Das Antiduo der französischen Nachkriegszeit (1945–1975): Claude Parent und Paul Virilio entwarfen eine schräge Architektur, die im Gehen bezwungen werden muss.

Ralf Bock. Fotografien von Philippe Ruault 1. Auflage , 2022 Gebunden 488 Seiten, 696 farbige und 192 sw Abbildungen und Pläne 24 x 30 cm ISBN 978-3-03860-289-7

The re-release of this highly acclaimed title demonstrates the continual fascination, from both fans and collectors, with the life and work of Italian architect and designer Ettore Sottsass. The designer’s work is popular and influential in equal measu …

Nachdem sich Sebastian Ringel bereits den verloren gegangenen Häusern der Leipziger Innenstadt gewidmet hat, befasst er sich in seinem neuen Buch mit der Entwicklung der historischen Leipziger Vorstädte. Gemeint ist damit das Gebiet zwischen der Innens …

Eventuell mag der Titel des Buches etwas irritieren, denn Leipzig besitzt ja eine attraktive und gut funktionierende Innenstadt und auch eine, in der noch eine Reihe von Altbauten zu finden sind. Richtig alt sind aber nur die wenigsten. Warum das so is …

Katalog mit zahlreichen Farbabbildungen im Offsetdruck, gestaltet von Andrej Loll mit einem Text von Saskia Dams (dt.) Broschur, 128 Seiten, 23×31 cm, Auflage 750 Erschienen 11/2022 ISBN 978-945111-84-0

German / English First edition of 500 252 pages, 25,5 x 19,6 cm published by Kult Books ISBN: 978-91-984059-8-9     Die Arbeit ist eine visuelle Studie der architektonischen Infrastruktur für die Unterbringung von Geflüchteten in Deutschland …

Ettore Sottsass (1917–2007) was an architect and designer, labeled the godfather of Italian design. Born in Austria and based in Milan, Sottsass studied architecture at the Politecnico di Torino in Turin. After spending most of World War II in a concen …

Das Design Methods Movement war eine sehr unbeliebte Bewegung – so unbeliebt, dass sogar ihre Begründerinnen sich bald von ihr distanzierten. Hartnäckige Auseinandersetzungen über die Art und Weise des Entwerfens legten die politische Dimension von Ges …

British architect Cedric Price (1934–2003) had a lifelong fascination with the mechanization of society and its effect on people’s lives. In the 1960s and ’70s, Price began to look for answers to some of the pressing problems he saw in society in the t …

Founded in 1988 by Ben van Berkel and Caroline Bos, UNStudio is one of the most successful architectural practices in the Netherlands. With projects such as the Mercedes-Benz Museum in Stuttgart, Arnhem Central Station, Raffles City Hangzhou in China o …

Experiments in architectural education in the post–World War II era that challenged and transformed architectural discourse and practice. In the decades after World War II, new forms of learning transformed architectural education. These radical experi …

Mitosaya is a distillery founded by Hiroshi Eguchi, located in Chiba prefecture, a few hours outside of Tokyo. It use to be a botanical garden. I have visited twice, both times in late autumn. Each visit to Mitosaya was as if dropping into a small new …

Edited by James Glisson. Contributions by Anna Arabindan-Kesson, Aaron Betsky, Marshall Brown, and James Glisson. Foreword by Larry J. Feinberg 1st edition , 2022 Text in English Hardback 124 pages, 102 color and 9 b/w illustrations 23 x 31 cm ISBN 978 …

Mit der Intervention »Alles glüht und blüht« haben Situation Room ein historisches Zitat von Heinrich Heine über die Kulissenhaftigkeit von Potsdam in einen Dialog mit der gegenwärtigen urbanen Situation gebracht, die von einer seit Jahrzehnten geführt …

Edited by Nele Dechmann and Atlas Studio. Contributions by Nele Dechmann, Tom Emerson and Silvan Lerch. Photographs by Titus Solohery Andriamananjara and Nele Dechmann 1st edition, 2022 Text in English Hardback

A landmark survey of one of architecture’s most controversial yet popular styles – in a great, new, classic edition The Brutalist aesthetic is enjoying a renaissance – and this book documents Brutalism as never before. In the most wide-ranging investig …

Le Corbusier’s buildings have long been part of the inalienable canon of twentieth-century architecture. But Le Corbusier’s work as a book designer and author is scarcely known. He planned and realized over 40 books in his lifetime. Architect of Books …

“Prishtina in 53 Buildings” draws a multifaceted portrait of Kosovo’s capital city by using architecture as a prism to understand political, cultural and economic processes. Essays on fifty-three built structures, written by different authors with diff …

Bitterfeld’s county museum, Kreismuseum Bitterfeld, contains a black box with herbaria dating from 1931. This collection, compiled by botanist Hans Weber, is an inventory of the flora gathered in the nearby Goitzsche region, a forested area of floodpla …

Sam Chermayeff [et al.]: Creatures, edited by Moritz Küng, is a look back through nearly two decades of experimental projects undertaken by the Berlin-based architect Sam Chermayeff and his collaborators—for the most part pieces of furniture whose use, …

How do we make sense of the Earth at a moment in which it is presented in crisis? Geostories is a manifesto on the environmental imagination that renders sensible the issues of climate change and through geographic fiction invites readers to relate to …

In recent years the idea of sacred space has not been considered a relevant topic in contemporary architecture, a neglect that is even more pronounced in terms of debates about the city. The texts and projects collected together in this book aim to red …

Who owns the land? This question is of crucial importance for all societies and their coexistence. This is because the availability of land and property controls the production of space and the social order. The fact that land (space) is as vital to li …

Museums facilitate encounters among visitors, objects, and stories while also facilitating the staging of these visits. In the 19th century, the transition from city to museum interior was dramatized, while in the 20th-century post-war period the “barr …

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The sulphur concrete block came out of various experiments performed by the Minimum Cost Housing Group at McGill University in Montreal in the 1970s. The international research group explored self-building using materials that would present an alternat …

Architects and urban planners have long oscillated between powerlessness and megalomania, seeking to design habitats, civilisations, and even the entire planet. But in the current climate of geopolitical uncertainty, occurring against the backdrop of u …

What role might architecture—and the architect—play in the twenty-first century? What possibilities arise when we view architecture as a form of agency rather than as a collection of objects? What spatial dynamics emerge when we turn our practices away …

Vor langer Zeit, so die Theorie, als die Menschen anfingen Bauwerke zu entwerfen, gab es zwei Arten von Gebäuden. Es gab Häuser, für alltägliche Bedürfnisse, und es gab Tempel, um das Bedürfnis nach etwas jenseits des Alltäglichen zu befriedigen. In be …

The Urban Design (UD) degree programme has been working on different types of urban research since 2008. »Tom Paints the Fence« is a presentation of UD’s urban narrative: the city is not a given entity but is something we produce. The project thus comb …

The publication is based on the editor’s discussions with the architect, civil engineer, and artist Hans-Walter Müller, who has been developing forms of pneumatic architecture since the late 1960s. Müller has designed inflatable volumes for artists lik …

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Wie fühlt es sich an, in einem UFO zu leben? Die Kinder, die in einem solchen raumkapselähnlichen Gebilde in den 1960/70ern aufwuchsen, sagen: ganz normal. Ihre Eltern mussten aber beinahe „naiv und hirnrissig“ sein, um ein solches Experiment zu wagen: …

Section of Now aims to re-establish a dialogue between architecture and society that would allow architecture to begin to contend with and address our changed and changing social norms. The publication serves as a meditation on new behaviours, rituals, …

The AA Book 2021 celebrates the depth of research and plurality of practice pursued at the Architectural Association (AA) during the 2020-21 academic year. The publication features hundreds of projects by students from every unit and program within the …

Following two publications in 2016 and 2017 on Modern Architecture of Kuwait, this new publication expands on the growing interest for the building and urban practice exchange between territories throughout the Middle Eastern region which remains at th …

Interior designer, photographer—and architect: Carlo Mollino was a legendary figure in 20th-century art and design. This is the authoritative book on his work in architecture.

Dynamic robot-based planning and execution tools open up previously inconceivable design possibilities in the landscape architecture of the 21st century Edited by Ilmar Hurkxkens, Fujan Fahmi and Ammar Mirjan 1st edition , 2022 Text in English Paperbac …

Lebensraum DDR-Garage: Ein wenig beachtetes urbanes Phänomen erfährt seine Würdigung.

Zum Abschied vom Flughafen Tegel TXL: Die definitive Baumonografie der Berliner Architekturikone

Ein einflussreicher Grundlagentext der Architekturtheorie in einer überarbeiteten und erweiterten Neuausgabe.

The entire Sigurd Lewerentz: built and unrealized building designs, retail spaces, churches, cemeteries and landscape designs, exhibition architecture graphic and product design, furniture and interiors.

Geschichte, Kontext, Komposition, Netzwerk, Profil, Dichte, Funktion, Raum, Zugang, Transitionsplan, Partizipation, Metabolismus: Grundlegende Begriffsklärung für eine zukunftsorientierte Gestaltung der Stadt

The long-anticipated monograph on OMA New York by Shohei Shigematsu and Jason Long is sure to be the design and architecture book of the season. Presenting more than 20 radical architectural projects from a new generation of the firm, this mammoth volu …

The history of architecture is often read in terms of periods that each have their own zeitgeist and movements that each have their own architectural language. What happens if we depart from this zeitgeist concept and use a cyclical history model inste …