Architecture

Transfer of Development Rights (TDR) programs allow local governments to put economic principles to work in encouraging good land use planning. TD...

Transfer of Development Rights (TDR) programs allow local governments to put economic principles to work in encouraging good land use planning. TD...

When we think of green building, we tend to picture new construction. But Robert Young argues that the greenest building is often the one that has ...

Journalist and urban analyst James Russell argues that we''ll slow global warming more quickly - and blunt its effects - by retrofitting cities, su...

The 2007 bridge collapse in Minneapolis-St. Paul quickly became symbolic of the debilitated interstate highway system, and of what many critics see...

Jorn Utzon received worldwide fame as the architect of the Sydney Opera House, but his much larger body of work has a breadth and depth that is of ...

A cathedral is the mother church of a diocese, the seat of a bishop. Together, the 42 English cathedrals of the Church of England constitute one of...

As health becomes a central focus of political debate, are architects, urban designers, and landscape architects seeking a new moral and political ...

The monograph provides a sharply focused insight into how Annette Gigon and Mike Guyer understand architecture. The various concepts as well as the...

Since the late 1990s cultural icons have been built in numerous cities throughout the world in order to court the attention of potential visitors i...

Young Belgian architects are showing a renewed approach to architecture. While the older generation grew up in a booming economy in which there was...

Focusing on Central and Southern Tibet, these two beautifully illustrated volumes are the product not only of years of scholarship but also, import...

The peaceful, stoic and classic appearance of buildings by the Bonn architect Uwe Schroder recalls the Italian rationalism of the 1960s to 1980s. H...

Based on aspects arising from architectural work and academic teaching, this essay addresses the wide-ranging issues involved with innovatively int...

Simon Businger, Fabian Kauffmann and Samuel Sieber are the protagonists of this Lucerne office. In the last eight years, they have achieved numerou...

Based on aspects arising from architectural work and academic teaching, this essay addresses the wide-ranging issues involved with innovatively int...

Hans Cometti and Norbert Truffer belong to two different architectural generations. Since 2008, they have operated their joint office in Lucerne. T...

This book explores the public policy involved in memorialising and preserving the nation''s historical sites. Topics discussed include: national mo...

Born in Ismaila, to a Greek family, she arrived in France at the age of eleven as a boarder at Sacre-Coeur de Chantilly, then returned to Cairo to ...