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S,M,L,XL presents a selection of the remarkable visionary design work produced by the Dutch firm Office for Metropolitan Architecture (O.M.A.) and its acclaimed founder,...

Tom Kundig is one of the most sought-after architects working today, known for his extraordinary houses that deeply engage with their surrounding environment. 

Based in the Pacific Northwest, Kundig’s international portfolio includes homes built into rocky sites, dynamic kinetic devices that open walls and roofs, and even moving architecture that...

Alberto Ponis was born in Genoa in 1933 and studied at Florence University, where he qualified as an architect in 1960. In the early 1960s he worked in London with Erno Goldfinger and Denys Lasdun, where he came under the strong―and lasting―influence of the then-dominant modernist and brutalist movements. In...

Set behind the grand houses of Georgian and Victorian London, intimately scaled mews originally served as accommodation for coaches and horses. After the advent of the motorcar in the early twentieth century, these secluded courts and alleys began to be converted for residential use, favoured by artists and bohemians. As they grew...

Peter Ivens is a buzzing and respected name in interior design. The Belgian interior architect is praised for his talent, his timeless style and impeccable realizations. His designs often come about in close collaboration with his partner in crime Bea Mombaers. The two of them have been working together intensively...

This new monograph celebrating 40 years of practice by David Chipperfield Architects is published in double-volume format and covers a cross section of both built and unbuilt work. The monograph highlights several activities led by British Pritzker Prize Laureate Sir David Chipperfield (born 1953) throughout his career. In 1985 he...

Hierarchies of the household: how Palladio composed his iconic villas for collective living.

Visiting the villas of Renaissance architect Andrea Palladio (1508-80), one inevitably asks oneself how people actually occupied them. Palladio conceived his villas as "small towns" (piccole città) that formed a single unit with adjacent service buildings and...

Timber is not only a sustainable material, it also creates warm, welcoming, sheltering spaces that offer an emotional quality to their users. Light on Wood is a very personal story about how to design and build with mass timber. Author Susan H. Jones, a native of the Pacific Northwest with...

The house where Luis Barragán lived until the end of his days embodies a unique expression of the artistic reflections and philosophical pursuits of one of the most iconic architects of the 20th century. In this space, erected for thought and creation, as Alfonso Alfaro aptly puts it, the artistic...

The landmark survey of Judd’s iconic spaces, featuring new drawing details, archival materials and more

This second expanded edition presents an unprecedented visual survey of the living and working spaces of the artist Donald Judd in New York and Texas. Filled with newly commissioned and archival photographs alongside five essays...

Features commentaries from famous architects including Fan Di'an, Kenneth Frampton, Steven Holl, Arata Isozaki, Rem Koolhaas, Thomas Krens, Mohsen Mostafavi, Wang Mingxian Features valuable drawings collected by the Museum of Modern Art, New York, United States Highlights the building of a traditional brick kiln, as well as the past porcelain...

This book, edited by the designer of Shanghai Astronomy Museum, Ennead Architects LLP, is an all-round record of the design and construction process of Shanghai Astronomy Museum, with a foreword written by Ye Shuhua—an astronomer and academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, and a preface by Shanghai Science and...

Twenty-one houses in and around Marfa, Texas, provide a glimpse at creative life and design in one of the art world’s most intriguing destinations.
When Donald Judd began his Marfa project in the early 1970s, it was regarded as an idiosyncratic quest. Today, Judd is revered for his minimalist art and the stringent standards he applied to everything around him, including interiors, architecture, and furniture. The former water stop has become a mecca for artists, art pilgrims, and design aficionados drawn to the creative enclave, the permanent installations called “among the largest and most beautiful in the world,” and the austerely beautiful high-desert landscape.

Japan is a land of earthquakes and typhoons, yet its forests are abundant with durable ‘hinoki’ (cypress) timber. Yutaka Saito’s anthology on the nature, materiality, and history of Japanese architecture examines 29 religious structures and temples. Built for long-lasting endurance, with an architectural continuity that in some instances has been...

This second volume introduces exemplary architectural works spanning the history of Japanese architecture, from medieval Japan to the modern era. Filled with detailed illustrations and photographs, it presents a comprehensive selection of traditional structures and typologies developed in the Muromachi to the Meiji periods, including the shoin (study or library...

An architecture book in a radical new format, ‘MANGARCHITECTURE’ comprises seven short manga stories by seven artists, each based on a different project by Tokyo-based architect Yasutaka Yoshimura. The manga creators use Yoshimura’s work as a springboard for wildly imaginative interpretations that simultaneously hint at new possibilities for architecture....

NP2F is an architectural studio created in 2009 by François Chas, Nicolas Guérin, Fabrice Long and Paul Maitre Devallon. It now has around twenty people spread between Nice and Paris and operates in various cities in France and abroad. The projects on which NP2F works are both architectural and urban...

This book follows the exhibition Life Takes Precedence (La Préséance du Vivant) first presented as part of the second Biennale of Architecture and Landscape of the Île-de-France region. “Planetary Gardener” sets out the main concepts developed by French gardener, botanist and writer Gilles Clément and landscape architects Coloco, showcasing how...

Drawing together many histories--of anatomical evolution and city design, of treadmills and labyrinths, of walking clubs and sexual mores--Rebecca Solnit creates a fascinating portrait of the range of possibilities presented by walking. Arguing that the history of walking includes walking for pleasure as well as for political, aesthetic, and social...

Made in close collaboration with Rams himself, this catalogue raisonné is the ultimate reference on one of the most influential product designers of all time.

Dieter Rams is one of the most influential product designers of the twentieth century, who, for more than sixty years, has been defining the look,...

Essential: A Design Guide for Life by acclaimed Spanish designer Miguel Milá (1931–2024) is a braided narrative weaving artist manifesto with family history with notes on living and living well. Originally published in Spanish as Lo esencial to much success in 2019 and translated into English by the award-winning Valerie...

Rietveld Schröder House: A Biography of the House tells the story of the iconic house and its creators, Truus Schröder (1889-1985) and Gerrit Rietveld (1888-1964). The construction of the house, the designs by 'Schröder & Rietveld Architects', the war years, the renovations and the many family parties: this richly illustrated...

The latest in Silvana's catalogues raisonnés on Italian design appraises the "total design" ethos of Joe Colombo.

The Tube Chair, the Spider lamp and the Boby trolley (now in the collection of MoMA in New York); the "Monoblocks," such as the Mini-Kitchen or the Total Table with its integrated dishes;...

By what means did so much beauty and ingenuity appear in articles of everyday rural life in Portugal? How did the shape of these objects balance necessity and formal perfection so skillfully? This book explores the effect that generations of trial and error, individual craftsmanship, and an instinct to carve...

The definitive exploration of the prolific material, intellectual, cultural, and commercial output of inimitable artist Tom Sachs

A 21st-century creative force, Tom Sachs’s critically acclaimed practice spans sculpture, installation, painting, film, ceramics, and industrial design. The Tom Sachs Guide is the most comprehensive-to-date look at his work, documenting decades of...

Francois Halard's unique photographic sensibility--old-world elegant and bohemian, accessible and personal--is unmistakable. Each image is imbued with the intimate knowledge of design history, each story a lesson in a master's point of view.

This book is a continuation of his last volume of gorgeous photography of grand interiors, artists' studios,...

An ode to the simple, sunny brilliance of the lemon, this is a one-of-a-kind cookbook and collaboration between Ruthie Rogers, the celebrated chef behind London’s River Café, and Ed Ruscha, one of the most influential contemporary artists and bookmakers of our time, who cultivates a lemon grove at his home...