A striking dissonance exists between the overwhelming American landscape and the underwhelming architecture of its strip malls, fast food chains, motels and tract housing. ...
Pietro Nobile (1776-1854), originally from Ticino in Switzerland, Director of the School of Architecture at the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna, architect working ...
Paper and cardboard as sustainable building materials are currently the subject of research and testing in building practice. Properly protected from moisture and fire, ...
How can architecture create a pleasant indoor climate using construction techniques and as little technology as possible? Researchers from four different departments at the ...
What if research, science and architecture were merged? LAVA is an architecture studio founded by Tobias Wallisser, Chris Bosse, and Alexander Rieck with offices ...
4th and revised edition. Earth, in common use for architectural construction for thousands of years, has in the past thirty years attracted renewed attention ...
Representation of climate in design Ephemeral phenomena like fire, precipitation, shade, and wind have emerged as important contemporary protagonists for environmental design due to ...
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 ...
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 ...
