'After Crisis' concentrates around the new conditions for architectural practice and around the new epistemologies that may inform it in the next future. That ...
This publication casts light on the spectrum of the script poster, using consistent reduction to type and without any illustrative or geometrical elements. The ...
First renowned as a supplier of theatrical textiles to Broadway and beyond, Maharam pioneered the concept of engineered textiles for interior applications in the ...
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 ...