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Wiener Hitze,Wiener Hitze

Architecture and Storytelling in Times of Heat,Architecture and Storytelling in Times of Heat

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Social issues and experimental approaches to architecture and urban design in times of climate change


Multilingual Edition (German, English)
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Edited by Institute for Art and Architecture, Christina Condak, Michelle Howard, Christina Jauernik, Linda Lackner, Lisa Schmidt-Colinet, Angelika Schnell, Eva Sommeregger
2023
Paperback
320 pages, 79 color and 140 b/w illustrations
15.5 x 23 cm
ISBN 978-3-03860-328-3

For centuries, dealing with cold has been the dominant climatic factor for architectural design in Central Europe. The climate change apparent now assigns this role to heat. Architecture and urban design strive for efficient, resource-saving technical solutions to meet the changing climatic conditions and the energy standards they demand without really questioning customary notions of comfort, forms of living, and urban coexistence. Yet architects must increasingly search for experimental approaches and new ways in which we can live together well in a rapidly warming climate, in particular in cities and metropolitan regions.

Despite a supposed powerlessness in the face of the impending climate catastrophe, the contributions collected in this volume offer a diverse range of narratives that tell of experiences, observations, and the needs of people that inhabit hotter worlds, both real and imagined. What role as climate producers can architecture and the city play in shaping our habitat if these important issues are understood not only in purely technological but also in cultural and social terms?

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