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Ulrike Jehle-Schulte Strathaus (ed.)

Novartis Campus - Virchow 6

Àlvaro Siza

Christoph Merian Verlag

Alvaro Siza Vieira is acknowledged as one of today’s most important European architects and has been awarded numerous prestigious prizes for his work. He is one of the leading advocates of Critical Regionalism and his architecture is known to blend sensitively into its surroundings. Efforts to find a typical Siza on the Novartis Campus however are destined to be frustrated: the building he has created here is characterised by an iridescent transparency.
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May 2012
Philipp Meuser (ed.)

Accessible Architecture

Construction and Design Manual

DOM publishers

Accessibility has come to be a core concern in our society, also and especially for public buildings. And while we still tend to think of retro-fitted ramps, wide doorways, and low-placed light switches when we hear the term “accessible architecture”, there is far more involved.
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Ulf Meyer

Taiwan

Architectural Guide

DOM publishers

Lonely Planet lists Taiwan as one of the ten most attractive travel destinations for 2012. So far, however, few publications address the island’s contemporary art and architecture, and foreigners are only rarely aware of the intensely creative architecture and design scene thriving in the urban hubs. One hundred years after the Republic of China was founded, it is time to have a closer look.

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Pyo Mi-young

Architectural Models

Construction and Design Manual

DOM publishers

A hand-crafted, physical architectural model has a unique sensory impact. Often enough it is the model that decides a competition – even though the triumphal entry of computers into architectural practices has meant a fundamental change in the way designs are represented.
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Philipp Meuser

Architectural and Cultural Guide

Pyongyang

DOM publishers

Ambitiously designed community buildings, faceless mass housing developments, and a monumental emptiness are the defining features of Pyongyang - a city of three million inhabitants rising from the rubble to which the Korean War reducedit in the 1950s. The Architectural and Cultural Guide Pyongyang offers unprecedented insights into the capital of what is probably the most isolated country in the world.

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Andreas Wenning

Treehouses

Small Spaces in Nature

DOM publishers

Tree houses have an irresistible fascination. It’s a childhood dream, the secret nest among leaves and branches, a symbol of adventure, romance, freedom. When grown-ups continue dreaming that dream, the results can be rather grown up, too. There is the traditional timber shack haphazardly clinging to the trunk – but there is also the elegant living room balancing among the boughs, built to high standards of comfort and design.

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Philipp Meuser (Ed.)

Hospitals and Health Care

Construction and Design Manual

DOM publishers

This book is required reading for architects and designers in this field. Short essays succinctly address the specificities and challenges of designing and planning medical buildings. The photographs and plans are of a consistently high standard, the layout is clear and accessible.
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Philipp Meuser

Medical Facilities and Health Care

Construction and Design Manual

DOM publishers

This manual showcases the wide range of contemporary interior design in the areas of medical practices, pharmacies and other medical facilities, extensively documenting the most successful examples.

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Hans Stimmann

Townhouses

Construction and Design Manual

DOM publishers

For ten years now the building typology townhouse is playing a central role in the actual debate of urban building, not only
in Germany. Hans Stimmann, former Director of Urban Development in Berlin, resumes critically about political strategies, theoretical concepts and the origins of townhouse architecture in Berlin.
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Ulrike Jehle-Schulte Strathaus (ed.)

Novartis Campus - Fabrikstrasse 22

Tadao Ando

Christoph Merian Verlag

Volume 12 in the series of publications on the Novartis Campus in Basel in dedicated to the laboratory building by Japanese architect Tadao Ando (*1941). Situated prominently at the end of the important main axis, the building completes the Campus to the north.
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Thomas Hauck/Regine Keller/Volker Kleinekort

Infrastructural Urbanism

Designing the Peripheries

DOM publishers

Architecture and public spaces are well, if not prestigious accepted components of the urban realm – but what about technical infrastructure? Although the interdependence between infrastructure and urban development has been a central topic in urban planning, infrastructure as a design element plays a comparatively subordinate role.

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Erika Maxim-Lehmpfuhl (ed.)

Christopher Lehmpfuhl - Berlin Plein Air. Paintings 1995-2010

DOM publishers

Berlin artist Christopher Lehmpfuhl’s studio is the outdoors and his tools are his hands. No brush, knife, or scraper helps him create his large city- and landscapes in thick layers of paint. Attracted by atmospheres and tensions, a particular tone of light or an unusual perspective, he makes art out of what his senses perceive. His canvases are sculptures of light and colour. Christopher Lehmpfuhl—Berlin Plein Air. Paintings 1995–2010, focuses on the artist’s Berlin paintings, featuring a selection of 400 works.

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Egon Schirmbeck/Till Boettger/Christian Hanke

Architecture and Space

Design Concepts in the 20th Century

DOM publishers

Architecture is, fundamentally, about forming space. Each new project confronts the architect with the challenge of designing
spaces and translating the design into built reality. Outstanding solutions and unusual approaches to this challenge are therefore a valuable source of inspiration for designers to draw on.

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Marco Hemmerling/Anke Tiggemann

Digital Design Manual

Construction and Design Manual

DOM publishers

In architecture and interior design spatial concepts are increasingly computer-generated, illustrated and presented. Computer aided design has already established in architectural offices. The influence of digital technology increases further. This manual introduces different digital tools and includes tutorials based on everyday practice. It helps to use digital technology in the design phase and planning process.
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Ulrike Jehle-Schulte Strathaus (ed.)

Novartis Campus - Fabrikstrasse 22

David Chipperfield

Christoph Merian Verlag

Laboratory buildings are considered to be functional technoid-industrial buildings and are rarely associated with master achievements in the world of aesthetics. Except on the Novartis Campus in Basel. Following Adolf Krischanitz, Rafael Moneo and Yoshio Taniguchi, David Chipperfield has now interpreted this particular class of building in his characteristic way. The distinguished British architect is mainly know for his museum buildings.
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Design am Oberrhein / Design Rhin Supérieur

Three nations and one networking project: The design sector is turning the Upper Rhine region into a common platform. Local universities, fair organisers, chambers and associations have joined forces across the borders of France, Germany and Switzerland under the label “Design am Oberrhein/Design Rhin Supérieur”. The region is to be popularised as an innovative design location with a strong economic potential through co-operations, joint presentations and continuous exchange.