We Built This City

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

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 ...

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...

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 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...

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...

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 ...

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...

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...

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

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

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...

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...

Beloved and contemplated by philosophers, architects, writers, and literary theorists alike, Bachelard's lyrical, landmark work examines the places...

A challenging and polemical argument about the Autonomia movement in Italy, a group of Italian intellectuals who produced a powerful and rigorous c...

Over the past twenty years European cities have become the envy of the world: a Kraftwerk Utopia of historic centres, supermodernist concert halls,...

Today we live in a world that can no longer be read as a two-dimensional map, but must now be understood as a series of vertical strata that reach ...

photographs by Jeremy M. Lange Writing About Architecture: Mastering the Language of Buildings and Cities, the latest addition to the Architecture ...