If there is a plateau that continuously unites Hans Dieter Schaal's numerous artistic fields of activity, a kind of fundamental level, then it is surely that of landscape architecture. Landscape motifs are as convincingly present in his stage sets as they are in his installations, his exhibition architectures, his texts, and, naturally, also ......
Martha Schwartz Partners (MSP) is a leading international design practice whose work focuses on activating and regenerating urban sites and city centers. Situated at the intersection of public realm, urban design and site specific art, the practice has over 35 years of experience designing and implementing installations, gardens, civic plazas, ......
Provides information about the royal castle at Neuschwanstein, which is visited by one and a half million people per year. But for the architecturally educated, for adepts of Modernism, this stylistically crude, anachronistic monument to a prince's whim is simply annoying.
Museum architecture has blossomed over the past few decades. Art museums lead the way in terms of new buildings by superstar architects such as Frank Gehry, Herzog and de Meuron, Jean Nouvel, and Renzo Piano, among many more. Those facilities have received public and professional recognition through media attention and design awards. But other ......
The regions of Europe have an architectural heritage that is a thousand years old; and it is a challenge to integrate this heritage into contemporary life in a sustainable way. This book presents examples to demonstrate a desire to be considered as "local" projects and to take their place in an evolutionary interpretation of history.
The aim of the study is to analyze and describe in detail one of the most important trends in architecture in the 19th and 20th centuries: the evolution, leading from the closed, hermetic spaces of the early cultures and the Middle Ages to the open space and transparency of the 19, and 20th/21st centuries.
Himeji Castle represents an architectural type that probably does not occur in other areas of the world. Large parts of the building were classified as (TM)Kokuho State Treasure as early as 1951, and others as (TM)Important Cultural Property ". The building was placed on the World Cultural Heritage list in 1993.
This Opus volume presents an aging university ensemble on the old campus of the RWTHAachen, which could not only be saved, but also embodies a renaissance of high-quality urban development and sustainable architecture. This balancing act is thanks to the architects and engineers of the renowned SSP AG from Bochum.
Even though he had made a name for himself in the 1930s with his Berlin single-family homes, Eiermann later on found it difficult to accept commissions for this building type when, during the period of the 'economic miracle', he was approached by numerous people interested to get a design by him. Only the Hardenberg House in Baden-Baden satisfied ......
