Wood holds unique and timely lessons for urbanization, yet it remains inadequately characterized in architecture, landscape architecture, and urbanism.
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.
This publication wants to be much more than an institutional memory of the works that Barcelona Regional has developed in the last 25 years
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
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 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 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.
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.
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
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.
Approaches towards landscapes under pressure and transformation, and the importance of unprejudiced and experimental investigations to reveal its natural and cultural complexity.
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
Presents the results of focused research initiatives and designs from The University of Virginia School of Architecture towards the revitalization of New Delhi
Clip, Stamp, Fold
Beatriz Colomina, Craig Buckley
The Radical Architecture of Little Magazines 196X to 197X
KERB 24
Louella Exton, Kim Morte, Hayden Matthys, Millicent Gunner, Emma Groot & Rosalea Monacella
Kerb Journal is a 24 year running, produced by the Landscape Architecture program of RMIT University
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.
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
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
Nicole Doan, Javier Perez, Michael Gasper, Limy Fabiana Rocha
Retrospecta catalogs activity at the Yale School of Architecture.
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.