Architecture

The theory of Co-Corporeality is based on a conception of the built environment as a biological entity that opens up a space for coexistence and in...

The catalog for the 2015/16 exhibition at the MAK (Museum of Applied Arts) in Vienna is dedicated to Josef Frank (18851967), one of the most import...

In 1929, Eileen Gray designed Villa E 1027 for herself and her youthful partner Jean Badovici, but only lived there for three years. Today, the ele...

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...

Architecture and Urbanism in Viceregal Mexico presents a fascinating survey of urban history between the sixteenth and eighteenth centuries. It chr...

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

In 1929, Eileen Gray designed Villa E 1027 for herself and her youthful partner Jean Badovici, but only lived there for three years. Today, the ele...

Dare experiments! The book documents the teaching philosophy developed at the chair of experimental design by Frank Stepper and his team at the Un...

Monograph questioning What if research, science and architecture were merged? LAVA is an architecture studio founded by Tobias Wallisser, Chris ...

Free thinking, unconstrained by facts The book is based on the thesis that we live in a world of abundance, full of natural riches, and cultural ...

Das Interesse an Lehm als Material ist ungebremst. Leichtlehm, leicht wiegend und auch leicht zu verarbeiten, ist ein vielseitiger und zukunftweise...

Paul Jennings traces the history of the British pub, and looks at how it evolved from the eighteenth century's coaching inns and humble alehouses, ...

This book explores extraordinary 20th-century utopian architecture from the prominent architecture groups Archigram and Future Systems. Filled with...

Before the Museums Came: A Social History of the Fine Arts in the Twin Cities gives an engaging portrayal of the fine arts scene of Minneapolis and...

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

Living cities change continuously. Many small interventions change the appearance of the city, day in, day out. Reinhard Mandl transforms such flee...

This book shifts the frame of reference for todays network- and structure oriented discussions from the applied computational tools of the 20th cen...

Post-genomics and molecular biology provided the basis for a collection of drawings and installations from 20 years of artistic practice and artist...

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

Founded in 2008, the French-Lebanese firm of Youssef Tohme Architects and Associates has a delicate signature that takes the regional context as i...

Welcome to the hybrid home, in which the bathroom has become a temple of wellness, the living room an online couch, and the kitchen a lounge. Every...

Modernism is the most defining architectural expression of the 20th century a movement that transformed built environments around the world in an ...

The new edition has been shaped by a both turbulent and exciting year. The demand for events and the delight about real experiences were huge. At t...

One of the largest and most important palatial houses of late 18th- and early 19th-century Damascus, Bayt Farhi belonged to the Farhi family, who s...

This ambitious publication, now revised and expanded, dissects fifty-five modern masterpieces through specially commissioned freehand drawings that...

Skilful architecture without gloss and bling bling In this book, Albert Kirchengast looks at three projects that may serve as models of further co...

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

The question of what heritage is and how we deal with it is not a neutral one. Recent events such as the Black Lives Matter movement and the toppli...

This anthology aims to destabilize the limits of the discipline of architecture by focusing on the core concepts of inhabitation and displacement....