Joshua Bolchover

John Lin

Christiane Lange

The rural is not what it used to be. No longer simply a site for agricultural production for the city, the relationship between the rural and urban has become much more complex. Established categories such as rural /urban and village/city no longer hold true. Rural and urban conditions have become increasingly blurred, so how can we identify and distinguish their specific characteristics? Where is the rural, and what role does it play in an urbanised world? In developing countries the countryside is a volatile and contradictory landscape: legally designated rural areas look like dense slums; factories intersect fields and farmers no longer farm. In contrast, in developed regions, the rural has become a highly controlled landscape of production and consumption: industrialised agriculture coexists with leisure landscapes for tourism, retirement and recreation. This issue of AD investigates how architects and researchers are critically engaging with the rural as an experimental field of exploration. Contributors: Neil Brenner, Christiane Lange, Charlotte Malterre-Barthes, Sandra Parvu, Cole Roskam, Grahame Shane, Deane Simpson, and Milica Topalovic and Bas Princen Architects: Anders Abraham, Joshua Bolchover and John Lin (Rural Urban Framework), Ambra Fabi and Giovanni Piovene (Piovenefabi), Rainer Hehl, Stephan Petermann (OMA), Huang Sheng Yuan (FieldOffice), and Sandeep Virmani (Hunnarshala)

A Global Countryside in Flux

Designing the Rural

Allison Plath-Moseley

"Businessman and art collector Hermann Lange entertained a close connection to Mies van der Rohe and interior designer Lilly, and their associations involved family, friends, and Lange's company. From 1927 to 1930 this resulted in structures such as Lange's own home, Haus Lange in Krefeld, as well as the "Crous" apartment for Lange's eldest daughter and her husband in Berlin. The couple took the decor and furnishings for this apartment - down to the bell plate - to all of their later apartments, even into the 1990s. This volume is therefore the first to present many of van der Rohe's and Reich's furniture pieces, as well as the original decor from Haus Lange [now a museum), thus providing new insights into the collaboration of the two designers."--BOOK JACKET.

Furniture and Interiors

Ludwig Mies Van Der Rohe & Lilly Reich

Hypo-Kulturstiftung (Munich, Germany). Kunsthalle

Nils Ohlsen

Das reich illustrierte Katalogbuch erschliesst ein seit langem offenes Themengebiet der Kunst und zeigt eine Problematik, die bis an die Horizonte der virtuellen Welten unserer Tage reicht. Ausstellung: Kunsthalle Emden, 31.1.-24.5.2010; Kunsthalle der Hypokulturstiftung München, 11.6.-5.9.2010.

Christiane Lange

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