Sophie Wolfrum Pořadí knih (chronologicky)

Dies ist ein Plädoyer für einen architectonic turn in der Urbanistik. Urbanistik wird hier dezidiert als ein Gebiet der Architektur behandelt. Architektur ist die Kunst, Räume zu artikulieren. Das gilt auch für den Maßstab der Stadt, von der Türschwelle bis zur Region geht es um die Architektur urbaner Räume. Eine Architektur der Stadt gestaltet komplexe räumliche Situationen, die in dem Zusammenspiel von gesellschaftlichem und individuellem Handeln mit baulich konkreten Dingen bestehen und die unseren Alltag auch atmosphärisch und ästhetisch prägen. Diese räumlichen Situationen sind Gegenstand des architektonischen Entwurfs urbaner Räume. Der Entwurf setzt ein Repertoire spezifisch architektonischer Mittel schöpferisch ein, so dass wir Städte als räumlich gestaltet erleben. Dieses architektonische Repertoire wird im Buch beschrieben. Entwurf und urban design finden wieder Eingang in die Urbanistik

The catalogue World of Malls is devoted to a type of building that was invented in the United States just less than sixty years ago and quickly spread throughout the world. Due to urban planning’s increasing orientation toward the automobile, the mall became a substitute for lost urbanity. Yet what direction is the development of the shopping mall taking today? On the one hand, there continue to be spectacular new openings in America, Asia, the United Arab Emirates, and Europe. At the same time, however, many malls are empty, and some are being converted and repurposed. There is hardly any other building typology that is being discussed as controversially: does the shopping mall mean the death of the city, or does it stimulate its revitalization? In their essays, urban planners, economists, and architectural historians such as Anette Baldauf, Bob Bruegmann, Dietrich Erben, Richard Longstreth, Alain Thierstein, June Williamson, and Sophie Wolfrum examine the transformation processes of the shopping mall from the twentieth to the twenty-first century. (German edition ISBN 978-3-7757-4138-5) Exhibition: Architekturmuseum der TU München in der Pinakothek der Moderne, 13.7.–22.10.2016

The concept of relational space in urbanism'understanding the space of the city as produced by society'is connected with an understanding of architecture unfolding in situations. Urban space is induced by architecture, space is produced while experiencing architecture within a situation. There is a dialectical interplay between architectonic material (intra-architectonic reality) and usage and action (urban reality). Thus, an architectonic situation can be interpreted as performative in the sense of performativity as it has emerged in the discourse over the last decade. The everyday urban life of the city, with all its potential and conflicts, is taken into consideration. Analyzing the urban is not enough. This discourse is about Urban Design. Is architectural design one part, and the actualization of architecture in a performative incident another? Does Urban Design need different practices?