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energy concept essays by Kristin Feireiss, Dietmar steiner, Florian Aicher and Peter Widerin amongst others; photos by eduard Hueber ARCHIteCts | BUILDInGs | 11 E ng lish /
G er m an baumschlager eberle Office Building 2226, Lustenau, Austria Photos: Eduard Hueber birkhauser.com Christian Schittich (Ed.), diverse authors DetAIL engineering 4: soM [DETAIL Engineering] E ng
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ILLs. 50 drawings and 250 photos FoRMAt 29.7 × 23.0 cm, Hardcover EUR 49.00 / USD 69.00 978-3-95553-223-9 English
EUR 49.00 / USD 69.00 PDF 978-3-95553-224-6 English
EUR 72.00 / USD 102.00 978-3-95553-225-3 English
With nearly 80 years of experience in inte- grating architecture and engineering, Skidmore, Owings & Merrill’s (SOM) work remains groundbreaking, especially when it comes to designing supertalls. Besides addressing the question of “how high can you go”, as well as the issues of efficiency and economy, this fourth volume of the DETAIL engineering series presents the theoretical background of SOM’s structural group. On the basis of a variety of projects with their general structural concept or their specific details, the book explains the pro- cess of finding corresponding solutions. These solutions illustrate the company’s core values: simplicity, clarity, hierarchy, efficien- cy and continuous reseach. In addition, the projects – from James Turrel Skyspace to Burj Khalifa – are also placed in the context of SOM’s work as a whole using anecdotes from a number of other well-known SOM projects as John Hancock or Sears Tower. This volume considers how to find new structural solutions, as well as how materials can be used innovatively to create “next generation” buildings.
birkhauser.com Bert Bielefeld (Ed.) Basics Building Construction E ng lish PAGes approx. 400 ILLs. 350 b/w-illustrations FoRMAt 22.0 × 15.5 cm, Softcover EUR 39.95 / USD 56.00 978-3-0356-0372-9 English
Each type of construction has its special characteristics which cannot be compared with those of other building materials. The first building construction designs in the architectural curriculum are planned as ma- sonry or timber buildings. On the basis of these two traditional and elementary build- ing materials, students familiarize them- selves with construction details and struc- tural principles, which are also the basis of construction with “modern” materials such as steel, concrete and glass.
structured and focused, and explains the characteristics of these important construc- tion materials. The book familiarizes the reader with the most common construction systems, their rules and applications, and enables architectural students to contem- plate creative solutions that may also be out- side the standardized solutions offered by the construction industry. This compendium combines the successful individual volumes Timber Construction, Masonry Construction and Glass Construction of the BASICS series in one book, which has been expanded by the two new, hitherto un- published, Steel Construction and Concrete Construction volumes. Bert Bielefeld, Professor at the University of Siegen, managing partner of bielefeld&partner in Dortmund. A student’s companion on architectural construction, including the two new volumes Steel Construction and Concrete Construction Whereas all textbooks assume some basic knowledge, the BAsICs series starts at zero. Consistent didactic concept stUDy | PRoFessIonAL PRACtICe | 13 Also new and available as single volume: Basics steel Construction
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60 b/w-illustrations FoRMAt 22.0 × 15.5 cm, Softcover EUR 14.95 / USD 21.00 978-3-0356-0370-5 English
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60 b/w-illustrations FoRMAt 22.0 × 15.5 cm, Softcover EUR 14.95 / USD 21.00 978-3-0356-0362-0 English
birkhauser.com 14 | stUDy | PRoFessIonAL PRACtICe Getting Things Done 03 deals with the devel- opment of the building culture in Vorarlberg between 1950 and 2000 by focusing on key issues, and by means of witness accounts as well as by references to events relevant to the cultural history of the region. The essays and interviews highlight relation- ships and developments that create interest in social interactions and the evolution of ideas. Beyond the idea of an implicit meta- phor of “widely spread family histories”, the heterogeneous nature of Vorarlberg architec- ture is profiled. The latter is described on the basis of the generations of designers, plan- ners and actors, of the differences and continuity of motives and of the constantly changing construction methods and work environments. Another important issue is the “perfected” subversion: as a result of the usually strong objections experienced in practical application and the opposing forc- es, which have been painstakingly and thor- oughly profiled, it has time and again proved itself as a reliable factor. Wolfgang Fiel, born 1973, studied architecture in Vienna and London. He teaches and has edited numerous books.
In 2008, the Department of Art and Architec- ture at the Vienna Academy of Fine Arts de- veloped a new basis for the curriculum. They created five research platforms: Analogue and Digital Production (ADP), Ecology Sustainability Conservation (ESC), History Theory Criticism (HTC), Geography Land- scape Cities (GLC) and Construction Material Technology (CMT). The CMT platform is lead by Michelle Howard; she used the platform to establish the Research Observe Make (ROM) teaching program. The ROM publication documents this program and also forms the basis for future development. It comprises, assembled in one volume, five complementa- ry books, which can also be read individually. After an introduction and an exposé on theo- ry, the “elements”, “space” and “material” projects are introduced. The last book docu- ments workshops, lectures and experiments. An inspiring compendium with numerous expert contributions and creative student projects. Prof. Michelle Howard directs the Platform CMT– Construction Material Technolgie at the Academy of Fine Arts, Vienna.
An Alternative Manual for Architectural Education
approx. 260 ILLs. 350 b/w-illustrations FoRMAt 24.0 × 17.0 cm EUR 39.95 / USD 56.00 978-3-0356-0417-7 English
EUR 39.95 / USD 56.00 PDF 978-3-0356-0423-8 English EPUB 978-3-0356-0429-0 English PRInt + eBooK EUR 59.95 / USD 84.00 978-3-0356-0424-5 English
E ng lish Wolfgang Fiel (Ed.), Robert Fabach the story thus Far Getting Things Done 03 Evolution of the Built Environment in Vorarlberg PAGes approx. 96 ILLs. 20 b/w-illustrations, 50 color illustrations, 20 monochrome graphics FoRMAt 42.0 × 30.0 cm, Softcover EUR 19.40 / USD 27.00 978-3-0356-0418-4 English / German eBooK EUR 19.40 / USD 27.00 PDF 978-3-0356-0421-4 English / German EPUB 978-3-0356-0430-6 English / German PRInt + eBooK EUR 29.95 / USD 42.00 978-3-0356-0422-1 English / German Available March 2015 E ng lish /
G er m an birkhauser.com tHeoRy | HIstoRy | 15 Christian Thun-Hohenstein, Christian Witt-Dörring, Matthias Boeckl (Eds.) Ways to Modernism Josef Hoffmann / Adolf Loos and their Impact E ng lish /
G er m an PAGes approx. 304 ILLs. 250 color illustrations FoRMAt 27.0 × 21.0 cm, Softcover EUR 38.50 / USD 54.00 978-3-0356-0377-4 English / German Available January 2015 Design and architecture in Vienna around 1900 The catalogue for the exhibition at the MAK (Austrian Museum for Applied Arts/ Contemporary Art in Vienna) focuses on two fundamental approaches of the Moderne movement in an antithetic comparison, including the preceding history and after- effects to this day: Josef Hoffmann (1870–1956) and Adolf Loos (1870–1933) represent opposing reactions to the basic problems of modern civilization, which were triggered by the process of industrialization and democratization. Two different concepts for a modern way of life were created: Hoffmann promoted a comprehensive aes- theticization of all spheres of life, while Loos interpreted architecture and design as the functional background for the development of individual personalities.
In 16 essays, well-known European and American experts investigate a wide range of contributing conditions and the highlights and consequences of these two traditions of the Moderne movement, from the 19th century to the present. The key works of Hoffmann and Loos – as well as those of their predecessors such as Otto Wagner, and successors such as Josef Frank – are richly illustrated. Christian thun-Hohenstein, Director of the MAK; Christian Witt-Dörring, Curator at the MAK; Matthias Boeckl, Univ. of Applied Arts, Vienna Great moments of the Moderne movement in Vienna the key works of Joseph Hoffmann and Adolf Loos Central issues of the cultural debate birkhauser.com 16 | tHeoRy | HIstoRy Writing has become an important component of the architectural practice. Architects ex- periment with new writing modalities in order to concretize architectural designs and built forms, or to generate and debate about guidelines and paradigms in architec- ture. Even literary texts like utopian stories, comics, or urban novels open for architecture imaginative space conceptions that go be- yond mere geometrical and functional princi- ples. GAM Archiscripts is a collection of current positions on and analyses of forms of expression, and of practices in architectural writing and publishing.With contributions from Pedro Gadanho, Jimenez Lai, Martino Stierli, Bernard Tschumi, WAI Think Tank, Julia Weber and many more. Writing architecture Up-to-date overview on the topic of architecture and text Writing about architecture, writing as architecture, architecture in written texts GAM, the yearbook of the Faculty of Architecture at the technical University Graz, Austria, publishes peer-reviewed specialist contributions. TU Graz (Ed.) GAM 11 Archiscripts Textual Forms of Architectural Design
344 ILLs. 500 color illustrations FoRMAt 27.4 × 22.6 cm, Softcover EUR 19.44 / USD 27.00 978-3-0356-0452-8
English / German Available April 2015 E ng lish /
G er m an Symbolizing Existence deals with the current rapidly happening “deterritorialization” of everything which was once regarded stable and binding. What we today regard as statis- tically encoded information is capable to explicate and index the entire realm of what can be expressed and represented through a cascade of geometrical, functional, or finally logified schemes. We are currently experiencing a rapid loss of “grounding” of that which we once considered binding in our cultural and intellectual history. How can we obtain an articualte, cultivate way of thinking about “instances” that does not fall back into a schematic model Platonism (thereby falling behind Plato), and that does not re- main enmeshed in an Aristotelian realization dynamics with a naturalism organized by original genus, kinds, and specific marks of distinction? The central phenomenon considered was the technological process of doping material: At the quantum level, a particle or its represen- tation, the point, is no longer “that which has no parts” (Euclid).
Metalithikum III PAGes approx. 250 ILLs. 30 b/w-illustrations FoRMAt 23.5 × 15.5 cm, Softcover EUR 34.95 / USD 49.00 978-3-0356-0378-1 English
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E ng lish birkhauser.com tHeoRy | HIstoRy | 17 Urban space is a commons: simultaneously a sphere of human cooperation and negotia- tion and its product. Understanding urban space as a commons means that the much sought-after productivity of the city pre- cedes rather than results from strategies of the state and capital. This approach challenges assumptions of urbanization as capital-driven, an idea which resonates with a range of recent urban social movements, from the Arab Spring and the Occupy movement to the “Right to the City” alliance. However, commons exist in a tense relation- ship with state and market, both of which continually seek to exploit and control them. Initiatives to create “commons” are wel- comed and even facilitated by governments in order to (re-)valorize urban space and less- en the impacts of economic restructuring, while, at the same time, the creative and reproductive potential of the urban commons is undermined by continuing attempts to commodify them. This volume examines these topics theoreti- cally and empirically through a wide spec- trum of international case studies providing perspectives from a variaty of cities as diverse as Berlin, Hyderabad and Seoul. A wider discussion of commons in current
scientific and activist literature from hous- ing, public space, to urban infrastructure, is explored through the lens of the urban condition.
Beyond State and Market PAGes approx. 288 ILLs. 50 b/w-illustrations FoRMAt 19.0 × 14.0 cm, Softcover EUR 29.95 / USD 42.00 978-3-03821-661-2 English eBooK EUR 29.95 / USD 42.00
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E ng lish In the first half of the twentieth century, urban design under the influence of European dictatorships not only served to support the rulers in their own country, but also to gain the recognition of the democratic states. After the National Socialist regime came to power in Germany, urban design increasingly became the trump card in the competition amongst the large dictatorships in Europe – almost as in the time of absolutism. Irrespec- tive of all conflicts and political orientations, there was an intense exchange of ideas amongst the states in Europe. It is therefore not adequate to make an as- sessment just from the point of view of the dictatorships. The overarching view helps to understand the special characteristics of each dictatorship, and also disproves some simplified interpretations of their respective approaches to urban design. That is not just of historic interest; the discussion of the issue of dictatorships, is always also an ex- pression of our social condition, our commem- orative culture, our ability to recognize old and new forms of dictatorship – even today! The book discusses the state of research into urban design under five dictatorships during the first half of the twentieth century, and presents new research results based on examples.
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