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Inspired by comic-book culture, Pop art, psychedelia, the space race, sci-fi, Constructivism and Buckminster Fuller, the hugely influential British collective Archigram was the epitome of 1960s avant-garde architecture. Their self-published, lo-fi but materially ingenious magazine Archigram, begun in 1961, announced their ideas for such visionary concepts as "Walking City," "Plug-In City" and "Instant City." It also served to connect the international avant-garde of the 1960s. Archigram forged links with the Metabolists in Japan, Frei Otto, Utopie and Haus-Rucker-Co in Europe, and Buckminster Fuller in the US. They were also championed by critics such as Charles Jencks and Reyner Banham, who brought Archigram's famous fourth pop-up issue to the US in 1966. Today Archigram is one of the rarest major small-press publications of the 1960s, with individual issues selling for a minimum of $600.

Archigram's influence has proved enduring, perhaps most famously in its widely acknowledged impact on Richard Rogers' and Renzo Piano's Centre Pompidou. Its members also taught and influenced the likes of Bernard Tschumi and Zaha Hadid, and inspired a later generation of nineties and noughties modernists embracing the potential of technology such as Future Systems, Foreign Office Architects, Diller Scofidio + Renfro, Anthony Dunne and Fiona Raby.

Shinohara Kazuo is “a key figure who explicitly rejected Western influences yet appears on almost every branch of the family tree of contemporary Japanese architecture.”

Commemorating the centenary of architect Kazuo’s birth, this volume reprints his self-edited 1996 collection of architectural projects, which earned a special award at the 38th...

The only comprehensive volume on James Turrell is back in print--from early prints and light projections to his monumental Roden Crater project.

This definitive book illuminates the origins and motivations of James Turrell's incredibly diverse and exciting body of work--from his Mendota studio days to his monumental work-in-progress Roden Crater....

In the 1960s and ‘70s, Archigram speculated on the nature of architecture in ways that influenced a generation. In an era defined by the space race, the group’s exploration of movable structures and modular systems stretched far beyond known technologies or contemporary realities. Archigram magazine became the platform for exploring...

This book is the first to explore the history of Le Corbusier’s studio at 35 rue de Sèvres in Paris, known as 35S. It looks at the many artists with whom Le Corbusier worked, including Charlotte Perriand, André Wogenscky, Sahakura, Roger Aujame and Pierre Jeanneret. It includes many previously unpublished...

Discover Gabrielle “Coco” Chanel’s vacation villa on the French Riviera, where she entertained the leading lights of the French cultural scene in the 1930s and ’40s.

In 1928, Gabrielle Chanel built La Pausa, a magnificent villa in Roquebrune in the South of France. Designed and decorated by the couturiere herself, it...

Over the past three decades, Vincent Van Duysen has become an important force in design through his expressive architecture and serene interiors. This book documents the source of his inspirations and ongoing laboratory: his own homes.

Vincent Van Duysen has had an outsized influence on the world of architecture and design,...

Defying accepted norms and borrowing influences and materials from folk and craft traditions, Fujimori's architecture is perhaps exemplified by his modest and poetic teahouse, supported by tree trunks, which creates a perch from which he can view the surrounding landscape. Illustrated throughout with photographs, plans and details, this solid production...

"Designed by Rikard Marasović, the Children's Health Resort in Krvavica near Makarska is a legendary building from the 1960s located on the Adriatic coast. Protected as immobile cultural property, this masterpiece of late Modernist architecture has been gradually decaying since the early 2000s. This publication recounts the history of a...

Jan Kaplický (1937-2009) was a visionary architect with a passion for drawing. It was his way of discovering, describing and constructing; and through drawing he presented beguiling architectural imagery of the highest order. Many of his sketches, cutaway drawings and photomontages are brought together and celebrated in this book. These...

An extraordinary work of bookmaking, this is the first and only book from one of the most sought-after architecture and design ateliers in the world.

Known for their discretion, Studio Sofield publishes for the first time here many of its most important houses and retail settings. The firm has originated identities...

The complete Rossi design works, from his Alesssi kettle to a coffee pot based on a floating theater.

Over the course of four decades, the Italian architect and designer Aldo Rossi (1931–97) won international recognition in four distinct areas: architecture, drawing, urban design theory and product design. A part of...

The bestselling volume on the multifaceted career of one of the leading figures in Italian Modernism, now in English.

Gio Ponti (1891-1979) was a giant of Italian Modernism, contributing to a multitude of fields: architecture, industrial design, furniture design, education, art criticism and publishing. From 1923 to 1930, Ponti served...

In the Aoyama district of Tokyo, a mixed-use neighborhood of low-rise buildings where not a square meter of land has been left unoccupied, the Swiss architecture team of Herzog & de Meuron has built a new store for Prada. In this chunky, silvery book, they meticulously illustrate the creative process...

A delightful dymaxion cookbook homage to Buckminster Fuller, featuring John Cage's macrobiotic recipes, Margaret Mead's cucumber salad and more

Buckminster Fuller is globally known as a design scientist, architect, author, poet, engineer and a true visionary. On his 86th birthday he received the cookbook Synergetic Stew as a surprise present...

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...

The Japanese concept Shosa is hard to translate: it’s about the beauty that lies in the repetition of actions and movements, striving for perfection and efficiency in their execution. You can find it in the rituals of a Japanese tea ceremony, but also in the repetition of cleaning actions (like...

An outstanding example of Japanese architecture, Katsura has inspired countless architects from Bruno Taut and Le Corbusier to Tadao Ando and Kenzo Tange, and is often considered a precursor of Modernist tendencies.

Now available in a new format, Katsura Imperial Villa offers an in-depth exploration of the seventeenth-century palace in...

Japanese tea practice begins with a bow. So much mindfulness can be found in that small gesture. The first thing a tea practitioner learns is how to bow. After that, the art of tea unfolds in all its complexity and nuance. This book offers a comprehensive, step-by-step overview of the...

The Spanish architecture firm SelgasCano was founded in 1998 by architects José Selgas and Lucía Cano, who have since built a reputation for their creative use of materials and focus on the relationship between architecture and nature. Following on an earlier issue of ‘El Croquis’ featuring work by the Madrid-based...

Eliasson's ecologically centered installations reckon with the inhospitable desert landscape.

This volume chronicles Danish artist Olafur Eliasson's (born 1967) recent multifaceted site-specific installation in the desert in northern Qatar. The outdoor installation consists of 12 temporary pavilions that serve as an "artistic laboratory." The experiments conducted inside the pavilions use...

The first publication of artist and architect Frederick Kiesler’s epoch-spanning history of human architecture, largely unknown but still relevant.

Magic Architecture was the architect Frederick Kiesler’s most ambitious book project, an epoch-spanning history of human housing from prehistory to the atomic era, submitted to editors after World War II but left...

‘Managing Displacement’ explores the intricate web of migration management within and beyond Europe’s borders. Displaced people and those seeking to inhabit the social, political, and economic imaginaries of “Europe” are met with an increasingly hostile frontier. The confluence of obscure legal processes, rising anti-migrant rhetoric, and reliance on heavily funded...

‘Managing Displacement’ explores the intricate web of migration management within and beyond Europe’s borders. Each book begins with a specific term in order to examine processes that restrict, surveil, or obscure displaced people. Displacement is deeply entangled with legacies of colonialism and ongoing planetary exploitation. Extraction is a process of...

The history of climate change and the history of architecture are connected in many ways: while architects contributed to building the fossil-fuel-driven world that has led to the current ecological collapse, they also explored and developed various alternatives to mitigate the effects of global warming. Using time as a conceptual...

In ‘Space is Politics’, architect and urban planner Hans Teerds shows that space is not merely a prerequisite for political activity – it is political in itself. The design of public spaces such as streets, squares, and parks influences who meets, who participates, and who is excluded. These spaces are...

Our thermal environment is as rich in cultural associations as our visual, acoustic, olfactory, and tactile environments. This book explores the potential for using thermal qualities as an expressive element in building design.

Until quite recently, building technology and design has favored high-energy-consuming mechanical methods of neutralizing the thermal...

Celebrated architect Frida Escobedo’s meditation on how light transforms and shapes the built environment.

Perhaps as ubiquitous as smartphones today, the books of hours were a private necessity in Europe during the Middle Ages. These manuscripts contained collections of texts that were meaningful to each owner, as well as an...

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...

In-depth discussions on bootlegging and its myriad definitions in the creative world.

Over the last few decades, the term "bootlegging"--a practice once relegated to smugglers and copyright infringers--has become understood as a creative act. Debates about homage, appropriation and theft, already common in the art world, are now being held...

In the 1920s, in Northern Italy, the brothers Camillo, Cezaro and Alfonso Bialetti produced in their workshops aluminum household equipment. Renato Bialetti, son of Alfonso, appropriated the family brand, industrialized the production of stovetop coffee makers in the early 1950s, and sold roughly 300 million pots worldwide. Producing clones of...

Clay is back: the age-old craft of ceramics is being embraced by a new generation of urban makers and collectors. This book explores the contemporary revival of pottery, focusing on six inspiring cities, their history and their makers. Twenty-eight passionate ceramicists in New York, London, Tokyo, Copenhagen, Sydney and São...

As is often the case with former colonies, the visual communication language of Cyprus evolved as a pastiche of historical advances, past colonial “debris” and trends, xenomania, and local idioms. Independence in 1960 transformed and enriched its local visual identity. ‘The Simonis’ engages the largely unexplored history of visual communication...

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...