BIRKHAUSER VERLAG A.G.

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 ...

In the first half of the twentieth century, urban design under the influence of European dictatorships not only served to support the rulers in their own country, but also to ...

At the beginning of the 1990s, European landscape architecture started to appear on the international radar with the Parc de la Villette in Paris and the squares in Barcelona. Today, ...

Since architecture is generally conceived and built as stationary and sturdy, kinetic architecture exerts an special fascination. It can be described as the outcome of integrating movement into the built ...

The catalogue for the exhibition at the MAK (Austrian Museum for Applied Art/Contemporary Art in Vienna) focuses on two fundamental approaches of the Moderne movement in an antithetic comparison, including ...

Color is inextricably linked with architecture; as a design element and also as an inherent quality, it characterizes the shape and texture of the built fabric. The book presents extraordinary ...

Information is clearly presented and easy and quickly accessed Important planning tool for landscape architects and students By the author of the best-seller Constructing Landscape A unique planning tool for ...

This book provides the means for a better control and purposeful consideration of the design of Architecturally Exposed Structural Steel (AESS). It deploys a detailed categorization of AESS and its ...

In 2008, the Department of Art and Architecture at the Vienna Academy of Fine Artsdeveloped a new basis for the architecture curriculum. They created five research platforms: Analogue and Digital ...

The first comprehensive reference work on energy-independent Active Houses The Active House is a logical development of existing building standards. It draws renewable energy from the sun and wind in ...

Introduction to building façades as revised edition Façades determine the appearance of a building. Hence, they constitute a major element in architecture. At the same time, the buildings envelope has ...

Design and proportion of urban publicspaces are analyzed and compared. The 'ground planmanual' for urbansquares With unifingly re-createddrawings for the publication in high graphic quality Bibliophilic design features The question ...

"Reduce, Reutiliza, Recicla y Recupera" son las lineas guías de la sostenibilidad que han reemplazado a la actitud de la era industrial de "Tomar, Hacer, Gastar". Basándose en su experiencia ...

Austrias capital receives a new transport hub: The Vienna Central Railroad Station. The book introduces the railroad station, with essays, planning drafts and photographs. It gives the reader a documentation ...

The 'old' material of wood has been used to construct dwellings of different types since the dawn of mankind. And not without reason. Its low density combined with high rigidity, ...

Practical guide with eight historic best-practice examples Numerous construction drawings, calculations, and measurement data Technical support in the daily planning for architects, engineers, energy consultants, and owners The handbook holistically ...

With texts and graphics presentations of threshold space analyzes Development of access areas in different building types, from public buildings to residential Many exemplary design applications Unrivaled publication on the ...