Architecture

Author Mark Foster Gage has selected 11 of the most noteworthy and fascinating conversations from his year-long project of documenting the ideas of the next generation of designers who are revolutionising the nature of architectural practice and theory today. This remarkable collection of casual,...

This is the definitive guide to Australian Indigenous architecture, comprehensively updated to showcase the flourishing Indigenous design practices reshaping Australia’s architectural landscape.The award-winning book is the only continental survey of this country’s First Nations’ innovative architecture. It explores the range and complexity of Indigenous-designed structures and...

Robert Irwin has come to regard art as site determined, or something that works in and responds to its surroundings. Throughout this collection of drawings, models, and photographs of magnificent, groundbreaking projects, readers will come to see Irwin as a visionary artist and a brilliant...

A former student of Gropius and Breuer, Rakatansky's innovative brand of mid-century modernism blew a fresh breeze through staid colonial New England and has yet to lose its momentum. His office, established in 1946, has practiced into the 21st century, and this book captures...

More Paperwork explores the myriad number of everyday and specialised objects that utilise the considerable strengths, diversity, adaptability and versatility of paper. The author’s selection of paper-based products have been chosen both for their inherent aesthetic qualities and to demonstrate the sheer mind-blowing versatility...

One House Per Day no.001-365 collects the first 365 drawings from Andrew Bruno’s project One House Per Day which project has an audience on social media - approximately 47,000 followers on Instagram @one_house_per_day.  The drawings are high quality 1:1 reproductions of the originals, and...

Text in German Rare & Collectible For almost twenty years British photographer Simon Phipps has been documenting the rebuilding of Britain after the Second World War through the work of architects. His archive documents Britain's post-war modernism and new brutalism in architecture and recognises...

A complete survey of the work of J. Mayer H., whose very first building won them the coveted Mies van der Rohe Emerging Architect Prize in 2003. J. Mayer H. Architects, founded in Berlin in 1996 by Jurgen Mayer H., has won a number...

Wimpey homes. Millennium monuments. Riverside flats. Wind farms. Spectacular skyscrapers. City centre apartments. Out of town malls.The buildings designed in our lifetimes encapsulate the dreams and aspirations of our culture, while also revealing the sobering realities. Whether modest or monumental, they offer a living...

Michael Kenna is regarded as one of the most accomplished photographers working today. This book charts Kenna's work in the field of architectural photography, showing how his approach to the built environment informs his style, whether he's capturing natural or human-made structures. In page...

This book presents fifty paintings by architect Anthony Ames that are informed by architectural works by himself and others. Ames' paintings depict 'object-type' - general yet specific, generic yet designed, familiar yet estranged. They are 'Purist' forms depicted in a still life landscape. The compositions...

In collaboration with IKEA, this inspirational study explores how to live more sustainably and well based on the experience of both ordinary and extraordinary lives, showing how small changes at home will work positively towards sustainability for our planet. Ever since the 1950s, IKEA...

Text in English and German Sculptor Claus Bury (b. 1946) has been enhancing public spaces in Germany for more than four decades with his monumental sculptures, which now total more than 100. His canon of forms is comprised of geometric basic corpuses, such as...

Renzo Piano is one of the world’s greatest living architects and creator of a host of iconic modern buildings, including the Pompidou in Paris, the Menil Collection in Texas, Kansai Airport in Japan, the Shard in London and the new Whitney Museum of American...

Text in English and Italian Just Enough: Design Microstories offers a collection of insights, a series of hypotheses about the transversality and interdisciplinarity that characterise the process of creating design. A succession of micro-narratives that take reality as a source of inspiration. The evolution...

If Cars Could Talk examines urban environments, how they are born, change, and die, and offers fresh approaches to unlocking our cities great potential. More than half of the world's population lives in a city and that number stands to increase. Crafted with the tools...

Café Royal Books, established in 2005, is a small family-run publisher based in England, focussing on documentary photography linked to Britain and Ireland, printed and bound locally by a small 170 year old printing company. In 2022 Café Royal Books received the Royal Photographic...

Accidentally Wes Anderson - Adventures presents 200 mind-bendingly beautiful destinations for your bucket list, and the fascinating stories behind each location.Full of incredible photos of real-life locations that look plucked from the world of Wes Anderson, this book is all about adventures big and...

For centuries the garden has served as a central element in Muslim culture. The new or restored gardens created by AKTC, seen in this fascinating book, show how these urban oases are catalysts for positive economic, social and cultural change. They encourage ethical ideals...

Rare & Collectible The Clyfford Still Museum was designed by the leading architectural practice Allied Works and its founder, Brad Cloepfil. The building creates space for the voice and artistic vision of American painter Clyfford Still (1904–1980), housing the vast majority of his creative...