Two articles in the current "TEC21 No.15, from April 8, 2016" on the topic of "Urban planning and architecture" by Prof. Ingemar Vollenweider (article: "Realism with all senses") and Vetr.-Prof. Dr. Matthias Castorph (article: "Urban architecture today") from the research group "Urban architecture and design" at the architecture department of the TU Kaiserslautern.

"Why should we still be concerned with "urban architecture" today? Many people associate it with a conservative attitude from times long past. Camillo Sitte, Karl Henrici and Theodor Fischer coined the term "artistic urban planning" at the end of the 19th century, after city layouts had previously been designed according to geometric-formal criteria. They now increasingly thought of the city as a space in which existing structures were also incorporated, with architecture and urban planning forming a single unit: an exciting debate - all the more so because these topics once again shaped the discourse from the 1980s onwards following the failure of the urban planning visions of modernism.

In this issue, our authors take a look back in history. Ingemar Vollenweider from Basel and Matthias Castorph from Munich are practicing architects and teach urban architecture at the TU Kaiserslautern. [...]"

Excerpt from the editorial by Susanne Frank, editor of Architecture and Urban Design

Ingemar Vollenweider runs the architecture firm "jessenvollenweider" in Basel together with his partner Anna Jessen. (http://www.jessenvollenweider.ch)

Matthias Castorph is the owner of the Munich-based architecture firm "Goetz Castorph - Architekten und Stadtplaner GmbH" (http://www.goetzcastorph.de)

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