More than a decade pursuing Boris Podrecca at the University of Stuttgart with his assistant team and generations of students a gigantic research project, which will now be presented in the first volume of this almanac of the classics. The bibliophile book presents 100 outstanding buildings from antiquity to the present day, including a number of examples of anonymous architecture. It joins the objects are not in chronological order but according to content types as "central area", "Directed space", "core and shell", "frame", "Organ Illustrative Form". This put the buildings in new and exciting relationships: the Great Mosque of Cordoba and Atrium House by Jorn Utzon settlement are structurally related in this view. Exceptional analytical drawings, accompanied by photos and short texts in German and English, open up the classics of the building as a journey to the center of the architecture.

The Zacherlhaus is located in the heart of Vienna, just 180 meters from St. Stephen's Cathedral, and is one of the most important buildings created by the Otto Wagner School. It was built in the years from 1900 to 1913 and designed for its owner Johann Zacherl by Joesef Plecnik, who later taught at the Academy of Fine Arts in Prague and from 1925 worked on the urban renewal of Ljubljana. It was the first combined residential and commercial building of modern style in the historic inner city and is one of the best known buildings in Vienna. This generously illustrated, authentic publication documents the building and its thorough renovation, which will be completed in 2015; it includes contributions by experts on European architecture of the 20th century.