On housing in the 21st century
Vol. 15, No. 1, April 2010

 


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Conception and editor:
  Eduard Heinrich Führ and Wolfgang Zwafelink
Editorial office and implementation:   Eva Maria Froschauer
Assistance:
  Heike Wehrmann-Ernst
   

Cover:
Platz(-raum) St. Leonhards Garten, Braunschweig, Büro Mettler Landschaftsarchitektur, Berlin

   



What does ‘dwelling’ mean?
Achim Hahn   General view of the philosophy of dwelling
Eduard Heinrich Führ   Heidegger’s phenomenology of dwelling
    See issue 2/1998: Architecture and Home. A Discussion of Heideggers Essay `Building Dwelling Thinking` (1951)

Andreas Feldtkeller   On calm habitation
   

Living in the city - The spatial and architectural design of an urban society

Walter Ackers   Residing in the city – Living with the city. Thoughts on the topics living, privacy and public
Klaus Theo Brenner   The good city – reconstruction of a planning idea or how do I construct a city?
   

Living in the city - Regarding the procedure
Wolfgang Zwafelink   A new urban architecture
Kay-Uwe Rohn   Developing a new type of habitation
Eduard Heinrich Führ   Politics and inherent necessities






Abstracts:

   


What does 'dwelling' mean
   
 
___Achim Hahn
Dresden
 
General view of the philosophy of dwelling

In many discussions on the future of living the accommodation becomes institutionalized and only identified with something being found behind the front door. Based on Martin Heidegger’s thoughts on “Building Dwelling Thinking” and additionally involving further contributions dealing with Heidegger, this article is developing an advanced notion of dwelling. A term which is surpassing its traditional exclusion of all public.

Paper in German

 
___Eduard Heinrich Führ
Bielefeld / Cottbus
 
Heidegger’s phenomenology of dwelling

Martin Heidegger’s 1951 talk and essay Building Dwelling Thinking is the central text of a phenomenology of dwelling; however, in most cases it is understood as either immanently, as concrete and normative anthropology, as transcendentally, or as apotheosis of the realm of ideas. In the following draft it however will be understood transcendentally, as analysis of what living means as such.

Paper in German

 
___Andreas Feldtkeller
Tübingen
 
On calm habitation

The model of calm living which is separating settlement areas and working areas is still dominating the idea of urban development. This is happening although the massive immigration into those urban areas will lead to an urbanisation which has never been before, even though in the planning context the immigration could have been organised differently. However, today only with great efforts a revision of the cult of the separation of functions from a spatial perspective of settlement seems to be possible. In this respect the following article evokes Ebenezer Howard’s model of the garden city and its misinterpretations.

Paper in German

 


Living in the city - The spatial and architectural design of an urban society
   
 
___Walter Ackers
Braunschweig
 
Residing in the city – Living with the city. Thoughts on the topics living, privacy and public

It seems to be so clearly: the separation of public and privacy. The privacy is taking place in the interior of the home; the public is taking place outside in the city. The gap is only identified as development. The text questions this simple allocation and gives a subtle pleading for the gap and for connecting privacy and public.

Paper in German

   
___Klaus Theo Brenner
Berlin / Potsdam
 
The good city – reconstruction of a planning idea or how do I construct a city?

The article passionately opposes the many attempts of de-urbanisation of living and seeks to develop a counter concept. This concept will include the urban townhouse, a building having not only its location within the city, but also constituting with its typology and formal presence the city.

Paper in German

   


Living in the city - Regarding the procedure
   
 
___Wolfgang Zwafelink
Braunschweig
 
A new urban architecture

The question on the living and the accommodation of the future is increasingly asked due to the fact that the lifestyles and the household types become more diversely. In Braunschweig the municipality has decided to develop a vivid quarter in cooperation with as many private individual principals as possible. Here the municipality is acting as the initiator and moderator in an innovative planning process to be able to fulfil the numerous requirements of planning and implementation. On the example of the housing project “St Leonhard’s garden” this text shows the selected procedural steps of project development and planning process and the complexity of a participative operation.

Paper in German

 
___Kay-Uwe Rohn
Braunschweig
 
Developing a new type of habitation

In this article newer approaches to moderation and coordination of residential construction projects will be presented. In particular will be highlighted the significant function of so called 'Baugruppen' with the formulation of new projects.

Paper in German

 
___Eduard Heinrich Führ
Bielefeld / Cottbus
 
Politics and inherent necessities

For some time have been demanded concepts regarding living suitable for elderly and disabled persons. The reason therefore are neither the elderly people, nor the disabled, nor the living, but a tendency to the privatisation of the provision. This is partly justified by a new understanding of the state’s and society’s duties. Something counting as inherent necessity and being pushed into the specialist disciplines where it is taken seriously as human duty, is basically just a result of a inhuman change of politics.

Paper in German

 
 

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