Birkhauser - Böcker

The Materiality of buildings and constructions is an important aspect of architectural design. The approach to and use of materials is a fundamental building block of architectural training. Themes: Subjective effect of materials Haptic influences...

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le Corbusier: "e;La Roche, when one owns such a splendid art collection as yours, one must construct a house that does it honour."e; - La Roche: "e;Very well then, build this house for me."e; This was the genesis of the Villa La Ro...

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in 1923/24 Henry Fruges, a Bordeaux industrialist commissioned Le Corbusier and Pierre Jeanneret with a "e;small workers housing estate"e; in Lege and a garden city in Pessac, comprising 130 to 150 houses with shops. These two housing sche...

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Johannes Lang observes and analyzes the development of ecological design from the point of view of the aesthetics of experience and the history of consciousness. He strives to discover and identify new product experiences that emerge against the b...

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in 1952 Le Corbusier was commissioned "e;to dwell in the silence of men of prayer and study and to construct a church for them"e;. The result was his impressive Convent of La Tourette, marking a significant step in modern religious archite...

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Ahmet Oran steht in der Tradition monochromer, durch das Informel mitbestimmter Malerei. ... Es ist eine leise Bestimmtheit, die das Wesen seiner Gemlde ausmacht, die zwischen Mark Rothko, Gotthard Graubner und Hubert Scheibner anzusiedeln sind (P...

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In formulating a design concept into a viable plan, architects oscillate constantly between two planes of observation: the actual design task in the context of planning typologies such as residential buildings, office buildings, museum, or airport...

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In formulating a design concept into a viable plan, architects oscillate constantly between two planes of observation: the actual design task in the context of planning typologies such as residential buildings, office buildings, museum, or airport...

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Jenseits derdekorativen Keramikfliesen hat sich eine reiche Kultur von teils experimentellen, teils marktgangigen Anwendungen keramischer Baumaterialien entwickelt: Aktuelle Errungenschaften aus Materialforschung, Fertigungstechnologie und digital...

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In formulating a design concept into a viable plan, architects oscillate constantly between two planes of observation: the actual design task in the context of planning typologies such as residential buildings, office buildings, museum, or airport...

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In formulating a design concept into a viable plan, architects oscillate constantly between two planes of observation: the actual design task in the context of planning typologies such as residential buildings, office buildings, museum, or airport...

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Johannes Lang observes and analyzes the development of ecological design from the point of view of the aesthetics of experience and the history of consciousness. He strives to discover and identify new product experiences that emerge against the b...

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The systematic development of building types is an important task in housing construction. A deeper understanding of the underlying building types is mandatory, both for individual designs and for the wider application and variation of tried-and-t...

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A growing, living house, a building made of a plant seems to be a contradiction in terms. Nevertheless, the Khasi in eastern India already knew how to connect the branches of rubber trees to form footbridges, and in southern Germany dance lime tre...

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The building shell is the interface with the outside world, it offers protection and at the same time represents its owners or occupants. But what are the criteria for choosing a specific shell? Why is a particular material used on a particular un...

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The exterior of a building functions as a loadbearing structure and as a protective envelope. It can also be used to express status. But what are the available principles of enveloping? And what are the formal and functional criteria for selecting...

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Coping with post-industrial brownfields is an issue throughout Europe and North America. A point of departure for their broad rediscovery in Germany was the refurbishment of an abandoned steelworks from 1990 on by Peter Latz which subsequently bec...

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From 1977 until his retirement in 1999, Wilhelm Holzbauer was Head of one of the three master classes for architecture at Vienna University of Applied Arts. His teaching activity was supported by a number of Assistant Lecturers and Assistants, amo...

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The systematic development of building types is an important task in housing construction. A deeper understanding of the underlying building types is mandatory, both for individual designs and for the wider application and variation of tried-and-t...

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Die intelligente Weiterentwicklung von Bautypen ist eine wesentliche Aufgabenstellung im Wohnungsbau. Fur den einzelnen Entwurf wie fur die breite Anwendbarkeit, Wiederholbarkeit und Variation von erprobten Strukturen ist das vertiefte Verstandnis...

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Der neue Band der Edition Wohnen ,Hauswartung' stellt die Arbeit der Hauswartung dar und analysiert ihren Wert fr die Bewirtschaftung und Verwaltung von Gebuden. Denn die Hauswartung ist mehr als das Ersetzen von Teilen und die Wiederherstell...

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Der neue Band der Edition Wohnen ,Hauswartung' stellt die Arbeit der Hauswartung dar und analysiert ihren Wert fur die Bewirtschaftung und Verwaltung von Gebauden. Denn die Hauswartung ist mehr als das Ersetzen von Teilen und die Wiederherstellung...

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At the beginning of one's architecture studies, there are many unknowns: what is really important? how do I brainstorm a design idea? how can this idea be depicted and ultimately implemented? BASICS is a series that imparts fundamental knowledge i...

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Concrete is the "modern" construction material that has helped shape the fundamental static principles of structural load bearing. Similar to masonry, concrete effectively transmits pressure downward, but its weak point is tractive force...

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At the beginning of one's architecture studies, there are many unknowns: what is really important? how do I brainstorm a design idea? how can this idea be depicted and ultimately implemented? BASICS is a series that imparts fundamental knowledge i...

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Preistrager Schonste deutsche Bucher"e; 2016 Der UmBau erscheint seit 1979 als interdisziplinare, von der Osterreichischen Gesellschaft fur Architektur herausgegebene Zeitschrift, die Hintergrunde und Zusammenhange der Architekturproduktion si...

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Buildings with wide spans, such as industrial plants and warehouses, are usually built with steel. The architect must understand the specific material properties and requirements of steel as a construction material, including its static properties...

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Symbolizing Existence deals with the current rapidly happening "deterritorialization" of everything which was once regarded stable and binding. What we today regard as statistically encoded information is capable to explicate and index t...

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Symbolizing Existence deals with the current rapidly happening "e;deterritorialization"e; of everything which was once regarded stable and binding. What we today regard as statistically encoded information is capable to explicate and index...

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