Enamoured with the light of the Mediterranean sun, Can Lis, Jørn Utzon is a visual ode to one of the most iconic homes of the 20th century. An early ideal for design inspired by place, Can Lis rests on a Mallorcan cliff, nearly concealed by the marés stone from which...
Portuguese architect Álvaro Siza says, “It is hard not to build what created the enthusiasm and pleasure of being an architect. But this is not wasted time.” In the unbuilt works collected in this publication, thought, conception, and the timeless heritage of architecture, as well as ideas that through...
An argument against the ideology of domesticity that separates work from home; lavishly illustrated, with architectural proposals for alternate approaches to working and living.
Despite the increasing numbers of people who now work from home, in the popular imagination the home is still understood as the sanctuary of privacy...
Featuring: Camille Henrot, Darius Khondji, Leïla Slimani, Raul Lopez, Wendy Whiteley, Huong Dodinh, Robert Plunket, Catherine Schroeder, Zhou Yilun, Vivian Suter, Deaton Chris Anthony, Erna Aaltonen & Howard Smith, Chilly Gonzales, Dan Friedman, and Steve Bailey. Plus: ‘The Divine Art of Living’, a story by Robert Plunket, ‘14 Stout Men’,...
An intimate look into the architecture and ideas of Bay Area architect Craig Steely via sketchbooks, models and finished projects. Over the years we have become so enamored with Craig’s vision and presence in our lives. An intoxicating energy of positivity and possibilities, light, shadow and life- we are thrilled...
Julia Morgan was truly a pioneer of her time—among other accomplishments, she was the first woman architect to be licensed in California, in 1904. Through her remarkable life and legacy, this book celebrates the Beaux-Arts architecture of...
Ostensibly a collection of writing that sets out Kengo Kuma's theories of architecture, but also an antivolume, antimegastructure, and in some sense anticapitalist, left-field critique of where the architecture world finds itself today.
Point Line Plane is architectural theory, but written as narrative, full of intriguing vignettes, such as the...
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,...
The first complete monograph on the provocative work of influential Italian designer, architect, and critic Alessandro Mendini
Born in Milan in 1931, Alessandro Mendini created vivid, boundary-pushing, eccentric work that sits in an aesthetic universe of its own. He was at the heart of Italy’s Radical design movement in the 1960s and 1970s and, later, Postmodernism, championing a sensitive and intellectual approach to design; he edited Domus magazine in the early 1980s; and he collaborated with brands ranging from Alessi, Swarovski, and Hermès to Supreme. Along with his contemporaries Ettore Sottsass and Gaetano Pesce, Mendini helped to redefine the concept of Italian design and architecture.
In Nonlinear, Kevin Bethune shows us that we can reject trodden paths of digital or physical product creation by taking advantage of a nonlinear approach. To unlock meaningful innovation that breeds new and novel outcomes, he writes, teams need to embark on a journey into the proverbial forest of ambiguity, the result of a rapidly converging, dynamic, and exponentially changing landscape. The journey is less about getting it right or wrong, and more about using the information we have at our disposal to understand our choices and unlock new learning.
An in-depth exploration spanning 800 years of the art, essence, and enduring impact of the Japanese garden.
The most comprehensive exploration of the art of the Japanese garden published to date, this book covers more than eight centuries of the history of this important genre. Author and garden designer Sophie...
A compact and charming history of the beloved handcrafted font by the New York Times best-selling author of Just My Type.
Albertus, first carved on a bronze tablet in the 1930s by German Jewish refugee Berthold Wolpe, has proved to be one of the most enduring handcrafted typefaces in the world....
A compact and charming history of the classic Enlightenment font by the New York Times best-selling author of Just My Type.
When Baskerville was first created in 1757, there was concern that it would damage readers’ eyes with its combination of thin and thick strokes and tapering serifs. Yet 250...
A compact and charming history of the font we love to hate by the New York Times best-selling author of Just My Type.
Since its improvised creation at Microsoft in the mid-1990s, Comic Sans has become one of the most used and talked-about typefaces of the digital age. The subject...
Compiled by Ali Alizadeh, this anthology of commercial graphic design in Iran spans six decades and countless products, from tea, canned goods, and matches to cleaning agents, shoeboxes, chewing gum, vinyl records, and more. Through a wealth of reproductions, as well as archival photographs and portraits of individuals, businesses,...
Founded in 1933 near Asheville, North Carolina, Black Mountain College fostered experimentation and interdisciplinary learning, placing the arts at the heart of its curriculum. As such, the college was home to and served as inspiration for many modern and postmodern American poets. Some of them, including Charles Olson, Robert Creeley,...
There have been countless works written on Jerusalem, often framing it as a holy city central to the three Abrahamic faiths. However, modern accounts of Jerusalem have come to privilege Zionist narratives and claims to the city. Such ideologically motivated representations deny us an understanding of Jerusalem's rich intercommunal traditions...