The Re-Use of Urban Ruins
| Author | : Hanna Katharina Göbel |
| Publisher | : Routledge |
| Total Pages | : 251 |
| Release | : 2014-12-05 |
| ISBN-10 | : 9781317630227 |
| ISBN-13 | : 131763022X |
| Rating | : 4/5 (22X Downloads) |
Book Synopsis The Re-Use of Urban Ruins by : Hanna Katharina Göbel
Download or read book The Re-Use of Urban Ruins written by Hanna Katharina Göbel and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-12-05 with total page 251 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How do urban ruins provoke their cultural revaluation? This book offers a unique sociological analysis about the social agencies of material culture and atmospheric knowledge of buildings in the making. It draws on ethnographic research in Berlin along the former Palace of the Republic, the E-Werk and the Café Moskau in order to make visible an interdisciplinary regime of design experts who have developed a professional sensorium turning the built memory of the city into an object of aesthetic inquiry.