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Baukunst 01 - Florian Beigel and Philip Christou - The Idea of City

This book is the first of a new monographic architectural series titled ‘baukunst’ to be published by Ajand Limited, a new publishing company in London. Each book will present the work of one major international contemporary architect. Mr. Davood Kiani, the Director of Ajand commissioned Philip Christou and Florian Beigel to write the text and to design the graphic layout of baukunst 01, to include a number of design research projects of ARU.

Philip Christou was responsible for writing, editing, selection of images, and design of the layout in collaboration with ARU.

Co-author: Florian Beigel.

baukunst 01 is an edited transcript of a lecture by Beigel and Christou given at the Universität der Künste, Berlin in April 2012. Design research projects are discussed within the narrative structure, flavour and ease of expression of the lecture.

The graphic design layout of baukunst 01 is a template for future books planned to feature the works of architects such as Luigi Snozzi, Peter Märkli, from Switzerland, Johan Celsing from Sweden, and Marie Jose van Hee from Belgium.

The main body of text develops an argument that the architect has a duty and responsibility to the city when designing a building, an interior or a city quarter. Design projects by ARU presented in the book vary in scale from large regional designs, to four storey buildings, to a small structure in a public space. Architectural and fine art references introduce the reader to the way the authors define the term ‘city’.

Baukunst will be published quarterly in English, hard bound, with a print run of 5,000 copies, distributed internationally.