The task of designing a large aquarium pre sents architects with a multiplicity of challenges: the fundamental elements of interior design - light, colour, and surfaces - must be meshed with special requirements concerning building technology. This book takes a comprehensive look at the development of architecture and display methods for artificial underwater worlds. Based on analysis of more than 50 historical and contemporary buildings, the editors formulate ten parameters to serve as guidelines in the design of future buildings. The aim of this publication is to provide architects and their clients, zoologists and operators of large aquariums, with planning parameters and quality criteria to help them in designing a sustainable aquarium. This book is the sixth volume in a series of publications by the Institute for Zoo Architecture at Anhalt University of Applied Sciences in Dessau.

About the Author

Dr Jurgen Lange, born 1942 in Dessau. Biologist. Assistant at the Institute of Domestic Animals at the University of Kiel; then curator at Wilhelma Aquarium, Stuttgart, subsequently CEO and director of Zoo Berlin and Aquarium Berlin. With his firm, azc Aquarium Zoo Consulting, has provided scientific consultations in 11 countries to teams of architects during construction of aquariums and zoo buildings. Has published numerous articles and books in seven languages.

Prof. Dr Natascha Meuser, born 1967. Architect, publisher, and university teacher. In 1995, together with Philipp Meuser, established Meuser Architekten GmbH in Berlin. In 2005 founded DOM publishers, an architectural publishing house which in 2020 won the German Publishing Prize. Author of numerous publications on the theory of design and educational buildings as well as of historical studies of architecture and zoology. Is currently establishing an international network on the subject 'Architecture for Animals'.

Book Information
ISBN 9783869227566
Author Jurgen Lange
Format Hardback
Page Count 450
Imprint DOM Publishers
Publisher DOM Publishers