Architectural Structure & Design

Building for everyone that is the best definition of what lies behind the unwieldy concept of barrier-free design: the complete and total usabilit...

This volume addresses the complex relations between urban artifacts and urban life. The contributions show how architects, planners, and urban desi...

In an era of accelerating population growth, mass urbanization, and increasing pressure on the natural environment, the megacities of China's easte...

DEMO:POLIS is a sociological and urbanist research undertaking comprehensively examining what 'public space' means today. After two decades of app...

2017 PROSE Award Winner: Outstanding Scholarly Work by a Trade Publisher In the vein of Jane Jacobs's The Death and Life of Great American Cities a...

Though reaching ever further toward the skies, today's cities are overshadowed by multiple threats: climate change, overpopulation, social division...

After the global success of Yes is More, one of the best-selling architecture books of its generation, BIG Bjarke Ingels Group presents Hot to Col...

A large concrete panel is the centerpiece of the Chil­ean Pavilion. It was one of the first original wall panels produced by the Chilean KPD plant....

As a civil engineer with leading German construction companies, Horst Barow has built highways and bridges in many parts of the world. He was aware...

MUSAC (The Institute of Contemporary Arts in Castilla) presents this illustrated monograph celebrating the work of the Norwegian design studio TYIN...

Naked Architecture Valerio Paolo Mosco An account of one of the most interesting phenomena of contemporary architecture: the return to the structur...

We take it for granted that the streets outside out homes are designed for movement from A to B, nothing more. But what happens if we radically ret...

Exploring design works ranging from furniture and temporary art installations to interior design and architecture by CL3, founded by William Lim, a...

Berlin is not just the capital city and largest metropolis in Germany. It is also characterised by its most varying architectural landscape. This a...

A monograph on architect Mario Bellini (born 1935), examining his buildings, museums, fairground complexes, international competitions and major ex...

'I first saw the Goetheanum as a fifteen-year-old through binoculars. I was fascinated and wanted to know more about this incredible building. What...

The first book in more than two decades to examine the 50-year career of the eminent architect Pritzker Prize-winner Kevin Roche (b. 1922) is one o...

Landscape is a time-space compound shaped by human activities on natural processes; the persistence of a landscape supports its continuity and stab...