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Japan's contemporary architecture has long been among the most inventive in the world, recognized for sustainability and infinite creativity. No fewer than eight Japanese architects have won the Pritzker Prize. Since Osaka World Expo '70 highlighted contemporary forms, Japan has been a key player in global architecture. Tadao Ando's geometry put Japanese building on the map, bridging East and West. After his concrete buildings, figures like Kengo Kuma, Shigeru Ban, and Kazuyo Sejima pioneered a more sustainable approach. Younger generations have taken new directions, in harmony with nature, traditional building, and an endless search for forms. Presenting the latest in Japanese building, this book links this unique creativity to Japan's high population density, modern economy, long history, and continual disasters in the form of earthquakes. Accepting ambiguity, constant change, and catastrophe is a key to understanding how Japanese architecture differs from that of Europe or America. This compact edition highlights 37 architects and 53 exceptional projects by Japanese masters--from Tadao Ando's Shanghai Poly Theater, Shigeru Ban's concert hall La Seine Musical, SANAA's Grace Farms, Fumihiko Maki's 4 World Trade Center to Takashi Suo's much smaller sustainable dental clinic. An elaborate essay traces the building scene from the Metabolists to today, showing how the interaction of past, present, and future has earned contemporary Japanese architecture worldwide recognition.

Ever since Henry David Thoreau's described his two years, two months, and two days of refuge existence at Walden Pond, Massachusetts, in Walden, or, Life in the Woods (1854), the idea of a cabin dwelling has seduced the modern psyche. In the past decade, as our material existence and environmental footprint has grown exponentially, architects around the globe have become particularly interested in the possibilities of the minimal, low-impact, and isolated abode. This Bibliotheca Universalis edition of Cabins combines insightful text, rich photography, and bright, contemporary illustrations by Marie-Laure Cruschi to show how this particular architectural type presents special opportunities for creative thinking. In eschewing excess, the cabin limits actual spatial intrusion to the bare essentials of living requirements, while in responding to its typically rustic setting, it foregrounds eco-friendly solutions. The cabin comes to showcase some of the most inventive and forward-looking practices of contemporary architecture, with Renzo Piano, Terunobu Fujimori, Tom Kundig, and many fresh young professionals all embracing such distilled sanctuary spaces. The book showcases the variety of cabins in use and geography. From an artist studio on the Suffolk coast in England to eco-home huts in the Western Ghats region of India, this collection is as exciting in its international reach as it is in its array of briefs, clients, and situations. Constant throughout, however, is architectural innovation, and an inspiring sense of contemplation and coexistence as people return to nature and to a less destructive model of being in the world.

Discover the unique aesthetic of Tadao Ando, the only architect ever to have won the discipline's four most prestigious prizes: the Pritzker, Carlsberg, Praemium Imperiale, and Kyoto Prize. This collection spans the breadth of Ando's entire career, including such stunning new projects as the Shanghai Poly Grand Theater and the Roberto Garza Sada Center in Monterrey, Mexico. Each project is profiled through photographs and architectural drawings that explore Ando's unprecedented use of concrete, wood, water, light, space, and natural forms. Featuring designs from award-winning private homes, churches, museums, and apartment complexes to cultural spaces throughout Japan, South Korea, France, Italy, Germany, Mexico, and the USA, this compact edition brings you up close and personal with a Modernist master.

Spanish visionary Santiago Calatrava is renowned around the world as an architect, structural engineer, sculptor, and artist. Famed for bridges as much as buildings, he has made his name with neofuturistic structures that combine deft engineering solutions with dramatic visual impact. From the Athens 2004 Olympic sports complex and the Museum of Tomorrow to the Peace Bridge in Calgary, Alamillo Bridge in Seville, and the Mujer Bridge in Buenos Aires, Calatrava's creations show particular interest in the meeting point of movement and balance. With influences ranging from NASA space design to da Vinci's nature studies, the structures dazzle with a sense of lightness, agility, and aerodynamism, but always with a graceful poise amid their particular surroundings. This compact introduction explores Calatrava's unique aesthetic with key projects from his career, from early breakthroughs to his most recent work. Through buildings of culture, science, faith, and across his many famous bridges, we explore his integration of organic forms and human movements, and a uniquely fluid futurism, soaring towards tomorrow.

Concrete? That characterless stuff of parking lots or Communist tower blocks, right? Well, yes. And no. Concrete is actually a name applied to a remarkably wide range of building substances, and, when properly handled, is one of the noble materials of contemporary architecture. A kind of "liquid stone" at the outset, it is malleable, durable, and capable of prodigious feats of engineering. This Bibliotheca Universalis edition highlights the best work done in concrete of recent years. It includes such stars as Zaha Hadid, Herzog & de Meuron, and Steven Holl, but also surprising new architects like the Russians SPEECH and artists such as James Turrell, who turned the famous concrete spiral of Frank Lloyd Wright's Guggenheim in New York into the setting of one of his most remarkable pieces.

The contemporary architecture of Japan has long been among the most inventive in the world, recognized for sustainability and infinite creativity. No fewer than seven Japanese architects have won the Pritzker Prize.Since Osaka World Expo '70 brought contemporary forms center stage, Japan has been a key player in global architecture. With his intentionally limited vocabulary of geometric forms, Tadao Ando has since then put Japanese building on the world's cultural map, establishing a bridge between East and West. In the wake of Ando's mostly concrete buildings, figures like Kengo Kuma (Japan National Stadium intended for the Olympic Games, originally planned for 2020), Shigeru Ban (Mount Fuji World Heritage Center), and Kazuyo Sejima (Kanazawa Museum of 21st Century Art of Contemporary Art) pioneered a more sustainable approach. Younger generations have successfully developed new directions in Japanese architecture that are in harmony with nature and connected to traditional building. Rather than planning on the drawing board, the architects presented in this collection stand out for their endless search for forms, truly reacting on their environment.Presenting the latest in Japanese building, this book reveals how this unique creativity is a fruit of Japan's very particular situation that includes high population density, a modern, efficient economy, a long history, and the continual presence of disasters in the form of earthquakes. Accepting ambiguity, as seen in the evanescent reflections of Sejima's Kanazawa Museum, or constant change and the threat of catastrophe is a key to understanding what makes Japanese architecture different from that of Europe or America.This XL-sized book highlights 39 architects and 55 exceptional projects by Japanese masters--from Tadao Ando's Shanghai Poly Theater, Shigeru Ban's concert hall La Seine Musical, SANAA'S Grace Farms, Fumihiko Maki's 4 World Trade Center, to Takashi Suo's much smaller sustainable dental clinic. Each project is introduced with photos, original floor plans and technical drawings, as well as insightful descriptions and brief biographies. An elaborate essay traces the country's building scene from the Metabolists to today and shows how the interaction of past, present, and future has earned contemporary Japanese architecture worldwide recognition.

Cutting edge architecture while you sup and dine The latest architecture and design of restaurants and bars, from L.A. to Tokyo, is the focus of this book. Whether the challenge is merely placing furniture in a simple space, or an ambitious structural project, restaurants and bars are the sites of our most expressive architecture; more ephemeral than larger facilities or entire buildings, they are more apt to capture the mood of the times. From a skyscraper rooftop in Bangkok to a beachfront in Brazil, here are places where design, architecture, food and drink come together in inspiring combinations ranging from minimalist to extravagantly Baroque. Designed and conceived like the enormously successful Architecture Now! books, this publishing milestone identifies the current trends bringing architecture and design together in new and exciting ways. Featured architects/firms/artists: 3deluxe-biorhythm, Architectuurbureau Sluijmers en Van Leeuwen, Architrave, Assadi + Pulido, AvroKO, Barkow Leibinger Architekten, Bel Lobo & Bob Neri Arquitetos, Christian Biecher, Buchner Bründler Architekten, Arthur Casa, CL3, Concrete, Electric Dreams, Elenberg Fraser, Stuart Forbes, Doriana and Massimiliano Fuksas, GCA Arquitectes, Gilles & Boissier, Stephanie Goto, Graft, Guedes + DeCampos, Zaha Hadid, Jeppe Hein, Hosoya Schaefer, Jakob+MacFarlane, Johnsen Schmaling Architects, SFJones Architects, Jouin Manku, Marcio Kogan, Kengo Kuma, Christian Liaigre, MAKE Architecture, Maurice Mentjens, Metro Arquitetura, Simone Micheli, Moon Design, Office dA, Katrin Olina, OlssonLyckefors Arkitekter, Pacific Environments, Pentagram, Pierluigi Piu, Studio Arne Quinze, Imaad Rahmouni, Karim Rashid, Thilo Reich/Tran Mai Huy-Thong, ROBERTNEUN, Serie, Philippe Starck, Super Potato, Tidy Arquitectos, Marcel Wanders, Isay Weinfeld, Wonderwall/Masamichi Katayama, Yabu Pushelberg, Cate Young

Small Houses is a tribute to the endless artistic inventiveness of architects and ingenuity of perception of the familiar and known concepts. It is also a conscious pivot towards sustainability and reduction of impact on the environment as well as a daring attitude of change in lifestyle. As humanity faces inevitable pressures such as climate change, an increase in population, and strain on resources, these solutions are helping shape what the world may look like in the future.Whether in the dense urban areas of Tokyo, the wilderness of Australia, the woods of Canada, or a rooftop in Ecuador, this is the world of Small Houses. The one common point they share, is that they all have an area of no more than 100 square meters. Spanning 25 countries such as Brazil, Hungary, South Korea, Netherlands, USA, Japan, and Australia, described here there are houses designed by 57 architects, including Takeshi Hosaka's Love2 House, Aranza de Ariño's Casa Tiny, and the work of Jakub Szczęsny, Charles Pictet, Lada Hrsak, BIG, and Fran Silvestre. This is a journey not only through recent evolutions in architectural design and creativity, but it is also a step toward a more sustainable world.

Designing private residences has its own very special challenges and nuances for the architect. The scale may be more modest than public projects, the technical fittings less complex than an industrial site, but the preferences, requirements, and vision of particular personalities becomes priority. The delicate task is to translate all the emotive associations and practical requirements of "home" into a workable, constructed reality. This publication rounds up 100 of the world's most interesting and pioneering homes designed in the past two decades, featuring a host of talents both new and established, including John Pawson, Shigeru Ban, Tadao Ando, Zaha Hadid, Herzog & de Meuron, Daniel Libeskind, Alvaro Siza, and Peter Zumthor. Accommodating daily routines of eating, sleeping, and shelter, as well as offering the space for personal experience and relationships, this is architecture at its most elementary and its most intimate.

Climate, environment, history, and technology are transforming architecture worldwide. The second volume in the Homes for Our Time series documents this housing revolution and raises questions: What role do homes play in our endangered world? How can they innovate? In Sri Lanka, Palinda Kannangara created the Frame Holiday Structure on a budget of $ 40,000. Built from steel scaffolding, exposed brick, and wood floors, the house can be easily disassembled and moved, adapting to the reality of the nearby floodplain. Luciano Lerner Basso's Fortunata House in Brazil accommodates the surrounding nature: it was built around a tree of an endangered species and sits upon stilts so as not to disturb the forest floor. Miller Hull's Loom House near Seattle has been called "the world's most environmentally ambitious home renovation" because of its reliance on recycled materials and its efficient energy use. Modern architectural history has been viewed primarily from a Western perspective and formed by men. More than 60 buildings from Vietnam, South Africa, India, China, and beyond--designed by men, women, and collectives--mark the end of this era. There is no longer a predominant style, and there probably never will be again. With photos by renowned architectural photographers, and precise descriptions as well as drawings from architectural offices, Philip Jodidio charts the diverse, sustainable architecture of the future. The private homes featured range from modest to extravagant. A beautiful house is always also a dream--and this book invites you to do just that.

Zaha Hadid (1950 - 2016) was a revolutionary architect. For years, she was widely acclaimed and won numerous prizes despite building practically nothing. Some even said her work was simply impossible to build. Yet, during the latter years of her life, Hadid's daring visions became a reality, bringing a new and unique architectural language to cities and structures such as the Port House in Antwerp, the Al Janoub Stadium near Doha, Qatar, and the spectacular new airport terminal in Beijing. By her untimely death in 2016, Hadid was firmly established among architecture's finest elite, working on projects in Europe, China, the Middle East, and the United States. She was the first female architect to win both the Pritzker Prize for architecture and the prestigious RIBA Royal Gold Medal, with her long-time Partner Patrik Schumacher now the leader of Zaha Hadid Architects and in charge of many new projects. Based on the massive TASCHEN monograph, this book is now available in an accessible edition covering Hadid's complete works, including ongoing projects. With abundant photographs, in-depth sketches, and Hadid's own drawings, the volume traces the evolution of her career, spanning not only her most pioneering buildings but also the furniture and interior designs that were integrated into her unique, and distinctly 21st-century, universe. "A celebration of all that is brave and audacious in her work." -- Australian Financial Review

The idea of climbing a tree for shelter, or just to see the earth from another perspective, is as old as humanity. In this neat TASCHEN edition, take a tour of some of our finest arboreal adventures with 50 of the most beautiful, inventive, and enchanting tree houses around the world. From romantic to contemporary, from famed architects to little-known craftsmen, you'll scale the heights to visit all manner of treetop structures, from a teahouse, restaurant, hotel, and children's playhouse to simple perches from which to contemplate life, enjoy the view, and discover that tree houses take as many forms as the imagination can offer. With an abundance of gorgeous photographs and illustrations, this is an ode to alternative living, where playful imagination meets eco-sensitive finesse.

Zaha Hadid was a revolutionary architect, who for many years built almost nothing, despite winning critical acclaim. Some even said her audacious, futuristic designs were unbuildable. During the latter years of her life, Hadid's daring visions became a reality, bringing a unique new architectural language to cities and structures as varied as the Rosenthal Center for Contemporary Art in Cincinnati, hailed by The New York Times as "the most important new building in America since the Cold War"; the MAXXI Museum in Rome; the Guangzhou Opera House in China; and the London 2012 Olympics Aquatics Centre. At the time of her unexpected death in 2016, Hadid was firmly established among the elite of world architecture, recognized as the first woman to win both the Pritzker Prize for architecture and the RIBA Royal Gold Medal, but above all as a giver of new forms, the first great architect of the noughties. From her early sharply angled buildings to later more fluid architecture that made floors, ceilings, walls, and furniture part of an overall design, this essential introduction presents key examples of Hadid's pioneering practice. She was an artist, as much as an architect, who fought to break the old rules and crafted her own 21st-century universe.

While some architects have a signature style, Renzo Piano seeks to apply coherent ideas to extraordinarily different projects. His buildings impress as much for their individual impact as for their diversity of scale, material, and form. Piano rose to international prominence with his codesign of the Pompidou Center in Paris, described by The New York Times as a building that "turned the architecture world upside down." Since then, he has continued to craft many high-profile cultural spaces, including the Modern Wing of the Art Institute of Chicago; the Morgan Library Renovation and Expansion in New York; and, most recently, the Whitney Museum of American Art, an asymmetric nine-story structure in Manhattan's Meatpacking District with both indoor and outdoor galleries. In New York and London, the Renzo touch has also transformed the skyline with the towers of the New York Times Building and the Shard, the tallest building in the European Union. This essential introduction travels from Osaka, Japan, to Bern, Switzerland, and through many cities, structures, and islands in between, to explore the staggering scope of the Renzo Piano repertoire. From the "inside-out" Pompidou to the airy shells of the Tjibaou Cultural Center in Nouméa, New Caledonia, this is a thrilling journey through the beauty of architecture, where, in Piano's own words, "each time, it is like life starting all over again."

The most exciting new buildings today are almost all environmentally aware, sustainable, and conceived to consume less energy than ever before. Discover the best examples of green projects from the Architecture Now! series in this handy Bibliotheca Universalis edition. Celebrated architects like Frank Gehry and Norman Foster are presented alongside young up-and-coming creators from all over the world. Filled with plans, renderings of proposed projects, and stunning architectural photography, this is nothing short of an encyclopedia of eco-design. From a water treatment facility to an art museum, luxurious holiday homes to commercial structures, these buildings all make a bold environmental statement. Being "green" means being aware of the responsibility in the construction and use of modern buildings; some solutions are as old as the history of architecture, while others are born of cutting-edge technologies. Explore these approaches and many more in this groundbreaking collection showcasing 100 of the world's most innovative eco-friendly buildings.

Zaha Hadid (1950 - 2016) was a revolutionary architect. For years, she was widely acclaimed and won numerous prizes despite building practically nothing. Some even said her work was simply impossible to build. Yet, during the latter years of her life, Hadid's daring visions became a reality, bringing a new and unique architectural language to cities and structures such as the Port House in Antwerp, the Al Janoub Stadium near Doha, Qatar, and the spectacular new airport terminal in Beijing. By her untimely death in 2016, Hadid was firmly established among architecture's finest elite, working on projects in Europe, China, the Middle East, and the United States. She was the first female architect to win both the Pritzker Prize for architecture and the prestigious RIBA Royal Gold Medal, with her long-time Partner Patrik Schumacher now the leader of Zaha Hadid Architects and in charge of many new projects. Based on the massive TASCHEN monograph, this book is now available in an extensively updated and accessible edition covering Hadid's complete works, including ongoing projects. With abundant photographs, in-depth sketches, and Hadid's own drawings, the volume traces the evolution of her career, spanning not only her most pioneering buildings but also the furniture and interior designs that were integrated into her unique, and distinctly 21st-century, universe.

Santiago Calatrava is a world-renowned architect, structural engineer, sculptor, and artist. From the Athens 2004 Olympic Sports Complex to the World Trade Center Transportation Hub in Manhattan, he exhibits a remarkable aesthetic and engineering prowess with a simultaneous sensitivity for both the appearance and the anatomy of a structure. With influences ranging from NASA space design to da Vinci's nature studies, Calatrava's creations are at once aerodynamic and organic in their associations. Natural forms and human movements inform a number of his projects, with a particular interest in the meeting point of equilibrium and dynamism. This updated monograph gathers detailed entries, photography, and the original watercolor sketches that set Calatrava aside as a unique creative master. It includes all of Calatrava's original input, as well as new projects such as the Mediopadana Station in Reggio Emilia, Italy, the Museum of Tomorrow in Rio de Janeiro, and recent works like the UAE Pavilion at Expo 2020 in Dubai.

Across small cottages and lavish villas, beach houses and forest refuges, discover the world's finest crop of new homes. This cutting-edge global digest features such talents as Shigeru Ban and Marcio Kogan alongside up-and-coming names like Aires Mateus, Xu Fu-Min, Vo Trong Nghia, Desai Chia, and Shunri Nishizawa. Here, there are homes in Australia and New Zealand, from China and Vietnam, in the United States and Mexico, and on to less expected places like Ecuador and Costa Rica. The result is a sweeping survey of the contemporary house and a revelation that homes across the globe may have more in common than expected. Among guava trees and abandoned forts in Western India is a sanctuary designed for and by Kamal Malik of Malik Architecture. The House of Three Streams is a sprawling spectacle with high ceilings, verandas, and pavilions, perched atop a ridge overlooking two ravines. A medley of steel, glass, wood, and stone, the house weaves along the contour of the landscape, almost as an extension of the forest. Encina House by Aranguren & Gallegos, an elegant, sloping structure reminiscent of a gazebo, similarly inhabits its surrounding vista. Ensconced in a pine forest north of Madrid, the lower level is embedded in rock and connected to the upper by a natural stone wall. Shinichi Ogawa's Seaside House is an immaculate two-story minimalist marvel in Kanagawa that overlooks the Pacific. Its living area spills onto a cantilevered terrace and infinity pool, almost dissolving into the ocean as one seamless entity. In Vietnam, Shunri Nishizawa's House in Chau Doc exudes tropical sophistication with exposed timber beams, woven bamboo, plants, concrete panels, and inner balconies and terraces. Its corrugated iron panels act as moveable walls and shutters, ushering in views of surrounding rice fields. These homes--along with more than 50 others--are each remarkably distinct in design. They all, however, toe the line between inside and outside, each one symbiotic with its surroundings.

Until his death at age 104, Oscar Niemeyer (1907-2012) was something of an unstoppable architectural force. Over seven decades of work, he designed approximately 600 buildings, transforming skylines from Bab-Ezzouar, Algeria, to his homeland masterpiece Brasília. Niemeyer's work took the reduced forms of modernism and infused them with free-flowing grace. In place of pared-down starkness, his structures rippled with sinuous and seductive lines. In buildings such as the Niterói Contemporary Art Museum, Edifício Copan, or the Metropolitan Cathedral in Brasília, he brought curvaceousness to the concrete jungle. In the futuristic federal capital of Brasília, he designed almost all public buildings, and thus became integral to the global image of Brazil. With rich illustrations documenting highlights from his prolific career, this book introduces Niemeyer's unique vision and its transformative influence on buildings of business, faith, culture, and the public imagination of Brazil.

Across small cottages and lavish villas, beach houses and forest refuges, discover the world's finest crop of new homes. This cutting-edge global digest features such talents as Shigeru Ban, MVRDV, and Marcio Kogan alongside up-and-coming names like Aires Mateus, Xu Fu-Min, Vo Trong Nghia, Desai Chia, and Shunri Nishizawa. Here, there are homes in Australia and New Zealand, from China and Vietnam, in the United States and Mexico, and on to less expected places like Ecuador and Costa Rica. The result is a sweeping survey of the contemporary house and a revelation that homes across the globe may have more in common than expected. Among guava trees and abandoned forts in Western India is a sanctuary designed for and by Kamal Malik of Malik Architecture. The House of Three Streams is a sprawling spectacle with high ceilings, verandas, and pavilions, perched atop a ridge overlooking two ravines. A medley of steel, glass, wood, and stone, the house weaves along the contour of the landscape, almost as an extension of the forest. Encina House by Aranguren & Gallegos, an elegant, sloping structure reminiscent of a gazebo, similarly inhabits its surrounding vista. Ensconced in a pine forest north of Madrid, the lower level is embedded in rock and connected to the upper by a natural stone wall. Shinichi Ogawa's Seaside House is an immaculate two-story minimalist marvel in Kanagawa that overlooks the Pacific. Its living area spills onto a cantilevered terrace and infinity pool, almost dissolving into the ocean as one seamless entity. In Vietnam, Shunri Nishizawa's House in Chau Doc exudes tropical sophistication with exposed timber beams, woven bamboo, plants, concrete panels, and inner balconies and terraces. Its corrugated iron panels act as moveable walls and shutters, ushering in views of surrounding rice fields. These homes--along with more than 50 others--are each remarkably distinct in design. They all, however, toe the line between inside and outside, each one symbiotic with its surroundings.

Acht Jahre nach Erscheinen der ersten Ausgabe dieser XXL-Monografie begibt sich Philip Jodidio erneut auf eine Reise durch die Welt Shigeru Bans. Er erkundet neu eröffnete, mit Spannung erwartete Gebäude, schildert seinen Ausblick auf die Zukunft des Studios Shigeru Ban und schafft damit eine welt- und zeitumspannende Rundschau der Karriere des japanischen Architekten. Diese aktualisierte Edition lädt Sie ein, die Entwicklung eines Künstlers zu begleiten, der als Garant für Wunderwerke der Architektur gilt, die an Innovation, Eleganz und Sensibilität unübertroffen sind. Neben frühen Werken, in denen Ban Papierröhren als Strukturelemente etablierte, und unverkennbaren Häusern wie dem Curtain Wall House in Tokio stellt der Band ferner Projekte jüngster Zeit vor, darunter der Swatch/Omega Campus in der Schweiz, ein zweistöckiges Penthouse auf dem Dach eines 140 Jahre alten New Yorker Wahrzeichens sowie die Seine Musicale, ein in den Masterplan Jean Nouvels integrierten Konzertsaal auf der Ile Séguin in Frankreich. Bans Werk möchte vor allem verstehen. Wie funktionieren Gebäude? Wie können Abfallmaterialien durch Wiederverwendung aufgewertet werden? Antworten darauf formuliert er als erfinderische Lösungsansätze, wie die Nutzung von Papier als Baumaterial. In all den Jahren seiner Karriere blieb Ban, der schon früh zur Symbolfigur der japanischen Architektur wurde, seiner einzigartigen architektonischen Handschrift treu, die seine Projekte in aller Welt auszeichnen. Ruhm und Ehre hielten den Pritzker-Preisträger jedoch nicht davon ab, sein Talent und seine Kreativität auch Menschen in Not zu widmen. Er entwarf Flüchtlingsunterkünfte in Ruanda und Sri Lanka und ermöglichte mit seiner Papierröhrentechnik den raschen Aufbau von Notunterkünften in den Krisengebieten Fukushimas und der Ukraine. Mit seiner lösungsorientierten, großzügigen und eleganten Herangehensweise prägt Shigeru Ban die humanitäre Architektur und definiert die Grenzen seines Fachs immer wieder neu.Auch erhältlich als Art Edition, limitiert auf 200 Exemplare mit einem signierten Kunstdruck Shigeru Bans und einem maßgefertigten 3D-Lasercut-Cover aus Holz.

Die Idee, einen Baum zu erklimmen, um Schutz zu suchen oder die Erde einfach nur aus einem anderen Blickwinkel zu betrachten, ist so alt wie die Menschheit selbst. Unternehmen Sie mit uns einen Ausflug zu den schönsten, einfallsreichsten und ungewöhnlichsten Wipfelparadiesen unseres Planeten. Von romantisch bis modern, von kernig-rustikal bis stylish finden Sie hier alle Spielarten von Baumbauten: vom Teehaus, Restaurant, Hotel und Spielhaus für Kinder bis zu schlichten Hochsitzen, auf denen man über das Leben nachdenken und die Aussicht genießen kann. Baumhäuser können so viele Formen annehmen, wie unsere Fantasie es zulässt. Mit einer Fülle prächtiger Fotos und Illustrationen ist dieser Band eine Ode an eine alternative Lebensart, bei der verspielte Vorstellungskraft auf umweltbewusste Finesse trifft.

Seit Henry David Thoreau in Walden oder Leben in den Wäldern (1854) die zwei Jahre, zwei Monate und zwei Tage beschrieb, die er in einer Hütte am Walden Pond in Massachusetts verbrachte, ist die moderne Psyche von der Vorstellung des Wohnens an einem Ort der Zuflucht fasziniert. Während unser materielles Dasein und unser Einfluss auf die Umwelt im zurückliegenden Jahrzehnt exponentiell gewachsen sind, haben sich Architekten in aller Welt konkret für die Möglichkeiten einer minimalen, isolierten Bleibe mit geringen Auswirkungen auf die Natur interessiert. Dieser Titel, der üppige Fotografie, zeitgenössische Illustrationen von Marie-Laure Cruschi und aufschlussreichen Text miteinander verbindet, erkundet, wie dieser spezielle Gebäudetyp dem kreativen Denken besondere Möglichkeiten eröffnet. Durch ihren Verzicht auf jegliches Übermaß beschränkt die Hütte das Eindringen in den Raum auf das Lebensnotwendigste, während sie zugleich umweltfreundliche Lösungsansätze in den Vordergrund stellt. Als solcher veranschaulicht die Hütte einige der einfallsreichsten und weitsichtigsten Praktiken zeitgenössischer Baukunst, beschäftigen sich doch Architekten wie Renzo Piano , Terunobu Fujimori , Tom Kundig und viele junge Talente mit solchen Refugien. Die hier vorgestellten Hütten unterstreichen die Vielfalt der Gattung, sowohl hinsichtlich der Nutzung als auch der Geographie. Von einem Künstleratelier an der Küste der englischen Grafschaft Suffolk bis zu Bambusbungalows in Sri Lanka ist dieser Überblick in seiner internationalen Spannweite ebenso spannend wie in der Bandbreite der Abrisse, Kunden und Situationen. Eine Konstante, die sich durch das ganze Werk zieht, sind jedoch der architektonische Einfallsreichtum und ein ansteckendes Gefühl der Nachdenklichkeit und des Miteinanders angesichts der Rückkehr von Menschen zur Natur und zu einem weniger zerstörerischen Daseinsmodell.

Seine Arbeit gilt zu Recht als außergewöhnlich. Mit einer weltumspannenden Karriere über sechs Jahrzehnte schöpft Norman Foster, einer der einflussreichsten Architekten unserer Zeit, aus dem Vollen: Für ihn gehören kreative Innovation und ein ganzheitlicher Ansatz untrennbar zusammen, wenn es darum geht, architektonische Wahrzeichen zu erschaffen. Der Apple Park im kalifornischen Cupertino, der Berliner Reichstag, der Innenhof des British Museum in London oder der Millau-Viadukt in Frankreich - die mit seinem Architekturbüro Foster + Partners entworfenen Werke beweisen nicht nur erfinderische Modernität, sondern auch Fosters ureigenes "nachhaltiges Konzept zur Gestaltung der gebauten Umwelt".Erstmals offenbart Foster in einer umfassenden Gesamtschau seltene Einblicke in seinen kreativen Schaffensprozess. Der vielseitig interessierte Architekt schildert seine Arbeitsweise und schlägt den Bogen sowohl von der Kunst zur Architektur als auch von seinen Leidenschaften - beispielsweise für das Fliegen - zu seiner Arbeit.Die XXL-Monografie in zwei Bänden führt uns durch ein Leben voller Originalität und Schaffensdrang. Während das erste Buch Fosters architektonische Arbeit mit mehr als 2000 Fotos und Skizzen aus seinen persönlichen Archiven präsentiert, enthält das zweite neben fast 1000 weiteren Illustrationen acht Essays des Architekten zu den Quellen seiner Inspiration.Diese visuelle Erkundungsreise bringt uns nicht nur die außerordentliche Leistung, sondern auch das Genie Norman Fosters näher, zu dessen Auszeichnungen der Pritzker-Preis 1999, die Goldmedaille für Architektur des American Institute of Architects, die Royal Gold Medal for Architecture sowie die Goldmedaille der French Academy of Architecture gehören. Gemeinsam mit dem Autor und dem Designer schuf Norman Foster mit viel Leidenschaft ein wahres Gesamtkunstwerk.Auch erhältlich als Art Edition, limitiert auf 300 Exemplare. Mit einem signierten Kunstdruck einer Zeichnung des künftigen Innovations- und Begegnungszentrums InnHub La Punt in der Schweiz und einem maßgefertigten, zum Buchständer aufklappbaren Schuber.

Seine Arbeit gilt zu Recht als außergewöhnlich. Mit einer weltumspannenden Karriere über sechs Jahrzehnte schöpft Norman Foster, einer der einflussreichsten Architekten unserer Zeit, aus dem Vollen: Für ihn gehören kreative Innovation und ein ganzheitlicher Ansatz untrennbar zusammen, wenn es darum geht, architektonische Wahrzeichen zu erschaffen. Der Apple Park im kalifornischen Cupertino, der Berliner Reichstag, der Innenhof des British Museum in London oder der Millau-Viadukt in Frankreich - die mit seinem Architekturbüro Foster + Partners entworfenen Werke beweisen nicht nur erfinderische Modernität, sondern auch Fosters ureigenes "nachhaltiges Konzept zur Gestaltung der gebauten Umwelt".Erstmals offenbart Foster in einer umfassenden Gesamtschau seltene Einblicke in seinen kreativen Schaffensprozess. Der vielseitig interessierte Architekt schildert seine Arbeitsweise und schlägt den Bogen sowohl von der Kunst zur Architektur als auch von seinen Leidenschaften - beispielsweise für das Fliegen - zu seiner Arbeit.Die XXL-Monografie in zwei Bänden führt uns durch ein Leben voller Originalität und Schaffensdrang. Während das erste Buch Fosters architektonische Arbeit mit mehr als 2000 Fotos und Skizzen aus seinen persönlichen Archiven präsentiert, enthält das zweite neben fast 1000 weiteren Illustrationen acht Essays des Architekten zu den Quellen seiner Inspiration.Diese visuelle Erkundungsreise bringt uns nicht nur die außerordentliche Leistung, sondern auch das Genie Norman Fosters näher, zu dessen Auszeichnungen der Pritzker-Preis 1999, die Goldmedaille für Architektur des American Institute of Architects, die Royal Gold Medal for Architecture sowie die Goldmedaille der French Academy of Architecture gehören. Gemeinsam mit dem Autor und dem Designer schuf Norman Foster mit viel Leidenschaft ein wahres Gesamtkunstwerk.Auch erhältlich als Art Edition, limitiert auf 300 Exemplare. Mit einem signierten Kunstdruck einer Zeichnung des künftigen Innovations- und Begegnungszentrums InnHub La Punt in der Schweiz und einem maßgefertigten, zum Buchständer aufklappbaren Schuber.

Die japanische Architektur wird seit langem für ihre Extravaganz, Nachhaltigkeit und scheinbar unbegrenzte Kreativität gerühmt - nicht weniger als acht japanische Architektinnen und Architekten wurden mit dem Pritzker-Preis ausgezeichnet.Seit den experimentellen Kontruktionen der Expo '70 in Osaka hat Japan eine Schlüsselposition in der globalen Architektur, manifestiert in meisterhaften Betonkonstruktionen von Tadao Ando oder nachhaltigeren Ansätzen von Baumeistern wie Kengo Kuma, Shigeru Ban und Kazuyo Sejima. Jüngere Generationen entwickelten ihre Arbeit noch weiter im Einklang mit der Umwelt, Bautraditionen und verfügbaren Ressourcen, immer in Hinblick auf die besonderen Situation des Landes: hohe Bevölkerungsdichte, effiziente Wirtschaft sowie tragische Katastrophen wie Erdbeben. So unterscheidet sich die japanische Architektur im Kern von der europäischen und amerikanischen durch die Fähigkeit zu akzeptieren, dass die Welt so unvorhersehbar ist wie die Spiegelungen des Lichts in Sejimas Museumsbau in Kanazwa.Dieses Buch basiert auf der XL-Ausgabe und präsentiert 37 japanische Architektinnen und Architekten mit insgesamt 53 Projekten, von Tadao Andos Shanghai Poly Theater, SANAAs Grace Farms, Fumihiko Makis 4 World Trade Center bis hin zu Takashi Suos nachhaltiger Zahnarztpraxis. Ein ausführlicher Essay verdeutlicht, dass ein Zusammenspiel von Vergangenheit, Gegenwart und Zukunft das Fundament zeitgenössischer japanischer Baukunst bildet, wie es in keinem anderem Land möglich wäre.

Zaha Hadid war eine revolutionäre Architektin. Jahrelang wurde sie in weiten Kreisen gefeiert und mit zahlreichen Preisen ausgezeichnet, obwohl sie praktisch nichts baute. Einige behaupteten sogar, es sei schier unmöglich, ihre Entwürfe umzusetzen. Dennoch wurden Hadids Visionen in ihren späteren Lebensjahren Realität und brachten ein neues, einzigartiges architektonisches Vokabular in Städte und Projekte wie das Port House in Antwerpen, das Al Janoub Stadium bei Doha in Katar und das beeindruckende neue Flughafengebäude in Peking. Zum Zeitpunkt ihres verfrühten Ablebens 2016 war Hadid fest in der höchsten Architekturelite etabliert und arbeitete an Bauvorhaben in Europa, China, dem Nahen Osten und den Vereinigten Staaten. Sie war die erste Architektin, die sowohl den Pritzker-Architekturpreis als auch die prestigeträchtige Royal Gold Medal der RIBA erhielt. Ihr langjähriger Partner Patrik Schumacher leitet heute das Büro Zaha Hadid Architects. Diese kompakte Ausgabe , die auf Grundlage der XXL-Monografie entstand, deckt Hadids sämtliche Werke bis hin zu laufenden Projekten ab. Mit reichlich Fotos, ausführlichen Skizzen und Hadids eigenen Zeichnungen folgt der Band ihrer Laufbahn, indem er nicht nur ihre bahnbrechendsten Bauten erfasst, sondern auch ihre Entwürfe für Möbel und Inneneinrichtungen einbezieht, die Teil ihrer einzigartigen Welt waren, die unverkennbar den Stempel des 21. Jahrhunderts trägt.

Questo cofanetto comprende due volumi esaustivi che esplorano il mondo intero per portare alla luce gli edifici in mattone più esaltanti e innovativi realizzati negli ultimi quindici anni, dall'Argentina alla Nuova Zelanda. Gli edifici selezionati mostrano come il mattone possa essere impiegato nelle modalità più disparate, dagli spazi culturali a quelli abitativi, dalle infrastrutture fino ai luoghi dedicati al divertimento, come la Tate Modern Switch House di Herzog & De Meuron, l'Amorio Restaurant di Tidy Architects a Stantiago e il Maternity Waiting Village di Mass Design Group, a Kasungu, in Malawi.

The Spanish architect and interior designer Fran Silvestre presents a selection of projects showcasing his pared-back Mediterranean aesthetic.