Tag: strengthening democracy!

08.12.2024

LiMa - learning from history - Participation -

participation, involvement, the inclusion of (several or all) different parties in a matter in the narrower sense, participation, influence in decision-making and decision-making processes. WE NEED A WIND OF CHANGE IN THIS WORLD!

08.12.2024

LiMa - the grid system - Herman Hertzberger

In the rapidly growing American cities, the grid principle can be found in its most elementary form and with its characteristic results. It is hard to imagine a better way to incorporate the overwhelming collection of architectural forms – from low-rise to skyscraper – that can hardly be contained in this city of unstoppable free […]

06.12.2024

LiMa - The structure as backbone - warp and weft - Herman Hertzberger

Mass housing, which superficially corresponds to our industrial conditions, owes its dominance to the monocultural behavior that characterizes our society. The least an architect can do in such a situation is to outline images that show ways to shake people out of their lethargy. (…) Even the smallest step in this direction means a fundamental […]

04.12.2024

LiMa - learning from history - the Kreisau circle

I saw him and my heart stopped. I had no idea what was happening. I had never experienced that before! And it was only when Daisy asked me: “What’s wrong with you?” that I said I didn’t know, but I told her what I found so puzzling, and then I found out – well, she […]

13.11.2024

LiMa - learning from history - Jeremy Eichler

ABOUT THE COVENTRY CATHEDRAL – “The old cathedral, once the largest parish church in England, must have seemed like an impregnable fortress of God to its parishioners over the centuries. Now it couldn’t even fend off a drop of rain. This encounter with the radical fragility of constructions that once seemed permanent has long been […]

01.11.2024

LiMa - learning from history - state owned land - Liu Xiaobo

It was precisely the “state-owned land” that “legitimized” the forced demolitions and resettlements “The administrative statutes for the demolition and relocation of houses in cities” adopted by the State Council of the Chinese Communists and all corresponding regulations at all levels of government make the system of state ownership of land the source of their […]

26.02.2024

LiMa in the cold war and behind the wall

“when I was a bird and sang in the evening” Alexei Nawalny dies Februar 16th 2024 (left) Opposition in the communist state German Democratic Republic (GDR) in the 1970s: the poets and singer Gerulf Pannach, Christian Kunert, Wolf Biermann und Jürgen Fuchs. Good neighborhood protects! dictatorships are a thing of the past

16.02.2024

School and the crisis of democracy

Guido Landreh, enthusiastic self-builder of the LiMa Wohnhof Berlin when it was founded in 1986 and principal AD, described his vision of the school as follows: “My goal has always been to adapt the school as a place of learning to the needs of those it is meant to serve. Every pupil should be seen […]

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