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Since 1980, DAM, or German Architecture Museum, has been
publishing its prestigious yearbook on German architecture.
This newest volume features an exciting layout, with generous
space given to the twenty featured projects by German
architects and three projects outside of Germany. This volume
also includes two illuminating essays that examine Germany s
contemporary architecture scene and the new buildings being
planned in China. The book will open with the winner of the
year s DAM Architecture Prize, the Kolumba museum in
Cologne by Peter Zumthor. ... Read more

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This annual details and assesses the most recent projects and developments in German architecture. The central topics are preservation and conservation covering areas such as conservation in current town planning, engineering and other technical problems, and aesthetic and political considerations. All are documented by actual examples ranging from exhibition halls to single family homes, and from the restoration of single buildings to the rebuilding of an entire urban area. This section is followed by an assessment of the architects Max Cetto and Hans Poelzig. The text is in German but there are English language summaries for every essay and project. ... Read more

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The latest edition of this annual volume featuring the best in German architecture focuses on showrooms, museums, residential, and commercial buildings.
The DAM yearbook features numerous photographs, plans, and drawings of 23 projects brought together in a format that allows for close inspection and inspiration. The projects presented in the book are accompanied by numerous illustrations, basic specs, and brief architectural analyses. The main project presented in the book-the reconstruction and renovation of the Neues Museum in Berlin by David Chipperfield Architects-illustrates the contemporary approach to reconstructing historic buildings by incorporating new elements into the old. ... Read more

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In this volume Germany’s leading architects consider solutions for revitalizing its urban areas. The yearbook highlights major projects that address housing of all kinds, including singlefamily developments, dormitories, and even floating homes in Berlin and Hamburg. It analyzes recently planned nonresidential buildings such as department stores, academic institutions, libraries, and museums, designed for sustainability and flexibility. In addition, the book includes essays on the rediscovery of urban life and one city’s fight to preserve a historic structure. This forward-thinking collection of innovative architecture records important trends that have an impact on people not only in Germany, but around the world as well. ... Read more

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The newest volume of this important annual survey explores the recent growth in museum construction in Germany and the trends this development has inspired. Six new museums, designed by some of the world’s leading architects, are profiled and critiqued. In addition, the book features an essay explaining this architectural typology and tracing its urban and societal roots as well as a text by architect David Chipperfield about the differences between building public and private institutions. The book also includes a comprehensive section on projects, offering an overview of the most important new buildings in Germany by Herzog & de Meuron, Peter Eisenman, Zaha Hadid, Sauerbruch Hutton Architects, and others. The index of architects in the appendix covers every DAM yearbook published since 1992, making this issue a comprehensive reference on modern architecture in Germany. ... Read more

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Celebrating the best new German architecture, this yearbook highlights innovation, vision, and versatility.
The latest edition of this annual volume focuses on museums, showrooms for cars, and cafeterias. The DAM yearbook features countless photographs, plans, and drawings of twenty-six projects brought together in a format that allows for close inspection and inspiration. The projects presented in the book are accompanied by numerous illustrations, basic specs, and brief architectural analyses. The main project presented in the book-a cafeteria-cum-auditorium in an office complex-is a triumph of adaptable design. Also highlighted are the stunning new Audi showrooms and a recent boom in museum construction. ... Read more

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The book describes in twelve chapters the modern tools available for the detection and prevention of leaks from dams and reservoirs, including water chemistry, isotope analyses, artificial tracers, permeability tests, geophysical methods and techniques for the localization of water flows both inside the reservoir and boreholes. Numerous case studies are presented corresponding to studies of more than thirty dams performed by researchers in eighteen different countries.

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Drawing together case studies from all over Europe, this text explores the relationship between the overall idea of the landscape architecture for a site and the design of details.

Examining concept sketches and design development drawings in relation to the details of the design, the book offers a more profound understanding of decision making through all stages of the design process.

The book includes the study of the choice of materials and techniques of construction, and explores the cultural and symbolic significance of such choices, as well as questions of environmental sustainability.

With projects analyzed and evaluated here that have won international acclaim, or have been awarded national prizes, European Landscape Architecture is a core book in the study and understanding of the subject.

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This annual details and assesses the most recent projects and developments in German architecture, providing an objective overview from the German Architecture Museum. It is illustrated with many colour and black-and-white photographs, together with detailed plans, not only giving an overall impression of each project but also illustrating the key design features. It is because this reference also examines some of the most important issues facing architects and planners in a series of up-to-the-minute essays that it is considered both reactive and proactive, providing a forum to discuss and examine possible directions for the future. Recent topics have included city planning in the states of former East Germany, with a notable analysis entitled "Berlin 'More Beautiful Than Ever': Reconstructing East Berlin" and "Urban Development in Dresden as an Example of Cautious Urban Renewal". Many of these studies reflect the challenges being faced by architects and planners all over the world, and the objective analysis of "strategies for change" and the design solutions being adopted may be of great benefit internationally to all those at the cutting edge of contemporary building design.The first analysis in the "DAM Architectural Annual 1995" gives an account of town planning in the 20th century, and illustrates with key examples its history and progress up to the present day. The essay "City Ecology and Energy" appeals for more responsible planning and thought within the building industry. Contributor Thomas Sieverts examines and compares the essential design parameters of today's city and the city of the future. The last essay assesses "Acceptable Congestion in the City", discussing traffic forecasting and planning, and examining the interrelation between all modes of transportation in a highly concentrated urban environment. Looking to the future, the book gives many suggestions, examples and solutions to contemporary problems likely to be encountered in the much awaited boom within the private sector. ... Read more

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The newest volume of this important annual survey of German architecture focuses on spiritual spaces, most notably Christian churches built in the past year. It also provides new critical perspectives by some of the most exciting young architects working today. Superbly photographed from all angles, these spaces embody heavenly as well as earthly concerns, traditional sensibilities and cutting-edge vision. Nearly three hundred color photographs and drawings illustrate the newest edition of a significant reference work that is as attractive as it is informative. ... Read more

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This volume focuses on the theme of reconstruction as it examines three recently completed projects in Berlin, Munich, and Potsdam, and three different approaches to the task of rebuilding. The pros and cons of this ardently debated theme are explored and questioned from various perspectives in essays written by leading critics. The comprehensive section on projects fifteen new building projects in Germany by Barkow Leibinger, Meck Architects, OMA/Rem Koolhaas, Sauerbruch Hutton Architects, and others. More than two hundred color photographs and drawings illustrate the newest edition of the DAM Yearbook. ... Read more

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The newest volume of this important annual survey of German architecture takes a look at what the country’s architects are doing outside of Germany, and also at recent buildings of high quality inside the country. Essays by leading architectural critics examine recent architectural developments in Europe, Asia and the Americas, make suggestions for ways to increase the profile of German architects abroad, and look back in time to see when, and if, this profile was more prominent. The work of Germany’s leading designers is extensively critiqued and illustrated in nearly four hundred color and black and white photographs and drawings. An important volume for students of international architecture, the DAM annual is one of the field’s most significant reference works and a stunning example of this country’s architectural contributions. ... Read more

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Architectural utopias of yesterday and today is the central theme of this well-illustrated foray into the political, technological, and aesthetic aspects of urban design.Carefully selected buildings clearly show how today's architects have confronted the utopian challenge.A detailed analysis shows the liberating power of contemporary architectural visionaries, complete with the full social and cultural context of their creations. ... Read more

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The main focus of this volume is on utopias in design in Germany, ranging from the situation after World War II to visions of the future on the turn of the new millennium. German design has always exerted a great influence on contemporary architecture, be it through the Bauhausor the rebuilding of Berlin. This annual takes stock of this fact and presents contemporary design in one volume. A few of the buildings included are: the Lazer Factory and Logistics Center, Stuttgart by Frank Barkow and Regine Leibinger; The Reichstag, Berlin by Norman Foster; the "Zollhof", Dusseldorf by Frank O.Gehry; the tower block at the Hanover Fair by Thomas Herzog and the Law Court by Gesine Weinmiller. ... Read more

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The Proceedings of the Symposium at World Water Day, 2001 presents a discussion of dams and dikes.  Various speakers considered the benefits and drawbacks of dams, and there was discussion about why it is that people are against dams in specific situations, and how such situations may be resolved.  Solutions are suggested to such controversies. These proceedings contain the full text of the presentations.  They will be a useful resource for decision-makers and planners of future projects. This work highlights the international nature of these important hydraulic engineering strucures and both their technology and social implications.

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Since it was first published in 1998, Planting Wetlands and Dams has been used widely as a readable, plain-English guide which demystifies the processes and practices of wetland and dam planting and has also successfully exposed some of the more dubious myths which had been propagated in the 1980s and1990s. It has been widely accepted by professionals working in the field, and is also found in the libraries of many colleges and universities.

After a decade in print, the book has been comprehensively rewritten. The introductory chapter on wetlands is expanded and includes photographs of each major type of wetland, including those in the Northern Territory. The planning chapter includes updated information on regulations and permits and also examines the pros and cons of establishing new wetlands in otherwise dry climates. The construction chapter includes information on new materials that have recently become available for lining wetlands and dams. The plant selection chapter elaborates on provenance issues to show the diverse spreading mechanisms found in wetland and saltmarsh plants, and has new information on the important habitat plant Cotula coronopifolia. It will also provide up-to-date information on declared aquatic weeds.

Planting Wetlands and Dams will be a useful guide for professionals working in the field, and will also be useful for students and academics at tertiary level whose studies include wetlands, water treatment, habitat restoration, aquaculture and aquatic ecology intersects. ... Read more