Kategoria BISAC: Architecture >> Study & Teaching

Daylight is the most important element determining the mood and appearance of architecture, more so than all construction materials. In office buildings in particular, the good provision of daylight and matching artificial lighting installations make an important contribution to energy conservation - the better the use made of daylight, the less energy has to be consumed for artificial lighting. For this reason, typical architectural concepts have changed in recent years; enclosed buildings with full air-conditioning have increasingly made way to buildings that respond to the climate...

The concept and detailed design of buildings requires a comprehensive approach. Coordinating the different trades is one of the architect's key tasks. In view of the fact that electrical installations in buildings are becoming increasingly complex, the architect needs to have a solid, basic understanding in this field in order to be able to prepare the design for the input of the specialist engineers. However, most architects find it hard to understand anything but the basic concepts of electrical engineering, in spite of the fact that it is an increasingly important field in view of the...

Innovative Entwurfe sind in zunehmendem Masse auf die interdisziplinarere Zusammenarbeit zwischen Architekten, Ingenieuren und der Bauindustrie angewiesen. GAM.12 - Structural Affairs beobachtet das Feld der Kooperationen in den dynamischen Arbeitsablaufen der Gegenwartsarchitektur und stellt aktuelle Projekte wie theoretische Positionen zur Diskussion.

There is an emerging consensus that urban street layouts should be planned with greater attention to 'placemaking' and urban design quality, while maintaining the conventional transport functions of accessibility and connectivity. However, it is not always clear how this might be achieved: we still tend to have different sets of guidance for main road networks and for local streetgrids. What is needed is a framework that addresses both of these, plus main streets - that don't easily fit either set of guidance - in an integrative manner.

Streets and Patterns takes up this...

Experiential Landscape offers new ways of looking at the relationship between people and the outdoor open spaces they use in their everyday lives. The book takes a holistic view of the relationship between humans and their environment, integrating experiential and spatial dimensions of the outdoors, and exploring the theory and application of environmental design disciplines, most notably landscape architecture and urban design.

The book explores specific settings in which an experiential approach has been applied, setting out a vocabulary and methods of application, and...

Faced with man-made climate change and the need to provide housing for a growing world population, society needs to rethink the way future buildings are made. Wood is a truly renewable building material that is unlimited in supply if its growth and harvest are sustainably managed. Recent technological advancements in engineering allow the use of timber for the construction of multi-story structures, turning our buildings into carbon sinks rather than becoming sources for CO₂-emissions.
The book presents convincing arguments for the increased use of wood as an alternative to...

Faced with man-made climate change and the need to provide housing for a growing world population, society needs to rethink the way future buildings are made. Wood is a truly renewable building material that is unlimited in supply if its growth and harvest are sustainably managed. Recent technological advancements in engineering allow the use of timber for the construction of multi-story structures, turning our buildings into carbon sinks rather than becoming sources for CO₂-emissions.
The book presents convincing arguments for the increased use of wood as an alternative to...

Das Buch gibt einen Uberblick uber die aktuelle japanische Architektur, ihre Gestaltungskonzepte sowie ihre vielfaltigen Bezuge. Dreizehn Architekten stellen in Interviews und anhand exemplarischer Entwurfe ihre Entwurfsmethodologien vor und geben Einblicke in die Grundlagen und Hintergrunde ihres Schaffens; darunter junge Architekten, die aktuell international Bekanntheit erlangt haben, Architekten, die innerhalb der japanischen Architektur eigenstandige Haltungen vertreten, sowie die Pritzkerpreistrager Toyo Ito und Fumihiko Maki.
Das Buch zeigt, wie sich die Architekten auf Asthetik,...

Ein Gartenhauschen entpuppt sich als Spitze eines romanischen Glockenturms. Ein Gourmet-Restaurant wird verkehrt herum erbaut. Ein Stellwerk wird zu einem Musikinstrument umfunktioniert. Ein Wattefabrikant entwirft ein unbewohnbares Familiendomizil. 36 tragikomische Hausergeschichten, bibliophil illustriert mit listig gefalschten "Originaldokumenten," entfuhren uns in eine versunkene Welt skurriler Personen und ihrer aberwitzigen Beziehungen zur Architektur. "Portraits verlorener Gebaude" oder "Aussichtslose Turme" nennt Gottfried Muller die Serien seiner imaginaren Revisionen der...

Now as before, Japanese architecture is very popular in Europe and the western world. This publication provides an overview of its many design concepts and cross-references. Using design examples and interviews, the book presents thirteen current positions.The publication focuses on young architects who take up extremely independent positions within Japanese architecture, as well as on Pritzker Prize winners Toyo Ito and Fumihiko Maki.

Six essays by European specialists on Japan provide supplementary insights into the aesthetics and space concepts of Japanese architecture, making...

Friedrich Kiesler - Lebenswelten stellt einen Visionar der Wiener Moderne vor. Der Kunstler, Designer, Architekt, Buhnenbildner und Ausstellungsmacher Friedrich Kiesler (1890-1965) beeinflusste mit seinen avantgardistischen Beitragen die europaische und amerikanische Architektur- und Kunstszene; bis heute ist sein Werk eine Inspirationsquelle.

Der Katalog beleuchtet Kieslers ganzheitliches Werk und stellt seine Theorie des Correalismus zur Beziehung von Kunstwerk, Mensch und Umgebung ebenso zur Diskussion wie seine innovative Ausstellungspraxis.

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The design research of Roland Snooks is a speculation on the relationship between emergent processes of formation and architectural design intention, and explores the strange specificity of an architecture that is drawn out of this interaction. This research operates within a larger architectural and cultural concern for...

The Optimum Imperative examines architecture s multiple entanglements within the problem of Socialist lifestyle in postwar Czechoslovakia.

Situated in the period loosely bracketed by the signing of the Munich accords in 1938, which affected Czechoslovakia s entrance into World War II, and the Warsaw Pact troops occupation of Prague in 1968, the book investigates three decades of Czech architecture, highlighting a diverse cast of protagonists. Key among them are the theorist and architect Karel Honzik and a small group of his colleagues in the Club for the Study of...