Ready for Take-Off: Aktuelle deutsche Exportarchitektur – Contemporary German Export Architecture

Hesse, Anna; Peter Cachola Schmal (Eds.). Ready for Take-Off: Aktuelle deutsche Exportarchitektur – Contemporary German Export Architecture. Ostfildern: Hatje Cantz, 2008. First edition. Quarto. 206, [2]pp. Original photographic paper covered boards. Published at the occasion of the exhibition “Ready for Take-Off,” this work features architectural projects that provide an up-to-date cross section of the group that actually “exports” from Germany. Works by the architects of the next generation, the successors to large offices such as Albert Speer und Partner (AS&P) or von Gerkan, Marg und Partner (gmp) – who have been erecting large projects in Asia, Africa, and Arab countries for decades – are distributed throughout much of the world. This monograph is profusely illustrated with numerous color photographic reproductions. Text in German and English. Binding and interior in very good condition. vg. Hardcover. (33081) $45