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1. Samuel Holleran
2. Max Holleran

Scattered Steel

Samuel Holleran is a researcher, writer, and public artist who has worked with design firms, universities, and nonprofits in North America, Australia, and Europe.Max Holleran is Senior Lecturer of Social Policy at University of Melbourne and author of Yes to The City.

Comamala Ismail

The diverse portfolio of the practice led by Diego Comamala and Toufiq Ismail-Meyer, which was founded in 2013 and is based in Delémont and Biel, ranges from private to public buildings. Text in English and German.

1. Harper by Design

Colour House: Vibrant spaces to brighten your world

Harper by Design is an imprint focusing on beautiful books that help make every day special. Whether celebrating a milestone or looking to brighten someone's day, our products are perfect and affordable for all those moments throughout the year when you want to show someone (or yourself) that you care. We like to call it 'beauty with purpose'.

Theorizing Built Form and Culture

This volume emphasizes the significance of Professor Amos Rapoport's lifelong scholarship. Scholars from around the world discuss the analytical relevance, expansion, and continuing application of these contributions in developing an advanced understanding of mutual relationships between people and built environments across cultures.

1. Deyan , Sudjic

Vitra

Die ausführliche Geschichte eines der innovativsten und einflussreichsten Designunternehmen der Welt In der jüngeren Geschichte des zeitgenössischen Designs und der Architektur hat kein Unternehmen mehr Einfluss genommen als Vitra. Seit den 1950er-Jahren arbeitet Vitra mit aufeinanderfolgenden Generationen von Designern - von Ray und Charles Eames über Frank Gehry und Zaha Hadid bis hin zu Ron Arad, Jasper Morrison und Virgil Abloh. Mit seinem zukunftsorientierten Ansatz hat Vitra unsere Art zu leben und zu arbeiten maßgeblich geprägt. Verfasst von Deyan Sudjic in enger Zusammenarbeit mit Rolf Fehlbaum, der das Unternehmen über mehr als 30 Jahre leitete, erzählt Vitra: Die Anatomie eines Designunternehmens die Geschichte der drei Generationen hinter Vitra. Angetrieben von einem kulturellen und sozialen Auftrag hat Vitra jeden Aspekt des zeitgenössischen Designs beeinflusst - von Architektur über Grafik, Fotografie und Produktdesign bis hin zur Landschaftsgestaltung. Vitra hat unser Verständnis bedeutender Gestalter wie Jean Prouvé und Verner Panton geprägt. Das Unternehmen hat Designer zu Beginn ihrer Karriere gefördert, darunter Jasper Morrison sowie Ronan und Erwan Bouroullec. Es hat die Archive bedeutender Persönlichkeiten wie Luis Barragán und Alexander Girard bewahrt und eines der wichtigsten Designmuseen der Welt aufgebaut. Das Buch enthält zudem Beiträge der Designberaterin und Autorin Karen Stein sowie einen fotografischen Essay des renommierten Architekturfotografen Iwan Baan. Mit über 450 Seiten und mehr als 400 Abbildungen umfasst dieses umfangreiche Werk die Zusammenarbeit Vitras mit Designern, das architektonische Erbe des Vitra Campus mit Gebäuden von Tadao Ando, Herzog & de Meuron und Álvaro Siza. Es bietet eine unverzichtbare Darstellung der Geschichte des zeitgenössischen Designs, gewährt einen einzigartigen Einblick in die Rolle von Design im Unternehmenskontext und dokumentiert den Gestaltungsprozess, der zu erfolgreichen Produkten führt.

1. Whitney Martinko

Historic Real Estate

"The integration of the histories of preservation and capitalism in this book is innovative and analytically nuanced. The volume is handsomely produced, with a readable format, useful illustrations, and an attractive plate section. The overall physical quality of the volume reinforces its substantial contribution to the role of preservation in shaping early national America. Historic Real Estate is a fine book, and it should stand as a valuable new addition to the edifice of scholarship on architecture, economy, and society in the nineteenth-century United States." (Journal of Early American History) "Martinko presents the many aspects of considering the historic built environment between the late eighteenth and the mid-nineteenth centuries in such a clear, thoughtful, and often engaging way that it can be easy for readers to lose sight of what a formidable endeavor this study represents. Some of the work discussed is well known to specialists in the history of preservation, but much of it lies in previously unexplored territory, and even finding the material was no mean feat. The result is not only a very rich investigation but also a framework for understanding how Americans have considered their physical heritage." (The Journal of Southern History) " The origins of American historic preservation have traditionally been told as the story of voluntary organizations like the Mount Vernon Ladies' Association (MVLA)...More recently historians have interrogated the cultural and social dimensions of those efforts, linking them to partisan politics and contests over the meaning of democracy. Whitney Martinko extends this revisionist narrative, beginning more than a half-century before the MVLA to situate early preservation and its verbal and visual rhetoric within contemporary debates over the morality of capitalism and the emergent real-estate market...Historic Real Estate places early American historic preservation into dialogue with the new cultural history of capitalism...Martinko is keenly sensitive to different sorts of politics that intersected in debates over the built environment, and that continue to underpin questions of preservation and memory to this day. " (Journal of the Early Republic) " Martinko addresses our lack of historical consciousness about preservation debates in her richly illustrated and argued book. She dissects a series of preservation campaigns from the early national period until the CivilWar to reveal the political and economic significance of their discourse and sites...We easily think of preservation as a force of good, and Martinko's study of early nineteenthcentury campaigns helps us to understand why. " (Winterthur Portfolio) "The title of Whitney Martinko's book, Historic Real Estate, is deceptively modest...Martinko's gaze encompasses nothing less than the shaping of American institutions of civil society and political economy...This is a cultural history, not a legal, political, or economic one; it makes a case for the salience of culture and capitalism in shaping one another." (Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians) " Using an impressive variety of visual, textual, and linguistic sources, [Martinko] reframes common understandings of early American preservation around concepts of virtue and economic morality in the public and private sectors, contending that preservation is a central part of the history of urbanism and capitalism in the United States. In doing so, Martinko joins a small but growing number of preservation scholars whose research challenges long-held beliefs about preservation's early predilection for aestheticism and nation-building...Martinko's calls for connection—for communication and recognition of each other across space and time—provide a much needed push to incorporate a more humanistic, unifying, and integrative approach to society's treatment of the historic built environment. " (The Public Historian) "With skill and great insight, Whitney Martinko reveals the centrality of the architectural past to the nation's capitalist future. By steering the forces of creative destruction away from select structures, nineteenth-century Americans ultimately made it easier to shroud real estate development in the mantle of a public-spirited idealism that persists to the present day. The strength of Martinko's analysis is matched only by the production value of this lavishly illustrated volume." (Seth Rockman, Brown University)