Project information

submitted by
Eva von Engelberg-Dockal

Co-Authors
Annika Eheim, Yin Fu, Max Hilbert, Alexander Kastner, Linas Kleponis, Magdalena Köhne, Christopher Koenig, Ronja Maier, Yinuo Meng, Charlotte Polak, Caroline Sieg, Anastasiya Voshchina, Jakob Wolters, Alexandra Zakharova, Chen Zheng

Mentors
Eva von Engelberg

Faculty:
Architecture and Urbanism

Degree programme:
Architecture (Master of Science (M.Sc.)),
MediaArchitecture (Master of Science (M.Sc.)),
European Urban Studies (english) (Master of Science (M.Sc.))

Type of project presentation
Exhibition

Semester
Winter semester 2018/19

• Geschwister-Scholl-Straße 8 - Hauptgebäude / Main Building
  (Glasvitrine Erdgeschoss)

Participation in the Bauhaus.Modules

Project description

This presentation is the result of a Masterseminar, that critically addressed the issue of historicizing towns by both single analyses and group debates. The “old towns” are supposedly historically grown, densely built-up areas with irregular streets and picturesque squares, which shape a counterpart to the streamlined city layouts of the modern age. Since the postmodern era the demand for those “old towns” seems to be higher than ever before. The workshop accordingly dealt with remodeled city areas since the 1970s, which refer to historical urban structures respectively arise in historical typologies and designs. The analyzed examples from different countries and architectural traditions depict the range and variety of this phenomenon. Subject of discussion were the initiators and their strategies, the public dialogue, different methods of financing, historical models and architectural realization. Paramount duty was the scientific and thereby nuanced and critical examination of historicizing old town concepts. The field trip, a walkthrough the recently inaugurated “Neue Altstadt” in Frankfurt/Main (2012-18) and the visit of the exhibition „Die immer neue Altstadt“ in the “Deutsches Architekturmuseum”, presented on the occasion of the topic, were also part of seminar.