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In times where the very concept of `nature' is questioned not only in its philosophical dimension, but in the core of its biological materiality, we need to reconsider the interrelations between architecture and nature.

Presents a broader view of the effects and consequences of current remix practices and the recombination of existing digital cultural content. This book unveils some of the key drivers leading to the participatory engagement of the User.

Presents a detailed review of vectors of creative and artistic coded and cultures, focusing on digital media-related art projects and observation models on the intersection of disciplines like art, science, technology and design.

Dieses Buch bietet eine Einführung in die verschiedenen Aspekte der mathematischen Logik, die jeder Mathematiker und Informatiker kennen sollte. Nach dem Prädikatenkalkül und seinen Anwendungen auf die Anfänge der künstlichen Intelligenz wird die Mengenlehre axiomatisch dargestellt. Im dritten und vierten Teil werden die notwendigen Grundbegriffe der Berechenbarkeitstheorie und die Hierarchie der in den natürlichen Zahlen definierbaren Teilmengen eingeführt, um schließlich die Gödelschen Unvollständigkeitssätze zu beweisen. Durch seinen klaren Stil und die eingefügten Übungsaufgaben ist dieses Buch eine konzise Einführung in diese Grundlagen der gesamten Mathematik.Für die zweite Auflage wurde an einigen Stellen wurde die Darstellung verbessert und eine Reihe von Fehlern,insbesondere in den Aufgaben, korrigiert.

How has Berlin's urban landscape changed in its remarkable transformation from divided city to creative capital? Despite the monumental heritage and grand development projects, Berlin still conjures up images of urban fragmentation and vacant inner-city land. The book reveals the changing nature and complex politics of this open space. A rephotographing of sites between 2001 and 2016 shows how no man's land has made way for new apartments and underground hangouts have changed into commercial hubs, but it also transports us to remaining pockets of urban wilderness and unexpected freedom right next to the city's most iconic squares. The accompanying essays by noted urban thinkers explore this little-known but vital reserve-forcing us to reflect on our unrelenting efforts to chart the future of the city at large.

At the time the Viennese company Glasverlag J. & L. Lobmeyr was founded in 1823, glass was becoming the favorite material of designers. Later on cooperations with architects like Josef Hoffmann, Oswald Haerdtl and Adolf Loos resulted in design classics, many of which are still produced unchanged to this day. Lobmeyr, since 2000 under its sixth generation management, has been reconnecting with the heyday of Viennese glass design of the past century. In cooperation with designers from Vienna and the international scene, Lobmeyr is developing impressive design strategies characterized by a sense of quality and willingness to experiment. This book is a bibliophilic statement demonstrating this exceptional product portfolio, illustrating Lobmeyr's recent design developments.

Every garden is an imagined paradise - a garden paradise that incorporates the personality of the individual who created it, but also the long history of horticulture. Although the famous and influential gardens often needed extensive funds for their creation, gardens are not designed for the privileged of this world.

It makes the link between architecture as a design task and a building biology approach to design. Using the building of the Institute of Building Biology + Sustainability (IBN) as a model, building biology criteria and approaches are explained in detail.

Rudolf (von) Alt malte und aquarellierte Menschen, Landschaften, Doerfer und Stadte in den Kronlandern der Habsburger Monarchie, auf der Krim, in Italien und in Deutschland. Stefan Olah fotografiert Architektur, Lebens- und Kulturraume vom Himalaya bis Brasilien - und in Wien.

"e;Why is it really that architects wear black?"e; was a question put to Cordula Rau by an automotive industry manager during an architectural competition. Even though she herself is an architect, and wears black, she did not have an answer on the spot. So she decided to ask other architects, as well as artists and designers. She has been collecting their handwritten replies in a notebook since 2001. In 2008, this collection of autographs appeared as a small publication - obviously bound in black. For the purpose of the new edition, this legendary collection was expanded by new notable, amusing, pragmatic, and quirky reasons: "e;Please read - and don't ask me why architects wear black!"e;. (Cordula Rau)

The dimensions of the core elements of office workplaces - desk and chair - together with the necessary circulation areas determine the design of office buildings.

Detailed drawings are developed on the basis of the working drawings; Basics Detailed Drawings explains, step by step, how to compose detailed designs and produce correct construction drawings, using clear examples.

Architects are used to designing visually. By introducing a metatheory of "critical hearing", designers are able to acoustically test their projects and contribute to their design with auditive input, already at the design stage.

Architecture and film have many things in common. With its systematic analysis, this book offers a scientifically researched history of mutual influence, starting with filmography as a typology of well-known film sets through to the description of the chameleon effect between film and architecture.

Complexity in architecture, construction and material manipulation is constantly increasing due to our present ability to design, calculate and fabricate an extending range of geometric shapes and systems. This volume addresses the design of complexity in the planning, fabrication and construction of steel structures based on non-orthogonal geometries: curved and chaotic geometries, poly-diagrid systems, lattice-grid structures and others. Topical photographs by the author on a wide range of international projects present innovative methods and techniques, providing an excellent understanding of the possibilities and requirements of complex steel structures.

Die zweidimensionale Zeichnung ist mit Grundriss, Aufriss und Schnitt die notwendige Grundlage für jedes Bauen. In Perspektiven gewinnen die Ideen des Architekten ihren plastischen Ausdruck. Um Architektur zu vermitteln und zu bauen, sind Zeichnungen im verkleinerten Maßstab unverzichtbar: für den Architekten ebenso wie für Handwerker und Bauherren. Das Buch erzählt die Entwicklungsgeschichte der Architekturzeichnung und eröffnet so einen Blick in die faszinierende Welt dieses Darstellungsmediums. Es zeigt keineswegs nur nüchterne technische Zeichnungen, sondern vor allem beeindruckende, immer wieder überraschende Bilderfindungen von geradezu malerischer Qualität. Es ist damit auch ein überzeugendes Plädoyer für die immer wieder neuen Wege, Architektur zu zeichnen und so zukünftige Welten zu imaginieren.

2016 New editorship Elisabeth Blum, Jesko Fezer, Günther Fischer, Angelika Schnell Not unjustly referred to as legendary, this series of books on the history and theory of architecture and urban development was founded in 1963 by Ulrich Conrads, who was joined by Peter Neitzke as a co-editor of the series in the early 1980s. Now numbering over 150 titles, it is the most comprehensive German-language book series covering these fields. Following the deaths of the two longtime editors Ulrich Conrads (2013) and Peter Neitzke (2015), a new editorial committee was formed to continue their work: Elisabeth Blum, Jesko Fezer, Günther Fischer and Angelika Schnell. As the future editors of this series, it is our aim to maintain the course set by our forerunners. The series has fulfilled its original aim of taking stock of the constructional and urban planning ideas and realizations formulated and achieved over the twentieth century in exemplary fashion. The Bauwelt Fundament series actually represents a history of ideas in the fields of planning and building that extends from the beginning of the twentieth century into the present. The second objective of the series, one that is anchored in its very name, will also continue to guide the development of the series, namely the publication of foundational thought – authoritative and fundamental – rather than passing opinion, of theses and polemics relating to the burning architectural and urban planning themes of the time. Penetrating complex interrelationships and probing them with systematic analysis provides the prerequisite for fruitful discourse and ongoing debate. As a forum for such discourses and contributions, the Bauwelt Fundamente series is maintaining its focus on the areas of architecture and urbanism, supplementing it with the always necessary historical　investigation of important questions and texts and its extension into other cultural and social fields. A strong international orientation and the desire for more female authors are self-evident in such a context. The original graphic design approach taken by Helmut Lortz to the series is being maintained. As is fitting for a working library, Bauwelt Fundamente titles remain simply designed, using black and white for the logo, the images on the front and back, and the eleven-line summary of the volume’s contents. This is indicative of the broad orientation of Bauwelt Fundamente to all those interested in the cultural and social development that provides the context for the creation of cities, houses and other objects, which in turn create contexts for the world. "Architects, it is said – or hoped – have always been interested in the world beyond the boundaries of their profession." (1) (1) Peter Neitzke, manuscript of his address Nicht mit dem Rücken zur Gesellschaft (Not with one’s back to society) given to mark the fiftieth anniversary of Bauwelt Fundamente in Berlin, 2013.

The book documents the design of patient rooms as the core element of a hospital. It explains the different design components such as material, color, light, surface texture, etc., while addressing the necessities of hygiene, as well as those of workflow, and economic viability. The book is rounded off by ten international project examples.

Logistics are central to contemporary urbanism. Looking at a city from the perspective of its systems rather than its form delineates a new framework for urbanism. This book undertakes an analysis of three major enterprises that heavily rely on sophisticated logistics - Amazon, FedEx, Ryan Air - and subsequently shows their impact on urbanism.

The architectural office of Escher GuneWardena was founded in 1996 in Los Angeles. Their work reflects the background and broad cultural ambitions of their principals Swiss-born Frank Escher who studied at ETH Zurich and Ravi GuneWardena, originally from Sri Lanka, who received his education at California State Polytechnic University.

Grossbaustellen sind nicht nur Ausdruck und Motor technischen Fortschritts, sondern als symbolische Orte auch Trager politischer und kultureller Botschaften.

Es ist unbestritten, dass Mies van der Rohe als einer der bedeutendsten Architekten der Moderne gilt. Aber wie verhalten sich seine Überlegungen und Ideale zur Architektur in seinem gebauten - und teils auch ungebauten - Werk? Dieser Frage geht das Buch anhand von 14 Projekten Mies' nach. Dabei stehen Detaillierung und Materialwahl im Vordergrund. Die Bauten umfassen, beim Haus Esters und Haus Lange (1927-30) beginnend, über das Haus Tugendhat (1928-30), den Barcelona-Pavillion (1928-29), das Farnsworth House (1946-51), den Lake Shore Drive (1948-51) bis hin zur Neuen Nationalgalerie (1962-68), mehrere Jahrzehnte Mies' Wirkens und sowohl seine deutsche, als auch seine amerikanische Schaffensphase.Sämtliche Zeichnungen sind durch den Autor einheitlich neugezeichnet.

The facade is the buildingΓÇÖs interface with its environment. It is here that building physics parameters such as heat, humidity, sound and light interact with the building. All these influences need to be controlled by the building envelope in order to ensure the comfort of the user and the functional performance of the architecture. This introduction explains the most important phenomena and then relates them to design and building practice ΓÇô which materials react in which way to these factors? How do facade systems deal with heat, humidity, sound and light? This practice-oriented book, which is the result of cooperation between an architect and a structural engineer, describes the most important facade materials and constructions under the aspect of their building physics performance.

The introductory essays on theory and history have been re-written and updated, and provide a clearly structured overview of residential construction and its development over the last 70 years.