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Organized by the department for Graphics & Printmaking at the University of Applied Arts Vienna, the exhibition Thought Machines includes stude...

The region of the Himalayas and the adjoining Tibetan plateau is known for its unique and characteristic vernacular architecture and housing cultur...

The book takes the reader on an intellectual adventure through a carefully curated selection of 120 places that can be understood as metaphors of ...

Topotek 1 is one of Germanys internationally best-known landscape architecture firms. Rosemarie Trockel is currently one of Germanysmost important ...

Wiener Werkstätte: Textiles and their design This book presents new research and archival findings on the textile and fashion designs of the Wien...

TransArts is a novel approach in the art education system, a course whose content and forms are adapted to the dynamics of art today: the separatio...

Transformation design is looking for new ways to change our behavior and society through new forms of innovation. The existing user-oriented approa...

Built and designed by Ludwig Mies van der Rohe 19281930, the Tugendhat House in Brno / Czech Republic is one of the most significant buildings of E...

Faced with man-made climate change and the need to provide housing for a growing world population, society needs to rethink the way future building...

A classic in German for the first time China has a long history of garden design, resulting in the emergence of a unique style and diverse forms o...

The book series of the University of Applied Arts Vienna Edition Angewandte, published by Birkhäuser Basel and De Gruyter Berlin/Boston, comprises ...

Villa le Lac, which was designated a World Heritage in 2016, was designed and built by Le Corbusier as Geneva lakeside home for his parents in 1925...

In his 1979 essay The Postmodern Condition: A Report on Knowledge philosopher Jean-François Lyotard noted that the advent of the computer opened up...

Urban Change investigates the massive change processes in urban spacewithin a world of rapidly progressing urbanization. In the face of the complex...

Urban space is a commons: simultaneously a sphere of human cooperation and negotiation and its product. Understanding urban space as a commons mean...

Urban reuse, creative production, consumerism, and heritage protection have formed an alliance for the transformation of inner-city districts of Sh...

The wilderness begins at our front door, but we rarely notice. City dwellers today rely more and more on modern technologies and numerous media cha...

Countering the phenomenon of sprawl in the often anonymous or chaotic urban periphery, the Oassis neighborhood in Lausanne takes a unique approach ...

For plenty years, many popular mountain resorts have seen largely uncontrolled development consisting of the multiplication of archetypal chalet-s...

A comprehensive reference work on vernacular architecture Traditional building methods such as those used in pueblos, timbered houses, or the Jap...

The typology of the townhouse originated in the late 19th century yet still represents a viable and attractive alternative to the detached single-...

Post-genomics and molecular biology provided the basis for a collection of drawings and installations from 20 years of artistic practice and artist...

Today, careful energy planning and design has become an integral component of every building task. The second volume of the SCALE series, Heat | Co...