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Hardcover. A yawning gap between two 1960s buildings. Not at all unusual in Cologne. A gap between two buildings, 2,56 m wide and 33 m long. Scarcely wide enough to park a few bicycles. This gap has been used as an office by an advertising agency since early 1999. This book records the whole project and provided an interpretation of the work. Editor(s): Rendel, Martin. Num Pages: 96 pages, 45 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DFG; AMA; AMC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 173 x 213 x 18. Weight in Grams: 372.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2001
Publisher
Edition Axel Menges Germany
Edition
Bilingual
Number of pages
96
Condition
New
SKU
V9783932565229
ISBN
9783932565229
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 16.99
€ 13.56

Hardcover. Aims to present and cast light on the essential features of the city as a Gesamtkunstwerk and to identify important criteria for future urban-development decisions. This book provides readers interested in urban development with a set of facts and strategies. It follows the narrative approach taken by Anglo-Saxon historians. Num Pages: 492 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: AMVD; JFSG; RP. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 306 x 240 x 37. Weight in Grams: 2612.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2000
Publisher
Edition Axel Menges Germany
Number of pages
492
Condition
New
SKU
V9783932565205
ISBN
9783932565205
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 68.54
€ 57.27

Hardcover. Artist-architect Johannes Peter Holzinger, in co-operation with artists Eberhard Fiebig, Ottmar Horl/Formalhaut, Leonardo Mosso, Norbert Muller-Everling, Ansgar Nierhoff and Andreas Sobeck, has succeeded in creating 'an avant-garde landmark that shows in the interplay of the arts that the avant-garde can also work positively in a team'. Num Pages: 72 pages, 120ill.(some col.). BIC Classification: 1DFG; AMG. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 337 x 247 x 12. Weight in Grams: 878.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1998
Publisher
Edition Axel Menges Germany
Number of pages
72
Condition
New
SKU
V9783932565090
ISBN
9783932565090
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 32.99
€ 23.95

Hardcover. Featuring text in English and German, this book illustrates that a positive sense of space is more dependent on light and sun, air and warmth than on a defined minimum number of square feet. Num Pages: 160 pages, 250 illustrations. BIC Classification: AMKD; WK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 304 x 251 x 17. Weight in Grams: 1110.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2000
Publisher
Edition Axel Menges Germany
Number of pages
160
Condition
New
SKU
V9783932565014
ISBN
9783932565014
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 49.99
€ 36.08

Hardcover. 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. Editor(s): Gutschow, Niels. Num Pages: 208 pages, 260ill.(some col.). BIC Classification: 1FPJ; AM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate; (XV) Technical / Manuals. Dimension: 294 x 243 x 19. Weight in Grams: 1200.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1999
Publisher
Edition Axel Menges Germany
Number of pages
208
Condition
New
SKU
V9783930698981
ISBN
9783930698981
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 61.45
€ 48.21

Hardcover. Otto Steidle has devoted himself to the subject of housing for over 30 years. For the Freischutzstrasse residential quarter in Munich Steidle first combined the "classical" linear block with a sequence of tower-like slender buildings - finding a response in this way to the challenge of combining living in green surroundings with urban structures. Num Pages: 56 pages, Illustrations(some col.). BIC Classification: AM. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (UF) Further/Higher Education; (XV) Technical / Manuals. Dimension: 306 x 293 x 11. Weight in Grams: 772.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2003
Publisher
Edition Axel Menges Germany
Number of pages
56
Condition
New
SKU
V9783930698493
ISBN
9783930698493
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 32.99
€ 23.95

Hardcover. Munich needs nothing more than attractive building land. In 1997, an architectural competition was looking for ideas for an "inner-city, dense mixture of use for culture, as a central, for housing and commerce". The prize-winning suggestion by Steidle + Partner became the basis for planning. Num Pages: 60 pages, Illustrations(some col.). BIC Classification: 1DFG; AM. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (UF) Further/Higher Education; (XV) Technical / Manuals. Dimension: 306 x 288 x 11. Weight in Grams: 788.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2003
Publisher
Edition Axel Menges Germany
Number of pages
60
Condition
New
SKU
V9783930698486
ISBN
9783930698486
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 32.99
€ 24.02

Hardcover. Known as the 'Big Eye', the Oita Stadium was one of the chosen venues for the World Cup in 2002. The whole site covers an area of 225 ha and has several facilities outside the main football stadium. The main stadium features an open track for athletic events as well as the football pitch. Num Pages: 44 pages, 60 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1FPJ; AMA; AMB; AMGC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 306 x 288 x 11. Weight in Grams: 688.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
Edition Axel Menges Germany
Number of pages
44
Condition
New
SKU
V9783930698462
ISBN
9783930698462
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 26.00
€ 22.22

Hardcover. In 2000, the Autostadt, a show park for the Volkswagen group, opened in Wolfsburg. Alfredo Arribas designed the Seat Pavilion, and has brought off the brilliant trick of making an essentially reticent building into the focal point of the Autostadt. This book features text in English and Spanish. Series: OPUS. Num Pages: 52 pages, 58 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DD; 1DFG; AMA; AMB; AMG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 305 x 288 x 13. Weight in Grams: 752.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
Edition Axel Menges Germany
Edition
Bilingual
Number of pages
52
Condition
New
SKU
V9783930698448
ISBN
9783930698448
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 32.99
€ 23.95

Hardcover. Heinz Tesar's buildings occupy a very particular place on the Austrian architectural scene, which is anyway populated by a lot of individualists. There is a great deal of creative imagination at work here, which always operates outside the scope of modern routine. This book features text in English and German. Num Pages: 60 pages, 51ill.(some col.). BIC Classification: AMB. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 307 x 290 x 12. Weight in Grams: 810.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2000
Publisher
Edition Axel Menges Germany
Number of pages
60
Condition
New
SKU
V9783930698387
ISBN
9783930698387
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 32.99
€ 23.95

Hardcover. Otto Steidle acquired international recognition for his extraordinary early residential buildings in Munich and for exemplary solutions for school and office buildings. His office and residential complex for Wacker-Chemie in Munich is a lively accent on a particularly conspicuous site in architecturally conservative Munich. Num Pages: 60 pages, 62ill.(some col.). BIC Classification: 1DFG; AMB; AMG. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 318 x 288 x 11. Weight in Grams: 804.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1998
Publisher
Edition Axel Menges Germany
Number of pages
60
Condition
New
SKU
V9783930698318
ISBN
9783930698318
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 32.99
€ 23.95

Hardcover. Karl Friedrich Schinkel called his designs for a palace on the Acropolis in Athens and for Orianda Castle in the Crimea a 'beautiful dream'. This work presents both the formal language of neo-Classical architecture and the quality of presentation. It shows how he esteemed these designs from the fact that he had them printed in his publication. Num Pages: 244 pages, lithographs. BIC Classification: AMB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 316 x 248 x 44. Weight in Grams: 2362.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2000
Publisher
Edition Axel Menges Germany
Number of pages
244
Condition
New
SKU
V9783930698110
ISBN
9783930698110
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 50.70
€ 43.86

Hardcover. Num Pages: 80 pages, 120 colour photos. BIC Classification: AMG. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 295 x 238 x 12. Weight in Grams: 694.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Hagen Schmid Germany
Edition
Bilingual
Number of pages
80
Condition
New
SKU
V9783000245619
ISBN
9783000245619
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 35.99
€ 26.47

Hardcover. A yawning gap between two 1960s buildings is not at all unusual in Cologne. A gap scarcely wide enough to park a few bicycles has been used as an office by the Rendel and Spitz Advertising Agency since 1999. This book is intended to fill this gap. Num Pages: 112 pages, Illustrations (some col.). BIC Classification: AM. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 173 x 211 x 18. Weight in Grams: 366.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2003
Publisher
Edition Axel Menges Germany
Edition
Bilingual
Number of pages
112
Condition
New
SKU
V9783932565359
ISBN
9783932565359
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 17.99
€ 14.37

Hardcover. Waro Kishi first caught the attention of the architectural world with his house in Nipponbashi, an elegant townhouse in an Osaka district full of stores marketing electric and electronic goods. Num Pages: 128 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: ACX; AGB; AMB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 305 x 250 x 15. Weight in Grams: 966.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2000
Publisher
Edition Axel Menges Germany
Number of pages
128
Condition
New
SKU
V9783932565151
ISBN
9783932565151
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 57.91
€ 45.62

Hardcover. Early in the 20th century, Robert Bosch, the founder of the Stuttgart electrical business, built a large villa on the hills east of the city. It was half Palladian, half in the reform style of the period before the First World War. Num Pages: 60 pages, 76 b/w & colour illus. BIC Classification: 1DFG; AMKH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 309 x 291 x 7. Weight in Grams: 860.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
Edition Axel Menges Germany
Edition
Bilingual
Number of pages
60
Condition
New
SKU
V9783930698554
ISBN
9783930698554
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 32.99
€ 24.05

Hardcover. In autumn 1997, the Zentrum fur Kunst und Medientechnologie (ZKM) moved into the production hall of a former munitions factory in Karlsruhe, built by Stuttgart architect Philipp Jakob Manz in 1914-18. Hamburg architects Schweger and Partner were commissioned to convert this industrial structure. Series: OPUS. Num Pages: 56 pages, 58ill.(some col.). BIC Classification: 1DFG; AMB; AMG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate; (XV) Technical / Manuals. Dimension: 312 x 289 x 12. Weight in Grams: 844.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1999
Publisher
Edition Axel Menges Germany
Number of pages
56
Condition
New
SKU
V9783930698349
ISBN
9783930698349
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 32.99
€ 24.02

Hardcover. Showcases the innovations that are contributing to architectural forms, this title includes parametric modelling that is enabled by computer-aided technology, environmentally friendly building skins, and HOPSCAs - a hybrid building type - that can house hotels, offices, parking, shopping, a convention centre, and apartments under one roof. Editor(s): Rihan, Xing. Num Pages: 372 pages, 764 colour photos & maps. BIC Classification: AMC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 302 x 269 x 30. Weight in Grams: 2148.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Edition Axel Menges Germany
Number of pages
372
Condition
New
SKU
V9783936681451
ISBN
9783936681451
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 100.69
€ 98.13

Hardcover. Fritz Leonhardt would have been 100 years old in 2009. He studied at the Technische Hochschule in Stuttgart and then travelled in the USA. He made his professional debut with the German autobahn, for which he designed the Rodenkirchen suspension bridge in 1938-41. This title presents a retrospective of this famous structural engineer's work. Editor(s): Kleinmanns, Joachim; Weber, Christiane. Num Pages: 216 pages, 250 b/w illus. BIC Classification: AMB; AMC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 305 x 250 x 19. Weight in Grams: 1426.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Edition Axel Menges Germany
Edition
Bilingual
Number of pages
216
Condition
New
SKU
V9783936681284
ISBN
9783936681284
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 81.54
€ 62.71

Hardcover. Latvian-born architect Gunnar Birkerts belongs to the second wave of modernists who arrived in the United States from abroad, a group that includes Kevin Roche and Cesar Pelli among others. This work presents his cultural perspectives as well as his family insights to bear, offering a unique portrait of a life and career. Num Pages: 320 pages, 413 colour & b/w illus. BIC Classification: AMB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 304 x 249 x 29. Weight in Grams: 2142.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Edition Axel Menges Germany
Edition
1 Ill
Number of pages
320
Condition
New
SKU
V9783936681260
ISBN
9783936681260
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 93.36
€ 75.65

Hardcover. The purpose of architecture is first and foremost to create a human environment for human beings. This book presents the author's particular interpretation of the holistic-phenomenological worldview in theory and in practice, a worldview which stands at the forefront of the scientific discourse, and is tightly related to Buddhist philosophy. Num Pages: 248 pages, 596 colour & b/w illus. BIC Classification: AM. Category: (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 285 x 227 x 28. Weight in Grams: 1614.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
Edition Axel Menges Germany
Number of pages
248
Condition
New
SKU
V9783936681055
ISBN
9783936681055
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 52.99
€ 37.59

Hardcover. Specialist literature on Schinkel has grown enormously since the 200th anniversary of his birth in 1981. This title includes Schinkel teachers' lesson notes, the educational periodicals of his period, private letters, exhibition catalogues and also treatises by avant-garde architectural theorists. Num Pages: 216 pages, 125 illustrations. BIC Classification: AMB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 291 x 238 x 20. Weight in Grams: 1316.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2001
Publisher
Edition Axel Menges Germany
Number of pages
216
Condition
New
SKU
V9783932565236
ISBN
9783932565236
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 26.99
€ 20.33

Hardcover. The Villa Lante in Bagnaia near Viterbo is outstanding among 16th-century Italian gardens. It is not particularly large, but it is the undisputed highlight of this epoch, the heyday of Italian horticulture. This monograph attempts to establish what triggers the intense sense of beauty with which visitors to the gardens are confronted. Num Pages: 512 pages, 180 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DST; AMA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 289 x 228 x 49. Weight in Grams: 2264.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2001
Publisher
Edition Axel Menges Germany
Number of pages
512
Condition
New
SKU
V9783932565052
ISBN
9783932565052
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 81.54
€ 66.80

Hardcover. The Neues Haus, the new building for the Munchner Kammerspiele, is not a big building in any sense. The most important quality of the design is in fact that it accepts the modesty of its role. The building subordinates itself to the main Kammerspiele building. This book features text in English and German. Series: OPUS. Num Pages: 56 pages, 54 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DD; 1DFG; AMA; AMB; AMGC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 306 x 289 x 13. Weight in Grams: 800.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
Edition Axel Menges Germany
Edition
Bilingual
Number of pages
56
Condition
New
SKU
V9783930698431
ISBN
9783930698431
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 37.99
€ 27.32

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