Architecture Books

Amidst the glass-and-steel skyscrapers and luxury apartments of modern-day Seoul, traditional Korean houses known as hanok survive and play a surprisingly important role. Inside the Korean House showcases 12 very special hanok that have been selected to...

The extraordinary twentieth-century writer Barbara Comyns led a life as captivating as the narratives she spun. This pioneering biography reveals the journey of a woman who experienced hardship and single-motherhood before the age of thirty but went on...

Wales boasts a stunning array of castles, the most per square mile of any country in Europe, from the earliest stone fortifications at Chepstow to the 19th-century folly of Castell Coch and from the splendor of Caernarfon, Beaumaris, Conwy and Harlech,...

One of the founders of the Impressionist movement while also one of its most ruthless critics, too bohemian for the bourgeois and too bourgeois for the artists, Edgar Degas was a man of paradoxes. A loner, he only loved one woman without ever courting...

A new edition of this extensive visual analysis of horror tropes and their architectural analoguesHorror in Architecture presents an unflinching look at how horror genre tropes manifest in the built environment. Spanning the realms of art, design,...

An insightful and comprehensive guide to mastering the art of drawing and illustrating architecture.Inspiring architecture and beautiful buildings are all around us. Artists often gravitate toward building facades, doors, windows, and roofs that tell a...

Reading Room: New and Reimagined Libraries of the American Westdocuments a new generation of regional libraries that are redefining public space in the 21st century. Through text and photography, the book examines the libraries' place and function in...

Climate Inheritance is a speculative design research publication that reckons with the complexity of world and heritage in the Anthropocene. The impacts of climate change on heritage sites - from Venice flooding to extinction in the Galpagos Islands -...

With color photographs and artwork, Sisters in Art is the first biography to capture the lives and works of Margaret, Esther, and Helen Bruton, three exceptionally talented sisters whose mark on the California modernist art scene still impacts our world...

Written In Stone and Space takes an in depth look at the role of measure in the art and architecture of the ancient world. The authors propose that ancient builders actualized a high degree of intuition in their work, accompanied by a surprising level of...

Originally published in Japanese as a call to preserve disappearing facets of Japan's rich and ancient culture, this book takes its inspiration from the 1960s classic, Hidden Hamlets by Shirasu Masako. Like Shirasu, Kerr travels to remote and...

Featuring dozens of high-quality photographs, schematic designs and insightful commentary this Japanese architecture book is a must-have for architects or collectors.The past five years are widely considered to have been the most innovative period in...

Documents the artworks of the exhibition Repair, Australian Pavilion, 16th International Architecture Exhibition, La Biennale di Venezia, under the creative direction of Baracco+Wright Architects in collaboration with Linda Tegg. It shares the thinking...

An intimate portrait of the life and work of one of photography's most renowned and celebrated artists. Throughout his more than sixty-year-long obsession with the medium, Josef Koudelka considers a remarkable range of photographic subjects - from his...

A groundbreaking history of digital design from the nineteenth century to todayDigital design has emerged as perhaps the most dynamic force in society, occupying a fluid, experimental space where product design intersects with art, film, business,...

This book documents the materiality and spaces of the Garden House by Baracco+Wright Architects through photographs by Rory Gardiner. The imagery and thoughts reflect on the dialogue of building, life and systems conceived in an ongoing project of...

PostDomestiCity is an inquiry and speculative exercise into the conditions of obsolescence in the post-industrial city, from a contemporary perspective.Working with three paradigmatic cases that were conceived from industrial logics - the Packard plant...

Supertight is an exploration of high-density urban life and reducing the footprint of cites through adaptations in design and behaviour.Tightness is a positive urban quality, examined through the observations of designers, with a focus on the cities of...

This book documents the intersection of architecture and design with ecology, environmental history, policy, governance and law from the 19th century to today. It presents conflicting definitions and concepts of architects and designers and the parallel...

Sharing Tokyo is a collection of essays and drawings on the theme of sharing the urban space of Tokyo.The book questions how 'artifice' and the 'social world' can be mutually and constructively integrated so that the...

This book 'deconstructs' a single recently constructed house located in Seattle, WA, in an attempt to recover its backstory. The information is presented along four vectors atoms, labors, sources and ingredients.Though remarkably detailed, the A House...

Prefabricated housing, often associated with blighted urban landscapes and monotonous grey boxes, has evolved into an approach to housing with a wealth of aesthetic and structural possibilities. Modern methods of constructing and assembling prefabricated...

The Barcelona Metropolitan Area (AMB) has a clear commitment in compiling and presenting an overview of the projects it has carried out during the last 35 years. Therefore, it has edited and published a collection of books on completed public space works...

This book collects the work of the MIAS studio over twenty years. Their projects cannot be explained only as finished works, but need an understanding of the design process: everything that happens before the cranes arrive.Based on four concepts, MIAS...

This edition of The ReView tries to communicate the pedagogical project and some of the lines of research of the Tulane School of Architecture (TuSA) through the work, mostly visual, of its students and professors. As in any educational project, the...

A compendium of children's design exercises by architects from around the world accompany illustrations and photographs documenting the construction of the Petite cole pavilion.As part of the 2019 Biennale d'architecture et de paysage in Versailles,...

This book invites us to rethink architectural and urban models, prioritizing not so much the technical, formal and abstract knowledge sought by urban planners, as the public and civic dimension of citizens' experience when they try to care for...

Urban Mix explores the devices and attitudes observable in urban crossroads of 8 major world cities. The diversity and complexity of crossings allow variable freedom of movement and define urban life, according to their cultural particularities.Mobility...

Geospaces is an extended visual essay of ideas, images, drawings and projects that follows the work of Alper Derinboaz over the past decade, framing an approach to architecture based on empathy with earth.Architectural history is a fragment of the long...

In response to economic, sociocultural and regulatory constraints,the Multiplex emerges as a type of hybrid housing thatis particular to Kuwait, yet not officially recognized by the system.It has become the informal expression of specific livingneeds...

Villa Wolf in Guben (now Gubin), built between 1925 and 1927, was Ludwig Mies van der Rohe's first decidedly modern building.The residential building was destroyed at the end of the Second World War and in the immediate post-war period. The building...

Seven books in total: six Volumes from the series Architectural Guide plus one volume from the Basics series:Book 1. Theorising Architecture in Sub-Saharan Africa. Perspectives, Questions, and ConceptsISBN 978-3-86922-081-9Book 2: Western Africa from the...

A provocative call for architects to remember and embrace the nonhuman lives that share our spaces.A spider spinning its web in a dark corner. Wasps building a nest under a roof. There's hardly any part of the built environment that can't be inhabited by...

This book's central argument is that plug-ins, situated design outcomes that aim to enrich the complex system of the city and expand its potentialities, are a solid yet supple conceptual framework for rethinking how design can be a key agent in city...

This celebrated memoir, one of the most notable literary debuts of 2023 tells of a young woman's coming-of-age in the bohemian '90s, as her adolescence gives way to a struggle with dissociative disorder.Alice Carrire tells the story of her unconventional...

In a world of change we cling to constants that comfort us while catastrophes lure behind cut corners.We compartmentalize and channel our focus into cones of concentration when confronted with choices. Many might decide to do so with intention while...

In the 1880s two Edinburgh architects began to survey, measure and sketch the castles of Scotland, travelling the length and breadth of the country on trains, bicycles and on foot. Together they produced the five magnificent volumes of The Castellated...

The Kew Sketch Journal is a stunning celebration of Kew Gardens and the local area through the eyes of artist and designer Charles Leon. Through this unique perspective, Charles shares with the reader the human relationship with buildings, built by...

During the three decades following the Second World War, before the advent of the personal computer, government investment in university research in North America and the UK funded multidisciplinary projects to investigate the use of computers for...

A comprehensive look into how Macau's recent decades of gambling-related growth produced one of the wealthiest territories on the planetBetting on Macau delves into the radical transformation of what was formerly the last remaining European territory in...

An edited volume by Monsoon Assemblages, a European Research Council funded research project.The book presents the methods that Monsoon Assemblages has evolved for engaging the monsoon, a globally connected weather system, as a coproducer of urban life...

Climax Change! represents the much-needed overview of how climate change and the current environmental emergency will affect the practice of architecture, both in terms of its design philosophy and rising opportunities to innovate and radically transform...

A remarkable classic work on traditional Japanese architecture, and how the style and features can serve as a model for contemporary residential buildings.With incredible detail (as well as numerous architectural plans and drawings), author and architect...

Revised with a new foreword by Matthew Stavros.Houses and Gardens of Kyoto presents over 500 photos of the finest examples of traditional Japanese architecture from every major historical period in this new edition of a favorite classic. Kyoto,...

Samurai Castles features hundreds of stunning color photographs and little-known details about the most important and well-preserved Samurai castles in Japan, including their history, design and military features.Japan's ancient castles provide profound...

This beautiful book features all of Claus Bury's monumental sculptures in one volume - an impressive development of Land Art to wooden and ultimately steel construction. Presented in English and German. The monumental architectonic works by...

An extensive look into the Grotta Home by Richard Meier, from conception to creation. A 'vessel for living' - such were the words Glenn Adamson used to describe the remarkable residence of the Grotta Home. Richard Meier designed it to house...

With over 8,000 years of history, Izmir is among the world's oldest cities. Founded as Smyrna on the shores of the Aegean Sea, the city has been home to all manner of cultures over the centuries. Each one left behind its architectural traces, turning the...