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Diese Monografie bietet eine Auswahl der 20 besten Bauten und Projekte der danischen Architekten schmidt hammer lassen, darunter auch die viel beachtete Konigliche Bibliothek in Kopenhagen. Das 1986 gegrundete Architekturburo ist international tatig und hat Niederlassungen in Kopenhagen, Aarhus, Oslo und London.

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. Based on live studio debates between protagonists and critics, the books describe, explore and criticise these major projects.

This second book in the unprecedented series examines Robert Venturi and Denise Scott Brown's infamous book which overturned the barriers separating high architecture from the commercial architecture of the Strip.

In Robert Venturi and Denise Scott Brown: Learning from Las...

Le Corbusier (1887-1965) is arguably the most influential architect of the twentieth century. Despite the fact that he designed no permanent buildings in the United Kingdom, more than any other individual he was responsible for shaping British post-war architecture.

Le Corbusier and Britain traces the growing awareness of work by this visionary figure in contemporary architecture journals and the popular press. Contributions by such prominent architects and critics as Edwin Lutyens, Herbert Read, Evelyn Waugh, Peter Smithson, Jane Drew, Basil Spence and Christopher Booker...

Gunther Fischers revidierte Ubersetzung und Interpretation der theoretischen Kapitel dieses klassischen Textes eroffnet die Chance, die Kolonisierung des Fachs durch den kunstgeschichtlichen Blick ruckgangig zu machen. Sie entdeckt Vitruv wirklich neu: nicht als Kunsttheorie, sondern als genuine Architekturtheorie.

In 1947, a time in which few New Orleans-based architects were designing modern architecture, Arthur Q. Davis (b. 1920) and his partner Nathaniel C. Curtis established their practice in the city. The Curtis and Davis firm is best known for designing the city's iconic Louisiana Superdome and such modernist landmarks as New Orleans's Rivergate Exhibition Center, the Hyatt Regency and Marriott hotels, and the Milton K. Latter Library. Davis has designed public and private works commissioned throughout the United States as well as in Saudi Arabia, Germany, Egypt, the Netherlands, and the...

Based around an interview with Tadao Ando, this book explores the influence of the Buddhist concept of nothingness on Ando's Christian architecture, and sheds new light on the cultural significance of the buildings of one of the world's leading contemporary architects.

Specifically, this book situates Ando's churches, particularly his world-renowned Church of the Light (1989), within the legacy of nothingness expounded by Kitaro Nishida (1870-1945), the father of the Kyoto Philosophical School.

Linking Ando's Christian architecture with a philosophy originating in Mahayana...

Based around an interview with Tadao Ando, this book explores the influence of the Buddhist concept of nothingness on Ando s Christian architecture, and sheds new light on the cultural significance of the buildings of one of the world s leading contemporary architects.

Specifically, this book situates Ando s churches, particularly his world-renowned Church of the Light (1989), within the legacy of nothingness expounded by Kitaro Nishida (1870-1945), the father of the Kyoto Philosophical School.

Linking Ando s Christian architecture with a philosophy originating in Mahayana Buddhism...