Kategoria BISAC: Architecture >> Buildings - General

This book explores the concept of fragile heritage as an architectural legacy and a territorial resource in rural China, emphasizing the significance in safeguarding its unique cultural trajectory, and laying the groundwork for future developments. Chinese rural buildings and settlements encapsulate priceless cultural values, but become increasingly vulnerable, under increasing pressures. Socioeconomic transitions, climate change, political agendas, land rent speculation, awakenings, and commodifications of cultural values, redefine the conceptual and operational framework of countryside...

Brasilia, Caracas, Mexico City, Rio de Janeiro ... these are cities synonymous with some of the most innovative and progressive architecture of the twentieth century. The period between 1930 and 1960 in particular, when many Latin American economies expanded rapidly, was an era of incomparable inventiveness and creative production, as the various governments strove to shake off their colonial pasts and make public their modernising intentions.

This book focuses on major state-funded architectural projects, featuring not only the high-profile prestigious building like the House of...

Das Haus Tugendhat in Brunn/Tschechische Republik, von Ludwig Mies van der Rohe 1928 1930 geplant und gebaut, gilt unbestritten als einer der wichtigsten Bauten der europaischen Moderne. 2001 erklarte die UNESCO das Haus zum Welterbe der Kultur.

Aufbauend auf dem von Daniela Hammer-Tugendhat und Wolf Tegethoff herausgegebenen Buch (deutsche Ausgabe 1998, englische Ausgabe 2000) beschreiben die drei Autoren in dieser kompletten Neuausgabe private, historische, architekturtheoretische, kunsthistorische und konservierungswissenschaftliche Aspekte des Hauses.

Basics Interior Architecture 02: Context & Environment proposes a method of design based on the interpretation, evaluation and utilization of physical factors, such as light and orientation, the contextual issues of the urban form and the subject of sustainability. It examines the ways each of these factors influences the form of the interior.

The text is supported by detailed studies of contemporary work, alongside activities and resources.

GAM.09 tragt den Titel: "Walls: Spatial Sequences" und beschaftigt sich mit dem architektonischen Element der Wand unter dem Gesichtspunkt ihrer gegenwartigen technologischen Erneuerung. In jungster Zeit wird die herkommliche Funktion von Wanden durch innovative architektonische Entwurfe sowohl konstruktiv als auch in ihrer Bedeutung erweitert. Dabei stehen nicht langer der trennende Aspekt von raumlichen Begrenzungsmauern sondern vielmehr die verbindenden Schichtungen von Wanden in einem okologischen, stadtebaulichen und soziokulturellen Sinne im Vordergrund.

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Written by an architect specializing in green materials and methods, this GreensSource book presents all of the information you need to design efficient, environmentally friendly, economical, and sustainable buildings.

Green Architecture surveys new developments, innovative techniques, and emerging technologies that support environmentally responsive architecture. Residential, commercial, and institutional high-performance buildings are discussed. This architectural resource includes details on green building rating systems,...

This documentation of the last ten years presents sixty - five structures and projects from rkw and looks behind the scenes in numerous interviews and essays. The works considered range from the research facilities for Audi to residential buildings, schools, railroad station, urban office buildings and shopping centers, as well as the soccer stadium in Gdansk.