This fourth volume of Metropolis examines how waste ground--unused and unoccupied spaces in cities and industrial areas--can offer opportunities for creative exploitation and sustainable ...
'Structure in Mind' is advanced technology coupled with an awareness of sensuality in form and material, expressed in a model way through architecture. Structure ...
Already regarded as the most successful Swedish architect of all time, Gert Wingårdh is nevertheless not a 'pure product' of Swedish architecture'the solutions he ...
Dwelling and Architecture: From Heidegger to Koolhaas explores the influence of Martin Heidegger's concept of dwelling (Wohnen) in disputing major imperatives of modern architecture. ...
Stefan Behnisch and partners have a current international reputation as one of the most successful architectural offices in Germany. Taking up the formal tradition ...
Contemporary train stations are hubs of mobility, urban centers, meeting places, shopping centers and providers of an ever-broadening range of services and leisure activities. ...
With the Internationale Bauausstellung (IBA) Hamburg dares a leap across the Elbe to the Elbe islands Wilhelmsburg, Veddel, Kleiner Grasbrook and the Harburg castle ...
Der Architekt Werner Ruhnau ist ein Grenzgänger zwischen den Künsten. Weltberühmt für sein Gelsenkirchener Musiktheater (1959), bei dem er u.a. mit Yves Klein, Jean ...
Independent of changes in fashion, the Stuttgart architectural practice of Wulf & Partner (Tobias Wulf, Kai Bierich, Alexander Vohl) have made a name for ...
In post-colonial Africa, "White Elephant" was the ironic moniker given to buildings erected with international money and never put to use. They remain as ...
The architectural heritage of post-war Modernism greatly infl uences the identity of our cities. A total of 60 percent of all urban construction stems ...
Hugh Stubbins, who began his career as an assistant to Walter Gropius at Harvard, is undoubtedly among the important international architects of postwar Modernism. ...
As a sequel to the acclaimed publication Elektropolis Berlin - Historische Bauten der Stromverteilung from 2000, the book presents more than 20 large and ...
The standard lamps "Schliephacke" and "Ssymmank" became well-known as favourite designs within the Berlin intellectual scene. Today, the two lamps dating from the late ...
