Architects and designers have always played a vital role in shaping society. Social Design presents a long-overdue survey of current international activity in this ...
The Greek island sequence montaged by László Moholy-Nagy into his legendary documentary Architects' Congress can be interpreted, like his provocative Photoplastiks, as a "message ...
What do outer space capsules, submarines, and office buildings have in common? Each is conceived as a closed system: a self-sustaining physical environment demarcated ...
Marcel Breuer (1902-1981) is celebrated as a furniture designer, teacher, and architect who changed the American house after his emigration from Hungary to the ...
How Life Unfolds provides an insight into the approach, methods, and processes of the popular design studio atelier oi based in La Neuveville, Switzerland. ...
While our era of constant crisis demands stronger social and political engagement, architecture has been largely characterized by a lack of strong positions during ...
Handbook of Tyranny portrays the routine cruelties of the twenty-first century through a series of detailed non-fictional graphic illustrations. None of these cruelties represent ...
Power Architecture presents a series of projects based on current and extreme syntheses of comprehensive and complex world-views, which enables mapping a network of ...
Emerging Nature documents the work of the Argentinian architect, graphic designer and industrial designer Emilio Ambasz. The publication discusses his projects ranging from buildings ...
This book explores the impact of medical discourse and diagnostic technologies on the formation, representation, and reception of modern architecture. It challenges the normal ...
One of the greatest and most influential architects of Japan's postwar generation, Kazuo Shinohara (1925-2006) has remained virtually unknown outside the small community of ...
City Riffs traces the changing perspectives of urban design within an ever-changing global context. Moving between sixteen cities, the book also considers trans-disciplinary aspects ...
This book, the first in a planned series, reports on the Future Cities Laboratory and its ambitious mission to shape sustainable future cities through ...
Laboratories are both monasteries and space stations, redolent of the great ideas of generations past and of technologies to propel the future. Yet standard ...
Portmans America & Other Speculations takes an unconventional and speculative approach towards the understanding and future potentials of the work of one of the ...
Architecture is increasingly understood as a field of practice that is inextricably embedded in ecologies and energy systems, and yet embodied energy-the various forms ...
