Alvar Aalto's work is strongly influenced by his experience of nature – especially in the deep forests of his Finnish homeland. But he also visited the sites of antiquity on several trips to the Mediterranean and the Orient.
This book explores the dominant theme of nature in Aalto's work in...
This book, which introduces the works of the internationally acclaimed Bangladeshi architect Marina Tabassum, is her first monograph to be published in Japan. It features fourteen architectural projects by Tabassum, who responds flexibly to the challenging issues in Bangladesh, such as natural disasters, socio-economic disparities, refugees, and rapid urbanization, and...
Located about an hour from downtown Chicago, the Sam and Ruth Van Sickle Ford House—commonly known as the Ford House—is a unique residence among a suburban residential neighborhood a couple of miles west of downtown Aurora, Illinois.
Entering the 1950 Ford House is entering a rich, complex, and welcoming space....
Marc Held made history in 1965 with his famous Culbuto armchair and followed it in 1966 with furniture manufactured by Prisunic. Over a period of fifty years, he created some 150 furniture pieces, notably participating in the interior design of the apartments in the Élysée Palace in 1983. Beginning in...
Aldo van Eyck (1918–1999) was a Dutch architect, writer, and teacher who helped redefine Modern architecture in the second half of the 20th century. As an advocate for architecture’s engagement with history, culture, climate, and the lived human experience of buildings and urban spaces, he created designs that privileged place...
Kengo Kuma: Substance presents more than 30 projects by acclaimed Japanese architect Kengo Kuma and explores his work through the inherent qualities of six materials—wood, fabric, metal, bamboo, stone, and paper.
Kengo Kuma is an acclaimed Japanese architect whose work masterfully engages architectural experimentation, traditional Japanese design, and 21st-century technology. This...
Co-edited by MVRDV founding partner Jacob van Rijs and MVRDV partner Jan Knikker, this book presents twenty-five recently completed projects in Europe, North America, and Asia. Among them are several that show the potentials of reuse and transformation, such as 'High Profile', a lamp made from leftover metal profiles, or...
This new book on Kengo Kuma, one of the world's most respected architects, focuses on architectural detailing throughout 38 global projects to discover his creative essence.
Kuma's gentle but commanding commentary, accompanied by hundreds of photos and diagrams, focuses on how architectural details reveal his identity across a journey of discovery....
An inspiring guide to the history and legacy of Lloyd Kahn's 1970s countercultural self-build manuals
DIY architect, publisher and pioneer of the self-build movement, Lloyd Kahn (born 1935) is a legend of the American counterculture. Influenced by Buckminster Fuller, in 1968 Kahn started building geodesic domes, and was an editor...
The Casa Gomis Bertrand—commonly known as Casa Gomis and La Ricarda— completed in 1963, is one of the key midcentury buildings in Spain. Located by the Mediterranean Sea in El Prat de Llobregat, a municipality ten miles southwest of Barcelona, the house was commissioned by Ricardo Gomis Serdañons and Inés...
Published on the occasion of the 2025 reopening of The Frick Collection following its renovation. Seamlessly interweaving the new with the historic, the renovation by Selldorf Architects preserves the institution's Gilded Age grandeur and sense of tranquillity while making more of the museum accessible and adding important new amenities.
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Both manual and manifesto, ‘Baroque Tendencies’ explores how and why Northcote House, designed and built by David Leggett and Paul Loh, came to be. Shockingly new and yet strangely familiar, the almost baroque form of the house is the product of an experiment, a confluence between architecture, academia, and fabrication....
A stunning survey of the boom in independence-era building by western African architects in the mid-20th century, expressed across universities, hotels, banks, museums and more.
Beginning in the late 1950s and continuing to the 1980s, the independence period in Africa was a time of prolific—and thrilling—architectural production, during which leaders...
Atelier Bow-Wow has up until now designed about twenty detached houses and holiday villas. An important part of the design process includes the production of technical drawings, which astonish with their level of detail, diversity and spatial...
Atelier Bow Wow
TOTO, 2014
SKU: 96679
Atelier Bow-Wow allows a crucial inside look at a range of more than 40 recent projects, including residential buildings, public facilities and installations created specifically for exhibitions, with page after page of detailed sectional perspective drawings. These elaborate diagrams are based on section details drafted...
Particularly after its move to Dessau in 1925, the Bauhaus set out to standardize architecture and design, promising that this would foster a better quality of life for the masses. Taking the design school's engagement with standardization as a starting point, Bauhaus No. 10: Standard looks at the idea of...
In ‘Thinking Space’, architect and educator Leon van Schaik explores how books, and book collecting, have framed his lifelong research into spatial intelligence – the ways in which our past experiences in physical space shape our mental space, which in turn informs how we act in the world. Journeying...
Gary Kamiya's Cool Gray City of Love: 49 Views of San Francisco was a #1 bestseller and an award winner. Now he joins forces with celebrated, bestselling artist Paul Madonna to take a fresh look at this one-of-a-kind city. Marrying image and text in a way no book about this city...
This stylishly illustrated book looks back at the future of air travel and is as sleek and elegant as the Concorde aircraft it celebrates— now in an enlarged edition.
When the first commercial Concorde flights zoomed off the runways in Paris and London in the late 1960s, crossing the Atlantic...
The world generates more than two billion tonnes of waste each year – much of it broken goods that could be repaired. 'Transformative Repair' makes an urgent case that designers and craftspeople are uniquely positioned to respond: not by restoring objects to their original condition, but by reimagining them entirely....
This book showcases 1,000 iconic posters from the Stedelijk Museum’s graphic design collection, offering a visual journey through mid-20th century design and cultural history.
The Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam is home to a vast and impressive collection of over 100,000 items, with 20,000 dedicated to graphic design. Inspired by the exhibition Everyday,...