Whatever happened to the last utopian dreams of the city?In the late 1960s the world was faced with impending disaster: the height of the Cold War, the end of oil and the decline of great cities...

In American City X, editor Mark Robbins, former dean of Syracuse University's School of Architecture, argues that innovative and compelling architecture can not only enhance the way a city is...

Vancouver-based Bing Thom Architects have quietly produced a portfolio of built work that garners praise not only for its inspired spaces and forms, but for the inspirational role their buildings...

Architecture, the saying goes, is a verb. It’s an ongoing process of creating. For Brooklyn-based architects Jared Della Valle and Andrew Bernheimer it is, more accurately, two verbs: think and make...

It may come as no surprise that only two percent of new homebuyers work directly with an architect to design the space in which they will live indeed, architects are usually seen as a luxury most of...

Frank Lloyd Wright has long been known as a rank egotist who held in contempt almost everything aside from his own genius. Harder to detect, but no less real, is a Wright who fully understood, and...

"An innovative new history of how the migration of designers in the 20th century shaped modernist art and architecture"--

Descent in Buildings begins with the resolution of a major open question about the local structure of Bruhat-Tits buildings. The authors then put their algebraic solution into a geometric context by...

The first overview of how new digital design and fabrication techniques offer new possibilities for prototyping in architectureA new paperback overview of how digital design and fabrication...

Valuable insights into a wide array of architectural practices, methods, and design solutions from the Muslim world. The Aga Khan Award for Architecture was established in 1977 to enhance the...

A lavishly illustrated exploration of these landscapedefiningstructures across the United States. Dams are a monumental presence on the American landscape. Thisnewest book in the Norton/Library of...

An innovative study of how and why ancient Greek builders sometimes combined older and contemporary carving styles when making capitals The Ionic order of ancient Greek architecture gradually...

Reisen Sie mit diesem Band durch Kontinente und Klimazonen und erleben Sie Architektur, die die Regeln der Nachhaltigkeit neu definiert. Wie die anderen Titel unserer Reihe Homes for Our Time öffnet...

From a cardboard cathedral to emergency shelters in paper tubing, Pritzker Prize-winning architect Shigeru Ban has made his name with a restlessly inventive response to material and situation. This...

A fascinating guided tour of the ways things work in a modern city“It's a rare person who won't find something of interest in The Works, whether it's an explanation of how a street-sweeper works or...

Learning from Las Vegas created a healthy controversy on its appearance in 1972, calling for architects to be more receptive to the tastes and values of "common" people and less immodest in their...

Berlin, 1928. Dans le quartier tranquille de Zehlendorf, deux cités d'habitation sortent de terre, dans un face-à-face hostile. D'un côté, la plastique cubiste de l'avant-garde, de l'autre, les...

For twenty-five years, Robin Kinross has been making a case for typography as a matter of fine detail and subtle judgment, whose products concern all of us, every day. This selection of his...