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Two fundamental approaches The catalogue for the exhibition at the MAK (Austrian Museum for Applied Art/Contemporary Art in Vienna) focuses on two...

Kirchengast betrachtet in seinem Buch drei Projekte mit modellhaftem Charakter: Max Dudler, Franz Riepl und Jonathan Sergison demonstrieren auf den...

Werner Schmidt (1953) is one of the most interesting contemporary Swiss architects. After graduating from the University of Applied Arts in Vienna,...

Introverted? Secretive? Why is it really that architects wear black? was a question put to Cordula Rau by an automotive industry manager during an...

Lucius Burckhardt (1925-2003) taught architectural theory at Kassel University and, in the 1980s, coined the term Promenadology or the science of S...

The space we live in, reduced to a minimum, has been fascinating us for generations the writer Thoreau lived in a self-built hut in the forest fro...

Wiel Arets: Autobiographical References opens up a unique and richly layered view of the architectural work and thinking of this internationally re...

Living cities change continuously. Many small interventions change the appearance of the city, day in, day out. Reinhard Mandl transforms such flee...

What does it actually look like in the offices of people who think on a day-to-day basis about good architecture? Where do the ideas and designs of...

The provision of attractive dwellings in Europe's population centers has long been a topic of central concern not only to architects but also to ci...

DieKompendium Wohnbautypologie Die intelligente Weiterentwicklung von Bautypen ist eine wesentliche Aufgabenstellung im Wohnungsbau. Für den einze...

There is a long tradition of using wood as a distinct and ecologically sound building material. Wooden architecture conveys for todays world the b...

Today, the name RKW Architektur + Städtebau evokes two hundred architects whose work never fails to convince. The reason does not lie in the narrow...

Planning guide for good living spaces The intelligent and appropriate use of living space as a resource is culturally, socially and economically c...