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Florian Urban, Glasgow School of Art f.urban@gsa.ac.uk The New Tenement. John Gold, The Practice of Modernism (Abingdon: Routledge, 2007). Ivor Smith, Architecture - an Inspiration (Kibworth: Matador, 2014). Reviewing fee: $200. Stay away from predatory publishers!.
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Florian Urban, Glasgow School of Artf.urban@gsa.ac.ukThe New Tenement
John Gold, The Practice of Modernism (Abingdon: Routledge, 2007) Ivor Smith, Architecture - an Inspiration (Kibworth: Matador, 2014)
Reviewing fee: $200 Stay away from predatory publishers!
John Gold, The Practice of Modernism (Abingdon: Routledge, 2007)
Neo-historical East Berlin –Architecture and Urban Design in the German Democratic Republic 1970-1990 (Ashgate, 2009) Berlin, DDR neo-historisch–Geschichte aus Fertigteilen (Gebr. Mann, 2007) Florian Urban • born in Munich/ Germany • studied fine art in Berlin, urban planning in Los Angeles (UCLA), and architectural history in Boston (MIT) • taught at TU Berlin • since 2010 professor of architectural history at the Mac The New Tenement – residences in the inner City since 1970 (Routledge 2017) Tower and Slab - Global Histories of Mass Housing (Routledge, 2011) @florianurban_
New tenements – the architecture of the “return to the inner city” – the architecture of the post-industrial information economy
Glasgow Copenhagen 19th-century tenements Berlin Vienna
Choriner Str. 53, Berlin (Zoom Architects, 2007) New tenement on University Ave, Glasgow (Simister Monaghan, 1989-92)
The City of New Tenements 1. Whatdoesitlooklike? 2. Howdiditcomeabout? 3. Influentialideas 4. Howislife in thesebuildings?
“tenements proper” New tenement typologies “fruitsalad estates” townhouses/ rowhouses modern block/ zeilenbau/ urban villa typologies
1977-79 1983-85 1995-96 1984-85 2006-10 New tenement style: Neo-rationalist Aldo Rossi/Carlo Aymonino, Gallaratese Quarter, Milan, 1968
1984-88 2012 2013-15 1989-94 2010 2013 New Tenement Style: Neo-classical/ stripped neo-classical
1983-86 1984 1995-2000 2000-02 New Tenement Style: Modern/ functionalist influences
Blågården, Copenhagen (1979, KBI) Vinetastraße Block, Berlin (Josef Paul Kleihues, 1973) Main Street Bridgton, East End, Glasgow (1970s) post-urban renewal sites “Housing above School”Oude Westen, Rotterdam (1982, Giroud/Groeneveld Waldemarstr. 94, Berlin (1980, Grötzebach/Plessow)
Former Slaughterhouse Eldenaer Straße, Berlin, 2009) Sluseholmen, South Harbour, Copenhagen, 2000-10 Nordbahnhof, former railway station, Vienna, 2005-15 Former Dansk Sojakage chemical plant, Islands Brygge, Copenhagen, 2004-06 Old Meatmarket, Graham Square, Glasgow, 2005-8 AmerikaPlads, North Harbour, Copenhagen, 2000-10 Beuthstraße development on the site of the Berlin Wall 2011-14 post-industrial sites
Non-profit housing association, supported by national grants Sluseholmen, Copenhagen (2005-10) Local authority: Adolf-Scharner-Hof, Vienna (1993-4) Community based housing association, 110 Park Road, Glasgow (1988, Graham Wiggan) Non-profit housing association, co-owned by the local authority: Wilhelmstraße, Berlin (1987, Aldo Rossi), built for the West Berlin International Building Exhibit (IBA) New tenements were first built by welfare state institutions
Traquair Court, Glasgow (1985-89, Kelvin Homes) KolleBelle, Berlin (2009, Marc Kocher) … and later by private developers Maryhill Locks, Glasgow (2009, Hypostyle)
Decreasing municipal influence = less dense urban typologies Left: Crown Street Regeneration Project, New Gorbals, Glasgow (master plan by Piers Gough/CZWG, 1992-2000, buildings by various architects) Right: New Gorbals, second phase (2000s, various architects)
1960 1961 1972 • in favour of • density • mixed use • mixed actors Illustration from “Defensible Space”
Idealization of bourgeois elites – “townhouses” in the Friedrichswerder neighbourhood in central Berlin (2005-9, various architects) “here the Stadtbürger [urban citizen] will build their own individual houses…” Website of the Berlin Department of Urban Development on the Friedrichswerder development, created c. 2000
Conference of the “Urban Age” programme, run by the London School of Economics since 2005. Richard Florida, The Rise of the Creative Class [2002] Georg Simmel, The Metropolis and Mental Life [1903]
Crown Street Regeneration Project, New Gorbals, Glasgow (master plan by Piers Gough/CZWG, 1992-2000, buildings by various architects)
Glasgow, Laurieston Rd and Clayton Circus, 2006 New Gorbals, Glasgow – Historical references and artworks celebrating the city’s industrial past Bottom: Glasgow, Oatlands, 1890s
The New Tenement City -lively neighbourhoods, pedestrian environments, public space vs. increasing inequality and social fragmentation - Local differences in design and regulation - strong public authorities tend to balance the disadvantages
Florian Urban, Glasgow School of Artf.urban@gsa.ac.uk Twitter: florianurban_Thank you!