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Peter Ebner, Markus Kuntscher, Eva Maria Herrmann et al.
Wohn Raum Alpen
Abitare le alpi
Living in the Alps
Pages approx. 328
Ills. approx. 350 in color, 50 b/w, 300 drawings
Format 24,0 x 29,0 cm
Binding Hardcover
Price approx. EUR 55.98 / GBP 52.00
ISBN 978-3-0346-0542-7
German/English/Italian
Available May 2010
New ideas in settlement and housing construction
for changing needs
The provision of attractive dwellings in
Europe’s population centers has long been a
topic of central concern not only to architects
but also to city planners, investors, and
municipalities. Redensification and the
creation of new residential developments are
always accompanied by the question of
sustainable approaches. In Alpine areas, such
efforts must contend with topographical and
structural framework conditions that raise
the bar even higher.
«Living in the Alps» presents intelligent ideas
and approaches from selected residential
developments and construction projects from
Europe’s eight Alpine countries; it examines
not just dwelling itself but also the integration
of various functions. New photo essays
produced especially for the volume show how
the structures in question are actually used.
The publication offers planners, architects,
cities, and towns encouragement and ideas
for pursuing approaches to residential
development and housing construction.
«Wohn Raum Alpen - Living in the Alps» is
published to coincide with the exhibition of
the same name in Kunsthaus Meran (Merano),
May 15th to September 12th 2010.
Exemplary residential projects and
sustainable urban planning from 8
European alpine countries and regions
Covers a range of typologies from
apartment housing to multigenerational
family home and whole residential
developments
Practical planning aid from design and
floor plan zoning through to construction
methods
9 783034 605427
Related titles:
Sustainable Architecture in Voralberg; 2009;
978-3-0346-0119-1; EUR 59.90 / GBP 54.00
New Alpine Architecture; 2008; 978-3-7643-8394-7;
EUR 46.64 / GBP 42.00

types/functions | 3
Available
again
Martin Steinmann (Ed.)
Tendenzen – Neuere
Architektur im Tessin
Tendencies – Recent
Architecture in Ticino
Tendenze – Architettura
Recente nel Ticino
Reprint, 3rd ed., 1977
Pages 166
Ills. 442 b/w
Format 29,7 x 21,0 cm
Binding Softcover
Price EUR 55.98 / GBP 52.00
ISBN 978-3-0346-0531-1 German
enhanced and extended with Italian and
English translation
Available April 2010
Showcasing the works of the Ticino School
The work of the Ticino architects first
captured international attention in 1975 on
the occasion of the Zurich exhibition
Tendenzen – Neuere Architektur im Tessin
(Tendencies and Trends – New Architecture in
Ticino) and it did so virtually overnight. The
leading figures of the “Ticino School” became
aware of the destruction being wrought upon
the natural landscape by the unbridled
construction boom as early as the 1960s.
Aurelio Galfetti, Luigi Snozzi, and Livio
Vacchini – soon joined by Mario Botta and
Ivano Gianola – set a striking example with
hard concrete structures. While they could
only aestheticize overdevelopment, not slow it
down, their highly varied production
established a widely noted brand of
architectural regionalism whose impact is still
being felt today.
This volume brings together the works of the
Ticino School. With the publication of this
reprint, this unique historical document,
which has a permanent place in the teaching
of design, is once again available.
With this reprint, a unique document on
the work of the Ticino School is once again
available
Documentation of groundbreaking
structures of the time, from the Rotalinti
House in Bellinzona by Galfetti to the
house in Riva by Mario Botta, the
kindergarten in Biasca by Galfetti, Trümpy,
and Ruchat, and many others
Essays by Botta, Reichlin, Reinhart, and
Snozzi, provide valuable insight into their
own concepts and approach to
architecture
Related titles:
Dado; 2009; 978-3-0346-0430-7; EUR 49.90 / GBP 45.00
Michele Arnaboldi Architect; 2009; 978-3-0346-0355-3;
EUR 59.90 / GBP 54.00

4 | Design
Florian Böhm (Ed.)
Commedia dell’Arte –
Couture Edition
Pages approx. 320
ills. approx. 500 in color, 50 b/w
Format 23,5 x 33,5 cm
Trade edition
Binding Hardcover
Price approx. EUR 119.00 / GBP 108.00
ISBN 978-3-0346-0544-1 English
Available April 2010
A related exhibition will take place at
the Bayerisches Nationalmuseum in
Munich on 17.6.–31.10.2010.
Commedia dell’ Arte on the catwalk – haute couture in porcelain
Medieval market scenes, Batman, Minnie
Mouse, Dior’s studio, David Bowie, and Buster
Keaton – this book functions like a film,
blending historical figures with pop art, the
production of the finest porcelain figures with
sensuous haute couture. But what is truly
exceptional about this publication is more
than the extraordinary objects it presents: the
sixteen porcelain figures of the Commedia
dell’arte created by Franz Anton Bustelli in
1760, which were newly released in a limited
edition by the Nymphenburg Porcelain
Manufactory in 2009, redressed by sixteen
internationally renowned fashion designers,
including Vivienne Westwood, Christian
Lacroix, Naoki Takizawa, Gareth Pugh, Victor &
Rolf, and others.
This lavish volume documents – regardless of
costs – the “making of” this limited edition
and the experimental process of updating
objects like these for the world of today. The
photographs taken and selected by the
volume’s editor, Florian Böhm, depict scenes
from the fashion designers’ studios and detail
views of the manufactory. The effect is to
bring to light the similarities between the
handicrafts-based working methods of
fashion design and porcelain design,
similarities that are so characteristic of the
contemporary trend of creating limitededition
syntheses of traditional arts and
crafts and modern design.
A visual feast for bibliophiles
Sumptuous documentation of the making
of a limited edition
Synthesis of traditional artisan production
and modern fashion design
9 783034 605441
Related titles:
Limited Edition; 2009; 978-3-7643-8895-9;
EUR 49.90 / GBP 45.00
The Making of Design; 2009; 978-3-0346-0089-7;
EUR 29.90 / GBP 27.00

Design | 5
Fine
Art
Print
Collector’s Book,
limited to 400 numbered copies
Binding linen bound, signed and numbered, Fine Art
Print by F. Böhm v. Ungaro. Custom clothbound
Solander box (41,2 x 33,0 x 7,0 cm)
Price EUR 750.00 / GBP approx. 680.00
ISBN 978-3-0346-0551-9 English
16
Fine Art
Prints
Exclusive Collector’s Book.
Limited to 25 numbered copies
Binding numbered and custom bound with an
embossed silk-linen cover (41,2 x 33,0 x 7,0
cm), incl. a portfolio with 16 exclusive fine art
prints of the Commedia dell’Arte–Couture
Edition figures, each print individually signed
by the fashion designers
Price EUR 7500.00 / GBP approx. 6800.00
ISBN 978-3-0346-0550-2 English
9 783034 605519 9 783034 605502

6 | avedition
Introduction by Jörg Beier
Event Design Yearbook
2010/2011
pages approx. 200
ills. approx. 200 in color
Format 23,0 x 31,0 cm
binding Softcover with flaps
price approx. EUR 59.90 / GBP 54.00
ISBN 978-3-89986-131-0 English/German
Available May 2010
Trends and highlights in event design
This new yearbook series has been produced
in response to the growing importance of live
communication. According to FAMAB
(Association of Direct Business
Communications), companies see “marketing
events as the communication instrument of
the future”. They offer a unique opportunity to
reach people emotionally and physically.
In cooperation with Prof. Dr. Jörg Beier, head of
congress, trade fair and event management at
the Ravensburg Cooperative University, the
publisher presents this sector‘s most
innovative and best projects. The selection
criteria included a high level of dramaturgical
and design standards, as well as the response
of the general public, panels and the press.
The book is organised by event type: corporate
events, employee events, public events,
charity, social, cultural events, consumer
events and exhibitions. More than 30
wellknown agencies from German-speaking
countries and around 50 of their most recent
projects, including international ones, will be
represented.
The first yearbook for live communication
More than 30 agencies, around 50
international events
Photo: jem Gmbh
Photo: Bernd Kammerer
9 783899 861310
Photo: TBWA

avedition | 7
Schmidhuber und Partner,
Projects 2008/2009
Architektur für Marken/
Corporate Architecture
pages 240
ills. 200 in color
Format 21,0 x 26,0 cm
binding Hardcover
Price EUR 39.90 / GBP 36.00
ISBN 978-3-89986-133-4 English/German
Already available
First monograph of the successful Munich (Germany)
design studio
Schmidhuber+Partner was founded in
Munich by interior designers Prof. Klaus and
Susanne Schmidhuber in 1984. For 25 years,
the agency has been successfully pursuing its
objective to design brand messages and
corporate visions. Today, some 50 architects,
interior designers and designers work there
for international clients from the fields trade
fairs, trade and public space, office design,
restaurants and hotels. In the years
2008/2009 alone, the agency was awarded
prizes by ADC, Clio, if, ADAM+EVA and red dot
as well as receiving three nominations for the
Design Prize of the Federal Republic of
Germany.
The book presents around 40 international
products from the last two years classified in
four chapters: architecture, trade fairs and
exhibitions, events, shops and showrooms.
Large-scale projects like the German Pavilion
at the Expo Shanghai 2010 or trade fair
appearances of Audi at the IAA 2009 and of
Samsung at the IFA 2009 are, of course,
showcased.
The architects of the German Pavilion at
the Expo Shanghai 2010
Approx. 40 recent buildings, trade fair
booths, shops, events
Photos: Schmidhuber + Kaindl/ Milla & Partner
Photos: die photodesigner.de
9 783899 861334
Related Titles:
Corporate Architecture; 2005;
978-3-89986-046-7; EUR 69.90 / GBP 63.00

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