Providing sufficient affordable living space-especially in European conglomerations-is one of the great challenges of the future, requiring new solutions. In the face of demographic ...
Perspectives in Metropolitan Research is a joint project of the HafenCity University Hamburg [HCU] and the foundation ZEIT-Stiftung Ebelin und Gerd Bucerius. The series's ...
Each issue of the international architectural magazine speech: focuses on a special theme, presenting it from a present and historical perspective and discussing it ...
Europe's current crisis is also a crisis of the European city. The economic, social, and political insecurity has changed our perception of territories, institutions, ...
Danwei-these are city districts in China that are characterized by close links between work, residence, and social facilities. They are the material product of ...
Conflicts around urban development and planning issues represent an important dimension of urban politics. Issues of social cohesion and democratic representation are all the ...
Rem Koolhaas (born in 1944) has been part of the international architecture avant-garde since the nineteen-seventies. His numerous worldwide awards include the Pritzker Prize ...
Haus Ideal, by German architect Oda Pälmke, serves as an instruction manual for nonlinear processes of generating new solutions to architectural problems and discovering ...
This scholarly guide presents a detailed survey of the plans and typologies of apartment buildings from the nineteenth and twentieth centuries in downtown Cairo. ...
Contemporary Japanese architecture has reached a turning point: The ever-smaller, ever-whiter, ever-more minimalist designs no longer can respond to society's demands: Norihiko Dan is ...
In the center of Zürich, three renowned architecture firms'David Chipperfield Architects, Max Dudler, and Annette Gigon/Mike Guyer'have designed four individual commercial buildings that form ...
How can residential building strengthen broader urban structures? And how can architecture meet the requirements of new forms of cohabitation, owing to a broader ...
This book presents 47 examples from the Urban Intervention Award Berlin, including permanent and provisional attempts to effect various kinds of urban intervention. These ...
After years of absence, the Federal Constitutional Court building is once again making an appearance on television screens, in reports about the activities of ...
Transportable, robust, quick to assemble and dismantle, easy to repair and recycle, and usable in different climatic regions-this is what was required of the ...