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  • HOUSE IS A HOUSE IS A HOUSE IS A HOUSE IS A HOUSE
    RETO GEISER
    This book brings together the work of the Los Angeles based architectural workshop Johnston Marklee since its founding in 1998. The firm's work is recognized internationally for its engagement with contemporary art practices while being deeply rooted in the history and foundations of the discipline. A comprehensive list of work illustrated with small photographs and diagrams wi...

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  • STYRIA MEDIA CENTER GRAZ
    EIBLMAYR, JUDITH
    The spectacular office tower Styria Media Center, designed by architects Hermann Eisenkock and Herfried Peyker (ArchitekturConsult), opened in 2015. The heart of the building is a large integrated newsroom with an area of 3,200 m2. The building will form a new urban landmark for the city of Graz and beyond. The book documents the design and construction process of this exceptio...

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  • THRESHOLD SPACES
    TILL BOETTGER
    What is a threshold space? A prelude, an intermediate space, a barrier? Inside or outside? The threshold space is all of these, usually even at the same time. He lives on the spatial ambivalence between opening and closing and at the same time creates the expectation of what is to come. Till Boettger has dealt in teaching and research projects closely with the architectural sta...

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  • BUILDING FROM WASTE
    Aconceptual and practical look into materials and products which use waste as a renewable resource for architectural, interior, and industrial design. The inventory ranges from marketed products to advanced research and development, organized along the manufacturing processes: densified, reconfigured, transformed, designed and cultivated materials.A product directory presents a...

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  • TRANSFORMING PARK AVENUE ARMORY NEW YORK
    HERZOG & DE MEURON
    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 mode...

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  • OPENING SPACES. DESIGN AS LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE
    LOIDL, HANS / BERNARD, STEFAN
    This reprint of the book 'Opening Spaces. Design as Landscape Architecture' reveals how concepts such as order and chaos, way and goal, intention and reaction form the basis for landscape design, just as they do in architecture.The art of designing both unites and divides landscape architecture and architecture. Despite having a long tradition, landscape architecture has lacked...

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  • TOWARD AN INTEGRAL PRACTICE OF ARCHITECTURE
    RICHTER DAHL ROCHA & ASSOCIÉS
    The task of design is to integrate functional requirements, contextual conditions and technological means into the creation of a work of architectural culture. After twenty years of practice, a team involving Ignacio Dahl Rocha, Kenneth Ross, Christian Leibbrand, Manuela Toscan and others of the Lausanne-based Swiss office of Richter ? Dahl Rocha & Associés has undertaken to fo...

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  • URBAN INTENSITIES: CONTEMPORARY HOUSING TYPES AND TERRITORIES
    PETER G. ROWE, HAR YE KAN
    This book combines the architectural and urban scales to demonstrate that urban intensity determines the success of housing. The authors provide a typology of housing according to the ways in which diversity and density are created. Comparisons with historical models and critical appraisals based on the authors' unique standing give information on the pros and cons of major typ...

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  • INT AR INTERVENTIONS AND ADAPTIVE REUSE. DIFFICULT MEMORIES RECONCILING MEANING
    BERGER, MARCUS / WONG, LILIANE
    Int AR is a yearly publication on current issues in international adaptive reuse and interior architecture. Int AR looks at interior architecture as one of the professions that shape our built environment. This volume on buildings with a difficult history that are to become memorial places deals with trauma, narration and recollection in adaptive reuse projects. ...

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  • DIGITAL WORKFLOWS IN ARCHITECTURE
    SCOTT MARBLE
    The assimilation and synthesis of digital communications among architects, engineers, fabricators and builders is dramatically altering how we work and our relationship to the tools we use. New digital capacities are restructuring the organization and hierarchy of design from autonomous processes to collective workflows. The historical role of the designer as an author, a sole ...

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  • PALIMPSESTS: BIOGRAPHIES OF 50 CITY DISTRICTS
    KNOX, PAUL
    in-situ studies present 50 especially significant city districts from the whole of Europe in words and pictures. His field research focuses on typologically outstanding city districts that have developed a high degree of individualityCities are the symbiosis of diverse districts: the smaller units serve to provide an important identity function: business centers and amusement d...

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  • URBAN RESET: HOW TO ACTIVE IMMANENT POTENCIALS OF URBAN SPACES
    EISINGER, ANGELUS
    In recet years and decades, dealing with the architectural legacy of the industrial age has beeb an increasingly common task for urban planning: industrial buildings and sites, infrastructure, and residential areass that have become vacant lots as a result of structural transformation cannot, if only because of their dimensions, be ignored within the urban space. Innovative rei...

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  • SCHROPFER. MATERIAL DESIGN
    The approach of Informing Architecture by Materiality opens the way to an innovative use of materials in the design professions. Taking material qualities and properties such as texture, elasticity, transparency and fluidity as a point of departure, the concept described and employed here transcends the conventional definitions of building materials. Instead, the focus is on a ...

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  • MY DESK IS MY CASTLE
    BRANDES, UTA / ERLHOFF, MICAHEL
    The desk is a place of work and of action, but it also serves as a place to exhibit personal things and preferences. Thus it always characterizes in two ways a material and symbolic unity. The desk is not only very informative in itself, but also must always be studied and understood in the context of its cultural, gender-specific, and field-related surroundings. The focus of t...

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  • OLD & NEW DESIGN MANUAL FOR REVITALIZING EXISTING BUILDINGS
    PETER JAGER, FRANK
    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 skillful reuse and transformation of existing building stock, whether it be the redevelopment of historic city centers, the building of extensions onto residential structures, the expansion of public buildings, or the redevelopment of...

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  • BUILDING WITH WATER. CONCEPTS TYPOLOGY DESIGN
    RYAN, ZOË
    Water has been an important topic in architecture and urban planning for years. The revitalization of the waterfront has been a prevalent trend in cities around the world. On the other hand, architecture also had to respond to the threat of floods.The theme of Building with Water is the use of water in architecture. It presents buildings that explicitly refer to water in their ...

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  • BASICS BARRIER-FREE PLANNING
    SKIBA, ISABELLA
    Buildings are not conceived solely with average people in mind; they offer a protective shell for everyone. Basics Barrier-free Planning improves our understanding of the needs of people with disabilities such as limited mobility or impaired vision, children, and the elderly, all of whom have special requirements when using a building. The book presents possibilities for design...

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  • BASICS CLIMATISATION
    OLIVER KLEIN / JÖRG SCHLENGER
    La sensation de confort dans des espaces clos est fonction de la température, du degré dâhumidité et de lâalimentation en air frais. Selon lâutilisation et les conditions climatiques, il faut recourir à des systèmes dâune complexité plus ou moins grande. Basics Climatisation des locaux facilite la compréhension de ces corrélations et explique, schémas à lâappui, les différents ...

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  • BASICS GLASS CONSTRUCTION
    ANDREAS ACHILLES / DIANE NAVRATIL
    Glass Construction is one of the most varied and innovative areas of structural design. Glass connects exterior and interior spaces; at the same time, it protects the interior space from the outside world. Its constructional possibilities go far beyond classical window constructions. Special glasses possess astonishing physical characteristics and can thus be used in varied and...

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  • BASICS WATER CYCLES
    DORIS HAAS-ARNDT
    The integration of building services is an important aspect of architectural planning. The conceptual design of supply systems and cycles within the building demands a solid grasp of the relationships that underpin the supply and disposal of the element water. The focus here is on relations among the individual elements of the cycle, from the supply of drinking water, consumers...

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  • SMART SURFACES - AND THEIR APPLICATION IN ARCHITECTURE AND DESIGN
    KLOOSTER,THORSTEN
    Whether luminous wallpaper, curtains that produce electricity, or self-cleaning windowpanes, more than ever before innovations in surface technologies are influencing and will continue to revolutionize the use of materials in architecture, interior design, and design.The new smart surfaces expand considerably design possibilities for architects and designers. Their use leads to...

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  • HIDDEN FORMS. SEEING AND UNDERSTANDING THINGS
    The book Hidden Forms uses examples from Franco Clivio s collection of objects to reveal clearly and yet poetically the hidden qualities that require a practiced gaze. Working with ordinary, everyday, practical, seemingly design(er)less objects has been Franco Clivio s obsession both as a university lecturer and as a practicing designer. Each object in the collection stands for...

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  • ACCESS FOR ALL: APPROACHES TO THE BUILT ENVIRONMENT.
    CHRIST, WOLFGANG
    Access and accessibility are central themes in architecture and urbanism. The goal is to make buildings accessible both horizontally and vertically, as well as to provide them with technical infrastructure. But the aim is also to ensure the accessibility of whole streets, routes, parks, and squares, and even entire cities and regions. Today, access is a key concept in the most ...

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  • VISITS. TOWN AND TERRITORY ARCHITECTURE IN DIALOGUE
    CHEMETOFF, ALEXANDRE
    The French landscape architect, city planner, and architect Alexandre Chemetoff (b. 1950) achieved international renown for his "Jardin de Bambou" at the Parc de la Villette in Paris and his design of a park in Villejuif. Visits takes a close-up look at his work of the last fifteen years, not, however, in the form of a traditional monograph. Instead, Chemetoff visits the sites ...

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  • BEYOND MODERNIST MASTERS. CONTEMPORARY ARCHITECTURE IN LATIN AMERICA
    HERNÁNDEZ, FELIPE
    Latin America has been an important place for architecture for many decades. Masters like Barragán, Dieste, Lina Bo Bardi, and Niemeyer pointed the way for architectural design all over the world, and they continue to do so today. Their approach to colors, materials, and walls had a deep and lasting influence on architectural modernism. Since then, however and especially in th...

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  • OPEN I CLOSE
    JAN-HENDRIK HAFKE
    The new Scale series provides practical tools for architects and students of architecture. /P P Each volume analyses the construction process from the first design idea to the call for bids, covering the fundamental design principles and concrete details. The series title, Scale, signifies that the perfect detail is the result of a process through various levels of conception a...

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  • ARCHITECTURE. A SYNOPTIC VISION
    There are numerous reference works on the development of architecture in the twentieth century, but none of them presents the networklike connections and effects of those developments with the astonishing concision of Architecture in the 20th Century - A Synopsis. In an overview diagram, the various different movements, together with their associated major figures and structure...

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  • PLANETARY GARDENS
    ROCCA, ALESSANDRO
    Gilles Clément confronts the homogenizing effects of globalization with the diversity of life. As a trained gardener, he places our current knowledge of plant utilization and ecology in the service of the "planetary garden," in which plant species from a tremendous variety of cultures are collected, composed, and carefully overseen in their development by the landscape designe...

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  • BASICS URBAN BUILDING BLOCKS
    BURKLIN, THORSTEN / PETEREK, MICHAEL
    Our cities and neighborhoods are composed of Urban Building Blocks and a knowledge of these elementary components is part of the basic equipment of city planning. It is absolutely essential for urban design that one understands their form and structure, their functional conditions, and the differentiation into private and public spheres, as well as the ways they are networked i...

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  • MOSAICS WEST 8
    Rotterdam's West 8 is one of the leading urban landscape design ?rms working in Europe today. They have worked in close collaboration with architects Steven Holl, Rem Koolhaas, Renzo Piano, and many others. The new monograph West 8 presents provocative projects characterized by their willingness to engage with popular culture. Included are classics such as Chiswick Park in Lond...

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