Architecture

 The Nuclear Dream offers an insight into a disappearing world whose rooms and technology often appear sacred - a fitting tribute to an era of boundless energy - one whose blue glow captured a generation and proclaimed the start of a new era...

Monumental mosaics were created throughout the USSR, but they played a special role in its capital.While in other Soviet cities and republics monumental mosaics became common in the 1960s, in Moscow mosaic was used for art-deco works and social realist...

AA Files is the Architectural Association's (AA) journal of record. Currently under the editorship of Maria Shhrazade Giudici, AA Files looks to promote original and engaging writing on architecture. It does this by drawing both on the AA's own academic...

A love letter to New York City, Two Way Street merges two bodies of Gretchen Grace's street photography revealing the iconic moments of the everyday. Gretchen Grace is an American photographer living in New York City. Two Way Street combines early black...

Sediment is an unseen infrastructure that shapes and enables modern life. Silt is scooped from sea floors to deepen underwater highways for container ships. It is diverted from river basins to control flooding. It is collected, sorted, managed, and moved...

Curb-Scale Hong Kong is about the infrastructural objects that constitute the street in Hong Kong. Through drawing and text, the book renders these objects visible and argues for their relevance as story tellers and civic protagonists. The book opens an...

In what is arguably a most crucial time for discourse around issues that are concerned with the political, institutional, and social shape of worlds to come, this book explores the agency of the project of architecture and its processes of innovation by...

At a time when everything is being forced to rapidly adapt to climate change, landscape comes into focus as a subject and medium of more importance than ever. Nowhere is this better known than at the Weitzman School of Design at The University of...

The book promotes a landscape approach as a method for understanding and addressing the complex interdependent issues of environmental and climatic change, ecological degradation, and socio-cultural inequalities. The twenty-three book essays are...

Working in rural China is unlike other countryside: it is full of contradiction, neither rural nor urban, both traditional and modern, abandoned in some areas and yet others are becoming cities overnight. It is in fact a laboratory for new ways of...

Award-winning photographer Tobi Shonibare - Tobi Shinobi to his followers - pushes the boundaries of symmetry and balance in his first book, Equilibrium. From his native London to his current Chicago home, and in far-flung locales around the world,...

During the last thirty years, the use of digital technologies in architecture has exponentially increased. New computational tools and methods are significantly changing the way we design and perform our buildings.The book analysis the current digital...

Neither derivatives of Western cities nor isolated from them, Chinese cities in the past four decades are perhaps best captured in their characteristic complexity through a concept in biological evolution: drift. Unlike mutation, adaptation, and...

The book provides an opportunity to survey the emerging field of Architecture and Artificial Intelligence, and to reflect on the implications of a world increasingly entangled in questions of the agency, culture and ethics of AI.The main goal of Neural...

Creatures Are Stirring is an optimistic manifesto that rescripts the anthropocentric narratives of Western architecture with new myths for a playfully compassionate and co-habitable future.The book reconceptualises buildings as our friends by amplifying...

Source Books in Architecture No.14: Rem Koolhaas / OMA + AMO Spaces for Prada is the most recent volume in the Source Books in Architecture series. Among the topics discussed in the book are the longstanding relationship with Prada and how the early...

In the South of France, sited on a hill of olive trees, pinus pinea, and a vineyard, a family retreat was designed with a key mission of maintaining the vitality of the site. A small agricultural plot, the site offered the possibility of amplification...

This book calls attention to the public space of cities and proposes that the environmental performance of public space is underdeveloped, and is primed to play a more integrated role in combatting the urgency of climate change, while also creating a...

This book is Michele Saee's life's work. A collection of projects, built, unbuilt, conceptual, and experimental which expands over more than three decades. There are over fifty projects in different cities and countries, with different programs, scales...

How does one envision architecture? Forays gathers the work of Joe Day and Deegan-Day Design into six diptychs, unified by this question. Working in a wide range of media and scales, Day's work mines the differentials between perspective and...

With Lunch 14, the editors of Lunch Journal wondered if they could use the frontier story itself to decenter its power. The journal is divided into 4 sections. Edges explores the form and possibilities of the edge itself, and unravels...

Dynamic Geographies seeks to addresses the changing public perception of the term landscape. Landscapes are forged by many forces and are dynamic, not static. Yet most landscape designs are designed as static; that is, they are designed...

Artemisia Gentileschi was a painter of passions...of rich colors and fraught moments...of women taking command of their own stories. She reversed the classical depictions of female characters in mythology, presenting them with agency, as the protagonists...

Vacant Spaces NY begins gathering the incomplete data available and documenting vacant spaces in New York City. Organized from large to small, general to specific, vacancy in the United States to case studies of specific vacancies in Manhattan, Michael...

Green Obsession traces the long path that architect Stefano Boeri and his studio - Stefano Boeri Architetti - have followed in the last fifteen years of practice, aiming at the redefinition of the relationship between city and nature. The book follows a...

Projective Ecologies takes stock of the diversity of contemporary ecological research and theory - embracing Felix Guattari's broader definition of ecology as at once environmental, social, and existential - and speculates on potential paths forward for...

The book provides a reflection on the conceptual framework of Milanese architect and industrial designer Vico Magistretti, his work and relevance to issues facing designers today.Following and extending from the Vico Magistretti-Travelling Archive...

Unless dissects the construction ecology, material geographies, and world-systems of a most modern of modern architectures: the Seagram Building.In doing so, this book aims to describe how humans and nature interact with the thin crust of the planet...

A critical and interdisciplinary exploration of our world's continuously urbanising and expanding coastline.For centuries, cities have grown and expanded onto previously saturated grounds, 'reclaiming' land from estuaries, marshes, mangroves, and seabeds...

How do designers in research-driven practices differentiate themselves from each other and form distinctive platforms for future practice? The research presented in this second edition and carried out in Australia as part of an Australian Research...

An architectural drawing book looking at the critical practice of various methods of drawing, their conception and their reception in the world.WWW.Drawing refers to two realms - One is the realm of the three 'W' authors - West, Wines...

Design with Life chronicles the breakthroughs and projects of a nonprofit that is defining resolute new directions in socio-ecological design and other deep-seated intersections of synthetic biology, architecture, and urban systems. In the challenging...

Design Practice Research at RMIT University is a longstanding program of research into what venturous designers actually do when they design. It is the most enduring and sustained body of research of its kind: empirical, evidence-based and surfacing...

This installment of the Oscar Riera Ojeda Masterpiece series focuses on Fort 137 by Daniel Joseph Chenin. Set in a remote location to the west of Las Vegas, Nevada, the brief was for a residence that established a direct connection to its surroundings in...

The beauty of regional China captured with exquisite mastery in 23 original, exhibition-quality drawings by a leading architectBetween 1915 and 1917 the Russian composer, Sergei Prokofiev wrote a series of twenty piano pieces. While playing them for a...

An inspiring architectural interpretation of the concept of Shibusa, a masterclass on how to ensure seamless all-round views when building in a place of outstanding natural beauty.This instalment of the Oscar Riera Ojeda Publishers Masterpiece Series...

A comprehensive monograph on an award-winning, bespoke structure for teaching architecture that is an architectural triumph in its own right: a class embedded in a buildingThis book presents a privileged insight into the design and construction of the...

Located on a hillside meadow in rural Vermont, Bank Barn is a new residence conceptually inspired by the eponymous regional farm structures built into the banks of hills.

Emilio Sanchez Fonts (1921-1999) was a Cuban-American artist known for his architectural paintings, drawings, and graphic prints of New York, Latin America, and the Caribbean. As a realist artist, he was attracted to folklore and the vernacular, with...

In the early 1980's with the customary dearth of commissions for a young architectural practice Massimo Vignelli had designed a series of prototypical houses. These were specifically affordable houses, houses that could be built inexpensively, but...

The visitor centres in Can Gio, south Vietnam and Bruoux en Provence in the south of France are designed by the architectural firm DE-SO and DE-SO Asia.Both buildings integrate into their respective landscape and climate. The Bruoux en Provence building...

From the world's leading publisher of Architecture and Architectural Practices, comes a look into how VTN Architects have used bamboo to create groundbreaking projects. With the climate crisis raging and awareness of humanity's...

Jones Studio Houses: Sensual Modernism is a self-imposed limited look at the 40-year-plus career of Eddie Jones.Almost unheard of outside the southwest of United States, Jones has quietly accumulated a body of work ranging beyond residential designs to...

David Hu's Sea Girt House ocillates gracefully between a sort of proto minimalism and a hyper orchestrated spatial awareness. It's a project that makes no bones about its purpose of providing a single-minded solitude for its inhabitant,...

The concept in the back of the monumental structure located at the IDF officers school is based on receipt of the Torah by Moses on Mount Sinai. Moses received his appointment at the location of the burning bush.At the ceremony revealing their officer...

This award-winning home is located on an eight acre, ex-urban property at the base of the Oakland Hills near San Francisco Bay. Formed of concrete and wrapped with Corten steel panels, the net zero energy residence is an elegant, low maintenance response...

On occasion, an artist is not only from, but of, a place. Imbued with the very spirit of a locale, and thus inspired to return the favour. Such is the nature of the relationship between the legendary architect Foyez Ullah, and Bangladesh' capital city,...

In the early nineteenth century, Indiana was at the intersection of ideas from the East and the frontier - resulting in a unique opportunity to express creative adaptions of residential architectural styles in America. Industrialisation later in the...