Architecture

Sustainable, circular, up-to-date

Most modern buildings are built from diverse materials, but few confront their manifold composition as a question of both design and performance. This book takes a close look at a series of global building traditions and contemporary practices to uncover the possibilities and challenges of working with mixed materials. Visually stunning, color-coded drawings reveal the materials and construction for every project. Through case studies, design experiments and writings, the authors examine the opportunities of heterogeneous construction for contemporary, sustainable, circular, and culturally situated architecture. With contributions by Jeannette Kuo, Ajay Manthripragada, and Jesús Vassallo, and photography by Naho Kubota. Graphic design by Andrew LeClair.

• Richly illustrated case studies of lesserknown hybrid construction techniques
• Beautiful graphic design and unique spot color printing reveal the interrelationships of materials in construction
• In-depth essays that discuss the technical, cultural, and environmental implications of heterogeneous construction

Denkmalpflegeprojekte in komplexen städtischen Umgebungen sind vielfach von erheblichen Diskrepanzen zwischen formaler Politik und pragmatischen Realitäten geprägt. Fallbeispiele aus dem Iran, der Türkei, Ägypten und Indien zeigen die unzähligen Faktoren auf, die auf die praktische Denkmalpflege einwirken und deren Ideale untergraben. Die vorgestellten Projekte veranschaulichen, wie politische, wirtschaftliche und ideologische Dynamiken die Ergebnisse vor Ort beeinflussen und sie von akademischen Grundsätzen und nationalen oder internationalen Strategien ablenken. Die Autorinnen und Autoren verfügen über ein tiefes Verständnis der lokalen Dynamiken und zeigen die disziplinären, bürokratischen und soziopolitischen Strukturen auf, die die Planung des städtischen Kulturerbes in unterschiedlichen Kontexten prägen.

• Untersucht Denkmalschutzrichtlinien in lokalen Kontexten
• Lenkt den Blick auf lokale Komplexitäten
• Ergebnisse des DFG-Projekts "Assembling Iran's Urban Heritage Conservation Policy and Practice: Problematised in Tehran"

Inverse Utopia looks at urbanism from the perspective of modernism and postmodernism, as well as at how commercialization has transformed the modern city. In his earlier book Ladders (1997), the author described the emergence of the cul-de-sac as a typical manifestation of this trend.

In this new book, Inverse Utopia, he argues for the development of architectural and urban forms that respond to contemporary ecological and social challenges. The title refers to a statement by the philosopher Günther Anders: whereas utopians are unable to make the things they imagine, others are unable to imagine the things they make.

This book is a stand-alone volume but may be read as a sequel to Ladders.

• Essential text describing the work of Anna Heringer, an architect specialized in clay
• How architecture can have a positive impact on the environment and society
• Building with local resources to maintain ecological balance
• Available in German, French and English

The architectural work of Hans and Wassili Luckhardt (1890–1954/1889–1972) is not yet adequately appreciated. As members of the Glass Chain initiative and the Ring collective, they shaped, especially through their work with Alfons Anker, the development of Modernist architecture in the 1920s, as evidenced by their winning design for the layout of Berlin’s Alexanderplatz. While their early work was anchored in utopian expressionism, a more objective attitude emerged later, based on the application of new architectural constructs.
The book documents all 40 of Hans und Wassili Luckhardt’s realized buildings. Two essays deal with the unbuilt and utopian projects. Newly taken photographs and newly drawn plans by Carsten Krohn complement the historical illustrations.

• Comprehensive documentation of the work of Hans and Wassili Luckhardt.
• With approx. 80 new photographs and 80 newly drawn plans by Carsten Krohn

Versatile wooden windows

In her book, the trained carpenter and architect Judith Resch looks at what scope still exists in modern window design and construction. The process of simplification is more difficult to achieve for windows than for most building components, since windows, due to their function, must meet high technical specifications. She presents a variety of window design projects that have one thing in common: they pursue a singular design concept using the simplest possible means. All projects are presented in detail with technical drawings and photographs.

• 10 simple wooden window designs
• From retrofitting historical windows to the possibilities of DIY design
• Precisely designed, handcrafted, highly repairable windows

Bilingual Edition (English / German):

A trailblazer of modern architecture

With Josef Frank (1885–1967), the catalogue for the exhibition in the MAK, Vienna, focuses on one of the most important Austrian architects of the 20^th century. In addition to his groundbreaking architectural oeuvre, the discussion considers Frank as an extremely productive designer who, although sceptical and a prominent cultural critic, must be thanked for his many important stimuli to international design that are still valid today. As an architect and designer who is still "contemporary" to this day, Frank was known for his pragmatic design approach, and pleaded for "normal" – but not at all normative – architecture and design. For Frank, the qualities of social experience were more important than formal aspects; his interiors and utilitarian articles were primarily intended to serve the comfort of the user. Josef Frank’s ideas of an uncontrived and unpretentious utilitarian expedience, which was focused on an independent, free, enlightened housing and living culture beyond all stylistic dogmas and fashionable conventions, is more topical today than ever.

Mit Josef Frank (1885–1967) widmet sich der Katalog zur Ausstellung im MAK, Wien, einem der bedeutendsten österreichischen Architekten des 20. Jahrhunderts. Neben dem wegweisenden architektonischen Werk geht es dabei insbesondere um einen Gestalter, dem das internationale Design bis heute wichtige Impulse verdankt. Gerade derzeit erscheinen Franks Vorstellungen einer aufgeklärt bürgerlichen Wohn- und Lebenskultur aktueller denn je.

Representation of climate in design

Ephemeral phenomena like fire, precipitation, shade, and wind have emerged as important contemporary protagonists for environmental design due to their dynamic impact on buildings and cities. The importance of including these forces in architecture has gained rapid momentum in the global quest for sustainability.

This book investigates the history, theory and applications of climatic design in the built environment examining architecture and landscapes from various time periods. Based on a collaboration between the University of Sydney and the National University of Singapore, the book brings together contributing authors from Australia, Singapore, and the United States.

"Dry", "Wet", "Cool" and "Hot" divide the book into categories through which a wide array of representational topics are covered —from dust storms and clouds, to ice and bushfires. A concluding section presents project examples for exploratory application in the design of architecture.

Albert Kahn is probably the most important industrial architect of the 20th century. With his factory for the Ford T-models, designed for mass production, he found himself at the beginning of modern industrial architecture. His industrial buildings inspired the architects of European Modernism. They were the examples by which the structural rationality of Kahn’s industrial developments became the guiding principle for the New Building movement up until today.

The unrivalled monograph with its numerous photographs, plan layouts, site plans, and virtual 3D models comprehensively documents the buildings of Albert Kahn, which he was able to construct in a very short time due to his system-based working method – in the USA but also in the Soviet Union, Brazil, Sweden, France, China, Japan, and Australia.

Technical Drawing deals with the representation of plans throughout all phases of a project. For students, the primary focus is on the development and methodical construction of a technical drawing.

Themes:

• Types of plan (from site plan and preliminary drawings to design and detail plans)
• Components of the plan (floor plan, section, elevation, detail)
• Line width, dimensioning, hatching, use of text, symbols
• Plan presentation and compilation

This book offers a comprehensive introduction to the planning and implementation of this special kind of garden, taking the concrete planning process as its guide. From design fundamentals and concept development with different typology variants all the way to the choice of materials, the various construction principles, and building services, all subjects relevant to planning are comprehensively presented.
The planning information is illustrated with numerous international examples, with projects ranging from a "green wall" as interior design element and private house gardens in Australia, New Zealand, and Germany all the way to award – winning ecological office buildings in the USA and the Netherlands, an old - age home in Sweden, and an indoor park in Canada.

Vienna's major development from a small Baroque residential city enclosed by fortifications to a modern European metropolis began after 1840. The most important infrastructural projects were the regulation of the Danube, the construction of the Ringstrasse zone, the building of the Vienna High Spring Water Pipeline, the erection of the buildings for the Vienna World Exhibition in 1873 and the construction of a cemetery open to all, the Vienna Central Cemetery.

The planning atlas summarizes regulatory plans, some of which were published and some of which come from private collections. Together with the memoirs of the city planner Heinrich Goldemund from 1943, excerpts of which are published here, this work offers fundamental insights into Viennese urban planning from the late 19th century to 1918.

• 12 large-format plans with book in a cassette
• The work of Viennese urban planning in the formative years of modern Vienna
• Indispensable work on the history and urban planning of Vienna

(English, French, German)
“Perfection blocks any form of participation and also causes an excessive consumption of resources.” In “Form Follows Love”, Anna Heringer describes her understanding of architecture.

For her new book, she traveled to Bangladesh with Iwan Baan to visit the buildings created there as well as her women's empowerment project, Dipdii Textiles.

Dutch photographer Iwan Baan is best known for his images that show life and interactions in architecture. In Bangladesh, he created intense and sensual images that, between documentation and art, bear witness to what architecture can achieve when it is not about representation but about social benefit.

The book also includes Baan's pictures of Heringer's latest buildings in Europe.

• The complementary photobook to Form Follows Love
• METI School, DESI Center, kindergartens, birthplace in Hittisau etc.
• New, previously unpublished photos

Rome, the "Eternal City", is a unique palimpsest dating back to Antiquity. However, beyond the historic center built over millennia on the famous seven hills – another Rome exists, one of large and often stunning modern neighborhoods, housing estates, schools, and public buildings. When Rome became Italy’s capital in 1871, the population increased extensively and the city exceeded its boundaries since Roman times, the Aurelian Walls. This extraordinary transformation laid the foundation for many new quarters built to accommodate civil servants and rural migrants, drawing on vernacular and ancient Roman traditions and blending past and present. This book looks at Rome’s evolution and architecture from the 19th century onwards, embodying a kind of "Splendid Ordinary" – a journey that is full of discoveries.

• With contributions by Lucio Barbera, Anna Irene Del Monaco, Jean-François Lejeune, Salvatore Santuccio, Daniel Solomon
• Attractive in-depth portraits of 16 neighborhoods with photographs and drawings
• An excursion on post-WWII Italian cinema highlights the locations of famous movies

(English / Deutsch)
This collection of ecological evaluations and data on structural physics is a classic in every design library. Planners, architects, and clients will find a wealth of reliable construction details on matters such as passive house standards, building materials, the criteria for verifying ecologically optimized planning, and tendering in the fifth edition of this catalog. New features include information on the circularity of components, and QR codes that enable direct access to the online database Baubook. All assessments are based on international passive house standards. This is a meticulously researched reference work which, thanks to its bilingualism, overcomes language barriers and is therefore an invaluable aid in consultations with international clients.

• 130 standard cross-sections and connection details
• Four-color, true-to-scale drawings
• Facts and figures on circularity and for ecological planning

Als Sammlung ökologischer Bewertungen und bauphysikalischer Kennwerte ist der Bauteilkatalog ein Klassiker in jeder Konstruktionsbibliothek. Planer, Architekten und Wettbewerb-Auslober finden in der fünften Auflage des Bauteilkatalogs wie gewohnt zuverlässige Baudetails für den Passivhaus-Standard, Baustoffberatungswissen, Kriterien für den Nachweis ökologisch optimierter Planung sowie für die Ausschreibung. Neu sind Angaben zur Zirkularität der Bauteile und QR Codes, die den direkten Zugriff auf die Online Datenbank Baubook ermöglichen. Sämtliche Bewertungen basieren auf den internationalen Passivhausstandards. Insgesamt: ein fundiertes Nachschlagewerk, das durch seine Zweisprachigkeit hilft, Sprachbarrieren zu überwinden und somit auch für die Beratung mit internationalen Bauherren herangezogen werden kann.

• 130 Regelquerschnitte und Anschlussdetails
• Vierfarbige, maßstäbliche Zeichnungen
• Zahlen, Fakten, Daten zur Zirkularität und für die ökologische Bewertung

"Why do architects always wear black?" Cordula Rau was asked this question by an automotive industry manager during an architectural competition. Although an architect herself who also wears black, she didn't have an answer off the top of her head. She decided to ask other architects as well as artists and designers. Since 2001, she has been collecting their handwritten replies in a notebook.

In 2008, these were published in a small work – black-bound, of course. For its new edition, this legendary collection has been expanded to include new amusing, pragmatic and subtle explanations: "Read it – but please don’t ask me why again architects wear black!" (Cordula Rau)

• New and expanded edition of the cult book
• A Collection of handwritten statements in an A6-format notebook
• Addition of 16 new statements

In addition to numerous scaled drawings, newly produced models clarify the most important design aspects of the building.

• Le Corbusier’s 1954 building for the Millowners’ Association in Ahmedabad is an understudied key work
• With attractive photographs, new drawings and models created especially for the publication
• The structure exemplifies characteristic elements of Le Corbusier’s work and development as an architect

Um 1900 entstanden in Wien die ersten Eisenbetonbauten. Ihre Skelettkonstruktion ermöglichte weitgespannte Räume mit hoher Traglast und machte innovative Mehrzweckbauten möglich: Wohn- und Geschäftshäuser mit loftartigen Werkstrakten, integrierten Theatern und Kinos, Fabriken – sie waren die Schauplätze eines beschleunigten urbanen Lebens. Das Buch dokumentiert erstmals die bahnbrechende Entwicklung dieser neuen Bautechnologie, umgesetzt von wagemutigen Baumeistern, Ingenieuren, Architekten und entschlossenen Auftraggebern. Rund 90 analysierte Bauten – von bislang unbeachteten Gebäuden bis hin zu Ikonen der Wiener Architektur – illustrieren die räumliche Flexibilität und Bauqualität des Eisenbetons. Die Pionierjahre des Eisenbetons werfen ein neues Licht auf die Architektur Wiens um 1900.

• 90 Bauten aus den Pionierjahren des Eisenbetons in Wien
• Von Wiener Ikonen bis zu unbekannten Baujuwelen
• Ausstellung im Wien Museum vom 22. Mai 2025 bis 28. September 2025

The publication rethinks climate control – a key concern of the discipline of architecture – through the lens of city climate phenomena over the course of the 20th century. Based on a history of climate control on urban scales, it promotes the integration of indoors and outdoors in order to reduce environmental and thermal loads in cities. Just as heating and cooling practices inside the buildings are affecting the (urban) climate outdoors, urban heat islands are influencing the energy requirements and thermal conditions inside the buildings.
While the first part of the book focuses on the interwar period in Europe, the publication’s second part considers examples from all over the globe, tracing the growing significance of ecological thinking for the design of urban environments.

• Main outcome of a six-years research project on "architecture and urban climates," funded by Swiss National Science Foundation.
• A new series highlighting design-driven approaches to urban climates across the globe

• Revised new edition

Modern urban terraced houses or row houses emerged in Europe from the 17th century onwards. Usually two to three storeys high and with a garden at the back, they formed the traditional urban block. In Brussels, this bourgeois type of housing took on a particularly varied and inspiring form—including the well-known Art Nouveau residences—which composes the DNA of the city to this day. This publication analyses 121 selected examples illustrating the emergence of the terraced house and its further development in other forms of housing. The result is a broad panorama and a history of the architecture and development of the city of Brussels with its particularly heterogenous cityscape.

This expanded edition comprises a new chapter by Kristiaan Borret, the city's former “bouwmeester”. 13 new case studies were added and the content was updated. A project index facilitates quick navigation.

•     With a photo essay by the well-known Belgian photographer Maxime Delvaux
•     All plans have been drawn in standard scales especially for the publication
•     An atlas of exemplary historical and contemporary housing typologies

First comprehensive architectural monograph by DEMOGO with images by Iwan Baan

In their first comprehensive architectural monograph, the architects of DEMOGO explore the driving question of the importance of context for their architecture and invite designers and theorists to reflect with them on the relationship between contemporary spaces and complex contexts.
Built and planned projects are presented in chronological order with specially produced drawings and models. The most remarkable buildings and contexts are captured through the eyes of renowned photographer Iwan Baan.
The guest authors Petra Blaisse, Pippo Ciorra, Giovanni Corbellini, Sara Marini and Alberto Bertagna also shed light on central questions of DEMOGO's work and supplement the monograph with a variety of perspectives and personal reflections.

• First monograph by DEMOGO studio di architettura
• Contributions by Petra Blaisse, Pippo Ciorra, Giovanni Corbellini, Sara Marini, Alberto Bertagna
• Bibliophile edition

Lernen von Einfach Bauen - die unverzichtbare Fortsetzung!

Wie lebt es sich in den Forschungshäusern? Wie hat sich das Konzept Einfach Bauen bewährt?　

Das Buch präsentiert die Auswertung der Langzeitmessungen in an den drei Forschungshäusern aus Massivholz, Mauerwerk und Leichtbeton in monolithischer Bauweise und liefert Erkenntnisse, inwiefern die Annahmen in der tatsächlichen Nutzung eingetreten sind. Die drei Häuser werden hinsichtlich Umweltwirkung, Kosten und Wohnkomfort verglichen. Befragungen der Bewohnerschaft und eine Fotoserie ergänzen die menschliche Erfahrungsebene. Der transparente Abgleich soll zur breiten Weiterentwicklung von Einfach Bauen beitragen.

• Lernen von Einfach Bauen - die unverzichtbare Fortsetzung!
• Messergebnisse aus der Nutzungsphase und Erfahrungen der Bewohnenden
• Eigens angefertigte Fotoserie der Aneignung durch die Bewohner: innen

Architektur entwerfen mit Solarzellen - Prinzipien und Qualitäten einer neuen Architektur

Die rasante Entwicklung der Solartechnik steigert nicht nur die Effizienz der Energieerzeugung, sie senkt auch die Kosten, so daß Solararchitektur schon bald als das neue Normal gelten dürfte. Immer öfter werden solare Bauteile für den Gebäudeentwurf verwendet. Die breite Auswahl an technischen Lösungen liefert für die Gestaltung mittlerweile faszinierende Möglichkeiten.

Made of Solar zeigt die Prinzipien und Qualitäten einer neuen Architektur. Sowohl auf dem Dach als auch an der Fassade integriert, folgen die hier präsentierten, gut gestalteten Lösungen zwar den Regeln der solaren Stromproduktion, eröffnen aber auch neue architektonische Freiräume. Das Buch präsentiert eine Auswahl von 25 zukunftsweisenden, realisierte Bauten mit 3D-Details, Plänen, Grafiken und grossformatigen Farbfotografien.

• Konstruktionsweisen beispielhafter Solararchitekturen im Detail
• Speziell erstellte isometrische Detailzeichnungen und farbige Abbildungen
• Vielfältige Inspirationsquellen für den Einsatz von Solarzellen
• Als deutsche und englische Sprachausgabe erhältlich

Designing architecture with solar cells - principles and qualities of a new architecture

The rapid development of solar technology is not only increasing the efficiency of energy production, it is also reducing costs, so that solar architecture may soon be considered the new normal. Solar components are increasingly being used in building design. The wide range of technical solutions now offers fascinating possibilities for design.

Made of Solar shows the principles and qualities of a new architecture. Integrated both on the roof and on the façade, the well-designed solutions presented here follow the rules of solar energy production, but also open up new architectural freedom. The book presents a selection of 25 pioneering, realised buildings with 3D details, plans, graphics and large-format colour photographs.

• Construction methods of exemplary solar architectures in detail
• Specially created isometric detailed drawings and colour illustrations
• Diverse sources of inspiration for the use of solar cells
• Available in German and English language editions

 China’s Belt and Road Initiative, started in 2013, has transformed many places around the world but also China itself. In some cases, it provided crucial infrastructure, such as the General Hospital of Niger in Niamey or the National Library of El Salvador, while it also generated entire new urban areas, e.g. the Free Zone in Khorghos, Kazakhstan, with sometimes controversial effects to local communities and the environment. Based on research undertaken at the Politecnico di Torino, this publication looks at the Belt and Road Initiative in architectural and spatial terms. Organized in thematic categories, it entails a survey of 21 case studies and investigates the impact of these China-backed projects. All buildings are documented with maps, architectural drawings and photographs specifically created for this book.

• A critical appraisal and an architectural guide to the Belt and Road Initiative
• Authors include Michele Bonino, Francesca Governa (Politecnico di Torino), Francesco Carota (University of Kansas), Sohrab Marri (Balochistan University), Charlie Xue (City University of Hong Kong)
• With photo reportages by Ivo Tavares, Paulo Moreira and Al Yousuf

• Innovation in der Architektur: Vorteil durch Bewegung
• Neue Technologien, Methoden, Lösungen
• Fortführung des erfolgreichen Titels MOVE

• Well-known contributors include Uta Pottgiesser (TU Delft), Ana Tostoes (Lisbon University), Ola Uduku (University of Liverpool) et al.
• The stunning photography by Jean Molitor takes the reader on a journey across the continent
• Documentation of some 60 buildings from eight countries with new scaled drawings and photographs

New fundamentals for designing future-oriented housing

This book shows how architectural design can improve housing. It looks at 14 innovative multiunit dwelling projects through the lenses of current research on urban housing systems, driven by questions on social, environmental, and economic sustainability. Residential buildings designed for diverse cultural contexts are brought together and examined according to spatial antonyms: the individual and communal, the interior and exterior, and the determined and undetermined, to create a resource for future architectural practice. The book concentrates on design decisions and incorporates rich illustrations and conversations with architects and residents. It follows a series of talks curated by the Melbourne School of Design to extend the debate on the missing links between architectural practice and housing research.

«La beauté n'a rien à voir avec l'argent ou la finance. Elle demande de la créativité et de l'amour», affirme Anna Heringer. Sa vision fait mouche, comme en témoignent des amphithéâtres pleins, des prix internationaux (dont l’Aga Kahn Award en 2007 et l’OBEL Award en 2020), une invitation au TED Talk 2017 ainsi que de nombreuses expositions: MoMA à New York, MAM à São Paulo, Biennale de Venise, etc.

Dans Form Follows Love, Anna Heringer raconte à l'auteure Dominique Gauzin-Müller son parcours d'architecte　: ses études, la rencontre avec le spécialiste du pisé Martin Rauch, sa pratique dans le Sud global et ses projets actuels en Europe. Elle partage avec nous le constat que la terre crue est non seulement un matériau respectueux de l'environnement, mais aussi que sa mise en œuvre dans les bâtiments initie des processus réparateurs au sein de la société.

• Dans ce texte essentiel, l'architecte allemande Anna Heringer, spécialiste de la construction en terre crue, raconte à la fois
• comment l'architecture peut avoir une influence positive sur la société et sur l'environnement
• comment construire avec des ressources locales préserve l'équilibre écologique.
• Disponible en français, allemand et anglais

According to Anna Heringer, "Beauty has nothing to do with money or finance, but everything to do with creativity and love". With statements like this she clearly has her finger on the pulse of our time, judging by the packed lecture halls, international awards such as the 2007 Aga Kahn Award or the 2020 OBEL Award, and exhibitions at MoMA, MAM Sao Paulo, and the Venice Biennale.

In Form Follows Love, Anna Heringer talks to author Dominique Gauzin-Müller about her career as an architect, her studies, her experiences during a workshop by Martin Rauch, her practice in the Global South, and current projects in the Global North.

She shares with us the insight that clay is not only an environmentally friendly material, but in the best cases it can even trigger socially beneficial processes.

"What does the landscape architect actually do as a designer?"
The authors of this book investigate this question, which only seems easy – and address some fundamental ideas about design in landscape architecture: What resources are available for designing open spaces? What role do natural conditions play? What principles are applied?
This book identifies and analyses the elements that come together to create landscape architecture. Based on their experience in practice and education, the authors reveal the core components of landscape design. In the introduction to the new edition, Stefan Bernard opens up about the book’s origins and reflects on its continuing importance for the design of high-quality outdoor spaces.

Michel Desvigne ist der international profilierteste französische Landschaftsarchitekt. Ansässig in Paris, hatte er Gastprofessuren an der Architectural Association in London, an der Harvard University und anderswo inne. Desvignes Projekte haben eine starke strategische und konzeptionelle Komponente. Eine große Rolle spielen Verkehrsprojekte, die die städtebaulich-planerische Kompetenz seiner Landschaftsarchitektur unterstreichen.

Das Buch dokumentiert zehn Großprojekte Desvignes aus Frankreich, den USA, Spanien und Qatar, bei denen er nicht nur für die Landschaftsarchitektur, sondern für die gesamte Projektleitung verantwortlich zeichnet. Wie lassen sich solche Projekte hoher Komplexität realisieren? Wie entwickelt sich der intellektuelle Gedankengang? Welche spezifischen Probleme stellen sich bei der Umsetzung?

A New Class of Materials

• Presents the potential for composite materials in architecture
• Overview over the state of the art and the diversity of application possibilities
• With projects by Benthem Crouwel Architects, Foster + Partners, Snøhetta, Zaha Hadid and many more

Construite en 1912 sur les hauts de La Chaux-de-Fonds, la villa Jeanneret-Perret, dite « Maison blanche » à cause de l’enduit de ses façades et de sa toiture en Eternit clair, a été la première maison entièrement conçue par Le Corbusier, qui l’a fait bâtir pour ses parents. En mai 2000, après plusieurs années d’abandon, l’Association Maison blanche, spécialement créée dans ce but, a pu acquérir la maison et charger un groupe de spécialistes de divers domaines de fournir un appui à l’architecte mandaté pour la restauration, Pierre Minder. Par ce projet de restauration exemplaire, la Maison blanche devait retrouver son aspect de laboratoire d’idées du jeune Le Corbusier.

La faisabilité de toutes les mesures prises a été soigneusement examinée sur la base des observations des restaurateurs et de recherches dans les archives. La documentation ainsi réunie, à laquelle s’ajoutent les photographies couleur d’Eveline Perroud et les dessins de relevé et de reconstitution, a fourni la matière pour cette monographie détaillée.

• Innovation in architecture: a step ahead with movement
• New technologies, methods, solutions
• Sequel to the successful Move publication

Italienische Innenarchitektur zeichnet sich seit Jahrzehnten durch eine besondere Innovationskraft und Risikobereitschaft aus, nicht nur auf der ästhetischen Ebene, sondern auch bei der Verwendung von neuen Materialien und deren Kombination. Bereitwilliger als anderswo werden hier Einflüsse von Kunst und Design aufgegriffen; die Entwerfenden lassen die Grenzen zwischen diesen Disziplinen mal provokativ, mal subtil verschwimmen. Nicht zuletzt deshalb sind ihre Kreationen für die Ausgestaltung von Restaurants und Geschäften, Privatwohnungen und Hotels, Büros und Museen weltweit gefragt und erweisen sich oftmals als Trendsetter.

Das Buch zeigt eine Auswahl neuester Entwürfe, die von 2000 bis 2009 in Italien und anderen Ländern, darunter den USA, Frankreich, Großbritannien, Israel und Dubai, realisiert wurden. Unter den vertretenen Architekten und Gestaltern sind Altmeister wie Renzo Piano, Michele De Lucci und Giorgio Armani, aber auch Vertreter der jungen Generation. Zu den besonderen Merkmalen des Bandes gehört eine umfangreiche Dokumentation durch technische Zeichnungen und Detailfotos.

Architecture in the Middle East

Building Sharjah reveals how modern architecture unfurled across the United Arab Emirates’ third-largest city. An oil discovery in 1972 positioned Sharjah as one of the world’s final cities shaped by transformative fortune. In the footsteps of Kuwait, Riyadh, and Dubai, Sharjah faced a metamorphosis: either one that repeated the past’s mistakes or one that reimagined how wealth can build a city.

Sharjah’s potential enticed an international cast of experts to create a bold, new city. As their projects begin to vanish, this book preserves them through unseen photographs and recovered documents. New writing chronicles how local and arriving residents arranged the designed, concrete environment into a home. Beyond just a local artifact, this book examines the confident promises made by global practices of urbanization..

Most of the embodied energy can be saved in the load-bearing structure!

Conceptual Design of Structures is working at the interface between structural engineering, architecture, and art. The book seeks to answer the complex question of what needs to be considered when conceiving a building structure. What influences the process of conceptual thinking? How do space and structure interact? In what ways do architects and engineers work together? The book thus sheds light on the topic of multidisciplinary interrelationships in design, showing numerous different perspectives. Renowned practitioners and researchers from architecture and engineering share their insights, as do artists and historians who cross the disciplinary boundaries. Furthermore, this book also provides an outlook on possible future developments and aspects of sustainable design and construction.

This volume outlines the urban development of eight cities in the Middle East and North Africa: Aleppo, Alexandria, Ankara, Cairo, Casablanca, Dubai, Nouakchott, and Shiraz. Ottoman rule and colonial powers, French or British, operated differently and over various time spans in most of these cities to influence architecture and the urban scene. Global movements such as modernism and socialism reshaped the cityscapes of intersecting histories and cultures.

Maps, sketches, and other visuals trace the urban outcomes of Ottoman rule, colonial powers, and post-independence governments to show how they altered these cities. Class distinctions, informal settlements, and devalued built heritage are common urban issues that the cities of the MENA region still face today.

• Focuses on political and social developments as they influence each city’s built environment

• Discusses all types of built heritage and forms of architecture in the eight exemplary cities

• Visualizes the urban development through many coloured maps, sketches, and charts

Der Garten als Inspiration

Der Garten verkörpert verdichtete Natur, so wie sich nach japanischem Verständnis in einem Tautropfen die Welt widerspiegelt. Diese Vorstellung kann als Impuls für die Imitationen japanischer Gärten in der Schweiz im 20. Jahrhundert gesehen werden, als Anstoß für die Einbindung japanischer Elemente und als Stoffumwandler vom Alpinum zur Trockenlandschaft.

Die Autorin illustriert erstmals anhand von zehn Schweizer Landschaftsarchitekturbüros wie diese sich von miniaturisierten Gärten (Bonsai) inspirieren ließen, sich Szenerien (Shakkei) liehen, dem Reiz des Unvollkommenen (Wabi-sabi) erlagen und den Geist von Zen einfingen. Sie beleuchtet Parallelen zur Anverwandlung chinesischer Einflüsse in Japan und verortet das Phänomen in der Rezeption Nippons im Westen.

• Hochattraktives und viel bisher unveröffentlichtes Bildmaterial
• Fundiert recherchiertes Material verständlich und ansprechend aufbereitet
• Japan-Begeisterung in der Schweizer Landschaftsarchitektur
• Mit einem Fotoessay von Martin Linsi

The garden as inspiration

The garden embodies a condensed version of nature, just as, in Japanese philosophy, the entire world is thought to be reflected in a single dewdrop. This notion may be the inspiration for the Swiss imitation of Japanese gardens in the 20th century, the impetus for the incorporation of Japanese design elements more generally, and the conversion principle from alpine landscapes to Japanese stone gardens. Taking ten Swiss landscape architecture studios as examples, the author illustrates how they drew inspiration from miniaturized gardens (bonsai), borrowed scenery (shakkei), succumbed to the allure of the imperfect (wabi-sabi), and captured the spirit of Zen Buddhism. This book reveals parallels to the assimilation of Chinese influences in Japan and situates the phenomenon within the general reception of Japan in the West.

• Attractive and previously unpublished visual materials
• Well-researched content presented in a clear and appealing manner
• Japanophilia in Swiss landscape architecture
• with a photoessay by Martin Linsi

The Prater – a centerpiece of Viennese history as a reflection of changing times

The Prater represents like no other place the history of Vienna and its growth into the modern metropolis of today. The opening of the Prater in 1766 under Emperor Josef II marked the beginning of a new era. From then on, the imperial hunting grounds were open to all Viennese citizens for recreation and pleasure, for walks, musical performances as well as eating, drinking, and dancing.

From optical curiosities to soccer, balloon flights and rockets, May Day and flower parades, all novelties were presented to a large audience for the first time here – in the Wurstelprater amusement park, in theaters, cinemas, variety shows, zoos, circuses, at the World’s Fair in 1873, in the vivarium, planetarium, or stadium. In the Prater, the major themes of modern life are condensed: the relationship between nature and city; man and animal; modern technology and the human body.

• In-depth essays on more than 250 years of urban history: “The Prater and the City,” “Nature and Technology,” “Body and Desire,” “Grand Theater”
• With contributions from more than 40 renowned authors
• With numerous illustrations and photo spreads

With contributions from:

Thorsten Blume, Susanne Breuss, Andreas Brunner, Ingrid Erb, Brigitte Felderer, Michael Feuchtinger, Wolfgang Fichna, Helmuth Figdor, Alys George, Bernhard Hachleitner, Tobias Hofbauer, Severin Hohensinner, Martin Huber, Anna Jungmayr, Christian Klösch, Sarah Knoll, Claudia Koch, Thomas Macho, Wolfgang Maderthaner, Sabine Müller, Andreas Nierhaus, Klaus Nüchtern, Martina Nußbaumer, Vrääth Öhner, Eva-Maria Orosz, Olaf Osten, Peter Payer, Birgit Peter, Sarah Pichlkastner, Stefan Poser, Béla Rásky, Tabea Rude, Martin Scheutz, Werner Michael Schwarz, Georg Spitaler, Ursula Storch, Christine Strahner, Alina Strmljan, Ernst Strouhal, Manuel Swatek, Klaus Taschwer, Katalin Teller, Gernot Waldner, Elsbeth Wallnöfer, Michael Wallraff, Elke Wikidal, Susanne Winkler, Marie Yazdanpanah, Susana Zapke

A history of Austria’s Chambers of Engineers

This book is the first history of Austria’s Chambers of Engineers from their foundation in 1860 up to the passage of the Civil Technicians Act of 1957. In addition to tracing the history of the organization, the book tackles head-on the controversial issue of collaboration with the Nazi regime and the fate of those civil engineers who were persecuted.

The biographies of civil engineers reveal the extent of the chambers’ autonomy and show how members’ careers were made and broken during this period, as well as discriminatory measures. A special concern of this book is to keep alive the memory of those civil engineers who fell victim to the Nazi regime.

With this thorough and scientific reappraisal, Austria’s Federal Chamber of Civil Engineers has taken an important step in taking responsibility for its own history.

• An important contribution to the historical reappraisal of the Nazi period and the history of Austria’s institutions
• Academic of selected biographies of civil engineers
• With contributions by Ingrid Holzschuh, Inge Korneck, and Alexandra Wachter, as well as numerous historical illustrations and infographics

Die Medizinische Universität Wien zählt mit ihrem Universitätsklinikum, dem AKH Wien, zu den weltweit bekanntesten und traditionsreichsten medizinischen Ausbildungs- und Forschungsstätten. Gemeinsam bilden sie einen eigenen, das Stadtbild bestimmenden Distrikt. Diese gebaute Substanz aus knapp 250 Jahren nahm Stefan Oláh fotografisch in den Blick. Das Buch bietet einen visuellen Parcours durch die Stätten medizinischen Wissens und Wirkens. Auch das, was sonst unsichtbar ist, zeigen die Motive. Diese ästhetisch beeindruckende Diagnose wird durch eine kultur- und wissenschaftshistorische Untersuchung zum Thema ergänzt.

• Blick hinter die Kulissen des AKH und der MedUni Wien in einer Bildserie von Stefan Oláh
• Kulturwissenschaftlicher Essay von Ulrike Matzer
• Operationssäle, Medikamentenroboter, Desinfektionsstraßen, Phantomräume u.v.m.

The Architect’s Sourcebook provides readers with an accessible and playful space planning manual for the digital age. The Sourcebook conveniently brings together general dimensions, layout tips, and the CAD data designers actually need to draw spaces in their software.

A 1000+ readily downloadable CAD blocks, provided by the software company Rayon, are offered throughout the Sourcebook, to help architects address generic typologies (housing, office and outdoor spaces). The quality and diversity of this digital repository will become the architect’s best friend to create most kinds of space layout.　

At a time when Architecture’s tool set and knowledge leaves increasingly online, this book represents both a much-needed update to traditional architectural handbooks, and a timely complement to well-known design manuals.

• More than 1,000 CAD blocks to download for 2-D floor layout planning
• Design for housing, office and outdoor spaces (leisure and sports)
• Introductory texts on the typologies and the use of the book

(English / German)

Baumschlager Eberle Berlin (BE Berlin) was founded in 2010 by Dietmar Eberle and Gerd Jäger with a very specific mission. In its early years, this renowned architecture firm designed global competition bids for Baumschlager Eberle. As a result of its successes, especially in residential architecture in and around Berlin, the Berlin office increasingly also took on the work of implementation planning.

The guiding maxim of BE Berlin has always been to focus on projects that will stand the test of time. This dovetails with Dietmar Eberle’s motto of building for everyday life.

In addition to about 40 project profiles, this book contains an interview with Gerd Jäger by Jürgen Tietz, an essay on residential construction in Germany and especially Berlin by Gerd Jäger, and a photo essay by Claudia Klein.

• Monograph on BE Berlin
• Specialized in the design of subsidized public housing in Berlin and internationally
• Supplement to the monograph Baumschlager Eberle Architekten 2010–2020

Baumschlager Eberle Berlin wurden 2010 von Dietmar Eberle und Gerd Jäger mit einem sehr speziellen Auftrag gegründet. Das weltweit agierende Architekturbüro gestaltete in den frühen Jahren wurden von hier aus die globalen Wettbewerbsbeiträge für Baumschlager Eberle international. Durch die Wettbewerbserfolge, vor allem im Wohnbau in und um Berlin, wurden vom Berliner Büro mit der Zeit auch Werkplanungen für die Realisierungen übernommen.

Als Leitfaden dient die Maxime, sich an dem zu orientieren, was Bestand hat und Dietmar Eberles Motto entspricht, für den Alltag zu bauen.

Das Buch enthält neben etwa 40 Baudokumentationen auch ein Interview von Jürgen Tietz mit Gerd Jäger, einen Beitrag zum Wohnbau in Deutschland mit Schwerpunkt Berlin von Gerd Jäger sowie einen Fotoessay von Claudia Klein.

• Monografie über das Büro BE Berlin
• Spezialisiert auf geförderten Wohnbau in Berlin und internationale Wettbewerbe
• Ergänzung zur Monografie Baumschlager Eberle Architekten 2010–2020

„Schönheit hat nichts mit Geld oder Finanzen zu tun, sondern mit Kreativität und Liebe“, sagt Anna Heringer und trifft damit den Nerv der Zeit – das belegen volle Hörsäle, internationale Auszeichnungen, wie z.B. der Aga Kahn Award 2007 oder der OBEL Award 2020 sowie Ausstellungen im MoMA, im MAM Sao Paulo und bei der Biennale in Venedig oder die Einladung zum TED Talk 2017.

In Form Follows Love erzählt Anna Heringer der Autorin Dominique Gauzin-Müller von ihrem Werdegang als Architektin, dem Studium, ihren Erfahrungen während eines Workshops von Martin Rauch, ihrer Praxis im Globalen Süden, bis hin zu ihren aktuellen Projekten im Globalen Norden.

Sie teilt mit uns dabei die Erkenntnis, dass Lehm nicht nur ein umweltfreundlicher Werkstoff ist, sondern damit beim Bauen im besten Fall sogar gesellschaftlich heilsame Prozesse angestoßen werden können.

• Essenzieller Text der auf Lehmbau spezialisierten Architektin Anna Heringer
• Wie Architektur Umwelt und Gesellschaft positiv verändern kann
• Bauen mit lokalen Ressourcen zur Erhaltung des ökologischen Gleichgewichts

According to Anna Heringer, "Beauty has nothing to do with money or finance, but everything to do with creativity and love". With statements like this she clearly has her finger on the pulse of our time, judging by the packed lecture halls, international awards such as the 2007 Aga Kahn Award or the 2020 OBEL Award, and exhibitions at MoMA, MAM Sao Paulo, and the Venice Biennale.

In Form Follows Love, Anna Heringer talks to author Dominique Gauzin-Müller about her career as an architect, her studies, her experiences during a workshop by Martin Rauch, her practice in the Global South, and current projects in the Global North.

She shares with us the insight that clay is not only an environmentally friendly material, but in the best cases it can even trigger socially beneficial processes.

• Essential text describing the work of Anna Heringer, an architect specialized in clay
• How architecture can have a positive impact on the environment and society
• Building with local resources to maintain ecological balance

Werkstoffe: Ein Überblickswerk

Das Buch bietet einen anschaulichen Überblick über die wichtigsten Werkstoffe, ihre Herstellung und Eigenschaften, ihre Zusammensetzung und Verwendung. Weiters werden Reinigungsstoffe und Farbstoffe sowie Grundlagen der organischen und anorganischen Chemie in prägnanter Form dargestellt.

Materialien bilden den Ausgangspunkt für jeden Gestaltungsprozess, ob in Architektur, Kunst oder Handwerk: Frühe Artefakte belegen, dass sich Menschen seit jeher mit Materialien und Werkstoffen auseinandergesetzt haben, um praktischen oder/und ästhetischen Nutzen daraus zu ziehen.

Das naturwissenschaftliche Interesse für stoffliche Eigenschaften setzte erst in den Anfängen des industriellen Zeitalters im frühen 19. Jahrhundert ein. Mit diesem Buch liegt nun ein fundiertes Fach- und Lehrbuch zu den Grundlagen der Materialkunde vor.

• Was Sie schon immer über Farbstoffe, Kunststoffe, Textilien und Metalle wissen wollten/sollten
• Ein Überblick über Materialien, ihre Herstellung, Eigenschaften und Zusammensetzung, mit Praxisbezug
• Verständlich, fundiert und übersichtlich – ein Fachbuch für Studierende, Schüler:innen, Professionals, an Materialkunde Interessierte

This book explores breathing and the atmosphere as leitmotifs for the design of an inclusive future in a new climate regime, uncovering intertwinements of societal activities with the air and the atmosphere.

With this awareness of entanglement, the deeply performative characteristics of the air, atmosphere and climate are foregrounded and can be discovered as central agents in the conception and design of our planetary existence.

This carefully edited collection brings together renowned authors from various disciplines, and their ideas, observations, and examples inspire us to rethink our forms of social action and design.

This book offers a systematic account of the process of designing in architecture. Design thinking can be regarded as a fundamentally different way of knowing the world and a particular form of addressing creative problems. In this publication, the authors undertake to explore multiple and often controversial theoretical stances on the topic. Underlying principles of inquiry are present in all designing and a process takes place involving empathy or listening carefully before storytelling. Prototyping and testing of solutions are illustrated in the book with many examples, seen from different vantage points. In short, design thinking is a way of knowing and enabling being in the world and leads to a better understanding of architecture.

• Brilliant tour de force through several centuries of design thinking
• Peter G. Rowe is the internationally renowned author of some thirty books
• Lavishly illustrated volume with attractive graphic design

Um künftigen Generationen einen behaglichen Lebensraum zu hinterlassen, ist das klimagerechte Bauen unumgänglich. Entwurf und Materialwahl helfen, die Umweltauswirkungen von Bauwerken deutlich zu reduzieren.　　

Mit dieser Beschreibung vernakulärer Architekturtechniken aller fünf Klimazonen sollen Architekt:innen architektonische Lösungsansätze außereuropäischer und früherer Gesellschaften für die Planung Ihrer Gebäudekonzeptionen in die Hand gelegt　werden. Die in schematischen Zeichnungen und Texten erläuterten Low-Tech Ansätze sollen als Inspirationsquelle für die Gestaltung nachhaltiger und energieautonomer Baustrukturen dienen.　　

Architektur folgt Klima bietet erstmals einen fundierten und umfassenden Überblick über jahrhundertelang erprobte　passive Bautechniken weltweit.

• Techniken traditioneller Architekturen als Guideline für Lowtech-Planung　　
• Systematisch strukturiert nach den fünf Klimazonen　
• Konstruktive Lösungen, Raumkonzepte, Material, Bauphysik, gestalterische Elemente, Städtebau

Climate-friendly construction is essential if we are to ensure that future generations can enjoy comfortable living spaces. Design and the choice of materials help to considerably reduce the climate impact of buildings.

The techniques featured in this book come from all five climatic zones and many are drawn from non-European and bygone societies. The low-tech approaches, illustrated in schematic drawings and explained in texts, are a source of inspiration for the design of sustainable and energy-autonomous building structures.

Architecture Follows Climate provides the first in-depth and comprehensive overview of passive building techniques that have been tried and tested for centuries.

• Traditional architectural techniques as a guide for low-tech planning
• The book’s structure is based on the earth’s five climatic zones
• Building solutions, spatial concepts, materials, structural physics, design elements, urban planning

Climate-friendly construction is essential if we are to ensure that future generations can enjoy comfortable living spaces. Design and the choice of materials help to considerably reduce the climate impact of buildings.

The techniques featured in this book come from all five climatic zones and many are drawn from non-European and bygone societies. The low-tech approaches, illustrated in schematic drawings and explained in texts, are a source of inspiration for the design of sustainable and energy-autonomous building structures.

Architecture Follows Climate provides the first in-depth and comprehensive overview of passive building techniques that have been tried and tested for centuries.

• Traditional architectural techniques as a guide for low-tech planning
• The book’s structure is based on the earth’s five climatic zones
• Building solutions, spatial concepts, materials, structural physics, design elements, urban planning

• Darstellung europäischer Wohnkonzepte seit 1850
• Über 30 Fallbeispiele über das wie und warum Menschen zusammen wohnen
• Neuauflage des Standardwerkes zum kollektiven Wohnen

Das Buch erzählt die Geschichte des gemeinschaftlichen Wohnens von ca. 1850 bis heute. Drei Motive des Teilens – die ökonomische, politische und soziale Intention – gliedern die Wohnobjekte, die einer historischen Analyse unterzogen und in neun Entwicklungsphasen geordnet werden.

Im Vergleich untersucht die Autorin unterschiedliche Nutzungen, ihre Entstehungsformen und deren Entwicklungslinien bis heute, und zeigt so, wie das alltägliche Zusammenleben und die Abstufung der Wohn-Intimität in Europa praktiziert werden.

Aufgrund seiner umfassenden Darstellung, durch die Analyse der Typologie, Grundrissstudien sowie Nutzer- und Expertenbefragungen, kann das Buch auch als Lexikon oder Handbuch zum gemeinschaftlichen Wohnen gelten. Ein präziser Überblick, der in dieser Form einzigartig ist.

Die vergriffene Erstausgabe erscheint nun in korrigierte Neuauflage und neuer Gestaltung und Ausstattung.

The book tells the story of communal living from about 1850 until today. Three motives of sharing - the economic, political and social intention - divide the residential objects, which are investigated in a historical analysis and allocated to nine development phases.

The author investigates and compares different forms of housing and the way they developed from their origins until today; she illustrates how everyday shared living and the degrees of privacy in housing are practiced in Europe.

Owing to its comprehensive documentation, the analysis of typologies, layout plans, and user and expert interviews, the book can also be considered to be a lexicon or handbook on communal living. A detailed overview that is unique in this form.

The out-of-print first edition is now published in an updated new edition with new design and layout.

• Illustration of European housing concepts since 1850
• Over 30 case examples on how and why people live together
• New edition of the standard work on collective living

For the first time, still images of groundbreaking Swiss-French architect, Le Corbusier, and others, filmed by fellow architect, Ernest Weissmann.
The book is based on amateur films, shot by the architect Ernest Weissmann (1903-1985) with a Pathé Motocamera in the years 1929-1933 at the Atelier Le Corbusier and Pierre Jeanneret, among others. These films have never been published before and capture moments from Le Corbusier's life that have never been seen before. It also documents his friendships with Pierre Jeanneret, Josep Lluís Sert, Charlotte Perriand, Norman Rice, Kunio Maekawa, Sigfried Giedion and others. In six chapters, the book shows impressive stills of these films and places them in the respective historical and personal context of Le Corbusier in introductory texts.
Two introductions are devoted to the history of these films and Ernest Weissmann's life and his life-long relationship with Le Corbusier.

•    A documentary treasure trove on the life of Le Corbusier
•    Featuring 80 previously unpublished film stills
•    Available as softcover (9783035627282), hardcover (9783035627299) and limited special edition with three photographic prints (9783035627305)

Le Corbusier (1887–1965) is considered one of the most famous visionary architects and urban designers of the 20th century. With his cousin, he ran the Atelier Le Corbusier and Pierre Jeanneret from 1922 until 1940. During this period, most of the practice’s modernist villas were built, and bigger works such as the Centrosoyus in Moscow, and the Cité de Refuge and the Pavillon Suisse in Paris, realized. In parallel, Le Corbusier developed urban-design projects for such cities as Paris, Antwerp, Algiers, and Buenos Aires, and wrote extensively on his architectural and urbanistic ideas. He continued the Atelier Le Corbusier on an individual base from 1940 on, with projects such as the Unités d’Habitation in Marseilles and in Nantes-Rezé, Briey, Firminy, and Berlin; the Monastery of Sainte-Marie de La Tourette; and the church of Notre-Dame du Haut Ronchamp. He designed the new state capital of the north Indian states of Punjab and Haryana, Chandigarh, with its representative buildings, from 1951 on.
 
Ernest Weissmann (1903–1985) was a Croatian (then-Yugoslav) architect and developer/planner. He graduated in architecture in Zagreb, and worked for Adolf Loos and Le Corbusier and Pierre Jeanneret in Paris. He dedicated his work to the development of the prefabricated hospital-building type and city planning viewed from social and economic points of view. He was an active member of the Congrès Internationaux d’Architecture Moderne (CIAM) from 1929 until 1947. From 1942 until 1966, he worked for the United States Board of Economic Warfare and United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration, Economic Commission, and Department of Economic and Social Affairs. At the UN, Weissmann was in charge of housing, building, and planning at a global scale.

Special edition
- Swiss Hardcover, linen
- three special prints of film stills in a pochette
- limited edition, hand numbered
- color-coordinated threads on the spine (according to Le Corbusier‘s color palette of 1930)
- books wrapped in glassine

Das Burgenland ist mit 100 Jahren das jüngste Bundesland Österreichs, wenngleich es bereits von den Kelten und Römern erschlossen wurde. Sein pannonisches Klima und die sanft-hügelige Landschaft prädestinieren es für Elementares wie Weinbau und einen sanften Tourismus in dünn besiedelter Region. Seit dem Fall des Eisernen Vorhangs hat ein kultureller und wirtschaftlicher Aufholprozess im ehemaligen Westungarn begonnen, lange zuvor schon war es der Rückzugsort einer internationalen Künstlerszene in pittoresken Dorflandschaften. Zwischen Modernisierung und ländlichen Strukturen – diese Polarität begleitet das Burgenland bis heute.　

100 exemplarische Bauwerke erzählen von der Entwicklung der Baukultur im Zeitraum der letzten 100 Jahre. Sieben Essays vermitteln Themen wie die Wiener Moderne im Burgenland, Internationalisierung, Burgenland-Brutalismus oder eine ländliche Postmoderne. Eine europäische Baugeschichte, erzählt am Beispiel eines besonderen Territoriums in der Mitte Europas, das lange seinen östlichsten Rand markiert hat. Ein einzigartiges Kompendium für Kenner:innen und Liebhaber:innen der Architektur und des Burgenlands – oder solche, die es werden wollen.

• Die facettenreiche Architektur des Burgenlands
• Architekturführer und wissenschaftlich fundiertes Kompendium in einem
• Enthält u. a. das Gebäudeensemble Walter Pichler, Die Grube (Peter Noever), Kulturzentrum Mattersburg (Herwig Udo Graf) u. v. m.

Burgenland is Austria’s youngest province, having been transferred from Hungarian jurisdiction in 1922. The province has a rich history, starting with the Celts in the 4th Century BC and later becoming part of the Roman province of Pannonia. Its mild climate and fertile land predestine it for primary activities such as winemaking and tourism. Because it is sparsely populated, there is ample space for building development. The recent architectural history of Burgenland is represented by vernacular homes in the villages and stately buildings in the towns.

100 exemplary buildings tell of the story of Burgenland’s architecture over the last century. Seven essays cover topics such as Viennese modernism in Burgenland, internationalization, Burgenland brutalism, and rural postmodernism.

This is a unique compendium for lovers of architecture and Burgenland.

• The multifaceted architecture of Burgenland, Austria
• Architectural guide and scholarly compendium in one
• Includes the Egg Museum (Wander Bertoni), Die Grube (Peter Noever), Mattersburg Cultural Center (Herwig Udo Graf), and many more

The book is based on amateur films, shot by the architect Ernest Weissmann (1903-1985) with a Pathé Motocamera in the years 1929-1933 at the Atelier Le Corbusier and Pierre Jeanneret, among others. These films have never been published before and capture moments from Le Corbusier's life that have never been seen before. It also documents his friendships with Pierre Jeanneret, Josep Lluís Sert, Charlotte Perriand, Norman Rice, Kunio Maekawa, Sigfried Giedion and others. In six chapters, the book shows impressive stills of these films and places them in the respective historical and personal context of Le Corbusier in introductory texts.  Two introductions are devoted to the history of these films and Ernest Weissmann's life and his life-long relationship with Le Corbusier.

•    A documentary treasure trove on the life of Le Corbusier
•    Featuring 80 previously unpublished film stills
•    Available as softcover (9783035627282), hardcover (9783035627299) and limited special edition with three photographic prints (9783035627305)

Le Corbusier (1887–1965) is considered one of the most famous visionary architects and urban designers of the 20th century. With his cousin, he ran the Atelier Le Corbusier and Pierre Jeanneret from 1922 until 1940. During this period, most of the practice’s modernist villas were built, and bigger works such as the Centrosoyus in Moscow, and the Cité de Refuge and the Pavillon Suisse in Paris, realized. In parallel, Le Corbusier developed urban-design projects for such cities as Paris, Antwerp, Algiers, and Buenos Aires, and wrote extensively on his architectural and urbanistic ideas. He continued the Atelier Le Corbusier on an individual base from 1940 on, with projects such as the Unités d’Habitation in Marseilles and in Nantes-Rezé, Briey, Firminy, and Berlin; the Monastery of Sainte-Marie de La Tourette; and the church of Notre-Dame du Haut Ronchamp. He designed the new state capital of the north Indian states of Punjab and Haryana, Chandigarh, with its representative buildings, from 1951 on.
 
Ernest Weissmann (1903–1985) was a Croatian (then-Yugoslav) architect and developer/planner. He graduated in architecture in Zagreb, and worked for Adolf Loos and Le Corbusier and Pierre Jeanneret in Paris. He dedicated his work to the development of the prefabricated hospital-building type and city planning viewed from social and economic points of view. He was an active member of the Congrès Internationaux d’Architecture Moderne (CIAM) from 1929 until 1947. From 1942 until 1966, he worked for the United States Board of Economic Warfare and United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration, Economic Commission, and Department of Economic and Social Affairs. At the UN, Weissmann was in charge of housing, building, and planning at a global scale.

Timber high-rises: a new urban element

Tall wood buildings have been at the foreground of innovative building practice in urban contexts for a number of years. From London to Stockholm, from Vancouver to Melbourne timber buildings of up to 20 storeys have been built, are under construction or being considered. This dynamic trend was enabled by developments in the material itself, prefabrication and more flexibility in fire regulations. The low CO2 footprint of wood - often regionally sourced - is another strong argument in its favour. This publication explains the typical construction types such as panel systems, frame and hybrid systems. An international selection of 17 case studies is documented in detail with many specially prepared construction drawings, demonstrating the range of the technology. For this expanded edition, a new outlook chapter has been added as well as eight cutting-edge projects, among them Haut Amsterdam, EDGE Südkreuz Berlin and Sara Cultural Centre in Sweden.

• Spectacular international case studies
• Specifically prepared construction drawings explain structural details
•  Authors are experienced specialists for timber construction

The book takes the reader on an intellectual adventure through a carefully curated selection of 120 places that can be understood as metaphors of contemporary global culture. Spread across all seven continents, from the depths of the ocean to outer space, these places are divided into six chapters: Paradises, Utopias, Machines, Monsters, Ruins, and Instruments.

The spectrum ranges from Steve Jobs' Apple Park in California to a national park in Costa Rica, a small field station for the protection of wild orangutans in Borneo, the Great Green Wall in Central Africa, the Trump resort Mar-a-Lago, to the border wall between Israel and Palestine. This book is a grand tour of the most pertinent places in the world today.

Das Werk der Architekten Hans und Wassili Luckhardt (1890-1954/1889-1972) wurde bis heute nicht angemessen gewürdigt. Deren Bedeutung für die Entwicklung der Architektur zeigt sich schon daran, dass die Architekten Bestandteil der der wichtigsten Überblickswerke über die Architektur des 20. Jahrhunderts sind, etwa bei Giedion, Benevolo, Tafuri, Frampton und Curtis.

Sie waren u.a. Mitglieder der Gläsernen Kette und prägten maßgeblich die Architektur der 1920er bis 1960er Jahre.

Die Luckhardts betrieben in den 1920er Jahren in Berlin ein Architekturbüro zusammen mit Alfons Anker, der aufgrund seiner jüdischen Herkunft nach Schweden emigrierte. Das Werk ist aus heutiger Perspektive als ein kollektives Werk relevant, da sich die unterschiedlichen Temperamente der Protagonisten in einem Facettenreichtum zeigen, der sowohl von utopischen „Formphantasien" bis zu baukonstruktiven Experimenten, von der Möbelgestaltung bis zum Städtebau sowie innovativer Werbearchitektur reicht.

Nach dem 1. WK gehörten sie zum engen Kreis des utopischen Expressionismus, in dessen Geist neben zahlreichen Bauten auch einige spektakuläre Entwürfe entstanden (bspw. für das Deutsche Hygiene-Museum in Dresden von 1920 oder aber für ein Volkstheater von 1921).

Das Buch dokumentiert sämtliche 40 realisierten Bauten der Brüder Luckhardt, vornehmlich in Berlin, aber auch in Brandenburg, München, Hannover, Bremen und Rom. Zwei Essays setzen sich u.a. mit den ungebauten und utopischen Projekten auseinander.

Das Buch erscheint auch in englischer Sprache.

Lesebuch zur Wiener Moderne

Die Wiener Moderne gilt als kulturelle Hochblüte Europas: Das Wien dieser Zeit ist Hauptstadt der k. u. k. Monarchie und ein zwei Millionen Einwohner:innen zählender Schmelztegel europäischer Kulturen. Etwa 1850 wird mit der Neuplanung der Ringstraße ein fundamentaler Schub zur Stadterneuerung eingeleitet. In der Folge entstehen Palais und neue Bautypen in ganz Wien, die den gesellschaftlichen Wandel und den technischen Fortschritt abbilden.

265 zeitgenössische Texte konstruieren ein Bild von Wien in der Zeit zwischen 1850 und 1945. Die Autor:innen sind Akteur:innen, die mit ihren Polemiken, Kritiken und Beschreibungen ein lebendiges Zeugnis von diesem bis heute nachwirkenden Stadtumbau geben. Zusammengefasst in Kapiteln, spiegeln sie die maßgeblichen Tendenzen der Zeit wider. Ein unverzichtbares Kompendium.

• Die wichtigsten zeitgenössischen Texte zu Wien 1850–1945
• Chronologisch aufgebaut und nach Themen geordnet
• Texte von zeitgenössischen Architekt:innen, Soziolog:innen, politischen Theoretiker:innen, Kritiker:innen, Romanciers und Journalist:innen

The period of Viennese Modernism is widely regarded as Europe’s cultural heyday. This was when Vienna, with a population of two million, was the capital of the Austro-Hungarian dual monarchy and a melting pot of European cultures. Around 1850, a fundamental push for urban renewal was initiated with the re-planning of the city’s Ringstrasse. As a result, new palaces and novel building types emerged throughout Vienna, reflecting both social change and technological progress.

265 contemporary texts construct a picture of Vienna in the period between 1850 and 1945. The authors’ polemics, critiques, and descriptions provide vivid testimony to this urban transformation whose impact is felt to this day. Summarized in chapters, they reflect the decisive tendencies of the time. An indispensable compendium.

• The most important contemporary texts on Vienna in the period 1850–1945
• Chronologically structured and thematically arranged
• Texts by contemporary architects, sociologists, political theorists, critics, novelists, and journalists

Since 1945, camps as a form of temporary mass housing have been either ignored or discussed only in the margins of architectural history. In this book, Antje Senarclens de Grancy examines for the first time the camps built in the early 20th century within a context of modern architecture and urban planning.

In the refugee camp, modernist forms are condensed, accelerated and radicalized as if under a magnifying glass: ideas of rationalization and hygiene, of standardization and prefabrication, of urban planning and of managing individual needs in a context of war and catastrophe. The focus is on refugee camps set up by the Habsburg state during the First World War as instant cities and planned by architects for purposes of internment and control.

The Exploring Architecture series makes architectural scholarship accessible, presents the latest research methods, and covers a broad spectrum of eras, regions and topics.

• A new perspective on modern housing and urban planning
• Architecture as a constant in the global history of the camp
• Previously unpublished photographs from Central European sources on wartime construction

• The importance of the garden for our present and in the future

• Internationally renowned authors

• A beautifully designed, attractive volume with photography by Anne Schwalbe

Versatile wooden windows

In her book, the trained carpenter and architect Judith Resch looks at what scope still exists in modern window design and construction. The process of simplification is more difficult to achieve for windows than for most building components, since windows, due to their function, must meet high technical specifications. She presents a variety of window design projects that have one thing in common: they pursue a singular design concept using the simplest possible means. All projects are presented in detail with technical drawings and photographs.

• 10 simple wooden window designs
• From retrofitting historical windows to the possibilities of DIY design
• Precisely designed, handcrafted, highly repairable windows

Building with earthquakes is a familiar yet persistent design problem for resilient construction on all continents. This book elaborates on various factors for earthquake-resilient architecture in six thematic chapters that explore the design strategies of lightness, quickness, exactitude, visibility, multiplicity and consistency. These factors allow designers to develop contextual solutions that marry technical know-how with social and cultural understanding, ranging in scale from buildings to furniture and urban master plans.

120 case studies from roughly 30 countries, including some highly prestigious buildings, provide a comprehensive overview of the different design strategies.

• Comprehensive overview of a key global issue
• Includes numerous, superbly illustrated case studies
• Examines design thinking applied in contemporary practice

The authors approach the window first and foremost from an architectural perspective, as a wall opening. They present a structural overview of common window types and take a systematic look at its structural elements in terms of construction, norms, and physics. Considering technological developments, they place modern windows and their structural interactions within the genealogy of this construction element.

This third edition has been reviewed and corrected, and is up to date in terms of standards, technologies, and materials. Shading, triple glazing, installation details related to construction physics such as vapor impermeability and moisture diffusion are given special consideration.

• Window types and their use in construction projects
• Construction and building physics
• Textbook and reference work in one

Anton Pech, Vienna University of Applied Sciences

Georg Pommer, Head of the Structural Engineering Laboratory, Vienna

Johannes Zeininger, Camillo Sitte Building Technology Center, Vienna

Angetrieben vom Klimawandel suchen Architektinnen und Architekten den zeitgemäßen Ausdruck für dauerhafte massive und homogene Wandaufbauten aus Lehm, Holz, Ziegel, Beton und Recyclingmaterialien. Anhand von über 25 Projekten werden überwiegend sortenreine und demontierbare Bauweisen analysiert. In verschiedenen Maßstäben wird die gestalterische und konstruktive Auseinandersetzung mit Masse und Materialität dargestellt. Nach den spezifischen Materialien strukturiert, ermöglicht das Buch direkte Vergleiche, und macht massive Bautypologien und Formensprachen sichtbar.

Zahlreiche, eigens für das Buch erstellte, Zeichnungen dokumentieren die Projekte. In zwei Essays und Interviews mit Pepe Marquez und Arno Richter werden die Strategien und Hintergründe für monolithische Architekturen und massive Bauweisen diskutiert.

• Reich illustriertes Grundlagenwerk für ganzheitliche Lichtplanung
• Einblick in die umfassende Praxiserfahrung der renommierten Lichtplanerin Ulrike Brandi
• Inspirationsquelle für Fachplaner und Laien
• Erhältlich auf Deutsch und Englisch

Kirchengast betrachtet in seinem Buch drei Projekte mit modellhaftem Charakter: Max Dudler, Franz Riepl und Stephen Sergison demonstrieren auf den Maßstabsebenen Dorf, Siedlung und Stadt ein analoges Weiterbauen. Mit ihrer elementaren „Gebautheit", guten Proportionen und dem eleganten Zusammenspiel der Volumina im städtischen Raum verkörpern sie eine Dauerhaftigkeit ohne Allüren und modische Zutaten, die zum sinnfälligen wie selbstverständlichen Hintergrund des alltäglichen Lebens wird. Sie geben dabei nicht nur auf die drängende Frage der Ökologie unseres Zusammenlebens Antwort, sondern liefern einen Ankerpunkt in unserer heterogenen Gestaltungskultur.

Fotos von Hélène Binet, David Schreyer und Stefan Müller sowie historische Illustrationen begleiten das Plädoyer für die gekonnte Architektur der Mitte.

Nach ihrer Geschichte der Szenografie (erschienen 2021) nimmt sich die Autorin nun der Werkstoffe an, aus denen man für die Materialisierung von Ausstellungen wählen kann. In der systematischen Zusammenstellung werden gebräuchliche Materialien vorgestellt und unter den Gesichtspunkten der chemischen, physikalischen, elektrischen, thermischen, mechanischen und akustischen Eigenschaften untersucht.

Auch Fragen der historischen Gebräuchlichkeit sowie der Haltbarkeit, des Gewichts, des Preises und zu ökologischen Aspekten werden beantwortet. Somit bietet das Buch eine wertvolle Hilfe zur Planbarkeit und Abschätzung, etwa in Bezug auf das Wechselspiel mit den ausgestellten Objekten sowie die Themen Brandschutz, Haltbarkeit, Transportfähigkeit, Wetterbeständigkeit, Kostenabschätzung und ökologischer Fußabdruck.

Edited by Ludger Hovestadt and Vera Bühlmann

Applied Virtuality is a book series which is edited by Ludger Hovestadt, ITA Institute of Technology in Architecture, ETH Zürich, Switzerland and Vera Bühlmann, Technical University Vienna, Institute for Architectural Theory.

Based on the thesis that technology changes character over time, the series aims and scopes are to reflect that change by describing and analyzing the most recent explorations and innovations in technology, as well as their implications for a more philosophically comprehensive understanding of technics in our contemporary symbolical, information saturated, climatic environments. The overall interest thereby is to (1) affirm the mightiness of the generic without embracing homogeneity as a necessary consequence, (2) to affirm calculation, computation and automatization without embracing the reduction of human intellect to mechanisation without arcane ésprit, and (3) to oppose in principle the contemporary attitude that tends towards a certain “intellectual chicness” that seems to rather narcissistically celebrate itself in a strangely detached competition for “critical divination” of soon-to-be-expected cultural doom and decay.

With the birth of abstract/symbolic/universal algebra in the late 19th century, many scholars associate a fundamental crisis that affects human culture at large. We owe all of our contemporary electric and information-based infrastructures for living to these developments in mathematics, and it is no coincidence that we tend to find the symptoms that point to the manifestation of this crisis in the changes this new form of technics imposes on the people who begin to rely on it. This crisis is classically conceived as a crisis of intuition (Hans Hahn, Edmund Husserl et cetera). But from a more appreciative stance towards the sheer unlikeliness and fantastic power of intellection which is at work everywhere in the reality of such media-ized living environments, we might just as well see in this characterization an anxious (even if all-too understandable) misconception of the critical developments we are experiencing. From this stance, the sheer prominence of this misconception today indicates what appears like a certain fatigue of thinking, perhaps an exhaustion-through-overwhelming of our collective power to imagine.

We mean no offence by saying this. Let us illustrate more concretely: John Orton maintains in his book Semiconductors and the Information Revolution: Magic Crystals That Made IT Happen, that “as a human achievement,” semiconductors ought to “rank alongside the Beethoven Symphonies, Concord, Impressionism, medieval cathedrals and Burgundy wines and we should be equally proud of it” (2009, p. 2). Why is it, indeed, that this demand feels odd? Of course this lack of appreciating our current form of technics is owed partially to its abstractness and the degree of expertise it seems to demand from us. But has this not been the case for any of the abovementioned artifacts we all meanwhile hold as precious and dear?

We hope to find the right dosage of irony and humor that seems so necessary for theorizing technics, arts, intellection in a manner that seeks to escape (1) the servile irresponsibility that attaches to programs of mechanization, as well as (2) the narrow-mindedness and missionary commitment that attaches to ideological doctrine and programmatic. By celebrating moments of intellectual quickness, with our interest in theory and abstraction, we pursue a genuinely comparatistic approach. We regard artifacts as theoretical objects, constituted by the intelligible codes and symbolic grammaticality that give them consistency. But we don’t see the reality of artifacts in the white spectrum of these codes and symbols; rather, we see their reality in that which is enciphered thereby. The ambitions of a comparatistic approach to theory strive towards an alphabetization and literacy of these codes.

Edited by Ludger Hovestadt and Vera Bühlmann

Applied Virtuality is a book series which is edited by Ludger Hovestadt, ITA Institute of Technology in Architecture, ETH Zürich, Switzerland and Vera Bühlmann, Technical University Vienna, Institute for Architectural Theory.

Based on the thesis that technology changes character over time, the series aims and scopes are to reflect that change by describing and analyzing the most recent explorations and innovations in technology, as well as their implications for a more philosophically comprehensive understanding of technics in our contemporary symbolical, information saturated, climatic environments. The overall interest thereby is to (1) affirm the mightiness of the generic without embracing homogeneity as a necessary consequence, (2) to affirm calculation, computation and automatization without embracing the reduction of human intellect to mechanisation without arcane ésprit, and (3) to oppose in principle the contemporary attitude that tends towards a certain “intellectual chicness” that seems to rather narcissistically celebrate itself in a strangely detached competition for “critical divination” of soon-to-be-expected cultural doom and decay.

With the birth of abstract/symbolic/universal algebra in the late 19th century, many scholars associate a fundamental crisis that affects human culture at large. We owe all of our contemporary electric and information-based infrastructures for living to these developments in mathematics, and it is no coincidence that we tend to find the symptoms that point to the manifestation of this crisis in the changes this new form of technics imposes on the people who begin to rely on it. This crisis is classically conceived as a crisis of intuition (Hans Hahn, Edmund Husserl et cetera). But from a more appreciative stance towards the sheer unlikeliness and fantastic power of intellection which is at work everywhere in the reality of such media-ized living environments, we might just as well see in this characterization an anxious (even if all-too understandable) misconception of the critical developments we are experiencing. From this stance, the sheer prominence of this misconception today indicates what appears like a certain fatigue of thinking, perhaps an exhaustion-through-overwhelming of our collective power to imagine.

We mean no offence by saying this. Let us illustrate more concretely: John Orton maintains in his book Semiconductors and the Information Revolution: Magic Crystals That Made IT Happen, that “as a human achievement,” semiconductors ought to “rank alongside the Beethoven Symphonies, Concord, Impressionism, medieval cathedrals and Burgundy wines and we should be equally proud of it” (2009, p. 2). Why is it, indeed, that this demand feels odd? Of course this lack of appreciating our current form of technics is owed partially to its abstractness and the degree of expertise it seems to demand from us. But has this not been the case for any of the abovementioned artifacts we all meanwhile hold as precious and dear?

We hope to find the right dosage of irony and humor that seems so necessary for theorizing technics, arts, intellection in a manner that seeks to escape (1) the servile irresponsibility that attaches to programs of mechanization, as well as (2) the narrow-mindedness and missionary commitment that attaches to ideological doctrine and programmatic. By celebrating moments of intellectual quickness, with our interest in theory and abstraction, we pursue a genuinely comparatistic approach. We regard artifacts as theoretical objects, constituted by the intelligible codes and symbolic grammaticality that give them consistency. But we don’t see the reality of artifacts in the white spectrum of these codes and symbols; rather, we see their reality in that which is enciphered thereby. The ambitions of a comparatistic approach to theory strive towards an alphabetization and literacy of these codes.

Das Dach ist die Urform menschlicher Behausungen, wobei Holz als Baustoff für die Verwendung von Dachkonstruktionen – zumindest im Wohnhausbau – nach wie vor enorme Bedeutung zukommt.

Die dritte Auflage des Bandes gibt den bewährten Überblick über die gängigen Konstruktionssysteme, die im Altbau und im Neubau angewendet werden, beginnend bei den Grundlagen bis hin zu Sonderformen, Dachgauben und modernen Konstruktionen. Zudem werden die Prinzipien der Dachaussteifung erläutert und Konstruktionsvorschläge angegeben. Das Buch enthält auch Kapitel zur Bestandsanalyse und konstruktive Maßnahmen für eine spätere Dachraumnutzung.

In der Neuauflage wurden sämtliche Kapitel überarbeitet und aktualisiert, insbesondere Konstruktionsformen, Verbindungen und Hallentragwerke.

Though sometimes overlooked and underestimated, rural space has played a substantial role in social, cultural, economic, and ideological change. This role can be studied by looking at the re/production of spatial agents that were caused by direct or indirect political interventions in rural communities. In this book, scholars looking at case studies from Greece, Turkey, Italy, Portugal, and Austria discuss the making of identity in and through rural areas, which have dramatically changed under different political, social, and economic conditions from the turn of the 20th century up until today. By focusing on potential contestations of such changes, the authors provide a better in-depth understanding of spatial dynamics related to cultural and social spheres of 20th-century rurality.

• Includes contributions of national and international experts
• Deals with 20th-century rural environment and identity-making policies
• Findings of an international symposium of DFG Research Training Group "Cultural and Technological Significance of Historic Buildings", Brandenburg University of Technology (BTU) Cottbus-Senftenberg

30 Trees presents the favorite trees of 30 internationally renowned landscape architects. In each case, the designers describe the characteristics that represent the essence of the selected tree, the designed landscapes they associate with it, and how it was used in completed projects.

These personal insights are complemented by five scholarly essays on criteria such as typology, ecology, maintenance, and seasons that are critical in matching trees to landscapes. Additionally, the book includes a botanical description of each species mentioned.

The result is a compendium of insights into tree species and the use of trees in landscape architecture. This book will be of interest to professionals and amateurs alike.

• Compendium of the most popular trees used in landscape architecture
• Over 30 projects from around the world
• Selected by 30 international landscape architects

Friedrich Achleitner’s guide to architecture

This guide documents more than a century of architecture in the Lower Austria region, based on Friedrich Achleitner’s influential multi-volume Österreichische Architektur im 20. Jahrhundert (Austrian Architecture in the 20th Century). The editors have continued Achleitner’s unfinished work by drawing on documents bequeathed to his estate.

This foundational volume examines the multifaceted architectural landscape of Lower Austria in the 20th century on the basis of ca. 2,300 buildings and projects, which are arranged both topographically and typologically. Not only prominent buildings, but also lesser-known architectural examples are presented in typologies. The book includes essays by well-known authors on Achleitner, his primary research, the genesis of the architectural guide, and architecture in Lower Austria.

• Architecture in Lower Austria: a thorough and systematic topographical and typological overview
• Key information on approx. 2,300 buildings and projects; catalog of sites and planners; numerous plans and original photographs by Friedrich Achleitner
• With contributions by Ingrid Holzschuh / Monika Platzer, Franziska Leeb, and others

Portrait of Studio Hani Rashid

Building on the previous volume Re: Futures (2017), Re: Action presents a selection of innovative designs by Studio Hani Rashid at the University of Applied Arts Vienna’s Institute of Architecture. The selected projects address architectural strategies for ensuring vitality in cities and ecosystems as well as sustainable urban growth.

In his studio, Hani Rashid, co-founder of the visionary New York firm Asymptote Architecture, focuses on architecture that responds to current and future ecological changes. Bringing together projects, texts, and conversations, the book highlights creative ways in which architecture can contribute to the development of a sustainable, progressive, and livable urban future.

A critical introduction to the design of public spaces

The way public spaces are designed reflects the period in which they were created. However, in our globalized world of experience and images the desire for uniqueness tends to achieve the opposite: increasingly, designers of open spaces resort to the same devices and thereby distance themselves from the urban context.

The author analyzes ten outstanding contemporary designs of public spaces in Europe in terms of their function in the urban context and what materials are used for their implementation. In interviews with the designers she retraces the changes of the concepts during the design stage of the projects, underpinning her findings with numerous sketches. In addition, her research focuses on how the projects were received in the community.

• Learning from designers of outstanding public spaces in Europe
• Numerous unpublished design sketches
• A clear guide to urban design
• Also available in an English edition