Books published by Edition Axel Menges

Includes articles prepared in the context of a Japanese-German co-operative programme in architectural and urban conservation in 1996-98. This book attempts to portray the Japanese practice of repair - hozon - of historic structures. It features detailed photographic documentations, demonstrating the beauty of timber structures.

Hans Dieter Schaal worked on almost all important opera houses including those in Berlin, Brussels, Paris, Vienna, and Zurich. These projects served as vehicles for his extraordinarily expressive artistic powers, which he used to captivate the public.

An architect who draws on his knowledge of stage sets to design spatial sensations with complex themes.

Gunter Rambow is one of the designers in the area of visual communication and cultural advertising. He produced several photo books and posters at the Rambow & Lienemeyer graphic design studio. This book conveys his achievement in using the medium of the poster to create corporate designs for a spectrum of widely differing institutions.

Talks about a museum, a place that serves as an assembly point and information centre and is all things in one: laboratory, workshop, building site, university, theatre, opera house and museum. Broad walkways lead to the entrance. Extensive gardens in gentle geometric patterns invite visitors to rest, play, chat and look.

Personal favorite projects selected by architects of international distinction are presented in a book for the first time. Projects that were devised and realized, but also some that were never built.

Ivano Gianola is one of the important exponents of the so-called Ticino School. This title includes works of Gianola that gives the leading protagonists of the Ticino School a monograph of his own.

This monograph is the first to place Schinkel's life and work in the artistic context of his day. Arranged according to his various spheres of work, it brings together a variety of material from contemporary sources.

There is a copius and wide-ranging body of literature on Karl Friedrich Schinkel, Germany's most important 19th-century architect.This volume hopes to fill the gap by providing the fullest possible compliation.

Even though his viaducts for the TGV Atlantic line and several innovative projects rapidly brought him national recognition, Jean-Yves Barrier managed to avoid involvement in fashions and trends. Barrier approaches each project with a fresh eye, and tries to come up with a powerful idea that is then expressed spontaneously in his sketches.

Literature on Schinkel has grown enormously since the 200th anniversary of his birth in 1981, but this is the first book that deals with his education and training. No one seems to have seen that Schinkel was actually a son of the late Enlightenment.

The buildings included within this guide extend from the first examples of Australian architecture by convict architect Francis Greenway to the works by today's rising generation.