Architectural Structure & Design

This new book is an edited volume of essays that examine the legacy of architecture in a number of African countries soon after independence. It ha...

This book examines diverse ways of questioning, critiquing, and communicating site in the creative process of architecture, interior design, urban ...

This book explores an emerging design culture that rigorously applies systems thinking to the practice of design as a form of facilitating change o...

Sean Pickersgill demonstrates that the goal of creating meaningful architecture can take a variety of critical and philosophical paths. The importa...

Urban Modernity in the Contemporary Gulf offers a timely and engaging discussion on architectural production in the modernization era in the Arabia...

Structure as Architecture presents a comprehensive analysis of the indispensable role of structure in architecture. An exploration, as well as a ce...

LabStudio: Design Research between Architecture and Biology introduces the concept of the research design laboratory in which funded research and t...

LabStudio: Design Research between Architecture and Biology introduces the concept of the research design laboratory in which funded research and t...

Narrative Architecture explores the postmodern concept of narrative architecture from four perspectives: thinking, imagining, educating, and design...

Narrative Architecture explores the postmodern concept of narrative architecture from four perspectives: thinking, imagining, educating, and design...

Current assessment methods of sustainable buildings do not adequately account for the users’ needs. Given that over the life of a building, total s...

Architecture Beyond Experience is an interdisciplinary work in the service of one goal: the bringing about of a more relational, 'posthuman' and ...

Designing Women’s Lives calls for a place-making revolution based on women’s culturally nurtured “feeling” sensibility. Women too often have had to...

The Islamic world's artistic traditions experienced profound transformation in the 19th century as rapidly developing technologies and globalizing ...

In a world that fetishises aesthetic frivolity and iconographic bombast at the expense of substance and nuance, the critically acclaimed work of Jo...

Facades: Beauty. Utility. Performance illustrates the depth and breadth of the many innovative exterior wall facades that were designed from 2007–2...

The Architectural League Prize for Young Architects + Designers is an annual competition, series of lectures, exhibition, and publication organised...

Today, Italian architect and designer Carlo Mollino (1905-73) is known chiefly for his furniture designs. He is famous also for his erotic polaroid...