As synthetic materials and mutant and hybrid concoctions attain prominence in our daily lives—in our handheld devices, cooking utensils, vehicles, even things as simple as our shopping bags—the design
"Vivere l'Architettura," is a photographic journey across contemporary architecture and unusual Roman town-planning sets, written and filmed between 2007 and 2010, and broadcasted by the TV station "R
This growth builds on our collective traditions—the lecture series and its celebrated receptions, the roster of returning and visiting critics and courses—and charts new ground through our development
From soft politics, soft power and soft spaces to fluid territories, software and soft programming, Bracket 2 unpacks the use and role of responsive, indeterminate, flexible, and immaterial systems in
Cities and landscapes change, continuously. In size and character. They appear and disappear; they become important and less important. They flourish, they become ruins. No, nothing is fixed, even if
The book assembles this investigation and structures its materials, methods and outcomes along three parts. The first part includes a series of writings by the author and invited theoreticians and pra
An eight-part set, published primarily in French and complemented by German and English essays, is comprised of volumes that were individually published between 1929 and 1969 and provides in-depth ana
Judgment is how architecture gets from A to B: how architecture is produced by architects and cultures, how it is received by critics and publics, and how it extends histories and forms futures.
A diverse range of approaches for combining residential, cultural, and commercial activities on complex and dense infrastructural sites in imaginative and productive ways.
In nine essays written by a group of international scholars and organised into four thematic sections (FOUNDATIONS: MODERNISM AND ITS CRITIQUE; INFLUENCES; PEOPLE, FIRMS & NETWORKS and BUILDING PR
Gardens inside buildings represent a sustainable vehicle for a host of ecological and economic advantages: factors such as improving the indoor climate and the workplace situation and hence increasing
Landscape Tunings foregrounds design as mediator between the community and the riverbanks through its civic, ecologic and micro-climatic a ordances. e book unpacks the design process (bottom-up) and
In its considered response to the globalization of culture, HCMA has consistently achieved an architecture that is expressive of time and place, and uniquely interprets Canadian values of openness and
Asia’s first and only sustainable light art festival, i Light Marina Bay is organized by the Urban Redevelopment Authority of Singapore, and celebrates the sights and sounds of Marina Bay, one of the
The work of Massimiliano and Doriana Fuksas enjoys a well-earned reputation for the artistic talent it expresses and for its capacity to surprise with the most risky and spectacular projects. With off
A new architectural sensibility developed by Gianni Pettena through incorporations of art and architecture, bourgeoning youth culture and the discotheque
Bracket [at Extremes] includes critical articles and unpublished design projects that investigate architecture, infrastructure and technology as they operate in conditions of imbalance, negotiate tipp
Leading practitioners of parametric and algorithmic design profile the most radical technologies reshaping architecture today, offering insight into their differences, potential and influence on desig
Essays, projects, and interviews will examine emerging forms of sponsorship, new forms of connectivity - technological or social - that produce innovative modes of collaboration, and strategies for cu
An annual journal that includes samples of student work and activities at the School during each academic year, is edited by students and published by the School.
An investigation into how place and context affects critical design development in an architectural site related programme. Architects were shortlisted for this project for their particular (and somet
Presented here are the assemblies and subsystems used in Ken Yeang's projects, illustrating the ways in which ecological architecture could advance technically through devices and components that arti
Journeys: How travelling fruit, ideas and buildings rearrange our environment explores the subject of migrations and their impact on the built environment. The publication includes 16 stories written
The inaugural Mies Crown Hall Americas Prize Book brings together leading architects and academics in a dialogue exploring the current state of architecture throughout the Americas and explores themes
This book explores digital landscapes by artists who combine the physical with the digital through the application of technology to landscape art and architecture. It presents profiles, essays, and
Both messages and everyday products are wrapped in beautiful forms. This yearbook presents communication and packaging designs that set trends. Furthermore, this book serves as a platform for innovati
’scape is the international magazine for landscape architecture, city planning, and urban design. Lively, with international voices and a critical eye, it presents in-depth feature articles, concise e
This book considers the material basis of building as a key impetus of both urbanization and the energetics of urban life. The otherwise externalized material geographies and thermodynamics of buildin
Vision of recent buildings and projects from one of the most outstanding European architectural practices, also presented from a multilayered critic panel. to 2015, divided in types and thoroughly exp
This richly illustrated book presents the exhibits and curatorial visions of the 2015 Shenzhen Biennale of Architecture and Urbanism (UABB), organized around the theme, Re-Living the City. It highligh
CAZA: 2011-15, the inaugural monograph of the Brooklyn-based design studio CAZA, celebrates the first five years of the firm, and includes photographs, drawings, building descriptions, essays, and con
By employing research techniques and spatial analysis that describe building in Arctic regions, Next North explores how Arctic settlements have responded to climate and geography, as well as ever-incr
Global Danish Architecture #6 Living Spaces & Working Spaces focuses on different kinds of living and working spaces. It presents a broad mixture of different and completely new dwellings, includi
Whether it be as translucent sheets, broadly stretched membranes and inflated foil cushions, or in graceful, organic curves, architecture today is utilizing plastics in the most disparate forms and fo
Whether it be as translucent sheets, broadly stretched membranes, and inflated foil cushions or in graceful, organic curves, architecture today is utilizing plastics in the most disparate forms and fo
Design Collective Architects (DCA) are a young and vibrant architectural practice based in Malaysia. Homes, Issues and Processes looks at the specific processes involved in each house the company des
Renato Salvi (b. 1956) completed his studies at the Eidgenossische Technische Hochschule (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology) in Zurich and at Sapienza University in Rome and served as assistant pr
Situated right in the midst of the tumult of urban design are the essays of this book: The projects, observations, descriptions, and commentaries explore the possibilities and opportunities, the neces
The desert is a huge paradox. Beneath its outward appearance of immensity and silence, are the sounds of various experiments, mysteries, and utopias. The setting of outrageous true histories, entertai
