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...

A house is a representation of the idea of the world, of life, of existence. For the Cologne architect Oswald Mathias Ungers (1926–2007), owner of...

During the 1960s Italy's museum sector witnessed a fertile period of renewal. A generation of architects, working in partnership with the directors...

Autumn 1958 marked the launching of the Bodensee-Wasserversorgung (Lake Constance water supply), an infrastructure project whose largest part is un...

Contains thirty-six original essays by the celebrated Viennese architect, Adolf Loos (1870-1933). Most deal with questions of design in a wide rang...

Text in German & English. When the stadium for a "Workers Olympiad" -- one of the most beautiful complexes in Europe, as the daily press put it...

Text in English & German. With the Kollegiengebäude II (college building II) of the University of Freiburg dedicated in 1961 the architect Otto...

Text in English and German. Otto Ernst Schweizer (1890-1965), architect, philosopher and teacher, had a crucial effect on the path of Modern archit...

2 books in slipcase. A history and description of The Palace of Christian VII at the royal castle, Amalienborg, in Copenhagen.

178 stunning color and b/w photos present mid-century modern architecture clustered, perhaps in its highest concentration, in Palm Springs, Califor...