Lush lawns, blue swimming pools, double garages: Suburbia delves into the (visual) worlds of American suburbia—politics, architecture, pop culture and advertising have shaped desires and realities. The exhibition highlights these tensions and simultaneously illustrates the boom in single-family homes in Germany after 1945 with home stories from the magazine Schöner Wohnen. Visitors can flip through […]

The architect, professor, and author Uwe Schröder has shaped the debate on fundamental themes of architecture—topology and typology, space and aesthetics—for more than three decades with his clear, uncompromising stance. These two beautifully crafted volumes present, for the first time, his award-winning oeuvre in its entirety: buildings and designs with numerous photographs and drawings, as […]

The ocean has always defined its dimension in opposition to land. Ports—its points of human landing—constitute sites of connection with a world that is at once traversed and still largely unexplored: the planet’s largest arena, where myth and politics converge alongside flows of goods, minerals, and people. For this reason, the ocean and its ports […]

Amid deepening ecological and democratic crises, urban theory is changing fundamentally. Film and cinema—media historically intertwined with the city—have likewise undergone a profound transformation in its modes of representation and visual culture since the late 1980s. Today, filmmakers, photographers, and radical artists investigate the distant landscapes and territories of extended urbanization in all its forms. […]