What will architecture’s contribution be to the future of a real contemporary city? Architects cannot only formulate questions, but are also able to design answers, for instance in a very concrete manner, to take Graz as an example.
From 26th to 28th of May 2011 the Dense Cities Symposium was held in the Aula and the auditorium 1 at the Graz University of Technology.
The magazines Archithese, Zuschnitt and Architektur&Bauforum have dedicated an issue to the topic of “Dense Cities”.
Density (Dietmar Eberle)
Dietmar Eberle from Faculty of Architecture TUGRAZ on Vimeo.
Face to the necessary habitat intensification, the various townscapes still stays prisoners of motionless symbolic evidences. We had the impression that – until few years ago – only two alternatives were imaginable: the multifamily building depreciated by the image of the housing complexes of the 60s and the suburban housing, both iconic and archetypal images of the desire to possess its own personal home.
