Paulo Providencia is an architect who occupies a special place in contemporary Portuguese architecture, and he is recognized by many as one of the leaders of the generation following Eduardo Souto de
The Structure explores the work of Mahendra Raj, India’s most significant structural engineer. Examining Raj’s sixty prolific years of practice, this volume looks at his unusually inventive and intuit
The Friendship Centre in Gaibandha, Bangladesh, was built for the local NGO Friendship, which provides services for poor citizens of the region. Built by Dhaka-based architect Kashef Mahboob Chowdhury
Revised, updated, and expanded by nearly a hundred projects, this new edition of the catalog for the Architekturzentrum Wien’s permanent exhibition on Austrian architecture is the authoritative survey
The series UFO: Explorations of Urbanism aims to fill a gap in the contemporary debate concerning urbanism by offering case studies that document and critically analyze a global spectrum of changing u
Inaki Abalos and Juan Herreros established the renowned architectural firm Abalos and Herreros in Madrid in the 1980s. At the time, following the end of the Franco regime, architects were more highly
Jan Turnovsky (1942–95) was a renowned architect and architectural theoretician. An exceptionally dedicated teacher and researcher throughout his tenure at the Vienna University of Technology’s Instit
After nearly two decades of appropriating the Internet’s virtual public space, people are once again taking to the real public space of streets and squares to voice their opinions. Recent political mo
Featuring previously unpublished material, an exploration of the spaces created by interventions in urban and rural landscapes and captured by internationally recognised architectural photographer Gis
If you’ve decorated on a budget, you’ve probably braved IKEA, where the promise of a brighter and better living space comes sealed in a cardboard box. But what do we lose when big-box retailers rule t
Based on a collaborative research effort and accompanying exhibition at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna,Big! Bad? Modern compiles contemporary assessments of four buildings from the controversial post
Widely disliked in their heyday and only recently beginning to be appreciated, brutalist buildings around the world are at risk of being lost—in many cases to demolition, and in some to insensitive re
