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Villa le Lac, which was designated a World Heritage in 2016, was designed and built by Le Corbusier as Geneva lakeside home for his parents in 1925. Because of its ...

Peter Walker is one of the most seminal and prolific figures in contemporary landscape design worldwide ? both as a teacher and as practitioner. Among his best-known works are Nasher ...

Michel Desvigne is the most renowned French landscape architect in the world. Based in Paris, he has held guest professorships at such distinguished institutions as the Architectural Association in London ...

Ausgehend von eigenen Projekten, greifen die Architekten gesellschaftlich relevante Themen auf wie soziokulturelle Veranderungen und deren Auswirkung auf die Architektur. Die Projekte sind in die drei Kapiteln aufbrechen, teilhaben und ...

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Infra - lightweight concrete combines the structural and thermal insulation functions of the building envelope in one monolithic material, thus providing new design options. The handbook is a practical guide ...

The Villa Jeanneret-Perret (1912), known as the "Maison Blanche" is an early masterpiece by Le Corbusier. He created this synthesis of the arts of architecture, interior design and garden design ...

In which ways does a "green building" contribute to the ecology of its surroundings? And how can ecologically designed urban districts, with their green and blue networks, link up with ...

Narrative environments are a compositional strategy to re-present the times in a life of a building. Narratives associate the many different times and spaces inherent in a particular space at ...

Traditional building methods - such as those used in pueblos, timbered houses, or the Japanese minka - exist in fascinating diversity and create the face of a region. However, as ...

The worldwide use of building envelopes in steel and glass is one of the characteristic features of modern architecture. Many of these pre - and post-war buildings are now suffering ...

The activities of Rem Koolhaas and his staff were widely discussed even before the foundation of the Office for Metropolitan Architecture in 1975. Today, many contributions on the work of ...

Julius Ralph Davidson is widely known as the architect of Thomas Mann's house. Born 1889 in Berlin, Davidson left Germany in 1923 and emigrated to the USA. In Los Angeles, ...

Libraries as a building type have been subjected to substantial changes. The typology was reinvented completely, reflecting a development from elitist temple of learning to a public living room. Today, ...

New edition of Buckminster Fuller's first work published in 1938, which was promoted by Albert Einstein. In 43 chapters the constructor, visionary, inventor, designer, creator of language, and spectacular performer ...

In 2019 it will be the hundredth anniversary of the founding of the Bauhaus. Prompted by this occasion, with "project bauhaus" ARCH+ has undertaken a critical appraisal of the Bauhaus ...

Nature has always been a source of inspiration for the design of the human environment. The analysis of biological constructions can not only lead to astonishing technical solutions but can ...

In the context of tight budgets, complex geometries, high energy efficiency, and tight completion schedules, the requirements for technical details and their execution in modern buildings are very exacting. MCCC ...