This book explores experimental approaches to the design and construction of wooden structures in architecture, while presenting the results of an artistic research project. ...
Erich Mendelsohn (1887-1953) was one of the most versatile architects of the 20th century. His work reconciles the opposites of organic and rational building, ...
How cities cope with climate change Climate change is one of the major challenges facing cities in the future. Landscape architecture is particularly in ...
What knowledge is indispensable for the landscape architect? The answers to this question are as diverse as landscape architecture itself. In this book 50 ...
The largely unknown oeuvre of the Philippine architect Leandro V. Locsin (1928-1994) embodies the search for identity in the built environment. Having completed his ...
After a trip to Japan in 1953, Werner Blaser published his landmark book on classical Japanese architecture. His studies of 17th- and 18th-century wooden ...
Architecture in the Middle East Building Sharjah reveals how modern architecture unfurled across the United Arab Emirates' third-largest city. An oil discovery in 1972 ...
Methods and solutions With an increasing interest in quality of nutrition and health, urban food production has begun to occur inside the growing cities ...
What does it take to obtain significant measurement results in thermographic examinations? These guidelines convey in condensed form the authors' many years of experience ...
This book explores breathing and the atmosphere as leitmotifs for the design of an inclusive future in a new climate regime, uncovering intertwinements of ...
This commentated anthology contains essential passages from twelve important architecture and urban design theory texts from the 1960s to the 2010s. With these excerpts, ...
n bea's sustainable architecture In recent years, Baumschlager Eberle architectural practice has successfully continued its international trajectory. Between 2010 and 2020, around 600 buildings, ...
Space and ritual Le Corbusier not only designed and built churches, but also engaged intensely with religion and faith and, through his oeuvre, had ...
The predessor of modernity Claude-Nicolas Ledoux (1736-1806) is today regarded as chief representative of French revolutionary architecture. With his extraordinary inventiveness he projected the ...
How can the fundamental digital change taking place in design and construction be actively used to bring about cultural change in architecture? By exploring ...
People involved in architecture need to be familiar with construction methods in order to be in control of their designs. New technical requirements impact ...
