Landraum

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Architecture

ISBN: 9783868590227
English/German edition
Jovis Verlag
Hardcover, 352 pages
21 x 24 cm
colour/black & white
July 2010
€37,54 (excl. VAT)

Landraum

Beyond Rural Design

Jörg Schröder, Kerstin Weigert Ed(s)

The country is the white spot of contemporary architecture. Living spaces seem to be urbanizing increasingly, while the country is blocked out. Which spatial structures and methods prevail in these areas? How do rural and urban lifestyles and settlement areas influence each other? Can a global back country develop via rural fringes, country pioneers, and local energies? What effects does the increasing awareness of food production have on architecture and urban development?

By means of a spatial, architectural approach, Landraum tries to accommodate the dynamics of rural areas in instruments of perception and design. It puts large-scale work to discussion from an architectural perspective and calls for a rediscovery of the periphery on the basis of student projects, research projects and artistic interventions. The collection of international projects by Matthias Reichenbach-Klinke and his employees at the Chair for Rural Planning and Building is illustrated with aerial photographs by Klaus Leidorf.