Public Buildings

In this volume of the gmp focus series, the architects illuminate their design and grant an insight into the challenges of the building task. In addition, architectural critic Jurgen Tietz examines in an essay why museums like the Kunsthalle Mannheim are still needed today.

A book by Turit Froebe on Finland's official architectural policy and explores how successful it has been.

Accessible architecture is about much more than wide doorways and low-placed light switches. Accessibility means independent and self-reliant living and mobility for people of all ages and in any situation in life. Enabling this requires a clear awareness of the related concepts and principles that need to be adopted into the planning at an early s