Böcker av Matthias Vollmer

The articulation of transitional space forms a key element in Japanese architecture and its relationship to landscape. Climate and cultural history have shaped myriad forms and expressions of these spaces, which connect as well as separate. We pass through or dwell within them; these transitional spaces differentiate between one space and another, inside and outside, public and private, our body and what surrounds it.This issue of Pamphlet documents a conversation about six residential houses in Kyoto, Osaka, and Tokyo. The houses and their surroundings were captured through sound recordings and Point Cloud laser scanning, the results of which were processed into short videos. Based on this material, architects, researchers, artists, and landscape architects from Japan and Europe discuss different modes of perceiving and representing transitional space in architecture and social interchanges, religion, and customs.

Im Mittelpunkt des Bandes steht die Rekonstruktion des ältesten niederdeutschen Dialektwörterbuchs aus dem ehemaligen Hinterpommern, das zu Beginn des 19. Jahrhunderts von Georg Gotthilf Jacob Homann als Handschrift erarbeitet, aber niemals publiziert wurde. Das Wörterbuch mit seinen mehr als 6.500 Stichwörtern stellt eine einzigartige Quelle für die Dokumentation und Erforschung der historischen ostniederdeutschen Mundarten dieser Region dar, wobei besonders der Kontakt mit dem Slawischen eine bedeutende Rolle spielt.