Shigeru Ban (born Tokyo, 1957) attended SCI-Arc in California and earned his degree at the Cooper Union School of Architecture in New York. Based in...
Updated with over 200 new pages, this XXL-sized monograph is jam-packed with photographs, sketches, and plans that span Renzo Piano’s entire career to date. It...
From the early days as a member of the New York Five, Richard Meier has been a central figure in contemporary architecture in the United...
Zaha Hadid was a revolutionary architect. For years, she was widely acclaimed and won numerous prizes despite building practically nothing. Some even said her work...
Travel the world to investigate one of the greatest renaissances in architecture: wood. How has this elemental material come to steal the show...
The idea of climbing a tree for shelter, or just to see the earth from another perspective, is surely as old as humanity. Tree houses...
Over the years, talented architects have occasionally indulged themselves with thechallenge of designing small but perfectly formed buildings. Today, with reduced budgets, many architects have...
Some of the most spectacular architectural designs of the moment have to do with our most basic needs: eating, drinking, and shopping.Restaurants, bars, and boutiques...
As economic problems make some shy away from grandiose, long-lasting buildings, a wave of new temporary buildings and architectural is sweeping over the planet. These...
Since Osaka World Expo ’70 brought contemporary forms center stage, Japan has been a key player in global architecture. Presenting the latest in...
Enter the world’s finest homes in this dependable global digest featuring talents like Shigeru Ban and Marcio Kogan alongside up-and-comers like Xu Fu-Min,...
The most exciting new buildings todayare almost all environmentally aware, sustainable, and conceived to consume less energy than ever before. Discover the best examples of...
Timberland The wooden structures of the 21st century Not so very long ago, some might have considered wood a material of the past, long since...
Ever since Henry David Thoreau’s described his two years, two months, and two days of refuge existence at Walden Pond, Massachusetts, in Walden, or, Life...
Concrete? That characterless stuff of parking lots or Communist tower blocks, right? Well, yes. And no. Concrete is actually a name applied to a remarkably...
The idea of climbing a tree for shelter, or just to see the earth from another perspective, is as old as humanity. In this neat...
This fresh and incisive overview of Tadao Ando’s oeuvre spans from his beginnings in 1975 to today. Through photographsand architectural drawings, the XXL-sized tribute sheds...
Philippe Starck describes him as a ",mystic in a country which is no longer mystic.", Philip Drew calls his buildings ",land art", that ",struggle to...
Discover the world’s finest crop of new homes. This dependable global digest features such talents as Shigeru Ban, MVRDV, and Marcio Kogan alongside...
Of all building materials in the world, brick is one of the most enduring and ubiquitous.&,nbsp,Traces of brickmaking date back to 7500 BC and fired...
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