Sigfried Giedion's small but vocal manifesto Befreites Wohnen (1929) is an early manifestation of modernist housing ideology and as such is key to the ...
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 ...
Led by Pritzker Prize-winning artistic director Alejandro Aravena (born 1967), the Elemental studio, based in Santiago, Chile, possesses a diversely skilled staff whose analytical ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Make New History, the companion publication to the 2017 Chicago Architecture Biennial, invites speculation on the status and importance of historical material to the ...
This book introduces an attitude towards the design and realization of architecture in a time of increased instability. It is illustrated with rarely seen ...
Accompanying an exhibition of the same name at the Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, this publication examines the recent work of the Chinese architect ...
