blend of much-photographed, colorful, colonial buildings and a sprinkling of internationally renowned Modernist architecture: Walter Gropius, Richard Neutra and Oscar Niemeyer all passed through Havana during this time. In 1956, The Edificio Focsa--a 35-storey complex containing 400 apartments, garages, a school and a restaurant--was built on the Corbusian principles of a self-contained city within a city. At the time, it was the world's tallest concrete structure. Western influences set a standard, but the architects often worked with local artists to create a uniquely Cuban version of Modernism. For this volume, German-born photographer Bodo Tuengler has documented the rarely-seen architecture of Havana's brief Modernist period.