Product Description: Beat Consoni is known well beyond the borders of Switzerland for his finely balanced solitaire buildings. His recent work is always based on an analysis of the urban space and the topography of the site.

Product Description: For the Park Avenue Armory in New York, Herzog & de Meuron have designed a multifaceted strategy for the transformation of the building, that allows for a combination of restoration, transformation, and innovation. This departure from the practice of historic preservation in the United States is, beyond its value as an actual example, a unique contribution that unfolds in close reference to material...read more

Product Description: The 1996 NATO Advanced Study Institute (ASI) followed the international tradi­ tion of the schools held in Cargese in 1976, 1979, 1983, 1987 and 1991. Impressive progress in quantum field theory had been made since the last school in 1991...read more

Product Description: The 1996 NATO Advanced Study Institute (ASI) followed the international tradi­ tion of the schools held in Cargese in 1976, 1979, 1983, 1987 and 1991. Impressive progress in quantum field theory had been made since the last school in 1991...read more

Product Description: The Tate Modern in London made Herzog & Meuron famous all over the world. The projects and structures they have built since then are distinguished by the sensitive treatment of materials for which the architects are renowned. In addition, these Pritzker Prizewinning architects have developed a topographical conception of architecture that not only locates their designs in a larger context but also frequently structures them as landscapes...read more

Product Description: Swiss artist Roman Signer (b. 1938) makes work that is literally explosive, harnessing natural forces via rockets, fuses and dynamite, as well as rushing water, gravity and catapults. At work since the early 1970s, Signer is a prolific artist who is highly respected worldwide...read more

Product Description: Jacques Herzog & Pierre de Meuron (with their partners Harry Gugger and Christine Binswanger) undoubtedly rank amongst the leading architects worldwide. Volume 3 of their Complete Works is now being published in an updated new edition, enlarged by some 40 pages and approximately 80 colour illustrations...read more

Product Description: Hans Josephsohn is one of the premier Swiss sculptors working today. For more than sixty years, he has sculpted numerous arresting figures and busts that capture the tensions of our age. Gerhard Mack brings Josephsohn’s work to the wider world in this in-depth look at the artist and the impact of his sculpture...read more

Product Description: Herzog & de Meuron are one of the world s leading contemporary architectural offices. Landmark buildings such as the copper-clad Signal Box in Basel, the Goetz Collection Gallery in Munich, Student Housing for the University of Burgundy in Dijon, as well as master plans, urban studies and settlement designs for Basel, Sils and Dijon are among the 32 documented projects in Volume 2, covering the years 1989 to 1991...read more

Product Description: The new research institute for 300 international scientists in the "Biopolis" Dresden provides the ideal frame for the convergence of avant-garde architecture, contemporary art and progressive science. How do cells divide? How do they communicate? How do they grow into a living organism? For such research the renowned Finnish architects Heikkinen-Komonen, who built the acclaimed Finnish embassy in Washington, created a "place where the postgenomic age can begin" (Die Zeit)...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Band 3 des Gesamtwerks in einer aktualisierten Neuauflage. Einige Projekte, die in der Erstauflage noch im Bauprozess befindlich waren, werden jetzt abschließend fotografisch dokumentiert: so beispielsweise das Laborgebäude der Hoffmann-La Roche in Basel, das Innenstadtprojekt «Fünf Höfe» in München sowie die Wohnhäuser an der Rue des Suisses in Paris...read more

Product Description: The museum boom, which has produced a constant stream of new buildings in many cities in Europe and the USA since the seventies, has reached another high point. Important museum buildings by high-profile architects have opened within a single year in Bilbao, Los Angeles, Stockholm, Bregenz and Basel...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Star architects Herzog & de Meuron have established themselves as one of today's leading international practices. Spanning the years 1978-1988, this volume traces the development of their early work and the basis upon which the large-scale projects of the following years would be based...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Band 2 der maßgebenden, unentbehrlichen und von der Kritik viel gelobten Ausgabe des Gesamtwerks. Unter den 32 Entwürfen sind so bekannte Bauten wie das kupferummantelte Stellwerk und das Lokomotivdepot in Basel, das Museum für die Kunstsammlung Goetz in München, die Studentenwohnheime auf dem Universitätscampus in Dijon und die Sportanlage Pfaffenholz in St...read more

Product Description: Kurt Symanzik was certainly one of the most outstanding theoretical physicists of our time. For thirty years, until his untimely death in 1983, he helped to shape the present form of quantum field theory and its application to elementary particle physics...read more