Product Description: "Social Design: Public Action" diskutiert die Beitrage zum internationalen Social Design Symposium 2013 an der Universitat fur angewandte Kunst Wien. Das Buch hinterfragt die transformativen Krafte neuer Formen des Sozialen, Politischen und Kulturellen im urbanen Raum, verbindet kunstlerische und wissenschaftliche Forschung mit angewandter Raumproduktion und verwebt diesen Diskurs in das Netzwerk Gesellschaft...read more

Product Description: An exploration of travel to the moon in art, culture, and literature —from antiquity to the aesthetics of Stanley Kubrick. For centuries, humankind has been fascinated by space travel and visiting other planets. Long before engineers and scientists took the possibility of traveling to the moon seriously, it had been widely explored in art and literature...read more

Product Description: As the subject of earnest discussion, the meaning of space reaches far beyond the horizon of a single discipline. Lukas Feiriss has assembled a collection of international contributions for Space Matters, a publication of the space & design strategies study program of the Univeristy of Art and Design, Linz, Austria to create an inspiring expansion of the contemporary discourse on space...read more

Product Description: The architecture of the last several decades was shaped by the need for individual representation and demarcation. Today, a growing countermovement is focusing on the development of public space as a means to get people together in order to exchange ideas or share experiences...read more

Product Description: Thanks to the omnipresence of computers, cell phones, gaming systems, and the internet, a broad audience has traded its past reservations against technology for an almost insatiable curiosity for all things technical. Against this background, unprecedented new tools and possibilities are opening up for the world of design...read more

Product Description: Whether created by established architects and artists or new talents, the examples in Utopia Forever are important catalysts for fundamental change and are radically shaping our notions of life in the future. The current projects and concepts from architecture, city planning, urbanism, and art collected here point beyond the restrictions of the factual to unleash the potential of creative visions...read more

Product Description: Closer to God is a unique collection of international examples of sacred spaces of all denominations that were built in the last few years. Whether churches, synagogues, mosques, temple complexes, or other contemplative places for meditation and reflection, the architecture highlighted in this book ranks among the most exciting of our time...read more

Product Description: This book offers new solutions for event architecture, scenography, media installations, interiors, and stage design. Thanks to globalization and digitalization more and more aspects of our business lives and leisure time are taking place on the internet...read more

Product Description: Outstanding sustainable architecture projects and social initiatives by the world's most exciting architecture studios.

Product Description: Arcadia is an expansive collection of contemporary alpine and backcountry architecture and interior design. The book profiles architects and designers who are embracing nature and creating provocative rural hideaways that adapt to their surrounding habitats and their topographical and climatic conditions...read more

Product Description: Like its successful predecessor, Spacecraft 2 showcases international projects by architects, artists and designers that meet the changing spatial needs of our modern lifestyles and that are simultaneously expanding our current understanding of architecture...read more

Product Description: Beyond Architecture is the first publication of its kind to document the creativeexploration of architecture and urban propositions in the contemporary arts.Presenting experimental projects from an array of creative contexts, the bookfeatures a multitude of groundbreaking approaches...read more