The pocket-sized visual guide to the great buildings and structures of the modern age from around the world by an architecture expert.

The Italio-Brazilian architect Lina Bo Bardi (1914-1992) forged a unique path with her bold designs. Spanning architecture, stage sets, fashion, and furniture, her work drew inspiration from the International Style, which she translated into her own visual language. Fundamental to her work was her thoughtful en­gagement with her adopted country of Brazil, its cul­ture, society, and politics, and she productively and provocatively voiced her sometimes radical views through designs, exhibitio...

From Paper Tube Emergency Shelters and his Nomadic Museum built with containers to the Swatch/Omega Campus and the Centre Pompidou-Metz, discover the altruistic practice of the Pritzker Prize–winning architect Shigeru Ban, who is lauded for his “curiosity, commitment, endless innovation, infallible eye, and acute sensibility.”

An illustrated celebration of the architectural and design values at the heart of rustic living - simplicity, self-sufficiency and a deep reverence for the land and natural materials.

In recent decades, Soviet modernism has garnered significant global interest, challenging previous assumptions about the Soviet Union's architectural achievements. The rise of "All-Union Modernism" highlighted the complexity and innovation within Soviet architecture, particularly in the post-Soviet era when the former Soviet republics became accessible to international experts. This book investigates the relationship between Soviet and Western architecture during the 1950s and 1970s, examinin...

Tijdens de wederopbouw en de Post 65-periode is in Nederland ongekend veel gebouwd en geïnnoveerd: van het Groothandelsgebouw in Rotterdam tot het Evoluon in Eindhoven, van het stadhuis in Terneuzen tot de bolwoningen in Den Bosch. Veel van deze projecten zijn toe aan vernieuwing, waardoor er momenteel veel wordt verduurzaamd en gerenoveerd.

Bouwmaterialen 1940-1990 beschrijft op een overzichtelijke manier het bouwproces, de materialen en de technieken van de naoorlogse Nederlandse architect...