"After the Second World War, talented young architects including several from Switzerland, turned to the task of promoting the ideals of Modernism. Their main interest lay in furthering the new design and construction methods which were then being made possible by industrial prefabrication and montage, even considering and incorporating them at the design stage. The time has now come to review this chapter of recent architectural history ..."
"These elaborate CAD-reconstructions, developed by Darmstadt Technical University, provide a representative survey of the architecture of synagogues in Germany before their destruction. What is more, they convey visual impressions of the diversity, the splendor and the significance of the synagogue in the history of German urban architecture from the early nineteenth century until 1938. In doing so, they also demonstrate the potential o ..."
"Die „Architekten Profile 2011/2012“ präsentieren 150 ausgewählte Architekten aus Deutschland, Österreich und der Schweiz mit ihren aktuellen Arbeiten und zukunftsweisenden Projekten in den Bereichen Architektur, Innenarchitektur und Landschaftsarchitektur. Durch umfassende Informationen und zahlreiche Farbabbildungen bietet das Buch ein klares Bild der zeitgenössischen Architekturszene. Das zweisprachige Kompendium ist das unverzichtbar ..."
"Gute Gestaltung 13 präsentiert preisgekröntes Design aller Gestaltungsdisziplinen. Ob Architektur, Corporate Design, Digital Media, Graphic Fine Arts, Produktdesign, Foto oder Film - die vom Deutschen Designer Club ausgezeichneten Arbeiten des jährlichen Wettbewerbs "Gute Gestaltung" zeichnen sich durch einen exzellenten Gestaltungswillen und eine bewusst angewandte Formgebung aus. Sie dokumentieren den hohen Qualitätsanspruch der einre ..."
"Since 1998 the bilingual Designer Profile has been the authoritative work on the design scene in Germany, Austria and Switzerland. Every two years it enables designers from the fields of industrial, exhibition, graphic and multimedia design to present their ideas, concepts and successes. These volumes form an indispensable reference work for management decision-makers and agencies who need speedy and targeted information on the spectrum ..."
""form" has been one of Europe's leading design journals since 1957. The magazine offers product designers indepth coverage of new design trends, materials, and production techniques, with special attention to design processes ("the making of..."). Graphic, corporate, and web designers appreciate form for its articles on current trends in type design, color, and illustration. The form poster edition and its many highquality reproduction ..."
"A blood stained shower curtain, a lighter that shows an airplane aboutto collide with the Twin Towers, plush slippers shaped like penises: the world of commodities today is marked by stylistic diversity, irony, and trash there are no limits on so-called bad taste. This book attempts to get to the bottom of the current fascination with the disgusting, the grotesque, and the provocative.Products from the most disparate realms are juxtapo ..."
"scape ist das internationale Magazin für Landschaftsarchitektur, Städtebau und Urban Design. Lebendig, mit internationalen Stimmen und kritischem Blick präsentiert es ausgewählte Nachrichten, ausführliche Features, kompakte Essays, fundierte Projektkritiken, Porträts herausragender Persönlichkeiten und Rezensionen neuer Literatur."
"Zeichnen und Wahrnehmen - Ein Arbeitsbuch für Gestalter / Drawing and Perception - A Workbook for DesignersBuch mit Leder-EinbandLines are thoughts that can be drawn and are often more precise than words. Only ideas that can be drawn can be translated into a design. 1D, the "first dimension," is thus the point of departure for the design process both in training and in professional practice. This publication focuses on the learning and ..."
"Der Emscher Landschaftspark ist, auch im internationalen Vergleich, das bedeutendste Projekt einer landschaftlichen Revitalisierung einer ehemaligen Industrieregion. Mit seinen 450 km umfasst der Emscher Landschaftspark einen wesentlichen Teil des Ruhrgebietes, Kulturhauptstadt Europas 2010. Bemerkenswert ist die Vielfalt der gebauten Projekte und das Niveau der beteiligen Akteure, unter ihnen Peter Latz, Norman Foster, Jorg Schlaich, F ..."
"The iF communication design award has long been regarded as a barometer of current trends in communication design this year, it will be conferred for the seventh time. There is virtually no other industry as dynamic as that of communication design. The task of continuously facilitating access to information, organizing content, and using visual attractions to guide the user through the complexities of everyday life is not always a simpl ..."
"Thomas Feichtner (b. 1970) is an Austrian designer who, after considerable successes in the field of industrial design (ski bindings, ball-point pens, fire extinguishers), has recently begun to turn heads again with his unusual approach to design. His new work in the area of furniture and object design is positioned midway between industry and handicrafts, mass production and one-of-a-kinds. This monograph uses sketches, preliminary mod ..."
"Shelters, kiosks, snack bars, market stalls, bus stops, telephone booths, toilets, advertising columns, ticket booths, mobile tents or housing units, emergency shelters, tourist information boothsthis list of small, autonomously functioning buildings could be expanded almost infinitely. Small buildings shape our daily lives; they are found at the nearest street corner; they are present and indispensable, but as architecture they attract ..."
"The rediscovery of the city that has been evident recently has by no means superseded the human desire for nature. On the contrary, the goal has been finding urban solutions that do justice to these growing needs and do so in ways that meet the requirements for design, ecology, sociology, and economy. This publication addresses the subject of designing inner-city spaces. It documents twenty recently realized examples in Europe, most of ..."
"Anyone wanting to find out about the current design trends needs and reads form, the international design magazine. Each issue focuses on the design process proper: wideranging features offer insights into how extraordinary products and graphic projects have unfolded."
"Each year, on the occasion of the annual Eidgenossische Preise fur Design (Swiss Federal Design Awards), the Bundesamt fur Kultur ( Federal Office of Culture ) releases a publication and mounts an exhibition - this year it will be doing so in collaboration with Museum fur Gestaltung in Zurich. Publication and exhibition serve as platforms for presenting and documenting all the award - winners together with their prizewinning projects in ..."
"Topotek 1 is one of Germany's internationally best-known landscape architecture firms. Rosemarie Trockel is currently one of Germany's most important artists; she has made a name for herself through highly unconventional works that have often been exhibited in New York, Chicago, at documenta Kassel, the Venice Biennale, and elsewhere. The new and extremely playful park in Munich is the result of a collaboration between them. It covers a ..."
"Basics Career Start is the package for Young Professionals. The 5 selected titles that constitute the set - Tendering, Project Planning, Construction Scheduling, Site Management, and Architectural Photography - provide essential information for advanced students and young architects, from the first bid to presentation of the final result. The special set price represents a saving of more than 20% off the combined individual volume price ..."
"Das iF yearbook product 2008 würdigt die Gewinner des iF product design award 2008, einem der global bedeutendsten Designpreise. Das Buch präsentiert alle ausgezeichneten Produkte der Kategorien Audio/Video, Telekommunikation, Computer, Licht, Möbel/ Heimtextilien, Haushalt, Freizeit/Lifestyle, Industrie/Gebäude, Medizin/ Health Care, Office/Business, Public Design/Innenarchitektur, Transportation und Advanced Studies für Konzeptionen n ..."
"The international design journal form will turn fifty next year. It was already a trailblazing and ambitious undertaking in 1957, when it was founded by designers Jupp Ernst, Wilhelm Wagenfeld, and others. That s a standard to which the journal s editorial team remains more committed than ever today. That is why form was recently made over more thoroughly than ever before in its history. The transformation is reflected in the magazine s ..."