Product Description: Notwithstanding the many prophets of doom that see solid,sedentary architecture sacrificed to mobile lifestyles, architectscontinue to take up the challenge and design portable houses.The results are often both practical and innovative, as is demonstratedon the more than 800 pages of this new title in theConstruction and Design Manual series, in which 43 internationaldesign teams present works ranging from architecturalfollies to handicapped accessible furnishings and life-savingshelters...read more

Product Description: Within the past one hundred years, infrastructure has played a key role in dramatically reformatting the built fabric and spatial reserves, and will continue to do so in the future. The involvement of architects is necessary to shape the development of infrastructural design...read more

Product Description: The renowned institute of architecture at the University of Applied Arts Vienna presents selected student works from the year 2009. The design studios of star architects Zaha Hadid, Greg Lynn and Wolf D. Prix offer students countless possibilities to exhaust architectural parameters across borders...read more