Susanne Junker Nouveautés

Der Beginn der modernen Architektur in Deutschland. Mit einem Verzeichnis zu Messels Werken

Chroma, the Greek word for colour, is both the title and the subject of a book about colour in architecture, furniture design and graphic art which covers a range of disciplines with a refreshing freedom from ideology.

Über die Idee des Verborgenen, Rätselhaften, Schwierigen in der Geschichte der Architektur

Charlotte Poseneske is a German artist who created minimalist and performance-like sculptures and reliefs in the 60s.

Eine Villa von Martin Elsaesser für Philipp F. Reemtsma .(A villa by Martin Elsaesser for Philipp F. Reemtsma)

Even the most spectacular trade fair stand disappears again as fast as it was set up and remains only an ephemeral memory. However this two-volume photographic record, the result of a cooperation between publishers Frame and Gestalten Verlag.

Produkte, die Geschichte schrieben (Products which have made history)

From being known only to insiders Herzog & de Meuron have become megastars, and their awards include the 2001 Pritzker Preis and the 2007 Praemium Imperiale. Volume 4 of their complete work has now been published and covers the years 1997 to

Starting with the concept of 'individual design for living', what forms, themes and tendencies determine the parameters for today's housing design?

Die Bauwerke und Kunstdenkmäler von Berlin (Berlin's architectural works and artistic monuments)

This is an exciting and stimulating book which is both an enjoyable read and a detailed and accurate work of reference!

At the end of the Eighties Jürgen Große began to document street art in Berlin with his camera. This new large-format illustrated volume contains a selection from twenty years of intensive field research.

The latest volume in the prestigious 'Edition Detail' is, as the title suggests, devoted to materials for the interior.

What's the history of the jelly baby? Who invented fish fingers? Why do we have sugar cubes and chewing gum in the shape of balls?.

A summing-up and stocktaking of the design of the first decade of the new millennium: So what is new, what can we expect and what will we want to have?.

In the form of a script Kristina Raderschad has put together a collection of annotated illustrations which deal with those aspects of our homes which do not normally form the highlights of books and magazines on home furnishing.

Exhibition at the Deutsche Guggenheim / Berlin until 1.2.2009

Let's be honest, which of us has read the 'De architectura libri decem' ("Ten books about architecture") by Vitruvius, or even part of the work? Even though searching Google for 'Vitruvius' will produce no less than a staggering 3.6 million hits.

The introductory photo of this book says it all: two gentlemen are sitting, or rather lounging, in elegant armchairs, each with a glass of white wine in his hand, the bottle within easy reach in a wine cooler, and are chatting in an obviously good

Cordula Rau has collected the answers to this question given by 100 architects and designers, acquiring in the process an impressive collection of signatures.

At the moment the bathing ship in the East harbour of Berlin, one of Berlin's most attractive open-air pools, is being made ready for the winter.

R. Buckminster Fuller’s Dymaxion Dwellings and Other Domestic Adventures

In the series "Conversations with ." published by the Princeton Architectural Press, which also includes conversations with Le Corbusier, Louis Khan and Rem Koolhaas, the latest addition is "Conversations with Mies van der Rohe".

The traditional 'domain of the housewife', in which nowadays more and more men are to be found playing with high-tech equipment, has for some time now been a central place.

U-Bahnhöfe der klassischen Moderne (Underground stations in the classical modern style)

Christine Killory and Rene Davids examine the influence on architecture of high-tech engineering on the basis of 25 buildings erected in the USA.

Sabine Seymour, who among other things lectures at the Parsons New School for Design, New York, has put together a collection of products and materials which looks at the close interlinking of fashion, design, technology and science.

It's an unusual thing to find a book on architecture with hardly any pictures, almost total reliance on text and taking as its subject a series of crucial questions relating to 31 buzzwords.

Olympic Games in China are dominating the headlines just as much as reports about the current spectacular major projects of thel architectural stars.

Sprayed-on metal skin for seamless and geometrically complex metal surfaces

Places, products, authors, museum, collections, characters, chronicle, glossary

Ingrid Buron and Gregory Namberger "export" the spirit of Berlin to the island of Rügen

The designer Alexis Oehler works in the heart of Berlin's Kreuzberg district, but the romantic impression given by his workshop is contradicted by the hardness and roughness of his preferred material, which normally tends to evoke associations of