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A timely reevaluation and synthesis of this ecologically minded trailblazer and vibrantly interdisciplinary figure of contemporary design.Famously labeled the "father, poet, and prophet" of green architecture and a proponent of the idea that any project in architecture or design must present new or better ways of living or be deemed immoral, Emilio Ambasz is an award-winning architect, industrial designer, and protean maker of forms. He has in...

A monograph on the work of three generations of architects, a determining factor in the dynamic transformation of Mexico.

In 1955 The Museum of Modern Art staged Latin American Architecture, since 1945, a landmark survey of modern architecture in Latin America. This book offers a complex overview of the positions, debates, and architectural creativity from Mexico and Cuba to the Southern Cone between 1955 and the early 1980s.

Bauhaus 1919-1933, " The Museum of Modern Art's first comprehensive treatment of the subject since its famous Bauhaus exhibition of 1938, offers a new generational perspective on the 20th century's most influential experiment in artistic education.

Das hier vorgelegte Buch ist eine Synopse, eine Zusammenfassung der ebenfalls in der Edition Axel Menges erschienenen B點her 黚er die preu遡schen Architekten Karl Friedrich Schinkel (1781�41), Ludwig Persius (1803�45) und Friedrich August St黮er (1800�65), beschr鋘kt sich aber auf die Berliner und Potsdamer Werke dieser Architekten. Die drei genannten B點her haben den Untertitel 籇as architektonische Werk heute�, es geht dort also ausschlie遧ich um no...

Close to 75% of primary energy in New York City is used in or for buildings. Amid the many different initiatives being implemented today to increase energy efficiency, it is clear that it is our built urban environment that needs the most improvement.

Foreclosed: Rehousing the American Dream is an exploration of new architectural possibilities for American cities and suburbs in the aftermath of the recent foreclosure crisis in the United States. During the summer of 2011, five interdisciplinary teams of architects, urban planners, ecologists, engineers, and landscape designers were enlisted by The Museum of Modern Art, New York, and MoMA PS1 to envision new housing infrastructures that coul...

In autumn 2009 The Museum of Modern Art and MoMA PS1 selected five interdisciplinary teams of architects, engineers and landscape designers to propose solutions to the effects of climate change on NewYork's waterfront. The resulting proposals, exhibited in 2010, emphasize 'soft' infrastructure interventions that would make NewYork City and its surrounding areas more ecologically sound and more resilient in responding to rising sea levels and s...

Dieser umfassende Band dokumentiert das Werk des argentinischen Architekten, Grafikdesigners und Industrial Designers Emilio Ambasz. Ein Hauptanliegen von Ambasz ist es, Natur und Konstruktion in seinem architektonischen Design zu integrieren, weshalb er als einer der wichtigsten Vorreiter der «Green Architecture» angesehen wird. In seinen Werken entsteht eine Kombination von Landschaft und Architektur, bei der auch der Respekt gegenüber Umwel...

Barry Bergdoll is Curator in the Department of Architecture and Design at The Museum of Modern Art and Meyer Schapiro Professor of Art History and Archaeology, Department of Art History, Columbia University. Jennifer Gray is Project Research Assistant in the Department of Architecture and Design at The Museum of Modern Art.

This volume charts the architectural trajectory of Columbia University in New York City and celebrates the centennial of architect Charles Follen McKim's enduring vision of a spatially unified, architecturally integrated urban university.

Edited by Barry Bergdoll, Peter Christensen. Texts by Barry Bergdoll, Peter Christensen, Ken Tadashi Oshima, Rasmus Waen.

Marcel Breuer (1902-1981) ist ein gefeierter Möbeldesigner, Lehrer und Architekt, der das amerikanische Haus nach seiner Emigration aus Ungarn in die USA im Jahr 1937 veränderte. In jüngerer Zeit haben Historiker, Architekten und - seit der Wiedereröffnung seines Megaliths, dem Whitney Museum in New York unter dem neuen Namen The Met Breuer - auch ein grösseres Publikum neue Einblicke in die von Breuer geplanten Städte und Grossbauwerke gewonn...

This comprehensive examination of eighteenth and nineteenth-century architecture explores its extreme diversity within the context of tremendous social, economic and political upheaval. Never before had the functional requirements and expressive capacities of architecture been tested so thoroughly and with such diversity of invention. Bergdoll traces this experimentation in a broad range of contexts, focusing in particular on the relation of a...