100 Details: 100 Drawings full of Precision and Inspiration, edited by Jeanette Kunsmann, brings together one hundred construction detail drawings from six decades of DETAIL magazine — a visual archive of how architecture is actually built, drawn with the precision and economy that has made DETAIL's CAD department a benchmark for the discipline.
About This Book
Since its founding in 1961, Edition DETAIL has documented the technical reality of contemporary architecture through drawings rather than photographs — a commitment to showing what lies beneath the surface of a building rather than how it presents itself to the world. Published to mark the magazine's sixty-fifth anniversary, this volume selects one hundred drawings from across that history: façades, construction junctions, material assemblies, and structural details from international projects, each one distilled to its essentials. The result is both a celebratory retrospective and a working reference — a book that argues, quietly but persistently, that the quality of a building is inseparable from the quality of its details.
Key Features
- One hundred CAD drawings selected from sixty-five years of DETAIL magazine production
- Includes details from projects by Kazuyo Sejima/SANAA, Florian Nagler Architekten, and other leading international practices
- Bilingual edition — German and English throughout
- Published to mark Edition DETAIL's sixty-fifth anniversary
What You'll Discover
- How construction detail drawings function as both technical documents and architectural arguments
- Sixty-five years of evolving approaches to façade, structure, and material detailing in international practice
- The visual language of DETAIL's CAD standards, applied across building typologies and climates
- How precision drawing reveals what architectural photography and visualisation cannot
About the Author
Jeanette Kunsmann is an author, architecture journalist, and editor-in-chief of DETAIL magazine. She studied architecture at the Technical University of Berlin and previously served as editor-in-chief of BauNetz and Baunetzwoche, and as deputy editor-in-chief of DEAR magazine. She lives and works in Berlin and Munich.
Specifications
- Format: Hardcover
- Pages: 400
- Dimensions: 32 x 23 cm
- Language: English / German
- ISBN: 9783955536787
- Publisher: Edition DETAIL / Birkhäuser
- Publication Date: 2026
Perfect For: Architects, architectural technologists, construction professionals, architecture students, and anyone with a serious interest in the craft of building and technical drawing