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The first English translation of Kazuo Shinohara's landmark book on twentieth-century Japanese architecture.

Kazuo Shinohara's (1925-2006) book Residential Architecture is considered one of the most significant pieces of writing on Japanese architecture of the late twentieth century. First published in Japan in 1964 as Jūtaku kenchiku, the book was mandatory...

Murcutt works almost always alone, rarely makes models, and draws his works by hand. He thinks by drawing. Accompanying the monograph 'Glenn Murcutt: The Architecture of Glenn Murcutt', this book documents the same 13 projects, this time through the various stages of the architects design process – from initial sketches...

Since 2004, Manuel Cervantes Estudio has approached architecture as a dialogue with territory, culture, and time. Driven by exploration, the studio develops processes rooted in research, observation, and the distillation of local conditions – climate, materials, craft, and everyday life – into clear and essential forms. Ranging from social housing...

The workshop of Studio Mumbai, headed by Bijoy Jain, consists of open air spaces in a rustic setting surrounded by trees. There, a variety of skilled craftsmen, architects and engineers collaborate in the same space, engaging in, exercising and practicing architecture in a manner that aspires to transcend its own...

A huge monograph dedicated to Gerrit Rietveld, perhaps the most well-known Dutch architect. Besides his iconic Schröder House, very little is known about the roughly 100 houses Rietveld designed and built during his career. These houses are characterised by light and space, and sobriety is a basic principle in his...

This is the first monograph published in Japan to contain the works of Arne Jacobsen, the celebrated Danish architect and designer known for his wide-ranging and enthusiastic approach to designing peoples’ lives, from furniture to products and the buildings themselves. Comprehensively, all elements of our environment fell within his scope...

The magazine examines the legacy of the Italian structural engineer Pier Luigi Nervi (1891–1979), who gained worldwide fame in his lifetime as one of the 20th century’s greatest creators of structural architectures. His portfolio continues to affirm his remarkable contribution to the field. Nervi conceived works involving large spaces...

After studying at the Catholic University of Chile, Alejandro Aravena (b 1967) established his own firm in 1994. Since 2006, Aravena has served as Executive Director of ELEMENTAL S.A., a non profit company with social interest working in projects of infrastructure, transportation, public space and housing, partnering with the Catholic...

The follow-up volume to Pisé – Rammed Earth continues the application-based analysis andpresentation of building with natural materials. Instead of investigating rammed earth structures, Hybrid Constructions describes construction with different earth building methods, also in combination with other materials. Based on an analysis of historical structures in Morocco, Southern and...

Sandra Hofmeister, ed. | Munich, Germany | Detail, 2022 | Hardbound | 352 pp | 23 x 32 cm. | Color & B/W illustrations | English/German

The material timber has become particularly important for architecture in the light of the climate crisis and the search for environmentally friendly resources. This...

This book illustrates the wide range of design and construction possibilities offered by wood as a building material by means of 30 buildings of various sizes and uses. The spectrum ranges from small holiday homes and residential or school buildings to large office buildings, factory halls and cultural and leisure...

A visual meditation on warfare and ruins from the legendary French theorist

In the second half of the 1950s, Paul Virilio began photographing abandoned World War II bunkers along France's Atlantic coast. In 1966, he presented his photographs to the public for the first time in the magazine architecture principe,...

Richard Longstreth provides a detailed picture of the early careers of four architects—Bernard Maybeck, Willis Polk, Ernest Coxhead, and A.C. Schweinfurth—who had a decisive impact on the course of design in the San Francisco Bay Area and who stand as significant contributors to American architecture.

This is a book about archives that is itself archival, a gathering together of Edmund de Waal’s reflections on archives from over a decade, presented in chronological order. Yet the book is also cyclical. It begins in Odessa in 2009 and ends in Paris in 2021, encountering De Waal’s family...

For the first installment of a building-centric research initiative under the Science of the Secondary series, the common Door, Window and Pipe were chosen as starting points towards an inquiry into the openings of a dwelling. Drawing from the findings of this study, Atelier HOKO developed another mad afternoon at...

For the first instalment of a building-centric research initiative under the Science of the Secondary series, the common Door, Window and Pipe were chosen as starting points towards an inquiry into the openings of a dwelling. Drawing from the findings of this study, Atelier HOKO developed another mad afternoon at...

“These days, there is a lot of confusion and discussion about different reading formats. They often weary us with their variations, cramming functions and features we do not need and doing it clumsily when all we really want, is a simple book that is well-sized and easy to flip. Despite...

New approaches in architecture reveal a trend towards “upcycling”. Yet the history of building has also always been a history of recycled and upcycled building materials and components, as well as of building knowledge and styles. Comprehending buildings as part of a process of social change poses a challenge to...

Following the success of previous issues, 'Slanted Experimental Type' has evolved into an ongoing series exploring ground-breaking approaches in typography and graphic design. The third issue, produced in collaboration with Dortmund University of Applied Sciences and Arts, explores the boundaries of creative experimentation and looks at design strategies that incorporate...

Flexible Visual Systems is the design manual for contemporary visual identities. It teaches you a variety of approaches on how to design flexible systems, adjustable to any aesthetic or project in need of an identifiable visual language. The book is divided into three parts. The first part is a richly...

‘The Letter’ does not relate to the alphabet alone but to language, to code, to gestures, to media, and more. The letter is a magical symbol, and at the same time a very ordinary thing. It is embedded in specific culture and dependent on the reproduction technologies available at the...