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Each type of construction has its special characteristics which cannot be compared with those of other building materials. The first building construction designs in the architectural curriculum are planned as ...

Fluid Totality presents the avant-garde architectural visions of one of the most innovative academic institutions of our time'Studio Hadid at the University of Applied Arts Vienna. The studio founded by ...

Constructing Landscape is a systematic 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 ...

Systematic, comprehensive and up-to-date presentation of this fascinating design task Documents forward-looking and innovative concepts and designs Substantial contributions by international experts on the entire design and planning process Comprehensive ...

Urban space is a commons: simultaneously a sphere of human cooperation and negotiation and its product. Understanding urban space as a commons means that the much sought-after productivity of the ...

For students of design, professional product designers, and anyone interested in design equally indispensable: the fully revised and updated edition of the reference work on product design. The book traces ...

The spectacular Styria Media Center office tower, designed by architects Hermann Eisenköck and Herfried Peyker (Architekturconsult) will be opened in June 2015. The disc-shaped, sculptural media building will have the ...

YoVa was established in 2005 as an initiative to support young Viennese architects from the City of Vienna. In addition to a juried application process, participating architects must be under ...

Recent developments in computer science, particularly 'data-driven procedures' have opened a new level of design and engineering. This has also affected architecture. The publication collects contributions on Coding as Literacy ...

We know the specific strengths of various cities, are aware of their ranking, are able to discuss their density and growth. But what do all cities have in common, what ...

The building shell: is the interface with the outside world: it offers protection and at the same time represents its owners or occupants. But what are the criteria for choosing ...

Far beyond its long-standing decorative and protective use, architectural ceramics has matured into a material system of great potential. Triggered by material research, design computation and digital fabrication methods, the ...

Design interventions for the reuse of existing structures must face the question of the past and the extent to which it should be included in the design for the future. ...

From 1977 until his retirement in 1999, Wilhelm Holzbauer was Head of one of the three master classes for architecture at Vienna University of Applied Arts. His teaching activity was ...

Lucius Burckhardt (1925-2003) taught architectural theory at Kassel University and, in the 1980s, coined the term "Promenadology"or the science of Strollology and developed this into a complex and far-sighted planning ...

The systematic development of building types is an important task in housing construction. A deeper understanding of the underlying building types is mandatory, both for individual designs and for the ...

Symbolizing Existence deals with the current rapidly happening 'deterritorialization' of everything which was once regarded stable and binding. What we today regard as statistically encoded information is capable to explicate ...

Writing has become an important component of the architectural practice. Architects experiment with new writing modalities in order to concretize architectural designs and built forms, or to generate and debate ...

Coping with post-industrial brownfields is an issue throughout Europe and North America. A point of departure for their broad rediscovery in Germany was the refurbishment of an abandoned steelworks from ...

Getting Things Done 3 deals with the development of the building culture in Vorarlberg between 1950 and 2000. The exposé focuses on key issues and the accounts of witnesses, including ...