Jürgen Tietz – författare

For the past 20 years, Bernhard Winking and Martin Froh have been active along the entire spectrum of architecture and urban planning in Europe and China. With their award-winning redevelopment of Spiegel-Insel in Hamburg and the addition to the Esplanade, Winking · Froh Architekten have demonstrated in exemplary fashion how ensembles of post-war modernism can be preserved in a manner appropriate to their status as historic monuments yet further developed in a contemporary manner. Their residential buildings – in Berlin, Bremen, Hamburg and other places – are distinctive yet blend into their respective surroundings and use sustainable and durable materials. Sparing use of sculptural design elements goes hand in hand with attractive floor plans. Another aspect of their work is urban development projects such as Europaplatz in Heidelberg and Book City in Ningbo.

Die dramatische Sars-CoV-2 Pandemie wirkt weltweit in vielen Bereichen des Lebens wie ein Brandbeschleuniger. Davon sind auch Architektur und Städtebau betroffen. Der Handel in den Innenstädten ist weggebrochen, die Bedeutung von Büros nimmt ab. Dafür werden mehr Grünflächen für die Erholung benötigt und veränderte Wohnungsgrundrisse, um das Homeoffice aufzunehmen. Das Buch benennt die wichtigsten architektonischen und städtebaulichen Veränderungen, die mit Corona in Stadt und Land einhergehen, stellt sie in den Kontext des Stadtumbaus durch den Klimawandel, verortet sie historisch und leitet daraus konkrete Strategien und Chancen ab, um den zentralen Zukunftsherausforderungen zu begegnen, die sich aus der Pandemie für Stadt und Land ergeben.

In her photographic series Paris – 9 Rue de l’Université, Frizzi Krella (b. 1970) explores the seemingly mundane subject of a window front undergoing renovation work. With her precise eye, she transforms her observations into a multifaceted reflection of the moment, a composition of the ephemeral. Krella’s photographs are an invitation to investigate the world, with its various distortions and compositions, as if it were a puzzle. They are an opportunity to delight in the playful appropriation of the various layers of reality and coincidence in order to assimilate the things we have seen into the cosmos of our own experience of art and the world around us. Thus, her work takes us all the way back to the very origins of photography and to the Paris of two centuries ago, when moments first began to achieve timelessness.Text in English, German and French.

The Sound of Architecture is a personal book about the internationally active Dortmund architect Eckhard Gerber. It is the story of a life between East and West Germany, shaped by his parental home, a Protestant parsonage in Thuringia, his studies in Braunschweig, and his constantly being put to the test by his profession. Eckhard Gerber played the trumpet at an early age and still plays it today. It is no accident that his architecture possesses a musical dimension, combining clarity and emotion. The book is a portrait of an architect’s life, richly documented and rendered with sensitivity by Jürgen Tietz, together with personal texts written by companions and colleagues from across many years. It’s a book that deals with the current issues of architecture and urban planning: Baukultur and the culture of architectural competitions, designing in historical context, art in architecture, and, not least, the social responsibility that architecture bears. With contributions by Falk Jaeger, Kaspar Kraemer, Gerhard Langemeyer, Rouven Lotz, Dieter Nellen, Sebastian Redecke, Christa Reicher, Dietrich Sattler, Wolfgang Sonne, and Jörn Walter

The Sound of Architecture - in accordance with this key notion, for more than five decades the architect Eckhard Gerber and his firm have been producing award-winning projects, which have attracted widespread international attention in the fields of architecture, urban design, interior design, and landscape design.

The large estate Neue Vahr in Bremen is a successful urban model. It was developed at the beginning of the 1960s as a “town of the future," incorporating designs by Ernst May, and is one of the largest residential estates of post-war modernity in Germany. With the current Neue Vahr model process, the housing association GEWOBA has launched an exemplary development process for the district, in cooperation with the Free Hanseatic City of Bremen.Based on a precise analysis of the existing buildings, infrastructure and green areas, as well as of the residential community, an interdisciplinary team of architecture, city, transport, and landscape planning professionals, along with residents, has developed visions for further development in the future. The aim was to preserve the qualities of the district and at the same time to strengthen communal living in Neue Vahr as a city of the twenty-first century in which affordable living in a healthy and green environment remains possibl