Architecture

Innovation in planning is essential to dealing with the challenges society currently faces, from urban sprawl to climate change. In this book, Avi Friedman looks at both new and revived sustainable strategies at a neighbourhood level to explore options for both rehabilitating older communities...

Published in association with the V&A, this is a comprehensive history of plywood, from its use in 18th-century furniture to its popularity in the digital age.Beautiful, sustainable and ubiquitous, plywood’s worth far exceeds its general reputation. A manufactured wood product, it is capable of...

A new breed of urban adventurers take a savage ride through the invisible story of the North Eastern USA. From NYC to the infamous Rust Belt, once home to America's heavy industry, States of Decay brings you a glimpse of the broken, the doomed,...

PLEASE NOTE: This title has been remainder marked by the publisher - a  marker pen dot or line on one edge. See images for example. The usual history of architecture is a grand narrative of soaring monuments and heroic makers. But it is also...

Assembling the Architect explores the origins and history of architectural practice. It unravels the competing interests that historically have structured the field and cultivates a deeper understanding of the contemporary profession. Focusing on the period 1870 to 1920 when the foundations were being laid for...

Since 1980, DAM, or German Architecture Museum, has been publishing its prestigious yearbook on German architecture. This volume features twenty projects by German architects, three projects outside Germany, and two illuminating essays that examine Germany's contemporary architecture scene.

Infinite Suburbia is the culmination of the MIT Norman B. Leventhal Center for Advanced Urbanism's year-long study of the future of suburban development. Following extensive research, an exhibition, and a conference at MIT's Media Lab, this groundbreaking collection presents fifty-two essays by seventy-four authors...

As we continue to embrace a world where the lines between the physical and digital are increasingly blurred, we are beginning to see a maturing vision for architecture that actively participates in our lives. Our architectural environments are becoming so inextricably tied to our...

The modular did not have to be invented: it can be found everywhere. We divide surfaces into grids, spaces into parts, and time into rhythmic units. Modular structures are also increasingly being recognised as a way of communicating, where the aim is not to...

A bold, theoretical look at an emerging generation of architects, this volume is devoted to five contemporary practices-Bureau Spectacular, Erin Besler, Fake Industries Architectural Agonism, Formlessfinder, and John Szot Studio-and the diverse methods and approaches that drive their work. Chatter, whose title refers to...

Scholar and historian Christopher Long turns his attention to the little-known German-born architect and designer Jock Peters (1889–1934). Long’s engaging study introduces us to the modernist’s architectural work in Germany, before World War I, and also to Peters’s work created after he immigrated to...

The work of Mexican artist Héctor Zamora engages with urban or built environments, both disrupting and re-articulating the viewer’s interaction with the site. Lattice Detour is fabricated from terracotta bricks produced in Mexico and transported to New York. This compact volume, the first book...

The commission for the Jewish Community School was won in 1991 by the Israeli architect Zvi Hecker, whose other works include, "Sunflower" (at Ramat-Hasharon) and "Spiral" (at Ramat-Gan). This volume documents the architectural, cultural and spiritual issues involved in the building of the school....

Willi Dorner's projects include pieces for the stage, site specific performances and installations. He is also active in the field of short films, visual arts and stages photography. Most works are created in collaboration with artists and scientists from various fields. His project Bodies...

This is a beautifully produced large-format catalogue published to accompany the exhibition Matthias Hoch at Rocket, London in 2008. Matthias Hoch photographs the backs of buildings, empty plazas and parking garages – anonymous places devoid of people where there is nothing obvious to see or experience. The photographs...

The artist Dan Graham (b. 1942) has a wide-ranging practice that encompasses writing, performance art, installation, video, photography, and architecture. Throughout his career, Graham has examined the symbiosis between architectural environments and their inhabitants, particularly in his pavilions made of glass and mirrors. His...

Photograpger RomanyWG broke new ground with his book Beauty in Decay – The Art of Urban Exploration in depicting the global phenomenon of Urban Exploration (Urbex) when it published in 2010. For Beauty in Decay II he tracked down dozens of new locations - a further...

Spanning painting, sculpture, architecture, ceramics and photography, Postwar Modern explores a rich field of experiment which challenges the idea that Britain was a cultural backwater at this time. The book looks afresh at celebrated artists such as Francis Bacon, David Hockney, Lucian Freud and...

Artists Heather and Ivan Morison and their studio have established an ambitious collaborative practice that transcends traditional divisions between art, architecture, theatre and activism. Their work is often performance-based and site-specific, existing as one-off events, social projects or large-scale installations and buildings in public...

This is a photographic journey into London’s often overlooked advertising history exploring how the capital’s businesses of old made use of hand-painted signs to inform, advertise and appeal to consumers. This intriguing book profiles hand-painted advertising from across the city and investigates the companies that...