Product Description: Rising from the ashes of World War II, the new concert hall for the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra, designed by Hans Scharoun (1893–1972), has become the symbol of democratic Germany. This publication present the drawings from the Scharoun Archive that detail the construction of the Philharmonie’s complex composition...read more

Product Description: Tatiana Bilbao’s single-family house on a lake front in the Méxican state of Jalisco and Derek Dellekamp’s medium-rise apartment building at the center of Mexico City are the focus of this fourth publication in the O’Neil Ford Duograph Series...read more

Product Description: Alvaro Siza is considered one of the most important Portuguese architects of the 20th century, and his works have garnered praise far beyond the borders of his own country. In 1992 he was awarded the Pritzker Prize for his lifes work...read more

Product Description: Alvaro Siza is considered one of the most important Portuguese architects of the 20th century, and his works have garnered praise far beyond the borders of his own country. In 1992 he was awarded the Pritzker Prize for his lifes work...read more

Product Description: This volume focuses on two architectural projects that, taken together, provide a telling glimpse into the Chilean culture and landscape--from its colonial legacy to its magnificent coast. Smiljan Radic's House in Punta Pite merges vernacular architecture with a crisp, Modernist sense of design to create a structure that blends intimately with the expansive coast, while Rodrigo Perez de Arce, in creating a newly designed crypt for the centuries-old cathedral of Santiago de Chile, manages to seamlessly synthesize his own contemporary language into the existing layers of the building's history...read more

Product Description: Since 1936, Skidmore, Owings & Merrill has set the standard for corporate design practice, producing some of the most iconic buildings of the century and shaping cities throughout the world. The SOM Journal, a new, small-format publication, takes stock of the firm's most recent work in progress and brings SOM's current design research to light...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: The "museum island" of Hombroich is a unique countryside exhibition space, located in the heart of a nature preserve between the German cultural centers of Cologne and Düsseldorf. A well-loved public attraction, the Hombroich presents contemporary art in pavilions designed by artist Erwin Heerich...read more

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Product Description: This book, which is one of a series devoted to European building traditions, takes the reader to a Nordic land that has been a leader in architectural design throughout the 20th century, Finland. Beginning with its independence from the Russian Empire in 1917, Finland has carved out its national identity using a new language of form, provided by noteable designers like, Alvar Aalto...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: This volume details how a century's search into the identity and character of the emergent Greek state has manifested itself in the development of Greek architure. It features the various periods through which Greece both aligned itself with international modernism and also related to its regional and cultural context...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: On the basis of their early small but dense buildings and projects, Jacques Herzog and Pierre de Meuron have been recognized as architects searching for the essential grounds of tehir discipline. From tehir earliest designs of 1978, their work has sought to reconcile the role of architecture in the age of electronic media...read more

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Product Description: Sweden: 20th-Century Architecture is the latest volume of a critical series devoted to introducing the reader to European architecture country by country. This handsomely illustrated book details how a century's worth of social changes are reflected in the development of Swedish architecture...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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Product Description: This annual details and assesses the most recent projects and developments in German architecture. The central topics are preservation and conservation covering areas such as conservation in current town planning, engineering and other technical problems, and aesthetic and political considerations...read more