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Peter Zumthor's passion is the creation of buildings with architectural atmosphere. But how can one actually set out to achieve it? In nine short, illustrated chapters framed as a process of self-observation, Zumthor describes what he has on his mind as he sets about creating the atmosphere of his houses.

Offers an introduction to technical and constructional open space planning, with all the relevant topics, from the most common materials and surfaces to the construction of open space elements and the use of plants.

In order to design a building with a sensuous connection to life, one must think in a way that goes far beyond form and construction. In these essays, Peter Zumthor expresses his motivation in designing buildings, which speak to our emotions and understanding in so many ways, and possess a powerful and unmistakable presence and personality.

For decades, the Floor Plan Manual - Housing has been one of the reference works in architecture. The introductory essays on theory and history have been re-written or updated, and provide a clearly structured overview of residential construction and its development over the last 70 years.

Systematically structured and prepared with the student in mind, the book conveys in one volume the necessary basic technical building construction knowledge to enable readers to implement a wide range of designs. For this reason, over the last 14 years, it has developed into an indispensable information and reference handbook, not only for students and teachers, but also for architects. The 4th edition of this standard work for building construction has again been revised in terms of content and illustrations. References to standards, thermal insulation standards, and some project examples have been updated; they are now comprehensively and systematically documented, explaining the design process from start to finish.

In den vergangenen Jahren haben Baumschlager Eberle Architekten ihren internationalen Erfolgskurs fortgesetzt. In den Jahren 2010-2020 entstanden über 600 Bauten, Projekte und Wettbewerbe, darunter Wohnbauten, Krankenhäuser, Firmenzentralen, Hochschulbauten, und nicht zuletzt das Haus 2226, das ganz ohne Klimatechnik auskommt. Das Buch dokumentiert in Form eines kommentierten Werkverzeichnisses in chronologischer Reihenfolge alle Projekte, Wettbewerbe und Studien dieser Jahre. Über 50 realisierte Bauten werden ausführlicher behandelt. 14 der wichtigsten davon werden vertieft mit vielen Bildern, Plänen, Materialien und einem detaillierten Text präsentiert. Darüber hinaus befassen sich drei Essays und drei Interviews mit den zentralen Themen Dichte, Ressourcen und Open Building.

Using vivid imagery from Frankenstein to Rem Koolhaas, the author provides a comprehensive introduction to architectural design for adaptive reuse projects.

Building with wood as an ecologically viable material is a tradition with a long history. The timber architecture which has ensued over the past centuries reveals to the modern observer the depth of knowledge which has enabled both Eastern und Western cultures to use this wonderful material in such a creative way. In the most typical method of building with wood, elements are connected by using wood joints which do not require the assistance of adhesives or metal connectors. This art of wood jointing reached its zenith in Japan; but Europe too provided its share of highly influential forms. By looking at several hundred examples from Japan and 18 European countries, with a new chapter on China added to this enlarged edition, this book describes in great detail the history of timber architecture in terms of its technical, aesthetic and ecological dimensions. This thorough study is a mine of information to specialists in this field; it opens up to the craftsman of today what has become an almost forgotten world and provides a fascinating account for the general reader. Here is a man who has trekked though the wild Carpathian forests, the Norwegian outback, the Russian steppes and obscure regions of Japan in pursuit of the wood joint. He tells the story with a sense of unfolding discovery; for anyone interested in how buildings work this book is a joy to read."e; the architects' journal

Features text and images that complement each other to create a narrative thread that offers informative insights into the architect's intellectual and visual imagination and expands our understanding of Olgiati's oeuvre.

It is understood that Mies van der Rohe is one of the most important architects of the Modern movement. The projects include Lange and Esters Houses (1927-30), Tugendhat House (1928-30), the Barcelona Pavilion (1928-29), Farnsworth House (1946-51), Lake Shore Drive (1948-51) and the New National Gallery (1962-68).

After the WWII, the need for reconstruction influenced the architectural style in Europe. This volume illustrates that the debate on the humanization of the built environment was carried out with great intensity in the East as well as in the West, irrespective of their political system, that led to similar concepts.

Josef Frank is seen as an important visionary at the early stages of the Modern movement, as well as a critic of its dogmatism. He not only left his mark on Viennese culture and also on Swedish Modernism. This book has emphasis on Frank's later work. It introduces his late, unbuilt building projects, as well as his furniture and fabric designs.

Wiel Arets: Autobiographical References

Lager als temporäre Massenunterkünfte wurden seit 1945 in der Architekturgeschichte lange ausgeblendet oder nur am Rande verhandelt. Antje Senarclens de Grancy betrachtet in ihrem Buch nun erstmals die Lager zu Beginn des 20. Jahrhunderts im Kontext von Architektur und Städtebau der Moderne. Im Typus des Lagers verdichten, beschleunigen und radikalisieren sich wie unter einem Brennglas Entwicklungen der Moderne: Vorstellungen von Rationalisierung und Hygiene, von Normierung und Vorfertigung, von Stadtplanung und dem Umgang mit Individuen im Kriegs- und Katastrophenfall. Im Fokus stehen Flüchtlingslager im Ersten Weltkrieg als staatlich eingerichtete und von Architekten geplante Instant-Städte zur Internierung und Kontrolle. Zielgruppe des Buches sind Leser:innen mit Interesse an der Architekturmoderne, Rationalisierung, Hygiene, Vorfertigung und allgemeinem Interesse an der Geschichte des frühen 20. Jahrhunderts und des Ersten Weltkriegs. Die Buchreihe Exploring Architecture macht Architekturwissenschaft zugänglich, stellt neueste Forschungsmethoden vor und deckt ein breites Spektrum an Epochen, Regionen und Themen ab. Eine neue Perspektive auf Wohn- und Städtebau der Moderne Architektur als Grundkonstante der globalen Lagergeschichte Bisher unveröffentlichtes Bildmaterial aus zentraleuropäischen Quellen zum Bauen in Kriegszeiten

Contrary to the view that postmodern architects regarded themselves as self-referential artists, this book draws on the buildings, projects and writings of Charles Willard Moore (1925-1993) to reveal the architect's socio-political aspirations. Moore, one of the founders of postmodernism, wanted to create places that would inform people about where and who they are. His designed spaces were intended to counteract the alienation created by a technocratic mass society. Moore's architecture was intended to create the conditions for political action in a public sphere that promotes a diversity of citizens' voices. Reese presents a reassessment of the work of Charles W. Moore, who dedicated himself to opposing a conformist mass society. On Charles W. Moore's interpretation of postmodern architecture Presentation of the various postmodern architectural approaches of Moore's era Scholarly reassessment of this architectural movement

Design hat sich längst als eigenständige Forschungskompetenz etabliert. Die Reihe New Experimental Research in Design (NERD) steht für einen öffentlichen Austausch, um die experimentelle Dimension der Designforschung zu reflektieren. Internationale Forscher*Innen zeigen ein reichhaltiges Spektrum an Ansätzen, die Anlass zu weiteren Debatten geben. In Zeiten vielfältiger Krisen bemüht sich die Autorenschaft dieses Bandes um taktische Antworten. Sie beschäftigen sich u. a. mit Experimenten zu more-than-human design, co-species production, kritischer algorithmischer Immersion, feministischer Auseinandersetzung mit dem "New Materialism". Von autoethnografischen Untersuchungen bis hin zu sozial engagierten Methoden hinterfragen sie nicht nur die zukünftige Rolle des Designs, sondern auch die der Designer*Innen.

Corbusier entwarf und baute nicht nur Kirchen, er setzte sich auch intensiv mit Religion und Glauben auseinander und prägte durch sein Schaffen maßgeblich die Kirchenarchitektur des 20. Jahrhunderts. Das Buch erläutert Le Corbusiers Verhältnis zur Religion, stellt seine Entwürfe zu La Sainte-Baume, der Kapelle von Notre Dame du Haut de Ronchamp, dem Kloster La Tourette und der Kirche St. Pierre vor und untersucht seinen Einfluss auf die weitere Kirchenarchitektur des 20. Jahrhunderts in Europa. Dazu gehören die Jubilee Church von Richard Meier, die Ignatius Kapelle von Steven Holl, die Santa Maria Kirche von Álvaro Siza, Tadao Andos "Meditation Space" und die Kapelle der Versöhnung von Reitermann & Sassenroth.Für die zweite Auflage wurden Einleitung, Schlusskapitel und Bibliografie überarbeitet und ergänzt.

This monograph introduces readers to locally conformally Kähler (LCK) geometry and provides an extensive overview of the most current results.  A rapidly developing area in complex geometry dealing with non-Kähler manifolds, LCK geometry has strong links to many other areas of mathematics, including algebraic geometry, topology, and complex analysis.  The authors emphasize these connections to create a unified and rigorous treatment of the subject suitable for both students and researchers.Part I builds the necessary foundations for those approaching LCK geometry for the first time with full, mostly self-contained proofs and also covers material often omitted from textbooks, such as contact and Sasakian geometry, orbifolds, Ehresmann connections, and foliation theory.  More advanced topics are then treated in Part II, including non-Kähler elliptic surfaces, cohomology of holomorphic vector bundles on Hopf manifolds, Kuranishi and Teichmüller spaces for LCK manifolds with potential, and harmonic forms on Sasakian and Vaisman manifolds.  Each chapter in Parts I and II begins with motivation and historic context for the topics explored and includes numerous exercises for further exploration of important topics.Part III surveys the current research on LCK geometry, describing advances on topics such as automorphism groups on LCK manifolds, twisted Hamiltonian actions and LCK reduction, Einstein-Weyl manifolds and the Futaki invariant, and LCK geometry on nilmanifolds and on solvmanifolds.  New proofs of many results are given using the methods developed earlier in the text.  The text then concludes with a chapter that gathers over 100 open problems, with context and remarks provided where possible, to inspire future research.

This compact textbook consists of lecture notes given as a fourth-year undergraduate course of the mathematics degree at the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, including topics in enumerative combinatorics, finite geometry, and graph theory. This text covers a single-semester course and is aimed at advanced undergraduates and masters-level students. Each chapter is intended to be covered in 6-8 hours of classes, which includes time to solve the exercises. The text is also ideally suited for independent study. Some hints are given to help solve the exercises and if the exercise has a numerical solution, then this is given. The material covered allows the reader with a rudimentary knowledge of discrete mathematics to acquire an advanced level on all aspects of combinatorics, from enumeration, through finite geometries to graph theory. The intended audience of this book assumes a mathematical background of third-year students in mathematics, allowing for a swifter useof mathematical tools in analysis, algebra, and other topics, as these tools are routinely incorporated in contemporary combinatorics. Some chapters take on more modern approaches such as Chapters 1, 2, and 9. The authors have also taken particular care in looking for clear concise proofs of well-known results matching the mathematical maturity of the intended audience.

This monograph offers a self-contained introduction to the regularity theory for integro-differential elliptic equations, mostly developed in the 21st century. This class of equations finds relevance in fields such as analysis, probability theory, mathematical physics, and in several contexts in the applied sciences. The work gives a detailed presentation of all the necessary techniques, with a primary focus on the main ideas rather than on proving all the results in their greatest generality.The basic building blocks are presented first, with the study of the square root of the Laplacian, and weak solutions to linear equations. Subsequently, the theory of viscosity solutions to nonlinear equations is developed, and proofs are provided for the main known results in this context. The analysis finishes with the investigation of obstacle problems for integro-differential operators and establishes the regularity of solutions and free boundaries.A distinctive feature of this work lies in its presentation of nearly all covered material in a monographic format for the first time, and several proofs streamline, and often simplify, those in the original papers. Furthermore, various open problems are listed throughout the chapters.

This text presents a collection of mathematical exercises with the aim of guiding readers to study topics in statistical physics, equilibrium thermodynamics, information theory, and their various connections. It explores essential tools from linear algebra, elementary functional analysis, and probability theory in detail and demonstrates their applications in topics such as entropy, machine learning, error-correcting codes, and quantum channels. The theory of communication and signal theory are also in the background, and many exercises have been chosen from the theory of wavelets and machine learning. Exercises are selected from a number of different domains, both theoretical and more applied. Notes and other remarks provide motivation for the exercises, and hints and full solutions are given for many. For senior undergraduate and beginning graduate students majoring in mathematics, physics, or engineering, this text will serve as a valuable guide as theymove on to more advanced work.