"For an increasing number of people living in Western societies, suburbia is the primary living environment. For example, in the US more people live in the suburbs than in cities. As a result, 75% of all new construction in the US is in suburbia when only 5% of this is architect--designed. This new book from Architectural Design presents an opportunity for architects to rake back a large sector of the housing and construction industry. I ..."
"Sign as Surface is an exhibition of built and speculative works by ten young international architects. The exhibition is framed around two competing tendencies - practices rooted in representation and metaphor and those founded on material systems and numeric organizations. The projects featured investigate the architectural surface as a site for expression, from the space of the figurative and featured, to a space of coded interface."
"Decisions of international courts and arbitrators, as well as judgments of national courts, are fundamental elements of modern public international law. The International Law Reports is the only publication in the world wholly devoted to the regular and systematic reporting in English of such decisions. It is an absolutely essential work of reference. The series, established sixty years ago (originally under the title of Annual Digest a ..."
"Bangladeschs Hauptstadt Dhaka verfügt mit seinem durch Louis I. Kahn von 1961-1982 erbauten Parlament über eines der wichtigsten Bauten des 20. Jahrhunderts. Doch über die lokale Architekturszene, die sich seither entwickelt hat, ist wenig bekannt. Dabei überzeugt die zeitgenössische Architektur Bangladeschs durch die in der Tradition verhaftete starke Formensprache, kombiniert mit dem innovativen Umgang mit den lokalen Ressourcen wie B ..."
"MVRDV is a Rotterdam-based architecture and urban design practice founded in 1993 (its name is an acronym for founding members Winy Maas, Jacob van Rijs and Nathalie de Vries). In cooperation with Ilka and Andreas Ruby, MVRDV assembled a monographic overview of 20 years of architectural practice, "MVRDV Buildings," now available in a new, updated edition. Featuring user testimonies, journalistic articles, and previously unpublished imag ..."
"The last decade has seen a growing social movement towards collectivity, sharing and participation. This paradigm shift is reflected in architecture as well: In recent years, increasingly innovative collective housing projects, organized around the principle of trading in private spaces for larger, more luxurious shared spaces, have been emerging across the globe – many of them realized through bottom-up grassroots initiatives. The retu ..."
Swim City(1st Edition) by Yuma Shinohara, AndreasRuby Paperback, 224 Pages, Published 2019 by Christoph Merian ISBN-13: 978-3-85616-889-6, ISBN: 3-85616-889-3
"Urban Swimming liegt im Trend. Schweizer Städte sind weltweit Vorreiter und vielbeachtete Vorbilder in Sachen Flussschwimmen im städtischen Raum. Auch in Städten wie London, New York und Berlin fordern immer mehr Menschen das Recht auf ihre Flüsse, Häfen und Kanäle zurück und verweisen auf die Situation in der Schweiz. Hier ist der Fluss mit seinen Uferzonen in vielen Städten schrittweise als öffentliche Ressource erschlossen worden. Me ..."
Groundscapes(Illustrated) El Reencuentro Con el Suelo en la Arquitectura Contemporanea- Land & Scape (Spanish Edition) by Ilka Ruby, AndreasRuby, James Roderick O'donovan, María Dolores Ábalos Paperback, 206 Pages, Published 2006 by Editorial Gustavo Gili Sl ISBN-13: 978-84-252-1963-4, ISBN: 84-252-1963-9
"Groundscapes explores the 'comeback' of the idea of the ground onto the scene of contemporary architecture. With the decline of heroic modernism in the late 1960s a new generation of architects eager to discover this forbidden land initiated a reterritorialisation of architecture which continues today. As a consequence, we can understand built space and ground space no longer as opposites but as equal elements of the architectural body. ..."
Images(1st Edition) A Picture Book Of Architecture (Architecture in Focus) by Ilka Ruby, AndreasRuby, Philip Ursprung, James R. O'donovan Paperback, 160 Pages, Published 2004 by Prestel Pub ISBN-13: 978-3-7913-3133-1, ISBN: 3-7913-3133-7
"In this exciting, large-format volume, hundreds of photographs and illustrations document a major shift from the building as structure to the building as image. This exploration of the use and significance of two-dimensional images in contemporary architecture looks at the works of major designers, including Zaha Hadid, Herzog & de Meuron, Rem Koolhaas, MVRDV, and Sauerbruch & Hutton, among others. It shows how certain architectural pri ..."
"As Zaha Hadid has put it, "There are 360 degrees, so why stick to one?" Why indeed? Hadid's architectural conceptions confound one with impossibilities, with floating buildings, indecipherable volumes, untraceable paths of light, spaces seemingly less related to real, livable space than something from a virtual dimension. Hers is a visionary architecture built in fantastic, streamlined paintings, innovative, whimsical 3-D models, and mo ..."
Minimal Architecture(1st Edition) From Contemporary International Style to New Strategies (Architecture in Focus) by AndreasRuby, Angeli Sachs, Philip Ursprung, Ilka Ruby Paperback, 175 Pages, Published 2003 by Prestel Pub ISBN-13: 978-3-7913-2859-1, ISBN: 3-7913-2859-X
"This trenchant re-examination of minimalism in architecture helps deepen our understanding of a style as diverse as the artists who practice it. What is minimalism? Or, more specifically, what isn't? In this aesthetic voyage three experts in the field of architecture and art history trace the development of minimalism as a style and offer perspectives on the directions the movement is taking as it morphs toward the future. In double-pag ..."
"Schweizweit zeigt eine Momentaufnahme der Schweizer Architekturproduktion im Jahr 2016. Während das Bild der Schweizer Architektur vor allem international immer noch sehr stark von den 1990er Jahren und dem Minimalismus geprägt wird, präsentiert sich die aktuelle gebaute Realität als regional differenzierter und heterogener - "Schweizer Architekturen" statt "Die Schweizer Architektur". In Zusammenarbeit mit rund 160 Architekturbüros aus ..."
"Sadar + Vuga is a Slovenian architectural office whose first building, the headquarters of the Slovenian Chamber of Commerce in Ljubljana, built in 1999, won international acclaim. This volume contains a comprehensive catalogue of their 16 completed buildings, a photo essay, and commentary by peers such as Jacob van Rijs, Philip Ursprung, Jörg Leeser, Mark Lee and Duncan Lewis."
"Dominique Perrault, the force behind the four colossal projects showcased here, defines a meta-building as "a structure that exceeds the customary dimensions of a building to encompass a landscape or a city, both physically and conceptually." She continues, "I believe the future of our towns lies in meta-buildings, for reasons of energy consumption, social relations, transportation and urbanity. Buildings of this type almost act in an u ..."
"Presenting unique and in-depth collaborations and editions with leading international artists, Parkett is one of the leading publications on contemporary art. Parkett No. 62 features Tacita Dean, Thomas Demand, and John Wesley, three artists from different generations and backgrounds who deal with themes of representation and reception, artificiality and naturalness, fact and fiction, history and perception, and the stylized and the fac ..."
"The architecture studio HARQUITECTES was established in 2000 and based in Sabadell, Barcelona. It is managed by four partner architects: David Lorente Ibanez, Josep Ricart Ulldemolins, Xavier Ros Majo and Roger Tudo Gali. They have lectured all over Europe and America, and their works have been recognized with several awards and selected for exhibitions at home and abroad. They have addressed the parlous Spanish economy by adapting thei ..."
"'The Materials Book' offers essays, case studies, and a catalog of building materials by more than 60 architects, engineers, and scientists from the world over on environmentally mindful and socially responsible use of materials and ..."
"The book's written contributions and photographic essays provide a multifaceted impression of architectural innovation in Japan now, including more than 20 current projects and a closer look at five architecture practices."