Today, public conversations are increasingly driven by numbers. While charts, infographics, and diagrams can make us smarter, they can also deceive-intentionally or unintentionally. To ...
Here, Jacob Brillhart excavates the "visual thinking" of the twentieth century's pioneer architect, reproducing a selection of 175 drawings from the early sketchbooks of ...
One of the deans of American interior decoration, William Hodgins follows in the footsteps of the legendary Billy Baldwin and also Sister Parish and ...
We live in a world defined by urbanization and digital ubiquity, where mobile broadband connections outnumber fixed ones, machines dominate a new "internet of ...
This invaluable guide, brought up to date in its revised edition, offers an introductory course in urbanism and provides an operations manual for architects, ...
This collection of writings on beauty includes selections from twenty key philosophers and theoreticians spanning two millennia: Plato Aristotle Vitruvius Alberti Kant Burke Fiedler ...
A celebrated standard for architects, planners and hospital administrators; Hospital and Healthcare Facility Design has introduced three generations of students and professionals to the ...
Design After Modernism offers an overview of developments in design over the past four decades'some evolutionary, some expected, and some extraordinary. It identifies the ...
A resource for both beginners and those returning to watercolour - including travelling architects, artists and designers - this guide covers sketching on site, ...
The idea of vertical gardening has been completely transformed in recent years through the concept of the Green Wall. Since then, many new developments ...
From the tropical vernacular of the Barnacle House to the Art Deco neighborhoods of Miami Beach, from the Midcentury Modernism of Morris Lapidus to ...
Almost overnight railway lines sprawled across the United States, quickly assuming a key role in America's rapid growth and development. Linking these lines that ...
Plants are among the most important materials for effective landscape design. Yet the fundamentals of plant biology and growth; their morphology, color, and functional ...