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

Burckhardt pioneered the interdisciplinary analysis of man-made environments, a field forged in the ruins of post-war Europe. This is the first Eng...

Ludwig Mies van der Rohe gehörte zu den führenden Persönlichkeiten in der Architektur des 20. Jahrhunderts und ist für Architekten und viele andere...

Stepped terraced houses as alternative The stepped terraced house is a type of building that meets modern housing requirements: it is economical a...

Designing architecture with solar cells - principles and qualities of a new architecture The rapid development of solar technology is not only inc...

Designing architecture with solar cells - principles and qualities of a new architecture The rapid development of solar technology is not only inc...

This volume outlines the urban development of eight cities in the Middle East and North Africa: Aleppo, Alexandria, Ankara, Cairo, Casablanca, Duba...

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

The approach of Informing Architecture by Materiality opens the way to an innovative use of materials in the design professions. Taking material q...

Following the huge success of Material Revolution, this second volume addresses the rapid development of material research and presents materials n...

Since it is now clear that in the future many raw materials will only be available to us in limited quantities, scientists have for some time been ...

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

Textile architecture has been captivating humanity for many centuries. In recent years and decades, the emergence of innovative materials has creat...

Through the growing importance of electronic media and the services provided by the internet, the delimitation between physical and virtual spaces ...

How architecture became a medium In the modern world, architecture interacts with and within networks. Long before they began to communicate wit...

Die Arealentwicklung mehr als wohnen' im Zürcher Norden ist ein Leuchtturmprojekt für nachhaltiges genossenschaftliches Wohnen. Die dreizehn Neubau...

Materiality is a recurring and central issue in architecture. This book explains how materials are constructed, how they become cultural substances...

The period of Viennese Modernism is widely regarded as Europes cultural heyday. This was when Vienna, with a population of two million, was the cap...

Born and raised in Vienna, Michaela Schweeger set the tone for the future architecture of the MPREIS supermarkets in Austria at the beginning of th...

This essential and comprehensive Mies monograph focuses in its analysis on Mies design intentions: it reconstructs the buildings in their original ...