Test in English & German. The town hall in Bremen with its associated Roland statue in the market square in front of the building make up a UNE...

The condition of "fake" and "real" in architecture is rarely publicly discussed nor has it encountered broad journalistic or scholarly attention. T...

TEXT IN GERMAN. Architecture started to move towards Modernism around 1900 with a reform movement involving architects, art critics, humanities sch...

Since beyond time, rainbow lightning has been exploring space, leaping from star to star and forming light beings and crystals of light on our plan...

Text in English and German. The extensive built work of the 1925 born Reinhard Gieselmann, focussing on housing and church architecture, is charact...

Text in English & German. Manfred Sack, in an essay about bridges: The Latin word ‘relegere' means to connect. The assumption is that this is t...

Text in English and German. The distinguished architect and Pritzker laureate Richard Meier has attracted public attention mainly with his museum a...

As a civil engineer with leading German construction companies, Horst Barow has built highways and bridges in many parts of the world. He was aware...

Text in German & English. The architect is at all times also an artist. How otherwise would he be able to tame the three-dimensionality of spac...

In 1940, manufacturer Robert Bosch (1861-1942) opened the first hospital to bear his name. He was interested in promoting public welfare as well as...

This is an appreciation of architecture of Islam in India. Indo-Islamic architecture is characterised by the prolific use of sandstone -- red stone...

Sanjay Patil’s tryst with architecture began in his early childhood as he soaked up the environs that surrounded him in his birthplace, Nashik. Mov...

The pioneering character and continuing success of Schaal's scenic compositions for stage sets and exhibitions is significantly due to this field a...

Text in German & English. Schinkel's Look towards India discusses a subject to which little attention has been paid to date: Schinkel's interes...

Text in English & German. Three places mark the chequered history of the provost church of St Trinitatis Leipzig. Not far from the site of the ...

Text in English and German. In autumn 1997 the Zentrum fur Kunst und Medientechnologie (ZKM) moved into the production hall of a former munitions f...

Text in English & German. Photographs of a huge building site, taken by night, show a bewildering world of machines, boards, cables and scaffol...

Text in English & German. Like literary texts, films often tell stories on multiple levels. Ridley Scott made an ironic reference to this when ...

In 1980 the book Judith Turner Photographs Five Architects was internationally recognized by architects who admired and valued Turner's unique way ...

In his note to the edition of Neue Landschafts-architektur/New Landscape Architecture published 1994 in England as Landscape as Inspiration, Geoffr...

Text in English & German. The way we sit simultaneously defines privileges, social status, power, and taboos. Parallel to the presentation of C...