Text in English & Portuguese. In November 2010, the NATO Summit held in Lisbon dominated the political news of the world's media for 24 hours. ...

Text in English & German. When architects design a house for themselves, the often tense relationship between clients and builders is usually a...

NOMINATED FOR THE RIBA INTERNATIONAL BOOK AWARD 2007. In this book Nili Portugali, presents her particular interpretation of the holistic-phenomeno...

Text in English and German. Albrecht Ade's 'photages', created with special light techniques, have nothing in common with the 'photocollages' or 'p...

Text in English and Spanish. In 2000 the Autostadt, a show park for the Volkswagen group and its subsidiaries from Seat via Audi to Bentley and Lam...

In 1975, the European Year of Protection of Ancient Monuments, Alsfeld in Upper Hesse acquired model-town status, along with Berlin, Rothenburg ob ...

Text in English and German. An urban quarter with an identity of its own has come into being by the Bavariapark in Munich. It is based on an urban-...

If someone asked me: what is the film about, I would have to say: It is really about the essence of human life! I find it incredibly beautiful! It ...

This book deals with elemental basic architectural questions: the age-old subject of antithesis and thesis, unity and duality, contrast and harmony.

We live in a visual age where everyone considers him- or herself to be a photographer, and 1.8 billion images are posted online each day. User-gene...

In 1840 Sir Thomas Mitchell, Surveyor General of the British Crown, chose a rocky promontory on Sydney harbour for his home. He built a cottage in ...

When not directly shaping the fabric of Paris themselves, its rulers have always kept tight control over the activities of others, with the result ...

The fact that the entire history of culture and technology could represent a single, continuous expulsion of mankind from the original, paradiese s...

Book & DVD. Text in English & German. Friedrich Christoph Wagner spent the years between 1965 and 2002 with few interruptions lecturing stu...

Text in English & German. Cosmetically-enhanced beauty is something that has existed for decades. Over the course of the last century, however,...

Test in German and English. The Embassies of the Nordic Countries in Berlin are political architecture of a particular kind, political architecture...

Text in English and German. Mankind needs to relate to inanimate matter as well. Manking 'animates' stones, mountains, rivers, yes even the world a...

A yawning gap between two 1960s buildings is not at all unusual in Cologne. A gap scarcely wide enough to park a few bicycles has been used as an o...

Text in English and German. Julia Bolles-Wilson and Peter L Wilson have built a large number of striking, thoroughly detailed cultural and commerci...

Braun products have been shown more frequently at exhibitions than those of any other comparable company. Some people find that they reflect basic ...

Text in English and German. The new Leipzig/Halle airport has not just one, but two predecessors. One was Leipzig-Mockau airport, opened in 1923 an...

At the dawn of the 20th century, Bruno Paul (1874-1968) stood like a colossus astride the landscape of an emerging Modernism. As an illustrator, ar...

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...