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...

In their sculptural works, artists have always broken out of the workshop or studio and into open-air spaces. After all, the place where sculptures...

Text in French. Depuis plus de 350 ans les Parisiens ont conçu mais aussi préservé de phénoménaux espaces en plein air, ouverts au public. Dans son...

For over 350 years Parisians have designed and preserved phenomenal public outdoor spaces. In this book Jacqueline Widmar Stewart follows the fine-...

Text in English & German. The central Mosque of the Turkish-Islamic Union in Köln-Ehrenfeld has given us one of the most vigorously discussed G...

Text in English and German. The Neues Haus, the new building for the Munchner Kammerspiele, is not a big building in any sense. The plot of land no...

This book seeks to identify emerging trends in urban design as they are reflected in the city's architecture and spatial design. A 'cultural grafti...

Text in English and German. Peter Hübner began his career as an orthopaedic shoemaker and moved on to cabinet-making before studying architecture. ...

Text in German. When the synod of the Westphalian Evangelical Church made the decision to build the school in about 20 years ago, this was accompan...

Text in English and German. Early in the 20th century, Robert Bosch, the founder of the Stuttgart electrical business, built a large villa on the h...

Text in English and German. Peter Kulka is a major German architect. His buildings in recent years have been characteristically succinct and minima...

In this his newest book, Peter MacCallum has assembled collections of his documentary photographs of the last decade that examine the particulariti...

This guide provides over three hundred descriptions and photographs, both colour and black-and-white, of the city's architecturally most significan...