The people of Hong Kong are asking, Is this our city?, a simple question but difficult to answer. When we are assuming......more
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The story of Swan & Maclaren Architects has been unfolding for over 130 years and continues to this day. Since its found......more
Drawing together writings, drawings, and photographs produced over the past decade, this volume focuses specifically on ......more
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This companion investigates the philosophical and theoretical foundations determining the conditions of possibility and ......more
In these times of climate change, the effects of climatic conditions on the composition of building materials, component......more
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In Zeiten des Klimawandels rücken neben dem Einsatz ressourcenschonender Materialien auch die Auswirkungen der klimatisc......more
This book explores the work of important authors in the search for a transition towards more ethical design focused on m......more
If you’ve ever wondered what goes through architects’ minds when they design buildings, you’ll be happy to know that the......more
The focus of this book has been concentrated on a criticism of the current resilience strategies: how adapting an anachr......more
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As Asia heads into the new 21st Century era a new architecture is called for. It needs now to think of a future in which......more
A massive value shift for existing buildings, infrastructure, materials, unbuilt land, earth, and the labor that holds o......more
Uses social and environmental justice theories to rethink the future of architecture. Thought Forms is a series featurin......more
Can qualitative ideas of place be adequately encompassed by the quantitative methods of digital and parametric design? T......more
The Design and Construction of Pitched Roofing is the definitive guide to obtaining successful results in pitched roofin......more
The Design and Construction of Pitched Roofing is the definitive guide to obtaining successful results in pitched roofin......more
A particular history of how encounters between architects and people with disabilities transformed modern culture. Windo......more
A particular history of how encounters between architects and people with disabilities transformed modern culture. Windo......more
The discipline of architecture is only starting to revise its understanding of the desert as tabula rasa, opening to con......more
This study illuminates the complex interplay between Deleuze and Guattari’s philosophy and architecture. Presenting thei......more
The lived experience of urban space in India is as much a matter of narratives as it is of negotiations. Things get done......more
Architecture and Cultural Continuity explores a new way of viewing architecture - arguing that all architecture is best ......more
Corbusier entwarf und baute nicht nur Kirchen, er setzte sich auch intensiv mit Religion und Glauben auseinander und prä......more
Vertical elegance: Exploring the cutting-edge world of today’s apartment building design. Today, multi-family buildings ......more
Cities are infinite cultural hyperobjects that contain layers of history, of contemporary life, of material, capital, in......more
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If discourse is the foundation of democracy, how can the design of our cities empower and enable discourse? "Never have ......more
A retrospective on the influential career of Argentinian architect Jorge Silvetti. Jorge Silvetti looks back on a long c......more
Abhandlung zur digitalen Architektur Hovestadts Traktat folgt strikt den Linien der bekannten Abhandlungen von Vitruv un......more
The compelling story of the significant relationship between communism and modern architecture in postwar France The mas......more
This book provides an in-depth exploration of the rich and persistent use of analogical thinking in the built environmen......more
New exciting and surprising design approaches how great living quality can be wonderfully made possible in small spaces.......more
Geospatial datasets and remotely sensed images have become ubiquitous in scholarly and public discussions of urbanizatio......more
This book isolates and dissects long-overlooked architectural typologies to unveil political aesthetics and protocols al......more
Future Farm Forms is a research and design project that explores how synergies between cloud-based information technolog......more
Air might be the opposite of building, but it is not the opposite of architecture. Air is architectural with all its aes......more
Taking the form of a conversation conducted between Theodore Spyropoulos and Carlo Rovelli, this book explores how quant......more
This publication asks contributors a direct and open question: what are you concerned with right now? Its aim is to plac......more
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Recent works of line+ studio illustrating how architecture triggers changes in China Since the 1990s, China’s rapid urba......more
A collection of the most iconic, stand-out builds from this perennially popular, long-running TV series, as chosen by Ke......more
The Nuclear Chronicles: Design Research on the Landscapes of the US Nuclear Highway leverages fictional design narrative......more
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Undisciplined is concerned with questions of the transformative effects of crisis in architecture as a discipline. This ......more
An essential resource on the work of Bernard Tschumi Architects, with a focus on how concept, context, and program inter......more
Point Line Plane is architectural theory, but written as narrative, full of intriguing vignettes, such as the fact that ......more
The second publication by Goldsmiths’ Centre for Research Architecture explores the role of media in spatial politics an......more
Expos as Great Urban Projects: Present and Future is an outcome of a multiyear design research project that has been con......more
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Bracket [On Sharing] considers the historic roots of sharing and their relationship to contemporary models of sharing. S......more
Contemporary design solutions and retail concepts for the perfect book shopping experience. While the book industry is e......more
An inspiring overview of contemporary homes set against the backdrop of high mountains, steep hillsides and picturesque ......more
Architecture has always been a decisive manifestation of power. This volume brings an attempt to question and reflect on......more
Reyner Banham: A Set of Actual Tracks brings a contemporary critical lens to the work of Reyner Banham, one of the most ......more
Design Research for Uncertain Futures assembles a diverse group of thinkers and makers, and thinking-through-makers, to ......more
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It is widely agreed that the period from 1625 to 1700 witnessed radical shifts in English life and thought. For historia......more
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We live in an era in which designers will make an essential and critical contribution to the health and success of human......more
We live in an era in which designers will make an essential and critical contribution to the health and success of human......more
Design Futuring is a young field of activity where designers and other creatives sketch and experiment with different (d......more
How films imagine and represent in-between spaces and how cinematic production becomes a site to project spatial fantasi......more
Featuring 26 of the most attractive and interesting historic town centres, this book analyses key routes and the urban o......more
This comprehensive companion surveys intelligent design thinking in architecture and urbanism, investigating ’smart’ app......more
Wellness is a contemporary concept with deep ancient roots promoting preventative and holistic activities, lifestyle cho......more
Wellness is a contemporary concept with deep ancient roots promoting preventative and holistic activities, lifestyle cho......more
Published 100 years ago, Le Corbusier’s Vers une Architecture was conceived as a way of making sense architecturally of ......more
An inspiring guide to the history and legacy of Lloyd Kahn’s 1970s countercultural self-build manuals DIY architect, pub......more
An insider’s look at art museums and how they shape the ways we view art, through the eyes of the architects who design ......more
New architectural impulses: recent buildings in the German capital by local architects as well as international projects......more
Ludwig Mies van der Rohe was an architect who communicated his ideas with the same disciplined restraint as he developed......more
Inverse Utopia befasst sich mit dem Städtebau aus Sicht der Moderne und der Postmoderne sowie der Transformation der Sta......more
Between Theory and Practice in Architectural Design: Imagination and Interdisciplinarity in the Art of Building examines......more