Die dritte Auflage dieses erfolgreichen Buches wurde grafisch neu gestaltet, inhaltlich vollständig überarbeitet und um mehr als 220 neue Beiträge erweitert. Es vereint Ideen und Lösungen von Fassadenkonzepten, die städtebaulich, architektonisch, technisch und funktional außergewöhnlich sind. Dafür stehen zahllose internationale Architekturbeispiele und innovative Planungen renommierter Architekten, die gebäudetypologisch geordnet einen Überblick über die technischen Möglichkeiten moderner Gebäudehüllen aufzeigen – darunter ausgewählte Objekte von Albert Speer & Partner, WS Atkins & Partners, Toyo Ito, Murphy/Jahn, Riepel + Riepel, Richard Meier & Partners, Daniel Libeskind, Ingenhoven Overdiek, Gehry Partners, Yaser Darwish, BRT Architekten, Foster and Partners, Pysall_Ruge, Zaha Hadid, Ricardo Bofill, KSP Engel und Zimmermann, FX Fowle.

The third edition of this highly successful book has been graphically redesigned as well as completely revised and expanded, with 220 new articles. It brings together facade solutions and ideas that are remarkable from various perspectives – city planning, architecture, technology, functionality. These qualities are attested by countless international structures and innovative plans by celebrated architects, which – organized on the basis of building typology – yield an overview of the technical possibilities of modern building envelopes: selected buildings by Albert Speer & Partner, WS Atkins & Partners, Toyo Ito, Murphy/Jahn, Riepel + Riepel, Richard Meier & Partners, Daniel Libeskind, Ingenhoven Overdiek, Gehry Partners, Yaser Darwish, BRT Architekten, Foster and Partners, Pysall_Ruge, Zaha Hadid, Ricardo Bofill, KSP Engel und Zimmermann, and FX Fowle.

Individual architects and architectural firms

Architecture: residential and domestic buildings

Gebäudehüllen für das 21. Jahrhundert / Building Envelopes for the 21st Century

Fassaden / Façades

Dirk U. Hindrichs, Diplomwirtschaftsingenieur, war unter anderem als Geschäftsführer Consumer Produkte bei Kimberly Clark und als Vice President Seagram Europe and Africa tätig. Heute ist er CEO der Firma Schüco International KG, Bielefeld.



Dipl.-Ing. Winfried Heusler arbeitete nach seinem Maschinenbaustudium bei einem großen Metallbauer in Süddeutschland als Leiter Forschung und Entwicklung sowie Leiter des Bereichs Aluminiumfassaden. Seit 1998 ist er Chief Technical Officer (CTO) bei der Firma Schüco International KG, Bielefeld.

Dirk U. Hindrichs is a qualified industrial engineer. He has worked, among other things, as managing director of the Consumer Products Division of Kimberly Clark and as Vice President of Seagram’s Europe and Africa Division. Today he is the CEO of Schüco International KG in Bielefeld.



Dipl.-Ing. Winfried Heusler completed his studies in mechanical engineering and then went on to work for a large metalworking company in Southern Germany as director of research and development as well as director of the aluminum facades division. Since 1998, he has been the Chief Technical Officer (CTO) of Schüco International KG in Bielefeld.

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3rd EditionThe third edition of this highly successful book has been graphically redesigned as well as completely revised and expanded, with 220 new articles. It brings together facade solutions and ideas that are remarkable from various perspectives – city planning, architecture, technology, functionality. These qualities are attested by countless international structures and innovative plans by celebrated architects, which – organized on the basis of building typology – yield an overview of the technical possibilities of modern building envelopes: selected buildings by Albert Speer & Partner, WS Atkins & Partners, Toyo Ito, Murphy/Jahn, Riepel + Riepel, Richard Meier & Partners, Daniel Libeskind, Ingenhoven Overdiek, Gehry Partners, Yaser Darwish, BRT Architekten, Foster and Partners, Pysall_Ruge, Zaha Hadid, Ricardo Bofill, KSP Engel und Zimmermann, and FX Fowle.      Documentation of remarkable facade ideas and concepts Built examples by internationally renowned architects Graphically redesigned as well as completely revised and expanded, with 220 new articles

Intelligent surfaces and building skins – outstanding facades for the 21st century



3rd EditionThe third edition of this highly successful

Fassaden / Façades

Gebäudehüllen für das 21. Jahrhundert / Building Envelopes for the 21st Century

Edited by: Dirk U. Hindrichs, Winfried Heusler

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