Books published by Birkhauser

Garden festivals are often a testing area for new ideas for landscape designers. The International Garden Festival in Metis in northern Quebec is probably the best-known festival in North America. This publication intends to explain the role of garden festivals in landscape design and present a selection of 25 gardens from Metis.

Design interventions for the reuse of existing structures must face the question of the past and the extent to which it should be included in a new design. This volume investigates the relationship of art and building reuse. How can art transform the economics of a built context?

Urban Change investigates the massive change processes in urban space. In the face of the complexity of this transformation, internationally renowned experts analyze these changes from different perspectives: from the rapid urbanization of Asia and of South America to the curated city;

Faced with climate change and the need to provide housing for a growing population, society needs to rethink the way buildings are made. Wood is a renewable building material that is unlimited in supply if sustainably managed. An integrated approach can have positive impact on the environment. This book deals with this topic.

Now as before, Japanese architecture is very popular in Europe and the western world. This book provides an overview, using design examples and interviews, and presents current positions of young architects as well as of Pritzker Prize winners.

An ideal design is site-specific, which is the only way architecture can create or connect with a specific sense of identity. This requires addressing the structural and local circumstances. This book offers a playful way in which to systematically ascertain a complex framework and use it for your own design.

Ce travail en deux volumes donne la preuve de la stabilisation de la formule des trace tordue.Stabiliser la formule des traces tordue est la méthode la plus puissante connue actuellement pour comprendre l'action naturelle du groupe des points adéliques d'un groupe réductif, tordue par un automorphisme, sur les formes automorphes de carré intégrable de ce groupe. Cette compréhension se fait en réduisant le problème, suivant les idées de Langlands, à des groupes plus petits munis d'un certain nombre de données auxiliaires; c'est ce que l'on appelle les données endoscopiques. L'analogue non tordu a été résolu par J. Arthur et dans ce livre on suit la stratégie de celui-ci.Publier ce travail sous forme de livre permet de le rendre le plus complet possible. Les auteurs ont repris la théorie de l'endoscopie tordue développée par R. Kottwitz et D. Shelstad et par J.-P. Labesse. Ils donnent tous les arguments des démonstrations même si nombre d'entre eux se trouvent déjà dansles travaux d'Arthur concernant le cas de la formule des traces non tordue.Ce travail permet de rendre inconditionnelle la classification que J. Arthur a donnée des formes automorphes de carré intégrable pour les groupes classiques quasi-déployés, c¿était pour les auteurs une des principales motivations pour l¿écrire.Cette première partie comprend les chapitres préparatoires (I-V).

Friedrich Kiesler is one of the great visionary architects of the 20th century. After studying at the Technical University and the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna, he moved to New York in 1926. This book presents a holistic view of Kiesler's work as a conceptual unit - using works, sketches, drawings, photos, and texts.

The international practice GRAFT is known for its experimental and interdisciplinary designs as well as for its strong social commitment. This publication documents projects characteristic of this social responsibility portraying architecture as an active tool for driving the development of places worth living in.

The author and his team have researched the intensive transformation processes of about twenty-five neighborhood communities in Beijing, Shanghai, Shenzhen, and Suzhou, ranging from inner-city to peripheral areas, starting from planning and ending with user satisfaction studies.

The "haus 2226" project received an outstanding media response. The reason is the clever design of this office building - it manages completely without air conditioning, heating and ventilation systems. This monograph of the building includes photos and essays.

Synasthetisches Design bemuht sich um eine Produktentwicklung, die alle Sinne systematisch mit einbezieht. Die Fulle aktueller medizintechnischer Erkenntnisse in psychologischer, physiologischer, motorischer und neuronaler Hinsicht sowie die Entwicklung innovativer Materialien mit erstaunlichen neuen Eigenschaften eroffnen zukunftig der Designer-Kreativitat fast unbegrenzte Moglichkeiten. Haverkamp hat seine Darstellung so aufgebaut, dass sie das Wesentliche dieses Grundlagenwissens aus den verschiedensten Bereichen erstmals speziell fur Designer zusammenfasst. Designer aller Richtungen erhalten so ein ubersichtliches Praxis-Handbuch, die solide Basis fur ihr eigenes Gestalten.

Capital Gate, also known as the Leaning Tower of Abu Dhabi, is a skyscraper with a striking lean. Inclined by 18 to the west, this spectacular high-rise was made possible by a diagrid structure. This book tells the story behind the design by architectural office RMJM and explains the sophisticated structural concept.

Highlights two central approaches: Josef Hoffmann (1870-1956) wanted a comprehensive aestheticization of all spheres of life, while Adolf Loos (1870-1933) interpreted architecture and design as a functional background. This book illustrates the key works of Hoffmann and Loos - as well as those of their predecessors such as Otto Wagner.

The steel skeleton building completed in Geneva in 1932 is a precursor of the Unite d'Habitation. In 2007 the external envelope was repaired, followed by a refurbishment of the interior, in which preservation requirements are exemplified. This building log book is illustrated with new and historic drawings and photos, and includes its history.

YoVa was established in 2005 as an initiative to support young Viennese architects from Vienna. In 2014 for the first time, young Viennese landscape architects were also allowed to apply. This title presents the results of YoVa 4.

Architectural ceramics have long been confined to decorative surfaces. Today innovations in material technology, production methods and assembly systems allow applications that combine the materials' emotional attractiveness with new functionalities. This book deals with ceramic materials in architecture.

Lutzow 7 owe their reputation of long standing to representative civic open spaces that they have designed for the German Chancellery, the Reichstag building and the Jewish Museum in Berlin, among many others. This architectural monograph, features a panoramic portfolio and a directory to typical design solutions.

In ten interviews with clients, designers report on their personal experiences with commissions and clients, and provide insight into their individual work processes. Three generations of graphic designers, all of which studied at the University of Applied Arts Vienna, speak openly about their experiences.

Offers an introduction to technical and constructional open space planning, with all the relevant topics, from the most common materials and surfaces to the construction of open space elements and the use of plants.

Die funf Bande der Reihe SCALE erlautern alle relevanten Gebaudekomponenten vom Entwurf bis zur konstruktiven Ausarbeitung. Im Fokus steht eine systematische Darstellung des Gestaltungsprozesses als integrative Entwicklung von Form, Technik und Konstruktion. Die Darstellung der Plane und die Mastabsschritte sind vereinheitlicht, um eine Vergleichbarkeit der internationalen Projektbeispiele zu ermoglichen.

charset=iso-8859-1" http-equiv=content-type> Massive Attack is an assembled and edited critical mass of lectures extracted from the IOA Sliver Series entitled Selected Friends and Enemies.

Water has been an important topic in architecture and urban planning for years. The revitalization of the waterfront has been a prevalent trend in cities around the world. On the other hand, architecture also had to respond to the threat of floods.The theme of Building with Water is the use of water in architecture. It presents buildings that explicitly refer to water in their design and form. It establishes a typology of building by the water: residential structures, recreation facilities, industry and infrastructure, buildings for culture and art. The various design parameters are explored in four essays. Subsequently, twenty-two international projects are presented, organized according to their locations by a river, a lake or the sea. The authors' concern is not to show luxurious buildings in privileged locations but rather presenting projects that seriously grapple with the main criterion of the location-namely, water-in an ecologically sustainable way and respond to it with their design. Wasser ist seit Jahren ein wichtiges Thema in Architektur und Stadtebau. Building with Water thematisiert die Verarbeitung von Wasser im architektonischen Entwurf; es werden Bauten vorgestellt, die sich in ihrer Gestaltung und Form ausdrucklich auf Wasser beziehen. Eine Typologie des Bauens am Wasser wird erstellt: Wohnbauten, Verkehrs- und Industriebauten, Bauten fur Kultur und Freizeit. Ebenso werden einleitend klassische Beispiele des Bauens am/im/auf dem Wasser gezeigt, wie etwa Chateau de Chenonceaux an der Loire, Falling Water in Pennsylvania von Frank Lloyd Wright oder das Salk Institute in La Jolla,Kalifornien, von Louis I. Kahn. Geordnet nach ihren Standorten am Fluss, See oder Meer, werden dann etwa 20 internationale Projekte vorgestellt. Es geht den Autoren nicht darum, luxuriose Bauten an privilegierten Platzen zu zeigen, sondern Projekte darzustellen, deren Entwurf sich ernsthaft und okologisch vertraglich mit dem Hauptkriterium des Standortes - namlich Wasser - auseinandersetzt und sich gestalterisch darauf bezieht

Offers architects and students a planning tool, in which two main sections reciprocally complement one another: the "spaces" and the "typologies" between which the planner can flexibly oscillate depending on his or her plane of observation.