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, and he strolls through them together with the architects, planners, writers, and philosophers, just as Thomas More, Antonio Filarete, William ...

Ivano Gianola is one of the most important exponents of the so-called Ticino School. This developed in the early 1970s as a loose association of architects who thought in related ways. At the time, their ambition was to set radical alternatives of a powerfully symbolic nature against the increasing destruction of the environment by new building in Ticino. What made Gianola's buildings different from others of the Ticino School from the outset ...

Borchard has chosen seven of the most beautiful gardens and photographed them, always in spring, in a time when the architecture has not been overwhelmed by the vegetation.
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Shortly after the navy had given up its Firth of Flensburg base, which had been in existence since the Kaiser's time, at the turn of the millennium, a group of developers acquired the promising site. The group developed a little urban quarter here, about 3 km north of Flensburg old town, and called it Sonwik, from the north Frisian words Son (sun) and Wik (bay). Its principal attraction is a housing estate, unique in Germany, consisting of 20 ...

People identify with the spaces they helped to determine, and naturally appropriate them. As a producer of such anarchic work, it is perhaps surprising to discover that Hubner has also long been at the forefront of CAD, but this is a natural development of systematization, for if computers can calculate all the variants and regularities, we need no longer conform to Ford's production line. Hubner uses three-dimensional programs which connect ...

This title features text in German. Tectonics is back on the agenda for contemporary architectural discussion. Up to now tectonics tended to be associated with the language of neo-Classical architecture, which seemed to have faded out because of the triumph of Modernism, but now the dogmas of Modernism are being questioned, interest is reviving in architecture using tectonic design principles. So "Die Tektonik der Hellenen", Botticher's main ...

There is no doubt that Gehry's Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao is one of the most spectacular buildings of recent years. It is both the heart of the city and a tested for the arts, representing both public presence and artistic change. ...

The German Pavilions were the actual event at the 1958 Brussels World Fair, because what appeared as an oasis of modesty among the typical exhibition fairground of bizarre sensationalism was precisely what would not have been expected of economic miracle Germany: no showing off or pomposity, just architecture distinguished by its reticence and the refined simplicity of the architectural resources, and by the happy combination of men who created ...

Ludwig Persius' (1803-1845) architecture was molded by the work of Karl Friedrich Schinkel. He was a master of the disposotion of building volumes and of tying buildings into the landscape. About 50 buildings have survived, including early industrial structures. ...

Anderthalb Millionen Besucher im Jahr können nicht irren. Für sie ist das bayerische Königsschloss Neuschwanstein die Erfüllung aller architektonischen Märchenträume. Für die architektonisch Gebil-deten aber, für die Adepten der Moderne, ist das stilistisch krude, anachronistische Monument einer Fürstenlaune nur ein Ärgernis. Läßt man freilich einmal alle positiven oder negativen Vorurteile beiseite, dann kommt man nicht umhin, die romantische ...