De Gruyter

Intended for specialists and students of Architecture, Art History and History, this volume contains papers on functional and ideological aspects of palace architecture, art and ceremonial in the Roman imperial tradition in its broadest geographical and chronological limits, from the Principate through Late Antiquity, Byzantium, and more.

New laboratory buildings are being planned all around the world. Are they different from or even better than their predecessors? The authors journey into the past and present of laboratory architecture and reveal a variety of approaches with regard to both the functional relation of spaces and the symbolic value of the facade.

Based on his artistic practice, Nikolaus Gansterer reveals drawing as a core medium of research, which enables the emergence of new narratives by tracing the speculative and performative potential of diagrams.