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Verlag für Architektur, Stadtplanung, Fotografie und Kunst. Informationen über Neuerscheinungen und Veranstaltungen www.jovis.de [email protected]

Der JOVIS Verlag veröffentlicht Titel in den Bereichen Architektur, Landschaftsarchitektur und Stadtplanung, daneben auch zu zeitgenössischer Kunst, Fotografie und Design. Mit unseren Publikationen wollen wir nicht nur relevante Diskurse abbilden, sondern diese auch neu anstoßen und gestalten. Schwerpunkte bilden Themen aus den Feldern Urbanistik, partizipatorische Stadtplanung, Stadtentwicklung,

Landschaftstheorie und Denkmalpflege. Ein besonderes Interesse gilt darüber hinaus den Schnittstellen zwischen Architektur und Kunst sowie interdisziplinären Ansätzen, die wissenschaftliche Theorien und praktische Handlungsvorschläge verknüpfen. Inhaltliche Relevanz, ansprechende Gestaltung und herstellerische Sorgfalt zeichnen unsere Bücher aus. Entsprechend werden diese in der nationalen wie internationalen Tages- und Fachpresse mit großer Aufmerksamkeit bedacht.

1995 in Berlin gegründet, arbeitet der JOVIS Verlag mit renommierten internationalen Partnern aus dem akademischen Bereich, mit Institutionen aus Kultur und Wirtschaft sowie bekannten Planern und Theoretikern aus den Bereichen Architektur, Landschaft und Urbanistik zusammen.

13/09/2025

What a great experience it was to explore the amazing ICC in person! Thank you to for making this happen 💙

👀 If you can't see it for yourself or want to relive it in your own home, 's book of interior photography is available through our website!

05/09/2025

🏡 No other form of housing is as popular, as widespread, and as controversial as the single-family home. Instrumentalized as part of conservative political goals under the postwar Adenauer government, it became a cornerstone of urban planning and symbolized a technologized living space, while also reinforcing stereotypical gender roles and patriarchal, heteronormative family ideals. At the same time, the single-family home was depicted in the media as the perfect domestic environment.

📰 Drawing on vivid “Homestories” published in the popular lifestyle magazine "Schöner Wohnen," this new book explores the conditions that fueled the boom of single-family homes in West Germany during the 1960s and 1970s, while critically examining their cultural significance, media representation, and enduring popularity in the era of economic recovery.

Now available in German here 🌟 https://www.jovis.de/de/book/9783986121846

27/08/2025

🗺️ How can mapping capture the dynamic entanglements of space and time in a rapidly changing world? Spacetimes Matter is an invitation to rethink mapping as a critical tool for understanding multiple spacetimes—and how they come to matter. Introducing spacetime mapping as a novel approach for considering multiple spatialities and temporalities, the anthology presents a collection of interpretative, qualitative, and reflexive methodologies for decoding urban processes, as well as socio-spatial and ecological dynamics.

🤝 The mapping protocols collected here range from artistic and performative mappings and game development to complex multimodal diagrams and immersive virtual environments. Grounded in diverse regional and disciplinary contexts, this new volume offers in-depth methodological reflections and engages with decolonial and more-than-human perspectives. Spacetimes Matter enables new perspectives for scholars and practitioners seeking insights into the shifting politics, processes, and imaginaries that make up contemporary societies.

Find the book now here 🔍 https://www.jovis.de/en/book/9783986122522

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

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