Making Cities Work brings together leading writers and scholars on urban America to offer critical perspectives on how to sustain prosperous, livable cities in ...
The Dutch Ministry of Housing, Spatial Planning and the Environment recently launched a programme of education, research, and practice for the spatial design of ...
The Posthuman Dada Guide is an impractical handbook for practical living in our posthuman world--all by way of examining the imagined 1916 chess game ...
In Ideas and Integrities Buckminster Fuller describes the revolutionary designs and concepts he has pioneered - among them the geodesic dome, the Dymaxion world ...
R. Buckminster Fuller (1895-1983) was an architect, engineer, geometrician, cartographer, philosopher, futurist, inventor of the famous geodesic dome, and one of the most brilliant ...
For this typology of residential buildings, the authors have developed systematic new presentations of the most innovative types. Each individual volume lays out the ...
Designers and architects have to make decisions regarding color every day. But how does one find the necessary inspiration? The appropriate color? How do ...
Richard Meier, Architect: Volume 5 comprehensively documents Meier's work since 2004. This extensively illustrated presentation vividly conveys the purity and power of Meier's vision. ...
This book presents in detail forty architecturally rich and picturesque houses, ranging from the earliest one-story adobe structures, with flat roofs and an emphasis ...
The twentieth-century architect Mies van der Rohe once declared that 'Architecture starts when you carefully put two bricks together'. In "Travels in the History ...