Schwanzer – Architect. Visionary. Maestro.
Schwanzer – Architect. Visionary. Maestro.

Author: Benjamin Swiczinsky

Publisher: Birkhäuser

Published: 2018-12-03

Total Pages: 104

ISBN-13: 303561864X

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Karl Schwanzer, der 2018 einhundert Jahre alt geworden wäre, ist aus der Architekturgeschichte Österreichs nicht wegzudenken. Seine Bauten, etwa das BMW Gebäude in München, haben im In- und Ausland für Aufsehen gesorgt; sein Institut an der TU Wien hat Büros wie Coop Himmelb(l)au hervorgebracht. Seine Mitarbeiter, Studenten und Bauherren verliehen ihm posthum einen Kultstatus, der insbesondere durch seine leidenschaftliche Arbeitsweise, bei der er nichts und niemanden verschonte, und seine unerbittliche Suche nach der optimalen Lösung begründet ist. Seine Arbeitsweise war in jeder Hinsicht radikal und unkonventionell. Dass nun sein Leben in Form eines Graphic Novel erzählt wird, ist sicher auch unkonventionell, aber durchaus folgerichtig!

Herman Miller
Herman Miller

Author: Amy Auscherman

Publisher: Phaidon Press

Published: 2023-03-14

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781838666910

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The acclaimed chronicle of the rich history of this innovative furniture company, from its founding in the early twentieth century to today

Radical Matter
Radical Matter

Author: Kate Franklin

Publisher: Thames & Hudson

Published: 2018

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9780500519622

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A road map for product design professionals and students to ten "Big Ideas" in material innovation

Hidden Alliances
Hidden Alliances

Author: Elisabeth Schimana

Publisher: Hatje Cantz

Published: 2020-02-18

Total Pages: 198

ISBN-13: 9783775746649

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Where are all of the women in the avant-garde electronic music scene? Anyone who thinks they do not exist is totally wrong. It is, however, a fact that hardly anyone has done any research on them or written about them. Wondering about a world allegedly lacking in female electronic musicians, Elisabeth Schimana began a search in the late 1990s and the initial results of her research went into her performance Portrait 01 - Die Futuristin (Portrait 01 - the female futurists). Her research brought her into the sphere of electronic music, which culminated in the founding of the IMA- Institute for Media Archaeology. Now, this publication presents twenty female artists and their work. The artists create a somewhat different picture of the creation and development of electronic music. This illustrated volume is as intriguing as it is fascinating, and, above all, a significant portrait of this new history.

Unbroken Will
Unbroken Will

Author: Bernhard Rammerstorfer

Publisher: Rammerstorfer

Published: 2009

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9783950246216

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Although Engleitner and Adolf Hitler grew up in the same province in Austria and shared the same cultural background and education system, the convictions and attitudes they developed were diametrically opposed. Whereas Hitler caused untold suffering to millions as a merciless mass murderer, Engleitner devoted his life to peace, refusing to buckle even in the face of death. Why would a man facing imprisonment and unspeakable suffering in a Nazi concentration camp, chose not to sign a document giving him his freedom? Instead he submitted to Nazi persecution, enduring imprisonment in Buchenwald, Niederhagen, and Ravensbruck concentration camps, rather than renouncing his faith as one of Jehovah's Witnesses.

Critique of Architecture
Critique of Architecture

Author: Douglas Spencer

Publisher: Birkhäuser

Published: 2021-01-18

Total Pages: 228

ISBN-13: 3035621640

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Critique of Architecture offers a renewed and radical theorization of the relations between capital and architecture. It explicates the theoretical gymnastics through which architecture legitimates its services to neoliberalism, examines the discipline’s production of platforms for happily compliant consumers, and challenges its entrepreneurial self-image. Critique of Architecture also addresses the discourse of autonomy, questioning its capacity to engage effectively with the terms and conditions of capitalism today, analyses the post-political turns of contemporary architecture theory, and reckons with the legacies and limitations of critical theory.

Architecture and Naturing Affairs
Architecture and Naturing Affairs

Author: Mihye An

Publisher: Birkhäuser

Published: 2020-10-26

Total Pages: 352

ISBN-13: 3035622167

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In this anthology with contributions about architecture, media, and infrastructure technology, the authors investigate in what multifaceted way architecture and information is in tune with contemporary technology, and in what way we live with them. The book is divided into following parts: BREEDING (medialising matter), BREATHING (transcending language), and INHABITING (making things inhabitable). The compilation of various text contributions creates a lexicon of ‘naturing affairs’ and is written for readers who look for an inspiring overview of our medialised environments.

Cuban Modernism
Cuban Modernism

Author: Victor Deupi

Publisher: Birkhäuser

Published: 2021-02-08

Total Pages: 344

ISBN-13: 3035616442

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In the 20th century, modern architecture thrived in Cuba and a wealth of buildings was realized prior to the revolution 1959 and in its wake. The designs comprise luxurious nightclubs and stylish hotels, sports facilities, elegant private homes and apartment complexes. Drawing on the vernacular, their architects defined a way to be modern and Cuban at the same time – creating an architecture oscillating between tradition and avantgarde. Audacious concrete shells, curving ramps, elegant brises-soleils and a fluidity of interior and exterior spaces are characteristic of an airy, often colorful architecture well-suited to life in the tropics. New photographs and drawings were specially prepared for this publication. A biographical survey portraits the 40 most important Cuban architects of the era.