EAN: 9783986122010

DIE ABRISSFRAGE

In response to the current climate  biodiversity  and energy crises  critiques of current
demolition practices have become more vocal. In Germany  an estimated 50 000 buildings are torn
down annually. Die Abrissfrage (The Demolition Question) sheds light on the phenomenon of
demolition in the building sector from various perspectives. Approaches drawn from the fields
of architectural history and theory  historic preservation  feminism  activism  and art are
employed in order to analyze the ecological  political  socioeconomic  and cultural
consequences of practices of demolition and rebuilding that remain grounded in the logic of
modernism. The contributions investigate the historical development of demolition practices 
along with the ideological influences that shape them  the current network of protagonists  and
related gentrification processes  but also the anti-demolition movement that began to form in
the 1960s. This volume appears in the framework of a new publication series that addresses
current questions related to environmental and socially responsible building. Considered as
well are major twentieth-century pioneers of ecological building. The editors of the series are
Philipp Oswalt and Alexander Stumm. With contributions by ANA  Elisabeth Broermann  Laura
Calbet  Dina Dorothea Falbe  Maximilian Hartinger  Maria Hudl  Katrine Majlund Jensen  Adrian
Nägel  Yulia Ostheimer  Luise Rellensmann  Tim Rieniets  Martha Seeger  Lukas Strasser and
Alexander Stumm  as well as the architecture collectives AbbrechenAbbrechen (Munich) 
Abrisskollektiv (Hannover)  Initiative Perspektive Europaviertel (Freiburg)  and ufoufo
(Berlin) Examines the current state of debates concerning demolition  along with arguments and
statistics Wide-ranging research and documentation on recently demolished or currently
threatened buildings Highlights the history and networking of the anti-demolition movement in
Germany beginning in the 1960s

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