Kategoria BISAC: Architecture >> Regional

Greg Borzo begins by providing an overview of Chicago's...

Nicht nur die Schweizer Pritzker-Preistrager Peter Zumthor und Herzog & de Meuron, auch andere Architekten pragen die zeitgenossische Architekturszene.

Das Buch dokumentiert 25 Gebaude in der Schweiz, entworfen von 16 einflussreichen Schweizer Architekten. Die Bandbreite der Projekte reicht vom dichten urbanen Raum bis ins alpine Umfeld; sie verbinden Ingenieurs- und Handwerkskunst mit traditionellen Materialien und moderner Bautechnik. Groformatige Fotos machen Proportionen, Materialien und Details der Bauten erlebbar.

Mit dem Blick von innen wie auch von auen...

Drawing on the author's personal experience of living and working as an architect in Syria, this timely and fascinating account offers an eyewitness perspective on the country's bitter conflict through the lens of architecture, showing how the built environment and its destruction hold up a mirror to the communities that inhabit it.

From Syria's tolerant past, with churches and mosques built alongside one another in Old Homs and members of different religions living harmoniously together, the book chronicles the recent breakdown of social cohesion in Syria's cities. With the lack of...

The book shows how architecture in Norway has been shaped by resource availability, changing social conditions and architectural style impulses through the centuries. The book is thoroughly illustrated with photos, ground plan drawings and isometric drawings.

This outline of Norwegian architectural history provides the first comprehensive presentation of architecture in Norway, from tents and housing constructions in the Stone Age until contemporary architecture as the iconic, contemporary Opera House in Oslo. The book shows how Norwegian vernacular architecture has been...

Territories offers new perspectives in urban design and research, engaging with the potential of rural-urban interfaces.

Promoting a shift in public awareness and sectorial policies towards place-based strategies, the volume explores design projects from Italy, Spain and Germany.

This translation makes available to English readers the only comprehensive and thorough history of Russian culture in any language. Endowed with scholarly authority, it traces in broad outline the long rich story of the development of religion, literature, and the arts from their earliest manifestations to modern times.

For the convenience of those only interested in separate sections, the book is issued in three parts as standalone volumes:

Part I: Religion and the Church
Part II: Literature
Part III: Architecture, Painting and Music

On the heels of his bestselling Soviet Bus Stops, photographer Christopher Herwig locates fresh wonders of the Soviet vernacular in Georgia, Ukraine and Russia itself

After the popular and critical success of his first book, Soviet Bus Stops, photographer Christopher Herwig has returned to the former Soviet Union to hunt for more. In this second volume, as well as discovering new stops in the remotest areas of Georgia and Ukraine, Herwig turns his camera to Russia itself. Following exhaustive research, he drove more than 9,000 miles from coast to coast...

When Dessau was bombed in early 1945, the Bauhaus Masters' Houses, the epitome of the 20th-century artists' colony, were reduced to rubble as well.

After the main Masters' Houses were restored to their original state in the 1990s, Walter Gropius's Director's House and Laszlo Moholy-Nagy's Master's House were still in ruins, and a debate began over their reconstruction. What was the relevance of these structures at the turn of a new century? In 2010, after consultation with the British architect David Chipperfield, the decision was made to reinterpret the House...