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Source Books in Architecture No. 16: Tatiana Bilbao ESTUDIO focuses on the work of a Tatiana Bilbao ESTUDIO and is meant to expose the foundations and implications of the work in question.

The practice is documented through conversations, studies, models, renderings, working drawings, and photographs at a level of detail that...

Regenerative design is a way of building that heals our planet and our communities by halting biodiversity loss, reversing climate change, and improving social equity.

Over the last decade, the nonprofit design practice MASS has proven that we can yield positive social, environmental, and economic results through a series of...

Back in print again, this generously illustrated book captures the visionary approach to the land embraced in designs for the Sea Ranch, the planned community that has become a touchstone of 1960s West Coast modernism. Situated on a 10-mile stretch of rugged Northern California coastline, the Sea Ranch was conceived...

In this issue: APRIL GREIMAN’s five decades of boundary-breaking graphic design; TAKASHI YANAI reimagines a mid-century tract house as MEIER ST/ , a communal creative hub; STUDIO SCHICKETANZ designs intergenerational homes in dialogue with the landscape; how GALKA SCHEYER brought European modernism to the West Coast; JARL MOHN and TODD...

Sydney-based, Japanese architect Takada highlights his evolving approach to design, nature, and urbanism.

This volume presents a new collection of Takada’s most recent projects, pushing further his continuing reflections on reconnecting the natural world with the built environment. Featuring breathtaking photography of his buildings and interiors, along with sketches and nature-inspired...

The first monograph on the Japanese-born, Sydney-based architect, celebrated for his innovative holistic approach to design, nature, and urbanism.

Koichi Takada is part of a new generation of architects striving to bring nature back into the urban environment—an approach he developed after living in Tokyo, New York, and London. His architecture...

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...

In recent years, facades have become more important in architectural practice and in public perception. As well as functioning as a protective shell and visible 'face' and supplying heat and electricity, a building's exterior interacts directly with the surrounding public space.

This revised and expanded new edition of the Facade Construction...

Concrete is ubiquitous but contentious: culturally, environmentally, and often politically. Yet, the architecture it produces across fields of practices remains pertinent to the architectural discipline and its history. Having been incessantly normalized, misused and abused by different stakeholders and agendas, some of its material attributes still remain very much untapped...

Emerging technologies of design and production have transformed the role of drawings within the contemporary design process from that of design generators to design products. As architectural design has shifted from an analog drawing-based paradigm to that of a computational model-based paradigm, the agency of the drawing as a critical...

For centuries, women have influenced architecture worldwide by exerting power over space through their writing. By exploring a wide variety of sources, from diaries and travelogues to inventories and political pamphlets, this book expands architectural histories to include these women. Female spatial agencies are revealed using rare written sources, new...

The Urban Design Legacy of Colin Rowe describes the ideas developed and described primarily by Colin Rowe, professor of architecture and head of the Urban Design Studio at Cornell, and additionally by his students, his co-authors, and colleagues throughout the course of the last half of his highly influential career...

What does built antifascism look like? And who builds antifascist architecture?

Architects, historians, and theorists have had a weird obsession with fascist architecture since postmodernism. Why? And who are the antifascist architects? What does antifascist architecture look like? Antifascist Architecture is the first attempt at creating a working definition of antifascist...

How has erasure formed the space around us? How do we come to know it, so that we can design differently? Erasure by Design tracks the methods, terms, and racial protocols that continue to do the work of displacement, demolition, and extraction into the present day.

This book travels back...

With the radical proposition of life on inclined planes--a theory known as the oblique function--the French architect Claude Parent sought to free architecture of orthogonal form, renew its social relevance, and inspire people's interest in the built environment.

Oblique Experiments: Claude Parent's Architectural Installations (1969-1975) explores the significance of a series...

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The house is commonly used as a vehicle to get at larger architectural debates. Such is the case in this book, with a dialogue between Nader Tehrani and Preston Scott Cohen whose collaboration in academia has often resulted in two very different approaches to pedagogy. In this discussion, Tehrani draws...

Farmers, craftspeople and residents of Saudi Arabia's Al Ahsa contribute to a reimagining of agriculture as a symbolic ground for experimentation.

Centered on Saudi Arabia's Al Ahsa region, one of the world's oldest and largest oases, Maghras reimagines the farm as a site of collective inquiry, where traditions of cultivation...

The largest house in America and an example of Gilded Age magnificence, Biltmore opens its doors for a tour of both its grand and belowstairs rooms in the first book on the iconic residence in more than thirty years.

George W. Vanderbilt created one of the greatest self-sustaining American country estates...

An elegant manifesto for Rose Tarlow’s approach of blending the personal with the aesthetic to create timeless, beautiful spaces.

One of the most influential designers working in America, Rose Tarlow’s signature approach is as much an emotional matter as it is one of color, light, fabric, and furniture. This essential book...

While much has been written about Donald Judd's rise in the United States, particularly in New York during the 1960s, his early exposure in Europe has remained largely overlooked. In Donald Judd: The Low Countries 1965–1971, professor Wouter Davidts explores the artist's formative years in the Low Countries—spanning from his...

Few men, women or brand names have come to define a century. For seven decades and counting, the Italian powerhouse founded by Enzo Ferrari in 1947 hasn't only set the standard for high-performance engineering, but made an indelible red mark on popular culture, enthralling fans and collectors across the globe.

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The first museum monograph dedicated to the artist since BAMPFA's 2001 out-of-print catalog, The Dream of the Audience, this volume spans the full breadth of Korean American artist Theresa Hak Kyung Cha's (1951–82) multifaceted career across conceptual art, mail art, film, performance and poetry. It features over 100 objects and...

Drawing Proper/Drawing Improper is a meditation on contemporary architectural drawing practice framed through 56 artifacts created by 28 architectural firms from around the globe.

Each drawing replies to a simple prompt: How can architectural drawing be dutiful? How can it be mischievous? This open-ended question invited diverse responses, spanning the spectrum...

Spotlighting an under-recognized textile artist whose minimalist rugs helped shape the course of modernist design within Denmark and beyond.

This book is the first publication in English on the Danish weaver Anna Thommesen (1908–2004), who is best known for her minimalistic, geometric rugs. Although Thommesen has long been an established name...