This timely volume brings together fourteen case studies that address the challenges of conserving the twentieth century's most ubiquitous building material-concrete. Following a meeting ...
The first in a multi-volume overview of materials in architecture focuses on brick and tile. Besides highlighting more than 60 projects by 47 international ...
The third in a multi-volume overview of materials in architecture focuses on glass. Presenting more than 60 projects by 51 international practices, it also ...
Although it is doubtful that the aggressive attitudes exercised during the 20th century for ever faster, more dominant infrastructures can ever be completely tamed, ...
Landscape architects and urban planners and designers are gaining influence in discussions on pressing issues such as climate change and new energy sources, as ...
In this book, Belgian architecture office a2o presents an investigative and connecting approach to architecture through an evocative reading of their latest project, crematorium ...
Quality, Control examines the relationship between bureaucratic architectural practice and quality in architectural design and construction through the work of the Government Architects Office ...
The career of the pioneering designer Muriel Cooper, whose work spanned media from printed book to software interface; generously illustrated in color. Muriel Cooper ...
Kyoto's gardens are among the city's many glories. They are beautiful, thought-provoking. These unparalleled works of art at the creative frontier between man and ...
Poetic spaces, surreal structures and dramatic visions. The extraordinary career of Ricardo Bofill is collected in this monograph, which reveals his inspiring approach to ...
