SPRING 2014 Architecture Landscape Architecture Design Art
Contents
Diagrid Structures Page 2
lost in space. Architecture and Dementia Page 4
BIRKHÄUSER Construction | Materials 2 Diagrid Structures 3 SCALE: Furnish I Zone
Types | Functions 4 lost in space 5 School Building
Architects | Buildings 6 Architectural Guide Basel 7 Herzog & de Meuron Transforming Park Avenue Armory New York
Studies | Professional Practice 8 Driving Desired Futures 9 Basics Architectural Presentation
Theory | History 10 Architectural Atmospheres
Herzog & de Meuron. Transforming Park Avenue Armory New York Page 7
Hints on Landscape Gardening Page 11
Landscape Architecture 11 Hints on Landscape Gardening 12 Grading 13 Open(ing) Spaces
Design | Interior Architecture 14 Good Design 14 15 Adrian Frutiger – Typefaces
Contents
Adrian Frutiger – Typefaces Page 15
best of Detail: GLASS Page 16
Edition DETAIL 16 best of Detail: GLAS / best of Detail: GLASS
Ambra 17 Speaking Architecture 18 GAM 10: Intuition & the Machine 18 Architektur. Landschaft / Architecture. Landscape 19 Saving the Wittgenstein House Vienna from Demolition 20 EigenArchitecture 20 Staatspreis Design 2013 21 Nita Tandon 22 TransArts 22 Thought Machines 23 Nature and Numbers
Speaking Architecture Page 17
Allgemeines Künsterlexikon [Artists of the world] Page 24
De Gruyter Art 24 Allgemeines Künsterlexikon [Artists of the world]
Backlist 20 Birkhäuser: Selected Backlist Titles
2 | BIRKHÄUSER | CONSTRUCTION | MATERIALS
Terri Meyer Boake
Diagrid Structures Systems, Connections, Details PAGES ILLS. FORMAT
approx. 184 250 in color, 50 color drawings 28.0 × 22.0 cm, Softcover
UR 39.95 / USD 56.00 E 978-3-03821-564-6 English
EBOOK EUR 39.95 / USD 56.00
978-3-03821-482-3 English PRINT+EBOOK EUR 59.95 / USD 84.00
978-3-03821-514-1 English Available January 2014
Optimized structural steel systems
English
Diagrids are load-bearing structures made of steel diagonal grids. They were first used in the great buildings of the turn of the millennium, such as the Swiss Re Tower in London (“The Gherkin”) and the Hearst Magazine Tower in New York City. Dagrids owe their ensuing popularity not only to their stunning aesthetic value, but also to their very tangible benefits: lateral loading capacity, a massive saving of material, a significant gain in open, usable floor area, and increased flexibility. At its opening in 2014, the Leadenhall Building in London will be the first skyscraper without a bearing inner core — thanks to a diagrid structure.This book explains comprehensively for the first time all of the aspects
involved in this new bearing structure. The author, experienced in teaching, research, and practice (recent publication: Understanding Steel Design. An Architectural Design Manual, 2011), has tracked the development of this technology from its beginnings and employs photographic documentation of the construction phases of many diagrid structures.
An innovative structural system from concept to construction Detailed and descriptive, based on photographic accounts of building phases Enhancing the understanding of advanced architecture
MATERIALs | CONSTRUCTIOn | BIRKHÄUSER | 3
Eva Herrmann, Marcus Kaiser, Tobias Katz
SCALE: Furnish I Zone Space Concepts, Fitting-out, Materials PAGES ILLS. FORMAT
approx. 176 25 b/w, 150 in color, 200 tables 28.0 × 22.0 cm, Softcover
UR 44.95 / USD 63.00 E 978-3-0346-0742-1 English
EBOOK EUR 44.95 / USD 63.00
978-3-03821-267-6 English PRINT+EBOOK EUR 69.95 / USD 98.00
978-3-03821-268-3 English Available May 2014
Designing and constructing interiors
English
How is space shaped, what elements are employed in that process, and how are the components that shape space defined? The forth volume of the SCALE series, Furnish | Zone, treats the relationship between building typology, building structure, spatial composition, and interior architecture. It reveals how formulating the task relates to the list of requirements and explains the relationship between the shell and finishing the interior. Furnish | Zone includes an introduction to the topic of space and chapters on dressing and cladding, separating, and adapting. Structured according to interiors elements, it effectively covers all the tasks of interior architecture and provides a valuable tool for
designing everything from store fixtures to office spaces. Connections for walls, ceilings, and floors are explained in detail and supplemented by comments on selected projects. In addition, Furnish | Zone shows the potential added value of carefully considering the design of spaces, for example, in terms of materials and lighting, or by making spaces and functions flexible.
From design to construction: interior finishing in detail Comments on selected projects illustrate and provide clear explanations Comprehensively covers all the tasks of interior architecture
4 | BIRKHÄUSER | Types | Functions
Eckhard Feddersen, Insa Lüdtke (Ed.)
lost in space Architecture and Dementia PAGES ILLS. FORMAT
approx. 240 80 b/w, 320 in color 28.0 × 22.0 cm, Hardcover
UR 59.95 / USD 84.00 E 978-3-03821-500-4 English
EBOOK EUR 59.95 / USD 84.00
978-3-03821-120-4 English PRINT+EBOOK EUR 89.95 / USD 126.00
978-3-03821-124-2 English Available May 2014
How can we provide good spatial orientation for people with dementia?
English
More than 35 million people worldwide currently live with dementia, and the number will double by 2050 according to professional forecasts. This development also presents a unique challenge to architecture and urban planning, because dementia is associated with problems in orientation and, hence, is closely related to spatial contexts. How can apartments, homes, public buildings, outdoor spaces, neighborhoods, and cities, even environmental design and infrastructure be designed, in order to meet the needs of people with dementia as well as their care-givers? What significance do light, color, and acoustics have?
Questions such as these are addressed extensively in a selection of professional essays that also carve out specific requirements for various disciplines. Moreover, documentation of several international projects identifies concrete specific solution models. Therefore, this book is a useful guide to all disciplines involved in design and planning: architects, interior designers, engineers, builders, town planners, local authorities, industries but also to friends and family members.
Combines research findings with practical applications Published by the authors of the successful design manual Living for the Elderly With a contribution by Jonathan Franzen (My Father's Brain)
Types | Functions | BIRKHÄUSER | 5 Prue Chiles (Ed.), Leo Care, Howard Evans, Anna Holder, Claire Kemp
School Building Key Issues for Contemporary Design PAGES ILLS. FORMAT
approx. 224 310 b/w, 140 in color 30.0 × 23.0 cm, Hardcover
UR 69.95 / USD 98.00 E 978-3-0346-0751-3 English
EBOOK
UR 69.95 / USD 98.00 E 978-3-03821-547-9 English
PRINT+EBOOK EUR 109.95 / USD 154.00
978-3-03821-548-6 English Available May 2014
School buildings: inspiring best-practice solutions
English
For some time now, school buildings have represented an important field in architecture, and there is an enduring interest in the challenges this design task presents. This publication explains in eleven chapters the central parameters for this architectural typology: The role of the school in the community or neighborhood, questions of sustainability, flexible spaces for learning, the role of furniture, participation in the design process, learning outside the classroom, landscape design, opportunities and challenges of special schools, and the role of new pedagogical concepts. Each theme is thoroughly investigated and illustrated with numerous buildings presenting model solutions for specific problems or aspects.
New school buildings are in increasing demand Numerous international case studies demonstrate exemplary design ideas Team of authors from the University of Sheffield presenting current research
6 | BIRKHÄUSER | Architects | Buildings
Lutz Windhöfel
Architectural Guide Basel New Buildings in the Trinational City since 1980 approx. 384 500 b/w, 100 monochrome graphics FORMAT 17.0 × 12.0 cm, Softcover PAGES ILLS.
UR 32.95 / USD 46.00 E 978-3-03821-397-0 English
Available May 2014
The Architectual Guide Basel in its fourth, expanded edition
English
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 its trinational urban space in Switzerland, Germany, and France. The local stars Herzog & de Meuron and Diener & Diener have long been active internationally. And building sponsors like Vitra, Novartis, and Beyeler have commissioned – and continue to commission – buildings by Frank Gehry, Zaha Hadid, Tadao Ando, Sanaa (Kazuyo Sejima/Ryue Nishizawa), Alvaro Siza, Renzo Piano, and others.
In its fourth, expanded edition – with 44 new projects (for a total of 156) – the Architectural Guide Basel highlights the immediate present. But it also attempts to trace the development that this vital architecture scene has experienced since 1980. An entire double page is devoted to each project. The classification of the buildings by neighbourhood and zone, organized in thirteen chapters and presented in thirteen clearly laid out maps, is designed to facilitate exploration. All tram connections and addresses have been updated in the course of preparing this new edition.
More than 15'000 copies sold Fourth, expanded edition including 44 new buildings of recent years Thirteen maps make it easy to find one’s way around the city All addresses and traffic links have been fully updated
Architects | Buildings | BIRKHÄUSER | 7
Park Avenue Armory, Herzog & de Meuron, Gerhard Mack
Herzog & de Meuron Transforming Park Avenue Armory New York PAGES ILLS.
FORMAT PRINT
344 52 b/w, 733 in color, 114 monochrome graphics 33.0 × 24.0 cm, Hardcover UR 79.95 / USD 99.95 E 978-3-03821-546-2 English
Available May 2014
A leading contribution by the global Swiss architects on the current debate regarding historic structures
English
How to deal with historic buildings has long been a core issue of the international architectural discourse. Herzog & de Meuron began addressing the potential of existing structures very early on: the maintenance and alteration of buildings are among the key strategies of the architects. For the Park Avenue Armory in New York, Herzog & de Meuron have designed a new model for dealing with monuments. The historical building was opened in 1881 on the Upper East Side of Manhattan as a meeting place and training ground for the National Guard, and boasts a rich mixture of different styles. Herzog & de Meuron developed a multifaceted strategy for the transformation
of the building, now used as a cultural center, that allows for a combination of restoration, transformation, and innovation. From the exposure of historic structures to the addition of new elements, the architecture combines different aspects and gains a new vibrancy. In the current debate, this departure from the practice of historic preservation in the United States is, beyond its value as an actual example, a unique contribution that unfolds in close reference to material. It is exemplary and groundbreaking.
Explanatory texts and interviews with all involved architects Numerous plan drawings and historical photographs Extensive documentation of the restorative work and contemporary additions
8 | BIRKHÄUSER | Studies | Professional Practice
Michael Shamiyeh (Ed.)
Driving Desired Futures Turning Design Thinking into Real Innovation PAGES ILLS. FORMAT
424 450 in color 22.5 × 19.0 cm, Softcover
UR 39.95 / USD 56.00 E 978-3-03821-534-9 English
EBOOK EUR 39.95 / USD 56.00
978-3-03821-284-3 English PRINT+EBOOK EUR 59.95 / USD 84.00
978-3-03821-310-9 English Available January 2014
Incalculable design: How can ideas take root in established systems?
English
Headed by the slogan “Design Thinking,” a debate has unfolded over the last ten years about design methods, which goes far beyond the specialist boundaries of design disciplines. Executives and business owners today recognize the potential for economic innovation lying in the creative and analytical mindset of designers. The extensive literature available on “Design Thinking” focuses on the methodology of the design process, while the conditions necessary to spark innovation processes in the first place, have long remained more or less unnoticed. Driving Desired Futures starts here and asks how established innovations arise from a simple idea. What criteria are mostly likely to
be the basis from which the ideas of an individual can take hold in a social system? What are conditions, under which they can become incorporated into a diverse group of people? What topics induce managers to choose and then to invest in a specific idea? Questions such as these are pursued in international contributions by renowned experts, using the first digital camera as a case study. They identify the individual and social processes associated with the exchange and implementation of new ideas.
Analysis of innovation processes based on a well-known example: the first digital camera, which was developed by Kodak International experts from different fields analyze groundbreaking ideas and how they became established
Studies | Professional Practice | BIRKHÄUSER | 9
Bert Bielefeld (Ed.)
Basics Architectural Presentation PAGES approx. 416 ILLS. 330 b/w, 70 in color,
150 graphics, 170 tables FORMAT 22.0 × 15.0 cm, Softcover PRINT
UR 39.95 / USD 56.00 E 978-3-03821-527-1 English
Available May 2014
Also new and available as single volume:
Basics Budgeting pages FORMAT
approx. 72 22.0 × 15.0 cm, Softcover
UR 14.95 / USD 21.00 E 978-3-03821-532-5 English
Basics Freehand Drawing
From freehand drawing to architectural photography: basics of architectural presentation
English
Students of architecture are confronted at the beginning of their studies with a wealth of different ways in which to visually present their designs. Expressing ideas in the form of drawings and models is usually required in the early stages of studying: "learning by doing" is the only way for students to quickly develop a repertoire for their design work. However, there are important issues to consider between the phases of devising the spatial concept and recreating it in a twoor three-dimensional drawing or physical model: How to construct a perspective freehand drawing? What plan drawings are necessary to present my design? What scale should my model be and what materials should I use to construct it? Basics Architectural Presentation combines the highly
successful single volumes Engineering Drawing, CAD, Building Models, and Architectural Photography from the academic series BASICS with a yet to be published volume entitled Freehand Drawing. Step-by-step, it conveys possible ways to present architectural projects throughout the various project phases. In an informative and practical approach, the publication discusses the basics of architectural representation from freehand drawing, which is especially important in the design phase, to the plan drawing, model, and architecture photography. The student architect learns the tools necessary for presenting his or her work, supported by many concrete examples and practical tips that are directly applicable.
pages FORMAT
approx. 80 22.0 × 15.0 cm, Softcover
UR 14.95 / USD 21.00 E 978-3-03821-545-5 English
The study companion for architecture representation, extended to include the new volume Freehand Drawing Indispensable tool for new students Coherent educational concept
10 | BIRKHÄUSER | TheorY | History
Christian Borch (Ed.)
Architectural Atmospheres PAGES ILLS. FORMAT
approx. 112 40 in color 17.0 × 24.0 cm, Hardcover
UR 24.95 / USD 35.00 E 978-3-03821-512-7 English
EBOOK
EUR 24.95 / USD 35.00 978-3-03821-178-5 English
PRINT+EBOOK EUR 39.95 / USD 56.00
978-3-03821-206-5 English Available March 2014
An Architecture of Atmospheres
English
Architecture is increasingly understood to be a sensual, spatial experience, which means that the experience of buildings and spatial constellations is also a perception of atmospheres that are rated as positive or negative. Architects, planners, investors, and politicians must produce effects such as these according to intersubjective and communicable criteria, and not intuitively or randomly. “Architectural Atmospheres” addresses the growing awareness of the atmospheric dimension of architecture and provides a current, programmatic discussion of this topic. What possibilities does this approach open to architecture, what value does this
knowledge have? Three essays and a conversation lead a cross-discipline discussion on the impact of architecture, and contribute to the debate first initiated by Peter Zumthor. The texts are accompanied by approximately forty color images that capture architectural moods in a variety of ways.
Current knowledge on a core issue of architectural, political, economic, and public discourse With contributions by Christian Borch, Juhani Pallasmaa, Gernot Böhme, and Olafur Eliasson Approximately 40 color illustrations
Landscape Architecture | BIRKHÄUSER | 11
Hermann von Pückler-Muskau
Hints on Landscape Gardening English Edition with the Illustrations of the Atlas of 1834 PAGES ILLS. FORMAT
approx. 176 44 in color, 4 maps 24.0 × 28.0 cm, Hardcover
UR 49.95 / USD 70.00 E 978-3-03821-469-4 English
EBOOK
EUR 49.95 / USD 70.00 978-3-03821-488-5 English
PRINT+EBOOK EUR 79.95 / USD 112.00
978-3-03821-092-4 English Available February 2014
A classic in a beautiful edition
English
Park Muskau, Prince Pückler’s extraordinary nineteenth-century creation on both sides of the River Neisse, together with Hints on Landscape Gardening (Andeutungen über Landschaftsgärtnerei), his instructive 1834 treatise based on the park’s design, are as important to American landscape architects as the work and writings of Frederick Law Olmsted. This thoroughly new and authoritative edition translated by John Hargraves, with an introduction by landscape historian and Pückler authority Linda Parshall, contains the same forty-four images and four maps as the original large-format Atlas accompanying the German text. Published in collaboration with the Foundation for Land-
scape Studies, the print edition of the book shall be matched by an electronic publication that contains the illustrations in a size corresponding with the original dimensions (approx. 51 x 35 cm) of the Atlas. The page concordance in the margins of the translated text allows for a precise reference to the German original.
Im cooperation with the Foundation for Landscape Studies Adequate to the original of 1834 in text and images A textbook, a good read, a fine gift
12 | BIRKHÄUSER | Landscape Architecture
Peter Petschek
Grading LandscapingSMART 3D-Machine Control Stormwater Management PAGES ILLS. FORMAT PRINT
approx. 288 70 b/w, 10 tables 24.0 × 17.5 cm, Softcover UR 34.95 / USD 49.00 E 978-3-03821-508-0 English
Available April 2014
Grading basics
English
Grading is one the most important aspects involved in landscape architecture, and, together with planting and vegetation, the most important tool in designing landscape. Landscape architects must be able to design using contour lines, as well as rapidly develop alternatives and consider options regarding design, ecology, economy, and technology. Knowledge of grading is an indispensable prerequisite. The book explains the basic aspects of grading such as land forms, scales, interpolation, elevation points, contour lines, earth mass calculation, and also introduces the topics of slope protection systems, rainwater management, or onsite grading.In the second
edition, these basics have been updated to comprise new technologies including landscapingSMART, digital terrain modeling (DTM) and 3D machine control, as well as grading for roads and parking lots, and other terrain modeling construction machines. Numerous practical examples complement the theoretical foundations, and there is a section for exercises aimed at applying what has been learned.
The successful first edition is extended to include landscapingSMART, BIM, and 3D machine control systems Basic tool for terrain modeling Best Practice examples and exercises Foreword by Peter Walker
Landscape Architecture | BIRKHÄUSER | 13
Hans Loidl, Stefan Bernard
Open(ing) Spaces Design as Landscape Architecture PAGES ILLS. FORMAT
192 300 monochrome 23.0 × 23.0 cm, Hardcover
UR 39.95 / USD 56.00 E 978-3-03821-487-8 English
EBOOK EUR 39.95 / USD 56.00
978-3-03821-223-2 English PRINT+EBOOK EUR 59.95 / USD 84.00
978-3-03821-231-7 English Available January 2014
Reprint of the popular workbook
English
“What does the landscape architect actually do as a design?” The authors investigate this seemingly simple question: What resources are available for designing open spaces? What part is played by conditions deriving from nature? How are locations and spaces created in the open air, how are paths routed and boundaries set, how are hard and soft materials used? Drawing on practical and theoretical experience, this introduction, often used as a textbook, reveals the central components of design and the intellectual paths followed in the design process.“The book is not so much for reading but for doing. It plays with shapes, imagining how people feel in these shapes and seeing how shapes
create a different experience of landscape. Vegetation can make the relief of a hill clearer, less clear, indistinct or hidden. The authors show this by sketches illustrating the text … As an example of the way Loidl and Bernard set their readers thinking for themselves, I quote what they regard as good design: 'The paradox of a good design solution: more uniformity needs more variety.' Food for thought. Or read Open(ing) Spaces.” (Martin Woestenburg in 'scape, 2006)
A comprehensive introduction to creative design Adequate presentation in sketches by the authors An attractive tool for ideas
14 | BIRKHÄUSER | Design
Deutscher Designer Club (DDC)
Gute Gestaltung/ Good Design 14 PAGES ILLS. FORMAT
approx. 540 645 in color 19.0 × 14.0 cm, Hardcover
UR 44.95 / USD 63.00 E 978-3-03821-536-3 English / German
EBOOK EUR 44.95 / USD 63.00
978-3-03821-311-6 English / German PRINT+EBOOK EUR 69.95 / USD 98.00
978-3-03821-312-3 English / German Available June 2014
Prizewinning design 2014
English / German
Gute Gestaltung/ Good Design 14 presents prizewinning designs from all disciplines. Whether architecture, corporate design, digital media, graphic fine arts, product design, photo, or film, the works awarded prizes by the Deutscher Designer Club (DDC) in its annual Gute Gestaltung (Good Design) competition demonstrate design excellence and skillful use of form. They document the high level of quality maintained by the contributing designers and firms.
This book invites comparison, both within and between the various categories, making it a valuable and handy compendium of project assignments and creative solutions.
Up-to-date overview of prizewinning design from German-speaking countries Covers all disciplines Designs are judged by a jury consisting of experts in the field Publication by the respected Deutscher Designer Club
Design | BIRKHÄUSER | 15
Swiss Foundation Type and Typography, Heidrun Osterer, Philipp Stamm
Adrian Frutiger – Typefaces The Complete Works PAGES ILLS. FORMAT
460 620 b/w, 430 in color 31.0 × 24.5 cm, Hardcover
UR 59.95 / USD 84.00 E 978-3-03821-526-4 English
EBOOK EUR 59.95 / USD 84.00
978-3-03821-260-7 English PRINT+EBOOK EUR 89.95 / USD 126.00
978-3-03821-261-4 English Available March 2014
Now available as a study edition: The Complete Works of type designer Adrian Frutiger
English
The international creation of typefaces after 1950 was decisively influenced by the Swiss type designer Adrian Frutiger. His Univers typeface and the machine-readable font OCR-B, which was adopted as an ISO standard, are milestones, as is his type for the Paris airports, which set new standards for signage types and evolved into the Frutiger typeface. With his corporate types, he helped to define the public profiles of companies such as the Japanese Shiseido line of cosmetics. In all he created some fifty types, including Ondine, Méridien, Avenir, and Vectora.
Based on conversations with Frutiger himself and on extensive research in France, England, Germany, and Switzerland, this publication provides a highly detailed and accurate account of the type designer’s artistic development. All of his types – from the design phase to the marketing stage – are illustrated and analyzed with reference to the technology and related types. Hitherto unpublished types that were never realized and more than one hundred logos complete the picture. With this study edition Frutiger's oeuvre is finally available again.
Now available as a study edition: the reference work on Frutiger's accomplishments Extensive image material and detailed background information on the typeface canon of the Swiss designer
16 | Detail
best of Detail: GLAS / best of Detail: GLASS Transparenz versus Transluzenz / Transparency versus translucence PAGES ILLS. FORMAT
200 with numerous figures 29.7 x 21.0, Softcover
UR 49.00 / USD 69.00 E 978-3-95553-202-4 English / German
EBOOK EUR 49.00 / USD 69.00
978-3-95553-203-1 English / German PRINT+EBOOK EUR 72.50 / USD 102.00
978-3-95553-204-8 English / German Available March 2014
Glass - a fascinating material
English / German
Glass shapes architecture, offering architects scope for playing with the relationship between “inside and outside” and how people relate to space and nature. It influences interior light and warmth, offering special spatial atmospheres and views. Glass needs other materials to hold, carry and support it, so using it requires an integrative approach involving various disciplines. Good glass architecture is the result of a successful interaction between design, technology, construction and implementation. Depending on its composition, glass appears transparent or translucent, coloured or clear. Best of Detail: Glass combines highlights from DETAIL and DETAILgreen on the topic of glass, transpar-
ency and translucence. Starting with fundamental questions, the book offers a theoretical basis, details on many practically implemented projects, and plenty of inspiration and examples of successful structural solutions.
Integrative work processes for successful glass architecture Transparent experiments and material developments Glass - mediating between inside and outside, between people and nature
Ambra | 17
Anna Popelka, Georg Poduschka (Eds.)
Speaking Architecture PPAG Phenomenology/ Phänomenologie PAGES 538 ILLS. 600 FORMAT 28.5 x 23.5, Softcover PRINT
UR 48.63 / USD 68.00 E 978-3-99043-637-0 English / German
Available April 2014
Monograph on one of Austria’s most innovative architecture offices “Things can always be done even better,” is the motto of Anna Popelka and Georg Poduschka. Based on a selection of around 30 completed projects of varying sizes and types, discussed in an impressive collection of contributions, this book offers its readers an inside view of the maximized worlds PPAG architects creates.
English / German
PPAG enjoy their work and it shows: Their Enzi furniture modules and have become one of Vienna’s signature attractions, as the 215,000 participants in the yearly online color selection votings prove. The construction of the Favoriten educational campus in Vienna’s 10th district is currently underway.
It is considered a reinvention of institutional construction that meets the requirements of modern school facilities. PPAG Architects is also working on a number of specialized large-scale residential projects, a gourmet restaurant and a hotel-office-restaurant hybrid. Architecture isn’t about a stringent, recognizable style for PPAG. Instead they pursue innovation, the unknown and variety while striving to achieve more.
Monograph on the architects of the Wien Favoriten educational campus, the ENZI urban furniture of Vienna’s MuseumsQuartier, the Europan6 Wohnberg residential project and many others The projects are discussed in three interconnected sections: Projects – Compendium – Plans The volume was published as a luxury edition
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Sensuality indigital design
Technische Universität Graz
GAM 10: Intuition & the Machine [Graz Architecture Magazine] PAGES 264 ILLS. numerours in color FORMAT 27.4 × 22.6 cm, Softcover PRINT
UR 19.44 / USD 27.00 E 978-3-99043-620-2 English / German
The sensual dimension of digital construction, simulation and design methods Intuition in the dialogue between people and digital design devices The 10th issue of GAM, the architecture magazin of the TU Graz
English / German
Available April 2014
Digital media have enriched architectural production in many ways. They have created their own separate array of simulation, design and planning instruments, new fabrication and construction processes and generate new spatial experiences. This expansion of our sensual perception and its effects on our physicality and intuitively steered processes are the matter of extensive discussion in architecture when it comes to designing the surroundings of our lives in the future. In this context it becomes clear that human intuition is once again gaining importance as the counterpart to rational processes. What should we think of this tendency? Does it create the potential for a more sensual and intuitive handling of complexity in architectural design? Or is it this endorsement of intuition a flight from media technology as it continues its advance into more and more aspects of our lives? The authors of GAM.10 focus on the new forms of interaction between digital and architectural worlds of knowledge and experiences.
The best buildings in Styria 2013
Nathalie de Vries, Eva Guttmann, Haus der Architektur Graz
Architektur. Landschaft / Architecture. Landscape Architekturjahrbuch Graz Steiermark 2013 / Architecture Yearbook Graz Styria 2013 PAGES approx. 160 ILLS. 100 FORMAT 22.5 × 28.0 cm, Softcover
UR 38.86 / USD 54.00 E 978-3-99043-633-2 English / German
EBOOK EUR 38.86 / USD 54.00
English/ German
978-3-99043-641-7 English / German PRINT+EBOOK EUR 57.00 / USD 80.00
978-3-99043-642-4 English / German Available February 2014
This is the sixteenth time the Styrian Architecture Award is awarded For the third time, the winner was selected by a curator, who is also responsible for the design of the corresponding publication, instead of a jury. Nathalie de Vries, of the MVRDV architecture office in The Netherlands was chosen to be the curator of this year’s award. Her choice includes six projects of varying typologies and sizes. What these buildings in different regions of Styria have in common is their great awareness for the individual urban and suburban contexts as well the intensive, discursive process that characterized their planning and completion. This publication describes the projects and features commentaries by the architects, users and clients that accompany the expressive images both in context and detail.
Curated and conceived by Nathalie de Vries / MVRDV Includes an essay by Werner Schandor and photographs by Michael Goldgruber Edition designed by Margit Steidl
Ambra | 19
Bernhard Leitner
Saving the Wittgenstein House Vienna from Demolition A Documentation 06/1969 – 21/06/1971 PAGES ILLS. FORMAT
140 91 30.5 × 23.0 cm, Softcover
UR 34.04 / USD 48.00 E 978-3-99043-617-2 English / German
EBOOK EUR 34.04 / USD 48.00
978-3-99043-618-9 English / German PRINT+EBOOK EUR 59.95 / USD 84.00
978-3-99043-619-6 English / German Available
Ludwig Wittgenstein's Architecture – A Building as a Manifesto
English/ German
“Did you know, Logical Positivists, that the late Ludwig Wittgenstein, the Austrian philosopher who’s very in with art worldings these days, was also a one-shot architect? And that now there’s is one-man movement afoot to save the single house he designed and built in Vienna? The movement is Bernhard Leitner, a young Austrian architect, over here on a stint with the city’s Office of Midtown Planning and Development.” The New York Times, February 22, 1970.
In June 1971, the demolition of the Wittgenstein House was resolved by the City of Vienna with the authorisation of the Landmarks Preservation Office. This demolition was stopped at the last minute. It was the improbable end of a two-year rescue campaign operated from New York. Bernhard Leitner collected unique photographs as well as facsimiles of documents that illustrate the incredible odyssey that ended in the rescue of this architectural jewel.
Bernhard Leitner is considered the savior of the Wittgenstein House Letters, photos and reports document his efforts to save the building First time available as book
20 | Ambra
On research an education in architecture and Information Technology
Ludger Hovestadt, Vera Bühlmann (Ed.)
EigenArchitecture PAGES ILLS. FORMAT
208 105 28.4 × 21.5 cm, Softcover
UR 42.37 / USD 59.00 E 978-3-99043-626-4 English
EBOOK EUR 42.37 / USD 59.00
978-3-99043-627-1 English PRINT+EBOOK EUR 69.00 / USD 98.00
978-3-99043-628-8 English
On resaerch and education in architecture and information technology Re-reading of George Boole, Richard Dedekind, Hermann Grassmann and Bernhard Riemann Arguing for a literacy of the digital
English
Available December 2013
This book shifts the frame of reference for today’s network- and structure oriented discussions from the applied computational tools of the 20th century back to the abstractness of 19th century mathematics. It re-reads George Boole, Richard Dedekind, Hermann Grassmann and Bernhard Riemann in a surprising manner. EigenArchitecture argues for a literacy of the digital, displacing the role of geometrical craftsmanship. Thus, architecture can be liberated from today’s economical, technocratic and bureaucratic straight jackets: from physicalistic optimization, sociological balancing, and ideological naturalizations. The book comprises a programmatic text on the role of technology in architecture, a philosophical text on the generic and on algebraic articulation, and six exemplary projects by postgraduate students in 2012 at the Chair for Computer Aided Architectural Design at ETH Zurich, Switzerland.
Excellent Design from Austria: Staatspreis 2013
designaustria, Bundesministerium für Wirtschaft, Familie und Jugend, Austria Wirtschaftsservice GmbH (Ed.)
Staatspreis Design 2013 Projekte der Preisträgerinnen und Preisträger zum Staatspreis Design & Sonderpreis DesignConcepts • Winning Projects in the Austrian National Design Prize & Design Concepts Award PAGES ILLS. FORMAT
96 186 24.0 × 23.5 cm, Hardcover
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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 goods, investment goods and spatial design that Austrian companies and/or designers have participated in. An additional category, the special DesignConcepts award for innovative design ideas was created for concepts that have particular market relevance and offer a high potential for realization. Entries included products in serial production and those available on the market as well as spatial design concepts that have already been realized. The independent panel of experts selected the four national award winners and recognition award winners from among 166 top-flight submissions. This volume compiles the results of the competition and offers the reader brief descriptions of the products as well as complete contact information of the clients and designers.
Documentation of the competition with brief introductions of each product Contact information of the clients and designers
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Franz Schuh (Ed.)
Nita Tandon Dimensions of the Surface. Dimensionen der Oberfläche. [Edition Angewandte – Book Series of the University of Applied Arts Vienna] PAGES ILLS. FORMAT
144 approx. 300 in color 25.0 × 23.0 cm, Hardcover
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Available April 2014
A Comprehensive overview of the rich, multi-layered, cross-media oeuvre
English
“Dimensions of the Surface / Dimensionen der Oberfläche” is a comprehensive documentation of the work of the Indian-born artist Nita Tandon, who lives in Vienna. Paintings, drawings, objects and documentations of temporary installations and performances with German and English written commentaries give readers an overview of the formal breadth of the artist’s work. Nita Tandon’s themes cover the problems of identity and space in the digital age. The many layers of her work and her cross-media approach reach beyond the limits of one-dimensional interpretation attempts. The works documented in this publication have been shown in Austria and abroad. This range of projects
is both a complete spectrum of the artist's work, while also offering glimpses of cyles that have yet to be completed.
The constructed, virtual space. Identity and its erasing Linear and non-linear structure Painting between two dimensions and three dimensions Visualization of language and space
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New approaches to arts education
Stephan Hilge, Roman Pfeffer, Nita Tandon (Eds.)
TransArts [Edition Angewandte – Book Series of the University of Applied Arts Vienna] PAGES ILLS. FORMAT
176 160 in color 20.0 × 15.0 cm, Hardcover
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TransArts is a novel approach in the art Innovative Study Program education system, a course whose content and forms are adapted to the dynamics of Innovative Design Concept art today: the separation of the theory and practice of art – while maintaining all the Contributions by well known authors differences – is seen as arbitrary and even obsolete. TransArts teaches the common and distinctive features of theory and practice TransArts_Katalog_Mo27_TransArts 28.05.13 00:09 Seite 118 and takes account of the fact that different artistic disciplines are mutually dependent and reinforcing but are also in competition with one another. Art is taught and studied not only through traditional forms of teaching but in particular through communication, inventiveness, reflection and the exchange of ideas between teachers and students. This publication documents the activities of TransArts from 2010 to 2013. (Gerald Bast)
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Introduction into the concept “Thought Machines”
Jan Svenungsson (Ed.)
Thought Machines The manual to an international exhibition [Edition Angewandte – Book Series of the University of Applied Arts Vienna] PAGES ILLS. FORMAT
76 53 in color 23.0 × 17.0 cm, Softcover
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Organized by the department for Graphics & Printmaking at the University of Applied Arts Vienna, the exhibition “Thought Machines” includes student work from Vienna as well as from the Hungarian University of Fine Arts, Budapest; the Academy of Fine Arts and Design, Bratislava; the Academy of Visual Arts, Leipzig and the Royal College of Art, London. All participants in the exhibition share a platform in being students of printmaking. From this point of departure they develop projects which inhabit the whole range of contemporary art-making possibilities. What binds these projects together is that they all address the concept of “Thought Machines” which is discussed by Jan Svenungsson in an introductory text.
An investigation into the potentiality of printmaking as a point of departure for radical contemporary art making An opportunity for comparison and exchange between top of the line art education institutions
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Georg Glaeser
Nature and Numbers A Mathematical Photo Shooting [Edition Angewandte – Book Series of the University of Applied Arts Vienna] PAGES ILLS. FORMAT
376 approx. 700 in color 22.5 × 19.0 cm, Softcover
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Mathematicians with special interest in biology, physics, geography, astronomy, architecture, design, etc., and being prepared to take pictures at any time, might try to answer unusual questions like the followings: What do a zebra, a tiger shark, and a hard coral have in common? How is this with drying mud, wings of dragon flies, and the structures of leaves? What is the “snail king” and is there also a “worm king”? Which curves stay of the same type after being photographed? Do fishes see like we do if we look through a fisheye lens? Which geometric properties of an object have physical consequences? Which kinds of geometric patterns appear when waves are interfering? In this book you
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Houses. Denton Corker Marshall Haig Beck, Jackie Cooper, Deyan Sudjic; Tim Griffith (photography) 2013. 164 pages. 27.0 × 36.0. Hardcover. 10 b/w, 70 color ills. PRINT EUR 39.95 / USD 50.00 978-3-03821-848-7 English
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Tony Fretton Architects Buildings and their T erritories Tony Fretton 2013. 260 pages. 29.0 × 29.0 cm. Hardcover. 80 b/w, 200 color ills., 80 monochrome drawings.
Kuwabara Payne McKenna Blumberg Architects George Baird, Thomas Fisher, Mark Kingwell, Mirko Zardini
Herzog & de Meuron
1992-1996, Volume 3
The Complete Works, Gerhard Mack
2005. 303 pages. 24.0 × 33.0 cm. Hardcover. 215 b/w, 224 color ills., 213 drawings.
1978-1988, Volume 1
2013. 280 pages. 21.0 × 29.5 cm. Hardcover. 39 b/w, 191 color ills., 57 drawings.
1997. 238 pages. 24.0 × 33.0 cm. Hardcover. 331 b/w, 230 color ills.
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PRINT EUR 49.95 / USD 70.00 978-3-0346-0828-2 English
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1989-1991, Volume 2 2005. 211 pages. 24.0 × 33.0 cm. Hardcover. 70 b/w, 140 color ills., 291 drawings. PRINT EUR 119.95 / USD 168.00 978-3-7643-7365-8 English / German
Le Corbusier - Complete Works in 8 volumes Willy Boesiger, Oscar Stonorov, Max Bill (Eds.) 1995. 1708 pp. 29.0 × 23.5 cm, Hardcover. PRINT 8 - Volume set, boxed EUR 609.95 / USD 854.00 978-3-7643-5515-9 French / English / German
Sacred Concrete The Churches of Le Corbusier Flora Samuel, Inge Linder-Gaillard
Richter • Dahl Rocha & Associés 2013. 416 pages. 24.0 × 28.0 cm, Hardcover. 250 b/w-, 400 color ills., 400 drawings. PRINT EUR 69.95 / USD 99.00 978-3-03821-581-3 English ebook EUR 69.95 / USD 98.00 978-3-03821-016-0 English PRINT + Ebook EUR 109.95 / USD 154.00 978-3-03821-017-7 English
Carsten Krohn
2013. 232 pages. 21.0 × 27.0 cm. Hardcover. 120 b/w, 70 color ills., 120 drawings.
2014. 240 pages. 24.0 × 33.0 cm. Hardcover. 120 b/w, 280 color ills.
PRINT EUR 59.95 / USD 84.00 978-3-0346-0823-7 English
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Toward an Integral Practice of Architecture
Mies van der Rohe The Built Work
PRINT+EBOOK EUR 109.95 / USD 154.00 978-3-03821-288-1 English
Oscar Niemeyer A Legend of Modernism 2nd revised edition Paul Andreas, Ingeborg Flagge (Eds.) 2013. 143 pages. 22.0 × 28.0 cm. Softcover. 26 color-, 4 b/w ills., 19 drawings. PRINT EUR 36.95 / USD 52.00 978-3-03821-448-9 English / German EBOOK EUR 36.95 / USD 52.00 978-3-03821-082-5 English / German
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1997-2001, Volume 4 2008. 352 pages. 24.0 × 33.0 cm. Hardcover. 500 b/w, 1500 color ills. PRINT EUR 119.95 / USD 168.00 978-3-7643-8640-5 English
Pelli Clarke Pelli Architects Michael C. Crosbie 2013. 304 pages. 25.0 × 29.0 cm. Hardcover. 27 b/w, 400 color ills., 80 drawings. PRINT EUR 59.95 / USD 84.00 978-3-0346-0825-1 English ebook EUR 59.95 / USD 84.00 978-3-0346-0870-1 English PRINT+Ebook EUR 89.95 / USD 126.00 978-3-0346-0871-8 English
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Thinking Architecture
Atmospheres
Constructing Architecture
Scale: Open | Close
3rd, expanded edition Peter Zumthor
Architectural Environments Surrounding Objects Peter Zumthor
Materials, Processes, Structures Andrea Deplazes (Ed.)
2010. 112 pages. 14.6 × 23.5 cm. Hardcover. 20 colour ills.
2006. 75 pages. 17.0 × 24.0 cm. Hardcover. 14 b/w, 19 color ills.
Windows, Doors, Gates, Loggias, Filters Anette Hochberg, Jan-Henrik Hafke, Joachim Raab
PRINT EUR 32.95 / USD 46.00 978-3-0346-0585-4 English 978-3-0346-0582-3 French
PRINT EUR 32.95 / USD 46.00 978-3-7643-7495-2 English 978-3-7643-8841-6 French
2013. 588 pages. 24.0 × 29.7 cm. 1740 b/w ills. PRINT EUR 89.95 / USD 126.00 978-3-03821-451-9 English, Hardcover EUR 54.95 / USD 77.00 978-3-03821-452-6 English, Softcover 978-3-03821-453-3 French, Softcover
2010. 176 pages. 22.0 × 28.0 cm. Softcover. 217 b/w, 140 color ills., 29 tables. PRINT EUR 44.95 / USD 63.00 978-3-7643-9961-0 English
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Scale: Heat | Cool
Scale: Support I Materialise
Drawn to Design
Digital Workflows in Architecture
Cut & Compose
Energy Concepts, Principles, Installations Manfred Hegger, Joost Hartwig, Michael Keller
Columus, Walls, Floors Henning Baurmann, Jan Dilling, Claudia Euler, Julius Niederwöhrmeier
Analyzing Architecture Through Freehand Drawing Eric J. Jenkins
Design – Assembly – Industry Scott Marble
Toolbox for Visualizations in Architecture and Design Thomas Kruppa, Achim Bursch
2012. 160 pages. 22.0 × 28.0 cm. Softcover. 25 b/w, 150 color ills., 200 drawings PRINT EUR 44.95 / USD 64.95 978-3-0346-0513-7 English
2013. 176 pages. 22.0 × 28.0 cm. Softcover. 100 b/w, 150 color ills. PRINT EUR 44.95 / USD 63.00 978-3-0346-0040-8 English EBOOK EUR 44.95 / USD 63.00 978-3-0346-1577-8 English PRINT+EBOOK EUR 69.95 / USD 98.00 978-3-0346-1578-5 English
Product Development and Architecture
2012. 304 pages. 21.0 × 29.7 cm. Softcover. 100 b/w ills., 450 drawings PRINT EUR 39.95 / USD 54.95 978-3-0346-0798-8 English EBOOK EUR 39.95 / USD 54.95 978-3-0346-1096-4 English PRINT+EBOOK EUR 59.95 / USD 84.00 978-3-03821-789-3 English
2012. 288 pages. 22.0 × 28.0 cm. Hardcover. 300 color ills., 200 drawings. PRINT EUR 69.95 / USD 99.95 978-3-0346-0799-5 English EBOOK EUR 69.95 / USD 99.95 978-3-0346-1217-3 English PRINT+EBOOK EUR 109.95 / USD 154.00 978-3-03821-255-3 English
Understanding Steel Design
Building with Bamboo
Visions, Methods, Innovations Uta Pottgiesser, Holger Strauß (Eds.)
A Handbook Gerhard Hausladen, Petra Liedl, Michael de Saldanha
An Architecture Design Manual Terri Meyer Boake with technical illustrations by Vincent Hui
Design and Technology of a Sustainable Architecture Gernot Minke
2013. 184 pages. 22.0 × 28.0 cm. Softcover. 200 color ills., 150 drawings.
2012. 176 pages. 22.0 × 28.0 cm. Hardcover. 100 drawings.
2011. 248 pages. 23.0 × 30.0 cm. Hardcover. 600 color ills., 100 drawings
2012. 160 pages. 22.0 × 28.0 cm. Softcover. 120 b/w, 485 color ills., 80 drawings
PRINT EUR 44.95 / USD 63.00 978-3-0346-0841-1 English
PRINT EUR 49.95 / USD 69.95 978-3-0346-0728-5 English
PRINT EUR 69.95 / USD 99.95 978-3-0346-0269-3 English
PRINT EUR 49.95 / USD 69.95 978-3-0346-0748-3 English
EBOOK EUR 44.95 / USD 63.00 978-3-0346-0882-4 English
ebook EUR 49.95 / USD 69.95 978-3-0346-0878-7 English
EBOOK EUR 69.95 / USD 99.95 978-3-0346-1048-3 English
EBOOK EUR 49.95 / USD 69.95 978-3-0346-1178-7 English
PRINT+EBOOK EUR 69.95 / USD 98.00 978-3-0346-0883-1 English
PRINT+ebook EUR 79.95 / USD 112.00 978-3-03821-074-0 English
PRINT+EBOOK EUR 109.95 / USD 154.00 978-3-03821-163-1 English
PRINT+EBOOK EUR 79.95 / USD 112.00 978-3-03821-235-5 English
Wood and Wood Joints
128 Colors
Rural Urban Framework
René Motro (Ed.)
Building Traditions of Europe, Japan and China Klaus Zwerger
A Sample Book for Architects, Conservators and Designers Katrin Trautwein
Transforming the Chinese Countryside Joshua Bolchover, John Lin
2013. 232 pages. 22.0 × 28.0 cm. Hardcover. 200 b/w, 300 color ills.
2012. 304 pages. 23.0 × 30.0 cm. Hardcover. 680 b/w ills., 180 drawings.
2010. 296 pages. 22.6 × 28.1 cm. Hardcover. 128 color ills.
2013. 192 pages. 17.0 × 24.0 cm. Softcover. 150 b/w, 200 color ills.
PRINT EUR 49.95 / USD 70.00 978-3-7643-8972-7 English 978-3-0346-0709-4 French
PRINT EUR 49.95 / USD 69.95 978-3-0346-0685-1 English
PRINT EUR 74.95 / USD 105.00 978-3-0346-0317-1 English
PRINT EUR 29.95 / USD 42.00 978-3-03821-449-6 English
EBOOK EUR 49.95 / USD 70.00 978-3-0346-1350-7 English 978-3-0346-0709-4 French Print+BOOK EUR 79.95 / USD 112.00 978-3-0346-1381-1 English 978-3-0346-1343-9 French
PRINT EUR 69.95 / USD 89.95 978-3-0346-0817-6 English / German EBOOK EUR 69.95 / USD 89.95 978-3-0346-1092-6 English / German PRINT+EBOOK EUR 109.95 / USD 154.00 978-3-03821-801-2 English / German
Epub EUR 39.95 / USD 54.95 978-3-03821-192-1 English
Building to Suit the Climate
Flexible Composite Materials in Achitecture, Construction and Interiors
2013. 272 pages. 22.0 × 28.0 cm. Hardcover. 800 b/w, 580 color ills.
EBOOK EUR 49.95 / USD 69.95 978-3-0346-1267-8 English
EBOOK EUR 29.95 / USD 42.00 978-3-03821-060-3 English
PRINT+EBOOK EUR 79.95 / USD 112.00 978-3-03821-256-0 English
PRINT+EBOOK EUR 49.95 / USD 70.00 978-3-03821-061-0 English
Building with Earth Design and Technology of a Sustainable Architecture Third and revised edition Gernot Minke 2012. 208 pages. 22.0 × 28.0 cm. Softcover. 496 b/w, 90 color ills. PRINT EUR 44.95 / USD 64.95 978-3-0346-0822-0 English EBOOK EUR 44.95 / USD 64.95 978-3-0346-0872-5 English PRINT+EBOOK EUR 69.95 / USD 98.00 978-3-0346-0873-2 English
Small Town Sustainability 2nd, revised and enlarged edition Paul Knox, Heike Mayer 2013. 208 pages. 17.0 × 24.0 cm. Softcover. 20 b/w, 202 color ills. PRINT EUR 29.95 / USD 42.00 978-3-03821-251-5 English EBOOK EUR 29.95 / USD 42.00 978-3-03821-028-3 English PRINT+EBOOK EUR 49.95 / USD 70.00 978-3-03821-031-3 English
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Designing Cities
Basics Architectural Design
Basics, Principles, Projects Leonhard Schenk
Bert Bielefeld (Ed.)
2013. 356 pages. 17.0 × 24.0 cm. Hardcover. 90 b/w, 720 color ills. PRINT EUR 49.95 / USD 70.00 978-3-0346-1325-5 English
2013. 328 pages. 15.5 × 22.0 cm. Softcover. 250 b/w ills., 130 drawings. PRINT EUR 29.95 / USD 42.00 978-3-03821-560-8 English
Basics Project Management Architecture
Fundamental Concepts of Architecture
Bert Bielefeld (Ed.)
The Vocabulary of Spatial Situations Alban Janson, Florian Tigges
Oliver Heckmann, Friederike Schneider (Eds.) 4th, expanded edition
2013. 400 pages. 16.0 × 24.0 cm. Softcover. 130 drawings.
2011. 336 pages. 24.0 × 33.0 cm. 218 b/w ills., 1100 drawings and plans.
PRINT EUR 39.95 / USD 56.00 978-3-0346-1261-6 English
PRINT EUR 79.90/ USD 112.00 978-3-0346-0707-0 English, Hardcover EUR 59.90 / USD 84.00 978-3-0346-0708-7 English, Softcover 978-3-7643-8235-3 French / Italian, Softcover
2013. 416 pages. 15.5 × 22.0 cm. Softcover. 150 monochrome drawings. 170 tables. PRINT EUR 39.95 / USD 56.00 978-3-03821-462-5 English
EBOOK EUR 39.95 / USD 56.00 978-3-0346-0892-3 English PRINT+EBOOK EUR 59.95 / USD 84.00 978-3-0346-0893-0 English
Floor Plan Manual Housing
EBOOK EUR 59.90/ USD 84.00 978-3-0346-1040-7 English PRINT+EBOOK EUR 89.95 / USD 126.00 978-3-03821-155-6 English
typology+
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Future Living
Where Architects Work
Material Revolution
Innovative Residential Architecture Peter Ebner, Eva Herrmann, Roman Höllbacher, Markus Kuntscher, Ulrike Wietzorrek
Treshhold, Access and Transparency in Residential Buildings Ulrike Wietzorrek
Community Living in Japan Claudia Hildner
Nils Ballhausen (Ed.)
Sustainable and Multi-Purpose Materials for Design and Architecture Sascha Peters
2009. 432 pages. 23.7 × 31.5 cm. Hardcover. 442 b/w, 340 color ills. PRINT EUR 79.95 / USD 112.00 978-3-0346-0087-3 English
2013. 424 pages. 23.2 × 31.0 cm. Hardcover. 350 b/w, 350 color ills. PRINT EUR 69.95 / USD 98.00 978-3-0346-0614-1 English
2013. 160 pages. 16.5 × 24.0 cm. Softcover. 10 b/w, 200 color ills., 80 drawings. PRINT EUR 39.95 / USD 56.00 978-3-03821-668-1 English EBOOK EUR 39.95 / USD 56.00 978-3-03821-022-1 English PRINT+EBOOK EUR 59.95 / USD 84.00 978-3-03821-023-8 English
2013. 256 pages. 16.5 × 24.0 cm. Softcover. 160 color ills., 76 drawings. PRINT EUR 39.95 / USD 56.00 978-3-03821-412-0 English / German EBOOK EUR 39.95 / USD 56.00 978-3-03821-054-2 English / German
2011. 208 pages. 23.0 × 28.5 cm. Hardcover. 53 b/w, 400 color ills., 22 tables. PRINT EUR 59.95 / USD 84.95 978-3-0346-0663-9 English EBOOK EUR 59.95 / USD 84.95 978-3-0346-1077-3 English
PRINT+EBOOK EUR 59.95 / USD 84.00 978-3-03821-055-9 English / German
PRINT+EBOOK EUR 89.95 / USD 126.00 978-3-03821-194-5 English
Living for the Elderly
Project Scope: Exhibition Design
A Deisgn Manual Eckhard Feddersen, Insa Lüdtke
A Typology for Architects, Designers and Museum Professionals Aurelia Bertron, Ulrich Schwarz, Claudia Frey
SaScha PeterS
MATERIAL REVOLUTION II NEw SUSTAINAbLE ANd MULTIpURpOSE MATERIALS fOR dESIgN ANd ARchITEcTURE
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Material Revolution II
Materiology
Designing Interior Architecture
New Sustainable and Multi-Purpose Material for Design and Architecture Sascha Peters
The Creative's Guide to Materials and Technologies Daniel Kula, Élodie Ternaux, Quentin Hirsinger, FRAME
Concept, Typology, Material, Construction Sylvia Leydecker (Ed.)
2013. 224 pages. 450 color ills., 35 drawings PRINT EUR 59.95 / USD 84.00 978-3-03821-476-2 English EBOOK EUR 59.95 / USD 84.00 978-3-03821-002-3 English PRINT+EBOOK EUR 89.95 / USD 126.00 978-3-03821-033-0 English
2013. 384 pages. 29.5 × 20.0 cm. Softcover. 300 color ills. PRINT EUR 49.95 / USD 70.00 978-3-03821-254-6 English 978-3-0346-0819-0 French EBOOK EUR 49.95 / USD 70.00 978-3-03821-080-1 English PRINT+EBOOK EUR 79.95 / USD 112.00 978-3-03821-081-8 English
2013. 368 pages. 24.0 × 29.7 cm. 700 color ills., 100 drawings. Print EUR 89.95 / USD 126.00 978-3-0346-0680-6 English, Hardcover EUR 49.95 / USD 70.00 978-3-0346-1302-6 English, Softcover EBOOK EUR 89.95 / USD 126.00 978-3-0346-1580-8 English PRINT+EBOOK EUR 139.95 / USD 196.00 978-3-0346-1583-9 English
2012. 248 pages. 24.0 × 33.0 cm PRINT EUR 94.95 / USD 133.00 978-3-7643-8871-3 English, Hardcover EUR 49.95 / USD 74.85 978-3-0346-0107-8 English, Softcover EBOOK EUR 94.95 / USD 74.00 978-3-0346-0896-1 English PRINT+EBOOK EUR 149.95 / USD 210.00 978-3-03821-778-7 English
2012. 416 pages. 16.5 × 24.0 cm. Hardcover. 500 color ills., 50 monochrome drawings. PRINT EUR 49.95 / USD 69.95 978-3-0346-0775-9 English / German EBOOK EUR 49.95 / USD 69.95 978-3-0346-1051-3 English / German PRINT+EBOOK EUR 79.95 / USD 112.00 978-3-03821-166-2 English / German
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Manuscript
Become a Successful Designer
Design Dictionary
Mapping Design Research
Encyclopaedia of Experimental Print Finishing Franziska Morlok, Till Beckmann
Essentials for the Everyday Use of Interior Architects and Designers Axel Müller-Schöll 2nd, extended and revised edition
Protect and Manage Your Design Rights Internationally Joachim Kobuss, Alexander Bretz, Arian Hassani
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Urban design is based on planning and design principles that need to meet functional demands on the one hand, but on the other hand bring the design elements together into a distinctive whole. Although designs are almost always dominated by the spirit of the times, the basic compositional principles are, for the most part, timeless. Designing Cities examines the most important design and presentation principles of urban design, using selected historical examples and contemporary international competition entries designed by practices including Foster + Partners, KCAP Architects & Planners, MVRDV, and OMA.
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