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Provides a description of clear and useful strategies for creating enriched architectural languages through interviews with nine noteworthy North American architects.

Werewolf explores an emerging but under-investigated branch of architecture that embraces the transformation of form, performance, and the responsiveness to environments and context.

Drawing on the history of architecture, media theory, cultural anthropology, and urban studies, Best Practices pairs photographic documentation with extensive captions and citations to define a territory within the margins between the sanctioned and unsanctioned, the regulated and unregulated, the tasteful and tacky, the novel and the nonsense.

The scope of the book covers the period from 1946, when founder, Cy Lemmon, opened the first office in the garage of his Waikiki Home through present day operations housing a staff of over one hundred working in downtown Honolulu.

This groundbreaking homeless project was organised by American Canyon's city government, for older homeless people and homeless veterans of the area. This solution-oriented book shares the inspiring story of a compassionate & humane project.

The Gold Lotus is a dance in written form; a saga with a rhythmic delivery that will transport you through intricate plots, legendary wars, unsettling separations and passionate love, unbound.

Shaped Places of Carroll County New Hampshire takes a polemic conversation around architectural influence and environments to evaluate how these two factors create our most inspired work in the modern day.

American Industry is as much a celebration as it is documentation. Through his unique vision and privileged access, photographer Kim Steele has achieved a spectacular distillation of a variety of icons of power.

The photographs pull the viewer in with their emotional content, then ask the viewer to step back for another look-to both feel and think, to understand truths beyond words.

Mathew Tekulsky turns his lens and commentary on the greatest topic of them all, the United States of America, in his new book Americana: A Photographic Journey.

While Frank Lloyd Wright's life and work have been extensively chronicled, this book reexamines the period between Wright's arrival in Chicago in 1887 and his move into the loft office in Steinway Hall in 1897.

Source Books in Architecture No.14 contains project documentation from the OMA and Prada archives, transcripts from Koolhaas' conversations with students at the Knowlton School at The Ohio State University, and commentary and critique from architects, critics, and theorists.

In Shaping Place, founding principals Turan Duda, FAIA and Jeffrey Paine, FAIA, are joined by the firm's four studio leaders to discuss the evolution of their work and thematic underpinnings since publication of their previous volume, Individual to Collective, in 2013.

This year Pressing Matters 9 was completely rethought; the aim was to present an Open Source publication that shares the Department of Architecture's concept of design research, an integral approach of critical thinking, rigorous research, and a deep understanding of the complex layers of architecture.

Trans-Atlantic Engagements: The Contribution and Impact of German Educators to US Architectural Education explores the history and contribution of pedagogical concepts of German-trained professors of architecture at schools in the United States.

This book examines the social, political, and cultural factors that have and continue to influence the evolution of the urban waterfront as seen through production created from art and design practices.

Urban Grids: Handbook for Regular City Design is the result of a five-year design research project undertaken by professor Joan Busquets and Dingliang Yang at the Harvard Graduate School of Design.

The NBS studies will focus on both the current core agendas of climate adaptation, biodiversity conservation, and water resilience, and the emerging theoretical research and application in health design for nature, natural education, and spatial governance and ecological preservations/restoration at different scales.

Urban environments (including built, natural, and social environments) crucially impact children s physical and psychological health, particularly in cities.

This issue focuses on exploring the significance of territorial spatial, strengthening research on related methodologies and techniques, analyzing and learning from diversified efforts, exploring feasible approaches, and encouraging applications of research frontiers.

Visual Discoveries: A Collection of Sections is an image-forward book that is devoted to showcasing notable section drawings throughout history and demonstrating that the section drawing, while having roots in architecture, has spread to many other professions and disciplines.

Arches to Zizags introduces its audience (both young and old) to the world of architecture through the alphabet.

This is the dumbest smart book on contemporary architecture. What really is this technology that we speak of? How do we define intelligence? These are just two of the questions that this book attempts to answer through the unconventional (and seemingly ironic) lens of 'dumbness'.

The book explores the confluence of typology, geometry, landscape, and constructive systems in a design process that brings them into a difficult synthesis.

Sustainable urban and community design, including resilient communities and cities, communities of social justice and peace, viable strategies for local economic growth, and eco-efficient cities

Minding the City is an effort to refocus the subject of urban design on the tangible and visceral experience of public space, to remind urban designers that our concept of the city is grounded in bodily experience.

This book examines the urban fabric of contemporary Tokyo as a valuable demonstration of permeable, inclusive, and adaptive urban patterns that required neither extensive master planning nor corporate urbanism to develop.

Unique for its architectural and urbanistic focus, A Home to the World: The United Nations and New York City celebrates this important global organisation's many accomplishments past, present, and future.

In With Reference, Soo Chan of SCDA explores the fundamentals of architecture going back to inspirations and precedents, examining basic building blocks and core values - in search of a universal spatial vocabulary for contemporary practice.

This book is Michele Saee s life's work. A collection of projects, built, unbuilt, conceptual, and experimental which expands over more than three decades.