Exhibition Halls: Construction and Design Manual - Hardcover

Kusch, Clemens F.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 3869221844 ISBN 13: 9783869221847

Publisher: DOM Publishers, 2013

Synopsis

An exhibition centre is a central focus of a city's economic life, and in many cases a unique expression of its image. For this reason, as well as offering adequate space and infrastructure, it must make a strong, clearly recognizable architectural statement. Over the past couple of decades, new technology and globalization have transformed trade fairs: today they are not so much markets as forums for the exchange of information and contacts. This new volume in the Construction and Design Manual series spotlights twenty-two exemplary European buildings that have overcome the resulting architectural challenges. It also includes an overview of the cultural history of European trade fairs, and an interview on successful exhibition-centre design with one of the world's leading specialists in this area of architecture.

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About the Author:

Clemens F. Kusch, born in Rome in 1963. He studied architecture at the University of Venice, where he gained his doctorate in 1993 and has subsequently been a visiting professor. Kusch has been closely involved in relations between German and Italian architects, for example as a contact architect for German firms such as gmp von Gerkan, Marg und Partner (Hamburg), for the curators of the Venice Biennale and as a correspondent for German newspapers. Since 2009, he has coordinated the joint German-Italian project for the reconstruction of the Berliner Schloss.

About this edition

• Publisher: DOM Publishers
• Publication date: 2013
• ISBN 10: 3869221844
• ISBN 13: 9783869221847
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 304