The new MEETT Toulouse exhibition and convention centre in the French city of Toulouse once again demonstrates how a seemingly dull, functional task results ...
Founded in 2009, Paris-based PARC Architectes has risen to prominence, winning awards and accolades in its native France and beyond. Just as important as ...
Romeo and Julia, two residential high-rises in Stuttgart, built 1954-59 and designed by Hans Scharoun (1893-1972), constitute the most original and far-reaching of the ...
Work and vision of remarkable Swiss firm BABL Bakker & Blanc architectes associés, in a unique book concept reflecting BABL's evolutionary approachMarco Bakker and ...
French architect Stéphane Fernandez creates a 'silent architecture' that invests the landscape as much as it takes shape. He is a minimalist in expression ...
Product of a research cooperation between three Swiss universities - the Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne's School of Architecture, the School of Architecture and ...
In architecture, nothing is ever truly new; everything has been tried before. And nowhere is this more evident than in the architecture of housing. ...
Christopher Alexander is a Vienna-born, British-American architect and theorist and the father of the pattern language movement, popularized in his pivotal 1968 book, A ...
Non-Referential Architecture is nothing less than a manifesto for a new architecture. It brings together two leading thinkers, architect Valerio Olgiati and theorist Markus ...
A groundbreaking new study on the VkHUTEMAS and their pioneering curriculum. Examines the way the VkHUTEMAS challenged established canons of academic tradition. Highlights their ...
Labics, based in Rome, is a leader among Italy's up-and-coming architecture firms and has gained great international acclaim for submissions to competitions and a ...
For many years renowned British architect Jonathan Sergison has been combining practical work with academic teaching. In this new book he offers personal views ...
Quirino De Giorgio: An Architect's Legacy, the first English-language book dedicated to the Italian architect, is a constellation of his surviving buildings shown through ...
Denise Scott Brown has shaped the course of contemporary architecture since the 1960s. She is particularly well known for Learning from Las Vegas, an ...
Architecture is often seen as confronting the natural environment, its buildings and other objects inscribing boundaries and thereby expressing an internalized point of view. ...
Ludwig Mies van der Rohe (1886-1969) is undoubtedly one of the most significant and influential architects ever. To the present day, his designs and ...
Contemporary architectural criticism tends to focus on the theories and concepts behind buildings. Yet there is much to be learned by venturing beyond the ...