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Energy Designs for Tomorrow מאת Klaus Daniels The challenges facing the 21st century are staggering: rapidly increasing population, mounting social instability due to global imbalances of wealth and welfare, resource scarcity and resulting conflicts related to their exploitation and distribution, and certainly the ongoing distress of the enviro...

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The Happy Prince and Other Tales מאת Oscar Wilde In addition to writing numerous poems, plays and his famous novel, The Picture of Dorian Gray, he wrote his fairy-tale collections, The Happy Prince and Other Tales (1888) and A House of Pomegranates (1892). These two collections are included in this volume and are accompanied by colorful illustrati...

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Modern Architecture in Berlin מאת Rolf Rave The contents of this architectural guide vividly stand out against the backdrop of Berlin's recent history - a course of events as multifaceted as it was, in part, excessive, up until today. This publication deliberately focuses on the city's last one hundred years when, generation by generation, Be...

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Fritz Leonhardt 1909-1999: The Art of Engineering Design מאת Joachim Kleinmanns Leonhardt was involved as a structural engineer on the first post-war high-rise buildings in Germany. He worked with the architects concerned on the cable-net structures for the German Pavilion at the 1967 Montreal World's Fair, and for the roofs of the 1972 Munich Olympics buildings. The interplay ...

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Ernst von Ihne/Heinz Tesar, Bode-Museum, Berlin: Series: Opus 63 מאת Gottfried Knapp The text in the book provides a reminder of museum's first collection, a mixed one consisting of paintings, sculpture and furniture. The pictorial section then records the present content of the restored galleries, shaped by Heinz Tesar and using objects from the sculpture collection, the Byzantine ...

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Urban Fiction: Urban Utopias from the Antiquity until Today מאת Gunther Feuerstein Dissatisfied with the world we live in, we have been longing since time immemorial for two opposing environments: the peaceful garden--a carefree paradise--and the New City--a harmonious community. For Gunther Feuerstein, all these cities and towns, though only fictitious, have long since been built...

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Castles of the Weser Renaissance מאת Michael Bischoff The area along the Weser was very prosperous economically between the Reformation and the Thirty Years War, so there was a great deal of building activity. Renaissance castles, aristocratic estates, town halls and civic architecture here were little affected by he effects of war or modernization. Th...

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Occupying and Connecting: Thoughts on Territories and Spheres of Influence with Particular Reference to Human Settlement מאת Frei Otto Cities, estates and routing systems develop, change constantly and fundamentally cannot be planned. Claims to ownership, land and building regulations, planning decisions and political interventions make it difficult for settlement structures to adapt to constantly changing requirements to such an e...

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Bruno Paul, Haus Friedwart, Wetzlar: Opus 67 מאת Alfred Ziffer Ernst Leitz was taking the prototype for the legendary Leica camera to be tested in North America when Haus Friedwart in his hometown of Wetzlar was begun. The architect Bruno Paul (1874-1968) was a sought-after designer of challenging interior designs and architect of grand upper-middle class house...