Magazine M&A

With the launch of this online format, we as editors are faced with numerous questions about the content, the interpretation of existing texts, future texts and what is there to report. The following credo is intended to set the ball rolling.…

The situation of the IFMA and of the organic architecture movement has changed a lot in the last 20 years. What can a new format of the journal “Man and Architecture” contribute and how?…

A report about the meeting held at the Alanus Hochschule in May 2023 in co-operation with the Visual Art Section of the Goetheanum and IFMA…

Living Architecture is not a style. It is an approach to architecture that views buildings not as mere objects, but rather as organs or organisms functioning within the highly diverse and interdependent fields of natural, social and cultural life.…

Thoughts on Architecture Suitable for Children. At the moment, day-care centres are being built everywhere. When one sees the results, the question often arises: Who was this built for?…

  Der Unverzichtbare Beton erlaubt ein sehr schnelles Bauen. Seine Rohmaterialien sind praktisch überall vorhanden. Er ist leistungsstark und beliebig formbar. Dank seiner Härtung auch unter Wasser (Hydraulik) und versehen mit den entsprechenden chemischen Zusatzstoffen, kann Beton fast universal verwendet werden. Seine hohe physikalische und chemische Berechenbarkeit ließ eine weitgehende Rationalisierung der Bauabläufe zu. Beton,…

How can we understand new trends in contemporary architecture and society and what distinguishes the organic approach from outwardly similar phenomena? What development perspectives and challenges for organic design arise from a consideration of the contemporary situation?…

The question of the spirit of the time is something that should interest the architect in every building task, because without an understanding of it and without this spirit being incorporated into every task, the result is likely to be anachronistic and not really meeting the needs of the present.…