To record the life of a philosopher is to reveal his work and his thought. In this biography of Immanuel Kant by Arsenij Gulyga, the reader discovers Kant€™s inner life, the mind of a great philosopher whose ideas are wondrously alive and whose thoughts delve deeply into the human soul. Almost all methods of modern philosophical inquiry are rooted in Kant. His was a quest for truth that was intense, dramatic, and profoundly human. To read Kant is to be well introduced to the study of philosophy. He teaches one to think independently and to know the rewards for such thought.

Immanuel Kant: His Life and Thought

Science & Math

Arsenij Gulyga

Mathematics

Birkhäuser Architecture

The minimalist concrete architecture of Tadao Ando has roots both in Japanese traditions and in Western architecture. This book begins with both contexts: it explores how Ando unites Japanese tradition with a contemporary Western architectural idiom.

Tadao Ando

Arts & Photography

Nussaume, Yann

Architecture

"Unfolded" demonstrates the possibilities paper holds today for product design, fashion, and art and provides designers with valuable inspirations. From washi paper to ceramic and carbon fiber paper, it presents the state of the art in research and development as well as the most important methods and technologies in handcrafts and industry.

Unfolded: Paper in Design, Art, Architecture and Industry

Schmidt, Petra

Stattmann, Nicola

The approach of "Informing Architecture by Materiality" opens the way to an innovative use of materials in the design professions. Taking material qualities and properties such as texture, elasticity, transparency and fluidity as a point of departure, the concept described and employed here transcends the conventional definitions of building materials. Instead, the focus is on a multitude of material operations, like folding and bending, carving and cutting, weaving and knitting, mirroring and screening. The featured design strategies and methods address established and "new" materials alike. They are applied both to the scale of the detail and the entire building. The examples comprise prototype structures as well as large building projects. Nine chapters deal with surfaces and layers, joints and juctions, weaving and texturing, nanoscale transformations, responsiveness, the integration of ephemeral factors like wind and light as well as material collections providing professional resources. Written by reknowned experts in this field, the book features many examples from international contemporary architecture. The introductory part provides the conceptual background, while a final chapter describes consequences for pressing issues of today, like sustainability or life cycle assessment.

Material Design: Informing Architecture by Materiality

Thomas Schröpfer

Access and accessibility are central themes in architecture and urbanism. Moreover, access is a key concept in many other areas such as knowledge and education, healthcare etc. This book deals with this world of access in architecture, city planning, and neighboring fields.

Access for All: Approaches to the Built Environment

"extra," the indispensable reference work on print finishing, presents the most important finishing techniques practically and theoretically: Thirty pages created by renowned designers provide a basis for explaining the special design and technical features of each technique, with an in-depth exploration of its possible uses.

extra: Encyclopaedia of Experimental Print Finishing

Morlok, Franziska

Beckmann, Till

Graphic Design

«Typology+» documents and analyzes roughly one hundred international housing structures, offering not only a broad range of sustainable approaches to apartment block construction, but also possibilities for using and transforming them in a practical planning context.

typology+: Innovative Residential Architecture

Herrmann, Eva

Wietzorrek, Ulrike

Ebner, Peter

Röllbacher, Roman

Kuntscher, Markus

This book takes an in-depth look at design processes, with 25 depictions of ""the making of"" products from a wide variety of industries. Renowned designers like Konstantin Grcic, the Bouroullecs, or Hella Jongerius show how they go about designing products, the tools they use for visualization and how projects change during the model phase.

The Making of Design: From the First Model to the Final Product

This manual analyzes contemporary urban phenomena in economic growth regions using the Ethiopian capital city of Addis Ababa as an example, and presents a catalogue of sustainable strategies for city planning practice in the Second and Third Worlds.

Cities of Change Addis Ababa: Transformation Strategies for Urban Territories in the 21st Century

AngÃ©lil, Marc

Color is central to creative work. This illustrated book embraces the sensuous experience of color, inspiring and seducing the reader with projects by outstanding artists, designers, and architects like Gerhard Richter, Konstantin Grcic, and Sauerbruch Hutton, who have formulated characteristic chromatic worlds.

Chroma: Design, Architecture and Art in Color

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