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Innovative and imaginative communications design from the highly respected Berlin firm Moniteurs.

Addresses the complex interdependence of colour and light with a direct and sensuous approach.

Experiencing architecture means seeing architecture. Certain aspects and contexts of the perception of architecture can best be explained by means of images. This is the idea upon which this book is based.

Shaping space is the most fundamental task of the architect. This publication seeks to intensify the architectural discussion on space.

Presents a project Baumann & Baumann carried out together with eighty students over the course of eighty hours at the Musashino Art University, Tokyo.

Interviews with thirty famous Swiss architects including: Herzog & de Meuron, Peter Zumthor, Valerio Olgiati, Mario Botta, Luigi Snozzi and many others.

During the nineteen sixties and seventies in particular Utopias served as a source of inspiration for many architects. In the following decades Utopias continued to be a relevant issue in the humanities, but now tended to be pushed aside in architectural discourse. Re-searching Utopia sets out on a journey of discovery to find the contemporary role and possibilities offered by Utopias.

Documents the building project which took place in 2012

The Toms collection boasts one of the most important groupings of tapestries privately assembled during the second half of the twentieth century.

One discovers Max Bill as the tireless creator of highly individual types and commercial logos as well as a designer with a sense of visual humour. This book offers a comprehensive view of an area of work from Bill: typography, advertising and book design.

This book casts a critical light on the many-layered connections between architecture and engineering in the nineteenth century and the markedly changing self-conception of the disciplines.

Jost Hochuli has been working since 1959 as a freelance graphic designer. Although book design forms only a small part of his activity, he has become well known particularly through this work. This work features several of his commercial artwork pieces and typefaces cut in wood and linoleum.

Offers a collection of about two dozen typographic works of the author including books, brochures and art catalogues.

The electronic creation and production of images in all the design professions has led today to fundamental changes in the design processes. Hence, drawing has gained a new importance. This work focuses on drawing as the catalyst of design processes.

The East German engineer Ulrich Muther contributed an important chapter to the European history of shell construction. His career of more than 30 years saw many milestones which are described in this book. This book was awarded the DAM Architecture Book Prize in 2009.

All work involving design utilizes and draws together the principles of visual communication in different combinations and emphases. This creates a kit of almost endless resources, which makes possible the creation of the most diverse solutions. This title uses examples to describes the fundamentals and theories of visual communication.

Typographic design begins with a set of information and a concept. The designer, facing a blank sheet of paper or a computer screen, is anxious about the first step to take in developing a design. The elements of typography are an obvious starting point, but often do not get the attention they deserve.

The architectural possibilities of the pitched roof seem almost unlimited and are interesting for architects. This title shows the spectrum of possibilities that are opened up by pitched roofs. It shows their potential for the design of the outer facade of the building, and its relation to context and interiors.

The conquering by the Persian Safavid dynasty in 1502 ushered in the golden age for today's Iranian city of Isfahan - the city whose name is not without reason translated as 'The Pearl of the Orient'. This title presents the masterworks of Persian architecture and horticulture from the 16th to 18th centuries.