Architectural Structure & Design

Treppen sind seit jeher das wichtigste vertikale Erschließungselement und gelten als notwendige Selbstverständlichkeit im Gebäudeprogramm. Aber je ...

The Pritzker laureate Renzo Piano is recognized worldwide as one of the most renowned architects of our time. Central elements of his aesthetics i...

Design interventions for the reuse of existing structures must face the question of the past and the extent to which it should be included in the d...

In formulating a design concept into a viable plan, architects oscillate constantly between two planes of observation: the actual design task in th...

Artists and architects have long used sketches, notes, and sculptural models to explore or test new ideas and designs. But in the twentieth century...

Gion Caminada is well-known far beyond Switzerland’s borders: as an architect, whose work is developed out of – and gives new life to – its context...

What might our cities look like in ten, twenty or fifty years? How may future cities face global challenges? Imagining the city of the future has l...

Architectures: Modernism and After surveys the history of the building from the advent of industrialization to the cultural imperatives of the pres...

The tests a golfer faces on the course are the direct result of the challenges originally faced by the golf course architect, whether they be compl...

Many homes across America have designs based on plans taken from pattern books or mail-order catalogs. In Houses from Books, Daniel D. Reiff traces...

This collection of ecological evaluations and data on structural physics is a classic in every design library. Planners, architects, and clients wi...

A luscious survey of forty-five of the most interesting tropical houses built in south-east Asia and Australia over the last thirty years, arranged...

This book examines the city and its rapid growth, as well as the sustainability issues it poses, in several ways. First, there is a critical approa...