Product Description: Up Up presents a selection of buildings in the inner city of Johannesburg, focusing on the tall modernist towers that stood out at the time they were constructed. Witnesses to profound shifts in the political history of the metropolis, the buildings have gone through immense changes...read more

Product Description: Frank Lloyd Wright : The Early Years : Progressivism : Aesthetics : Cities examines Wright's belief that all aspects of human life must embrace and celebrate an aesthetic experience that would thereby lead to necessary social reforms...read more

Product Description: The study examines the involvement of prominent Western modernists in the globalization of modern architecture during the 1930s to the 1960s. Finely contextualized analyses demonstrate that the projects defined by colonial continuities bear greater witness to the repressive conditions governing their creation than to progress and emancipation...read more

Product Description: Over the past 50 years, the architectural office von Gerkan, Marg und Partner has realised 400 projects worldwide from single-family homes to cultural edifices and office buildings, from transport facilities to master plans. Many of the buildings were constructed throughout Asia yet how to build in the cultural environment and on the proper scale in China and Vietnam, for example? What sort of knowledge can be transferred from construction work in Europe and how much do construction projects, in their sociologically and culturally familiar contexts, benefit from the experienced gained there? Various principles, conditions and times determine the context in which gmp operates...read more

Product Description: In this guide to the University of Iowa’s architecture, revised and updated to reflect the numerous changes following the 2008 flood, John Beldon Scott and Rodney P. Lehnertz discuss and illustrate an ensemble of buildings whose stylistic diversity reflects the breadth of Iowa’s contributions to research, education, and creative activities...read more

Product Description: In den vergangenen 50 Jahren hat das Architekturburo von Gerkan, Marg und Partner weltweit an die 400 Projekte realisiert von Einfamilienhausern uber Kultur- und Burogebaude bis hin zu Verkehrsbauten und Masterplanungen. Viele der Gebaude sind im asiatischen Raum entstanden doch wie baut man in Kulturkreisen und auch fur Massstabe wie denen zum Beispiel Chinas und Vietnams? Welches Wissen aus der Baupraxis im europaischen Raum fliesst hier mit ein und inwiefern profitieren Bauaufgaben in soziologisch und kulturell vertrautem Umfeld von den dort gewonnenen Erfahrungen?Unterschiedliche Prinzipien, Bedingungen und Zeiten sind der bestimmende Kontext, in dem gmp Architektur entstehen lasst...read more

Product Description: Trotz sinkender Einspeisevergutungen sind erneuerbare Energien im Gebaudebereich noch immer auf dem Vormarsch. Dazu tragen die immer kostengunstigeren Photovoltaikanlagen und Batteriespeicher bei. Aber auch der Gesetzgeber hegt grosse Plane: Bis 2050 soll der deutsche Gebaudebestand nahezu klimaneutral sein...read more

Product Description: In den dichtbesiedelten Ballungszentren Japans entstehen - auf scheinbar unbebaubaren engenFlachen - kleine Hauser mit ungewohnlichen Raumkonzepten und uberraschenden Grundrisslosungen. Aber nicht nur dieses Gespur fur Raum, auch der sinnliche Umgang mit Materialien, das Gefuhl fur Asthetik und die gekonnte Verbindung mit traditionellen Elementen fasziniert Architekten auerhalb Japans...read more

Product Description: How do we want to exist? How do we want to live? How do we want to work? While at the beginning of the twentieth century it was the overarching technical innovations of industrialisation that inspired people, currently, above all else, it is the digital revolution that is the foundation of utopian musings...read more

Product Description: In 1995, the Generali Foundation – founded as the nonprofit art association of the Generali Group Austria – relocated to premises in the fourth district of Vienna, designed by the architects Jabornegg & Pálffy. It moved to a building complex called the Habighof, which dates back to the beginning of the 20th century, when it was used as a hat factory...read more