France’s “Palace” status shows how luxury hospitality can become a form of national self-description. Here, a hotel is not merely a business, but a place where service and cultural radiance acquire...
This survey makes the method behind Norman Foster’s architecture legible. It orders a complex body of work with great precision, while leaving little room for contradiction.
In Norman Foster’s work, architecture does not appear as a formal discipline, but as the result of a widely branched mode of thinking. “Networks” makes this structure visible – not as a theory in the...
The vision of the fully networked home was one of the grand promises of the digital consumer era. Today it appears less like progress and more like overload. Between update pressure and the data...
This book is dedicated to the almost forgotten Cologne photographer Eugen Coubillier, who characterised the cityscape between 1906 and 1943 - not through pomp, but through precision. While many of...