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The History of Modernism in Architecture of Design
At its root, modernism is that fundamental. It is a question of having something to represent that is of the moment. In the most radical interpretatio...
The Case for Imaginative Reuse in Architecture
In a time of climate crisis and housing shortages, a bold, visionary call to replace current wasteful construction practices with an architecture of r...
Anarchitecture
Visionary proposals for a mythic and strange architecture—or anarchitecture—through which we can imagine other and better worlds. Lurking under th...
An illuminating introduction to the influence of architecture on the world, the environment, and human lives Architecture matters. It matters to citie...
UABB 2015 Catalogue
This richly illustrated book presents the exhibits and curatorial visions of the 2015 Shenzhen Biennale of Architecture and Urbanism (UABB), organized...
Architecture and the Fragmentation of the Modern
Overzicht van het werk van hedendaagse architecten....
Building with the Land
Since the days of cave dwellers, humans have made use of nature's geological formations, but recent developments in structural engineering make it pos...
I.M. Pei Designs the Kirklin Clinic
The Kirklin Clinic, in Birmingham, Alabama, is the first freestanding medical building designed by one of America's most significant modern architects...
Because we live in an environment so difficult to define or even see, we need architecture to make sense of it. Confronted by a world afflicted by spr...
Presents a profile of a contemporary European architectural practice, emphasizing sustainability and social responsibility....
Men, Women, Architecture, and the Construction of Sexuality
Buildings have always been an expression of human sexuality. In this book, architecture critic and curator Aaron Betsky takes a look at the man-made w...
Why Dutch Design is So Good
Survey of the vitality of the current design scene in The Netherlands. Innovation and experimentation in architecture, urban planning, industrial desi...
Buildings and Projects
"The award-winning work of Koning Eizenberg reveals the influence of Southern California's unique modernist tradition and earlier craftsman and bungal...
The Complete Buildings and Projects
For over twenty years, Zaha Hadid, the Iraqi-born, English-educated architect, has symbolised the vanguard of contemporary architecture. This book off...
A Manifesto for an Architecture Beyond Building
This work presents a combative fusion of ideas and graphic design, mixing contemporary theories on spatiality, technology, literature and art. It cont...
Complete Works
"A revised and expanded edition of 'Zaha Hadid: the complete buildings and projects,' originally published in the United Kingdom in 1998 by Thames & H...
For You
The Dutch designer Richard Hutten is barely 38 and has already made an indelible mark in the international design world. In 2008, if everything goes a...
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When it was completed in 1952 along New York's East River, the United Nations Building stood as a symbol of world humanitarianism, a beacon of unity a...
Zaha Hadid is one of the most important and influential architects in the world. This is a complete monograph of Hadids early, unbuilt and built works...
Buildings + Projects
28 projects by the award-winning San Diego-based architect....
Surveillance
50 Lessons to Learn from Frank Lloyd Wright begins with a simple question. What lessons can designers today learn from Frank Lloyd Wright? Unlike rece...
the homes of Max Palevsky
This glorious book showcases three architecturally important private residences, now owned by and home to the expansive art collections of Max Palevsk...
The work of James Gamble Rogers represents a significant chapter in American architectural history. This text covers the entire span of Rogers's caree...
Fotografien von Rainer Viertlböck
A visually fascinating catalog of works by a brilliant architect and an equally brilliant photographer....
Photographing the Future
Spectacular City presents the work of some 30 leading photographers of the urban landscape, an international group with a particularly strong Dutch re...
The History of Modernism in Architecture and Design
A Survey of Past, Present and Future Brutalist Architecture in the Nation's Capital
Amid the Cold War, urban renewal efforts ushered in a "Brutalist" phenomenon that reshaped Washington, D.C., in the mid-20th century. Many high-profil...
UN Studio, led by Dutch architects Ben van Berkel and Caroline Bos, creates spaces that are surprisingly innovative. UN Studio's architecture is the r...
"The Japanese architect Atsushi Kitagawara has been firmly established in the architecture scene of his homeland for 30 years. He is a protagonist of ...
The Landscape Architecture of Kathryn Gustafson and Partners
"More than thirty international projects portrayed in Moving Horizons exemplify Gustafson and Partners' distinctive and highly artistic style creating...
Explores the author's theory that male architects create structures of buildings and the layouts of cities, while women architects create interior spa...
The California Houses of Feldman Architecture
Immersed - The California Houses of Feldman Architecture is an in-depth look at 20 years of the firm's defining residential work spanning three areas:...
architectonische constructies
There is growing national and international interest in the work of Frank Havermans (b. Breda, 1967). He constructs complex spatial structures using s...
Rethinking Design
Renny Ramakers is realizing projects that combine virtual technologies and social media with the craft of design to develop new social relations. For ...
Wrocław is one of the oldest cities in Poland with a long and turbulent history that is manifest on every corner. Throughout the ages, the city has b...
The Netherlands at the forefront of design! Everybody is a designer! But why? Why do we colour, organize, and form the world around us - and why do we...