The Dessau Bauhaus Building 1926-1999

By margret Kentgens

* Publisher: Birkhauser

* Number Of Pages: 208

* Publication Date: 1998-11-01

* ISBN-10 / ASIN: 3764352906

* ISBN-13 / EAN: 9783764352905

Book Description:

With the Bauhaus in Dessau, Walter Gropius created a building in 1925/26 that represented a "demonstration of architectural Modernism".Wolfgang Pehnt. During the few years of its original use as a school with studios, until it was closed down by the Nazis in 1932, it had also become a center of crystalization for the creative forces of its times. Today, the Dessau Bauhaus Foundation again makes the famous building, which has been undergoing extensive restoration since 1997, a center for cultural activities: numerous projects and events at the occasion of the eightieth anniversary of the Bauhaus' foundation in Weimar (1999) and the EXPO 2000 will provide the building with even more public attention. The book documents all phases of the Bauhaus Building's history, use and constructive changes. The authors look at its meaning for contemporary architecture, culture and politics, and describe its history during the Weimar Republic, the Third Reich, the GDR and up to the present. The themes range from the first architectural design to the future of the Bauhaus as a monument. With contributions by members of the Dessau Bauhaus as well as by independent specialists, and with picture documentation that also goes back to unpublished materials from the Bauhaus Foundation archives, the multifaceted book represents the new standard volume on the Bauhaus Building.

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Selling Architectural Ideas

By Tom Porter

Publisher: Spon Press

Number Of Pages: 160

Publication Date: 2000-02-23

ISBN-10 / ASIN: 0419232605

ISBN-13 / EAN: 9780419232605

Book Description:

As "visual animals" architects continue to live and work in a pictorial age in which image-making remains as the central activity of environmental design. Selling Architectural Ideas explores the promotional role of architectural graphics and drawing at the point of communication, i.e., at their point of sale. By substituting the words "communication" and "presentation" with the word "selling" we confront the reality of a highly competative world in which the process of creating images for selling architectural ideas is approached as a more persuasive and, therefore, more successful design tool.

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ARCHITECTURE IN JAPAN -Philip Jodidio

ARCHITECTURE_IN_JAPAN by hilip_Jodidio/pdf /96 MB/

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Seismic Design For Architects

By Andrew Charleson

Publisher: Architectural Press

Number Of Pages: 296

Publication Date: 2008-09-12

ISBN-10 / ASIN: 0750685506

ISBN-13 / EAN: 9780750685504

Book Description:

Architects across the world have to design buildings that need to comply with strict seismic codes. All too often the need to comply with the code is put ahead of the design of the building, resulting in dull and functional architecture. Andrew Charleson's book shows how to make structural requirements an integral part of the architectural design process, not an add-on. Using non-technical language and detailed illustrations Charleson shows how achieving structural standards need not limit the scope for architectural innovation and high design standards in seismically active zones.With enough theory to satisfy architects without swamping them in technical data, Seismic Design for Architects is a state-of-the-art summary of designing buildings where being prepared for the worst is an everyday fact of life.* Written for architects, emphasising design over analysis * Key concepts conveyed with visual material to allow architects to appreciate the design solutions available to them * Draws experience from a wide variety of national and international design codes.

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