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This latest edition about the German mega-firm J.S.K. Architects gives a status account of the manifold activities of the leading, internationally-engaged engineering and architectural company. Vision and Function focuses on the broad-based firm's designs for high-rise buildings, train stations and hotels. In addition, this book also features documentation of many projects that were still in the planning stages in previous editions and which now stand as finished buildings. These include the recently completed Frankfurter Welle and Stilwerk Design Center in Düsseldorf, each of which maintains the firm's principle of balancing innovation and practical realization.

Jong-Soung Kimm turns his camera to France in the latest installment of his photo essay on early medieval and Romanesque architectureKorean architect Jong-Soung Kimm (born 1935) presents the 4th volume of his photo essay on early medieval and Romanesque architecture, with a particular focus on France. Accompanying texts address design strategies used by medieval builders as well as certain distinct spatial phenomena that fascinate contemporary visitors.

This monograph compiles stills from four films by pioneering German animator Lotte Reiniger (1899-1981)--The Adventure of Prince Achmed (1926: the first feature-length animation), The Ornament of a Heart in Love (1919), Cinderella (1922) and Doctor Dolittle and His Animals (1927-28).

Lotte Reiniger (1899-1981) is a much loved figure in the early history of animated film. At an early age Reiniger discovered the Chinese art of silhouette puppetry, and made her first silhouettes for a school performance. Growing up during the early years of cinema, she fell in love with the films of Georges Méliès and Paul Wegener, and found imaginative ways to adapt the craft of silhouette-making and shadow puppetry to the possibilities of animation. Reiniger elicited marvelous effects of motion from the inflexibility of silhouettes, and even introduced cultural quotations from the works of Charlie Chaplin or Josephine Baker into her magical films. Today she is best remembered for the animation masterpiece The Adventures of Prince Achmed. This book--the first on Reiniger in English--reproduces three of her most beautiful silhouette series: versions of Mozart's Magic Flute and The Marriage of Figaro, and an animal alphabet.

The Haniel Collection in Germany focuses on the postwar avant-garde movement Art Informel and its contemporary descendants. This volume includes paintings, prints and sculptures by 50 artists, among them Georg Baselitz, Lucio Fontana, Damien Hirst, Hans Hofmann, Yves Klein, Gerhard Richter, K.R.H. Sonderborg and Antonio Tàpies.

Alexandre Wollner (born 1928) is one of the most important and successful graphic designers of the second half of the twentieth century. He played a prominent role in the artistic, cultural and economic foundation of postwar Brazilian design and is today one of South America's most acclaimed figures in graphic design. Upon returning to Brazil from his studies in Europe, together with Geraldo de Barros and others he inaugurated Form-Inform, the first design consultancy in the country. Despite his great influence and popularity in South America, Wollner remains relatively unknown abroad. Alex Wollner: Brasil Design Visual remedies this oversight, presenting an extensive catalogue of the designer's oeuvre. This handsome book showcases more than 100 works by the artist and focuses on the strong influence of the Ulm School of Design where Wollner studied between 1954 and 1958.

Over the past 30 years, the German designer Mathias Hoffmann has designed furniture, lamps and household accessories for companies such as Rolf Benz, de Sede, Tonon, Brown Jordan and Lloyd Flanders. Living Emotions offers nearly 900 reproductions of these works, alongside sketches and commentary on each product from Hoffmann.

What is design? How is design taught? What is the starting point for a design course? Is there a clear method for teaching design? In this volume, professor Gilead Duvshani engages these questions, introducing a unique perspective on teaching the fundamentals of design. Foundation Design stresses the link between creativity and the ability to imagine and express a personal narrative.

Daniel Libeskind designed the Felix-Nussbaum Haus as an extension to Osnabruck's Museum of Art History. This building, dedicated to the memory of the painter Felix Nussbaum (born 1904 in Osnabruck, died 1944 in Auschwitz), was the architect's first completed project. Here, the director of the Osnabruck museum describes the building in detail, highlighting the key features of Libeskind's "deconstructivist" style, as it has been termed. He also investigates the correlations between the building's architecture and the paintings of Nussbaum.

The Berlin-based American artist Hannah Dougherty's strong, evocative paintings, collages and installations are characterized by a dreamy, mythological feel, as much from her distinctive palette as from her retro, hybrid figures, which take their inspiration from children's book illustrations, comic strips and 1950s advertisements, with a little bit of Dürer and old school Encyclopedia Brittanica thrown in. In her recent Berlin installation, The Gartenhaus Project, Dougherty glued handwritten notes and scraps of paper like a 1939 Berlin butcher's bill and a Japanese train schedule to her paintings, mostly upside-down, so that they functioned as barely legible memorabilia. She also created a kind of "theater set" representation of an Arcadian suburb, complete with dramatic twilight-evoking spotlights, kitschy prefabricated garden houses, pots of artificial flowers, stuffed fox and deer, and prop-like, anthropomorphized wooden birdhouses--much more sinister than jolly, like dark little garden gnomes. This volume documents The Gartenhaus Project in full.

In 1997 Wilhelm Kucher designed an expansion to the Deutsche Bank in Essen, a building originally built in 1872 by Peter Zindel and expanded in 1908 by Wilhelm Mertens. With numerous photographs and plan views, this book documents Kucher's challenging integration of old and new. Includes essays by Wilfried Wang and Ingebord Flagge.

The history of an early major work of architecture by Peter BehrensFew know that the former Continental Administration Building in Hanover was built between 1912 and 1914 according to plans by architect Peter Behrens. This publication reconstitutes the history of this building.

The second volume of an architect's explorations of the RomanesquePresenting a photographic essay on Mozarabic, Asturian and Romanesque architecture from the Iberian Peninsula, this volume includes monuments across Spain such as San Miguel de Escalada, San Pedro de la Nave and Santa Maria del Naranco, as seen through an architect's eyes.

Through the writings of Dutch artist Fré Ilgen, Artist? offers familiar as well as surprising insight into the human need to create and experience art. Well researched and masterfully executed, Ilgen's approach discusses the various struggles in art, including insecurity and mediocrity.

A reexamination of the classifications of "ethnic" art and artifactsUndermining the anthropological designations of "ethnic artifacts" and "ethnic art," this survey of the massive collections of the Museum of World Cultures in Frankfurt approaches 130 of its works as both art and artifact simultaneously, raising aesthetic matters of form and color alongside contextual considerations. Masks, clubs, fans, spoons, tusks, dolls, necklaces, baskets, shields, cups, bags, headdresses and sculptures from countries in Africa, the Americas, Southeast Asia, Oceania and East Asia are all reproduced here, in full color and with contextualizing commentary. As debate on the status of ethnic artifacts continues to expand, with Being Object the Museum of World Cultures takes the lead among institutions in attempting to reorient the taxonomies of its collections.