JOVIS Verlag

07/08/2025

🌍 Globalization is undergoing profound shifts, marked by trade conflicts, pandemics, technological decoupling, and environmental crises. While markets, technologies, and cultures remain deeply interconnected, traditional theories can no longer fully account for the rapidly evolving transformations shaping our world.

🧩 This new book, based on research from the Re-Figuration of Spaces Collaborative Research Center, explores new ways of understanding these changes by combining analytical, narrative, and visual approaches. Sixteen interdisciplinary case studies—spanning sociology, anthropology, geography, architecture, and the arts—translate theoretical figures of thought into spatial stories. Nikolaus Gansterer’s three-dimensional table configurations invite readers to think both spatially and visually, proposing new spatial imaginaries to better grasp the complex realities of our time.

Find the book now here 📚 https://www.jovis.de/en/book/9783986122201

22/07/2025

👀 In case you missed it 👀

What will sustainable architecture look like in 30 years? 🌍 No one knows for sure, which is why we need bold ideas, diverse practices, and open dialogue.

The WEtransFORM exhibition at (on view until Jan 25, 2026) is packed with visionary projects from across Europe. 🛠️✨

This richly illustrated companion book dives even deeper featuring stories, insights, and provocations from some of today’s most innovative practicioners in architecture and design.

📖 Find it now through our website or at the exhibition.

16/07/2025

♻ Volume 21 in the series GAM (Graz Architecture Magazine) "Confronting the Environmental Crisis: New Approaches in Architecture" examines how architecture must adapt in response to the global environmental crisis. As the building sector remains the largest source of manmade CO₂ emissions, this new volume explores contemporary approaches in design and construction practices to decarbonize the construction industry.

💡 Edited by the Architekturfakultät der Technischen Universität Graz and compiled by Alexander Passer and Marcella Ruschi Mendes Saade, this bilingual English/German edition brings together proposals and strategies from over 25 international experts, emphasizing the urgent need for architects, engineers, and planners to actively engage in environmental transformation.

Find the book now here 🔗 https://www.jovis.de/en/book/9783986121891

02/07/2025

📗 "Urbanism as Civic Art: A Handbook of 150 Exemplary German Precedents" offers a richly illustrated and deeply informed exploration of city-making as a civic and cultural endeavor. Edited by Christoph Mäckler with Birgit Roth and produced in collaboration with the Deutsches Institut für Stadtbaukunst, the book presents 150 case studies from over 70 German cities. From plazas and courtyards to streets and public spaces, this book showcases the enduring qualities of European urbanism: beauty, density, mixed use, and a clear distinction between public and private realms.

👷 Featuring contributions from leading scholars and practitioners, "Urbanism as Civic Art" stands as a definitive guide to the principles of urban design. This foundational book is now available in English here 🔗 https://www.jovis.de/en/book/9783986121037

20/06/2025

🏙 Vom Kaufhaus über das Kino bis zu Kirche und Tankstelle – immer mehr Gebäudetypen fallen aus der Nutzung. Treiber dieser Entwicklung sind die Megatrends Digitalisierung, Verkehrswende und Wandel der Religiosität.

♻ Vielfältige Umnutzungsprojekte belegen bereits das zirkuläre Potenzial dieser obsoleten Typen. Vor dem Hintergrund der planetaren Grenzen dürfen diese Obsentials keinesfalls dem Abriss anheimfallen. Vielmehr wird das Obsolete zur Voraussetzung und entscheidenden Ressource einer zirkulären Entwicklung. Wesentlich ist ein Perspektivwechsel von der Bauwende zur Stadtwende, denn es reicht nicht aus, Haus um Haus umzunutzen, ohne das große Ganze im Blick zu haben. Anhand von 12 Grundsätzen der zirkulären Stadt wird gezeigt, wie dies gelingen kann.

➡ Das Buch zeigt Möglichkeiten zur Eindämmung von Bodenspekulation und zur Förderung des Gemeinwohls auf. Wenn sich die Bundes- und Landespolitik ihrer Verantwortung stellen, könnten obsolete Systeme zu einer nachhaltigen Quelle für positive Veränderungen werden.
https://www.jovis.de/de/book/9783986120429

11/06/2025

🛤️ Looking from the open-cast mining landscapes of the Rhineland and the rolling hills of the Dutch Heuvelland to the River Meuse, one sees a diverse region in transition. Yet the starting points for these changes could hardly be more different—from the pressure to grow along the Rhine in North Rhine-Westphalia, to the structural shifts driven by the phase-out of lignite, to the redevelopment of a border region at the heart of Europe.

🏗️ This transformation raises questions not only about the future of Europe’s largest landscape construction site, but also about the influence of national borders and the need for cross-border planning. This new book uses numerous maps to present the current situation and connects this with innovative ideas and concepts for managing these transitions. In addition to highlighting the unique potentials and challenges of the various subregions, it also illustrates the underlying processes at work.

🤝 Focused on the increasingly important regional scale, these ideas offer a glimpse into a distant future, without losing sight of the present.

📘 Find the book, available in German, here https://www.jovis.de/de/book/9783986121051

22/05/2025

💡 How can we explore adaptations of old buildings from a fresh, post-functional perspective?

♻ This new book explores the transformative potential of existing architecture, revealing new possibilities that go beyond conventional categories of use. Through in-depth case studies across Europe, it examines how buildings evolve over time and what that means for sustainability, heritage, and design.

🏭 Richly illustrated with the author’s own drawings, the book shows how form, function, and environment interact in the process of adaptive reuse. It includes an afterword by Matteo Robiglio, Professor of Architectural and Urban Design at the Politecnico di Torino, and features detailed case studies of the Bourse de Commerce, Elbphilharmonie, Duperré Playground, Vitali Sheds, PC Caritas, Alvéoles, among others.

Find the book now here 🔗 https://www.jovis.de/de/book/9783986121709

14/05/2025

🗺️ The majority of the peripheries and in-between spaces of urban regions are living spaces and working landscapes. Yet we understand little about the centrality of these urban peripheries as sites of some of the most imaginative, anticipatory, and purposeful instances of urbanism.

📖 This new volume demonstrates the central role of urban peripheries in all their diversity, aiming to rethink urbanism, architecture, design, planning, infrastructure, sociology, ecology, and geography from the outside in. It also examines how these new centralities relate to the metabolisms, assemblages, and urban political ecologies that extend beyond the built and imagined materialities of their immediate surroundings.

The book is available now here 👉 https://www.jovis.de/en/book/9783986121525

08/04/2025

🌁 Hamburg is reimagining inner-city life with a focus on sustainable, dense, and livable neighborhoods. This second volume in the "Hamburg – Positionen, Pläne, Projekte" series explores new approaches to housing, mobility, work, and leisure. Through essays, dialogues, and a photo essay by Johanna Klier, the book presents visions and strategies for shaping inclusive urban communities.

Featuring contributions by Kaye Geipel, Dieter Läpple, Stephan Reiß-Schmidt, and Werner Sobek.
This new book is available in German and includes a short English version of all texts. Find it now here 🔗 https://www.jovis.de/de/book/9783986120085

21/03/2025

Schaut euch diesen Artikel an, in dem der Mäusebunker erwähnt wird! Wenn ihr mehr erfahren wollt, findet ihr hier unser neues Buch dazu: https://www.jovis.de/de/book/9783986120290

Rettet das Grau! Warum die Betonmonster des Brutalismus neuerdings wieder so geliebt werden – und warum sie unbedingt erhaltenswert sind.

20/03/2025

Infos zum Buch und zur Veranstaltung hier: https://www.jovis.de/de/news/maeusebunker-und-hygieneinstitut

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07/03/2025

📚Architektur ist ein langwieriges Geschäft. Was heute gebaut wird, wurde schon vor Jahren geplant; was heute geplant wird, wird erst viel später gebaut werden. Es braucht Visionen, damit Absichtserklärungen Wirklichkeit werden können. Die Städte, in denen wir heute leben, sind bereits entstanden. Wie können sie lebenswert werden oder bleiben?

Die Publikation Gestaltungsleitlinien Stadtraum am Beispiel Dresden basiert auf einer Studie, die 2023 in Dresden veröffentlicht wurde und seitdem in den Gremien der dortigen Stadtplanung Anwendung findet. Wenngleich es die ursprüngliche Invention der Verfasser*innen war, sich mit den zu beplanenden Räumen der Stadt Dresden zu befassen, so lässt sich die Allgemeingültigkeit der Arbeit für den Städtebau unmittelbar erkennen. Entstanden ist ein Leitfaden, an dem sich Bauherr*innen, Planer*innen und Architekt*innen orientieren können. 🔗 https://www.jovis.de/de/book/9783986121969