Architectural Structure & Design

The Embodied Image The Embodied Image: Imagination and Imagery in Architecture Juhani Pallasmaa All artistic and architectural effects are evoked, ...

The traditional veneration of architecture for its monumental and enduring qualities seems to be changing. Architects and other designers are movin...

A radical shift is taking place in the way that society is thinking about cities, a change from the machine metaphors of the 20th century to mathem...

"There is today a pronounced and accelerated convergence in architecture. This convergence is occurring by doers not thinkers; in practice not acad...

Pattern-making is ubiquitous in both the natural and manmade world. The human propensity for pattern recognition and fabrication is innate. Encompa...

The Space Reader provides a highly pertinent and contemporary understanding of space for a new generation of students and architects. It espouses a...

This book documents the creation of the Taiyuan Museum of Art: a geometric visual feast that seeks to redefine the structure of museums, galleries,...

It is well known that children are naturally drawn to an engaging and fun environment for them to play, learn, and grow. This book showcases 30 cre...

Impossible and Hyper-Real Elements of Architecture addresses how and why architects, artists, and designers manipulate reality. Front and centre in...

This publication is the second edition of the London Architecture Guide and features new insights and new itineraries. The architectural and cult...

"Modern life getting on top of you? You'll find inspiration for an escape to the wild in the pages of this new photo book, which showcases spectacu...

Between the 1920s and the 1960s, American mainstream cinematic architecture underwent a seismic shift. From the massive movie palace to the intimat...

The Architectural Developemnt of the Greek Stoa

Fun Mill. The Architecture of Creative Industry in Contemporary China looks closely on transforming existing real estate by promoting creative clus...

"An ode to the architectural wonders of Iran." — AD Middle East "A book that you enjoy picking up because there are always new and exciting things ...

Want to keep up with emerging design thinking and issues worldwide? Design Studio is a new thematic series that distils the most topical work and i...

The theme of “modernity” was the launching pad for architecture in the 20th century, to the point of completely revolutionising our way of life. By...

Natural, renewable, reusable, and aesthetically pleasing, wood is the consummate building material. Thanks to incredible advances in both applicati...

Throughout London’s two-thousand-year history, architecture has expressed the identity of the city’s diverse communities. From Franciscan friars to...

The constant in architecture's evolution is change. Adaptive Architecture explores structures, or environments that accommodate multiple functions ...

Building Toys: An Architect’s Collection documents over 100 architectural building toys from the author’s collection, from the mid-1800s to the pre...

Schools have the potential to empower communities by connecting people better with the places they live. But how can these benefits be baked into a...

This book is the first comprehensive study of Mormon architecture. It centers on the doctrine of Zion which led to over 500 planned settlements in ...

The central argument of this book is that, despite the current trend to embrace Green, an urgent rethink is needed in the way that Asia builds. The...

Bilingual edition (English/German) / Zweisprachige Ausgabe (deutsch/englisch) Artistic production and the spaces available for this within the urba...

Based on documentation originating in the environmental sciences, history of science, philosophy and art, Architecture of Nature explores the mate...

From foundation to finish, a wealth of information is available on sustainable construction methods--entire volumes have been published on individu...

The Creswell photographic archive at the American University in Cairo is an invaluable resource of over 12,000 printed images of Islamic architectu...

This book is the story of an extraordinary survivor from the Alhambra palace in Granada, Spain: the Alhambra cupola, now in the Museum of Islamic A...

This beautifully illustrated large-format monograph reveals how multi-disciplinary architectural firm 212box has crafted a luxurious and bespoke pe...

The past 25 years has seen an extraordinary boom in a new kind of cultural complex: the memorial museum. These seek to research, represent, commemo...

The reemergence in the early eighteenth century of the technology and use of concrete provide the starting point for this first volume of the Treat...

German architecture prior to the modern period has received less systemic, analytical study than that of Italy, France, and Britain. Scholarly disc...

A spectacular global survey of the new buildings merging architecture and nature to transform our cities for a sustainable future. Concrete horiz...

Gathering his most compelling essays and addresses from the last fifty years in one accessible volume, this book looks at the pioneering ideas that...

This book describes the complete panorama of supporting structures and their function by describing how loads are sustained and transmitted to the ...

This book investigates the relationship architecture has with the underground. It provides a broad ranging historical and theoretical survey of, an...