Online Atlas – Contemprary architects
This part of the atlas features a low-res version of the boards we recieved from many architecture and engineering offices. The designers were asked to make a statement about their notion of details and the role they play in their daily practice, presenting a detailed section of three or four among their projects.
For a quick overview you can use the menu below.

Miller & Maranta – Architectural concrete in detail
Reinforced concrete is a new building material that experienced a rapid ascendance. Today, it dominates…

OAB – Office of Architecture in Barcelona – Light and Materiality
OAB picks up on the trajectory of the earlier Carlos Ferrater Studio, whilst incorporating new…

OBR – Paolo Brescia and Tommaso Principi – Commons. Architecture as a cooperative evolutionary process.
The growth of global financial markets and international networks of specialized services has launched an…

Park Associati – Details – signs of comunication
Just for an exercise purpose, let’s try to look at the drawing of the detail…

Pascal Flammer – To Maria and Polke
I like to look at an accumulation of pieces that express strategic balanced positioning –…

PERIPHERIQUES Jumeau+Marin+Trottin – “Power of ten”
The detail’s construction is a field of project as wide as the town planning. With…

Peter Märkli Architekt – Translation of base and capital
An observation. When we speak about architecture and understand our position in relation to all…

Petra und Paul Kahlfeldt Architekten – The column reveals the essence of architecture
In architecture the usual construction accrued in manual knowledge and calculated by engineers is being…