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Surrounded by wood
Introducing the diversity of contemporary timber architecture for residential buildings to architects, interior designers, and builders.
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Inside nordic homes
The impressive wealth of Scandinavian interiors: locally inspired and international successful With their original approach to space, light, well-thought simplicity and functionality, Nordic interior designers and architects have set the trends for comfortable, modern lifestyle for decades. Thi...
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Confronting the environmental crisis: new approaches in architecture
(English, German)Compelled by the global environmental crisis, the building industry is moving toward a paradigm shift that significantly impacts the way we build, design, and interact with the natural environments around us. The built spaces of the future need to disrupt the conventional desi...
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Wetransform
Bilingual edition (English/German) / Zweisprachige Ausgabe (deutsch/englisch) No one can really know what will prove sustainable in thirty years—and that is precisely why we need a plurality of building practices and ongoing conversations about them. The large-scale exhibition WEtransFORM i...
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Housing greece
Housing Greece offers a critical perspective on state housing through the lens of emergency. Examining key episodes in Greece’s modern history, the book reveals how turbulent factors, such as migration flows, warfare, natural disasters, political instability, and economic crises have shaped state...
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Frauen leben im neubühl
„Wohnen wie in den Ferien“, so wurde die Werkbundsiedlung Neubühl in Zürich zur Erstvermietung 1932 angepriesen. Noch heute ist sie mit ihren gut geplanten Außenräumen, Erschließungen und ihren kompakten rationalen Grundrissen eine bedeutende Zeitzeugin des Neuen Bauens in der Schweiz. Bei den Be...
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Urban intensities
Diversity and density in housing today Accomodation of diversity and the creation of urban density are a focus of world-wide building and planning activities today. This book combines the architectural and urban scales to demonstrate that it is a specif...
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Brussels housing
Modern urban terraced houses or row houses emerged in Europe from the 17th century onwards. Usually two to three storeys high and with a garden at the back, they formed the traditional urban block. In Brussels, this bourgeois type of housing took on a particularly varied and inspiring form—incl...
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Remote places, public spaces
The SMOTIES network is a partnership of ten design universities, research centers, creative agencies, and national associations. Each partner selected a small and remote place in their country to benefit from the design of cultural and creative regenerations within public spaces and in collab...
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Le corbusier – l'unité d habitation de marseille / the unité d habitation in marseilles
(English / French edition) The Unité in Marseille (1945-1952) was a pioneering achievement at a time when social housing in the post WWII years posed an immense problem. Freed from restrictive regulations for the first time Le Corbusier was able to put into practice his concept of modern social h...
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Tugendhat house. ludwig mies van der rohe
Built and designed by Ludwig Mies van der Rohe 1928–1930, the Tugendhat House in Brno / Czech Republic is one of the most significant buildings of European modernism. In 2001, UNESCO added the house to the List of World Cultural Heritage Sites. In this third, updated edition, the authors give pe...
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Reglazing modernism
The worldwide use of building envelopes in steel and glass is one of the characteristic features of modern architecture. Many of these pre- and post-war buildings are now suffering severe defects in the building fabric, which necessitate measures to preserve the buildings. In this endeavor, aspec...
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Radically local
Based in Nancy in eastern France, studiolada is an architectural collective founded on values such as commitment to the common good, responsible use of resources, service to the public sector, collaborative dialogue, short supply chains, and circularity. These principles shape a collective practi...
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The architecture machine
Computer-aided design Today, it is hard to imagine the everyday work in an architectural practice without computers. Bits and bytes play an important role in the design and presentation of architecture. The book, which is published in the context of an ...
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Der flügelhausgrundriss
Das Flügelhaus ist ein Haustyp der europäischen Stadt, der den Bedürfnissen der heutigen Zeit angepasst ist. Die Flügelanbauten auf der Rückseite der Häuser haben eine soziale, eine ökologische, eine ökonomische und eine stadtgestalterische Komponente. Hof- und Gartenräume entstehen, Straßen...
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Rafael villamil: a retrospective 1954-2024
Rafael Villamil: A Retrospective 1954-2024 is an intimate portrait of a renaissance artist/architect from Puerto Rico as told through his artistic and architectural work, drawings, studies, press and personal letters divided into two sections.The ART section is dedicated to his paintings, process...
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The grand museum of egypt (2 volume set)
In January 2002, the Egyptian Ministry of Culture ran a competition for an innovative design for a new Grand Museum of Egypt. This two-volume publication contains: Sketches Plans Elevations Computer models of the prize-winning design and all other second-phase entries
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Notre-dame of amiens
Notre-Dame of Amiens is one of the great Gothic cathedrals. In this beautifully illustrated magisterial chronicle, Stephen Murray tells the cathedral’s story from the overlapping perspectives of the social groups connected to it.
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Shanghai homes
In the dazzling global metropolis of Shanghai, what has it meant to call this city home? In this account—part microhistory, part memoir—Jie Li salvages intimate recollections by successive generations of inhabitants of two vibrant, culturally mixed Shanghai alleyways from the Republican, Maoist, ...
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Hong kong art deco architecture
This study relates Art Deco architecture in Hong Kong with local socioeconomic and political contexts, and adopts the theoretical lens to examine how they framed practices of everyday life.
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From abyssinian to zion
From modest chapels to majestic cathedrals, and historic synagogues to modern mosques and Buddhist temples: this photo-filled, pocket-size guidebook presents 1,079 houses of worship in Manhattan and lays to rest the common perception that skyscrapers, bridges, and parks are the only defining mome...
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Knowledge worlds
Knowledge Worlds reconceives the university as a media complex through which knowledge is made, conveyed, and withheld. Reinhold Martin argues that the material infrastructures of the modern university reveal the ways in which knowledge is created and reproduced in different kinds of institutions.
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Nyc 2040
New York 2040: Housing the Next One Million New Yorkers is a transdisciplinary examination of how to house future generations both plausibly and equitably. Through the development of a computational platform which measures both the quantitative and qualitative implications of simulated developmen...
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Through the roof
This report shows what local governments can do to mitigate the rising cost of rental housing. It considers the root causes of high rent burdens, reviews evidence about the consequences, and lays out a framework that cities, towns, and counties can use to help provide all their citizens with safe...
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Everyday architecture in context
Everyday Architecture in Context goes through the growth and governance of colonial Hong Kong by tracing the past and present of public markets as a study of extensive first-hand historical materials.
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The rationale divinorum officiorum of william durand of mende
The Rationale Divinorum Officiorum is arguably the most important medieval treatise on the symbolism of church architecture and rituals of worship. Written by the French bishop William Durand of Mende (1230-1296), the treatise is ranked with the Bible as one of the most frequently copied and diss...
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Social transparency
For the past decade, the Los Angeles architect Michael Maltzan has designed multiunit housing in a city known for its proliferation of single-family residences. Working with the Skid Row Housing Trust, these projects advance new forms of supportive housing that address the services and infrastruc...
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Confucianism and sacred space
This book brings together studies from Chin-shing Huang’s decades-long research into Confucius temples that individually and collectively consider Confucianism as religion. It offers keen insights into Confucius temples and their significance in the intertwined intellectual, political, social, an...
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Engineering a cathedral
With over 80 illustrations, Engineering a Cathedral is not only relevant to Durham, it is relevant to all other medieval buildings, those who care for them and those who simply stand and wonder.
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Designers' guide to en 1992-1-1:2023: eurocode 2
Designers' Guide to EN 1992-1-1:2023: Eurocode 2: Strengthening of Existing Concrete Structures with Carbon Fibre Reinforced Polymer (CFRP) provides clear guidance on the new design procedures to help practicing engineers to grasp the theoretical basis in accordance with the design rules for EN 1...
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The temple road towards a great india
This book presents research on the temples founded by the Birla family in northern and central India. It examines the whole of the Birlas' sacral foundations, both their importance in the context of national art as well as their function in the social or political discourse on identity in pre-ind...
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Contemporary architecture in saudi arabia
The first building-by-building survey of the remarkable architectural achievements in Saudi Arabia over the last fifty years, featuring case studies of 45 outstanding projects as well as previews of buildings due for completion by 2030. Since the mid-1970s, there has been unprecedented constructi...
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Jerusalem
The significance of the city of Jerusalem to the world's Muslims, Christians, and Jews cannot be overstated. Jerusalem: Caught in Time captures a bygone era in this holy city, allowing the reader to become acquainted with the city as it was a century ago. Based on a treasure chest of photographs...
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Sacred space
The way we understand particular spaces is mediated by our perceptions of the difference between the sacred and the profane. Throughout history, different peoples have revered vastly diverse spaces as sacred for vastly diverse reasons. In Sacred Spaces, Benjamin Z. Kedar and R. J. Zwi Werblowsky ...
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Berkeley walks
The definitive guide for Berkeley wanderers, now fully updated.This local bestseller, now updated for the first time since 2018, offers revealing rambles through one of America’s most fascinating cities. Visitors and locals will be surprised and charmed by the treasures that dot the paths of thes...
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The wonder of the north
A history and tour of this exceptionally beautiful designed landscape in North Yorkshire.Dubbed "the Wonder of the North" in 1732, the National Trust's Fountains Abbey and Studley Royal Estate (now a World Heritage Site) encompasses one of the largest, most magnificent and beautiful designed land...
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Mall maker
The shopping mall is both the most visible and the most contentious symbol of American prosperity. Despite their convenience, malls are routinely criticized for representing much that is wrong in America—sprawl, conspicuous consumption, the loss of regional character, and the decline of Mom and P...
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Growing greener cities
Nineteenth-century landscape architect Frederick Law Olmsted described his most famous project, the design of New York's Central Park, as "a democratic development of highest significance." Over the years, the significance of green in civic life has grown. In twenty-first-century America, not onl...
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A pillared hall from a temple at madura, india, in the philadelphia museum of art
This book is a volume in the Penn Press Anniversary Collection. To mark its 125th anniversary in 2015, the University of Pennsylvania Press rereleased more than 1,100 titles from Penn Press's distinguished backlist from 1899-1999 that had fallen out of print. Spanning an entire century, the Anniv...
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Six historic homesteads
Our colonial ancestors knew how to build houses as well as constitutions. It may even be that they built the one as enduringly as the other, for many of their mansions still stand, firm in joist and beam, having required in nearly two centuries no more serious repairs than shingles and paint. As ...
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Vizcaya
The Miami estate of Vizcaya, like its palatial contemporaries Biltmore and San Simeon, represents an achievement of the Gilded Age, when country houses and their gardens were a conspicuous measure of personal wealth and power.In Vizcaya: An American Villa and Its Makers, a celebrated architecture...
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Quirky berkeley
When it comes to landscaping, why stop at plastic flamingos? Based on Tom Dalzell's blog of the same name, Quirky Berkeley pays tribute to the boldly imaginative artwork on display in front of, on top of, and engulfing residents' houses all over the city. With full-color photographs and a pithy w...
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Quirky berkeley, volume 3
Following the success of Quirky Berkeley, “arbiter of the eccentric” (The New York Times) Tom Dalzell returns to take readers on a tour of even more artwork that peppers the proudly idiosyncratic Northern California city. Stroll along iconic Telegraph Avenue for views of painted-metal portrait sc...
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Royal festival hall
Published to coincide with the 75th anniversary celebrations of the Royal Festival Hall. The Royal Festival Hall (RFH) - an important example of modernism architecture and one of London's best-loved buildings - was built as a beacon of hope and renewal after the Second World War, and quickly beca...
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The tämpiṭavihāras of sri lanka
The Ṭämpiṭavihāras of Sri Lanka focuses on one distinctive Buddhist architectural practice from pre-modern Sri Lanka – the construction of Buddha image-houses on elevated wooden platforms supported by stone pillars.
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The great reimagining
A relevant and thorough examination of how urban space is constructed and contested in "post-conflict" Northern Ireland. Examines the official effort to produce new civic images against the backdrop of ongoing political and social struggle. Sheds light on the contested nature of seem...
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The great miscalculation
Distinguished Favorite, 2025 NYC Big Book Award: NonfictionHow an engineering crisis threatened a career, a building, and the lives of countless New YorkersThe Citicorp Center, a fifty-nine-story skyscraper built in 1977, immediately became one of the most recognizable features on the New York Ci...
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City-building process
This is a print on demand edition of a hard to find publication.
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Sienese renaissance tomb monuments
The first scholarly study to treat the sepulchral memorials of Quattrocento Siena in a comprehensive way. These works include contributions by such noted sculptors as Jacopo della Quercia, Il Vecchietta, Neroccio de’Landi, Giovanni di Stefano, and Urbano da Cortona, as well as a number of monumen...
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100 contemporary green buildings, 2 vol.
Where the grass really is greener: Eco-friendly building in the world today The most exciting new buildings in the world are now almost all environmentally aware, sustainable, and conceived to consume far less energy than ever before. That architecture is one of the major source...
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Architecture now! houses vol. 2
Beyond the fundamental notion of shelter, what defines a house? The broad-ranging selection of extraordinary dwellings in the Architecture Now! Houses series shows the concept to be infinitely malleable: one house seems to hover above the ground, another is embedded in it; some have stark minimal...
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Architecture now! vol. 10
Into the future: A special anniversary edition of our go-to architectural digest From Frank O. Gehry’s shining Louis Vuitton Foundation in Paris to Zaha Hadid’s curving Heydar Aliyev Center in Baku, take a global tour through the architectural practice emerging today, and defining tomorrow. Th...
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Canada's dream shall be of them
An anthology of epitaphs drawn from the war cemeteries where Canadian soldiers lie buried in Flanders and France. Photographs and war art will transport readers to the sites, and each chapter will review the sources and themes of the epitaphs to establish their place in the national memory of the...
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Sites of international memory
Whether we think of statues, plaques, street-names, practices, material or intangible forms of remembrance, the language of collective memory is everywhere, installed in the name of not only nations, or even empires, but also an international past. The essays in Sites of International Memory addr...
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Topographical stories
Landscape architecture and architecture are two fields that exist in close proximity to one another. Some have argued that the two are, in fact, one field. Others maintain that the disciplines are distinct. These designations are a subject of continual debate by theorists and practitioners alike....
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Independence hall in american memory
A chronicle of the lost history of Independence Hall in Philadelphia, reissued on the occasion of the 250th anniversary of the nation’s founding, with a new preface updating the constantly evolving public perception of Independence HallIndependence Hall is a place Americans think they know well. ...
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Philadelphia builds
An in-depth tout of Philadelphia’s architectural history from the 1700s to the present day—for the general reader.
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Performative monuments
Argues the conceptual significance of performance, and of a performative model of art, to the revival of the monument in the wake of the Second World War, the Holocaust and the fall of the Eastern bloc.
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The vanishing stepwells of india
Some of the most stunning architectural structures in India are to be found below ground: these are its stepwells, ancient water stores. Stepwells are unique to India and from around the 3rd century CE were built throughout the country, particularly in the arid western regions. Excavated several ...
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The livery halls of the city of london
For more than 600 years the Livery Companies have played a leading role in commercial activities and social and political life in the City of London. These trade associations, each representing a particular craft or profession, were originally responsible for controlling, for example, wages and w...
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City of wooden houses
Georgetown, capital of Guyana, on the northeast coast of South America, has been described as 'the Venice of the West Indies', and its elegant canals and bridges, lush tropical vegetation and handsome buildings make it a place of great beauty. The city's architecture is essentially colonial, havi...
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Windows in architecture
<b>This new study explores the development of the window, showing how it both transformed human experience by increasing access to light and air and changed our perception of architectural space <b> <p> Christopher Masters celebrates the multiple roles of the window in architect...
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Fresno's architectural past, volume ii
Downtown Fresno's historic architecture comes to life once more in this review of remarkable buildings. Stunning watercolor portraits, paired with brief passages that address each of the 24 buildings' rich past, highlight a variety of extant structures. Images of buildings familiar to local resid...
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Remembering the california missions
Designed for California fourth grade teachers, Remembering the California Missions: A Curriculum Guide is a secondary supplement to the fourth grade social studies text that supports the Common Core Standards. This curriculum guide includes vocabulary and comprehension lessons, pre-post activitie...
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Architecture in context
Architecture in Context analyzes contemporary architecture projects that exemplify their architects’ creative vision and connection with surrounding spaces.
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Sustainable architecture
This paperback edition of our bestseller analyses the complex aspects of sustainable architecture and its sociological, environmental and economic impact.
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Concrete, mon amour
A photographic exploration of modernism's fearless ambition and enduring impact.Once hailed as icons of radical experimentation and creative ambition, the concrete structures of the mid-to-late 20th century, which have become a defining subject of Stefano Perego’s photographic exploration, contin...
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Circular materials
Shaping the world of tomorrow with reused ingenuity. Revived explores the innovative culture of reusing materials in fashion, design, and architecture.
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Living heritage
This book presents historic homes and their surroundings around the world. These buildings and apartments have been restored and renovated in diverse interior styles that honor the structural heritage while adapting them to modern living."Living Heritage" is a visually stunning, large-format illu...
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The american museum of natural history and how it got that way
Tells the story of the building of the American Museum of Natural History and Hayden Planetarium, a story of history, politics, science, and exploration, including the roles of American presidents, New York power brokers, museum presidents, planetarium directors, polar and African explorers, ...
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The american museum of natural history and how it got that way
Tells the story of the building of the American Museum of Natural History and Hayden Planetarium, a story of history, politics, science, and exploration, including the roles of American presidents, New York power brokers, museum presidents, planetarium directors, polar and African explorers, ...
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Fabulous fountains of new york
2025 INDIES Finalist, Regional (Adult Nonfiction)A stunning exploration of New York’s most enchanting fountains New York City’s fountains are more than just decorative features—they are historical landmarks, cultural icons, and dynamic works of art that shape the city’s landscape. In Fabulous Fou...
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Composing olana
The first and only book devoted to the landscape Frederic Church designed at Olana—what he considered his greatest work of art—timed to coincide with the bicentennial of his birthModelled on her acclaimed On the High Line (now in its third edition from Fordham University Press), Composing Olana u...
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El coliseo / the colosseum
Dos destacados historiadores clásicos cuentan la historia del mayor anfiteatro de Roma, un monumento visitado por dos millones de personas al año. La Roma imperial fue un estado guerrero. El Coliseo (inaugurado en el año 80 d.C.) fue el monumento de Roma a la guerra. Como una catedral de la muer...
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Surveyors of the fabric of westminster abbey, 1906-1973
Reports of the surveyors of Westminster Abbey in the twentieth century provide a wealth of information on this most important building.The annual reports of the Surveyors of the Fabric in the twentieth century give much detailed information about the maintenance and major restoration of Westminst...
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Container architecture
In this book the reader will find the full range of current container architecture projects – one container for a temporary exhibition Hall, or thousand containers for a football stadium. In an ever-changing world with its hybrid forms of living and working, this book presents a collection of re...
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Building berlin, vol. 10
More Exciting Contemporary Architecture: The annual survey on Berlin’s architecture scene featuring the best projects from the past year in town and works outside the German capital by Berlin-based architects, accompanied by essays on current topics.
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Building berlin, vol. 9
A presentation of the best projects from the past year in Berlin and works outside the German capital by Berlin based architects, accompanied by essays on exemplary aspects.
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Old becomes new
Based on carefully selected works the whole scope of possibilities for extensions and conversions is presented – from annexes, via newly designed existing spaces, to additional sections or concepts of merging rooms.
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Berlin. the architecture guide
An authoritative guidebook in chronological order whereby the buildings can be understood in their respective architectural-historical context.Berlin is not just the capital city and largest metropolis in Germany. It is also characterised by its most varying architectural landscape. The present a...
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Green building envelopes
In the face of climate change, architecture must transcend traditional boundaries to address pressing environmental and social challenges. This volume explores the transformative potential of a visionary approach that seamlessly integrates plants and greenery into architectural design. By redefin...
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Building berlin, vol. 12
Contemporary architecture in the German capital by local architects as well as projects elsewhere by architects based in Berlin, complemented by essays on current topics giving impulses for the global architectural discourse.Today, building culture also means resource-saving conversion culture. R...
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Renzo piano
Renzo Piano's museums The Pritzker laureate Renzo Piano is recognized worldwide as one of the most renowned architects of our time. Central elements of his aesthetics include the playful use of natural light, the transparency of his buildi...
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Refurbishment manual
Planning tasks involving existing structures are currently among the most common types of contract, and almost every structure makes different demands and raises individual problems. Reflecting this state of affairs, there are a dizzying number of publications on the market, most of which are...
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Thinking and building on shaky ground
Building with earthquakes is a familiar yet persistent design problem for resilient construction on all continents. This book elaborates on various factors for earthquake-resilient architecture in six thematic chapters that explore the design strategies of lightness, quickness, exactitude, v...
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Spaces of uncertainty - berlin revisited
New agenda for architects and urbanists How has Berlin’s urban landscape changed in its remarkable transformation from divided city to creative capital? Despite the monumental heritage and grand development projects, Berlin still conjures up images of ...
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Vernacular architecture
A comprehensive reference work on vernacular architecture Traditional building methods – such as those used in pueblos, timbered houses, or the Japanese minka – exist in fascinating diversity and create the face of a region. However, as a result of globalization they have been marginalized i...
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Einfach umbauen
Die Senkung des Energiebedarfs im Wohnungsbestand Deutschlands ist eine zentrale Aufgabe der nächsten Jahre. Hierfür bedarf es kostengünstiger und materialsparender Lösungen. Der Ansatz folgt den Prinzipien des einfachen Bauens, d.h. der Einsatz von Technik wird auf ein Minimum beschränkt. Anhand...
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Future living
Learning from Japan Single-family houses are becoming increasingly outdated. They offer no response to demographic change or to the fact that there are fewer and fewer life-long relationships. They are often too inflexible for new family models or ways ...
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Best high-rises 2024/25
Bilingual edition (English/German)While most high-rise buildings continue to be built in China and the USA, Australia and especially Singapore have recently emerged as hotspots for high-rise architecture. Furthermore, the trend toward mixed-use skyscrapers, which have repeatedly been among the...
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Sebastiano fabbrini
The EU is a unique experiment in shared governance. This book addresses this process from the prism of architecture, a discipline that has had close ties with power throughout history. By examining several substantial architectural productions developed by the EU since the 1950s, this book asks ...
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Burgenland modern
Das Burgenland ist mit 100 Jahren das jüngste Bundesland Österreichs, wenngleich es bereits von den Kelten und Römern erschlossen wurde. Sein pannonisches Klima und die sanft-hügelige Landschaft prädestinieren es für Elementares wie Weinbau und einen sanften Tourismus in dünn besiedelter Regi...
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Graft - home. story.
Designing housing visions Founded in 1998 in Los Angeles, Graft is an international architectural firm with branch offices in Berlin and Beijing. The firm is renowned for its experimental design practice and futuristic design vocabulary. Th...
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