How does sound shape urban life? What do soundscapes reveal about the experience of modernity? This innovative essay collection explores a series of critical ...
This history-by-theory and theory-by-history book helps its reader make sense of the chaotic multitude of world architecture through time. In contrast to other history ...
Hannover, die deutsche Vorzeigestadt des Städtebaus der Nachkriegszeit, in den frühen 1960er Jahren: Ein junger Architekt - Rolf Ramcke - tritt in die Entwurfsabteilung ...
The projects in the Future Megacities programme gain valuable experiences in developing energy efficient standards and urban structures with adequate conditions to treat resources ...
Make_Shift City looks at urban design strategies that renegotiate and emancipate shared spaces and resources within the city, showing how the increasing scarcity of ...
Transforming modernistic urban areas to fit contemporary needs is one of the predominant challenges that post-war European cities face today. Although these transformation processes ...
The facade is the visible face of a building, determining its character. Oda Palmke's collection of pictures shows that the most expressive sides of ...
Urban green spaces are gaining significance in our everyday lives and also contribute to our identification with the urban environment. The reclaiming of open ...
The growth of megacities creates huge challenges. One of them is reshaping of mobility patterns in cities, promoting energy efficiency and principles of low ...
The conversion and extension of the National Museum of China forms a link between the former Chinese History Museum and the Chinese Revolutionary Museum. ...
Windows of residences located at head height of passers-by or façades that are hermetically sealed off externally: the appropriate use of the ground floor ...
In 1970, Henri Lefebvre put forward the radical hypothesis of the complete urbanization of society, a circumstance that in his view required a radical ...
For nearly two decades, Office for Visual Interaction (OVI) has been creating inventive lighting designs, illuminating the world's most prominent architectural works. The New ...
The Japanese architect Atsushi Kitagawara has been firmly established in the architecture scene of his homeland for 30 years. He is a protagonist of ...
Classical Modernism is very much alive! It is more diversified, more atmospherically intense, more comfortable, and more technically perfect than ever before'as shown by ...
Brazil s architecture is characterized by a heroic and tropical modernity. It has gained acclaim especially through names such as Oscar Niemeyer or Paulo ...
Simply Design approaches design from the point of view of architectural theory, clarifying the relevance of design elements and providing a reference framework for ...
In a world of growing and multiplying cities, suburbanization is the most visible and pervasive phenomenon. While the single-family home subdivisions of North America ...
