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A valuable reference source for specialists and students from the disciplines of art, architecture, design, psychology, psychiatry, anthropology and sociology

Biography of a spatial installation at the Gopius Bau in Berlin and an introduction to the theoretical discussions surrounding it.

An authentic portrait of TCHOBAN VOSS Architekten in association with EINSATEAM

Exploring the role of the new protagonists from art and culture in the field of urban planning and development. Text in English and German.

Make City brings together highly diverse positions on urban change: architects, urban planners, municipal decision-makers, landscape designers, makers, and civic entrepreneurs

Provides the first comprehensive reading of the many urbanisation processes shaping Tokyo today, and seeks an entirely new approach for looking at megacity regions: through their differences, and the way those differences are produced in the course of everyday life.

This book showcases buildings based on simple technology, good craftsmanship, and the careful choice of local and natural materials, as well as local development initiatives which demonstrate excellence in building quality, landscape restoration, and community revitalisation.

This unique collection of essays explores the botanical dimensions of urban space, ranging from scientific efforts to understand the distinctive dynamics of urban flora to the way spontaneous vegetation has inspired artists and writers.

Offers fresh insights into the single family home - from their place in everyday life and popular culture, to changing welfare regimes and demographic change, and to the implementation of ecological frameworks in the construction industry.

This handbook not only explains the context and emerging problems faced by the cities of Latin America and the Caribbean, but also proposes solutions for typical difficulties encountered within those urban conglomerations.

Published to accompany a solo exhibition to Otto Zitko at Lentos Kunstmuseum, Linz, from 7 June to 15 September 2019

The 21st issue of speech: studies the phenomenon of the community centre.

Viewing architecture and urban development from the perspective of building contractors is a much neglected topic to date in architectural and art history.

Vienna is considered worldwide as the 'secret capital' of social housing. Since the 1920s, the Austrian capital has indeed developed a unique system of subsidised housing construction independently of the 'free' market, where more than 60% of its population lives in today.

Le Corbusier's Unite d'habitation in Berlin (built 1957-58) stands as an exceptional monument within Berlin's post-war architecture. This volume explores the exceptional house through multiple perspectives, hereby gathering authors from the fields of architecture, urbanism, art history and cultural studies.

Documents one of the most important milestones in the history of Bauhaus, the first private residence built by Walter Gropius. 2019 is the cententary of the Bauhaus movement.

The contributions to this book, from a range of internationally renowned and younger scholars, explore the dynamics that shape urban theories and professional practices today.

A unique cooperation of photography and history: The book combines artistic documentary photography of a post-conflict and post-socialist city in Kosovo with solid micro-historical account of socialist urbanisation and industrialisation.

HORTITECTURE explores synergies combining architecture and vital plant material - taking plants off the ground into a new conceptual and spatial context.

A hundred years ago, the baroque Neues Palais in the Sanssouci park, Potsdam, Germany, became a museum.

This book explores a rediscovery of the concept of monuments as essential and creative parts of cities. Based on the re-reading of four powerful urban interplays in Sao Paulo, the concept of 'Monuments of Everyday Life' is outlined, revealing specific spatial patterns that are understood as alternatives to places of instability,

Approaches Max Dudler's architecture through the interior spaces and furniture he has designed.

Reflexive Design presents an integrative approach, both in theory and in practice, to the emergence and interpretation of design and research in architecture.

The Sound of Architecture - in accordance with this key notion, for more than five decades the architect Eckhard Gerber and his firm have been producing award-winning projects, which have attracted widespread international attention in the fields of architecture, urban design, interior design, and landscape design.

Compiles guidelines for assessing landscape suitability for, and vulnerability to, renewable energy projects together with a toolbox for landscape-aware public participation in planning.

In this volume of the gmp focus series, the architects illuminate their design and grant an insight into the challenges of the building task. In addition, architectural critic Jurgen Tietz examines in an essay why museums like the Kunsthalle Mannheim are still needed today.

New planning approaches in relation to hitherto insufficient responses to the big issues of global urbanisation.

Presentation and analysis of various urban development plans and strategies.

Landscript 2: Filmic Mapping examines forms of 'land measurement' primarily through documentary and essay films of the past 10 years.

The biggest challenge for contemporary urban design is, therefore, to plan the city itself as a regenerative cycle, not only in terms of shaping its spatial and aesthetic qualities, but also in relation to its development over time.