Globalization and its effects on all areas of society have been discussed with particular intensity for some time now. But one interesting and thus ...
The Zurich architects Fuhrimann Hachler take on the most diverse building commissions. The present volume is devoted in particular to private residences, most of ...
In Ideas and Integrities Buckminster Fuller describes the revolutionary designs and concepts he has pioneered - among them the geodesic dome, the Dymaxion world ...
R. Buckminster Fuller (1895-1983) was an architect, engineer, geometrician, cartographer, philosopher, futurist, inventor of the famous geodesic dome, and one of the most brilliant ...
Ruedi Baur has chosen seven concepts to describe his conceptual approach: anticipate, question, identify, contextualize, perplex, inscribe, and translate. They serve as the structure ...
The A5 series is intended as a growing archive on graphic design. Each volume introduces outstanding personalities and important themes from the history of ...
The A5 series is intended as a growing archive on graphic design. Each volume introduces outstanding personalities and important themes from the history of ...
The book contains a collection of essays by scholars and artists from a range of different fields including art, art history, architectural theory and ...
In 2009, the Dolder Grand celebrates its first birthday following a four-year remodelling by Foster+Partners. To mark the occasion, a lavish publication, The Dolder ...
The German artist Katharina Grosse has fulfilled her dream of a tailor-made studio, a place large enough to accommodate her large-scale works and where ...
Cities are hybrid entities based on multilayered and sometimes contradictory organizing principles. As complex networks of geographic, economic, political and cultural segments, they are ...
The development of modern communication and information technologies like the Internet and globalization have not only changed access and spread of the available knowledge ...
World's Fairs and International Exhibitions have always had a political as well as a commercial and cultural context. This was particularly true during the ...
Otto Baumberger (1889-1961) was one of the first Swiss graphic artists to have a career that responds to the occupational title of 'poster designer'. ...
Operating Manual for Spaceship Earth, eines seiner berühmtesten Werke, erstmals 1969 veröffentlicht, ist eine brillante Synthese seiner Weltanschauung. In diesem eingängigen Band untersucht er ...
The designer Frédéric Dedelley illustrates with eight themes and exemplary projects the path from discovering an image in everyday life, archiving it, and reworking ...
