Lucius Burckhardt

Markus Ritter

Martin Schmitz

The Science of Strollology

Why Is Landscape Beautiful?

With Design is Invisible, Lucius Burckhardt was one of the first to point out that factors that are invisible can be integrated – they determine the use of objects and should be part of the design. What is the use of the most attractive tramway if it does not operate at night? Burckhardt expands on the meaning of design, in this case by including the timetable, which can also be optimized. The relevance of these articles dating from between 1965 and 1999 can be appreciated today in the current debate on architecture. Problems arising from social polarization, rural depopulation, and migration can only be resolved on an interdisciplinary basis. The articles, for the first time available in English, finally allow access to key source texts for the purpose of international debate.

Planning, Education, and Society

Design Is Invisible

From the 1950s, Lucius Burckhardt (1925–2003) focused on planning, design, and construction in a democracy. His astute observations and critical analysis have had a fundamental effect on the design of our environment, on teaching in the architectural/planning professions, and on our understanding of what "city" means. His research, which – between mighty commercial interests and conflicting political aspirations focuses on the benefit for the entire population – is indispensable when and wherever buildings are planned, designed, built, and inhabited. With a new selection of texts, this book ploughs a furrow through Lucius Burckhardt’s theory of planning.

Architecture, Politics, and Mankind

Who Plans the Planning?

Georg Skalecki

Johann Peter Lüth

The 19th century German industrial plant that was made into a cultural monument.

Alte Volkïnger Hütte

Architektur, Politik und Mensch

Wer plant die Planung?

Lucius Burckhardt

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