A collection of seventeen intriguing and mind-bending short stories that appeal to readers of crime stories and detective... More > novels, parents of children, lovers of life, letter writers, dentists, and any one in between. The author, Susanna Piontek, was born in Bytom, Poland and immigrated to Germany in 1965. She earned an M.A. at Bochum University, specializing in language pedagogy research, history, and American studies. After working at the University of Saarbrücken for several years, she completed her education as a broadcast editor at a journalism school. Her works have been published in book form, anthologies, and magazines in Germany, the U.S., Israel, and Albania. Since 2006 Piontek is living in the United States as a freelance writer. < Less

Imagine. What if our physical workspaces—the specific arrangements of walls and halls, sizes and shapes of rooms—were... More > actually making us smarter or duller, enabling or disabling our individual and collective ability to think? What if a more astute crafting of professional habitats led to a greater ease in dealing with current tasks and a more adept foreshadowing of future ones? What if clever digs allowed us to learn more readily, learn from others, and help others learn? They can. This is the grand story I tell. < Less

Imagine. What if our physical workspaces—the specific arrangements of walls and halls, sizes and shapes of rooms—were... More > actually making us smarter or duller, enabling or disabling our individual and collective ability to think? What if a more astute crafting of professional habitats led to a greater ease in dealing with current tasks and a more adept foreshadowing of future ones? What if clever digs allowed us to learn more readily, learn from others, and help others learn? They can. This is the grand story I tell. < Less

A collection of architectural projects, essays, etchings, photographs, paintings, and drawings completed between 1990 and... More > 1997 by the designer Mikesch Muecke, aka polytekton. Texts and images (black & white). Volume 2 of 3. < Less

A collection of architectural projects, essays, etchings, photography, paintings, and drawings completed between 1978 and... More > 1989 by the designer Mikesch Muecke, aka polytekton. Texts and images (black & white). Volume 1 of 3. < Less

A collection of architectural projects, essays, etchings, photography, paintings, and drawings completed between 1978 and... More > 1989 by the designer Mikesch Muecke, aka polytekton. Texts and images (black & white). Volume 1 of 3. < Less

Poems written over the last 20 years by the author Diana Brantley.

PhotoGraphs is an eclectic collection of ‘written light’ (photo- = ‘light’ + -graph = ‘written’), assembled over... More > a time span of twenty-five years.
Each of the 125 images is countered by a short short-story—sometimes only a few words—that provide a historical, cultural, critical, architectural, artistic, and/or humorous context for the visual subject matter, which ranges from detailed views of textures/environments via interior and exterior architectural spaces to landscapes.
The reader can start on any page in the book since the images are arranged in no particular order, even if at times correspondences between certain photographs and texts emerge. < Less

A collection of projects, workshops, and essays by graduate students in Iowa State University's Master of Architecture and... More > Master of Science in Architectural Studies programs. < Less

A collection of color photographs with short stories—in English and German—that trace twentyfive years of the author's... More > work and life.
Eine Sammlung von Fotografien mit Kurzgeschichten—auf Englisch und Deutsch—die fünfundzwanzig Lebens- und Werkjahre des Autoren beschreiben. < Less