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A modernist architect's portrait of the sublime contradictions of Romanesque architecture Fascinated by the architectural spaces and the construction of Romanesque architecture, renowned Korean architect Jong Soung Kimm (born 1935) visited and photographed some of the most beautiful Romanesque churches and monasteries of Germany and Belgium. Kimm, who began his career in the office of Mies van der Rohe in the 1960s, demonstrates in his photographs how the concepts of architectural volume have endured from the medieval era to modernism. Stunning images of such landmarks as the Aachen Palatine Chapel, Worms Cathedral, Mainz Cathedral and Trier Cathedral represent how architects long ago combined dizzying, bright sacred space on the interior with imposing mass and solidity on the exterior, deploying a subtle and masterful use of materials, decoration and engineering. Accompanying texts by Kimm elucidate these great works of architecture.

Intervening in the argument between tradition and modernity in architecture, In the Mood for Architecture proposes that traditional planning models may serve as the ideal context for architectural innovation.

This publication examines Berlin's emerging architecture during the 1960s, including such famous developments as Stalinallee, Alexanderplatz, Breitscheidplatz and the Märkisches Viertel. Historical documents illustrate political, social and technical visions for a divided city recovering from its wartime devastation.

This volume documents the House of the Narkomfin, built (or "montaged," as the Constructivist architect Moisej J. Ginzburg (1986-1946) preferred to call it) between 1928 and 1931. It is therefore contemporaneous with Le Corbusier's Villa Savoye, as well as with Le Corbusier's visit to Moscow. But the Narkomfin is more than a housing block with a recognizable style. It is the converging point of the history of Constructivism, where purposefully reassembled functional spaces were given an active role in transforming everyday social life. It is also the zenith of five years of intensive experimentation under Soviet Russian government sponsorship, from 1926 and 1930, with new ways of dwelling, boasting emancipatory social relationships for women in particular. Intended for the working class, these industrialized dwelling types sought ways to raise numbers without sacrificing quality. Widely transcending the confines of Soviet architectural practice itself, the Narkomfin anticipated by 20 years Le Corbusier's own experimental housing block in Marseille, which resulted directly from his visit to Moscow in 1928. The Narkomfin was also the last building Ginzburg's Society of Contemporary Architects (OSA) built with its team of brilliant young professionals, trained at the VHUTEMAS (the Soviet Bauhaus). The 1930 Bolshevik Central Committee decree condemned the experimentation as "phantasies that would alienate people from the very idea of Socialism."

German photographer Maximilian Meisse (born 1969) has a knack for transforming familiar places into seemingly foreign ones. Ready Places Berlin features oddly unrecognizable images of well-known locations around Berlin, such as the Memorial Church, the von der Hevdt Villa and the Glienicke casino.

This book examines the careers of German brothers Heinz (1902-96) and Bodo Rasch (1903-95), an architectural duo of the 1920s New Architecture movement, comparing their buildings and graphics to work by artists such as Erika Hock and Ernesto Neto.

The Baakenhafen Bridge, in Hamburg's new HafenCity development, gives access to the city's Baakenhafen and Elbbrücken quarters. Wilfried Dechau documented its construction, in the photographs gathered here.

Klaus Theo Brenner's architectural study of the development of modernism in European architecture includes archival photographs published as postcards in the early twentieth century, as well as contemporary portraits of Milan's architecture from the 1920s and 1930s taken by René Wildgrube.

Scale & Perception documents an exhibition of the work of Rotterdam-based architects Casanova + Hernandez at the Architektur Galerie Berlin, and includes their manifesto "Scale & Perception."

In Venetian Settings, architectural photographer Maximilian Meisse takes us on an intimate tour of Venice, by day and by night. The polarity between the two is pronounced in Meisse's portrayal. This volume offers the fruits of his extended, loving appraisal of this most inspiring of cities.

Though stylistically distinct, the architects Solano Benítez (born 1963) and Javier Coravalán (born 1962) are brought together by the cultural context of their mutual homeland, Paraguay. In this publication they demonstrate that, given its natural resources and local economy, Paraguay is ready to project its next phase of development without repeating the failures of modernism's ideals of progress.

Green design is more than just architecture: it is a philosophy that must also involve consequential thought and education for the future. This publication presents two landscape architects and activists from Malaysia, Ken Yeang and Ng Seksan.

One of Berlin's best-known attractions, the Museumsinsel (or Museum Island) is a complex of five historic art museums located on an island in the Bree River, within the city's Mitte district. The museums are the Altes Museum, built in 1830; the Neues Museum, built in 1859, and recently reconstructed by David Chipperfield; the Alte Nationalgalerie, completed in 1876; the Bode Museum, which opened in 1904; and the Pergamon Museum, built in 1930. The collective holdings of these five museums are among the world's finest, but the museums themselves are all breathtaking architectural specimens, as UNESCO recently recognized by designating the Museumsinsel a World Cultural heritage site. Until now, this unique ensemble of museums has never been thoroughly documented. In this volume, architectural photographer Maximilian Meisse celebrates the rich variety of the Museumsinsel. As architect Hans Kollhoff writes in his preface, Meisse's photographs "create an urban crown for Berlin."

Form Defining Strategies examines experimental design methodologies in architecture and their discussion in academic settings. Theoretical considerations are provided by a wide range of writers and theoreticians alongside numerous examples of conceptual designs. Edited by Asterios Agkathidis, Markus Hudert and Gabi Schillig, this is the third, revised edition.

Tatiana Bilbao's single-family house on a lake front in the Méxican state of Jalisco and Derek Dellekamp's medium-rise apartment building at the center of Mexico City are the focus of this fourth publication in the O'Neil Ford Duograph Series. These two buildings share affinities that are examined in photographs and essays.

The Banco de Londres y América del Sud in Buenos Aires was built between 1959 and 1966 through the efforts of a large team of designers and engineers, headed by the collaborative offices of Sepra and Clorindo Testa. Long admired by connoisseurs of South American architecture, the bank's history, design and construction is analyzed in this volume.

The human body has a fundamental impact on the organization and interpretation of the world, and the built environment has accordingly been conceptualized in terms of the human body since ancient times, in theory and in practice. From Leonardo da Vinci's Vitruvian Man to Le Corbusier's "Modulor" (Corbusier's attempt to unite the imperial and metric measuring systems through a scale based on the figure of a man with his arm raised), the human body has inspired and confounded attempts to rationally construct the world. Since the 19th century, the findings of the human sciences, like physiology and psychology, have produced new understandings of the body and its relationship to the environment. The contributors to this volume aim to stimulate research in the anthropology of architecture by contributing to a critical history of the body and its cultural constructions.

This third volume in the O'Neil Ford Duograph Series spotlights a high-rise by Rafael Iglesia and a free-standing house by Marcelo Villafañe, through drawings, sketches and photographs.

The Fassianos Building in Athens, by Kyriakos Krokos (1941-1998), proved to be an experimental ground for the architectural visions and details that would later define his career. Few designs have ever transformed an otherwise banal building into such a radically different reality.

Across 18 chapters and 340 photographs, this volume presents a survey of the architectural photography holdings of Berlin's Ethnological Museum, Egyptian Museum, Museum for Asian Art and Art Library. Previously seen only by specialists, these photographs of buildings from the ancient to the modern, constitute an impressive survey of architectural photography.

Two residential buildings by Brazilian architects are studied in depth in this volume. Invisible from the street, Angelo Bucci's house reveals itself in sequences until one reaches the highest point--and 360-degree views. Carla Juaçaba's vacation house in a remote, virgin forest is a small solitaire.

This scholarly study of the relationship between the visionary German-Jewish and Dutch-Catholic Modernist architects Erich Mendelsohn and Hendrik Wijdeveld, respectively, is a moving and gripping narrative that will appeal to academics and laymen alike.

German-Jewish architect Rudolf Fränkel was among the leaders of the pre-war avant garde in Berlin. He later emigrated to Bucharest, London and the United States, where he taught at Miami University, Ohio. This is the first comprehensive monograph devoted to Fränkel's work.

As architects devise ever more radical gestures with which to wow an increasingly architecture-literate public, the discipline itself has had to engage conceptions of "popular culture." This volume traces the discussions of a group of students, teachers and invited guests from the fields of architecture, landscape architecture and psychology, all of whom worked together at the TU (Technical University) Berlin to discuss this subject.

What is local architecture? What are its characteristics in general, and in a country like Israel--with its relatively recent statehood, mixed cultures and long-standing conflicts--in particular? Architect Gilead Duvhsani lays out a crystallized worldview and a systematic creation process for making local architecture.

Seoul-based architect Jong Soung Kimm's roots are in Korea, but his formative years were spent in Chicago--as a student at the Illinois Institute of Technology and later in the office of Mies van der Rohe. From 1961 to 1972--van der Rohe's final and most prolific years--Kimm worked on iconic projects like the older architect's last commission, the meticulously crafted Brown Wing of the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston. In 1978, Kimm returned to Seoul, opening his own architectural design consultancy, SAC International. For the past 30 years, Kimm's buildings--such as the Weightlifting Gymnasium for the 1988 Seoul Olympics and the Sonje Museum of Contemporary Art in Kyongju--have evinced both an admiration for Mies and a Korean sensibility. This volume is a much-needed comprehensive look at Kimm's oeuvre, which infuses Mies' principles of tectonics with his own reliance on intuition.

From start to finish, it took the Modernist Portuguese architect Álvaro Siza, winner of the 1992 Pritzker Prize and designer of The Serpentine Gallery's 2005 Summer Pavilion, 33 years to construct the Bouça Residents' Association Housing in the northern city of Porto--which he realized in association with architect António Madureira. During those years, Siza completed numerous important commissions, including the architecture faculty building at the University of Porto in 1985 and the Fundação Serralves museum of contemporary art in that same city in 1999. In 1988 he restored the Chiado district of Lisbon, Portugal, after a devastating fire; and his Portuguese Pavilion for Lisbon's EXPO 98 was internationally recognized. While Siza was busy with all of these buildings and plans, the first phase of the Bouça project was falling ever deeper into disrepair, hampered by municipal neglect. It has since been brought up to Siza's standards, and this publication appraises the project, now happily completed. Siza's sketches, many of which are published here for the first time, reveal the tenacity of his search for the right solution.

Beginning in the 1920s, and especially after the Nazis introduced the Nuremberg Race Laws in the 1930s, more than 130 Jewish architects chose to leave their native Germany and begin afresh in Palestine. Many of them, including Alex Baerwald and Harry Rosenthal, left behind significant buildings that were already central to the urban image of Berlin. Nevertheless, upon arriving in their new desert home, completely unaccustomed to the climate, the culture or the language, these Bauhaus-era repatriates set about laying the foundations of a new society with amazing vigor. This volume, assembled by the Israeli architect Myra Warhaftig, provides comprehensive documentation of works by this first generation of Jewish-Palestinean architects, including kibbutzim, villages and cities with housing developments, hospitals, schools, universities, theaters, administrative buildings, etc. It also includes documentation of the lives and works of many of the most entrepreneurial individuals to escape in the diaspora, who, along with their descendents, laid the foundations of modern-day Israel.

The Hans van Heeswijk architecture firm was founded in Amsterdam in 1985, and it has designed and realized a great variety of projects, among them offices, public buildings, museums, bridges, renovations, refurbishments, interiors and product design. Those projects are without exception matchlessly lucid and crafted to a standard rarely seen, particularly in an economy where tight budgets are the rule. Their forms, reticent at first, become articulate at close range. Each encounter with them seems right--thus the aura of tranquility, typical for buildings composed with great care and attention. This monograph deals with the works and ideas of Hans van Heeswijk architects over the last decade, including the recent commission for the refurbishment of the Hermitage Museum in Amsterdam.