Almanac of architecture/Almanach der Architektur

More than a decade pursuing Boris Podrecca at the University of Stuttgart with his assistant team and generations of students a gigantic research project, which will now be presented in the first volume of this almanac of the classics. The bibliophile book presents 100 outstanding buildings from antiquity to the present day, including a number of examples of anonymous architecture. It joins the objects are not in chronological order but according to content types as "central area", "Directed space", "core and shell", "frame", "Organ Illustrative Form". This put the buildings in new and exciting relationships: the Great Mosque of Cordoba and Atrium House by Jorn Utzon settlement are structurally related in this view. Exceptional analytical drawings, accompanied by photos and short texts in German and English, open up the classics of the building as a journey to the center of the architecture.