“Confronting the Environmental Crisis” Deadline: May 31, 2024
The next issue of GAM, guest-edited by Alexander Passer and Marcella Ruschi Mendes Saade, invites proposals from the disciplines of architecture, civil engineering, environmental studies, urban planning, or material and cultural studies, to discuss the architectural design that a shift in perspective might take when it comes to environmental performance. In this context, we also welcome proposals discussing pedagogical shifts that are required for a reevaluation of the discipline. Abstracts on the topic “Confronting the Environmental Crisis” can be submitted together with a short biography until May 31, 2024 to gam@tugraz.at senden.
Open Access Articles
from Past Issues
“So for me, that’s worth more than someone saying they begin by just gathering information and then draw references to that information— in other words, to put it plainly, I don’t do things, I’d say, that just reach back in history in order to adopt motifs, but instead, I try to make architecture that ensures that historic preservationists will still have something to do 30 years from now.”[1] In honor of the tenth anniversary of his death, the exhibition “Günther Domenig: Dimensional— Structures and Shapes” is being held at four locations in Carinthia. Complementing two exhibitions in Klagenfurt, Domenig’s Steinhaus on Lake Ossiach and his building for the iron industry monument in Heft near Hüttenberg are both exhibits of and venues for this exhibition and give me an immediate reason for this essay on a hitherto unexamined aspect of the central artist-architect of the “Graz School.”[2] When I started working as a university assistant at the Institute of Design and Building Typology at TU Graz… Read more
→ GAM 19 ProfessionalismTransforming the Learning Environment in Architectural Education
Informal Appropriation of Space and Resistance in the Urban Density of Hong Kong Fritz Strempel
Exploring the Edge of the Megalopolis Paola Viganò
Leading theorist, curator, and director of the art center La Panacée in Montpellier, Nicolas Bourriaud, in his latest book, The Exform (2016, first published as La Exforma, 2015), introduces art as a tool to understand the world in which we are living. For him, art is an “optical machinery” having the ability to capture the neuralgic moments and diagnose the contemporary condition by revealing the ideological mechanisms of exclusion from the public sphere and distinguishing the productive and the product from the unproductive and the waste. Going back to Courbet, Bourriaud outlines the process of rehabilitating the despised as one of the corner stones of modernism and, consequently, of modern art. Read more
→ GAM 14 Exhibiting MattersOn Architecture in the Arctic Claudia Gerhäusser (GAM) in Conversation with Sebastian Behmann (Studio Other Spaces)