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 | Yorck Förster, Christina Gräwe, Peter Cachola Schmal (ed.) German Architecture Annual 220 × 280 mm, 256 pages 330 pictures, cloth-bound hardcover ISBN 978-3-86922-516-6 (English/German) EUR 38.00 / CHF 46.40 January 2017. DOM publishers, Berlin |
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Yorck Förster, Christina Gräwe, Peter Cachola Schmal (Hg.)
German Architecture Annual 2017
The continuation of the German Architecture Annual is now available at DOM publishers. For almost forty years now, the German Architecture Annual, issued by the Deutsches Architekturmuseum of Frankfurt am Main (DAM), has published crucial information about on-going construction projects in Germany.
The concept of the book was largely retained. As in the past, the German Architecture Annual 2017 also presents the shortlist of twenty-four buildings from Germany, determined by a jury for the DAM Preis for Architecture in Germany 2017. The museum’s curators, as well as renowned architects and architectural critics, have an overview of one hundred nominations for the year. Examples of housing construction, inventory renovation, design of U-Bahn stations, schools and day-care centres, factory buildings, as well as a mourning hall, can be found in the entire breadth of the current building tasks.
In the 2017 edition, in addition to the special appreciation for the winner of the DAM Preis for Architecture in Germany, a finer selection of finalists is being portrayed for the first time. A separate chapter is devoted to buildings by German architects abroad, in which three buildings are presented. The essays deal with the urgent topic regarding the future of housing construction, as well as Germany being represented abroad. On the discussion in Germany about the necessities, barriers, and potentials in housing construction, is the contribution “City Air Emancipates! But what does it cost?” by Ursula Kleefisch-Jobst. The essay on building abroad is written by Robert Kaltenbrunner and is overwritten with “The Contingent Ordering of Things: The Image Germany Projects Abroad with its Cultural and Educational Facilities”.
Another new feature is that, shortly before the publication of the Annual, an architectural guide of Germany appears, which already presents the hundred nominations of the year.
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