Welcome to our book review site go-pdf.online!
You may have to Search all our reviewed books and magazines, click the sign up button below to create a free account.
Architektur und Fotografie
Der Name Karljosef Schattner ist untrennbar mit der oberbayerischen Residenzstadt Eichstätt verbunden. Schattner wirkte hier von 1957-91 als Diözesanbaumeister. Die Architektur seiner Bauten und Umbauten zielt durch die Verwendung kontrastierender Formen, Materialien und Konstruktionsweisen auf eine differenzierte Symbiose alter und neuer Architektur. Für sein beispielhaftes Werk erhielt Schattner im In- und Ausland zahlreiche Auszeichnungen Klaus Kinold "will Architektur zeigen, wie sie ist". In diesem Geist hat er die bedeutendste Architektur des 20. Jahrhunderts in seinen Aufnahmen dokumentiert, u.a. Bauwerke von Le Corbusier, Mies van der Rohe, Louis I. Kahn, Egon Eiermann, Frank O. Gehry, James Stirling und Tadao Ando. Das von Wolfgang Jean Stock herausgegebene Buch sucht - und findet - die Korrespondenzen zwischen der Architektur Schattners und der Fotografie Kinolds. Beide fühlen sich einer direkten, sachgerichteten Gestaltung verpflichtet, die das Wesen der Architektur in den Vordergrund rückt.
Industrial architecture in Germany
In close collaboration with their clients, Architekten Ackermann und Partner of Munich created the Märker Cement Works in southern Germany. Wolfgang Stock shows how such a project could became a fascinating industrial design event.
Power and Architecture
Capital cities have been the seat of political power and central stage for their state’s political conflicts and rituals throughout the ages. In the modern era, they provide symbols for and confer meaning to the state, thereby contributing to the “invention” of the nation. Capitals capture the imagination of natives, visitors and outsiders alike, yet also express the outcomes of power struggles within the political systems in which they operate. This volume addresses the reciprocal relationships between identity, regime formation, urban planning, and public architecture in the Western world. It examines the role of urban design and architecture in expressing (or hiding) ideological beliefs and political agenda. Case studies include “old” capitals such as Rome, Vienna, Berlin and Warsaw; “new” ones such as Washington DC, Ottawa, Canberra, Ankara, Bonn, and Brasília; and the “European” capital Brussels. Each case reflects the authors’ different disciplinary backgrounds in architecture, history, political science, and urban studies, demonstrating the value of an interdisciplinary approach to studying cities.
The Transparent State
Do open societies need transparent architecture? Does transparent architecture help make an open society? This book examines German culture's on-going relationship with Transparency, a relationship which culminates in the new Reichstag building.
World as Design
Otl Aicher's writings are explorations of that world. They are a substantive part of his work. In moving through the history of thought and design, building and construction he assures the possibilities of arranging existence in a humane fashion. As ever he is concerned with the question of the conditions needed to produce a civilization culture. These conditions have to be fought for against apparent factual or material constraints and spiritual and intellectual substitute offers. Otl Aicher has a taste for dispute. For this reason this volume contains polemical statements on cultural and political subjects as well as practical reports and historical exposition. Aicher fights with productive obstinacy above all for the renewal of Modernism, which he says has largely exhausted itself in aesthetic visions. He insists that the ordinary working day is still more important than "cultural sunday." Wolfgang Jean Stock
European church architecture 1900-1950
This volume explores in detail 24 churches in ten countries throughout Western Europe, built between 1900 and 1950. Contemporary photographs and floor plans help readers identify the unique characteristics of each building, and are complemented by texts outlining the churches' architectural highlights.
In the Beginning
None
An Architecture of Immanence
Torgerson begins by discussing God's transcendence and immanence and showing how church architecture has traditionally interpreted these key concepts. He then traces the theological roots of immanence's priority from liberal theology and liturgical innovation to modern architecture. Next, Torgerson illustrates this new architecture of immanence through particular practitioners, focusing especially on the work of theologically savvy architect Edward Anders Sövik. Finally, he addresses the future of church architecture as congregations are buffeted by the twin forces of liturgical change and postmodernism.
