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  • Lingua: Inglese

    Editore: Edition Axel Menges GmbH, 1996

    3930698668 / 9783930698660

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    Condizione: Very Good. Former library copy. Pages intact with possible writing/highlighting. Binding strong with minor wear. Dust jackets/supplements may not be included. Includes library markings. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good.

  • Lingua: Inglese

    Editore: Phaidon Press, 2006

    0714846295 / 9780714846293

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    Condizione: Very Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: 16940994. 1785922499. 8/5/2026 9:34:59 AM.

  • Lingua: Inglese

    Editore: Museum of Modern Art; distribu, 1972

    0870703323 / 9780870703324

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    Condizione: good. A copy that has been read, remains in good condition. All pages are intact, and the cover is intact. The spine and cover show signs of wear. Pages can include notes and highlighting and show signs of wear, and the copy can include "From the library of" labels or previous owner inscriptions. 100% GUARANTEE! Shipped with delivery confirmation, if you're not satisfied with purchase please return item! Ships via media mail.

  • Editore: K. Thienemanns Verlag, no date [ca 1905]. 0, Stuttgart, 1905

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    Hardcover. Condizione: Good. Second Edition. 176pp. Four color plates. Color pictorial front cover. Lacking the front free endpaper, Gift note inked on the front pastedown, some other writing inked on the back of the frontispiece, else a tight, G+ copy. Size: 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. W. Hoffmann (illustratore). Book.

  • Lingua: Inglese

    Editore: Phaidon Press, 2006

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    Condizione: Good. Item in good condition. Textbooks may not include supplemental items i.e. CDs, access codes etc.

  • Editore: Editions Rencontre Sans Date (v. 1960), Lausanne, 1960

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    234 pages, illustré de nombreuses planches de photos sur papier couché ; dos orné des titres en caractères dorés. in-12 Plats un peu frottés, caractères sur le dos avec la dorure en partie disparue, sinon ouvrage en bon état. relié, plein simili rouge éditeur.

  • Editore: Lausanne, Editions Rencontre

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    Hardcover. Condizione: Bon. Couverture différente. Ammareal reverse jusqu'à 15% du prix net de cet article à des organisations caritatives. ENGLISH DESCRIPTION Book Condition: Used, Good. Different cover. Ammareal gives back up to 15% of this item's net price to charity organizations.

  • Lingua: Inglese

    Editore: Edition Axel Menges, 1996

    3930698668 / 9783930698660

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  • Lingua: Inglese

    Editore: Edition Axel Menges, 2001

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    Hardcover. Condizione: Fine. Condizione sovraccoperta: Fine. 3rd Edition. This is a fine hardcover 3rd edition copy in a fine DJ, black spine.

  • Lingua: Inglese

    Editore: Phaidon Press, 2006

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    Soft cover. Condizione: Very Good. VERY GOOD softcover, no marks in text, tight uncreased spine, clean exterior; a gently used copy. Book.

  • Editore: Hamburger Musikverlag, 1969., 1969

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    Da: Antiquariat Carl Wegner, Berlin, B, GermaniaAntiquariat Carl Wegner

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    SOFTCOVER. Originalhalbleinenbroschur, 30 x 21 cm, 86 Seiten, beidseitig maschinenschriftlich, als unverkäufliches Manuskript gedruckt, gut erhalten. -- Bitte Portokosten außerhalb EU erfragen! / Please ask for postage costs outside EU! / S ' il vous plait demander des frais de port en dehors de l ' UE! // Bitte beachten Sie auch unsere Fotos! / Please also note our photos! / Veuillez noter nos photos -- Leuchtender Herbstbeginn! Wie wäre es mit einem guten Buch? Bei uns werden Sie fündig, stöbern Sie in unserem Ladengeschäft oder online. -- Wir kaufen Ihre werthaltigen Bücher! A312791.

  • Editore: Arche, Z?rich 1982,, 1982

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    HC. Condizione: Gut. Opb, Ou. 167s., in gutem Zustand, [LSB26,6a]. Deu 400g.

  • Lingua: Tedesco

    Editore: Verlag der Arche, Zurich, 1979

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    Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Very Good. Signed by the author without inscription or other markings. Signed by Author(s).

  • Lingua: Inglese

    Editore: Edition Axel Menges, 1996

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    Condizione: As New. Unread book in perfect condition.

  • Lingua: Inglese

    Editore: Edition Axel Menges, 1996

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  • Lingua: Tedesco

    Editore: Verlag der Arche, 1982

    3716017639 / 9783716017630

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  • Lingua: Tedesco

    Editore: Huber Frauenfeld Verlag, 1987

    3719309789 / 9783719309787

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    8° gebundene Ausgabe. Condizione: Wie neu. 133 Seiten Gebundenes Buch mit Original-Schutzumschlag. Buch ist wie neu, aus priv. Vorbesitz, ungelesen. Mit minimalen Lagerspuren. ISBN: 9783719309787 Due to new EU packaging regulations, we are currently unable to ship to many EU countries. Shipping to Germany, the Netherlands, Ireland, Finland, and the Baltic states is possible. Deliveries to border-based parcel lockers or cross-border parcel forwarding services remain possible. Shipping to all countries outside the EU also remains possible. Sprache: Deutsch Gewicht in Gramm: 289.

  • Lingua: Inglese

    Editore: Edition Axel Menges, 1996

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  • Lingua: Inglese

    Editore: The M.I.T. Press, Cambridge, MA, 1969

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    Hardcover. Condizione: Fair. Condizione sovraccoperta: Fair. Quarto. Pp. 168. Contains: Basic Concepts and Survey of Tensile Structures, by Frei Otto; Analysis of Cables, Cable Nets, and Cable Structures, by Friedrich-Karl Schleyer. With many diagrams, plans, and photographs. A fair to good copy in green cloth boards, gilt. Rippling of the top edges of pages due to damp; marks of tape to endpapers. Dust jacket reinforced with tape on the inside, with light soi,l and chips to corners.

  • Lingua: Tedesco

    Editore: Arche, 1978

    3716016349 / 9783716016343

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  • Lingua: Tedesco

    Editore: Buchverlag Neue Zürcher Zeitung, 1968

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    Broschiert. Condizione: Gut. 178 Seiten; Der Erhaltungszustand des hier angebotenen Werks ist trotz seiner Bibliotheksnutzung sehr sauber. Es befindet sich neben dem Rückenschild lediglich ein Bibliotheksstempel im Buch; ordnungsgemäß entwidmet. Einbandkanten sind leicht bestoßen. Sprache: Deutsch Gewicht in Gramm: 220.

  • Lingua: Inglese

    Editore: Edition Axel Menges, 1996

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    Condizione: New. 1996. 3rd. Hardcover. . . . . .

  • Lingua: Tedesco

    Editore: Zürich, Verlag der Arche,, 1973

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    8° , gebundene Ausgabe. Condizione: Gut. 142 Seiten, Schutzumschlag und Einband mit kleineren Gebrauchsspuren, Zustand gut Sprache: Deutsch Gewicht in Gramm: 200.

  • Lingua: Tedesco

    Editore: Verlag Huber, Frauenfeld, 2013

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    Hardcover. Condizione: Sehr gut erhalten. Condizione sovraccoperta: Sehr guter Umschlag. 518 S.

  • Editore: Verlag Jugendland, Berlin, ohne Jahr (um 1920), 1920

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    Da: Antiquariat Carl Wegner, Berlin, B, GermaniaAntiquariat Carl Wegner

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    Hardcover. 8°, Original-Pappband mit farbig illustriertem Vorderdeckel, an Rändern und Kapitalen teils stärker bestoßen. 205 Seiten mit 4 einfarbigen Tafeln. Sauberes, gutes Exemplar. -- Bitte Portokosten außerhalb EU erfragen! / Please ask for postage costs outside EU! / S ' il vous plait demander des frais de port en dehors de l ' UE! // Bitte beachten Sie auch unsere Fotos! / Please also note our photos! / Veuillez noter nos photos -- Leuchtender Herbstbeginn! Wie wäre es mit einem guten Buch? Bei uns werden Sie fündig, stöbern Sie in unserem Ladengeschäft oder online. -- Wir kaufen Ihre werthaltigen Bücher! Abent.

  • Lingua: Inglese

    Editore: Edition Axel Menges, DE, 1996

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    Hardback. Condizione: New. 2019 Edition "Primeval architecture is an architecture of necessity. Nothing is there to excess, no matter whether stone, clay, reeds or wood, animal skins or hair are used. It is minimal. It can be very beautiful even amidst poverty and is good in the ethical sense. Good architecture seems to be more important than beautiful architecture. Beautiful architecture is not necessarily good. Only buildings that are at the same time ethically good and aesthetically beautiful are worth preserving. We have too many buildings that have become useless and yet we still need new buildings, from pole to pole, in the cold and in the heat. Mans present areas of settlement are the new ecological system in which technology is indispensable, even in hot and cold areas. . Our age requires buildings that are lighter, more energy-saving, more mobile and more adaptable, in brief more natural, without disregarding the need for safety and security. This logically leads to the further development of light constructions, to the building of tents, shells, awnings and air-supported membranes. It also leads to a new mobility and changeability. A new understanding of nature is forming under one aspect of high performance form (also called classical form), which unites aesthetic and ethical viewpoints. Tomorrows architecture will again be minimal architecture, an architecture of the self-education and self-optimization processes suggested by human beings." (Frei Otto and Bodo Rasch in their foreword of this book) In 1992 the Bavarian branch of the Deutscher Werkbund awarded its first prize to Frei Otto, undoubtedly the most successful and many-sided protagonist of modern light construction, and with it a request to nominate a meritorious person to whom the prize could be passed on, and to design a joint exhibition with that person. Frei Otto chose his pupil Bodo Rasch, who had realized Ottos theories particularly in other cultures. The publication produced on this occasion provides information about scientific fundamentals and the working methods the two architects developed from these, which are characterized by "finding" not by "making". This is supposed to produce buildings that could not be more beautiful and can scarcely be improved in terms of materials and loadbearing capacity.

  • Lingua: Inglese

    Editore: Edition Axel Menges, DE, 1996

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    Hardback. Condizione: New. 2019 Edition "Primeval architecture is an architecture of necessity. Nothing is there to excess, no matter whether stone, clay, reeds or wood, animal skins or hair are used. It is minimal. It can be very beautiful even amidst poverty and is good in the ethical sense. Good architecture seems to be more important than beautiful architecture. Beautiful architecture is not necessarily good. Only buildings that are at the same time ethically good and aesthetically beautiful are worth preserving. We have too many buildings that have become useless and yet we still need new buildings, from pole to pole, in the cold and in the heat. Mans present areas of settlement are the new ecological system in which technology is indispensable, even in hot and cold areas. . Our age requires buildings that are lighter, more energy-saving, more mobile and more adaptable, in brief more natural, without disregarding the need for safety and security. This logically leads to the further development of light constructions, to the building of tents, shells, awnings and air-supported membranes. It also leads to a new mobility and changeability. A new understanding of nature is forming under one aspect of high performance form (also called classical form), which unites aesthetic and ethical viewpoints. Tomorrows architecture will again be minimal architecture, an architecture of the self-education and self-optimization processes suggested by human beings." (Frei Otto and Bodo Rasch in their foreword of this book) In 1992 the Bavarian branch of the Deutscher Werkbund awarded its first prize to Frei Otto, undoubtedly the most successful and many-sided protagonist of modern light construction, and with it a request to nominate a meritorious person to whom the prize could be passed on, and to design a joint exhibition with that person. Frei Otto chose his pupil Bodo Rasch, who had realized Ottos theories particularly in other cultures. The publication produced on this occasion provides information about scientific fundamentals and the working methods the two architects developed from these, which are characterized by "finding" not by "making". This is supposed to produce buildings that could not be more beautiful and can scarcely be improved in terms of materials and loadbearing capacity.

  • Lingua: Francese

    Editore: L'Age d'homme, Lausanne, 1976

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    Couverture souple. Condizione: Bon. 210x135mm. 115 pages.

  • Lingua: Inglese

    Editore: Edition Axel Menges, 1996

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    Condizione: New. In English.

  • Lingua: Inglese

    Editore: Edition Axel Menges Okt 2008, 2008

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    Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - Cities, estates and routing systems develop, change constantlyand fundamentally cannot be planned. Claims to ownership, landand building regulations, planning decisions and political interventionsmake it difficult for settlement structures to adapt to constantlychanging requirements to such an extent that meaningfuland totally ecological use of the surface of the earth is becomingincreasingly difficult, although new techniques and flexible planningmodels mean that a connection could be found with the self-designingprocesses of urban-development history.Plants are anchored in their location on the face of the earth, animalsand human beings have mobile territory and encampmentsthat become static with increasing density. Human settlements areorganisms, but they are not hereditarily anchored in their form likecorals, sponges or beehives. They often grow and shrink at thesame time. Their form can almost never be called chaotic. Typicalself-formation processes lead to astonishing genetic optimization inthe course of time. Processes of change have become so rapid todaythat current urban-planning theories have been overtaken.But high effectiveness of self-created, in other words unplannedsettlements in terms of energy and biology is totally achievable todayin »natural« town and transport planning and leads to ecologicallymeaningful solutions that are also full of beauty.The study was written in the context of special research into»natural constructions« by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft,and has hitherto been available only in German and as aworking paper for circulation between those involved in the researchproject.Frei Otto is one of the 20th-century's most important architecturalvisionaries. Although at a first glance his buildings like theGerman Pavilion for the 1967 World Fair in Montreal, designed withRolf Gutbrod, the roofs for the Olympic buildings in Munich designedby Günter Behnisch or the project developed with ChristophIngenhoven for a new main station in Stuttgart seem to be inthe tradition only of the great constructors of this century like FelixCandela or Pier Luigi Nervi, his work goes way beyond mere construction.He is a technician, artist and philosopher in one, and hiscentral concern is for a new and all-embracing link with nature inbuilding.