60 Years DETAIL

Axel Meise (Occhio) über die Bedeutung der 60er-Jahre, die Architektur der Zukunft und ihre persönlichen Erfahrungen mit DETAIL.

Walter Gropius created a remarkable late work with glassworks for the Thomas company in Amberg, Upper Palatinate.

It was the world’s largest party tent and served variously as an exhibition space, sports arena and homeless shelter: Richard Rogers‘ Millennium Dome truly has an eventful history to its name.

Light, shade, geometry and fair-faced concrete reduce Tadao Ando’s church near Osaka to its essence.

In June 2000 Detail spoke to Frei Otto about how he arrived at membrane structures, the role of the world expos and the sustainability of tent-roof structures.

With their administration building for a broadcasting company, MVRDV made a successful quick start to their own architecture career in 1997.

The Wilkhahn production hall by Thomas Herzog and Bernd Steigerwald is in keeping with the tradition of classic factory buildings. However, it also points the way to an era of sustainability.

Mit dem Lissaboner Ostbahnhuf schuf Santiago Calatrava 1998 nicht nur das Eingangstor zur Weltausstellung, sondern einen bis heute wichtigen Verkehrsknotenpunkt.

In his design for Lisbon’s Eastern Train Station, Santiago Calatrava created with it not only the gateway to the Expo 1998 World’s Fair but also a transport hub that has lost none of its significance to this day.