A new edition of an award-winning book on three of Kazuo Shinohara's designs.
2025 marks the centenary of Kazuo Shinohara (1925-2006), one of the most distinguished and influential Japanese architects of the twentieth century. In homage, this stunning book, first published by Quart Verlag in 2019 and winner of one...
Over a decade in the making, Sugimoto's masterpiece observatory building at his art foundation in Odawara, Japan, is the culmination of his architectural practice.
Apart from photography, Japanese artist Hiroshi Sugimoto has been working in sculpture, performing arts and architecture for more than 20 years. Since the early 2010s, he...
The Mackintosh Building at The Glasgow School of Art is a monument of international significance in the history of architecture and design. Designed by Charles Rennie Mackintosh (1868-1928), its soaring studios and atmospheric spaces would serve to educate and inspire generations of architects, artists, and designers, as well as attract...
This carefully curated catalog celebrates the rich detail in the work of Aino, Elissa, and Alvar Aalto. Every support, railing, and handle is the result of intensive formal and functional research. The authors document 50 Aalto buildings – some well-known and others less so – and arrange their photographs by...
An exploration of the role of graphic work in the career of one of the nineteenth century's most influential architects
Viollet-le-Duc (1814-1879) was nineteenth-century France's most prominent architect and restorer. This groundbreaking study examines how he used drawing and printmaking as a mode of seeing and thinking and as a...
The referential book by Álvaro Siza on his own work, in its first English edition. Describing some of his projects, his expectations and struggles, references and decisions, this book is a fundamental contribution to the understanding of Álvaro Siza’s architectural thinking.
The text is accompanied by an extensive set of...
Unexpected insights into the long process of designing the Hexenhaus, one of the most iconic buildings of the late 20th century.
Between 1985 and 2002, British New Brutalist architects Alison (1928-93) and Peter Smithson (1923-2003) transformed a modest vernacular cottage into one of the most remarkable residences of the late...
The Floor Plan Manual Housing has for decades been a seminal work in the field of architecture. In its 5th, revised and expanded edition, approximately 160 international housing projects built after 1945 are documented and analyzed.
The focus is on exemplary and transferrable projects, and on innovative and trendsetting concepts. The...
Artificial Intelligence (AI) is already an integral element of architecture. The pace of AI’s deployment in our field, evermore bolstered by the speed of this technology's development by the tech industry, has surpassed in many ways what practitioners expected just a few years ago. Halfway between full scale adoption and...
In her third book, Kayne, the creator of the quiet-luxury lifestyle brand, presents inspiring interiors from an array of artisanal houses set in beautiful landscapes, showing us how to create spaces that encourage living well and sustainably in comfort and style.
A celebrated fashion and homewares designer, Kayne has become a...
The garden embodies a condensed version of nature, just as, in Japanese philosophy, the entire world is thought to be reflected in a single dewdrop. This notion may be the inspiration for the Swiss imitation of Japanese gardens in the 20th century, the impetus for the incorporation of Japanese design...
From the office to the construction site - what is the value of work?
Why is architecture so remote from labor struggles, with poorly negotiated labor contracts and barely any self-management models? What possibilities emerge when we acknowledge the glaring class divide between the architectural firm and the construction site? What...
Once the preserve of visual art, provenance receives a new framework in this glossary of approaches to architectural methodology.
While the provenance of artworks represents one of the greatest challenges of current scholarship, architecture has been excluded from this burning field of understanding the past for the present and the...
An examination of how production processes--from penicillin to steel to semiconductors--get more efficient over time, and a powerful argument for efficiency as an underrated driver of progress.
Efficiency is the engine that powers human civilization. It's the reason rates of famine have fallen precipitously, literacy has risen, and humans are...
The first in-depth exploration of maintenance--and a powerful argument for its civilizational importance--from the author of How Buildings Learn and creator of the Whole Earth Catalog.
Maintenance is what keeps everything going. It's what keeps life going. Yet it's also easy to shirk or defer--until the thing breaks, the system falters,...
How can architecture develop better aesthetic directions for the twenty-first-century built environment?
Our world, increasingly defined by efficient but unconsidered architecture and cities, seems to be getting uglier. In On the Appearance of the World, Mark Foster Gage asks why. He imagines a future scenario where architectural design and ideas...
Designed Future is a journey through the modern era: our life in cities, the Americas, new territories and the old continent, of vision and design as essential tools for building the future.
As the most complete collection of essays, interviews and lectures, this book is an in-depth view of the journey...
The first publication dedicated to Karl Lagerfeld's glamorous homes, known for their eclectic interiors, ranging from the Art Deco to the ultramodern.
While Karl Lagerfeld was famous for being at the very centre of the fashion industry for over half a century, he was equally opinionated when it came to interiors,...
A design monograph series on the most remarkable architects, designers, brands and design movements of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, each book contains a historical-critical essay discussing the life and work of the subject, followed by an illustrated appreciation of groundbreaking work.
Charles and Ray Eames were the golden couple of...
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Florence Knoll (1917-2019) was a leading force of modern design. She worked from 1945 to 1965 at Knoll Associates, first as business partner with her husband Hans Knoll, later as president after his death, and, finally, as design director. Her commissions became hallmarks of the modern...
In the world of typography, it is not uncommon to see combinations of serif and sans serif typefaces in the same design. However, it takes skill to combine them in a way to avoid unwanted graphic tension or clashing fonts, and ensure maximum legibility of the text in the design.
From...
Twenty animals meet for a photographer's beauty contest in this reprint of the beloved 1997 children's book
In Balthasar Burkhard and Markus Jacob's elegantly designed children's book, 20 animals meet for a photographer's beauty contest. The protagonist of the story is a shy donkey who watches the antics of the animals...
