Architekturfakultät der Technischen Universität Graz – författare

Compelled by the global environmental crisis, the building industry is moving toward a paradigm shift that significantly impacts the way we build, design, and interact with the natural environments around us. The built spaces of the future need to disrupt the conventional design practices that have " elevated" the building sector to the largest contributor of manmade CO2 emissions globally. Achieving net-zero embodied and operational emissions in future construction will require the active participation of design, construction, and building professionals, as well as the prompt implementation of decarbonization solutions. These solutions, which restructure the way humans interact with their ecosystems, entail a reevaluation and reinterpretation of architecture and its role as a transformative agent. GAM 2 collects perspectives and proposals on how to make a radical shift towards environmental transformation successful.With contributions by Greg Foliente, Guillaume Habert, Monica Lavagna, Alice Moncaster, Chrisna du Plessis, Philippe Rahm, and others Explores contemporary approaches to decarbonizing the construction industry, one of the world's largest emitters of CO2 Includes contributions from international authors and experts

Bilingual edition (English/German) / Zweisprachige Ausgabe (deutsch/englisch)Architecture is, by definition, multidisciplinary—in design, in practice, and in research. However, genuine and productive collaboration across different disciplines is rarely a given. GAM 22 is dedicated to those synergies that succeed: when architects and material scientists explore new pathways toward carbon-neutral construction, when digital technologies, biological processes, or innovative recycling strategies become integral parts of architectural concepts, the result is more than the sum of individual contributions. GAM 22 brings together inspiring examples from research and practice that demonstrate how interdisciplinary collaboration can generate fresh impetus for our built environment. It is as a plea for the necessity of cooperation—and a volume full of hope at a time when it is urgently needed.With contributions by Markus Bartaky, Nathan Fash, Jay Gilbert, Lukas Gosch, Urs Hirschberg, Asya Ilgün, Julian Jauk, Svenja Keune, Yinan Liu, Sophia Meeres, Olga Mesa, Saurabh A. Mhatre, Mo Michelsen Stochholm Krag, Daniela Mitterberger, Britta Nader, Cornelia Ott, Uwe Rieger, Kristijan Ristoski, Fabian Scheurer, Gerhard Schmitt, Milena Stavrić, Hana Vašatko, Ted Wilson, Charlotta Windahl, and Chris Younès• Innovative approaches to interdisciplinary practice and research• With contributions by international authors and experts

Bilingual edition (English/German) / Zweisprachige Ausgabe (deutsch/englisch) In the face of growing territorial inequalities in the distribution of and access to resources, justice has—once again—become a topical issue and challenge in the fields of land-use planning and urbanism. GAM.15 is devoted to the geographical dimension of social justice. It considers the transformations currently taking place in rural areas and describes their potentials, problems, and prospects for development.The contributions collected in this publication examine the dynamics through which the rural landscape is changing, how the transformations taking place may create new territorial inequalities, and how Territorial Justice-oriented alternatives to the dominant planning system may be established. With contributions by Pierre Veltz, Michael Woods, Paola Viganò, Yuri Kazepov and Michael Friesenecker, Emanuele Sommariva, Nicolas Escach, Don Mitchell, and others

Bilingual edition (English/German) / Zweisprachige Ausgabe (deutsch/englisch) Contemporary and future forms of living together urgently need new concepts in order to respond to growing social inequality, the dissolution of traditional structures for work and the family, and the emergence of diverse patterns of social relationships. GAM.16 conceives of spatial formation as a permeable framework for sociospatial structures in various architectural, sociological, and cultural contexts, aiming to increase awareness of common resources and again make them one focus of sociopolitical discourse. Themed "gewohnt: un/common," GAM.16 advocates for communal living and introduces collaborative and coproductive concepts of organization as a spatial practice. With contributions by Massimo Bricocoli, Heike Delitz, Marson Korbi, Nikolai Roskamm, Sabine Storp, Fritz Strempel, and others

Bilingual edition (English/German) / Zweisprachige Ausgabe (deutsch/englisch) New and cutting-edge forms of pedagogy such as distance learning, design-build, collaborative learning, and peer-to-peer practices are increasingly calling conventional teaching and learning environments, in architecture and other design disciplines, into question. Academic institutions in Western Europe, in particular, are faced with the challenge of rethinking standardized spatial structures and institutional hierarchies and adapting them to unconventional and radical teaching and learning concepts. GAM.18 explores anew the area of conflict between architecture teaching in universities and the teaching environment. It calls for spatial structures and working environments that enable the contemplation and design of architecture, and investigates teaching and learning methods that include critical consideration of the spaces and institutions in which the teaching takes place. With contributions from Hélène Frichot, Charlotte Malterre-Barthes, Lucia Pennati, Jean-Louis Violeau, and others

Bilingual edition (English/German) / Zweisprachige Ausgabe (deutsch/englisch) Whoever builds is inevitably confronted with a jungle of different positions, all with one thing in common: they are all the views of professionals. As a discipline, architecture occupies a special role. It is a profession itself, and one which relates to numerous other professions and integrates them into its practice of planning and building. GAM 19 interrogates the complex constellations and various semantic meanings of professionalism in architecture. How have the professional foundations of the discipline shifted over time due to economic, ecological, or societal changes, and how do today’s architects engage with them? What is there to be learned from all the hybrid forms in which professional procedures are circumvented by unprofessional processes in order to produce hitherto unknown results? GAM 19 takes on the task of analyzing and re-evaluating architecture’s occupational profile, providing a platform for a diverse range of players to reflect on the concept of professionalism in the context of their architectural practice and to identify its contemporary manifestations. With contributions by Grayson Bailey, Alexander Bartscher, Klara Bindl, Ivica Brnić, Peggy Deamer, Anne Femmer, Andri Gerber, Andreas Lechner, Alex Lehnerer, Yeoryia Manolopoulou, Jan Meier, Julian Müller, Victoria Steiner, Florian Summa, Juergen Teller, and Lena Unger