Collecting High-Tech: Notes on the Theo Hotz Bequest at the gta Archives

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter 1
2. Table of Contents 7
3. (Im)Permanence of Innovation 9
4. High-Tech Heritage: (Im)Permanence of Innovation 11
5. Patty Hopkins in Conversation with Silke Langenberg and Matthias Brenner 21
6. HISTORY OF HIGH-TECH IN ARCHITECTURE AND DESIGN
7. Pictures 26
8. High-Tech in the Context of Czech Late Socialism? 33
9. Around the Structures 43
10. Eco-Pomo between High-Tech and Low-Tech: Three Experimental Houses 49
11. Collecting High-Tech: Notes on the Theo Hotz Bequest at the gta Archives 59
12. Tom Emerson in Conversation with Silke Langenberg 67
13. THEORETICAL AND PRACTICAL CHALLENGES OF HIGH-TECH HERITAGE
14. Pictures 74
15. Heritage and Cutting-Edge Technology: Learning from Buildings as Machines 81
16. Innovation Ad Infinitum: Lloyd’s of London and the Cost of Flexibility 91
17. The University Hospital of the RWTH Aachen University: Structure and Dynamic 95
18. Sports Architecture: High-Tech Urban Infrastructure between Identity, Enhancement, and Redevelopment 105
19. High-Tech Roots: The London Zoo Aviary and Its Preservation 109
20. Structural Sealant Glazing (SSG): History, Construction, and Conservation Challenges 117
21. Saving Reused Building Materials through Architectural Design: The Case of the Centre Pompidou Glass 125
22. High-Tech Bavaria: Late Modern Architecture in the Rear-View Mirror 133
23. High-Tech Additions: Italian Research in Preserving and Reusing Built Heritage 143
24. Surface and Flesh: Facade as a Conservation Tool 149
25. Sacha Menz in Conversation with Silke Langenberg 157
26. INVENTORY AND MEDIATION
27. Pictures 162
28. The Unbearable Outdatedness of Registers 169
29. Specifics of Buildings Featuring Machinism and High-Tech Aesthetics in Bohemia: Case Study of Harrachov Ski Jumps and Their Possible Reuse 181
30. Baukultur 1975–2000: Giving a Voice to Younger Architectural Monuments 191
31. Virág Csaba and Hungary’s Disappearing Plasticist High-Tech Architecture 195
32. CASE STUDIES AND CURRENT RESEARCH
33. Pictures 202
34. The [High-Tech] Plumber of Architecture: John Winter through the Nancy Seear Building 209
35. The Máj Department Store in Prague as Heritage: The Impermanence of Conservation? 217
36. Takis Zenetos and High-Tech Architecture: Electronic Urbanism vis-à-vis Autonomous Ecological Living Units 223
37. POSTERS
38. School Building in Uttwil (CH): Heritage Value Investigation Based on Architectural Detail 232
39. High-Tech in Reverse 234
40. The Unitobler Bern: Energy Potential of the Existing Fabric 236
41. Shifting Paradigms and High-Tech: Revisiting the University of Salford Centenary Building with Sustainability in Mind 238
42. Reverse Engineering of Planar Sheet Metal Facade of the Briefzentrum Mülligen 240
43. Heterotopias of High-Tech Architectural Heritage: Three Conceptual Scaffoldings 243
44. School at Kinkplatz: Contemporary Monument Preservation for High-Tech Architecture 244
45. Authors 246
46. Image Credits 251
47. Imprint 255