Architectural structure and design Books
Hatje Cantz gmp × Architekten von Gerkan, Marg und Partner
Book SynopsisThe first volume of the series chronicling the work of architects gmp · Von Gerkan, Marg and Partner was published in 1978, while 2008 saw the publication of the eleventh and most recent volume in the series. More than a decade later, the series is at last picking up where it left off: volume twelve of the monograph documents the projects built between 2007 and 2011, including numerous sports facilities around the world, from the three stadiums erected for the soccer world championships in 2010 in Cape Town, Port Elizabeth, and Durban, South Africa; to the buildings for the World University Games in 2011 in Shenzhen, China; to the Olympic stadium in Kiev. Those, however, are just a few of the sixty-five projects found in this richly illustrated volume: transportation facilities such as the Hamburg Airport and the West Train Station in Tianjin, China, as well as iconic cultural buildings such as the Chinese National Museum, the Hanoi Museum, the China Maritime Museum in Lingang, and the grand theatres in Chongqing and Qingdao are also detailed. Languages: German and English
£46.40
Hatje Cantz Italian Architectural Drawings from the Cronstedt
Book SynopsisThis catalogue presents the first comprehensive study of the Italian architectural drawings in the Cronstedt Collection in the Nationalmuseum Stockholm, discussing 181 drawings dating from around 1570 to around 1620. Among them are works by Francesco da Volterra, Carlo Maderno and other Roman architects, executed for churches, chapels, palaces, gardens, and fountains—many constituting primary and almost unknown sources for late Mannerist and early Baroque architecture. Also included are plans and architectural details by French draughtsmen, meticulously documenting ancient monuments, as well as buildings by the Renaissance masters Bramante, Antonio da Sangallo, Michelangelo, and Vignola. Italian Architectural Drawings proposes new attributions in the light of recent scholarship, based on close examination of the drawings’ material (paper, medium, technique, mounting). Comparative illustrations and a photographic catalogue of the watermarks complete the volume..
£46.40
Hatje Cantz FGP Atelier: Progression
Book SynopsisFGP Atelier is a global practice led by Mexican architect Francisco Gonzalez Pulido whose mission is to contribute to social and economic advancement through the alignment of the core principles of Design, Science and Technology. The work of The Atelier is guided by Transparency, Openness and Freedom. These values are reflected in the approach to process and collaborations, as well as in the buildings and spaces that result. Logic, Intuition, Multidisciplinary Collaboration, Scientific Research and Work Experience drive the design of Spaces that are Active as well as Infrastructure and Urban Networks that respond to Atmosphere, Ecology, Comfort, Economy, Culture and the Technological Context. In working towards the dissolution of archetypical interventions, the Experience of these spaces and buildings is valued over Typology in order to ground the ultimate value in human existence. Progression presents a series of projects and related essays that illustrate the principles that guide the work of FGP Atelier. Through examining these principles, the themes, ideas, and goals that are common to the projects emerge and provide a means of understanding how a diverse set of buildings relate as well as what might come next. The book is divided into three sections: Values, Network, and Ambition. “Values” is comprised of three chapters that discuss sustainability, the practice, and ethics. “Network” is comprised of four chapters that discuss how technical design is influenced by context, the alternative futures that planning can offer, the role that infrastructure plays in creating equitable cities, and challenges facing housing in the future. The final section, “Ambition” suggests ways that the discipline of architecture can evolve. Ultimately, the goal of this book is to be provocative on multiple levels. It should inspire the reader through the completed buildings executed in often challenging conditions. At the same time, it should be a catalyst for discourse and debate regarding what should be built and how a philosophy guides a practice, the design of future buildings, and the conservation of existing buildings.
£54.40
Hatje Cantz MODU: Field Guide to Indoor Urbanism
Book SynopsisPublished by the interdisciplinary design studio MODU, this reader explores the space between the interior and the exterior. How does the design of interior spaces align with an urban world and vice versa? Where can the boundaries between the interior and the urban be drawn? What role does the environment play in this? For their research and design projects, Phu Hoang and Rachely Rotem look at three major cities on different continents: New York, Rome, and Tokyo. MODU leaves behind the binary idea of inside and outside and rather understands architecture as an extension of the environment. Thus, it imagines a hybrid of urban space, architecture, and interior space. The book explores the different geographic locations and presents their own design projects.
£32.00
Hatje Cantz Promontorio: Architecture and the Reflective
Book SynopsisArchitecture as Reflective Practice This publication features projects that the partnership PROMONTORIO developed over the past 30 years. Together they constitute an impressive body of work for various places across Europe, Africa, the Middle East and the USA, ranging from city planning, to culture and education, heritage and conservation, commercial and mixed-use, in addition to hospitality and leisure. The idea of a reflective practice, set forth by PROMONTORIO, summons the ability to critically and ethically reflect on its own actions, while engaging in a process of continuous adaptation and learning. Perceived as a kind of "practicing school" for various generations in Portugal, the practice evolved, in both theory and practice, through the idea that deliberate reflection on experience is essential to cultivate a developmental insight on architecture.
£54.40
Hirmer Verlag 3.5 Square Meters: Constructive Responses to
Book SynopsisNatural disasters and their consequences dominate the news almost on a daily basis. Quick-impact preventive and aid measures are essential for the victims to survive. This volume presents a selection of projects which demonstrate impressively how both cutting-edge technology and locally available materials and resources can be used for this purpose. Government-backed aid programmes are often too slow to be immediate effective in natural disasters. Hence, 3.5 Square Meters explores how individuals and communities can unbureaucratically overcome such extreme situations using a bottom-up approach. Key approaches this book introduces in dedicated chapters include Sharing Knowledge, Social Technology, Story Telling and DIY. Presented are individual projects by NGOs and specialists such as engineers, architects, designers, computer scientists and social activists. Transfer of knowledge and communication are essential, as this publication demonstrates, and result in varied and novel solutions.
£16.16
Hirmer Verlag The Turning Point in Architectural Design
Book SynopsisAt the turn to the twentieth century, architects began to realize that architecture should no longer find ist expression in historic styles. They had recognized that the reason for arbitrarily resorting to historical building forms established in advance was that the design process had been completely separated from construction. In spite of the incidental paths of architectural design approaches, there seems to be a consensus emerging in view of today’s global challenges: It is no longer just a question of what shall I build or how shall I build. Instead, the question is how shall I organize and improve my design tools to new dimensions of architecture in order to increase building performance while saving resources and energy and to let digital design solve design tasks that could hardly be solved previously? Today, many projects are pointing in this direction and seem to inaugurate a sustainable fourth dimension of architecture. This book is a comparative critical analysis of such seemingly incidental design approaches, and thus it is an attempt to serve as a historical scenario for the future.Trade Review“A visually rich book that captures a lifetime of experiencing buildings and learning about architecture, condensing those many years and travels into an argument that is easy to grasp.” * A Daily Dose of Architecture Books *" The book is generous in its approach to history and includes examples—both early and contemporary—from varying cultures. Schulitz views and explains these not as shifting styles but as evolving technologies, structures, and material innovations. . . . Recommended." * Choice *
£29.75
Hirmer Verlag Santiago Calatrava: In the Glyptothek (Bilingual
Book SynopsisSantiago Calatrava’s (* 1951) encounter with the sculpture collection at the Glyptothek in Munich thirty years ago prompted him to create an extensive series of sculptures with the title Die Aegineten (The Aeginetans). This volume focuses attention for the first time on the sculptures and paintings of the famous architect and shows how he was influenced by Antiquity. Die Aegineten – 14 large-format sculptures made of wrought iron on a pedestal of aged oak – appear as modern, almost abstract variations on the ancient warriors of the temple of Aphaea. They are presented in an exceptional dialogue with the permanent sculpture collection of the Glyptothek and are complemented by a selection of 30 drawings, watercolours, studies and sculptures of different themes and series which show Calatrava’s interest in the human body and nature, which influences his architectural style.
£28.90
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
gta Verlag / eth Zürich trans 46. Spolia
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£999.99
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
Arnoldsche Mandala – Auf der Suche nach Erleuchtung: Heilige
Book SynopsisHailing from the cultural realm of India, the mandala signifies in its original sense a sacred circle. It serves as a meditation aid and at the same time reflects an ancient symbolism of strictly geometric basic forms accompanied by an interpretation of its sacred content. As an expression of the awareness of higher affinities, the symmetrically arranged geometry can be found in a variety of pictorial works and the architecture of various epochs and cultural realms, for example in medieval book illumination, the floor plan of the Blue Mosque in Istanbul, in Kazimir Malevich’s Black Square, or in various objects of the indigenous peoples of Africa, Asia, Australia, and the Americas. Based on these and other masterpieces from renowned museums and private collections and illustrated in fascinating photographs of unique buildings and rituals, this publication offers an impressive first analysis of the phenomenon of sacred geometry in art and architecture and their underlying ideologies. Text in German.
£999.99
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
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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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