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Boundless Communication, as seen at Back to Future. Technology visions between fiction and reality, the Museum für Kommunikation, Frankfurt

Back to Future. Technology visions between fiction and reality at the Museum für Kommunikation, Frankfurt

How did previous generations imagine daily life in our contemporary age?, the Museum für Kommunikation Frankfurt asked itself. Specifically, how did previous generations imagine technology integrating into and assisting daily life in our contemporary age? A question which naturally leads into questions of how we imagine technology integrating into and assisting daily life in our contemporary age? How does our contemporary age imagine technology integrating into and assisting daily life in

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Estate Photos by Jens Gerber, as seen at Wie wohnen die Leute? Historisches Museum Frankfurt
Architecture | 07.06.2019

Wie wohnen die Leute? @ the Historisches Museum Frankfurt

To paraphrase the title of the recent exhibition at the Deutsche Architekturmuseum, with the Neues Frankfurt project the team of architects and urban planners around Ernst May and Ludwig Landmann sought to develop new housing for new humans. With the exhibition Wie wohnen die Leute? the Historisches Museum Frankfurt explore the contemporary reality of the Neues Frankfurt estates and thereby the new housing of then in context of the new humans of today. A Home Adapts by the group

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5 New Architecture & Design Exhibitions for January 2019

5 New Architecture & Design Exhibitions for January 2019

The reason most of us fail to keep most of our New Year resolutions is, mostly, because we either resolve to give up things we enjoy or to do things we don't. Which is foolhardy in the extreme. If you wanted to do more sport, you would. If you wanted to eat less crisps, you would. But don't. And don't. So don't. The wiser choice is to resolve to do more of that which you enjoy, and thereby not only setting yourself an achievable goal but one which through the genuine fulfilment it brings

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T Chair by Kai Linke (Photo: Alexander Böhle Courtesy Studio Kai Linke)
Creative Frankfurt | 13.02.2016

Creative Frankfurt: Kai Linke

Internationally known for its financial district, airport, financial institutions and sausages, Frankfurt am Main is less well understood as a city of design. Or at least not a city of contemporary design. That however wasn’t always the case. The 1920s and 30s saw the likes of Ernst May and Christian Dell help the city develop a reputation as a centre for modernist innovation, while the Viennese architect Margarete Schütte-Lihotzky gave it an internationally renowned kitchen concept in which to

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