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A handbook on the design and the planning of libraries. It features contributions by experts from architecture and library science who analyze specific aspects of the building type; a typology of some 40 exemplary international projects that provides inspiration and a range of options.

In this updated, new edition you will find a hardworking, comprehensive manual for renovating, building, and greening up your landscape and special section just for small yards and urban settings.

From ancient stadium construction to a design object of the twenty-first century, sports arenas have long been turned into places hosting a global media spectacle. For a few hours or days, colossuses made of steel and concrete transform into colourful festival locations. Since the first ancient stadium in Greek Olympia, the typology of stadium cons

"The first book to examine the global architecture of bathing; a visually rich union of current thinking from academic, popular, and design culture as well as queer theory and feminist critique"--

Projects dating from 2001 to 2007 provide examples of both former ambitious, utopian models and the contrasting reality of modern life.