The eleventh instalment of ‘Archives’ offers an analysis of twelve works from the past 25 years by Aires Mateus, the Portuguese architecture studio headed by the brothers Manuel and Francisco Aires Mateus, all located in Spain and Italy and selected by the brothers especially for this publication. It includes an...
This book comprises a collection of works by architect Shigeru Ban. In addition to the projects featured in the monograph published by Toto Publishing in 2017, it contains numerous new architectural works, exhibitions, products, and examples of disaster relief. Each of the nine chapters includes a thematic text and related...
Tokyo-based architect Ryūji Fujimura approaches his field as creative relationships between knowledge and form (the materialization of knowledge), thereby examining and exploring all aspects of design as the prototype of architectural thinking. This volume features Fujimura’s recent architectural designs and essays, tracing his attempts to redefine architecture as a dynamic...
The first book on Mork-Ulnes Architects and their approach to construction in the varied landscapes of California and Norway.
Mork-Ulnes Architects is an international architecture firm with offices in San Francisco and Oslo. Since its founding by Casper Mork-Ulnes in 2005, the firm has built on three continents and worked on...
The first-ever English-language monograph on Beijing-based Atelier Li Xinggang.
Founded in 2003, Beijing-based architecture firm Atelier Li Xinggang pursues a research-based approach that connects traditional Chinese architecture with contemporary strategies. Its internationally best-known projects are the National Alpine Skiing Center and the National Sliding Center in Yangqing, both competition sites...
Neoptolemos Michaelides (1920-92) was a pioneer of modern architecture in Cyprus. His designs are based on the desire to develop principles that combine modern architecture with traditional Cypriot construction methods--and the knowledge preserved therein regarding the choice of materials, geographical orientation, natural climate control, and the internal organization of buildings....
'Built on Sand' is a project by Marcin Piekałkiewicz, in which he examines the social, environmental, and spatial effects of rapid real estate development in Malta. The project looks at how capitalism survives by producing and constantly reshaping space. But economic growth, while often celebrated, comes with significant, hidden, costs....
An account of the making of the Arab Hall at Leighton House, the “most beautiful room in London,” and an essential volume to understand the influence of the art of the Middle East on Victorian art and interior design in the United Kingdom.
Frederic Leighton (1830-96) was celebrated as one...
Global—Neutral embarks on an architectural search for traces in postcolonial contexts. It documents buildings and projects by Austrian architects in African and Asian countries realized between 1955 and 1989—a period of global political upheaval during which numerous states gained independence from European colonial powers and international cooperation was increasingly marked...
Embark on a journey to visit some of England’s most treasured gardens and the gifted gardeners who shaped them.
Over a number of years, photographer Yasutomo Ebisu and editor/writer Rumiko Suzuki visited more than a dozen English gardens for the Japanese lifestyle magazine ku:nel. This book brings together the features...
'Sharing the Land' explores how human beings perceive, represent, and give meaning to nature – and how these processes continually shape one another. The practice of Sabina Timmermans spans drawing, painting, and spatial installation. It begins in the landscape, where she spends long periods experiencing its physical and sensory elements,...
Manfredo Tafuri was one of the most important historians of architecture in the 20th century, and his work continues to influence the landscape of architectural history and theory. This anthology offers —for the first time —a curated selection of his essays and interviews covering the entirety of his career from...
At the end of the nineteenth century, population, information, and technology explosions made Manhattan a laboratory for the invention and testing of a metropolitan lifestyle - "the culture of congestion" - and its architecture. "Manhattan," he writes, "is the 20th century's Rosetta Stone . . . occupied by architectural mutations...
How architecture must learn to coexist with bacterial life, from the authors of the bestselling Are We Human?
This provocative book is a manifesto for an alternative architectural philosophy. It treats bacteria as the real architects, construction workers, maintenance crews and inhabitants of buildings. Spanish American architectural historian Beatriz Colomina and New Zealand–born architect Mark Wigley draw on the latest research to rethink the past and possible futures of the built environment, exploring the intimate entanglements of the microbes within bodies and buildings over the last 10,000 years, culminating in the antibiotic philosophy of contemporary architecture. Hostility to bacteria must give way to new forms of hospitality from a more symbiotic architecture that learns from bacteria, embracing them and reconnecting with soil, plants and other species. The main goal of the book is to rethink the very idea of shelter in terms of forms of inclusion rather than prophylactic forms of exclusion.
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...
An experimental project created entirely in Google Sheets to explore new, accessible forms of publication.
In Anti-Environments, designer-artist Luis Adrian Borchardt explores how misusing digital tools and alternative design processes can unearth new creative potential and lead to greater autonomy and experimental practice with digital media. This highly unconventional companion...
Alphabettes Soup: 2015–2025 celebrates a decade of feminist approaches to type research, design, and creative community-building. The book blends key articles from the Alphabettes platform with original essays, exploring intersections between culture, language, business practices, technology, and type. It also includes interviews with Alphabettes members, visual histories, and...
In 1980, Josef Müller-Brockmann laid the cornerstone for a uniform visual identity for the Swiss Federal Railways (SBB) with his legendary Visual Information System at Train Stations and Stops. In view of Switzerland’s multilingualism, the manual proposed a signage system that largely did without language; with his functional typography, the...
'Slanted Magazine #47 – Digital Tools' examines the instruments that shape contemporary creative practice. This issue offers a diverse insight into the global creative scene and uses numerous examples to show how digital tools are used. The spectrum ranges from experimental open-source projects and custom scripts to indispensable utilities that...
It took 850 days, 74 tubes of soy ink, 15 colors, 660 masters, 690,000 sheets of paper, 3 fans, 2 riso printers, and 4 people to complete a book – a 360 page book that only talks about 1 thing. The thing that is always the most fascinating is “Process”....
A new urban lifestyle blossomed in Japan in the 1920s and ’30s as cafés, bars, and boutiques selling Western-inspired fare and fashions crowded city streets and people embraced different modes of living. Tokyo was being rebuilt after the great earthquake of 1923, while further south Osaka entered a period...
The signs, street and window displays, and other designs gathered in the pages are from a time of enormous change in Japanese cities that is known as the age of Showa Modern. Western modes and fashions entered Japan’s thriving cultural spheres at a dizzying pace. As advertisements, signs are...
The world's leading architects offer inspiring advice, hard-earned wisdom, and frank opinions in this stylish volume.
Architects see the built world not only for what it is, but for what it could be. This collection of quotes is a window into the field's most visionary minds.
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'Artists Making Books' explores the work of artists who have expanded the boundaries of the book as both an object and a medium of expression. Through exclusive interviews and original essays, the contributors examine the relationships between artists, readers, and collectors, while reflecting on the artistic practices and cultural dynamics...
Raku ware started with the first generation of the Raku family, Chojiro, during the Momoyama period in 16th-century Japan. Since that time, successive generations of the family have continued to pass on the unique tradition and techniques behind the production of these highly sought-after ceramics to the present day. Even...