The ELEMENTAL studio, headed by artistic director Alejandro Aravena and based in the capital of Chile, Santiago, is untraditionally composed of people with a variety of skills and abilities. Their analytical approach to architecture and urban plannin...

Architecture accounts for one third of global carbon emissions, energy consumption and waste. Buildings are increasingly understood to impact broader ecologies. Yet embodied energy – the various forms of energy required to extract raw matter, to prod...

"Emerging Nature" documents the work of the Argentinian architect, graphic designer and industrial designer Emilio Ambasz. The publication discusses his projects ranging from buildings and urban gardens including green facade vertical gardens to exhi...

Is democracy spatial? How are the physical aspects of our cities, houses, streets, and public spaces – the borders, the neighborhoods, the monuments – bearers of our values? In a world of intensifying geo-economic integration, extreme financial and g...

Old things, historic things, smelly dirty things, all the things that were considered the very opposite of "contemporary", have suddenly irrupted forcefully into architecture and art, blurring their boundaries. This book takes stock of the emerging g...

While climate change, sustainable architecture and green technologies have become increasingly topical issues, concerns regarding the sustainability of the city are rarely addressed. The premise of Ecological Urbanism is that an ecological approach i...

For Kenya Hara, design begins with comprehension of the unknown. The concept of "exformation", to which a chapter was already devoted in "Designing Design", continues to preoccupy the Japanese designer. In contrast to "information", "exformation" des...

"Europe City: Lessons from the European Prize for Urban Public Space" presents a multifaceted and diverse platform of ideas about European public space and its social, cultural and economic significance. Based on seven themes – or lessons to be learn...

Developed as a parallel research project of Fundamentals – the exhibition at the 14th Venice Architecture Biennale curated by Rem Koolhaas – the book offers insights on Venetian facades, stairs, corridors, floors, ramps, ceilings, doors, hearths, win...