Peter Hubner began his career as an orthopaedic shoemaker and moved on to cabinet-making before studying architecture. In the 1960s, he became a successful designer of prefabricated buildings and sanitary units. This book explores various issues.
Foster's new Commerzbank is architecturally exceptional and also energy efficient.
Architecture started to move towards Modernism around 1900 dwith a reform movement involving architects, art critics, humanities scholars, philanthropic circles and universities. The author pursues this in exemplary studies.
Francesco di Giorgio Martini's fortress complexes, created at the end of the Quattrocento, continue to look experimental and highly speculative half a... Læs mere
Utopia has long been sought after by urban architects since the time of Thomas More. Other fictional cities followed, some of which were... Læs mere