Brought together for the first time - the seminal writing on architecture by key philosophers and cultural theorist of the twentieth century. Issues around the built environment are increasingly...

In this pioneering study of the water infrastructure of Renaissance Rome, urban historian Katherine Rinne offers a new understanding of how technological and scientific developments in aqueduct and...

Today's relatively small and rationally conceived households units call for uncomplicated, easily transportable and multi-functional pieces of furniture. "Light furniture" satisfies these demands...

Emily Henson explores the elements that come together to create this eclectic, colorful, and contemporary look and draws inspiration from an array of real-life Bohemian Modern homes.The Bohemian...

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Exploring the intersections among art, architecture, and urbanism in Brazil from the 1920s through the 1960s, Adrian Anagnost shows how modernity was manifested in locally specific spatial forms...

There has been a revolution in urban transportation over the past five years—set off by start-ups across the US and internationally. Sleek, legible mobility platforms are connecting people to cars,...

For hundreds of years the golden stupa of the Shwedagon, the pagoda enshrining the sacred hairs of the Buddha, has dominated the landscape of Rangoon. Since the 19th century, it has been the...

"Originating as a rebellious movement in philosophy and literature, postmodernism proclaimed the death of modernism and promoted a new, nonlinear way of approaching architecture and design,...

Copiously illustrated. Large French Flaps. 120p. Measures 9.25x11 inches. Interview with the architect and a photographic essay by Helene Binet.

Including 35 previously unpublished essays, What If? represents the mature thought of one of the 20th century’s most provocative architects. Accompanying the text is an extensive four-color...

A fully revised, updated edition of the award-winning guide to the High Line, the park that transformed an entire neighborhood and became an inspiration to cities around the globeWhen the High Line...

Since 2007, architects Stephen Kieran and James Timberlake have directed a design-research laboratory on Dhaka for graduate students at the University of Pennsylvania School of Design. What began as...

The work of an acclaimed landscape architect is celebrated in this vibrant book. Known particularly for his brilliant collaborations with Frank Gehry, Arata Isozaki, Helmut Jahn, Ricardo Legorreta,...

"It is the longest street in New York-or in the world, if one includes its continuation upstate. It is also the city's oldest, as its lower and upper portions follow the Weckquaesgeek Indian trail,...

One of the great but often unmentioned causes of both happiness and misery is the quality of our environment: the kinds of walls, chairs, buildings and streets that surround us. And yet a concern for...