This revised edition of Grospierre's celebrated tour of modernist architecture has been expanded beyond Europe and North America to a truly global reach, featuring buildings in Southeast Asia, Australia, Africa and South America. Featuring new and revised texts from Barbican, MoMA and independent curators, this book offers intriguing insights into the history of modernist design, the origins of architectural photography and the reasons why architectural forms repeat in otherwise dissimilar co...

An illustrated guide to interior design that embraces the pace of nature and invites readers to cultivate spaces that nourish the soul and inspire a deeper connection with the natural world.

A photographic celebration of the unique look of Ibiza architecture, including houses, bars, beach clubs, restaurants, hotels in the most beautiful locations.

Illustrated showcase of recent house designs which exemplify green architecture and how such houses provide sustainable living environments.

This catalogue of the Biennale Architettura 2023 follows the path of the exhibition and opens with statements from the President of La Biennale di Venezia Roberto Cicutto and the Artistic Director of the Architecture Department Lesley Lokko.

Explore the world's most iconic cities through detailed maps and immerse yourself in their breathtaking architecture and captivating highlights. Journey from Amsterdam to New York, Paris, Dubai, Singapore and 20 other dynamic metropolises...

Urban notebooks / Stadsschriften / Cahiers Urbains

In Brussels, the need for affordable and middleincome housing is entangled with the necessity to reduce the environmental impact of housing. The current climatological and health crises demand us to improve the resilience of our human habitat in the city. In planning and developing new collective housing projects, private and public developers alike are struggling to find the right answer to these questions.

In this book, we present a researc...

How can Hong Kong's housing development escape its unrelenting uniformity? How might architects and developers bypass strict planning and building regulations? How might they add more value by creative design? How might they realize innovative and attractive housing towers, towers that would radically change Hong Kong?Hong Kong's notoriously strict building regulations impose a relentless uniformity on the city. This book aims to propose new indicators to achieve a proper balance between popu...

Vademecum: 77 Minor Terms for Writing Urban Places biedt een reeks concepten die nieuwe benaderingen in architectuur, stedenbouw en ruimtelijke ontwikkeling stimuleren. Deze uiteenlopende concepten kunnen blinde vlekken in het stedelijke discours onthullen of inzichten van de ene discipline naar de andere brengen. De term 'minor' verwijst naar de ambitie om naar de lokale en sociale specificiteit van stedelijke plekken te kijken en om gevestigde discursieve kaders uit te dagen, door stem te g...