A vibrant presentation of Stanley Tigerman's imaginative architectural drawings and working methods.
This retrospective paints a new portrait of the legendary architect Stanley Tigerman (1930-2019) through his drawings, collages, and sketches. The book showcases a variety of creative documents and drawing styles, representative of the wide array of Tigerman's projects...
A comprehensive volume on Swiss-American architect Albert Frey (1903-1998), Inventive Modernist tracks the scope and significance of Frey's career, from his early days in Paris working with Le Corbusier to his rise as the iconic architect of Palm Springs. His unique "simple but severe" style of Desert Modernism cemented his...
In 1994, after seeing photographs of the plastic sheets given to Rwandan refugees to live under, Shigeru Ban went to the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees to propose ideas for better shelters. Since then, Ban has been critically heralded for his innovative approaches to environmentally sound architecture and his...
The illustrated biography of the brilliant designer, architect, photographer, pilot, and writer—an unstoppable creative mind with a thousand talents and passions.
In 1981, two young gallery owners—Paola and Rossella Colombari—happened upon the furniture of Carlo Mollino (1905–1973), an enigmatic, unclassifiable, and then-unknown figure in Italian design. When they organized the first...
Published on the occasion of The Drawing Center's exhibition, Greta Magnusson Grossman: Furniture and Lighting presents full-color plates and details of the never-before-seen drawings of the Swedish-born, Los Angeles-based architect and industrial designer. A two-time recipient of the Museum of Modern Art's Good Design award, Grossman remains an under-recognized, yet...
The Berlin design firm AAS, founded in 1999 and helmed by Pierre Jorge Gonzalez and Judith Haase, has established a formidable global reputation. Their purist yet offbeat style has left its mark on built spaces around the world, from large-scale art installations to retail stores to luxurious private dwellings to...
Fiona Lynch transforms the unyielding into the poetic. In her hands, the hardest materials--stone, metal, wood--become fluid, expressive, and alive. She sees worlds of possibility within them: the deep greens of forests and the shifting blues of the ocean within granite tiles, or the softness of liquid movement honed into...
A collaboration between LA-based photographers McIntosh and Muller in which they explore and document Tracy Hills--a new master-planned community being built near Tracy, in the central valley of California.
While Tracy Hills revisits some of the tropes of the New Topographics era, the work underscores the distinctly twenty-first-century ecological issues...
Watch your front lawn as it transforms into a work of art. Mounds, rings, sculptures and forms you could never imagine emerge from once-flat grass lawns. A perfect example of 16 artists’ using nature’s resources, this book highlights the innovative style of these artists who use grass lawns as their...
Media coverage of Japanese architecture the past twenty years has largely been dominated by the works of SANAA, Sou Fujimoto, Junya Ishigami, and their contemporaries. Their skillfully designed, ethereal white spaces and structures, have proved well suited to being exported in an increasingly visual culture. 'Communal Ecologies', on the other...
"Engaging hybrid - part lyrical travelogue, part investigative journalism and part jeremiad, all shot through with droll humor." --The Atlanta Journal Constitution
In 1867, John Muir set out on foot to explore the botanical wonders of the South, keeping a detailed journal of his adventures as he traipsed from Kentucky southward...
How a centuries-old architectural tradition reemerged as a potential solution to the political and environmental crises of the 1970s
Against the backdrop of a global energy crisis, a widespread movement embracing the use of raw earth materials for building construction emerged in the 1970s. Solar Adobe examines this new wave of...
Architect Mark Lee presents a body of work on the basis of five considerations: on history, on cadence, on autonomy, on America, and on point.
On the occasion of his fifth and final year as Chair of the Department of Architecture at the Harvard University Graduate School of Design, architect and...
Considering the many questions of how we live today, Log 65: House and Home asks: Where are we at home? What makes a house a home? Does the process of building ever cease, or does it become the activity of dwelling?
The issue features ten novel residential projects – both...
As his starting point for the aesthetic we have come to love as Art Deco, French furniture and interior designer E.-J. Ruhlmann’s pavilion at the 1925 Exposition Internationale des Arts Décoratifs et Industriels Modernes presented the fair’s most celebrated displays and thereby began our enduring appreciation for the international design...
Renowned philosopher Susan Buck-Morss collaborates with Kevin McCaughey of Boot Boyz Biz and Adam Michaels of Inventory Press on this experimental image-text renewal of McLuhan, Berger and Benjamin.
Seeing Making: Room for Thought both studies and presents the creative process of constructing ideas with images. By activating the techniques of montage...
A richly illustrated, comprehensive celebration of the life and work of the pop design’s renowned legend.Interior designer, Professor Eero Aarnio (b. 1932) graduated from the Institute of Industrial Arts in Helsinki in 1957. He gained worldwide renown with his Ball Chair, first introduced in 1966. The spirit of optimism of...
In the 1890s, the Berlin artist, sculptor and teacher Karl Blossfeldt (1865-1932) started to photograph plants, seeds and other illustrative material from nature for the purpose of teaching his students about the patterns and designs found in natural forms. His close-ups of the smallest plant parts, magnified up to 30...