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The Environmental Performance of Tall Buildings
Taylor and Francis 2010; US$ 85.00Tall buildings represent one of the most energy-intensive architectural typologies, while at the same time offering the high density work and living conditions that many believe will an important constituent of future sustainable communities. How, then, can their environmental impact be lessened? This insightful book takes in: an overview of... more...
Energetische Bilanzierung von Baustoffen für den Holzhausbau
Diplomica Verlag 2008; US$ 35.59In Design und Bau von umweltfreundlichen Gebäuden spielt die Betrachtung von Werkstoffen unter ökologischen Gesichtspunkten eine zunehmend bedeutende Rolle. Nicht nur die energetische Performance des fertiggestellten Hauses geht in die Bilanz ein, sondern der gesamte Lebenszyklus von der Herstellung bis zum Recycling. Ziel dieses Buchs ist der konkrete... more...
Die Zukunft ostdeutscher Großwohnsiedlungen: Fallstudie Halle-Silberhöhe
Diplomica Verlag 2009; US$ 14.01In der Arbeit geht es um den Umgang mit Bevölkerungsrückgängen in ostdeutschen Großwohnsiedlungen anhand der beispielhaften Darstellung in Halle-Silberhöhe. Der Stadtteil hat die größten Bevölkerungsrückgänge zu beklagen, zahlreiche Abrisse wurden im Rahmen des Programms Stadtumbau-Ost vorgenommen. Zudem hat der Stadtteil eine mehrheitlich sozial schwache... more...
Terror and Wonder
University of Chicago Press 2010; US$ 18.00For nearly twenty years now, Blair Kamin of the Chicago Tribune has explored how architecture captures our imagination and engages our deepest emotions. A winner of the Pulitzer Prize for criticism and writer of the widely read Cityscapes blog, Kamin treats his subjects not only as works of art but also as symbols of the cultural and political... more...
Great Australian Historic Hotels
Allen & Unwin 2010; US$ 29.99On Christmas Eve in 1882 an impromptu game of cricket was organised between the touring English Cricket team and a local side in the grounds of Rupertswood, a 50-room Italianate mansion in Sunbury, 30 minutes drive north of Melbourne. At dinner that night Rupertswood's owner, Lady Janet Clark, marked the visitor's victory by presenting the... more...
M. Kempinski & Co.
Diplomica Verlag 2008; US$ 35.59Hauptbeschreibung Die Geschichte des jüdischen Unternehmens M. Kempinski ", zum andern ein Beitrag zur jüdischen Wirtschaftsgeschichte Berlins. Obwohl zwei Drittel aller deutschen Juden in Berlin lebten und die Stadt die führende Industrie- und Handelsmetropole des Landes war, ist das jüdische Wirtschaftsleben der Stadt sowie dessen Auslöschung bislang... more...
Kitchen and Bath Design
Wiley 2010; US$ 60.00The all-in-one reference to designing stunning and functional kitchens and baths Designing for today's kitchens and baths requires technical savvy, a keen eye for aesthetics, and perhaps most important of all, the ability to coordinate efforts across many disciplines. Kitchen and Bath Design simplifies these complex decision-making processes with... more...
The Gothic Enterprise
University of California Press 2011; US$ 24.95The great Gothic cathedrals of Europe are among the most astonishing achievements of Western culture. Evoking feelings of awe and humility, they make us want to understand what inspired the people who had the audacity to build them. This engrossing book surveys an era that has fired the historical imagination for centuries. In it Robert A. Scott explores... more...
British Breweries
Continuum International Publishing 1999; US$ 140.00Covering the history of the architecture of breweries, this account ranges from the country house brewhouse of the 18th century to the great breweries of Georgian and Victorian England, which reached their ornate peak in the 1880s and 1890s. It deals with the practical considerations that brewers' architects and engineers had to take into account,... more...









