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Das australische Architekturburo Denton Corker Marshall, 1972 in Melbourne gegrundet, zahlt zu den wichtigsten Akteuren im pazifischen Raum. Zu den bedeutendsten neueren Projekten, die der Band vorstellt, gehoren das Civil Justice Center in Manchester, UK, die Webb Bridge in Melbourne und das Dongqianhu International Educational Forum in Ningbo, China.

Frank Lloyd Wright (1867 1959) exercised a shaping influence on architectural history throughout the world. The author, Daniel Treiber, has produced a well-researched and thorough presentation that highlights the fundamental aspects of the American architect s work that are relevant from a contemporary perspective."

The Norfolk museum that would one day bear the Chrysler name was always a good museum of its kind, home to a respectable collection serving a smallish city. But when Norfolk native Jean Outland married Walter Chrysler, heir to the automobile manufacturing fortune and an avid art collector, the museum found a person with whom its fortunes would be intertwined, sometimes spectacularly, for decades to come. Walter had already established a Chrysler Museum in Provincetown, Massachusetts, but in 1971--in need of more space and, admittedly, a fresh start--he relocated the operation to...

Fur diesen kurzweiligen Roman uber Architekten und Bauherren hat der Autor ein ungewohnliches Setting gewahlt: Der Showmaster Buffalo Bill will nach dem Ende seiner erfolgreichen Wild-West-Show Supermarkte bauen. Der Indianer Sitting Bull ist sein Berater. Zusammen streifen sie durch das Feld des Showgeschafts, erkunden ihre eigenen Sehnsuchte und Angste und die der zukunftigen Supermarktkunden. Der Indianer skizziert "unsichtbare Supermarkte" und stellt damit in spielerischer Form die Frage, wie wir unser alltagliches Lebensumfeld gestalten.

The Tate Modern in London made Herzog & de Meuron famous all over the world. The projects and structures they have built since then are distinguished by the sensitive treatment of materials for which the architects are renowned. In addition, these Pritzker Prize-winning architects have developed a topographical conception of architecture that not only locates their designs in a larger context but also frequently structures them as landscapes. In order to represent them, the layout of volume 4 of the complete works has been completely redesigned. The publication contains essays by the...

LP architektur has created a richly varied body of work in the ten years it has existed. The office s breakthrough came at the Winter Oympics in Turin with the emblematic Austria House. The Salzburg office s buildings have become beacons of regional identity that now reach beyond the borders of Salzburg. This selection of 23 buildings complements the works presented in the first monograph published in 2006.

Ibos-Vitart ist eines der erstaunlichsten Architekturburos in Frankreich und gleichzeitig eines der wenigen, das internationale Anhanger hat. Jean-Marc Ibos und Myrto Vitart starteten ihre Karriere, indem sie mit Jean Nouvel arbeiteten, bei dem sie verantwortlich fur einige seiner wichtigsten Projekte waren. Schon bald nach ihrer Zeit bei Nouvel, hat ihre erste grosse Arbeit der Aus- und Umbau des Museums der schonen Kunste in Lille Frankreichs renommierten Architekturpreis l Equerre d argent gewonnen. Ihr Design ist das Ergebnis einer bewussten Zuruckhaltung und kommt von ihrem...