This book explores the global housing crisis, emphasizing adequate housing as a human right. Through essays, it exampines the commercialization of housing, the political ...
A growing awareness of existing building materials and timber constructions is reflected in the new relevance historical and simple construction techniques have gained today. ...
For more than 20 years the French duo Anne Lacaton and Jean-Philippe Vassal have pursued a unique approach to housing that integrates outdoor areas ...
'Architecture Monogram' is a book series on emerging architects, landscape designers, photographers, and writers from Belgium and the Netherlands in which the designers reveal ...
The ambitious transformation of Tirana's Skanderbeg Square is the result of a collaboration between Belgian architecture office 51N4E, Albanian artist Anri Sala, Belgian environmental ...
Infrastructural systems facilitate the flow of anything from people and goods to resources and information. While engineered to perform specific tasks, such networks also ...
Through a sensorial reading of Brazilian modernism to challenge the generic, if not austere, appeal of Berlin's modernist housing complexes, this book intends to ...
The Sustainable Urban Dwelling Unit (SUDU), which emerged out of a summer workshop in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, is a new, sustainable housing alternative that ...
This small architectural guide provides a representative overview of the built environment in the north Indian metropolis of Ahmedabad. In addition to covering the ...
This biography of an experiment takes the reader into another world. As if standing before a irror, everything seems familiar but remains unknown. Such ...
Rio de Janeiro serves as the inspiration and case study for this publication, a widely relevant study of the appropriation and customization of standardized ...
As cities strain under a growing population and demand for resources, Brazil will provide a test case for how politicians, architects and urban planners ...
