This competition, organized by the Bundesamt für Kultur (Federal Office of Culture), is one of the most important instruments for the promotion of design. ...
This practice-oriented volume provides expert planners and architects but also interested developers with practical knowledge on the subject of acoustics in high-rise architecture, beginning ...
Living individually while feeling comfortable within the framework of a collective building: this lifestyle trend is becoming increasingly evident. This inventory of new forms ...
The international creation of typefaces after 1950 was decisively influenced by the Swiss type designer Adrian Frutiger. His Univers typeface and the machine-readable font ...
For Agence Ter (Henri Bava, Michel Hoessler, Olivier Philippe), the ground itself is material. It obeys the laws of the natural sciences, holds water, ...
Our planet's resources are finite, and the engineer's work must take this fact into account. Sustainable elements should be foremost at every stage of ...
Architectural photography is an important tool for studying built architecture and documenting students own projects. "Basics Architectural Photography" provides a practically based explanation of ...
The design of supply pipework and systems in buildings requires an understanding of the relationships between water supply and disposal. "Basics Water Cycles" presents ...
How and where is architecture created today? Where do architects find their inspiration? What design tools do they use? This book offers a behind-the-scenes ...
In landscape-architectural design, a study of the site is naturally a crucially important design step. How can the preexisting layers, traces, and elements be ...
