Zickzack

"Zickzack" is the German word for "zigzag": hopping around, moving back and forth, never following a straight line, avoiding the monotony of one thing following another. Zickzack is William Firebrace's zigzagging exploration of six places on the edges of the German-speaking world. Deploying essays, narration, conversations, descriptions, and lists, Firebrace celebrates locations on defined and …

Die Berliner Stadtplanung zwischen dem 18. und 19. Jahrhundert. Folgen und Au…

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9783346661784

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1 online resource (24 pages)

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The City in the CityArchitecture and Change in London's Financial District

In The City in the City, Amy Thomas offers the first in-depth architectural and urban history of London's financial district, the City of London, from the period of rebuilding after World War II to the explosive climax of financial deregulation in the 1980s and its long aftermath. Thomas examines abstract financial ideas, political ideology, and invisible markets as concrete realities; working …

Die städtebauliche Entwicklung Berlins nach der Wiedervereinigung Deutschlands

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9783346762672

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1 online resource (16 pages)

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Yasmeen LariArchitecture for the Future

After more than three decades as a renowned global architect, Yasmeen Lari, the first woman to open her own architecture firm in Pakistan in 1964, developed Zero Carbon Architecture, which unites ecological and social justice. This volume, edited by Angelika Fitz, Elke Krasny, and Marvi Mazhar, presents Lari's trajectory from exemplary modernist to zero carbon revolutionary, with a focus on her…

Proposed Shopping Mall Design in Abuja Nigeria. Application of Cooling Strate…

Master's Thesis from the year 2022 in the subject Art - Architecture / History of Construction, grade: 5.0 (A), course: Msc. Architecture, language: English, abstract: The focus of this master's thesis was on design approaches that would lessen the need for artificial means of boosting passive cooling. Accordingly, this study made the recommendation that shopping mall design incorporate passive…

Beyond DigitalDesign and Automation at the End of Modernity

Mass production was the core technical logic of industrial modernity: for the last hundred years, architects and designers have tried to industrialize construction and standardize building materials and processes in the pursuit of economies of scale. But this epochal march of modernity is now over. In Beyond Digital, Mario Carpo reviews the long history of the computational mode of production, …

Brandschutz im Wohnungsbau. Anforderungen und baukonstruktive Umsetzung

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9783346793904

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1 online resource (32 pages)

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Architecture and Abstraction

In this theoretical study of abstraction in architecture—the first of its kind—Pier Vittorio Aureli argues for a reconsideration of abstraction, its meanings, and its sources. Although architects have typically interpreted abstraction in formal terms—the purposeful reduction of the complexities of design to its essentials—Aureli shows that abstraction instead arises from the material co…

Die kunstgeschichtliche Epoche der Romanik. Architektur und geschichtlicher Z…

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9783346806789

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1 online resource (52 pages)

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