A Postscript on Preservation and Transformation in urban planning and architecture In a recent essay on the redevelopment of central Pforzheim and the impending demolition of two buildings from the postwar period (cfr. Was bleibt von der Stadt des Wiederaufbaus? In: Pforzheimer Zeitung, 08-15-2026, p. 22), I wrote a sentence that was meant almost as …
Ecological Chimera: The Dogma of Timber Construction
Timber has recently been enthroned as the material of salvation. In competitions, in policy papers, and on glossy renderings it appears as the renewable cure to the excesses of concrete and steel. It has become the emblem of an environmental conscience—moralized, celebrated, and, increasingly, unquestioned. Yet this reverence rests on a fragile paradox: the more …
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