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"Designed by Rikard Marasović, the Children's Health Resort in Krvavica near Makarska is a legendary building from the 1960s located on the Adriatic coast. Protected as immobile cultural property, this masterpiece of late Modernist architecture has been gradually decaying since the early 2000s. This publication recounts the history of a...

Architecture has historically functioned as both shelter and a tool for power that can establish dominance and exclusion, often failing to accommodate diverse needs and ways of being. In this second publication from Building Diversity, architectural establishments and norms are challenged. The editors examine who buildings and environments are...

Not so very long ago, some might have considered wood a material of the past, long since replaced by more modern components such as concrete and steel. The truth is radically different. Bolstered by new manufacturing techniques and ecological benefits, wood has seen a fabulous resurgence in contemporary construction.

This book...

Cubism in Prague covering painting, sculpture, and arts and crafts. 

This is a sale catalog for an auction held at Christie's New York on May 4, 2007. The sale includes property from the private collection of Wolfgang and Jutta Fischer. Index includes references to J. Hoffman, J. Itten, D. Judd, Le Corbusier, C. Mollino, G. Nelson, C. Perriand, G....

Contemporary French architects. Very good condition, except slightly faded spine, small dings to corners. 

Associates since 1987, the Austrian architects Florian Riegler and Roger Riewe, with their professional practice in Graz and Cologne, tackle their projects in a subtle and practical way, renouncing formal authorship as the motor of the design process. Their buildings respond to the environment and to the cultural baggage...

The work of Chilean architect Smiljan Radic (born 1965) has found international acclaim following his superb 2014 Serpentine Gallery pavilion in London. This 2G issue features a selection of the houses built by Radic throughout his nearly three-decade career, from his extension to the Charcoal Burner’s House (Cupliprán, 1997–98) and...

Homes, cultural centers and more from the Harlem firm famed for its combinatorial approach to architectural form.

This 2G monograph celebrates the craft and ingenuity of MOS, the Harlem-based architecture and design studio founded by Hilary Sample and Michael Meredith in 2005. Recipient of the 2015 Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design...

NP2F is an architectural studio created in 2009 by François Chas, Nicolas Guérin, Fabrice Long and Paul Maitre Devallon. It now has around twenty people spread between Nice and Paris and operates in various cities in France and abroad. The projects on which NP2F works are both architectural and urban...

The first monograph on the SOS studio founded by Olafur Eliasson and Sebastian Behmann presents some of their joint works as well as architectural works by Studio Olafur Eliasson.

Studio Other Spaces (SOS) connects architecture and art through interdisciplinary and experimental building projects and artworks for public space. They use each...

The first monograph on b+ reflects their wide-ranging practice, including building projects in Berlin, Minneapolis, fashion shows and furniture pieces.

b+ is a collaborative project led by Arno Brandlhuber, Olaf Grawert, Jonas Janke and Roberta Jurcic that understands architecture as an open process, and views buildings as part of larger systems...

Japanese architect Junya Ishigami (born 1974) became known for his proposal for the Japan Pavilion at the Venice Architecture Biennale 2008. The following year, he completed the Kanagawa Institute of Technology Workshop, and with these two works he was already acclaimed as one of the most innovative Japanese architects. Issue...

Architectural works by Fala—a Porto-based architectural studio founded in 2013—are documented here in issue 80 of 2G. Fala’s architectural style developed in the aftermath of the economic crisis in 2008, when downtown Porto and Lisbon underwent a boom in tourism and massive redevelopment.

Architectural works by Ensamble Studio—a Madrid and Boston-based architectural studio—are documented here in issue 82 of 2G. Ensamble Studio addresses issues such as prefabricated homes.

Copenhagen-based firm Johansen Skovsted Arkitekter specializes in public buildings including historic landmarks, pavilions, offices, warehouses and museum installations. The works featured in this 2G issue present their designs as a thoughtful response to current challenges while maintaining the character of a given site.

Founded in 2005, Argentinian firm adamo-faiden has become one of the premier studios in the Southern Cone of South America. This issue of 2G spotlights their recent work, such as a plaza in the center of Buenos Aires and a countryside residence created from abandoned livestock buildings.

Geers’ fresh perspective on the history of architecture.

In this compilation of essays, Dutch Belgian architect Kersten Geers writes on diverse architects in history, from Bramante, Scamozzi and Mies van der Rohe to Aldo Rossi, James Stirling, Álvaro Siza and Robert Venturi, in a theory of contemporary architecture.

Through stills, film and interviews, Nyberg's unfinished biography on Sigurd Lewerentz shatters his prevailing image as the "silent architect"

Before his death in 1978, Bernt Nyberg had been working on the first biography of Swedish architect Sigurd Lewerentz (1885-1975), through film and interviews captured on a build site. This special...

This book is the first to explore the history of Le Corbusier’s studio at 35 rue de Sèvres in Paris, known as 35S. It looks at the many artists with whom Le Corbusier worked, including Charlotte Perriand, André Wogenscky, Sahakura, Roger Aujame and Pierre Jeanneret. It includes many previously unpublished...

Taking form as a compact deck of double-sided cards, with the numbering of the cards corresponding to the size of the floor plan area, from smallest to largest, this useful guide offers detailed technical information together with criteria for estimated privacy and exterior quality. A wide spectrum of...

The fourth edition of the Chapters series by Belgian architecture firm 51N4E proposes a fresh approach to urban design, using infrastructure as a spark for collective thinking about what we value and invest in as a society. Developed with Newrope, it blends research and practice to explore how infrastructural...

A record of the Catagory 1 Urban Renewal Project at the Former Tachikawa Base Site, Tachikawa City, Tokyo, Japan, in 1994, focusing on its art projects.

In the 1950s housing developments began peppering the land outside of Los Angeles. Affordable, family-friendly communities like the San Fernando Valley initiated an exodus to the suburbs. It was in the Valley that designer-builder William Mellenthin developed his singular brand of cozy, charming home. They became known as the Mellenthin Birdhouse ranch home—so called because they featured a cupola or dovecote built prominently into the roof. Architect, author and historian, Alan Hess, describes why Mellenthin’s homes were so coveted. “The dovecote, or bird house, (Mellenthin) incorporated prominently into gables facing the public street reinforced the straight-shooting, unpretentious utilitarianism and friendly rural values of the times.”

Gathering information from original Mellenthin homeowners, articles, brochures, as well as the Mellenthin family, A Birdhouse in Paradise reveals many facts and details about this industrious and influential man. The volume features rare photographs and documents (many never seen before) that illustrate a young, burgeoning San Fernando Valley as it became “the new suburban paradise,” as well as floorplans and photographs of the iconic, Ranch Home.

Detailed documentation of the preeminent recorder of early California modernism. Essay by Esther McCoy.

Published on the occasion of the 2025 reopening of The Frick Collection following its renovation. Seamlessly interweaving the new with the historic, the renovation by Selldorf Architects preserves the institution's Gilded Age grandeur and sense of tranquillity while making more of the museum accessible and adding important new amenities.

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The fully expanded, updated, and freshly designed second edition of the most comprehensive and widely acclaimed guide to domestic architecture: in print since its original publication in 1984, and acknowledged everywhere as the unmatched, essential guide to American houses.

This revised edition includes a section on neighborhoods; expanded and...

Yugoslavian artist, urbanist, writer, and politician Bogdan Bogdanovic (1922Ð2010) created some of the most distinctive memorials in Europe. His two best-known works are in Croatia Flower of Stone (1966), a memorial for the victims of the concentration camp in Jasenovac, and the Dudik Memorial Park for the Victims of Fascism,...

A Garden Manifesto gathers radical visions rooted in the earth from artists, writers, gardeners and activists, among them Lubaina Himid, Derek Jarman, Jamaica Kincaid, Ana Mendieta, Dan Pearson and Wolfgang Tillmans. It’s a seed box for an uncertain future, packed with anarchic dreams of Eden-making and humming with resistance to...

Discover the natural diversity of France through a tour of the country’s most beautiful gardens.

From grand formal French gardens with meticulously sculpted topiaries to the poetry of a bohemian country estate, and from a botanical kitchen garden to an exotic tropical oasis on the Mediterranean coast, French gardening expert and...

Over the past several years, Dhaka-based architect Kashef Chowdhury has become widely known for a body of work that responds with great sensitivity to places, local circumstances, and the demands of a building’s users. At the 2016 International Architecture Exhibition of the Venice Biennale, Chowdhury presented four recent projects that...

Excerpted from a forthcoming larger book on these architects, this small softcover was created to celebrate the centennial of the city of Pasadena, California, home to more of this architecture than any other region. Chronologically presents all known houses, public buildings, & other structures (many since demolished) created by the...

Architectural modelmakers have long carried out their work hidden behind the scenes of architectural design, and in presenting a history of architectural modelmaking in Britain for the first time, this book casts a new light on their remarkable skills and achievements.

By telling the story of the modelmakers who make architectural...

Villa le Lac, which was designated a World Heritage in 2016, was designed and built by Le Corbusier as Geneva lakeside home for his parents in 1925. Because of its spare arrangement of spaces, he referred to it as a "dwelling machine." Even today it remains the modern prototype of...

With this exhibition, the Pinacoteca Agnelli ofters the public a collection of wholly unique French design and architecture that has never gone on show before.

During the course of their lives, Patrick and Laurence Seguin have collected the chairs, lamps, furniture, documents and architecture created by an architectural...

A 16-page A4 2 colour riso zine collecting posters and thoughts on the radical act of gardening and growing. Looking at my own experience of gardening as well as some of the radical history and present of growing food and flowers.

Harvey Ellis was a genius. His contemporaries tell us so, yet they all go on with “But...” Some blame his lack of worldly success on an absence of creative challenge, some on personality deficiencies. For years his reputation has rested in semi-obscurity, rediscovered occasionally by someone who asks, “Why isn’t...

A Territory in Conflict explores Israeli and Palestinian projects of modernization and development in the Gaza Strip, from the outset of Israel's military occupation in 1967 to the Oslo Accords of 1993. Rather than reduce the Gaza Strip to an arena of war and violence, Fatina Abreek-Zubiedat resurrects the urban...

A 32-page A6 2 colour riso zine documenting a year in an allotment in North Yorkshire!

Italian architect and designer Carlo Scarpa (1906–1978) left a huge mark not only on architecture but also on a wide range of design fields. His success in his field developed from those moments when he devoted himself to the study of the various techniques of construction. Whether in glassware...

This issue focuses on bicycles. Bicycles are truly representative of small mobility as a means of transportation and are deeply rooted in people’s lives around the world. Yet cycling has not been incorporated into city planning, and its potential has never been fully realized. Guest editor Manabu Chiba reflects...

Projects are never linear in architect Christian Kerez’s work, but rather take the form of research and experimentations. This issue is dedicated to Kerez’s ‘Incidental Space’ series, which follows his attempts to gauge the potential of ornamental space as a generative device. He elaborates on concepts such as...

Founded in 1900, the Nikkei Sekkei group is an organisational design firm responsible for numerous building and urban design projects in Japan. One standout aspect over the years has been the floor and layout plans the firm has conceived. The designers stress the importance of such plans as a design...

No. 652 of a+u showcases 25 projects by Renzo Piano Building Workshop from 2010–2025, revealing how RPBW’s Genoa and Paris offices adapt to diverse urban contexts. Whether working in historic cities like London and Istanbul or creating new landmarks, RPBW emphasizes human experience through structural lightness and environmental integration. The...

The magazine takes a moment to reflect on the point of connection between water, architecture, and people. Spanning six Nordic countries, the nineteen projects featured in this issue explore diverse pursuits, from the rehabilitation of industrial ports into lively urban centres, to questions of accessibility and the extension of habitable...

The magazine investigates sacredness and how it manifests in architectural space. Taking examples from religious works of architecture in different parts of the globe, this issue endeavours to establish a language of light and shadow, materiality, and scale. AI complicates the notion of “sacred space” further. Using this theme,...

This issue features Spanish architect, writer, and curator Andrés Jaque and his international practice, the Office for Political Innovation (OFFPOLLIN), based in New York and Madrid. It presents the office’s investigation of the more-than-human dimension of the built environment through the concept of transspecies architecture, which counters unilateral anthropocentric...

Partly a retrospective on sacred spaces from the magazine’s archives, this issue presents significant projects that have shaped discourse on fostering transcendent experiences through architecture. Besides providing space for worship, each of the projects conveys innovative architectural approaches to express sacredness: classics like Jørn Utzon’s Bagsværd Church, Seema Malaka...

When it comes to Jun Aoki’s projects related to art, regardless of the intended function, the architecture remains open to diverse uses, inviting relationships that have yet to be fully seen or defined. Aoki embraces ambiguity and contradictions, allowing for the coexistence of differing values and rhythms that each...