Architecture

Vinayak Bharne Softcover | 12.7 x 1.27 x 17.78 cm | 160 pp ORO Editions | 2022 | 9781954081079 Urbanism Beyond 2020  explores the concept of architectural "normal" and what that can look like as the world adapts after the COVID-19 pandemic. It is a...

Namrata Dhore, Christina Truwit & Sofie Kusaba Softcover | 15.24 x 1.91 x 22.86 cm | 170 pp ORO Editions | 2023 | 9781957183473 This book is a culmination of socially engaging architectural projects from the Global South (Africa, Asia, Latin America and Oceania) that provide...

David Benjamin Hardcover | 20.96 x 2.86 x 22.23 cm | 592 pp Monacelli Press | 2018 | 9781580935074 Now We See Now chronicles the projects and findings of a firm that has charted bold new directions in generative design and other intersections of science...

Softcover | 22.23 x 1.27 x 28.58 cm | 144 pp Birkhäuser | 2000 | 9783764362331  Christian Hauvette (b. 1944) studied under the philosopher Roland Barthes before going on to train as an architect. Since 1980 he became one of France's leading architects. His...

Mark Linder Softcover | 20.32 x 1.91 x 22.86 cm | 282 pp MIT Press | 2005 | 9780262622080 In Nothing Less than Literal, Mark Linder shows how minimalist art of the 1960s was infiltrated by architecture, resulting in a reconfiguration of the disciplines...

Hans Engels Hardcover | 24.77 x 2.44 x 28.58 cm | 208 pp Prestel | 2019 | 9783791385358 The buildings constructed in East Germany after the Second World War are often dismissed as drab, Soviet-style, prefabricated blocks of cement. But the architecture of the German...

Alyn Griffiths Hardcover | 21.82 x 2.26 x 27.91 cm | 192 pp Lannoo | 2021 | 9789401478588 What might the city of the future look like and how might it meet the needs of future generations while limiting damage to our planet’s fragile ecosystem?...

Softcover | 22.96 x 1.6 x 28.09 cm | 192 pp Birkhäuser | 2004 | 9783764370985 Challenging European cultural conventions, the work of Swiss-Bolivian artist Carmen Perrin (b.1953) is infused with fine undertones and references to her Latin American roots. In her preference for...

Jake Gorst Hardcover | 22.58 x 2.54 x 27.33 cm | 200 pp Glitterati | 2015 | 9780990380894  Over the course of a career that lasted more than fifty years, Andrew Geller - architect, artist, and designer - quietly produced a large and culturally significant...

Softcover | 14.02 x 2.26 x 24.33 cm | 216 pp Images Publishing | 2018 | 9781864707915 "Architecture is not preserved in a museum - it is the museum." Architecture Can! is an intriguing journey through the works and projects of the groundbreaking architecture firm Hollwich Kushner, based in...

Softcover | 17.8 x 1.9 x 25.4 cm | 288 pp Princeton Architectural Press | 2015 | 9781616893347 In the fall of 2007, Lebbeus Woods, long admired for his visionary architecture and mastery of drawing, began a blog. Part forum and part public journal, the eclectic...

Mary N. Woods Softcover | 17.78 x 3.18 x 25.4 cm | 368 pp University of Pennsylvania Press | 2009 | 9780812223095 Typical architectural photography freezes buildings in an ideal moment and rarely captures what photographer Berenice Abbott called the medium's power to depict "how...

Caroline Constant Softcover | 17.78 x 2.03 x 22.86 cm | 344 pp University of Minnesota Press | 2012 | 9780816676354 In The Modern Architectural Landscape Caroline Constant examines diverse approaches to landscape in the work of architects practicing in Europe and the United States between...

Softcover | 16.8 x 23.2 cm | 160 pp Princeton Architectural Press | 2016 | 9781616894160 The question of infrastructure pervades global cities, especially those whose populations have grown and shrunk in the wake of evolving social, political, and economic shifts. The Center for Advanced...

Softcover | 19.05 x 2.29 x 25.15 cm | 256 pp Victionary | 2017 | 9789887774648 Camo Mania explores the how artists and designers redefine and reify the impacts of camouflage. Through experimentation with visual contrasts, imagery, composition, colour and shape, the once limited function of these patterns become...

Jeffery Lieber Hardcover | 16.21 x 2.39 x 23.65 cm | 296 pp MIT Press | 2018 | 9780262037495 Ancient history, midcentury modernism, Cinemascope, humanism and monumentality, totalitarianism and democracy: transformations in American culture and architecture. In Flintstone Modernism, Jeffrey Lieber investigates transformations in postwar...

Hardcover | 22.86 x 1.91 x 30.48 cm | 192 pp Jovis | 2006 | 9783939633044 German company Resopal have been pioneers in the manufacture and design of plastic laminates since their invention in the early twentieth century. Like Formica in the U.S., the...

Magdalena Droste & Boris Friedewald Hardcover | 14.3 x 3.02 x 22.23 cm | 336 pp Prestel | 2019 | 9783791385280 Although it flourished for only fourteen years, the Bauhaus school remains one of the most influential art and design movements of the 20th century. This...

Walter Curt Behrendt Softcover | 17.53 x 1.52 x 25.15 cm | 176 pp Getty Publications | 2006 | 9780892365630 This book - Behrendt's principle theoretical work in German and the precursor to Modern Building - presents a revisionist concept of style that places equal emphasis on...

Michael Freeman Hardcover | 17.5 x 2 x 24 cm 208 pp 8 Books | 2016 | 9780957471771 Two design styles perfectly embrace tidiness. One was developed in the United States in the 18th century by a devout sect of Quakers who had emigrated...