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Contemporary Japanese architecture has, for over half a century, achieved worldwide recognition not only for its highly innovative and often futuristic qualities, but also for its sensitive response to Japans ...

The first thing that most visitors notice is the many high-rises, which give the city its billing as 'Manhattan on the Maas. But there is much more to Rotterdam than ...

A city famous for its rapid growth and high cost of living, London is not a place one immediately associates with social housing. Yet the British capital has a long ...

Despite the growing interest in Africa, the continents built environment is still largely unfamiliar in many parts of the world. The seven volumes of the Sub-Saharan Africa Architectural Guide form ...

For many, the idea of Space Architecture as a discipline lies in the domain of science fiction, where everything is possible simply because it happens 'very far in the future. ...

Berlin was shaped by the events of the twentieth century in a process of 'automatic urbanism.' More than any other metropolis, the city absorbed the forces of that epoch?'?modernity, fascism, ...

Alexey Shchusev (1873?-?1949) was one of the very few architects who managed to rise to the top of the architectural hierarchy under the tsars and then to repeat this success ...

The architecture of the Soviet avant-garde of the 1920s and mid?-1930s is attracting more and more attention from both domestic and foreign researchers, but in spite of this, entire regions ...

During the Covid-19 pandemic we have been forced to retreat into private shelters and to question the limits of residential typologies. The villa is an obvious example of such a ...

¿Qué fue exactamente lo que dio lugar a la arquitectura onírica de star architects como Zaha Hadid? ¿Cómo afectó la relación entre artistas y arquitectos a la producción arquitectónica durante ...

The German Architecture Annual, edited by the German Architecture Museum (DAM), has been documenting contemporary architectural projects in Germany for almost 40 years. This year's edition of the annual presents ...

Despite the fact that he shaped Venice and its contemporary form, Eugenio Miozzi remains a little-known figure. Yet both locals and visitors experience his legacy every day, in particular when ...

Dementia-friendly architecture encompasses a host of possibilities that are particularly relevant in hospital design. Implemented in an aesthetically pleasing and non-stigmatising manner, such architecture can benefit anyone during a hospital ...

The 'new urban municipality of Berlin', also called Greater Berlin, was created 100 years ago, on 1 October 1920, following a ground-breaking administrative reform. This was a century-defining milestone that ...

In the times when the Ukrainian art sphere was regulated by the Soviet institutions, local monumental and decorative arts existed at the frontier of the Partys propaganda and the artistic ...

The German-American architect Dirk Lohan began to record his conversations with his grandfather Ludwig Mies van der Rohe in the summer of 1969. The tapes, recorded during the final weeks ...

Cest en 1955 que le premier secrétaire du PCUS Nikita Khrouchtchev lance une campagne pour une production en masse d'habitations. À ce moment-là, la préfabrication des bâtiments en usine est ...

This monograph presents the results of theoretical and experi­mental studies as well as the design and construction ­features of structural systems with rational parameters. It starts by outlining issues around ...

In recent years, perspective views have swept into the foreground in the field of landscape architecture. They have become the showpiece of any new design project, frequently overshadowing the plan ...

Designing a childcare facility, whether it is a créche, kindergarten, or preschool, involves many challenges. The architect must focus on the needs of the users, who include both the children ...