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Envisioning Better Cities: A Global Tour of Good Ideas takes readers on a world tour of useful, feasible, and novel ideas for making cities more livable and sustainable.

Fresh Water is a book that addresses regional, territorial, and continental water issues through inter-disciplinary design research in landscape architecture.

MASTERcrit was inaugurated in 2015 as a hybrid series of events that encompassed lectures, critiques and a charrette.

Introducing--a collection of eighteen short essays developed by designer and educator David Erdman--suggests that short-form writing might serve as the proper vehicle for architectural discourse to flourish in the 21st century.

Further exploring the themes first presented at the 2016 Woltz Symposium at the University of Virginia, Ecologies of Prosperity for the Living City is structured as a reader for students, practitioners, and enthusiasts of design with original material and exclusive interviews with speakers.

Once the third largest lake in California, and among the world's greatest air pollution offenders, the deadened Owens Lakewas for decades merely a catastrophic footnote to the most notorious water grab in modern history.

This catalog is a record of the inquiries and proposals that were developed thanks to the LeFevre Fellowship.

re]TOKYO explores a wide, understanding vision of the transformative processes of one of the most influential and unknown metropolitan areas in the world, from large scale efforts such as Tokyo's land engineering transformations, to smaller examples such as its capital vending machine system.

This is the eighth set in an ongoing series of books. Each of the titles tells the story of a single building.

This is the first monograph of the historic firm of Machado & Silvetti Associates, with never before seen images

Not Interesting proposes another set of terms and structures to talk about architecture, without requiring that it be interesting.

This publication documents Trajan's Hollow, a transformative reproduction of Trajan's Column in Rome, to address issues of critical importance in contemporary architectural practice: a reconsideration of architectural poch (both programmatic and material), the use of scale shift as a tool for transforming shape and content.

The HOK Design Annual 2018 highlights this leading global design firm's most exceptional recent work in architecture, interior design, planning, urban design, and product design.

When Urbanization Comes To Ground is a loosely congregated collection of essays that reflect an aggregation of encounters with urban circumstances - physical and immaterial, and structural and affective.

BAAO navigate topics of public space and circulation, technology, sustainability, and materiality This eponymous publication highlights the diversity and ingenuity of BDFO Architects' practice.

In Western culture, from an early age we are ingrained with the notion that weight in building construction equals strength as evinced even in children's stories such as the 'The Three Little Pigs'.

Hadiprana is known as the only Indonesian design consultant to pay respect to Indonesian tradition and locality by infusing its culturally identifying aesthetics into all of its projects, hospitality projects that include hotels, villas, and private residences.

This book is a compendium of American building types and other elements, buildable in today's world, that serve walkable neighbourhoods - a resource that should prove indispensable to those interested in dense communities and cities.

Pratt Sessions presents a series of conversations between notable practitioners and thinkers. It is a distributed symposium that is curated and yet open-ended.

This book is a inspirational guide into the world of fashion and all things beautiful.

Multi-disciplinary and broad in scope, this volume of essays and artworks converges perspectives on contemporary rurality from different academic and creative fields. It contains contributions from artists, geographers, architects, media scholars and anthropologists.

This book examines systems dynamics from the perspective of my own triangulated model comprised of commons environments (those shared environments at risk for over use or degradation), the institutions we design to manage those commons and the human behavior associated with our investment in the triad.

Issue 07 of LA+ Journal brings you the results of the LA+ IMAGINATION open international design ideas competition, in which we asked designers to create a new island.

This book covers the work of four of Neil Denari's projects: Sotoak Extension in Al Paso, Texas, the HL-23 Building in New York, the Keelung Harbor in Taiwan, and the Alan Voo House in Los Angeles.

The book is a portfolio of three Northern California architectural projects: Canyon House, Inverness House, and Mocabee House. Each house is very different in style, but the themes that are explored are consistent in the architecture and the interiors.

Pressing Matters VI is an exciting compilation of design and research performed at PennDesign's Department of Architecture.

By nature Herb Cohen was actually an observer but he became a participant in the lives of his camera's reticent subjects because, simply, he loved engaging with the people he befriended.

Native Places is a collection of sixty-four watercolor sketches that are paired with mini-essays about architecture, landscape, everyday objects, and nature.

Once upon a time, closets were merely a place to store clothes. LA Closet Design presents Closet Design Bible - a compilation of ultra high-end closet spaces, spanning multiple countries for more than a decade.

This book portrays the exquisite beauty that is found amid the ruins of a handful of tiny trading towns located along an ancient trade route in Rajasthan, India.