The Metropolitan Museum of Art celebrates 150 years by presenting its evolution into one of the world's greatest museums and its vision for the future "'Making the Met'" is all about the ambitions and blind spots of an institution-and the changing schemes of meaning, value and interpretation that form an invisible frame around all the world's beauty."--Jason Farago, The New York Times (exhibition review) Published to celebrate the Museum's 150th anniversary, Making The Met examines the institution's evolution from an idea-that art can elevate anyone who has access to it-to one of the most beloved encyclopedic collections in the world. Focusing on key transformational moments, this richly illustrated book provides insight into events that led The Met in new directions, broadened its audience, and expanded its collection. Eleven chapters illuminate topics such as the impact of momentous acquisitions, the global cooperation that resulted from international excavations, the Museum's association with the "Monuments Men" and its role in preserving cultural heritage during and after the Second World War, and The Met's interaction with modern and contemporary art and artists. Illustrations include rarely seen archival and behind-the-scenes images, in addition to more than 200 key works that changed the way we look at art. The final chapter considers contemporary philosophies for collecting art from around the globe, strategies for reaching new and diverse audiences, and the role of museums today. Published by The Metropolitan Museum of Art/Distributed by Yale University Press Exhibition Schedule: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York (March 30-August 2, 2020)

Eine Auseinandersetzung mit dem ersten realisierten Bau der aus dem Irak stammenden, in London lebenden und an der AA lehrenden Architektin Zaha Hadid, dem Feuerwehrhaus auf dem Vitra-Firmengelande in Weil am Rhein: Essay, Fotos, Modelle, Collagen. Entscheidend die Einsicht, dass ein Werk der Architektur, das sich den architektonischen Konventionen entzieht, nicht mit denselben Mitteln wahrgenommen und beschrieben werden kann, wie sie uns von der Wahrnehmung und Beschreibung traditioneller Architektur vertraut sind

European military Architecture before the Introduction of Firearms. Specialized and systematic dictionary.

Public Toilet Design presents a selection of 130 very diverse public toilet designs - 50 of them installed over the last two years - in which toilets enjoy special status as a vehicle for various artistic and cultural expressions, corporate values and the needs of different social groups. The book covers: History and evolution of the public toilet. Places of leisure: e.g., restaurants, bars, clubs, malls, gyms, theatres, museums, stadiums. Commuting spaces: e.g., airports, railway stations, boats, rest areas. Public residences: e.g., hotels, spas, geriatric residences. Working Environments: e.g., banks, offices, public administrations. Materials and accessories used. Ergonomics: adaptations for users, including the elderly, handicapped, nappy-changing stations. Locations from around the world are featured, including restaurants, bars, malls, schools, museums, hotels, gyms, cinemas, boutiques, businesses, stadiums, airports, railway stations, street lavatories and park toilets. Among the 50 new designs - and don't miss the transparent 'Don't Miss a Sec' sidewalk toilet - are the following: Central Library Rotterdam, The Netherlands; SIDE Hotel, Hamburg, Germany; Rain Restaurant, Toronto, Canada; Roman Tabernae at the Trajan's Forum, Rome; Rizhao Public Bathroom, Rizhao, China; Mid-City Gym, New York City; Public Toilets at the Port of Dubrovnik, Croatia; Yoga Deva, Gilbert, Arizona; Kros Urinal, London, UK; Restrooms of the New Hotel, Athens, Greece. More than 600 full-colour photographs illustrate the designs in detail and each project is accompanied by descriptive text in five languages. Plans and detailed descriptions show the transformation of the public toilet during its planning, development and construction stages. Designers, architects, students and the purely inquisitive will find Public Toilet Design fascinating and informative.

From Fayetteville, Little Rock, and Hot Springs to Jonesboro, El Dorado, Arkadelphia, Texarkana, and scores of places in between, the latest volume in the Buildings of the United States series provides the most comprehensive, authoritative, and up-to-date guide to the architecture of Arkansas. The result of a lifetime's research and fieldwork by the esteemed historian and preservationist Cyrus A. Sutherland, this book captures the range and richness of the state's buildings and landscapes, whose stories can prove as fascinating and gripping as a novel's plotline. Nearly 500 building entries, accompanied by more than 200 illustrations and 24 maps, encompass the state's major regions-the Ozark Plateau, the Arkansas River Valley, the Ouachita Mountains, the West Gulf Coastal Plain, and the Mississippi Alluvial Plain (commonly known as the Delta). The places canvassed include everything from works by Arkansas natives E. Fay Jones and Edward Durell Stone to Sam Walton's Five-and-Ten and Alice Walton's Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art to Bill Clinton's birthplace and presidential library. The volume highlights the role and resilience of mountain, valley, and Mississippi River communities; surveys significant state and national parks; and traces the lively history of such resorts as Hot Springs and Eureka Springs. Along the way, it offers compelling accounts of sites from the well to the lesser known-the magnificent Toltec Mounds near Scott, the New Deal-era Dyess Colony, Tyronza's Southern Tenant Farmers Museum, the Rohwer Relocation Center and McGehee Japanese American Internment Museum, Central High School in Little Rock-and considers modern buildings that herald a renaissance in the state's cultural, economic, and political history.

Modeme Baukonstruktionen erfordern ein sorgfaltiges Planen, Konstruieren und Ausfuh ren. Dazu sind solide Kenntnisse der Baustatik notig. Dies gilt nicht nur fur den Konstrukteur und Statiker, sondern auch fur den Planenden im Architekturburo und den Bauleiter auf der Baustelle. Bei der Planung, Konstruktion und Ausfuhrung eines Bauwerkes ist nicht nur seine Funk tion ausschlaggebend. Um Bauschaden zu vermeiden, mussen die Baustoffe entsprechend ihren Eigenschaften eingesetzt werden; die Bauteile sind unter Beachtung ihrer statischen Bedeutung zu konstruieren und die jeweils neuesten Erkenntnisse der Bauphysik zu berucksichtigen. Das vorliegende zweiteilige Werk vermittelt die wichtigen einfachen statischen Gesetze und deren Anwendung im Rahmen einer technischen Allgemeinbildung; es dient nicht der Ausbildung spezialisierter Statiker. Manche Probleme werden daher bewusst vereinfacht und dem Zweck des Buches entsprechend besonders praxisnah dargestellt. Viele durchgerechne te Beispiele erlautern und vertiefen die Darstellung; eine sehr grosse Zahl von Ubungsaufga ben, deren Losungen am Bandende gebracht werden, soll zur sicheren Handhabung und breiten Anwendung des Stoffes befahigen. Die beiden Bande werden daher vielen in der Bautechnik Tatigen eine Hilfe bei der Losung ublicher statischer Probleme sein; sie sind zum Selbststudium geeignet. Teil 1 "Grundlagen" geht auf die wichtigsten Probleme der einfachen Statik ein. Ohne komplizierte theoretische Ableitungen werden die Formeln entWickelt und dargestellt, die zur Bestimmung der ausseren und inneren Krafte in den Bauteilen erforderlich sind. Besondere mathematische Kenntnisse werden nicht vorausgesetzt. Teil 2 "Festigkeitslehre" erklart die Beanspruchung der Bauteile und die Bemessung von Konstruktionsteilen aus Holz, Mauerwerk, Beton und Stahl sowie die Bodenpressung."

The captivating tale of the plans and personalities behind one of New York City's most radical and recognizable buildings Considered the crowning achievement of Frank Lloyd Wright (1867-1959), the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in Manhattan is often called iconic. But it is in fact iconoclastic, standing in stark contrast to the surrounding metropolis and setting a new standard for the postwar art museum. Commissioned to design the building in 1943 by the museum's founding curator, Baroness Hilla von Rebay, Wright established residence in the Plaza Hotel in order to oversee the project. Over the next 17 years, Wright continuously clashed with his clients over the cost and the design, a conflict that extended to the city of New York and its cultural establishment. Against all odds, Wright held fast to his radical design concept of an inverted ziggurat and spiraling ramp, built with a continuous beam-a shape recalling the form of an hourglass. Construction was only completed in 1959, six months after Wright's death. The building's initial critical response ultimately gave way to near-universal admiration, as it came to be seen as an architectural masterpiece. This essential text, offering a behind-the-scenes story of the Guggenheim along with a careful reading of its architecture, is beautifully illustrated with more than 150 images, including plans, drawings, and rare photographs of the building under construction.

Not just a winner, but a major winner. And Fellbach won it by letting Zurich architect Ernst Gisel build its new town hall. And it is just the same as winning the lottery: it takes time for it to sink in and to be really pleased. Winning also means stress, especially if the player never really believed in his luck.

But why be pleased about a town hall, about a collection of official rooms, intended only to make administering the individual citizen even smoother? Can a town hall be anything at all more than a home for all the official panoply of tit-for-tat responses? It can indeed, if you make it into a piece of the town, a good piece of the town ....

Ernst Gisel's town hall for Fellbach is one of the very few buildings that make one enthuse about the town. Like Stirling's Neue Staatsgalerie it invites you to linger -- even without a reason: in the Stuttgart museum you are attracted by terraces, ramps and an open rotunda, whereas in the Feltbach building there is a sense of a strong suction that will draw the public into the inner courtyard of the complex. "A bit Italian" -- this is what Gisel himself says about the atmosphere there, and he is right.

The urban quality of the new town hall corresponds with the quality of the detailed architectural solutions and the care with which Gisel devoted himself to the architectural design in the interior.

Art in the building? There is that too. Gisel himself designed the fountain for the market-place facade: architecture on a small scale, a game with volumes through which the water slowly runs. In the inner courtyard, in the town hall square, is a Survival Head by Zurich sculptor Otto Mailer -- a sober monument that corresponds precisely with the confident but modest character of the building.

The new town hall is a fairly perfect piece of architecture and urban art: reticent as a whole, monumental in detail, like for example the solitaire structure in the inner courtyard.

Restrooms are inescapably important amenities, but something of a grey zone when it comes to design. In a massive effort to make them inconspicuous, public restrooms have been standardised, buried in underground bunkers, hidden behind walls and unmarked doors. At times, it seems our embarrassment with their very existence has led to an inability to provide sound sanitation. This book presents a selection of over forty very diverse public restroom designs, in which toilets enjoy special status as a vehicle for various artistic and cultural expressions, corporate values and the needs of different social groups. Four experts from different backgrounds and countries have been invited to write on sensitive issues in public restroom design. More than 500 full-colour photographs, plans and detailed descriptions illustrate the designs in detail and provide fascinating information to architects, interior designers, students, and so on.

The magnificent building on Vienna's Ringstrasse which was opened in 1891 is at once one of the most important examples of museum architecture in Europe and an outstanding document of the Habsburg dynasty's imperial self-representation. This new monograph on the history, architecture and decoration of Kunsthistorisches Museum presents the building's wealth of painted, sculptural and architectonic decoration vividly and with methodic attention to detail. The work includes a brief review of the historical development of museums, construction of the Ringstrasse from 1857, and plans for the Kaiserforum or Imperial Forum. It is also recounts the story of the stormy relationship between the architects Gottfried Semper and Carl von Hasenauer in their quest for a common artistic statement. Extraordinary and, in large part, new photographic material makes the book an excellent practical guide and equally allows the armchair visitor to experience the museum in all its splendour.

Dementia-friendly architecture encompasses a host of possibilities that are particularly relevant in hospital design. Implemented in an aesthetically pleasing and non-stigmatising manner, such architecture can benefit anyone during a hospital stay: it produces an environment that is easy to read, generates a sense of security, and promotes well-being and recovery. This manual begins by summarising the current state of research on architecture for individuals with dementia in acute care hospitals. Based on their years of experience in the field, authors Kathrin Buter and Gesine Marquardt then present approaches to creating tailored solutions. They outline general design principles while considering practical examples, and cover key topics such as safety, atmosphere, and orientation systems in detail. Every hospital building requires a concept that dovetails the spatial, social, personal, cultural, organisational, and financial frameworks. This guide is therefore a concise and straightforward introduction for all stakeholders in modern hospitals: from managers and developers to architects and designers. It provides inspiration for creative and interdisciplinary planning processes in an increasingly crucial area of the health sector.