The twelfth edition of ‘Archives’ centres on the work and ideas of Pritzker prizewinner Smiljan Radić, who has earned a reputation for his original and emotional approach to architecture. His buildings are known for their poetic atmosphere, raw materials, and dreamlike forms. Besides photographs, sketches, and texts about the Chilean...
Kenzō Tange (1913–2005) is a peerless figure among twentieth-century Japanese architects, unmatched in his talent, influence, and versatility. A leading force of the Metabolist movement, he was the first non-Western architect whose works would be embraced as universal in value. This unique assemblage of new scholarship by an international team...
A study of the work of Jon Lott and his New York-based design firm Para project.
Proximities: The Architecture of Jon Lott is an exploration into the practice of Para Project, a design firm based in Amenia, NY, and the philosophies of its founder Jon Lott. Lott's work, characterized by...
Around 1900, drawings from the studio of Otto Wagner (1841–1918) conveyed the vision of a future architecture freed from historical constraints and committed to “modern life”. Its formal language was defined not by past styles, but by the structures, materials and needs of the present. Compositionally sophisticated and technically elaborate, these works were an...
Designs, drawings and data spanning 25 years of space- and energy-efficient residential housing projects across Mexico City
Founded by Yuri Zagorin in 2000, the work of Mexico City-based architecture firm ZDA focuses on projects of various scales, ranging from single-family homes and apartment towers all the way to object design....
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...
An atmospheric masterpiece of modern religious architecture: Sigurd Lewerentz’s Markuskyrkan (St Mark’s Church) in Stockholm’s Björkhagen district.
St Mark’s Church in Björkhagen, one of Stockholm’s southern districts, is one of Sigurd Lewerentz’s (1885–1975) key designs. But unlike Lewerentz’s other famous church, St Peter’s in Klippan, no book has been published...
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...
There are no perfect public spaces. Public space is constantly changing, shifting, never quite fixed. It is formed by laws, by regulations, by private ownership, and by city management. Public spaces are influenced both by the people who oversee them and by those who use them. And because of these...
Experience the timeless tranquility of Japan's onsens and ryokans, where tradition, design, and wellness harmonize.
Rooted in centuries-old traditions, Japan's onsens and ryokans are living expressions of harmony where nature, design, and the human spirit converge. These retreats embody a culture devoted to serenity, ritual, and the timeless art of...
The first book to explore the full scope and beauty of Korean design - from traditional craft to celebrated contemporary creations
Characterized by a unique blend of tradition and innovation, and by a focus on sustainability and efficiency, Korean design is recognized for its creativity, quality, and beauty. Jeong: The...
When architects draw plans, they start by drawing walls. But what is a wall? What is behind it? What is inside it? The ubiquitous architectural element is at once a support, a canvas, a barricade, a boundary, and a political actor that enables both justice and injustice. Log 66: Walls...
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Conflicts about space and access to resources have shaped queer histories from at least 1965 to the present. As spaces associated with middle-class homosexuality enter mainstream urbanity...
Toward an Architecture of Enjoyment is the first publication in any language of the only book devoted to architecture by Henri Lefebvre. Written in 1973 but only recently discovered in a private archive, this work extends Lefebvre’s influential theory of urban space to the question of architecture. Taking the practices...
Dedicated to emerging voices in contemporary architectural research, Proyector decentralizes Mexico City's cultural scene by fostering a dialogue of integrated disciplines.
Proyector is a curatorial platform based in Mexico City committed to fostering new strategies and providing critical, theoretical and historical tools for addressing spatial issues. Projections serves as a...
The question “are we human?” is both urgent and ancient. Beatriz Colomina and Mark Wigley offer a multilayered exploration of the intimate relationship between human and...
The standard work on Heino Engel’s structure systems is now available at an attractive price. On the basis of excellent drawings and model photographs, the book examines the various forms of structure systems and explores the relationship between structure system and architectural form in clear and concise prose. In the...
The “home of the future” has long been a topic of fascination in popular culture and an intriguing prospect for designers, and the 20th century offered up countless visions of the future of domestic life, from the aspirational to the radical. Whether it was the dream of the fully mechanized...
The decade of collaboration between the Italian designer and architect Ettore Sottsass (1917–2007) and Tuscan furniture company Poltronova from 1960 to 1970 marked a phase of almost total freedom for the designer. The breadth of this era, both rich in creations and decisive in establishing the designer's style, is...
Immerse yourself in the soul of Japanese listening culture with Jazz Kissa, an expansive photographic exploration of Japan’s iconic jazz cafés, known as Jazz Kissa. The book is the result of over fifteen years of dedicated work by photographer and cultural historian Katsumasa Kusunose, who has meticulously documented these intimate spaces...
From the onset of her career, Charlotte Perriand was a maverick who believed in good design as a force for the betterment of society. Many young designers would be devastated by a rejection from Le Corbusier’s studio, but when the great architect told her they had no use for a...
Supergrafik documents Danish architect Flemming Skude’s exploration of large-scale graphic interventions between 1969 and 1982. Drawing on his analogue archive of sketches, drawings, and photographs, it reveals a practice using colour, pattern, and typography to transform architectural surfaces and spatial experience. Featuring projects across Denmark - from public works to...
Not all colors go together, it takes a nuanced approach to combine them in ways that both complement each other while creating a cohesive design that reflects both the client's visual identity and contemporary trends in colorways. It's a Complement showcases the latest in color palette creation by some of...
Wim Wenders collects in this volume twenty black and white photographs, taken between 1964 and 1984. They are scattered shots, captured in Algeria, England, Indonesia, Iceland, Australia, the United States and Russia. The subjects are the most diverse: panoramas of naturalistic landscapes, glimpses of everyday village or metropolitan life, lyrical...