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Seit jeher beschäftigt die Menschheit sich mit der Natur als Vorbild, als Ziel und Herausforderung in ihrer Vollkommenheit. Die Natur ist in vieler...

Network of superlatives Frederick Kiesler was a committed networker and communicated regularly with the whos who of the avant-garde. He was an imp...

From 1977 until his retirement in 1999, Wilhelm Holzbauer was Head of one of the three master classes for architecture at Vienna University of Appl...

Fritz Nathan (18911960) zählte zu den aufstrebenden Architekten im Deutschland der Zwanzigerjahre. Mit dem Neuen Jüdischen Friedhof in Frankfurt/Ma...

The global success story of the Basel architects Jacques Herzog and Pierre de Meuron has local roots. This book traces these origins while identify...

Fußböden präsentiert in kompakter Form einen Überblick über die gängigen Fußbodenkonstruktionen und Bodenbeläge für den Hoch- und Industriebau. Die...

Single-family houses are becoming increasingly outdated. They offer no response to demographic change or to the fact that there are fewer and fewer...

Increasingly, innovative construction design relies on interdisciplinary cooperation between architects, engineers and the construction industry. G...

This book offers a comprehensive introduction to the planning and implementation of this special kind of garden, taking the concrete planning proce...

The garden as inspiration The garden embodies a condensed version of nature, just as, in Japanese philosophy, the entire world is thought to be re...

Familiarity with ground modeling is an indispensable prerequisite for landscape architects; they have to use contour lines in their designs, quickl...

A growing, living house, a building made of a plant seems to be a contradiction in terms. Nevertheless, the Khasi in eastern India already knew ho...

Gute Gestaltung / Good Design 13 presents prizewinning designs from all disciplines. Whether architecture, corporate design, digital media, graphic...

Good Design 11 is a guide to award-winning design from the German-speaking world. It presents prizewinning design from all design disciplines. Be i...

Gute Gestaltung / Good Design 14 presents prizewinning designs from all disciplines. Whether architecture, corporate design, digital media, graphic...

Gute Gestaltung / Good Design 14 presents prizewinning designs from all disciplines. Whether architecture, corporate design, digital media, graphic...

Hannes Meyer hat als zweiter Bauhausdirektor die von Walter Gropius und den frühen Meistern begründete Bauhauspädagogikwesentlich verändert und neu...

Hans Scharoun is one of the most important architects of the 20th century; as a proponent of organic architecture, he created unconventional and im...

The architectural work of Hans and Wassili Luckhardt (18901954/18891972) is not yet adequately appreciated. As members of the Glass Chain initiativ...

Austrias capital receives a new transport hub: The Vienna Central Railroad Station. The book introduces the railroad station, with essays, planning...

Austrias capital receives a new transport hub: The Vienna Central Railroad Station. The book introduces the railroad station, with essays, planning...