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Architects today must position themselves within an extremely wide-ranging field of qualifications. This makes it all the more important to have a fresh introduction to the field that makes up one of their core competences, the field of design. This introductory presentation describes and analyzes the theories, strategies, and tools of creative design for the purposes of practical work. With thoughtfulness and expertise, it opens the reader's eyes to the processes that underlie design and demonstrates different ways of communicating about complex design work. The first section focuses on the much-discussed relationship between design and research, between architecture and the sciences. The second section describes basic design approaches, from Vitruvius and Alberti through Erwin Panofsky and Wolfgang Kemp to Otl Aicher and Vilem Flusser. The third and largest section presents the elementary tools of design, from gestures and words through drawings, models, and simulations to critique, all as instruments of creative design in architecture and its related fields.

This commentated anthology contains essential passages from eight important architecture and urban design theory texts from the 1960s to the 2010s. With these excerpts, the editors discursively outline the concept of form as a relational field of tension between man and material. The relational element is treated not only as a topos, but above all the interpretational perspective of architectural theory. The texts are arranged under the guiding themes of Type, Process, Place, and Things. The texts themselves were written by authors including Christopher Alexander, Oswald Mathias Ungers, Fumihiko Maki, Alison and Peter Smithson, Lucius Burckhardt, Bruno Latour, and Manuel de Solà-Morales. They offer a paradigmatic foundation that encourages further research and the continued view through the "relational lens."

Die Planung eines Patientenzimmers ist von enormer Komplexität. Es gilt, pflegerische Anforderungen, Erkenntnisse der Mikrobiologie (insbesondere im Hinblick auf Krankenhausinfektionen), Bedürfnisse der Patienten sowie ökonomische Belange der Krankenhausbetreiber in Einklang zu bringen. Die Publikation erläutert die Planungsparameter und stellt mustergültige Beispiele vor.

Welches sind die drangenden Fragen der Architektur, in Lehre, Forschung und Praxis? Aus ihrer langjahrigen Erfahrung gehen die Hochschullehrer Ines Lamuniere und Laurent Stalder in funf Gesprachen gemeinsam auf die Suche nach Antworten. Sie entwerfen eine Architektur, die sowohl auf Intellekt als auch Intuition beruht, die zugleich streng und pragmatisch ist. Und sie skizzieren dabei kreative Prozesse, die bei der Entwicklung von Projekten mit all ihren Zwangen unabdingbar sind, um die Herausforderungen der Zukunft zu meistern, die sich der Baukunst stellen.

At the beginning of one's architecture studies, there are many unknowns: what is really important? how do I brainstorm a design idea? how can this idea be depicted and ultimately implemented? BASICS is a series that imparts fundamental knowledge in compact individual volumes as well as in topical compendiums. It offers precise, step-by-step discussions, systematically covering the most important material pertaining to a given topic. Tailored to the needs of students, the series addresses all key subject areas, including design, architectural presentation, construction, professional practice, building services, landscape architecture, and urbanism.

At the beginning of one's architecture studies, there are many unknowns: what is really important? how do I brainstorm a design idea? how can this idea be depicted and ultimately implemented? BASICS is a series that imparts fundamental knowledge in compact individual volumes as well as in topical compendiums. It offers precise, step-by-step discussions, systematically covering the most important material pertaining to a given topic. Tailored to the needs of students, the series addresses all key subject areas, including design, architectural presentation, construction, professional practice, building services, landscape architecture, and urbanism.

Warum vergolden die OEsterreicher ihre Baudenkmaler selbst dann, wenn sie zu Staub zerfallen? Wieso bauen die Deutschen ihren Automobilen Tempel? Seit 1992 bereichern die Texte Christian Kuhns im Feuilleton der Tageszeitung "Die Presse" die kr

Lie Groups: Structures, Actions, and Representations, In Honor of Joseph A. Wolf on the Occasion of his 75th Birthday consists of invited expository and research articles on new developments arising from Wolf's profound contributions to mathematics. Due to Professor Wolf's broad interests, outstanding mathematicians and scholars in a wide spectrum of mathematical fields contributed to the volume.  Algebraic, geometric, and analytic methods are employed. More precisely, finite groups and classical finite dimensional, as well as infinite-dimensional Lie groups, and algebras play a role. Actions on classical symmetric spaces, and on abstract homogeneous and representation spaces are discussed. Contributions in the area of representation theory involve numerous viewpoints, including that of algebraic groups and various analytic aspects of harmonic analysis. Contributors D. Akhiezer                         T. OshimaA. Andrada                         I. PacharoniM. L. Barberis                    F. RicciL. Barchini                            S. RosenbergI. Dotti                                  N. ShimenoM. Eastwood                     J. TiraoV. Fischer                            S. TreneerT. Kobayashi                       C.T.C. WallA. Korányi                           D. WallaceB. Kostant                           K. WiboontonP. Kostelec                          F. XuK.-H. Neeb                          O. YakimovaG. Olafsson                         R. ZierauB. Ørsted

Ein schier unerschöpflicher Erfindungsdrang zeichnet das umfangreiche OEuvre des Architekten Karl Schwanzer (1918-1975) ebenso aus wie die Liebe zum Handwerk und die Wahl der Materialien. Was bleibt von seinen Werken? Was ist verschwunden? Wie verändert sich die Bausubstanz im Lauf der Jahre? Stefan Oláh hat sich auf diese Spurensuche begeben. Als Architekturfotograf hält er das Gegenwärtige der Bauten fest, Jahrzehnte nach ihrer Errichtung: Nahsichtige Ausschnitte verdichten die Haltung des Architekten im Bild. Die Präzision der farbigen Großbildaufnahmen korrespondiert mit Schwanzers raffinierter Gestaltung. So versteht sich der Band als visueller Kommentar zu seinem baukünstlerischen Schaffen, das auch Entwürfe für Möbel umfasst.