The originality of the concepts of “Metabolism” developed by its members and the innovative design of their projects captured the attention of many ...
Continue Reading →Reyner Banham was a pioneer in arguing that technology, human needs, and environmental concerns must be considered an integral part of architecture. No ...
Continue Reading →In City Life, Witold Rybczynski looks at what we want from cities, how they have evolved, and what accounts for their unique identities. ...
Continue Reading →Every month, five million people move from the past to the future. Pouring into developing-world “instant cities” like Dubai and Shenzhen, these urban ...
Continue Reading →This book is about women’s relationship to buildings and to the spaces between them – our created surroundings, including homes, their arrangement in ...
Continue Reading →Jeff Speck has dedicated his career to determining what makes cities thrive, and he has boiled it down to one key factor: walkability. ...
Continue Reading →What is a singular object? An idea, a building, a color, a sentiment, a human being. Each in turn comes under scrutiny in ...
Continue Reading →In The Possibility of an Absolute Architecture, Pier Vittorio Aureli proposes that a sharpened formal consciousness in architecture is a precondition for political, ...
Continue Reading →Aerotropolis is the groundbreaking account of a development that is transforming the way cities are built and the way business is conducted from ...
Continue Reading →How do we accommodate a growing urban population in a way that is sustainable, equitable, and inviting? This question is becoming increasingly urgent ...
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