Non-Fiction Books

Product Description Rising rents, the desire for a simpler life, the aim for sustainability, or the wish to posses a relocatable home: These are j...

Product Description What does architecture have to do with health? This fun - damental, yet unusual question is based on the elemen - tary conside...

Silvia Bachli and Eric Hatan spent four months, from March to June, in Seydisfjordur in eastern Iceland. The landscape they explored on their daily...

Can regional and interregional mechanisms better institutionalize the - creasing complexity of economic and security ties among states in Nor- east...

Product Description The constantly progressing digitalization of the media has radically altered the development and marketing of new typefaces. D...

The standard work on Heino Engel's structure systems is now available at an attractive price. On the basis of excellent drawings and model photogra...

Born in Switzerland, Robert Bosch ranks among the most celebrated landscape photographers in the world. Nature and especially mountain landscapes h...

Product Description In numerous civilizations throughout world history city walls were an indispensable part of every city. In China they can ...

Product Description Inspired by a gift from his son, Arno Stolz developed the idea of a miniature gallery of typographic works. In 1980, he began ...

Since 1995, Italian photographer Guido Guidi has been working on photographic studies of the Brion family's memorial vault, designed by Carlo Scarp...

Claude Lorrain (c. 1600/1604-1682) is justifiably referred to as the father of European landscape painting. Basing his work on carefully observed s...

Twelve years after the first Benz patent motorcar Number 1 made its first journey in July 1886, a car raced across the image in Henri de Toulouse-L...

This revised and updated edition is a comprehensive monograph on the Swiss architects E2A. Brothers Piet and Wim Eckert see their work as an interp...

Nieto Sobejano Arquitectos, founded by Fuensanta Nieto and Enrique Sobejano in Madrid in 1984 and which since 2004 has had a branch office in Berli...

Although the three prominent modernist artists Piet Mondrian (1872-1944), Barnett Newman (1905-1970), and Dan Flavin (1933-1996) each belong to a d...

Sasha Waltz is a pioneer of the so-called "turn to the installation". She is expanding the field of the installation to include actions and people....

Discover the captivating world of art and creativity with this stunning book that invites you to explore the depths of human expression. Perfect fo...

STAND was a site-specific installation, which in 2012 activated the architecture of the Capitain Petzel gallery in Berlin. The building was shroude...

How do we envision life on earth? Over half of the world's population lives in cities. The future of these urban centers depends on questions of mo...

In 1955, Mercedes-Benz wins the sports car world championship with the racing car 300 SLR (W 196 S). In addition to the titles achieved that same y...

In his singular paintings, Niklaus Manuel Gudel (*1988 in Delemont, Switzerland) assigns a void to the actual pictorial subject. The people or anim...

For Stefan Hanke (*1961 in Regensburg), each new day harbored the danger of being able to meet one less person who had survived one of the greatest...

What began as an academic initiative to improve the quality of life of poor strata of the population has meanwhile become a professional "do tank" ...

Difficult to categorize and branded as "naive"-art history had and still has a hard time with works by the great autodidacts: artists such as Henri...

Unlike almost any other architect, Diebedo Francis Kere (*1965 in Burkina Faso) stands for the association of constructive, social, and cultural as...

"The world's appearance would be shaken if we succeeded in perceiving the spaces in between things as things." These words from the philosopher Mau...

"From early images of socks drying on a radiator to more recent fields of glossy color created in the darkroom, all Tillmans' work asks this questi...

From wildlife topographies to the ecosystem services of marine and alpine fauna, 2010-2020. Nicole Schuck's filigree drawings stem from in-depth re...

Alexander Calder is one of the most important American artists of the twentieth century. This lavishly illustrated book focuses on Calder's works o...

Erieta Attali (*1966, Tel Aviv) has devoted two decades to exploring the relationship between architecture and the landscape at the edges of the wo...

The Swiss artist Christoph Hansli (*1963) gained international recognition a few years ago for his epic work, Mortadella (2006-08), a series of 332...

As long as already five thousand years ago, the allure of the sea inspired humans to recreate its essence in miniature, artistic forms, as public b...

Ashley Hans Scheirl overcomes the limitations of media as easily as she deals with gender and cultural norms. Born Angela Scheirl, the artist achie...

Armin Mueller-Stahl, the internationally famous German actor, has long been known as a gifted poet and painter as well. With this sequel to Der wie...

Peter Saul has consistently challenged art, history, and politics with his radical, unrefined style. Positioned outside of the can-on of contempora...

Sean Scully's abstract paintings are world-famous. In them he moves far beyond a purely formal confrontation with color, form, plane, and...

A century after the founding of the Bauhaus-probably the most popular and yet controversial art school in Weimar-its name has become a byword, as w...

The work of Angela Bulloch (*1966, Rainy River, Canada, currently based in Berlin) spans many media, manifesting her interest in systems, patterns ...

Christoforos Savva's oeuvre was unparalleled in the incipient Cypriot art scene of the 1960s, appropriating and reinventing themes and styles, whil...

Summer in Siberia? What does that feel like? Is Siberia perhaps a new travel destination we didn't know about? How is climate change making itself ...

Two of the most important Spanish sculptors of the sixteenth century and their work in Naples can be found here together in an opulent art book. Du...

About the Author Moritz Woelk is an art historian and director of the Museum Schnütgen in Cologne, Germany. Product Description Marks the 850th ...

Review "While there is an abundance of scholarship focused on the Vienna Secession, there is far less written about the Hagenbund, the other major...

Our cities are atrophying: What was once an open system inhabitable by all and that was about freedom and self-determination is becoming a zone in ...

In 2011 a sensational find came to light in Andy Warhol's estate: an extensive collection of drawings that provides impressive evidence of Warhol's...

The publication presents Joan Miro's (1893- 1983) mural art in the context of his life's work. Miro's ideas for large-scale mural art can be traced...

Rapunzel, the famous fairy - tale character of the Brothers Grimm, comes from the world of magic. She is the girl, lover, woman and mother who e...

On the occasion of the state museum's fortieth anniversary the publication presents central works from the nationally and internationally renowned ...