Die Villa le Lac, die seit 2016 zum Weltkulturerbe zahlt, hat Le Corbusier 1925 am Genfer See fur seine Eltern projektiert und gebaut. Aufgrund seiner sparsamen Raumdisposition bezeichnete er es selbst als "Wohnmaschine". Bis heute ist es der moderne Prototyp des "kleinen Hauses" geblieben, das mit einem Minimum an Grundflache und ineinander ubergehenden Raumen alle Funktionen des Wohnens erfullt. Das Buch erscheint erstmals in drei getrennten Sprachausgaben und folgt der Originalausgabe, in der Le Corbusier die Geschichte des Gebaudes dokumentiert hat: mit Fotos, Skizzen und einem poetischen Text. Sie greift dabei aber auch auf die Originalfotografien zuruck und bietet so eine massgeblich verbesserte Abbildungsqualitat; zudem enthalt sie ein Nachwort der Architekturhistorikerin Guillemette Morel-Journel.

Shivdatt Sharma (b. 1931) is one of the most prolific Indian modernist architects. Starting out as an architect in the Chandigarh Capital Project Team led by Le Corbusier and Pierre Jeanneret, Sharma subsequently became Chief Architect of the Indian Space Research Organisation. He then went into private practice. Sharmas architecture is a distinct blend of the core principles of Modernism, interpreted through the lens of contemporary Indian realities. Modernism was adopted as both symbol and instrument of nation-building in Nehruvian India. Working alongside designers and artists, architects went to work building innumerable small townships, universities, public institutions, housing estates and infrastructural projects across the country. Progressive businesses also patronized Modernism as full participants in the project of nation-building. The Modernism in India Series documents the extensive heritage of Modernism and modern architecture in India. Bringing to light the work of a forgotten generation, this series documents work that is currently under threat by the forces of globalization. This well-illustrated book documents Sharmas work from the early days, when it was a part of the experimental and innovative ethos of Chandigarh, to the present. He has designed for a range of public and private clients across the world. Along with a portfolio of selected works, this book includes critical essays, interviews and a chronology of projects.

Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2009 im Fachbereich Medien / Kommunikation - Multimedia, Internet, neue Technologien, Note: 2,0, Fachhochschule Koln, Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Das Internet hat sich zu einem etablierten Medium entwickelt, das auch pri-vat einen immer grosseren Stellenwert erreicht. Mittlerweile nutzen weltweit rund 1,5 Milliarden Menschen das Internet (o.Verf. 2008b)]. Neben dem Bezug von Informationen ermoglichen Chats, Newsgroups oder Soziale Netzwerke die computervermittelte Kommunikation von Personen untereinander. Das Internet eroffnet neue Moglichkeiten zur Identitatsbildung, die ich im Rahmen dieser Arbeit erlautern werde. Im Netz sind virtuelle Identitaten weit verbreitet, denn hier stehen die Anonymitat sowie die Textbasiertheit des Mediums im Vordergrund und die Preisgabe von personlichen Daten ist jedem selbst uberlassen. Da der Begriff der Identitat in vielen Disziplinen der Wissenschaft eine wi-derspruchliche Verwendung findet, werde ich in dieser Hausarbeit nur auf die sozialen sowie psycho-sozialen Identitatskonzepte eingehen und die Entstehung von Identitat im virtuellen Raum erlautern. Es ist zu klaren, ob und in wie weit virtuelle Identitaten Auswirkungen auf reale Beziehungen haben und welche Chancen und Risiken sich dahinter verbergen. Wirkt die virtuelle Identitat auf die reale zuruck? Wenn ja, mit welchen Konsequenzen? Werden reale Beziehungen durch virtuelle Freundschaften ersetzt? Es ist notig, den Begriff der Identitat zunachst zu erlautern und zu definie-ren, bevor Antworten auf die gestellten Fragen gefunden werden konnen. Des Weiteren ist zu klaren, was die User dazu bewegt eine Scheinidentitat anzunehmen und in welchem Zusammenhang von einem Flow-Effekt ge-sprochen werden kann. Besteht die Gefahr von Online-Abhangigkeit und halten virtuelle Romanzen dem Wechsel ins reale Leben stand

UIRA e o projeto arquitetonico para uma Vila Olimpica orbital, a primeira do mundo, criada pelo arquiteto brasileiro Emanuel Dimas de Melo Pimenta. Em 2011 Pimenta lancou o projeto de arquitetura Kairos - para um edificio em orbita da Terra, considerado o primeiro projeto de arquitetura para um edificio no espaco sideral. Ainda em 2011, Emanuel Pimenta criou e dirigiu o primeiro curso de arquitetura espacial do Brasil, e o segundo do mundo, na Faculdade de Arquitetura e Urbanismo da Universidade de Sao Paulo. No inicio dos anos 1980, Emanuel Pimenta cunhou o conceito de arquitetura virtual, e iniciando em 1980 ele projetou o primeiro planeta virtual do mundo - Woiksed - antecipando o Second Life em mais de vinte anos. O livro UIRA contem os primeiros estudos do projeto, cerca de sessenta ilustracoes e uma introducao escrita pelo arquiteto Bruno Padovano, da Universidade de Sao Paulo.

Emanuel Dimas de Melo Pimenta (1957) comecou a trabalhar com projetos de arquitetura e urbanismo - muitos deles experimentais - ainda no inicio dos anos 1980, quando cunhou o conceito de "arquitetura virtual," como metodo de projeto, e lancou Woiksed: o primeiro planeta virtual do mundo, antecipando o Second Life em cerca de vinte anos. Entre 1980 e 2011, Emanuel Pimenta lancou varios projetos revolucionarios, como uma ilha flutuante para a cidade de Lisboa, um museu do tempo ao lado de um castelo medieval na Peninsula Iberica e, em 2011, lancou Kairos - o primeiro projeto de arquitetura para o espaco sideral, num edificio orbital. O livro "30 anos de arquitetura" apresenta sessenta dos seus projetos atraves de dezenas de ilustracoes e um texto sobre "arquitetura virtual." Premiado internacionalmente, Emanuel Pimenta revela nas suas obras uma intensa relacao com o pensamento de Richard Buckminster Fuller, Paolo Soleri entre outros.

Kairos e a historia do primeiro projeto de arquitetura - no seu sentido mais elevado - para um projeto espacial. Entre 2008 e 2011, o arquiteto e urbanista Emanuel Dimas de Melo Pimenta projetou um edificio para estar permanentemente em orbita da Terra. Para alem de um projeto de arquitetura, e ainda uma reflexao sobre a condicao humana, sobre a possibilidade do fim das guerras, do salto da Humanidade para o Universo e sobre uma metamorfose civilizacional. Mas tambem e um questionamento tecnico e tecnologico, e uma obra de arte. Com textos adicionais dos arquitetos Carlos Zibel e Bruno Padovano, do astrofisico Amancio Friaca, e um poema do artista hipermedia Artur Matuck - todos da USP Universidade de Sao Paulo, o livro de Emanuel Pimenta tambem conta a historia do desenho das estacoes espaciais, do seculo XIX aos dias de hoje, numa fabulosa viagem com o leitor.

At just over forty, David Adjaye is one of the world's most exciting and accomplished architects, and has built many highly acclaimed houses and public buildings in the UK and USA. Over a ten-year period, the Tanzanian born, London-based architect has visited 53 major African cities and photographed thousands of buildings, sites and places that few of us will ever be able to visit. This 7-volume slipcased edition documents Adjaye's tribute to African metropolitan architecture. The individual volumes present cities according to the terrain in which they are situated - the Maghreb, Desert, The Sahel, Savannah and Grassland, Mountain and Highveld, and Forest. Each city is shown in a concise urban history, fact file, maps and satellite imagery, along with Adjaye's personal travel notes and dozens of photographs of the city's civic, commercial and residential architecture. All six `terrain' volumes feature an introductory essay by Adjaye, and a separate volume is dedicated to essays by leading academics and commentators on Africa.

From imperial Russia to the Rome of the 1960s, the work of architect, painter and scenographer Andre Beloborodoff (1886-1965) expresses his unique vision of the history of modernity. An enlightened Palladian, Beloborodoff designed palaces, chateaux and villas for Cafe Society patrons using modern construction techniques, such as reinforced concrete. The interior design of the Yusupov palace in Saint Petersburg, the Caulaincourt chateau in Picardy, and the Villa Pepoli for Maurice Sandoz in Rome - built at the same time as Le Corbusier's Cite radieuse - are witnesses to his timeless, stripped-down and refined classicism. He won the Prix de Rome in 1934, and subsequently spent many years living and working in Italy. Many of his architectural ideals are found in his metaphysical and surrealist paintings and watercolors, highly praised by Paul Valery, Mario Praz, Henri de Regnier, and Jean-Louis Vaudoyer. His atmospheric vistas of sunken or vanished worlds recall the edifices that Beloborodoff, eternally rootless, was never able to build. Text in French.

Features eight contemporary urban infill housing projects from the Montreal design-build firm of Atelier.

Italo Rota was born in 1953 in Milan and graduated from the Milan Polytechnic Institute in 1982. In 1980, he and Gae Aulenti created the plans for the Musee d'Orsay and the Centre Beaubourg in Paris. In 1990, he initiated the planning for the Center for Postgraduate Studies at Columbia University. His return to Italy marked the beginning of a highly creative phase, including projects that ranged from museum installations, the "Maison Cavalli" (the showroom-cafes in Miami, Milan, and Moscow), to a series of public buildings in Italy and India. This book focuses on a recent decade of Rota's work and is aimed at professionals and lovers of architecture, fashion, and design.

A life story told in discrete, arresting snapshots of despair, resilience, creativity, and hope, Joe Andoe's literary portrait of his time to date on earth is as powerful as a heavyweight's hook and as spellbinding as a major crack-up on the opposite side of the highway. It is a testament to a young man's fortitude and genius and luck that enabled him to survive a life lived wildly out of control; a rocket ride from the sordid depths of self-destruction to the glorious pinnacles of . . . "Jubilee City."

Announcing A+D (Architecture and Design), a new series from the Art Institute of Chicago, which highlights the work of important architects and designers from around the world. Innovatively designed by the New York firm 2x4, the titles are either historical in nature or investigate current critical thinking and practice in architecture and design. This handsome book presents the oeuvre of Douglas Garofalo, principal of Garofalo Architects, internationally renowned for its innovative residential, commercial, institutional, and public building projects. With an impressive list of clients that includes the Art Institute of Chicago, the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, the Hyde Park Art Center, and the Smart Museum of Art at the University of Chicago, the firm has also designed a number of private residences and played a significant role in Chicago's urban design and public planning. Douglas Garofalo looks at the architect's work to date, drawing from the full spectrum of his built work, theoretical and visionary projects (including the Camouflage House outside Chicago ), and competition entries (including those for the Chicago Housing Authority and the Chicago Public Schools). Illustrations of and informative entries on the drawings, models, and digital media that showcase this work are featured. Distributed for the Art Institute of Chicago Exhibition Schedule: The Art Institute of Chicago (June 15 - October 8, 2006)

Famous color woodcut printmaker Gustave Baumann was a superb wood-carver who was captivated by puppet theater. In the 1930s Baumann carved a collection of marionettes for plays he wrote about New Mexico's cultural heritage. Featuring twenty-five marionettes photographed from the permanent collection of the New Mexico Museum of Art, this entertaining book tells the story of Baumann's theater, describing in detail the plays, sets, and costuming, and highlights the extraordinary wood-carving artistry of this master.

Founded in 2004 and based in Shanghai and London, neri & hu design and research office works internationally providing architecture, interior, master planning, graphic, and product design services. They work on projects in many countries with a multi-cultural staff. This diversity emphasises the firm's vision to respond to a global worldview incorporating overlapping design disciplines. This first ever book on neri & hu design and research office documents a selection of their work in architecture and product design. With a lavishly illustrated beautiful design concept, it is structured in three sections: Buildings features seven renovation projects in Shanghai, complete refurbishments as well as interior redesigns. Products presents four designs for household goods and furniture. Projects documents ongoing and unrealized architectural work in Florida, London, Shanghai, and Kuala Lumpur. An introduction and a topical essay on renovation as well as an overview of neri & hu design and research office's projects to date round out the book. Lyndon Neri studied architecture at University of California, Berkeley, and Harvard Graduate School of Design. Before founding his own firm with Rossana Hu he has been working for more than ten years with Princeton-based Michael Graves & Associates and various architectural firms in New York. Rossana Hu studied architecture and music at University of California, Berkeley, and Princeton University. She worked with Michael Graves & Associates and Ralph Lerner Architect in Princeton; Skidmore, Owings & Merrill in New York; and The Architects Collaborative (TAC) in San Francisco before founding neri & hu design and research office.

Text in English and German. The distinguished architect and Pritzker laureate Richard Meier has attracted public attention mainly with his museum and cultural buildings including the Atheneum in New Harmony, Indiana, the Museum fur Angewandte Kunst in Frankfurt, the High Museum of Art in Atlanta, the Getty Center in Los Angeles, the Stadthaus in Ulm and the Museu d'Art Contemporani de Barcelona. The book accompanies the exhibition of the same name at the Museum for Applied Arts in Frankfurt, which has recently been relaunched with differently conceived museum facilities and new service areas; these are addressed in detail in an appendix to the book.

Ton Matton - Stadtplaner, Indie-Urbanist, bekennender Fan des performativen Urbanimus, Zweifelnder, Briefeschreiber. Zu Beginn seiner Karriere als Stadtplaner schrieb Matton Briefe, in denen er sich mit nachhaltiger Stadtplanung befasste (damals fur Stadtplaner*innen ein noch ganz neues Arbeitsfeld): an einen Minister, um ihm klarzumachen, dass eine Siedlung nur ein Kompromiss ist und kein Ersatz fur ein Leben in der Stadt oder auf dem Land. An eine Bundeskanzlerin, um sie daran zu erinnern, dass man aus Wind- und Sonnenenergie gewonnenen Strom in elektrischen Zahnbursten und Handyakkus speichern sollte. Seitdem sind viele weitere Briefe entstanden - an Politiker*innen, Projektentwickler*innen und andere mehr oder weniger prominente Personen. Was in ihnen zum Ausdruck kommt, ist Mattons leidenschaftlicher Spass am Zweifeln. Mit viel Humor und gewohnt provokativ fordert er seine Adressat*innen zum Umdenken auf und ladt damit wieder einmal auch die Leser*innen dazu ein, Eigeninitiative zu ergreifen.