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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...

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...

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...

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.

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...