EUROPAN17 Austria x Slovenia
Living Cities 2
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This catalogue is a rich source of pioneering essays and award-winning proposals, all centred on the pursuit of ‘Living Cities’.
EUROPAN, now in its 17th edition, is a series of competitions for architects under forty for urban and architectural projects in smaller and bigger cities and villages all over Europe, with the goal of realising them. Apart from the realisation of projects, EUROPAN has always been inspirational for the field of architecture, urbanism, and planning by showcasing exemplary solutions that, in all their diversity and specificity, address a common theme. As such, they are also prototypes that are discussed and thus produce a discourse beyond the specificity of the projects themselves.
In this edition the theme of “Living Cities 2” is revisited for the second time. It focuses on the notion of ‘Care’, exploring the regenerative capacity of living environments to overcome the opposition between nature and culture - a critical step towards achieving a shared future on a healthy planet.
Designed for sites in three Austrian cities - Graz, Lochau and Vienna - as well as Celje in Slovenia, these projects invite us to imagine urban living with fresh eyes and discover new insights. Essays by the members of the international jury in Austria/Slovenia on the issue of ‘Care’ along with contributions by three international experts on the issues of the rights of nature, the importance of housing as infrastructure, and architecture and race, allow for further reading.
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EUROPAN16 Austria
Living Cities
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This book showcases six innovative, prize-winning proposals for the 16th EUROPAN competition for young planners under the age of forty.
The projects are designed for locations in three Austrian cities: Graz, Klagenfurt, and Linz. They address important issues like climate change and human-made social, economic, environmental, and cultural inequalities, as well as show how architecture can play an important role in coping with such challenges. ‘Balancing’ and ‘repairing’ solutions are urgently needed to respond to the local, regional, and territorial impacts of an escalating, multi-layered global crisis. The right to the city and the question of social inclusion can no longer be conducted outside the debate about having arrived in the Anthropocene and the premises deriving from it. ‘Living Cities’ calls for a new planning paradigm determined to develop integrative strategies for a caring coexistence. It presents a nuanced understanding for the current discourse on urban development and architecture, and its translation into processes and projects.
With texts by Andreas Hofer, Benni Eder, Susanne Eliasson, Iris Kaltenegger, Elke Krasny, Bart Lootsma, Elisabeth Merk, Akil Scafe-Smith, Paola Viganò, Bernd Vlay and a photo series by Bas Princen
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EUROPAN15 Austria
Productive Cities 2
This book features the twelve winning submissions to the 2019 Productive Cities 2 competition for the Austrian cities Graz, Innsbruck, Villach, Weiz, and Vienna. They are presented in great detail through photos, drawings and visualizations, along with commenting texts. The projects focuses on architectural and urban-planning interventions and processes. They offer innovative concepts for the use of public space as well as holistic solutions for sustainable construction and models for cross-functional use of space. The book is a rich source for trend-setting ideas about our future cities and the development of a new urban lifestyle.
With contributions by Blaž Babnik Romaniuk, Kristiaan Borret, Iris Kaltenegger, Verena Konrad, Bart Lootsma, Katharina Urbanek and Bernd Vlay; an editorial by Iris Kaltenegger, as well as brief statements by Eva-Maria Benedikt, Oswin Donnerer, Philipp Fromm, Martin Haas, Guido Mosser and Christopher Kreiner.
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