Analytical thinking and holistic concepts Low-tech buildings with strong architectural identities Selected works from 25 years of international architectural practice HOLODECK architects work on a wide variety of projects, from urban development to exhibitions. Their impressive body of work is proof that sophisticated architecture need not ignore ecological and social issues. The latter are consciously reflected from concept to realization. For example, HOLODECK have developed strategic solutions as alternatives to single-family homes, apply a sensitive approach to existing structures, and design buildings that make consistent use of natural conditions such as passive solar energy, airflow, cross-ventilation, and natural lighting. This volume also reinterprets the typical architecture book. It consists of two separate yet connected parts; the first presents sketches, plans, studies and models, while the second features texts and lavish photo series.

It was perhaps no surprise that Jacques Ferrier was personally selected by French President Nicolas Sarkozy to design the country's pavilion for the Shanghai World Expo in 2010. It was to become, along with Thomas Heatherwick's `Seed Cathedral', one of the most lauded and visited pavilions of the fair, and embodied the key characteristics of Ferrier's work: a deep interest in technology; the encouragement of social interaction through the use of courtyards, walkways and loggias; and the use of a perforated outer skin that not only responds to the need for internal climatic control but also provides an additional space for informal social gathering while softening the transition from the building's internal space to the outside world. Influenced by the critic Rayner Banham, by the work of French architect-engineer Jean Prouve, and by his early experience of working with Norman Foster, Jacques Ferrier has developed a highly individual approach to architecture that seeks to harness technology in order to create buildings and urban environments that fully engage with the practical and emotional needs of people. Central to Ferrier's philosophy is the idea of the `Sensual City', which aims to create buildings and cities that engage with the five senses - sound, smell, sight, touch and taste - that are central to human experience. Ferrier is the antithesis of the celebrity `starchitect', but his work stands out precisely because of its calm thoughtfulness, sensitivity and precision.

Pierre-Emile Legrain (1889-1929) was a French bookbinder, framer, landscape designer, furniture designer, and interior architect. This is the first full-length monograph about him, exploring his life and his creations in every genre, and highlighting the formal links between his work as an ensemblier, bookbinder, and draftsman. Pierre Legrain is credited with revolutionising bookbinding in the early 20th century. In 1916 he was commissioned by the French bibliophile, couturier, and collector Jacques Doucet to design bindings for his extensive library. He created nearly 400 unique bindings for him, and numerous frames for Doucet's exceptional modern art collection - including a steel frame for Les Demoiselles d'Avignon - as well as a series of African-inspired furniture. He was a member of the UAM, whose logo he designed, and he associated with Andre Breton, Paul Eluard, Jean Cocteau, the sculptors Gustave Miklos and Henri Laurens, the painter Francis Picabia, and the milliner Jeanne Tachard for whom he designed a garden. His rare body of work - a hundred or so pieces of furniture and a few interiors - is dispersed today in museums and private collections throughout the world. Text in French.

For around two decades, the architectural duo of Niklaus Graber & Christoph Steiger from Lucerne have been continuously working on the design and construction of high quality buildings that can without doubt be regarded as an enrichment to Swiss building culture. Although the architects attempt to make their works generally understandable and give them a timeless legibility, when designing them they take the risk of fundamentally questioning the relevant task. That often leads to surprising interpretations and tailored solutions that reveal the specific characteristics of each project. By now, their work includes private family homes and apartment buildings, as well as a considerable number of public buildings for educational, cultural, industrial and tourist purposes, which have attracted a great deal of attention on the specialist scene both in Switzerland and abroad. For instance the extension to a window factory in Hagendorn, the therapy centre for the Heilpadagogische Zentrum Uri and the panorama gallery on the peak of Mt. Pilatus have been awarded national and international architecture prizes. Text in German, with English translation booklet enclosed.

Valerio Olgiati has worked as an architect in Los Angeles, Zurich, and, since 2008, in Flims. He has been a visiting professor at the Eidgenossische Technische Hochschule (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology) in Zurich, the AA in London, and at Cornell University in Ithaca, New York. Since 2002 he has been professor at the Accademia di architettura in Mendrisio and since autumn 2009 he has held the Kenzo Tange Chair at Harvard. The unmistakable straight lines and independence of his buildings has brought him international attention. The Olgiati s family estate is located in the historical town center of Flims. Rudolf Olgiati (1910 95) purchased the property, known as Dado, in 1930 and throughout his life used it to realize his architectural thoughts and ideas. Today, the son is living in his father s house, and in 2008 he set up his much-admired architectural firm on the former site of the barn. This publication portrays the life and work of both architects using the example of the house and studio that is, through the transformations they have undergone at the hands of their residents over a period of nearly eighty years. It shows personal furniture and objects, the individual layout and design of the spaces, and hence the penchants and attitudes of the two architects. At the same time this unusual portrait documents not only the relationship between father and son but also the characters of two generations and their understanding of architecture and aesthetics. Valerio Olgiati arbeitete als Architekt in Los Angeles, Zurich und seit 2008 in Flims. Er unterrichtete als Gastprofessor an der ETH Zurich, der AA London und der Cornell University, New York. Seit 2002 ist er Professor der Accademia die architettura in Mendrisio, ab Herbst 2009 fuhrt er in Harvard den Kenzo Tange Chair. Seine Bauten finden aufgrund ihrer unverwechselbaren Geradlinigkeit und Eigenstandigkeit inzwischen internationale Aufmerksamkeit. Im alten Ortskern von Flims liegt das Grundstuck der Familie Olgiati. Rudolf Olgiati (1910-1995) hat das Anwesen Dado" 1930 erworben und an ihm Zeit seines Lebens seine architektonischen Gedanken und Ideen verwirklicht. Im Haus seines Vaters wohnt heute der Sohn, der anstelle des ehemaligen Stalls 2008 sein viel beachtetes Architekturburo errichtete. Die Publikation portratiert das Leben und Wirken der beiden Architekten am Beispiel von Wohnhaus und Atelier, also anhand der Wandlungen, die es durch seine Bewohner in nahezu achtzig Jahren erfahren hat. Es zeigt personliche Mobel und Objekte, die individuelle Raumbelegung und Gestaltung und damit die Vorlieben und Haltungen der beiden Architekten. Zugleich dokumentiert dieses aussergewohnliche Portrat nicht nur das Verhaltnis zwischen Vater und Sohn, sondern auch die Pragungen zweier Generationen und ihr architektonisches und asthetisches Selbstverstandnis."

This well-illustrated book on the leading international design and architecture firm Aedas features 24 domestic and five overseas projects, primarily in China. Accompanied by texts that explore multiple aspects of Aedas' design philosophy, it showcases their global platform for research, idea exchange, and creative excellence. The discussions here range widely over issues that are central to the Aedas design ethos, including the local influence of urban culture, the relationship between urban geography and location, the integrated coordination of industrialisation and urbanisation with human-centered planning, the sustainable development of optimised planning based on traffic conditions, and the survival and development of local characteristics and culture. Their aim is to facilitate the growth of urbanisation and to provide new, sustainable, and innovative solutions to contemporary building and design issues. This book will resonate with professional readers engaged in architectural design practice, urban planning managers, and those interested in urban architectural culture. Text in English and Chinese.

The meticulously, carefully and solidly developed work by the London architects Daniel Rosbottom and David Howarth has continuously grown since 2000. Recent important buildings include the concert hall in Bodo (Norway), which has an outstandingly elegant and festive character, and the housing for the elderly in Aarschot, Belgium, which is intelligently integrated into the small-town structure. Text in English and German.

An attractive volume presenting 14 of the renowned Canadian architectural firm's most prominent projects. A good half or more of the book is devoted to excellent color and b&w photographs and diagrams of the projects, most of which are situated in Ontario, Canada. The address of the press: Technical

The twin sisters Selma Mikou and Salwa Mikou founded their own Paris office in 2006 - after working for many years for Jean Nouvel and Renzo Piano. Each project primarily aims to liberate itself from preconceived forms in order to create original solutions that focus on the dimension of an emotional spatial experience. The architects have produced numerous prominent buildings in this way, including the Balsaneo Aquatics Center in Chateauroux (2021), which was developed as a dynamic figure that spans the boulevard like a bridge to overlook the unique landscape of the Indre region. Text in English and German.

The diverse works of architect Nicholas Hawksmoor (?1661-1736) ranged from small architectural details to ambitious urban plans, from new parish churches to work on the monument of his age, St. Paul's Cathedral. As a young man Hawksmoor assisted Christopher Wren and John Vanbrugh, emerging from these formidable apprenticeships to design some of the most vigorous and dramatic buildings in England. In this engaging book, architectural historian Vaughan Hart presents a fresh view of Hawksmoor's built and planned work. In addition, Hart offers the first coherent explanation of Hawksmoor's theory of architecture.
The book explains why Hawksmoor's buildings look the way they do, what contemporary events influenced his work, and how such ancient buildings as Solomon's temple and Mausolus's tomb inspired him. Underscoring the unique qualities of the architect's accomplishments and aspirations, Hart establishes with new clarity Hawksmoor's vital role in the development of English architecture.

The work of award-winning Chinese architecture firm Atelier Archmixing bridges the gap between design and research. This book is an in-depth, theoretical work with 11 articles, a commentary by Professor Wang Junyang and interviews with Professor Ge Ming and Professor Lu Andong. The articles featured here are from design research papers published continuously in domestic and overseas professional periodicals on Atelier Archmixing from 2012 to 2018. Although these papers were written at different times, they share echoing concerns, showcasing Archmixing's design ethos with a wide range of topics covered in a systematic theoretical framework. Text in English and Chinese.

Vorwort Hans Schmidt wurde am 1 0. Dezember 1893 in Basel geboren und starb am 18. Juni 1972 wahrend einer Tagung des BSA in Soglio. Zum Anlass seines 1 00. Geburtstages im Jahre 1993 wird das Werk von Hans Schmidt von den verschiedensten Seiten her bearbeitet und gewurdigt. Dass sich die vorliegende Untersuchung auf die stadtebaulichen Theo rien von Hans Schmidt konzentriert, ist einmal aus meinem eigenen lehr gebiet des Stadtebaus erklarlich. Vor allem aber ist Hans Schmidt fur mich derjenige unter den Architekten der Moderne, der sich am konsequentesten mit den stadtebaulichen Theorien auseinandergesetzt undzeitseines Lebens mit einer unbeirrbaren Uberzeugung nach den wesentlichen Grundlagen des Stadtebaus geforscht hat. Fur ihn gab es keine Trennung zwischen sei ner politischen, philosophischen Auffassung und seiner Tatigkeit als Stadt planer, eines bedingte unmittelbar das andere. Mit Hans Schmidt verbinden mich mehrere personliche und fachliche Begebenheiten. Da er ein Freund meines Vaters Fritz Huber war, bin ich Hans Schmidt und seiner Familie schon als Kind ofters begegnet und seine Zeichnungen von Raubergeschichten schmuckten mein Kinderzimmer. Als Architekt unseres Vaterhauses in Riehen hat Hans Schmidt die Architektur und Raumerfahrungen meiner Kindheit massgebend gepragt. ln meiner Stu dienzeit wurde eine Renovation an unserem Hause notwendig; Hans Schmidt hat mich bei der Durchfuhrung dieser Arbeiten hilfreich beraten und dabei mit mir allgemeine Fragen der Architektur diskutiert."

Since its establishment in 1996, Vienna-based firm driendl*architects have pursued their search for prototype solutions in furniture and building design, infrastructure, and urban planning. The notion that we are constantly situated in a built environment, or in any case influencing it in some way or another, is guiding all their projects and is reflected in this new book. Ritual / Original reviews driendl*architects' work in a striking literary-visual manner, analysing in theory and exemplified by selected designs the circumstances of their approach: How environment and users affect buildings, cities, infrastructures, and systems; the effect of the inevitable discrepancy between vision and reality; and architects' capacity to observe and react to social structures and phenomena.

There is no doubt at all that Gehry's Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao is one of the most spectacular buildings of recent years. As the central element in Bilbao's comprehensive urban renewal programme the building raised high expectations from the outset. Its site between river, railway, bridge and new town makes it a symbol of the Basque metropolis that can be seen from a considerable distance. It is both the heart of the city and a test bed for the arts, representing both public presence and artistic change. The process by which it was created demonstrates the most recent advances in computer aided design and in material manufacture. For a long time design and building were broken down into a large number of individual components, Gehry's museum unifies this process and is thus able to create fluent links between architectural detail and urban impact. But the innovations do not stop at technology, they also extend to the way in which the interior spaces are shaped. These are extremely varied in form, as the museum is not so much designed to house a permanent exhibition of the collection, but to enable artists to create installations. In contrast with the usual neutral gallery spaces, Gehry offers a whole variety of stages for artistic presentation. His artist friends have risen to the challenge of his architecture and are experimenting very successfully with this new way of showing their work to the public.

Modern skyscrapers are often inseparably associated with images of the cities that host them: the Eiffel Tower in Paris, the Gherkin in London, the Empire State Building in New York, and so on. And while skyscrapers emerge in large numbers, only the most beautiful of them become symbols of the city that hosts them. This book presents Vasily Klyukin's projects: towers and residential buildings that have not found their home yet, but some of them will be built in the future and become architectural symbols of our age.

Byoung Cho aims to make each of his buildings `so it looks like it's not designed at all, it's just there'. Influenced by Korea's rich aesthetic tradition, Cho utilizes understated forms to create serene buildings that yield powerful and subtle experiences for their inhabitants. His work focuses on seemingly simple structures and has a strong regard for nature and sustainability. He has created many iconic buildings, art and cultural centres, schools, health facilities and residences throughout Korea, Japan and the United States. This book features over 25 of Cho's most highly acclaimed projects, including Twin Trees (2010), his instantly iconic towers located adjacent to the 14th-century royal Gyeongbok Palace in Seoul. The projects are accompanied throughout by sketches and plans, providing a comprehensive insight into the making of these buildings. Byoung Cho offers an engaging and indepth overview of one of the most creative and deeply thoughtful designers working today. It will inspire architects, architectural students and anyone interested in sustainability and the built environment.

In 1969 and 1970, Louis I. Kahn (1901-1974)-one of America's greatest 20th-century architects-participated in a series of interviews with a young German architectural historian, Heinrich Klotz, then a visiting professor at Yale University, and John W. Cook, who was teaching architecture at the Yale Divinity School. Louis I. Kahn in Conversation provides the first full edited transcript of these candid, illuminating interviews, which provide remarkable insights into Kahn's philosophy of architecture. The conversations touch on many of his iconic works, including the unbuilt City Tower Project for Philadelphia, the Yale University Art Gallery, the First Unitarian Church in Rochester, and major international projects then under construction, as well as the Yale Center for British Art, Kahn's final building, on which he was beginning work at the time. Illustrated with dozens of plans, drawings, and photographs, the book also features an introduction by Jules David Prown, the first director of the Yale Center for British Art, who recommended Kahn as its architect. Distributed for the Yale Center for British Art, in association with Manuscripts and Archives, Sterling Memorial Library, Yale University and the Architectural Archives of the University of Pennsylvania

Therme Vals, the spa complex built in the Swiss Alps by celebrated architect Peter Zumthor, became an icon of contemporary architecture soon after its opening in 1996. Inspired by the spa s majestic surroundings, Zumthor built the structure on the sharp grade of an Alpine mountain slope with grass-topped roofs to mimic Swiss meadows, captured here in a series of sumptuous images. "Peter Zumthor Therme Vals," the only book-length study of this singular building, features the architect s own original sketches and plans for its design as well as Helene Binet s striking photographs of the structure. Architectural scholar Sigrid Hauser contributes an essay on such topics as Artemis/Diana, Baptism, Mikvah, and Spring drawing out the connections between the elemental nature of the spa and mythology, bathing, and purity. Annotations by Peter Zumthor on his design concept and the building process elucidate the structure s symbiotic relationship to its natural surroundings, revealing, for example, why he insisted on using locally quarried stone. Therme Vals s scenic design elements, and Zumthor s contributions to this book, reflect the architect s commitment to the essential and his disdain for needless architectural flourishes. This lavishly illustrated volume about the spa that catapulted a remote Swiss village onto the international architecture scene will entrance all enthusiasts of contemporary design."

The Olympiapark in Munich is one of the most famous projects of the landscape architect Gunther Grzimek (1915-1996), yet his entire oeuvre has proved to be pioneering and timeless. He advocated for a new form of urban green space in Germany, a "demokratisches Grun" (democratic green space), while also campaigning for practice-oriented training in landscape architecture. Grzimek's biography offers a wellspring of new discoveries. It traverses the history of modern Germany and encompasses his collaborations with famous architects, town planners, and designers - including Otl Aicher, who developed the basic outline of this volume together with Grzimek in the 1980s. Featuring plans, images, texts, and excerpts from Grzimek's own writings, this comprehensive new book offers a vivid and in-depth encounter with this major innovator and illustrates the lively history of landscape architecture in Germany from the 1930s in Berlin to the 1990s in Munich.