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Comprehensive monograph Helmut Jahn is world-famous for buildings like Frankfurter Messeturm (1985-1991), Sony Center with the Bahntower, Berlin (...

Hermann Zweigenthal, später Hermann Herrey, ist vor allem als Architekt der Kantgarage in Berlin (1929/30) bekannt. Student von Hans Poelzig, inter...

Nach gut acht Jahren erscheint der lange erwartete sechste Band des Gesamtwerks von Herzog & de Meuron zu den Jahren 2005 bis 2007. Die rund 60...

Sustainable, circular, up-to-date Most modern buildings are built from diverse materials, but few confront their manifold composition as a questio...

High-tech Architecture - Preserving the Heritage of Innovative Construction The high-tech architecture of the 1970s1990s is typically characterize...

Park Muskau, Prince Pücklers extraordinary nineteenth-century creation on both sides of the River Neisse, together with Hints on Landscape Gardenin...

Timber construction can justifiably be called the building method of the future, having gained significant market share over other materials in rec...

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...

High-quality residential structures are much more than merely a series of different floor plans. First and foremost, the urban apartment house medi...

How much house does a man need? The space we live in, reduced to a minimum, has been fascinating us for generations the writer Thoreau lived in...

Details today Methods of construction are evolving rapidly, driven by sustainability demands, new technical possibilities, the optimization of ma...

Details today Methods of construction are evolving rapidly, driven by sustainability demands, new technical possibilities, the optimization of mat...

The iconic design classics that are still handcrafted today by the Auböck workshop, now in its fourth generation in Vienna, were ahead of their tim...

The HawkinsBrown architectural firm in London, founded in 1988 by Roger Hawkins and Russell Brown, is one of the up-and-coming offices on the inter...

iheartblob avails itself of a new visual vocabulary of architecture. Here designs are visualized not in the form of ground plans and sections. Inst...

Collective Urban Planning in Research, Teaching and Practice This practice orientated handbook aims at all urban actors wishing to develop and r...

Collective Urban Planning in Research, Teaching and Practice This practice orientated handbook aims at all urban actors wishing to develop and r...

The requirements confronting our workplaces have recently undergone a dramatic transformation. Constantly shifting workspace populations and varyin...

European landscape architecture builds on a common horizon of understanding and yet produces quality works of very different expression and style. ...

This anthology radically resituates architecture as a support system in the service of infrastructure. A collection of 12 critical essays and creat...

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

Design reflects social developments in those issues which are also embraced by design researchers. A key concept for how designers position themsel...