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The definitive monograph on Swedish modernist architect Sigurd Lewerentz, offering the most comprehensive survey to date of his manifold work, featuring a wealth of previously unpublished material from Lewerentz's estate held at ArkDes, Sweden's national center for architecture and design, alongside new essays by leading experts.

New edition of the highly praised and much sought-after analytical review of Baron Haussmann's redevelopment of Paris from today's perspective. Text in English and French.

First publication on the work and philosophy of London-based 6a architects.

The name Montessori is widely and inextricably associated with an entirely child-centered and careful pedagogy and education of children. Maria Montessori (1870-1952) was an Italian physician, reform educator, and philosopher whose ideas and work have remained influential throughout the world ever since the 1910s. Her educational concept covers the entirety of development from infancy to young adulthood. It is based on the image of the child as a "builder of his or her self" and therefore uses for the first time the form of open teaching and free work in a prepared learning environment. Montessori schools became trendsetting educational institutions early on, and their concept is strongly reflected in their architecture and equipment. Montessori Architecture is the first book that comprehensively addresses architectural design, construction, and the use of materials in and the furnishing of educational spaces according to Montessori's ideas. The book's first part explores spatial and design principles that make up good kindergarten and school buildings. In the second part, nine case studies are featured in detail through photographs, plans, and concise texts. These examples are located in Europe (the Netherlands, Belgium, Great Britain) as well as in tropical countries (Burkina Faso, Tanzania, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka). Thus, this highly illustrative volume offers practical advice and a wealth of information that is of utmost importance for the design of school buildings in general.

The Eishin Campus near Tokyo is Christopher Alexander's largest and most significant project based on the Pattern Language he developed in the 1970s together with Sara Ishikawa and Murray Silverstein, and is the first examination of Alexander's 'systems generating systems' theory and its application to a concrete building design.

Demonstrates a new approach to architecture in a world increasingly free of ideologies and references and offers a foundation for conceiving a non-referential architecture in such a non-referential world

From the 1950s to the 1980s, the open-air playground was a social laboratory. Innovative, wacky, educational, and exciting playground designs emerged in European and American cities, as well as elsewhere around the world: artists, landscape designers, architects, and activists sought to provide children with the best possible place to play, while also reimagining cities and communities. First published in 2018, The Playground Project instantly became a classic. This much-expanded new edition brings back the wealth of ideas of that period to inspire us today. It offers many previously unpublished images, numerous new portraits, especially of female protagonists of the time, as well as findings from the latest research on playground design. An incisive introductory essay places the playground at the intersections of education, architecture, urban politics, design history, and leisure policy. A detailed focus is placed on the forgotten history of playgrounds in the former German Democratic Republic. Moreover, young researchers explore the culture of memory surrounding the Shek Lei Playground in Hong Kong, and the role that playgrounds played in the process of state-building in Mexico. The book is a tribute to play in public spaces and a rich source for architects, designers, students, children, and political actors.

Das Bauen mit wiederverwendeten Bauteilen ist derzeit eines der meistbeachteten Phänomene der europäischen Architekturdiskussion. Dieses 2021 in Deutsch erschienene und nun auch in Englisch vorliegende Buch ist ein umfassendes Kompendium, das allen Fragen zur Wiederverwendung von Bauteilen im Detail nachgeht.Interdisziplinäre Fachgespräche verorten die Wiederverwendung innerhalb der Rahmenbedingungen heutiger Bau- und Planungspraxis, Essays stellen zirkulär gedachte Bauten und Konstruktionen vor, acht Thesen zeigen architektonische Herausforderungen sowie Potenziale und ein umfassender Aufsatz erläutert die Kulturgeschichte der Bauteilwiederverwendung.Mit Beiträgen von Andreas Abegg, Marc Angst, Guido Brandi, Barbara Buser, Arne Vande Capelle, Michael Eidenbenz, Nathanea Elte, Deborah Fehlmann, Patric Fischli-Boson, Oya Atalay Franck, Michaël Ghyoot, Pascal Hentschel, Meinrad Huser, Christian Kohler, Marc Loeliger, Ákos Moravánszky, Kerstin Müller, Andreas Oefner, Katrin Pfäffli, Michael Pöll, Tina Puffert, François Renaud, Barbara Rentsch, Alexis Ringli, Andreas Sonderegger, Eva Stricker, Cyrille Veron und Barbara Zeleny.

New edition of the most comprehensive survey of modern architecture in Africa to date that explores the close relationship between architecture and nation building after African countries gained independence from their former colonial powers.

The first book on the use of robotic technology in landscape design, introducing new, dynamic methods and previously inconceivable scenarios for implementation.

First-ever monograph on Johan Celsing, one of Sweden's most renowned contemporary architects, offering a uniquely intimate portrait of the architect and his work.

A documentation of Villa Carlsten on the Falsterbo peninsula in southern Sweden, designed by Austrian-born architect Josef Frank in 1926-27. Lavishly illustrated in colour throughout, highlights the building's outstanding qualities and puts it in context with Frank's other work in architecture.

This new book focuses on 'Features' - a selection of nine essays by renowned British architectural critic and scholar Irenee Scalbert, comprising detailed studies of major buildings and pieces that represent broader studies of historical movements and ideas.

A documentation of a seminal and internationally recognised re-naturalisation project for a river in Switzerland.

An authoritative overview of Northern Italy's modernist architecture between 1946 and 1976, providing a handy guide book for architecture lovers and professionals alike.

An authoritative overview of Northern Italy's modernist architecture between 1946 and 1976, forming a handy guide for architecture lovers and professionals alike.

The first monograph on Alberto Ponis, featuring much previously unpublished material.

Die neunte Ausgabe von Best of Austria bietet anhand jener Projekte und Personen, die in den Jahren 2022 und 2023 mit nationalen und internationalen Architekturpreisen ausgezeichnet wurden, einen Überblick zu den kreativen und ökonomischen Leistungen der österreichischen Architektur und Baukultur und macht diese für ein breites Publikum sichtbar. Vorgestellt werden 150 Projekte, die mit Fotos, ausgewählten Plänen sowie kurzen Texten von namhaften Autorinnen und Autoren dokumentiert sind. Zudem werden elf ausgezeichnete Einzelpersonen, Architekturteams und Architekturinstitutionen in Kurzporträts gewürdigt. Ein einleitender Essay von Oliver Elser, Kurator am Deutschen Architekturmuseum DAM in Frankfurt (Main), analysiert das Architekturgeschehen und die Baukultur Österreichs mit einem Blick von aussen. Abgerundet wird das Buch durch einen detaillierten Index, der alle relevanten Informationen zu den Preisen bietet.