The Anarchitecture group show at the fabled 112 Greene Street gallery – an artistic epicenter of New York's downtown scene in the 1970s – in March 1974 has been the subject of an enduring discussion, despite a complete lack of documentation about it....

Tracing the history of cottages ornes (ornamental cottages), this copiously illustrated volume offers an engaging survey of an often-overlooked architectural genre. An invention of mid-18th-century England, these cottages were designed to facilitate...

Founded in 1975, the Robbrecht en Daem architectural firm has built an extensive and impressive portfolio – architecture and infrastructure projects, interiors and landscapes – in Belgium and across Europe. What links the diverse projects designed by...

Steven and Susan show how to create a range of useful structures and furnishings, both large and small, at relatively little expense by using mostly recycled materials. The first chapters show the kinds of materials used and their possible uses; the...

The typical town springs up around a natural resource – a river, an ocean, an exceptionally deep harbor – or in proximity to a larger, already thriving town. Not so with "new towns", which are created by decree rather than out of necessity and are of...

"Buckminster Fuller Inc." offers a deep exploration of Richard Buckminster Fuller's work and thought to shed new light on the questions raised by our increasingly electronic world. It shows that Fuller's entire career was a multi-dimensional refl ect...

The north-east of Scotland is one of the least known areas of the country but has an architectural heritage as rich as the Highlands and Angus with which it shares its borders. This volume is the first of two to illuminate its buildings and covers no...

This magnificently illustrated people's history celebrates the extraordinary feats of cultivation by the working class in Britain, even if the land they toiled, planted and loved was not their own. Spanning more than four centuries, from the earliest...

This beautifully illustrated book celebrates the opening of the new Visitor Center at the Clark Art Institute, designed by Pritzker Prize recipient Tadao Ando. Noted architectural photographer Richard Pare captures the building's indoor and outdoor s...

Greek temples captivate anyone with an interest in antiquity, and the Doric, Ionic and Corinthian columnar orders that clad them launched the classical architectural tradition down to modern times. "The Origins of Classical Architecture" proposes gro...