Title & Author:

World of malls : architectures of consumption / edited by Andres Lepik and Vera Simone Bader.

Publication:

Berlin : Hatje Cantz, a Ganske Publishing Group Company, [2016]
©2016

Description:

253 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 26 cm

Notes:
Exhibition: Architekturmuseum der TU München, Pinakothek der Moderne, July 14 - October 16, 2016.
Includes bibliographical references.
The architecture of the shopping mall / Vera Simone Bader -- Conspicuous architecture: the shopping arcade, the department store, and consumer culture / Dietrich Erben -- The concept of the regional shopping mall at its inception, 1945-60 / Richard Longstreth -- Futures past: the shopping mall as megastructure / Regina Bittner -- Shopping reshapes the metropolis / Robert Bruegmann -- Mall devours city? / Sophie Wolfrum -- The shopping mall: how do I organize the human need for encounter in a spatially efficient way? / Alain Thierstein -- The Kaufhaus Bozen issue / Roberto Gigliotti -- The rise of shopping malls within the framework of Gulf capitalism / Ann Klingmann -- From Merkato to the mall and back / Anette Baldauf and Elizabeth Giorgis -- The once and future shopping mall: retrofitting suburbia for twenty-first century challenges / June Williamson -- The suburbanization of the soul / Katja Eichinger.

Summary:

World of Malls explores a type of building that was invented in the United States nearly 60 years ago and quickly spread throughout the world. Because of urban planning's increasing orientation toward the automobile, the mall became a substitute for lost urbanism. But what direction is the development of the shopping mall taking today? On the one hand, there continue to be spectacular new openings in America, Asia, the United Arab Emirates and Europe. At the same time, however, many malls are empty, and some are being converted and repurposed. There is hardly any other building typology that is currently being discussed with such controversy: does the shopping mall mean the death of the city, or does it stimulate its revitalization? In their essays in this volume, urban planners, economists and architectural historians such as Anette Baldauf, Bob Bruegmann, Dietrich Erben, Richard Longstreth, Alain Thierstein, June Williamson and Sophie Wolfrum examine the transformation processes of the shopping mall from the 20th to the 21st century.

ISBN:

3775741399 (English ; hardback)
9783775741392 (English ; hardback)
(German)
9783775741385
3775741380

Subject:

Shopping malls Exhibitions.
Galeries marchandes Expositions.
Shopping malls.
Einkaufszentrum

Form/genre:

Exhibition catalogs.

Added entries:

Lepik, Andres, editor.
Bader, Vera Simone, editor.
Technische Universität München. Architekturmuseum, host institution.
Pinakothek der Moderne (Munich, Germany), host institution.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 293427
Call No.: BIB 238351
Status: Available