How to deal with historic buildings has long been a core issue of the international architectural discourse. Herzog & de Meuron began addressing the ...
Façades determine the appearance of a building. Hence, they constitute a major element in architecture. At the same time, the building's envelope has important ...
Helmut von Werz gründete bereits 1946 in München sein Architekturbüro, dem 1952 Johann Christoph Ottow als Partner beitrat. 1971 kamen Erhard Bachmann und Michel ...
Colours have the power to stir emotions and awaken memories. Artists are not unique in their use of colour; scientists, psychologists, designers, writers and ...
First-year students of architecture are confronted with a wealth of different ways in which to present their designs: How to construct a perspective freehand ...
This essential and comprehensive Mies monograph focuses in its analysis on Mies' design intentions: it reconstructs the buildings in their orginal state, examines them ...
This book combines the architectural and urban scales to demonstrate that urban intensity determines the success of housing. The authors provide a typology of ...
Puckler's park in Muskau served as a textbook example of park design for American students through much of the twentieth century" (Gert Groning). Andeutungen ...
Diagrids are advanced framing systems composed of diagonal steel grids. Developed a decade ago for spectacular buildings like the Swiss Re ( the gherkin ...
This book offers a thorough study of the relationship between the characteristics of construction density and the ensuing atmospheres, distribution of uses and their ...
City by Landscape documents the work of a landscape architect active in the interface between urban planning, open space planning and architecture. For many ...
Following the huge success of Material Revolution, this second volume addresses the rapid development of material research and presents materials new to the market ...
