A fully illustrated book packed with honest advice, inspiration, ideas, and lessons learned about designing a home that reflects your style.

A stunning exploration of London’s most beautiful, interesting and unusual members’ club architecture and interiors. Newly commissioned photography, text by Andrew Jones, travel writer for the Financial Times and author of The Buildings of Green Park. Foreword by interior designer Nina Campbell OBE.

A comprehensive monograph on Frank Lloyd Wright, one of the great masters of modern architecture

This comprehensive monograph on the renowned twentieth-century architect, Frank Lloyd Wright, explores both his major architectural designs and many of his minor projects in detail. Robert McCarter analyses Wright’s work chronologically, exploring each building’s spatial experience, material and tectonic character, and relationship to the landscape.

Now in a fully revised and updated new editi...

A collection of 50 stone houses from around the world that make the most of this extraordinary, tactile material

S,M,L,XL presents a selection of the remarkable visionary design work produced by the Dutch firm Office for Metropolitan Architecture (O.M.A.) and its acclaimed founder, Rem Koolhaas, in its first twenty years, along with a variety of insightful, often poetic writings. The inventive collaboration between Koolhaas and designer Bruce Mau is a graphic overture that weaves together architectural projects, photos and sketches, diary excerpts, personal travelogues, fairy tales, and fables, as well ...

A clear, intelligently-written guide to a crucial period of Spanish history

This book provides an easy insight into the essentials of cybersecurity, even if you have a non-technical background. You may be a business person keen to understand this important subject area or an information security specialist looking to update your knowledge.

‘The world has changed more in the past 10 years than in any 10 year period in human history... Technology is no longer a peripheral servant, it shapes our daily lives. Companies that can use technology wisely and well are boomin...

This Construction and Design Manual showcases all aspects of planning hospitals, medical practices, and pharmacies. Around 50 projects are presented in their entirety, accompanied by large photographs, true to scale floor plans, and coloured diagrams. The volume also features scientific contributions concerning methods of planning and questions of design. Additional essays on architectural history and typological classifications make this book, spanning over 400  pages, an indispensable refe...

In the middle of the Lebeaustraat in Brussels, sandwiched between neo-Renaissance and neo-Gothic houses, stands an Art Nouveau jewel designed by Victor Horta: the Frison House. It was

commissioned by Maurice Frison, a lawyer and friend of the architect, and was built in 1894-1895. Horta designed not only the house, but also all its furniture and decoration, right down to the smallest detail: from door handles to marble fireplaces, from mosaic floors to elegant banisters, from wall lamps to th...

The Why Factory droomt van de Groene Stad. Over de betekenis van het begrip 'groen' heerst verwarring onder ontwerpers, architecten en stedenbouwkundigen. Winy Maas stelt dat groene projecten nog steeds onsamenhangende pogingen zijn waarvan de schaalgrootte het niet haalt bij die van de interventies die in feite nodig zijn. Groen is 'in', maar met het ontwerppotentieel ervan wordt weinig gedaan.Green Dream stelt vraagtekens bij wat tegenwoordig als 'groen' wordt aangemerkt en onderzoekt in sa...