A collection of the writing of the highly influential architect, Juhani Pallasmaa, presented in short, easily accessible, and condensed ideas ideal for students Juhani Pallasmaa is one of Finland's most distinguished architects and architectural thinkers, publishing around 60 books and several hundred essays and shorter pieces over his career. His influential works have inspired undergraduate and postgraduate students of architecture and related disciplines for decades. In this compilation of ex...
Flagg's Small Houses: Their Economic Design and Construction, 1922
by Ernest Flagg
When Urbanization Comes to Ground
by Carlos Arnaiz and Peter G. Rowe
When Urbanization Comes To Ground is a collaborative research project between the Brooklyn-based architecture studio, CAZA, and think tank, SURBA, an urban research collective spearheaded by Carlos Arnaiz and Peter Rowe. Drawing upon case studies including projects in China, Colombia, and the Philippines, this book works across place, time, and culture to offer an allegorical journey into urbanization at large. When Urbanization Comes To Ground is a loosely congregated collection of essays that...
Latin American Modern Architectures: Ambiguous Territories has thirteen new essays from a range of distinguished architectural historians to help you understand the region's rich and varied architecture. It will also introduce you to major projects that have not been written about in English. A foreword by historian Kenneth Frampton sets the stage for essays on well-known architects, such as Lucio Costa and Felix Candela, which will show you unfamiliar aspects of their work, and for essays on th...
Red Summer in Kensington Gardens by Jean Nouvel
by Paul Virilio, Samantha Hardingham, and Hans Ulrich Obrist
Unser Produkt ist der Raum, erklart Manfred Bene im Interview, das wie ein Fluss durch die Publikation lauft. Durch das Gesprach zwischen dem Unternehmer und seinem langjahrigen Weggefahrten Architekt Laurids Ortner fuhrt Kulturjournalist Thomas Jorda. Die grafische Gestaltung von Bohatsch und Partner verdichtet Begrifflichkeiten und Chronologie zu einer vertiefenden Lesart des Dialogs. Auch historisches Bildmaterial kommt nicht zu kurz. Die angesprochenen Themenkreise werden anhand einzelner Be...
What lies at the root of Japanese creativity and its architectural artefacts? In his new book, the Japanese architect Yuichiro Edagwa explores this question in detail. By analysing a wide variety of unique exemplary buildings from the sixth century to the present, he determines twelve distinctive characteristics of Japanese architectural creativity and composition, including: intimacy with nature, importance of materials, bipolarity and diversity, asymmetry, devotion to small space, and organic...
Papers 3: Sergison Bates Architects
by Stephen Bates and Jonathan Sergison
Following Papers and Papers 2, the third volume in the series contains papers written by Jonathan Sergison and Stephen Bates between 2008 and 2014. Illustrated with photographs and drawings, the papers focus on some of the themes that are at the heart of the work of Sergison Bates architects and their approach to architectural practice, such as domesticity, typology and density.
A unique and engaging book, Designing Change is a visual discourse into the creative psyche of the interior-architects at DPD. It explores and illustrates how designing an interior space goes beyond a direct, strategic response to a building's intrinsic architectural form to examine and embody the evolving relationship between man and built environment. Recognising that change is the only constant in an ever-progressing world, the book aims to simultaneously rethink design and inspire a new para...
The first in a series on Shakespeare's original texts, including facsimile pages, this version of "Hamlet" is claimed to be, in some ways, the most authentic version of the play that we have. Included are an introduction, notes, and a theoretical, historical and contextual critique. This text has been rejected by scholars as a "bad Quarto" - corrupt and pirated text printed without the permission of the playwright or his company. Nonetheless, it was the first version of the play to be published...
Wright′s Writings – Reflections on Culture and Politics, 1894–1959
by Kenneth Frampton
Wright's Writings traces the discursive work of Frank Lloyd Wright through a set of essays by Kenneth Frampton. Originally written as a series of introductions to the five-volume collection of Wright's writing published in 1992, the essays are gathered here as a critical survey of the architect's written and spoken work-a body of text that testifies to Wright's staggering prolificacy, pleasure in argument, diversity of interests, and desire to engage with timely political debates. Alongside thes...
For almost 15 years, the architectural couple Pascal Fournier and Sandra Maccagnan has been working in the Unterwallis region to produce a remarkable oeuvre. The individual buildings consciously react to their developed, usually rural environments and are able to clarify them, thereby achieving a more beautiful, complete whole. Text in French and Italian.
A defining moment in James Law's architectural career occurred in 2000 when he was invited to design of both architecture and technology of the Dickson Cyber Express Shopping Mall - the world's first Bricks and Clicks retail complex in Hong Kong. This led to James coining the term Cybertecture, to symbolize a new kind of design which merges technology and architecture as a future design that brings people Live The Future. With growing reputation, James became an active advocate in the issues of...
Fun Mill. The Architecture of Creative Industry in Contemporary China looks closely on transforming existing real estate by promoting creative clusters, starting with specific architectures that are examined using an open-minded approach. What are the economic, political and design mechanisms used to build and legitimise them? What city concept is designed and built in these spaces? Can we identify recurrent features, general issues, and compositional orders and logic? The book discusses creativ...
For the past 20 years, Victoria Meyers, a Founding Partner of hanrahanMeyers architects, has crafted an architectural and urban design practice that includes sound as an intimate aspect of the designed environment. Meyers analyses the shape of sound; architecture and sound; form; materiality; windows; the urban soundscape, its politics, aesthetics and social character; reflection; virtuality; sound art; and silence. This sequel to Designing with Light offers new theoretical insights into sound a...
Ness. on Architecture, Life, and Urban Culture, Issue 3 (Ness.Docs)