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Pinpoint: Key Facts + Figures for Sustainable Building
-PINPOINT brings building physics clearly into focus and enables practitioners to make rational use of their expertise while keeping their focus on
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Prefabricated Systems: Principles of Construction
For a number of years, modular construction the use of prefabricated elements in architecture has once again become a subject of lively...
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Arnaboldi
Michele Arnaboldi, an architect from Ticino, who has worked for Luigi Snozzi, among others, founded his own firm in Locarno in 1995. He has made...
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Dado: Built and Inhabited by Rudolf Olgiati and Valerio Olgiati
Valerio Olgiati has worked as an architect in Los Angeles, Zurich, and, since 2008, in Flims. He has been a visiting professor at the Eidgenö...
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form follows performance
With a clear analysis of the reasons behind the increasingly arbitrary character of design today, form follows performance takes a position that...
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Beyond Modernist Masters: Contemporary Architecture in Latin America
Latin America has been an important place for architecture for many decades. Masters like Barragán, Dieste, Lina Bo Bardi, and Niemeyer pointed...
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Gatermann + Schossig: Space Art Technology
Dörte Gatermann and Elmar Schossig are among the leading architects of their generation in Germany. In the nearly 25 years since they founded...
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Heidi Weber: 50 Years Ambassador for Le Corbusier 1958 - 2008
From the summer of 1958, when she first met Le Corbusier in Cap Martin, until today, Heidi Weber has worked tirelessly to popularise his work. She...
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Scale: Open / Close: Windows, Doors, Gates, Loggias, Filters
The first volume of the SCALE series – Open | Close – examines a simple but effective building element, the opening, illuminating the path from
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Tadao Ando
The minimalist concrete architecture of Tadao Ando has roots both in Japanese traditions and in Western architecture. This book begins with both...
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Art + Architecture: Strategies in collaboration
Since the beginning of the 20th century, artists and architects have often been in collaboration. This relationship was not necessarily without...
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Glass in Building: Principles Applications Examples
Glass in Building opens up a whole range of fascinating design possibilities for the planning architect. Glass has long served as a translucent...
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typology+ Innovative Residential Architecture
Typology+ documents and analyses roughly 100 international housing structures. It uses diagrammatic drawings to elaborate a broad and varied range
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Chroma: Design, Architecture and Art in Color
Designers and architects have to make decisions regarding colour every day. But how does one find the necessary inspiration? The appropriate color...
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Visualizing Landscape Architecture
“We don’t sell gardens; we sell images of gardens.” This observation on the part of a landscape architect makes it clear just how important...
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Cities of Change Addis Ababa: Transformation Strategies for Urban Territories in the 21st Century
The Urban Laboratory – Addis Ababa is a research initiative launched by the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) Zurich in collaboration...
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Freestanding Housing: A Housing Typology
To continue developing existing building types in an intelligent way is a crucial task in the field of residential building. For the success of the
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Landscape as a System: Contemporary German Landscape Architecture
Landscape today is increasingly being seen as a complex system: biotopes and water cycles, open spaces and built structures, neighborhoods and...
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Ruedi Baur Integral
Ruedi Baur has chosen seven concepts to describe his conceptual approach: anticipate, question, identify, contextualise, perplex, falls, and...
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Access for All: Approaches to the Built Environment
In 13 articles, this book deals with this world of access in architecture, city planning, and neighboring fields. Topics include ensuring the...
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