Amsterdam-based architects Ben van Berkel and Caroline Bos, principals of UNStudio, are stars of the international architecture scene. Culling from a pool of interdisciplinary experts, UNStudio seeks to make a significant contribution to the discipline of architecture, to continue to develop our qua...

This architectural guide beats a path from Breslau to Dessau to conduct the reader on a tour of the World Cultural Heritage highlights of Bauhaus and German Modernist architecture, from the Centennial Hall and the Bauhaus Dessau building to the numerous highlights in between, and taking in such citi...

The new building for Museion Bozen Bolzano, the museum of Modern and Contemporary art in Bolzano, Italy, was designed by the Berlin-based architects KSV (Kruger Schuberth Vandreike). This volume presents the new building, designed with a transparent facade that allows newly commissioned artworks to ...

Upon completing the eponymous Le Corbusier Building in Berlin in 1958, the pioneering Modernist architect Le Corbusier described the building as rising up to, a monumental size without taking from any of its parts their respect for the individual, physical and subjective dimension." Le Corbusier had...

Mountain hiking in the ruins of Berlin's Palast der Republik, former home of the East German parliament; building a hotel in an abandoned prefab high-rise; creating an architectural sculpture in an allotment garden... For the last 10 years the radical, utopian Berlin-based interdisciplinary team rau...

Many metropolises are registering a renewed trend toward living in urban space but still have a surplus of available office space, while well-placed, appealing apartments are lacking. This book presents projects by well-known architects as well as innovative future perspectives for redundant office ...

This volume endeavors to identify, classify and distinguish those qualities that characterize effective or inspired residential architecture from the nonfunctional--or those houses that simply exhibit bad taste or judgment. Berlin- based architect Oda Palmke lends perspective with concrete, nondogma...

Because of its more than 4,000 Bauhaus buildings, Tel Aviv is often called “the White City.” The city center, created in the 1930s and 1940s under the influence of international modernism, was declared a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 2003. Photographer Stefan Boness captures the unique atmosphere of the city, juxtaposing classical modernism and contemporary architecture....