Architecture

Climate change is severely impacting cities and their surrounding areas, highlighting the need for new visions of the future in multiple facets of our lives. Building on its previous work in metropolitan planning and design, MetroLab has developed a visionary mapping approach to address the climate crisis on the urban scale. It aims to identify real needs for action and to show new pathways with a particular focus on the Vienna metropolitan area.

The creative mapping approach reveals multilayered spatial phenomena, functional linkages, and spatial relationships between the city and its surroundings, visually communicating key trends and illustrating how climate goals can be achieved through integrated, cross-border development.

• Innovative approach for regional and city planning
• Mapping as a central method for integrated development
• Developed by Vienna’s award-winning urban design think tank MetroLab

Die Entwicklungsgeschichte der Architektur in einer furiosen Gesamtschau, neu erzählt als Geschichte einer großen Transformation: von der Baukunst der Antike bis zur ersten Phase des Neubeginns in der Renaissance, von der Entfaltung der modernen Architektur bis zur Gegenwart und ihrer zukünftigen Entwicklung. Nur so war es möglich, Klarheit auch über den Stand der aktuellen Architektur und deren verwirrendes Erscheinungsbild zu erlangen, den Gesamtzusammenhang von Alter Baukunst und Neuer Architektur zu erfassen und dadurch auch die Moderne in einem neuen Licht zu sehen. Es wurde deutlich, dass beide Erscheinungsformen trotz aller Brüche ein einziges, zusammenhängendes Territorium bilden. Ein neuer Versuch also, zu erklären, wie die Architektur zu dem geworden ist, was sie heute ist.

• 2500 Jahre Baugeschichte in einem Band
• reich illustrierter Text mit über 400 ikonischen Abbildungen
• Die erstaunlichen Metamorphosen der Architektur werden nicht nur beschrieben, sondern erklärt

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

Cities are typically thought of as permanent. Structures, streets, infrastructure, and other features of the built environment, even if they are periodically replaced, are intended to endure. But temporary, flexible spaces and uses are essential to how cities function and the ways urban dwellers inhabit them. Such adaptability, moreover, is fundamental if cities are to meet the challenges of the future.

This book examines temporary urbanisms across varied global contexts, considering their significance for cities and everyday life as well as for policy and practice. It brings together many distinct forms and facets of temporariness and adaptability—from sites of consumption by privileged residents to the survival strategies of marginalized groups—drawing on examples spanning five continents. Lauren Andres explores the driving forces of adaptability as well as the power dynamics and tensions between temporariness and permanence. She highlights how adaptability enhances livability, sustainability, and resilience, showing its importance for addressing crises such as climate change, socioeconomic inequalities, and pandemics. Authoritative and wide-ranging, Adaptable Cities and Temporary Urbanisms reveals why experimentation and creativity are crucial to the present and future of cities.

In diesem Buch wird die Geschichte der Wohnungspolitik in West-Berlin vom Bau der Berliner Mauer 1961 bis zur Wiedervereinigung Berlins 1990 dargestellt. Es handelt sich um die Fortsetzung eines Vorläufer-Buches desselben Autors („Bauen, bauen, bauen…!“ Die Wohnungspolitik in Berlin (West) 1945–1961).

Im Bereich von Stadtplanung und Städtebau werden die zeitgenössischen Leitideen, die konkrete Entwicklung der Stadtplanung und das Flächenproblem behandelt. Die Wohnungsbaupolitik umfasst unter anderem Darstellungen zu Kosten und Finanzierung des Wohnungsbaus, zur Bauwirtschaft und Bautechnik, zum sozialen Wohnungsbau, zu einzelnen Wohnsiedlungen, zur Neubau-IBA und zur statistischen Analyse der Wohnungsproduktion. Bei der Behandlung der Wohnungsbestandspolitik liegt der Schwerpunkt auf der Stadterneuerungspolitik. Außerdem werden hier behandelt: die Wohnraumbewirtschaftung und -vermittlung, die Zweckentfremdung von Wohnraum, die Wohnungsaufsicht und -pflege, die Analyse der Wohnraumversorgung, der Mieterschutz, die Entwicklung der Mieten und die Problematik der Umwandlung von Mietwohnungen in Eigentumswohnungen.

Als Ergebnis seiner umfassenden Untersuchung kommt der Autor zu einer differenzierten Bewertung der Wohnungspolitik im ummauerten West-Berlin.

How can we apply constructive experiments in architecture as an innovative response to the climate crisis? The conference ‘Constructive Disobedience’ was dedicated to addressing this question. This book compiles various projects and positions presented there, drawn from a wide range of practice, teaching and research cases. International projects include a prestressed rammed earth structure, studies on heterogeneous constructions, and the rediscovery of natural materials such as hemp and lime. Together, they form a methodological foundation that highlights the knowledge gained from experimental architecture for the coming era of building transformation.

• International contributions and new approaches in the field of experimental architecture
• Focus on bio-based and regenerative building methods: wood constructions, hemp lime, bacteria, reed, straw, earth
• Variety of construction drawings

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

Architektur ist ein langwieriges Geschäft – was heute gebaut wird, wurde schon vor Jahren geplant; was heute geplant wird, wird erst viel später gebaut werden. Aber ohne eine Vision, die uns dem Ziel einer lebenswerten Stadt näherbringt, werden Absichtserklärungen nicht zur Wirklichkeit werden. So ist der vorliegende Band der Gestaltungsleitlinien Stadtraum am Beispiel Dresden vor allem als Leitfaden zu sehen, an dem sich Bauherr*innen, Planer*innen und Architekt*innen im Sinne eines gemeinsamen Bildes orientieren können.

„Ja das möchste, nach vorne die Ostsee, nach hinten die Friedrichstraße …‟. Es geht hier nicht um Traumgespinste im Sinne Kurt Tucholskys. Die Städte, in denen wir leben, sind bereits gebaut, und sie mögen Lücken und Brüche aufweisen, in denen sich auch gesellschaftliche Umbrüche widerspiegeln. Wie also gehen wir mit dem Bestand um, damit eine lebenswerte Stadt entsteht oder bestehen bleibt?

• Anschauliche Zeichnungen zu stadträumlichen, städtebaulichen und architektonischen Gestaltungsprinzipien
• Analyse der Stadtstrukturen Dresdens und Vorschläge zur Weiterentwicklung des Bestands
• Neun Thesen zur baukulturellen Entwicklung Dresdens

Urbanism as Civic Art presents essential expertise in the art of building cities. Showcasing 150 examples from over 70 German cities, it illustrates, analyzes, and compares a wide range of urban spaces, courtyards, squares, and streets. The book impressively documents the distinctive qualities of European cities: their beauty, durability, mixed usage, social diversity, density, and the clear separation between public and private space. Editor Christoph Mäckler builds on the foundations laid by early twentieth-century urban design pioneers such as Cornelius Gurlitt, Raymond Unwin, and Josef Stubben, offering a comprehensive framework for city planning.

Featuring contributions by Vittorio Magnago Lampugnani, Christoph Mäckler, Werner Oechslin, Alexander Pellnitz, Jan Pieper, Birgit Roth, Mirjam Schmidt, Wolfgang Sonne, Jürg Sulzer and Anne Pfeil, and Thomas Will

• The definitive guide of the foundations of urban design, now in English
• Comprehensive analysis of 150 case studies from 70 cities
• Outcome of decades of research at the Deutsches Institut für Stadtbaukunst

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

Im Herzen Bielefelds liegt die größte Kirche der Stadt: Die evangelisch-lutherische Neustädter Marienkirche. Ihre Entstehung ist eng mit den Grafen von Ravensberg verbunden, die ab 1293 eine Kirche im Stil der Gotik errichten ließen. Am Fuße des Sparrenberg gelegen prägen die Westtürme der Marienkirche das Stadtbild Bielefelds bis heute.

Citare in Italian means both to cite and to quote. Citazione means both citation and quotation. This volume, with many discussions of annotations or marginal notes (postils), aims to tease out one of the principal threads of the over-arching theme of what might be termed ‘Lost and Found in Translation’ with regard to Early Modern Architecture. Citation of texts in relation to Early Modern architectural design, treatise writing and theory, has long been studied, but mostly in ways which have never clearly distinguished between three important but different terms: mindset, citation and quotation. This volume charts citation from Filarete and ancient descriptions of Near Eastern Architecture, to difficulties in understanding Vitruvius, and Lost and found in Fra Giocondo’s Vitruvius. The investigation then broadens to Tracing Renaissance Italian Architectural Books in colonial Mexico and an examination of reverse ekphrasis and Early Modern Architecture. It then turns to twisted words and borrowed wisdom: misleading citation in Scamozzi’s Idea dell’architettura universale (1615), before heading East to discuss formats and functions of large-scale calligraphy in late-Ming and Qing-period China and the reconstruction of architectural spaces. Turning to Quotation, the investigation begins with Pirro Ligorio, the ‘Megala’ ship and the Cortile del Belvedere, and invention, imitation and reiteration: the case of Bramante’s Palazzo Caprini and its progeny. Then follows Quoting from memory: centralized models and basilica systems in early counter-reformation Venice, followed by ‘Borrominismo’ in eighteenth century Lisbon, and old form with new function: Villa Emo–Amtshaus Wörlitz, and concludes with found and reshaped in translation: architectural models between centre and periphery. An important reading for anybody interested in Early Modern Architecture.

Von 1950 bis 1971 wurden 26 neue Synagogen in Deutschland gebaut. Die Weihe der Synagogen in Saarbrücken 1951 markiert eine gesamtdeutsche Phase neu errichteter Synagogen und jüdischer Gemeindehäuser. Mit der Weihe der Synagoge in Karlsruhe im Jahr 1971 kam jene mengenmäßig geringe Bauphase vorläufig zum Erliegen. Diese erste Baugruppe wurde größtenteils von unbekannten jüdischen und nicht jüdischen Architekten entworfen. Zentrale Aspekte sind hierbei, welche architektonischen Vorbilder auf den Nachkriegssynagogenbau eingewirkt haben und lässt sich die Fortsetzung einer bis 1931 entwickelten synagogalen Architektursprache feststellen? Betrachtet wird ebenso, welchen Stellenwert diese neue Synagogenarchitektur in Deutschland nach 1945 hatte und ob die Bedeutung dieser Neubauten erkannt wurde.

• Synagogen und jüdische Gemeindehäuser im Nachkriegsdeutschland
• Architektur in Ost- und Westdeutschland
• Unbekannte Architekten

The 49% Architect, 51% Entrepreneur: A Blueprint for Entrepreneurship in Architecture will inspire architects and aspiring architects with its insights into the visionaries of the past and a look to the future of architecture—and sustainability, the planet, and an urgent call to global stewardship of our fragile world.

The 49% Architect, 51% Entrepreneur: A Blueprint for Entrepreneurship in Architecture explores architectural history and the inspirations of the visionaries of the field including: • Ludwig Mies ven der Rohe • Le Corbusier • Frank Lloyd Wright • Gustave Eiffel • Zaha Hadid • Carme Pigem • And many Pritzker winners who have designed the greatest buildings in the world

In addition, the author examines the most pressing issues of architecture and society today, from global warming to the pressures and problems of city planning, from urban sprawl to a lack of commitment to the principles of urbanism. He shares his vision of cities of the future—with ground-breaking, original ideas of what buildings and cities and communities in the next century could be.

Architects must be both artists—and businesspeople and entrepreneurs capable of steering projects, partnerships, and companies forward, with a view toward creating sustainable structures and cities. By looking through the lens of the past, Edgard Rios helps readers imagine the future. He urges the citizens of the world to live in harmony with the landscape and world around it. By presenting cutting-edge concepts, The 49% Architect, 51% Entrepreneur presents a look at what the world could be, along with a clarion call to embrace environmental stewardship and sustainable practices.

Warm, inspiring, provocative, and thought-provoking, Edgard Rios aims to both challenge and applaud today’s architects, as well as inspire the next generation. He shares his insights gained from decades collaborating, creating, and envisioning transformative projects.

The Forever Home provides the foundation to confidently explore what you want, plan your dream home, and find the right professionals to make it a reality.

Renowned architect Kevin Harris will guide you through his proven, step-by-step process to design and build a house that fits you so well it becomes your forever home. No matter where you travel, your forever home is the place you feel complete.

Inside these pages, you’ll learn how to:
• Determine when it makes sense to hire an architect
• Evaluate and assemble the design team and construction team that’s right for you
• Understand the residential construction process
• Use the Hierarchy of Design to make the most important decisions first
• Recognize the pitfalls and avoid many common, but ill advised cost-saving schemes

The Forever Home will pave the way for you to design and build not only the home of your current dreams, but the home that will be perfect for your children, grandchildren, aging parents, and even you later in life.

The practice of architecture as a learned profession is a fairly recent invention in the history of architecture, one that was an uneasy fit with professional ideals from its inception in the nineteenth century, and the value of which is under assault today from globalizing economic forces. Unfortunately, the profession’s longstanding internal tensions have prevented it from articulating a durable ethical rationale for its protections that would help it stand up to those assaults. This book proposes crafting just such a durable ethical rationale through the public good the architecture profession serves. 

But the concept of the public is itself a recent historic phenomenon, one also experiencing both tremendous pressures and instability from many of the same sources destabilizing the architecture profession—globalization, neo-liberal economics, the rise of individualism, and the destruction of privacy. Therefore, to bring architecture and the public good together in any sustained way, both architecture’s instabilities and the public’s must be better understood. The book accomplishes this task by addressing the profession’s long-standing internal struggles that prevent it from articulating a strong ethical defense, the recent economic forces which are dispersing the profession’s center much as they have the world’s middle classes, the Enlightenment-derived concept of the bourgeois public and its more recent decline and reinvention, the importance of dissecting the shifting boundaries between the public and private realms, and finally a new approach to reassert the many ways in which architecture can not only serve the public good, but also become a protagonist in its renewal as a guiding ideal for our times.

Harmonizing spaces, inspiring realities: A reference, overview and source of inspiration for today's interior design, from private homes to stores, spas, restaurants, offices and more.

Interior design today is versatile, ever-evolving, and open to experimentation and spontaneity. From materials and textures to light and color, shapes and lines, furniture and objects, and even stylistic references: This compendium provides an inspiring overview of the latest trends, techniques, and creative possibilities in interior design. It explores what can be achieved between floor and ceiling, within four walls – or more.

Showcasing the best of today’s design culture at the intersection of global trends, local traditions, and functional demands, this volume presents a carefully curated range of both private and public interior projects. Despite their diversity, all featured spaces share a common focus on authenticity, attention to detail, and a desire for personal expression.

Exploring the latest advancements and showcasing projects that show just how beautiful and innovative prefab and modular dwellings can be.

Translating contemporary pedagogical concepts  into compelling and very diverse architectural solutions.

Today, schools are far more than just places of learning. They have evolved into living spaces for children and adolescents, offering extensive social functions and extracurricular activities. This shift toward diverse educational and societal roles has fundamentally transformed the architecture of school buildings and grounds. 

Spaces for Learning presents international examples that show how functionality, sustainability, and compelling design can create innovative educational environments. Featuring projects from elementary to secondary schools, the book reveals how architecture and pedagogy can merge in contemporary and high-quality ways. The selection provides an inspiring look into the new worlds of open, diverse, and future-oriented learning.

Cities are typically thought of as permanent. Structures, streets, infrastructure, and other features of the built environment, even if they are periodically replaced, are intended to endure. But temporary, flexible spaces and uses are essential to how cities function and the ways urban dwellers inhabit them. Such adaptability, moreover, is fundamental if cities are to meet the challenges of the future.

This book examines temporary urbanisms across varied global contexts, considering their significance for cities and everyday life as well as for policy and practice. It brings together many distinct forms and facets of temporariness and adaptability—from sites of consumption by privileged residents to the survival strategies of marginalized groups—drawing on examples spanning five continents. Lauren Andres explores the driving forces of adaptability as well as the power dynamics and tensions between temporariness and permanence. She highlights how adaptability enhances livability, sustainability, and resilience, showing its importance for addressing crises such as climate change, socioeconomic inequalities, and pandemics. Authoritative and wide-ranging, Adaptable Cities and Temporary Urbanisms reveals why experimentation and creativity are crucial to the present and future of cities.

The book tells the story of the proliferation of gated communities and the privatisation of public life and public space in Mexico over the last three decades. Drawing on research from Lomas de Angelópolis in Puebla, one of the largest gated communities in the world, Emma Regina Morales explores why such fortified spaces have proved popular with middle-class households.

Weaving together the multiple influences of housing policy, predatory financial markets, and an increased fear of crime, the book sets out how policy makers and planners can improve decision-making and provide non-gated solutions to urban anxiety.

Many planning systems are currently locked into growth-dependence, encouraging market-led development which can widen social inequalities and produce adverse environmental outcomes.

This accessible book introduces students to the debates around growth and planning and sets out the solutions to promote genuinely sustainable communities. It includes:

• a positive proposal for reform of the planning system;

• focused discussions from the UK and Europe providing lessons for future planning;

• analysis of the challenges of implementing reform.

Covering chapters on cooperatives, community land trusts, local economic development and community assets and infrastructure, as well as commoning, it provides a roadmap for planning system reform with social justice and sustainability at its heart.

The SMOTIES network is a partnership of ten design universities, research centers, creative agencies, and national associations. Each partner selected a small and remote place in their country to benefit from the design of cultural and creative regenerations within public spaces and in collaboration with local stakeholders.

The project is part of the Human Cities network, a platform for interdisciplinary exchange, examining and acting to improve the livability of indoor and outdoor public spaces to incubate innovative processes for social cohesion through participatory design.

• Features projects in Portugal, Poland, Wales, Italy, Iceland, Estonia, France, Austria, Slovenia, and Greece
• Regional promotion and safeguarding of quality of life and work
• Best practice: learning from exemplary models

With contributions by

Michael Dumiak, Independent reporter and editor

Valentina Auricchio PhD, associate professor, Department of Design, Politecnico di Milano

Elisa Bertolotti PhD, assistant professor of　Communication Design, Art and Design Department, Faculty of Arts and Humanities, University of Madeira

Beatriz Bonilla Berrocal, PhD candidate, Department of Design, Politecnico di Milano

Helen Charoupia Researcher, Department of　Product and Systems Design Engineering within Complex Systems and Service Design Lab, University of the Aegean

Alexandra Coutsoucos, Research fellow, Department of Design, Politecnico di Milano

Annalinda De Rosa PhD, researcher, Department of Design, Politecnico di Milano

Davide Fassi PhD, full professor, Department of Design, Politecnico di Milano

Susana Gonzaga PhD, assistant professor, Art and Design Department, Faculty of Arts and Humanities, University of Madeira

Nina Goršič, Architect and researcher, urban renewal, cultural heritage and accessibility, Urban Planning Institute of the Republic of Slovenia

Frank van Hasselt, Chief executive, Clear Village

Astrid Lelarge, Historian of urban planning, Alternance Architecture and Urban Planning, assistant professor, Faculty of Planning and Design, Agricultural University of Iceland

Vanessa Monna, Post-doc research fellow, Department of Design, Politecnico di Milano

Chiara Nifosì, PhD, assistant professor of　Urban Planning, Department of Architecture and Urban Studies, Politecnico di Milano

Matej Nikšič, Architect, urban planner, lecturer in urban design, Urban Planning Institute of the Republic of Slovenia

Cristina Renzoni, PhD, associate professor of Urban Planning, Department of Architecture and Urban Studies, Politecnico di Milano

Anwar Samara, Student of Urban Planning, Faculty of Architecture, University of Ljubljana

Noemi Satta, Independent consultant and expert in cultural innovation and strategic and participatory planning

Isabelle Vérilhac, Strategic designer, founder of Design With Isabelle

The Yenidze Cigarette Factory of 1909 was constructed as an industrial, architectural object that advertised Dresden as a center for the tobacco trade. Born from a unique client-architect relationship between Hugo Zietz and Martin Hammitzsch, the factory’s importance to modernism has been understated. Smoke and Mirrors uncovers the history of the factory’s planning, design, and construction, and for the first time, apart from the building’s historical narrative, positions this addition to Dresden’s skyline within the formative histories of the modern movement.

Technical innovation and hegemonic politics accelerated the growth process in silver mining regions during the 16^th century. This resulted in the founding of new, planned towns. In a comparative approach, the construction and expansion of the mining towns of Annaberg and Marienberg in the Erzgebirge and Potosí in the Viceroyalty of Peru are analyzed with reference to the architectural implications of regulatory policy measures. Particular attention is paid to the genesis and composition of the dynamically overlapping areas of state, religion, municipality and mining. Their appearance and structure are understood against the background of transcultural processes in architectural theory and practice, and the mining town is viewed as a setting for the negotiation of a hybrid architectural culture

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

The beginnings of Renaissance architecture in Florence, around 1420, were accompanied by a renewal of sculptural architectural ornamentation, and soon cast their spell over the rest of Europe. The 'antique style' was considered modern everywhere; Gothic architecture, the previous notion of modern, fell into gradual disrepute. This was an epoch-making paradigm shift, underpinned as architectural theory also took up the subject of architectural ornamentation.

For the first time, Joachim Poeschke presents a detailed study of architectural ornamentation's development in Italy from approx. 1420 to 1490. His focus is on the period's productive engagement with antiquity, which defined the artistic work of the early Renaissance to a huge extent, and which is best noted in the details of architectural ornamentation.

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

Up to its pillage by the Crusaders in 1204, Constantinople teemed with magnificent statues of emperors, pagan gods, and mythical beasts. Yet the significance of this wealth of public sculpture has hardly been acknowledged beyond late antiquity. In this book, Paroma Chatterjee offers a new perspective on the topic, arguing that pagan statues were an integral part of Byzantine visual culture. Examining the evidence in patriographies, chronicles, novels, and epigrams, she demonstrates that the statues were admired for three specific qualities - longevity, mimesis, and prophecy; attributes that rendered them outside of imperial control and endowed them with an enduring charisma sometimes rivaling that of holy icons. Chatterjee's interpretations refine our conceptions of imperial imagery, the Hippodrome, the Macedonian Renaissance, a corpus of secular objects, and Orthodox icons. Her book offers novel insights into Iconoclasm and proposes a more truncated trajectory of the holy icon in medieval Orthodoxy than has been previously acknowledged.

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Вплоть до 1204 года, когда Константинополь был разграблен крестоносцами, этот город славился искусными статуями, посвященными образам императоров, языческих богов и мифических существ, однако значение этого скульптурного наследия долгое время не было оценено по достоинству. В этой книге профессор Парома Чаттерджи предлагает новый взгляд на эту тему: она доказывает, что языческие статуи являлись неотъемлемой частью византийской визуальной культуры, а также на примере хроник, эпиграмм и произведений художественной литературы показывает, что константинопольские статуи не только были долговечны и искусно выполнены, но и несли в себе пророческий потенциал. Книга профессора Чаттерджи дополняет существующий пласт литературы на тему византийского визуального искусства и предлагает новый взгляд на священные образы и их место в истории человечества.

Art Deco captures the vitality and modernity of the Jazz Age. From the refined interiors of 1920s Paris to the decadent and luxurious glamour of Hollywood, the bold geometry, simplicity of form and luxurious materials of Art Deco still feel distinctly modern today.

With a historical overview and examples of stunning interiors, Interior Style: Art Deco explores the design essence of the era.
With in-depth professional advice on how to use elements such as pattern, lighting, furniture and textiles, you will find the tools to recreate this sophisticated elegance in your own home.

»Dimensions. Journal of Architectural Knowledge« is an academic journal in, on, and from the discipline of architecture, addressing the creation, constitution, and transmission of architectural knowledge. It explores methods genuine to the discipline and architectural modes of interdisciplinary methodological adaptions. Processes, procedures, and results of knowledge creation and practice are esteemed coequally, with particular attention to the architectural design and epistemologies of aesthetic practice and research.

Dimensions Issue 07/2024, edited by Eva-Maria Ciesla, Susanne Hauser, Hannah Strothmann, and Julia Weber, aims to initiate a discussion on the potentials and limitations of »Architecture as Intervention« in an era when architecture faces unprecedented global challenges. Viewing architecture through the lens of intervention positions it as a transformative tool or catalyst for change. The issue presents a diverse array of strategies that exemplify how architecture and its associated discourse have evolved into dynamic forms of intervention. By showcasing these innovative approaches, readers are invited to rethink the role of architecture in shaping the future and responding to the crises of our time.

Palaces, villas and churches. These were the highlights of my first visit to Italy. I took a lot of photos and looked forward to sharing them with friends and family. Back home, though, I found that I didn’t recall much about the places that impressed me. Although I had the benefit of a half-day guide in Rome, Florence and Venice, I sometimes had difficulty hearing what was said on crowded streets and busy interiors. The guides were capable but had only enough time to mention a few major features. As a rule, they skimped on actually describing buildings that intrigued me. And so they were not especially helpful in providing the insights I wanted. Upon my return, I found myself wondering: Where did the architects actually find their ideas? What did they want to accomplish? And what do their choices tell us about their time? My sojourn in Italy would have been more satisfying if I had come away with a fuller account of what I had seen. What I most needed was context. This book supplies that context.
Contemplation of antiquity and the exchange of views among architects released a surge of intellectual energy not seen for a millennium, a development that would never have happened so quickly were it not for Johannes Gutenberg’s invention of printing with movable type. This development, in turn, led to architects’ heightened self-awareness of their collective enterprise. They read what their fellow architects wrote and thereby gained in sophistication. They were no longer merely masons. They became architects in the modern sense. They took pride in their achievements and shared a conviction that the visual culture they created was far superior to that of the previous thousand years.
Their embrace of classical civilisation had a visceral urgency. Rome, after all, was a culture with a storied past, peopled by larger-than-life figures. To learn what the ancients had created in word or stone could supply a shortcut to wisdom. And emulating the Romans would provide new models of aesthetic excellence. This endeavour became known as the Renaissance, or rebirth. The Reformation, however, changed everything. Martin Luther brought to issue a quandary: How exactly was Christianity to be reconciled with the pagan past, if at all? Could one source of inspiration be sustained without compromising the other? Religious reform questioned the aesthetic achievements of the previous hundred years. The story of Renaissance architecture represents the effort to find an accommodation.

Winner, Victorian Society in America Book Award

A colorful tale of a singular New York City neighborhood and the personalities who make it special

To outsiders or East Siders, Riverside Park and Riverside Drive may not have the star status of Fifth Avenue or Central Park West. But at the city’s westernmost edge, there is a quiet and beauty like nowhere else in all of New York. There are miles of mansions and monuments, acres of flora, and a breadth of wildlife ranging from Peregrine falcons to goats. It’s where the Gershwins and Babe Ruth once lived, William Randolph Hearst ensconced his paramour, and Amy Schumer owns a penthouse. Told in the uniquely personal voice of a longtime resident, Heaven on the Hudson is the only New York City book that features the history, architecture, and personalities of this often overlooked neighborhood, from the eighteenth century through the present day.

Combining an extensively researched history of the area and its people with an engaging one-on-one guide to its sights, author Stephanie Azzarone sheds new light on the initial development of Riverside Park and Riverside Drive, the challenges encountered—from massive boulders to “maniacs”—and the reasons why Riverside Drive never became the “new Fifth Avenue” that promoters anticipated. From grand “country seats” to squatter settlements to multi-million-dollar residences, the book follows the neighborhood’s roller-coaster highs and lows over time. Readers will discover a trove of architectural and recreational highlights and hidden gems, including the Drive’s only freestanding privately owned villa, a tomb that’s not a tomb, and a sweet memorial to an eighteenth-century child. Azzarone also tells the stories behind Riverside’s notable and forgotten residents, including celebrities, murderers, a nineteenth-century female MD who launched the country’s first anti-noise campaign, and an Irish merchant who caused a scandal by living with an Indian princess.

While much has been written about Central Park, little has focused exclusively on Riverside Drive and Riverside Park until now. Heaven on the Hudson is dedicated to sharing this West Side neighborhood’s most special secrets, the ones that, without fail, bring both pleasure and peace in a city of more than 8 million.

Palaces, villas and churches. These were the highlights of my first visit to Italy. I took a lot of photos and looked forward to sharing them with friends and family. Back home, though, I found that I didn’t recall much about the places that impressed me. Although I had the benefit of a half-day guide in Rome, Florence and Venice, I sometimes had difficulty hearing what was said on crowded streets and busy interiors. The guides were capable but had only enough time to mention a few major features. As a rule, they skimped on actually describing buildings that intrigued me. And so they were not especially helpful in providing the insights I wanted. Upon my return, I found myself wondering: Where did the architects actually find their ideas? What did they want to accomplish? And what do their choices tell us about their time? My sojourn in Italy would have been more satisfying if I had come away with a fuller account of what I had seen. What I most needed was context. This book supplies that context.
Contemplation of antiquity and the exchange of views among architects released a surge of intellectual energy not seen for a millennium, a development that would never have happened so quickly were it not for Johannes Gutenberg’s invention of printing with movable type. This development, in turn, led to architects’ heightened self-awareness of their collective enterprise. They read what their fellow architects wrote and thereby gained in sophistication. They were no longer merely masons. They became architects in the modern sense. They took pride in their achievements and shared a conviction that the visual culture they created was far superior to that of the previous thousand years.
Their embrace of classical civilisation had a visceral urgency. Rome, after all, was a culture with a storied past, peopled by larger-than-life figures. To learn what the ancients had created in word or stone could supply a shortcut to wisdom. And emulating the Romans would provide new models of aesthetic excellence. This endeavour became known as the Renaissance, or rebirth. The Reformation, however, changed everything. Martin Luther brought to issue a quandary: How exactly was Christianity to be reconciled with the pagan past, if at all? Could one source of inspiration be sustained without compromising the other? Religious reform questioned the aesthetic achievements of the previous hundred years. The story of Renaissance architecture represents the effort to find an accommodation.

In 1908, the Exhibition Hall at the Mathildenhöhe Artists’ Colony in Darmstadt—designed by the Jugendstil architect Joseph Maria Olbrich—was inaugurated. A century later, schneider+schumacher was entrusted with its general renovation. To begin with, the office had to grapple with the building’s historic architectural substance, its complex climatic and exhibition technology, as well as the spatial and design challenges inherent to the iconic structure. Also playing an important role was the building’s status as a protected landmark and the decision—announced in the course of the renovations—by a UNESCO commission to declare the Artists’ Colony a World Heritage Site.

This richly illustrated volume tells the story of this building while showing readers how the architects have allowed it to speak again for itself, at the same time introducing new voices with the addition of contemporary elements.

• History and renovation of the unique Art Nouveau monument
• Best practice example of a sensitive restoration consistent with conservation requirements
• Published on the occasion of the reopening in autumn of 2024

Lässt man den Blick vom Rhein über die Tagebaulandschaften des Rheinischen Reviers und das Heuvelland bis zur Maas schweifen, zeigt sich eine vielfältige Region im Wandel. Dabei könnten die Ausgangslagen kaum unterschiedlicher sein – vom Wachstumsdruck entlang der Rheinschiene über den durch den Braunkohleausstieg angestoßenen Strukturwandel bis hin zur Neuinszenierung einer Grenzregion im Herzen Europas. Dabei ergeben sich nicht nur Fragen zur Zukunft der größten Landschaftsbaustelle Europas, sondern auch zur Wirkmacht der Landesgrenze und der Notwendigkeit einer grenzüberschreitenden Planung.

Das Buch zeichnet anhand zahlreicher Karten ein Bild des Status Quo und verknüpft diesen mit innovativen Ideen und Konzepten zur Gestaltung der Transformationsprozesse. Neben der Darstellung der unterschiedlichen Herausforderungen und Potenziale der Teilräume werden auch die zugrundeliegenden Prozesse illustriert. Die Ideen bewegen sich dabei vielfach auf dem immer wichtiger werdenden regionalen Maßstab und wagen einen Blick in die noch ferne Zukunft, ohne dabei das Hier und Jetzt aus den Augen zu verlieren.

• Umfangreiche Kartographie der Agglomeration Rhein Maas
• Grundlagen und Beispiele für informelle Regionalentwicklung und grenzüberschreitende Planung
• Innovative Strategien und Konzepte für die Stadt- und Regionalentwicklung

Als öffentliche Bauaufgabe sind Theater ein exponierter Schauplatz für ideologische Konflikte, soziale Fragen und gesellschaftliche Repräsentationen. Dieses Buch widmet sich dem Theaterbau des 20. Jahrhunderts erstmals als Wissensobjekt und stellt die Frage, wie unser Wissen über den Theaterbau und Bühnentechnik produziert, verbreitet und geformt wurde. Die Autor*innen nähern sich dem Thema anhand unterschiedlicher Objekte und Diskurse, von der Architekturausbildung über das kulturelle Erbe bis hin zur Architekturfotografie. Die einzigartigen Sammlungsbestände des Architekturmuseums der Technischen Universität Berlin offenbaren Archivmaterial zu so bekannten Häusern wie dem Schauspielhaus Bochum, dem Burgtheater Wien oder der kürzlich abgerissenen Berliner Komödie am Kurfürstendamm.

• Der Theaterbau des 20. Jahrhunderts als Wissensobjekt
• Interdisziplinärer Zugang zu Theaterbau und -technik
• Erstmalig zusammengestelltes Archivmaterial aus der weltweit umfangreichsten Sammlung zum Theaterbau des Architekturmuseums der TU Berlin

In 1908, the Exhibition Hall at the Mathildenhöhe Artists’ Colony in Darmstadt—designed by the Jugendstil architect Joseph Maria Olbrich—was inaugurated. A century later, schneider+schumacher was entrusted with its general renovation. To begin with, the office had to grapple with the building’s historic architectural substance, its complex climatic and exhibition technology, as well as the spatial and design challenges inherent to the iconic structure. Also playing an important role was the building’s status as a protected landmark and the decision—announced in the course of the renovations—by a UNESCO commission to declare the Artists’ Colony a World Heritage Site.

This richly illustrated volume tells the story of this building while showing readers how the architects have allowed it to speak again for itself, at the same time introducing new voices with the addition of contemporary elements.

• History and renovation of the unique Art Nouveau monument
• Best practice example of a sensitive restoration consistent with conservation requirements
• Published on the occasion of the reopening in autumn of 2024

What is good architecture? What challenges does the digital revolution hold for planning and design? Is having your own workspace important for your creativity? How does co-creation impact the design process? Can you do architecture without coffee? Looking back over forty-five years of work, Nickl & Partner architecture office pose forty-five questions, both large and small, about architecture. The responses by the firm’s founders, employees, experts, and partners range from discussions of global trends to personal experiences. The stories and projects introduced here provide an immediate and entertaining snapshot of the current state of architectural design, as well as a view of its future.

• Presents a showcase of works by the internationally acclaimed architecture firm
• Features engaging interviews and a glimpse of what goes on behind the scenes
• Includes expert contributions on trends in the field of architecture for healthcare and research institutions

Color has always been a powerful tool in architecture: it can influence perceptions of space and form, conveys meaning and intention and guides the viewer’s sensory experience. However, it has lost importance in architectural practice and teaching.
With the volume Colors, the Graz-based research collective Diskursiv conveys a mood of contemporary architecture in its use of color. The contributors approach the topic on a theoretical level and, by stressing the potential impact of color, make an impassioned case for its return to the architectural discourse: against the dogma of the universal white box and for a rediscovery of color as a central instrument of architecture.

• Considers the positions, approaches, and working methods of various architecture offices with regard to color and colorfulness

The majority of the peripheries and in-between spaces of the planet’s urban regions are living spaces and working landscapes. Despite this, we understand little about the centrality of urban peripheries as the sites and spaces for some of the most imaginative, anticipatory, and purposeful instances of urbanism. This volume demonstrates the centrality of urban peripheries in all their variety with a view to reworking urban, architectural, design, planning, infrastructural, sociological, ecological, and geographical theory from the outside in. The book also examines the relationships of these new centralities to the metabolisms, assemblages, and urban political ecologies beyond the built and imagined materialities of their immediate situation.

• Features pioneering writing and illustrations on designed centralities in urban peripheries
• Presents a range of international examples covering most continents
• Offers novel theoretical interpretations from across the built environment disciplines

„Forschen, lehren, lernen – am Land fürs Land": Nach diesem Motto schuf die TU Wien 2022 mit der „landuni" einen Ankerpunkt im niederösterreichischen Drosendorf, um gemeinsam mit Bewohner*innen über eine lebendige, nachhaltige Zukunft für ländliche Regionen nachzudenken. Vom Hörsaal zum Dorfplatz beleuchtet die vor Ort verhandelten Themen wie Umbaukultur, räumliche Transformationsprozesse, Kreativwirtschaft, Klimawandel, Zukunftsbilder und Mobilität – und nimmt dabei auch die „landuni" selbst als Methode der Regionalentwicklung in den Blick. Finden Forschung und Lehre zum ländlichen Leben sonst vor allem in den städtischen Zentren statt, inspiriert das Buch dazu, das Nachdenken über das Leben auf dem Land lokal zu verankern.

• Pilotprojekt für eine lokale Verankerung des Forschens zum ländlichen Raum
• Stellt die „landuni" als zukunftsweisendes Format der Regionalentwicklung vor
• Hochwertig ausgestatteter Band mit dreifarbigem Farbschnitt

• Neue Betrachtungswinkel auf berühmte Denkmäler sowie Neuentdeckungen
• 30 Best-Practice-Beispiele für Bauen im Bestand, von Brandenburg bis Bukarest
• Mit einem Epilog des Architekturkritikers Jürgen Tietz

In 1970s Vienna, civic protests against the demolition and replacement of old buildings with new ones led to both a paradigm shift and a more “gentle” approach towards interventions in the city’s historic neighborhoods. After years of investigation and experimentation, the Sanfte Stadterneuerung (gentle urban renewal) programme was adopted to promote the renovation of existing residential buildings and participatory processes in neighborhoods. This volume illustrates the historic roots and evolution of this multi-award-winning approach through written contributions from experts, interviews with pioneers of the programme, building and neighborhood case studies, and perspectives on the future of urban renewal. Today, the first phase of the Sanfte Stadterneuerung programme in Vienna serves as inspiration for tackling current challenges in the development of strategies for the existing building stock.

• Considers the potential of gentle urban renewal as a powerful tool in designing and implementing urban transformation projects
• Features interviews with historical witnesses and projects across five decades
• Offers inspiring insights into Vienna’s practice of gentle urban renewal