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1000x European Architecture by Edited by Joachim Fischer, Chris van Uffelen
Category: Architecture | Series: 1000 X Ser.
This is the most comprehensive, authoritative and up-to-date compendium of contemporary European architecture available in one single volume. Projects from all parts of the continent have been selected to create a representative overview of the latest European architecture. The great variety of European ...Show more
500x Art in Public: Masterpieces from the Ancient World to the Present by Chris van Uffelen
Category: Art and Design
Works of art make a substantial contribution to cultural identification. When they are placed in a public place, this function is enhanced. However the artwork also acknowledges other tasks: it figuratively announces content in the traditional role, standing as the image of a ruler or at least serves as ...Show more
A Coffee a Day - Contemporary Cafe Design by Chris van Uffelen
Category: Art and Design
Exchange and interaction, an escape from everyday life, letting the imagination flow, writing, reading, or simply doing nothing: Drinking a coffee in a nice café, spontaneously or on a date, alone or with friends, is undoubtedly one of the things we miss the most during the 2020/21 pandemic - even if we ...Show more
Automobile Architecture by Chris van Uffelen
Category: Architecture | Series: Architecture in Focus
The automobile has shaped the appearance of our streets for 100 years now. At the same building types have been created to serve it. Parking garages and gas stations as new species of architecture and showrooms whose exhibition spaces and display windows are markedly different from the usual businesses ...Show more
Bamboo Architecture & Design by Chris van Uffelen
Category: Architecture | Series: Architecture & Materials
Bamboo, one of the fastest-growing plants on earth, is best known to many people as the food of giant pandas more significant, however, is its long tradition as a construction material, especially in Asia and South America. Recently, it has also become increasingly popular among Western architects, desi ...Show more
Bend & Build: Architecture with Bamboo by Chris van Uffelen
Category: Architecture General
Architecture involving and consisting of bamboo has developed into one of the most fascinating areas of global building culture. A material with many faces, more flexible than wood and stronger than steel: in addition to its individual and natural appearance, above all, the unique material properties su ...Show more
Berlin. the Architecture Guide by Rainer Haubrich; Hans Wolfgang Hoffmann; Chris van Uffelen
Category: Architecture | Series: Architecture Guides
An authoritative guidebook in chronological order whereby the buildings can be understood in their respective architectural-historical context. Berlin is not just the capital city and largest metropolis in Germany. It is also characterized by its most varying architectural landscape. The present archit ...Show more
Blob ! Round Shapes, Fluid Forms by Chris van Uffelen
Category: Architecture | Series: Architecture & Technology
The term Blob Architecture was first used in 1995 by Greg Lynn to describe biomorphic buildings, whose complex forms were created with the help of computers. Initially only used to describe organic, rounded objects Blobitecture today comprises and inspires many variations: from the classic, computer-gen ...Show more
Bricks Now and Then - The Oldest Man-Made Building Material by Chris van Uffelen
Category: Home and Garden
Bricks are the only non-natural building material that can look back at several thousand years of history. And as Mies van der Rhohe stated: "Architecture starts when you carefully put two bricks together. There it begins". Buildings made of this fabric from very different epochs and cultures all over t ...Show more
Bridge Architecture + Design (Masterpieces Series) by UFFELEN CHRIS VAN
Category: Architecture | Series: Masterpieces
This volume from the "Masterpieces" series presents contemporary bridges of different types from around the world. Variety of structural tasks and materials was given priority during project selection. Simple beam and arch bridges, spanning just a few meters, are found alongside complex engineering achi ...Show more
Bungalow Design by Chris van Uffelen
Category: Architecture
Communicative living on a single level thanks to a wide variety of layouts, ingenious spatial solutions by playing with building structures, and the symbiosis of architecture and environment: The bungalow is the epitome of a self-determined life - and inspires builders and architects alike. The one or o ...Show more
China: the New Creative Power in Architecture by Chris van Uffelen
Category: Architecture
The building culture of China is currently one of the most innovative and most adventurous in the world because of the bold ways architects approach materials and genres as well as forms and functions. At the same time, it offers the opportunity to implement the most daring designs in the shortest possi ...Show more