World of Malls
Lepik, Andres / Bader, Vera Simone / Baldauf/Elizabeth Giorgis, Anette / Bittner, Regina / Longstreth, Richard / Williamson, June / Eichinger, Katja / Erben, Dietrich / Bruegmann, Robert / Gigliotti, Roberto / Klingmann, Anna / Thierstein, Alain / Wolfrum, Sophie The catalogue World of Malls is devoted to a type of building that was invented in the United States just less than sixty years ago and quickly spread throughout the world. Due to urban planning's increasing orientation toward the automobile, the mall became a substitute for lost urbanity. Yet what direction is the development of the shopping mall taking today? On the one hand, there continue to be spectacular new openings in America, Asia, th...