0108.3 Disko 12–15 - bplus.xyz adaptive reuse architecture

Disko (acronym for Diskurs-Kontinuum) was a publication series of 0093 a42.org, the master’s program in architecture and urban research directed by Arno Brandlhuber at the Academy of Fine Arts Nuremberg. The aim of this series was to communicate the research and debates taking place within the study program to the outside world. Disko appeared between 2006 and 2013 in packages of three to six issues, each of which was produced in an economical DIN A5 format.

Download Disko 12: Alexander von Humboldt, “Entwürfe für die Ostfassade des Berliner Schlosses”
Download Disko 13: Florian Thein, “Zeitgenössische Pyramiden”
Download Disko 14: Sarah Retsch, “Die Bausünde—Karriere eines Begriffs”
Download Disko 15: Philipp Strohm, “We are the web?” Read more

Disko 12
“We have now to consider the impression which the image received by the external senses produces on the feelings, and on the poetic and imaginative faculties of mankind.”
Alexander von Humboldt
In response to the ongoing debates about the reconstruction of the Berlin Palace, Laura-Mariell Rottmann speculates in this issue about Alexander von Humboldt’s design for the building’s eastern facade, which was “undesigned” at the time.

Disko 13
Capital is also anti-productive—it too would build itself pyramids if it could: but the pyramid of capital runs ahead of it, the signs pop up and disperse in all directions. The body without organs of capital is the ideal of mastering decoded fluxes: it is always running behind the machine, always late in innovating.
Félix Guattari

Disko 14
“My teaching has always been this: You can make mistakes all you want, but one shall not build them up. No confessor can ever be absolved of such architectural eyesores.”
J.W. v. Goethe

Disko 15
“Despite all the talk, the Internet has not delivered the revolution it promised. Societies adapt to Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) but do not change in a fundamental way and prove remarkably flexible in staying as they are. Logically speaking, this means that the ideology, and not the world, will have to adjust.”
Geert Lovink Read less