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...

Situated at the intersection of public realm, urban design and site specific art, Martha Schwartz Partners has over 35 years of experience designin...

This book explores the public policy involved in memorialising and preserving the nation's historical sites. Topics discussed include: national mon...

Text in English & German. The topic of this book is memory. What do we remember? We like to recall joyful events and wish we could relive them ...

Text in English and German. What links film and architecture? Above all it is 'Metropolis', the film that Fritz Lang made in the Babelsberg studios...

Text in English & Portuguese. In the second half of 2007, the baton of the EU Council Presidency was passed to Portugal. The country decided to...

2019 Edition. Although Berlin’s history encompasses more than eight hundred years and its beginnings reach back as far as the twelfth century, its ...

"This book is an attempt at architectural criticism" – that is how Robert Venturi opened the discussion on Post-Modernism in architecture in Comple...

This book presents documentation, reflection and critical analysis of two award-winning projects Monash Steps and Stawell Steps. These linked proje...

Text in English and German. A yawning gap between two 1960s buildings. Not at all unusual in Cologne. A gap between two buildings, 2,56 m wide and ...

One of America's oldest public buildings of European origin, the Palace of the Governors in Santa Fe celebrates its quatrocentennial in photographs...

Museum architecture has blossomed over the past few decades. Art museums lead the way in terms of new buildings by superstar architects such as Fra...

Text in English and German. Spanish museum architecture has experienced a marked upturn since the 1990s, helping even small towns off the tourist b...

The accelerating pace of world urbanisation has been one of the most significant developments of the twentieth century. This development has had gr...

Landscape is the impression given by a place. The five senses construct five landscapes: there is not only the visual landscape but also non-visual...

Norman Foster, one of the most consistent advocates of architec- ture based on modern technology, achieved a world-wide reputa- tion with the headq...

This is an examination of the cultural, economic, and psychological influences which shaped the evolution of domestic architecture in Greenville, V...

Adolf Loos (1870-1933) is recognised today as one of the great masters of modern architecture. He did not leave a unified oeuvre but articles scatt...

The objective of this work is not to suggest complete theories, neither absolute design solutions. It much more takes the path of directing the att...

The aim of the study is to analyse and describe in detail one of the most important trends in architecture in the 19th and 20th centuries: the evol...

Spread over a hill that climbs up from the plain, Himeji Castle with its white walls shimmering in the sunlight like the feathers of a fantastic bi...