Architectural Structure & Design

La 4ème édition française du Manuel Nouvelle édition, enrichie du chapitre « Considérations autour du climat » consacré aux principes de base de...

New edition of the popular handbook The Modern Construction Handbook has become a classic of advanced construction literature, not least due ...

New edition of the popular handbook The Modern Construction Handbook has become a classic of advanced construction literature, not least due to i...

The architectural work of Hans and Wassili Luckhardt (18901954/18891972) is not yet adequately appreciated. As members of the Glass Chain initiativ...

From casting to sculpture Cast materials become solid, yet they originate as fluid materials that can take on any imaginable form. This simple yet...

Materials and the myriad technologies that have been developed to manipulate them are of essential relevance to product designers, architects, arti...

This book delves into the performance-based design approach, highlighting the necessity for bespoke, adaptive, and cognitive building envelopes tha...

Throughout the twentieth century architectural models served as the miniature playgrounds in which the future of Britains built environment was ima...

Technical Drawing deals with the representation of plans throughout all phases of a project. For students, the primary focus is on the development ...

Libraries as a building type have been subjected to substantial changes in particular in the past ten years. Milestones such as Rem Koolhaas Seattl...

Designers and forward thinkers in the field of interactive design share their reflections and show examples of different models of a responsive fut...

There is a long tradition of using wood as a distinct and ecologically sound building material. Wooden architecture conveys for todays world the b...

An insightful and engagingly narrated exploratory work on a pioneer of modern architecture from Switzerland The Queen Alexandra Sanatorium in Davo...

Eine effiziente, ökonomische und ökologische Lichtgestaltung ist integraler Bestandteil eines gelungenen Neubaus sowie der Altbausanierung. Praktik...

Werner Schmidt (1953) is one of the most interesting contemporary Swiss architects. After graduating from the University of Applied Arts in Vienna,...

Dynamic artificial light in museums In galleries and museums, ones perception of art, space, and atmosphere is largely determined by lighting. But...

Solid matter. Monolithic and homogeneous concepts for a circular approach to architecture In response to climate change, architects have been ...

Biophilic architecture integrates nature into spaces and buildings to improve peoples health and well-being. It is based on the idea that humans ar...

In 2008, the Department of Art and Architecture at the Vienna Academy of Fine Arts developed a new basis for the architecture curriculum. They crea...

Plastics are high-performance materials of wide use in the built environment. Their versatile technical properties are particularly fascinating. A ...