Japanese culture and architecture have always fascinated the Western world. One particular, architecturally complex building type at the intersection of multiple currents of Japanese ...
he 14 Bauhaus books, edited by Walter Gropius and László Moholy-Nagy, were published between 1925 and 1930. Their authors discussed design principles, practices, and ...
Michael A. Landes sucht ganzheitliche Antworten auf architektonische und städtebauliche Fragestellungen. Ein Denken und Entwerfen in Metaphern ist die wichtigste Grunderkenntnis für eine Arbeit. ...
SAM Architekten richten in diesem Buch einen ganzheitlichen Blick auf den Planungs- und Ausführungsprozess vergangener und laufender Arbeiten und begeben sich damit auf eine ...
The 19th century is generally considered the time frame in which the disciplines of architecture and engineering irrevocably parted ways. Although the development of ...
An impressive, large-format book marking the 25th anniversary of Frankfurt's Jo. Franzke Architekten reveals the studio's signature combination of restraint and self-confidence in all ...
Many traditional products have established reputations for quality and utility far beyond the national borders. Swissness presents 43 design accomplishments of Swiss origin, including ...
The internationally acclaimed team of architect Boa Baumann and musician/ cross-media artist Fritz Hauser has worked together for two decades exploring the tension and ...
What has been catching the attention of committed design students today? Anyone interested in the direction of industrial design in the 21st century will ...
The East German engineer Ulrich Muther contributed an important chapter to the European history of shell construction. In 1963 he created the first concrete ...
Coming out of an international symposium at Germany's University of St.Gallen and Hamburg's Kampnagel Culture Factory in 2007, this huge book addresses the question ...
In 1995, at the climax of the so-called Berlin Architectural Debate, in the young German capital of Berlin a limited competition for the construction ...
The monography broaches the issue of the area of tension between contemporary architecture and historic context in the buildings of Jabornegg & Pálffy. Independent ...
All work involving design utilizes and draws together the principles of visual communication in different combinations and emphases. This creates a kit of almost ...
This multi-layered book chronicles the development of Viennas biggest new park since 1974, Rudolf-Bednar-Park. The story starts with the citys design competition, won by ...
The architectonic possibilities of the pitched roof seem almost unlimited and are all the more interesting for today's architects, in that the subject has ...