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In 2019 it will be the hundredth anniversary of the founding of the Bauhaus. Prompted by this occasion, with „project bauhaus“ ARCH+ has undertaken a critical appraisal of the Bauhaus ideas: working for several years, an international group of experts from a wide range of disciplines has investigated the socio-political relevance and emancipatory potential of the Bauhaus – historically, for today, and for the future. How can design still become effective as a political project? What are the possibilities and problems encountered by universal design in the age of globalization? Can the emancipatory potential of technology still be activated in a digitalized world? The answers to these questions are published here for the first time for an international readership.

“Who owns the land?” is a question central to all societies, because space is as vital a resource as air and water. And yet architects seldom explicitly address the question of land ownership. Is this because, as the architect Florian Hertweck writes, they “primarily produce an illusion of the political, not least because they want to see their projects realized”? This issue of ARCH+, co-edited by Arno Brandlhuber and Olaf Grawert, station+/ETH, aims to help change how we view urban land, and encourage land law reform to return land governance to the local level. What is to be done? Not much, because there is no alternative but to politicize land. A lot, because everyone else has failed to do so until now. Politicizing land means first developing a political economy of the city and showing that the current state of Ownership and Access, as the first section is called, is anything but “natural.” This situation is illustrated by

Legislating Architecture, a collaboration of ARCH+ with Arno Brandlhuber and Tobias Hönig, investigates how law creates design, as well as the inverse: can design be applied to the pre-architectural realm? A report from architecture’s legislative front.

Release Architecture, a collaboration of ARCH+ with Christian Kerez and Sandra Oehy, takes off from the spatial intervention in the Swiss Pavilion. How far can we push the boundaries of architectural space? A report from architecture’s speculative front.

10 Senator a. D. Georg Wittwer From Good Design to Immaterial Goods 14 Nikolaus Kuhnert, Wolfgang Wagener The Changing Character of Work in the Metropolis 20 Edzard Reuter Contemporary Industrial Building 34 Karin Roth The New Factory 42 Regina Katerndahl, Hajo Keller, Dieter Scholz The Spirit is the Inspirator of Berlin 50 Wolf Jobst Siedler Encouraging Quality 60 Richard Rogers Industrial Buildings for Berlin Four Tasks, Four Projects 74 Project for Rotaprint in Wedding 76 78 Haseloff, Hendel 82 Rogers 88 von Seidlein Project for Heliowatt in Charlottenburg 92 94 Brandt, Bottcher 98 Kaplicky 102 Kiessler 108 Nouvel Project for Bosch in Spandau 112 114 Bayerer, Schuster, Hanson, Heidenreich 118 Ganz, Rolfes 122 Schulitz 126 Vasconi Project for a Gewerbehof in Moabit 130 132 Achatzi, Backmann, Schieber 134 Beh rendt, Stutzer 136 Dorr, Ludolf, Wimmer 138 Dudler 140 Leon, Wohlhage 142 Mallwitz 144 Muller, Reimann, Scholz-Weinland, von Senger 146 Platzer 148 Quick, Quick, Backmann 150 Wolf 152 Student Group of the TU Seminars in Berlin "Fragments of Utopianism vs. Pieces of Pettiness" 156 Rudolf Stegers Discussing the Beriinmodellindustriekultur Perspectives for Berlin Project for Herbst in Lankwitz 178 Project for a Gewerbezentrum in Kreuzberg 180 Afterword 182 N. Kuhnert, V. Martin, K. Pachter, H. Suhr Vorwort 9 Senator Wolfgang Nagel Uberlegungen zu Berlin EinfUhrung 11 Senator a. D.