Architecture

The Architect’s Edge is a bold exploration of architecture, leadership and business, offering invaluable insights for creative entrepreneurs and industry leaders. Gareth Stapleton, an award-winning architect and project manager, shares practical wisdom from decades of global experience. Drawing from real-world projects, Stapleton demonstrates how architects...

As far back as the earliest Greek temples, colour has been an integral part of architecture but also one of its least understood elements. Colour theory is rarely taught in architecture schools, leaving architects to puzzle out the hows and whys of which colours...

A critical look at the life, work, and influence of the important and award-winning Spanish architect Rafael Moneo. This publication offers a critical study of his career as a whole―not only his many built works and projects but also his contributions to teaching and...

The minimalist concrete architecture of Tadao Ando has roots both in Japanese traditions and in Western architecture. This book begins with both contexts: it explores how Ando unites Japanese tradition with a contemporary Western architectural idiom. By analysing systematically and chronologically the roots and...

Rare & Collectible The true story of the intimate relationship that gave birth to the Farnsworth House, a masterpiece of twentieth-century architecture and disintegrated into a bitter feud over love, money, gender, and the very nature of art.In 1945, Edith Farnsworth asked the German...

Author John Hill is the founder of the hugely influential architecture blog A Daily Dose of Architecture, which shifted course to focus entirely on architecture books of all kinds. His selection for this volume spans centuries, continents, and genres to include Le Corbusier's Towards...

Edition of 500 copies Each folded booklet unfolds as a poster This volume of DETAILS examines the English county of Essex’s radical architectural sites. Through eight informative booklets, Radical Essex explores the county by means of its architectural details of the sites that show a...

Edition of 500 copies Each folded booklet unfolds as a poster This volume in the DETAILS series explores the changing face of the City in light of more modern architectural and engineering techniques, from Sir John Soane’s Bank of England to the post-modernist gem...

Includes a 100+ page appendix featuring translations of the book's essays and chronology in French, Spanish, Finnish, Thai and Mandarin Formica Forever, published to celebrate Formica’s centenary, takes us on a lively, informative walk through the life of this much-loved material: from its beginnings as...

Rare & Collectible Archigram comprised Warren Chalk, Peter Cook, Dennis Crompton, David Greene, Ron Herron, and Michael Webb. Together they envisioned the future of architecture in ways that enthralled a generation.In an era defined by the space race, they developed a ‘high-tech’, lightweight, infra-structural...

The Labyrinth of Rooms is a story about how the shape of architecture can change the way we think, and how the shape of our thoughts can change the way we see architecture. Stated otherwise, the story conceives of the human life as a...

Designer, writer, and engineer Cecil Balmond invites readers into his creative process as he documents his most innovative projects in art, architecture, and bridge design. Hailed by friend and frequent collaborator Rem Koolhaas as having almost single-handedly shifted the ground in engineering and enabled...

Concrete is ubiquitous but contentious: culturally, environmentally, and often politically. Yet, the architecture it produces across fields of practices remains pertinent to the architectural discipline and its history. Having been incessantly normalised, misused and abused by different stakeholders and agendas, some of its material...

This is Dennis Toff's second book of portraits of the members of the Royal Academy of Arts, the Royal Academicians. Together with the first book, The Painter RAs, it completed his project to produce a record of the membership in 2008. At the time there...

Manufacturing Architecture is the first reference guide to customising repetitive manufacturing for architects. Clear diagrams, photographs, and narratives explain 20 of the most common manufacturing processes for typical building components. Case studies from around the globe show how these processes can be customised in order to create variation, lower...

In the form of a well illustrated essay, the architect Valerio Olgiati explains how he develops his projects, the parameters that influence his design process, and the intellectual context from which he works. In a reduced, clear language this iconographic autobiography offers a very...

Acclaimed Royal Academy artist Jeanette Barnes and Paul Brandford breathe new life into sketching for town and city dwellers everywhere. Mercurial, inspirational, practical and charming, this guide covers everything from architecture to accidental paintings, cocktails to clouds, smudges to skyscrapers. With easily digested bite-size...

Rare & Collectible At the first mention of his name, one can easily picture his buildings - light-flooded bungalows that are lavishly composed into nature and that characterise the architectural style of the American West Coast surrounding Los Angeles. But it is sometime overlooked...

The City as a Technical Being attempts to formulate a new ontology of the architecture of the city for academics, scholars, practitioners, students or anyone interested in cities, architecture urban design. The city is the largest human artefact. It is made by us, yet...

The two-dimensional drawing with plan layout, elevation, and section is a necessary prerequisite for all building. Perspectives help to give three-dimensional expression to the architect's ideas. In order to convey architecture and to build it, drawings at a reduced scale are mandatory, for the...