Directed by Paolo Portoghesi, the Second Venice Architecture Biennale raised questions about a postmodernity through realms extending south and east from the Mediterranean, where ...
During the 1980s and 1990s, German-Swiss architecture gained worldwide acclaim on account of its constructional and aesthetic coherence. Its precision, rigour and sobriety were ...
Sigfried Giedion (1888-1968), one of the main protagonists of the architectural avant-garde in Europe, paradoxically achieved this reputation far from his homeland- in America. ...
As population growth and urbanization pick up speed worldwide, the need for high-rise, high-density residential architecture is becoming ever more acute. As Residential Towers ...
The void and limits have always been central themes in Peter Markli's teaching as professor for architecture and construction at ETH Zurich. The design ...
Is the first in a series of exhibition that aims to initiate a dialogue between architecture and contemporary art. The near impossibility of exhibiting ...
This volume looks at nineteen of the most striking and famous works from the much-lauded Swiss architecture firm Bearth & Deplazes Architects. Bearth & ...
This is the first book in English on the Italian architects Mario Asnago (1896-1981) and Claudio Vender (1904-1986). Their city was mid-twentieth century Milan ...
Providing a new insight into twentieth-century architecture, this is the first book in English on the work of French architect Fernand Pouillon (1912-1986). It ...
"Urban Reports" centres on how mid-size cities are being affected by global trends and explores the consequences and challenges they face in their development. ...
Durch die neuen Medien werden Bilder geschaffen, deren Perfektion bewusst eine fiktive Realität aufbaut. Tritt die Frage «Was ist Realität und was ist Bild?» ...
