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Designing with intelligent applications Intelligent machines are no longer merely the stuff of science fiction; we are already surrounded by a multitude of intelligent applications. For example, the information feeds of large social...

54,00 € *

Chinese Modern

Chinese modernity - a defining overview Rowe's third volume on the architecture of the Far East deals with the development of modern architecture and planning in China, with a focus on this development within the broader framework of...

68,00 € *

Mapping Cities in the MENA Region

This volume outlines the urban development of seven cities in the Middle East and North Africa: Aleppo, Alexandria, Cairo, Casablanca, Dubai, Nouakchott, and Shiraz. Ottoman rule and colonial powers, French or British, operated...

49,95 € *

Weiterbauen an Dorf, Siedlung, Stadt

Kirchengast betrachtet in seinem Buch drei Projekte mit modellhaftem Charakter: Max Dudler, Franz Riepl und Jonathan Sergison demonstrieren auf den Maßstabsebenen Dorf, Siedlung und Stadt ein analoges Weiterbauen. Mit ihrer elementaren...

42,00 € *

Zukunftsfähige Lebensräume

Planning guide for good living spaces The intelligent and appropriate use of living space as a resource is culturally, socially and economically crucial for our future. However, building within existing built and lived settlement...

42,00 € *

Upon Entropy

In his 1979 essay The Postmodern Condition: A Report on Knowledge philosopher Jean-François Lyotard noted that the advent of the computer opened up a stage of progress in which knowledge has become a commodity. Modernity and...

52,00 € *

Tracing Wiener Werkstätte Textiles

Wiener Werkstätte: Textiles and their design This book presents new research and archival findings on the textile and fashion designs of the Wiener Werkstätte movement (1903-1932). Textile specialists, art and design historians offer...

52,00 € *

Basics Climate-Smart Design and Construction

The construction sector currently accounts for a high proportion of CO 2 emissions and gray energy use. This will have to change fundamentally if we are to prevent catastrophic climate change and make urban planning and construction fit...

24,00 € *

A History of Collective Living

This book tells the story of communal living forms from about 1850 until the present day. The projects featured in this book are divided according to the motivations of their creators and users - economic, political, and social. The book...

64,00 € *

To the Ends of the Earth

The book takes the reader on an intellectual adventure through a carefully curated selection of 120 places that can be understood as metaphors of contemporary global culture. Spread across all seven continents, from the depths of the...

38,00 € *

Le Corbusier on Camera

The book is based on amateur films, shot by the architect Ernest Weissmann (1903-1985) with a Pathé Motocamera in the years 1929-1933 at, among other places, the Atelier Le Corbusier and Pierre Jeanneret . These films capture moments...

399,00 € *

Sterne, Federn, Quasten / Stars, Feathers, Tassels

Felice Rix-Ueno studied under Josef Hoffmann, a co-founder of the Wiener Werkstätte (1903-1932). Inspired by the Japanese formal language, she formed her own style, which was expressed in particularly imaginative fabric and wallpaper...

39,00 € *

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