Text in English and German. Personal favourite projects selected by architects of international distinction are presented in a book for the first t...

A city planner, an architect and a historian trace the urban development of this outstanding city and analyse its architecture in urban and histori...

Text in English and German. Perhaps the fascination of American landscapes, particularly the deserts is their featurelessness. In Germany, Brandenb...

Text in English & German. If laziness is the mother of all inventions, then the car is its masterpiece. The earliest means of locomotion was wa...

In recent decades, Carlo Scarpa's relevance has been steadily on the rise. At a time when architects have to use existing city and building structu...

Text in English and Italian. In a letter from London, dated 9 November 1815, Antonio Canova wrote: "...Here I am in London, dear and best friend, a...

Within the last millennium France's Champagne region has ascended two stunning pinnacles of fame and fortune with a long, deep gorge between them. ...

Two main types of residential architecture have dominated the architecture in the Fujian region in China. Known as tulou and weiwu, they have been ...

Text in English & German. Rob Krier, perhaps the only urban-planning artist among Germany's architects, has, for the first time in 30 years, co...

Text in English & German. The architects in the Viennese Coop Himmelb(l)au team have felt committed to the credo of constructing cities and bui...

Since the end of the 20th century, an unprecedented number of remarkable museums have been built. None have had bigger worldwide implications than ...

The term Europe has not always been understood in the same way. Depending on the period and influenced by the dominant interpreting elites at the t...

Text in English and German. The narrowest building in Cologne is the office of the advertising agency rendel & spitz. Once a year, during the '...

Text in English and German. This monograph describes the construction of reality through the cognitive subject, and, associated with this, potentia...

TEXT IN GERMAN. Tectonics is back on the agenda for contemporary architectural discussion. Up to now tectonics tended to be associated with the lan...

Text in German. The Villa Lante in Bagnaia near Viterbo is outstanding among 16th-century Italian gardens. It is not particularly large, but it is ...

Text in German & English. Dahlem has developed in two different ways since the early years of the 20th century. An important scientific centre ...

As building materials and technologies advance, architects are creating new kinds of urban environments. Among the innovations showcased in this bo...

Text in English and German. When the German Embassy in Washington was completed in 1964, the architectural critic of the Washington Post wrote that...

Text in English & German. The challenges facing the 21st century are staggering: rapidly increasing population, mounting social instability due...

Text in German. Erdmut Bramke, who was born in 1940 in Kiel and died in 2002 in Stuttgart, is one of the few 20th-century artists whose work consis...

The third volume of Erdmut Bramke’s catalogue raisonné is devoted to "art in architecture" and temporary works in public spaces. It complements the...

Text in English and German. Erich Engelbrecht (1928–2011) called his pictures "introspective". He remarked on this: "The introspective image inspec...