Sophia Behling Livres

An up-to-date, practical aid for architects, engineers, clients, and anyone interested in the field of glass technology, this publication is essential as the paths of glass and architecture have never been as intertwined in the past as they are today. The dynamic fields of glass craft and industrial high-technology are generating new architectural constructions that require highly integrated solutions. Whether sustainable buildings or complex facade systems, the prerequisites for any such developments are high-performance materials.

An examination of the importance of the sun from the dawn of civilization to the architecture of the 21st century. It is designed as a progression of photographic images that begins by surveying the origins of all earthly sources of power, showing them, in all forms, to be derived from the sun.

Examining the way in which natural systems have arisen through the sun's influence, how humans have adapted to them and what today's urban planners can do to respond to the challenge of a sustainable world, this book outlines the need to reconsider how we organize our lives.

Die Bandbreite der neuen Generation der Stuttgarter Architekturschule mit ihren Lehr- und Forschungsgebieten wird in vier Themenblöcken vorgestellt: - Gesellschaft und Theorie - Urbanität und Landschaft - Gestalt und Raum - Materie und Konstruktion