From backwoods bars and small-town dives to swampside dance halls and converted clapboard barns, Louisiana Saturday Night offers an anecdotal history and experiential guidebook to some of the Gumbo State's most unique blues, Cajun, and zydeco clubs.

Music critic Alex V. Cook uncovers south Louisiana's wellspring of musical tradition, showing us that indigenous music exists not as an artifact to be salvaged by preservationists, but serves as a living, breathing, singing, laughing, and crying part of Louisiana culture. Louisiana Saturday Night takes the reader to both offbeat and traditional venues in and around Baton Rouge, Cajun country, and New Orleans, where we hear the distinctive voices of musicians, patrons, and owners -- like Teddy Johnson, born in the house that now serves as Teddy's Juke Joint. Along the way, Cook ruminates on the cultural importance of the people and places he encounters, and shows their critical role in keeping Louisiana's unique music alive. A map, a journal, a snapshot of what goes on in the little shacks off main roads, Louisiana Saturday Night provides an indispensable and entertaining companion for those in pursuit of Louisiana's quirky and varied nightlife.

"An invaluable addition to the library of all who in any way are involved in court services or courthouse design and construction. It will be a definitive reference on current and future bridging between judicial administration and space management of court facilities."-- Leonard S. Parker, chairman, The Leonard Parker Associates, Architects, Inc., Minneapolis

"A book that every court administrator in the country should read and study. Dr. Wong has pulled together the adage that 'form follows function' in a work that will affect the design of every courthouse."-- J. William Lockhart, courts administrator, Sixth Judicial Circuit, State of Florida

This important work integrates, for the first time, information from the fields of judicial administration and architecture, offering professionals in both areas significant benefits in the planning, programming, and design of courthouses that are responsive to the changing needs of the U.S. judicial system. The culmination of the lifework of F. Michael Wong, one of the nation's preeminent authorities on judicial facility projects, the book provides invaluable information for the collaboration of judges and judicial staff with architects, engineers, and planners.

The author examines the slow changes in the judicial system and in the design of courthouses in the United States prior to the 1970s and the rapid changes in the areas of courthouse security, technologies, and environmental systems over the past three decades. He suggests more efficient and cost-effective strategies that call for collaborative efforts between the judiciary and the legislative and executive branches of government in the implementation of projects. In addition, he integrates aspects of judicial administration such as case processing, jury records, and personnel and budget management with space management philosophies and concepts.

"Judicial Administration and Space Management" will serve as an indispensable resource and reference for all architectural and law libraries, for architectural and planning offices, and for administrative offices of the judicial system at federal, state, and local levels.

Contributors: William G. Bohn, Ernest L. Friesen, Robert C. Harrall, Harry O. Lawson, Benjamin S. Mackoff, Larry P. Polansky, Ernest H. Short, Robert W. Tobin, Phillip B. Winberry, and F. Michael Wong

F. Michael Wong, president and CEO of Space Management Consultants, Inc., and president of the F. Michael Wong Foundation, is a Fellow of the American Institute of Architects (FAIA). He has programmed, planned, and designed judicial facility projects throughout the United States, including the Minnesota Judicial Building, the Alabama Judicial Building, and the Pinellas County Criminal Courts Complex. He was instrumental in publication of "The American Courthouse" and "Space Management and the Courts--Design Handbook" and was the principal consultant for the 1991 revision of the "U.S. Courts Design Guide." In May 2000, he received the AIA Collaborative Achievement Honors Award and, in June, the AIA California Council's Research and Technology Honors Award.

More than thirty years ago Tadao Ando started to establish himself as one of the best designers on the international scene for the rigor and character of his works, and ever since his intense activity has moved tirelessly between private residences and public buildings. Each of Ando's museums has added a small piece to the construction of a cohesive path based on a strong and clear use of geometry, the employment of few materials in the right proportions, the harmony of the spaces, and a relationship with the landscape. From this point of view, his series of museums communicates the Japanese master's design philosophy perfectly. This book has been put together with the architect, who, through an important and exclusive series of study sketches, images, and models, tells us of his works and his way of seeing and conceiving architecture including the construction of the museum. From the early buildings accomplished in Naoshima, Osaka and Oyamazaki, through the Pulitzer Center in Chicago, the Museum of Modern Art in Fort Worth, and the restructuring of Palazzo Grassi in Venice, readers will be guided into the reserved and rigorous world of Tadao Ando, gaining a sense of the "secret" of his project work.

Hailed by some as the Eighth Wonder of the World when it opened in 1883, the Brooklyn Bridge is one of the world's most recognizable and beloved icons. For over one hundred years it has excited and fascinated with stories of ingenuity and heroism and it has been endorsed as a flawless symbol of municipal improvement and a prime emblem of American technological progress. Despite its impressive physical presence, however, Brooklyn's grand old bridge is much more than a testament of engineering and architectural achievement. As Richard Haw shows in this first-of-its-kind cultural history, the Brooklyn Bridge owes as much to the imagination of the public as it does to the historical events and technical prowess that were integral to its construction. Bringing together more than sixty images of the bridge that, over the years, have graced postcards, magazine covers and book jackets and appeared in advertisements, cartoons, films and photographs, Haw traces the diverse and sometimes jarring ways in which this majestic structure has been received, adopted and interpreted as an American idea. Haw's account is not a history of how the bridge was made, but rather of what people have made of the Brooklyn Bridge--in film, music, literature, art and politics--from its opening ceremonies to the blackout of 2003. Classic accounts from such writers and artists as H. G. Wells, Charles Reznikoff, Hart Crane, Lewis Mumford, Joseph Pennell, Walker Evans and Georgia O'Keeffe, among many others, present the bridge as a deserted, purely aestheticized romantic ideal, while others, including Henry James, Joseph Stella, Yun Gee, Ernest Poole, Alfred Kazin, Paul Auster and Don DeLillo, offer a counter-narrativeas they question not only the role of the bridge in American society, but its function as a profoundly public, communal place. Also included are never-before-published photographs by William Gedney and a discussion of Alexis Rockman's provocative new mural "Manifest Destiny. Drawing on hundreds of cultural artifacts, from the poignant, to the intellectual, to the downright quirky, "The Brooklyn Bridge sheds new light on topics such as ethnic and foreign responses to America, nationalism, memory, parade culture, commemoration, popular culture, and post-9/11 America icons. In the end, we realize that this impressive span is as culturally remarkable today as it was technologically and physically astounding in the nineteenth century.

Frank Lloyd Wright's Larkin Building has become an icon of modern architecture. And the fact that it was demolished only forty-six years after its 1904 completion makes Jack Quinan's study of the building - which housed a Buffalo, New York, soap company - all the more valuable. Quinan's history draws on engineering documents, personal accounts of the building, and other papers he acquired from the family of Darwin D. Martin, a Larkin executive who proposed commissioning Wright to design the company's offices. With access to these rare sources, Quinan reveals how a young Wright landed the commission and traces the evolution of his cutting-edge plans. Quinan then takes Wright studies to a new level, examining the Larkin Building as a structure at the center of economic and personal relationships. Illustrated with over one hundred photographs, floor plans, maps, and diagrams, "Frank Lloyd Wright's Larkin Building" provides a concise but complete record of how the building was conceived, built, evaluated, and finally demolished in what has been called a tragic loss for American architecture.

Kirchengast betrachtet in seinem Buch drei Projekte mit modellhaftem Charakter: Max Dudler, Franz Riepl und Stephen Sergison demonstrieren auf den Massstabsebenen Dorf, Siedlung und Stadt ein analoges Weiterbauen. Mit ihrer elementaren "Gebautheit", guten Proportionen und dem eleganten Zusammenspiel der Volumina im stadtischen Raum verkoerpern sie eine Dauerhaftigkeit ohne Alluren und modische Zutaten, die zum sinnfalligen wie selbstverstandlichen Hintergrund des alltaglichen Lebens wird. Sie geben dabei nicht nur auf die drangende Frage der OEkologie unseres Zusammenlebens Antwort, sondern liefern einen Ankerpunkt in unserer heterogenen Gestaltungskultur. Fotos von Helene Binet, David Schreyer und Stefan Muller sowie historische Illustrationen begleiten das Pladoyer fur die gekonnte Architektur der Mitte.

Text in English & German. With the Kollegiengebaude II (college building II) of the University of Freiburg dedicated in 1961 the architect Otto Ernst Schweizer had achieved a masterpiece. Being built in the modern design idiom, it nevertheless took Freiburg's tradition into account and gave a new quality of life to the university and the urban development of the inner city quarters. On the whole it was a significant stimulus to university construction. Thanks to the neutral expression of the building, its compact overall for m and its "elastic structural system" (there is maximum flexibility in room layout without touching the bearing skeleton), and together with the laconically simple floor plan it became a prototype solution for smooth functioning. It is an open architecture, free of any suffocating pathos, with wide open spaces, human scale in size and proportions and in ideal accordance with academic freedom for research, instruction and learning. Schweizer, born in 1890 and deceased in 1965, professor of urban construction at the Technical University of Karlsruhe is one of the ground-breaking architects of the 20th century. In the late 1920s he gained international renognition and relevance with his buildings in Nuremburg, among them the stadium grounds and the Milchhof, as well as the Prater-Stadion in Vienna. During the 1930s, when he was not allowed to build, he studied fundamental questions of architecture and urbanism. After the Second World War he used his insights to make recommendations for the reconstruction of destroyed cities like Giessen, Karlsruhe, Mannheim or Stuttgart. In his last project, the Kollegiengebaude II we find the quintessence of a rich creative life, convincingly demonstrating Schweizer's high demands on architectural form and function. Immo Boyken is professor emeritus of building history and theory of architecture in Konstanz. His special interest is the architecture of the late 19th and the 20th century. He was a principal contributor to the monograph on Egon Eiermann, author ed the monograph on Otto Ernst Schweizer and lately wrote about Heinz Tesar's church in the Donau City in Vienna (Opus 42), the chancellery of the German embassy in Washington by Egon Eiermann (Opus 54), the Milchhof in Nuremburg by Otto Ernst Schweizer (Opus 59), the Prater-Stadion in Vienna (Opus 75) also by Schweizer, and the German Pavilions at the World Exhibition 1958 in Brussels by Sep Ruf and Egon Eiermann (Opus 62).

Kew's Grade 1 listed Temperate House is the world's largest surviving Victorian glasshouse and the reopening in May 2018 will mark its 155th anniversary. The Temperate House has been closed for the past five years for a major restoration project, which has involved repairs to the entire framework and ventilation system, brickwork and statuary, as well as an overhaul of the planting and the inclusion of some of the world's rarest plants. It is home to Kew's temperate zone plants, containing specimens from South Africa, Central and South America, Asia, Australia, New Zealand and oceanic islands. Many of its best known species, such as its tree ferns, have been in Kew's collection since the glasshouse first opened, or even longer. This book is a souvenir of the history of the Temperate House, and details the changes that have occurred in its 155 years, all accompanied with fascinating archival photographs and botanical illustrations. Central to the book is a pull out double page section detailing the new planting and layout of the House.

The quintessential New England barn-photogenic, full of character, and framed by flaming autumn foliage-is an endangered species. Of some 30,000 barns in Vermont alone, nearly a thousand a year are lost to fire, collapse, or bulldozers. Thomas Durant Visser's field guide to the barns, silos, sugar houses, granaries, tobacco barns, and potato houses of New England is an attempt to document not just their structure but their traditions and innovations before the surviving architectural evidence of this rich rural heritage is lost forever.
A recognized authority on historic barn preservation, Visser has combed the six-state region for representative barns and outbuildings, and 200 of his photographs are reproduced here. The text, which includes accounts from 18th- and 19th-century observers, describes key architectural characteristics, historic uses, and geographic distribution as well as specific features like timbers and frames, sheathings, doors, and cupolas. From English barns to bank barns, from ice houses to outhouses, these irreplaceable assets, Visser writes, "linger as vulnerable survivors of the past. Yet before these buildings vanish, each has a story to tell." Travelers, residents, and scholars alike will find Visser's text invaluable in uncovering, understanding, and appreciating the stories inherent in these dwindling cultural artifacts.

Zweisprachige Ausgabe(deutsch/englisch): Armin Linkes Nachtaufnahmen zeigen die Leerstelle der Bauakademie als Teil einer Schinkel-Spur im Berliner Stadtraum: Die rudimentare Replik der Gebaudeecke provoziert Fragen nach der ku nftigen Nutzung und Gestalt dieses zentralen Orts. Trotz der gegenwartigen Bundestagsmehrheit fu r eine Rekonstruktion der historischen Fassaden - analog zur gerade fertiggestellten Schlosskopie des Humboldt Forums - gibt es unter Architekt*innen und in der Berliner Stadtgesellschaft deutlich differenziertere Vorstellungen zum Umgang mit der Bauakademie. Es regt sich Widerstand gegen eine Vereinnahmung dieser wichtigen Institution und Bauaufgabe durch eine Reprasentationspolitik, die unter dem Motto "So viel Schinkel wie moeglich" mehr historische Spuren zu verwischen droht als sie vorgeblich sichtbar machen will. Zu einem kritischen Zeitpunkt liefert Bauakademie Berlin konzeptuelle Perspektiven fu r eine zeitgenoessische Bauakademie in Form von Texten, Architekturzeichnungen und Ku nstlerfotos. Mit Texten von Sandra Bartoli, Stefanie Endlich, Tanja Scheffler, Dubravka Sekulic, Axel Sowa, Stephan Tru by English description: Armin Linke's night photography reveals the vacancy of the Bauakademie as a trace of Schinkel in Berlin's urban fabric. The rudimentary replica of the corner construction raises questions about the future use and form of this centrally located site. Despite current majority support in Parliament for a reconstruction of the historical envelope analogous to the recently completed Humboldt Forum there are clearly more differentiated ideas among architects and urban society in Berlin about the future of the Bauakademie building. There is strong resistance to the appropriation of this important institution and building task by representational politics, that actually threaten to obscure more historical traces than they are supposed to make visible with the motto "As much Schinkel as possible". At this important moment, Bauakademie Berlin offers conceptual perspectives for a contemporary Bauakademie in the form of texts, architectural drawings, and artist's photographs. With texts by Sandra Bartoli, Stefanie Endlich, Philipp Oswalt, Tanja Scheffler, Dubravka Sekulic, Axel Sowa, Stephan Truby, and Andreas Zeese. Photographs by Armin Linke and Gili Merin

This guide to New York City's exciting new public space explores Vessel from top to bottom, inside and out, and from beginning to completion. A public space like no other, Vessel was designed by the renowned Heatherwick Studio to give New Yorkers and visitors a unique vertical experience. In this book, readers can witness every part of its development, from initial designs to the finished structure. They'll learn why and how Vessel came to be and the significance of its placement in the Nelson Byrd Woltz-designed Public Square and Gardens at Hudson Yards. An essay by architecture critic Paul Goldberger explores the importance of public spaces, while additional texts explain the evolution of the neighborhood, discuss Vessel's dramatic design, and capture the responses of locals and tourists. A wealth of photography follows the structure's incredible path to completion and the final result, with a total of 2,500 steps, 154 interconnected staircases, 80 viewing landings, and one mile of pathways reaching 150 feet into the air. Documenting one of the most complex pieces of architectural steelwork ever built at this scale, this book offers a fascinating, detailed, and unforgettable look at Vessel.

Health and Architecture offers a uniquely global overview of the healthcare facility in the pre-modern era, engaging in a cross-cultural analysis of the architectural response to medical developments and the formation of specialized hospitals as an independent building typology. Whether constructed as part of Chinese palaces in the 15th century or the religious complexes in 16th century Ottoman Istanbul, the healthcare facility throughout history is a built environment intended to promote healing and caring. The essays in this volume address how the relationships between architectural forms associated with healthcare and other buildings in the pre-modern era, such as bathhouses, almshouses, schools and places of worship, reflect changing attitudes towards healing. They explore the impact of medical advances on the design of hospitals across various times and geographies, and examine the historic construction processes and the stylistic connections between places of care and other building types, and their development in urban context. Deploying new methodological, interdisciplinary and comparative approaches to the analysis of healthcare facilities, Health and Architecture demonstrates how the spaces of healthcare themselves offer some of the most powerful and practical articulations of therapy.

The Open Call in Flanders (the Dutch-speaking, northern part of Belgium) is more than just another architecture competition: any governmental agency or public institution can choose to work with an Open Call for any given construction project. Since its invention by the first Flemish Government Architect bOb Van Reeth in 2000, more than 700 assignments have been published in this procedure, resulting in almost 350 completed public architectural and infrastructural projects so far. This volume compiles 70 of these, from all over Flanders-from its west coast to the Dutch border in the east-to illustrate the astounding quality of these projects. They prove that public architecture can be daring, thought-provoking, cooperative, and well-done at the same time. The book takes an extensive look at how this procedure works, how it is received by architects, politicians, and clients-and ultimately, at the outstanding public architecture in Flanders as an example for other countries to study closely. Including buildings by 51N4E, Bovenbouw Architectuur, Compagnie O, Dierendonckblancke, KAAN, Ney & Partners, noAarchitecten, NU architectuuratelier, OFFICE Kersten Geers David Van Severen, RCR Arquitectes, Robbrecht en Daem, Sergison Bates, Eduardo Souto de Moura, Xaveer de Geyter, Zaha Hadid, among others

"Gibt es denn ein schoeneres Bild fur den Frieden unter den Menschen als den Lesesaal einer grossen Bibliothek?", fragt Peter von Matt in seinem Beitrag fur dieses Buch. Mit dem Bau der Bibliothek der Humboldt-Universitat zu Berlin hat Max Dudler einen ebenso modernen wie zeitlosen Ort fur die Bucher und das Lesen geschaffen. Seine Architektur hat weit uber Berlins Grenzen hinaus aufmerken lassen und erlebt eine bis heute anhaltende Begeisterung vonseiten der Nutzer*innen. Bibliothek dokumentiert die Ideen, die diesen Bau pragen, widmet sich aber auch allgemein der Rolle von Bibliotheken und insbesondere der Architektur, die den Buchern und ihren Leser*innen einen adaquaten Raum schafft. Die Schwarzweissfotografien von Barbara Klemm verdeutlichen dies auf geradezu magische Weise. Sie fangen die intensive und zugleich lebendige Arbeitsatmosphare in den Raumen der Bibliothek ein. Einen spannungsvollen Kontrast schaffen die ruhigen, strengen Farbfotografien von Stefan Muller, indem sie sich ganz auf die Architektur des Gebaudes konzentrieren. Mit Texten von Joerg Baberowski, Hartmut Boehme, Milan Bulaty, Max Dudler, Martin Mosebach, Peter von Matt sowie Fotografien von Barbara Klemm und Stefan Muller "'Bibliothek' ist ein zauberhafter Bildband und klug gemacht dazu, setzt er doch Dudlers Anspruch auf eine 'allgegenwartige Dialektik von Innen und Aussen' auch fur das Bild um, das wir uns jetzt von der Bibliothek machen koennen." Andreas Platthaus in der Frankfurter Allgemeinen Zeitung zur 2010 im Berlin Verlag erschienenen Erstauflage des Buchs

Powerful, memorable architecture in response to diverse conditions and briefs, conceived and developed by the Geneva architectural couple Kristina Sylla Widmann and Marc Widmann: this volume presents five school buildings and facilities with a high architectural quality, as well as several outstanding residential and administrative buildings. Text in English and German.

Die Konstruktion im Dienst der Architektur - diesem Thema widmet sich das mehrbandige Werk des Architekten Jose Luis Moro. Der 3. Band stellt die Ausfuhrung des Gebaudeentwurfs in den Mittelpunkt der Betrachtung. Die Thematik Verbindungen wird grundlegend behandelt und entsprechende Techniken im Detail eroertert. Innere wie aussere Gebaudehullen erlautert der Autor ausfuhrlich und untersucht verschiedene prinzipielle Aufbauvarianten wie Schalen- oder Rippensysteme aus einer auf den konstruktiven Aufbau der Hulle bezogenen Perspektive.