Hatje Cantz Livres

The visual impression made by a world exhibition is largely dependent on the quality of its architecture, and this year the Hannover EXPO 2000 is stunning visitors with an especially wide range of attractions: from futuristic bridge constructions to invitingly designed commons to modern traffic buildings. The pavilions of the individual nations will be among the fair's finest sights -- a Buddhist temple for the kingdom of Bhutan, a Japanese pavilion made entirely out of paper, a desert fort for the United Arab Emirates, stacked landscapes for the Netherlands -- never before has there been such a copious architectural feast for the eyes. The catalogue documenting this event gives a reading tour of the entire EXPO 2000 site: About 300 illustrations and concise informative texts about the individual architectural projects turn the publication into a highly up-to-date handbook for all of architecture today.

Public spaces tend to over-represent facilities and spatial design for the young and the middle-aged, whereas elderly citizens are all too often neglected by contemporary urban design practice. Age Inclusive Public Space establishes a dialogue between architects and academic contributors from a range of disciplines.Collecting examples and showcasing architectural case studies as well as providing a broad portrait of age-inclusive design methodology, it provides practitioners with inspiration and theoretical and practical knowledge on how to design public space to meet the needs of people of all ages.Drawings, photographs and illustrations of contemporary built environments, historic gardens, art installations and atmospheric landscapes provide a range of contexts for spatial practitioners of all stripes.

Acclaimed critic, curator and museum director Clémentine Deliss explores possible functions for anthropological museums in a postcolonial culture Anthropological museums in Europe, as products of imperialism, have been compelled to legitimate themselves for some while now. The very basis of their exhibitions, the history of their collections, which came about all too often through colonial appropriation and outright theft, is now widely contended. In this brilliant intervention in this often irresolvable-seeming conversation, the London-born curator, researcher, publisher and director of the Frankfurt Weltkulturen Museum Clémentine Deliss (born 1960) offers an intriguing mix of autobiographically informed fiction and scientific argument to address the topic and explore the possible future role of anthropological museums in culture. Deliss conjoins reflections about her own work as the director of the Frankfurt Weltkulturen Museum with discussions of filmmakers, artists and authors to argue for an entity she calls the Metabolic Museum--an interventionist laboratory that opens up the potential of anthropological collections for the future.

The small city of Anjar lies about sixty kilometers east of Beirut, in Lebanon. Its history borders on the miraculous. In 1939 a group of Armenians from the area Musa Dagh, who had survived the massacre and persecution perpetrated by the Young Turks, found each other. With support from the French colonial government, they managed to buy the land. Not only did the city planning that ensued foresee giving each family some land and a house, they also built three confessional schools in Anjar-apostolic, catholic, protestant. In celebration of the city's eightieth anniversary, the architects Vartivar Jaklian and Hossep Bahovan discuss this utopia, which is devoted to social and individual life, in this illustrated volume containing historical sketches and current photographs, as well as companion texts. The film accompanying the book also features interviews with today's residents of Anjar.

Documentation of te Prix Arts Electronica 2019 and STARTS Prize'19

Visionary works from the Beyeler emblematic of its robust modernist collection From Rousseau to Richter, Brancusi to Bourgeois, Monet to Miro, this volume offers a fresh look at 25 highlights that have transformed art, selected for the 25th anniversary of the Fondation Beyeler from its collection of some 400 works.

Chosen from the overflowing universe of materials that constituted his Stuttgart period, Dieter Roth's Ein gerissener Hase (A Slain Rabbit) and Bar Nr. 0 represent two stations in a life that was deeply intertwined with and inseparable from art. The former is a 25-part serigraph series printed with Frank Kicherer in 1990; the latter a complex work extended and restored months before the artist's death in 1998.