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The steel skeleton building completed in Geneva in 1932 is a precursor of the Unite d'Habitation. In 2007 the external envelope was repaired, followed by a refurbishment of the interior, in which preservation requirements are exemplified. This building log book is illustrated with new and historic drawings and photos, and includes its history.

YoVa was established in 2005 as an initiative to support young Viennese architects from Vienna. In 2014 for the first time, young Viennese landscape architects were also allowed to apply. This title presents the results of YoVa 4.

Prix' architectural visions shaped the studio, which from the very beginning came to stand for radicalism and utopias built into the real. This publication features a selection of projects and diploma works of students as well as statements of international guests such as architects like Hitoshi Abe, Greg Lynn, and Zaha Hadid.

Architectural ceramics have long been confined to decorative surfaces. Today innovations in material technology, production methods and assembly systems allow applications that combine the materials' emotional attractiveness with new functionalities. This book deals with ceramic materials in architecture.

Lutzow 7 owe their reputation of long standing to representative civic open spaces that they have designed for the German Chancellery, the Reichstag building and the Jewish Museum in Berlin, among many others. This architectural monograph, features a panoramic portfolio and a directory to typical design solutions.

In ten interviews with clients, designers report on their personal experiences with commissions and clients, and provide insight into their individual work processes. Three generations of graphic designers, all of which studied at the University of Applied Arts Vienna, speak openly about their experiences.

Offers an introduction to technical and constructional open space planning, with all the relevant topics, from the most common materials and surfaces to the construction of open space elements and the use of plants.

Die funf Bande der Reihe SCALE erlautern alle relevanten Gebaudekomponenten vom Entwurf bis zur konstruktiven Ausarbeitung. Im Fokus steht eine systematische Darstellung des Gestaltungsprozesses als integrative Entwicklung von Form, Technik und Konstruktion. Die Darstellung der Plane und die Mastabsschritte sind vereinheitlicht, um eine Vergleichbarkeit der internationalen Projektbeispiele zu ermoglichen.

charset=iso-8859-1" http-equiv=content-type> Massive Attack is an assembled and edited critical mass of lectures extracted from the IOA Sliver Series entitled Selected Friends and Enemies.

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 design and form. It establishes a typology of building by the water: residential structures, recreation facilities, industry and infrastructure, buildings for culture and art. The various design parameters are explored in four essays. Subsequently, twenty-two international projects are presented, organized according to their locations by a river, a lake or the sea. The authors' concern is not to show luxurious buildings in privileged locations but rather presenting projects that seriously grapple with the main criterion of the location-namely, water-in an ecologically sustainable way and respond to it with their design. Wasser ist seit Jahren ein wichtiges Thema in Architektur und Stadtebau. Building with Water thematisiert die Verarbeitung von Wasser im architektonischen Entwurf; es werden Bauten vorgestellt, die sich in ihrer Gestaltung und Form ausdrucklich auf Wasser beziehen. Eine Typologie des Bauens am Wasser wird erstellt: Wohnbauten, Verkehrs- und Industriebauten, Bauten fur Kultur und Freizeit. Ebenso werden einleitend klassische Beispiele des Bauens am/im/auf dem Wasser gezeigt, wie etwa Chateau de Chenonceaux an der Loire, Falling Water in Pennsylvania von Frank Lloyd Wright oder das Salk Institute in La Jolla,Kalifornien, von Louis I. Kahn. Geordnet nach ihren Standorten am Fluss, See oder Meer, werden dann etwa 20 internationale Projekte vorgestellt. Es geht den Autoren nicht darum, luxuriose Bauten an privilegierten Platzen zu zeigen, sondern Projekte darzustellen, deren Entwurf sich ernsthaft und okologisch vertraglich mit dem Hauptkriterium des Standortes - namlich Wasser - auseinandersetzt und sich gestalterisch darauf bezieht

Offers architects and students a planning tool, in which two main sections reciprocally complement one another: the "spaces" and the "typologies" between which the planner can flexibly oscillate depending on his or her plane of observation.

Clearly structured and focused, this compendium explains the characteristics of various important construction materials (masonry, timber, concrete, steel, glass).

Offers a comprehensive presentation of contemporary Austrian landscape architecture. This volume profiles 187 open spaces of the last two decades in Austria, and accompanies these with richly illustrated photographic essays.

The Styrian Architecture Award has been awarded since 1980. This makes it an important indicator of buildings and their cultural importance in the state of Styria, which is known for its unique and richly varied architecture.

Molecular biology provided the basis for a collection of drawings and installations from 20 years of artistic practice and artistic perspective. Through her drawings Petra Maitz has defined a comprehensive hypothesis of the wordly chemistry change, showing visualisations of evolution in a cultural context. This book deals with her work.

Profiling the work of voyagers traveling with the Cape Farewell touring exhibition, this book offers essays by experts and critical thinkers from both the sciences and the arts, discussing debates surrounding global warming and our changing world.

Erste Monografie: Bernard Cache studierte an der l'Ecole Politechnique Federale de Lausanne und an der l'Ecole des Superieure des Sciences Economiques et Commerciales bei Gilles Deleuze. Gemeinsam mit Patrick Beauce grundete er das Buro "Objectile"...

This publication explores and analyzes a very special kind of design - the phenomenon, as normal as it is wonderful, in which people with no formal training in design take things that have already been designed and reuse them, convert them to new uses, in short, "e;misuse"e; them in the very best sense of the word. Non-intentional design (NID) goes on every day, in every area of life, in every region of the world. Redesign through reuse makes things multifunctional and cleverly combines them to generate new functions. It is often reversible, resource-friendly, improvisational, innovative, and economical. It can become a source of inspiration for design, provided professional designers look up and take notice of what actually happens to all the things they design when they are used.

Among the most notable achievements of Scandinavian architecture are a responsible approach to the environment and a keen appreciation for social concerns. The Danish architects reflect these standards in their remarkable buildings.

"e;We don't sell gardens; we sell images of gardens."e; This observation on the part of a landscape architect makes it clear just how important it is that a design be effectively communicated to the community, clients, and the public. Drawings, models, simulations, and films communicate the designers' proposed ideas and solutions, but they also convey their attitude toward the use of nature and the environment. With myriad possibilities - including computer programs as well as hand drawings and models, which continue to be widely used - and strong competition in the field, there is now a huge variety of visual representations, with agreed-upon rules but also a great deal of freedom. In three large sections, this books sifts through the currently commonplace and available techniques and evaluates them in terms of their informative value and persuasive power, always illustrating its points with analysis of examples from international firms. An introductory look at the development thus far is followed by a systematic presentation of modes of representation in two, three, and four dimensions - in the plane, in space, and in the temporal process. The second section deals with the sequence within the workflow: from the initial sketch through concept and implementation planning all the way to the finished product. The third section deals with the strategic use of visualizations in the context of competitions, future schemes, and large-scale landscape planning. The focus in this section is not on the familiar use of the relevant techniques, but rather on the methods and forms of visual representation in contemporary landscape architecture.

Lateinamerika ist seit vielen Jahrzehnten ein wichtiger Ort fur die Architektur. Altmeister wie Barragan, Dieste, Lina Bo Bardi und Niemeyer waren und sind wegweisend fur das architektonische Gestalten weltweit. Ihr Umgang mit Farben, Materialien und Wanden hat die architektonische Moderne nachhaltig beeinflusst. Seitdem und insbesondere in den letzten funfzehn Jahren hat sich aber die Architektur auf diesem Kontinent weiterentwickelt und es ist eine lebendige und auerst kreative Architekturszene entstanden. Die Arbeit der dortigen Architekten und Stadtplaner wird vielfach von sozialen Fragen geleitet, etwa dem Umgang mit ungeplanten Siedlungen am Rande der Grostadte, der Knappheit von Wohnraum und offentlichem Raum, der Verfugbarkeit bezahlbarer Transportmittel, die wichtige Rolle von kultureller Infrastruktur wie Schulen, Bibliotheken oder Sportstatten als Katalysatoren fur eine Nachbarschaft. In diesem Kontext werden zahlreiche Projekte erortert, die quer durch Lateinamerika fur Diskussion und Impulse gesorgt haben. Aufsehenerregende Projekte wie die Santo Domingo-Bibliothek in Medellin, Kolumbien, von Giancarlo Mazzanti, das Liceo Franco-Mexicano von Alberto Kalach in Mexiko oder die Arbeiten von Alejandro Aravena in Chile belegen, dass die neuere Architektur auch in formaler und asthetischer Hinsicht den Vergleich mit den Vatern nicht zu scheuen braucht. Felipe Hernandez ist Architekt und Professor fur Architekturdesign, Architekturgeschichte und Architekturtheorie an der Universitat Liverpool. Seinen MA in Architektur und Kritischer Theorie schloss er 1998 mit Auszeichnung ab und promovierte 2003 an der Universitat Nottingham. Er unterrichtete an der Bartlett School of Architecture (UCL) und den Universitaten Nottingham, Sheffield, East London und Nottingham Trent im Vereinigten Konigreich sowie an der Brown University und Roger Williams University in den Vereinigten Staaten. Felipe Hernandez hat zahlreiche Aufsatze und Artikel veroffentlicht, die sich mit der Lage der lateinamerikanischen Grostadte in der heutigen Zeit beschaftigen und die Vielfalt der architektonischen Verfahren zeigen, die gleichzeitig bei der kontinuierlichen Neugestaltung der Stadte des Kontinents mitwirken.

Construction systems reduced to the smallest possible number of identical elements have long been used by architects to build structures as well as dismantle and change them as quickly, efficiently, and economically as possible. Think of the architecture of the nomads, the Crystal Palace designed by the architect John Paxton for the London World's Fair of 1851, or the modern construction systems of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries in steel, concrete, and wood. Coupled with modern digital planning and production methods, modular precast construction systems that are adaptable for many combinations and capable of being combined with one other will play an increasingly important role in architecture in the future. The volume Components and Systems offers an in-depth and clearly organized presentation of the various types of precast building components - from semifinished products to building with components, open and closed systems, and skeleton and panel construction all the way to spatial cell constructions. The systems are accompanied by detailed drawings and color photographs. Discussions of transporting and assembling the various systems round off the topic and make this book an indispensable practical companion. Seit jeher werden in der Architektur auf moglichst wenige, gleiche Elemente reduzierte Bausysteme verwendet, um moglichst schnell, effizient und okonomisch ein Bauwerk errichten oder auch abbauen und verandern zu konnen. Man denke an die Architektur der Nomaden, den Kristallpalast, der 1851 anlasslich der in London stattfindenden Weltausstellung von dem Architekten John Paxton entworfen wurde, oder die modernen Bausysteme des 19. und 20. Jahrhunderts in Stahl, Beton oder Holz. Elementierte, vorgefertigte, fur viele Kombinationen anpassungsfahige und untereinander kombinierbare Systeme werden zukunftig, gekoppelt mit modernen digitalen Planungs- und Produktionsmethoden, einen immer wichtigeren Aspekt in der Architektur darstellen. Der neue Band Elemente und Systeme zeigt fundiert und ubersichtlich die verschiedenen Arten vorgefertigter Bauteile auf - von Halbfabrikaten uber das Bauen mit Komponenten, offenen und geschlossenen Systemen, Skelett- und Paneelbauweisen bis zu Raumzellenkonstruktionen. Erganzt werden die Systeme durch detaillierte Zeichnungen und Farbfotos. Transport und Montage der verschiedenen Systeme runden das Thema ab und machen dieses Buch in der Praxis unverzichtbar.

Computer and video games are leaving the PC and conquering the arena of everyday life in the form of mobile applications - the result is new types of cities and architecture. How do these games alter our perception of real and virtual space? This book deals with this topic.

Focuses on projects otherwise overshadowed by the spectacular and extravagant buildings that fill the specialist journals: unvarnished, unpretentious buildings that, despite tight budgets, are clearly worked out to the last detail. They exemplify how, and by what measures, cost-effective planning and building are possible.