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Artists Under Hitler
'Artists Under Hitler' closely examines cases of artists who failed in their attempts to find accommodation in the Nazi regime as well as others whose desire for official acceptance was realised. They illuminate the complex cultural history of this period and provide haunting portraits of people facing excruciating choices and grave moral questions.
Sinking
John from Liverpool, Bjoern, a Swedish sailor, Tim, a Swiss bank employee, Morten, a capricious Dutch hippy and Jan, a music-making Dutch sailor met on a dream Thai beach Ao Sane, Nai Harn on the island of Phuket. At a New Year's party on Ao Sane, the idea was born in John's head to smuggle two tons of the best Moroccan hashish to Australia with his new yacht Summer King. What started as a sporting challenge ended in a fiasco with a dramatic outcome... The story is based on true events
This Thing Called Theory
22 White, wide and scattered: picturing her housing career -- 23 Toward a theory of Interior -- 24 Repositioning. Theory now. Don't excavate, change reality! -- Part VII: Forms of engagement -- 25 (Un)political -- 26 Prince complex: narcissism and reproduction of the architectural mirror -- 27 Less than enough: a critique of Aureli's project -- 28 Repositioning. Having ideas -- 29 Post-scriptum. 'But that is not enough' -- Index
Rave Architekten, 1960-2010
Das Büro Rave Architekten gilt ohne Frage als eine Institution in Berlin. Betrachtet man das komplexe Werk der Brüder Jan und Rolf Rave, spiegeln ihre Bauten gleichsam exemplarisch die wichtigen Etappen der Architekturentwicklung von den frühen 60er Jahren ab 1990 auch mit Roosje Rave bis heute. Obschon sich die Raves in ihrem steten und beharrlichen Ringen um ein zeitgemäßes Bauen nie als Avantgarde betrachteten, offenbaren ihre Werke, wie das Krematorium Ruhleben, die ehemalige BfA am Fehrbelliner Platz oder ihre Bauten für die IBA Berlin 197987 ihr sensibles Gespür für die relevanten baukünstlerischen Strömungen der an architektonischen Wandlungen so reichen letzten 50 Jahre. Insofern haben sie mit ihrem Werk, welches sich dabei jedweder modischen Attitüde verweigerte, ein gewichtiges Stück Architekturgeschichte geschrieben. Das Buch sucht diese Geschichte in Wort und Bild nachzuzeichnen und in signifikanten Werkbeispielen anschaulich zu dokumentieren.
Open Architecture
Toward an "open architecture": the International Building Exhibition in Berlin.
The Buildings of Europe
This informative guide gathers together an essential collection of Berlin's most significant buildings drawn from the widest historical background with a bias towards modern architecture. Each entry has a photograph, name, date, address and architect.
How German is She?
The 1950s have passed into the history books as the period of the Federal Republic of Germany's so-called "economic miracle"; yet attention to women's roles in economic reconstruction has until now been negligible. In this book, Erica Carter explores how the development of a "social market economy" after 1949 gave a new centrality to consumers as key players in the economic life of the nation, and, in that process, gave women a new public significance. Public attention focused in particular on the nation's housewives, who were to train the populace for entry into a new world of consumer prosperity. Carter investigates this focus from two perspectives: in part 1, she tackles the political eco...
Dynamic Daylighting Architecture
When planning buildings in which people are to work and live, the efficient use of natural daylight and solar energy is increasingly important. The challenge is to compensate the different lighting requirements in winter and summer. Integrated daylight deflection systems buildings, utilize and store solar energy to save artificial lighting, air-conditioning and heating costs. Extensively researched and impressively illustrated with a large number of computer simulations and photographs of built examples, this volume is more than an introduction to the basic principles, functions, designs and calculation methods of advanced light-guidance technology for architects, lighting designers, building and climate engineers. In particular it provides detailed documentation of the new Retro-Technology systems, explaining the role they can and do play in integrated façade and building design and planning processes. distributed by Syndetic Solutions, Inc.
The Architecture of the City
Aldo Rossi was a practicing architect and leader of the Italian architectural movement La Tendenza and one of the most influential theorists of the twentieth century. The Architecture of the City is his major work of architectural and urban theory. In part a protest against functionalism and the Modern Movement, in part an attempt to restore the craft of architecture to its position as the only valid object of architectural study, and in part an analysis of the rules and forms of the city's construction, the book has become immensely popular among architects and design students.
The Land Baron
"Tapeworm St. Sure's body was host to the insect for whom he was named, but his mind and heart were prey to dreams and ambitions unimagined by the citizens of a small town in the old American West. For Tapeworm was a failure for every eye to see, and it wasn't until an unknown assailant tried to shoot him down that his luck, ironically, began to change. First, he lost his tapeworm and then, found himself on the way to becoming the town's biggest land baron. But Tapeworm's past has witnessed deeds that now demand payment against his future. As his fortune increased, Tapeworm St. Sure became the even more devoted target for a killer"--Jacket flap.
