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From: Waltraud Engelbrecht (ed.), Erich Engelbrecht – Introspektive Bilder / Introspective Images (p. 2) Elke Mittmann Antonietta Iolanda Lima Waltraud Engelbrecht (ed.) Jean-Yves Barrier. Architect, Designer, The Architecture of Pica Ciamarra Erich Engelbrecht – Introspektive Bilder / Artist / Architecte, Designer, Artiste Associati – From Urban Fragments to Introspective Images 208 pp. with 220 illus., 242 x 297,5 mm, Ecological Systems With contributions by Waltraud Engelbrecht, hard-cover, French / English 356 pp. with 915 illus. including 305 in colour, Gottfried Knapp and Renate Vogt. 144 pp. with ISBN 978-3-86905-022-5 240 x 300 mm, hard-cover, English 124 illus., 280 x 300 mm, hard-cover, German / Euro 69.00, £ 59.90, US $ 78.00 ISBN 978-3-86905-020-1 English Euro 78.00, £ 68.00, US $ 89.00 ISBN 978-3-86905-014-0 After the first volume was published in 2009 Euro 59.00, £ 49.90, US $ 69.90 under the title Jean-Yves Barrier. Architect and Since 1970, based in an isolated building situat- Enclosed is a DVD with a film by Helmut Kohn Urbanist / Architecte et Urbaniste, which doc- ed on the peninsula of Posillipo, Pica Ciamarra umented 25 years of his architectural prac- Associati (www.pcaint.eu) has acted as a labora- Erich Engelbrecht (1928–2011) called his pictures tice, this second volume is dedicated to ar- tory of architectural and urban design which has »introspective«. He remarks on this: »The intro- chitectural and artistic projects since the mid- gradually incorporated new members and new spective image inspects the arena of the soul, the 2000s. While the first volume focused on ar- energies over the time: using a multidisciplinary field of operation of archetypes, which constitute chitectural and urbanistic projects, this sec- approach, the roots of the architectural practice the fundamental pattern of our behaviour.« We ond volume presents not only 25 new archi- lie in the intensive theoretical and practical work are indebted to C. G. Jung for providing especial- tectural projects of Barrier, but also a com- begun in the early 1960s by Massimo Pica Cia- ly deep insights into the nature of archetypes. Ac- pletely different facet of his work: the relation- marra. Since then the practice has been marked cording to him, they constitute, in their totality, the ship between architecture and art. In this by a continuous relationship with Le Carré Bleu – collective human unconsciousness, and determine context, »folding« becomes a fundamental Feuille internationale d’architecture and leading our actions. These archetypes become visible on- concept that can be applied from design ob- members of the cultural milieu of Team 10: this ly in symbolic images. For Werner Haftmann such jects to art installations in public spaces and has led to constant attention to everything that images are the works of symbolist artists of all architecture. lies beyond form, to the relation ship with con- times. This new volume also shows once again texts that also include non-spatial contexts, and The works of Erich Engelbrecht, whether graph- the astonishing variety of architectural typol- to high levels of integration and dialectical discus- ics, oil pictures, tapestries, or wooden and steel fig- ogies that Barrier deals with in his current sion. According to Pica Ciamarra Associati, a de- ures, appear planimetric and abstract. In his steel œuvre. Whether it concerns residential build- sign transcends the approaches of a single sec- figures, for instance, the third dimension exists on- ings, collective or social housing, public facili- tor, providing simultaneous solutions to contradic- ly in the thickness of the steel plates. This makes ties, urban design or functional buildings (such tory requirements, combining utopia and practi- his artworks akin to folk tales. In his book Das as supermarkets, an employment office or an cality. The poetics of the fragment: it mediates europäische Volksmärchen, Max Lüthi describes engineering structure), Barrier never adopts a between architecture and the urban dimension; the style of the folk tale as »planimetric« and »ab- repetitive or doctrinaire attitude, but develops some designs also have the aim of becoming ab- stract«, with projecting all happenings on the level new solutions for each project, which can be sorbed within a context as »informed fragments«. of plot. When the sister cuts her little finger off found in his ideal »lexicon of constants«. This This monograph is the result of an intensive and uses it to open the door to the glass castle is particularly true for the permanent search period of work and consists of two interacting to free her imprisoned brothers in the folk tale for urban coherence for the most varied inter- parts. It stems from research into the archive of The Seven Ravens, no blood flows and we hear ventions: in city centres, in derelict industrial the studio Pica Ciamarra and conversation with no cry of pain. zones or in diffuse peri-urban spaces. Con- the members of the architectural practice. Organ- Both – the folk tale and the »introspective im- temporary garden cities, condensed and com- ised diachronically, the book tells the long story, age« – tell a story and use primal images in order pact assemblies, collages or the interweav- unfolding over a period of over fifty years of a to do it. This mode of action – of creating a coher- ing with what exists represent possibilities for team of Neapolitan architects and designers, who ence of meaning through a narrative of archetypal Barrier to requalify and redevelop forgotten have maintained the lively spirit of the practice images such as forest, cavern, or sea that rests or abandoned urban situations with contem- which is still geared towards the future. The textu- upon primal human experience – is described by porary architecture. This is accompanied by al and iconographic account tells a story and of- C. G. Jung as an »archetypal programme«, a pri- the search to create urban signs and new fers an interpretation that highlight the vibrant at- mal behaviour pattern that all human beings fol- networks in urban space, with the attempt mosphere of the studio, based on a consistency of low, regardless of race, culture, or epoch. to perpetuate the existing layers of the city. thought and action, and fuelled by an interest in With the introspective image, as with the folk But it is not only the city that serves him many different forms of knowledge. The contex- tale, the creative process must be intuitive and as an architectural projection screen, but al- tualisation of the events related to the studio is meditative, an immersion in the unconscious. Erich so and in particular the manifold interplay wide-ranging, coherent and connotative. Engelbrecht had no plan or idea for an artwork, between art, design and architecture, which Antonietta Iolanda Lima, professor of history merely an empty sheet of paper or canvas in front is expressed in a specific method, an edifice of architecture at the University of Palermo, has of him; he made himself receptive, waited, and of thoughts, which allows him to achieve a always tried, through theory, teaching and design, allowed himself to be guided by the images, a creative coherence on these various levels to disseminate the importance of history which process that he experienced very much as an or- of scale and thus simultaneously connects can embracing innovation and tradition to an deal and even as a threat to his existence. He did, different disciplines with each other. equal degree, forming a new architectural lan- however, have a sense for when his process of Elke Mittmann is an art historian. She stud- guage. According to her view of architecture, his- searching was at an end, albeit without under- ied at the Universities Paris-IV-Sorbonne and tory and design are closely connected, a »single standing the meaning of a picture created in this Leipzig and holds a doctorate. After working entity« as is reflected by her career. Since the way. His wife Waltraud Engelbrecht would then try for many years at the Stiftung Bauhaus Des- 1980s, her academic work has gained increasing to »read« these images and to derive a coherence sau, she has been director of the Maison de importance, a way of avoiding narrow sectoral of meaning from correspondences of form and l’architecture Centre – Val de Loire in Orléans approaches in the training of future architects, of- colour. since 2011 and is currently teaching at the fering a holistic stance of the history of architec- Renate Vogt École nationale supérieure d’architecture de ture and an architecture that contributes to shap- Strasbourg. ing critical thought and a thriving cultural life. Just published

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2 Work monographs www.AxelMenges.de Gardens for the Senses – The Spanish Fritz Barth Frei Otto / Bodo Rasch. Finding Form – Gardens of Javier Mariátegui Konstantin Melnikow und sein Haus Towards an Architecture of the Mini- With texts by Javier Mariátegui Valdés and pho- 64 pp. with 106 illus., 210,5 x 281 mm, hard- mal tographs by Javier Mariátegui Valdés, Casilda cover, German edition 240 pp. with 540 illus. in b & w and colour, Mariátegui and Mark Bentley. 188 pp. with 245 ISBN 978-3-936681-89-5 215 x 240 mm, hard-cover, English illus., 305 x 259 mm, hard-cover, English Euro 36.00, £ 29.00, US $ 46.00 ISBN 978-3-930698-66-0 ISBN 978-3-936681-98-7 Konstantin Melnikov and his House Euro 49.00, £ 39.90, US $ 59.00 Euro 58.00, £ 42.90, US $ 64.00 64 pp. with 106 illus., 210,5 x 281 mm, hard- cover, English edition »Primeval architecture is an architecture of neces- It was not by chance nor by a trick of fate that ISBN 978-3-936681-90-1 sity. Nothing is there to excess, no matter wheth- Javier Mariátegui dedicated himself to garden- Euro 36.00, £ 29.00, US $ 46.00 er stone, clay, reeds or wood, animal skins or ing. He grew up among gardens. hair are used. It is minimal. It can be very beauti- Both his grandmothers were gardening enthu- Konstantin Melnikov (1890–1974) is unquestionab- ful even amidst poverty and is good in the ethical siasts, one of them, the Marchioness of Casa ly one of the outstanding architects of the 20th sense. Valdés, wrote the book Spanish Gardens, which century – in spite of the fact that he fell silent ear- Good architecture seems to be more important describes the history of Spanish gardening from ly, leaving behind only limited work that was insuf- than beautiful architecture. Beautiful architecture Roman times to the present day. This book con- ficiently publicized, and restricted almost exclu- is not necessarily good. Only buildings that are tinues to be a reference for all lovers of this par- sively to Moscow, the city of his birth in which he at the same time ethically good and aesthetically ticular field of history and art. spent nearly his entire life and which did not ap- beautiful are worth preserving. This enthusiasm was passed on to him by his preciate him. He was raised in humble circum- We have too many buildings that have become parents. From his earliest years he was making stances, but enjoyed an excellent education. useless and yet we still need new buildings, from his own gardens, by reusing those plants dis- Beginning in the mid-1920s, after the turmoil that pole to pole, in the cold and in the heat. carded by his father. followed the war, revolution and civil war, his ca- Man’s present areas of settlement are the new Mariátegui studied landscape gardening and reer soared at almost meteoric speed as he took ecological system in which technology is indis- design at the Escuela de Paisajismo y Jardinerìa the lead in the young Soviet architecture move- pensable, even in hot and cold areas. ... Castillo de Batres in Madrid. Subsequently he ment with completely autonomous, highly artistic Our age requires buildings that are lighter, worked in England as a gardener. Back in Spain, buildings that were free from dogmatism of any more energy-saving, more mobile and more he established the Jardines de España nursery, kind. Even more rapid than his rise to fame was adaptable, in brief more natural, without disre- which looks after and employs handicapped chil- his downfall: Treated with general hostility, he was garding the need for safety and security. dren, with whom he first started making gar- unable to defend himself against the accusation This logically leads to the further development dens. For the past thirty years, he has created of formalism when Stalin put an end to architec- of light constructions, to the building of tents, numerous gardens across Spain and in several tural ventures and experiments around the mid- shells, awnings and air-supported membranes. other European countries. He has also published 1930s. He was expelled from the architects’ asso- It also leads to a new mobility and changeability. many articles on landscape-gardening topics in ciation and was banned from practicing as an ar- A new understanding of nature is forming under specialized magazines and a book on one of his chitect for the remaining four decades of his life. one aspect of high performance form (also called gardens: El Jardín de los Tapices/The Tapestry In the late 1920s, at the peak of his career, he ›classical form‹), which unites aesthetic and ethi- Garden. Among the present garden architects of had the opportunity to build a house for himself cal viewpoints. Spain Mariátegui plays an outstanding role. Even and his family in Moscow, in which he was then Tomorrow’s architecture will again be minimal the Spanish TV has dedicated a monographic able to live until the end of his life. This house, a architecture, an architecture of the self-education program to him and his gardens. memorable symbiosis of almost peasantlike sim- and self-optimization processes suggested by It would be difficult to summarize in a few plicity and extreme radicalness, is one of the most human beings.« words the essence of Mariátegui’s gardens, giv- impressive, surprising and probably most enig- (Frei Otto and Bodo Rasch in their foreword en the wide variety of styles, their versatility and matic works produced by 20th-century architec- of this book.) numerous differences that perhaps becomes his ture. Its simplicity is only outward; in reality this is In 1992 the Bavarian branch of the Deutscher »signature«. His style is not dogmatic, he loves a highly complex work which links together the Werkbund awarded its first prize to Frei Otto, un- order and disorder, straight lines and curved, the elements of architecture explicitly and inextricab- doubtedly the most successful and many-sided wild chaos of nature as well as strict geometri- ly, which takes a clear and completely autono- protagonist of modern light construction, and cal patterns, varied and single species of plants, mous stand and which, in a way that little else with it a request to nominate a meritorious per- colour and absence of colour. Moreover he en- has done, raises the question as to the nature of son to whom the prize could be passed on, and joys bringing elements that clash together until genuinely architectonic thinking. In essayistic form to design a joint exhibition with that person. Frei they harmonize. the book attempts to follow the paths laid out in Otto chose his pupil Bodo Rasch, who had real- Perhaps as a result of an intimate knowledge the architect’s work from the perspective of an ized Otto’s theories particularly in other cultures. of the magic of water in Andalusian Moorish gar- architect. Otto died on 9 March 2015; he was to be pub- dens, Mariátegui uses water as an essential ele- Fritz Barth studied architecture in Stuttgart and licly announced as the winner of the 2015 Pritzker ment in many of his gardens. He makes it »work« Zurich. He runs an architect’s practice in Fellbach Prize on 23 March, but his death meant the com- in all its forms; in pumps, in cascades, in con- near Stuttgart, teaches at the TU Darmstadt and mittee announced his award on 10 March. Otto stant gentle movement, or rocking in waves, in is the author of a series of books, including a stu- himself had been told earlier that he had won disperse drops or in silence like a mirror that dy on the iconography of 16th-century Italian gar- the prize by the executive director of the Pritzker adds the magic of its reflection. dens (Die Villa Lante in Bagnaia, 2001), a mono- Prize, Martha Thorne. He was reported to have graph about the Bohemian Baroque master build- said: »I have never done anything to gain this European Garden-Book Award er Johann Santini-Aichel (Santini, 2004) and a prize. Prize winning is not the goal of my life. study of the fortifications of Francesco di Giorgio I try to help poor people, but what shall I say Martini (Martial Signifiers. Fortress Complexes by here – I am very happy.« Francesco di Giorgio Martini, 2011). Available again

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Anne-Catrin Schultz Hans Dieter Schaal, Landscape Architec- Martha Schwartz Partners – Landscape Carlo Scarpa – Layers ture / Landschaftsarchitektur Art and Urbanism 152 pp. with 344 illus., 233x 284.5 mm, hard- With an introduction by Frank R. Werner and With texts by Marc Treib, Martha Schwartz, cover, English photographs by Peter C. Horn. 128 pp. with 104 Markus Jatsch and Edith Katz. 356 pp. with ISBN 978-3-930698-14-1 illus., 280 x 300 mm, hard-cover, English/German 424 illus., 229 x 304 mm, hard-cover, English Euro 59.00, £ 39.90, US $ 69.00, $A 98.00 ISBN 978-3-86905-003-4 ISBN 978-3-86905-011-9 Euro 39.90, £ 32.90, US $ 42.90 Euro 69.00, £ 59.00, US $ 76.00 In recent decades, Carlo Scarpa’s relevance has been steadily on the rise. Strategies of adaptive If there is a plateau that continuously unites Hans Martha Schwartz Partners (MSP) is a leading in- reuse and adjustments to existing fabric are consis- Dieter Schaal’s numerous artistic fields of activity, ternational design practice whose work focuses tent with a growing agenda of sustainability and re- a kind of fundamental level, then it is surely that of on activating and regenerating urban sites and sourcefulness. At a time when architects have to landscape architecture. Landscape motifs are as city centers. Situated at the intersection of pub- develop aesthetic systems following an integrative convincingly present in his stage sets as they are lic realm, urban design and site specific art, the approach treating existing urban and built context in his installations, his exhibition architectures, his practice has over 35 years of experience design- as a narrative to continue, Scarpa’s œuvre remains texts, and, naturally, also his park and garden de- ing and implementing installations, gardens, civic a source of inspiration. Scarpa’s use of architectural signs. plazas, parks, institutional landscapes, corporate layering analysed and explained in this book could Schaal has been on the track of the fascina- headquarters, master plans, and urban regenera- serve as a contemporary strategy that is nonhierar- tion of landscapes since the 1960s. For him, en- tion projects. MSP works with city leaders, plan- chical and free of stylistic idioms. countering the parterre or »carpet patterns« of the ners and builders at a strategic level so as to ad- Buildings such as the Castelvecchio in Verona baroque Herrenhäuser Gärten in Hannover was a vocate for the inclusion of the public landscape show that architecture is capable of communicat- key experience. This was followed by an intensive as a means to achieve environmental, econom- ing its own history, that it carries meaning while study of the early landscape gardens of Great ic and social sustainability. With offices in Lon- developing a contemporary dynamic of its own. Britain, the park complexes of the Romantics and don, New York and Shanghai, the practice is en- Scarpa’s layered architecture makes time-related the Enlightenment in Weimar, Wörlitz, and Mus- gaged in projects and consultation around the sedimentation of material and content readable. It kau, and by studies of the garden art ideas and globe and has to date worked on projects in over is especially at points of transition and joints that philosophical implications that underpinned each 20 countries and five continents. layering becomes an element that elucidates the of them. As a twice-over »Artist-in-Residence« at MSP has continually been recognized for its tectonic and spatial qualities of the building. the Villa Massimo in Rome, Schaal was also able contribution to the urban landscapes of the world In this book Anne-Catrin Schultz presents her to absorb the whole cosmos of Italian garden and and to the field of landscape architecture. The research related to the phenomenon of layering in park planning, from the Renaissance to the pre- firm has received many international award reco- Scarpa’s architecture. Layering describes the phys- sent day. gnitions, including the American Society of Land- ical composition of built layers defining space while In 1978, Schaal published his first book, We- scape Architects Landmark and Honour Awards, including the presence of cultural references and ge und Wegräume (Paths and Passages), today the British Association of Landscape Industries associations. considered a classic. Wege und Wegräume has Award in the Regeneration Category, the Chicago Scarpa’s work is an embodiment of multidimen- become required reading and an artistic leitmotif Athenaeum Award for Best New Global Design, sional layering and a focal point for architectural for generations of landscape designers and ar- the Urban Land Institute Award for Excellence movements of this time that share a similar ap- chitects. In 1994, a fourth Hans Dieter Schaal key and the Cooper-Hewitt National Design Award. proach. In most buildings, the principle of layering work appeared entitled Neue Landschaftsarchi- Martha Schwartz: »When we design, our big- may be regarded as something that is part of the tektur / New Landscape Architecture. It proved to gest objective is to create environments that peo- nature of construction. Functional conditions call be among the late 20th century’s most compre- ple enjoy and come to love. We try to create en- for separate planes, elements or »layers«, some of hensive studies of the topic of »landscape« in the vironments that people take pride in and are hap- which provide the structure while others take care wider sense. Above all, it prompts an existential py to adopt these places that they live and work of the protection from weather and climate. How- subjective excursus into all those spheres that in as part of their identity. If this happens, people ever, architectural layering goes beyond the mere are inscribed into landscape beyond the profes- will strive to take care of it, maintain it and pre- fulfillment of technical requirements – the principle sional mainstream. Schaal was subsequently able serve it. People’s love of place is fundamental to of layering may be used as formative method that to build a large number of spectacular »follies« sustainability. That is not to say we don’t work in allows elements of different origins to be combined and installations in gardens and parks. the most ecologically sound way. We work with into a nonhierarchical whole. Layering is complex From 1998 to 2014, he was finally able to actu- engineers, water specialists, horticulturists, soil and creates references to our world at large. ally realise a whole city park, complete with artis- specialists in order to do our best in capturing The first part of the book examines Scarpa’s in- tic installations: the Wielandpark in Biberach. The and recycling water, using planting that was indi- tellectual roots and puts them in perspective with complex architectonic and artistic layout of this genous to the area and sourcing our materials lo- relevant examples of architecture theory, such as park embodies, as it were, the distilled essence cally. But having people feel pride about where Gottfried Semper’s theory of clothing. The second of decades of working with the bridle paths at they live and feel they are living in a beautiful envi- part displays an analysis of three projects, the the boundaries of landscape. ronment that they wish to protect and preserve is Castelvecchio and the Banca Popolare in Verona Frank R. Werner studied painting, architecture the big win.« and the Querini Foundation in Venice. and architectural history in Mainz, Hanover and With a foreword by Marc Treib, professor of Anne-Catrin Schultz studied architecture in Stuttgart. From 1990 to 1994 he was professor architecture emeritus at the University of Califor- Stuttgart and Florence. Following postdoctoral re- of history and theory of architecture at the Staat- nia in Berkeley), and an introduction by Martha search at the Massachusetts Institute of Technol- liche Akademie der Bildenden Künste Stuttgart, Schwartz, this monograph is the first publication ogy, she practiced for several years at Turnbull from 1994 until his retirement in 2011 he was to document 55 built projects and a selection of Griffin Haesloop and Skidmore Owings & Merrill director of the Institut für Architekturgeschichte master plans by this internationally acclaimed in Francisco. She has taught at the University of und Architekturtheorie at the Bergische Univer- practice. California in Berkeley, the California College of the sität in Wuppertal. Peter C. Horn is a trained ar- Arts and the San Francisco City College in San chitect. After working for several years in his orig- Francisco. In 2013, she joined the faculty at Went- inal profession in South America, he now runs a worth Institute of Tech-nology to teach architec- studio for architectural photography in Stuttgart. ture history and theory.

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4 Work monographs www.AxelMenges.de Irme Schaber Opus 16 Opus 65 Gerda Taro – with Robert Capa as Photo- Fundación César Manrique, Lanzarote Le Corbusier, Unité d’habitation, Marseille journalist in the Spanish Civil War With an introduction by Simón Marchán Fiz and With texts by Alban Janson and Carsten Krohn 156 pp. with 220 illus., 233 x 284,5 mm, hard- photographs by Pedro Martínez de Albornoz. and photographs by Anja Grunwald. 80 pp. with cover, English 60 pp. with 52 illus. in b & w and colour, 280 x 80 illus., 280 x 300 mm, hard-cover, German / ISBN 978-3-86905-013-3 300 mm, hard-cover, German / English / Spanish English Euro 59.00, £ 49.90, US $ 69.90 ISBN 978-3-930698-16-5 ISBN 978-3-932565-65-6 Euro 36.00, £ 24.00, US $ 44.50 Euro 39.00, £ 36.00, US $ 48.00 Paris in the summer of 1937. A giant funeral pro- cession wends its way from the city center east- Over the last decade the island of Lanzarote If there is one building by Le Corbusier that rep- ward toward the Père-Lachaise Cemetery, ac- has become one of the favourite tourism desti- resents a synthesis of his basic concepts it is companied by the sounds of Chopin’s Marche nations in the Canary Islands. However, our inter- certainly the Unité d’habitation built in Marseille funèbre. The photojournalist Gerda Taro had est is more one of artistic than of touristic discov- in 1946–52. This built manifesto does not simply been killed in the Spanish Civil War a few days ery, and this would be virtually unthinkable with- put forward a social model as a utopia, but also earlier. Thousands come to pay their last re- out the work of an artist who fell in love with this the unity of architecture and town planning. It is spects to the émigrée from Hitler’s Germany. wonderful paradise. We refer to César Manrique one of the most significant buildings there has The poet Louis Aragon speaks at the graveside, (1919–1992), who was able to see and reveal to even been, but it also triggered a great deal of young girls hold up a large portrait of the de- us the unique beauties arising out of the happy controversy. The story of the response to it has ceased. Why did the French Communist Party marriage of the four elements believed by the been recorded in order to investigate why this honor a foreigner – one who was not even a Greeks to form the whole of creation: air, earth, extremely ambitious project in particular should member of the Party – with a »first-class« burial? fire and water. have caused such a conflict between intention Taro is considered one of the path-breaking In fact, after returning to his island in 1968 and effect. pioneers of photography. She captured some of after a period spent in New York, Manrique de- The Unité d’habitation in Marseille is now very the most dramatic and widely published images dicated himself passionately to realizing his uto- popular with the people who live in it as a build- of the Spanish Civil War and was the first female pia, to renew Lanzarote out of his own sources. ing. Despite all the criticism, it obviously still of- photographer to shoot images in the midst of Among Manrique’s best known works on Lan- fers functional advantages that make it easier for battle. Her willingness to work close to the fight- zarote are the Casa Museo del Campesino, the individuals and the community to live together. ing set new standards for war photography and Jameos del Agua, the Mirador del Río, the Cac- The enormous sculptural force and the charac- ultimately cost her her life. Taro stands alongside tus Garden and his own house in the Taro de teristic interplay of light and colour shown in the early 20th-century war photographers like Robert Tahíche. photographs make the building into a »personali- Capa and David »Chim« Seymour. Manrique’s house in Taro de Tahíche, which ty« that can be identified with. Despite this, Gerda Taro has largely fallen in- nowadays houses the César Manrique Founda- As well as this, the building also offers some- to oblivion, especially in comparison to her com- tion, can be considered as a »work in progress« thing special in terms of concrete spatial experi- panion and lover Robert Capa. Whether gender as it was built over a period of almost 25 years ence. In the age of a superficial »adventure soci- and religion played a role in this would require a and was still not completed upon the artist’s ety« it claims the intensity of an everyday experi- separate investigation. In any case, in her study death. Arising out of the five interconnected vol- ence that is both casual and at the same time of women resisting fascism, Ingrid Strobl comes canic bubbles of the underground storey, it has complex, embracing all the senses. This extends to the conclusion that a combination such as become a metaphor for the amorous meeting of from the reception in the imposing foyer to the woman-Communist-Jew represented a threefold man with Mother Earth, the latter being under- »theatre« of figures on the roof terrace in the stigma, and would almost guarantee Taro’s ex- stood, to use Bruno Taut’s expression, as »a fine light of the landscape, from the inverted urban clusion from official history, both in the East and home for living«. The spaces on the upper floor scenery of the promenade publique to twilight the West. can be virtually mistaken for the white cubic build- seclusion in the silent residential streets. And it It has been almost twenty years since the first ings dispersed throughout the island. But when includes the flats themselves, which open up biography of Gerda Taro, written by Irme Scha- we cross their thresholds, we have the unique expansively to draw in the sea and mountain ber, led to Taro’s rediscovery as a photographer. feeling that here something was created which mood. Le Corbusier used his architectural re- Since that time, the detection of the »Mexican is really new. In fact, Manrique – enemy in equal sources atmospherically and scenically to give Suitcase«, containing more than 800 of her pho- measure of the »pastiche« of regionalism and the Unité d’habitation a succinct coherence that tos – amongst them many which were thought the off-key International Style blind to differentia- also forms the basis for individual lives within to be Capa’s –, has made new research on Taro tion – sifted the vernacular with certain modern its rooms and spaces. Precise observation and possible. filters such as Frank Lloyd Wright, Mies van der description reveal the mechanisms of these ef- In this new, fully revised biography, now pub- Rohe or Le Corbusier, and at the same time he fects. lished for the first time also in English, Irme Scha- gave it such a specific stamp that the final result All three authors are qualified architects. Until ber presents groundbreaking insights regarding became indigenous and unmistakeable. his retirement Alban Janson was professor of the cameras, copyrights and the circumstances sur- Simón Marchán Fiz is professor of aesthet- fundamentals of architecture at the Karlsruher rounding Taro’s death. The exact track of Taro’s ics in Madrid. Like Marchán Fiz, Pedro Martínez Institut für Technology, Carsten Krohn lives and work also helps to shed light on Capa’s iconic de Albornoz lives in Madrid. The photographs works as an author in Berlin, and Anja Grunwald Fallen Soldier photo – but without solving its mys- shown in this book are the best photographic is professor of architectural photography and tery. interpretation of one of Manrique’s work up to typography at the Hochschule Karlsruhe – Tech- Irme Schaber studied cultural and art history now. nik und Wirtschaft. in Marburg. She lives as a freelance author and curator near Stuttgart. Documentary and war Sixth edition Third, revised edition photography, exile and cultural history, and pho- tographic art are the focus of her work. She be- came known above all for her research work on Gerda Taro.

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Opus 80 Opus 81 Opus 84 Oswald Mathias Ungers, Haus Belvedere- Carlo Scarpa, Museo di Castelvecchio, Parc de sculptures Erich Engelbrecht, straße 60, Köln-Müngersdorf Verona Château des Fougis With an essay by Wolfgang Pehnt and photo- With texts by Alba Di Lieto, Paola Marini and Va- With essays by Gottfried Knapp and João J. graphs by Walter Ehmann, Bernd Grimm, Dieter leria Carullo, and photographs by Richard Bryant. de Abreu Vares and photographs by Philippe Leistner and Stefan Müller. 64 pp. with 70 illus., 52 pp. with 43 illus., 280 x 300 mm, hard-cover, Hervouet. 60 pp. with 46 illus., 280 x 300 mm, 280 x 300 mm, hard-cover, German / English Italian / English hard-cover, French / English ISBN 978-3-932565-80-9 ISBN 978-3-932565-81-6 ISBN 978-3-932565-84-7 Euro 36.00, £ 29.00, US $ 39.90 Euro 36.00, £ 29.90, US $ 39.90 Euro 36.00, £ 29.90, US $ 39.90

»A house is a representation of the idea of the During the 1960s Italy’s museum sector witnessed In their sculptural works, artists have always world, of life, of existence.« For the Cologne ar- a fertile period of renewal. A generation of archi- broken out of the workshop or studio and into chitect Oswald Mathias Ungers (1926–2007), tects, working in partnership with the directors of open-air spaces. After all, the place where owner of a famous collection of books on archi- museums, set about transforming into exhibition sculptures are best able to show their three-di- tecture, who also repeatedly addressed the theo- spaces a number of ancient monumental complex- mensional quality is in an open space not en- retical aspects of building, the construction of es located in the historic centres of some of the closed by walls and ceiling, in which all flows his own house, in 1958/59, was more than a pri- most important Italian cities. Among these was the of power and movement can have free rein. vate adventure. For him it meant a chance to brilliant and solitary Venetian architect Carlo Scarpa However, because public spaces offer only very gain spatial experience and explore what was who revitalised the discipline of museography by limited possibilities for sculpture development, possible. It was a laboratory, »a little universe«, sagaciously combining it with restoration. His lucid sculpture parks have been developed almost »a piece of world«. intervention at Verona’s Museo di Castelvecchio is everywhere in the world where artists can work In the course of his life, Ungers built himself emblematic of this approach: the medieval castle, without restrictive conditions. and his family no less than three houses, two in the museum of ancient art, and modern architec- During his search for a place in France where the Cologne suburb of Müngersdorf, one in the ture all harmoniously coexisting in a monument lo- he could present his large sculptures, Erich En- Eifel highlands. Even the first house, to which this cated at the heart of a city designated a UNESCO gelbrecht discovered in 2000 the open, mead- richly illustrated volume is dedicated, caused an World Heritage Site. ow-like land, with the château tucked into a international sensation; it was considered to be The far-sighted choice of Scarpa was owed to piece of forest behind it. This open space, pic- an important example of so-called Brutalism. It the then director of the museum, Licisco Maga- turesquely framed by groups of trees, was pre- showed »everything I knew how to do at the gnato, who tenaciously argued the case for the ap- cisely what he had imagined. And the fact that time«, Ungers wrote regarding the building. He pointment of an architect specialising in this field to a château was waiting for its new owner at the wanted a house that enveloped and sheltered, work on the city’s principal museum of ancient art. end of this tract of land made this discovery a he wanted metamorphosis and transformation; In his work on the Castelvecchio, carried out at stroke of luck rarely experienced by anyone in architecture that was autonomous but at the a significant point in his career, Scarpa attained a general, and almost never by artists in particular. same time respected the genius loci. At the time, remarkable balance between various aesthetic ele- His monumental sculptures that dominate the architects preferred to build their private homes ments that is particularly evident in the sculpture landscape have given Erich Engelbrecht a place as freestanding bungalows in the countryside. gallery, where the renovations harmonise with the in the history of modern sculpture. His method Ungers, on the other hand, settled in a place power of the 14th-century Veronese works exhibit- of drawing images plastically in the space, and where there were traces of the Roman past and ed in this section of the museum. One of the most of using these drawings transformed into solid purchased a plot of land adjacent to an already striking details – extraordinarily rich in historical bodies to occupy whole landscapes, is unparal- existing row of terraced houses. and symbolic significance – is the location of the leled. The enigma balanced between represen- Three decades later, Ungers expanded the equestrian statue of Cangrande I della Scala, an tationality and the abstract, the multiplicity of cataract of forms of his first home by adding a exceptional medieval sculpture of the famous Lord meaning, which invites freely poetic titles, is es- geometrically strict cube, intended to house his of Verona. For the presentation of this work – a sential to the unique charm of Erich Engelbrecht’s library. The shock aesthetics of the early work had symbol of the city and its museum – the architect visual work. In the park of Château des Fougis, evolved into the rigorous abstractness of his late conceived a backdrop of great poetry, drawing the 29 of these artworks, at once plainly revealing work. This building too – one of a kind, and in in- visitor’s attention to its historical stratifications and and mystifying, communicate with each other in terplay with its predecessor – became a manifes- simultaneously creating an exemplary essay in such a relaxed way that visitors are prompted to to. It corresponded to the idea of a house as a modern architecture. think and to enjoy. One strolls through a garden small town and the town as a large house, an The book is introduced with a text by Alba Di of poetic artworks, through a park of beautiful idea that has run through European architectural Lieto, the architect of Verona’s art museums, a riddles and silent secrets. There has been noth- history since Alberti. In spite of all their differ- scholar of Scarpa’s drawings, and the author of ing comparable to this in Europe since the gar- ences, the two contrasting formats make com- monographs on his work. She describes the ar- dens of Italian Mannerism. mon cause. They show »a world full of contradic- chitect’s renovation and locates it in the context Gottfried Knapp works as an editor in the feuil- tions, illusions and realities that reflects the entire of Italy’s architectural panorama. leton of the Süddeutsche Zeitung in the fields of art, spectrum of the image of architecture, from the The essay is followed by a brief history of the architecture and film. Of his numerous works on fiction to the reality of the function«. Today the castle by Paola Marini, who was the director of artistic and architectural topics, six have been pub- house and the library are the seat of the UAA, the Verona’s art museums and monuments for 22 lished by Edition Axel Menges. João J. de Abreu Ungers Archiv für Architekturwissenschaft, and years. In 2015 she has taken on a new role as di- Vares, a graduated architect, advised Erich Engel- open to the public. rector of the Gallerie dell’Accademia in Venice. brecht on the installation of the sculpture park and, Wolfgang Pehnt often visited Ungers. The author Valeria Carullo, curator of the The Robert Elwall together with his wife Sarah Engelbrecht, he as- of an authoritative book about the architecture of Photographs Collection in the RIBA British Archi- sists the artist’s widow in the care of her husband’s Expressionism, he profited by Ungers’ collection of tectural Library, writes about her experience assist- inheritance. After studying art history and photog- material back in the years when Ungers was still in- ing Bryant when he photographed the castle. raphy Phillipe Hervouet was commissioned to par- terested in Expressionism. Thus he is familiar with Richard Bryant is one of the best-known archi- ticipate in the care of the cultural heritage of the the house in all its details. As portrayed by him, the tectural photographers, working all over the world. Ain department. He also actively contributes to history of the house gives access to the impressive He and Hélène Binet are the only photographers to the artistic inventory of the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes œuvre of a great German architect. have been awarded a RIBA Honorary Fellowship region. He teaches photography at the Université of the Royal Institute of British Architects. Jean Monnet in Saint-Étienne.

6 Opus / History and theory www.AxelMenges.de Opus 85 Burcu Dogramaci and Andreas Schätzke (eds.) Avi Friedman SSP AG, Fritz-Henßler-Berufskolleg, A Home of One’s Own – Emigrierte Archi- Innovative Apartment Buildings – New Dortmund tekten und ihre Häuser / Émigré Archi- Directions in Sustainable Design With an essay by Alexandra Apfelbaum and tects and Their Houses, 1920–1960 233 x 284,5 mm, 188 pp. with 300 illus., hard- photographs by Jörg Hempel. 60 pp. with 204 pp. with 126 illus., 233 x 284,5 mm, hard- cover, English 50 illus., 280 x 300 mm, hard-cover, German/ cover, German/English ISBN 978-3-86905-009-6 English ISBN 978-3-86905-008-9 Euro 69.00, £ 59.90, US $ 79.00 ISBN 978-3-932565-85-4 Euro 69.00, £ 59.90, US$ 79.00 Euro 36.00, £ 29.90, US $ 39.90 Current design of apartment buildings is facing When architects design a house for themselves, challenges of philosophy and form. Past ap- Since its foundation in 1977, the Bochum-based the often tense relationship between clients and proaches no longer sustain new demands and architectural office SSP AG, with locations in builders is usually absent. That is why in many require innovative thinking. The need for a new Bochum and Karlsruhe, has been realizing a such buildings the architect-designer’s artistic outlook is propelled by fundamental changes that large number of real-estate and building projects stance and political position, preferences and an- touch upon environmental, economic, cultural throughout Germany. With an interdisciplinary plan- tipathies, temperament and character are more and social aspects that led to the writing of this ning team of architects, engineers, and real-estate pronounced than usual. Moreover the architec- book. economists, and other experts, new and innovative tural theories, debates and trends of an epoch The depletion of non-renewable natural re- solutions are found for each project in cooperative also leave their traces in them in a particular way. sources and climate change are a few of the en- collaboration. The resulting concepts are charac- We encounter both attachment to tradition and vironmental challenges that prompted designers terized by successful identification, high efficiency commitment to the avant-garde, willingness to to reconsider conceptual approaches in favour and good design. experiment and pragmatism, distinctive artistry of ones that promote a better suitability between In 2013, after a Europe-wide tendering proce- and views shaped by the fact that a building is buildings and their environments. Concepts that dure, SSP AG was commissioned with the over- also a product of engineering. And last but not minimize the building’s carbon footprint, passive all planning of renovation and construction of ex- least, expressed in their houses are the personal solar gain, net-zero structures and water harvest- tensions and new buildings for the Fritz-Henßler- life circumstances of the people concerned, or ing system are some of the contemporary strate- Berufskolleg in Dortmund. The listed building com- the messages the houses are meant to convey gies that architects and builders are integrating plex of a former arts-and-crafts and craftsmen above and beyond their actual purpose: as a into their thought processes and design. school in the Dortmund city centre was in great »manifesto«, as the »self-portrait« of the archi- Increasing costs of material, labour, land and need of renovation. The task was to satisfy a fixed tect, but also as an advertising tool or as a sign infrastructure have posed economic challenges spatial programme taking into account the build- of connection to specific milieus or positions. with affordability being paramount among them. ing fabric worthy of preservation, both in the exist- Building for oneself has a special connota- The need to do with less brings about concepts ing building stock and through extensions and tion under the conditions of migration and exile. that include adaptable dwellings, and smaller- new buildings. The extension by two building Among the most prominent examples are the sized yet quality-designed housing. Social chal- blocks in a strict, functional design language and private homes of Rudolph Schindler in West lenges are also drawing attention. As the »ba- with clearly structured façades allows for an excit- Hollywood (1921/1922), Richard Neutra in Los by-boom« generation plans now for retirement, ing and yet harmonious combination of old and Angeles (1932), Walter Gropius in Lincoln, Mas- housing an elderly population will take priority. new. Through a sensitive »carry on building« of sachusetts (1937/1938), Ernst May near Nairobi Walkable communities, aging in place, live-work the existing building stock, a successful new in- (1937/1938), Bruno Taut in Istanbul (1937/1938), residences, and multigenerational living are some terpretation of the existing fabric was created. Ernö Goldfinger in London (1937–1939), Marcel of the concepts considered. For the »extremely successful handling« of Breuer in New Canaan, Connecticut (1947/1948 The book offers information on contemporary the historically significant stock and the »high- and 1951), Josep Lluís Sert in Lattingtown, New design concepts and illustrates them with plans quality« restoration in accordance with the regu- York (1947–1950) and Max Cetto in Mexico City and photographs of outstanding international ex- lations for listed buildings, the architects were (1948/1949). amples. awarded the North Rhine-Westphalia School- What expression could voluntary migration or Avi Friedman received his Bachelor’s degree Construction Prize 2018 by the Ministry for Schools forced change of location find in these buildings? in architecture and town planning from the Israel and Education and the Chamber of Architects of To what extent do the architects’ other buildings Institute of Technology, his Master’s degree from North Rhine-Westphalia, as well as the German differ from such »homes of one’s own« in a for- McGill University, and his Doctorate from the Uni- Design Award 2019, the best architects Award eign country, to use an expression borrowed and versity of Montréal. He co-founded the Affordable 2020 and the Otto Borst Prize for Urban Renew- modified from Virginia Woolf? Homes Program at the McGill School of Architec- al 2020. The book is a collection of contributions by in- ture where he teaches. He also holds an Honor- Alexandra Apfelbaum has worked as a free- ternationally renowned authors and examines not ary Professor position in Lancaster University in lance art and architecture historian since 2009. only the buildings themselves but also other as- the U.K. Avi is known for his housing innovation Since 2018, she has held the deputy professor- pects of the topic that have hitherto received little and is the author of 18 books. He is the principal ship for the history and theory of architecture attention. of Avi Friedman Consultants Inc. and the reci- and the city at the Dortmund University of Applied Burcu Dogramaci teaches art history at the pient of numerous awards including the Life Time Sciences and Arts. In addition to research in archi- Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität in Munich. Her re- Achievement Award from Sustainable Buildings tectural theory and architectural history, her main search focuses on exile and migration, and 20th- Canada and the World Habitat Award. In 2000 he focus is on the interfaces between architecture century and contemporary art and architecture. was selected by Wallpaper magazine as one of and art in the 20th century, with a focus on North Architectural historian Andreas Schätzke teaches ten people from around the world »most likely to Rhine-Westphalia and the postwar period. She is at the Hochschule Wismar. Among his key re- change the way we live«. chairwoman of the board of the Deutscher Werk- search areas are 20th-century architecture and bund North Rhine-Westphalia and the Initiative urban development, and migration and cultural Ruhrmoderne. transfer in the field of architecture and the visual arts. New in this catalogue

www.AxelMenges.de Opus / History and theory 7 Stefan Koppelkamm Hans-Ulrich von Mende Hans Dieter Schaal The Imaginary Orient – Exotic Buildings Car Design – Von der Kutsche zur Auto- Auf der Suche nach verlorenen Para- of the 18th and 19th Centuries in Europe Mobilität / From the Carriage to Auto- diesen 192 pp. with 280 illus., 242 x 297,5 mm, hard- Mobility 256 pp. with 150 illus., 210x 247.5 mm, hard- cover, English 152 pp. with 440 illus., 233 x 287,5 mm, hard- cover, German ISBN 978-3-936681-77-2 cover, German / English ISBN 978-3-86905-017-1 Euro 68.00, £ 59.90, US $ 78.00 ISBN 978-3-86905-010-2 Euro 69.00, £ 59.90, US $ 78.00 Euro 49.90, £ 42.90, US $ 58.90 In the 18th century the idea of the landscape gar- The fact that the entire history of culture and den, which had originated in England, spread all If laziness is the mother of all inventions, then the technology could represent a single, continuous over Europe. The geometry of the Baroque park car is its masterpiece. The earliest means of lo- expulsion of mankind from the original, paradisal was abandoned in favour of a »natural« design. comotion was walking, followed by riding on hor- state of nature was already described visionari- At the same time the garden became the »land of ses or camels; finally, with the invention of the ly in the Bible and predicted with all its positive illusion«: Chinese pagodas, Egyptian tombs and wheel, came the ability to use carriages, which and negative consequences. Everyone knows Turkish mosques, along with Gothic stables and not only made locomotion far more comfortable the story of Adam and Eve, of their »Fall« and Greek and Roman temples, formed a miniature but also brought the transportation of goods to a their »Expulsion from Paradise«. Even as a non- world in which distance mingled with the past. whole new level. However, it then took millennia Christian it is worth taking a look at the fairytale- The keen interest in a fairy-tale China, which for carriages to go from being propelled by hor- like-mythic text of the Old Testament, although was manifested not only in the gardens but al- ses or oxen to engines, initially steam-driven, the picture and the process completely contra- so in the chinoiseries of the Rococo, abated in then propelled by internal combustion engines dict our current scientific findings. the 19th century. The increasing expansion of the and early experiments with electric propulsion. One would almost be inclined to assume that European colonial powers was reflected in new Cars were initially the result of pure craftsman- the idea of a primeval paradise is innate in all exotic fashions. While in England it was primarily ship, and as passenger cars were based on the human beings and that every human being with the conquest of the Indian subcontinent that cap- concept of the carriage. The assembly line had his becoming, his birth, his childhood and his tured the imagination, for France the occupation not entirely abandoned the carriage look, but al- adulthood experiences something like a Gene- of Algiers triggered an Orient-inspired fashion ready showed a typical automobile profile: equal- sis. He is born innocent and helpless, wakes that spread from Paris to encompass the entire sized wheels, engine bonnet, passenger com- up, looks around, believes to be free, gets to Continent and found its expression in paintings, partment. The predominant body colour of cars know his time, his surroundings, his life. The novels, operas and buildings. This »Orient«, which manufactured between 1910 and 1930 was black, final expulsion of every human being from life could not be clearly defined geographically, was while all makes of car had an almost uniform ap- is his death. He is sentenced to death. characterised by Islamic culture: It extended pearance. As manufacturers moved away from Despite all religious promises, man has always around the Mediterranean Sea from Constan- metal-panelled wooden frames to an all-steel been aware of the fact that he has only this one tinople to Granada. There, it was the Alhambra design, they hesitantly ventured to adopt new life and that he ultimately cannot count on the that fascinated writers and architects. forms. Improved undercarriages and higher en- hope that beyond this life there is something that The Islamic styles seemed especially appropri- gine performance were initially limited by air re- could be called »salvation«, a happy return to ate for »buildings of a secular and cheerful char- sistance, which above a speed of 60 kilometres the Garden of Eden. As the book shows with acter«. In contrast to ancient Egyptian building per hour is the strongest of all driving resistances. numerous, primarily European examples, the his- forms, which, being severe and monumental, This led to the development of new body shapes tory of man is therefore full of efforts to regain were preferably used for cemetery buildings, pris- that offer less resistance to the airstream. here and now the lost paradise, no matter how ons or libraries, they promised earthly sensuous Engineers still determined the form of the car, precarious the result may be. pleasures. The promise of happiness associated sometimes even achieving formal elegance. It In search of the lost paradises: a somewhat with an Orient staged by architectural means was was only rarely that members of other profes- unusual history of man in his relationship to na- intended to guarantee the commercial success of sions, such as the architects Le Corbusier or ture, followed by a description of the current coffeehouses and music halls, amusement parks Walter Gropius, were commissioned to design state of landscape planning and garden design. and steam baths. a car. Between the two World Wars North Ameri- In the concluding part of the book, the author But even extravagant summer residences and ca had the world’s largest fleet of cars; this also develops new, strangely surreal and poetic con- middle-class villas were often built in faux-Orien- meant that their design became an increasingly cepts of the treatment of nature, inspired by tal styles: In Brighton, the Prince Regent George important sales factor. Professsional automobile literature, film, theatre and tourism. (George IV after 1820) built himself an Indian pal- design was established. As they continued to de- Hans Dieter Schaal, born in Ulm in 1943, is ace; in Bad Cannstatt near Stuttgart, a »moorish« velop technically, cars in the 1950s moved further an architect, landscape architect, stage designer refuge was erected for Württemberg’s King Wil- and further away from the physically logical form and exhibition designer. His works, the majority helm I; and the French town of Tourcoing was of a moving body. One of the last – and most of which have been published by Edition Axel the site of the Palais du Congo, a bombastic vil- outstanding – examples of a form with optimum Menges, have meanwhile reached an audience la in the Indian Moghul style that belonged to a resistance to the airstream is the Citroën ID/DS far beyond his homeland. The author lives and wealthy perfume and soap manufacturer. of 1955. Others, indeed almost all, opted for works in a village near Biberach an der Riss. Stefan Koppelkamm studied at the Gesamt- the pure symbolism of speed and power, whose hochschule in Kassel, and after a longer stay in most important ingredients were tail fins and the USA he now lives in Berlin where he taught chrome. Today, with a global annual production teaches communication design at the Kunst- of close to 100 million passenger cars, automo- hochschule Berlin-Weißensee. Since the publi- tive style has come to be represented by a wide cation of his book Gewächshäuser und Winter- range of almost every imaginable form. gärten im 19. Jahrhundert (Stuttgart, 1981), he has Architect Hans-Ulrich von Mende has worked repeatedly engaged with historic and current as- with partners in an independent practice since pects of architecture. 1990. For 50 years his writings and drawings on automotive design have appeared in books, trade journals (mot, autobild) and the daily press (Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, Süddeutsche Zei- tung).

8 History and Theory www.AxelMenges.de Anne-Catrin Schultz (ed.) Hillert Ibbeken John Zukowsky Real and Fake in Architecture – Close Gesichter / Faces New Military Museums to the Original, Far from Authenticity? 144 pp. with 138 illus. in duotone, 186 x 186 mm, 128 pp. with 199 illus., 242 x 297,5 mm, hard- With contributions by Tom van Arman, Dan Hi- hard-cover, German / English cover, English sel, Nicole Lambrou, Christina Lanzl, Eric Lum, ISBN 978-3-86905-019-5 ISBN 978-3-86905-015-7 Jennifer Lee Michaliszyn, Anne-Catrin Schultz, Euro 39.00, £ 35.00, US $ 45.00 Euro 39.90, £ 35.90, US $ 46.90 Karen Seong, Ingrid Strong, Kemo Usto, and Justin Vigilanti. »I grew up in an art-conscious parental home. Museum architecture has blossomed over 240 pp. with 300 illus., 233 x 284.5 mm, hard- My grandfather was a sought-after landscape the past few decades. Art museums lead the cover, English artist of the Düsseldorf School. As a result, there way in terms of new buildings by superstar archi- ISBN 978-3-86905-018-8 were beautiful paintings everywhere in the house, tects such as Frank Gehry, Herzog and de Meu- Euro 69.00, £ 59.90, US $ 78.00 including two large portraits of my great-grand- ron, Jean Nouvel, and Renzo Piano, among many parents from the beginning of the nineteenth cen- more. Those facilities have received public and The condition of »fake« and »real« in architec- tury, which made a lasting impression on me as a professional recognition through media attention ture is rarely publicly discussed nor has it en- boy. So it’s not surprising that, as a high-school and design awards. But other museum typologies countered broad journalistic or scholarly atten- graduate, I photographed with my first 35 mm exist, one such being for buildings that showcase tion. This book explores the realm of truth, au- camera on the first film a face, my own, a self- military history and artifacts. All too often, one thenticity and fakery in architecture, providing portrait. That was in 1954. thinks of these as unsophisticated in their design a timely collection of analytical essays and pro- After that, photography didn’t let me go. So, and amateurish or antiquated in their exhibitions. jects. Photographers, writers and architects in the sixty-four years until this day, I have record- Nowadays, nothing can be further from the truth. share their understanding and speculations ed, among my other topics, over four hundred This volume examines more than thirty of them in- about a broad range of spaces and concepts – human faces, above all those of family members ternationally that were constructed over the past all searching for common ground between real and friends. I had studied geology and had be- two decades and more. The museums are fea- and imagined, function and story. come a geologist, which meant making endless tured in individual entries and lavish color photog- The authors challenge our perception of »au- journeys all over the world and also inevitably raphy. Some were designed by internationally thenticity« through the examination of built and making countless human contacts. So I could renowned architects such as Norman Foster, Da- simulated environments, architectural fiction, also photograph human faces over and over niel Libeskind, Skidmore Owings & Merrill, and theatric illusions and mannerist trickery. They again in all the visited countries. As a geologist, Robert A. M. Stern, but many more are the prod- examine the notion that the principle of Sulli- I usually only met people living in the country- ucts of creative, accomplished designers. Beyond van’s »form follows function« contains a paradox side such as farmers, shepherds, fishermen or the architecture of these museums, exhibition and caused by the ambiguity and complexity of ar- village innkeepers, but hardly a city dweller. installation designs by noted specialist firms such chitectural expression. Buildings are perceived With the help of the camera, I have tried to as Ralph Appelbaum Associates, Kossmann.de- through an individual’s personal experiences capture the many expressive possibilities of the jong, and Gallagher & Associates, among others, while also being interpreted along broader cul- human face, understanding that every face is have raised the bar in terms of immersive experi- tural values. The works shown reveal that under unmistakable. ences for their visitors. scrutiny, any built environment harbors both, re- I have experimented with various camera mod- New military museums presented within the veals moments of truth, deception and ambigui- els and film types of analogue photography, but book are examined within the context of the his- ty – all of it partially in the eye of the beholder. I said goodbye to them in 2014 in order to get to tory of war memorials and military museums, The diverse contributions shed light on unex- know and to use the almost inexhaustible possi- the latter being a less well researched subject. pected identities in architecture inviting critical bilities of digital photography, most recently using In the end, military museums relate back to an- thought about our built environment – analog a monochrome Leica. I have, however, remained tique sculptural commemorations of victorious and digital. as faithful as possible to one classical tool of pho- campaigns and martial leaders, collections and The goal of this publication goes beyond un- tography: the tripod.« displays of war trophies, and the search to find masking deception in architecture, it aims at Until his retirement Hillert Ibbeken was profes- useful architectural memorials, the latter especial- unfolding time-lines and revealing the layered sor of geology at the Freie Universität Berlin. He ly so after the World Wars of the twentieth cen- nature of people and places. The images and has been involved in architecture and landscape tury. essays reveal our contemporary condition and photography throughout his life. His book Karl Architectural historian John Zukowsky has an let collective and individual narratives unfold, a Friedrich Schinkel. Das architektonische Werk earned doctorate from Binghamton University. range of truths in themselves. Expanding from heute / The architectural work today, edited in co- While curator of architecture for The Art Institute the discussion about truthful materiality and tec- operation with Elke Blauert, was published by of Chicago (1978–2004), he organized a number tonics, this book provides an understanding of Edition Axel Menges in 2001. Later there followed, of award-winning exhibitions accompanied by real, authentic, and fake in urbanism and archi- in the same format, this time with him as sole edi- major books. After that, he held executive posi- tecture. tor, his monographs on Ludwig Persius (2005) tions within military-related museums such as Anne-Catrin Schultz studied architecture in and Friedrich August Stüler (2006), and, among the Intrepid Sea, Air & Space Museum in New Stuttgart and Florence. Following post-doctoral others, Schlösser der Weserrenaissance / Castles York and the Pritzker Military Museum & Library research at the Massachusetts Institute of Tech- of the Weser Renaissance (2008), edited in co- in Chicago. Since 2012 he has authored several noloy in Boston, she worked for several years operation with Michael Bischoff, as well as Das books about architecture and design, including with Turnbull Griffin Haesloop and Skidmore, andere Italien / The other Italy. Geschichten und Why on Earth Would Anyone Build That (2015), Owings & Merrill in San Francisco. While devel- Bilder aus Ligurien und Kalabrien / Stories and pic- Building Chicago: The Architectural Masterworks oping her own practice, she has taught at the tures from Liguria and Calabria (2011). His last (2016), and Architecture Inside – Out: Understand- University of California in Berkeley, the Califor- work published by Edition Axel Menges was ing How Buildings Work (2018). nia College of the Arts and the Academy of Arts Preußische Gärten / Prussian Gardens with his University in San Francisco. In 2013 she joined photographs and a historical overview by Katja the Department of Architecture at Wentworth Schoene (2013). Institute of Technology in Boston.

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Work monographs Katia Accossato and Nicola Probst (eds.) Rob Krier, Figures. A Pictorial Journal, Ivano Gianola – Buildings and Projects / 1972–1975 Andrew Ayers Edifici e Progetti 448 pp. with 435 illus., 120 x 170,9 mm, hard Jean-Yves Barrier. Architect and Urban- With an essay by Frank R. Werner and annota- cover, German / English ist / Architecte et Urbaniste tions to the projects by Katia Accossato. 312 pp. ISBN 978-3-936681-65-9 200 pp. with 245 illus., 242 x 297,5 mm, hard- with 350 illus., 242 x 297,5 mm, hard-cover, Eng- 59.00 Euro, 49.00 £, 76.00 US$ cover, French / English lish / Italian ISBN 978-3-932565-24-3 ISBN 978-3-930698-97-4 Rob Krier, Figures. A Pictorial Journal, Euro 78.00, £ 59.00, US $ 109.00 Euro 86.00, £ 59.90, US $ 118.00 2000–2002 With contributions by Ann Holyoke Lehmann Elke Mittmann Reinhard Gieselmann – In Search of and Vesna Andonovic. 768 pp. with 665 illus., Jean-Yves Barrier. Architect, Designer, Style / Auf der Suche nach Stil 120 x 170,9 mm, hard-cover, German / English Artist / Architecte, Designer, Artiste With an introduction by Gerhard Kabierske. 224 ISBN 978-3-936681-38-3 208 pp. with 220 illus., 242 x 297,5 mm, pp. with 300 illus., 242 x 297,5 mm, hard-cover, Euro 69.00, £ 59.00, US $ 98.00 hard-cover, French / English German / English ISBN 978-3-86905-022-5 ISBN 978-3-932565-55-7 Rob Krier, Figures. A Project in St. Peters- Euro 69.00, £ 59.90, US $ 78.00 Euro 78.00, £ 49.00, US $ 89.00 burg, 2010–2012 704 pp. with 590 illus., 120 x 170,9 mm, hard- Gunnar Birkerts – Metaphoric Modernist Zaha Hadid, Judith Turner: A Dialogue cover, German / English / Russian With an introductory essay by Sven Birkerts With an essay by Joseph Giovannini and texts ISBN 978-3-936681-66-6 and architectural comments by Martin Schwartz. by Zaha Hadid and Judith Turner. 68 pp. with 69.00 Euro, 59.00 £, 89.00 US$, 98.00 320 pp. with 412 illus., 242 x 297,5 mm, hard- 83 illus., 280 x 300 mm, hard-cover, English cover, English ISBN 978-3-936681-91-8 Yorck Förster, Ingeborg Flagge (eds.) ISBN 978-3-936681-26-0 Euro 36.00, £ 29.90, US $ 39.90 Peter Kulka – Minimalismus und Sinnlich- Euro 86.00, £ 69.00, US $ 109.00 keit / Minimalism and Sensuality Hascher Jehle, Kunstmuseum Stuttgart With texts by Yorck Förster, Wolfgang Pehnt, Yashwant Pitkar (ed.) With an introduction by Kaye Geipel and pho- Werner Strodthoff and Jürgen Tietz. 272 pp. with Spaces Inspired by Nature – Shirish Beri tographs by Roland Halbe. 92 pp. with 60 illus., 292 illus., 242 x 297,5 mm, hard-cover, German / 244 pp. with 452 illus., 260 of which in colour, 280 x 300 mm, hard-cover, German / English English 265 x 280 mm, hard-cover, English ISBN 978-3-936681-06-2 ISBN 978-3-932565-48-9 ISBN 978-3-936681-82-6 Euro 39.90, £ 32.00, US $ 59.00 Euro 78.00, £ 49.00, US $ 89.00 Euro 59.90, £ 49.90, US $ 79.00 Sales territories: all countries, except India Hilmer & Sattler – Bauten und Projekte / The Work of Tadaaki Kuwayama Buildings and Projects With an essay by Michio Hayashi. 136 pp. with Wolfgang Pehnt With an introduction by Stanislaus von Moos. 110 illus., 242 x 297,5 mm, hard-cover, English Paul Böhm – Bauten und Projekte 244 pp. with 338 illus., 242 x 297,5 mm, hard- ISBN 978-3-936681-80-2 160 pp. with ca. 300 illus. 242 x 297,5 mm, cover, German / English Euro 59.00, £ 49.00, US $ 78.00 hard cover, German / English ISBN 978-3-930698-77-6 ISBN 978-3-936681-85-7 Euro 78.00, £ 52.00, US $ 89.00 Joachim Kleinmanns and Christiane Weber (eds.) Euro 69.00, £ 59.90, US $ 79.00 Fritz Leonhardt 1909–1999 – Die Kunst Hilmer & Sattler und Albrecht – Bauten des Konstruierens / The Art of Engineering Erdmut Bramke – Werkverzeichnis. Bd. 1: und Projekte / Buildings and Projects 216 pp. with 250 illus., 242 x 297,5 mm, hard- Gemälde 1964–2002, Bd. 2: Arbeiten auf With an introduction by Klaus Jan Philipp. 232 cover, German / English Papier 1961–2002 pp. with 280 illus., 185 in colour, 242 x 297,5 mm, ISBN 978-3-936681-28-4 Edited on behalf of the Freunde der Staatsgale- hard-cover, German / English Euro 79.00, £ 69.00, US $ 109.00 rie Stuttgart by Ulrike Gauß, Susanne Grötz and ISBN 978-3-932565-39-7 Carolin Jörg Euro 78.00, £ 49.00, US $ 78.00 János Gerle (ed.) Vol. 1: 428 pp. with 556 illus., 220 x 280 mm, Architecture as Philosophy – The Work hard-cover, German Johannes Peter Hölzinger – Bauten und of Imre Makovecz Vol. 2: 528 pp. with 1483 illus., 220 x 280 mm, Projekte 1950–2010 / Buildings and Pro- With a preface by Peter Blundell Jones. 252 pp. hard-cover, German jects 1950–2010 with 488 illus., 240 x 300 mm, hard-cover, English ISBN 978-3-00-053271-9 (Freunde der Staats- With texts by Gerd de Bruyn, Peter Cachola ISBN 978-3-932565-56-4 galerie Stuttgart) Schmal, Andreas Denk, Yorck Förster, Johan- Euro 78.00, £ 49.00, US $ 89.00 ISBN 978-3-86905-004-1 (Edition Axel Menges) nes Peter Hölzinger and Gerd Weiß. 416 pp. Euro 154.00, £ 129.00, US$ 169.00 with ca. 750 illus., 242 x 297,5 mm, hard-cover, Gardens for the Senses – The Spanish The two volumes are not sold separately. German / English Gardens of Javier Mariátegui ISBN 978-3-936681-61-1 With texts by Javier Mariátegui Valdés and pho- Antonietta Iolanda Lima Euro 79.00, £ 69.00, US $ 98.00 tographs by Javier Mariátegui Valdés, Casilda The Architecture of Pica Ciamarra Mariátegui and Mark Bentley. 188 pp. with 245 Associati – From Urban Fragments to Peter Blundell Jones illus., 305 x 259 mm, hard-cover, English Ecological Systems Peter Hübner – Building as a social pro- ISBN 978-3-936681-98-7 356 pp. with 915 illus. including 305 in colour, cess / Bauen als ein sozialer Prozeß Euro 58.00, £ 42.90, US $ 64.00 240 x 300 mm, hard-cover, English 360 pp. with 1180 illus., 280 x 300 mm, hard- European Garden Book Award ISBN 978-3-86905-020-1 cover, English/ German Euro 78.00, £ 68.00, US $ 89.00 ISBN 978-3-932565-02-1 Fritz Barth Euro 78.00, £ 49.00, US $ 89.00 Konstantin Melnikow und sein Haus John McKean 64 pp. with 106 illus., 210,5 x 281 mm, hard- Giancarlo De Carlo – Layered Places Klaus Kinold, Architekturphotographien / cover, German edition 208 pp. with 230 illus., 242 x 297,5 mm, hard- Photographs of Architecture ISBN 978-3-936681-89-5 cover, English With an essay by Wolfgang Pehnt. 120 pp. with Euro 36.00, £ 29.00, US $ 46.00 ISBN 978-3-932565-12-0 112 illus., 280 x 300 mm, hard-cover, German / Konstantin Melnikov and his House Euro 78.00, £ 49.00, US $ 78.00 English 64 pp. with 106 illus., 210,5 x 281 mm, hard- ISBN 978-3-936681-93-2 cover, English edition Waltraud Engelbrecht (ed.) Euro 49.90, £ 39.90, US $ 59.90 ISBN 978-3-936681-90-1 Erich Engelbrecht – Introspektive Bilder / Numbered and signed special edition with an Euro 36.00, £ 29.00, US $ 46.00 Introspective Images original photo by Klaus Kinold: 450.00 Euro With contributions by Waltraud Engelbrecht, Rafael Moneo – International Portfolio, Gottfried Knapp and Renate Vogt. 144 pp. with Rob Krier, Cité Judiciaire, Luxembourg 1985–2012 124 illus., 280 x 300 mm, hard-cover, German / With contributions by Ann Holyoke Lehmann and With an essay by Juan Antonio Cortés, a conver- English Dankwart Guratzsch. 1136 pp. with 1020 illus., sation between Rafael Moneo, Ignacio Borrego, ISBN 978-3-86905-014-0 120 x 170,9 mm, hard-cover, German / English Néstor Montenegro and Lina Toro, project de- Euro 59.00, £ 49.90, US $ 69.90 ISBN 978-3-936681-37-6 scriptions by Rafael Moneo and photographs by Enclosed is a DVD with a film by Helmut Kohn Euro 79.00, £ 69.00, US $ 109.90 Duccio Malagamba. 284 pp. with ca. 400 illus. in b & w, 220 x 260 mm, had-cover, English Rob Krier, Figures. A Pictorial Journal, ISBN 978-3-936681-56-7 1954–1971 Euro 69.00, £ 59.90, US $ 89.00 672 pp. with 620 illus., 120 x 170,9 mm, hard cover, German / English ISBN 978-3-936681-64-2 69.00 Euro, 59.00 £, 89.00 US$

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Michael Nether – On Stage Hans Dieter Schaal, Global Museum Mario Alexander Zadow With an introduction by Jörg Palitzsch. 72 pp. 192 pp. with 175 illus., 242 x 297,5 mm, hard- Karl Friedrich Schinkel – Leben und Werk with 71 illus. in b & w, 280 x 300 mm, hard-cover, cover, German / English 256 pp. with 96 illus., 22 in colour, 210x 250 mm, German / English ISBN 978-3-936681-14-7 hard-cover, German ISBN 978-3-936681-70-3 Euro 78.00, £ 49.90, US $ 89.00 ISBN 978-3-932565-29-8 Euro 36.00, £ 29.90, US $ 49.00 Euro 68.00, £ 46.00, US $ 68.00 Hans Dieter Schaal, In-Between – Exhi- Frei Otto / Bodo Rasch. Finding Form – bition Architecture / Ausstellungsarchi- Mario Alexander Zadow Towards an Architecture of the Mini- tektur Schinkels Blick nach Indien / Schinkel’s mal With contributions by Gottfried Korff, Hans Dieter Look towards India 240 pp. with 540 illus. in b & w and colour, Schaal and Frank R. Werner. 160 pp. with 230 64 pp. with 30 illus., 210 x 247,5 mm, hard-cover, 215 x 240 mm, hard-cover, English illus. in b & w, 242 x 297,5 mm, hard-cover, Eng- German / English ISBN 978-3-930698-66-0 lish / German ISBN 978-3-936681-71-0 Euro 49.00, £ 39.90, US $ 59.00 ISBN 978-3-930698-71-4 Euro 29.90, £ 26.90, US $ 39.90 Available again Euro 78.00, £ 52.00, US $ 89.00 Schinkel, Persius, Stüler. Bauten in Ber- William Owen Harrod Hans Dieter Schaal, Landscape Architec- lin und Potsdam / Buildings in Berlin and Bruno Paul – The Life and Work of a ture / Landschaftsarchitektur Potsdam Pragmatic Modernist With an introduction by Frank R. Werner and With photographs by Hillert Ibbeken and an 128 pp. with 205 illus., 233 x 284,5 mm, hard- photographs by Peter C. Horn. 128 pp. with 104 essay by Barry Bergdoll, 144 pp. with 120 illus., cover, English illus., 280 x 300 mm, hard-cover, English/German 280 x 300 mm, hard-cover, German / English ISBN 978-3-932565-47-2 ISBN 978-3-86905-003-4 ISBN 978-3-936681-72-7 Euro 59.00, £ 39.00, US $ 69.00 Euro 39.90, £ 32.90, US $ 42.90 Euro 9.80, £ 8.50, US $ 10.90

Minaz Ansari Hans Dieter Schaal, Scenic Architecture / Martha Schwartz Partners – Landscape Sanjay Patil – Nesting in Nature Szenische Architektur Art and Urbanism 280 pp. with 310 illus., 265 x 280 mm, hard- With an introduction by Frank R. Werner. 136 pp. With texts by Marc Treib, Martha Schwartz, cover, English with 140 illus., Markus Jatsch and Edith Katz. 356 pp. with ISBN 978-3-86905-006-5 280 x 300 mm, hard-cover, English/German 424 illus., 304 x 229 mm, hard-cover, English Euro 49.90, £ 39.90, US $ 54.00 ISBN 978-3-936681-97-0 ISBN 978-3-86905-011-9 Sales territories: all countries, except India Euro 36.00, £ 29.90, US $ 39.90 Euro 69.00, £ 59.00, US $ 76.00

Hillert Ibbeken (ed.) Hans Dieter Schaal, Stage Architecture / Immo Boyken Ludwig Persius. Das architektonische Bühnenarchitektur Otto Ernst Schweizer – Bauten und Werk heute / The architectural work With an introduction by Gottfried Knapp and Projekte today an interview by Frank R. Werner, 224 pp. with 304 pp. with 700 illus. in b & w, 230 x 265 mm, With texts by Eva Börsch-Supan, Stefan Gehlen, 182 illus., 242 x 297,5 mm, hard-cover, English/ hard-cover, German Hillert Ibbeken, Andreas Meinecke and Heinz German ISBN 978-3-930698-01-1 Schönemann, and photographs by Hillert Ibbeken. ISBN 978-3-930698-86-8 Euro 12.80, £ 10.90, US$ 13.90 204 pp. with 180 illus. in duotone, 280 x 300 mm, Euro 78.00, £ 49.00, US $ 78.00 hard-cover, German / English Ursula Grammel ISBN 978-3-932565-46-5 Hans Dieter Schaal – Work in Progress Paul Stohrer, 1909–1975 – Architekt in Euro 12.80, £ 10.90, US$ 13.90 With texts by Claus-Wilhelm Hoffmann, Hans der Zeit des Wirtschaftswunders Dieter Schaal and Frank R. Werner. 608 pp. 360 pp. with 590 illus., 242 x 297,5 mm, hard- Stefan Polónyi – Tragende Linien, Tra- with ca. 500 illus., 242 x 297,5 mm, hard-cover, cover, German gende Flächen / Bearing Lines, Bearing German / English ISBN 978-3-936681-52-9 Surfaces ISBN 978-3-936681-49-9 Euro 69.00, £ 59.90, US $ 98.00 156 pp. with 200 illus., 242 x 297,5 mm, hard- Euro 86.00, £ 79.00, US $ 119.00 cover, German / English Hillert Ibbeken (ed.) ISBN 978-3-936681-58-1 Hillert Ibbeken / Elke Blauert (eds.) Friedrich August Stüler. Das architek- 59.00 Euro, £ 49.00, US $ 79.00 Karl Friedrich Schinkel. Das architek- tonische Werk heute / The architectural tonische Werk heute / The architectural work today Wolfgang Rang. Stadt Licht / City Light work today With texts by Barry Bergdoll, Eva Börsch-Supan, With texts by Michael Batz, Niels Gutschow, Hao With texts by Martina Abri, Elke Blauert, Eva Anke Fritzsch, Hillert Ibbeken, Katja Schoene Luoxi, Roger Narboni, Werner Oechslin, Wolfgang Börsch-Supan, Helmut Börsch-Supan, Bernd and Heinz Schönemann, and photographs by Rang and others. 290 x 260 mm, 312 pp. with Evers, Hillert Ibbeken and Heinz Schönemann, Hillert Ibbeken. 348 pp. with 306 illus., 280 x ca. 400 illus., hard-cover, German / English and photographs by Hillert Ibbeken. 384 pp. 300 mm, hard-cover, German / English ISBN 978-3-86905-001-0 with 330 illus. in duotone, 280 x 300 mm, hard- ISBN 978-3-936681-10-9 Euro 78.00, £ 59.00, US $ 86.00 cover, German / English Euro 9.80, £ 8.50, US $ 10.90 ISBN 978-3-932565-25-0 Wolfgang Rang. Licht Raum / Light Euro 98.00, £ 68.00, US $ 98.00 Irme Schaber Space Second, revised edition Gerda Taro – with Robert Capa as Photo- With texts by Max Bächer, Christian Bartenbach, journalist in the Spanish Civil War Antonio de Campos, Manuel Cuadra, Tadashi Klaus Jan Philipp 156 pp. with 220 illus., 233 x 284,5 mm, hard- Endo, Niels Gutschow, Jürgen Hasse, Aldous Karl Friedrich Schinkel. Späte Projekte/ cover, English Huxley, Wolfgang Rang, Hans-Peter Schwarz, Late Projects ISBN 978-3-86905-013-3 Jun’ichiro Tanizaki and Samuel Widmer. 285 x Volume 1: 116 pp. with 45 illus. in b & w, 237 x Euro 59.00, £ 49.90, US $ 69.90 260 mm, 276 pp. with ca. 400 illus., hard-cover, 300 mm, hard-cover German / English Volume 2: 128 pp. with 30 illus. in colour, 237 x Heinz Tesar. Zeichnungen / Drawings ISBN 978-3-936681-76-5 300 mm, hard-cover With an essay by Matthias Boeckl. 188 pp. with Euro 78.00, £ 68.00, US $ 98.00 German / English 193 illus. in b & w and colour. 242 x 297,5 mm, ISBN 978-3-930698-11-0 hard-cover, German / English Paulhans Peters Euro 49.90, £ 42.90, US $ 53.90 ISBN 978-3-932565-31-1 Franz Riepl – Architekt / Architect Euro 68.00, £ 46.00, US $ 68.00 232 pp. with 414 illus., 242 x 297,5 mm, hard- Klaus Jan Philipp cover, German / English Karl Friedrich Schinkel. Späte Projekte/ Heinz Tesar. Ten Recent Buildings ISBN 978-3-936681-00-0 Late Projects With a text by Friedrich Achleitner. 128 pp. with Euro 78.00, £ 49.00, US $ 89.00 Special edition 200 illus., 242 x 280 mm, hard-cover, English 236 pp. with 75 illus., 30 of which in colour, ISBN 978-3-936681-21-5 Anne-Catrin Schultz 237 x 300 mm, hard-cover, German / English Euro 49.00, £ 36.90, US $ 68.00 Carlo Scarpa. Layers ISBN 978-3-936681-78-9 152 pp. with 344 illus., 233x 284.5 mm, hard- Euro 19.90, £ 16.90, US $ 21.90 cover, English Architectural guides ISBN 978-3-930698-14-1 Mario Alexander Zadow Euro 59.00, £ 39.90, US $ 69.00 Karl Friedrich Schinkel. Ein Sohn der Andrew Ayers Available again Spätaufklärung The Architecture of Paris 216 pp. with 125 illus., 233 x 284,5 mm, hard- 416 pp. with 312 illus. in b & w, 161.5 x 222 mm, cover, German soft-cover, English ISBN 978-3-932565-23-6 ISBN 978-3-930698-96-7 Euro 29.80, £ 19.90, US $ 39.00 Euro 39.00, £ 28.00, US $ 39.00 blue: title with recommended retail price 11

Stefan Grundmann (ed.) Opus 19 Opus 47 The Architecture of Rome Ernst Gisel, Rathaus Fellbach Bolles + Wilson, Nieuwe Luxor Theater, 384 pp. with 430 illus. in b & w, 161.5 x 222 mm, With an introduction by Christian Marquart and Rotterdam soft-cover, English photographs by Thomas Dix. 60 pp. with 60 illus., With texts by Lars Lerup and others, and pho- ISBN 978-3-936681-16-1 280 x 300 mm, hard-cover, German / English tographs by Christian Richters. 120 pp. with Euro 36.00, £ 24.00, US $ 42.00 ISBN 978-3-930698-19-6 179 illus., 280 x 300 mm, hard-cover, English Euro 36.00, £ 29.00, US $ 49.00 ISBN 978-3-930698-47-9 Stefan Grundman Euro 52.00, £ 34.00, US $ 52.00 Architekturführer Rom Opus 21 384 pp. with 430 illus. in b & w, 161.5 x 222 mm, Norman Foster, Commerzbank, Frankfurt Opus 51 soft-cover, German am Main Bolles + Wilson, NORD/LB, Magdeburg ISBN 978-3-930698-59-2 With an introduction by Volker Fischer and pho- With an introduction by Frank R. Werner and Euro 36.00, £ 24.00, US $ 42.00 tographs by Ralph Richter. 72 pp. with 76 illus., photographs by Christian Richters. 60 pp. with 280 x 300 mm, hard-cover, German / English 74 illus., 280 x 300 mm, hard-cover, German / Bill MacMahon (ed.) ISBN 978-3-930698-21-9 English The Architecture of East Australia Euro 39.90, £ 27.00, US$ 48.00 ISBN 978-3-930698-51-6 With photographs by Eric Sierins. 256 pp. with Euro 36.00, £ 24.00, US $ 36.00 455 illus. 161.5 x 222 mm, soft-cover, English Opus 22 ISBN 978-3-930698-90-5 Carlo Scarpa, Museo Canoviano, Pos- Opus 52 Euro 36.00, £ 24.00, US $ 42.00 sagno Brunnert und Partner, Flughafen Leipzig / With an introduction by Stefan Buzas and Halle Rolf Rave Judith Carmel-Arthur, and photographs by With an introduction by Martina Düttmann and Modern Architecture in Berlin Richard Bryant. 60 pp. with 50 illus., 280 x photographs by Christian Richters. 72 pp. with 280 pp. with 930 illus. in black and white, 300 mm, hard-cover, English 70 illus., 280 x 300 mm, hard-cover, German / 160 x 210 mm, soft-cover, English ISBN 978-3-930698-22-6 English ISBN 978-3-936681-29-1 Euro 36.00, £ 24.00, US $ 42.00 ISBN 978-3-930698-52-3 Euro 36.00, £ 32.00, US $ 49.90 Third, revised edition Euro 39.90, £ 28.00, US $ 39.00 Third, revised edition Opus 33 Opus 53 Hiroshi Watanabe Neuschwanstein Johannes Peter Hölzinger, Haus in Bad The Architecture of Tokyo With an introduction by Gottfried Knapp and Nauheim 272 pp. with 333 illus. in b & w, 161.5 x 222 mm, photographs by Achim Bunz. 60 pp. with 47 With an introduction by Gerd de Bruyn and pho- soft-cover, English illus., 280 x 300 mm, hard-cover, German / English tographs by Dieter Leistner. 60 pp. with 85 illus., ISBN 978-3-930698-93-6 ISBN 978-3-930698-33-2 280 x 300 mm, hard-cover, German / English Euro 36.00, £ 24.00, US $ 42.00 Euro 36.00, £ 24.00, US $ 42.50 ISBN 978-3-930698-53-0 Euro 36.00, £ 24.00, US $ 39.90 Opus 36 Opus Rafael Moneo, The Audrey Jones Beck Opus 54 Building, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston Egon Eiermann, German Embassy, Opus 8 With a tetx by Martha Thorne and photographs Washington Lluís Domènech i Montaner, Palau de la by Joe C. Aker and Gary Zvonkovic. 60 pp. with With an introduction by Immo Boyken, and Música Catalana, Barcelona 58 illus., 280 x 300 mm, hard-cover, English photographs by J. Alexander and Jerry Hecht. With an introduction by Manfred Sack and pho- ISBN 978-3-930698-36-3 60 pp. with 69 illus, 280 x 300 mm, hard-cover, tographs by Hisao Suzuki. 64 pp. with 51 illus. Euro 36.00, £ 24.00, US $ 42.00 German / English in b & w and colour, 280 x 300 mm, hard-cover, ISBN 978-3-930698-54-7 German / English Opus 39 Euro 36.00, £ 24.00, US $ 39.90 ISBN 978-3-930698-08-0 Arup, Hong Kong Station Euro 9.80, £ 8.50, US $ 10.90 With a text by Greg Pearce, Stuart Mercer, Gra- Opus 54 ham Powell and Rodney Tan, and photographs Peter Kulka, Bosch-Haus Heidehof, Opus 9 by Christian Richters. 60 pp. with 61 illus., 280 x Stuttgart Richard Meier, Stadthaus Ulm 300 mm, hard-cover, English With an introduction by Wolfgang Pehnt and With an introduction by Manfred Sack and pho- ISBN 978-3-930698-39-4 photographs by Peter Walser. 60 pp. with 76 tographs by Klaus Kinold. 64 pp. with 74 illus. Euro 36.00, £ 28.00, US $ 42.00 illus., 280 x 300 mm, hard-cover, German / English in b & w, duotone and colour, 280 x 300 mm, ISBN 978-3-930698-55-4 hard-cover, German / English Opus 40 Euro 36.00, £ 24.00, US $ 39.90 ISBN 978-3-930698-09-7 Berger + Parkkinen, Die Botschaften der Euro 9.80, £ 8.50, US $ 10.90 Nordischen Länder, Berlin Opus 56 With an introduction by K.-D. Weiss and photo- Am Bavariapark, München Opus 12 graphs by Christian Richters. 60 pp. with 65 illus., With an introduction by Michael Goj and Chris- Karl Friedrich Schinkel, Charlottenhof, 280 x 300 mm, hard-cover, German / English toph Tempel, and photographs by Franziska von Potsdam-Sanssouci ISBN 978-3-930698-40-0 Gagern. 60 pp. with 59 illus., 280 x 300 mm, With an introduction by Heinz Schönemann Euro 36.00, £ 24.90, US $ 39.90 hard-cover, German / English and photographs by Reinhard Görner. 68 pp. ISBN 978-3-930698-56-1 with 72 illus., 280 x 300 mm, hard-cover, Ger- Opus 42 Euro 9.80, £ 8.50, US $ 10.90 man / English Heinz Tesar, »Christus Hoffnung der Welt«, ISBN 978-3-930698-12-7 Donau City, Wien Opus 58 Euro 9.80, £ 8.50, US $ 10.90 With an introduction by Immo Boyken and pho- Espace de l’Art Concret, Mouans-Sartoux tographs by Christian Richters. 56 pp. with 78 With an introduction by Axel Sowa, and photo- Opus 16 illus., 280 x 300 mm, hard-cover, German / English graphs by Jean Brasille, Serge Demailly, André Fundación César Manrique, Lanzarote ISBN 978-3-930698-42-4 Morin, MRW Mediterranée. 60 pp. with 65 illus., With an introduction by Simón Marchán Fiz and Euro 36.00, £ 28.00, US $ 42.00 280 x 300 mm, hard-cover, French / English photographs by Pedro Martínez de Albornoz. ISBN 978-3-932565-58-8 60 pp. with 52 illus., 280 x 300 mm, hard-cover, Opus 44 Euro 36.00, £ 24.00, US $ 39.90 German / English / Spanish Alfredo Arribas, Seat-Pavillon, Wolfsburg ISBN 978-3-930698-16-5 With an introduction by Ralf Lange, and pho- Opus 59 Euro 36.00, £ 24.00, US $ 44.50 tographs by Frank Hülsbömer and Hisao Suzu- Otto Ernst Schweizer, Milchhof, Nürnberg ki. 52 pp. with 58 illus., 280 x 300 mm, hard- With an introduction by Immo Boyken and pho- Opus 18 cover, English / Spanish tographs by Kurt Grimm. 60 pp. with 61 illus., John Fowler/Benjamin Baker, Forth ISBN 978-3-930698-44-8 280 x 300 mm, hard-cover, German / English Bridge Euro 36.00, £ 28.00, US $ 42.00 ISBN 978-3-932565-59-5 With essays by Iain Boyd Whyte and Angus J. Euro 36.00, £ 24.90, US $ 39.90 Macdonald, and photographs by Colin Baxter. Opus 45 60 pp. with 50 illus., 280 x 300 mm, hard-cover, Stüler / Strack / Merz, Alte National- Opus 60 English galerie, Berlin Steidle + Partner, Alfred-Wegener-Institut, ISBN 978-3-930698-18-9 With an introduction by Klaus Jan Philipp and Bremerhaven Euro 36.00, £ 29.00, US $ 49.00 photographs by Christian Gahl. 60 pp. with 64 With an introduction by Gert Kähler and pho- Second, revised edition illus., 280 x 300 mm, hard-cover, German / English tographs by Christian Richters. 60 pp. with 50 ISBN 978-3-930698-45-5 illus., 30 of which in colour, 280 x 300 mm, Euro 36.00, £ 24.00, US $ 36.00 hard-cover, German / English ISBN 978-3-932565-60-1 Euro 36.00, £ 24.90, US $ 39.90

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Opus 61 Opus 71 Opus 80 Sonwik, Flensburg Ada Karmi-Melamede and Ram Karmi, Oswald Mathias Ungers, Haus Belvedere- With an introduction by Manfred Sack and pho- Supreme Court of Israel, Jerusalem straße 60, Köln-Müngersdorf tographs by Rolf Reiner Maria Borchard. 60 pp. With an introduction by Anne-Catrin Schultz and With an essay by Wolfgang Pehnt and photo- with 70 illus., 280 x 300 mm, hard-cover, Ger- photographs by Richard Bryant. 60 pp. with graphs by Walter Ehmann, Bernd Grimm, Dieter man / English 66 illus., 280 x 300 mm, hard-cover, English Leistner, and Stefan Müller. 64 pp. with 70 illus., ISBN 978-3-932565-61-8 ISBN 978-3-932565-71-7 280 x 300 mm, hard-cover, German/ English Euro 36.00, £ 24.90, US $ 39.90 Euro 36.00, £ 29.00, US $ 49.00 ISBN 978-3-932565-80-9 Euro 36.00, £ 29.00, US $ 39.90 Opus 62 Opus 72 Egon Eiermann / Sep Ruf, German Pavil- Sep Ruf, Kanzlerbungalow, Bonn Opus 81 ions, Brussels 1958 With texts by Andreas Schätzke and Joaquín Carlo Scarpa, Museo di Castelvecchio, With an introduction by Immo Boyken, and pho- Medina Warmburg, and photographs by Paul Verona tographs by Heinrich Heidersberger and Eber- Swiridoff. 48 pp. with 50 illus., 280 x 300 mm, With texts by Alba Di Lieto, Paola Marini and Va- hard Troeger. 60 pp. with 70 illus.,280 x 300 mm, hard-cover, German / English leria Carullo, and photographs by Richard Bryant. hard-cover, German / English ISBN 978-3-932565-72-4 52 pp. with 43 illus., 280 x 300 mm, hard-cover, ISBN 978-3-932565-62-5 Euro 36.00, £ 29.00, US $ 49.00 Italian / English Euro 9.80, £ 8.50, US $ 10.90 ISBN 978-3-932565-81-6 Opus 73 Euro 36.00, £ 29.90, US $ 39.90 Opus 63 Otto Ernst Schweizer, Kollegiengebäude Ernst von Ihne / Heinz Tesar, Bode- II, Universität Freiburg Opus 82 Museum, Berlin With an essay by Immo Boyken and photographs Bodensee-Wasserversorgung, Sipplingen With an introduction by Gottfried Knapp and by Bruno Krupp. 60 pp. with 100 illus., 280 x 300 With an essay by Andreas Schwarting and pho- photographs by Christian Richters. 72 pp. with mm, hard cover., German / English tographs by Heinz Kabus. 56 pp. with 70 illus., 55 illus., 280 x 300 mm, hard-cover, German / ISBN 978-3-932565-73-1 280 x 300 mm, hard-cover, German/ English English Euro 36.00, £ 29.00, US $ 49.00 ISBN 978-3-932565-82-3 ISBN 978-3-932565-63-2 Euro 36.00, £ 29.90, US $ 39.90 Euro 9.80, £ 8.50, US $ 10.90 Opus 74 Dietrich Dietrich Tafel, Max-Planck-Insti- Opus 83 Opus 64 tut für Wissenschaftsgeschichte, Berlin Schulz und Schulz, Propsteikirche Skidmore, Owings & Merrill, International With an introduction by Andreas Schätzke and St. Trinitatis Leipzig Terminal, San Francisco International Air- photographs by Reinhard Görner. 60 pp. with With an essay by Wolfgang Jean Stock and port 50 illus., 280 x 300 mm, hard-cover, German / photographs by Stefan Müller. 52 pp. with With an introduction by Anne-Catrin Schultz English 50 illus., 280 x 300 mm, hard-cover, German / and photographs by Tim Hursley. 60 pp. with ISBN 978-3-932565-74-8 English 58 illus., 280 x 300 mm, hard-cover, English Euro 36.00, £ 24.90, US $ 49.00 ISBN 978-3-932565-83-0 ISBN 978-3-932565-64-9 Euro 36.00, £ 29.00, US $ 39.90 Euro 36.00, £ 24.90, US $ 49.00 Opus 75 Otto Ernst Schweizer, Stadium in Vienna Opus 84 Opus 65 With an introduction by Immo Boyken und pho- Parc de sculptures Erich Engelbrecht, Le Corbusier, Unité d’habitation, Marseille tographs by Martin Gerlach. 60 pp. with 50 illus., Château des Fougis With texts by Alban Janson and Carsten Krohn 280 x 300 mm, hard-cover, German / English With essays by Gottfried Knapp and João J. and photographs by Anja Grunwald. 84 pp. with ISBN 978-3-932565-75-5 de Abreu Vares and photographs by Philippe 80 illus., 280 x 300 mm, hard-cover, German / Euro 36.00, £ 24.90, US $ 49.00 Hervouet. 60 pp. with 46 illus., 280 x 300 mm, English hard-cover, French / English ISBN 978-3-932565-65-6 Opus 76 ISBN 978-3-932565-84-7 Euro 39.00, £ 36.00, US $ 48.00 Fritz Barth, Cannstatter Straße 84, Euro 36.00, £ 29.90, US $ 39.90 Third, revised edition Fellbach With texts by Thomas Hettche, Amber Sayah Opus 85 Opus 66 and Gerhart Schröder, and photographs by Fritz SSP, Fritz-Henßler-Berufskolleg, Dort- Coop Himmelb(l)au, BMW Welt, München Barth. 72 pp. with 58 ills., 280 x 300 mm, hard- mund With an introduction by Frank R. Werner and cover, German / English With an essay by Alexandra Apfelbaum and photographs by Christian Richters. 56 pp. with ISBN 978-3-932565-76-2 photographs by Jörg Hempel. 60 pp. with 52 illus., 280 x 300 mm, hard-cover, German / Euro 36.00, £ 24.90, US $ 46.00 50 illus., 280 x 300 mm, hard-cover, German/ English English ISBN 978-3-932565-66-3 Opus 77 ISBN 978-3-932565-85-4 Euro 36.00, £ 29.00, US $ 49.00 Ferdinand Kramer / SSP SchürmannSpan- Euro 36.00, £ 29.90, US $ 39.90 nel, BiK-Forschungszentrum, Frankfurt Opus 67 am Main Bruno Paul, Haus Friedwart, Wetzlar With an essay by Fabian Wurm and photo- History and theory With an introduction by Alfred Ziffer, and pho- graphs by Jörg Hempel. 60 pp. with 60 illus., tographs by Deimel + Wittmar and Gerd Scharf- 280 x 300 mm, hard-cover., German / English Horst Barow scheer. 56 pp. with 50 illus., 280 x 300 mm, ISBN 978-3-932565-77-9 Roads and Bridges of the Roman Empire hard-cover, German / English Euro 36.00, £ 29.00, US $ 49.00 Edited and translated from German by Friedrich ISBN 978-3-932565-67-0 Ragette. 168 pp. with 345 illus., 233 x 284,5 mm, Euro 36.00, £ 24.90, US $ 49.00 Opus 78 hard-cover,English Ivano Gianola, LAC Lugano Arte e Cultura, ISBN 978-3-936681-53-6 Opus 68 Lugano Euro 59.00, £ 49.90, US $ 79.00 Robert-Bosch-Krankenhaus, Stuttgart With an essay by Frank R. Werner and photo- With an introduction by Manfred Sack and pho- graphs by Christian Richters. 72 pp. with 70 Fritz Barth tographs by Peter Walser. 120 pp. with 116 illus., illus., 280 x 300 mm, hard-cover, German / Eng- Die Villa Lante in Bagnaia 280 x 300 mm, hard-cover, German / English lish 512 pp. with 180 illus., 210x 280 mm, hard- ISBN 978-3-932565-68-7 ISBN 978-3-932565-78-6 cover, German Euro 49.00, £ 39.00, US $ 69.00 Euro 39.90, £ 32.00, US $ 49.90 ISBN 978-3-932565-05-2 Euro 108.00, £ 69.00, US $ 108.00 Opus 69 Opus 79 Rathaus Bremen Coop Himmelb(l)au, Musée des Conflu- Fritz Barth With an introduction by Georg Skalecki and photo- ences, Lyon Zeichen des Wehrhaften. Festungsbauten graphs by Christian Richters. 72 pp. with 58 illus., With an essay by Frank R. Werner and photo- von Francesco di Giorgio Martini / Martial 280 x 300 mm, hard-cover, German/ English graphs by Christian Richters. 60 pp. with ca. Signifiers. Fortress Complexes by Fran- ISBN 978-3-932565-69-4 70 illus., 280 x 300 mm, hard-cover, French / cesco di Giorgio Martini Euro 39.00, £ 29.90, US $ 59.00 English With an essay by Olaf Metzel, and photographs ISBN 978-3-932565-79-3 by Fritz and Friedrich Barth. 120 pp. with 80 il- Opus 70 Euro 36.00, £ 29.90, US $ 39.90 lus., 210 x 280 mm, hard-cover, German / English Gunnar Birkerts, National Library of ISBN 978-3-936681-42-0 Latvia, Riga Euro 49.00, £ 42.90, US $ 69.00 With an essay by Janis Dripe and photographs by Indrikis Sturmanis. 60 pp. with ca. 70 illus., 280 x 300 mm, hard-cover, English ISBN 978-3-932565-70-0 Euro 36.00, £ 29.00, US $ 49.00 blue: title with recommended retail price 13

Anne Beim and Ulrik Stylsvig Madsen (ed.) Avi Friedman Ali Malkawi, Marius Nygaard, Anne Beim, and Towards an Ecology of Tectonics – The Innovative Apartment Buildings – New Erik Stenberg (eds.) Need for Rethinking Construction in Directions in Sustainable Design Sustainability in Scandinavia – Architec- Architecture 233 x 284,5 mm, 188 pp. with 300 illus., hard- tural Design and Planning 208 pp. with ca. 300 illus., 210 x 270 mm, hard- cover, English 192 pp. with 200 illus., 233 x 284,5 mm, hard- cover, English ISBN 978-3-86905-009-6 cover, English ISBN 978-3-936681-86-4 Euro 69.00, £ 59.90, US $ 79.00 ISBN 978-3-86905-012-6 Euro 69.00, £ 59.00, US $ 89.00 Euro 59.00, £ 49.90, US $ 68.00 Anette Gangler, Heinz Gaube, Attilio Petruccioli Rolf Reiner Maria Borchard / Yali Yu Bukhara – The Eastern Dome of Islam Hans-Ulrich von Mende Gardens in Suzhou / Gärten in Suzhou 224 pp. with 256 illus., 233 x 284,5 mm, hard- Car Design – Von der Kutsche zur Auto- 152 pp. with 137 illus., 92 in colour, 280 x 300 mm, cover, English Mobilität / From the Carriage to Auto- hard-cover, English/ German ISBN 978-3-932565-27-4 Mobility ISBN 978-3-932565-36-6 Euro 78.00, £ 49.00, US $ 78.00 152 pp. with 440 illus., 233 x 287,5 mm, hard- Euro 68.00, £ 46.00, US $ 89.00 cover, German / English Stefan Grundmann ISBN 978-3-86905-010-2 Burcu Dogramaci and Andreas Schätzke (ed.) Moderne, Postmoderne – und nun Barock? Euro 49.90, £ 42.90, US $ 58.90 A Home of One’s Own – Emigrierte Archi- 136 pp. with 136 illus. in b& w, 233 x 284,5 mm, tekten und ihre Häuser / Émigré Archi- hard-cover, German Felix Moeller tects and Their Houses, 1920–1960 ISBN 978-3-930698-63-9 The Film Minister – Goebbels and the 204 pp. with 126 illus., 233 x 284,5 mm, hard- Euro 48.00, £ 32.00, US $ 58.00 Cinema in the »Third Reich« cover, German/English 216 pp. with 65 illus. in b& w, 233 x 284,5 mm, ISBN 978-3-86905-008-9 Qinghua Guo and Yuyu Chang hard-cover, English Euro 69.00, £ 59.90, US$ 79.00 Chinese Vernacular. The Weiwu at Da- ISBN 978-3-932565-10-6 fuzhen Euro 52.00, £ 36.00, US $ 52.00 Günther Feuerstein 112 pp. with ca. 344 illus., 233 x 284,5 mm, Androgynos – Das Mann-Weibliche in hard-cover, English Marios C. Phocas Kunst und Architektur / The Male-Female ISBN 978-3-936681-94-9 Technology-Driven Design Approaches in Art and Architecture Euro 59.00, £ 42.90, US $ 69.00 to Utopia 240 pp. with 318 illus. in b& w, 233 x 284,5 mm, 180 pp. with 153 illus., 230x 170 mm, hard-cover, hard-cover, German / English Renate Hehr English ISBN 978-3-930698-74-5 New Hollywood – Der neue amerikanische ISBN 978-3-86905-002-7 Euro 68.00, £ 46.00, US $ 79.00 Film nach 1968 / The new American Film Euro 39.00, £ 29.90, US $ 42.90 after 1968 Günther Feuerstein 112 pp. with 140 illus. in b& w, 233 x 284,5 mm, Jan Pieper Biomorphic Architecture – Menschen- hard-cover, German / English Pienza – Il progetto di una visione uma- und Tiergestalten in der Architektur / ISBN 978-3-930698-94-3 nistica del mondo Human and Animal Forms in Architecture Euro 48.00, £ 32.00, US $ 48.00 632 pp. with 1600 illus., 245 x 309 mm, hard- 188 pp. with 205 illus. in b& w, 233 x 284,5 mm, cover, Italian hard-cover, German / English Sigrid Hofer ISBN 978-3-930698-07-3 ISBN 978-3-930698-87-5 Reformarchitektur 1900–1918 – Deutsche Euro 168.00, £ 118.00, US$ 216.00 Euro 68.00, £ 46.00, US $ 68.00 Baukünstler auf der Suche nach dem nationalen Stil Bernd Polster Günther Feuerstein 176 pp. with 270 illus. in b & w, 233 x 284,5 mm, BRAUN – Fifty Years of Design and Inno- Open Space – Transparency, Freedom, hard-cover, German vation Dematerialisation ISBN 978-3-936681-01-7 504 pp. with 560 illus., 163 x 187 mm, hard- 256 pp. with ca. 500 illus., 233 x 284,5 mm, Euro 69.00, £ 48.00, US $ 79.00 cover, English hard-cover, English ISBN 978-3-936681-35-2 ISBN 978-3-936681-55-0 Wolfgang Jacobsen, Werner Sudendorf Euro 49.90, £ 43.00, US $ 69.90 59.00 Euro, £ 49.90, US $ 79.00 Metropolis – Ein filmisches Laboratorium der modernen Architektur / A Cinematic Nili Portugali Günther Feuerstein Laboratory for Modern Architecture The Act of Creation and the Spirit of Urban Fiction – Strolling through Ideal 240 pp. with 191 illus. in b & w, 233 x 284,5 mm, a Place – A Holistic-Phenomenological Cities from Antiquity to the Present Day hard-cover, German / English Approach to Architecture 416 pp. with 535 illus., 233 x 284,5 mm, hard- ISBN 978-3-930698-85-1 248 pp. with 555 illus., 450 of which in colour, cover, English Euro 68.00, £ 46.00, US $ 79.00 217x 278 mm, hard-cover, English ISBN 978-3-930698-26-4 ISBN 978-3-936681-05-5 12.80 Euro, £ 10.90, US $ 13.90 Walter Kieß Euro 59.00, £ 39.90, US $ 69.00 Urbanismus im Industriezeitalter – Von Volker Fischer der klassizistischen Stadt zur Garden Preußische Gärten / Prussian Gardens Der i-Kosmos – Macht, Mythos und Magie City Photographs by Hillert Ibbeken, historical over- einer Marke / The i-Cosmos – Might, Myth 492 pp. with 480 illus., 230 x 300 mm, hard- view by Katja Schoene, 300 pp. with 262 illus., and Magic of a Brand cover, German 280 x 300 mm, hard-cover, German / English 144 pp. with 200 illus., 242 x 297,5 mm, hard- formerly Ernst & Sohn (3-433-02058-8) ISBN 978-3-936681-68-0 cover, German / English ISBN 978-3-932565-20-5 Euro 19.80, £ 16.90, US$ 21.90 ISBN 978-3-936681-48-2 Euro 86.00, £ 58.00, US $ 86.00 Euro 49.00, £ 42.90, US $ 68.00 Friedrich Ragette Karin Kirsch Traditional Domestic Architecture Volker Fischer The Weissenhofsiedlung – Experimental of the Arab Region Die Schwingen des Kranichs – 50 Jahre Housing Built for the Deutscher Werk- 296 pp. with 670 illus., 242 x 297,5 mm, hard- Lufthansa-Design / The Wings of the bund, Stuttgart, 1927 cover, English Crane – 50 Years of Lufthansa Design 224 pp. with 460 illus., 230 x 290 mm, hard- ISBN 978-3-932565-30-4 224 pp. with 380 illus. in b&w and colour, 242 x cover, English Euro 78.00, £ 49.00, US $ 98.00 297,5 mm, hard-cover, German / English ISBN 978-3-936681-60-4 ISBN 978-3-932565-53-3 Euro 79.00, £ 69.00, US $ 98.00 Hans Dieter Schaal Euro 39.90, £ 29.00, US $ 49.90 Auf der Suche nach verlorenen Para- Stefan Koppelkamm diesen Volker Fischer The Imaginary Orient – Exotic Buildings 256 pp. with 124 illus., 210x 247.5 mm, hard- Ornament & Versprechen – Postmoderne of the 18th and 19th Centuries in Europe cover, German und Memphis im Rückblick 192 pp. with 280 illus., 242 x 297,5 mm, hard- ISBN 978-3-86905-017-1 64 pp. with 116 illus. in colour, 210x 297 mm, cover., English Euro 59.00, £ 49.90, US $ 69.00 soft-cover, German ISBN 978-3-936681-77-2 ISBN 978-3-932565-45-8 Euro 68.00, £ 59.90, US $ 78.00 Hans Dieter Schaal Euro 19.80, £ 13.90, US$ 19.80 Learning from Hollywood – Architektur Rob Krier und Film / Architecture and Film Architectural Composition 128 pp. with 130 illus. in b& w, 233 x 284,5 mm, 344 pp. with 500 illus., 24 of which in colour, hard-cover, German / English 240 x 250 mm, hard-cover, English ISBN 978-3-936681-34-5 ISBN 978-3-936681-39-0 Euro 19.80, £ 16.90, US$ 21.90 Euro 69.00, £ 59.00, US $ 98.00

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Hans Dieter Schaal Miscellaneous Konrad Kirsch Memorials – Betrachtungen über Denk- Der zweite Blick / The Second Look – Male in unserer Zeit Arcaid Images. Architectural Photography Hitchcock: The Birds; Edwards: The Party; 208 pp. with 123 illus., 233 x 284,5 mm, hard- Awards 2012–2015 Scott: Blade Runner; Ruzowitzky: Anato- cover, German With texts by Lynne Bryant, Amy Croft and Paul my, Scott: Gladiator ISBN 978-3-936681-87-1 Finch. 96 pp. with 70 illus., 280 x 300 mm, hard- 160 pp. with ca. 250 illus., 210x 247,5 mm, hard Euro 69.00, £ 56.00, US $ 89.00 cover, English cover, German / English ISBN 978-3-936681-99-4 ISBN 978-3-936681-54-3 Hans Dieter Schaal Euro 46.00, £ 35.90, US $ 49.00 Euro 49.00, £ 44.90, US $ 68.00 Ruinen – Reflexionen über Gewalt, Chaos und Vergänglichkeit / Ruins. Reflexions Klaus Daniels and Ralph Hammann Jakob Knudsen, Lorenz von Seidlein about Violence, Chaos and Transience Energy Design for Tomorrow Healthy Homes in Tropical Zones – Im- 272 pp. with 125 illus., 242 x 297,5 mm, hard- 368 pp. with 675 illus, 230 x 297 mm, hard- proving Rural Housing in Asia and Africa cover, German / English cover, English/ German With contributions by Bart Knols, Rasmus Bruun, ISBN 978-3-936681-46-8 ISBN 978-3-936681-25-3 Konstantin Ikonomidis and Emanuele Naboni. Euro 79.00, £ 69.00, US $ 109.00 Euro 86.00, £ 69.00, US $ 109.00 304 pp. with ca. 473 illus., 304 x 234 mm, hard- cover, English Andreas Schätzke Klaus Englert ISBN 978-3-936681-81-9 Deutsche Architekten in Großbritannien – New Museums in Spain Euro 79.00, £ 69.00, US $ 98.00 Planen und Bauen im Exil 1933–1945 / 260 pp. with 200 illus., 242 x 297,5 mm, hard- German Architects in Great Britain – Plan- cover, English Yashwant Pitkar ning and Building in Exile 1933–1945 ISBN 978-3-936681-17-8 The Romance of Red Stone – Islamic With Meike Schultz. 240 pp. with 142 illus., Euro 12.80, £ 10.90, US$ 13.90 Architecture in India 233 x 284,5 mm, hard-cover, German / English With texts by Mustansir Dalvi. 256 pp. with ISBN 978-3-936681-75-8 Volker Fischer 306 illus., 280 x 280 mm, hard-cover, English Euro 59.00, £ 49.00, US $ 79.00 Beauty Design – Kosmetik als Wille und ISBN 978-81-900809-4-1 Vorstellung / Cosmetics as Will and Rep- Euro 59.00, £ 49.90, US $ 79.00 Schlösser der Weserrenaissance / Castles resentation of the Weser Renaissance 144 pp. with 30 illus., 210 x 247,5 mm, hard- Tomas Riehle With texts by Uwe Albrecht, Michael Bischoff, cover, German / English Rheinbrücken / Rhine Bridges Heiner Borggrefe, Thomas Fusenig, G. Ulrich ISBN 978-3-936681-79-6 With an essay by Gottfried Knapp. 264 pp. with Großmann, Hillert Ibbeken and others, and pho- Euro 49.90, £ 39.90, US $ 59.90 235 illus. in duotone, 380 x 250 mm, hard-cover, tographs by Hillert Ibbeken. 304 pp. with 265 il- German / English lus., 280 x 300 mm, hard-cover, German / English Volker Fischer ISBN 978-3-936681-74-1 ISBN 978-3-936681-23-9 Essen vermessen – Speisen zwischen Euro 86.00, £ 79.00, US $ 109.00 Euro 39.80, £ 34.90, US $ 42.90 Kult und Kultur 112 pp. with 112 illus., 233 x 284,5 mm, hard- Hans Dieter Schaal Anne-Catrin Schultz (ed.) cover, German Stadttagebücher Real and Fake in Architecture – Close to ISBN 978-3-86905-000-3 640 pp. with 350 illus., 210x 247,5 mm, hard- the Original, Far from Authenticity? Euro 39.90, £ 36.00, US $ 45.00 cover, German With contributions by Tom van Arman, Dan Hi- ISBN 978-3-936681-31-4 sel, Nicole Lambrou, Christina Lanzl, Eric Lum, Volker Fischer Euro 12.80, £ 10.90, US$ 13.90 Jennifer Lee Michaliszyn, Anne-Catrin Schultz, Grünwärts – Die neue Lust an urbaner Karen Seong, Ingrid Strong, Kemo Usto, and Natur / Greenwards. The new delight in Ursula Schwitalla (ed.) Justin Vigilanti. 240 pp. with 300 illus., 233 x urban nature Built or Unbuilt – Architekten zeigen ihre 284.5 mm, hard-cover, English 56 pp. with 77 illus., 233 x 284,5 mm, hard-cover, Lieblingsprojekte / Architects present ISBN 978-3-86905-018-8 German / English their favourite projects Euro 69.00, £ 59.90, US $ 78.00 ISBN 978-3-936681-92-5 240 pp. with 378 illus., 242 x 297,5 mm, hard- Euro 36.00, £ 28.90, US $ 39.90 cover, German / English Anne-Catrin Schultz ISBN 978-3-932565-08-3 Time, Space and Material – The Mechan- Gypsy Architecture Euro 59.00, £ 39.90, US $ 79.00 ics of Layering in Architecture With texts by Renata Calzi and Patrizio Corno, 80 pp. with 160 illus., 233 x 297.5 mm, hard- and photographs by Carlo Gianferro. 160 pp. with Judith Turner. Seeing Ambiguity – Photo- cover, English 182 illus., 242 x 297,5 mm, hard-cover, English graphs of Architecture ISBN 978-3-936681-88-8 ISBN 978-3-936681-12-3 With texts by Robert Elwall and Joseph Rosa. Euro 49.80, £ 39.80, US $ 64.00 Euro 59.00, £ 39.90, US $ 72.00 108 pp. with 90 illus.in b & w, 280 x 300 mm, hard-cover, English René Spitz Dirk U. Hindrichs, Klaus Daniels (eds.) ISBN 978-3-936681-50-5 Die Hochschule für Gestaltung Ulm – Plusminus 20°/40° Latitude – Sustainable Euro 48.00, £ 42.90, US $ 68.00 Ein Blick hinter den Vordergrund Building Design in Tropical and Subtropi- 464 pp. with 446 illus. in duotone, 242 x cal Regions Friedrich Christoph Wagner 297,5 mm, hard-cover, German With contributions by Sonja Berthold, Klaus Basics of Design – Ein Gestaltungshand- ISBN 978-3-932565-16-8 Daniels, Norbert Fisch, Ralph E. Hammann, and buch für Architekten und Designer / A De- Euro 78.00, £ 49.00, US $ 78.00 others. 448 pp. with 1100 illus., 230 x sign Handbook for Architects and Design- 297 mm, hard-cover, English ers Structuralism Reloaded – Rule-Based ISBN 978-3-930698-83-7 400 pp. with 1660 illus., 233 x 284,5 mm, hard- Design in Architecture and Urbanism Euro 86.00, £ 58.00, US $ 109.00 cover, German / English Edited by Tomásˇ Valena with Tom Avermaete ISBN 978-3-936681-84-0 and Georg Vrachliotis. 392 pp. with 480 illus., Hillert Ibbeken Euro 69.00, £ 59.90, US $ 78.00 233 x 284,5 mm, hard-cover, English Das andere Italien / The other Italy ISBN 978-3-936681-47-5 168 pp. with 118 illus., 280 x 300 mm, hard- Jacqueline Widmar Stewart Euro 86.00, £ 78.00, US $ 119.00 cover, German / English Parks and Gardens in Greater Paris ISBN 978-3-936681-43-7 192 pp. with 200 illus., 242 x 297,5 mm, hard- Carl Wege Euro 12.80, £ 10.90, US$ 13.90 cover, English Das »Neue Europa« 1933–1945 ISBN 978-3-936681-51-2 112 pp. with 10 Illus., 210x 247,5 mm, hard- Hillert Ibbeken Euro 69.00, £ 59.90, US $ 78.00 cover, German Gesichter / Faces ISBN 978-3-936681-95-6 144 pp. with 138 illus. in duotone, 186 x 186 mm, Jacqueline Widmar Stewart Euro 39.00, £ 29.90, US $ 46.00 hard-cover, German / English Parcs et jardins de Paris et ses environs The »New Europe« 1933–1945 ISBN 978-3-86905-019-5 192 pp. with 200 illus., 242 x 297,5 mm, hard- 112 pp. with 10 Illus., 210x 247,5 mm, hard- Euro 39.00, £ 35.00, US $ 45.00 cover, French cover, English ISBN 978-3-86905-007-2 ISBN 978-3-936681-96-3 Hillert Ibbeken (ed.) 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