Böcker utgivna av Birkhauser

Ein wachsendes, lebendes Haus, ein Gebäude aus einer Pflanze scheint ein Widerspruch in sich zu sein. Dennoch wussten schon die Khasi in Ostindien die Luftwurzeln von Gummibäumen zu Fußgängerbrücken zu verbinden und in Süddeutschland bildeten über Jahrhunderte hinweg Tanzlinden den Dorfmittelpunkt. Daran anknüpfend widmet sich die Baubotanik dem Entwerfen mit Bäumen. Realisierte Bauten, Versuchsreihen, Entwurfsstudien und visionäre Konzepte weisen den Weg zu einer neuen grünen Architektur. Diese Einführung geht auf die botanischen Wachstumsgesetze ein, die die Bauten leiten und erklärt die Grundlagen des Konstruierens mit lebenden Bäumen. Das Buch regt zu einem ganz neuen Blick auf Architektur an, die gleichsam zu einem Teil der Stadtnatur wird.

A handbook on the design and the planning of libraries. It features contributions by experts from architecture and library science who analyze specific aspects of the building type; a typology of some 40 exemplary international projects that provides inspiration and a range of options.

A collection of essays that offers insight into urban anthropological research, including its methods, recent developments, and novel approaches (the imagination of a city, urban scenes). It also includes a concluding chapter on street ethnography that presents a variety of ethnographic, experimental and artistic methods.

The rhythm, dynamics, and processes of our natural environment are increasingly affected by human activitiesΓÇöit is high time that we focus on the greater planetary context of our social activities! This book explores climate and atmosphere and the potential impact on different design disciplines. For this purpose, the focus is on the performative characteristics of climate and atmosphereΓÇöair, atmosphere, and climate are considered important input factors that prompt us to rethink our actions and designs in the Anthropocene era. This carefully edited volume contains contributions from well-known authors in various disciplines, who provide many examples to illustrate their ideas and observations.

The author analyses the workings and the rhetoric of crowdsourced work platforms by comparing the way they address the masses today with historic notions of the crowd.

Water has always served as an inspiration, a material, a catalyst for architecture and design - from Scarpa's poetic use of water, through the reuse of urban waterfront infrastructure, to technically innovative foundations of buildings designed for rising sea levels.

Investigates patterns of growth and dynamics in nature with the aim of creating a new "living architecture" that can be applied to architectonic designs. This book examines biological processes to identify basic principles of growth and translate them into exemplary architectonic ideas and visions.

Design has always been guided by nature. The forms of nature, optimized for energy and structure, are a model of adaptability and diversity. National scientists, engineers, architects, and artists draw from and are inspired by its rich trove of resources. The book shows how man has engaged with nature and offers suggestions for further reading.

Garden festivals are often a testing area for new ideas for landscape designers. The International Garden Festival in Metis in northern Quebec is probably the best-known festival in North America. This publication intends to explain the role of garden festivals in landscape design and present a selection of 25 gardens from Metis.

Design interventions for the reuse of existing structures must face the question of the past and the extent to which it should be included in a new design. This volume investigates the relationship of art and building reuse. How can art transform the economics of a built context?

Urban Change investigates the massive change processes in urban space. In the face of the complexity of this transformation, internationally renowned experts analyze these changes from different perspectives: from the rapid urbanization of Asia and of South America to the curated city;

Faced with climate change and the need to provide housing for a growing population, society needs to rethink the way buildings are made. Wood is a renewable building material that is unlimited in supply if sustainably managed. An integrated approach can have positive impact on the environment. This book deals with this topic.

Now as before, Japanese architecture is very popular in Europe and the western world. This book provides an overview, using design examples and interviews, and presents current positions of young architects as well as of Pritzker Prize winners.

An ideal design is site-specific, which is the only way architecture can create or connect with a specific sense of identity. This requires addressing the structural and local circumstances. This book offers a playful way in which to systematically ascertain a complex framework and use it for your own design.

Ce travail en deux volumes donne la preuve de la stabilisation de la formule des trace tordue.Stabiliser la formule des traces tordue est la méthode la plus puissante connue actuellement pour comprendre l'action naturelle du groupe des points adéliques d'un groupe réductif, tordue par un automorphisme, sur les formes automorphes de carré intégrable de ce groupe. Cette compréhension se fait en réduisant le problème, suivant les idées de Langlands, à des groupes plus petits munis d'un certain nombre de données auxiliaires; c'est ce que l'on appelle les données endoscopiques. L'analogue non tordu a été résolu par J. Arthur et dans ce livre on suit la stratégie de celui-ci.Publier ce travail sous forme de livre permet de le rendre le plus complet possible. Les auteurs ont repris la théorie de l'endoscopie tordue développée par R. Kottwitz et D. Shelstad et par J.-P. Labesse. Ils donnent tous les arguments des démonstrations même si nombre d'entre eux se trouvent déjà dansles travaux d'Arthur concernant le cas de la formule des traces non tordue.Ce travail permet de rendre inconditionnelle la classification que J. Arthur a donnée des formes automorphes de carré intégrable pour les groupes classiques quasi-déployés, c¿était pour les auteurs une des principales motivations pour l¿écrire.Cette première partie comprend les chapitres préparatoires (I-V).

Friedrich Kiesler is one of the great visionary architects of the 20th century. After studying at the Technical University and the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna, he moved to New York in 1926. This book presents a holistic view of Kiesler's work as a conceptual unit - using works, sketches, drawings, photos, and texts.

The international practice GRAFT is known for its experimental and interdisciplinary designs as well as for its strong social commitment. This publication documents projects characteristic of this social responsibility portraying architecture as an active tool for driving the development of places worth living in.

Dass dynamische Bauteile und adaptive Bauelemente in der aktuellen Architektur an Bedeutung gewinnen, geschieht nicht nur des visuellen Effekts wegen. Wenn Architekten und Ingenieure sich immer mehr mit dem Thema Bewegung - sei es beispielsweise als nachgefuhrte Solarzelle, als versenkbare Wand oder als intelligent programmierter Aufzug - auseinandersetzen, dann erkunden sie Losungen fur drei Herausforderungen: Wie konnen wir den Energiebedarf von Gebauden kontrollieren und reduzieren? Wie konnen wir die Nutzungsmoglicheiten erweitern? Und wir konnen wir dynamische Bewegungen in Gebauden abbilden, aufnehmen und lenken? Entwerfer und Konstrukteure finden sich durch kinetische Bauteile vor neue technische und gestalterische Herausforderungen gestellt, die in der traditionellen Baukonstruktionslehre nicht behandelt werden. Fur diese Anwender zeigt das Buch, mit welchen technischen Mitteln und konstruktiven Losungen die Bewegungen konkret umgesetzt und in den Bereichen Energie"e;, Nutzungsanderung"e; und Interaktion"e; funktional eingesetzt werden konnen. Zuvor werden die Grundlagen und Gestaltungsprinzipien der Kinetik in Architektur, Technik, Kunst und Natur strukturiert aufbereitet. In einem dritten Teil werden auf jeweils einer Doppelseite vierzig bewegliche Bauelemente an ausgefuhrten Bauten in Aktion gezeigt - mit eigens erstellten Phasenzeichnungen und gegliedert nach Bewegungstypen wie Drehen, Schieben, Falten und Verformen. Die internationalen Beispiele namhafter Architekten reichen von Fenstermechanismen uber Sonnenschutz- und Lichtlenkungssysteme und bewegliche Wande und Dacher bis hin zu beweglichen Ingenieurbauwerken.

Acoustics and protection against noise do not perhaps number among the primary parameters that normally influence the design of a building. Nevertheless, at the very latest when the lecturer in the seminar room cannot be heard, when the noise level in an open-plan office reaches unbearable levels, or when a neighbor's noise deprives you of sleep, it becomes clear just how essential acoustic can be to everyday well-being. it is not just concert halls or the amphitheaters of antiquity that call for acoustic quality; rather, every building, indeed every room, has an acoustic dimension that changes according to the nature of its particular requirements. This practice-oriented volume provides expert planners and architects but also interested developers with practical knowledge on the subject of acoustics in high-rise architecture, beginning with standards on methods of planning and prognosis and moving on to the areas of acoustics of rooms and architecture and noise protection in urban planning. Typologically organized chapters comment on proper approaches to the subject with examples of different types of building such as residential and office buildings, schools, kindergartens, lecture halls, event spaces, and so on, because appropriate acoustic conditions make an essential contribution to the success of a project.

The author and his team have researched the intensive transformation processes of about twenty-five neighborhood communities in Beijing, Shanghai, Shenzhen, and Suzhou, ranging from inner-city to peripheral areas, starting from planning and ending with user satisfaction studies.

The "haus 2226" project received an outstanding media response. The reason is the clever design of this office building - it manages completely without air conditioning, heating and ventilation systems. This monograph of the building includes photos and essays.

these days a computer is as much a part of every household's standard equipment as a refrigerator, and yet the explosion of computer technology in the last several decades has transformed the daily life of every member of society far more than even utopians would ever have allowed themselves to dream. No wonder, then, that from design to production, architecture too is becoming more and more subject to digital influences. The range of those influences stretches from the classical computer programs used in design and presentation to media-supported design processes all the way to computerized production techniques, to say nothing of industrialized bricklayer "e;robots."e; From measurement to planning andproduction, architecture is the product of a closely coordinated digital process chain. What influence do digital design digital design and production methods have on contemporary architecture? How are these methods changing architecture and the way it ist created? Where does the potential of digital media for architecture lie? What are the areas in which every individual firm can begin to use them? What are the advantages of working electronically? How and at what cost can these methods be integrated into the day-to-day work of the professional architect? This publication offers answers to these and many other questions on all aspects of the digital design and construction process.

Synasthetisches Design bemuht sich um eine Produktentwicklung, die alle Sinne systematisch mit einbezieht. Die Fulle aktueller medizintechnischer Erkenntnisse in psychologischer, physiologischer, motorischer und neuronaler Hinsicht sowie die Entwicklung innovativer Materialien mit erstaunlichen neuen Eigenschaften eroffnen zukunftig der Designer-Kreativitat fast unbegrenzte Moglichkeiten. Haverkamp hat seine Darstellung so aufgebaut, dass sie das Wesentliche dieses Grundlagenwissens aus den verschiedensten Bereichen erstmals speziell fur Designer zusammenfasst. Designer aller Richtungen erhalten so ein ubersichtliches Praxis-Handbuch, die solide Basis fur ihr eigenes Gestalten.

Capital Gate, also known as the Leaning Tower of Abu Dhabi, is a skyscraper with a striking lean. Inclined by 18 to the west, this spectacular high-rise was made possible by a diagrid structure. This book tells the story behind the design by architectural office RMJM and explains the sophisticated structural concept.

This publication explores the contested territory between the state and corporate drive to 'securitise' urban space - and the principle of the city as a site for enacting open civil society, participatory democracy, and the freedom of speech and assembly.

Highlights two central approaches: Josef Hoffmann (1870-1956) wanted a comprehensive aestheticization of all spheres of life, while Adolf Loos (1870-1933) interpreted architecture and design as a functional background. This book illustrates the key works of Hoffmann and Loos - as well as those of their predecessors such as Otto Wagner.