The Climate Imaginary

Leire Asensio Villoria & David Mah

The Climate Imaginary brings reflects on a global collection of design works that are engaged with the social, political and cultural transformations anticipated with climate change.

Forest First

Kiel Moe

The book explores non extractive building by prioritizing forests and their dynamics, emphasizing a regenerative relationship between timber construction and forest health.

Mixed Reality Fabrication

Gwyllim Jahn

Mixed Reality Fabrication redefines processes of making by enabling traditional craft, improvised prototyping, and material experimentation to occur within immersive digital environments

Alternative Nature

Jungyoon Kim & Yoonjin Park

This is the first English publication of PARKKIM, Seoul and Boston based landscape architectural practice founded in 2004.

Architecture's Kinships

Ignacio G. Galán

Architecture shapes and embodies complex social and environmental articulations. It is not the container and representation of pre-packaged relationships, but a medium for motley associations.

Data. Energy. Matter.

David Serero

Architecture, as a living organism, establishes a relationship between beings and their environment, where the notions of energy, breathing and light are the vectors for the conception of spaces

Significant Impact

Caitlin Blanchfield, Nina V. Kolowratnik and Ophelia Rivas

This book documents the impact of U.S. surveillance infrastructure on the Tohono O’odham Nation, challenging militarized environmental assessments and Western land protocols

Arctic Practices

Bert De Jonghe and Elise Misao Hunchuck

Arctic Practices: Design for a Changing World is an edited volume framing plural understandings of an accelerated and amplified environment, the Arctic

Building Metabolism

Areti Markopoulou, Lydia Kallipoliti

How can we design an architecture of metabolism? How can architecture redefine resources, generate nutrients, and contribute to land regeneration while protecting communities at risk?

Matter Matters (ENG. ED)

Olga Subirós ed.

Matter Matters reflects on the current environmental and social crises through the lens of materiality

Climatic Architecture

Philippe Rahm

This book is at the same time a monograph on the architectural, urbanistic and landscape work of the office "Philippe Rahm architectes", a manifesto for a climatic architecture to face global warming.

Future or Eclipse of Criticism

Lina Malfona, with Lucia Giorgetti, Cecilia Marcheschi and Elisa Barsanti

Has architectural criticism disappeared for good or has it adapted to the pressures, exigencies, and fashions of the present?

Post Like

Eduard Fernández, Arnau Pascual, Marina Povedano and Laura Solsona

The POST LIKE editorial reflects on curating the 1st Young Architecture Biennial of Catalonia, emphasising a renewed and collective architectural discourse

Ishinomaki Laboratory

Keiji Ashizawa, Naoki Terada, Karen Orton, Takahiro Chiba, Rebekah Cheng, Joël Vacheron, Hiroshi Kato

Ishinomaki Laboratory was born in the aftermath of the Great East Japan Earthquake in 2011

Layering the City

Rui Leão, F. Carlotta Bruni, LBA

LBA Architecture and Planning is an architectural practice based in Macau specializing in designing projects that integrate contemporary architecture with the historical and cultural context

Shifting Grounds

Carla Aramouny and Sandra Frem

Unique in its context, Beirut has been an ideal laboratory for social practices that characterize its urban culture and shape the experience of the city at ground level.

Denise Scott Brown

Denise Scott Brown

A visual journey through Denise Scott Brown’s 1955 honeymoon in Illyria, a region of the Balkans between Albania and the former Yugoslavia, with her first husband, Robert Scott Brown

Lines of Development

Cameron Wu

Lines Of Development traces the history of ruled surface geometries and their relationship to architectural design and practice.

Bios in Search of Zoe

Assia Crawford

The graphic novel seeks to answer the questions: What types of societal changes are necessary for wide scale environmental application?, as well as, What does a Post-Anthropocene society entail?

Dacheng Flour Factory

Doreen Heng LIU

This book traces the atypical journey of the Dacheng Flour Factory as a significant industrial heritage in Shenzhen's Shekou Industrial Zone.

Revitalizing Japan

Mohsen Mostafavi, Kayoko Ota (eds.)

This book features innovative and productive responses to the shift in Japan’s social condition under demographic changes that are evident in regional cities

Felix Candela From Mexico City to Chicago

Alexander Eisenschmidt

Felix Candela, one of the most important and iconic architects of the 20th century, became world-renowned for his many captivating concrete-shell structures in Latin America and across the globe.

No Time, No Space

Massimiliano Fuksas

Massimiliano Fuksas always says that he would like to be able to design an architecture without time and space; he has certainly been searching for it for fifty years.

/People

Theo Lorenz, Tanja Siems

/People explores how individuals can work across multiple disciplines instead of following a single, specialised path

We Have Never Been Private

Ioanna Piniara

This research challenges neoliberal housing privatization, arguing that the state consistently collaborated with the market to shape a pedagogy of domestic privacy.

4°C Entre Toi et Moi

Philippe Rahm and Sana Frini

3e biennale d’architecture et de paysage d’Île-de-France / 3rd biennial of architecture and landscape of Île-de-France

BROISSIN Architects, 25 Years In Silver

Gerardo Broissin Covarrubias, José Luis Alvarez Tinajero, and Thelma Blake

A radical retrospective that dissects 25 years of architectural production through 58 built projects and 30 provocative texts of BROISSIN Architects.

Lujo e Intimidad / Luxury and Intimacy

Andres Escobar

A study of Andrés Escobar’s residential architecture as introspective luxury—exceptional design rooted in its material and environmental context

8 Minutes, 20 Seconds

Michael Bell and Eunjeong Seong

Energy generated by nuclear fusion of the Sun reaches the surface of the Earth in 8 minutes and 20 seconds.

City Science

Ramon Gras, Jeremy Burke

This book illuminates the relationship between a city’s spatial design and quality of life it affords for the general population.

Histories of Ecological Design

Lydia Kallipoliti

This book documents the intersection of architecture and design with ecology, environmental history, policy, governance and law from the 19th century to today.

Valletta – Accra

David Kojo Derban, Ann Dingli, Guillaume Dreyfuss, Erica Giusta

Four essays survey two port cities in parallel – Valletta, Malta and Accra, Ghana.

Re-imagining Modern Architecture: Emilio Duhart, 1940-1970 (ENG. ED)

Evelyn Meynard

This book presents an essential selection from the portfolio of Emilio Duhart H. (1917-2006), a pivotal figure in Chilean architecture.

The Biopolitical Garden

Paola Viganò

The book discusses the ways in which the project can critically contribute to an affirmative biopolitical action of substantial emancipation.

African Fabbers Atlas

Paolo Cascone

How to respond to climatic changes reconciling nature with tekné? What is the social role of technology? How architects would reconsider their practices supporting community-oriented projects?

Neglected Dimensions

Paul Carter

How public space is produced is one of the great enigmas of democratic society.

Spatialization Takes Command. Metaverse Urbanism

Firas Safieddine

This book is a seminal work at the intersection of technology, media, uIt irbanism, the future of the built environment, and life as we live it.

Valldaura 1150-2025

Robert Álvarez Masalias, Vicente Guallart Furió

La seqüència de propietaris de Valldaura va de la mà de l’evolució de la història de Catalunya i explica com el govern i la gestió del territori passà d’uns grups humans a uns altres.

Arquitectura #389

Javier García-Germán & Alejandro Valdivieso

For the United Nations social inclusion is the process that guarantees that all people have the opportunity to fully participate in society.

Dispositional Intelligence in Architecture

José Aragüez

Dispositional Intelligence proposes a contemporary theory of spatial organization in architecture through original research into a particular kind of hybrid design production

Arquitectura #388

Javier García-Germán & Alejandro Valdivieso

How will Madrid's climate change by 2050? What will the energy sources be like then? How can Madrid be transformed to adapt to this climate?

Robotic Translations

Daniela Atencio

At its most ambitious, the discussion is about the past and future of architecture and its encounter with technology, addressing with a sense of urgency the actual local conditions where it operates

The ReView: What is affordable?

Andrea Bardon de Tena

Presenting the work of Tulane School of Architecture over the past years in response to contemporary concerns and challenges

The ReView: Common Good

Patricia Fraile Garrido

The ReView Common Good is an invitation to rethink how we design, build and teach in service of something greater than ourselves

Housing in the Metropolitan Area of Barcelona (EN ED.)

IMPSOL

This is an important shift in social housing proposals in the metropolitan area of Barcelona, where there has not been as much architectural innovation in this sector in the last half century.

Major

RMIT, Vivian Mitsogianni, Tom Muratore, John Doyle, Amy Muir, Mietta Mullaly & Liam Oxlade

This publication contains a selection of RMIT Master of Architecture independent graduating projects from seven semesters between 2019 and 2022.

Bio/Matter/Techno/Synthetics

Franca Trubiano, Susan Kolber, Marta Llor, Maria Jose Fuentes, Amber Farrow

Collectively, B/M/T/S challenges the common place nature of ideas founded in parametricism, object- oriented ontology, parafictional realism, post-digital representations, and corporate functionalism.

Viviendas para el Patronato de Casas Militares / Dwellings for the Military Housing Trust

Javier García-Germán, Ricardo Sánchez Lampreave and Alejandro Valdivieso

The book traces the history of the building, from the demolition of the former Hospital de la Princesa, the first attempts to build a housing complex for military personnel

A Village and its Double (ENG ED.)

Dominique Perrault

Part lecture book, part urban planning manual, the book explores the transformation of a neighborhood into an integral part of Greater Paris.

The Right to Nature (ENG ED.)

Emanuele Bortolotti, Paolo Palmulli with Alessandro Frigerio

In dialogue with other architects and committees, the book underlines the importance of a shared quality of the daily urban landscape as a key quality of our contemporary cities., The Right to nature explores the right to nature as a new landscape culture through examples, reflections, and projects designed by AG&P greenscape.

MOS Laboratory

Michael Meredith, Hilary Sample, MOS

This book presents the 32 projects selected and built by the architects who worked together toward creating a community for Apan, presenting a model of Housing as a Garden.

Gilardi House (ENG ED.)

José Luis Alvarez Tinajero, Martín Luque Pérez

This book will thoroughly document Luis Barragan´s last project, the Casa Gilardi, an emblem of Mexican architecture.

The Joy of Sharing

Han Nefkens Foundation

Twenty-five writers inspired by videos produced by the Han Nefkens Foundation over the past twenty-five years

Houses in Forest Clearings

Luis Callejas

One hundred photographs of houses in clearings by Luis Callejas, accompanied by drawings and three parallel conversations between the author and Matteo Ghidoni, Elisa Cattaneo, and Jørgen Tandberg.

Intimate Spaces

Miaden Jadrić

Three presented projects reflect three different rhythms of life of three families between their privacy and the public.

New York_Global

Richard Plunz

Framed by the period of the Great Acceleration, these writings and projects represent a critical commentary on the state of architecture and urbanism and their causal role in global metamorphosis.

RZLBD Pack

RZLBD (Reza Aliabadi)

Today architecture has turned into a mere media device at the service of external forces. What used to be a source of inspiration, now has become the subject of speculation, and show business.

Participatory Design Thinking in Architecture & Urban Planning

John Odhiambo Onyango

This book provides literature of the social movements that led to the rise of alternative design methods and examines the methodologies used and how they contribute to best practice in place-making.

Climate Inheritance

Rania Ghosn & El Hadi Jazairy / DESIGN EARTH

Climate Inheritance is a speculative design research publication that reckons with the complexity of world and heritage in the Anthropocene.

Urbanismo regenerativo (SP ED.)

Landlab, Paisaje Transversal

Regenerative urbanism is a methodology for transforming cities and territories, adapting them to the ecological, economic, and social challenges ahead.

Japan Story Pack

Mohsen Mostafavi, Kayoko Ota (eds.)

What is the future of urbanization? What role can design play in shaping that future? What will happen to the conflicting tensions between urban and rural?

Cohousing in Barcelona (ENG ED.)

David Lorente, Tomoko Sakamoto, Ricardo Devesa, Marta Bugés (eds.)

This book is a collection of cooperative housing projects in Barcelona, ​​built and under construction

Rethinking Suburbs

Khaled Alawadi

Rethinking suburbs provides answers to how can we design and plan neighborhoods in which non-motorized mobility is a viable and efficient alternative.

The Loop Project

Mias Architects

This book collects the work of the MIAS studio over twenty years.

Cities & Rivers (ENG ED.)

Iñaki Alday, Margarita Jover, Jesús Arcos, Francisco Mesonero

Public spaces, architecture and urban studies that incorporate natural dynamics as the floods with some normality in the urban context.

Leaf Plan

Mosè Ricci and Sara Favargiotti

This book presents comprehensive design approaches to address climate change, urban regeneration, cohabitation through new modes of urban design based on criteria of flexibility and adaptability.

Soil Lab

Eibhlín Ní Chathasaigh, James Martin, Anne Dorthe Vester, Maria Bruun

This anthology is a critical reflection on the making of Soil Lab, a project built with a community in North Lawndale, Chicago.

Buildings & Living Things

Mauro Baracco, Louise Wright

This book documents the materiality and spaces of the Garden House by Baracco+Wright reflect on the dialogue of building, life and systems conceived in an ongoing project of environmental repair.

Knowing and Unknowing

Mauro Baracco, Louise Wright

This book documents the artworks of the exhibition Repair, Australian Pavilion, 16th International Architecture Exhibition, La Biennale di Venezia 2018

Tracé Bleu (ENG ED.)

Architecturestudio

Tracé bleu is a forward-looking approach that questions the ecological and social challenges facing our inhabited environments.

Public Space in Metropolitan Barcelona (ENG ED.)

Merging City and Nature (ENG ED.)

Batlleiroig

Committed to the environment and involved in searching for solutions to solve our planet's climate emergency, at Batlleiroig we have been talking about Landscape and Nature since our foundation.

TdB Architects (ENG ED.)

Juan Trias de Bes

TdB Architects accredits extensive experience in the field of building and urban planning since 1992.

Urban Mix (ENG ED.)

Stéphane Lemoine / AP5

Essay on the devices and attitudes observable in urban crossroads of 8 major world cities. The exploration focuses on the movements of all mobiles and the resulting choreographies.

Inventory

Sebastian Adamo & Marcelo Faiden

This book compiles Adamo-Faiden's inventory along with the inventions this body of work distills.

The Caring City

Izaskun Chinchilla

The Caring City opens up an extensive field of alternatives that can present a uniting vision of the economy, the environment and the health of a diverse community.

The Live Centre of Information (ENG ED.)

Boris Hamzeian

When Jean Prouvé presented the winning design of the future Centre Pompidou in Paris, the project’s idea of a “Live Centre of Information” was denigrated as a “metallic dam” in the heart of Paris

UnEarthed. Second Nature. PolliNATION

Anne-Lise K. Velez, Enric Ruiz-Geli

A collaborative student led projects from the Virginia Tech Honors College addressing real world challenges across time sectors and scales

Foundations of Urban Design

Marcel Smets

The book is structured into twenty-nine essays, each dedicated to a pair of urbanistic concepts.

The Mannerist Mind

Francisco González de Canales

Departing from a discussion on what it would be a mannerist attitude in the architecture of today, and theorizing around it, this book analyzes some works of contemporary European practices.

Geospaces

Alper Derinboğaz

Geospaces is an extended visual essay of ideas, images, drawings and projects that follows the work of Alper Derinboğaz over the past decade.

Cuca de Llum

Mias Architects & Leitner

This book describes the design process of the new Cuca de Llum funicular in Tibidabo Park, Barcelona.

A House Deconstructed

Mark Jarzombek, Vikramaditya Prakash

This book ‘deconstructs’ a single recently constructed house located in Seattle, WA, in an attempt to recover its backstory.

Hybrid Factory, Hybrid City

Nina Rappaport

The book is a compilation of essays from a symposium Hybrid Factory/Hybrid City that Nina Rappaport convened with Future Urban Legacy Lab at the Politecnico di Torino in February 2020.

Spatial Infrastructure

José Aragüez

This book recasts architectural thinking as a form of knowledge by addressing a number of fundamental questions relevant to the reading of works across styles, time-periods, and geographic boundaries.

Plug-ins

Ezio Manzini, Albert Fuster, Roger Paez

This book’s central argument is that plug-ins, situated design outcomes that aim to enrich the complex system of the city and expand its potentialities.

E+U: Espinet Ubach Architects (ENG ED.)

Espinet/Ubach Arquitectes

Espinet/Ubach belongs to the generation of the 70s. His work notebooks, which will be present in the book, are considered authentic Storyboards of the construction

Design for Biocities

Vicente Guallart, Laia Pifarré (eds.)

A global reflection to rethink human settlements at a time when our natural environments and the human habitats are more clearly intertwined

The ReView

Iñaki Alday / Tulane School of Architecture

This book tries to communicate the pedagogical project and some of the lines of research of the Tulane School of Architecture (TuSA) through the work, mostly visual, of its students and professors.

UNIDENTIFIED FLYING OBJECT FOR CONTEMPORARY ARCHITECTURE (ENG ED.)

Beatrice Lampariello, Andrea Anselmo, Boris Hamzeian (eds.)

"UNIDENTIFIED FLYING OBJECT for contemporary architecture" is the first monographic publication focused on the Florentine UFO group (1968-1978)

Blue

Malkit Shoshan

Focusing on two missions and four cities in Liberia and Mali, BLUE: Architecture of UN Peacekeeping Missions charts and uncovers spatial realities produced by the UN in mission areas.

Climax Change!

Pedro Gadanho

Climax Change! represents the much-needed overview of how climate change and the current environmental emergency will affect the practice of architecture.

Supertight

Graham Crist & John Doyle

Supertight is an exploration of high-density urban life and reducing the footprint of cities through adaptations in design and behaviour.

Geostories

Rania Ghosn & El Hadi Jazairy / DESIGN EARTH

How do we make sense of the Earth at a moment in which it is presented in crisis?

My Name Is Universe (ENG ED.)

Toni Pou

This is a book of interviews with internationally renowned personalities through which some of the layers of knowledge included in the Periodic Table are revealed.

Post DomestiCity

Diego García-Setién, Enrique Espinosa, Begoña de Abajo, Almudena Ribot / CoLaboratorio

PostDomestiCity explores and speculates from contemporaneity about the post-industrial city obsolescence.

Nature of Enclosure

Jeffrey S. Nesbit

This book interrogates the role of architecture and urbanization in a post-pandemic society, to discuss topics from closed forms of capital to the exclusive boundaries of environment and politics.

Out of the Ordinary

John Ronan

This publication on the work of John Ronan Architects explores the firm’s spatial-material approach to architecture and the underlying themes of its typologically diverse output.

Monsoon as Method

Lindsay Bremner, Beth Cullen, Christina Leigh Geros, Harshavardhan Bhat, Anthony Powis, John Cook, Tom Benson

Edited volume by Monsoon Assemblages, a European Research Council funded research project. It combines critical texts with cartography, photography and ethnography to present the project’s methodology

Ambiguous Territory

Cathryn Dwyre, Chris Perry, David Salomon, Kathy Velikov (eds.)

Ambiguous Territory brings together the work of over forty architects, landscape architects, artists, and historians engaged in an exploration of art and design

MCHAP The Americas 2

Florencia Rodríguez (ed.)

New approaches to nature, landscape, and territory were key in the jury’s and architect’s architecture discussions during the second cycle of the MCHAP prize.

Inventing Greenland

Bert De Jonghe

Inventing Greenland reveals and anticipates transitional moments in the region’s highly intertwined urbanized, militarized, and touristic landscapes.

Outdoor Domesticity (ENG ED.)

Ricardo Devesa

The relationships of contiguity between houses and trees have existed since ancient times. However, at the end of the 19th century those links became explicit in the design process.

Systems Upgrade

Leire Asensio Villoria & David Mah

A deep study of legacy material artifacts, through the lens of contemporary digital design can constitute a valuable bridge between design history and contemporary creative practice.

Green Obsession

Stefano Boeri Architetti

Green Obsession traces the long path that architect Stefano Boeri and his studio - Stefano Boeri Architetti - have followed in the last fifteen years of practice.

Miàs: The Making of Making (architecture)

Josep Miàs

This catalogue shows the exhibition “The making of making (architecture)” by MIAS architects, exhibited at the Design Museum of Barcelona

Designing Resilience in Asia

Oscar Carracedo García-Villalba

The Designing Resilience in Asia two volume book makes an important and timely contribution towards urban resilient responses in the era of rapid urbanization and climate change

Vacant Spaces NY

Michael Meredith, Hilary Sample, MOS

Vacant Spaces NY documents vacant spaces in New York City. Organized from large to small, general to specific, vacancy in the United States to case studies of specific vacancies in Manhattan.

Carlos Ferrater + OAB 2022 Pack

This compendium assembles 2 volumes that explore the complete works by Carlos Ferrater and Office of Architecture in Barcelona.

OAB 2022

Carlos Ferrater & Partners

OAB draws on the collaborative nature of the Carlos Ferrater previous studio, incorporating new ways of understanding the contributions of each team member

Carlos Ferrater

Carlos Ferrater

First and complete monograph on the career of Carlos Ferrater. His early buildings showed how the expression of modern architecture.

Behavioral Formation.

Roland Snooks

Emergent processes of formation create intensive, volatile, intricate, complex phenomena.

Variable Geometry

Marco Casamonti / Archea Associatti

Archea Associati’s interests and research activities move from the landscape to the city, from building to design and from exhibitions to applied research.

Golconde

Pankaj Vir Gupta, Christine Mueller, Cyrus Samii

Golconde is an astonishing architectural accomplishment. Here exists an undiluted view of a wholly triumphant tropical Modernism, built during the tumultuous years of the second world war.

Strange Objects, New Solids and Massive Things

Winka Dubbeldam, Archi-Tectonics

The object as solid, having three dimensions, is not just a different formal trend, but a paradigm shift; a reconceiving of how the architectural object is produced and experienced.

Lewerentz Fragments

Jonathan Foote, Hansjörg Göritz, Matthew Hall, Nathan Matteson

The publication Lewerentz Fragments introduces new scholarship on the architect’s motivations and compiles new essays from all the major scholars on his work.

X!? 2010-2020 TEN YEARS OODA (ENG ED.)

João Rapagão

More than presenting and dissecting the work of the practice, this book is an adventure in technical and artistic exchanges

Residentialism

Lina Malfona

This book tells the story of the making of a community, which occurred hand-in-hand with the building of an archipelago of residences in the countryside north of Rome.

Ideología Construída

Fernando Grasa

Within the Mediterranean construction tradition, sacred architecture has always played a very prominent role.

Portals

Amy Catania Kulper, Kevin Crouse, Jennifer Liese (eds.)

Considers the pandemic and the remote pedagogy it occasioned globally in schools of architecture, as a critical threshold to future architectural pedagogy.

States of Entanglement

ANNEX / Sven Anderson, Alan Butler, David Capener, Donal Lally, Clare Lyster, Fiona McDermott

Investigates how data production and consumption territorialize the physical landscape filtered through Ireland’s role in global communications

Pan-Arab Modernism 1968-2018

Dalal Musaed Alsayer, Ricardo Camacho, Sara Saragoça Soares

this book comes to fill two voids in the literature on Middle Eastern architecture: one is in practice and the other is in history.

Another Kind

David Leventhal, Lee Polisano, PLP Architecture

PLP Architecture presents ten projects as case studies to examine the emergence of a new typological fluidity. These projects serve as anchors to survey the cultural landscape of the past ten years

Responsive Environments

Allen Sayegh, Stefano Andreani

The entanglement of physical contexts with digital environments is constantly changing our relationship with the surrounding space and creating new hybrid experiences.

Design for Living

Vicente Guallart

The IAAC calls its 8th Advanced Architecture Contest titled “Design for Living,” an opportunity for a global reflection to rethink human habitats

MIAS Architects at Centre Pompidou

Josep Miàs

As a kid who wanted to be an architect you could either make clay shapes, drag pieces of driftwood into vague boxes - or put together Meccano cages.

Geometric Taxonomy (ENG ED.)

Ignacio Paricio

Geometric Taxonomy gets closer to the geometries of Carlos Ferrater that are present in timeless architecture, the elemental forms that inspired modernity a hundred years ago

InnovatiON-Architecture

Eduardo Gutiérrez, Jordi Fernández, Ricardo Devesa, ON-A Laboratorio de Arquitectura.

This book exposes and collects the innovations developed through 15 years of work at ON-A, through lengthy conversations with its founders and directors

RCR at Centre Pompidou

Rafael Aranda, Carme Pigem, Ramon Vilalta

Seven projects by RCR arquitectes, 2017 Pritzker Prize winner, which are seven folded posters inside a folder with a textbook.

Mute Icons

Marcelo Spina, Georgina Huljich/ P-A-T-T-E-R-N-S

Interrogating historical, contemporary, and speculative images, the book aims to construct a viable alternative to the icon’s cliché.

Enric Majoral : The Expanded Jewellery (ENG ED.)

Maia Creus, Martín Azúa

The book presents a selection of significant pieces and large-format works of Enric Majoral, from their origins in the 1980s until today

The Ecologies of the Building Envelope

Alejandro Zaera-Polo, Jeffrey S. Anderson

we investigate the historical lineages of the performances, components, assembly types, and material entanglements that constitute the contemporary building envelope.

Mobile Theater (ENG ED.)

Fernando Quesada

this book traces the architectural counterculture of that time and the relations with the alternative performing arts

The Arsenal of Exclusion & Inclusion

Tobias Armborst, Daniel D'Oca, Georgeen Theodore / Interboro

A book about accessibility in the built environment in the United State

Terra-Sorta-Firma

Fadi Masoud

Terra-Sorta-Firma documents the global extent of reclaimed coastal lands, and provides a framework for comparison across varying geographies, cultures, and histories.

The Threefold Logic of Advanced Architecture

Manuel Gausa, Jordi Vivaldi

This work proposes a threefold cultural narrative whose interactive and informational logic differs from that of modernity and postmodernity.

Kind of Boring

Paul Preissner

Paul Preissner rejects the idea that architecture should demand anything from its audience. The “boring and dumb” architecture documented in this book leaves us alone.

Disruptive Urbanism, Glocal Urbanity (ENG ED.)

J. ACEbillo

This book proposes a new model of Glocal Urbanity to replace the degraded urban situation from the post-Fordist transition to current globalization.

Unless

Kiel Moe

This book presents a terrestrial description of the Seagram Building. It aims to describe how humans and nature interact with the thin crust of the planet.

Shared Structures. Private Spaces (ENG ED.)

Fernanda Canales

A case study that analyzes the relationship between ideas and houses, this book focuses on 100 years of housing projects in Mexico.

Traversées (FR ED.)

Dominique Coulon

The writing of Dominique Coulon & Associés reflects the agency’s work in connection with different contextual postures and the construction of complex spatial relationships.

Andrea Branzi (ENG ED.)

Elisa C. Cattaneo

From radical research to contemporary design, this book collects Andrea Branzi’s work about city-design and a new opportunity to interpret and anticipate the next dynamics of society

Projective Ecologies

Chris Reed & Nina-Marie Lister

The past two decades have witnessed a resurgence of ecological ideas and ecological thinking in discussions of urbanism, society, culture, and design

Architecture in Effect (Two volumes)

Sten Gromark, Jennifer Mack, Roemer van Toorn, Hélène Frichot with Gunnar Sandin & Bettina Schwalm

Architecture in Effect presents research on the co-constitution of architecture and the social by addressing concrete problems and forwarding explorative theories and methodologies

Architecture As Measure

Neyran Turan

In an era when humans are described as geological agents, architecture is a measure both to assess and to act upon the world. That’s why this book is called Architecture as Measure.

Wood Urbanism

Daniel Ibáñez, Jane Hutton, Kiel Moe

Wood holds unique and timely lessons for urbanization, yet it remains inadequately characterized in architecture, landscape architecture, and urbanism.

China Lab Guide to Megablock Urbanism

Jeffrey Johnson, Cressica Brazier, Tat Lam

the Columbia GSAPP China Lab aims to document a wider conversation on the policies and collective experiences of large-scale development and advances of China’s urban future.

Houston Genetic City

Peter Zweig, Matthew Johnson, Jason Logan

Houston represents an evolving city type. No longer formal, axial, or planned, it is instead based on heuristics, on trial-and-error, on ad hoc strategies.

Superground / Underground

Manuel Gausa,  Young Joon Kim

The concept of n-ground or multi-ground applied to Seoul recalls a new qualitative development which responds to the possibility to superimpose a new dense floor in the old infrastructures

Pure Space (ENG ED.)

Elisa Silva

The publication is not intended to serve only as a catalogue, guide, or manual on how to produce public space in spontaneous settlements. Rather, it goes beyond the aims of an index of best practices.

Design with Life

Mitchell Joachim, Maria Aiolova / Terreform ONE

In the challenging context of accelerating climate dynamics, the core discipline of architectural design is evolving and embracing new forms of action

Empire, State & Building

Kiel Moe

This book considers the material basis of building as a key impetus of both urbanization and the energetics of urban life.

Operative Mapping

Roger Paez

The book’s fundamental aim is to offer a methodological contribution to the design disciplines, both in conceptual and instrumental terms.

Landscape as Territory

Clara Olóriz Sanjuan

addresses the agency of architects understanding the notion of ‘territory’ as a field of design praxis through.

Blueprint for a Hack

Vikram Bhatt, David Harlander, Susane Havelka

Over five days, some 60 residents of a northern village teamed with designers from southern Quebec to conceive and build an outdoor community pavilion that activates a central recreational area.

Future Tempos

Lluís Ortega

In the continuous effort to make architecture public, technology plays a fundamental role.

WWW Drawing

Janet Abrams, Mehrdad Hadighi, Daniel Cardoso Llach ,  Andrew Heumann, Jürg Lehni et al.

WWW Drawing explores architectural drawing in relation to technique and technology. What is the role of drawing for architecture, in a digital age?

Geometry, Simplicity, Play

Mauro Baracco, Louise Wright

The book focused in particular to the sense of ‘conceptual simplicity’, playfulness and geometry that inform Magistretti’s work,

Under the Influence

Ana Miljački, Mario Carpo, Alexander D’Hooghe and others

The book is based on the eponymous symposium, which brought together scholars and practitioners of architecture in order to focus on one of the most anxious disciplinary topics: influence.

Vertical Urban Factory

Nina Rappaport

Focuses on the spaces of production in cities both the modernist period and today and the technologies that have contributed to shifts in factory architecture, manufacturing, and urban design

Open City

Almudena Ribot, Enrique Espinosa, Diego García-Setién, Begoña de Abajo, Gaizka Altuna / CoLaboratorio

Open City explores and speculates from contemporaneity about the future of the post-industrial city

100 Rooms

RZLBD (Reza Aliabadi)

After his book The Empty Room, RZLBD (Reza Aliabadi) elaborates the same theme with one hundred iterations of a square room, each of which tells a different story of the emptiness between the walls

The Empty Room

Reza Aliabadi / RZLBD

Part aphorism and part manifesto, this book by Canadian architect Reza Aliabadi (RZLBD) references his ideas and thoughts about space

Nowness Files: 2012-2018

Wiel Arets, Vedran Mimica, Lluís Ortega

Nowness Files charts the evolution of the College of Architecture at the Illinois Institute of Technology, under the deanship of distinguished architect Wiel Arets, from 2012-2018.

Floppy Logic

Leanne Zilka

An exploration into fashion and textiles, and how the concepts, aesthetics, techniques and construction of this architecture might be used to design and fabricate objects and space differently

New Geographies 11: Extraterrestrial

Jeffrey S. Nesbit, Guy Trangoš

New Geographies 11: Extraterrestrial explores the historical and contemporary consequence of our planetary relationship with space.

New Geographies 09: Posthuman

Mariano Gomez-Luque, Ghazal Jafari

Posthuman signals a historical condition in which the coordinates of human existence on the planet are altered by profound technological, ecological, biopolitical, and spatial transformations

New Geographies 10: Fallow

Michael Chieffalo, Julia Smachylo

The term fallow is borrowed from agriculture as a metaphor to critically examine the role of strategic dormancy in cycles of valorization and devalorization of the built and unbuilt environment.

Architecture and Waste

Hanif Kara, Leire Asensio-Villoria & Andreas Georgoulias

This book presents a refreshed, design-led approach to waste-to-energy (WTE) plants, reflecting work done at Harvard’s Graduate School of Design over a period of three years.

The Generic Sublime

Ciro Najle

The Generic Sublime investigates how the modern concept of the generic holds the potential to become the singular, the irreducible, and the extraordinary

GSD Platform 7

Leire Asensio-Villoria

A selection from a year’s design speculations, events, and other activities at the Harvard University Graduate School of Design.

GSD Platform 8

Zaneta Hong

Platform 8 catalogs a curated selection
of work generated in the past year at the Harvard University Graduate School of Design

GSD Platform 9: Still life

Jennifer Bonner, Michelle Benoit & Patrick Herron

Platform is the Harvard University Graduate School of Design’s annual compendium of select student work, events, lectures, and exhibitions

GSD Platform 10: Live Feed

Jon Lott & John May

Platform 10: Live Feed is the latest installment of Platform, Harvard University Graduate School of Design’s annual compendium of select student work, events, lectures, and exhibitions.

GSD Platform 11: Setting the Table

Esther Mira Bang, Lane Raffaldini Rubin, Enrique Aureng Silva

Platform 11 is the 2017–2018 installment of Platform, the annual compendium documenting select student work, events, lectures, and exhibitions at the Harvard University Graduate School of Design.

GSD Platform 12: How About Now?

Carrie Bly, Isabella Caterina Frontado, Natasha Hicks

This installment of the GSD Platform series celebrates—and places itself within—the rich tradition of student publications at the Harvard University Graduate School of Design.

Interdisciplinary Design

Hanif Kara

Architecture and engineering are changing. But what about the relationship between architects and engineers?

Conversations and Allusions: Enric Miralles

Catherine Spellman

The significance of Miralles architectural design lies in his seamless integration of site and building and his use of space to serve the everyday conditions of life

Álvaro Siza Vieira: A Pool in the Sea

Kenneth Frampton, Vincent Mentzel

This book documents a unique experience of a journey by Alvaro Siza Vieira, Vincent Mentzel and Kenneth Frampton to the early work of Siza in Porto

Imminent Commons: Urban Questions for the Near Future

Alejandro Zaera-Polo, Hyungmin Pai, Maider Llaguno, Nerea Calvillo, Hyewon Lee and others

A framework where set basic commons —an evolving network of agencies, resources and technologies— as the critical issue in the move towards a sustainable and just urbanism.

Imminent Commons: The Expanded City

Alejandro Zaera-Polo, Jeffrey S. Anderson

Presents contemporary urbanism thoughts on nine imminent commons, which engage collective ecological and technological resources relevant to all cities and even extra-urban territories

Imminent Commons: Commoning Cities

Hyungmin Pai, Helen Hejung Choi

The third book from the Seoul Biennale 2017 explores the value and meaning of cities as commons, which is embedded and operate in various governance mechanisms of cities in the world.

Imminent Commons: Live from Seoul

Hyungmin Pai, Hyewon Lee, Yerin Kang, Jie-Eun Hwang, Soo-in Yang and others

The fourth book from the Seoul Biennale 2017 explores the sites, exhibition installations, and diverse array of programs that were realized during the Seoul Biennale.

Imminent Commons Compendium (4 vol)

Alejandro Zaera- Polo, Hyungmin Pai and others

This compendium assembles 4 volumes that explore city commons through the works presented at the Seoul Biennale 2017.

Unboxing New York

ODA New York

Unboxing New York is a behind-the-scenes examination of the changing shape of New York City since 2010

Buildings and Almost Buildings

Eric Bunge, Mimi Hoang / nARCHITECTS

Buildings and Almost Buildings explores the work of nARCHITECTS as a single project – an anti-monograph with a subtle manifesto about the open-ended, incomplete, and ambiguous in architecture.

By Practice, by Invitation

Leon Van Schaik, Anna Johnson

Design Practice Research at RMIT University is a longstanding program of research into what venturous designers actually do when they design.

The Practice of Spatial Thinking

Leon Van Schaik, SueAnne Ware, Colin Fudge, Geoffrey London

How do designers in research-driven practices differentiate themselves from each other and form distinctive platforms for future practice?

The Social Imperative

H. Koon Wee

This book contains multiple short critiques, reflections and manifestos, affording each contributing architect and intellectual the time and space to imagine new social paradigms in China

[UN]Precedented Pyongyang

Dongwoo Yim

How Pyongyang was reconstructed from the Korean War based and how those socialist urban spaces will transform when it adopts the market-economy system.

From Crisis to Crisis

Anthony Acciavatti, Chris Brisbin, Sony Devabhaktuni, Françoise Fromonot and others

From Crisis to Crisis examines how reading, writing and criticism can address the urgent issues faced by architecture today, including: the role of the architect in the era of specialization

America Recovered

Chad Ress, Jordan H. Carver, Miriam Paeslack

America Recovered reveals the point where abstract political processes manifest themselves in the physical world, thus providing an alternate means of experiencing the contemporary American landscape.

Architecture and Dystopia

Dario Donetti, Marco De Michelis, Oliver Elser, Dominique Rouillard and others

As a response to the profound crisis of Western culture the emerged in the 1960s, radical artists from Italy, Austria, England and Japan called into question the foundations of modernist utopias

Un-Conscious-City

Wiel Arets

No one demands that people move to cities; people tend to do so, on their own. People choose to move to cities for opportunity

Between East and West: A Gulf

Hamed Bukhamseen, Ali Karimi / Civil Architecture

Between East and West: A Gulf looks towards the contested hydrography of the Arabian/Persian Gulf and proposes a new masterplan for the region.

Gran Mediterraneo

David Tajchman

David Tajchman’s first book about a self-initiated architectural research for a White City-specific High-Rise: the Gran Mediterraneo

Geographies of Trash

DESIGN EARTH / Rania Ghosn  &  El Hadi Jazairy

In the Age of Environment, the scale waste management is geographic all while often relegating such undesired matter to invisibility as matter out of place

The Self-Sufficient City

Vicente Guallart

The Barcelona Architect in Chief peals the axes in which the cities must be sustained to adapt them to the new information age, and to generate its own resources.

Ring Roads Barcelona (ENG ED.)

Barcelona Regional Agency

This publication wants to be much more than an institutional memory of the works that Barcelona Regional has developed in the last 25 years

General Theory of Urbanization 1867

Vicente Guallart

First translation into English on the occasion of the 150th anniversary of the publication of the General Theory of Urbanization by Ildefons Cerdà, an essential work on urban development.

Cerdà. 150 years of modernity (ENG ED.)

Francesc Magrinyà & Fernando Marzá

This book is a tribute to the first modern urban planner and his product: the Eixample, which is today the thriving and undisputed centre of the Barcelona metropolitan area.

Barcelona (by Jon Tugores)

Jon Tugores

This book is an idea of architects and friends Carles Llop, and Vicente Guallart, that were seduced by the way Barcelona is read by Jon Tugore’s eyes

Natured - IROJE, Seung H-Sang

Seung H-Sang

The best architectural IROJE’s works employing the magnificence of black and white pictures, creative sketches, and elementary plans and drawings to illustrate the values of Seung H-Sang

BCN Noteguide

Papersdoc

Barcelona Essential Travel Item: 60 of the best works of architecture in the city of Barcelona, from art nouveau until the present, chosen by well-known architects.

Layered Landscapes Lofoten

Magdalena Haggärde & Gisle Løkken / 70°N arkitektur

Approaches towards landscapes under pressure and transformation, and the importance of unprejudiced and experimental investigations to reveal its natural and cultural complexity.

Scarcity in Excess

Arna Mathiesen & Thomas Forget

A guiding model that seeks to address the relationship between the economic meltdown and the built environment in Iceland using ecological approaches

Many Norths

Lola Sheppard & Mason White / Lateral Office

Many Norths: Spatial Practice in a Polar Territory charts the unique spatial realities of Canada’s Arctic region, an immense territory populated with small, dispersed communities

Yamuna River Project

Iñaki Alday & Pankaj Vir Gupta

Presents the results of focused research initiatives and designs from The University of Virginia School of Architecture towards the revitalization of New Delhi

RCR. Dream and Nature

Pati Núñez, Estel Ortega, Rafael Aranda, Carmen Pigem, Ramon Vilalta

Nature and history is the physical place that has been chosen to develop a space by RCR Arquitectes to conceive and experiment and to rethink man’s relationship with the world.

Repair

Mauro Baracco, Louise Wright / Baracco Wright Architects

This book unpacks the theme, documents the exhibition and catalogues Australian architectural projects that are conceived through acts of repair exhibited at the Australian pavilion

Echos

Mara Marcu

Work done at the University of Cincinnati School of Architecture and Interior Design while showcasing student work, faculty research, co-op stories, and study abroad programs

Superhumanity

Chin Jungkown, Common Accounts (Igor Bragado & Miles Gertler) and others

Focused on post-labor, psychopathology, and plasticity of human mind and body, this book introduces insight, critiques, and propositions in the area of self-design

LA Forum Reader

Rob Berry, Victor Jones, Michael Sweeney, Mimi Zeiger, Chava Danielson, Joe Day, Thurman Grant, Duane McLemore

From the Archives of the Los Angeles Forum for Architecture and Urban Design

Xpositions ( ENG ED. )

Studio Link-Arc

In May 2015, Studio Link-Arc completed the China Pavilion for Expo Milano 2015, its most prominent work to date

Clip, Stamp, Fold

Beatriz Colomina, Craig Buckley

The Radical Architecture of Little Magazines 196X to 197X

Verb Matters ( FR ED. )

Albert Ferré

Verb Matters revisa las posibilidades formales y materiales de la construcción actual.

Unfinished

Iñaqui Carnicero, Carlos Quintáns, Santiago de Molina, Jacobo García-Germán, Alfonso Batalla, Amale Andraos and others

Ideas, Images, and Projects from the Spanish Pavilion at the 15th Venice Architecture Biennale

MCM–Milan Capital of the Modern (ENG ED.)

Lorenzo Degli Esposti

Modern architecture articulated itself in specific centers of propulsion, revision and critique during the 20th century.

Public Catalyst

Manuel Bailo

This work proposes the urban catalysts as agents capable of activating a place that was previously indifferent.

Public Space Acupuncture

Helena Casanova, Jesús Hernández

Acupuncture strategies to renovate infrastructure, landscape elements and public space in cities.

The Berlage Affair

Vedran Mimica

The Berlage Affair is an anthology of critical essays, reviews, and interviews cataloguing 20 years of work and insight from architectural educator Vedran Mimica

Crown Hall Dean’s Dialogues 2012-2017

Kazuyo Sejima, William Baker, Wiel Arets, Junya Ishigami, Stefano Boeri and others

This title collects the voices of 18 esteemed architects, designers, educators and theorists in dialogue with students from the Illinois Institute of Technology, College of Architecture

Passages

Institut pour la Ville en Mouvement / VEDECOM

Tunnels, footbridges, escalators, urban cable cars, pathways – passages are essential links, with the potential to generate distinctive urban environments.

Time for Play

AZC – Atelier Zündel Cristea / Grégoire Zündel & Irina Cristea

This book, Time for Play, presents exhibition pavilions, temporary installations, and ideas competitions – a mix of built and un-built projects.

Territories of Disobedience (ENG ED.)

Linna Choi, Tarik Oualalou

This compendium of essays and projects presents a confrontation of radically dissimilar projects which underscores the exploration of architectural empowerment at the core of the office’s work

Traces

Umberto Napolitano,Benoit Jallon

Undertaken at the occasion of LAN’s 10th anniversary, Traces recalls the journey of Umberto Napolitano and Benoit Jallon through their projects and their travel impressions.

Ellen Kooi Above Rotterdam

Ellen Kooi, Wiel Arets, Katrien Van den Brande

One Glass Tower by Wiel Arets & Nine Situations by Katrien Van den Brande

Calme Bloc

Avenir Cornejo, Chartier Dalix

Architects, authors, and photographers’ different viewpoints on a dense and complex building in Paris’s 20th arrondissement.

Good Vibrations

Gausa Raveau actarchitecture, Avenier-Cornejo Architectes

The Clichy-Batignolles stands as a new urban landscape liaison element, an essential urban portal along the peripheric territorial arc, just by the historic city.

Twisted

Mehrdad Hadighi, Marc Neveu, Tsz Yan Ng

A collected volume of essays using the Lafayette 148 New York factory in Shantou, China as a foil to discuss issues of textile manufacturing, global/ local building practices

Clinical

María Hurtado de Mendoza / estudio.entresitio

A clinical study of a trilogy of health-care centers built by estudio.entresitio. A trilogy of three case studies that share the same formal configuration and yet are perceived as different.

Critical Prison Design (ENG ED.)

Roger Paez

The newly built Mas d’Enric penitentiary sparks a series of reflections on architecture’s role in the problematic subject of prison design.

Díaz Llanos, Saavedra

Juan Antonio González Pérez

The architects Saavedra and Díaz -Llanos have produced a fantastic adaptation of architecture and environment’ style without committing to its essence.

Tiny Taxonomy

Rosetta S. Elkin

A visually engaging collection of images and texts drawn from a series of contemporary garden installations, which highlight the role of individual plants in landscape architecture.

Water Index

Seth McDowell

A book that highlights critical design projects from around the world those radically engage the fragile issues of drought, flooding, and contamination

XXL-XS

Mitchell Joachim, Mike Silver

XXL-XS represents the emerging discipline of ecological design by assembling a wide range of innovators with diverse interests

Landscape Tunings (ENG ED.)

Silvia Benedito & Alexander Häusler / OFICINAA

Landscape Tunings maintains that landscape is more than ecology and technical performance; it is also an environment of paramount importance to one’s dispositions and wellbeing

Making it Modern

Aaron Betsky

This book traces the astonishing opening up of a brave new world of open empty space, the arrival of the beauty and terror of the machine into daily life

Suprarural (SP ED.)

Ciro Najle & Lluís Ortega

Architectural Atlas of Rural Protocols of the American Midwest and the Argentine Pampas

Total Latin American Architecture

Ana de Brea

This book is not about a folk or typical Latin American architecture. Latin America is not some faraway, isolated region, rather a huge and universal laboratory

Ábalos + Sentkiewicz ( ENG ED. )

Iñaki Ábalos, Renata Sentkiewicz

A compendium of essays and projects, that creates a projective document able to set up new scenarios for the architecture of the next decade.

MCHAP The Americas 1

Fabrizio Gallanti

MCHAP: The Americas brings together leading architects and academics in a dialogue exploring the current state of architecture throughout the Americas

The Sniper’s Log

Alejandro Zaera-Polo

An insight into the theoretical discourse that shapes and expands the architect’s practice.

Journeys (ENG ED.)

Giovanna Borasi

Exploring the subject of migrations and their impact on the built environment, the publication includes 16 stories written in a narrative form similar to historical fiction

Trajets (FR ED.)

Giovanna Borasi

Exploring the subject of migrations and their impact on the built environment, the publication includes 16 stories written in a narrative form similar to historical fiction

OAB (Updated)

Carlos Ferrater & Partners

OAB draws on the collaborative nature of the Carlos Ferrater previous studio, incorporating new ways of understanding the contributions of each team member

Beyond Environment

Emanuele Piccardo, Amit Wolf

Presents the interchange between architecture, Land Art and Performance Art through Gianni Pettena’s with American artists Allan Kaprow and Robert Smithson

Beyond Patronage

Joyce Hwang, Martha Bohm, Gabrielle  Printz

This book explores contemporary architectural practices and design agendas that are being shaped or enabled by news forms of “patronage”

[Re] Stitch Tampa

Shannon Basset

(Re)stitch Tampa, an international design ideas competition, challenged designers to consider innovative design ideas and strategies

Oxymoron & Pleonasm

Monika Mitášová

12 interviews focusing on the problem of critical and projective approach to architectural thinking and design discussed by current American theorists, historians and practitioners.

Re-Living the City

Aaron Betsky, Alfredo Brillembourg, Hubert Klumpner, Doreen Heng Liu

This richly illustrated book presents the exhibits and curatorial visions of the 2015 Shenzhen Biennale of Architecture and Urbanism (UABB), organized around the theme, Re-Living the City

The Petropolis of Tomorrow

Neeraj Bhatia, Mary Casper

The Petropolis of Tomorrow examines the role of resource extraction infrastructure in the production of new forms of urbanism.

Uncharted

Juan Elvira, David Goodman, Pablo Oriol, Roger Paez, Fernando Rodríguez, Lina Toro

The book has a two-fold objective: to explore new avenues of thought in design teaching, and to do so through research that deals with new architectural landscapes that are linked to tourism.

Experiments With Life Itself (ENG ED.)

Francisco González de Canales

Five experiments made by prestigious architects on their own homes during the dark days of the Second World War.

Phylogenesis (ENG ED.)

Foreign Office Architects

FOA’s first monograph is structured to reflect the development of their specific attitude and as a compendium of the technical arsenal that they use to within their practice

Looking for Mies (ENG ED.)

Ricardo Daza

A historical photograph shows a room in a steel and glass building and a man which is evidently the architect Mies van der Rohe. Only the name of the photographer is known.

MA YANSONG

Casa Asia, Fundación ICO

MAD works in forward-looking environments developing futuristic architecture based on a contemporary interpretation of the eastern spirit of nature

Fundamental Particles

Francesco Soppelsa, Octavi Mestre

This book is centered on the design and construction of the most important building – in both architectural and representational terms – built at CERN in recent years.

Las bóvedas de Guastavino (SP ED.)

John Ochsendorf

Cada año, millones de personas pasan bajo las bóvedas tabicadas de Guastavino en espacios históricos de todos los Estados Unidos

City Sense

The Institute for Advanced Architecture of Catalonia(IAAC)

Shaping our environment with real-time data / 4th Advanced Architecture Contest

Self-Sufficient City

Vicente Guallart

Envisioning the habitat of the future / 3rd Advanced Architecture Contest

SELF FAB HOUSE

Lucas Cappelli

2nd Advanced Architecture Contest

SELF SUFFICIENT HOUSING

Vicente Guallart

1st Advanced Architecture Contest

Create! (ENG ED.)

Eduardo Arroyo

This book shapes a thick network of experiences and crossed interests opened throughout last twenty-five years in the office NO.MAD and its founder Eduardo Arroyo

Sendai Mediatheque

Albert Ferré, Tomoko Sakamoto

Calling him a “creator of timeless buildings,” the Pritzker Jury further praised Ito for “infusing his designs with a spiritual dimension and for the poetics that transcend all his works.”

Trans Structures

Matyas Gutai

The book introduces water as a building material to build unique, responsive-able structures and define a new paradigm for architecture and sustainable design.

Facts ( ENG ED. )

Josep Lluís Mateo

Vision of recent buildings and projects from one of the most outstanding European architectural practice, also presented from a multilayered critic panel

Entre escalas

Manuel Gausa, Florence Raveau

Collection of a selection of projects, proposals and reflections on the city and territory, the landscape and public space, housing and habitat

Domesticity at War (ENG ED.)

Beatriz Colomina

In the immediate postwar years, a new type of modern architecture emerges. Beatriz Colomina presents domesticity as a potent new weapon in a changed architectural battlefield

Ant Farm

Felicity D Scott

Felicity D. Scott revisits the architectural, art, video, and intermedia practices of the experimental collective Ant Farm, self-described ¨super-radical activist environmentalists.

Space Fighter

Winy Maas

An exploration of the Evolutionary City by simulating the challenges of urban growth, decline, and vitality.

Blue Monday

Kazys Varnelis, Robert Sumrell / AUDC (Architecture Urban Design Collaborative)

Blue Monday features three moments in modern culture that offer glimpses into our increasingly perverse relationship to architecture, cities, and objects

Agenda: JDS Architects

Julien De Smedt, Jesse Seegers

AGENDA is a catalog of 365 days, like a diary or journal: a collective narrative, personal and subjective.

Twenty Two Tips On Typography

Enric Jardí

This is a recipe book of twenty-two tips in creating the best typography and twenty-two things you should never do with lettering

RGB

Marc Valli, Richard Bereton

What design scene is as diverse or cosmopolitan, more rich in influences and references, as packed with new trends and original ideas, as teeming with talent and ambition than the UK?

JPG 2

Tomoko Sakamoto

The follow-up to international bestseller Japan Graphics, JPG2 examines changes in Japanese graphic design

NEULAND

TwoPoints.net

German graphic design has undergone a dramatic metamorphosis in recent years.

Barcelona Masala

Robert E. D'Souza, Daniel Cid Moragas (eds.)

Barcelona Masala documents an innovative educational design project conducted in the Raval district of Barcelona over a three-year period.

The Total Designer

Lluís Ortega

This book develops an alternative and inclusive approach and steers clear of exclusive dichotomous approaches

Yona Friedman / Pro Domo ( ENG ED. )

Yona Friedman

Pro Domo is “a collection of fragments of scattered topics,” a set of “milestones” selected by the author himself,

Architecture with the People, by the People, for the People

Yona Friedman

This monograph, featuring artists and architects who maintain a critical view of the contemporary world, is devoted to the architect Yona Friedman

OAB Ferrater and Partners (ENG ED.)

Carlos Ferrater, Borja Ferrater

Recent architectural projects by Carlos Ferrater and his Office of Architecture Barcelona (OAB)

Multi-National City

Reinhold Martin, Kadambari Maxi

A guidebook to architecture’s future that follows three urban and historical itineraries: Silicon Valley; New York’s internal suburbias; and Gurgaon, New Delhi.

Vivienda Total (SP ED.)

Albert Ferré

Total Housing was designed to be a demonstration of the virtues of high and medium density multi-family homes, and an antidote to urban sprawl.

MAD DINNER

Ma Yansong, Yosuke Hayano, Dang Qun

MAD DINNER is the first book by MAD office, Beijing-based architectural office.

From Control to Design

Michael Meredith, AGU, Mutsuro Sasaki, P .ART, Designtoproduction, Aranda/Lash

Parametric and algorithmic design are two of the fastest emerging, most radical technologies reshaping architecture today

Desert America

Ramón Prat

The desert is a huge paradox. Beneath its outward appearance of immensity and silence, are the sounds of various experiments, mysteries, and utopias

Architecture & Violence

Bechir Kenzari

This is a compelling compilation of essays by international architectural theorists on the relationship of violence to space.

Catalyst: Conditions

Ghazal Abbasy-Asbagh

An interdisciplinary monograph, this volume examines the work of multiple disciplines, many peoples and a multitude of approaches, all operating under the umbrella of one institution.

Catalyst: Lineages & Trajectories

Ghazal Abbasy-Asbagh

This volume examines one year of research and teaching at the University of Virginia School of Architecture.

Constructing Europe (ENG ED.)

Diane Gray

European Union Prize for Contemporary Architecture Mies van der Rohe Award 25th Anniversary, a reflection about the past, present and future of European Architecture.

Sociopolis

Vicente Guallart

Sociopolis is a project for the building of a city neighbourhood of public housing in the 21st century

A New Urban Metabolism

J.ACEbillo,  Alessandro Martinelli

The growing urbanization of the planet, visible in the fact that 70% percent of the population will live in cities, situates the urban question as a key issue for global sustainability

Buy Me a Mercedes-Benz

UN Studio

Buy Me A Mercedes-Benz shows how various forms of expert knowledge have been combined and interwoven to finally generate an unconventional, breakthrough museum design

Sluminsider

Liveinslums

Sluminsider is a choral narrative that attempts to reveal the complexity of the slum of Mathare, one of the biggest shantytowns in Nairobi.

Fuksas Object

Massimiliano & Doriana Fuksas

Objects, pieces of furniture, scenographies, interior design… another dimension in the work of Fuksas architects.

Fuksas: Building

Ramon Prat, Massimiliano Fuksas

Actar publishes a new and valuable book that compiles high-quality photographs of his major works and never-released sketches and drawings conceived by this multi-faceted mind

KM3

MVRDV

Three-dimensionality can be seen as architecture’s fundamental existence, the profession’s acclaimed domain

Geologics ( SP ED. )

Vicente Guallart

Presenting the last 15 years of his work, this book investigates architecture s ability to construct systems for habitable environments in diverse environmental, social and economic conditions.

Next Nature

Koert van Mensvoort,Hendrik-Jan Grievink

Today the human impact on our planet can hardly be underestimated. Climate change, population explosion, genetic manipulation, digital networks, plastic islands floating in the oceans

Global Housing Projects

Josep Lluís Mateo

The world is merging into one global system of goods, people and information. This book explores the social, cultural, and economic phenomena of globalization through housing

Vivienda, envolvente, hueco

Jose Maria De La Lapuerta, Fernando Altozano

Collection of technical details of a selection of high-density social housing, all located in Madrid, with special attention to the resolution of the holes or windows and their envelope.

Venezia, Venezia (ENG ED.)

Alfredo Jaar

Alfredo Jaar’s immersive site-specific installation in the Chilean pavilion at the 55th Venice Biennale

Natural Metaphor

Josep Lluís Mateo

Written by cross-disciplinary authors across Europe, Asia and America, this is a compilation of articles and images on using forms in nature for diverse design approaches and perspectives

Chiharu Shiota (SP ED.)

Menene Gras

Casa Asia presents the contents of the first exhibition by Chiharu Shiota (Osaka, 1972) in Barcelona, showing installations integrated in a unique project at its headquarters.

Soupergreen!

Doug Jackson

SOUPERgreen! features projects and essays that offer a long overdue critique of the current approach to “green” architecture

Seattle Public Library

OMA/ LMN

OMA’s design for the Seattle Public Library–one of the firm’s most heavily anticipated projects to date–begins with a radical rethinking of the very nature of the library.

Popular Lies* About Graphic Design

Craig Ward

An attempt to debunk various misconceptions, half truths and, in some cases, outright lies which permeate the industry of design.

Open Enclosed: Donald Judd

Gillermo Zuaznábar

In this brilliant essay, Gillermo Zuaznabar sets out to describe Donald Judd as if he were an unknown figure, a great pioneer.

The Planet After Geoengineering

DESIGN EARTH / Rania Ghosn  &  El Hadi Jazairy

The Planet After Geoengineering is a graphic novel in five speculative fictions that imagine the worlds of climate modification technologies and their controversies.

Treacherous Transparencies (ENG ED.)

Jacques Herzog & Pierre de Meuron

analyzes transparency as expressed in architecture and art in an attempt to understand the intentions and objectives that underlie its use by pertinent architects and artists.

Requiem

Sanford Kwinter

Sanford Kwinter addresses the sometimes subtle, sometimes brutal transformations that characterized the modernization processes set into motion at the turn of the millennium

The Metapolis Dictionary (ENG ED.)

Manuel Gausa, Vicente Guallart, Willy Muller, Federico Soriano, Fernando Porras, José Morales

In the format of a selective dictionary of cross-referenced terms, Metapolis identifies a new architectural will within the contemporary social and cultural panorama.

Plans and Projects for Barcelona 2011-2015

Vicente Guallart, Carles Bárcena, Ricard Gratacòs

We are working to make Barcelona a self-sufficient city of productive neighbourhoods at a human speed, within a hyper-connected and zero-emissions metropolis

Made Up

Julian Bleecker, Benjamin H. Bratton, Anne Burdick, Emmet Byrne and others

At a time when “fake news” is part of our daily cultural lexicon, Made Up: Design’s Fictions explores lies, fantasies, and other un-real scenarios as tools of design.

Third Coast Atlas

Daniel Ibañez, Clare Lyster, Charles Waldheim, Mason White

It assembles a multi-layered, empirical description of urbanization processes within the drainage basins of the five Great Lakes and the Saint Lawrence River

Possible Mediums

Kelly Bair, Kristy Balliet, Adam Fure & Kyle Miller

Possible Mediums presents a collection of sixteen speculative design mediums by emerging architects

Open(ing)

Manuel Gausa

In defense of a new architectonic logic, Manuel Gausa explores a pioneer decade of decisive experiences in the turn of the millennium.

Kazuyo Sejima in Gifu (ENG ED.)

Albert Ferré, Tomoko Sakamoto

Located in Gifu, sits a building that constitutes the first material expression of Kazuyo Sejima’s studies on metropolitan housing

Dirk Denison 10 Houses

Dirk Denison and Fred A. Bernstein / Denise Bratton

Dirk Denison reflects on the diverse influences that have shaped his practice over 30 years in a volume featuring 10 remarkable houses designed in a broad range of modernist vocabularies

Naïve Intention

Pezo von Ellrichshausen

This title is a resulting work of the Mies Crown Hall Americas Prize (MCHAP) emerge, given to the firm Pezo von Ellrichshausen for their Poli House.

Thermodynamic Interactions

Javier García-Germán

Energy and sustainability is a complex topic that needs to address simultaneously core disciplinary values and ideas that come from other fields of knowledge.

Landscape Futures

Geoff Manaugh

A speculative look into the future of our built environment.

Fuksas Building (Update)

Massimiliano & Doriana Fuksas

New and extended edition of Massimiliano and Doriana Fuksas’ work.

Earth, Water, Air, Fire

Josep Lluis Mateo, Florian Sauter

This research addresses the archaic or permanent conditions of architecture.

Catalog 2019-2020

GSD Platform 2

Felipe Correa

Platform 2 provides a sampling of the most salient research and design explorations undertaken at the Harvard Graduate School of Design (GSD) during the 2008–2009 academic year.