The prominent architect Felix Novikov was born in 1927, when the famous Constructivist Konstantin Melnikov was at the peak of his career. Novikov tells ...
Few other professions can match landscape architectures requirement graphically to represent and communicate so much content and so many ideas. From large-scale master-plans and ...
A valuable resource for planning and architectural practice Contains scale drawings and large-format photographs Highlights key parameters for your own architectural planning Aims and ...
Architectural competitions act as a tool for enhancing a design and selecting planning partners. The quality of urban development, high-rise buildings and open spaces ...
Tierra del Fuego, Patagonia, Atacama Desert and the Pacific Coast: even today the apperception of Chile remains remote and indistinct. There is no doubt ...
Space Station, this book documents a rare collection: almost 250 mission patches worn by Soviet and Russian cosmonauts since 1963. Alexander Glushko, one of ...
Tashkent, the southernmost metropolis of millions in the Soviet Union, is a city redolent with architectural contrasts and para doxes. Home to the most ...
This title is about the life of architect Archibald and his daily struggle with his offi ce colleagues, employees, clients, contractors, civil servants, consultants, ...
In an era of accelerating population growth, mass urbanisation, and increasing pressure on the natural environment, the megacities of China's eastern seaboard have become ...
Preservation is ordinarily reserved for architecture that is unique. So how would we go about preserving buildings that are utterly generic? Such is the ...
The fifth largest population in the world is rapidly expanding. For the past seven decades, both Indonesian and international architects have developed new ideas ...
Widely known as the Italian one-company town during the development of Fiat in the 20th century, Turin underwent a process of transformation roughly 20 ...
This publication on the work of the Russian architect Galina Balashova presents a unique collection of designs for Soviet cosmonautics. These include plans and ...
The drawing architect - for centuries, this term was just as tautological as the 'baking baker'. Nevertheless, the acquisition of drawing skills is by ...
Africa - a continent of small villages in the jungle and savannah? Certainly not. The urbanisation of the continent is advancing rapidly, while African ...
The trendsetting architect Rem Koolhaas has carried it out to perfection, whereas the next generation of international stars refi ned it even more, giving ...
Sergey Chernyshev, one of the founders of Soviet urban planning, deservedly occupies a special place among the leading Russian architects of the 20th century. ...
Philipp Meuser (ed.) With contributions by Adil Dalbai and Guido Herz Amid the endless plains of Kazakhstan, an extraordinary architectural experiment has arisen: Astana. ...