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

This book offers a comprehensive introduction to the planning and implementation of this special kind of garden, taking the concrete planning proce...

Soccer stadiums, airports, theaters, museums it falls to very few architects to tackle spectacular building tasks like these. The everyday work of...

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

Inverse Utopia looks at urbanism from the perspective of modernism and postmodernism, as well as at how commercialization has transformed the moder...

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...

The Zacherlhaus is located in the heart of Vienna, just 180 meters from St. Stephen's Cathedral, and is one of the most important buildings created...

Jenseits der dekorativen Keramikfliesen hat sich eine reiche Kultur von teils experimentellen, teils marktgängigen Anwendungen keramischer Baumater...

Korean modernity a defining overview The development of modern architecture in Korea and, more recently, South Korea, is closely tied to the coun...

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

Since 1945, camps as a form of temporary mass housing have been either ignored or discussed only in the margins of architectural history. In this b...

Now available as revised edition: The successful title on integrated ecological landscape planning Infrastructure, as we know it, no longer belon...

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

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...

The book is based on amateur films, shot by the architect Ernest Weissmann (19031985) with a Pathé Motocamera in the years 19291933 at, among othe...

In the 19th century railroads and canals provided both structure and motor for city development. This role has been taken over today by the global ...

The newly discovered original plans, published for the first time in 2019, allow a new view at Leberecht Migge as a garden architect who is still ...

Der Bautyp Bibliotheken unterlag einem enormen Wandel und entwickelte sich vom elitären Bildungstempel hin zum öffentlichen Wohnzimmer. Dieses Grun...

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

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