Threatened with demolition, celebrated as icons of brutalism: Gerd and Magdalena Hanska's Mausebunker and the Hygieneinstitut-designed by Hermann Fehling and Daniel Gogel-make for an idiosyncratic pairing.
1908 konnte das von dem Jugendstilarchitekten Joseph Maria Olbrich erbaute Ausstellungsgebaude der Darmstadter Kunstlerkolonie auf der Mathildenhohe eingeweiht werden.
Vom Abriss bedroht, als Ikonen des Brutalismus gefeiert: Der Mausebunker von Gerd und Magdalena Hanska und das Hygieneinstitut von Hermann Fehling und Daniel Gogel in Berlin-Steglitz bilden ein einmaliges Ensemble von Solisten.
Seit der Grundung von DETAIL haben DETAIL-Redakteure unzahlige Gesprache mit Architekten und Ingenieuren aus aller Welt gefuhrt, von Interviews mit internationalen Stararchitekten bis hin zu Gesprachen mit jungen, aufstrebenden Architekturburos.
More than a just a journey, Alfredo gives us a blueprint for humane treatment of mental illness In 1981, twenty-three-year old Alfredo Zotti began his lifelong challenge of living with Bipolar II Disorder.
More than a just a journey, Alfredo gives us a blueprint for humane treatment of mental illness In 1981, twenty-three-year old Alfredo Zotti began his lifelong challenge of living with Bipolar II Disorder.
Offering a novel conceptual methodology where Jungian psychology is used to analyse Jung's own architecture, this book offers an innovative reading of Jung's Bollingen Tower in order to explore a Jungian sense of place, situating it within a wider examination of the psychic places that influenced his work.
Offering a novel conceptual methodology where Jungian psychology is used to analyse Jung's own architecture, this book offers an innovative reading of Jung's Bollingen Tower in order to explore a Jungian sense of place, situating it within a wider examination of the psychic places that influenced his work.
The book presents the history of Polish architecture and architects in the years 1944-1989, focusing on selected issues, including both the development of architecture itself and the conditions of practicing architecture in the socialist country.
This book, first published in Finnish in 1985 under the title Aalto, is a critical introduction to Finnish architect Alvar Aalto (1898-1976), written by one of Aalto's Finnish architectural contemporaries, Kirmo Mikkola (1934-1986).
Rebecca Varon has a rich and diverse background in music, film, and theatre, but it was the arrival of her daughter that inspired her to begin exploring the world of handmade crafts.
Leonardo Da Vinci was a child prodigy whose development can be traced from age five to the beginning of his adolesence, two years before he entered Verrocchio's workshop.
The Supercrit series revisits some of the most influential architectural projects of the recent past and examines their impact on the way we think and design today.
"Yo elegí Arquitectura" tiene un contenido temático que conduce a la reflexión, dirigido a todo público, especialmente a estudiantes y profesionales del ramo de la arquitectura.
This book presents an original study of the work of Pritzker Prize-winning Portuguese architect Alvaro Siza from the perspective of architecture as an interpretation of human life.
The Supercrit series revisits some of the most influential architectural projects of the recent past and examines their impact on the way we think and design today.
A design monograph series on the most remarkable architects, designers, brands and design movements of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, each book contains a historical-critical essay discussing the life and work of the subject, followed by an illustrated appreciation of groundbreaking work.
With nearly 80 years of experience in integrating architecture and engineering, Skidmore, Owings & Merrill's (SOM) work remains groundbreaking, especially when it comes to designing supertalls.
The federal state of Vorarlberg holds a distinguished position in wooden construction with an active and innovative scene, where tradespeople, planers and industrial enterprises build upon their possibilities and develop their field together.
This biography follows the remarkable life of Louise-Elisabeth Vigee Le Brun, whose portraits of European royalty and nobility hang in many of the world's most important galleries.
Buildings and spaces are like instruments: architectural volumes and their materials, surfaces and structures generate a resonance and therefore have a sensorial impact on people.
Dieser Band rekonstruiert Schmidts Lehransatz – die Einführung von Gruppenstudienreisen in den Unterricht an der Akademie ab 1861 – und seine Ansichten über die Architekturlehre, zu denen das Studium von Bauwerken auf dem Weg der Autopsie nebst deren detaillierten Vermessungen und Aufnahmen, Einführung in das Studium gotischer Baupläne und die Publikation von Baurissen in der Edition Wiener Bauhütte gehörten.
A design monograph series on the most remarkable architects, designers, brands and design movements of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, each book contains a historical-critical essay discussing the life and work of the subject, followed by an illustrated appreciation of groundbreaking work.
Windows are moments in modern architecture where we look to ascertain elegance, technical expression and material language or to capture a certain atmosphere.
