Architecture: public and commercial Books
Penguin Putnam Inc Notre-Dame: A Short History of the Meaning of
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£9.55
Right Angle Publishing Ltd The City Works: Eric Parry Architects
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£31.50
Editions Flammarion Villa Cagni Troubetzkoy Italian Edition
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£48.75
Dilecta Edition Main Entrance: Interview with Roger Taillibert
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£999.99
Birkhauser Schulen bauen: Leitlinien für Planung und Entwurf
Book SynopsisFor some time now, school buildings have represented an important field in architecture, and there is an enduring interest in the challenges this design task presents. This publication explains in eleven chapters the central parameters for this architectural typology: The role of the school in the community or neighborhood, questions of sustainability, flexible spaces for learning, the role of furniture, participation in the design process, learning outside the classroom, landscape design, opportunities and challenges of special schools, and the role of new pedagogical concepts. Each theme is thoroughly investigated and illustrated with numerous buildings presenting model solutions for specific problems or aspects. Table of ContentsCONTENTS Preface1. Introduction: The State of Things2. From Ideas for Learning into Architectural Form3. Nature, Ecology and Environmental Design4. Flexible Space for Learning5. Schools and the Community6. Participating in the Design and Construction Process7- Learning Outside the Classroom8. Learning in the Landscape9. Special Schools should be Special10. Refurbishment and Extension of Existing Schools11. Furniture and Equipment in Learning SpacesBibliographyAbout the AuthorsIndex
£28.98
Birkhauser Adaptive Reuse in Architecture: A Typological
Book SynopsisLiliane Wong's latest volume on adaptive reuse in architecture presents 50 spectacular conversion and reuse projects worldwide, including buildings such as the TWA Hotel at NewYork's John F. Kennedy Airport, the CaixaForum in Madrid, and the New Museum in Berlin. The projects are presented using a new classification system that addresses practitioners as well as academics. The author's introductory essay provides a comprehensive overview and historical context for the enormous evolution and expansion of adaptive reuse over the past 50 years.
£46.35
Quart Verlag Luzern Peter Zirkel Dresden
£35.20
Braun Publishing AG Doctors' Practices
Book SynopsisThis book compiles contemporary designs worldwide that break through the stereotype of doctors’ practices as cold and often stressful environments. All projects aim at balancing medical technology and functionality with the need to create a welcoming and comfortable environment for the patients, visitors and staff. Apart from general practitioner’s offices, those of dentists and a wide variety of specialists are also presented. The solutions range from practice design in an existing building to entirely new buildings for one or more offices. Doctors’ Practices demonstrates today’s architectural responses to the complex demands of healthcare – a very fast-developing field.
£36.00
Braun Publishing AG Pharmacies
Book SynopsisPharmacies constitute a special form of commercial architecture. The market for medicines, which is heavily regulated in most countries, has led to a veritable competition of the “atmosphere of space”: since where product and price can no longer provide a competitive advantage, customer loyalty must be created with other means. In addition to professional competence and familiarity with the customers, that becomes above all the ambiance. That in turn translates to the modern and hygienic pharmacy, together with a friendly and assuring spatial experience. The selected examples show the design sophistication with which pharmacies today, from a functional as well as atmospheric standpoint, set themselves apart from the historical chemists’ shelves – and the competitors.
£999.99
Braun Publishing AG Yoga and Spiritual Retreats: Relaxing Spaces to
Book SynopsisModern life is marred by hectic pace, stress and negative environmental influences. Places to get away from the routine, where body and soul can find harmony again, to breathe deeply and feel good with oneself are sought out more and more. Beautifully designed retreats are turning up across the globe – usually in special locations in the midst of breathtaking, pristine nature. This volume presents buildings and spaces devoted specifically to contemplation, meditation, regeneration and the enjoyment of quietude. The designs are guided by lighting and color schemes, natural materials and views into nature, providing energy on the way to complete relaxation, self-awareness and inner illumination. Archi - tecture creates the connection between the human being, space and nature.
£29.75
Scheidegger & Spiess Other Voices Other Rooms
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£30.40
Bohlau Verlag The Governance of Style: Public buildings in
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£60.29
Aschendorff Verlag Burg Vischering: Wasserburg Und Wahrzeichen
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£28.31
De Gruyter Wielandgut Oßmannstedt
Book SynopsisIm Frühjahr 1797 erwarb der Schriftsteller Christoph Martin Wieland (1733–1813) das Gut Oßmannstedt, das er bis April 1803 mit seiner großen Familie bewohnte und bewirtschaftete. Hier entstand sein letzter großer Roman, „Aristipp und einige seiner Zeitgenossen". Wieland empfing hier zahlreiche Besucher, neben Goethe, dem Ehepaar Herder und der Herzogin Anna Amalia, die aus dem nahen Weimar kamen, seine Jugendliebe Sophie von La Roche mit ihrer Enkelin Sophie Brentano, die Schriftsteller Jean Paul, Heinrich von Kleist, Johann Gottfried Seume und viele mehr. Der Band erzählt die Geschichte von Haus und Park des Wielandguts Oßmannstedt und folgt der Ausstellung im Wieland-Museum, die in Leben und Werk von Christoph Martin Wieland einführt und seine Bedeutung für die deutsche Literatur zeigt.
£13.00
Harrassowitz Das Grossartigste Gebaude in Munchen: Die
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£66.30
Brill U Schoningh Mythos Wewelsburg: Fakten Und Legenden
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£35.06
Springer Fachmedien Wiesbaden Baukonstruktion – vom Prinzip zum Detail: Band 3
Book SynopsisDie Konstruktion im Dienst der Architektur – diesem Thema widmet sich das mehrbändige Werk des Architekten José Luis Moro. Der 3. Band stellt die Ausführung des Gebäudeentwurfs in den Mittelpunkt der Betrachtung. Die Thematik Verbindungen wird grundlegend behandelt und entsprechende Techniken im Detail erörtert. Innere wie äußere Gebäudehüllen erläutert der Autor ausführlich und untersucht verschiedene prinzipielle Aufbauvarianten wie Schalen- oder Rippensysteme aus einer auf den konstruktiven Aufbau der Hülle bezogenen Perspektive.Table of ContentsVerbindungen.- Grundlagen des Fügens.- Kraftübertragung.- Fügeverfahren.- Zusammensetzen.- An-, Einpressen.- Fügen durch Urformen.- Fügen durch Umformen.- Fügen durch Stoffvereinigen.- Äußere Hüllen.- Grundsätzliches.- Erdberührte Hüllen.- Schalensysteme.- Mehrschichtverbundsysteme.- Rippensysteme.- Punktgehaltene Hüllen.- Addierte Funktionselemente.- Membransysteme.- Öffnungen.- Innere Hüllen.- Grundsätzliches.- Horizontale Raumabtrennungen.- Vertikale Raumabtrennungen.- Öffnungen.
£39.99
Niggli Verlag Postmodern Non-Residential Berlin
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£36.00
Hatje Cantz Institut Jules Bordet Instituut (Multi-lingual
Book SynopsisThe Jules Bordet Institute is one of the largest integrated cancer centers in Europe. Located at the heart of the Erasme campus in Anderlecht, Belgium, the university hospital’s structure evolved from the objective to establish smooth connections with its environment. The building’s luminous patios and extensive timber cladding rhythmize the collaborative design by Brunet Saunier Architecture, Archi 2000, and TPF Engineering, emanating in an interplay of natural shades and lights and a welcoming atmosphere. Through texts, photographs, and plans, Institut Jules Bordet Instituut retraces the different stages of the project. From the initial medical vision to the arrival of the first patients, the publication outlines the architectural approach to intensifying the relationship between medical practice and research, integrating technological changes, and improving the comfort of its patients.
£40.00
Hirmer Verlag The Humboldt Forum in the Berliner Schloss:
Book SynopsisThe Humboldt Forum, embodying the cosmopolitan world view of the brothers Humboldt, is to be housed in the historic, reconstructed Berlin Palace on Berlin’s Museum Island. It will be a unique space for art, culture, education and science. This publication provides a glimpse behind the scenes of this great construction project, developed by Italian architect Franco Stella.
£17.95
Hirmer Verlag Oskar von Miller Forum: Building for the Future
Book SynopsisAfter many years of planning, a visionary and attention grabbing building has taken shape in Munich in the form of the Oskar von Miller Forum. The centre was designed by the well known architectural office Herzog + Partner for international encounters between students of the architectural departments at Munich?s Technical University. An important aspect of the building is sustainability.
£24.00
Hirmer Verlag The Library An Open Book Hebrew Edition
Book SynopsisCelebrating Herzog & de Meuron's iconic new National Library of Israel, this book takes the reader on a journey that transcends stone and mortar to explore the importance of libraries in our fastpaced Digital Age. The book features original short stories, paintings, photographs and comics by some of the world's leading authors and artists. This volume celebrates the culmination of a visionary 30 year project to renew the National Library of Israel led by Yad Hanadiv the Rothschild Foundation: Herzog & de Meuron's architectural icon in the heart of Jerusalem. It invites readers to think of the library as a public space, as an object, a concept and a spiritual entity. The book includes original stories by leading authors from Israel and abroad, artwork by Zoya Cherkassky, photographs by three outstanding Israeli photographers and a graphic novella by Rutu Modan. Published in conjunction with: the opening of the National Library of Israel, designed by Herzog & de Meuron
£39.00
Hirmer Verlag The Library An Open Book Arabic Edition
Book SynopsisCelebrating Herzog & de Meuron's iconic new National Library of Israel, this book takes the reader on a journey that transcends stone and mortar to explore the importance of libraries in our fastpaced Digital Age. The book features original short stories, paintings, photographs and comics by some of the world's leading authors and artists. This volume celebrates the culmination of a visionary 30 year project to renew the National Library of Israel led by Yad Hanadiv the Rothschild Foundation: Herzog & de Meuron's architectural icon in the heart of Jerusalem. It invites readers to think of the library as a public space, as an object, a concept and a spiritual entity. The book includes original stories by leading authors from Israel and abroad, artwork by Zoya Cherkassky, photographs by three outstanding Israeli photographers and a graphic novella by Rutu Modan. Published in conjunction with: the opening of the National Library of Israel, designed by Herzog & de Meuron
£39.00
Hirmer Bethany Eden Jacobson Ode to a Cemetery
Book SynopsisBethany Jacobson is an award winning Brooklyn-based photographer and filmmaker. Her films and photographs have been exhibited at international exhibitions and film festivals. She teaches at Pratt Institute and Brooklyn College. Cole Swensen is the author of nineteen books of poetry. A former Guggenheim Fellow and recipient of the National Poetry Series and the PEN USA Award for Literary Translation, she has been a finalist for the National Book Award and the Los Angeles Times Book Prize.
£23.96
Thorbecke Jan Verlag Landkreis Rottweil
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£44.25
Taschen GmbH Gaudí. Das vollständige Werk. 40th Ed.
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£999.99
Christoph Merian Verlag Bengal Stream - The Vibrant Architecture Scene Of
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£56.25
JOVIS Verlag The Essence of Berlin-Tegel: Taking Stock of an
Book SynopsisTegel Airport, opened in 1974 in West Berlin, was not only finished under budget and on time but today also remains an impressive work of art. For their design of the terminal, the architects chose the figure of a large hexagon with edges of 120 metres. A sophisticated use of space created an 'airport of short distances', with as little as 28 metres between the doors of the cars and the aircraft. Peter Ortner's photographs capture his uniquely personal view of the airport complex - the details so familiar to anyone who has travelled through or waited inside Tegel. Text in English and German.
£18.05
JOVIS Verlag Das Berliner Zimmer: Geschichte, Typologie,
Book SynopsisDas Berliner Zimmer ist seit jeher Zumutung und Angebot zugleich: dunkel, schwer zu beheizen, ohne klar definierte Funktion. Ein Raum, der zur kreativen Aneignung einlädt, der geliebt und gehasst wird – aber bisher kaum erforscht wurde. Jan Herres leistet in diesem Buch Pionierarbeit. Er zeigt auf, wie das Berliner Zimmer ab dem 18. Jahrhundert entstand und warum es bis heute Eingang in den Berliner Wohnungsbau findet. Die architekturgeschichtliche Beschreibung wird durch Fallstudien und Bildstrecken zu heutigen Formen der Nutzung und Möblierung ergänzt. Durch die Erfassung von Grundrissen, Größen und Wohnpraktiken liegt mit Das Berliner Zimmer. Geschichte, Typologie, Nutzungsaneignung die erste Anthologie des Berliner Zimmers vor, die zugleich ein Plädoyer dafür ist, Wohnarchitektur nutzungsoffen und wandelbar für künftige Anforderungen zu planen.
£999.99
JOVIS Verlag Reallabor Nachkriegsmoderne: Zum Umgang mit
Book SynopsisThe built heritage of postwar modernism has been under threat from climate change and the high expectations of society for years. The tremendous volume of building stock was erected with high hopes for the future within just a short period of time—and frequently using construction techniques that were as yet unproven. Despite the many research efforts focusing on spatial concepts and societal utopias between the 1950s and 1970s, the practice-oriented field of construction research lacks binding recording and evaluation strategies for buildings, materials, and construction methods for the majority of buildings of all types. This affects projects from solitary churches, residential settlements, and green spaces right through to large cultural, sporting, and education constructions, as well as the engineering structures of the urban and peripheral infrastructure.In order to preserve this existing stock as a resource for the future, new recording and evaluation tools that take into account technical, construction, ecological, and economic factors are necessary. This book presents possibilities for the management of our recent constructed heritage on the basis of ongoing projects by the DFG-Netzwerk Bauforschung Jungere Baubestande 1945+ buildings preservation network.
£28.35
JOVIS Verlag Die Tankstelle: Ein Bautypus im Wandel seiner
Book SynopsisFrom early modernist designs like Hans Poelzig’s archetypal gas station to the Stuttgarter Schule standardized filling stations on the Reichsautobahn, and through to Lothar Götz’s modular post-war constructions—which paved the way for the standardized corporate designs that flourished later—gas stations have been a key element of our surroundings since the 1920s. While the design and construction of gas stations has since become a significant area of work for well-known architecture and engineering firms, this type of building has thus far received barely any attention in academic discourse. Franz Arlart examines and systematizes the development of gas stations in Germany with reference to the architects that designed them. Taking into account functional, technical, and symbolic considerations, this book presents the architectural development of the building type from 1920 to 2020 and outlines the trends that will shape gas station design going forward.
£43.20
Edition Axel Menges GmbH The Architecture of Rome
£29.43
AV Edition GmbH German Football Museum
£33.60
BRAUN 1000x European Hotels
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£67.46
Ruby Press The City as a Project
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£27.90
De Gruyter DIE NEUE HEIMAT (1950–1982): Eine
Book SynopsisDie „Neue Heimat” war der größte und bedeutendste nicht-staatliche Wohnungsbaukonzern im Europa der Nachkriegszeit. In einem Zeitraum von über dreißig Jahren hat das Gewerkschaftsunternehmen mehr als 400.000 Wohnungen und seit den sechziger Jahren auch zahlreiche Kommunal- und Gewerbebauten in Deutschland geplant und ausgeführt. Die „Neue Heimat“ war ein Hoffnungsträger für die Teilhabe am Wirtschaftswunder – und der skandalträchtige Zusammenbruch des Unternehmens Anfang der achtziger Jahre wirkte wie ein Schock auf die westdeutsche Bevölkerung. Der zeitliche Abstand von über einer Generation bietet die Chance für eine kritische Untersuchung: Was waren die Ansätze der sozialdemokratischen Visionen und was ist aus dem bis heute angestrebten „Wohnen für Alle“ geworden? Anhand zahlreicher historischer Foto- und Planmaterialien und Kurzbeiträgen werden u.a. Großsiedlungen wie die Neue Vahr Bremen oder die Entlastungsstadt Neuperlach sowie gigantische Großprojekte der „Neuen Heimat Städtebau“ wie das ICC Berlin dokumentiert.
£23.40
De Gruyter Berlin: Urbane Architektur und Alltag 2009–2022
Book SynopsisDas Buch bietet eine architektonische Entdeckungstour durch Berlin und gibt einen eindrucksvollen Einblick in die jüngste Architektur der deutschen Hauptstadt. Es dokumentiert den Stadtumbau seit der Eröffnung des Neuen Museums 2009 am Beispiel von rund 30 ausgewählten architektonischen und landschaftsarchitektonischen Projekten. Das Augenmerk liegt auf großen architektonischen und stadtplanerischen Meilensteinen wie dem großen Neubau des Axel Springer-Gebäudes von OMA oder der Museumsinsel. Doch auch versteckte Schätze wie das Wohnregal von FAR Frohn & Rojas sind berücksichtigt. Interviews mit Protagonistinnen und Protagonisten der Berliner Architekturszene ermöglichen einen Blick hinter die Kulissen.
£44.20
De Gruyter Alpine Architecture in South Tyrol
Book SynopsisSouth Tyrol is a memorable place: climatically, culturally, and from a culinary standpoint, the region epitomises well-being in a stunning, mountainous setting like no other.Alpine Architecture in South Tyrol captures and highlights the region’s profile in all its multi-layered complexity. From cable car stops to mountain huts, monastery conversions to hotel suites, virtually every conceivable building typology comes under the spotlight. The publication delivers a case study in how local building tradition and contemporary architecture can mutually revitalise one another, and their potential to help turn a transit spot into popular holiday destination. Essays by selected South Tyrolean experts offer unique insight into key aspects of the region.
£36.98
Spector Books Estudioherreros: Lambda Files: The Project for
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£32.30
ArchiTangle GmbH Building to Heal: New Architecture for Hospitals
Book SynopsisBuilding to Heal: New Architecture for Hospitals examines the hardships and major challenges faced by the hospital system today and presents innovative models and solutions in healthcare architecture. Through critical, scientifically based discourse, a variety of authors examine healthcare systems and hospital architecture, what hospitals are missing, and how architecture can contribute to the healing process of patients. The publication answers these questions in three comprehensive chapters based on the medical process: “Symptoms,” “Diagnosis,” and “Therapy.” The introductory section describes the symptoms of the “sick house” and spotlights the urgent need to take these problems seriously in the contexts of both society as a whole and architecture. In the second section, experts from psychology, medicine, and the related sciences, as well as from architectural theory and philosophy, take a diagnostic look at the complex causes that lead to the “diseased house.” The third section presents seven “active ingredients” or scientifically investigated environmental variables for successful therapy, incorporating tools from evidence-based design. Finally, thirteen international case studies show how the conscious use of environmental variables leads to a hospital architecture that promotes healing. Building to Heal: New Architecture for Hospitals bridges the gap between the ever-growing expertise on healthcare architecture and the urgent need for planners, politicians, and the public to pay attention to one of the most important issues in architecture today: health.
£45.00
Die Gestalten Verlag Temples of Books: Magnificent Libraries Around
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£40.50
Strandberg Publishing Architecture of the Glyptotek
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£40.00
Skira Contemporary Museums
Book SynopsisThe book analyzes the design and production of museum complexes all over the world in the last decade, and gives a critical interpretation of one of the most challenging subjects in the recent architectural panorama.
£16.20
Skira L'Italia delle Città / Italy of the Cities
Book SynopsisA veritable film on paper through 92 plates/frames comprising solely images and drawings, colours and architectural references interspersed with 92 pages where words rule. For six months during the Shanghai World Expo 2010 all of the thirty thousand visitors per day at the Italian Pavilion walked through a space magically designed by a symphony of images and sounds. Italy of the Cities condenses an urban and architectural history of more than two thousand years, suggesting a vision for the cities of tomorrow, and at the same time allows everyone to experience the breathtaking magic of a journey to Italy.
£29.71
Skira Lightfall: Genealogy of a Museum: Paul and Herta
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£32.30
Skira The Italian Legacy in Washington, D.C.:
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£32.00
Plan Editions International Panorama 1
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£27.00
BIS Publishers B.V. Innovative Architecture Strategies
Book SynopsisThis book presents a series of contemporary, diverse and innovative design strategies that vary in form, function and design intent. The common denominator of all projects is the alternative and/or experimental approach of combining both private and public spaces. Diverse, innovative design approaches with complex programme are combined with socially and financially sustainable strategies. ‘Innovative Architecture Strategies’ aims to help understand the different design approaches that can be followed when called to propose a concept and design for an innovative mixed-use building. It’s also a guide, point of reference, and inspiration book. The book demonstrates an analytical and clear way to conceptualize, explain and present a mixed-use design project. Each project in the book is selected for its different form, function, technique and design intent. They all offer a clear example of a design project. The diverse design approaches are presented in ten chapters. Each chapter begins with explaining the main concept behind the specific design approach and with a reference to a built precedent.
£12.34
