The first monograph by Japanese architect Suzuko Yamada covers all 37 projects, from her master’s project – the starting point of her career – to her latest work. Alongside descriptions of each project and six essays, the volume features dialogues with architect Ryue Nishizawa, primatologist Juichi Yamagiwa, and structural engineer...
FULLER. Wigley, Mark
Bucky Inc.- Architecture in the Age of Radio
Lars Muller. 2016
Book ID: 97491
Bucky Inc. offers a deep exploration of Richard Buckminster Fuller's work and thought to shed new light on the questions raised by our increasingly electronic world. It shows that Fuller's entire career was...
Architect Sekou Cooke uses personal narratives and interviews to examine the challenges that Black architects face in the United States and their vision for the future.
Black Architect is a provocative and deeply personal investigation into the intersection of race, identity, and the built environment. Written by architect and educator...
“Memoryscapes,” the second volume in the “Architecture Connecting” series, co-published with the Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, examines the role of human narratives in shaping the spaces of tomorrow. Focusing on the intersections of architecture with anthropology, archaeology and geology, the book presents the work of two studios whose practices...
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...
This bestselling volume chronicles one of the most innovative, influential, and beloved architects of the early twentieth century.
Gracefully written and brilliantly illustrated, this handsome new volume captures the vision, the wit, and the down-to-earth inventiveness of one of the most influential and beloved architects of the early twentieth century.
Raised in Greenwich Village and trained in Paris, Maybeck spent most of his long career in northern California. An irrepressible bohemian with no desire to run a large office, he spent much of his time designing houses for friends and family, as well as for other patrons so loyal that they often hired him to design more than one house. Maybeck also created two of the most beautiful buildings in all of California: the exhilarating Church of Christ, Scientist, in Berkeley, and the gloriously romantic Palace of Fine Arts, in San Francisco.
Industrial production is considered one of the biggest sources of pollution in the world. In 2020, Norwegian furniture manufacturer Vestre decided to prove that a different future is possible. Together with architects from the Danish Bjarke Ingels Group (BIG), Vestre drew up plans for a green factory deep in the...
Dense observation of the landscape, climate, culture, and existing uses and patterns of the site were worked out in conversation with the client’s mission to mitigate environmental challenges; Faulkner Archi-tects brings together site and home both phenomenologically in the design and technologically through sustainable features and practices.
Technically a remodel,...
An investigative record of the architectural movement emblematic of the Soviet Orient.
Given its geographical location, developed resources and multicultural history, Tashkent, the capital of Uzbekistan, continues to be one of the most important centers of Central Asia. Since the Soviet era, numerous efforts have been made to conserve and...
A pathbreaking overview of contemporary Albanian architecture and the international firms contributing to the country’s new landscape.
Albania has been shaped by past eras and absorbed a rich mix of religious, cultural and architectural influences―Islamic, Christian Orthodox, Catholic and secular. Following the collapse of the dictatorial regime in 1992, a...
An investigation into the complex politics of data centers, through photographs and essays.
Often hidden in plain sight, data centers are the backbone of our internet. They store, communicate and transport the information we produce and access daily along invisible pathways. The industry of data centers comes entwined with an...
From an acclaimed architect and investigator, a devastating, meticulous accounting of Israel’s destruction of Gaza and crimes against its people.
Eyal Weizman is one of the world’s leading experts on the relationship between violence, conflict, and the built and natural environment. As director of the organization Forensic Architecture, he and his...
Reuse in Teaching focuses on the highly topical issue of the adaptive reuse and transformation of buildings. The premise is that even though refurbishing and recycling buildings is gradually becoming part of mainstream practice, the education of future architects is lagging behind. Dealing with existing buildings in an academic context...
An inspirational and insightful resource for architecture students and professionals that offers a new way of thinking about the architecture to meet the challenges of the twenty-first century.
Inspired by the complexity and heterogeneity of the world around us, and by the rise of new technologies and their associated behavior,...
What does built antifascism look like? And who builds antifascist architecture?
Architects, historians, and theorists have had a weird obsession with fascist architecture since postmodernism. Why? And who are the antifascist architects? What does antifascist architecture look like? Antifascist Architecture is the first attempt at creating a working definition of antifascist...
Lyrical meditations on life, work and hopes for the future from the beloved architect and polymath Buckminster Fuller.
First published in 1976, issued in a new edition in 2008, and now back in print, And It Came to Pass--Not to Stay brings together a selection of Buckminster Fuller's (1895-1983) lyrical...
The author of Handbook of Tyranny offers an unflinching yet ultimately optimistic critique of America’s past, present and future.
On July 4, 2026, the United States will celebrate 250 years since the adoption of the Declaration of Independence. Adopting a stance from the other side of the Atlantic Ocean, Theo...
For decades, Walter Käch’s Lettering (1949) served as a vital handbook for practitioners and students of type design in Switzerland and beyond. Its lessons helped shape the distinctive forms and ethos of mid-century design, leading to the development of influential typefaces such as Univers and Helvetica. Until now, this historic type textbook has been notoriously out of print.
Käch was ahead of his time, and his suggestions remain relevant for our current age of Bezier curves and pixels. Today’s readers can learn by tracing: Käch taught designers how to look for elements in the construction of letters that could be modified and built upon, allowing for the smooth development of typeface families. One of the richest places to find these elements, for Käch, was the history of writing itself, and he encouraged his students to recycle past motifs to unlock new design potential.
A type specimen is a document used by printers and type founders to present their catalogues. Initially produced as single sheets, it evolved into books as industrialization and rising literacy expanded typographic styles. Today, specimens mostly exist in digital form. This publication is both a type specimen and an atlas:...
Helvetica is a sans-serif typeface. It is simple and clean, and commonly seen in advertising, signage, and literature. The R has a curved leg, and the i and j have square dots. The Q has a straight angled tail, and the counterforms inside the O, Q, and C are oval....
Yann Chateigné, Hila Peleg, and Kitty Scott | Canadian Center for Architecture, Koenig Books
This book unpacks the comprehensive Gordon Matta-Clark collection at the CCA (CP138), opening it up to provisional readings from different points of view. Yann Chateigné reorganizes Matta-Clark’s library into areas of inquiry, from alchemy to psychoanalysis,...