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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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Interiors Construction Manual: Integrated Planning, Finishings and Fitting-Out, Technical Services
Sports stadiums, airports, theaters, museums - it falls to very few architects to tackle spectacular building tasks like these. The everyday work
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128 Colors: A Sample Book for Architects, Conservators, and Designers
This book is a tool of the trade in a user-friendly design with a spiral binding and a hard cover Includes information on the origins of the paints
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Extra: Encyclopaedia of Experimental Print Finishing
Graphic designers who wish to work with print finishes like blind embossing and phosphorescent ink constantly face the same problem: there are no...
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Creating Desired Futures. How Design Thinking Innovates Business
Today’s society is making great leaps in its effort to obtain ever more and ever more specific know-how in various specialties, with the...
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Urban Green: European Landscape Design for the 21st Century
The rediscovery of the city that has been evident recently has by no means superseded the human desire for nature. On the contrary, the goal has...
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Thomas Feichtner: Edge to Edge. Experimental Design
Thomas Feichtner (b. 1970) is an Austrian designer who, after considerable successes in the field of industrial design (ski bindings, ball-point...
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1D: The First Dimension. Drawing and Perception: a Workbook for Designers
Lines are thoughts that can be drawn and are often more precise than words. Only ideas that can be drawn can be translated into a design. 1D, the...
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Field Studies: The New Aesthetics of Urban Agriculture
Agricultural areas in industrial and urban regions will in the future no longer be seen merely as functional space but rather as "islands of the...
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Under the Open Sky. Emscher Landscape Park
Even in an international context, the Emscher Landscape Park represents the most significant effort to date to use landscape architecture to...
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Building with Water: Concepts, Typology, Design
Water has been an important topic in architecture and urban planning for years. The theme of Building with Water is the use of water in...
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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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Digital Culture in Architecture: An Introduction for the Design Professions
Today’s explosive developments in digital technology have also affected architecture and the urban landscape. The new possibilities opened...
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Facades: Building Envelopes for the 21st Century
The third edition of this highly successful book has been graphically redesigned as well as completely revised and expanded, with 220 new...
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Move: Architecture in Motion - Dynamic Components and Elements
Dynamic components and adaptive elements are becoming increasingly important in contemporary architecture, and not just because of their visual...
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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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