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Since 1981 the DAM (German Architecture Museum) has been recognizing the best architecture its country has to offer. Opening with the DAM-prizewinning project--the new art museum in Ravensburg designed by Lederer + Ragnarsdottir + Oei--this volume also features a number of stunning buildings that include a synagogue and community center in Ulm, the new reading room at the Staatsbibliothek Unter den Linden in Berlin, a villa in South Germany, and an environmentally conscious glass house. The book's feature essay investigates the challenges associated with large-scale construction in Germany and beyond. AUTHOR: Peter Cachola Schmal is an architect and the director of the DAM (German Architecture Museum) Frankfurt/Main. Yorck Forster is a freelance curator at the DAM (German Architecture Museum) Frankfurt/Main. SELLING POINTS: This architectural yearbook brings together a varied cross section of the best recent architecture in Germany as well as the most exciting and innovative projects by German designers and builders abroad. 180 illustrations