In einer Zeit des Wandels, in der sich die Gesellschaft mit neuen Herausforderungen und Unsicherheiten konfrontiert sieht, ist es zu einer eminent politischen Aufgabe geworden, die Zukunft offen und gestaltbar zu halten. Transtopia erforscht deshalb die Transformationsfähigkeit der Stadt jenseits vorhersehbarer Prognosen. Wie lassen sich Spielräume für alternative Ansätze zur gegenwärtigen Auffassung von Stadt entwickeln?… Read more »

Inspired by Oskar Hansen’s Open Form concept, the third edition of the Berlin Transfer series presents housing models that have to be completed by the user. With the transfer of performative qualities of contemporary and traditional building structures from Japan, Open Living Structures explores innovative forms of living and cohabitation.

Berlin Transfer – Hybrid Modernities uses a sensorial reading of Brazilian modernism to challenge the generic, if not austere, appeal of Berlin’s modernist housing complexes. By applying strategies of extension, insertion and reprogramming to prevalent structures, the book combines generic urban prototypes from the post-war era with the untapped qualities of visionary modernism using urban… Read more »

Berlin Transfer-Learning from the Global South investigates the architecture of big form, urban villages and special interest zones, inspired by iconic urban sites located south of the equator. Inverting the direction in which knowledge has been exported since colonial times, the book reveals the conceptual and performative qualities of building complexes from the Global South… Read more »