Edition Axel Menges - Böcker

Text in English, German and Spanish. Over the last decade the island of Lanzarote has become one of the favourite tourism destinations in the Canary Islands. However, our interest is more one of artistic than of touristic discovery, and this would...

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The theme of this book is nutrition: the manufacture and availability of foodstuffs, and their preparation and presentation in the context of a society's social and cultural development. In a wide-ranging tour d'horizon, it investigates the comple...

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The ongoing paradigm change in regard to the use of energy, its efficient usage and the consumption of resources is giving rise to new light systems and lighting appliances. The goal of this book is to develop temporary light spaces that re-interp...

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Together with his colleagues and students at the University of Cyprus, Phocas challenges traditional definitions of utopia by presenting us with analytical research and clearly delineated visions of some architectural futures, which defy easy desc...

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If there is a plateau that continuously unites Hans Dieter Schaals numerous artistic fields of activity, a kind of fundamental level, then it is surely that of landscape architecture. Landscape motifs are as convincingly present in his stage sets ...

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Text in German. Erdmut Bramke, who was born in 1940 in Kiel and died in 2002 in Stuttgart, is one of the few 20th-century artists whose work consistently expressed a purely painterly position. She worked only with colour and structures. The use of...

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Sanjay Patils tryst with architecture began in his early childhood as he soaked up the environs that surrounded him in his birthplace, Nashik. Moving on to formal education in architecture at the Sir JJ College of Architecture in Mumbai, Sanjay re...

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Text in English & German. When architects design a house for themselves, the often tense relationship between clients and builders is usually absent. That is why in many such buildings the architect-designers artistic stance and political posi...

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Text in English & German. If laziness is the mother of all inventions, then the car is its masterpiece. The earliest means of locomotion was walking, followed by riding on horses or camels; finally, with the invention of the wheel, came the ab...

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Situated at the intersection of public realm, urban design and site specific art, Martha Schwartz Partners has over 35 years of experience designing and implementing installations, gardens, civic plazas, parks, institutional landscapes, corporate ...

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Paris in the summer of 1937. A giant funeral procession wends its way from the city center eastward toward the Pere-Lachaise Cemetery, accompanied by the sounds of Chopin's funeral march. The photojournalist Gerda Taro had been killed in the Spani...

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Text in English and German. Erich Engelbrecht (19282011) called his pictures "introspective". He remarked on this: "The introspective image inspects the arena of the soul, the field of operation of archetypes, which constitute the f...

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The fact that the entire history of culture and technology could represent a single, continuous expulsion of mankind from the original, paradiese state of nature was already described visionarilyin the Bible and predicted with all its positive and...

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The condition of "fake" and "real" in architecture is rarely publicly discussed nor has it encountered broad journalistic or scholarly attention. This book explores the realm of truth, authenticity and fakery in architecture, p...

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Since 1970, based in an isolated building situated on the peninsula of Posillipo, Pica Ciamarra Associati (www.pcaint.eu) has acted as a laboratory of architectural and urban design which has gradually incorporated new members and new energies ove...

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Nachdem 2009 der erste Band unter dem Titel Jean-Yves Barrier - Architecte, urbaniste erschienen war, der 25 Jahre seiner Arbeit als Architekt dokumentierte, widmet sich dieser zweite Band den Architektur-und Kunstprojekten seit der Mitte der 2000...

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The Königstein Fortress, located not far from Dres-den on a rocky plateau high above the Elbe River, is considered one of the most interesting and best preserved fortifications in Europe. It has a long eventful history dating back to the Bronze Ag...

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This is the first monograph on the life and work of the Czech born British architect Kaplicky (1937-2009). It is a fully comprehensive work based on a decade of research and is a distinctive portrait of one of the most distinguished architects and...

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Himeji Castle with its white walls shimmering inthe sunlight like the feathers of a fantastic birdseems to be rising into the blue sky like a greatheron. This impression has given it the name»Castle of the White Heron«. The castle, whichhas nothin...

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»If someone asked me: what is the film about, I would have to say:It is really about the essence of human life! I find it incredibly beautiful!It is really a moving experience ... I think it is obviously artbuilt and master full ...« (Prof. Howard...

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An ode to light sings the way of the wandering light, which comes from the universe and is born from the union of night and light. Wandering, it lingers for a short time in each place it visits, wandering around it, going from door to door and lea...

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Seit jenseits der Zeit erkunden Regenbogen-Blitze das All, hüpfen von Stern zu Stern und formen wie dort auch auf unserem Planeten Lichtwesen und Kristalle aus Licht. Sie sprudeln, flammen, züngeln, blitzen auf, weben ein Netz aus Licht, ziehen si...

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Das Schauspiel, aber besonders die Oper haben nur scheinbar wenig mit unserem alltäglichen Leben zu tun. Die Oper ist zwar eine sehr artifizielle Kunstform, in der die Wirklichkeit dennoch präsent ist, jedoch in einer Weise verdichtet, daß sie uns...

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Architects usually try to create »finished« buildings, i. e. coherent works of architecture for eternity. But does this claim stand up to reality? Should that be the claim at all? After all, it cannot be ruled out that the building will change aft...

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Text in German and English. Stefan Heiliger is one of the most prominent product designers in Europe, known for his -- often mechanically assisted -- recliners, easy chairs and couches. He has designed strategic ergonomic, social and comfort trans...

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The meaning and significance of Pienza, the first Renaissance ideal city built by Pope Pius II, are explored in this precise survey.

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Richard Meier's architecture in dialogue with the Ulm Munster, the most famous German Gothic cathedral.

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Book & CD. When visitors to the National Air and Space Museum in Washington, D.C., walk through the Skylab of 1967-73 they experience the vehicles interior space but learn nothing about the industrial design of the spacecraft nor the designers...

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Text in English and German. 2 Books in slipcase. Karl Friedrich Schinkel called his designs for a palace on the Acropolis in Athens and for Orianda Castle in the Crimea a 'beautiful dream'. They date from 1834 and 1838 and were Schinkel's last maj...

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Text in German & English. When the small farmstead in the south-western corner of Sanssouci park came up for sale in 1825, Hofmarschall von Maltzahn wrote to the King of Prussia to say that the grounds of Sanssouci would be much improved by th...

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