Lively accounts of thirty-five American inventors who helped shape the modern world. Inventing Modern America profiles thirty-five inventors who exemplify the rich technological creativity of the...

"Beware Architecture!" Architecture that entails surprise, even danger, is the subject of this exciting discourse on a body of work that has gained increasing international attention since the late...

Author in the News:On July 31, 2003, the architect Santiago Calatrava was chosen to design a new PATH railway terminal on the site of the World Trade Center in New York City. Calatrava is...

The aim of this book is to expand the subject and matter of architecture, and to explore their interdependence. There are now many architectures. This book acknowledges architecture far beyond the...

A language of patterns seems to operate throughout the creative processes of both nature and humanity, from the geometry of a snowflake to the sonnets of Shakespeare to the architecture of the...

Like a good city, Postmodern Urbanism can be read from many perspectives as a rich conversation of world views, languages, and artifacts....It's a generous and thoughtful piece of scholarship which...

Een inleidende tekst vormt een pleidooi voor waardig en geaccepteerd wonen van arme en illegale bewoners, hierna volgt de beschrijving van 5 positieve voorbeelden van zelfbouwwijken opgezet met...

In a collection of projects developed during the 1990s, Margaret Helfand Architects argues for an architecture of logic, simplicity, and sensuality. Presented chronologically, nineteen projects...

Piero Sartogo and Nathalie Grenon are, as Richard Meier writes in his foreword, "European architects with a world perspective." This volume, clearly demonstrating that world perspective, is the first...

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Artists, critics, and philosophers ask what more architecture can do.At the turn of the millennium—the end of a calibrated period of time—it seems necessary to ask certain questions, foremost among...

Over the course of this century, nature has increasingly been relegated to the province of environmentalists while cities and towns have been turned over to developers and planners. Norman Crowe...