Edition Axel Menges

Peter Hübner; building as a social process.

With a philosophy devoted to the people that inhabit and use buildings, rather than buildings as a reflection of their designer's ego, Hübner has established a career facilitating group-built housing of modules and unusual shapes and groupings to fit the community's needs. His architecture, mainly in southwest Germany, is profiled in this oversized volume (11.25x12.25 inches), which contains many photos of the buildings, their construction, and ground plans. The text is in German and English. (Annotation ©2008 Book News Inc. Portland, OR)

Reinhard Gieselmann; on the search of style/auf der Suche nach Stil.

The work and theory of architect Reinhard Gieselmann is illuminated here through excerpts of his own texts and contributions from art historian Kabierske (Karsruhe U., Germany). Text in both English and German is accompanied by mostly b&w photographs of Gieselmann's sites (mainly houses and churches from the 1960s and 70s) that stood in protest of the concept of functionality-as-art, with emphasis on light and material effects and form as an expression of intellectual content. Gieselmann's work in public housing in Vienna concludes the book. This book is distributed in the US by National Book Network. (Annotation ©2008 Book News Inc. Portland, OR)