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What should our buildings look like? Or is their usability more important than their appearance? Paul Guyer argues that the fundamental goals of architecture first identified by the Roman architect ……続きを見る

The city is the point of departure and arrival for the "architectural experience." It is, therefore, a palpable, external fact as well as a product of the mind, an abstraction. This book attempts to……続きを見る

Beyond Environment presents the potent interchange between architecture, Land Art, and Performance Art that emerged through Italian architect Gianni Pettena's idealized collaboration with American a……続きを見る

David Tajchman's first book about a self-initiated architectural research for a White City-specific High-Rise: the Gran Mediterraneo. Gathering working documents, sketches and rare pictures in an ob……続きを見る

Mute Icons challenges fixed aesthetic notions of beauty in architecture as both, disciplinary discourse and a spatial practice within the public realm, by intersecting historic antecedents and prese……続きを見る

Is architecture inherently complete? Or is it a state of incompletion and seeming inadequacy that incites us to imagine architecture as an armature for an ever-changing daily life? Buildings and Alm……続きを見る

Reyner Banham (1922–88) was a prolific, iconoclastic critic of modern architecture, cities, and mass culture in Britain and the United States, and his provocative writings are inescapable in these a……続きを見る

Yona Friedman presents a personal selection of half a century of his work. In 1958 Yona Friedman published his first manifesto on 'mobile architecture' and founded GEAM (Groupe d'Etude d'Architectur……続きを見る

Sanaa’s housing projects, both finished (House A, S House, House in a Plum Grove, Small House and Moriyama House), and unfinished projects (Flower House, Garden & House, Seijo Apartments, Ichikawa A……続きを見る

Una piccola antologia di testi inediti, selezionati e messi a disposizione dall’Archivio Gae Aulenti di Milano. Con il suo sguardo profondo, competente ed esperto, ma anche personalissimo e anticonf……続きを見る

It was around Kengo Kumas tenth birthday that he came into contact with Kenzō Tanges fishlike Yoyogi National Gymnasium, completed for the 1964 Tokyo Olympics, and determined that he would become an……続きを見る

Dans son livre intitulé "L'évolution de l'architecture en France", Raoul Rosières explore en profondeur l'histoire et les différentes tendances architecturales qui ont façonné le paysage urbain fran……続きを見る

本書以記者視角展現了貝聿銘的一生。既是一部貝聿銘的成長傳記，又是一部貝聿銘建築設計作品的編年史傳。兩位作者實地採訪，內容真實可靠：不僅採訪貝聿銘的兩個兒子、他的幾位助手、項目參與者和傳記作者，還去上……続きを見る

This book examines the idea of organism in the work of Louis I. Kahn, from the turning point of Rome to the project for Venice. It presents an original interpretation of the work of Kahn during one ……続きを見る

Few figures in the American arts have stories richer in irony than does architect Minoru Yamasaki. While his twin towers of New York’s World Trade Center are internationally iconic, few who know the……続きを見る

SOUPERgreen! features projects and essays that offer a long overdue critique of the current approach to “green” architecture and, in turn, demonstrate a more appropriate way for architects to addres……続きを見る

This book provides a clear guide for practitioners looking to establish or already conducting research projects in a practice context and graduate students looking to support their studies and role ……続きを見る

Light and architecture lie at the base of the iGuzzini Illuminazione strategy. During the day, a "natural" organic form creates high-quality and highly-ergonomic workplaces. At night, the building i……続きを見る

PLP Architecture presents ten recent projects as case studies to examine the emergence of a new typological fluidity and as markers to survey the cultural landscape of the past decade. The last deca……続きを見る

With contributions from over fifty architects, planners, geographers, historians, and journalists, The Arsenal offers a wide-ranging view of the forces that shape our cities. Who gets to be where? T……続きを見る

Architect + Action = Result presents a collection of guidelines and advice for identifying themes and shaping narratives of professional achievements, career milestones, and building and design proj……続きを見る

Seven projects by RCR arquitectes, 2017 Pritzker Prize winner, which are seven folded posters inside a folder with a textbook. A container of images, architecture, and poetry that are the reflection……続きを見る

Successo è un termine di difficile definizione, legato com'è a fattori spesso aleatori e a ragioni spesso esterne a esperienze disciplinari. Questa collana, dedicata allo specifico mondo dell'archit……続きを見る

Il progetto del complesso residenziale denominato “Patrizia” redatto nel 1966-68 da Alvar Aalto, con Elissa Aalto e Leonardo Mosso, collocato nella periferia ovest di Pavia in località San Lanfranco……続きを見る

Volume n. 4 della collana ARCHITETTURA ENIGMATICA diretta da Ruggero Lenci Questo numero della collana editoriale architettura enigmatica si occupa della lettura critica della Torre Eurosky, con il ……続きを見る

"Quasi un diario" nasce come una serie di appunti legati fra loro a mo' di zibaldone dalla coerenza del discorso e dal sottile filo della successione cronologica degli eventi. Riferimenti che spesso……続きを見る

Successo è un termine di difficile definizione, legato com’è a fattori spesso aleatori e a ragioni spesso esterne a esperienze disciplinari. Questa collana, dedicata allo specifico mondo dell’archit……続きを見る

Hermann Muthesius (1861-1927), architetto e teorico tedesco, fu tra i fondatori del Deutscher Werkbund. Inviato dal governo prussiano come attaché culturale presso l’Ambasciata tedesca a Londra, pub……続きを見る

In continuità con i seminari organizzati sui docenti che hanno dato prestigio alla Prima Facoltà di Architettura del Politecnico di Milano (oggi Facoltà di Architettura e Società) nella seconda metà……続きを見る

Luca Fiorentino porta sempre con sé, in tasca, uno dei suoi piccoli quaderni così che quando esce da un cantiere, o riposa sugli scalini di un angolo della sua Roma o fuma il sigaro dopo cena può ve……続きを見る