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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 an approach that transposes the subtlety of real-life biological systems onto the built environment. This book delivers a perspective on architectural achievements and can help to manifest the approach's innovative potential.

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.

The exterior of a building functions as a loadbearing structure and as a protective envelope. It can also be used to express status. But what are the available principles of enveloping? And what are the formal and functional criteria for selecting a facade system? The fifth volume of the SCALE series, Enclose | Build, deals with building enclosures: options include different construction methods, materials and surfaces with which a wide variety of design effects can be achieved. The book illustrates how the interaction between loadbearing structure and building envelope - from its base, via the outside wall, to the roof - functions, and what the criteria are for selecting a facade system, which range from solid, single-skin walls to complex facade systems.

Frei Otto, awarded the Royal Gold Medal 2006 by the Royal Institute of British Architects, is one of Germany's most innovative architects in the second half of the 20th century. This title analyses and discusses the key aspects of Frei Otto's work. It offers a detailed catalogue of over 200 buildings and projects dating from the years 1951-2004.

Uberarbeitete Neuausgabe des erfolgreichen Handbuchs zum Schulbau Seit jeher stellen Bauten fur Kinder und Jugendliche ein groes Aufgabengebiet fur die Architektur dar. Veranderte padagogische Konzepte - wie Gruppenarbeit, fachubergreifende Projektorientierung und Inklusion - erfordern neue raumliche Gegebenheiten.Das Buch stellt in einem systematischen Teil die verschiedenen Schultypen und ihre Spezifika und somit die Rahmenbedingungen fur den Kindergarten- und Schulbau dar. Neue Unterrichtsformen, aber auch die elektronische Vernetzung und Kommunikationstechnik werden als wichtige Elemente der Projektplanung behandelt. Der Projektteil stellt 70 realisierte Projekte vor allem aus Europa, Nordamerika, Australien und Fernost dar. Im Vordergrund der Analyse stehen konzeptionelle Aspekte wie Gebaudezonierungen, stadtebauliche Integration, Erschlieung, Pausenbereiche und das Eingehen auf soziale Gegebenheiten. Fur die Neuausgabe wurden sechs neue wegweisende Projekte ausgewahlt, darunter die Grundschule Niederheide bei Berlin, die erste Plusenergieschule Deutschlands, das Bildungszentrum Tor zur Welt"e;, eines der Schlusselprojekte der IBA 2013 in Hamburg, sowie die Kita "e;Sinneswandel"e; in Berlin, die vor allem gehorlose Kinder fordert. .

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

In funktional und technologisch anspruchsvollen und innovativen Gebaudeentwurfen hat die Verwendung von ETFE-Folien in jungster Zeit groe Bedeutung erlangt. Dieses Folienmaterial ist von erstaunlicher Dunnheit bei enormer Reifestigkeit und ist zum Teil leichter als die Luft, die es umschliet. Bekannt geworden ist das Material vor allem durch das Eden Project von Nicholas Grimshaw und die Allianz Arena von Herzog & de Meuron. Derzeit im Bau ist das spektakulare Schwimmstadion fur die Olympischen Spiele 2008 in Beijing - die bislang weltweit grote ETFE-Struktur.Das Buch ist als fundiertes Grundlagenwerk konzipiert, das sowohl Materialeigenschaften wie technologische und konstruktive Verwendungsmoglichkeiten grundsatzlich und umfassend vermittelt. Ausfuhrlich geht die Autorin auf die Spezifika von ETFE in Bezug auf Lichtdurchlassigkeit, Dammeigenschaften, Akustik, Brandschutz und okologische Vertraglichkeit ein. Ebenso stellt sie anhand von zahlreichen Projektbeispielen Entwurfslosungen vor.

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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.

Im Werk von Helmut von Werz wird der Geist der Nachkriegsarchitektur sichtbar, der einerseits vom Masshalten und Bewahren gepragt war, sich andererseits der Avantgarde gegenuber nicht verschloss.

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.

Vorarlberg is the most westerly and the smallest of all the federal states in Austria. The region has seen its building culture develop along a special path with a movement beginning in the late 1950s and early 1960s that has been labelled the Vorarlberger Bauschule (Vorarlberg School of Building). This book deals with this topic.

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.

The second edition of Modern Construction Envelopes was originally based on the two books by Andrew Watts, Modern Construction Roofs and Modern Construction Facades . Both volumes were gathered into one single volume and consolidated in terms of content, which permits the consideration of facades and roofs as envelopes. Using current examples by renowned architects, Watts presents the constructive and material-related details. This presentation is based on a text, photos, and standardized detail drawings, as well as 3D representations of the components. The new edition has 3D views that are easier to understand than the first edition, with sharper images and more key explanations.

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.

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.