Corporate Architecture: Development, Concepts, Strategies - Tapa dura

Corporate Architecture is a new challenge to designers of buildings, interiors, and temporary corporate exhibitions. This book is the first to present the entire development of corporate architecture to date, showing the strategies available and the best architectural and design concepts. This book presents milestones of 20th century corporate architecture and provides a wealth of photos illustrating the latest trends in this field. It gives both designers and corporations a point of reference for integrating and transforming the architectural aspect of corporate design in their own work, and will appeal not only to an audience interested in architecture for its own sake, but also to corporations with designs on their own buildings, as well as developers, architects, and designers in related fields such as advertising, marketing and visual communication. Architects featured include: Michael Wilford and Partners; Murphy/Jahn; Renzo Piano Building Workshop; Herzog & de Meuron; BRT Architekten; Ingenhoven, Overdiek and Partners; Wilford Schupp Architekten; Querkraft Arkitekten; Barkow Leibinger Architekten; Henn Architekten; Frei Otto; OMA Office for Metropolitan Architecture; Jun Aoki & Associates; Frank O. Gehry Associates; Schwitzke & Partner; HPP Laage und Partner; Franken Architekten; Rainer Koberl and Astrid Tschapeller; Deutsche Post Bauen GmbH.

Dr. Jons Messedat studied architecture and industrial design in Aachen, Stuttgart and London. He is the author of numerous expert articles as well as a lecturer and visiting lecturer at universities in Germany, Switzerland and the USA.