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Mit einem beeindruckenden Portfolio von mehr als tausend Stahlbetonschalen gilt Heinz Isler (1926-2009) international als bedeutender Entwerfer räumlicher Strukturen. Die Praxis des Schweizer Ingenieurs basierte auf experimentellen...

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Political Histories

How are politics embedded in the writing of architectural history? This issue of gta papers confronts and critiques the hidden political motivations which have inflected canonical writing. These motivations are not always explicit in the...

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Lisbeth Sachs

Lisbeth Sachs (1914-2002) caused a sensation at the very beginning of her professional career: freshly graduated, she won the 1939 competition for the Kurtheater Baden. With the building, opened in 1952, she expressed her lucid...

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Critical Regionalism Abroad

Since the 1980s, critical regionalism has been globally celebrated for imbuing modern architecture with local sensibilities. After rising to international stardom, however, several critical regionalists soon began to erect distinctive...

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This Is Not a Summer School

The International Laboratory of Architecture and Urban Design (ILAUD) aimed to rethink the city in terms of discourse and pedagogy. It brought prominent architects - including its founder Giancarlo De Carlo and members of Team X -...

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trans 46. Spolia

Spolia absorb energy from an external force and deform elastically. As archeological tools at (de)construction sites, they form hidden testaments to political dependencies, ecosystem clashes, art in galleries, even office tower...

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Values and Surfaces

From a decidedly subjective point of view, Philip Ursprung shows connections between economy, architecture and art in his 14 essays. His unconventional intellectual paths stimulate critical reflection. They lead to partly novel, partly...

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Women Writing Architecture 1700-1900

From India to Chile and Britain to Senegal, women have influenced architecture for centuries by exerting power over space through their writing. By exploring a wide variety of sources, from diaries and travelogues to inventories and...

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trans 47. Soft

Softness in all its facets: in the built environment, bodily experiences, ecological and political spaces, and within us. Part one of Soft , 'On the Planetary', describes how softness stems from subtle processes that shape our complex...

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Real Estate

It is often assumed that architects and urban planners shape our cities for aesthetic and social ends. Since the onset of global capitalism, however, urban expansion worldwide has been driven largely by developers and builders in the...

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