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 only comprehensive book on the fascinating life and work of the celebrated architectural designer, John Pawson
This visual biography brings together John Pawson’s architecture, life, clients, travel, photography, design, books, and ideas. Written by Deyan Sudjic, an architectural historian and long-time friend, it explores the full scope of Pawson’s...
Elizabeth “Lisl” Scheu Close (1912–2011) left an indelible mark on Minnesota’s built landscape during her six decades as an architect. In 1938, with her husband, Winston Close, she founded the state’s first architecture firm dedicated to modernism. In addition to designing the first International Style house in Minneapolis, the firm...
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...
For more than 20 years the French duo Anne Lacaton and Jean-Philippe Vassal have pursued a unique approach to housing that integrates outdoor areas modeled on the winter garden. Their projects are open to the climate, transparent, and permeable, designed to work with rather than against climate. This book is...
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...
You've seen the building. Now meet the man whose life went into it.
Philip Freelon's grandfather was an acclaimed painter of the Harlem Renaissance. His father was a successful businessman who attended the 1963 March on Washington. When Phil decided to attend architecture school, he created his own focus on...
Palm Springs is at the center of a unique tradition in architecture marked by invention and a sensitivity to local conditions that has resulted in design that exerts an influence far greater than the town’s small size. The book is the first to fully explore the wide ranging forms this...
Travel across continents and climates to experience architecture that’s rewriting the rules of sustainability. Like the other titles in our Homes for Our Time series, each of the 63 projects in Sustainable Living opens a window into a unique dwelling inspired by the pressures and possibilities of a warming planet...
FLUX: Architecture in a Parametric Landscape focuses on the emerging field of advanced digital design. In the last two decades of architectural practice, new digital technologies have evolved from being simply representational tools invested in the depiction of existing models of architectural space to becoming significant performative machines that have...
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 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...
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,...
Shares Milan-based collective Park Associati's commitment to adaptive reuse for sustainable architecture.
In Reinventing Heritage, Park Associati--a Milan-based interdisciplinary collective of architects, designers, and researchers--explores the transformative potential of adaptive reuse in architecture as a key strategy to address environmental, social, and economic challenges. Rather than demolishing and rebuilding, adaptive reuse...
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...
Following on a landmark exhibition in Tokyo, ‘The Original’ features some 150 examples of product design from the 19th century to today, each one chosen by Naoto Fukasawa for its pioneering originality. The book’s chronological organisation clearly lays out the evolution of diverse product categories – from furniture and lighting...
‘Most arrangements are little noticed, yet some stop you in your tracks’. Originally published in 2003, Leonard Koren’s highly sought-after Arranging Things: A Rhetoric of Object Placement utilises the language of rhetoric to portray visual arrangement as a ‘communicational act: its own language-like form of aesthetic expression’. Koren’s insightful meditation...
The first and only survey of Japanese design as seen through the lens of Japan’s traditional color spectrum - an exquisitely packaged fresh take on a universally popular topic.
The traditional colors of Japan have been in use since the seventh century, originally to indicate rank and social hierarchy but,...
Artistic interventions in "America's Attic" indicate the region's importance to the geographical, ethnic and cultural history of the American Southwest.
As the largest alpine valley in the world, Colorado's San Luis Valley is a land of sand dunes, wetlands and farmland--nearly all of it above 8,000 feet in elevation and...
This issue continues Mauricio Pezo and Sofia von Ellrichshausen’s first monograph published by the magazine in 2013. These 20 works showcase the evolution of their methodology and philosophy towards the link between painting and architecture. As they play with the limits of the architectural surface through explorations in...