Product Description: Oneplanetarchitecture is the design philosophy Thomas Rau, the founder and director of RAU, developed over the recent years. It implies a broad approach towards the building task taking into account the material and immaterial needs of users, the place, the society, and the planet earth...read more

Product Description: Once again, new interpretations are presented of some of the most famous architecture of the period. Work by lesser-known architects, whose influence and role have been overlooked by conventional histories of the subject, is discussed...read more

Product Description: People identify with the spaces they helped to determine, and naturally appropriate them. As a producer of such anarchic work, it is perhaps surprising to discover that Hubner has also long been at the forefront of CAD, but this is a natural development of systematization, for if computers can calculate all the variants and regularities, we need no longer conform to Ford's production line...read more

Product Description: A contemporary of Walter Gropius and Le Corbusier, Gunnar Asplund pursued a unique architecture that displayed a blend of classical tradition, vernacular architecture and Modernism. ove all, he achieved a sensitive understanding of the relationship between architecture and its surrounding landscape, and it is such contributions that have made him recognized as Sweden's leading architect of the twentieth century...read more

Product Description: Bringing together leading international practitioners and theorists in the field, ranging from the 1960s pioneers of participation to some of the major contemporary figures in the field, Architecture and Participation opens up the social and political aspects of our built environment, and the way that the eventual users may shape it...read more

Product Description: Peter Blundell Jones details the inadequacy of the first histories of the Modern Movement by revealing the existence of suppressed alternative traditions within the movement and shows their great diversity through the use of case studies...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Although he built relatively little, Haring was a key figure of the Modern Movement. (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

This text offers an overview of the life and work of Hans Scharoun, a German architectural Modernist of the 1920s, who stayed in the country during the Third Reich to re-emerge in the 1950s. His theoretical stance in relation to his contemporaries is explored. Scharoun first achieved international recognition with his controversial house for the Stuttgart Weissenhofsiedlung in 1927. His experiments with free planning and dynamic interior space continued throughout the difficult wartime years, from which he emerged with renewed energy and a consolidated architectural philosophy. This is best exemplified by the famous Philharmonic concert hall in Berlin of 1956-63, which brought him widespread acclaim. This structure, with its in-the-round layout and geometrical complexity, has been much imitated and remains a 20th century model for this building type.