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Birkhauser Wo Architekten arbeiten / Where Architects Work
What does it actually look like in the offices of people who think on a day-to-day basis about good architecture? Where do the ideas and designs of contemporary architecture originate? Seventy-six architectural firms, in German-speaking countries and internationally, open their doors and show us the spaces in which they work. There is a view of the outside of each architectural firm, one of the interior, and a floor plan, where the work places of the owners are highlighted. This not only exemplifies the similarities and differences between the architects, but also the internal organization of the offices as well as the attitude expressed by each respective building. The rooms in which architects work and receive visitors today tell of a profession that is itself a polyglot, down to earth, makeshift, honest, ironic, serious, or playful. Employees work in skyscrapers and barns, in townhouses and storage buildings, on the water and in the woods. The exemplary views of the seventy-six architectural firms are accompanied by a fundamental observation of continuities and discontinuities of the “atelier/studio.”
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Birkhauser Behordlich autorisiert. Staatlich beeidet. Im Nationalsozialismus verfolgt.
Über die Geschichte der österreichischen Ingenieurkammern Das vorliegende Buch untersucht erstmals die Geschichte der österreichischen Ingenieurkammern und ihrer Mitglieder von der Gründung des Ziviltechnikerwesens 1860 bis zum Ziviltechnikergesetz 1957. Der Fokus liegt neben der Rekonstruktion der Organisationsgeschichte auf der Aufarbeitung der Kollaboration mit dem NS-Regime und dem Schicksal jener Ziviltechniker:innen, die verfolgt wurden. Ausgewählte Biografien machen Handlungsspielräume innerhalb der Kammern, Karriereverläufe und -brüche von Mitgliedern und Auswirkungen diskriminierender Maßnahmen sichtbar. Ein besonderes Anliegen ist dabei, die Erinnerung an jene Ziviltechniker:innen wachzuhalten, die dem NS-Regime zum Opfer fielen. Mit der wissenschaftlichen Aufarbeitung der Kammergeschichte übernimmt die Bundeskammer der Ziviltechniker:innen eine wichtige Verantwortung. Ein zentraler Beitrag zur Aufarbeitung der
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Birkhauser Conceptual Design of Structures
Most of the embodied energy can be saved in the load-bearing structure! Conceptual Design of Structures is working at the interface between structural engineering, architecture, and art. The book seeks to answer the complex question of what needs to be considered when conceiving a building structure. What influences the process of conceptual thinking? How do space and structure interact? In what ways do architects and engineers work together? The book thus sheds light on the topic of multidisciplinary interrelationships in design, showing numerous different perspectives. Renowned practitioners and researchers from architecture and engineering share their insights, as do artists and historians who cross the disciplinary boundaries. Furthermore, this book also provides an outlook on possible future developments and aspects of sustainable design and construction. Bridging practice, academic, and research Holistic perspectives through
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Birkhauser Grundlagen der Materialkunde: Farbstoffe, Kunststoffe, Textilien, Metalle
Materials: An overview This book presents a clear overview of the most important design materials, their production, properties, composition, and use. It also presents a concise outline of cleaning agents and dyes, and the basics of organic and inorganic chemistry. Materials are the starting point for every design process, whether in architecture, art, or crafts. Ancient artifacts show that people have always manipulated materials to derive practical and/or aesthetic benefits from them. The scientific interest in the properties of materials did not begin until the dawn of the industrial age in the early nineteenth century. With this book we finally have a solidly grounded textbook on the fundamentals of materials science. Everything you always wanted or needed to know about dyes, plastics, textiles, metals An overview of materials, their production, properties, and composition, and practical applications Understandable, thorough, clearly arranged, this is a reference book for students, pupils, professionals, and anyone interested in materials science
£50.50
Birkhauser To the Ends of the Earth: A Grand Tour for the 21st Century
The book takes the reader on an intellectual adventure through a carefully curated selection of 120 places that can be understood as metaphors of contemporary global culture. Spread across all seven continents, from the depths of the ocean to outer space, these places are divided into six chapters: Paradises, Utopias, Machines, Monsters, Ruins, and Instruments. The spectrum ranges from Steve Jobs' Apple Park in California to a national park in Costa Rica, a small field station for the protection of wild orangutans in Borneo, the Great Green Wall in Central Africa, the Trump resort Mar-a-Lago, to the border wall between Israel and Palestine. This book is a grand tour of the most pertinent places in the world today. A unique and fascinating journey around the world of today Featuring custom-made maps created especially for this publication
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Birkhauser Weiterbauen an Dorf, Siedlung, Stadt: Ein Plädoyer
Kirchengast betrachtet in seinem Buch drei Projekte mit modellhaftem Charakter: Max Dudler, Franz Riepl und Jonathan Sergison demonstrieren auf den Maßstabsebenen Dorf, Siedlung und Stadt ein analoges Weiterbauen. Mit ihrer elementaren „Gebautheit", guten Proportionen und dem eleganten Zusammenspiel der Volumina im städtischen Raum verkörpern sie eine Dauerhaftigkeit ohne Allüren und modische Zutaten, die zum sinnfälligen wie selbstverständlichen Hintergrund des alltäglichen Lebens wird. Sie geben dabei nicht nur auf die drängende Frage der Ökologie unseres Zusammenlebens Antwort, sondern liefern einen Ankerpunkt in unserer heterogenen Gestaltungskultur. Fotos von Hélène Binet, David Schreyer und Stefan Müller sowie historische Illustrationen begleiten das Plädoyer für die gekonnte Architektur der Mitte.
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Birkhauser Denise Scott Brown In Other Eyes: Portraits of an Architect
50 years Learning from Las Vegas From the bustle of Johannesburg to the neon of Las Vegas, Denise Scott Brown’s advocacy for "messy vitality" has transformed the way we look at the urban landscape. Unconventional, eloquent, and with a profound sociopolitical message, Scott Brown is one of our era’s most influential thinkers on architecture and urbanism. The anthology Denise Scott Brown. In Other Eyes – marking the 50th anniversary of the seminal treatise Learning from Las Vegas – paints a portrait of Scott Brown as seen through the eyes of leading architectural historians and practitioners. It features new scholarship on her education on three continents, her multidisciplinary teaching, and her use of urban patterns and forces as tools for architectural design – a practice documented in a new comment by Scott Brown, noting that sometimes "1+1>2." With contributions by Mary McLeod, Joan Ockman, Sylvia Lavin, Stanislaus von Moos, Jacques Herzog, Robin Middleton, and Denise Scott Brown, among others A comprehensive portrait of one of contemporary architecture’s most significant personalities
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Birkhauser Massives Material: Monolithisch, homogen und zirkulär Bauen
Solid matter. Monolithic and homogeneous concepts for a circular approach to architecture In response to climate change, architects have been seeking a contemporary expression for durable, solid and homogeneous wall structures made of clay, wood, brick, concrete and recycled materials. This book follows 25 projects to analyze construction methods that predominantly involve materials that have a single origin and can be easily dismantled. It looks at a variety of different ways and scales in which architects have dealt with issues of mass and materiality, both in terms of design and construction. Structured according to the specific materials, the book allows direct comparisons, and renders visible solid building typologies and forms. Numerous drawings, developed especially for this book, document the projects. Two essays as well as interviews with Pepe Marquez and Arno Richter examine the strategies and background of monolithic architecture and solid construction methods. Solid building materials and their contribution to climate protection and sustainability Analytical presentations of single-variety and demountable construction methods Insights into research and applications of the materials
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Birkhauser Mono-Material: Monolithic, Homogeneous and Circular Construction
Solid matter. Monolithic and homogeneous concepts for a circular approach to architecture. In response to climate change, architects have been seeking a contemporary expression for durable, solid and homogeneous wall structures made of clay, wood, brick, concrete and recycled materials. This book follows 25 projects to analyze construction methods that predominantly involve materials that have a single origin and can be easily dismantled. It looks at a variety of different ways and scales in which architects have dealt with issues of mass and materiality, both in terms of design and construction. Structured according to the specific materials, the book allows direct comparisons, and renders visible solid building typologies and forms. Numerous drawings, developed especially for this book, document the projects. Two essays as well as interviews with Pepe Marquez and Arno Richter examine the strategies and background of monolithic architecture and solid construction methods. Solid building materials and their contribution to climate protection and sustainability Analytical presentations of single-variety and demountable construction methods Insights into research and applications of the materials
£36.50
Birkhauser Teaching Graphic Design: Approaches, Insights, the Role of Listening. 24 Interviews with Inspirational Educators.
How do I teach design? Why is listening so important? What can we learn from other disciplines and cultures and from each other? Answers to these and other questions are offered by Sven Ingmar Thies and his 24 interviewees, who are all united by a single wish: that their students should experiment, experience, and grow as designers. This book allows teachers of graphic design, design theory, game development, industrial design, and behavioral research from China, Germany, Great Britain, Japan, Austria, and the USA to each have their say. The in-depth conversations are complemented by a comprehensive reflection and sample assignments. This is a book for teachers and students alike that offers insights into the experiences of others, as well as inspiration for teaching, learning, and professional practice.
£34.50
Birkhauser On Digital Architecture in Ten Books: Vol. 2: Books IV–VI.
Treatise on digital architecture Hovestadt’s treatise strictly follows the model of the famous treatises by Vitruvius (De architectura) and Alberti (De re aedificatoria), based on the supposition that we find ourselves in a comparable situation today. Vitruvius and Alberti expressed the meaning of architecture in their eras: Roman antiquity and the Renaissance. Hovestadt has done the same for the present day, incorporating considerations of physics, mathematics, technology, literature, and philosophy. Books I to III deal with the role of the architect and the objectivity of architecture. Books IV to VI address the modalities of speaking about and encoding architecture: the secret, the public, and the private. Books VII to X are dedicated to actual digital mechanisms: artificial intelligence, natural communication, gnomonics, and cultural heritage. An architectural treatise for our age in 10 books Inspired by the works of Vitruvius and Alberti Published in three volumes in the Applied Virtuality Book Series, Vol. 19, 20, and 21
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Birkhauser Stadtforschung von unten: Kelleruntersuchungen und ihr Beitrag zur Stadtbaugeschichte
Cities are constantly changing. What often remains are the cellars as parts of buildings that exist underground, which are less exposed to the pressures of modernisation and destruction events. In many places this historical layer of cellars carries information about the history of urban development that has been lost above ground. Which methods can be used to make this source accessible and which research questions can be answered with the information obtained from it? Renowned researchers discuss current results and approaches to these questions. Particular attention is paid to aspects of urban research and the question of the extent to which the transformation of cellars reflects urban development processes.
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Birkhauser Fluid Bodies: Methods for Casting New Esthetics
From casting to sculpture Cast materials become solid, yet they originate as fluid materials that can take on any imaginable form. This simple yet radical paradigm allows for the exploration of volumetric formations through process-oriented casting and experimentation with alternative ways of manufacturing, presenting, and shaping casting molds. Working with hardening bodies fundamentally challenges the notion of formal rigidity; conventional formwork models are reconsidered, and a new aesthetic emerges. Fluid Bodies presents a variety of objects created using alternative casting methods. The book documents experimental artistic research and showcases innovative and surprising sculptures in concrete and plaster. Alternative ways of manufacturing, presenting, and shaping casting molds Concrete and plaster sculptures, parametric designs, and the further development of conventional formwork models and casting processes With numerous large-format photographs
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Birkhauser Einfach Bauen: Holzfenster
Versatile wooden windows In her book, the trained carpenter and architect Judith Resch looks at what scope still exists in modern window design and construction. The process of simplification is more difficult to achieve for windows than for most building components, since windows, due to their function, must meet high technical specifications. She presents a variety of window design projects that have one thing in common: they pursue a singular design concept using the simplest possible means. All projects are presented in detail with technical drawings and photographs. 10 simple wooden window designs From retrofitting historical windows to the possibilities of DIY design Precisely designed, handcrafted, highly repairable windows
£33.00
Birkhauser Co-Corporeality of Humans, Machines, & Microbes
The theory of Co-Corporeality is based on a conception of the built environment as a biological entity that opens up a space for coexistence and interaction between humans and microbial life. Based on design-led research, this book explores how we can develop environments for a multispecies world. It focuses on the agency of both human and nonhuman actors. New sensor tools enable observation of and interaction between these different actors. Co-Corporeality links microbiology to material science, artificial intelligence, and architecture. The focus is on how microbial activity can create new protoarchitectural materials, how living systems can be integrated into architecture and cooperate along different time scales.
£31.05
Birkhauser Design und künstliche Intelligenz: Theoretische und praktische Grundlagen der Gestaltung mit maschinell lernenden Systemen
Designing with intelligent applications Intelligent machines are no longer merely the stuff of science fiction; we are already surrounded by a multitude of intelligent applications. For example, the information feeds of large social media platforms are compiled and designed for individual users by means of algorithms. This often-unnoticed process in design practice contrasts conspicuously with a glaring gap in terms of the design-centered practice of application-oriented, AI-based design. This book shows how designers’ tasks, roles, and understanding expand when machines take on design decisions and when the concept and practice of what we call creativity fundamentally shifts. Thus, this book adds to our knowledge of how designers can apply machine learning productively. Relevant models and current applications of artificial intelligence in design Principles of good and ethical practice in designing with machine learning Seven discipline-specific case studies plus a chapter on practical applications
£47.00
Birkhauser Steel Construction: Set in 4 volumes
This set of four volumes on steel design by Terri Meyer Boake comprises both an overall approach for understanding how architects design and build with steel, as well as cutting-edge specialized topics reflecting the revolutionary transformation in the use of steel in architecture in the last decade. Among these are diagrid structures, architecturally exposed structural steel (AESS) and non-orthogonal geometries in steel design. Boake’s books "underscore the currency of architectural designs that combine the tectonic expression of steel with particular attention to the craft of building and its detailing" (Journal of Architectural Education). Each volume comprises thematic sections that provide a proficient overview of the topic, and covers constructed examples from across the world.
£93.15
Birkhauser Urbanite hybride Hybrid Urbanity
Countering the phenomenon of sprawl in the often anonymous or chaotic urban periphery, the Oassis neighborhood in Lausanne takes a unique approach based on urbanity and hybridization. Located on a former industrial wasteland in the west of the city, Oassis reflects the compositional principles of the traditional city, while also engaging in the dynamics of ecological transition and climate resilience. This urban fragment' is both an urban fabric, compatible with future developments in the neighborhood, and an architectural object characterized by urbanity. The contemporary challenges of regenerating suburban areas are addressed here through diverse development programs and a profusion of gardens. Skilful combination of economic, ecological and social factors with high-quality architecture With unpublished documents and specially commissioned photographs
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Birkhauser Design/Theorie – Essays 1982 bis 2020
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Birkhauser Miracles in Concrete: Structural Engineer August Komendant
The first comprehensive tribute to Louis Kahn's and Moshe Safdie's structural engineer The Estonian-American civil engineer August Komendant (1906–1992) worked with numerous famous architects and engineers on several of the 20th century’s most iconic buildings. Concrete was Komendant’s passion through decades. He used his expertise in designing structures as different as the Kadriorg Stadium grandstand in Tallinn, Estonia (Elmar Lohk, 1938), the Habitat ’67 experimental housing complex in Montréal, Canada (Moshe Safdie, 1967) and the Kimbell Art Museum in Fort Worth, Texas, USA (Louis I. Kahn, 1972). Komendant combined technical expertise with a keen sense of aesthetics: as an engineer, he valued the timeless and enduring qualities of architecture. He knew that miracles require more than spreadsheets and a budget – the creative impulse is essential. One of the most innovative civil engineers of the 20th century. Specialized in the use of reinforced concrete and various other concrete technologies Structural engineer to architects such as Louis I. Kahn, Moshe Safdie, and Eero Saarinen
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Birkhauser Atlas Kriegsschadenskarten Deutschland: Stadtkartierung und Heritage Making im Wiederaufbau um 1945
Approximately 60 large-format, historic city maps in full color For the first time, the Atlas Kriegsschadenskarten (Atlas of War Damage Maps) prepares an important source inventory for urban research and presents maps of Nuremberg, Hamburg, Hanover, Freiburg, Leipzig, and Essen from the 1940s and 1950s in large-format illustrations. Introductory essays are devoted to the development of war damage recording and discuss the significance of map documents for reconstruction and heritage processes. Thus, the book shows not only losses and destruction, but also the preservation of historically valuable buildings and structures and their evaluation in the light of the respective motivations that were decisive for reconstruction. Cities studied: Nuremberg, Hamburg, Hanover, Freiburg, Leipzig, Essen With English abstracts Urbanism and architectural preservation
£87.00
Birkhauser Wood and Wood Joints: Building Traditions of Europe, Japan and China
There is a long tradition of using wood as a distinct and ecologically sound building material. Wooden architecture conveys for today’s world the breadth of knowledge held in Western and Eastern cultures about the creative use of this unique material. The typical technique of building with wood, joinery, requires that elements are connected only by the skillful interlocking of the constructive parts. In this book, the history of wooden architecture is described in detail using hundreds of examples from Japan, China and Europe. From a holistic understanding, a picture emerges that is informative for architects, and designers, reopens an almost lost world to builders, and will enthrall laypeople. Also available in a German edition (ISBN 978-3-0356-2479-3)
£59.00
Birkhauser Spielraum
Platz für Kinder! Kinder brauchen in urbanen Räumen Orte, wo ein freies Spiel, Entdeckungen und Begegnungen mit anderen Kindern möglich ist: Viele Kinder leiden heute unter Übergewicht, Entwicklungsstörungen und sozialer Benachteiligung. Zu den Ursachen gehören Bewegungsmangel, fehlende Sicherheit und unzureichende Anregungen. Das Buch gibt Fachleuten und interessierten Laien ein praxisnahes Instrument in die Hand, um schnell und direkt für Kinderanliegen zu entscheiden. Die Themen sind: Stadt- und Verkehrsplanung, Architektur und Landschaftsarchitektur, Materialisierung und Pflanzenverwendung, Partizipation und Prävention. 178 Zeichnungen veranschaulichen die Themen und rücken die Kinder und ihr Erleben ins Zentrum. Übersichtlicher und nutzerfreundlicher Praxisleitfaden Vermittelt neuestes Know-how der Landschaftsarchitektur und Freiraumplanung Setzt Maßstäbe für die Gestaltung von Freiräumen für Kinder
£45.50
Birkhauser Josef Frank – Against Design: Das anti-formalistische Werk des Architekten / The Architect’s Anti-Formalist Oeuvre
The catalog for the 2015/16 exhibition at the MAK (Museum of Applied Arts) in Vienna is dedicated to Josef Frank (1885–1967), one of the most important Austrian architects of the 20th century. In addition to his groundbreaking architectural work, the catalog focuses his design, which remains highly influential to this day. As an architect and designer, Frank remains contemporary, having promoted a pragmatic approach to design that focused less on formal qualities and more on those of social experience. Frank's ideal of an unaffected and unpretentious practicality, aimed at an independent and sophisticated bourgeois culture of living beyond stylistic dogmas and fashionable conventions, seems more relevant than ever.
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Birkhauser Collective Processes: Counterpractices in European Architecture
What does a collective process in architecture entail and how does it influence the planning of our built environment? Although the hierarchically organized office with its claim to individual authorship is still the dominant form of architecture firm, more and more horizontally organized collectives with alternative approaches to architectural planning are emerging. In this insightful survey of renowned European collectives, Natalie Donat-Cattin offers an overview of their working methods, organizational forms, goals, and projects. The book includes statements and projects by: A-A Collective, (ab)Normal, Assemble, baukuh, CNCRT, Colectivo Warehouse, Collectif Etc, constructLab, false mirror office, Fosbury Architecture, la–clique, Lacol, n’UNDO, orizzontale, raumlabor, X=(T=E=N), and Zuloark. First comprehensive analysis of collectives in architecture and urban planning Highly topical subject: project development as a collective process Insightful introduction of 16 well-known architectural collectives in Europe
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Birkhauser Villa urbaine / Urban Villa: L'exemple lausannois / The Lausanne Example
The typology of the townhouse originated in the late 19th century yet still represents a viable and attractive alternative to the detached single-family home. Several apartments spread across up to five floors are connected by a common staircase. In terms of urban planning, this type of structure makes it possible to reconcile dense urban settlement with open green spaces.Specially commissioned photographs and plan drawings of eight exemplary Lausanne townhouses illustrate texts written by international authors, who unfold the theme in its worldwide relevance. With contributions by Martine Jaquet Vittorio Magnago Lampugnani Luca Ortelli Jonathan Sergison Martin Steinmann Oswald Mathias Ungers Filip Dujardin (photographer)
£41.50
Birkhauser Southeast Asian Modern: From Roots to Contemporary Turns
Peter Rowe and Yun Fu’s second volume on the modernization of architecture in the Far East deals with Southeast Asia and Austronesia, including the 12 nation states of Vietnam, Cambodia, Laos, Myanmar, Thailand, Malaysia, Singapore, Indonesia, Brunei, East Timor, Philippines and Taiwan, as well as the ocean peoples of Polynesia, Melanesia and Micronesia. The modern architecture of these culturally and nationally heterogenous regions echoes local vernacular traditions and colonial as well as postcolonial hegemonies from both the East and the West. The book tells the stories of these separate roots and their culmination into contemporary architectural production, analyzing the distinctiveness and quality of approx. 65 building projects that have emerged in the past half century.
£52.00
Birkhauser Resilienz: Strategien und Perspektiven für die widerstandsfähige und lernende Stadt
Wie lebensfähig und lernbereit sind unsere Städte im Zeichen zunehmender Krisen? Die Stadtplanung braucht neue Aktions- und Steuerungsfähigkeiten, aber auch neue Konzepte, um Visionen zu formulieren. In dieser Situation bietet der Leitbegriff Resilienz einen Schlüssel für die Zukunftsgestaltung von Städten und Regionen. Jenseits von festgefahrenen Nachhaltigkeitsdebatten oder versuchter Retro-Resilienzen, erläutert das Buch die Grundlagen einer ursachenbezogenen Stadtplanung, zeigt internationale Trends und Beispiele und entwickelt konkrete Strategien sowie Handlungsmöglichkeiten. Mit seinen Konzepten zur Futur-Resilienz stellt es einen grundsätzlichen Neuansatz im Zukunftsdiskurs zu Stadt und Region unter sich deutlich verändernden Rahmenbedingungen dar. Schließlich geht es ums Ganze des urbanen Lebens.
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Birkhauser Inhabited Machines: Genealogy of an Architectural Concept
Around 1800, one of the most influential architectural concepts of the last 250 years emerged—that of built spaces as technical devices. Climate, morality, and comfort are the three main themes of this study, and each is vividly examined in separate chapters through synchronous comparison and with the help of examples. The emergence of corresponding metaphors, knowledge, and construction forms is traced over a period of about 70 years. The author focuses particularly on the operative dimension of architecture. Thus, the book provides a historical perspective on a key topic for the future of architecture. The book is aimed at readers interested in architecture, technology or the cultural history of building and living. The Exploring Architecture series makes architectural scholarship accessible, introduces the latest research methods, and covers a wide range of periods, regions, and topics.
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Birkhauser Im Schatten von Design: Zur dunklen Seite der Gestaltung
The complexity of the designed world demands a critical analysis of its social and economic contexts. A design criticism worthy of its name is urgently needed, because it scarcely exists. The design theorist Michael Erlhoff is a radical critic who focuses on concealed banalities, hidden cruelties, obscured obviousness, disguised motives, and other repressed enmeshments of design. Specifically he examines the design of weapons, design under Nazism, the design of "electric chairs," the brutality of branding, the ambivalence of service design, the violence of signs, or the ornamentalization of people as masses. This book provides the kind of self-criticism that is needed if design is finally to become self-aware.
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Birkhauser Inhabiting Displacement: Architecture and Authorship
This anthology aims to destabilize the limits of the discipline of architecture by focusing on the core concepts of inhabitation and displacement. This, by extension, centralizes the figure of the inhabitant and interrogates the limits of conventional architectural thinking. The editors shed light on the topic of displacement from interdisciplinary and international perspectives. By rendering visible the practices of living and spatial appropriation, this volume also encourages critical engagement with questions of architectural production and authorship.
£46.80
Birkhauser Basics Design and Living
Residential Buildings are normally the first design projects encountered by the student in his or her training. The focus at this point is on the different conceptual possibilities that allow one to take the first step toward an actual idea. Themes: concepts and kinds of cohabitation and dwelling residential functions the creation of living space design in housing construction This book is intended to help readers to find an easy way into the complex subject of housing design, explaining fundamental concepts, the way the individual living areas can cohere, and building form variations. The aim is to understand approaches to making rooms, living areas and entire residential units fit together, and to be able to use this knowledge to develop one’s own housing construction design work competently and prudently.
£19.50
Birkhauser Basics Entwerfen und Wohnen
Wohnungsbauten sind in aller Regel die ersten Entwurfsprojekte im Studium. Im Vordergrund stehen dabei die konzeptionellen Möglichkeiten, den ersten Schritt zu einer Idee zu finden. Themen: Konzepte und Arten des Zusammenlebens und Wohnens Wohnfunktionen Schaffen von Wohnraum Entwerfen im Wohnungsbau Basics Entwerfen und Wohnen erklärt grundlegende Konzepte, Zusammenhänge der einzelnen Wohnbereiche und Varianten von Bauformen. Ziel ist es, die Ansätze beim Fügen von Räumen, Wohnbereichen und ganzen Wohneinheiten zu verstehen und mit diesem Wissen eigene Entwurfsarbeiten im Wohnungsbau kompetent und umsichtig entwickeln zu können. Das Buch soll helfen, einen einfachen Zugang zur komplexen Thematik des Entwurfs im Wohnungsbau zu finden, und legt dabei den Schwerpunkt auf grundsätzliche Aspekte des Wohnens.
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Birkhauser Filming, Researching, Annotating: Research Video Handbook
The Handbook Research Video is an introduction to a new type of software and publication based on annotated videos. Practitioners and researchers who work with motion data, for example in the fields of performative art, film, behavioral research or sports science, are supported in their work process and have the opportunity to publish content via video that a printed book cannot convey. The handbook not only presents the findings of the Research Video project at Zurich University of the Arts, but also offers a manual for using the software tool. Low-threshold "hands-on" access and the absence of a theoretical superstructure allow users to quickly become familiar with and use the software tool.
£26.00
Birkhauser Licht: Meine Erkenntnisse
Das Spektrum für optimierte Lichtkonzepte ist nahezu grenzenlos: Reise, Freizeit, Lehre und Berufsleben finden zu 90 Prozent in geschlossenen Räumen statt. Da der Mensch auf Licht angewiesen ist, prägt die richtige Lichtlösung wesentlich seine Lebensqualität. „Licht ist das Medium des Sehens und der Seele. Es wirkt auf Lebensrhythmus, Stimmung und Leistungsfähigkeit des Menschen“, sagt Christian Bartenbach, der für seine Forschungen und Anwendungen höchste Anerkennung erntete. In diesem Handbuch dokumentiert er sein Lebenswerk, das er der Erforschung des Lichtes, seiner Planung und Wirkung im visuellen Raum gewidmet hat, und zieht die Summe seiner Erkenntnisse. Es umfasst physikalische Grundlagen, Zusammenhänge von Licht und Gesundheit und zeigt im Detail eine Vielzahl von Lösungen für Tages- und Kunstlicht.
£69.50
Birkhauser Leidenschaftlich modern – Karl Schwanzer und seine Architektur / Passionately Modern – Karl Schwanzer and His Architecture: Eine Anthologie in Fotografien / An Anthology in Photographs 1947–75
Karl Schwanzer was on fire for architecture. He reformed Austrian architecture after 1945 and, in the post-war period, significantly shaped the image of a new, free Austria at home and abroad. As an importer and exporter of ideas, he worked on over 600 projects and designs over 28 years of his career. This book is an illustrated chronology of his oeuvre, bringing to life developments and modulations. At the same time, it is also an architectural and contemporary history as well as a homage to architectural photography; Schwanzer only worked with excellent photographers such as Lucca Chmel, Barbara Pflaum, Franz Hubmann, Sigrid Neubert, and with Maria Wölfl, who has yet to be discovered. The photographs of temporary buildings that are no longer in existence are particularly valuable.
£34.50
Birkhauser Not at Your Service: Manifestos for Design
Multiple answers to the question of what design can be and achieve today. Not at Your Service: Manifestos for Design brings together the broad spectrum of beliefs, subjects and practices of designers at Zurich University of the Arts. It offers different approaches and insights on the present-day role and impact of design. It is not conceived as a finished project, but as a fluid document of its time. Collaborative design, interaction within complex systems, attention economics, the ecological shift, visual literacy, gender-neutral design, "quick and dirty" design ethnography, social responsibility, the value of ugliness, death futures, immersive technologies, identity and crises, design as a transformative discipline – all of these topics are presented for debate with passion, conviction and professional expertise. A compact collection of discursive texts on the many roles and functions of design. Contributions to the current debate on the social role of design. Statements by experts from one of the leading universities of design. All texts are in German and English.
£34.50
Birkhauser Materials Encyclopedia for Creatives
Materials and the myriad technologies that have been developed to manipulate them are of essential relevance to product designers, architects, artists and stylists, as they represent the starting point for every product and every architectural work. The book is an encyclopaedic compendium of around 1,000 terms in this field, from aerogel to marble to zirconium. It features traditional and frequently used materials, as well as new and unexpected ones. Their respective advantages and disadvantages are precisely described. In addition, terms related to production processes, such as upcycling or tanning, or that describe the properties of materials or are closely related to the topic have also been included.
£85.00
Birkhauser Design, Gestaltung, Formatività: Philosophies of Making
What do the work processes of a neurosurgeon and a painter have in common? Applying the notions of “Design”, “Gestaltung”, and “Formatività”, this book sheds new light on processes of formation and transformation in the material world we live in.Scholars from the fields of history, philosophy, psychology, media, and cultural studies question established processes of giving form, while artists, designers, engineers, and scientists describe their creative processes. This book provides its readers with an overview of the spectrum of “philosophies of making” and invites them to reflect on their own creative process, its possibilities, and associated responsibilities to the environment, and ultimately to express these in action. There has never been a more urgent need to develop a new relationship between matter and form. • Discussing and expanding the definitions of “Design”, “Gestaltung”, and “Formatività”• Leading international theorists write about the relationship between matter and form• A collection of new texts and first English translation of key texts
£39.00
Birkhauser Resilient City: Landscape Architecture for Climate Change
Climate change is one of the major challenges facing cities in the future. Landscape architecture is particularly in demand here because it offers solutions that are characterized by complexity and interdisciplinarity and contribute to the quality of everyday life. These range from green roofs and facades to urban gardening and the landscaping of large-scale protection works. This volume presents measures and plans of eleven major cities in North and South America, from Vancouver to Rio de Janeiro, to protect their inhabitants and their habitats against future storms, floods, landslides or long periods of heat and drought. Outstanding projects in the featured cities are analyzed in their geographic and climatic context. The author also addresses the social and cultural dimensions of resilience.
£37.50
Birkhauser Georg W. Reinberg: Architektur für eine solare Zukunft / Architecture for a Solar Future
Reinberg is a pioneer of ecological building and solar architecture. Even before he set up his practice, he had been involved in numerous research projects on architecture and ecology. Since 1990, he has been managing the practice jointly with his wife Martha Enriquez Reinberg. The buildings benefit from the expertise the architect has gained through his research, and are characterized by an inherently designed sustainability that also carefully takes account of the needs of users and inhabitants. He completed numerous housing projects, refurbishments, public and corporate buildings to the maximum satisfaction of the users. His success is evidenced by prizes and teaching activities abroad and at home. His integrated design approach has created a specific architectural language that is evident in his buildings.
£39.15
Birkhauser Basics Barrier-Free Planning
Only a small proportion of the population fully relies on barrier freedom, but many people consider it an essential aid in everyday situations. It is therefore important to create a built environment without obstacles in which all people can move and orientate themselves as safely as possible and without help. For this reason, the needs and requirements of people with disabilities – but also of children – are important considerations in the design of buildings, in particular public and residential buildings. Basics Barrier-free Planning illustrates these special requirements as well as options for the design of barrier-free spaces and buildings. In line with all volumes in the series, everything is explained straightforwardly, including practical examples.
£19.50
Birkhauser Critique of Architecture: Essays on Theory, Autonomy, and Political Economy
Critique of Architecture offers a renewed and radical theorization of the relations between capital and architecture. It explicates the theoretical gymnastics through which architecture legitimates its services to neoliberalism, examines the discipline’s production of platforms for happily compliant consumers, and challenges its entrepreneurial self-image. Critique of Architecture also addresses the discourse of autonomy, questioning its capacity to engage effectively with the terms and conditions of capitalism today, analyses the post-political turns of contemporary architecture theory, and reckons with the legacies and limitations of critical theory.
£26.00
Birkhauser The Architecture Machine: The Role of Computers in Architecture
Today, it is hard to imagine the everyday work in an architectural practice without computers. Bits and bytes play an important role in the design and presentation of architecture. The book, which is published in the context of an exhibition of the same name of the Architekturmuseum der TUM at the Pinakothek der Moderne in Munich, for the first time considers – in depth – the development of the digital in architecture. In four chapters, it recounts this intriguing history from its beginnings in the 1950s through to today and presents the computer as a drawing machine, as a design tool, as a medium for telling stories, and as an interactive communication platform. The basic underlying question is simple: Has the computer changed architecture? And if so, by how much?
£31.05
Birkhauser Decken
Decken sind ein wesentliches Element im Hochbau-Tragwerksentwurf. In dieser aktualisierten Einführung leiten die Autoren aus traditionellen Gewölben und Balkendecken eine Typologie aktueller Decken ab, der die detaillierte Behandlung der häufig verwendeten Konstruktionsarten von Decken und Fußbodenkonstruktionen folgt. Aufbauten wie Massiv-, Holz- und Verbunddecken werden ebenso behandelt wie die bauphysikalischen Eigenschaften, die sich in einem Querschnitt von Standardaufbauten aller Typologien illustrieren lassen. Balkone und Loggien nehmen aufgrund ihrer konstruktiven und bauphysikalischen Sonderstellung ein eigenes Kapitel ein; Bemessungsansätze und Dimensionierungshilfen für Abschätzungen ergänzen die Konstruktionsformen. In der zweiten korrigierten Auflage wurden sämtliche Normenbezüge berücksichtigt.
£30.50
Birkhauser Universel Singulier: Conception d'espaces publics au début du XXIe siècle
A critical introduction to the design of public spaces The way public spaces are designed reflects the period in which they were created. However, in our globalized world of experience and images the desire for uniqueness tends to achieve the opposite: increasingly, designers of open spaces resort to the same devices and thereby distance themselves from the urban context. The author analyzes ten outstanding contemporary designs of public spaces in Europe in terms of their function in the urban context and what materials are used for their implementation. In interviews with the designers she retraces the changes of the concepts during the design stage of the projects, underpinning her findings with numerous sketches. In addition, her research focuses on how the projects were received in the community. Learning from designers of outstanding public spaces in Europe Numerous unpublished design sketches A clear guide to urban design Also available in an English edition
£55.50
