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Wolf D. Prix, founder of Coop Himmelb(l)au was more than 20 years head of Studio Prix at the Angewandte in Vienna. His architectural visions shaped the studio with radical concepts, high profile strategies and right from the beginning enabled students to develop projects for the world of the future. Studio Prix was a creative cluster with intense teaching. This publication contains a selection of projects and diploma works of students as well as statements of international friends like Hitoshi Abe, Hernan Diaz Alonso, Klaus Bollinger, Chris Bangle, Aaron Betsky, Mario Coyula-Cowley, Gregor Eichinger, Peter Eisenman, Zaha Hadid, Catherine Ingraham, Bettina Götz, Lars Lerup, Greg Lynn, Thom Mayne, Eric Owen Moss, Peter Noever, Carl Pruscha, Hani Rashid, Michael Rotondi, Patrik Schumacher, Peter Sellars, Lebbeus Woods as well as teaching staff and theoreticians such as Günther Feuerstein, Sanford Kwinter, Hans Ulrich Reck and Christian Reder.
Refugees from Nazi-occupied Europe in British Overseas Territories focusses on exiles and forced migrants in British colonies and dominions in Africa or Asia and in Commonwealth countries. The contributions deal with aspects such as legal status and internment, rescue and relief, identity and belonging, the Central European encounter with the colonial and post-colonial world, memories and generations or knowledge transfers and cultural representations in writing, painting, architecture, music and filmmaking. The volume covers refugee destinations and the situation on arrival, reorientation–and very often further migration after the Second World War–in Australia, Canada, India, Kenya, Palestine, Shanghai, Singapore, South Africa and New Zealand. Contributors are: Rony Alfandary, Gerrit-Jan Berendse, Albrecht Dümling, Patrick Farges, Brigitte Mayr, Michael Omasta, Jyoti Sabharwal, Sarah Schwab, Ursula Seeber, Andrea Strutz, Monica Tempian, Jutta Vinzent, Paul Weindling, and Veronika Zwerger.
The powerful social and cultural transformations of recent decades as expressed in the shape and form of the city need to be examined and reviewed. New methods and procedures in urban planning and a new relationship between town and land are urgently required. Learning from China calls to mind that seminal work of the post-modern, Learning from Las Vegas, and relates the principles of Taoist thought and action to the perspectives for a new urban design beyond that of today, truly post modern.
A "Century of Austrian Design” offers a highly accessible overview of Austrian design culture from 1900 to the present against the background of the country’s extremely turbulent industrial history. In the process, the key aspects are explained in essays by celebrated experts. The book attempts to delineate a specifically "Austrian” formal language, citing as examples specific achievements in historical and contemporary design. As it does so, it also sheds light on other defining moments of Austria’s design culture, including the enormous potential of its inventors, the phenomenon of semi-industrial manufacturing, and the innovative design solutions advanced by the Austrian sporting goods industry. A yellow pages section with selected design addresses rounds off the volume.
Experiments with Body Agent Architecture puts forward the notion of body agents: non-ideal, animate and highly specific figures integrated with design to enact particular notions of embodied subjectivity in architecture. Body agents present opportunities for architects to increase imaginative and empathic qualities in their designs, particularly amidst a posthuman condition. Beginning with narrative writing from the viewpoint of a body agent, an estranged ‘quattrocento spiritello’ who finds himself uncomfortably inhabiting a digital milieu (or, as the spiritello calls it, ‘Il Regno Digitale’), the book combines speculative historical fiction and original design experiments. It focuse...
"ART & IDEA was founded by Robert Punkenhofer in 1995 as a not for profit institution devoted to promoting and facilitating a cultural dialogue by organizing contemporary arts programs of international scope"--Art-idea.com.
The architecture of Vorarlberg is documented for the future in a new publication in three languages and is thus anchored in the international discourse. The book "Constructive Provocation New Building in Vorarlberg" not only describes the development of a unique phenomenon but also directs its gaze towards the future and explores ways in which the successful "Vorarlberg model" can develop further. The book accompanying the exhibition was conceived by Reinhard Gassner together with Otto Kapfinger and Wolfgang Ritsch. In his illustrated essay Nikolaus Walter allows us insights into life in Vorarlberg, the photographs by Ignacio Martínez introduce selected representative building ensembles as "spaces of a new architecture". Nora Vorderwinkler describes in a brief excursus the backgrounds of Professor Franz Bertel and the "Baukünstler" Hans Purin, two of the precursors of new building in Vorarlberg. In an appendix diagrams and graphics present a picture of Vorarlberg in facts and figures. Information on related literature and links to network partners in the areas of architecture and the quality of living space in Vorarlberg help complete the picture
»Designlandschaft Österreich« offeriert einen leicht fassbaren Überblick über die österreichische Designkultur von 1900 bis zur Gegenwart; dies vor dem Hintergrund der äußerst bewegten Industriegeschichte des Landes. Dabei werden die wesentlichen Aspekte in Form von Essays renommierter Experten erläutert.
Die Migräneerkrankung ist eine neurologische Funktionsstörung, deren Verlauf durch psychologische und Lebensstil-Faktoren (z.B. Stresserleben, Umgang mit Symptomen) maßgeblich beeinflusst werden kann. Neben der medikamentösen Migränebehandlung spielen somit verhaltenstherapeutische Verfahren zur Verbesserung der Krankheitsbewältigung und zur Attackenprophylaxe eine wichtige Rolle. Die Evidenz verhaltenstherapeutischer Interventionen zur Reduktion der Kopfschmerzaktivität und für eine Verbesserung der Lebensqualität gilt als gesichert. Das Manual integriert bewährte verhaltenstherapeutische Ansätze (Entspannungstraining, Stressbewältigung) mit geeigneten migränespezifischen Inter...
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