Gesetz und Freiheit (Law and liberty) The architect Friedrich Wilhelm Kraemer (1907 - 1990)
One of the most successful architects of the economic miracle years, Friedrich Wilhelm Kraemer’s uncompromising modern architecture had a lasting effect on building in the Federal Republic of those days. [more]
Werner Ruhnau - Space, Play and the Arts
The architect Werner Ruhnau walked the line between the arts. World famous for his Gelsenkirchen Musical Theatre (1959) on which he worked with Yves Klein, Jean Tinguely and Norbert Kricke among others, he was also an active artistic and stage director. [more]
Joe Scanlan - Passing Through
The American artist Joe Scanlan has designed the latest long-term project for the large, spectacular area beneath K21's glass cupola. In the centre a 'wandering', modular pavilion of lightweight construction has been erected. [more]
North-Rhine Westphalia - 60 Years of Architecture and the Art of Engineering
60 years North-Rhine Westphalia – a reason to celebrate but, at the same time, an occasion to risk a critical depiction of the “state of the art” of the federal state itself, its architecture and its art of civil engineering – a new “land survey”. [more]
DIONYSOSHOF 1:1
The published catalogue describes the different phases of the project “DIONYSOSHOF”. A visual sequence introduces the concept and traces the historical development of the location. In his essay, Bazon Brock discusses the „Dionysos Hof as a place of initiation to the consciousness of Cologne“. [more]
archplus 179 - Oswald Mathias Ungers Architectonics - Berlin lectures 1964 - 65
With this issue Oswald Mathias Ungers´ Berlin lectures of the years 1964-65 are published for the first time. In the international context they may be valued as high as „The Architecture of the City“ by Aldo Rossi or „Complexity and Contradiction“ by Robert Venturi. [more]
Tagebauten - Zeichnungen - Bettina van Haaren
The artist Bettina van Haaren, born 1961 in Krefeld, presents a selection of 29 drawings. As a result of her travelling, these drawings represent her exploration and adoption of foreign cities and their atmospheres. After her study of the arts in Mainz the artist now lives in Witten and works as... [more]
