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Preliminary Material -- Encounters Over the Border: The Shaping of Colonial Identities in Neighbouring British and German Colonies in Southern Africa /Ulrike Lindner -- The Colonial Order Upside Down?: British and Germans in East African Prisoner-of-War Camps During World War I /Michael Pesek -- Jack, Peter, and the Beast: Postcolonial Perspectives on Sexual Murder and the Construction of White Masculinity in Britain and Germany at the Turn of the Twentieth Century /Eva Bischoff -- Decolonization of the Public Space?: (Post)Colonial Culture of Remembrance in Germany /Joachim Zeller -- “Setting the Record Straight”?: Imperial History in Postcolonial British Public Culture /Elizabeth Buett...
Architects today must position themselves within an extremely wide-ranging field of qualifications. This makes it all the more important to have a fresh introduction to the field that makes up one of their core competences, the field of design. This introductory presentation describes and analyzes the theories, strategies, and tools of creative design for the purposes of practical work. With thoughtfulness and expertise, it opens the reader’s eyes to the processes that underlie design and demonstrates different ways of communicating about complex design work. The first section focuses on the much-discussed relationship between design and research, between architecture and the sciences. The second section describes basic design approaches, from Vitruvius and Alberti through Erwin Panofsky and Wolfgang Kemp to Otl Aicher and Vilém Flusser. The third and largest section presents the elementary tools of design, from gestures and words through drawings, models, and simulations to critique, all as instruments of creative design in architecture and its related fields.
Meinhard von Gerkan and Volkwin Marg are considered to be among the most acclaimed architects worldwide. Their projects and completed works have in fact attracted international attention. The present book focuses on the models produced over the years and therefore offers a unique look into the creative process of the architects. Of primary importance is the quality of the designs and buildings which is already easily discernible in the models. What is also perceptible is the need to maintain and further develop the high standards which had already distinguished the early projects. The architects seek no short-lived trends or superfluous effects; on the contrary, what they consider of utmost ...
Meinhard von Gerkan, Volkwin Marg and their partners make up one of the most innovative architectural offices in Germany. This book presents 50 of the group's finest architectural designs.
For nearly half a century, von Gerkan, Marg and Partners has been designing and constructing buildings around the world. This book examines the recent stadium architecture of the world-renowned architecture firm.
A survey which examines the development of architecture and design for air travel from 1909. The book documents developments in airport architecture, aircraft construction, and interior design, right through to airline corporate identity
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Weitgespannte Konstruktionen bestimmen in zunehmendem Maße den öffentlichen Raum der Stadt. Meinhard von Gerkan und Volkwin Marg haben seit ihrer Bürogründung im Jahr 1985 wie kaum ein anderes Team dazu Erfahrungen gesammelt: Parlament und Regierung, öffentlicher Austausch und Handel, Zentren für Kultur und Sport, Museen und Bibliotheken, Ausstellungs- und Fertigungshallen, Knotenpunkte des Verkehrs. Vom Reichstag in Berlin führt die Betrachtung über die Neue Messe Leipzig und die Berliner Olympia-Projekte bis zu den Flughäfen und der in Berlin und Stuttgart neu entfachten Konkurrenz des Schienenverkehrs.