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 ...

Text in German. Specialist literature on Schinkel has grown enormously since the 200th anniversary of his birth in 1981. But so far questions about...

Text in German. There is a copious and wide-ranging body of literature on Karl Friedrich Schinkel, Germany's most important 19th-century architect....

Text in English & German. Karl Friedrich Schinkel called his designs for a palace on the Acropolis in Athens and for Orianda Castle in the Crim...

Text in English and German. 2 Books in slipcase. Karl Friedrich Schinkel called his designs for a palace on the Acropolis in Athens and for Orianda...

Known as the 'Big Eye' the Oita Stadium is one of the chosen venues for the next World Cup in 2002. It will be reused for the second stage of the J...

Text in English & German. The work of Klaus Kinold, born 1939 in Essen, is part of a tradition of photography, and particularly of architectura...

Outlines this prominent Danish architect and designer's works.

Konstantin Melnikov (1890–1974) is unquestionably one of the outstanding architects of the 20th century – in spite of the fact that he fell silent ...

Text in German. Munich is lucky. A city that is at the top of the popularity scale needs nothing more than attractive building land. There has been...

Maud Lewis a peint l’intérieur de sa minuscule maison d’une seule pièce — : pas seulement les murs, mais aussi l’intérieure et l’extérieure des por...

If there is a plateau that continuously unites Hans Dieter Schaal’s numerous artistic fields of activity, a kind of fundamental level, then it is s...

Text in English and German. Third Revised Edition 2018. If there is one building by Le Corbusier that represents a synthesis of his basic concepts ...

Percy Leonard James was one of Victoria, British Columbia's pre-eminent architects through the early decades of the twentieth century. This well-re...

Text in English and German. Architects in Europe, the Far East, the U.S., and Australia illustrate that a positive sense of space is more dependent...

Air pollution resulting from high energy consumption is a major factor threatening our environment. Heating buildings accounts for about 40 per cen...

Text in English & Portuguese. The Luz Integrated Health Complex, comprising the Hospital da Luz and the Casas da Cidade (Senior Residences), is...

Readers construct and test their own houses to help the three little pigs survive a wolf attack. With colorful spreads featuring fun facts, sidebar...

Readers construct and test their own box trap to help Hansel and Gretel trap the witch. With colorful spreads featuring fun facts, sidebars, and in...