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The Staatspreis Design Austrian National Design Award is awarded in recognition of the best, most creative and innovative solutions for consumer ...

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...

In wachsenden Städten haben Schulstandorte das Potenzial, polyvalente Anlagen sowie lebendige Quartierszentren zu werden. UMBAU 31 untersucht sowoh...

Open urban spaces are an ideal stage for public events. An important prerequisite for their design in an increasingly heterogeneous multicultural c...

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

The spectacular Styria Media Center office tower, designed by architects Hermann Eisenköck and Herfried Peyker (Architekturconsult) will be opened ...

Here is a retrospective of the career of Stefan Sonvilla-Weiss, visual artist, graphic designer, multimedia developer, writer, researcher, educator...

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

How design students learn sustainably How do I teach design? Why is listening so important? What can we learn from other disciplines and cultures ...

Contemporary vernacular architecture today - and what we can learn from temporary infrastructures Temporary Tecture is a fundamental statement on ...

The Architects Sourcebook provides readers with an accessible and playful space planning manual for the digital age. The Sourcebook conveniently br...

Ludwig II of Bavaria (18641886) is more internationally known for his royal palaces than hardly any other regent of the 19th century. They are the ...

The Artful Plan explores the potentials of architectural drawing at a turning point where digitization is setting drawing free from its convention...

In The Digital, a Continent?, the author argues in favor of a way of thinking about digital technology that draws on the new materialism. She uses ...

Todays China is experiencing massive urban growth: new towns are built, extensive suburbanization processes occur in many regions, and agricultural...

Lars Lerup's conceptual explorations as a designer and thinker have been inspired by philosophers and artists from Foucault to Beckett. Lerup's fur...

Though sometimes overlooked and underestimated, rural space has played a substantial role in social, cultural, economic, and ideological change. Th...

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 conducts in-depth inquiries into the practices, nature and theory of postindustrial cultural work and the humanities and arts based civi...