Frederick Kiesler was a committed networker and communicated regularly with the who’s who of the avant-garde. He was an important intermediary between the visionary ideas of the European Moderne movem
Johnston Marklee is an architectural firm led by Sharon Johnston and Mark Lee in Los Angeles, known for embracing modernism, popular culture, and emerging technology. This color-illustrated work h
typologie+ dokumentiert und analysiert internationale Wohnbauten und bietet dabei nicht nur ein umfassendes Spektrum zukunftsfähiger Konzepte im Geschosswohnungsbau, sondern zeigt auch Anwendungs- und
This comprehensive volume presents an overview of the work of Le Corbusier, from the earliest drafts and sketches to his late buildings and projects, as well as city-planning studies. It also includes
The international magazine of landscape architecure and urbanism scape is the international magazine for landscape architecture, city planning, and urban design. Lively, with international voices and
Now as before, Japanese architecture is very popular in Europe and the western world. This publication provides an overview of its many design concepts and cross-references. Using design examples and
New materials and technologies play a significant role in architecture and design. Environmentally compatible materials and production methods are demanded just as much as smoothly functioning recycli
Ernst Boerschmann was the most influential foreign architectural researcher in China in the first half of the twentieth century. This book concerns his three-year research expedition (1906–1909) throu
A scholarly but accessible book on the history of photography, this volume will also attract some general readers. Its subject is the type of photograph that animates or switches between multiple posi
The book explores the historical connections between the notions of architectural interior, subjective space, human interiority, and represented space including virtual space. The contributions examin
In 1933, the Kulturwissenschaftliche Bibliothek Warburg left its home in Hamburg and went into exile in London, salvaging the books andimage collection of its founder Aby Warburg from the Nazis. Essay
Knowledge about colour – its properties, methods of fabrication, meanings, and uses– has always been the purview of a wide range of individuals, from painters and architects to dyers, printers, pigmen
Health and environmental compatibility are key topics in contemporary society. The book shows how the built environment can be aesthetically pleasing, modern and, at the same time, healthy and environ
Architecture is energy. Lines drawn on paper to represent architectural intentions also imply decades and sometimes centuries of associated energy and material flows. Form Follows Energy is about the
Gegründet 1998 in Los Angeles, ist Graft ein weltweit agierendes Architekturbüro, das Filialen in Berlin und Peking unterhält. Das Büro zeichnet sich durch seine experimentierfreudige Entwurfspraxis u
For some time now, the subject of cooperation in the context of development aid has featured in the education of architects. However, up to now there have hardly been any attempts to critically place
Interior design has a major impact on the quality of inpatient health premises; all over the world, the wellbeing of patients is increasingly the focus of treatment, healing, and care in all kinds of
