"States of Emergency: A Spatial History of the French Colonial Continuum navigates the temporal and spatial dimensions of France's states of emergency across three colonial space-times: the Algerian...

Raw building materials are inherently variable. This variability shapes global supply chains, labor relations, infrastructure​, and trade networks. And yet, within the context of building design,...

How architectural monuments survived and historical preservation was reinvented during the destructions of the twentieth century. The twentieth century was highly destructive, but from its...

"Who doesn't love the classic architecture that defined Chicago as a modern city in the popular imagination? Places like the Board of Trade building, Merchandise Mart, or the Carbon & Carbide tower...

Here architect Kurokawa gives us a further explication of his synthesist theory of architecture, called symbiosis. In his explanation he draws on aspects of human culture that are often lacking in...

The Roman villa is a classic icon of Western culture, and yet villa can be used to cover a multiplicity of ideas, experiences, and places. In the late Republic and early Imperial periods, villas are...

Book by Elisabetta Segala, Ida Sciortino

New Book Design showcases the most interesting, influential, and accomplished book designs from the last ten years.It features over 100 titles published around the world, each chosen for their...

Illustrated with case studies spanning 1,400 years, this volume unpacks the rich history, enduring influence and understated brilliance of East Asian timber construction At a time when material...

From brutalism to modernism, via futurism - the Socialist Hotel is a unique architectural and cultural phenomenon that is collectively documented in these stunning photographs for the first time...

A groundbreaking assessment of modern architecture in West African nations durin the decades following political independence Beginning in the mid-1950s and continuing for several decades, the...

Half a century ago, a legion of young idealists dropped out of society and went "back to the land," creating a patchwork of utopian communes across Northern California. Handmade Utopia:...

Twelve fruitful conversations with the legendary architect, recorded over the course of a decade, reveal insights into her singular vision This volume gathers 12 conversations between the architect...

An arresting visual tour of the great sites of ancient Greece, told through its city states and the monuments they built to endure through the ages. 'We have raised ... monuments that those alive...

Vincent Scully has shaped not only how we view the evolution of architecture in the twentieth century but also the course of that evolution itself. Combining the modes of historian and critic in...

Robert A. M. Stern Architects, over its forty-year history and across a wide range of building types, has defined principles common to all projects. Stern articulates the ideas that govern his design...

Modernism in architecture and urban design has failed the American city. This is the decisive conclusion that renowned public intellectual Nathan Glazer has drawn from two decades of writing and...