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The photographic estate of Oskar and Olda Kokoschka comprises approximately 5.000 photographs. It contains portraits by renowned photographers, inc...

The present volume offers a comprehensive retrospective of all presently known three-dimensional works by Oswald Oberhuber. It does not make any cl...

Zwei Kirchen, 1.500 Wohnungen und die Planung von Stadtquartieren für rund 5.000 Wohnungen umfasst das Werk des Wiener Architekten Otto Häuselmayer...

As a collection of ecological evaluations and key building physics data, the Details for Passive Houses is a classic in every design library and th...

Architecture that is meant to have a sensuous connection to life calls forthinking that goes far beyond form and construction. In his texts, Peter ...

When developing a design concept in a realizable plan, landscape architects oscillate between two different levels of criteria: the tangible design...

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

In a state of ontological crisis, all boundaries have been ruptured between nature and culture, human and machine, and object and subject. We find ...

Le Corbusier designed two color collections for the Salubra wallpaper company: the Clavier de couleurs of 1931, with 43 colors, and the 1959 collec...

What do designers, scientists, entrepreneurs, and politicians have in common? They want to shape the future. But how can you make the future that ...

For a number of years, modular construction the use of prefabricated elements in architecture has once again become a subject of lively discussio...

From idea to product In the construction sector, demand is steadily increasing for innovative products. Product Development and Architecture presen...

Das Buch ist die Dokumentation des weit über die Landesgrenzen hinaus bekannten Architekturpreises des Landes Steiermark, der alle zwei Jahre verge...

Architektonische Räume und Raumfolgen werden wesentlich von ihrer wirkungsvollen Inszenierung mitbestimmt. Das Repertoire solcher Inszenierungen fa...

Demenz stellt eine große Herausforderung dar für den Einzelnen wie für die Gesellschaft. Derzeit leben weltweit mehr als 35 Millionen Menschen mit...

Reality Bytes is a collection of essays by Bart Lootsma, written in the years from 1998 to 2009. Byte is a unit of digital information used in info...

Gibt es eine architektonische und städtebauliche Agenda hinter der Politik zeitgenössischer rechtspopulistischer, rechtsradikaler, rechtsextremisti...

Bauhaus Earth and Pontifical Academy of Sciences conference, June 2022 The built environment is a critical factor in the climate equation. Approxi...

Der Titel des Buches setzt die beiden Tätigkeitsfelder, das Bauen und das Schreiben, des Architekten, Architekturhistorikers und Theoretikers Augus...