Public Buildings

First ever manual to systematically delve into public aquariums as an architectural typology, examining the history of aquarium maintenance, planning parameters, and a selection of ground-breaking buildings and structures in an international context.

Documents the new training campus of Italian premier league soccer club U.S. Sassuolo Calcio, an elegant gem of contemporary sports architecture.

Offers a holistic approach to the understanding of the different factors that lead to a healthy indoor environment.

Museums and Design for Creative Lives questions what we sacrifice when we allow economic imperatives to shape public museums, whilst also considering the implications of these new museum realities. It also asks: how might we instead design for creative lives?

Bringing together a comparative analysis of the accessibility by public transport of 23 cities in four continents, this book provides a practical introduction to the evolution, rationale and effectiveness of a new generation of accessibility planning tools. The Spatial Network Analysis for Multimodal Urban Transport Systems (SNAMUTS)

Who manages our data? A look behind the scenes of state-of-the-art IT infrastructures. Data centers are high-tech functional buildings, strictly protected treasuries and covert centers of power. The first comprehensive analysis of the history and present of IT infrastructures using the example of Switzerland.