Blauer Klaus, Langer Johann, Mississippi Dampfer, Max und Moritz, Orpheus und Eurydike, Pallasseum, Sonnenhügel or Weißer Riese: Schweinfurt, Erlangen, Krefeld, Kaiserslautern, Munich, Berlin, Frankfurt, Gelsenkirchen - urban societies have created multi-layered names for their high-rise residential buildings, they were and are on everyone's lips. They characterise the image of the cities of the young Federal Republic of Germany. They are a sign, a signet, a symbol of progress, upswing, identification. They are part of everyday life, loved, pampered, coveted, for living, lingering, meeting.
High-rise residential buildings are also experiments. The type of post-war modernist residential tower block creates new living spaces at height, forward-looking and technically euphoric. As the built legacy of post-war modernism, they are being scrutinised in the face of social and climate change. This collection of high-rise residential buildings shows the range in form, figure and context, with special consideration of different urban structures and urban bodies. And invites you to (re)discover them.
Editors
Lukas Brecheler, Lionel Esche
Softcover, 402 pages, 152 x 182 mm
ISBN 978-3-00-076301-4
Publisher
ea - Edition Architektur, Berlin & Munich, 2023
Printed by
Gotteswinter und Fibo Druck- und Verlags GmbH, Munich, Germany
Awards
Sponsorship Prize for Young Book Design, Stiftung Buchkunst, Shortlist, 2024
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Wohnhochhaus
Blauer Klaus, Langer Johann, Mississippi Dampfer, Max und Moritz, Orpheus und Eurydike, Pallasseum, Sonnenhügel or Weißer Riese: Schweinfurt, Erlangen, Krefeld, Kaiserslautern, Munich, Berlin, Frankfurt, Gelsenkirchen - urban societies have created multi-layered names for their high-rise residential buildings, they were and are on everyone's lips. They characterise the image of the cities of the young Federal Republic of Germany. They are a sign, a signet, a symbol of progress, upswing, identification. They are part of everyday life, loved, pampered, coveted, for living, lingering, meeting.
High-rise residential buildings are also experiments. The type of post-war modernist residential tower block creates new living spaces at height, forward-looking and technically euphoric. As the built legacy of post-war modernism, they are being scrutinised in the face of social and climate change. This collection of high-rise residential buildings shows the range in form, figure and context, with special consideration of different urban structures and urban bodies. And invites you to (re)discover them.
Editors
Lukas Brecheler, Lionel Esche
Softcover, 402 pages, 152 x 182 mm
ISBN 978-3-00-076301-4
Publisher
ea - Edition Architektur, Berlin & Munich, 2023
Printed by
Gotteswinter und Fibo Druck- und Verlags GmbH, Munich, Germany
Awards
Sponsorship Prize for Young Book Design, Stiftung Buchkunst, Shortlist, 2024
see more
Wohnhochhaus