Heidi Helmhold and Christina Threuter (Ed.),
Tear down or use? – User perspectives of 50s architecture
When architects hand over a building for use, it is also everyday practices and actions that henceforth constitute the architectural space.
Heidi Helmhold and Christina Threuter examine cultural techniques that open up and create space. Among other things, this involves subjectivisation and sensitive experiences between body and space. Interdisciplinary contributions show spatial practices and user perspectives using the example of the Faculty of Human Sciences at the University of Cologne. This building complex was built by Hans Schumacher as an aesthetic incunabulum of the 1950s. Today, it is characterized by decades of (mis)use and functional disregard, including complaints about the loss of faculty identity.
