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by Arno Lederer (Author), Jórunn Ragnarsdóttir (Editor)
Architects who write about the discipline are an endangered species--but where would the profession be if it were to stop thinking about itself? Arno Lederer is one of those rare individuals: his work is wry, free of ideological preconceptions, and contrary to modernism's faith in progress. Describing himself as an "amateur and lover of theory," his work provides food for thought and discussion. In his eyes, not all theory is dull-- and he's as likely to quote Friedrich Schiller as Frederick the mouse. Drinnen ist anders als drau en is not a book to be ploughed through from start to finish; rather, it lends itself to being leafed through at leisure, flipping forwards and backwards as the reader desires. "Reading Arno Lederer's thoughts on architecture--and, in doing so, considering architecture in all its complexity--means learning how to interpret and evaluate," writes architecture critic Amber Sayah, who worked with Jórunn Ragnarsdóttir to select the texts in this volume from Lederer's extensive body of work.
Author Biography
Jórunn Ragnarsdóttir was a partner and managing director of the Lederer Ragnarsdóttir Oei architecture office in Stuttgart from 1985 to 2020. She also lectured at the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf as a professor of architecture, served on numerous committees including the architectural councils for Berlin and Zurich, and acted as a member of the jury for several prize-awarding bodies. In 2021, she founded the architecture office lederer ragnarsdóttir architekten in Berlin with Arno and Sölvi Lederer.
Arno Lederer founded and was a managing director of the Lederer Ragnarsdóttir Oei architecture office in Stuttgart. Alongside his work in the firm, he taught in Stuttgart and Karlsruhe as a professor and was a member of various competition juries. In addition to being a sought-after public speaker, he contributes to building policy with his writing in support of good architecture and effective urban planning. Together with Sölvi Lederer and Jórunn Ragnarsdóttir, he founded the architecture office lederer ragnarsdóttir architekten in 2021.
