Architektur

Der Charme-Faktor von Altbau ist einzigartig: Mondäne Stuckverzierungen, majestätische Bodenfenster, hohe Decken und hübsche Fachwerkoptik machen aus Wohnung oder Haus einen einzigartigen Blickfang.

Christopher Alexander presents in it a new theory of architecture, building, and planning which has at its core that age-old process by which the people of a society have always pulled the order of their world from their own being.

With the appearance of Grunch of Giants, R. Buckminster Fuller consummates his literary canon, his panoramic lifetime survey of all aspects of the responsibility of human beings for their own destiny.

"Das Bild der Kathedrale Notre Dame in Flammen ergriff und schockierte mich zutiefst. Ein Vermächtnis von unschätzbarem Wert lag vor...

Journeying through time and place, from the ancient Egyptian pyramids to the soaring skyscrapers of Manhattan, renowned architectural historian Dan Cruickshank explores the most impressive and characterful creations in world architecture....

Der Bau des eigenen Tiny House ist ein stets wachsender Trend aus den USA, welcher das autarke Leben auf wenig Quadratmetern mit Effizienz und Umweltbewusstsein verknüpft....

Learn about critical thinking and reaching a sustainable future more cost-effectively than ever imagined....

No city stirs the imagination more than Venice. From the richly ornamented palaces emerging from the waters of the Grand Canal to the dazzling sites of Piazza San Marco, visitors and residents alike sense they are entering, as fourteenth-century poet Petrarch remarked, “another world.”....

Using insights from environmental psychology, design, and architecture, The Shaping of Us reveals the often imperceptible ways in which our surroundings influence our behaviour....

With this updated edition of his earlier book A Place of My Own, listeners can revisit the inspired, intelligent, and often hilarious story of Pollan’s realization of a room of his own....

From one of Fine Homebuilding's best-loved authors, Larry Haun, comes a unique story that looks at American home building from the perspective of twelve houses he has known intimately....

Tiny House, Klimahaus, Selbstversorgerhof, Mehrgenerationenhaus – Bestseller-Autorin Anne Weiss erzählt von sieben Wohnexperimenten und wie es...

Gesundheit. Erfolg. Liebe: Wie beeinflussen die Orte, an denen wir wohnen, arbeiten oder Urlaub machen, unser Leben? Die Historikerin Roberta...

Wir arbeiten in ihnen, spazieren über sie und fahren durch sie hindurch: Dass Hochhäuser dem Sturm trotzen, Brücken und Tunnel dem...

Imagine this: stepping into a room where you instantly felt more at ease, where you felt comfortable and connected to tradition and nature. A room that embraced you with its serene energy, a sanctuary from the noise and chaos of the modern world.

The culture war is over. If you want it to be. It wasn’t even a culture war; it was a war on culture. A sustained attack, Dan Hicks argues, in the form of the weaponisation of civic museums, public art, and even universities — and one that has a deeper history than you might think.

Marcus Vitruvius Pollio's Ten Books on Architecture is the most complete treatise on the subject of architecture from antiquity and for hundreds of years influenced major buildings around the world....

Architect Laura Jane Clark, from the BBC and Netflix smash-hit series Your Home Made Perfect, shares architectural solutions & designs to optimize the spaces in your home without spending a fortune....

To look south and skyward from Central Park these days is to gaze upon a physical manifestation of tens of billions of dollars in global wealth: a series of soaring spires stretching from Park Avenue to Broadway....

We live in an age when humanity spends 90% of its time indoors, yet the nature around us—especially in America’s cities—has never been more vital.

In elegant and often hilarious prose, Kunstler depicts our nation's evolution from the Pilgrim settlements to the modern auto suburb in all its ghastliness....