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Dealing with color is a complex topic: influenced by standards, fashions, and trends, we derive our ideas and concepts from color theories, intuit...

30 Trees presents the favorite trees of 30 internationally renowned landscape architects. In each case, the designers describe the characteristics ...

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...

We know the specific strengths of various cities, are aware of their ranking, are able to discuss their density and growth. But what do all cities ...

For the Aalto Moment in Your Projects This carefully curated catalog celebrates the rich detail in the work of Aino, Elissa, and Alvar Aalto. Ev...

A book about the late oeuvre of the Austrian architect, designer and theorist Josef Frank, whose seminal work has generated new interest following ...

A growing part of the public is concerned about cities being designed and governed in a responsible way. In the contemporary information society, h...

Building in existing fabric requires more than practical solutions and stylistic skills. The adaptive reuse of buildings, where changes in the stru...

The international creation of typefaces after 1950 was decisively influenced by the Swiss type designer Adrian Frutiger. His Univers typeface and t...

Ahmet Oran follows in the tradition of monochrome painting influenced by the Art Informel style. ... The essence of his painting is characterized b...

Most of the buildings that will be needed in Europe in the coming decades have long since been built. The building tasks of the future lie in the s...

Rudolf (von) Alt painted people, landscapes, villages and towns in the countries of the Habsburg monarchy as well as in Crimea, Italy and Germany. ...

The American artist Sarah Morris talks with the curator Hans Ulrich Obrist about her films and paintings. Discussion includes her longtime interest...

Die Andeutungen über Landschaftsgärtnerei, das Hauptwerk von Pückler-Muskau, sind ein Klassiker der Landschaftsarchitektur und seit der Erstveröffe...

News on Ludwig Hilberseimer! Ludwig Hilberseimer (18851967) is regarded as one of the leading theorists of the Neues Bauen movement in pre-War Ge...

Architecture is increasingly understood to be a sensual, spatial experience, which means that the experience of buildings and spatial constellation...

There is no other place of comparable size where one can experience local and global building cultures side by side the way one can in Basel with i...

Founded in Los Angeles in 1998, GRAFT is a global architectural practice which now maintains branches in Berlin and Beijing. The international prac...

In this anthology with contributions about architecture, media, and infrastructure technology, the authors investigate in what multifaceted way arc...