This rich collection of writings and criticisms by structural engineer and Princeton University professor Guy Nordenson, brings together previously published essays on structural engineering, architecture, design, and seismic research from 1973 to 20...

After the successful conclusion of the centenary celebrations of Andrea Palladio's birth, there are still many unanswered questions about his work. Antonio Foscari retraces Andrea Palladio's life and offers new perspectives on the architects built an...

Like few others, Louis Kahn cultivated the craft of drawing as a means to architecture. His personal design drawings – seen either as a method of discovery or for themselves – are unique in the twentieth century. Over two hundred – mostly unpublished...

Christian Lutz continues his photographic study of power structures with "Tropical Gift". He took portraits in Nigeria of people who live by and with the economic force that dominates everything there, the oil and gas industry. The photographs observ...

In 1960, Brasilia was celebrated as the realization of an urban planning vision based on designs by Lucio Costa and Oscar Niemeyer. At the same time, the sectoral city of Chandigarh was rising according to plans by Le Corbusier. The "test tube city"...

Hamish Fulton's photographic work focuses on nature and the way people experience nature. He has been hiking all over the world for 30 years, and translates what he experiences and sees into art. In 2009, Hamish Fulton and an expedition team climbed...

The acclaimed Danish-Icelandic artist Olafur Eliasson developed a sequence of spatial experiments for his Your Chance Encounter exhibition in the 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa, Japan. His piece challenges visitors to move around a...

In "Ideas and Integrities" Buckminster Fuller describes the revolutionary designs and concepts he has pioneered – among them the geodesic dome, the Dymaxion world map, the Dymaxion 4-D house, the Dymaxion 4-D automobile, and the countless other struc...

Silvia Bنchli was invited to design the official contribution for the Swiss Pavilion at this year's Biennale in Venice. This book offers a look inside her studio and documents the preparation of her works for the Biennale, illustrating her working pr...

Cities are hybrid entities based on multilayered and sometimes contradictory organizing principles. As complex networks of geographic, economic, political and cultural segments, they are caught up in a constant process of differentiation. How are we...