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Books > Arts & Architecture > Architecture > Individual architects
Since 1987, Eileen Joy Liebman and Fernando Villavecchia have
produced a series of diverse projects from their studio in
Barcelona, Spain, with an emphasis on residential architecture and
the renovation of historic buildings in a range of rural and urban
contexts. Over the years, they have gradually developed an oeuvre
with a special "reserve" and with particular and measured attention
to spatial expression. Projects include the careful restoration and
adaptation of the 1958 Casa Coderch Mila in Cadaques (2017) and the
Casa Sant Llorenc (2014) in the mountains of Lerida. Text in
English and German.
Built and designed by Ludwig Mies van der Rohe 1928-1930, the
Tugendhat House in Brno / Czech Republic is one of the most
significant buildings of European modernism. In 2001, UNESCO added
the house to the List of World Cultural Heritage Sites. In this
third, updated edition, the authors give personal and historic
insights relating to the house; also documenting aspects pertaining
to art history and conservation-science studies. The comprehensive
description and in-depth discussion of the materials used is a
special feature in this field of research. The appeal of this
monograph lies in the publication of photographs from the family
archive which, for the first time, show the house in its lived-in
condition. The experimental artistic color photographs by Fritz
Tugendhat are among the pioneering achievements of amateur
photography.
After its careful renovation, the ballroom at Hasenheide 13 will
serve as an exhibition venue for the Wemhoener Collection from 2022
onwards. Reason enough to review the eventful and lively history of
the site in order to respectfully continue its history as a meeting
place: a history that already began before the construction of the
ballroom at the end of the 19th century and in a certain way also
exemplarily reflects the development of Berlin over the past 150
years. This publication invites you to follow Lothar Uebel's
research and embark on a voyage of discovery that tells of
fascinating episodes of an institution that deserves to continue to
be a witness to Berlin's constantly changing face.
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.
Against a backdrop of international intrigue and intense spiritual
warfare, architect Marga Jann takes us on a seat-gripping journey
through a quartet of academic assignments -- with much more at
stake than her professorial mission. Based at Cambridge, she
unwittingly finds herself embroiled in a dangerous and
diplomatically-sensitive battle between MI6/CIA operatives and
Saudi Intelligence--a narrative she daringly recounts in this first
part of a riveting trilogy. Most people are unaware of the
interconnected real and spiritual wars around us and therefore lack
the tools to attain true victory in seemingly random everyday
battles. In this unusually constructed, engrossing
semi-autobiographical novel, Jann highlights the power of prayer in
exposing and conquering the workings of darkness while sharing
important contemporary socio-cultural and geopolitical insights not
typically revealed in mainstream media.
Aufgrund des Wandels in unserer Gesellschaft wird es Veranderungen
in den Unternehmen geben, die auch vor den Planungsburos nicht
haltmachen. Dieser Wandel betrifft auch das Personalmanagement. Der
Autor gibt Tipps, wie man sich dabei in Zukunft aufstellen koennte.
Der Autor:Dr. Dietmar Goldammer ist Diplom-Kaufmann und
Unternehmensberater fur Architekten und Ingenieure. Er gibt als
Dozent Seminare zur Betriebswirtschaft fur Planer und ist
Fachbuchautor zahlreicher Publikationen zum Thema
Betriebswirtschaft. Er ist Vorstandsmitglied der Praxisinitiative
erfolgreiches Planungsburo (PeP) in Berlin.
J. Irwin Miller:The Shaping of An American Town tells the life
story of this remarkable man who led Cummins Engine Company from
its roots as a small, family business to an international Fortune
500 company and transformed Columbus, Indiana, into a gem of
midcentury modern architecture. As president and then chairman of
Cummins, Miller emphasized a corporation's responsibility to the
community in which it was located and its other stakeholders.
Miller's commitment to Columbus architecture inspired such legends
as I. M. Pei, Eliel and Eero Saarinen, Kevin Roche, and others to
contribute their designs to what has become one of the most
artistically revolutionary towns in the country. Columbus's unique
public art and architecture continue to inspire young architects
and attract visitors from around the world. Miller has also played
a significant role in the American civil rights movement, securing
cosponsorship for the March on Washington and working with
presidents John F. Kennedy and Lyndon Johnson to help pass the
Civil Rights Act. Martin Luther King Jr., once called Miller "the
most socially responsible businessman in the country."
Quirino De Giorgio (1907-1997) is among the few Italian architects
whose careers represents the entirety of the twentieth century:
from futurism through fascism to the experimentations linked to the
invention of reinforced concrete. Too often remembered exclusively
for his early futurist and fascist works, De Giorgio is an
architect whose production continued, until his last years, to
develop in the experimental and dynamic way which had characterised
its beginnings. Quirino De Giorgio: An Architect's Legacy, the
first English-language book dedicated to the Italian architect, is
a constellation of his surviving buildings shown through the eyes
of photographer Enrico Rizzato. In Rizzato's pictures, each one of
the ninety surviving works will showcase the universality of De
Giorgio's projects and the transformations that time has stamped on
his creations, taking the reader on a voyage across the different
facets of Italian architecture. Accompanying site plans, floorplans
and sections provide deeper insight into De Giorgio's spatial,
structural, urban, and landscaping inventions. An opening essay
will introduce the reader to the still relatively unknown method
and life of this highly original yet still too little known
architect. The book also includes a full list of De Giorgio's works
that has been reconstructed here for the first time through
extensive archival work.
Since 2009, the two Basel architects Fabio Felippi and Thomas
Wyssen have completed several fine buildings and conversions. They
are precise structures that have been developed with extreme care
out of themes such as structural presentation, conscious tectonics,
typological clarity and a meticulous materialization that
alternates between coarse qualities and elaborate surface
treatment. Text in English and German.
Until now, Emil Jauch (1911-1962) has been a little-known
protagonist of Swiss post-war architecture. Shaped by the
Scandinavian Modernity of the 1930s, his buildings are
characterised by a remarkable sensitivity. This book demonstrates
the Lucerne architect's empathetic design method by presenting his
constructed school buildings. The publication describes the
architect's life and work in three chapters, recognising his
achievements in school building and classifying them within the
European context of a humanising functionalism.
Bilingual edition (English/German) / Zweisprachige Ausgabe
(deutsch/englisch) MigraTouriSpace is an artistic examination of
travelling as an approach to the phenomena of migration and
tourism, and of the many ways in which they overlap. Understanding
that when people travel they also take with them spaces and images
means that tourism no longer inevitably refers to the vacation as
an exceptional state. Brought back home, the tourist's gaze has
long operated to shape everyday life. For three years, artist
Stefanie Burkle and her interdisciplinary team travelled between
Berlin and South Korea, photographing and filming. The result of
this research is an atlas of images, with places such as the
Vietnamese wholesale market Dong Xuan Center in Berlin Lichtenberg
and the German Village, Dogil Maeul, in South Korea, that
demonstrates the tension between a migration of culturally coded
spatial contexts and post-touristic practices. With a preface by
Martina Loew
When Sidney J. Hare (1860–1938) and S. Herbert Hare (1888–1960)
launched their Kansas City firm in 1910, they founded what would
become the most influential landscape architecture and planning
practice in the Midwest. Over time, their work became increasingly
far-ranging, in both its geographical scope and its project types.
Between 1924 and 1955, Hare & Hare commissions included
fifty-four cemeteries in fifteen states; numerous city and state
parks (seventeen in Missouri alone); more than fifteen subdivisions
in Salt Lake City; the Denver neighborhood of Belcaro Park; the
picturesque grounds of the Christian Science Sanatorium in Chestnut
Hill, Massachusetts; and the University of Texas at Austin among
fifty-one college and university campuses. In Hare & Hare
Landscape Architects and City Planners Carol Grove and Cydney
Millstein document the extraordinary achievements of this
little-known firm and weave them into a narrative that spans from
the birth of the late nineteenth-century “modern cemetery
movement” to midcentury modernism. Through the figures of Sidney,
a “homespun” amateur geologist who built a rustic family
retreat called Harecliff, and his son Herbert, an urbane
Harvard-trained landscape architect who traveled Europe and lived
in a modern apartment building, Grove and Millstein chronicle the
growth of the field from its amorphous Victorian beginnings to its
coalescence as a profession during the first half of the twentieth
century. Hare & Hare provides a unique and valuable parallel to
studies of prominent East and West Coast landscape architecture
firms?one that expands the reader’s understanding of the history
of American landscape architecture practice.
"A pleasure to read." Architectural Review "A wonderful, nontechnical introduction to one of this century's most fascinating minds." Whole Earth Review "Original . . . [and] valuable, because it describes . . . Fuller's original techniques." Architectural Record. Architect, mathematician, engineer, inventor, visionary humanist, educator, inspirational orator, and bestselling author, R. Buckminster Fuller has been rightly called "the 20th-century Leonardo da Vinci." Written by a fellow inventor who worked with Fuller for more than three decades, BuckyWorks is an inspiring celebration of the man, his ideas, his inventions and his legacy for our future. Featuring over 200 photographs and drawings, plus dozens of fascinating excerpts from Fuller's lectures and conversations with the author, this book offers a breathtaking inside look at one of the truly great minds of our time. J. BALDWIN is an inventor and teacher who worked under, with, and for R. Buckminster Fuller for more than three decades. He served as an editor of the Whole Earth Catalog and the Whole Earth Review for 25 years.
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