We Built This City

In this rapidly globalizing world, any investigation of architecture inevitably leads to considerations of regionalism. But despite its omnipresenc...

Illustrated by Robbie Polley Gothic, Romanesque, Modernist, Metabolist... The variety of styles through architectural history can be bewildering. W...

Reducing energy use is the single biggest challenge facing architecture today. From the humblest prehistoric hut to the imposing monuments of Rome ...

The book argues for a shift of orientation in architectural thought, from what the building is to what it does; it also shows that the workings or ...

This atlas of architectural wonders eschews the classic children's book fare of the Pyramids and the Taj Mahal, and instead takes a broader view of...

The Black and White house in Singapore is the most distinctive and imposing of the island's colonial architectural legacy. Surviving examples are t...

'Would they still call me a diva if I were a man?' asked Zaha Hadid, challenging as she did so more than a century of stereotypes about female arch...

In this reimagined and easy-to-use size, Brick takes a fresh look at one of the world's most familiar and popular building materials. Presenting 18...

Bricks are the only non-natural building material that can look back at several thousand years of history. And as Mies van der Rhohe stated: “Archi...

When Marwa al-Sabouni published Battle for Home in 2016, she was a little-known architect, living in battle-ravaged Homs, Syria, unable to practice...

Today, the bunker has become the extreme expression of our greatest fears: from pandemics to climate change and nuclear war. And once you look, it ...

Initially created by a group of friends as an online scrapbook, Cabin Porn became a phenomenon following the publication of the first volume of pho...

A manifesto for the Open City: vibrant, disordered, adaptable. In 1970 Richard Sennett published the ground breaking The Uses of Disorder, that the...

One day in the early 1950s, Walt Disney stood looking over 240 acres of farmland in Anaheim, California, and imagined building a park where people ...

From the skyline of Dubai to the idea of 'quality', the impact of broadband cabling in West Africa to the street plan beneath your feet Extrastatec...

What happens when the past-or, more specifically, a piece of cultural heritage-is fabricated? From 50 replica Eiffel Towers located around the worl...

What might our cities look like in ten, twenty or fifty years? How may future cities face global challenges? Imagining the city of the future has l...

The drawings of the Dublin based Studio Grafton Architects, one of the most up and coming and hype studio in contemporary architecture, formed by I...

This is going to be the century of the city. But what actually makes a good city? Why are some cities a joy to live in? As Charles Montgomery revea...

Everyone needs and deserves housing. But today our homes are being transformed into commodities, making the inequalities of the city ever more acut...

Over the course of a career spanning more than fifty years, Seattle-based architect Jim Olson, of Olson Kundig, has made his name designing a broad...

In Junkspace, architect Rem Koolhaas itemised in delirious detail how our cities are being overwhelmed. His celebrated jeremiad is here updated and...

Quirky, surprising and entertaining - with more than 400 houses, Jutaku is architecture at the speed of Japan. Frenetic. Pulsating. Disorienting. J...

During the course of the twentieth century, communism took power in Eastern Europe and remade the city in its own image. Ransacking the urban plann...

A decade after its first publication, the bestselling monograph Le Corbusier Le Grand is finally available in a new paperback edition. Documenting ...

Originally published in 1996 to critical fanfair, scholar William J. R. Curtis has re-issued his classic text with extensive new scholarship and co...

Hans Ulrich Obrist has been conducting ongoing conversations with the world's greatest living artists since he began in Switzerland, aged 19, with ...

We shape ourselves, and are shaped in return, by the walls that contain us. Buildings affect how we sleep, work, socialise and even breathe. They c...

Marcel Breuer (1902-1981) is celebrated as a furniture designer, teacher, and architect who changed the American house after his emigration from Hu...

American architect Michael Graves divides architectural design into three distinctive moments: referential sketches, preparatory studies, and final...

Edited by Justin Zhuang During a career spanning over three decades, award-winning architect Mok Wei Wei has designed numerous large- and small-sca...

It was around Kengo Kuma's tenth birthday that he came into contact with Kenzo Tange's fishlike Yoyogi National Gymnasium, completed for the 1964 T...

translated by Robert Tavernor and Richard Schofield In De architectura (c. 40 BC), Vitruvius discusses in ten encyclopedic chapters aspects of Roma...

translated by Shaun Whiteside Revolutionary essays on design, aesthetics and materialism - from one of the great masters of modern architecture. Ad...

Paul Rudolph (1918–1997) authored some of Modernism's most powerful designs and served as an influential educator while chair of Yale's School of A...

The raw concrete buildings of the 1960s constitute the greatest flowering of architecture the world has ever seen. The biggest construction boom in...

Roberto Burle Marx (1909-94) remains one of the most important landscape architects in the history of the field, celebrated for his famous curving ...

The Singapore shophouse is an architectural gem a particular building form that is unique to the island. This book traces its development from rudi...

State-of-the-art Singapore is constantly transforming and rejuvenating her building stock. Singapore's Building Stock documents and analyses these ...

One of the most celebrated living architects, Ando is best known for crafting serenely austere structures that fuse Japanese building traditions wi...

In Dubai, a luxury apartment block is built in the shape of a giant iPod. In China, President Xi Jinping denounces the trend of constructing 'bizar...

What makes a house truly beautiful? Why are many new houses so ugly? Why do we argue so bitterly about sofas and pictures - and can differences of ...

Drawing on the author’s personal experience of living and working as an architect in Syria, this timely and fascinating account offers an eyewitnes...

Why do presidents and prime ministers, tycoons and tyrants share such a fascination with grand designs? Is it to impress or terrify, to wield state...

Interest in home design has been on the rise for some time, but Kinfolk's focus on slowing down and creating a more intentional, beautiful home is ...

We live in a world that is now predominantly urban. So how do we define the city as it evolves in the 21st century? Drawing examples from across th...

The rooms we live in are always more than just four walls. As we decorate these spaces and fill them with objects and friends, they shape our lives...

Good homes are places where lives can unfold, families grow up, dogs jump on sofas, friends share your hospitality. They should also be places wher...