Susanne Junker Architettura

Wir leben in einer Zeit, in der Sakral-Architektur zum emotionalen Thema geworden ist. (Man denke an die jüngst getroffene Entscheidung der Schweiz, den Bau von Minaretten zu verbieten.) David Stephensons Buch mit beeindruckenden Fotografien von

Architonic hat für Sie einen Blick in die neue Werkmonografie des norwegischen Architekturbüros 'Snøhetta' geworfen und entdeckte dabei, was sich unter einer Schneekuppe so alles befinden kann.

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

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

Adolf Loos’ Haus am Michaelerplatz in Wien und seine legendären polemischen Essays wie “Ornament und Verbrechen” (1908) oder “Ins Leere gesprochen” (1921) sind Standard in jeder Architekturlehre.

"Als Nonplusultra urbaner Behausung galt da schon eine renovierte Jugendstilwohnung – am Ende des 20. Jahrhunderts.” Mit diesem Stossseufzer leiten die beiden Autoren ein Buch ein,

Gardens in Venice? In view of the fact that Venice immediately evokes associations with lagoons, canals, palazzi and small, densely built-up areas of land surrounded by water, this sounds like something of a contradiction.

Hier liegt ein großformatig-schweres Buch vor mit einem etwas reisserischen Titel, doch der Blick in die porträtierten Häuser besänftigt sofort.

The book can be read as a kind of continuation of the title, in that it is a monologue by the artist Katharina Grosse about building a house and about her own house, a highly personal description of thoughts and perceptions.

Sein Leben erzählt in Briefen, Plänen, Dokumenten (His life in letters, plans, documents)

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.

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)

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.

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.

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.

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.

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