Revisiting the plan for the site of Bohm's Mary, Queen of Peace Church provides a new, important perspective for understanding the architect's holistic view.
Though the Pilgrimage Church of Mary, Queen of Peace is considered Pritzker Prize winner Gottfried Böhm's most important work, Steffen Kunkel's photographic study is the first...
From the 1920s, architects such as Le Corbusier and Mies van der Rohe sought to create both functional and comfortable living spaces, utilising new and constantly developing technologies. Their experimental visions and innovative ideas became widely disseminated, transforming people’s daily lives. This book showcases houses designed by architects who embraced...
Curtis, William J R | New York, NY | Phaidon 1982 | Hardbound | 200 pp | 9.5 x 8.25 in | Color & B/W illustrations
Bernd and Hilla Becher have profoundly influenced the international photography world over the past several decades. Their unique genre, which falls somewhere between topological documentation and conceptual art, is in line with the aesthetics of such early-twentieth-century masters of German photography as Karl Blossfeldt, Germaine Krull, Albert Renger-Patzsch, and August...
Half a century ago, a legion of young idealists dropped out of society and went “back to the land,” creating a patchwork of utopian communes across Northern California.
Handmade Utopia: Back-to-the-Land Architecture in Northern California tracks down the rogue souls still committed to this way of life, capturing their handbuilt,...
A visual celebration and record of Japan’s demolished postwar architectural gems and a look at why they’ve been torn down.
As in other countries, not every mid-century modern building in Japan can be, or even deserves to be saved. Yet a swathe of these works—those that achieved new architectural milestones...
A memorial and homage to the resilience of the community, this book chronicles the collaborative design and realization of the Río Sumpul Massacre Memorial in Las Aradas, El Salvador, marking where 300 people were murdered by paramilitary units.
All cities increasingly have to deal with stormwater, i.e., rainwater that cannot be absorbed into the ground and instead runs off surfaces like streets or roofs – sometimes with disastrous consequences.
This book analyzes recently designed open spaces and their treatment of water – not so much as an enemy...
Based in Mallorca, Aulets is an architecture practice working across design, research, teaching, and action. It understands architecture as a means of making a territory habitable for a community through the resources available in a specific place. The work of Aulets therefore extends beyond constructing buildings to encompass the activation...
Based in Toulouse, Laurent Didier, Mathieu Le Ny, and Louis Léger lead a worker-owned cooperative that pursues research-based approaches to architecture: BAST (Bureau Architectures Sans Titre). Rather than asserting a singular vision, each project is informed by site-specific decisions and structural logic. Engaging with modest programmes, including refurbishment projects,...
This architectural guide brings together 100 of the most original structures built in New York City since 1999.
Vladimir Belogolovsky pairs them with such nicknames as Guillotine, Peacock, Shark's Fin, Turtle Shell, and Woodpecker. The New York-based author's selection covers buildings realized by the world's most renowned architects in a...
Contemporary Japanese architecture has, for over seven decades, achieved worldwide recognition not only for its highly innovative and often futuristic qualities, but also for its sensitive response to Japan's cultural heritage and physical context, which has become especially challenging given the country's increasingly urbanized environment. Today, Japan's contemporary architecture is...
The expression “low-rise high-density” refers to the ensembles of grouped housing units that maintain characteristics of the individual home, but whose compactness facilitates collective services and amenities, thereby reducing land consumption. These hybrid projects also generate a variety of housing typologies and forms of agglomeration, opening up more sustainable and...
First published in 2001, and now fully revised and updated, in this inspirational book, acclaimed bestselling author Anna Pavord selects 60 'star plants' - from iris to hostas - and pairs each with two perfect partners: shrubs, herbaceous perennials, bulbs, and annuals that no garden should be without. This classic...
The only monograph to chronicle the life and work of one of the most important figures in American landscape architecture.
Beatrix Farrand, the only female founder of the American Society of Landscape Architects, is one of the most important landscape architects of the early twentieth century. Today the scope of her...
How does space affect our physical, psychological and emotional state? Artists Ila Bêka and Louise Lemoine, founders of the eponymous French studio known for its films and books, seek to answer this question through lively and intimate conversations with 12 renowned architects for whom perception and sensoriality play a central...
Fifteen essays that examine architectural practices through the conceptual framework of Roland Barthes’ “degree zero."
Originally borrowed from literary studies, the term “degree zero” has evolved, since the 1960s, into a familiar trope in architectural theory and criticism. First conceptualized in Roland Barthes’ seminal book, Le degré zéro de l’écriture,...
CodeCrafted is your window into the future of branding, where innovation meets creativity in a seamless dance of code and pixels.
We live in a fast-paced digital world, and one thing is obvious--algorithms and data make the world go round, and have certainly had a transformative impact in the realm of...
Leading scholars explore the connections between democracy and justice, architecture and urban design, the growth of cities, cosmopolitanism, inclusion, and free speech.
This book builds on conversations that took place in the fall of 2024 at Harvard’s Graduate School of Design to mark the release of the book Democracy and Urban...
The first major publication devoted to weaver and designer Dorothy Liebes, reinstating her as one of the most influential American designers of the twentieth century
At the time of her death, Dorothy Liebes (1897–1972) was called...
Tracking the triad of knowledge, technology and progress in design pedagogy, from the Bauhaus to to today.
The fourth volume in the Schools of Departure series is devoted to the use of technology in post-Bauhaus design education. The relationship between design education and technology in the 20th and 21st centuries is...
Lost in Thought is a book with four overlapping layers of content: It's a book about thought, thinking, and letting thinking go. It's a book about ideas for books the author (Koren) conceived of, tried to develop, and then discarded. It's a modern-day enlightenment story--a quirky Siddhartha--that involves an avocado...
Since joining NUNO (“fabric” in Japanese) in 1984 and becoming the firm’s creative director in 1987, Reiko Sudo has pioneered innovative fabrics that merge tradition with technology, and handcraft with experimentation. Textile Alchemy accompanies the largest presentation of Sudo’s textiles in the United States and showcases approximately 100 fabrics alongside...
Russel and Mary Wright
Jennifer Golub
Princeton Architectural Press, 2021
S03941
The story of modernist designers Russel and Mary Wright and their collaboration to transform their Hudson Valley estate, Dragon Rock at Manitoga, into an artistic haven.
In the mid-century era of TV dinners and suburban conformity, Russel...
Chairman is the first comprehensive book dedicated to artist and designer Yinka Ilori, tracing his celebrated chairs and the vibrant design language shaped by his British-Nigerian heritage.
Bringing together over a decade of work, the book explores how Ilori transforms discarded and overlooked furniture into powerful vessels of memory, migration...
Bake cookies, host a debate society or pretend to be a postal worker: try these out-of-the-box exercises to think about design in a new way.
We live in a moment when our everyday experiences are distracted by a cynical attention economy; as such, there is an urgent need for a...
The second edition of Starters Mag, Fall/Winter 2025-26 features new writing by:
Allyn West
Dylan Mulvaney
Ekam Singh Sahni
Dasha Anosova & Anja Riabova
Adrienne Economos Miller
Derin Fadina
Bz Zhang
&
Marley Amico
STARTERS — THE MAGAZINE OF NEW DESIGN STORYTELLING
S/S ‘26
Cover art and limited-edition print by Gene Lee Han
Featuring writing by:
Peter Paul Walhout
Jean Pflum
Jocelyn Beausire
Mariam Arwa
Gene Lee Han & Emily Conklin
with illustrations by
Avery Rapson