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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

El meu nom és Univers (CAT 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.

Habitatge a l'àrea metropolitana de Barcelona (CAT 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.

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.

North Gallery: Volume 6

Yale School of Architecture

Yale Graduate Architecture Students from classes of 2022-2025

North Gallery: Volume 7

Yale School of Architecture

Yale Graduate Architecture Students from classes of 2022-2025

Oil, Land, People

Yale School of Architecture

Yale Graduate Architecture Students from classes of 2022-2025

The Innovative Urban Workplace

Yale School of Architecture

Yale Graduate Architecture Students from classes of 2022-2025

Vivienda en el área metropolitana de Barcelona (SP 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.

What About Learning?

Yale School of Architecture

What about Learning? focuses on how architectural education and learning at large faced ongoing disruptions and pressures under the COVID-19 pandemic and how we can reimagine learning environments.

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.

Mi nombre es Universo (SP 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.

Retrospecta 47

Yale School of Architecture

Retrospecta catalogs activity at the Yale School of Architecture. Each volume is a snapshot of evolving architectural and graphic design trends.

Conscious Community

Yale School of Architecture

Louis I. Kahn Visiting Assistant Professorship 11

Il diritto alla Natura (ITA 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.

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.

Housing Laboratory / Laboratorio de Vivienda

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.

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.

Casa Gilardi (SP 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.

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.

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.

Fusionando Ciudad y Naturaleza (SP 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.

Intimate Spaces

Miaden Jadrić

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

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?

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.

Sharing Tokyo

Mohsen Mostafavi, Kayoko Ota (eds.)

A collection of essays on the theme of sharing the urban space of Tokyo, contributed by recognized scholars and practitioners in Japan, as well as renowned scholars in the US.

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

Mix Urbains (FR 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.

A Book on Making a Petite École

Michael Meredith, Hilary Sample, MOS

A compendium of children’s design exercises by architects from around the world accompany illustrations and photographs documenting the construction of the Petite École pavilion.

Un Village et son Double (FR 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.

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.

Tracé Bleu (FR ED.)

Architecturestudio

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

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.

The Loop Project

Mias Architects

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

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.

Cohabitatge a Barcelona (CAT 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

Gestar / Habitar (SP ED.)

Caterina Figuerola; Ibon Bilbao (eds.)

The collective publication where you will find out all about Barcelona’s most innovative social housing proposals.

deCoding Asian Urbanism

Farooq Ameen (ed.)

deCoding Asian Urbanism explores the current discourse on the planning of Asian cities, and highlights innovative urban interventions that address the challenges of the built environment in Asia.

Gestating / Living (ENG ED.)

Caterina Figuerola; Ibon Bilbao (eds.)

The collective publication where you will find out all about Barcelona’s most innovative social housing proposals.

TdB Architects (SP ED.)

Juan Trias de Bes

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

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.

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)

UNIDENTIFIED FLYING OBJECT PER L'ARCHITETTURA CONTEMPORANEA (IT 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.

Live Centre of Information (FR 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

Live Centre of Information (IT 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

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.

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.

Builders, Housewives, and the Construction of Modern Athens

Ioanna Theocharopoulou

This book reassesses the explosive growth of postwar Athens through its most distinctive building type, the polykatoikía, and its different connotations through the decades

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.

Logics of Evolution for the Contemporary Contexts

Ricardo Devesa, Marta Bugés (eds.)

A collection of instalments compiling the works of the students of the Master in Integrated Architectural Design during the academic year 2020/21.

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.

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.

Espacio público en la Barcelona metropolitana (SP ED.)

L'espai públic de la Barcelona metropolitana (CAT ED.)

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

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.

Ciudades y Ríos (SP 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.

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

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.

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

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.

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?

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

Iaac Bits 10: Learning cities

Areti Markopoulou, Manuel Gausa, Jordi Vivaldi et alt.

Learning Cities explores the “intelligence” applied in the processes and outcomes of designing our urban environments

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.

Abstract 2019

Abstract is the yearly publication of student work and research from Columbia GSAPP.

Reimagining the Civic

Luis Callejas, Fernanda Canales, Stella Betts

This book investigates and describes the design challenges of three studios focused on different environments and social contexts.

Towers in the city

Hans Kollhoff and Kyle Dugdale

The book examines the tower as the architectural expression of a long-term commitment to the city.

Next Generation Tourism

John Spence, Henry Squire, Patrick Bellew

Features current sustainability and material research and design for innovative strategies in ecology, sustainability of future tourism models on the resort island of Gili Meno, Indonesia

Being the Mountain

Carlos Bedoya, Wonne Ickx, Victor Jaime, Abel Perles / PRODUCTORA

Being the Mountain examines the relationship between architecture and the ground it occupies, an interaction so obvious—a building must touch the ground—that it often remains underexplored.