Architectural Structure & Design

There may be no single climate solution that has a greater breadth of benefits than mini-forests[and] can be done by everyone everywhere. Paul Hawk...

Climate change is not distant. It is underway. We are in the midst of a climate emergency. Architects can - and must be - part of the radical chang...

This multiauthor volume presents thirteen case studies that showcase the scientific, analytical, and often archaeological study of historic buildin...

Working in rural China is unlike other countryside: it is full of contradiction, neither rural nor urban, both traditional and modern, abandoned in...

Growing flowers to cut and enjoy at home can sharpen our awareness of the world around us and make us more attuned to nature. We find it impossible...

From artworks and chairs to architecture, landscaping and interior design, Michael Boyds devotion to the principles of modernism is comprehensive. ...

Trailblazing greenway projects from vision to reality.In this eye-opening journey through some of America's most innovative landscape architecture ...

Landscape architects rely on images to explore ideas and to communicate them to others. Their designs range from large-scale master plans and strat...

The frescoes of Peruzzi, Raphael and Sodoma still dazzle visitors to the Villa Farnesina, but they survive in a stripped-down environment bereft of...

A remarkable classic work on traditional Japanese architecture, and how the style and features can serve as a model for contemporary residential bu...

This book presents innovative examples of hidden architecture: buildings that are designed to disappear into their surroundings or hide in plain si...

Not everyone has access to outside space or what we traditionally think of as a garden, but we all have window ledges, shelves, stairways and unlov...

From hand-made brick to high-tech product: building with blocks of fired clay today draws from a heritage of nine millennia and remains innovative,...

Over the last three decades, timber architecture has seen a resurgence in popularity thanks to the level of innovation, experimentation and environ...

Guardians of Michigan profiles the extraordinary architectural sculpture found in both the pleasant peninsulas of the Great Lakes State. Author Jef...