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"Building Institution" chronicles the expansion of architecture as a profession and discipline in the postmodern era. Kim Förster traces the compelling history of the Institute for Architecture and Urban Studies, which was active in New York from 1967 to 1985. Drawing on extensive archival research and oral histories, he constructs a collective biography that details the Institute's diverse roles and the dynamic interplay between research and design, education, culture, and publishing. By exploring the transformation of cultural production into a practice as well as the culturalization and global postmodernization of architecture, the volume contributes significantly to the institutional history of architecture.

Simultaneously speculative and inspired by everyday experiences, this volume develops an aesthetics of metabolism that offers a new perspective on the human-environment relation, one that is processual, relational, and not dependent on conscious thought. In art installations, design prototypes, and researchcreation projects that utilize air, light, or temperature to impact subjective experience the author finds aesthetic milieus that shift our awareness to the role of different sense modalities in aesthetic experience. Metabolic and atmospheric processes allow for an aesthetics besides and beyond the usually dominant visual sense.

Frontmatter -- Vorwort -- Inhaltsverzeichnis -- Literatur -- Einleitung -- Erstes Kapitel. Das Grundbuch -- Zweites Kapitel. Der Eigenthumserwerb -- Drittes Kapitel. Die dinglichen Belastungen -- Viertes Kapitel. Die Klagen aus dem Grundbuchrecht -- Fünftes Kapitel. Die Zwangsvollstreckung -- Sechstes Kapitel. Das Aufgebotsverfahren -- Register