The question of spatial composition and user quality of sites arises in every urban design concept or intervention in urban public spaces. Squares is ...
A key issue of sustainable design 'Reduce, Reuse, Recycle, and Recover' is the sustainable guideline that has replaced the 'Take, Make, Waste' attitude of ...
Summarizes the principles of corrective maintenance and energy retrofitting of historic and listed buildings, from diagnosis to intervention: asset preservation, user comfort, and energy ...
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 ...