Le Corbusier's Unité d'habitation 'Typ Berlin''built 1957-58'is an exceptional testimony to Berlin's post-war architecture. Although it follows the basic concept of a 'vertical village' ...
This catalog accompanies an exhibition by the Deutsches Architekturmuseum (DAM) on assembly kits of postwar German architecture for model-railway systems. It reveals the coexistence ...
Latin America and the Caribbean constitute the second-most urbanized region in the world, with many cities still growing exponentially. Long-term strategies need to be ...
This book reflects on traditional housing design and architectural education, aiming to address an apparent gap between educational models and the challenges of contemporary ...
In Japanese Creativity, Japanese architect Yuichiro Edagawa sets out to try to determine the roots of a particularly Japanese architectural style by analyzing a ...
As a consequence of demographic change, it is increasingly necessary now and in the future for the architectural profession to rethink the design of ...
Through speeches, articles and interviews, this book highlights some of the more significant considerations that have run parallel with Vassilis Sgoutas own steps in ...
The enormous increase of urbanization characterizing the 20th century often overlays the architectural approaches that took place when cities were founded and continue to ...
Viewing architecture and urban development from the perspective of building contractors is a much neglected topic to date in architectural and art history. If ...
This publication examines the contemporary international phenomenon of retro districts, the new cities built to imitate historical models. It investigates historicizing urban construction through ...
Based on best-practice examples in American cities such as Detroit, New York, or Pittsburgh, this book shows successful cases of adaptive reuse that preserve ...
Experimentelle Wohnformen - CoHousing Cultures - kommen immer mehr im Mainstream an. Aber inwieweit sind sie zugänglich und leistbar für alle: Menschen mit unterschiedlichen ...
Territories - Rural-urban Strategies studies the dynamics of larger rural-urban spaces from a design perspective. Perception and concepts involving the overlaying of the urban ...
Urban river floods, inundations, water shortage, dirty water, water pollution, or drowning are nothing new for our urban environments. But is there any other ...
Rome, golden, eternally powerful, glorious, world-dominating Rome, sovereign of cities, city of cities, the fortunate, regal, holy city, the greatest of cities, seat of ...
