"Unlike its two predecessors, the Annual of Light and Architecture 1994 features not only description of individual buildings and their specific lighting solutions, but in addition several chapters dealing with different approaches to the subject. In this way it probably comes closest to what the reader expects to find in a yearbook. The first section presents some of the best German architecture photographers. The second chapter introdu ..."
"This text is available in English and German. Peter Kulka is a major German architect. His buildings in recent years have been characteristically succinct and minimalist. This started with the Sachsischer Landtag in Dresden. Since then Kulka has produced numerous works of high creative ambition. His projects regularly feature in architecture magazines, and also on the arts pages in the daily press. Following a 1996 publication, this is ..."
"This volume focuses on the topic of reconstruction as it examines three recently completed projects in Berlin, Munich, and Potsdam, and three different approaches to the task of rebuilding. The pros and cons of this ardently debated theme are explored and questioned from various perspectives in essays written by leading critics. The comprehensive section on projects presents fifteen new building projects in Germany by Barkow Leibinger, ..."
"Claus Bury began his career as a jeweler, and the architectural sculpture he's been making since 1979 retains the rounded shapes, balance and smooth finish of his first trade. High Tide, Low Tide tracks Bury's most recent accomplishments, and, for the first time, includes excerpts from his sketchbooks and journals. Pages detailing his recent travels in Yucatan, Mexico appear alongside black-and-white photographs of Mayan temples. Photog ..."
"Edizione bilingue tedesco / inglese - Bilingual German / English - Since their invention in the early twentieth century, plastic laminates have left their mark in international design. Like Formica in the U.S., the brand name Resopal is practically synonymous with the entire field of laminates in Germany. This study of the material investigates the history of Resopal from its invention (it was trademarked in 1930) up through the latest ..."
"Eine Legende der Moderne / A Legend of ModernismBroschiertes BuchDer brasilianische Architekt Oscar Niemeyer (1907-2012) gehört zu den Klassikern des 20. Jahrhunderts. Weltberühmt wurde er durch seine Bauten für Brasilia, das 1987 zum Weltkulturerbe erklärt wurde. 1988 er-hielt er den Pritzker-Preis. In seinen Gebäuden vereinigt er den Respekt für die jeweilige Örtlichkeit mit einem unverwechselbaren, fast barocken Gestaltungsdrang. Für ..."
"In 1997 Wilhelm Kucher designed an expansion to the Deutsche Bank in Essen, a building originally built in 1872 by Peter Zindel and expanded in 1908 by Wilhelm Mertens. With numerous photographs and plan views, this book documents Kucher's challenging integration of old and new. Includes essays by Wilfried Wang and Ingebord Flagge."
"Overview of postmodern architecture- great text and illustrations."
Architektur und Demokratie(2nd Edition) Bauen fur die Politik von der amerikanischen Revolution bis zur Gegenwart (German Edition) by IngeborgFlagge, Wolfgang Jean Stock Turtleback, 295 Pages, Published 1992 by Hatje ISBN-13: 978-3-7757-0402-1, ISBN: 3-7757-0402-7
"Take Rem Koolhaas's lauded new Seattle Public Library, and remove it from its context. Would it be as beautiful? Would it lose something of its meaning (not to mention the books off the shelves), if you picked it up and placed it elsewhere? Is it even possible for a building to have no relation whatsoever to the place where it is erected? Is it pointless to talk about architecture as a pure intellectual enterprise, without grounding it ..."
"This latest edition about the German mega-firm J.S.K. Architects gives a status account of the manifold activities of the leading, internationally-engaged engineering and architectural company. Vision and Function focuses on the broad-based firm's designs for high-rise buildings, train stations and hotels. In addition, this book also features documentation of many projects that were still in the planning stages in previous editions and ..."
"The newest volume of this important annual survey of German architecture takes a look at what the country’s architects are doing outside of Germany, and also at recent buildings of high quality inside the country. Essays by leading architectural critics examine recent architectural developments in Europe, Asia and the Americas, make suggestions for ways to increase the profile of German architects abroad, and look back in time to see wh ..."
"Edizione bilingue tedesco / inglese - Bilingual German / English - At last architects have discovered the free form shape - multiple curved surfaces, which do not exist in Cartesian geometry. What has long been usual in product design is now being adopted in architecture, these shapes are being generated by special software, and then they are subsequently built. Some young and innovative architectural firms have seized the opportunity t ..."
"Perhaps no single technology has defined the postwar world as much as the automobile. The automobile has shaped our physical landscape--our personal, geographical and atmospheric space--as well as our mental world. Since the 1960s, artist Wolf Vostell has been addressing the automobile--as design object, as modern icon, and as an invention capable of shaping and altering the world around it--in ''auto-sculptures'' and performances. Vost ..."
"Der Architekt Thomas Herzog gilt seit zwei Jahrzehnten international als Pionier des ökologisch orientierten und energiebewußten Bauens. Er formt aus diesen Inhalten architektonisch neuartige Konzepte, die Nutzung solarer Energie als gestaltungprägendes Kriterium stimuliert ihn zur Entwicklung immer neuer baulicher ›Leistungsformen‹. Der Band liefert in einführenden Essays von namhaften Autoren eine vielseitige Auseinandersetzung mit se ..."
"Der Wechsel von Licht und Dunkelheit beherrscht unser Leben. Obwohl wir in einer versachlichten Welt leben, fühlen wir uns doch von den Kräften des Dunkels bedroht. Aber auch das Licht empfinden wir als feindselig, wenn es grell ist und nicht zugleich auch Schatten zuläßt. Das Verhältnis von Licht und Schatten prägt die Gestaltung eines Raumes und bestimmt seine besondere Atmosphäre. Durch verschiedene Beleuchtungstechniken können einig ..."
"In 1986, when Gottfried Bohm won the Pritzker Prize, the award was only a few years old, but it was already regarded as the greatest international accolade in architecture. Bohm, the first and only German ever to receive the prize, was honored by the Pritzker committee in part for his work from the 1950s and 60s, which was almost exclusively devoted to the construction and reconstruction of churches. Bohm's Pilgrimage Church in Neviges, ..."