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Catalogue accompanying the exhibition "Think Global, Build Social! Architectures for a Better World" (15 March 2014 - 01 July 2014)
Year of publication: 2013
Language: English and German (bilingual edition)
Editor: ARCH+ Verlag GmbH, Sabine Kraft, Nikolaus Kuhnert, Günther Uhlig
Editorial staff: Nikolaus Kuhnert, Anh-Linh Ngo, Sabine Hansmann, Jesse Coburn, Nicole Opel, Achim Reese, Daniel Spruth, Niloufar Tajeri mit Johannes Blechschmidt, Riccarda Cappeller
Project managment: Sabine hansmann
Editorial office (English): Jesse Coburn
Editorial office (German): Hans Georg Hiller von Gaertringen
Translation (German to English): Jesse Coburn, Brian Currid, Sophie Duvernoy, Robert Madole, Erika Pinner, Zeke Turner, Eric Zapel
Translation (English to German): Alexandra Ryrko, Christa Kamleithner, Roland Meyer, Nikolaus G. Schneider
ISSN: 0587-3452
Think global, build social! is the title of this issue. It’s also the title of an exhibition curated by Andres Lepik for the Deutsche Architekturmuseum and the Architekturzentrum Wien (for which this issue serves as a catalog). But Think global, build social! is something else as well: a program for a new architecture that promotes emerging practical and professional perspectives. Under this banner, the issue and exhibition bring together projects from the world over—projects that call to mind the debates surrounding the Heimatschutzarchitektur of the 1910s (a movement that sought to protect local building traditions on the eve of modernism) or the Critical Regionalism of the 1970s. In contrast to their conservative iterations in the last century, however, concepts like homeland, landscape, and region can no longer be marshaled in the culture wars against the inexorable progress of modernization. The very frontiers of civilization and culture have been redrawn along a new axis—that of the global and the local. With any luck, this realignment will resolve the Western schism between civilization and culture and advance new forms of cultural production as well.
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