Climate-friendly construction is essential if we are to ensure that future generations can enjoy comfortable living spaces. Design and the choice of materials help to considerably reduce the climate impact of buildings. The techniques feat...More info...
(Pub. Date: 20-Aug-2024, Paperback / softback, Publisher: Pennsylvania State University Press, ISBN-13: 9780271092324)
Explores the ecological interrelationship, mediated by steel, of artificial and natural habitats, with a focus on steels earlier history in architecture during the long nineteenth century....More info...
Space and ritual Le Corbusier not only designed and built churches, but also engaged intensely with religion and faith and, through his oeuvre, had a significant impact on church architecture of the twentieth century. The book explains Le...More info...
The work of the Dutch Benedictine monk and architect Hans van der Laan (1904-1991) offers important insights into the ways in which artifacts address the complexity of human physical, cognitive and social needs. Van der Laan dev...More info...
The renowned architectural historian and critic, beloved Yale professor, and outspoken public activist Vincent Scully (19202017) emerged in the 1950s as a guiding voice in American architecture. This intellectual biography of Scullys life and ca...More info...
The Hidden Rules of Architecture: how to build world-class, award winning, creative, innovative, sustainable, liveable and beautiful spaces that foster a sense of place and well beingLeading architect Reinier de Graaf De Graaf puncture...More info...
Der estnisch-amerikanische Bauingenieur August Komendant (1906-1992) arbeitete zusammen mit zahlreichen berühmten Architekten und Ingenieuren an einigen der bedeutendsten Gebäude des 20. Jahrhunderts. Beton war über Jahrze...More info...
The publication rethinks climate control a key concern of the discipline of architecture through the lens of city climate phenomena over the course of the 20th century. Based on a history of climate control on urban scales, it promotes the...More info...
Villa le Lac, which was designated a World Heritage in 2016, was designed and built by Le Corbusier as Geneva lakeside home for his parents in 1925. Because of its spare arrangement of spaces, he referred to it as a dwelling machine. Even today...More info...
Martino Stierli, Jelica Jovanovic, Vladimir Kulic, Tamara Bjaic Klarin, Vladimir Deskov, Andrew Herscher, Sanja Horvatincic, Theodossis Issaias, Ana Ivanovska Deskova, Jovan Ivanovski...
(Pub. Date: 05-Jul-2018, Hardback, Publisher: Museum of Modern Art, ISBN-13: 9781633450516)
