"Climates: Architecture and the Planetary Imaginary" brings together discussions and projects at the intersection of architecture and climate change. Comprehensive essays consider cultural values ascribed to climate and ask how climate influences our...

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...

Light is one of the most essential elements for the existence of life on earth. Plants, animals and humans depend on it. It's the strongest and fastest form of energy. But what is it when we see light? How do we use it and what can it do? "Findings o...

In devising a concept for the Abbildungen exhibition, Konstantin Grcic thought back to one of his earliest designs, an additional pedestal for a sculpture by Constantin Brancusi. This became the leitmotif of his staging of twenty-one selected objects...

In 1903, Adolf Loos, one of the sharpest and most influential architects and critics of the twentieth century, edited the astonishing journal "Das Andere" ("The Other"), subtitled "A Journal for the Introduction of Western Culture into Austria". Only...

How are changing conditions in society likely to affect Germany's built environment? What are the catalysts for transformation in its cities and regions? "Speculation Transformation" is devoted to the social and spatial transformations that Germany w...

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...

This book is the first comprehensive monograph of sauerbruch hutton: 60 projects, 8 texts, and a complete register of projects document the architects' rise to one of the leading practices concerned with a sustainable environment in the post-industri...

Architectural bookmaking has been exposed to disciplinary debates, just as building construction has been exposed to the charms of book culture. Examining the crossovers between book culture and building culture makes visible the axes along which arc...

This monograph presents 39 complex structures by the Princeton University professor and structural engineer Guy Nordenson. The body of work, developed with architects and artists including Raimund Abraham, Henry N. Cobb, Steven Holl, Michael Maltzan,...