This colorful volume on materials in modern architecture examines the properties of specific building materials and explores the ways in which they are used today as well as historical progressions of
Architectural Lighting, the latest addition to the Architecture Briefs series, provides both a criticalapproach to and a conceptual framework for understanding the application of lighting in the built
Cutting edge private dwellings Beyond the fundamental notion of shelter, what defines a house??The broad-ranging selection of extraordinary dwellings in the Architecture Now! Houses series shows the
Architecture Now! 9 includes works in Amsterdam or Inner Mongolia by architects as famous as Zaha Hadid and Jean Nouvel, or as little known to the general public as Carla Juacaba from Brazil. Small ep
Technological choices give us ways to bridge the gap between the technical and the cultural, immersing one within the other. The immersion creates a platform for innovation. The techniques that people
"Kulper and Chard examine the potential of uncertainty in architecture. As this fits awkwardly with normal research methods they have each developed their own processes of study and proposal where the
How the different narratives of four historians of architectural modernism—Emil Kaufmann, Colin Rowe, Reyner Banham, and Manfredo Tafuri—advanced specific versions of modernism.
For more than half a century, Erwin Panofsky's Perspective as SymbolicForm has dominated studies of visual representation. Despite the hegemony of centralprojection, or perspective, other equally impo
Increasingly, architects are hired to design new work for existing structures. Whether for reasons of preservation, sustainability, or cost-effectiveness, the movement to reuse buildings presents a va
This newest addition to the Pamphlet Architecture series, long admired for its willingness to propose architectural solutions to challenging problems addresses the issue of rising sea levels with an i
