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Donald Judd
Regular price $49.99 Save $-49.99(Bilingual Edition: English / German)
The arcitectural work of Donald Judd
Donald Judd was one of the most important
exponents of American Minimal Art. Among the lesser-known aspects of his
work are the numerous built architectural projects in which he explores
the relationship between architecture art, furniture, and landscape.
One particular location was of great significance to Judd’s
architectural work: Fort D.R. Russell, a former US military base in the
Chihuahuan desert on the southern edge of the pioneer town of Marfa,
Texas. Judd acquired the fort and other structures in Marfa which he
systematically converted into one of the largest ensemble collections of
contemporary art in the world.
This new edition updates and
expands on the successful book of 2007. It presents two additional
building complexes southwest of Marfa and includes a new epilogue by the
author, which places Judd’s built architectural work from its beginning
at 101 Spring Street, Judd’s studio and residence in New York, and the
structures in Marfa in a contemporary context.
- New, extended edition, first book to examine Judd’s architectural work from the perspective of an architect
- Marfa: a place of pilgrimage for architects, landscapers, and artists
- Historical documents, new photographs and drawings

UNIVERSAL SINGULAR
Regular price $68.99 Save $-68.99The 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. A topical introduction to the design of public spaces
Relational Theories of Urban Form: An Anthology
Regular price $34.99 Save $-34.99This commentated anthology contains essential passages from eight important architecture and urban design theory texts from the 1960s to the 2010s. With these excerpts, the editors discursively outline the concept of form as a relational field of tension between man and material. The relational element is treated not only as a topos, but above all the interpretational perspective of architectural theory.
The texts are arranged under the guiding themes of Type, Process, Place and Things. The texts themselves were written by authors including Christopher Alexander, Oswald Matthias Ungers, Fumihiko Maki, Alison and Peter Smithson, Lucius Burckhardt, Bruno Latour, and Manuel de Solà-Morales. They offer a paradigmatic foundation that encourages further research and the continued view through the "relational lens."

Kinder der Moderne
Regular price $47.00 Save $-47.00Wie war die Erfahrung, in einem Bau der Moderne aufzuwachsen? Wie hat diese radikal andere Umgebung die Kinder und späteren Erwachsenen geprägt? Dieses Buch zeichnet ein intimes und ungewöhnliches Porträt der Architektur der Avantgarde. Die Autoren haben „Oral History"-Interviews mit ehemaligen Bewohnern geführt und dabei heitere wie auch ergreifende Erinnerungen aufgezeichnet.

Baumschlager Eberle Architekten 2010–2020
Regular price $112.99 Save $-112.99In recent years, Baumschlager Eberle architectural practice has successfully continued its international trajector. Between 2010 and 2020, around 600 buildings, projects, and competitions have been completed, including housing projects, hospitals, compnay headquarters, university campuses, and the 2226 building: an office building without Hearing System.
The book documents in chronological order in the form of of an annotated and commented catalogue of works all projects, competitions, and studies of these years. Over 50 completed buildings are comprehensively presented. 14 of the most important projects have an in-depth presentation: with images, plans, and other material as well as a detailed text.
In addition, three essays and three interviews deal with the central issues of density, resources, and open building.

Claude-Nicolas Ledoux
Regular price $45.99 Save $-45.99Claude-Nicolas Ledoux (1736-1806) is today regarded as chief representative of French revolutionary architecture. With his extraordinary inventiveness he projected the architectural ideals of his era. Ledoux’s influential buildings and projects are presented and interpreted both aesthetically and historically in this book. His best-known projects – the Royal Saltwords of Arc-et-Senans, the tollgates of Paris, the ideal city of Chaux – reveal the architect’s allegiance to the principles of antiquity and Renaissance but also illustrate the evolution of his own utopian language. With the French Revolution, Ledoux ceased building as his contemporaries perceived him as a royal architect. He focused on the development of his architectural theory and redefined the vision of the modern architect.

Stummes Wissen
Regular price $57.99 Save $-57.99Unzählige Interaktionen mit Dingen prägen unseren Alltag. Zähneputzen, Fahrradfahren, am Computer arbeiten – diese Interaktionen werden uns erst dann bewusst, wenn sie mit positiven oder negativen Erlebnissen verbunden sind: Alltagsobjekte vermitteln durch ihre Gestalt eine Form des stummen Wissens. Durch ihr Interface findet eine unbewusste Wahrnehmung davon statt, welche Handlungsmöglichkeiten die Dinge uns bieten. Doch wie kann die Kommunikation zwischen Dingen und NutzerInnen gelingen?
Die Autorin zeigt, wie unbewusst wahrnehmbare Handlungsmöglichkeiten in Dinge hinein gestaltet werden und wodurch Menschen fähig sind, diese Handlungsmöglichkeiten wahrzunehmen und zu nutzen, sie sogar mitzugestalten. Die Bedeutung dieser Ergebnisse sind für die Technik- wie für die Wissenschaftsforschung von hoher Relevanz.

Basics Schallschutz
Regular price $24.99 Save $-24.99Bereits in der Entwurfsphase eines Bauvorhabens kann der Schallschutz eine bedeutende Rolle für die Gebäudeausrichtung sowie die Grundrissgestaltung spielen. Zu berücksichtigen sind hierbei der Lärm, der von außen auf ein Gebäude einwirkt, sowie der Lärm, der durch den Menschen und technische Anlagen innerhalb des Gebäudes verursacht wird.
Basics Schallschutz vermittelt dem Leser ein grundlegendes Verständnis der schalltechnischen Anforderungen für das Planen und Konstruieren. Zunächst werden die Grundlagen der Akustik erläutert, wobei auf die physikalischen Grundbegriffe, die Schallentstehung und -ausbreitung sowie die Schallempfindung eingegangen wird. Dann wird erklärt, wie Schallimmissionen beurteilt und welche lärmmindernden und gestalterischen Möglichkeiten für die Planung werden können.

Traditionelle Bauweisen
Regular price $89.99 Save $-89.99Vom Pueblo zum Fachwerkhaus oder dem japanischen Minka – traditionelle Bauweisen zeigen eine faszinierende Vielfalt und prägen mit ihrem Erscheinungsbild das Gesicht von Regionen. Doch im Zuge der Globalisierung werden sie vieler Orts zurückgedrängt. Gerade in den sich am schnellsten entwickelnden Ländern geht ein jahrhundertealter Erfahrungsschatz unwiederbringlich verloren, der auch für modernes Bauen von Interesse ist.
Am Beispiel von ausgewählten Wohnbauten aus allen Kontinenten zeigen 30 internationale Experten, warum wir noch immer von diesen traditionellen Bauweisen lernen können: Sie analysieren den kulturellen Kontext, die Anpassung an topografisch-klimatische Gegebenheiten und legen ihr Augenmerk auf die verwendeten lokalen Materialien und die Konstruktion, den Bauprozess und den notwendigen Unterhalt.

Cuban Modernism
Regular price $60.00 Save $-60.00For several decades, 20th century architecture thrived in Cuba and a wealth of buildings was realized prior to the revolution 1959 and in its wake. The designs comprise luxurious nightclubs and stylish hotels, sports facilities, elegant private homes and apartment complexes. Drawing on the vernacular, their architects defined a way to be modern and Cuban at the same time – creating an architecture oscillating between tradition and avantgarde.
Audacious concrete shells, curving ramps, elegant brises-soleils and a fluidity of interior and exterior spaces are characteristic of an airy, often colorful architecture well-suited to life in the tropics. New photographs and drawings were specially prepared for this publication. A biographical survey portraits the 40 most important Cuban architects of the era.
- First comprehensive, ground-breaking survey of Cuba's rich and fascinating architecture, art and interior design
- With virtually unknown and previously inaccessible visual material, both from universities and families
- Stunning contemporary photography full of surprises and discoveries

Natural Communication
Regular price $68.99 Save $-68.99In Natural Communication, the author criticizes the current paradigm of specific goal orientation in the complexity sciences and proposes an alternative that envisions a fundamental architectonics of communication. His model of "natural communication" encapsulates modern theoretical concepts from mathematics and physics, in particular category theory and quantum theory. From these fields it abstracts precise concepts such as to constitute a terminological basis for this theory which offers the opportunity to open up novel ways of thinking about complexity. The author is convinced that it is only possible to establish a continuity and coherence with contemporary thinking, especially with respect to complexity, through looking into the past.

Vernacular Architecture
Regular price $89.99 Save $-89.99A comprehensive reference work on vernacular architecture
Traditional building methods – such as those used in pueblos, timbered houses, or the Japanese minka – exist in fascinating diversity and create the face of a region. However, as a result of globalization they have been marginalized in many places. In the fastest developing countries in particular, a wealth of experience that goes back hundreds of years is being irretrievably lost, even though valuable insights can be gained for modern building.
Using the examples of selected domestic buildings from all continents, 30 international experts demonstrate why we can still learn from vernacular architecture; they analyze the cultural context and the adaptation to topographic/climactic conditions, and focus on the local materials used as well as on the construction, the building process, and the necessary maintenance.
- A comprehensive reference work covering traditional building methods
- Numerous examples of vernacular domestic architecture from all five continents
- More than 1000 impressive color photographs and detailed drawings
- Also available in German

Understanding – Combining Typefaces
Regular price $57.99 Save $-57.99Combining typefaces is one of the great challenges and, at the same time, a continuing allure for typographers and designers: is it meant to be extravagant or should it only be carried out to a limited degree or, ideally, not at all? Which fonts harmonize with each other, and which don’t? Which ones complement each other or even enhance each other? There are few answers to be found in the professional literature.
This handbook demonstrates that it is possible to determine criteria for the combining of typefaces. By looking at the shape of typefaces in detail and creating a revised classification of fonts, it conveys a deeper understanding of the diversity of typefaces and, based on a systematic analysis of analogy and contrast, it establishes the urgently necessary findings required for combining typefaces. An indispensable standard work for typographers and graphic designers.

Breathe
Regular price $51.99 Save $-51.99Das Buch erkundet das Atmen und die Atmosphäre als Leitmotive für die Gestaltung einer inklusiven Zukunft in einem neuen Klimaregime. Dabei werden die atmosphärischen Verknüpfungen künftiger gesellschaftlicher Aktivitäten aufgespürt.
Mit diesem verflochtenen Bewusstsein rücken die performativen Eigenschaften von Luft, Atmosphäre und Klima in den Vordergrund, um sie als maßgebende Akteure für die Konzeption und Gestaltung unseres planetaren Daseins neu zu entdecken.
Das sorgfältig editierte Buch versammelt namhafte Autoren verschiedener Disziplinen, die mit ihren Ideen, Beobachtungen und Beispielen dazu anregen, unser gesellschaftliches Handeln und Gestalten neu zu denken.

Growing up modern
Regular price $47.00 Save $-47.00The authors conducted interviews with people, who spent their childhood in radical Modernist domestic spaces, uncovering both serene and poignant memories. The recollections range from the ambivalence of philosopher Ernst Tugendhat, now 90 years old, who lived in the famous Mies van der Rohe house in Brno (1930) to the fond reminiscing of the youngest daughter of the Schminke family, who still dreams of her Scharoun-designed ship-like villa in Löbau (1933). The book offers a unique, private and often refreshing perspective on these icons of the avant-garde.

Renzo Piano
Regular price $45.99 Save $-45.99Der Pritzker-Preisträger Renzo Piano gilt weltweit als einer der renommiertesten Architekten unserer Zeit. Zentrale Elemente seiner Ästhetik bilden das Spiel mit natürlichem Licht, die Transparenz seiner Bauten, aber auch die Qualität ihrer Details. Museumsbauten gehören zu seinen wesentlichen Bauaufgaben.
Die Publikation dokumentiert neun Museumsbauten des Büros Renzo Piano Building Workshop, unter ihnen die Fondation Beyeler in Basel, das Kulturzentrum Jean-Marie Tjibaou in Neukaledonien sowie das Broad Contemporary Art Museum in Los Angeles. Besonderes Augenmerk legt die Darstellung auf deren Räumlichkeit und Detaillierung. In einem zweiten Teil wird der Umgang mit natürlichem Licht in diesen Museen systematisch analysiert. Sämtliche Zeichnungen wurden in einheitlicher Darstellung eigens neu angefertigt.

Frederick Kiesler: Face to Face with the Avant-Garde
Regular price $44.99 Save $-44.99Network of superlatives
Frederick Kiesler was a committed networker and communicated regularly with the who’s who of the avant-garde. He was an important intermediary between the visionary ideas of the European Moderne movement and the up-and-coming New York art scene.
About 20 contributions portray his colorful life and his multifaceted oeuvre in various contexts, and place Kiesler in a dialog with the most important artists and architects of his time.
The publication on the occasion of the 20 year anniversary of the Friedrich Kiesler Foundation deals with his relationship with the Bauhaus, surrealism, and the New York School, as well as with personalities such as Richard Buckminster Fuller, Marcel Duchamp, Arshile Gorky, Theo van Doesburg, Piet Mondrian, Hans Arp, Sigfried Giedion, and others.
- An interwoven analysis of his life and work
- Contributions on individual and case studies
- Kiesler and Bauhaus, Mondrian, Buckminster Fuller, Duchamp, and many others
