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Flowcharting
(2023)gta editionBy the time the computer arrived on the architectural scene, its place had been prepared by decades of avant-gardist experimentation. The modernist program of rationalizing creative practice took a decidedly bureaucratic turn between two generations of constructivists in the 1930s and 1960s. From Paris to Cambridge, painters, poets, designers, and architects poured their energy into cracking the code of artistic genius in hopes of ...Monograph -
Innovations Practitioners Need for Circularity in the Swiss Architecture, Engineering, and Construction Sector
(2023)CirklaAlthough widely recognized as imperative for reducing global emissions and the amount of waste generated by the architecture, engineering, and construction (AEC) sector, a large-scale shift from a linear to a circular economy has not yet happened in practice. This paper highlights practitioners’ needs for implementing circularity in the AEC sector in Switzerland, and how digital platforms could support it. We hosted two workshops with ...Monograph -
Statistical Foundations of Actuarial Learning and its Applications
(2023)Springer ActuarialThis open access book discusses the statistical modeling of insurance problems, a process which comprises data collection, data analysis and statistical model building to forecast insured events that may happen in the future. It presents the mathematical foundations behind these fundamental statistical concepts and how they can be applied in daily actuarial practice. Statistical modeling has a wide range of applications, and, depending ...Monograph -
Dachwerke
(2023)Berichte zur Bauforschung und KonstruktionsgeschichteDie Schweizer Bau- und Zimmermeister der Frühen Neuzeit gelten mit ihren herausragenden Tragkonstruktionen als Pioniere des Holzbaus. Mit bemerkenswertem Können erschufen sie über Jahrhunderte elaborierte hölzerne Dachwerke großer Spannweite, von denen die meisten bis heute hervorragend erhalten sind. Sie gehören neben den gedeckten Holzbrücken zu den wertvollsten materiellen Zeugnissen, die das Zimmermannshandwerk in ganz Europa ...Monograph -
Mutual Integration in Immigration Society
(2023)The public culture of the receiving society and the dominant understanding of belonging and political membership can influence the social participation of immigrants as much as immigration law. However, current discussions of integration focus primarily on the distribution of rights and neglect the role of tacit knowledge. Through a systematical and philosophical analysis of identity's role in policy-making, governance and social practice, ...Monograph -
Checklist and Host Index of the Rust Fungi (Uredinales) of Switzerland, revised edition
(2022)The present checklist of Swiss rust fungi (basidiomycetes, order Uredinales [or Pucciniales]) comprises 580 taxa belonging to 547 species. For each taxon, the most important synonyms, the life cycle and the host plants recorded in Switzerland are given. It is indicated, furthermore, whether a taxon is adventive in Switzerland and to what extent it has become naturalized. Information is presented on how the accepted rust species are allotted ...Monograph -
Architecture of Counterrevolution
(2022)Architectural KnowledgeAfter over 120 years of French colonial rule in Algeria, the growing aspirations for independence culminated in the Algerian Revolution of 1954, which lasted until 1962. In order to combat the uprisings, the French civilian and military authorities reorganized the entire territory of the country, swiftly erected new infrastructures and pursued building policies that were ultimately intended to stabilize French dominance in Algeria. The ...Monograph -
Die Politik der Buchstaben
(2022)Visuelle Poesie und buchstabenkombinatorische Texte werden hier neu gelesen als Auseinandersetzung mit den Regeln gesellschaftlichen Zusammenlebens. Literarische Texte, die die Buchstaben exponieren, etwa Leipogramme, visuelle Poesie und Dialektgedichte, sind keine leere Spielerei, sie zu schaffen dient nicht dem bloßen Ausweis von Meisterschaft. Sie entstehen in der Moderne dank einer produktiven Auseinandersetzung mit der Kabbala und ...Monograph -
Krim – Erkundungen am Rand Europas
(2022)Die geschichtsträchtige und reizvolle Halbinsel Krim im Schwarzen Meer ist von großer geostrategischer Bedeutung. Dies führt immer wieder zu politischen Konflikten. Wie aber verläuft das Alltagsleben auf der Krim jenseits der Diskurse um Recht, Grenzen und Krieg? Wie denken Intellektuelle vor Ort über die heutige Situation? Kann Geopoesie helfen, in der gegenwärtigen Krise gegenzusteuern?Tatjana Hofmanns ethnografische Langzeitbeobachtung ...Monograph -