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pragmatisch und poetisch / pragmatic and poetic

The book is a documentation of the Architectural Prize of the State of Styria, which is well known beyond Austria's borders. The prize is awarded every two years in cooperation with the respected Haus der Architektur in Graz. The...

34,95 € *

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Wachsende Architektur

A growing, living house, a building made of a plant seems to be a contradiction in terms. Nevertheless, the Khasi in eastern India already knew how to connect the branches of rubber trees to form footbridges, and in southern Germany...

52,00 € *

Diagonale Strategien

The internationally acclaimed architecture office Berger+Parkkinen Architects was founded by Alfred Berger and Tiina Parkkinen in 1995 with offices in Vienna and Helsinki. It has realized a broad typological spectrum of buildings and...

29,95 € *

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Passivhaus-Bauteilkatalog: Neubau / Details for...

As a collection of ecological evaluations and key building physics data, the Details for Passive Houses is a classic in every design library and the underlying reference work for the book entitled Details for Passive Houses: Renovation....

99,95 € *

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Inspirationen

Jeder Garten ist ein imaginiertes Paradies - ein Gartenparadies, das die Persönlichkeit desjenigen Menschen, der es angelegt hat, in sich trägt, aber auch die lange Geschichte der Gartenkultur. Das Buch erzählt die Geschichte der Gärten...

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Embodied Light

Situated at the foothills of the Andes, overlooking the city of Santiago, Chile, the Bahá í Temple of South America will be opened in fall 2016. The Bahá í House of Worship is the most recent of the continental temples. It welcomes...

49,95 € *

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Building from Waste

"Reduce, Reuse, Recycle, and Recover" is the sustainable guideline that has replaced the "Take, Make, Waste" attitude of the industrial age. Based on their background at the ETH Zurich and the Future Cities Laboratory in Singapore, the...

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Architektur planen

In formulating a design concept into a viable plan, architects oscillate constantly between two planes of observation: the actual design task in the context of planning typologies such as residential buildings, office buildings, museum,...

69,95 € *

Modern Construction Case Studies

In the context of tight budgets, complex geometries, high energy efficiency, and flexible user functions mean that the requirements for technical details, and their execution in modern buildings, are very exacting. Modern Construction...

39,95 € *

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Why Do Architects Wear Black?

Introverted? Secretive? "Why is it really that architects wear black?" was a question put to Cordula Rau by an automotive industry manager during an architectural competition. Even though she herself is an architect, and wears black, she...

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Stoffwechsel

Materiality is a recurring and central issue in architecture. This book explains how materials are "constructed", how they become cultural substances. Metamorphism investigates the complex relationship between natural materials and...

49,95 € *

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Grundrissatlas Wohnungsbau

Revised edition of the reference work The Floor Plan Manual Housing has for decades been a seminal work in the field of architecture. In its 5th, revised and expanded edition, approximately 160 international housing projects built after...

79,95 € *

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