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Birkhauser Topotek 1: Eine Landschaftsskulptur für München / A Landscape Sculpture for Munich
Topotek 1 is one of Germany’s internationally best-known landscape architecture firms. Rosemarie Trockel is currently one of Germany’s most important artists; she has made a name for herself through highly unconventional works that have often been exhibited in New York, Chicago, at documenta Kassel, the Venice Biennale, and elsewhere. The new and extremely playful park in Munich is the result of a collaboration between them. It covers a three-hundred-meter section of railroad tracks and creates urgently needed open space for the neighborhood of Theresienhöhe. In addition to the design, technically demanding questions like the approach to statics, acoustics, and traffic safety also needed to be solved. This has been achieved with an intricate costly and elaborate mix of gravel, pine trees, plastic , artificial turf, styrofoam, and concrete, which creates varied textures for the site. This monograph examines the new park design in a number of essays and documents the design and production process.
£39.00
Birkhauser Dado: Built and Inhabited by Rudolf Olgiati and Valerio Olgiati
valerio Olgiati has worked as an architect in Los Angeles, Zurich, and, since 2008, in Flims. He has been a visiting professor at the Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology) in Zurich, the AA in London, and at Cornell University in Ithaca, New York. Since 2002 he has been professor at the Accademia di architettura in Mendrisio and since autumn 2009 he has held the Kenzo Tange Chair at Harvard. The unmistakable straight lines and independence of his buildings has brought him international attention. The Olgiati’s family estate is located in the historical town center of Flims. Rudolf Olgiati (1910–95) purchased the property, known as Dado, in 1930 and throughout his life used it to realize his architectural thoughts and ideas. Today, the son is living in his father’s house, and in 2008 he set up his much-admired architectural firm on the former site of the barn. This publication portrays the life and work of both architects using the example of the house and studio—that is, through the transformations they have undergone at the hands of their residents over a period of nearly eighty years. It shows personal furniture and objects, the individual layout and design of the spaces, and hence the penchants and attitudes of the two architects. At the same time this unusual portrait documents not only the relationship between father and son but also the characters of two generations and their understanding of architecture and aesthetics.
£26.00
Birkhauser Enclose | Build: Walls, Facade, Roof
The building shell is the interface with the outside world, it offers protection and at the same time represents its owners or occupants. But what are the criteria for choosing a specific shell? Why is a particular material used on a particular undercoat? The fifth volume of the SCALE series, Enclose | Build, is not about the curtain, the dressing of the facade that surrounds a building, but rather on a causal level about the exterior termination of a building, the wall, the facade, which can be made of various materials, surfaces, and achieves different design effects. It shows the conditions under which certain constructions can be employed and why; what criteria such as construction costs, issues of sustainability, of energy efficiency, of assembly or of insulation or protection against moisture can also influence the choice of a system. In addition to classical constructions, Enclose | Build offers a look at future developments. How will the facade evolve as an interface for information? What do viable concepts for environmentally active, energy-efficient building shells look like? Enclose | Build is an indispensable tool for every architect and planner.
£17.50
Birkhauser Sustainable Architecture in Vorarlberg: Energy Concepts and Construction Systems
The successful combination of a regional building style of sophisticated simplicity with sustainable construction methods has made the architecture of Vorarlberg (Austria) a model for the rest of the world. This book presents particularly successful projects from recent years involving various building types and portrays their development from design idea to built detail. The documented structures by Cukrowicz Nachbaur, Christian Lenz, Oskar Leo Kaufmann + Albert Rüf, Hermann Kaufmann, Dietrich Untertrifaller, Baumschlager Eberle, Marte.Marte, and Martin Rauch place the focus on their energy strategy and formally ambitious construction methods. All of the plans and detail drawings were specially prepared for the book, which makes it easy to compare the projects.
£56.50
Birkhauser Code: Zwischen Operation und Narration
The process of coding is a systematic experimentation with signs, symbols, and the construction of larger cultural meanings. The fourth volume in the series Kontext Architektur examines the architectural-historical and -theoretical relevance of the concept of "code" from various perspectives. The authors and editors start from the premise that this concept makes for new ways of translating architecture into language. Thus, the dominance of computer simulation makes it clear that the building is no longer merely a vehicle for signs, but literally also their product. The code has penetrated, as it were, from the exterior of the building into its interior, into its structure. We are dealing with both a socio-cultural as well as with a mathematical and formal notion of code. The goal of this book is thus to arrive at a critical grasp of the contours of this vibrant conceptual tension between the cultural and the formal, the "outside" and the "inside," while also formulating questions for further exploration that are relevant for architecture.
£20.00
Birkhauser Code: Between Operation and Narration
The process of coding is a systematic experimentation with signs, symbols, and the construction of larger cultural meanings. The fourth volume in the series Kontext Architektur examines the architectural-historical and -theoretical relevance of the concept of "code" from various perspectives. The authors and editors start from the premise that this concept makes for new ways of translating architecture into language. Thus, the dominance of computer simulation makes it clear that the building is no longer merely a vehicle for signs, but literally also their product. The code has penetrated, as it were, from the exterior of the building into its interior, into its structure. We are dealing with both a socio-cultural as well as with a mathematical and formal notion of code. The goal of this book is thus to arrive at a critical grasp of the contours of this vibrant conceptual tension between the cultural and the formal, the "outside" and the "inside," while also formulating questions for further exploration that are relevant for architecture.
£20.00
Birkhauser Jenseits des Rasters – Architektur und Informationstechnologie / Beyond the Grid – Architecture and Information Technology: Anwendungen einer digitalen Architektonik / Applications of a Digital Architectonic
Professor Ludger Hovestadt’s Institute for Computer-Aided Architectural Design at the Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule (ETH) Zürich (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Zurich) is widely regarded as one of the world’s most important institutes currently working at the interface between architecture and information technology. The combination of these two makes it possible to see architecture no longer as a separate sphere of technological reality but rather as one element of a society based on information technology. As a universal tool, the computer encourages one to think in terms of information structures and systems that span individual fields. This "rethinking" of the nature of architecture is leading to a paradigm shift at the methodological level of design, planning, construction, and economy. After a decade of experimentation, it has now become possible to see information technology for architecture as the basis for a new and energy-saving practical approach to building. This publication presents the work of the chair for CAAD using numerous examples – from the spectacular Monte Rosa Alpine hut of Andrea Deplazes to the residential development of KCAP.
£48.00
Birkhauser extra: Encyclopaedia of Experimental Print Finishing
Graphic designers who wish to work with print finishes like blind embossing and phosphorescent ink constantly face the same problem: there are no compelling examples of the available techniques. They must either turn to existing books, which only present them in photographs and make it impossible to experience their tactile qualities, or to samples in advertising brochures put out by individual printing presses, which are so focused on the technology that their visual and haptic appeal is lost. This is where extra comes in: it uses sensuously experienced examples to present the most important finishing techniques practically and theoretically, in variants and experimental combinations. Thirty internationally renowned designers created pages especially for this book as a basis for explaining the special design and technical features of each technique, with an in-depth exploration of its possible uses. Additional articles deal with general issues such as planning and costing a finish or its mode of operation. With its large amount of information, its easy-to-navigate structure, and a glossary, this book is an indispensable reference work on print finishing. At the same time, its experimental character and high-quality design make it a source of inspiration for everyone with an interest in the subject. Designers of the "show pages" in alphabetical order: 123buero Antoine+Manuel Catalogtree Drushba Pankow Fanette Mellier Fons Hickmann m23 Hans Gremmen Hort Sarah Illenberger Jung+Wenig Karlssonwilker inc. Hoon Kim Hort Yang Liu Mario Lombardo LUST Thomas Mayfried mischen Maureen Mooren NODE Berlin Oslo OK-RM onlab Pixelgarten Project Projects Rimini Berlin Viola Schmieskors Ariane Spanier Annik Troxler Üppig Weiss–heiten Design Welcometo.as
£74.00
Birkhauser Scenography - Szenografie 2: Staging the Space - Der inszenierte Raum
How do I develop narrative architectural designs, exhibitions focused on experience, and synesthetic scenography? The book provides a wide range of insights into the working method of the internationally active design studio; explanatory essays and the documentation of over 60 projects illustrate the implementation of scenographic concepts using content, object, space, recipient, and dramaturgy as parameters. The current projects stretch from the refurbishment of the Wagenhallen in Stuttgart to the Grand Egyptian Museum in Gizeh. Additional milestones include the Titanic exhibition in Hamburg, the trading floor of the German Stock Exchange in Frankfurt am Main, the BMW museum in Munich, and the visitor center of the European Parliament in Brussels.
£52.00
Birkhauser Renzo Piano: Space - Detail - Light
The Pritzker laureate Renzo Piano is recognized worldwide as one of the most renowned architects of our time. Central elements of his aesthetics include the playful use of natural light, the transparency of his buildings and their fine detailing. This publication documents nine museum buildings by Renzo Piano Building Workshop.
£34.50
Birkhauser Entwurfsdinge: Vom Sammeln als Werkzeug moderner Architektur
Das Sammeln ist als produktives Werkzeug des Entwerfens in der Architektur bislang kaum erforscht worden. Dabei kennt die Architekturgeschichte zahlreiche Formen wie Muster-, Vorbild- oder Objektsammlungen, die immer neue Wissens- und Materialgrundlagen zugänglich machten. In diesem Buch gelingt erstmals eine fundierte Aufarbeitung dieses besonderen Entwurfswerkzeugs und seiner Operativität, theoretisch begründet und an Fallbeispielen der Geschichte und der Gegenwart belegt. Im Zentrum stehen dingliche Sammlungsgegenstände, die auf jeweils eigene Weise zu Referenzobjekten werden. Die Einzeldarstellungen widmen sich dem Sammeln im Entwurfsvorgang bei Ernö Goldfinger, Renaat Braem, Rudolf Olgiati und Aldo Rossi sowie bei AFF Architekten und Vogt Landschaftsarchitekten.
£54.90
Birkhauser Design by Use: The Everyday Metamorphosis of Things
This publication explores and analyzes a very special kind of design – the phenomenon, as normal as it is wonderful, in which people with no formal training in design take things that have already been designed and reuse them, convert them to new uses, in short, "misuse" them in the very best sense of the word. Non-intentional design (NID) goes on every day, in every area of life, in every region of the world. Redesign through reuse makes things multifunctional and cleverly combines them to generate new functions. It is often reversible, resource-friendly, improvisational, innovative, and economical. It can become a source of inspiration for design, provided professional designers look up and take notice of what actually happens to all the things they design when they are used.
£17.67
Birkhauser Breathe: Erkundungen unserer atmosphärisch verflochtenen Zukunft
This book explores breathing and the atmosphere as leitmotifs for the design of an inclusive future in a new climate regime, uncovering intertwinements of societal activities with the air and the atmosphere. With this awareness of entanglement, the deeply performative characteristics of the air, atmosphere and climate are foregrounded and can be discovered as central agents in the conception and design of our planetary existence. This carefully edited collection brings together renowned authors from various disciplines, and their ideas, observations, and examples inspire us to rethink our forms of social action and design. With contributions by: Bruno Latour Eva Horn, Heather Davis David Life, Bronislaw Szerszynski Jean-Paul Thibaud Gernot Böhme Peter Sloterdijk Rosetta Sarah Elkin Wolfgang Kessling Anja Thierfelder Matthias Schuler Tomás Saraceno Klaus K. Loenhart
£39.00
Birkhäuser Designing Cities
£43.50
Birkhauser Prefabricated Systems: Principles of Construction
For a number of years, modular construction – the use of prefabricated elements in architecture – has once again become a subject of lively discussion and debate. Long written off as monotonous, today’s building components are actually highly differentiated and capable of supporting and enhancing the architect’s creativity. Numerous structures work with prefabricated components; for single-family homes the figure is ninety-eight percent, and modular systems are available that meet high aesthetic standards. This book provides an overview of the various different systems and their possible uses, particularly in the areas of housing, office, and industrial buildings. It explains the processes and components of modular construction and the behavior of the various materials when this construction approach is used. The authors offer strategies for planning and designing with prefabricated systems so that the architect can use them productively. Numerous drawings explain the principles of modular construction, while built examples forge a link between those principles and the practical activity of building.
£30.50
Birkhauser Open(ing) Spaces: Design as Landscape Architecture
"What does the landscape architect actually do as a designer?" The authors of this book investigate this question, which only seems easy – and address some fundamental ideas about design in landscape architecture: What resources are available for designing open spaces? What role do natural conditions play? What principles are applied? This book identifies and analyses the elements that come together to create landscape architecture. Based on their experience in practice and education, the authors reveal the core components of landscape design. In the introduction to the new edition, Stefan Bernard opens up about the book’s origins and reflects on its continuing importance for the design of high-quality outdoor spaces.
£36.50
Birkhauser Basics Masonry Construction
Masonry construction is usually the first building exercise the student encounters in his or her training. This volume elaborates the fundamental principles of scale, construction, and assembly of building components using simple masonry structures as examples. Topics: materials and measurements building physics and load-bearing structures typical bonds building components execution of masonry structures The present volume aims to introduce students systematically to the subject of masonry. Bricks and mortar, the elemental basic components, are used to devise rules for building a wall. The emphasis is on the overall systems and material-dependent properties. The interplay of bricks, the forms of masonry bonds, and the aesthetic of masonry with wall apertures, projections and recesses are explained soundly and methodically so that students can understand the essence of masonry and apply their insights directly to their designs and projects.
£19.50
Birkhauser Building Sharjah
Building Sharjah reveals how modern architecture unfurled across the United Arab Emirates’ third-largest city. An oil discovery in 1972 positioned Sharjah as one of the world’s final cities shaped by transformative fortune. In the footsteps of Kuwait, Riyadh, and Dubai, Sharjah faced a metamorphosis: either one that repeated the past’s mistakes or one that reimagined how wealth can build a city. Sharjah’s potential enticed an international cast of experts to create a bold, new city. As their projects begin to vanish, this book preserves them through unseen photographs and recovered documents. New writing chronicles how local and arriving residents arranged the designed, concrete environment into a home. Beyond just a local artifact, this book examines the confident promises made by global practices of urbanization.
£52.00
Birkhauser Building with Earth: Design and Technology of a Sustainable Architecture Fourth and revised edition
Earth, in common use for architectural construction for thousands of years, has in the past thirty years attracted renewed attention as a healthy, environment-friendly and economical building material. What needs to be considered in this context? The manual Building with Earth, which has been translated into many languages, describes the building technology of this material. The physical properties and characteristic values are explained in a hands-on manner: With proper moisture protection, earth buildings are very durable, and in particular the combination with wood or straw allows a wide spectrum of design options. Numerous built examples demonstrate the range of applications for this fully recyclable material.
£39.00
Birkhauser OMA/Rem Koolhaas: A Critical Reader from 'Delirious New York' to 'S,M,L,XL'
The most incisive texts on Rem Koolhaas / OMA The activities of Rem Koolhaas and his staff were widely discussed even before the foundation of the Office for Metropolitan Architecture in 1975. Today, many contributions on the work of OMA can be found in the international architectural press, including Koolhaas’ own writings. The book contains about 150 selected texts—interviews, feature articles, essays, lead articles, reviews, letters, introductions, appraisals, and competition reports that have been compiled for the first time. This compilation not only provides a fresh and critical view of the oeuvre of one the most important contemporary architects, but also represents an account of the debate on architectural and urban design in recent decades. The most incisive texts on the work of OMA/Rem Koolhaas, with many articles that have never before been translated into English An overview of notions, ideas, and debates in architectural discourse, theory, and criticism, from the 1970s until 2000, that remain relevant today Illustrated with more than 100 cover shoots
£34.00
Birkhauser Refining Nature
Peter Walker is one of the most seminal and prolific figures in contemporary landscape design worldwide - both as a teacher and as practitioner. Among his best-known works are Nasher Garden in Dallas, Novartis Campus in Basel, Switzerland and the World Trade Center Memorial in New York. This academic review of Walker's unique oeuvre look closely at his design work and provides a comparative analysis.
£43.50
Birkhauser Floor Plan Manual Housing
The Floor Plan Manual Housing has for decades been a seminal work in the field of architecture. In its 5th, revised and expanded edition, approximately 160 international housing projects built after 1945 are documented and analyzed. The focus is on exemplary and transferrable projects, and on innovative and trendsetting concepts. The systematic representation of all projects allows the reader to compare and evaluate various floor plans – and to be inspired by the wealth of ideas and strategies for one’s own design work. The introductory theoretical and historical essays have been newly written or updated, and offer a structured overview of the residential housing typology and its development.
£69.50
Birkhauser Wood and Wood Joints: Building Traditions of Europe, Japan and China
Building with wood as an ecologically viable material is a tradition with a long history. In the most typical method, elements are connected by using wood joints which do not require the assistance of adhesives or metal connectors. By looking at several hundred examples from Japan, China and 18 European countries, this book describes in great detail the history of timber architecture in terms of its technical, aesthetic and ecological dimensions. This thorough study is a mine of information to specialists in this field; it opens up to the craftsman of today what has become an almost forgotten world and provides a fascinating account for the general reader. The new introduction to the third edition reviews developments since the first publication of this book in 1997.
£48.00
Birkhauser Le Corbusier and the Architectural Promenade
„Architecture is experienced as one roams about in it and walks through it… So true is this that architectural works can be divided into dead and living ones depending on whether the law of ‘roaming through’ has not been observed or whether on the contrary it has been brilliantly obeyed." (Le Corbusier, 1942) The "promenade architecturale" – the observer’s pathway through the built space – is a central element of Le Corbusier’s architectural and city planning designs. It is the sequence of images that unfolds before the eyes of the observer as he or she gradually advances through the structure. It is the creation of a hierarchy among the architectural events, a set of instructions for reading the work – the "internal circulatory system" of architecture. With the help of the "promenade architecturale", Le Corbusier created virtuosic imbrications of indoor and outdoor space, fluid spaces that reveal themselves as the visitor progresses. Architecture constitutes the space of processes of movement.
£30.50
Birkhauser 128 Colors: A Sample Book for Architects, Conservators and Designers
Dealing with color is a complex subject: influenced by standards, fashions, and trends, we derive our ideas and concepts from color theories, intuition, and personal preferences. The color swatches and systems for describing color common today are based on purely quantitative principles and include well over 1,500 colors. So how do we choose a particular color? More than ten years ago, the color chemist Katrin Trautwein established a pigment factory, starting out from Le Corbusier’s color palette. She now has more than 900 recipes for paint from which she has proposed – based on her work with architects, designers, and historical preservationists – a selection of 128 colors that produce pleasant results on their own and also combine well. Each color is presented with a sample; their potential uses and significance are also discussed. Katrin Trautwein has lectured throughout the world on how to approach colors, given seminars, given expert opinions, advised architects, taught painters, and worked as a restorer.
£30.50
Birkhauser Architektur und Philosophie
Ein Querschnitt durch die Bandbreite der philosophischen Analyse zur Architektur: Sie reicht von deren sogenannten epistemischen Objekten und Phänomenen, auf die sich die wissens- und erkenntnistheoretische Aufmerksamkeit konzentriert, bis zum Versuch, die Erfahrung der Lebenswelt mit der materiellen Realität des Bauens in Einklang zu bringen. Letztlich geht es um eine Integration der Wahrnehmungen und Empfindungen zur Architektur in ein vernunftmäßiges Denken, das sich auf der Höhe des kulturellen Diskurses der Zeit bewegt. Es stellen sich Fragen der Ästhetik, Semantik und Ethik, aber auch des Idealismus und Pragmatismus. Für manche ist Architektur gar die ontologische Kunst par excellence, weil sie durch die Gestaltung von Landschaften und Städten unser Sein nachhaltig bestimmt.
£18.08
Birkhauser Relational Theories of Urban Form: An Anthology
This 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 Mathias 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."
£26.00
Birkhauser Herzog & de Meuron 1978-1988
Herzog & de Meuron gehören zu den international bedeutendsten Architekten unserer Zeit. Der jüngste Auftrag für die neue Tate Gallery in London hat das einem breiteren Publikum ebenso signalisiert wie große Ausstellungen in Tokio, New York und Paris. Die Gesamtausgabe im Birkhäuser Verlag für Architekturträgt diesem herausragenden Stellenwert Rechnung und stellt das Werk in seinem Zusammenhang vor. Nach Band 2 im letzten Jahr werden in Band 1 nun die ersten elf Jahre von Herzog & de Meuron dokumentiert. ln diesem Zeitraum von 1978-88 wurde eine methodologische Basis erarbeitet, auf der die Großprojekte der darauffolgenden Jahre aufbauen konnten. Waren Bauten wie das «blaue Haus» bei Basel durch eine naturbezogene Bildhaftigkeit geprägt, so traten Herzog & de Meuron fast gleichzeitig mit Entwürfen hervor, die so verdichtet waren, dass Erscheinungsweise, Funktion und Struktur zusammenfielen. Das Lagerhaus für die Firma Ricola in Laufen ist mit seiner Hülle aus geschichteten Eternitplatten hierfür exemplarisch. Ein weiteres zentrales Thema der ersten Werkdekade ist denn auch die grundsätzliche Neubewertung von Materialien. Ein Haus in einem Garten bei Basel wurde innen und außen ganz aus verschiedenen Sperrhölzern gefügt, die Außenwände eines Wohnhauses im ligurischen Tavole sind aus Bruchsteinen geschichtet. Für ein Laborgebäude in Basel war eine Glashülle vorgesehen, die sich teilweise vom Baukörper ablöst; ein Wohnhaus mit Galerieraum lebt aus der vielfältigen Verwendung von Beton. Bereits bei den Frühwerken ist also ein ausgesprochenes Interesse an der Gestaltung der Fassade erkennbar. Die Auseinandersetzung mit übergreifenden stadtplanerischen Aspekten manifestierte sich erstmals deutlich in der Siedlung Pilotengasse am Stadtrand von Wien, die Herzog & de Meuron zusammen mit Adolf Krischanitz und Otto Steidle 1987-92 entwarfen und realisierten. Das pragmatische Denken für einen spezifischen Ort und Zweck in der sich rasch wandelnden Gegenwart, das den architektonischen Diskurs von Herzog & de Meuron in besonderer Weise auszeichnet, wird im Buch durch verschiedene theoretische Beiträge abgestützt. Wie im bereits erschienenen Band 2 werden auch im Band 1 die zentralen Projekte ausführlich vorgestellt. Im Anhang befindet sich eine Chronologie aller 47 Werknummern von 1978-1988 mit präzisen technischen und bibliografischen Angaben.
£97.65
Birkhauser Rotes Wien: Architektur 1919–1934: Stadt – Raum – Politik
1919 initiierte die sozialdemokratische Wiener Stadtregierung ein Reformprogramm um die Infrastruktur nach sozialistischen Vorstellungen zu formen. Das Herzstück des „Roten Wien“ waren die Wiener Gemeindebauten, 400 städtische Häuserblöcke, die, verteilt über die ganze Stadt, Wohnraum für ein Zehntel der Stadtbevölkerung bot. Während der Baukampagne wurde Österreich jedoch von einer konservativ-klerikalen, antisozialistischen Mehrheit regiert.In ihrem Buch zeigt Eve Blau wie dieser ideologische Konflikt die Bauten des Roten Wien formte, wie sich die Architektur ihrer eigenen Codes, Praktiken und Geschichte bediente um ihre Position gegenüber den politischen Rahmenbedingungen abzugrenzen.Das Buch, längst Standardwerk in der Architektur- und Kunsthistorikerausbildung, liegt nun erstmals in deutscher Übersetzung vor.
£34.60
Birkhauser HighwayIng: Lukas Ingold & Fabio Tammaro
£30.11
Birkhauser Home Smart Home: How we want to live
Welcome to the hybrid home, in which the bathroom has become a temple of wellness, the living room an online couch, and the kitchen a lounge. Everything appears tidy and chic, perfect for social media. In the Instagram Age, even micro-apartments are mutating into semi-public places. The German journalist Oliver Herwig has been studying the transformation of living spaces and dream interiors for years. In this book, he portrays a society in the throes of digital transformation. The lines between work, leisure and rest have been blurred, as our homes become temporary, multipurpose work, fun and multimedia spaces; the office has invaded the home, and the world of smart shopping is always just a word away thanks to Alexa. Nothing quite fits anymore, yet everything must have its place. Welcome to the hybrid home. Easy reading about the difficult transitions in our living spaces Smart and analytical, the book reveals the hidden desires that shape how we live Designed and illustrated by Studio für Gestaltung, Cologne Available in German and English
£25.20
Birkhauser Basics Loadbearing Systems
Loadbearing systems are the basis of any structure. In order to provide architecture students with an easily understandable introduction to the field of supporting structures, this volume begins with the fundamentals of loads and forces and then moves on to building components and finally to loadbearing systems, together with their characteristic attributes.Subjects: Loads; Forces; Structural building components; Supporting structures and systems; Presizing.
£19.50
Birkhauser Walter Gropius: Buildings and Projects
As founder of the Bauhaus school, Walter Gropius (1883–1969) is one of the icons of 20the century architecture. While his early buildings in Pomerania were still strongly marked by his teacher Peter Behrens, after an expressionistic phase focused on handicraft, he ultimately arrived at geometric abstraction. During the entire period he collaborated with other architects, founding the collective known as "The Architects Collaborative" in the US. The comprehensive monograph documents all 74 of the known buildings by Gropius that were realized, including many early works which he never publicized; but it also critically examines his unbuilt projects. The book is illustrated with new photographs by the author, historical figures, and with as new plans drawn by the author.
£52.00
Birkhauser Basics Design Ideas
Design Ideas offers students a variety of different ways to go about finding a design solution. In addition to suggesting fundamental ways to get the creative process moving and develop a design approach, it also proposes various sources of inspiration for design ideas. It focuses on the three elements of place, form, and function, which can sometimes constitute immediate springboards for concrete designs. These elements must eventually be incorporated as the design process.Subjects: Creativity in the design process; Sources of inspiration and design approaches; Working with place; Working with form; Working with function.
£19.50
Birkhauser Herzog & de Meuron 1992-1996
On the occasion of the 40th anniversary of the worldwide leading architectural practice Herzog & de Meuron, we are publishing the third volume of the Complete Works as an accessible paperback edition. The reprint, in original format, comprehensively present all buildings and designs from 1992 up to the year 1996. The development of the practice over the first years can be tracked in fascinating documents of the time.
£34.50
Birkhauser Basics Raumgestaltung
Architecture does not consist of two-dimensional drawings – it is built space. The volume Basics Spatial Design focuses on what underlies the perception and design of space and helps to create a deep understanding of the conscious design of three-dimensional relationships. It presents possibilities for spatial design clearly and in a manner that is easily adaptable for one’s own work. Topics: What is space? How do I perceive space? Design parameters – elements of space Repertoire – using the tools
£19.50
Birkhauser 9 x 9 – A Method of Design: From City to House Continued
An ideal design is site-specific, which is the only way architecture can create or connect with a specific sense of identity. This requires addressing the structural and local circumstances. This method handbook, developed at the Department of Architectural Design, offers a playful way in which to systematically ascertain a complex framework and use it for your own design. The “9 x 9 method” takes all relevant factors and their alternate interaction into consideration: location, structure, shell, program, and materiality, all which, in a matrix with various intersections, produce exactly 9 “fields of action” for the design. The individual “fields” are not only illustrated visually awith meaningful and eidetic pictures, but are also discussed in texts by leading specialists. For this book, the “9 x 9 method” was completely re-worked and redesigned. Authors: Florian Aicher, Jia Beisi, Adam Caruso, Dietmar Eberle, Franziska Hauser, Vittorio Magnago Lampugnani, Michele Lanza, Arno Lederer, Silvain Malfroy, Adrian Meyer, Marcello Nasso, Fritz Neumeyer, András Pálffy, Miroslav Šik, Laurent Stalder, Eberhard Tröger.
£43.80
Birkhauser Polychromie architecturale: Le Corbusiers Farbenklaviaturen von 1931 und 1959 / Le Corbusier's Color Keyboards from 1931 and 1959 / Les claviers de couleurs de Le Corbusier de 1931 et de 1959
Le Corbusier designed two color collections for the Salubra wallpaper company: the “Clavier de couleurs” of 1931, with 43 colors, and the 1959 collection, with 20. Not content with the mere color selection, drawn from his experience as an architect and painter, he also organized the tones on 12 sample cards in such a manner that, by using a slider, three or five colors could be varyingly isolated or combined. Each card contained a different color scheme meant, when applied, to create a particular spatial effect. This would become not only a useful tool but also a kind of testament of the purist color theory, an essential groundwork and a valuable instrument for all those who deal with color in theory or practice. In the first volume, Arthur Rüegg, the renowned Le Corbusier expert, explores the significance of the Salubra collections for the history of modern architecture, and in the epilogue to this third edition, presents the specialist research conclusions from the last twenty years. The second volume contains 13 color plates with the 63 colors, printed using the screen printing method and glued by hand as well as 4 separate sliders in pocket. Volume three consists of 63 full page color sample sheets, also printed using the screen printing method.
£941.73
Birkhauser Mapping Design Research: Positions and Perspectives
An authoritative and scientifically based collection of 18 international texts since 1960 that mirrors and analyses the principal developmental phases of design research and scientific research. The importance of the focus on pivotal texts for the design research cannot be overstated. However, while certain charismatic names come up in the discussion, the community has thus far lacked a handbook that is straightforward and accessible. Grand and Jonas have now filled this gap. Compiled on the basis of a deep and extensive knowledge of the field, their essays situate and elucidate these exciting texts and aid readers in understanding them.
£61.00
Birkhauser Synesthetic Design: Handbook for a Multi-Sensory Approach
Synesthetic design strives to develop products that systematically incorporate all five senses. In future, the current wealth of medical technical insights in psychology, physiology, motor functions, and neurology and the development of innovative materials with astonishing new properties will open up almost unlimited opportunities for the designer’s creativity. Haverkamp brings together for the first time precisely those aspects of this fundamental knowledge that are specifically relevant for designers. The result is a book that offers designers of all schools a clear and well-organized practical handbook and a solid foundation for their own designs.
£46.00
Birkhauser Licht. Sehen. Gestalten.: Lichttechnische und wahrnehmungspsychologische Grundlagen für Architekten und Lichtdesigner
Eine 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.
£69.50
Birkhauser Alte Meister - Junge Meister
Der künstlerische Hochdruck als Ursprung der Medienkunst bietet Jahrtausende überspannende Entwicklungslinien. Diese sind in der Sammlung von Herwig Tachezi nach zu vollziehen und bilden den Ausgangspunkt für die Beschäftigung der Studierenden der Universität für angewandte Kunst Wien mit den historischen Meisterwerken des Hochdrucks. Als „Junge Meister“ beschäftigen sich diese mit den unterschiedlichen Werken der „Alten Meister“. Die Annäherung an die historischen Werke erfolgt dabei auf vielfältige Weise, konzeptuell, formal, ästhetisch oder auch technisch. Ergänzt werden die Arbeiten der Studierenden durch Werke von Jan Svenungsson und Michael Schneider.
£18.00
Birkhauser Oskar Kokoschka – ein Künstlerleben in Lichtbildern Oskar Kokoschka – An Artist's Life in Photographs: Aus dem Oskar Kokoschka-Zentrum der Universität für angewandte Kunst Wien From the Oskar Kokoschka-Zentrum of the University of Applied A
The photographic estate of Oskar and Olda Kokoschka comprises approximately 5.000 photographs. It contains portraits by renowned photographers, including Madame d’Ora (Dora Kallmus), Hugo Erfurth, Brassaï, George Platt Lynes, René Burri, Trude Fleischmann or Erich Lessing. Apart from artistically composed images, the estate also features numerous press photographs and astonishing snapshots. With its extensive commentary, this first photo-biography of Kokoschka provides an insight into the artist’s many-faceted work and eventful life. The publication offers a vivid record of the evolution of photography and a historico-cultural journey through the 20th century as reflected by the mirror of this extraordinary artist.
£34.00
Birkhauser Printed Physics: Metalithikum I
£30.50
Birkhauser Synthesis and Nullification: Works 1991-2011
Here is a retrospective of the career of Stefan Sonvilla-Weiss, visual artist, graphic designer, multimedia developer, writer, researcher, educator and visionary conceptualist. It includes many previously unpublished texts and artworks of the last two decades.
£34.50
Birkhauser Building Integrated Photovoltaics: A Handbook
Photovoltaics is one of the most promising technologies for global energy production in the context of the energy crisis and climate change. Photovoltaic modules are now available in such a wide range of forms that nearly all of the usual fl at parts of buildings can be provided with photovoltaic capabilities. In addition to producing energy, these modules offer a number of synergistic effects, since increasingly they are integrated as glazing elements and can perform such other functions as weather protection, solar control, and providing privacy. Special modules such as solar roofing tiles and solar membranes are available for particular applications. This book explains the technology, presents the available products, and communicates clearly how they are used in buildings, with a particular focus on large-scale buildings. It provides architects with all of the necessary know-how to provide a new or existing building with a photovoltaic system, covering both planning and implementation. Last but not least, it is a valuable practical instrument to prepare for communicating with the relevant manufacturers and clients.
£39.00
Birkhauser Acoustics and Sound Insulation: Principles, Planning, Examples
Acoustics and protection against noise do not perhaps number among the primary parameters that normally influence the design of a building. Nevertheless, at the very latest when the lecturer in the seminar room cannot be heard, when the noise level in an open-plan office reaches unbearable levels, or when a neighbor’s noise deprives you of sleep, it becomes clear just how essential acoustic can be to everyday well-being. it is not just concert halls or the amphitheaters of antiquity that call for acoustic quality; rather, every building, indeed every room, has an acoustic dimension that changes according to the nature of its particular requirements. This practice-oriented volume provides expert planners and architects but also interested developers with practical knowledge on the subject of acoustics in high-rise architecture, beginning with standards on methods of planning and prognosis and moving on to the areas of acoustics of rooms and architecture and noise protection in urban planning. Typologically organized chapters comment on proper approaches to the subject with examples of different types of building such as residential and office buildings, schools, kindergartens, lecture halls, event spaces, and so on, because appropriate acoustic conditions make an essential contribution to the success of a project.
£37.50
Birkhauser Basics Urban Analysis
Basics Urban Analysis is a new addition to the module on city planning. Building on the elements of cities as described in the volume Basics Urban Building Blocks, it provides techniques for analyzing cities. As a basis for city planning and architectural design work, a solid understanding of the existing and surrounding urban structures is indispensable. This volume not only explains the possible approaches; it also describes in practical terms how to implement those approaches in the areas analyzed and how to evaluate the data one has collected.
£19.50
