Whether or not New York City, in all its teeming chaos, strikes readers as exciting or abominating, its superb urban architecture is undeniable. Life ...
Volume'a word that refers to sound, collections, and the measurement of space'is a crucial characteristic of both graphic design and popular music. While expressing ...
For years contemporary architects have been inundated with hype about the radical changes expected as a result of technological innovation and the proliferation of ...
Building Envelopes, the newest volume in our Architecture Briefs series, gives instruction for designing building envelopes that are both visually appealing and high-functioning. Author ...
University of California, San Diego, the latest book in the Campus Guide series, presents the story of UCSD'its growth, planning, and architecture'as a colorful ...
The sixth addition to our acclaimed Source Books in Landscape Architecture Series, Tom Leader Studio features three of the firm's most compelling projects'the Pool ...
Inside the Painter's Studio collects twenty-four remarkable artist interviews, as well as exclusive visual documentation of their studios. Featured artists were asked a wide ...
City Building is organized into three parts. Part 1 examines the past and defines the current practice of city building, addressing its shortcomings and ...
The two decades that followed World War II were a period of extraordinary growth in Miami. During that time architectural modernism provided a framework ...
In its work, Kuth/Ranieri Architects amplifies the craft of each design. With materials like the translucent glass used to sequence a view from Russian ...
In Modern North, author Julie Decker presents thirty-four of the most compelling and far-ranging possibilities of contemporary architecture in the North. These buildings'located in ...
Explorations also features fully documented design processes for the recently completed Poetry Foundation in Chicago; the transformation of Washington, D.C.'s historic Yale Steam Laundry ...
This follow-up to Kate Nesbitt's best-selling anthology Theorizing a New Agenda collects twenty-eight essays that address architecture theory from the mid-1990s, where Nesbitt left ...
Leadership in Energy and Environment Design LEED is the most widely recognized green building rating system, and arguable the most coveted certification, in the ...
Gutman in his writing andteaching initiated a conversation about the occupants of buildings and the forms, policies, plans, and theories that architects might shape. ...
Natural Houses presents seven of the Austin, Texas-based firm's exquisitely crafted projects. Precise and cool, with forms often derived from the American vernacular of ...
The Liberal Monument -- Architect Alexander D'Hooghe believes urban design has lost its way. Once among the most articulate and avant-garde of disciplines, the ...
