Winfried Nerdinger Livres

Nach Baumschlager-Eberle erfordert ganzheitliche Architektur konstruktive Intelligenz, Ökologie, Wirtschaftlichkeit und Akzeptanz. Das Buch trägt ihrem Selbstverständnis Rechnung und gliedert sich in drei Teile: „Architektur“ stellt in klassischer Form mit Bildern, Texten und Plänen 18 neue, realisierte Projekte des erfolgreichen Büros vor. „Menschen“ untersucht den Gebrauchsaspekt ausgewählter Bauten und deren gesellschaftliche Akzeptanz. „Ressourcen“ analysiert ihre Nachhaltigkeit. Das Buch fügt sich in die Reihe der bei Springer erschienenen Baumschlager-Eberle Monografien ein und schließt direkt an die zuletzt erschienene Publikation an.

In the opinion of such diverse designers as Robert Venturi, James Stirling, Frank O.Gehry and Hans Hollein, Alvar Aalto was the greatest architect of the century. This book, published on the occasion of the 100th anniversary of his birth architectural historians from Finland, Sweden, England , Germany and Switzerland focus on Aalto's work. Although Aalto was a modernist architect, he could also be considered " a secret opponent within the modern movement" for his resistance to aesthetic dogmas. In his architecture he always pursued a single goal; to create architecture that was human, that is, serving the people. This volume attempts to close the gap in the scholarship on Aalto by examining his oeuvre and his influence on contemporary architecture.

"Otl Aicher is most famously known for the pictographs he designed for the 1972 summer Olympic Games in Munich. Fifty years later, his system of iconography has become a universal language, directing people to bathrooms, through subways, around airports and hospitals. But Aicher's achievements extended far beyond the world of graphic design. Filled with illustrations, photographs, documents and archival material, and enhanced by thoughtful and personal essays from leading critics, designers, and friends, this survey takes a disciplinary approach to explore Aicher's role as one of the founding figures of visual communication. We learn about Aicher's work developing corporate brands; how he created the Rotis typeface, then built architecture incorporating the font; how he collaborated with artists and architects such as Josef Albers, Alexander Kluge, and Norman Foster; and how his founding of the Ulm School of Design reflected his passion for teaching, and for an open, free, and democratic society. Aicher's achievements are evident in nearly every public space on the globe and this definitive and timely reference work rightfully places Aicher among the pioneering geniuses of the past century."--Amazon.com

Munich is associated with the rise of National Socialism like no other city. After the First World War, the ‘National Socialist German Workers´ Party‘ (NSDAP) emerged from anti-Semitic and radical right-wing circles in the Bavarian capital with Adolf Hitler becoming its leading figure. Here he tried to assume power via a putsch in 1923. Here, after the ‘seizure of power‘, a party district arose in which about 6000 people organised the apparatus of the NSDAP. Moreover, with the opening of the nearby concentration camp in Dachau, the ‘Capital of the Movement‘ took on a pioneering role in the construction of the dictatorship. The Munich Documentation Centre for the History of National Socialism occupies the site of the former party headquarters on Königsplatz and illuminates the Nazi history of the city. Its permanent exhibit, with plentiful new material, presents the history of National Socialism in Munich, the special role of the city in the system of terror, and the difficulties in dealing with this past since 1945. This book encompasses the texts and images of the permanent exhibit as well as 23 accompanying essays by renowned historians, making it also an illustrated history of the ‘Third Reich‘ based on the very latest research.