Architectural structure and design Books
Christoph Merian Verlag What if - Unbuilt Architecture in Switzerland
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£42.00
gta Verlag / eth Zürich Cooperative Conditions
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£31.20
Gta Verlag Swiss Window Journeys - Architectural Field Notes
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£32.25
gta Verlag / eth Zürich Values and Surfaces
£26.10
gta Verlag / eth Zürich trans 43 Silence
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£18.00
gta Verlag / eth Zürich Arab Modern
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£25.50
gta Verlag / eth Zürich Researching Otherwise Pluriversal Methodologies
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£26.62
gta Verlag / eth Zürich Amazônía
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£21.25
gta Verlag / eth Zürich In the Daylight of Our Existence
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£27.20
gta Verlag / eth Zürich Political Histories
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£21.25
JOVIS Verlag Gelebte Utopie: Die Terrassenhaussiedlung der
Book SynopsisThe Werkgruppe Graz designed the terraced housing estate in Graz-St. Peter in 1965, during a period of societal upheaval. The complex was eventually built between 1972 and 1978. The planning group—members of the avant-garde artists’ association Forum Stadtpark—took a stand against the established system of residential construction, which was characterized by monotone design and the urban sprawl of single-family homes. Instead, they championed the utopian approach of involving residents in the planning process, which was reflected in the development’s basic structuralist framework with adaptable living units. Comprised of four terraced housing blocks in exposed concrete at the edge of Graz, the estate’s sculptural, brutalist appearance received international acclaim. Gelebte Utopie is the first book to provide a collection of texts of architectural commentary and context on the settlement. It additionally offers insights into the inhabitants’ living spaces and is enriched with artistic projects.
£24.70
JOVIS Verlag Europan 16: Lebendige Städte / Living Cities:
Book SynopsisZweisprachige Ausgabe (deutsch/englisch) / Bilingual edition (English/German) Wie können wir in den urbanisierten Räumen unserer Städte und Kommunen dem Klimawandel und den sozialen, wirtschaftlichen und kulturellen Ungleichheiten mit innovativen Projekten und neuen Planungsprozessen begegnen? Wie kommen wir von vernachlässigten, brachliegenden, leeren, stigmatisierten und monofunktionalen zu lebendigen, integrativen und durchmischten Stadträumen? An fünf deutschen Standorten wurden anlässlich des E16-Wettbewerbs Projekte entwickelt, die Möglichkeiten für Transformationsprozesse in Kommunen aufzeigen. Die parallel zum Verfahren einsetzende COVID-19-Pandemie wirkte für viele der angesprochen Fragestellungen wie ein Katalysator: lebendige Städte als Sehnsuchtsorte und notwendige Visionen. Der Katalog fasst die Wettbewerbsbeiträge der deutschen Standorte sowie der deutschen Gewinner*innen an europäischen Standorten zusammen. Mit Beiträgen von Andrea Benze, Kaye Geipel, Saskia Hebert, Timo Munzinger, Iris Reuter, Ali Saad, Anne Schmedding, Marika Schmidt und Tatjana Schneider
£27.45
DOM Publishers Architectural Diagrams 2: Construction and Design
Book Synopsis'In the last few decades, the ‘diagram’ has evolved into a constitutive, generative medium for the architectural design process and is now an everyday term used in the context of design. The diagram represents an imaginative process that enables architects to transform typologies, figures, and models using analogue and digital design procedures. This process is creative and erratic – it is highly intuitive and variable and follows its own logic. As such, the diagram, with its lines, points, and strokes, operates at the intersection of geometry, art, and theory.' (from the introduction). The second edition of this book from the series Construction and Design Manuals presents a selection of projects by prominent architects and designers in the form of diagrams, drawn from the fields of architecture, interior design, and installation. This volume also features an essay by the philosopher Lidia Gasperoni.
£55.25
Spurbuch Verlag Epistemic Artefacts
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£27.20
AVEdition Stuttgart Architecture Guide
Book SynopsisThis book presents around 100 buildings that were erected between 1917 and 2017, and are already considered to be classics of architectural history. With informative texts accentuated by photos, plans, archive material and, most importantly, facts (planners, construction period, addresses, access), this book is the holistic guide to Stuttgart's incredible architecture that the world has been waiting for. Featured buildings are by: Theodor Fischer, Martin Elsaesser, Paul Bonatz, Paul Schmitthenner, Rolf Gutbrod, Paul Stohrer, Gunther Behnisch, Hans Kammerer, Fritz Leonhardt, Frei Otto, Hans Scharoun, James Stirling, Schlaich und Partner, LRO, UN Studio, Auer und Weber, Atelier 5, Hascher Jehle, Wulf und Partner, and many more.
£18.05
AVEdition Cœur de lile Inselspital AnnaSeilerHaus
Book SynopsisThis opulent photo book is dedicated to the Anna-Seiler-Haus in Bern. The new sixteen-storey building forms the centrepiece also known as the Cœur de l''île of the Inselspital, which is visible from afar in the cityscape. In general, visual relationships play a decisive role in orientation within the building and localisation in the urban context. The photographer HGEsch has succeeded in staging the collaborative work of the three architectural firms in a magnificent way across all scales, with surprising glimpses of details, views into and out of the neighbourhood and brilliant panoramic shots with the Bernese Alps on the horizon.Text in English, German and French.
£57.75
AV Edition GmbH Brand Experience Trade Fair Design Annual 2025
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£70.40
Ruby Press Lacaton Vassal Its Nice Today On Climate
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£39.75
Ruby Press Everyday Matters - Contemporary Approaches To
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£23.00
Ruby Press How to not Demolish a Building
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£26.62
Ruby Press Fast Forward no. 02 - Dense City
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£21.75
Ruby Press Cairos Plaster Casts
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£35.44
Ruby Press The Real Deal - Post Fossil Construction for Game
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£20.25
Ruby Press Time Matters
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£23.80
Ruby Press Housing Micropolitics and Pedagogies Designing
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£23.80
Ruby Press Space is Politics
£16.20
Vitra Design Museum Kazuo Shinohara: The Umbrella House Project
Book SynopsisThe Umbrella House is the smallest residential home by Japanese architect and mathematician Kazuo Shinohara (1925–2006). This book tells the story of his unique masterpiece, which was first built in Tokyo in 1961. More than sixty years later, a stroke of good fortune made it possible to save the Umbrella House from demolition and move it to a new location, where it now stands on the Vitra Campus in Weil am Rhein (Germany). The wooden house’s post-and-beam construction references traditional Japanese domestic and temple architecture. Experts from Japan and Europe supervised the dismantling of the house in Tokyo and its reassembly in Weil am Rhein. The book traces the long journey of the Umbrella House in lavish illustrations including impressions from 1960s Japan, architectural designs and plans, and photographs that document its dismantling and reassembly or show the house in its new location. Texts by Ryue Nishizawa (SANAA), Shin-ichi Okuyama, and David B. Stewart discuss the Umbrella House against the background of Japanese architectural discourse between 1960 and the present. "The strength of my conviction that A House is a Work of Art was born of the struggle with this small house. I wished to express the force of space contained in the doma [earthen-floor room] of an old Japanese farmhouse, this time by means of the geometric structural design of a karakasa [oiled-paper Japanese umbrella]." Kazuo Shinohara in a text on the Umbrella House published in October 1962 in the Japanese architecture journal Shinkenchiku (vol. 37, no. 10; first published in English in February 1963 in The Japan Architect, vol. 38, no. 2).
£26.25
De Gruyter Wohnungsbau: Kostengünstige Modelle für die
Book SynopsisBezahlbarer Wohnraum ist derzeit in vielen Städten Europas Mangelware. Um den Bedarf zu decken, braucht es überzeugende Modelle und Perspektiven für die Zukunft. Wie aber können die Kosten reduziert werden, ohne die Qualität des Wohnens einzuschränken? Dieses Buch dokumentiert herausragende aktuelle Wohnungsbauten aus ganz Europa, die sich durch ihre Qualität auszeichnen und gleichzeitig mit reduzierten Baukosten realisiert werden konnten. Konstruktive Lösungen, die bedachte Materialwahl, spezifische Bauprozesse und konkrete Planungsvoraussetzungen trugen jeweils zu diesem Ergebnis bei. Die Projekte werden ausführlich mit Fotos, Texten, Grundrissen und Detailzeichnungen dokumentiert. In einem einführenden Teil greifen verschiedene Essays das Thema aus unterschiedlichen Perspektiven auf.
£39.15
De Gruyter Gewerbebauten in Lehm und Holz DBU Bauband 3
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£36.00
De Gruyter School buildings: Spaces for Learning and the
Book SynopsisThe school is developing into a full-time model in many countries, with homework help, a cafeteria and recreational activities. Pioneering pedagogical methods of instruction and learning are bringing with them changing planning requirements. Just as the classical teaching structure is being broken up, new classrooms are becoming more flexible. When planning, new functional areas and modified principles of spatial organisation have to be considered as well as issues such as inclusion, participatory planning forms, and aspects of sustainability, room comfort, and lighting. This publication deals with various school concepts as spaces for learning, socialising and living and presents 20 project examples from design to final details.
£44.20
De Gruyter Sortenrein bauen - Material, Konstruktion,
Book SynopsisDieses Handbuch erläutert, wie Planen und Bauen nach dem Kreislaufprinzip gelingt. Es zeigt die Geschichte und Gegenwart der kreislaufgerechten Architektur auf und analysiert die Grundlagen des sortenreinen Bauens mit Blick auf Methodik, Material und Konstruktion. Füge- und Verbindungstechniken werden dabei ebenso thematisiert wie die Materialwahl generell und die Lebenszyklen einzelner Schichten samt ihren Funktionen. Der umfangreiche Detailkatalog mit Zeichnungen im Maßstab 1:20 dokumentiert beispielhafte Anwendungen und Anschlüsse, die differenziert nach Materialien gegliedert sind.
£57.60
De Gruyter modulbau
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£28.80
Detail Atlas Mauerwerk
£81.60
Detail BIG
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£43.20
ArchiTangle GmbH Cities Under Pressure: A Design Strategy for
Book SynopsisHistorical evolution and processes of cultural and economic globalization have brought out relevant and frightening risks on a global scale: from urbicide and violence to climate change and an increase in natural disasters, but also an enormous widening of economic and social inequality. Today, humanity as a whole is facing epochal challenges that require a radical metamorphosis of inhabited spaces. Cities Under Pressure illustrates a new design paradigm, an open intervention system that seeks the establishment of a dynamic equilibrium that is continuously renegotiated. Cities Under Pressure imagines and defines new urban environments that abandon a rigid design scheme in favor of growing evolutionary mechanisms capable of embodying the ongoing sustainable transition, so as to guarantee a resilient and peaceful future.
£36.00
JOVIS Verlag Beton Nicht Beton
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£30.15
Birkhauser Licht. Sehen. Gestalten.: Lichttechnische und
Book SynopsisEine effiziente, ökonomische und ökologische Lichtgestaltung ist integraler Bestandteil eines gelungenen Neubaus sowie der Altbausanierung. Praktiker, die sich für Lichttechnik und Wahrnehmungspsychologie interessieren, mussten bisher in beiden Spezialgebieten recherchieren. Mit „Licht.Sehen.Gestalten“ verbindet der Autor beide Themenbereiche in einem Buch. Dr. Walter Witting, jahrelanger Mitarbeiter von Professor Bartenbach, sammelte über Jahrzehnte Erfahrung auf beiden Gebieten. Das Know-how von Bartenbach bietet eine innovative und praxistaugliche Lösungskompetenz, die Eingang in dieses Handbuch findet: Es bietet Grundlagenwissen für Architekten, Lichtplaner, Designer sowie für verwandte Berufe wie Set-Designer, Verkehrsplaner, Mediziner und Psychologen und wendet sich gleichermaßen an Studierende derartiger Fachrichtungen. Die vorliegende Auflage wurde von Walter Witting komplett überarbeitet, korrigiert und durch weitere Illustrationen ergänzt. Neu hinzugekommen ist das Kapitel über „Das Phänomen Farbe“. Die Neuauflage dieses Referenzwerkes der Lichtliteratur bietet somit noch mehr lichttechnisches und wahrnehmungspsychologisches Wissen über den Umgang mit dem immateriellen Baustoff Licht.Trade Review"Unverzichtbar." Michael Krassnitzer in: Konstruktiv 298/2015 "Bibel über Licht." luxolumina, 11/2015 "Licht. Sehen. Gestalten. certainly has its place in offices and university libraries, as an introductory text to lighting design or as a general reference book." Veronika Egger in: Information Design Journal 22(2) 2016Table of ContentsLicht und Leben (Warm up), Licht und Physik (Lichttechnische Grundlagen), Licht und Auge (Psychophysiologie der Sehfunktionen), Licht und Wahrnehmung (Interpretative visuelle Apperzeption), Das Phänomen Farbe (Physikalisches und Psychologisches). Literaturverzeichnis, Stichwortverzeichnis, Abbildungsverzeichnis, Epilog Weitere Infos unter http://www.lichtundsehen.at/
£66.02
Learning Site Audible Dwelling
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£10.18
Strandberg Publishing The Architectural Sketches of Henning Larsen
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£32.00
Skira Promenade: ...Through the Present Future: City of
Book SynopsisThe past, present, and future of macro-architecture and how it constructs our landscape and ways of living and interacts with new urban spaces. Back in 1999 the Xunta de Galicia called an International Architecture Competition to build the City of Culture of Galicia on Mount Gaiás in Santiago de Compostela. Twelve proposals by renowned national and international architects' studios were initially submitted to this competition for ideas. Out of all these ideas, the final project to be selected for development was the design by Eisenman Architects, as – to quote the Jury – it was, “unique both in concept and plasticity, and exceptionally in tune with the site's location”. After ten years of intensive debate within Galician society and a meticulous building process, the City of Culture of Galicia is now becoming a reality.
£24.30
Skira 99 Domes: Imam Mohammed bin Abdul Wahab Mosque
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£29.71
Skira UniFor 50: Solutions for Architecture. 50 Years
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£38.40
Skira Andrea Vallicelli: A History of Designs
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£48.00
Skira Macullo Architects
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£32.30
Skira Gianni Arnaudo (Bilingual edition): Anti-design
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£30.60
Skira Heliopolis 21
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£16.20
Centauro Italian Panorama Italiano Vol. 1 1
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£29.75
Plan Editions Italian Panorama Italiano, Vol. 3
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£28.80
