Text in English and German. Heinz Tesar's buildings occupy a very particular place on the Austrian architectural scene, which is anyway populated b...

During my research for a previous book called Frontier Forts and Post of the Hudson’s Bay Company, I could not help but notice that there were many...

Architects who believe that designs should be based on past architecture.

In many years of collaboration a research group with scholars from Germany, Austria, Switzerland and the United States has looked into the most rec...

Chinese cities are undergoing profound changes. Urban development has transformed the townscape; low-rise structures based on courtyard type housin...

Text in English, German and Japanese. The architecture of Japan, both historic and contemporary, has attracted architects from all over the world s...

This title invites readers to discover what is fun about building. Simple text, straightforward photos, and a photo glossary make this title the pe...

Papers from a conference about images and altars in Medieval Europe 800-1300, illuminating the interplay between materiality, liturgy, iconography ...

In the 18th century the idea of the landscape garden, which had originated in England, spread all over Europe. The geometry of the Baroque park was...

The central idea behind this book is to gather knowledge and experiences about strategies and processes that are based on Universal Design philosop...

Current design of apartment buildings is facing challenges of philosophy and form. Past approaches no longer sustain new demands and require innova...

A project funded by the Austrian Science Fund (FWF) allowed interdisciplinary research on the so-called "Chinese Cabinets" and the "Porcelain Room"...

Text in English and Italian. Ivano Gianola is one of the most important exponents of the so-called Ticino School. This developed in the early 1970s...

Text in English & Italian. Ivano Gianola is one of the founding members of the so-called Ticino School. Like the other significant figures of t...

Text in French & English. Even though his viaducts for the TGV Atlantic line and several innovative projects rapidly brought him national recog...

Text in English & German. Johannes Peter Hölzinger studied architecture at the Städelschule in Frankfurt am Main from 1954 to 1957. After a res...

Text in English and German. In the summer 1978, the cover of the magazine Bauwelt showed a photograph of an unusual building. It was tersely introd...

When the Forth Bridge opened on 4 March 1890, it was the longest railway bridge in the world and the first large structure made of steel. Crossing ...

This comprehensively illustrated book records and assembles material on over 150 buildings by Karl Schinkel, Germany's most important 19th century ...