Bücher von Angelika Fitz

Seit Jahrzehnten erfährt der Tourismus eine kontinuierliche Intensivierung und ist zu einem integralen Bestandteil unseres westlichen Lebensstils geworden. Über Tourismus beschäftigt sich mit den Auswirkungen unserer Urlaubswünsche auf die gebaute Umwelt, das soziale Gefüge und den Klimawandel. Wann wird Tourismus eigentlich zum Übertourismus? Anschauliche Illustrationen, Beispiele und reiches Datenmaterial verdeutlichen u. a. das Zusammenspiel von Tourismus und Wirtschaftswachstum, steigenden CO2-Emissionen oder der Verdrängung der lokalen Bevölkerung durch ausufernde Wohn- und Lebenshaltungskosten. Vor allem aber sucht das Buch nach Transformationspotenzial. Zahlreiche internationale Beispiele machen Lust auf eine andere Art des Urlaubens. Acht reich illustrierte Kapitel befassen sich mit zentralen Aspekten des Tourismus im 21. Jahrhundert: Mobilität; die Destinationen Stadt und Land; das Verhältnis zur Landwirtschaft; die Privatisierung von Naturschönheit; Fragen der Tourismusplanung; die Veränderung der Beherbergungsstruktur und schliesslich die Auswirkungen des Klimawandels auf den Tourismus. Diese Themen werden in Essays internationaler Autorinnen und Autoren vertieft. Fragen, wie in Zeiten von Klimakrise, Kriegen, Pandemie, Fachkräftemangel und einer anhaltenden Energiekrise Tourismus neu gedacht und in andere, verträglichere Bahnen gelenkt werden kann und welche Rolle dabei Raumplanung und Architektur spielen, ziehen sich als roter Faden durch das Buch.

The new permanent display of Architekturzentrum Wien's (Az W) collection, opened in February 2022, is a milestone in the presentation of architecture and its social dimensions. Now this most comprehensive collection on Austrian architecture of the 20th and 21st centuries, featuring color images of all exhibits, concise texts, and thematic essays, also becomes available in book format. Hot Questions-Cold Storage takes a fresh look at the country's architectural culture of the last 150 years, situating it in its cultural, social, political, economic, and technical contexts. Each of the seven chapters is prefaced by one of seven questions of our present, asking, for example, about the impact of financial capitalism on our cities and villages, about how we want to live, or about the contribution architecture can make to our survival on planet earth. These Hot Questions bring to life the Cold Storage, the silent repository of the collection's holdings. The book offers a multi-perspective narrative that makes visible Austria's building history with all the developments, ideologies, institutions, objects, places, personalities it comprises. The book also illustrates what the collection of a museum of architecture can achieve. It is far more than mere flotsam and jetsam of history. The social relevance of objects and documents is revealed through questioning and visualization, in connecting research and the museum's mission to collect.

The new permanent display of Architekturzentrum Wien's (Az W) collection, opened in February 2022, is a milestone in the presentation of architecture and its social dimensions. Now this most comprehensive collection on Austrian architecture of the 20th and 21st centuries, featuring color images of all exhibits, concise texts, and thematic essays, also becomes available in book format. Hot Questions-Cold Storage takes a fresh look at the country's architectural culture of the last 150 years, situating it in its cultural, social, political, economic, and technical contexts. Each of the seven chapters is prefaced by one of seven questions of our present, asking, for example, about the impact of financial capitalism on our cities and villages, about how we want to live, or about the contribution architecture can make to our survival on planet earth. These Hot Questions bring to life the Cold Storage, the silent repository of the collection's holdings. The book offers a multi-perspective narrative that makes visible Austria's building history with all the developments, ideologies, institutions, objects, places, personalities it comprises. The book also illustrates what the collection of a museum of architecture can achieve. It is far more than mere flotsam and jetsam of history. The social relevance of objects and documents is revealed through questioning and visualization, in connecting research and the museum's mission to collect.

A rich exploration of the extraordinary life and work of celebrated architect Yasmeen Lari, winner of the 2023 RIBA Royal Gold Medal.After more than three decades as a renowned global architect, Yasmeen Lari, the first woman to open her own architecture firm in Pakistan in 1964, developed Zero Carbon Architecture, which unites ecological and social justice. This volume, edited by Angelika Fitz, Elke Krasny, and Marvi Mazhar, presents Lari’s trajectory from exemplary modernist to zero carbon revolutionary, with a focus on her remarkable contributions to the global architectural movement to decarbonize and decolonize. The book includes extensive photographs, drawings, and plans from Lari’s archive, most of which have not previously been shown or published.Lari’s architectural thinking and activism have always gone beyond the quest for a singular built solution. Rather, she strategically plans systemic approaches and solutions, be it for housing, a heritage foundation, or zero-carbon shelters with communities at risk. Original essays from diverse international contributors contextualize Lari’s work; investigate architecture and the postimperial, postcolonial, and postpartition condition; and examine the intersections of architecture and human rights, climate change, decolonization, gender, care, activism, and vernacular innovation. More than a tribute to Yasmeen Lari’s extraordinary career, this volume brings her legacy forward and shows how to create change today.Contributors:Abira Ashfaq, Cassandra Cozza, Angelika Fitz, Runa Kahn, Anne Karpf, Elke Krasny, Marvi Mazhar, Chris Moffat, Anila Naeem, Raquel Rolnik, Helen Thomas, Rafia Zakaria