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New research strands for the future. A revolutionary proposition on Palladio.

In-depth study of Louis Kahn's unbuilt masterpiece as an introduction to an evolving paradigm of architectural space.

A panoptic view on the alpine landscape.

Utopias for border regions.

Jewels from the collection of the Fotostiftung Schweiz.

The astonishing transformation of a Brazilian favela.

The new sourcebook for designers.

How little is poor? The poverty line as a global phenomenon.

Reflections on 30 years of European architecture.

Europe's progressive public library in images and text.

The shift towards digital modes of production has fundamentally changed both cartography and graphic design. The omni-present computer, the interactive possibilities of digital media and the direct exchange of visual information through networks have blurred the distinction between designers and users of visual information.Blind Maps and Blue Dots is the first work to explore the disappearing boundaries between producers and users of maps. Using three mapmaking practices as examples ΓÇô the Blue Dot, the location function in Google Maps; the Strava Global Heatmap, a world map showing the activities of a fitness app; and the ΓÇ£Situation in SyriaΓÇ¥ maps, a regularly updated map of the Syrian conflict made by an Amsterdam teenager ΓÇô renowned designer Joost Grootens shows the blurring of the binary distinction between producing and using, ultimately offering a whole new approach to graphic design.

Published in 1929, From Material to Architecture contains the main features of László Moholy-Nagy’s teaching program at the Bauhaus. With its focus on the preliminary course and its training of finer sensory perception, this last title of the 14-volume series explains how students “develop towards practice from day to day.” The educational principle behind it, Jedermann ist begabt (everyone is talented), was central to teaching at the Bauhaus.

Although he was never an official member of the Bauhaus, Albert Gleizes dedicated his influential essay on Cubism to the art school. In 1928, László Moholy-Nagy and Walter Gropius included this essay as volume 13 of the Bauhausbücher series. In addition to his own works, Gleizes shows works by Georges Braque, Robert Delaunay, Fernand Léger and Pablo Picasso as reference examples, and places the Bauhaus and its series in an international context that impressively captures the interaction of the numerous art movements of the time.

Dutch architect and designer J. J. P. Oud participated in the Bauhaus Week and the International Architecture Exhibition. His writing, beginning with a personal confession, is a summary of theoretical and practical findings in the field of architecture, specifically using the example of Dutch architecture. He thus looks to the future and reflects on the potential of architecture without forgetting to reveal his relationship with the past.

Kasimir MalevichΓÇÖs treatise on Suprematism was included in the Bauhausb├╝cher series in 1927, as was Piet MondrianΓÇÖs reflections on Russian Constructivism in 1925 (New Design, Bauhausb├╝cher 5). Like Mondrian, who was never an official member of the Bauhaus, Malevich nevertheless had a close connection to the ideas of the school in terms of content. This volume 11 laid the foundation for the Russian avant-garde artistΓÇÖs late work: to wrest the mask of life from the true face of art.

Point and Line to Plane can be seen as a continuation of Wassily KandinskyΓÇÖs seminal treatise On the Spiritual in Art. KandinskyΓÇÖs thesis is that different constellations of point, line and surface have different emotional effects on the viewer. Starting from the point (which represents the most concentrated and minimal graphic form), he understands all painterly forms as being a play of forces and counterforces: of contrasts.

Bad news about climate change, shrinking resources, global health crises, species extinction and growing inequalities cause consternation and insecurity for many people, especially since the Covid pandemic. The ambition of this book is to explain in simple but precise terms and by means of Ruedi BaurΓÇÖs concise illustrations what ΓÇ£financeΓÇ¥ is, and how its most innovative form, sustainable finance, can reconcile the well-being of mankind with the capacities of our planet.Is there a way to convince society that a fundamental transition is necessary, even more: that it is possible? Can sustainable finance help? Financing Our Common Future offers encouraging perspectives by showing how little-known groups of financial stakeholders, such as development banks, are actively working to make sustainable finance happen. The book invites you to enjoy a journey through multitude situations, to question our preconceptions and to open our mindset to a deeper thought, so we can envision ways of moving forward.

Unser Umgang mit Grund und Boden beeinflusst Architektur und Stadtentwicklung massgeblich. Im letzten Jahrzehnt haben die Privatisierung von urbanem Boden sowie die Spekulation damit dramatisch zugenommen. Viele europäische Städte, die einem hohen Entwicklungsdruck unterliegen, verfügen selbst über so gut wie keinen baufähigen Bodenvorrat mehr. Angesichts der akuten Wohnungsnot stellt sich somit die Bodenfrage erneut: Inwiefern vermögen wir es, Boden als gemeinschaftliches Gut zu behandeln und ihn den Exzessen des Kapitalismus zu entziehen?Nachdem sich bereits zahlreiche Fachmagazine dem Thema angenommen haben, möchte "Architektur auf gemeinsamem Boden" dieser Frage umfassend auf den Grund gehen, indem es einen historischen Überblick liefert und dabei den Bogen von Henry George bis in die gegenwärtige Zeit spannt. Interviews mit globalen Akteuren geben Aufschluss über den heutigen Umgang mit der Bodenfrage. Das Buch zeigt herausragende Projekte, denen entweder eine rechtliche oder eine räumliche Trennung von Grund und Boden zugrunde liegt, und liefert somit einen wertvollen Beitrag zur aktuellen Diskussion über eine nachhaltige Bodenpolitik.

Fashion posters as contemporary witnesses and cultural history. 100 years of fashion advertising as a mirror of its time. Fashion as a popular driver in the development of poster design.

On a decades-long commitment to capturing life via portraiture and nature. Along with Gerhard Richter, Franz Gertsch is the best-known representative of European photorealism with numerous illustrations of paintings and woodcut prints.

During the WEF, Davos becomes a modern Potemkin village. The photo artist Jules Spinatsch grew up in Davos and documents the paradoxical transformation of the city during the WEF.

The beauty of Korean architecture in photographs. Photographer Helene Binet works with world-famous architects such as Daniel Libeskind, John Hejduk and Peter Zumthor in expressive black-and-white photographs she observes the typologies of traditional Korean architecture

Who manages our data? A look behind the scenes of state-of-the-art IT infrastructures. Data centers are high-tech functional buildings, strictly protected treasuries and covert centers of power. The first comprehensive analysis of the history and present of IT infrastructures using the example of Switzerland.

Architect, theorist, dadaist-van Doesburg describes the circumstances of being an artist in the increasingly capitalistic twentieth century

Schlemmer's vision of how to define dance, theater, and music