{"id":1576,"date":"2018-06-13T21:54:00","date_gmt":"2018-06-13T21:54:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cudrr.org\/?p=1576"},"modified":"2025-06-19T08:05:22","modified_gmt":"2025-06-19T08:05:22","slug":"esra-akcans-new-book-open-architecture-migration-citizenship-and-the-urban-renewal-of-berlin-kreuzberg","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cudrr.org\/?p=1576","title":{"rendered":"Esra Akcan’s New Book “Open Architecture: Migration, Citizenship and the Urban Renewal of Berlin-Kreuzberg”"},"content":{"rendered":"

CUDRR+R’s Board Member, Esra Akcan has published a new book entitled\u00a0Open Architecture: Migration, Citizenship and the Urban Renewal of Berlin-Kreuzberg by IBA-1984-87\u00a0<\/em>(Birkh\u00e4user, 2018).<\/p>\n

Esra Akcan’s new book explores\u00a0the implications of the concept of \u201copen\u201d as a common metaphor in the era of global connections, and as a foundational modern value albeit prone to contradictions. It defines open architecture\u00a0as the translation of a new ethics of hospitality into design process. In particular, it exemplifies the inclinations towards open architecture (or the lack thereof) in the context of the discriminatory housing regulations of an urban renewal development in Berlin\u2019s immigrant neighbourhood Kreuzberg.\u00a0Giving voice not only to architects and policy makers, but also to residents through oral history and storytelling, the overarching theme of non-citizen rights to the city allows for a joint discussion of\u00a0the history of the twentieth-century public housing, the participatory, postmodernist and post-structuralist architectural debates, and the contradictory relation between international immigration laws and housing.<\/p>\n

Esra Akcan’s new book has received endorsements from a multitude of academics and researchers.<\/p>\n

“Under the rubric of an Open Architecture, this book provides a substantial survey and critique of the IBA reconstruction of Berlin in the 1980’s.\u00a0Akcan\u00a0proceeds to incorporate into her history of Berlin’s International Building Exhibition a demonstration of the incompatibility between democracy and the professional prerogative of individual design.”
\nKenneth Frampton,\u00a0<\/em>Professor, Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation, Columbia University<\/p>\n

“A breakthrough work that combines deep research, interviews with the inhabitants of new and renovated apartments, with an incisive architectural critique of spaces, historically, and in use. A brilliant combination. This is what architectural history should always aspire to\u00a0\u2010\u2010\u00a0a model for all future studies. ”
\nAnthony Vidler, Professor, The Irwin S. Chanin School of Architecture, The Cooper Union<\/em><\/p>\n

Please join Esra Akcan’s new book launch on June 27 at 6.30 pm at AAP NYC.<\/p>\n

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CUDRR+R’s Board Member, Esra Akcan has published a new book entitled\u00a0Open Architecture: Migration, Citizenship and the Urban Renewal of Berlin-Kreuzberg by IBA-1984-87\u00a0(Birkh\u00e4user, 2018). Esra Akcan’s new book explores\u00a0the implications of the concept of \u201copen\u201d as a common metaphor in the era of global connections, and as a foundational modern value albeit prone to contradictions. It defines open architecture\u00a0as the translation … <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[41,42,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1576","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-events","category-news","category-uncategorized","latest_post"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cudrr.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1576","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cudrr.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cudrr.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cudrr.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cudrr.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1576"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cudrr.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1576\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2141,"href":"https:\/\/cudrr.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1576\/revisions\/2141"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cudrr.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1576"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cudrr.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1576"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cudrr.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1576"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}