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ORO EDITIONS SPRING 2022 Over the last two decades ORO Editions has been prominently recognized for its consistently innovative achievements in the design publishing community. ORO’s exceptional quality of book production and its thriving publishing program has produced a multitude of singularly exceptional titles with a concentration on architecture, landscape, urban planning, applied research, design, photography, and art, striving to represent the accomplishments of world-class architects, landscape architects, urbanists, authors, graphic designers, artists, and photographers. Within this flourishing editorial paradigm, ORO has curated and articulated a passion for creativity and artistry that is exemplified in their published work, which has received a steady stream of awards and industry accolades. Selecting the finest production materials, executing exquisite graphic design, and employing our unique craftsperson approach to print production at the highest level of quality, our dedicated team works to ensure perfection as we provide distinct and aesthetically superior style to each title. Enjoy our offerings!

In the book Al Wasl Plaza: Dubai Expo 2020 the architects, Adrian Smith + Gordon Gill Architecture highlight the inspiration and innovation of the design of Al Wasl Plaza. The book explores each aspect of the project including the garden, the trellis, three office buildings, and two hotel buildings, all of which serve to define the center of Expo 2020.

Rancho Sisquoc: Enduring Legacy on an Historic California Land Grant Ranch celebrates the spectacular landscape, fascinating history, colorful characters, and timeless traditions of one of California’s last intact Mexican land grant ranches. Forewords by former Governor Edmund Gerald Brown, Jr.—a California history enthusiast—and Stephan T. Hearst, whose interest in preservation extends to his oversight of the vast ranch lands surrounding Hearst Castle, help give readers a sense of this special place and its unique role on California history.

SANCTUARY Homes and Resorts by de Reus Architects

Mark de Reus Introduction by Joseph Giovannini

Sanctuary features a series of eighteen recent projects from the award-winning firm de Reus Architects. With select projects from Hawaii, Mexico, and the Pacific Northwest, Sanctuary explores a wide range of buildings showcasing de Reus Architects’ timeless and well-executed architecture.

Haute Couture Architecture: The Art of Living Without Walls by Anneke van Waesberghe is so much more than a book about tented green building architecture. The book is part design manifesto, part personal diary, and part manual for future sustainable living. Haute couture architecture respects artisans, hand-made goods, self-sufficiency, and caring for nature. Being close to nature is a lifestyle of forward, outsidethe-box thinking and is a natural means to discovering ourselves.

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Al Wasl Plaza Dubai Expo 2020

Adrian Smith + Gordon Gill Architecture (AS+GG)

In the book Al Wasl Plaza: Dubai Expo 2020 the architects, Adrian Smith + Gordon Gill Architecture highlight the inspiration and innovation of the design of Al Wasl Plaza. The book explores each aspect of the project including the garden, the trellis, three office buildings, and two hotel buildings, all of which serve to define the center of Expo 2020. The book is essentially divided into three phases of design. The first phase focuses on the inspiration and conception of the project. Architectural studies, sketches, and models show the process that led to the final iconic form. The second phase introduces each of the parcels including the garden, trellis, offices, hotels, the Leadership Pavilion, and the Arrivals Plaza.

Each chapter illustrates the design process, architectural details, and the development of the technical systems. The third and final phase summarizes the construction process, sustainability achievements, and looks to the future to reveal the District 2020 legacy master plan concept by AS+GG. Authors Adrian Smith + Gordon Gill Architecture (AS+GG) is dedicated to the design of high-performance, energy-efficient, and sustainable architecture on an international scale. The firm approaches each project, regardless of size or scale, with an understanding that architecture has a unique power to influence civic life. We strive to create designs that aid society, advance modern technology, sustain the environment and inspire those around us to improve our world.

Title: Al Wasl Plaza Size: 9.25” x 9.25” Square Pages: 294pp Binding: Hardbound Publication Date: Spring 2022 ISBN: 978-1-954081-83-3 Price: $55.00 World Rights: Available

We use a holistic, integrated design approach that emphasizes symbiotic relationship with the natural environment – a philosophy we’ve termed “global environmental contextualism.”

This approach, which takes into consideration building orientation, daylighting, generation of wind power, solar absorption, and a site’s geothermal properties, represents a fundamental change in the design process, in which form facilitates performance. It’s predicated on the understanding that everything within the built and natural environment is connected, and that a building’s design should stem from an understanding of its role within that context -- locally, regionally and globally. Such a pluralistic approach acknowledges the interaction among building systems as well as between those systems and the natural environment and seeks to improve each individual system’s performance. By using this principle in the design of buildings, we can create structures that not only reduce their negative environmental impact, but in some cases, virtually eliminate it altogether.

AS+GG’s practice includes designers with extensive experience in multiple disciplines, including technical architecture, interior design, urban planning, and sustainable design. Architects also have expertise in a range of building types, including supertall towers, large-scale mixed-use complexes, corporate offices, exhibition facilities, cultural facilities and museums, civic and public spaces, hotels and residential complexes, institutional projects, and hightech laboratory facilities. The firm was founded in 2006 by partners Adrian Smith, Gordon Gill and Robert Forest. Today there are 100 employees in offices in Chicago and Beijing.

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Rancho Sisquoc

Enduring Legacy on an Historic California Land Grant Ranch Judy Flood Wilbur, Elizabeth Clair Flood, Chase Reynolds Ewalds

Author Chase Reynolds Ewald is a freelance writer, columnist, and consultant and the author of fourteen books on architecture, design, cuisine, and western and rustic lifestyle. Her most recent works include Bison: Portrait of an Icon; Modern Americana; At Home in the Wine Country; and Inspired By Place, a 2021 monograph on the work of CLB Architects. A graduate of Yale and the U.C. Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism, she lives in Tiburon, California.

Rancho Sisquoc: Enduring Legacy on an Historic California Land Grant Ranch celebrates the spectacular landscape, fascinating history, colorful characters, and timeless traditions of one of California’s last intact Mexican land grant ranches. The ranch’s 37,000 acres extend from the edge of the Los Padres National Forest to the lush vineyards on the mesas to fertile farmland in the bottomland, and range almost the entire length of the Sisquoc River valley in northern Santa Barbara County. Engaging text, maps, and archival documents are paired with both vintage and contemporary photographs to bring the landscape and its history to life, from prehistory to the days of the vacqueros, from turn-of-the-century homesteading to the realities of a contemporary cattle ranch, farming operation, vineyard and winery with a passionate wine club membership numbering 1,500. Forewords by former Governor Edmund Gerald Brown, Jr.—a California history enthusiast—and Stephan T. Hearst, whose interest in preservation extends to his oversight of the vast ranch lands surrounding Hearst Castle, help give readers a sense of this special place and its unique role on California history. An introduction by co-owner Judith Flood Wilbur and preface by author Elizabeth Clair Flood speak to the role the ranch has played in the lives of one family for seven decades, and their hopes for preserving it for future generations. Rancho Sisquoc: Enduring Legacy on an Historic California Land Grant Ranch will give readers a sense of this special place and its unique role in California history.

Title: Rancho Sisquoc Size: 10” x 12” Portrait Pages: 160pp Binding: Hardbound Publication Date: Spring 2022 ISBN: 978-1-954081-24-6 Price: $40.00 World Rights: Available

Other contributors: Stephen T. Hearst is vice president and general manager of Hearst’s Western Properties. He is responsible for managing Hearst’s extensive ranching, timber, and property operations, including the historic 83,000-acre ranch surrounding Hearst Castle and the 73,000-acre Jack Ranch in Paso Robles.

Edmund Gerald Brown Jr. served as California’s Secretary of State and Attorney General and was also the Mayor of Oakland. He was elected as the 34th and 39th governor of California, serving from 1975 to 1983 and 2011 to 2019. He lives in Colusa County, California.

Elizabeth Clair Flood is a writer and photographer. The author of six western-design and lifestyle books, her articles have appeared in Architectural Digest, Cowboys & Indians, House Beautiful, Elle Decor, Mountain Living, and others. She lives in Wilson, Wyoming.

Judy Flood Wilbur is co-owner of Rancho Sisquoc. She chairs the Flood Ranch Company and the Flood Corporation Board of Directors. She serves as Chair of the Brayton Wilbur Foundation and is former President and Trustee of the Commonwealth Club, Trustee Emeritus of The Asia Foundation, Trustee Emeritus of the Asian Art Museum, past President of the Hillsborough City School District, and past member of the Wilbur-Ellis Company Board of Directors. She is the recipient of numerous social service awards. A graduate of U.C. Berkeley, she lives in Hillsborough, California.

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Haute Couture Architecture The Art of Living without Walls

Anneke van Waesberghe with Robert Thurman

Haute Couture Architecture: The Art of Living Without Walls by Anneke van Waesberghe is so much more than a book about tented green building architecture. The book is part design manifesto, part personal diary, and part manual for future sustainable living.

One in which rampant consumerism has been replaced by a more thoughtful design from the excesses of modern times to a new state of being for living sustainably and in harmony with the rhythms of the planet. It is the tale of one woman’s odyssey living alone in the jungle finding true meaning in life and manifesting its beauty into a way of sustainable living that may set a blueprint for our future existence on Earth. The author leads readers to encounter a new paradigm by showing the luxury of simplicity and the beauty of small things.

With our consumer way of living and doing things and how the world is evolving, the pace we follow as consumers rather than humans has become outdated and is not the way to go forward. We cannot solve new problems that follow our destructive actions; we have to shift our thinking from Me to We. Haute couture architecture respects artisans, hand-made goods, self-sufficiency, and caring for nature.

Being close to nature is a lifestyle of forward, outside-the-box thinking is a natural means to discovering ourselves.

Contributors Dutch-born Anneke van Waesberghe is an author, designer, and environmentalist. By the age of 32, she had created and sold an international publishing company based out of Brussels. With these proceeds, she established a nonprofit organization that brought together sustainable design culture from Japan and the West. In the early nineties her nonprofit, East Meets West, developed Design For the Environment (DFE) guidelines, sponsored by AT&T, JP Morgan, 3M, the Dutch Agency for Energy and Environment (NOVEM) and the National Endowment for the Arts. The DFE guidelines were Title: Haute Couture Architecture Size: 8.27” x 11.8” Landscape Pages: 304pp Binding: Hardbound Publication Date: Spring 2022 ISBN: 978-1-954081-62-8 Price: $75.00 World Rights: Available

adopted by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), to whom she, together with her foundation and the Dutch Government, presented draft proposals for corporate environmental reporting and green tax initiatives. The DFE guidelines were endorsed by the Secretary-General of the United Nations Conference on Environment and Development, the Council of European Communities, the International Council of Societies of Industrial Design, NOVEM and the Environmental Defense Fund. She guest-lectured design for the environment at design schools worldwide, and consulted for multinationals around the U.S., Europe, and Asia. In 1997 she moved from New York to Ho Chi Minh City, and finally Bali, where she established Escape Nomade, a producer of sustainable luxury tented accommodations.

Susan Cohn Rockefeller (born 1959) is an entrepreneur, conservationist, and filmmaker. She is the founder and editor-in-chief of Musings. She also designs jewelry with themes that fit in with her work.

Robert Thurman is an American Buddhist author and academic who has written, edited, and translated several books on Tibetan Buddhism. He was the Je Tsongkhapa Professor of Indo-Tibetan Buddhist Studies at Columbia University, before retiring in June 2019.

William Andrews McDonough is an American architect, designer, and author. McDonough is founding principal of William McDonough + Partners, co-founder of McDonough MBDC, as well as co-author of Cradle to Cradle: Remaking the Way We Make Things and The Upcycle: Beyond Sustainability—Designing for Abundance.

McDonough’s career is focused on creating a beneficial footprint.

He espouses a message that we can design materials, systems, companies, products, buildings, and communities that continuously improve over time.

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Sanctuary

Homes and Resorts by de Reus Architects Introduction by Joseph Giovannini

SANCTUARY Homes and Resorts by de Reus Architects

Mark de Reus Introduction by Joseph Giovannini

Sanctuary features a series of eighteen recent projects from the award-winning firm de Reus Architects. As a follow-up to Tropical Experience, de Reus Architects continues to add inspired, carefully crafted, timeless, and site-appropriate design to its growing body of work. Essays by Mark de Reus and Joseph Giovannini reveal the continued search that is inherent in design and the relentless effort to reveal how sprit of place contributes to design thinking. Each project is introduced with spectacular exterior and interior photography and gives the reader an in-depth look into de Reus Architects’ design thinking. With select projects from Hawaii, Mexico, and the Pacific Northwest, Sanctuary explores a wide range of buildings showcasing de Reus Architects’ timeless and well-executed architecture.

Author Mark de Reus is the founding design partner of de Reus Architects.

Renowned for his award-winning resorts and residences, he has practiced for more than thirty-five years.

Joseph Giovannini is a practicing architect who has written on architecture and design for three decades for such publications as the New York Times, Architectural Record, Art in America, and Art Forum, and he has served as the architecture critic for New York magazine and the Los Angeles Herald Examiner.

Title: Sanctuary Size: 8.5” x 11.75” Portrait Pages: 320pp Binding: Hardbound Publication Date: Spring 2022 ISBN: 978-1-951541-24-8 Price: $60.00 World Rights: Available

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How Architecture Tells

9 Realities That Will Change the Way You See

Robert Steinberg, FAIA, Gerald Sindell, foreword by Hon. Penny Pritzker

The general reading public is likely to think of architecture as buildings. But, with this book, Robert Steinberg would like to help readers understand that architecture shapes lives. Architecture can help communities integrate and thrive. Architecture can touch us, influencing how we feel, and how we interact with others. In short, architecture can fundamentally improve our quality of life.

As a young graduate architect fresh from Berkeley, Steinberg began to discover the potential of architecture to shape communities.

Working with his father, an architect who had studied with Mies van der Roe (and whose father was also an architect), one of Steinberg’s first projects was to draft and redraft a parking garage in downtown Silicon Valley, CA. As he mediated between the two architects in charge of the project—his father and the city architect—he noticed that with each evolution, the garage became more beautiful and refined. And with each improvement, this garage became more able to succeed in the goal of reviving the dying downtown core of Silicon Valley.

The garage was a huge success, and Steinberg began to codify what he had learned. Thanks to the garage, he wrote the first of what would become the 9 Realities of Architecture: Architecture is the Pursuit of Perfection—a magnificent take-away from a humble parking garage project. As Steinberg eventually rose to become CEO Title: How Architecture Tells Size: 8.6” x 10.6” Portrait Pages: 296pp Binding: Hardbound Publication Date: Spring 2022 ISBN: 978-1-954081-31-4 Price: $60.00 World Rights: Available

of his firm and grew it into a global practice with six regional offices including Austin and New York, and a major office in Shanghai, he used his drive for creating thriving communities to eventually touch the lives of countless people around the world.

Contributors Robert Steinberg, FAIA, is chairman of the global architecture firm Steinberg Hart. He is a Berkeley-trained, third generation architect.

Steinberg transformed his father’s primarily residence-focused practice in Silicon Valley into a global powerhouse that has, among other achievements, greatly impacted the Chinese approach to housing their senior population.

The Hon. Penny Pritzker was the United States Secretary of Commerce during the Obama administration, is the founder of Vi Senior Housing, PSP Capital Partners, and Pritzker Realty Group.

Gerald Sindell, co-author, is the author of The Genius Machine, New World Library (2009), and founder of Thought Leaders Intl.

Adam and Catherine Hooper of Hoop Design have designed for the Tate Gallery in London, and Phaidon Publishing among many others. Among their titles is Phaidon Design Classics (three volumes, Phaidon, 2006).

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Truth and Lies in Architecture Richard Francis-Jones and Kenneth Frampton

This is a collection of provocative essays that journey into the vexed circumstance of contemporary architectural practice. The nature of the great cultural, social, political, environmental, and consumerist challenges facing the contemporary architect are explored, interpreted, and questioned, while drawing connections from architecture theory, philosophy, science, literature, and film sources in an attempt to negotiate the territory between the t in architecture.

These essays written by a leading Australian architect represent a level of comprehensive critical awareness rarely found within the architectural profession and one would be hard pressed to find another comparable figure in contemporary architectural practice.

The entire argumentation is impressive, challenging, intellectually at the highest level and beautifully written.

Author Richard Francis-Jones is a highly awarded practicing Australian architect. He is a graduate of Columbia University and the University of Sydney and has taught in many schools of architecture. He is a life fellow of the Australian Institute of Architects, an honorary fellow of the American Institute of Architects and member of the Royal Institute of British Architects. He is design director of fjmtarchitects.

Title: Truth and Lies in Architecture Size: 8.66” x 5.9” Portrait Pages: 156pp Binding: Softbound Publication Date: Spring 2022 ISBN: 978-1-954081-65-9 Price: $29.95 World Rights: Available

Kenneth Frampton was born in 1930 and trained as an architect at the Architectural Association School of Architecture, London. He has taught at a number of leading institutions in the field, including the Royal College of Art in London, the ETH in Zürich, the Berlage Institute in Amsterdam, EPFL in Lausanne, and the Accademia di Architettura in Mendrisio. From 1972 to 2019 he served as Ware Professor of Architecture at the Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation, Columbia University, New York. In 2018 he was awarded the Golden Lion of the Venice Biennale.

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G. E. Kidder Smith Builds

The Travel of Architectural Photography

Angelo Maggi, Michelangelo Sabatino, and Samuel Pujol Smith Angelo Maggi

The Travel of Architectural Photography

foreword by Michelangelo Sabatino

G.E. Kidder Smith Builds

George Everard Kidder Smith (1913–1997) was a multidimensional figure within the wide-ranging field of North American architectural professionals in the second half of the twentieth century. Although he trained as an architect, he chose not to practice within the conventional strictures of an architecture office. Instead, Kidder Smith “designed,” researched, wrote, and photographed a remarkably diverse collection of books about architecture and the built environment. His work and life were deeply interwoven and punctuated by travel related to the research, writing, and promotion of books that sought to reveal the genius loci of the countries whose built environments he admired and wished to share with a broader audience. From the early 1940s to the late 1950s his interest in architecture led him to describe visually the architectural and historical identity of many European countries. After his far-flung travels over the decades, with his wife Dorothea, Kidder Smith focused on his own country and produced a series of ambitious books focused on the United States. Kidder Smith’s vision and narrative betray the gaze of the traveler, the scholar, and the architect.

Author Angelo Maggi is Associate Professor of Architectural History and History of Architectural Photography at Università Iuav di Venezia.

Maggi trained as an architect at the Università Iuav di Venezia, and he obtained his PhD in Architecture and Visual Studies at Edinburgh College of Art. Michelangelo Sabatino, is Professor of Architectural History and Preservation in the College of Architecture at the Illinois Institute of Technology. He currently directs the PhD program in Architecture and is the inaugural John Vinci Distinguished Research Fellow.

Samuel Pujol Smith is a fully qualified architect based in Zurich with his own studio. It was the reputation of his grandfather, G. E. Kidder Smith, that led him to study architecture.

Title: G. E. Kidder Smith Builds Size: 8.5” x 11” Portrait Pages: 272pp Binding: Hardbound Publication Date: Spring 2022 ISBN: 978-1-954081-53-6 Price: $60.00 World Rights: Available

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Architecture as Art

The Work of Stephen M. Sullivan Stephen M. Sullivan

Architecture as Art THE WOR K OF

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Architecture as Art: The Work of Stephen M. Sullivan illustrates the author’s residential architectural practice based in the Pacific Northwest. It also describes his personal design philosophy founded both in the classics of western architecture and in his experience and appreciation of the architecture and craft traditions of Japan.

The book tells the story of Sullivan’s development as an artist using architecture as his medium. It includes essays on his views of architectural design, which have been shaped by his personal history in the landscapes and the architecture of New England and Japan. Sullivan’s training as a potter informs his architecture in its interpretation of houses as “vessels of experience” and in his work’s focus on materiality and the craft of construction.

Thematic essays address topics such as the importance of intuition in the design process and the interplay of analysis with nonrational ways of thinking. The influence of the site and its natural energies, the role of ordering principles, and the narrative capacity of architectural design influence Sullivan’s process of integration, forming unique design responses to diverse clients and settings. These themes address specific facets of his design method and introduce a selection of projects, which are illustrated with photographs and drawings. The projects display the author’s belief in generating an architectural language unique to a design’s client and its context, creating an architecture specifically tuned to its circumstances in time and place.

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Following a selection of primary projects, a section on small houses, and a section on historic projects, a catalog of Sullivan’s selected projects executed between 1985 and 2020 is included.

Author Stephen M. Sullivan is an award-winning residential architect based in Seattle. His background as a ceramicist and his interest in the traditions of architecture inform the buildings he has designed across the United States.

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Dreyfus + Blackford Seventy Years

Dreyfuss + Blackford Architecture, foreword by Pierluigi Serraino

With offices in San Francisco and Sacramento, Dreyfuss + Blackford Architecture has 48 employees and has been in continuous operation since 1950. The firm achieved international recognition early on with the design of several notable game-changing landmark structures, including the recently rehabilitated SMUD Headquarters Building in Sacramento, CA. This project recently received the California Preservation Foundation’s 2020 Preservation Design Award as well as the Trustee’s Award for Excellence. Now in their seventh decade, they continue to be one of the preeminent architectural firms in the region, providing architecture, planning, and interiors services to a broad spectrum of public and private sector clients.

Their unwavering commitment to design excellence is reflected in the quality of their built work. They believe great planning is about more than how people use the spaces they create—it’s how they feel inside of them. Positive experience provides the space for engagement and positive communication—resulting in an opportunity for making change in the world through the sharing of knowledge and collective experience. When they combine this understanding with a consistent pattern of outstanding design and efficient construction, the structures can provide lasting aesthetic quality and durability for generations. The firm has been recognized for design at local, state, and national levels with more than 150 awards over its 71-year history.

Title: Dreyfus + Blackford Size: 10” x 10” Square Pages: 244pp Binding: Hardbound Publication Date: Spring 2022 ISBN: 978-1-954081-14-7 Price: $49.95 World Rights: Available

This book celebrates seventy years of outstanding design by Dreyfuss + Blackford Architecture. It starts with historical milestones, shows some examples of process and practice, and concludes with a few consequential recent projects.

Author With offices in San Francisco and Sacramento, Dreyfuss + Blackford Architecture has been in continuous operation since 1950. The firm achieved international recognition early on with the design of several notable game-changing landmark structures, including the recently rehabilitated SMUD Headquarters Building in Sacramento, CA. The firm has been recognized for design at local, state, and national levels with more than 150 awards over its 71-year history.

Foreword by Pierluigi Serraino: As a practicing architect and design agitator, Pierluigi’s projects and writings have been published in journals such as Architectural Record, A+U (Japan), and The Architectural Review (UK).

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Pressing Matters 10 Weitzman School of Design

Professor and Chair of the Department of Architecture and Director of the Advanced Research and Innovation (ARI) Lab, served as one of the creative directors, inviting six faculty members to present examples of the design-research under way at Weitzman. We are also very excited that the Department of Architecture at the Weitzman was selected for the next Acadia 2022 Conference called Hybrids & Haecceities, which asks how technology enables, reflects, and challenges established disciplinary boundaries and design practices.

Hybrids & Haecceities aligns with a fundamental shift away from abstract generalized models of design and production towards custom or bespoke design now possible at an unprecedented scale due to Industry 4.0. After a summer of protests the department immediately created a DEI committee, restructured its curriculum and student and faculty body to be more inclusive. The department also instigated a free summer school for the students as internships and jobs were hard to come by. The generous support of the great group of external experts really helped the students in their design for a temporary Covid testing station, issues such as prefabrication, social equity, and race and gender were discussed and became the source of inspiration for the exquisite designs published by Surface Media.

Already number TEN, Pressing Matters X is a special issue reflecting a year of reflection and change, after several waves of the pandemic, Black Lives Matter protests and newly developed hybrid teaching methods. It follows last year’s Pressing Matters 9 that was completely rethought with the aim to present an Open Source publication that shares the Department of Architecture’s concept of design-research, an integral approach of critical thinking, rigorous research, and design, representing a deep understanding of the complex layers of architecture. Together with Jonathan Jackson & team of WSDIA, a more integral design was developed, allowing input from research [ARI labs], students, faculty and Penn’s special events.

This anniversary of Pressing Matters is celebrated by adding the “decade” color of silver to the usual recycled cardboard cover of Weitzman’s architecture publication. It also represents a year of new opportunities brought by a complete rethinking of education through the introduction of remote learning, zoom lectures and meetings. A much larger international group of diverse jurors, experts, and critics could be invited as travel was of no hindrance for attendance.

In conjunction with the 17th International Architecture Exhibition – La Biennale di Venezia, CityX Venice, a virtual exhibition of new and recent work by leading architects and designers from around the world, opened online in May. Winka Dubbeldam, who is Miller Title: Pressing Matters 10 Size: 6.5” x 9.5” Portrait Pages: 416pp Binding: Hardbound Publication Date: Spring 2022 ISBN: 978-1-954081-47-5 Price: $40.00 World Rights: Available

Contributors Part of an important research university, the University of Pennsylvania’s Weitzman School of Design, as one of the top ten Graduate Architecture Departments in the USA, prepares students to address complex sociocultural and environmental issues through thoughtful inquiry, creative expression, and innovation. The Department of Architecture operates at the forefront of research and design by focusing on new design methodologies and future manufacturing through the interlinked intelligence of digital design, computational analyses, and robotics.

Winka Dubbeldam, MArch MS-AAD, is a seasoned academic and design leader, serving in her 8th year as Chair and Miller Professor of Architecture at the University of Pennsylvania Weitzman School of Design, where she has gathered an international network of innovative research and design professionals. She is currently the Creative director for the Venice Architecture Biennale’s virtual Italian pavilion, and also serves as the External Examiner at the Bartlett School of Architecture in London (2019-present) and juror in several international competitions. Professor Dubbeldam was named one of the DesignIntelligence 30 Most Admired Educators [2015]. As the founder/principal of the WBE certified New York firm Archi-Tectonics, Dubbeldam is widely known for her award-winning work, recognized as much for its use of hybrid sustainable materials and smart building systems as for its elegance and innovative structures.

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Civano

From Experiment to Model of Resilient Urbanism Stefanos Polyzoides and L. R. Rayburn

Civano Civano:

From Experiment to Model of Urbanism From Experiment toResilient Model of Resilient Urbanism STEFANOS POLYZOIDES & LEE RAYBURN

INTRODUCTION BY ELIZABETH MOULE STEFANOS POLYZOIDES & LEE RAYBURN

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Twenty years after its completion, Civano remains a valuable model to emulate for environmentally appropriate growth accommodation, and creation of resilient communities of lasting value. It combines an aggressive environmental sustainability protocol with the social and design tenants of the new urbanism to create a model alternative to sprawl development.

Civano is a retrospective study of a pioneering urban development project in the Sonora Desert that was built in a traditional urban form based on a combined social, and environmental protocol.

In this book, the authors examine both the history and evolution of this unique architectural and urbanist experiment, and consider lessons learned that can lead to a new model of growth accommodation and community building that is more politically intelligent, environmentally responsible, and socially resilient.

Author Stefanos Polyzoides is currently a professor and dean of the School of Architecture at the University of Notre Dame. He earned his bachelor and MArch degrees in architecture and planning from Princeton University, taught at USC between 1973 and 1995, and along with his wife Elizabeth Moule, he is a cofounder of the Congress for the New Urbanism and a partner in Moule & Polyzoides Title: Civano Size: 9.38” x 12.13” Portrait Pages: 208pp Binding: Softbound Publication Date: Spring 2022 ISBN: 978-1-954081-92-5 Price: $40.00 World Rights: Available

(above) The Neighborhood Center under construction, early Spring 1998. The Center, organized around a central courtyard, incorporated a variety of “alternative” building materials. In the lower image, straw bale is shown, while the gray building is being constructed of Rastra blocks.

The upper image shows the use of fired adobe for what would become the Welcome Center and meeting facility at the Center. (left) A quarterly information newsletter announcing Fannie Mae becoming part of the development effort. These newsletters were sent out to a growing list of potential buyers interested in Civano and to media outlets in the run-up to sales beginning.

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of Pasadena, CA. The firm has completed more than 500 projects in the US and around the world. He is the author or co-author of numerous books and articles on architecture and urbanism.

L. R. Rayburn earned his bachelor and MArch degrees from the University of Pennsylvania. His career has bridged both architectural practice and development and has focused on adaptive reuse and preservation, community development, and urban revitalization.

Early in his career, sustainability emerged as a central theme of his professional work and has remained so. His work has received awards for both design excellence and its contribution to the vitality of urban life. His work in affordable housing in Baltimore was honored by a special commendation by the Maryland House of Delegates.

Mr. Rayburn was the director of design, and later managed all facets of the Community of Civano’s development. He lives in Civano, while splitting his time between Tucson and Durham, NC.

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Shaping Canton

The Mountains are High and the Emperor Far Away Peter Cookson Smith

Peter Cookson Smith

Shaping Canton The Mountains are High and the Emperor Far Away

Shaping Canton focuses on the modern history of Canton. The text and illustrations explore and set out the various stages and events leading up to the modern city, by way of a reinvigorated Chinese superpower, from the founding of trade between Europe and the East in the late 15th century, to the beachheads of foreign influence, and forces of transformation through periods of revolution, political transition, and reform up to the present time.

Author Dr. Peter Cookson Smith is an architect, urbanist, and founder of the URBIS consultancy in Hong Kong, which has operated throughout Asia for more than forty years. He is a former professor of architecture and former president of Hong Kong’s Institutes of Planning and Urban Design. He is the author of six previous books on cities and urban design, including his three most recent publications, with ORO Editions, Seeking Savannah (2018), An Enterprising Path to Barrio Chino (2019), and After Dante (2020).

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Supertall | Megatall How High Can We Go?

Adrian Smith + Gordon Gill Architecture

Drawing from the unique design experience at Adrian Smith + Gordon Gill Architecture (AS+GG) as architects of the next world’s tallest tower and several others under-construction, Supertall | Megatall: How High Can We Go? highlights the design, sustainability, innovative technology, programming, and contextualism that defines supertall and megatall towers. The book is a mixture of under construction and design-only projects divided into several chapters that are organized according to their special characteristics: Innovative Systems, Harnessing Energies, Designing an Icon, Extending Ecologies, and Achieving Megatall. Each project, completed between 2007–2020 at AS+GG, is discovered through context, program, form, research and development, and performance, highlighting the stories, challenges, and lessons learned.

symbiotic relationship with the natural environment—a philosophy coined as “global environmental contextualism.”

Contributors Adrian Smith + Gordon Gill Architecture (AS+GG) is dedicated to the design of high-performance, energy-efficient, and sustainable architecture on an international scale. The firm approaches each project, regardless of size or scale, with an understanding that architecture has a unique power to influence civic life. The firm strives to create designs that aid society, advance modern technology, sustain the environment, and inspire others to improve the world through a holistic, integrated design approach that emphasizes

AS+GG’s practice includes designers with extensive experience in multiple disciplines, including technical architecture, interior design, urban planning, and sustainable design. Architects also have expertise in a range of building types, including supertall towers, large-scale mixed-use complexes, corporate offices, exhibition facilities, cultural facilities and museums, civic and public spaces, hotels and residential complexes, institutional projects, and hightech laboratory facilities. The firm was founded in 2006 by partners Adrian Smith, Gordon Gill, and Robert Forest. Today there are 100 employees in offices in Chicago and Beijing.

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This approach, which takes into consideration building orientation, daylighting, generation of wind power, solar absorption, and a site’s geothermal properties, represents a fundamental change in the design process, in which form facilitates performance. It’s predicated on the understanding that everything within the built and natural environment is connected, and that a building’s design should stem from an understanding of its role within that context—locally, regionally, and globally. Such a pluralistic approach acknowledges the interaction among building systems as well as between those systems and the natural environment and seeks to improve each individual system’s performance.

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Performance + Assembly The Experience of Space

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Adrian Smith + Gordon Gill Architecture’s Performance + Assembly: The Experience of Space covers a range of performance and assembly spaces designed by AS+GG from central spaces in the world’s largest expositions to small, flexible high-technology theaters to expressive and functional auditoriums. The book of global cultural work includes building designs from Chicago to Istanbul, Astana to Dubai and features both photography of built spaces and unbuilt ideas. In this book Adrian Smith + Gordon Gill Architecture reviews projects to answer questions that relate to how buildings can be used to enhance the experiences of the users beyond set programmatic requirements by asking questions like: How can architecture and design help advance the technologies, the operations, the program, and the way buildings perform? At a more sensorial and experiential level, the book explores how architecture can speak to the soul to create a place in between the art and the audience.

Contributors Adrian Smith + Gordon Gill Architecture (AS+GG) is dedicated to the design of high-performance, energy-efficient, and sustainable architecture on an international scale. The firm approaches each project, regardless of size or scale, with an understanding that architecture has a unique power to influence civic life. The firm strives to create designs that aid society, advance modern technology, sustain the environment, and inspire others to improve the world Title: Performance + Assembly Size: 9.25” x 9.25” Square Pages: 336pp Binding: bound Publication Date: Spring 2022 ISBN: 978-1-954081-36-9 Price: $45.00 World Rights: Available

through a holistic, integrated design approach that emphasizes symbiotic relationship with the natural environment—a philosophy coined as “global environmental contextualism.”

This approach, which takes into consideration building orientation, daylighting, generation of wind power, solar absorption, and a site’s geothermal properties, represents a fundamental change in the design process, in which form facilitates performance. It’s predicated on the understanding that everything within the built and natural environment is connected, and that a building’s design should stem from an understanding of its role within that context—locally, regionally, and globally. Such a pluralistic approach acknowledges the interaction among building systems as well as between those systems and the natural environment and seeks to improve each individual system’s performance.

AS+GG’s practice includes designers with extensive experience in multiple disciplines, including technical architecture, interior design, urban planning, and sustainable design. Architects also have expertise in a range of building types, including supertall towers, large-scale mixed-use complexes, corporate offices, exhibition facilities, cultural facilities and museums, civic and public spaces, hotels and residential complexes, institutional projects, and hightech laboratory facilities. The firm was founded in 2006 by partners Adrian Smith, Gordon Gill, and Robert Forest. Today there are 100 employees in offices in Chicago and Beijing.

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Adrian Smith + Gordon Gill Architecture 2006–2020

Adrian Smith + Gordon Gill Architecture sustain the environment, and inspire others to improve the world through a holistic, integrated design approach that emphasizes symbiotic relationship with the natural environment—a philosophy coined as “global environmental contextualism.”

This approach, which takes into consideration building orientation, daylighting, generation of wind power, solar absorption, and a site’s geothermal properties, represents a fundamental change in the design process, in which form facilitates performance. It’s predicated on the understanding that everything within the built and natural environment is connected, and that a building’s design should stem from an understanding of its role within that context—locally, regionally, and globally. Such a pluralistic approach acknowledges the interaction among building systems as well as between those systems and the natural environment and seeks to improve each individual system’s performance.

Adrian Smith + Gordon Gill Architecture’s, 2006-2020 monograph showcases the spectacular work of the firm from the first 15 years of its practice through drawings, renderings, model photography, photography of built work, competition entries, exhibition materials, master plans, interiors, and special research projects and publications.

AS+GG’s practice includes designers with extensive experience in multiple disciplines, including technical architecture, interior design, urban planning, and sustainable design. Architects also have expertise in a range of building types, including supertall towers, large-scale mixed-use complexes, corporate offices, exhibition facilities, cultural facilities and museums, civic and public spaces, hotels and residential complexes, institutional projects, and hightech laboratory facilities. The firm was founded in 2006 by partners Adrian Smith, Gordon Gill, and Robert Forest. Today there are 100 employees in offices in Chicago and Beijing.

The projects featured in the monograph cover a wide variety of AS+GG’s high-performance, energy-efficient, aesthetically striking architecture on an international scale in a wide range of typologies and scales, from low- and mid-rise residential, commercial, and cultural buildings to mixed-use supertall towers. Projects explored include supertall towers, large-scale mixed-use complexes, corporate offices, exhibition facilities, cultural facilities and museums, civic and public spaces, hotels and residential complexes, institutional projects, and high-tech laboratory facilities.

Contributors Adrian Smith + Gordon Gill Architecture (AS+GG) is dedicated to the design of high-performance, energy-efficient, and sustainable architecture on an international scale. The firm approaches each project, regardless of size or scale, with an understanding that architecture has a unique power to influence civic life. The firm strives to create designs that aid society, advance modern technology, Title: Adrian Smith + Gordon Gill Architecture Size: 9.25” x 9.25” Square Pages: 512pp Binding: Hardbound Publication Date: Spring 2022 ISBN: 978-1-954081-35-2 Price: $60.00 World Rights: Available

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RESIDENSITY

A Carbon Analysis of Residential Typologies Adrian Smith + Gordon Gill Architecture

RESIDENSITY: A Carbon Analysis of Residential Typologies is the culmination of a seven-year study analyzing nine building typologies to understand the relationships between building densities and the amount of land and infrastructure required to support them. The book investigates how much embodied and consumed carbon is used in each typology and how it affects density and open space from the viewpoint of sustainability, carbon emissions, and carbon sequestration. The study determines which building typology is the most sustainable on a comparative basis. Nine prototypical buildings were designed—Megatall, Supertall, High-Rise, Mid-Rise, Low-rise, Courtyard, Three-Flat, Urban Single-Family, and Suburban Single-Family—set within nine prototypical communities. The study designates an archetypal residential community of 2,000 units with an average unit size of 150 sm as a reasonable and representative cross section of different housing typologies.

Contributors Adrian Smith + Gordon Gill Architecture (AS+GG) is dedicated to the design of high-performance, energy-efficient, and sustainable architecture on an international scale. The firm approaches each project, regardless of size or scale, with an understanding that architecture has a unique power to influence civic life. The firm strives to create designs that aid society, advance modern technology, sustain the environment, and inspire others to improve the world through a holistic, integrated design approach that emphasizes Title: RESIDENSITY Size: 9.25” x 9.25” Square Pages: 188pp Binding: Softbound Publication Date: Fall 2021 ISBN: 978-1-954081-39-0 Price: $35.00 World Rights: Available

symbiotic relationship with the natural environment—a philosophy coined as “global environmental contextualism.”

This approach, which takes into consideration building orientation, daylighting, generation of wind power, solar absorption, and a site’s geothermal properties, represents a fundamental change in the design process, in which form facilitates performance. It’s predicated on the understanding that everything within the built and natural environment is connected, and that a building’s design should stem from an understanding of its role within that context—locally, regionally, and globally. Such a pluralistic approach acknowledges the interaction among building systems as well as between those systems and the natural environment and seeks to improve each individual system’s performance.

AS+GG’s practice includes designers with extensive experience in multiple disciplines, including technical architecture, interior design, urban planning, and sustainable design. Architects also have expertise in a range of building types, including supertall towers, large-scale mixed-use complexes, corporate offices, exhibition facilities, cultural facilities and museums, civic and public spaces, hotels and residential complexes, institutional projects, and hightech laboratory facilities. The firm was founded in 2006 by partners Adrian Smith, Gordon Gill, and Robert Forest. Today there are 100 employees in offices in Chicago and Beijing.

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Renovating Carbon

Re-imagining the Carbon Form Erik L’Heureux

Carbon is everywhere—in the soil, in the air, in life. Carbon is the foundation of architecture and the built environment. Carbon is also infamous for intensifying the climate catastrophes around us.

And architects—by the nature of their education and practice are transforming this carbon into the built environment. Twelve critical essays in this book present a constellation of voices surrounding carbon and its relationship with architecture, renovation, material, form, and design pedagogy. The renovation of two buildings on the Equator—at the School of Design and Environment (SDE), National University of Singapore—serve as the protagonists for these reflections. The essays raise key questions on the values embedded in the architecture of architecture schools. What principles might a low-carbon future embody? What do renovations mean for rapidly urbanizing Asia? How can they transform the relationship between climate and architecture on the Equator? Do they demand new equatorial forms? How can material innovations influence their design? How can the design of architecture schools influence a new generation of architects towards a sustainable future? These and other questions are set forth within while illustrating the models of thought that have shaped the architecture of SDE 1 & 3, offering ways to sustainably transform carbon in the context of our warming world.

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Contributors Erik L’Heureux FAIA is a Vice Dean, Master of Architecture Programme Director and Dean’s Chair Associate Professor at the School of Design and Environment, National University of Singapore, teaching a new generation of architects to be committed to the complexities and potentials of architecture located along the equator.

His design research combines passive performance, pattern, and simplicity as a poetic response towards the equatorial hot, wet climate and a dense urban context. His design work and contribution to the discipline has been recognized by the American Institute of Architects (AIA), being elevated to the College of Fellows, AIA in 2020, and his buildings have won several AIA New York and SARA Design Awards among others.

Giovanni Cossu is a sustainable development professional and associate director at the National University of Singapore (NUS).

With experience in real estate and sustainability services, he is part of the senior management group at the NUS School of Design and Environment (SDE) where he oversees and manages a portfolio of campus redevelopment projects, sustainable finance and corporate sustainability initiatives.

Research Collaboration: Lakshmi Menon

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I Love Chicago Buildings Christian Bjone

The book is not a typical guidebook, nor a generic history tale and not even a disguised autobiography. It is a listing of select pairs of buildings that each articulates a formal and abstract concept that is part of the culture of Architecture, spelled with a capital a. The main idea of the book is to hide the bitter pill of academic formal analysis in a dollop of sugary personal anecdotes and humor. Hopefully, this will be creating unexpected juxtapositions that might elicit shock and new perceptions, canceling the sleepy accepted dogma we all live under. The essays will be paring the famous and the infamous, the profound and the absurd, the beloved and the forgotten, the monstrous and the miniscule.

Author Christian Bjone is a practicing architect in New York City, educated at the University of Illinois, Chicago and Princeton University. He is the author of four books on art and architectural history, one of which, Art + Architecture: Strategies in Collaboration, has been translated into German.

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The Story of a Section

Designing the Shougang Oxygen Factory

Michele Bonino, Edoardo Bruno, Alessandro Armando, Giovanni Durbiano, Camilla Forina similarly to an open archive: retrospectively the final image of the building will incorporate architectural elements brought by sociotechnical decisions, enlarging the spectrum of design agency from single authorship to a larger collective of involved stakeholders.

Among the project documents, a recurring drawing guided the project exchange between the Politecnico and Tsinghua teams during the two years of joint design work. The cross-section of the factory was the point of comparison about the relationship with the structural skeleton of the original factory and the vertical organization of the project: from the public playground on the ground floor to the intensive exploitation of the intermediate levels, to the roof that seeks new relationships with the competition area and the natural landscape.

This book is an experiment on constructing a text starting— exclusively and strictly—from the materials of an architectural project.

As in an archive, it contains all the documents produced by the design team, which become the only sources of a text that allows the reader to generalize the project’s contents and reflect on its process. An extensive masterplan is transforming the abandoned industrial area of Shougang, on the outskirts of Beijing, into one of the venues for the 2022 Winter Olympics Games. Within this process, the China Room, as a research center of the Politecnico di Torino dedicated to urbanization and architecture in China, was involved by Tsinghua University in the transformation of the former oxygen factory into a visitor center, working on industrial memory as a lever for a renovation of the existing site aimed at the overall sustainability of the masterplan.

The book overviews and analyses the most important steps that transformed initial design intentions into a defined proposal, passing through different solutions, changes, debates, and negotiations among the different stakeholders called into action along the whole process.

Telling the story of this architectural project means thinking about the ways of designing across different contexts in the global market.

More particularly, the story is about the skills and experiences that Academia puts in place by addressing real transformation projects through research, with respect to professional practice modalities. In addition, the book is intended to make design practicing transparent to the reader, capable to move around the genesis of the project following the many trajectories occurred along the whole process, Title: The Story of a Section Size: 8.27” x 11.69” Portrait Pages: 220pp Binding: Softbound Publication Date: Spring 2022 ISBN: 978-1-954081-73-4 Price: $40.00 World Rights: Available

Author Michele Bonino is an architect and associate professor of architecture and urban design at Politecnico di Torino. He holds a PhD in history of architecture and is and vice-rector for relations with China. He was a visiting scholar at MIT and a visiting professor at Tsinghua University. He leads research and design projects within China Room Research Team at Polito.

Edoardo Bruno is an architect and assistant professor at Politecnico di Torino. He obtained his PhD in architecture history and project in 2017. From 2015 he has been responsible for the activities of the South China – Torino Lab, a joint research center between Politecnico di Torino ad South China University of Technology, and member of the China Room Research Team at Polito.

Alessandro Armando, architect, is an associate professor at the Department of Architectural and Design (DAD) of the Politecnico di Torino since 2011, where he teaches architectural design and architectural design theory. He is also the coordinator of the Msc degree program, Architecture Construction City.

Giovanni Durbiano is a full professor of architectural and urban design at Politecnico di Torino, has a doctorate of philosophy (PhD) in the history of architecture and urban planning from Politecnico di Torino. He is author of several publications on issues concerning contemporary architectural design is founder and member of the advisory board of the peer-reviewed journal Ardeth (Architectural Design Theory).

Camilla Forina is an architect and a PhD candidate in architecture, history, and project for the double degree program at Politecnico di Torino and Tsinghua University of Beijing. Currently she is a member of the China Room Research Team involved in design and research activities.

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Architecture in High Resolution Mark Foster Gage

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In the course of a ten-month invited competition Mark Foster Gage Architects, using tools ranging from artificial intelligence to 3D fractal software, re-invented the design languages of the ancient Nabatean civilization located on the Arabian Peninsula to propose the first Saudi resort in the modern era that would be open for international tourists. Isolated in a vast desert, with little infrastructure and virtually no visitors, lie the ancient ruins of Mada’in Saleh, and the site for the project. With five-hundred pages and over 1,500 images this is a book that documents the design process of this project, complete with all of its ideas, misdirections, failures, restarts, breakthroughs, and everything in-between. Of interest to architects and nonarchitects alike, this book heralds a new generation of creative techniques and design technologies that promise to redefine how we think of the past, present and future of the built environment in the 21st century and beyond.

Author Mark Foster Gage is the principal of Mark Foster Gage Architects in New York City, as well as a writer, design contributor for CNN, and tenured professor at the Yale University School of Architecture where he has taught since 2001.

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Colors of Rhetoric

Places of Invention in the Visual Realm María Fullaondo

Rhetoric has been broadly defined as the art of persuasion.

Unfortunately, in the last two centuries, rhetoric has suffered a rather bad reputation because it has been deliberately overused to mislead and manipulate. However, the present argument claims that rhetoric is, above all, a method for creation, considering it as the study of the general relationships of unexpectedness for invention and persuasion.

Since rhetoric was established in the early fifth century, it has been concerned almost solely with language, public speaking, and literature. The term “figure” (such as metaphor, antithesis, metonymy, among many others) refers to any device or pattern of language in which meaning or form is enhanced or changed.

This study extrapolates to architecture and visual arts, what rhetoric does, which is not more than to put “things” together that have not been put together before, to create a new whole. Through the analysis of a large and heterogeneous group of art and architectural examples, this research constitutes a “proto-manual” of more than a hundred rhetorical tools and means by which architecture might be thought of, created, explained, and communicated. It reveals a particular methodology for the creation and communication of architecture and other visual disciplines beyond intuition and magic inspiration. This study attempts to explore the practical possibilities Title: Colors of Rhetoric Size: 6” x 9” Portrait Pages: 240pp Binding: Softbound Publication Date: Spring 2022 ISBN: 978-1-954081-30-7 Price: $24.95 World Rights: Available

of application of rhetorical methods rather than to elaborate a comprehensive theory of rhetoric in the visual realm.

Investigating the relationships among form, event, body, subject, matter and/or space, the study reflects on the spatial and social conventions, contradictions, and dislocations found in contemporary “everyday” life. Rhetorical figures are used as interrogative and critical tools to stimulate our social conscience and also to assist spectators’ awareness of the challenges of our society.

Author Dr. María Fullaondo is a practicing architect, artist, and a leading educator with more than 25 years’ experience at the intersections of architecture, urban design, art, visual communication, and media.

She has extensive international experience in architecture education in various universities and countries, including Spain, Australia, China, and South Korea. Her research, creative work, and teaching are very much interweaved, blurring the boundaries between activities and outputs.

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Distillations

Nancy Goldring Drawings and Foto-Projections 1971–2021 Nancy Goldring

Distillations: Nancy Goldring Drawings and Foto-Projections 1971–2021 surveys 50 years of visual and conceptual explorations by artist and writer Nancy Goldring. Material is arranged according to predominating themes throughout her career: Thresholds, Sites, Sets, Perspectives, Dreams and Visions, and Chiaroscuro. The book reveals her unique process, how she devised her technique of melding graphic and photographic material through projection, and tracks its evolution from the sandwiching of black-and-white graphic and photographic images through to the creation of her “fotoprojections” and large installation work. Included are interviews with the artist and an introduction by Jarrett Earnest with essays by writers and curators Paolo Barbaro, David Levi Strauss, Michael Taussig, and Ellen Handy.

Author Nancy Goldring was a founding director of Sculpture in the Environment (SITE, Inc.) from 1970-1973 where she wrote for On Site magazine and developed concepts for public art projects. A ground-breaking collaborative at the time, SITE strove to develop a way of conjoining art and architectural practice that would profoundly influence future developments in the area of public art. Goldring was among the first to devise large scale, site specific, slide projection installations in the late 1970s and continued developing the medium to eventually include sound components. The installations were

devised for museums (Southeast Museum of Photography, Lyman Allyn Museum, and the Houston Center of Photography) as well as gallery spaces. Her work has been associated with the avant garde architects of the 1970s whose major focus was on drawing, and in particular, those in Italy concerned with rendering design concepts rather than building them. The core of her work is essentially a graphic one. Her experimental process of combining analog images with graphic ones was groundbreaking (See Photography of Invention: American Pictures in the 1980s, Joshua Smith and Mary Foresta Smithsonian, 1989). This kind of collaging was later adapted by photoshop but produces very different results. In retrospect her work seems prescient. Goldring was among the very few women working between art and architecture in the early 1970s, and in many ways helped to open the area for more women.

Essays by Paola Barbaro, Ellen Joan Handy, Jarrett Earnest, David Levi Strauss, Michael Taussig Editor Jessica Holmes

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Architecture as Living Act Leonardo Ricci Maria Clara Ghia

ARCHI TECTURE AS LIVING Leonardo ACT Ricci Maria Clara Ghia

This book, the first monograph on Leonardo Ricci’s work, uses archive materials, some of which have never been published, to investigate the entire range of his activity by examining some of his most interesting projects, and putting them into the context of the current architectural panorama. His professional activity in the passionate climate of post-war reconstruction in Italy, his communitarian projects and experimental family residences, his book Anonymous (20th Century) in which he analyzed with an “existentialist” approach his work in the areas of painting, architecture, and urban planning, his visionary projects for “Earth-City” macrostructures, his innovative approach to the spatial organization of public institutions in his last projects, every step of Ricci’s work was always coherently connected to a basic aim: to translate into an architectural form the dynamism of phenomena and the incessant flow of life.

Author Maria Clara Ghia teaches history of architecture at Sapienza University in Rome. She holds a PhD in architecture – theory and design and in philosophy. For her studies on Leonardo Ricci, she won the Bruno Zevi International Prize in 2011 and the Enrico Guidoni Prize in 2019.

The book investigates Leonardo Ricci’s practical and theoretical approach to architectural design, giving this exceptional figure the recognition he deserves within the panorama of Italian and international architecture following the Second World War.

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Faux Mountains Michael Jakob

Artificial mountains are a worldwide reality. Burial sites use, very frequently, the intimidating shape of the man-made mountain.

Incense burners in ancient China evoked the Five Sacred Mountains.

Mount Parnassus in Greece became an important element in European garden history and a symbol of the Renaissance. In the Baroque Rome of the 17th century the most important artists worked on the constructions of huge ephemeral mounds in order to express more or less codified messages. The model of the artificial mountain was used as well during the French Revolution: the famous celebration of the Supreme Being took place on a gigantic faux mountain. The history of landscape architecture is characterized by the construction of architectural mounds, often built by using local excavation material. The industrial revolution acted as another source for the rise of an anthropic topography, creating forms, which we do not recognize anymore as totally artificial. Architects have found in the form of mountains a model and a gestalt with which to play in an ironic way. In twentieth-century art, mountains are ubiquitous, culminating in Robert Smithson’s masterful exploration of reversed, displaced, and rebuilt mountains. Michael Jakob’s comparative study is the first one to address this fascinating phenomenon.

Artificial mountains are a worldwide reality. Their presence influenced the history of urbanism, architecture, and landscape architecture.

Michael Jakob’s study is the first one to address this fascinating worldwide phenomenon stretching from Antiquity to our days.

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Author Michael Jakob teaches History and Theory of Landscape at hepia, Geneva, and aesthetics of design at HEAD, Geneva. He is a visiting professor at Politecnico di Milano, at the Accademia di Architettura in Mendrisio and at the GSD (Harvard). His teaching and research focus on landscape theory, aesthetics, the history of vertigo, contemporary theories of perception and the poetics of architecture.

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Emergence of a Modern Dwelling Richard Neutra’s Hassrick House

Suzanna Barucco, Alison Eberhardt, Andrew Hart, and Suzanne Singletary research.” In 2018, Hauser and Acosta sold the property to the university with the understanding that the house would continue to be used for educational purposes. In George’s words, “I had come to realize that the students can be the future custodians of that home. They can be the eyes. They can be the archives. In a way, it becomes all of ours to share.”

This publication chronicles the students’ findings that shed light on Neutra’s design process, his collaboration with his clients, as well as the unsung role of Thaddeus Longstreth as Neutra’s proxy negotiator throughout the design and construction stages. During its approximately sixty-three-year lifespan, the Hassrick House tells a saga of design, dwelling, neglect, restoration, and reinvention today as a laboratory for learning. In many respects, the history of the Hassrick House tells an important story of the modernist movement in the US, both regionally and nationally.

Authors Suzanna Barucco is an adjunct professor, historic preservationist, and principal of sbk + partners, LLC, a historic preservation consulting practice providing professional services for the assessment, preservation, restoration, rehabilitation, and adaptive reuse of historic buildings, sites, and landscapes.

In the East Falls neighborhood of Philadelphia, just beyond the northern boundary of the Thomas Jefferson University’s East Falls campus, stands the Hassrick House (1958–61), designed by celebrated architect Richard Neutra, an icon of mid-century modern style. Often described as an East Coast interpretation of California Modernism, the Hassrick House is one of only three buildings designed by Neutra within the city limits.

Alison Eberhardt is a graduate student in the Historic Preservation department at Thomas Jefferson University and a graduate of the TJU Bachelor of Architecture program with a minor in Historic Preservation. She is a founding member of the Students for Historic Preservation with three years of architectural experience working on nationally and locally recognized historic structures in New York, Pennsylvania, and New Jersey.

Thomas Jefferson University’s relationship with the house began in the summer of 2015 when Andrew Hart, assistant professor of architecture in the College of Architecture & the Built Environment initiated a series of summer courses to study the house. The first multidisciplinary group of students engaged in architectural survey, drawing, and photography. Subsequent summer courses refined the architectural drawings, following the Historic American Buildings Survey (HABS) and Historic American Landscape Survey (HALS) standards. Yet another student cohort undertook documentary research to uncover the history of the house and its occupants.

Then owners George Acosta and John Hauser were supportive collaborators with students in this process. Neutra’s architecture and his relationship with the Hassricks—particularly Barbara who emerged as the primary client voice while the house was being designed—captured the hearts, minds, and imaginations of everyone who engaged with the house. As one student recalled, “We have all gotten swept away in the stories unfolding from our

Andrew Hart is an assistant professor at TJU’s College of Architecture & the Built Environment and specializes in linking various modes and methods of architectural practice and communication.

He teaches courses in drawing, modeling, visualization, representation and virtual reality, historical documentation, and alternative methods of hybrid drawing, and has deep connections with community instigated design.

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Suzanne Singletary is a professor at the College of Architecture & the Built Environment at TJU, teaches history and theory of historic preservation, architecture and design. As director of the Master of Science in Historic Preservation and the Center for the Preservation of Modernism, Dr. Singletary teaches courses on critical issues in preservation and the restoration and rehabilitation of modern and mid-century modern buildings and sites. Currently she also serves as associate dean for New Academic Initiatives and Graduate Studies.

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Occupation:Boundary

Art, Architecture, and Culture at the Water Cathy Simon

Occupation:Boundary Art, Architecture, and Culture at the Water

Cathy Simon

This book examines the social, political, and cultural factors that have and continue to influence the evolution of the urban waterfront as seen through production created from art and design practices.

Reaching beyond the disciplines of architecture and urban design, Occupation:Boundary distills the dual roles art and culture have played in relation to the urban waterfront, as mediums that have recorded and instigated change at the threshold between the city and the sea.

At the moment in time that demands innovative approaches to the transformation of urban waterfronts, and strategies to foster resilient boundaries, architect Cathy Simon recounts her career building at and around the water’s edge and in service of the public realm. In so doing, the work of contemporary architects is presented, while the origins and principles of a guiding design philosophy are located in meditations on art and observations on coastal cities around the world. The port cities of New York and San Francisco emerge as case studies that structure the reflections and mediate a narrative that is at once a professional and personal memoir, richly illustrated with images and drawings.

Comprising three parts, the first two corresponding parts of Occupation:Boundary draw connections between the past and present by tracing the rise and fall of urban, industrial ports and Title: Occupation:Boundary Size: 7” x 10” Portrait Pages: 240pp Binding: Softbound with flaps Publication Date: Spring 2022 ISBN: 978-1-943532-97-1 Price: $40.00 World Rights: Available

providing context—in the forms of textual and visual media—for their recent transformations. Such reinterpretations, achieved via design, often serve the public through environmentally conscious strategies realized through inventive approaches to cultural and recreational programs. The work of visual artists, both historical and contemporary, appears alongside architecture, poetry, and literary references that illustrate and draw connections between each of these sections. The third section features select architectural work by the author, framed by critic John King and the architect and urbanist Justine Shapiro-Kline. Introduced with a foreword by the prominent landscape architect Laurie Olin, Occupation:Boundary draws on artistic and cultural intuitions and the experience of an architect whose practice negotiates the boundary between urban contexts and the bodies of water that sustain them. Together, the instincts, reflections, and architectural production collected here evidence the role of art and design in the creation of an equitable and inviting public realm.

Author Cathy Simon is an architect and a Fellow of the American Institute of Architects whose practice has spanned five decades, focusing on transformative design at all scales. Her award-winning work includes design for higher and secondary education, civic and commercial buildings, reinvention of historic structures, waterfront projects, and urban planning schemes for numerous post-industrial waterfront sites in and around San Francisco.

She is the founder of SMWM, a celebrated women-owned architecture and urban design practice that opened offices in San Francisco and New York during the mid-1980s. In 1999, after fifteen years of practice, SMWM became the youngest firm to be honored with the AIACA Firm Award, which the American Institute of Architects awarded for the consistent production of distinguished architecture. Her firm later joined Perkins + Will, where she served as a senior consulting design principal before retiring in 2018. Having gained expertise in the revitalization and resiliency of the postindustrial waterfront, she is currently an urban design and architecture consultant to a multi-firm engineering team developing the Waterfront Resiliency Program for the Port of San Francisco.

Educated at Wellesley College and the Harvard Graduate School of Design (GSD), she has served as the president of the GSD Alumni Council and spent several terms on the GSD Visiting Committee.

She has taught architecture at both Stanford University and the University of California, Berkeley, where, in 1996, she was the Howard Friedman Distinguished Professor of Architecture in Practice.

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Mise-en-Scène

The Lives and Afterlives of Urban Landscapes Chris Reed and Mike Belleme

His practice involves photographing from a space of emotional availability and vulnerability and exploring themes involving connection and disconnection from that space.

Mise-en-Scène is an immersive exploration of the social lives of urban landscapes—the actors and actions that compose the daily theater of urban life. Conceived as a unique collaboration between an urbanist, Chris Reed, and a photographer, Mike Belleme, the book combines photo essays, original maps and drawings, newly commissioned essays, excerpts from historical writings, and interviews with residents. The book is centered around seven visual case studies depicting life in seven American cities: Los Angeles, Galveston, St. Louis, Green Bay, Ann Arbor, Detroit, and Boston.

The result is a rigorous and artful examination of the social, cultural, environmental, and economic challenges of life in American cities today.

Contributors Chris Reed is founder and design director of Stoss Landscape Urbanism, a design and strategic planning practice in Boston and Los Angeles, and professor in practice of landscape architecture at the Harvard Graduate School of Design. He is a leading voice on issues related to climate adaptation, racial and social equity, urban landscape, and the sociability of cities.

Mike Belleme is a freelance photographer based in Asheville, North Carolina. His work ranges from long-form documentary projects to assignment-based editorial work, photojournalism, and portraiture.

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Sara Zewde is founding principal of Studio Zewde, a design firm in New York City practicing landscape architecture, urbanism, and public art. The studio is devoted to exploring the “aesthetics of being” and creating enduring places where people belong. She also serves as assistant professor of practice at the Harvard University Graduate School of Design.

Nina-Marie Lister is an ecologist and planner, graduate program director and associate professor in the School of Urban + Regional Planning at Ryerson University in Toronto. She is the founder and director of the Ecological Design Lab at Ryerson University.

De Nichols is a communications designer and artist activist who serves as the Social Impact Design Principal of Civic Creatives in St. Louis. Her work champions the power of design and storytelling to inspire and equip change makers to protest social injustices and design civic solutions for progressive change across American communities.

Mimi Zeiger is a Los Angeles-based critic and curator. She was co-curator of the U.S. Pavilion for the 2018 Venice Architecture Biennale and curator of Soft Schindler at the MAK Center for Art and Architecture.

Julia Czerniak is associate dean and professor of architecture at Syracuse University where she teaches on landscape theory and criticism. Her work focuses on the physical and cultural potentials of urban landscapes.

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13 Ways of Looking at a House Stella Betts, David Leven, Thomas de Monchaux

13 WAYS OF LOOKING AT A HOUSE David Leven and Stella Betts, LEVENBETTS with Thomas de Monchaux

For reasons both obvious and mysterious, even as our cultural and social constructions of domesticity change, the house remains a fundamental site for advancing modern architectural theory and practice: because it accommodates a full diurnal and annual cycle of life, and because it intricately stages ritual and routine, this most private of programs has become a medium of publicity and polemic.

Thirteen Ways of Looking at a House both participates in and critiques this contemporary tradition. The reader’s attention in this examination is directed not only to LEVENBETTS’ houses, but to all houses, and all parts of houses—pieces of home and rhetorics of domesticity that show up in our collective memory: from a stolen moment on a staircase in a John Cassavetes film, to the sturdy knife-edged contractor modernism of suburban late to mid-twentiethcentury America. Thirteen Ways of Looking at a House is an accessible and universal book—everyone has a sense of home. The book includes thirteen texts on domestic pieces that make up the house, comparative diagrams, construction metrics and anecdotes, informal photos, and structural details all in the interest of taking the house apart in order to put it back together.

Title: 13 Ways of Looking at a House Size: 7.25” x 10” Portrait Pages: 300pp Binding: Hardbound Publication Date: Spring 2022 ISBN: 978-1-954081-32-1 Price: $45.00 World Rights: Available

Authors Stella Betts is a principal at LEVENBETTS with her partner David Leven. She is currently an adjunct professor at Yale University School of Architecture. Stella serves on the board of directors of the Architectural League of New York.

David Leven, FAIA, is a principal at LEVENBETTS with his partner Stella Betts. He is an associate professor at Parsons School of Constructed Environments. David serves on the board of directors of the New York Chapter of AIA. Thomas de Monchaux is an architect and design writer, and an adjunct assistant professor of architecture at Columbia University GSAPP. His writing about design has appeared in the New York Times and the New Yorker, as well as in such journals as Log, Perspecta, and n+1, where he is architecture critic. He is a past recipient of the Winterhouse Award for Design Writing and Criticism.

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9 Ways to Make Housing for People David Baker Architects

David Baker Architects

9 Ways to Make Housing for People

Combining how-to with why-to, 9 Ways to Make Housing for People lays out the core principles that David Baker Architects uses to help communities develop great urban housing. Written for architects and residents—as well as officials, developers, and planners—this book is a kit of parts: nine proven strategies for getting the best outcomes for housing in urban contexts. Detailed explorations and comprehensive case studies show how to apply and combine the principles creatively to meet the needs of sites, people, and budgets.

Pragmatic and imaginative, 9 Ways is a modern manual for urban housing—getting it built and making it great.

Author David Baker Architects is a progressive architecture firm that creates acclaimed buildings and communities in urban environments.

Based in the San Francisco Bay Area and Birmingham, Alabama, DBA is known for exceptional housing, creative site strategies, designing for density, and integrating new construction into the public realm. Lead by a compassionate and visionary team—David Baker, FAIA; Daniel Simons, FAIA; and Amanda Loper, AIA—the awardwinning practice is at the forefront of the housing field, designing thoughtful, sustainable, future-oriented places that transform neighborhoods, bolster community, and elevate lives.

Title: 9 Ways to Make Housing for People Size: 8.5” x 11” Portrait Pages: 220pp Binding: Softbound Publication Date: Spring 2022 ISBN: 978-1-935935-40-7 Price: $35.00 World Rights: Available

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Reimagining the Library of the Future

Public Buildings and Civic Space for Tomorrow’s Knowledge Society Dr. Steffen Lehmann Reimagining the Library of the Future

Reimagining the Library of the Future Public Buildings and Civic Space for Tomorrow’s Knowledge Society

Steffen Lehmann

Steffen Lehmann

The study Reimagining the Library of the Future investigates the various models of public buildings and civic space through the lens of the library. It takes a critical look at the history, present, and future transformation of this significant building typology that has recently emerged as a redefined community place, social condenser, and urban incubator for knowledge generation, storage, and sharing. In particular, the library has evolved as a vibrant and vital member of community development and as a basis for outreach efforts.

This book presents 40 recent public and academic libraries from around the world, with over 200 images. As the survey of precedents shows, the historical cases have informed the design of the recent libraries and the continuous development of the building type over time. Well-designed libraries are now in abundance, and the wider view of this study includes mediatheques and learning centers. The selection of contemporary projects focuses on urban libraries in Europe (Germany, Italy, Austria, Netherlands), the US, Canada, Mexico, Australia, Japan, and China.

Title: Reimagining the Library of the Future Size: 7” x 9” Portrait Pages: 220pp Binding: Softbound Publication Date: Spring 2022 ISBN: 978-1-951541-98-9 Price: $30.00 World Rights: Available

Author Dr. Steffen Lehmann, AA Dipl., Assoc. AIA, is a full professor of architecture at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. He is founder and principal of the design studio si architecture + urban design and has an extensive research and professional background. He has been, for twenty years, a chair professor holding senior roles at universities in the US, UK, and Australia. The book features a foreword by Kelvin Watson and a preface by Michelle Delk.

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Urban Lessons of the Venetian Squares Kenneth M. Moffett

The first part of the book is both an homage to the nature and appeal of the squares of Venice and an analysis of their physical qualities in urbanistic terms.

The Venetian settings were chosen for their freedom from auto traffic, streets, or peculiarities of topography. The narrative then takes those insights and applies them in a corresponding examination of a wide variety of modern-day urban spaces in America, to determine which are being emulated today and which less so.

Author Following a year abroad as a Paris Prize recipient and interning with the Architects Collaborative, Kenneth M. Moffett co-founded of the award-winning Tennessee architecture firm BullockSmith, where he has spent a career as Design Director.

Title: Urban Lessons of the Venetian Squares Size: 8.5” x 11” Portrait Pages: 150pp Binding: Hardbound Publication Date: Spring 2022 ISBN: 978-1-954081-63-5 Price: $29.95 World Rights: Available

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Typologies for Big Words Sergio Lopez-Pineiro

Architecture’s original project was the invention of interiority, an enclosed area delimited from its context and made available for a narrowly defined public, function, and meaning. This original project was expanded during the Enlightenment with the invention of type to establish architectural and social institutions for molding subjectivities.

The quest for interiority has reached its completion with world capitalism and its associated complexes, the ultimate interior without any possible or imaginable outside. In response to this condition, this book proposes a collection of projects reinventing traditional building and landscape types as openings within the interiority of the current politico-economic global system. Typologies for Big Words presents new types of spaces as holes within society’s big words.

Each project is an inseparable pairing of a design proposal and a theoretical essay, and it is named after a spatial type and a big word: Factory of Ecology, Infrastructure of Intimacy, Mausoleum of Humanity, Waiting Room of Democracy, Media Lab of Safety, Office of Diversity, and Museum of Capitalism.

Author Sergio Lopez-Pineiro is an interdisciplinary architect whose work explores voids as socio-spatial phenomena of freedom, diversity, and spontaneity. He is the director of the design studio Holes of Matter and a lecturer in landscape architecture at the Harvard Graduate School of Design. Lopez-Pineiro is the author of A Glossary of Urban Voids (Jovis, 2020).

Title: Typologies for Big Words Size: 6” X 9” Portrait Pages: 240pp Binding: Softbound Publication Date: Spring 2022 ISBN: 978-1-954081-56-7 Price: $35.00 World Rights: Available

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Framing the Valley

Maria Ogrydziak, Houses

Maria Ogrydziak, introduction by Sam Lubell

Emerging from the vivid landscape of California’s Central Valley, architect Maria Ogrydziak’s iconic, light-filled houses reflect a region where growth abounds, rich soil runs deep, and blue sky goes on and on. She designs for a new California dream, outside the hustle of the big cities, far from the deep turquoise of the Pacific.

Framing the Valley follows eight case study houses where everyday people find extraordinary lives through architecture. Written in an approachable style by Maria, it is full of design wisdom from over 40 years of 400 built projects.

Projects include Art Barn, a steel horse barn transformed into an art gallery, overlooking picturesque fields dotted with California poppies; Flight house, a budget-friendly remote-work homestead just outside town; two remodels of California’s classic ranch-style and mid-century modern tract homes; and a 15,000-square-foot luxury homestead clad completely in iridescent glass.

Title: Framing the Valley Size: 8.5” x 10.5” Portrait Pages: 180pp Binding: Hardbound Publication Date: Fall 2021 ISBN: 978-1-951541-67-5 Price: $35.00 World Rights: Available

Author Maria Ogrydziak is an expert in California Central Valley architecture with 400 projects built in the region. Her firm designs attainable, extraordinary spaces for everyday lives. A civic leader and architect, she was president of the AIA Central Valley Chapter and founder of the region’s annual Architecture Festival. She is a graduate of MIT and has taught at MIT, Stanford, and UC Davis. She lives in Davis in her self-designed artist loft.

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DXA TEN YEARS

DXA Studio: Jordan Rogove and Wayne Norbeck

The building of a city is an ongoing, additive act of creativity. Urban centers are continually made and remade. They are palimpsests of the values, technologies, ingenuity, and aesthetics of a time that precedes ours and was vital in creating our present. To evolve, it is incumbent upon designers to find ways to preserve this past while shaping a rich and resilient ecosystem for the future.

Whether designing carefully considered ground-up buildings or adapting older buildings for new life, building on history is a fundamental base for contemporary practice. This belief has set DXA apart as a practice with an extensive portfolio of completed work in New York, as well as informs the studio’s ongoing work in metropolitan areas throughout the United States.

This monograph explores the deep, inextricable relationship between the unique past and future potential of architecture that defines DXA’s practice. The book presents 14 projects that embrace history as a critical influence: they use New York City as a laboratory to implement this unique approach, acknowledging contexts and constraints as constructive rather than restrictive. The work seeks to foster a dialogue between generations, shaping good design that brings value and a sense of belonging. Integral to its time and place, such architecture offers a distinctive identity, clarity, and timelessness to the urban fabric.

Authors DXA studio is an award-winning design practice that provides a balance of expertly crafted design with technical proficiency with a focus on authenticity, sustainability and innovation. They are situated in NYC and celebrating 10 years with this publication.

The through line connecting the projects is DXA’s interest in the transformative power of architecture. When well-conceived and expertly crafted, buildings can be more than the sum of their materials. They activate the city in a meaningful way and can change entire neighborhoods, serving as a catalyst for growth and vitality.

Wayne Norbeck is a co-founder of DXA studio and leads the creative design process and client relationships while overseeing overall project development and management of the studio.

Title: DXA TEN YEARS Size: 9” x 11” Portrait Pages: 300pp Binding: Hardbound Publication Date: Spring 2022 ISBN: 978-1-951541-90-3 Price: $60.00 World Rights: Available

Jordan Rogrove is a co-founder of DXA studio and leads the creative design process, managing the studio, and guiding projects through complex municipal approval processes, including landmarks, community board, and BSA.

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Inspired by Place CLB Architects

The philosophy of CLB Architects, Inspired by Place, permeates all the firm’s design work, from public projects to bespoke homes. Their portfolio projects—timeless, thoughtful, distinct, and beautiful—are examples of how to tread softly on the land in some of the world’s most iconic landscapes. They introduce a new approach to form and materiality in a region where the design world is often limited by a nostalgic view of the past.

Inspired by Place showcases ten homes by CLB Architects, many of which feature interiors by CLB’s design team; these are always sophisticated yet comfortable and conceived as an extension of the architecture. From a streamlined modern masterpiece on the banks of the Snake River to architecture as connected barnlike structures to a private glass pavilion retreat perfectly oriented for wildlife viewing, CLB’s work references local forms and vernaculars while speaking in a new architectural language for the Rocky-Mountain West.

Author Chase Reynolds Ewald is an active freelancer, columnist, and editor focused on architecture, interiors, food, and travel in the American West. A graduate of Yale and the Graduate School of Journalism at UC Berkeley, she is the author of ten books, including Rustic Modern, American Rustic, The New Western Home, and Cabin Style.

Title: Inspired by Place Size: 11.5” x 11.5” Square Pages: 448pp Binding: Hardbound Publication Date: Spring 2021 ISBN: 978-1-940743-82-0 Price: $75.00 World Rights: Available

Forewords Tom Kundig, FAIA, RIBA, is an owner and design principal of Olson Kundig. Kundig has received some of the world’s highest design honors, including a National Design Award in Architecture from the Cooper Hewitt Smithsonian Design Museum, an Academy Award in Architecture from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, and an election to the National Academy as an Academician in Architecture.

Most recently, Kundig was awarded the AIA Seattle Medal of Honor as well as a Distinguished Alumni Award from the University of Washington. Known for his contextual approach to design, Kundig emphasizes the primacy of the site. His buildings are a direct response to place, often serving as a backdrop to the built, cultural, or natural landscapes that surround them.

Agnes Bourne, ASID, studied art and architecture in Florence and received her B.A. in Studio Art and Art History from Mills College.

She went on to do post-graduate work in American Studies and Architecture at the University of Pennsylvania and earned a Certificate of Design from the Rudolph Schaeffer School of Design in San Francisco. Ms. Bourne has been involved in design for over 40 years, working on residential and commercial interiors, product design, historical restoration, and set design. In 1987 she introduced her own line of furniture, the Agnes Bourne Collection. She is cofounder of Des Art Licensing and has taught design at Stanford University, the California College of Arts, and the San Francisco Art Institute. Ms. Bourne has been awarded medals of distinction from A.S.I.D., The Smithsonian Institution, Cine Arts, I.F.D.A., and N.A.S.F.T. Photographers Audrey Hall Matthew Millman Gibeon Photography Tom Harris ISBN 978-1-940743-82-0

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Emergent Tokyo

A Transcultural View on Spontaneous Urban Patterns as an Alternative to Corporate Urbanism Jorge Almazán and Studiolab

This book examines the urban fabric of contemporary Tokyo as a valuable demonstration of permeable, inclusive, and adaptive urban patterns that required neither extensive master planning nor corporate urbanism to develop. These urban patterns are emergent: that is, they are the combined result of numerous modifications and appropriations of space by small agents interacting within a broader socio-economic ecosystem. Together, they create a degree of urban intensity and liveliness that is the envy of the world’s cities.

This book examines five of these patterns that appear conspicuously throughout Tokyo: yokochō alleyways, multi-tenant zakkyo buildings, undertrack infills, low-rise dense neighborhoods, and the riverlike ankyo streets. Unlike many of the discussions on Tokyo that emphasize cultural uniqueness, this book aims at transcultural validity, with a focus on empirical analysis of the spatial and social conditions that allow these patterns to emerge. The authors of Emergent Tokyo acknowledge the distinct character of Tokyo without essentializing or fetishizing it, offering visitors, architects, and urban policy practitioners an unparalleled understanding of Tokyo’s urban landscape.

Title: Emergent Tokyo Size: 5.83” x 8.27” Portrait Pages: 232pp Binding: Softbound Publication Date: Spring 2022 ISBN: 978-1-951541-32-3 Price: $24.95 World Rights: Available

Contributors Jorge Almazán is a Spanish architect based in Tokyo and an associate professor at Keio University. His office, Jorge Almazán Architects, is committed to environmentally responsible and socially inclusive projects spanning from interiors and architecture to urban and community design.

Studiolab is a research and design unit led by Jorge Almazán at Keio University. Engaging students, researchers, and external collaborators, Studiolab combines rigorous academic research in the form of thesis and journal papers with real urban interventions and architectural projects.

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Serious Fun

The Landscapes of Claude Cormier

Marc Treib, Susan Herrington, and Claude Cormier et Associés

For almost thirty years Claude Cormier et Associés has designed landscapes daring in scope while earnest in execution, courting controversy while inviting public accord. Produced under the leadership of Claude Cormier, the range of these projects has spanned the creation of parks and squares, the renovation of historical landscapes, and the conversion of industrial sites. While always serious in the address of function, their designs often display a touch of humor in both method and form—in all, these are works marked by “serious fun.” It is a practice unique in Canada, arguably in the world. That people use, and may even love, these urban landscapes testifies to the pleasure afforded by their designs and the humanistic dimensions of the practice. This, the first book exclusively dedicated to the landscapes of Claude Cormier and his team, provides a broad overview of their ideas and methods with insightful discussions of selected projects and the thinking behind them.

Authors Marc Treib is Professor of Architecture Emeritus, University of California, Berkeley, and a historian and critic of landscape and architecture who has published widely on modern and historical subjects in the United States, Japan, and Scandinavia. Recent books include Pietro Porcinai and the Landscape of Modern Italy (co-editor, 2016); Landscapes of Modern Architecture: Wright, Mies, Neutra, Aalto, Barragán (2017); The Landscapes of Georges Title: Serious Fun Size: 8” x 10” Portrait Pages: 286pp Binding: Hardbound Publication Date: Fall 2021 ISBN: 978-1-954081-01-7 Price: $49.95 World Rights: Available

Descombes: Doing Almost Nothing (2019); and Thinking a Modern Landscape Architecture, West & East: Christopher Tunnard, Sutemi Horiguchi (2020).

Susan Herrington is a licensed landscape architect in the United States and a landscape architect in Canada. She is a professor in the School of Architecture and Landscape Architecture at the University of British Columbia. Her research concerns design theories of contemporary landscape architecture, including theories regarding children’s landscapes. She is author of Landscape Theory in Design, Cornelia Hahn Oberlander: Making the Modern Landscape, On Landscapes, and Schoolyard Park. She also led the Seven Cs guidelines, which have been used in communities throughout the world.

Claude Cormier et Associés is a Montreal-based landscape architecture firm that extends its practice to forge bridges between urban design, public art, and architecture. Recipient of over 100 awards, the team’s work is distinguished not only for its inventiveness—but also its tenacious optimism in the power of design.

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The Aesthetics of Contemporary Planting Design Edited by Marc Treib

Planting design is, rather obviously, a complex topic, spanning as it does art, science, social need, and morality—especially during these days of increasing planetary environmental threat. Although certainly not denying the importance of scientifically appropriate practices, the symposium The Aesthetics of Contemporary Planting Design addressed planting design today, proposing a renewed concern for the cultural and aesthetic aspects of the landscapes that result. This book, which has been developed from the original presentations at the symposium, presents the thoughts of a select international group of landscape architects and historians who discuss the subject of planting design through the lens of their own work as well as the work of others, both contemporary and historical. They suggest that, as in real estate, the most important factor in selecting plants is “location, location, location.” Certainly the Californian situation is far more forgiving than the aridity and other restrictive environmental conditions endemic to the Sonoran desert, or the frost and short growing seasons of Nordic lands that direct Scandinavian landscape architects to rely on native birches, pines, rowan, and moss. Most of us would agree that there are plants sensible for each climatic zone. Addressing environmental conditions is but the first step in the equation, however. There are also the issues of combi-nation and composition.

Title: The Aesthetics of Contemporary Planting Design Size: 10” x 10” Square Pages: 288pp Binding: Hardbound Publication Date: Fall 2021 ISBN: 978-1-954081-15-4 Price: $50.00 World Rights: Available

Author Marc Treib is Professor of Architecture Emeritus, University of California, Berkeley, and a historian and critic of landscape and architecture who has published widely on modern and historical subjects in the United States, Japan, and Scandinavia. Recent books include Pietro Porcinai and the Landscape of Modern Italy (co-editor, 2016); Landscapes of Modern Architecture: Wright, Mies, Neutra, Aalto, Barragán (2017); The Landscapes of Georges Descombes: Doing Almost Nothing (2019); and Thinking a Modern Landscape Architecture, West & East: Christopher Tunnard, Sutemi Horiguchi (2020).

Contributions by Laurie Olin, Tim Richardson, Cristina Castel-Branco, Erik Dhont, Andrea Cochran, Christine Ten Eyck, Mario Schjetnan, Thorbjörn Andersson, Kate Cullity, Richard L. Hindle, Alexandre Chemetoff, and Peter Walker ISBN 978-1-954081-15-4

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Johnsen Schmaling On Rigor

Clifford Pearson and Johnsen Schmaling Architects

In a world that fetishizes aesthetic frivolity and iconographic bombast at the expense of substance and nuance, the critically acclaimed work of Johnsen Schmaling Architects stands out for its conceptual rigor, profound simplicity, and quiet repose. Formally restrained and informed by innovative tectonic and material experimentations, Johnsen Schmaling’s precisely crafted architecture creates poetic atmospheres of enduring clarity.

Johnsen Schmaling: On Rigor is the firm’s first monograph and provides an in-depth look at thirteen seminal residential and commercial projects. The book reveals how the architects’ unique reading of context and cultural memory translates into an abstract palette of architectural operations that guide the entire design process, from initial concepts to intricate, meticulously detailed material assemblies.The crisply designed book features beautiful photography and delightful graphics that Illustrate how the projects came to life.

Title: Johnsen Schmaling Size: 7” x 10” Portrait Pages: 236pp Binding: Softbound Publication Date: Fall 2021 ISBN: 978-1-954081-13-0 Price: $35.00 World Rights: Available

Authors Clifford Pearson is a writer and editor who covers architecture, urbanism, and culture. He served as deputy editor-in-chief and senior editor at Architectural Record for 26 years and was the director of the University of Southern California’s American Academy in China. In 2004 and 2006, he was co-curator of the US Pavilion at the Venice Architecture Biennale. He holds degrees in Architectural History from Columbia University and in Urban Studies from Cornell.

Johnsen Schmaling is widely recognized as an important voice in contemporary American architecture. The studio’s projects have garnered broad critical acclaim for their conceptual rigor, serene simplicity, and an unequivocal commitment to architectural innovation and environmental sustainability. Johnsen Schmaling received the Emerging Voices award from the Architectural League of New York and was featured in Architectural Record as an “exceptional global architecture firm to watch,” while Architectural Digest named Johnsen Schmaling one of “Ten Rising Stars in American Architecture.” The founding partners, Brian Johnsen and Sebastian Schmaling both teach design at the University of Wisconsin and regularly lecture on their work in the United States and abroad.

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Architecture’s New Strangeness A 21st Century Cult of Peculiarity Kenneth Moffett

This book arose from two observations: that building design in these first decades of the 21st century has come to accept and pursue some increasingly odd and disturbing trends; and that there seems to be insufficient architectural criticism that calls these trends to account. Its mission is to take up that neglected role with respect to some specific exemplars of these trends, with subjects coming primarily from the worlds of commercial and institutional architecture.

Numerous critiques of individual projects, all with hand-drawn illustrations, are presented under main headings of Obscuration, Fragmentation, Deformation, and Degradation. The book takes a somewhat acerbic tone, to distance the narrative from the rather serious and high-minded approach to written material that the subject seems prey to.

Author Following a year abroad as a Paris Prize recipient and interning with The Architects Collaborative, Kenneth Moffett co-founded the award-winning Tennessee architecture firm BullockSmith, where he has spent a career as Design Director.

Title: Architecture’s New Strangeness Size: 8.5” x 11” Portrait Pages: 150pp Binding: Softbound Publication Date: Spring 2022 ISBN: 978-1-951541-72-9 Price: $25.00 World Rights: Available

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Skyroom

The Journey of Brian And Marilyn Mackay-Lyons at Shobac, a Seaside Village on the Edge of Architectural and Utopian Possibility Larry Gaudet

In SkyRoom, novelist Larry Gaudet tells the story of Shobac, a seaside village recognized internationally as the masterwork of famed Canadian architect Brian Mackay-Lyons. In partnership with his wife Marilyn Mackay-Lyons and their family, he has built a unique community over the granite ruins of a historic settlement on the fogbound coast of Nova Scotia. Among the structures at Shobac are homes, barns, studios, cottages, fishing shacks, a boathouse, even a schoolhouse, all designed in Mackay-Lyons’s compelling architectural language that fuses contemporary Modernism with Nova Scotia building traditions.

SkyRoom is written in a new genre that Gaudet calls magic architectural realism, blending fact with historical fiction in presenting the lives of early inhabitants and visitors to the Shobac area, including Samuel de Champlain, a Mi’kmaq mystic, an Acadian carpenter and other lively characters whose ghostly presence swirl in the untold myths of this coastal Shangri-La. More provocatively, Gaudet orchestrates imaginary conversations between Mackay-Lyons and legendary figures in architecture – Frank Lloyd Wright, Mies Van Der Rohe, Louis Kahn, Charles Moore and others – all towards providing a novel perspective on what goes into building communities and homes worth living in.

Title: Skyroom Size: 7” x 9” Portrait Pages: 200pp Binding: Softbound with flap Publication Date: Spring 2022 ISBN: 978-1-954081-20-8 Price: $30.00 World Rights: Available

Author Larry Gaudet has published seven books that includes two novels, a family memoir, and four works that blend fiction and non-fiction and, in the end, defy easy categorization. His scriptwriting through his 300 Dead Cattle subsidiary includes projects with Universal Cable, NBC and various Los Angeles producers, including Highway Bingo and Chernin. His corporate work over 25+ years spans branding, venture financing, speechwriting, investor relations and marketing.

He has been a partner in a contemporary art gallery. He has received Canada’s highest journalism awards and recognition from branding juries internationally. His community work includes providing strategic counsel to Doctors Without Borders (MSF), the Kingsburg Coastal Conservancy in Nova Scotia, an art therapy institute in Hangzhou, China, and the Art Canada Institute in Toronto. He’s a Dalhousie graduate with a diploma from the Canadian Securities Institute. He lives in Canada.

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Practice Practice Ashton Hamm

The business of architecture—shaped by anti-trust legislation and pro-corporate governmental policies—has created an extractive, inequitable, and precarious environment for its practitioners. These pressures have led many small firms, which make up roughly three quarters of architecture offices in the United States, to adopt diverse, ad-hoc organizational and survival strategies. In their very precarity, these small firms offer fertile grounds to test more resilient structures.

One such model, the worker cooperative, offers a critical mode of practice that is equitable, democratic, and addresses the systemic inequalities that plague the profession.

Practice Practice addresses the parallel trajectories of cooperatives in the United States and the professionalization of architecture.

This contextual background highlights the coincident struggles of the labor movement and the emergence of the architectural corporation. Within this context, the cooperative model is presented as a challenge to the prevailing conditions of the profession.

Logistical frameworks for creating an architectural cooperative— including diagrams, sample operating agreements, and bylaws— are offered for any firm looking to transition or incorporate anew.

The book projects the social, economic, and aesthetic benefits of the architectural cooperative by taking stock of cooperatives in other industries. Finally, Practice Practice presents a vision for a cooperative network of small architecture firms as imagined in collaboration with the Architecture Lobby.

Title: Practice Practice Size: 6” x 9” Portrait Pages: 120pp Binding: Softbound Publication Date: Spring 2022 ISBN: 978-1-951541-95-8 Price: $24.95 World Rights: Available

This book situates, celebrates, and envisions a future for small firms.

Throughout the book, interviews, office visits, site visits, and field notes document encounters with over twenty such firms. These offices demonstrate the subversive agency harnessed by small firms.

If the cooperative model were to infiltrate such sites, the nature of practice and industry would transform. Built work would reflect ever more diverse sensibilities, minority workers’ voices would be uplifted, and workers would earn equity through ownership. Architects would enter the solidarity economy, transforming their communities.

Author Ashton Hamm is a licensed architect and a worker-owner at uxo architects—an architectural cooperative located and founded in California in 2016. She is an activist and a member of the Architecture Lobby—an organization advocating for fair labor and wage practices within the profession. She received her B. Arch from Virginia Tech.

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Fun Mill

The Architecture of Creative Industry in Contemporary China Maria Repellino

The book discusses three recurrent methods used by architectural projects to reconfigure space: Collecting icons, Shifting scale, Bounding borders. These intervention methods were identified from amongst a range of design experiences, richly illustrated with sketches, detailed drawings and photographs.

Authors Maria Paola Repellino is an architect, PhD. in Architecture and Building Design (2016); currently research fellow at DAD-Department of Architecture and Design of Politecnico di Torino.

Title: Fun Mill Size: 8.25” x 11.8” Portrait Pages: 248pp Binding: Softbound Publication Date: Spring 2022 ISBN: 978-1-954081-27-7 Price: $35.00 World Rights: Available

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Land, Sea, Shelter & Culture

A Story of Modern Architecture in Hawaii

AHL is the most prominent, prestigious, and progressive architectural practice working in Hawaii. As such, the history of Modern Hawaiian architecture is very much the history of AHL. Over the past 75 years, no firm has built bigger, higher, or more frequently that AHL. This book tells their story and in so doing, tells the story of the making of a modern Hawaii.

The output of the firm is extraordinary, ranging from numerous state and federal facilities like the Hawaii State Capitol building to the Prince Jonah Kūhiō Kalaniana‘ole Federal Building. The first high-rises in Hawaii belong to AHL along with some of most high-profile residential (Moana Pacific), hospitality (Aulani, A Disney Resort & Spa), healthcare and education (John A. Burns School of Medicine), and commercial complexes like the American Savings Bank and Pacific Guardian Center Towers, to numerous retail stores, schools and university buildings, churches, and extensive work with the military.

AHL’s projects extend beyond Hawaii and its neighbor islands, throughout the Pacific in Guam, the Philippines, Palau, American Samoa, and Asia.

The scope of the book covers the period from 1946, when founder, Cy Lemmon, opened the first office in the garage of his Waikiki Home through present day operations housing a staff of over one hundred working in downtown Honolulu.

Title: Land, Sea, Shelter & Culture Size: 10” x 10” Square Pages: 240pp Binding: Hardbound Publication Date: Spring 2022 ISBN: 978-1-943532-33-9 Price: $50.00 World Rights: Available

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Becoming Urban City of Nomads Joshua Bolchover

This book positions Ulaanbaatar as a unique case and one that allows us to view our urban world differently. Operating as a primordial soup of emerging conditions, Ulaanbaatar is conceived as an incubator for alternative urban concepts. The book rejects the agency of the masterplan as an effective tool in emerging urban conditions and instead positions the framework as a tool for incremental urbanism.

Although specific to the Ger districts of Mongolia, the story of how people, communities, planners, and politicians are grappling with the effects of becoming urban remains one of the critical issues facing the 21st century. How this process will be materialized and organized spatially, and by whom, will have profound ramifications on the climate and the social and economic make-up of our future cities.

Author Joshua Bolchover is an associate professor at the University of Hong Kong. His current research focuses on the complex urban-rural ecology of cities. He set up Rural Urban Framework with John Lin in 2005 with the remit to create a not-for-profit agency as a platform for design and research. Their projects have been internationally exhibited at the Venice Biennale 2020, 2018, 2016, the Design Museum London 2016, and the Chicago Biennale 2015. RUF’s work has been awarded the RIBA International Emerging Architect Title: Becoming Urban Size: 7.48” x 9.96” Portrait Pages: 128pp Binding: Softbound Publication Date: Spring 2022 ISBN: 978-1-954081-06-2 Price: $24.95 World Rights: Available

Award 2016 for the Angdong Hospital, the Curry Stone Design Prize 2015, the Ralph Erskine Prize 2014, and has received third place commendations for the Architectural Review’s Healthcare and Schools Award. Joshua’s recent publications include Border Ecologies: Hong Kong’s Mainland Frontier (Birkhauser, 2017), Designing the Rural: A Global Countryside in Flux (Architectural Design, 2016), and Rural Urban Framework: Transforming the Chinese Countryside (Birkhauser, 2014).

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The United Nations and New York City A Home for the World

Pentagram and Raul Barreneche

UN headquarters campus nearby. Also included are sections on the $2 billion renovation and restoration of the UN campus and proposals past and present for additional architectural commissions. Additional sections will document visually how New York City and the UN have helped shape each other over the years; and how both continue to change and evolve in the 21st century.

Unique for its architectural, historical and urbanistic focus, A Home to the World: The United Nations and New York City celebrates this important global organization’s many accomplishments past, present, and future.

Honoring the recent 75th anniversary of the signing of the United Nations charter, this visually driven book tells the story of the special relationship between the UN and New York City through the interrelated lenses of architecture, real estate, and urban planning. The book is illustrated with archival photographs, architectural drawings and maps. The book includes written remarks from many prominent individuals, including current and former UN secretaries-general, ambassadors to the UN, mayors, governors, historians, and architecture experts.

The book begins by chronicling New York City before the UN with historical photographs and maps, next describing how New York came to be the permanent home of the UN, including the key individuals, institutions, and other forces that helped the city secure the headquarters of the UN —among them the Rockefeller family, William Zeckendorf, and Robert Moses. The book then presents the architectural and urban design journey to create the iconic UN campus by a global team of architectural giants such as Wallace K. Harrison, Le Corbusier, and Oscar Niemeyer, with archival photos and architectural drawings and renderings. It also charts how the real estate needs of the UN evolved and expanded over time, leading to the creation by New York State of the United Nations Development Corporation (UNDC), and its development of three architecturally significant buildings at UN Plaza to complement the Title: The United Nations and New York City Size: 10.5” x 12.25” Portrait Pages: 144pp Binding: Hardbound Publication Date: Fall 2021 ISBN: 978-1-951541-30-9 Price: $40.00 World Rights: Available

Contributors Raul Barreneche is a New York-based brand strategist and writer. A longtime journalist, Barreneche is former executive editor of Architecture and has written extensively for major publications including Architectural Digest, Departures, ELLE Décor, and The New York Times, and has authored eleven books on design for Rizzoli, Phaidon, and other imprints. He remains a contributing editor to Interior Design. Barreneche holds a professional architecture degree from Carnegie Mellon University.

Pentagram is the world’s largest independently owned design consultancy. For five decades, Pentagram has embraced the philosophy of design as a collaborative discipline, with a structure unique among design firms.

Pentagram is run by 25 partners, all practicing designers who are leaders in their individual fields. Working from offices in New York, London, Austin and Berlin, each partner manages his or her own team and projects. This approach allows the firm to retain the creative intensity that characterizes the smallest—and best—design firms. Pentagram is the only major design studio where the owners of the business are the creators of the work and serve as the primary contact for every client.

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Fifty Paintings Anthony Ames

This volume presents fifty paintings (1985 – 2020) with brief references for each. The paintings—executed in acrylic latex paint on two inch deep wooden panels—refer to or are informed by a particular way of looking at architecture. They are abstract in nature, and representative in subject matter. They propose an ambiguous reading of deep and shallow space—always frontal—in a world reinforced by a vocabulary based on a purist leitmotif and organized in a syntax of superimposed, juxtaposed, and spatially obscure centers, edges, grids, and alignments. The paintings have been exhibited sporadically at selected venues including The High Museum of Art in Atlanta, Georgia, The Biennale Architettura in Venice, Italy and at Le Corbusier’s enigmatic and beautiful Casa Curutchet in LA Plata, Argentina. They are presented here with an insightful introduction by Andrea Simitch and a timeless foreword by Dean Almy.

Contributors Anthony Ames has maintained an architectural practice in Atlanta, Georgia since 1976. He received architectural degrees from Georgia Tech and Harvard University. He has taught at eleven universities and lectured at many more. Ames, a fellow of the American Academy in Rome and of the American Institute of Architects has received numerous architectural awards and has been widely published.

See: Ames, Five Houses, (Princeton Architectural Press, 1987) and Ames, Residential Work: Volume 2, (ORO Editions, 2007). He began painting in 1984 and has been struggling with it ever since.

Andrea Simitch, Professor and Department Chair, Stephen H. Weiss Presidential Fellow, Cornell University, Department of Architecture, Ithaca, NY. Co-author with Val Warke of The Language of Architecture: 26 Principles Every Architect Should Know, (Rockport Publishers, 2014).

Dean J. Almy III, RA, is Associate Professor and Fellow of the Sinclair Black Endowed Chair in the Architecture of Urbanism at The University of Texas at Austin, where he directs the Graduate Program in Urban Design. He holds degrees in architecture and urban design from Cornell University and from The University of Texas at Austin.

Title: Fifty Paintings Size: 10” x 10” Square Pages: 132pp Binding: Hardbound Publication Date: Fall 2021 ISBN: 978-1-943532-13-1 Price: $34.95 World Rights: Available

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20x14.

Reflections on Studying Architecture Abroad Franco Pisani

20x14. Reflections on Studying Architecture Abroad: twenty suggestions (or paternal exhortations, if you will) for the fourteen weeks of a regular academic semester. Descriptive and prescriptive, this book will help plan and enrich the architectural experience for those who, for the time being, are without the opportunity to travel. They will soon be back on the roads of the Grand Tour with a renewed awareness. As an outreach from one person under lockdown to another, this book will help enrich the experience in architecture for those who cannot observe them in actual proximity, for the time being.

Author Franco Pisani is an architect and educator based in Italy.

Strongly tempted by the expanded opportunities offered by the “contamination” of apparently distant themes and disciplines, he includes within the profession of architecture research activities and didactic experiences. He lives and works in Firenze, where he runs his own professional office—FRANCOPiSANiARCHiTETTO— practicing design at all scales “from the spoon to the city.”

As an architectural educator he has taught both as professor and lecturer in different universities and schools in Italy and abroad.

Currently he teaches Architecture Studio and Theory at the Architecture Program of ISI Florence, the International Studies Institute in Firenze.

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Size: 5.5” x 7.8” Portrait Pages: 120pp Binding: Softbound Publication Date: Fall 2021 ISBN: 978-1-954081-16-1 Price: $24.95 World Rights: Available

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Developing My Life

WIlliam Zeckendorf Jr.

In 1986, the New York Times called William Zeckendorf Jr. “Manhattan’s most active real-estate developer,” a judgment borne out by Zeckendorf’s fascinating memoir. The second generation of a legendary family of developers, “Bill” Zeckendorf was a developer with a social conscience, not only putting up buildings but opening neglected parts of the city and transforming whole communities.

Among the projects Zeckendorf chronicles in detail—and with rich documentary illustrations—are the Columbia, which set off a building boom on the Upper West Side; the four-acre Worldwide Plaza, a landmark in West Midtown; Queens West, the first residential project on the waterfront in Queens; the enormous Ronald Reagan Office Building and International Trade Center in Washington, D.C.; and numerous projects in Santa Fe, his beloved second home.

Authors Real estate developer William Zeckendorf Jr. was known for challenging projects—enormous mixed-use developments but also hotels, office buildings, apartment towers, and cultural facilities—that improved the lives and streetscapes of their communities. Born in 1929, Zeckendorf founded Zeckendorf Company in 1972 and went on to build a string of successful projects in New York; Washington, D.C.; and Santa Fe. He died at his home in Santa Fe in 2014.

Joan Duncan Oliver is an award-winning journalist, author, and editor. She lives in New York City.

Title: Developing Size: 9.75” x 9.75” Square Pages: 308pp Binding: Hardbound Publication Date: Spring 2022 ISBN: 978-1-954081-33-8 Price: $35.00 World Rights: Available

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With Reference Soo Chan and SCDA

W ITH REF ERENCE

SCDA

In With Reference, Soo Chan of SCDA explores the fundamentals of architecture—going back to inspirations and precedents, examining basic building blocks and core values—in search of a universal spatial vocabulary for contemporary practice.

As practice becomes increasingly globalized and fragmented, the applied design language has to absorb nuances of climate, craft, culture, and place. Through a rich diagrammatic analysis of seminal projects by SCDA as well as masters of architecture around the world, With Reference argues for the revival of a rule-based design language.

Authors Soo K. Chan is the founding principal and design director of SCDA, a design studio seamlessly integrating architecture, interior design, landscape architecture, offices in Singapore, Shanghai, and New York. The firm has designed in over 70 locations across five continents.

Chan obtained his Master of Architecture from Yale. He is a professor of architecture at the National University of Singapore and teaches internationally.

Julia van den Hout is an architecture editor and curator, and director of the communications studio Original Copy. She is also co-founder and editor of CLOG, a publication that aims to slow down the rapid pace of discourse and provide a platform for the discussion of currently pressing and relevant subjects. From 2008 to 2014, she was press director at Steven Holl Architects.

Title: With Reference Size: 8.25” x 9.6” Portrait Pages: 200pp Binding: Softbound with full flaps Publication Date: Spring 2022 ISBN: 978-1-951541-31-6 Price: $30.00 World Rights: Available

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Along the Betwa

A Riverwalk through the Drought-Prone Region of Bundelkhand, India Radhika Singh and Shail Joshi

During their walk, the authors speak with men, women, and children that are employed in a range of sectors—agriculture, herding, fishing, and even sand mining—to understand how the degradation of natural resources has affected their livelihoods. They also learn about the impacts of climate change, which has led to more variable rainfalls and disasters of higher intensities, and how it has exacerbated factors such as debt, inequality and migration.

Government interventions in the region are the subject of much controversy, and the authors play close attention to the complexity and range of opinions on health, education, livelihoods, and religion and the role people believe the public sector should play.

The authors also engage deeply with socio-economic factors that entrench inequalities throughout the region. Communities in Bundelkhand are highly patriarchal. There is a stark separation of gender roles, and the sex ratio is one of the lowest in India. Caste inequality is also highly prevalent and can be seen in the physical layout of villages and roads; wells and handpumps, for instance, are often segregated according to caste. Discrimination and violent rhetoric against the Muslim population of the region is also documented. These inequalities have led to highly uneven growth, as more powerful people control and co-opt any benefits that development brings.

The region of Bundelkhand in India faces enormous challenges in development. With a population of 18 million people, it has one of the lowest human development indices in India. Groundwater, which the vast majority of people rely on for domestic and agricultural purposes, is being rapidly depleted, while droughts have become more frequent and severe. Livelihood options are narrowing quickly. A lack of public services, infrastructure, and market access has made the situation unlivable for many. The state and central governments carry out initiatives that are extremely expensive but highly ineffective.

In Along the Betwa, Shail Joshi and Radhika Singh, in partnership with Veditum Foundation and Out of Eden (National Geographic), embark on river walk through Bundelkhand. By living with families and visiting villages across the region, the authors learn about the complex interplay of factors that have shaped the region to make it what it is today. Centuries ago, Bundelkhand was a relatively wealthy kingdom with effective irrigations systems, productive agriculture and extensive forests. Colonial rule and subsequent policies by the Indian government has resulted in severely degraded land and water resources that communities can no longer depend upon.

Title: Along the Betwa Size: 6.8” x 8.8” Portrait Pages: 160pp Binding: Softbound Publication Date: Fall 2021 ISBN: 978-1-951541-94-1 Price: $29.95 World Rights: Available

In Along the Betwa, the authors shed light on the experiences, fears, opinions, and hopes of people living in Bundelkhand. They bring together photography, interviews, and research to weave a narrative that contributes to a better understanding of the region. Throughout the book, the authors are careful to address their own positionality.

Rather than presenting an “objective” account of the region, the authors are explicit about their own background, beliefs and feelings.

By doing so, Radhika Singh and Shail Joshi present an honest and insightful look into the situation in Bundelkhand and hope that it will help inform the conversation of development in India.

Authors Singh previously worked as a correspondent for the Indian Express in Mumbai and as a project manager at the research-advocacy organization INHAF in Ahmedabad. She is currently based in Nairobi, where she works on issues related to agriculture.

Joshi is a design architect by training and a published photographer.

He has worked across the Global South on issues pertaining to marginalized communities. He currently works as an associate at a non-profit based in New York City. Both Singh and Joshi are graduates of MIT.

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Young Architects 21 JUST

The Architectural League of New York, Anne Rieselbach, Mario Gooden

The Architectural League Prize for Young Architects + Designers is an annual competition, series of lectures, exhibition, and publication organized by the Architectural League of New York. For more than thirty years the League Prize has recognized outstanding and provocative work by up-and-coming North American architects and designers. The 2019 competition theme, Just, asked entrants to consider the just in how they approach the practice of architecture, whether through experimentation in research and design advocacy or by advancing speculative and applied techniques within the discipline.

Contributors The Architectural League of New York nurtures excellence in architecture, design, and urbanism, and stimulates thinking, debate, and action on the critical design and building issues of our time.

Anne Rieselbach is program director at the Architectural League of New York, where she is responsible for the Current Work lecture series, has overseen the Emerging Voices program since 1986—serving as editor for 30 Years of Emerging Voices: Idea, Form, Resonance—and directs the Architectural League Prize for Young Architects + Designers competition and its accompanying exhibitions, lectures, and publications.

Title: Young Architects 21 Size: 5” x 7” Portrait Pages: 176pp Binding: Softbound Publication Date: Fall 2021 ISBN: 978-1-954081-10-9 Price: $25.00 World Rights: Available

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LA+ Interdisciplinary Journal of Landscape Architecture Green

Editors Tatum Hands and Richard Weller Editors Tatum Hands is Editor in Chief of LA+ Interdisciplinary Journal of Landscape Architecture produced at the University of Pennsylvania Stuart Weitzman School of Design. From 2003 to 2013, she was director of a project consultancy specializing in parliamentary reporting on legislative, policy, and institutional evaluation and reform.

She was co-editor of a national law journal for 13 years and has worked as a freelance publications editor and as a forensic editor for state and federal courts. Dr. Hands has also held positions as executive officer of the Law Reform Commission (WA) and as judicial associate to the chief justice of Australia. She has published widely in the areas of law and political theory.

Richard Weller is the Meyerson Chair of Urbanism, professor and

chair of landscape architecture, and co-executive director of the Ian L. McHarg Center for Urbanism and Ecology at the University of Pennsylvania. He is former co-director of Room 4.1.3—a design firm acknowledged with a Penn Press monograph (2005) and noted for critical design projects such as the National Museum of Australia.

Weller sits on the board of the Landscape Architecture Foundation (LAF) in Washington, is a member of the International Federation of Landscape Architect’s (IFLA) Advisory Circle and is the Creative Director of the interdisciplinary journal of landscape architecture LA+.

In the middle of the electromagnetic spectrum between the binary extremes of black and white it’s not gray, as you might expect, but green. And within green’s bandwidth there are more tonal variations than any other color can make. Maybe this is why—envy, naivete, and money aside—green is generally synonymous with good.

Green is paradise for Islam, luck for the Irish, and a healthy planet for environmentalists. Whereas the industrial past was gray, the future is green. LA+ GREEN explores the green spectrum from plants to politics and from art to science.

Title: LA+ Green Size: 8.75” x 10.5” Portrait Pages: 120pp Binding: Softbound Publication Date: Spring 2022 ISBN: 978-1-954081-87-1 Price: $19.95 World Rights: Available

Contributors NOAM CHOMSKY ROBERT D. BULLARD KASSIA ST. CLAIR NEIL M. MAHER ROB LEVINTHAL SONJA DÜMPELMANN PEDER ANKER ROBERT MCDONALD PARKER SUTTON TAMARA TOLES O’LAUGHLIN NICHOLAS PEVZNER MICHAEL MARDER SHANNON MATTERN MICHAEL GEFFEL BRIAN OSBORN JULIAN BOLLETER CRISTINA RAMALHO ROBERT FREESTONE RICHARD WELLER MICHAEL GEFFEL BRIAN OSBORN JULIAN RAXWORTHY

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LA+ Interdisciplinary Journal of Landscape Architecture Community

Edited by Tatum Hands and Richard Weller

Almost everything that landscape architects design is ultimately for a community.

Community can be the boon or bane of a project, and oftentimes both. LA+ COMMUNITY aims to explore how, over time, each of us moves in and out of multiple communities, shaping them as they shape us, and in turn shaping our landscapes and cities. We ask how different disciplines construct different ideas of community and how those communities are anchored in space and time, whose interests they serve, and what traces they leave. And we examine how—in this pluralistic, fragmented, and fluid world—designers can meaningfully engage with communities.

Editors Tatum Hands is Editor in Chief of LA+ Interdisciplinary Journal of Landscape Architecture produced at the University of Pennsylvania Stuart Weitzman School of Design. From 2003 to 2013, she was director of a project consultancy specializing in parliamentary reporting on legislative, policy, and institutional evaluation and reform. She was co-editor of a national law journal for 13 years and has worked as a freelance publications editor and as a forensic editor for state and federal courts. Dr. Hands has also held positions as executive officer of the Law Reform Commission (WA) and as judicial associate to the chief justice of Australia. She has published widely in the areas of law and political theory.

Richard Weller is the Meyerson Chair of Urbanism, professor and chair of landscape architecture, and co-executive director of the Ian L. McHarg Center for Urbanism and Ecology at the University of Pennsylvania. He is former co-director of Room 4.1.3—a design firm acknowledged with a Penn Press monograph (2005) and noted for critical design projects such as the National Museum of Australia.

Weller sits on the board of the Landscape Architecture Foundation (LAF) in Washington, is a member of the International Federation of Landscape Architect’s (IFLA) Advisory Circle and is the Creative Director of the interdisciplinary journal of landscape architecture LA+.

Title: LA+ Community Size: 8.75” x 10.5” Portrait Pages: 124pp Binding: Softbound Publication Date: Spring 2022 ISBN: 978-1-954081-00-0 Price: $19.95 World Rights: Available

Contributors • Anne Whiston Spirn reflects upon her personal and professional journey through her long-term engagement with the Mill Creek community in the West Philadelphia Landscape Project.

Architect and cofounder of the DisOrdinary Architecture Project Jocelyn Boys discusses how designers and policy-makers make assumptions about the “ordinary user” of public space and explores ways of understanding and improving how people with disabilities engage with such spaces.

• Historical geographer Garrett Dash Nelson contemplates the conceptual and practical slippages between understanding community in both its geographical and sociological forms, and what this means for designers seeking to give spatial form to the concept of community.

• A multi-perspective Q+A with BIPOC designers, educators, and artists Kofi Boone, Julian Agyeman, Hanna Kim, Alma du Solier, Jeffrey Hou, Melissa Guerrero, and Kat Engleman confronts the enduring practices of spatial injustice and the need for new processes, engagement, and outcomes for a racially and culturally inclusive future.

• Philosopher and author Mark Kingwell considers the literal ins and outs of the question “What is community?” in the midst of a global pandemic.

• Landscape architect Kate Orff speaks about the ways in which she uses community activism and different practices of engagement to drive better design outcomes.

• Criminologists James Petty + Alison Young open our eyes to the rise of hostile architecture and criminalization of homelessness in public space.

• Designer Chrili Car reflects on lessons learned from working with a selforganized community in a remote village in northern Ghana to masterplan longterm local sustainability and greenbelt projects.

• Ecologist Jodi Hilty, President and Chief Scientist of the Yellowstone to Yukon Initiative, speaks about the realization of this visionary wildlife-corridor project spanning 3,200 km, two countries, and hundreds of different communities and interests.

• Historic preservationist and planner Francesca Russello Ammon teases out the contradictions in the canonical urban renewal success story of Philadelphia’s Society Hill.

• Landscape architect Jessica Henson gives us the inside story on the intractably complex socio-political and ecological task of master planning a 51mile swath of the Los Angeles River with a diverse range of user communities.

• Michael Schwarze-Rodrian recounts the extraordinary achievements of the Emscher Landscape Park in Germany’s Ruhrgebiet, where over the last 30 years a working-class community facing the trauma of transition to a postindustrial economy has been sustained by the medium of landscape, without the forms of displacement or gentrification typically associated with high-end greening.

• Urban planner and author of Just Sustainabilities Julian Agyeman elucidates what the culturally inclusive design of public space entails.

• Architect Mario Matamoros delivers a stinging critique of the way in which developers and designers in the Honduran city of Tegucigalpa dupe the public with cynical community consultation so as to anesthetize the possibility of dissent, and • Sara Padgett Kjaersgaard interviews the CEO of the Federation of Traditional Owner Corporations, Paul Paton and landscape architect Anne-Marie Pisani about working with Indigenous communities in Australia to help facilitate selfdetermination and connection to their lands.

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LA+ Interdisciplinary Journal of Landscape Architecture Creature

Edited by Tatum Hands and Richard Weller Richard Weller is the Meyerson Chair of Urbanism, professor and chair of landscape architecture, and co-executive director of the Ian L. McHarg Center for Urbanism and Ecology at the University of Pennsylvania. He is former co-director of Room 4.1.3—a design firm acknowledged with a Penn Press monograph (2005) and noted for critical design projects such as the National Museum of Australia.

Weller sits on the board of the Landscape Architecture Foundation (LAF) in Washington, is a member of the International Federation of Landscape Architect’s (IFLA) Advisory Circle and is the Creative Director of the interdisciplinary journal of landscape architecture LA+.

Issue 14 of LA+ Journal brings you the results of the LA+ CREATURE international design ideas competition, which explored how we can use design to achieve a more symbiotic existence with other creatures. The competition brief asked entrants to choose a nonhuman client and design something—a place, a structure, a product, a process, a system—to improve its life and increase human-nonhuman empathy. As well as showcasing the awardwinning designs and a comprehensive Salon des Refusés, LA+ CREATURE features an essay by Lori Gruen (author of Critical Terms for Animal Studies) and interviews with jurors Timothy Morton, Kate Orff, Jennifer Wolch, Andrew Grant, Chris Reed, and Farre Nixon.

Editors Tatum Hands is Editor in Chief of LA+ Interdisciplinary Journal of Landscape Architecture produced at the University of Pennsylvania Stuart Weitzman School of Design. From 2003 to 2013, she was director of a project consultancy specializing in parliamentary reporting on legislative, policy, and institutional evaluation and reform.

She was co-editor of a national law journal for 13 years and has worked as a freelance publications editor and as a forensic editor for state and federal courts. Dr. Hands has also held positions as executive officer of the Law Reform Commission (WA) and as judicial associate to the chief justice of Australia. She has published widely in the areas of law and political theory.

Title: LA+ Creature Size: 8.75” x 10.5” portrait Pages: 120pp Binding: Softbound Publication Date: Fall 2021 ISBN: 978-1-954081-22-2 Price: $19.95 World Rights: Available

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Urbanism Beyond 2020

Reflections During the COVID-19 Pandemic Vinayak Bharne

Author Vinayak Bharne is an award-winning urban design and city planning practitioner based in Los Angeles, an adjunct associate professor of urbanism at the University of Southern California, and co-director of the India-Netherlands-based knowledge platform My Liveable City.

His work ranges from new towns and urban revitalization plans to housing and urban regulations in the United States, China, Panama, Australia, and Mauritius. His books include The Emerging Asian City; Affordable Housing, Inclusive Cities; and Routledge Companion to Global Heritage Conservation.

Urbanism Beyond 2020 explores numerous questions triggered by the COVID-19 pandemic: Why is city making a health project? How are ecological and human wellbeing interrelated? How can leadership and governance help bridge gaps in our unjust cities? How might we renew our relationship with dwellings and neighborhoods? How resilient and adaptable are our cities during uncertain times? Amidst climate change and global warming, is the pandemic a prelude to the challenges to come?

Addressed to anyone invested in the well-being of our cities, this collection of essays by an accomplished urban designer and city planner reminds us why the pointers to our future will not emerge exclusively from affluent nations or less developed societies alone, why we live in an interconnected world, and why this pandemic is a crucial period to reexamine the impact of our cities on our planet’s future.

Title: Urbanism Beyond 2020 Size: 5″ x 7″ Portrait Pages: 160pp Binding: Softbound Publication Date: Fall 2021 ISBN: 978-1-954081-07-9 Price: $19.95 World Rights: Available

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Gesture and Response

25 Buildings by William Pedersen of KPF Architects William Pedersen

The work of Kohn Pedersen Fox is international in scope, collaborative in design, and a product of individual voices focused on a single objective—making an architecture, of our time, which creates strong bonds with the the specific place it occupies.

While William Pedersen founded the firm, with partners Gene Kohn and Shelley Fox, he never aspired to be a “director of design.” They had the components—with Gene’s entrepreneurial drive, Shelley’s management, and Bill’s design leadership—to be a large firm.

“Directing” the work of a large firm was not Bill’s desire; instead he wanted to focus on a body of work which he could call his own. The example that work set would inspire others, and it did. Now there are several voices leading their design—all of them rose to their position within the office.

The purpose of this book is to define the work of one of the voices— Bill Pedersen’s. Pedersen has worked with many different designers, in close collaboration, throughout his career, though his work speaks with a singular voice. Here it is represented chronologically and concludes with the latest phase—furniture. Working from the largest scale to the smallest has always been a preoccupation of those who lead design in KPF. Many of Pedersen’s architectural heroes designed chairs, and he strives to follow in their footsteps.

Title: Gesture and Response Size: 7.7” x 10.6” Portrait Pages: 594pp Binding: Hardbound Publication Date: Spring 2021 ISBN: 978-1-943532-30-8 Price: $60.00 World Rights: Available

Author Author Born in St. Paul, Minnesota in 1938, William Pedersen was educated at the St. Paul Academy, the University of Minnesota, and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. In 1961 he was married to Elizabeth Essex of Rochester, Minnesota. They have been married for 58 years. In 1976 he formed Kohn Pedersen Fox Architects with Gene Kohn and Shelly Fox. ISBN 978-1-943532-30-8

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The Architecture of Point William Shim Sutcliffe

Kenneth Frampton and Michael Webb

Shim-Sutcliffe’s masterful work at Point William intertwines landscape and architecture with ancient rock and water reshaping and reimagining a site on the Canadian Shield over two decades. Found conditions and new buildings are interwoven and choreographed to create a rich spatial experience moving between inside and out.

Kenneth Frampton provides an insightful introduction with selected images and his own sketches framing a way of seeing Point William for the reader. Michael Webb’s provocative interview with Brigitte Shim and Howard Sutcliffe describes their evolving vision for Point William and their two-decade journey toward its realization.

Acclaimed photographers Ed Burtynsky, James Dow, and Scott Norsworthy contribute through their powerful images capturing the spirit of Point William through the seasons and over time.

where he has served as a member of its faculty since 1973. He was born in the United Kingdom in 1930 and graduated as an architect from the Architectural Association, London, in 1956. Before migrating to the United States in 1965 to teach at Princeton University he was an associate in the practice of Douglas Stephen & Partners in London. From 1976–1980 he was a Fellow of the Institute of Architecture and Urban Studies in New York where he also served as a founding editor of the magazine Oppositions. Recent accolades include the 2018 Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement, Venice Biennale of Architecture.

Contributors Brigitte Shim and Howard Sutcliffe established their design practice Shim-Sutcliffe enabling them to intertwine light, water, and landscape in exploratory and innovative ways. Shim-Sutcliffe’s built work addresses the integration and interrelated scales of architecture, landscape, furniture, and fittings.

Michael Webb is a Los Angeles-based writer who has authored more than 20 books on architecture and design—including 2017 Building Community: new Apartment Architecture—while contributing essays to many more. He is also a regular contributor to leading journals in the United States and Europe. Growing up in London, he was an editor at the Times and Country Life before moving to the US. He was awarded an honorary membership in the Los Angeles chapter of the American Institute of Architects and was made Chevalier de L’Order des Arts et des Lettres for his service to French culture.

Writers Kenneth Frampton is the Ware Professor at the Graduate School of Architecture, Planning, and Preservation at Columbia University

Ed Burtynsky – Photographer James Dow – Photographer Scott Norsworthy – Photographer

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From There to Here

David A. Hansen Architect

David Hansen and Dar Al-Handasah

This monograph represents circumstances and projects which have occurred beyond the span of Hansen’s earlier work. Through sketches, diagrams, rendering, photographs, and narratives this book portrays the criteria and conceptual thinking that was primary in finding an inclusive architectural solution for a diverse selection of projects. Though Hansen has always attempted to create a comprehensive matrix of interrelated design criteria on his client’s vision, site, context, sustainability, climate, culture, and tradition, some issues must be weighted above others. And sometimes, a story must be told that is inexorably tied to the essence of the land or building. These commentaries can even provide deeper meaning than the determinants of the building themselves.

Authors Dar Al-Handasah is the founding company of the Dar Group, an international consortium of professional service firms. Through its 18,000 staff members, Dar Group assists clients in over 100 countries around the world. Dedicated to planning, designing, engineering, and project managing facilities, installations and structures, Dar Group further contributes to the sustainable advance of communities worldwide. With its principal offices in Beirut, Cairo, London, Pune, Amman, Chicago, San Francisco, Taipei, Singapore, Paris, Cincinnati, Linz, St. Louis, Johannesburg, Solagna, Oakland, and Barcelona.

Title: From There to Here Size: 9.25” x 9.25” Square Pages: 260pp Binding: Hardbound Publication Date: Spring 2021 ISBN: 978-1-943532-95-7 Price: $49.95 World Rights: Available

David Hansen, FAIA, LEED AP, is an award-winning architect whose extensive experience has been emphasized in worldwide corporate, commercial, institutional, hospitality, airports, transportation, healthcare, and mixed-use projects. Known in the industry as a skilled authority in master planning and design, his talent has been sought globally and he has spearheaded over 52 million square feet of market and institutional facilities in just the past 10 years alone.

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Triangle Modern Architecture Victoria Ballard Bell

Triangle Modern Architecture documents the rich history and unique cultural significance of the Triangle region in North Carolina, which is one of the most important on the national map of modern design.

Over the last 75 years, the architecture in this area has grown to creatively combine innovation and technology with the area’s history, culture, unique landscape, and built context.

While the Triangle has seen an increased interest in modern architecture, the understanding of this design and the reasons and history behind it have not been shared in a clear and meaningful way. There is an information gap between what is appreciated by architects and by the general public.

Author Victoria Ballard Bell is a licensed architect and published architectural writer. She grew up in a mid-century modern house and developed her passion for modern design at the University of Virginia where she received two masters’ degrees in architecture and urban planning. Her appreciation for excellent regionally-based modern design has developed further in the Triangle region of North Carolina where she has lived for 20 years.

Title: Triangle Modern Architecture Size: 9” x 11” Landscape Pages: 250pp Binding: Hardbound Publication Date: Fall 2020 ISBN: 978-1-943532-88-9 Price: $50.00 World Rights: Available

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Visual Discoveries

A Collection of Sections Allen Keith Yee

There are three standard methods to visually represent a building: the plan, elevation, and section. The section drawing is a vertical slice of a building, depicting the relationships between interior and exterior as well as any level changes. While the section can serve as merely a functional drawing for construction, it can also be an exciting, revelatory drawing that can artfully depict a building, landscape, or object. Throughout history, many individuals have used the cross section as a tool to create, explore, or investigate.

Visual Discoveries: A Collection of Sections is an image-forward book that is devoted to showcasing notable section drawings throughout history and demonstrating that the section drawing, while having roots in architecture, has spread to many other professions and disciplines. These professions include medicine, transportation, product design, geology, and landscape architecture. Some of the greatest thinkers and inventors in history like Leonardo da Vinci, Charles Darwin, and Robert Fulton have created remarkable section drawings for their investigations, research, and work.

Author Allen Keith Yee is co-founder of Cloudred, an award-winning digital design studio located in Brooklyn, New York. Allen graduated with a B.A. in architecture from the University of California, Berkeley and graduated with a M.F.A in design and technology from Parsons School of Design. He currently lives in Greenpoint, Brooklyn.

Title: Visual Discoveries Size: 8.5” x 10.5” Landscape Pages: 224pp Binding: Softbound Publication Date: Fall 2020 ISBN: 978-1-943532-96-4 Price: $35.00 World Rights: Available

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Fairy Tale Architecture Andrew and Kate Bernheimer

Fairy Tale Architecture is a ground-breaking book, the first study to bring architects in conversation with fairy tales in breathtaking designs. Little Red Riding Hood, Baba Yaga, Rapunzel, Jack and the Beanstalk, The Snow Queen: these and more than 15 other stories designed by Bernheimer Architecture, Snøhetta, Rural Studio, LEVENBETTS, LTL Architects, and many other international vanguards have created stunning works for this groundbreaking collection of architectural fairy tales. Story by story, Andrew Bernheimer and Kate Bernheimer—a brother and sister team as in an old fairy tale—have built the ultimate home for lovers of fiction and design.

Snow girls and spinning houses. Paper capes and engineered hair braids. Resin bee hives and infinite libraries. Here are futuristic structures made from traditional stories, inspired by everything from Hans Christian Andersen’s The Snow Queen and The Little Match Girl to the Brothers Grimm’s Rapunzel and The Juniper Tree to fairy tales by Jorge Luis Borges and Joy Williams and from China, Japan, Russia, Nigeria, and Mexico.

A desire for story and shelter counts as among our most ancient instincts, and this dual desire continues to inspire our most imaginative architects and authors today. Fairy Tale Architecture invites the reader into a space of wonder, into a new form that will endure ever after.

Title: Fairy Tale Architecture Size: 6.5” x 8.62” Portrait Pages: 192pp Binding: Softbound Publication Date: Fall 2020 ISBN: 978-1-951541-28-6 Price: $29.95 World Rights: Available

Authors Andrew Bernheimer is a Brooklyn-based architect and assistant professor of architecture at the Parsons School of Design.

Bernheimer leads an eponymous firm responsible for a wide variety of residential, civic, and cultural projects, including new multi-unit affordable housing developments across the five boroughs as well as award-winning private residences in the northeast region. He edited Timber in the City, a book featuring innovative practices in wood construction published by ORO Editions. Bernheimer sits on the Advisory Board of the Institute for Public Architecture, a member of the Van Alen Institute’s Program Council, and a fellow in the Forum for Urban Design. In 2018 Bernheimer was elevated to the College of Fellows in the American Institute of Architects.

Kate Bernheimer is the author of novels, story collections, and children’s books, as well as a fairy tale scholar and World Fantasy Award-winning editor of fairy tale anthologies. Recent books include How a Mother Weaned Her Girl from Fairy Tales and My Mother She Killed Me, My Father He Ate Me: Forty New Fairy Tales. Her books have been translated into more than ten languages. She is an associate professor of English at the University of Arizona.

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Working Water

Design Beyond the Garden Wall William Wenk

and the design of public parks and open spaces. He is recognized nationally for utilizing stormwater as a resource.

Bill’s extensive portfolio includes a master plan for the reclamation of the 32-mile Los Angeles River corridor in California; green infrastructure planning and implementation for the redevelopment of abandoned railyards, and restoration of the Menomonee River in Milwaukee, Wisconsin; and transformation of the South Platte River Valley in the heart of Denver into a mosaic of parks, open spaces, and in-fill development. All projects focus on site and district-scale infrastructure systems that incorporate stormwater as a multi-benefit resource.

Working Water demonstrates better approaches of managing urban water resources in ways that support more efficient water use, clean urban runoff, support natural systems, and enhance the vitality and livability of our cities. Exploring the potentials of urban water resources is an important part of Wenk Associates’ practice, and the focus of this book.

Working Water has evolved as a reflection on over thirty-five years of the firm’s professional work and is organized in three parts. The first part is a teaching tool for students and the interested public.

The second part is a monograph describing selected projects of the firm and their value as civic and natural resources in addition to their essential function of stormwater control. The third part is a resource manual describing lessons learned after decades of observing project successes and failures and ways to overcome legal, financial, and institutional barriers to implementing green infrastructure at a system scale.

Bill lectures frequently at universities and conferences across the nation on the integration of stormwater systems and public space as a component of green infrastructure. He served on a National Science Foundation committee assembled to recommend revisions to Federal rules and regulations governing nonpoint source stormwater pollution. He has served as a visiting professor at several universities. Bill holds a Master of Landscape Architecture from the University of Oregon and a Bachelor of Science, Landscape Architecture from Michigan State University and is a Fellow of the American Society of Landscape Architects.

Author Bill Wenk is founder of Wenk Associates, Inc., a Denver-based landscape architectural firm. For over 40 years, Bill has been influential in the restoration and redevelopment of urban river and waterfronts, the implementation of green infrastructure systems, Title: Working Water Size: 9” x 11” Portrait Pages: 180pp Binding: Hardbound Publication Date: Fall 2021 ISBN: 978-1-943532-36-0 Price: $40.00 World Rights: Available

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My House is Better Than Your House NADAAA

In the South of France, sited on a hill of olive trees, pinus pinea, and a vineyard, a family retreat was designed with a key mission of maintaining the vitality of the site. A small agricultural plot, the site offered the possibility of amplification. With the introduction of a garden and many outdoor living spaces, the family had the intention of cultivating the landscape as part of their stewardship. In part a response to a programmatic brief, but moreover, a discursive response to architectural predicaments of geometry, typology, and anomaly, the house is also a response to Preston Scott Cohen’s pedagogies on architecture.

Contributors NADAAA is a Boston-based architecture and urban design firm led by principal designer Nader Tehrani. NADAAA is a platform for design investigation at a large scale and with a great geographic reach.

NADAAA has evolved over three decades as a practice dedicated to bridging between design disciplines; from landscape to urbanism, architecture to interiors, and industrial design to furniture, with a focus on craft, construction, and digital fabrication.

Nader Tehrani is dean of the Irwin S. Chanin School of Architecture at the Cooper Union and founding principal of NADAAA. Tehrani’s work has been recognized with notable awards, including the Cooper Hewitt National Design Award in Architecture, the United States Artists Fellowship in Architecture and Design, and the American Academy of Arts and Letters Award in Architecture.

Title: My House is Better Than Your House Size: 10” x 10” Square Pages: 120pp Binding: Softbound Publication Date: Spring 2022 ISBN: 978-1-951541-34-7 Price: $34.95 World Rights: Available

Preston Scott Cohen is the Gerald M. McCue Professor in Architecture at Harvard University’s Graduate School of Design, where he served as chair of the Department of Architecture from 2008 to 2014.

Robert Levit is associate dean and professor at the John H. Daniels Faculty of Architecture, Landscape, and Design, the University of Toronto. He has been the director of the Master of Architecture and the Master of Urban Design programs at the University of Toronto, assistant professor at the University of Michigan, and has been a visiting professor most recently at Harvard Graduate School of Design, Cooper Union, and the University of Miami. His design work has been recognized through numerous awards and competitions.

His articles on architecture including “Ornament: The Return of the Symbolic Repressed” and “Design’s New Catechism,” have become staples of the current debates on architecture. He is a partner in the design firm Khoury Levit Fong—recently featured in the second Chicago Architecture Biennial.

Transcription of My House is Better Than Your House.

Plus a proscript overlay onto transcription by Preston Scott Cohen and Nader Tehrani.

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Forays

Joe Day and Deegan-Day Design

How does one envision architecture? Forays gathers the work of Joe Day and Deegan-Day Design into six diptychs, unified by this question. Working in a wide range of media and scales, Day’s work mines the differentials between perspective and projection. Forays is organized in six “diptychs,” the first two paired projects are books in their own right; the second pair, a clothing line and a first building; the third, two houses; the fourth, two plays on brand identity and design methodology; the fifth, permanent and transient cinema proposals; and the sixth, two series of speculative work in local and global registers. Modeled on a comparison of two classic cameras—the Leica M3 and Polaroid SX-70—each diptych includes a project with more “Leica” to it—a more bounded, Cartesian clarity or distilled focus—and another closer to an SX-70 in its moving or folding parts, its shape-shifting adaptability.

Author Joe Day is a designer and architectural theorist in Los Angeles where he leads Deegan-Day Design and serves on the design and history/theory faculty at the Southern California Institute of Architecture (SCI-Arc).

Title: Forays Size: 6.5” x 9.5” Portrait Pages: 332pp Binding: Softbound Publication Date: Fall 2021 ISBN: 978-1-951541-19-4 Price: $35.00 World Rights: Available

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Almost, Not

The Architecture of Atelier Nishikata Leslie Van Duzer

Since the founding of Atelier Nishikata in 2000 in Tokyo, partners Reiko Nishio and Hirohito Ono have built just four residential works, three of them renovations, all of them publicly inaccessible. Until now, this remarkable collection of private spaces was little known outside Japan. Almost, Not: The Architecture of Atelier Nishikata belatedly presents this extraordinary, almost-ordinary architecture to an international audience.

Leslie Van Duzer, author of four monographs on 20th-century architecture and a former magician’s assistant, draws parallels between the architects and magicians in this hybrid architectural monograph and magic instruction manual. The introductory essay, “Almost Not,” outlines their shared aspirations and techniques, including delay by layered rules, déjà vu by repetition variation, and detour by category jumping.

Detailed project descriptions unpack Atelier Nishikata’s methods step by step, demonstrating the possibility of bewildering effects achieved with minimal means. Each project is richly illustrated with design studies, new diagrams, detailed drawings, and photographs, including before and after views of renovated spaces, and intimate post-inhabitation scenes. A concluding conversation with the architects provides further insights into their approach.

Title: Almost, Not Size: 8.5” x 9.5” Portrait Pages: 112pp Binding: Softbound Publication Date: Spring 2021 ISBN: 978-1-951541-77-4 Price: $35.00 World Rights: Available

Authors Leslie Van Duzer, professor of architecture at the University of British Columbia, has published numerous books on Adolf Loos, Mies van der Rohe, West Cast Modernism and Rudolf Arnheim. For continuing education, she attends magic conferences.

Reiko Nishio, architect and co-founder of Atelier Nishikata, has a longstanding interest in the architecture of Mies van der Rohe. In 2017-2018, she spent one year in Canada and the US, studying his North American work, building on her University of Tokyo Masters dissertation.

Hirohito Ono, artist and co-founder of Atelier Nishikata, studied architecture at Bunka Gakuin. After working in firms for eight years, he emphasized art, studying at the B-semi School of Contemporary Art and joining Haizuka Earthwork as an Artist in Residence.

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Erdy McHenry Architecture Twenty Years

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Rooted in the modernist tradition, Erdy McHenry Architecture brings uncommon rigor to their work. Recognized for their uniquely diverse portfolio of mixed-use, institutional, office, agricultural, and residential design, Erdy McHenry Architecture presents this monograph as a window into projects developed throughout the firm’s 20-year history. With an appreciation for place and creative constraints, Erdy McHenry Architecture considers each project challenge as an opportunity: how can architecture make great places? How can design elevate the human experience? How can a project team address the realities of construction without sacrificing programmatic intent? For each case study presented in this monograph, Erdy McHenry Architecture provides a brief narrative of the project’s design intent and evolution. Whether it is a tower, a school, or an office headquarters, Erdy McHenry Architecture leverages the challenges and opportunities of site, scale, and social context to reveal solutions that enable design as an outcome more than an objective.

Contributors Erdy McHenry Architecture is an award-winning architecture firm based in Philadelphia. Since the firm’s critically-acclaimed beginning, designing the Southern Poverty Law Center Headquarters in 1999, Erdy McHenry Architecture has garnered numerous national, regional, and local awards for its work across the country.

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Spirit of Luxury and Design

A Perspective from Contemporary Fashion and Jewelry Jie Srun and Elizabeth Fischer

The vast medium of jewelry and fashion artifact design continues to be a central pillar of fashion luxury goods industries and artistic practice, but there is a lack of discussions on the researches, value, and roles of it. Design is an expression of values and attitudes, and a tangible form of guiding the thoughts and desires of individuals and members of society. In the contemporary society, when science, technology, and craftsmanship reach a stage, whether products and services become luxurious or not, its quality, uniqueness, artistry, and rarity are all achieved through design. This book represents the articles from 20 outstanding design researchers from 11 countries, including many works from international designers, who are engaging with and pushing the boundaries of the medium. It contributes to these international debates on contemporary fashion and jewelry design while providing an accessible overview and a concise reference book.

Authors Jie Srun, National Distinguished Expert, professor at College of Design and Innovation (D&I), Tongji University in Shanghai; Head of New Center of Contemporary Jewelry and Fashion Culture (NoCC); Director of SxV Museum of Modern Arts in Qingdao, China (SV MoMA).

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Elizabeth Fischer, professor at the HEAD – Geneva University of Art and Design, in charge of the Fashion, Jewellery, and Accessories Design Department; Member of the scientific committee of MuMode Swiss Fashion Museum, in charge of defining its new cultural and scientific program.

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Matter Aggregation A Design Studio at UVA

Philip F. Yuan, Lucia Phinney, and Chao Yan

Within the human-machine collaborations cultivated in the digital age, crafts and materials are playing an increasingly important role in forming various ways of matter aggregation for architecture.

Based on the pedagogical exploration of the design studio—Matter Aggregation at UVA—the book seeks new values of wood craft for contemporary architectural design, by introducing digital design and robotic fabrication techniques into the design process for timber building. The book integrates explorations of traditional crafts with digital fabrication technique, establishing a digital crafting as a new field for contemporary practice. The book explores the computational mechanisms and diagrammatic grammar within these craftbased aggregation systems, paying close attention to geometrical configurations, material effects, and fabrication details and take advantage of these qualities to produce a unique spatiality.

Authors Philip F. Yuan is a professor at the College of Architecture and Urban Planning (CAUP) at Tongji University, is visiting professor at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and Thomas Jefferson Professor at the University of Virginia (UVA). His research mainly focuses on the fields of post-human tectonics, robotic fabrication, and architectural design practices, promoting the application of digital design methodologies and fabrication theories in the discipline of architecture.

Title: Matter Aggregation Size: 6” x 9” Portrait Pages: 180pp Binding: Softbound Publication Date: Fall 2021 ISBN: 978-1-951541-75-0 Price: $24.95 World Rights: Available

Lucia Phinney has been a lecturer at the University of Virginia since 1981, and a distinguished lecturer since 1996. Her work explores the means to reveal rather than erase the incredible potential for natural systems to effectively engage and inform the places we make.

Chao Yan is a post-doctoral researcher at Tongji University. He was a visiting lecturer at the China Academy of Art, where he has taught design studio and theory courses from 2014 to 2018, and a visiting scholar at the University of Virginia in 2019.

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China Dialogues Vladimir Belogolovsky

Kenneth Frampton (b. 1930) is a British-American critic and historian. He is the Ware Professor of Architecture at the Graduate School of Architecture, Planning, and Preservation at Columbia University in New York and is regarded as one of the world’s leading architectural historians.

Since the mid-1990s, when China allowed its architects to practice independently from government-run design institutes, a new kind of architecture, distinguished by unique regional characteristics, has emerged. China Dialogues is a rigorously selected collection of insightful interviews that the book’s author Vladimir Belogolovsky has conducted with 21 leading Chinese architects during his extensive travels in China. At the time when so many buildings that are being built around the world are no longer rooted in their place and culture, the leading Chinese architects succeeded collectively in producing unique architectural body of work that could not be confused with any other regional school. The interviews are accompanied by over 120 photographs and drawings of beautifully executed projects built throughout China since early 2000s. China Dialogues opens up the thinking process of the country’s top architects, as they share their ideas, insights, intentions, and visions in unusually revealing and candid ways.

Contributors Vladimir Belogolovsky (b. 1970, Odessa, Ukraine) is an American curator, critic, and founder of NYC-based Curatorial Project, a nonprofit focused on curating exhibitions. He has interviewed over 350 architects, has written ten books, curated over 50 exhibitions, and lectured in more than 30 countries.

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Crisie (Jialin) Yuan is the director of the International Office of Tongji University Press. She received her bachelor’s degree of Chinese Language and Literature in 2008 and is currently pursuing a master’s degree on Teaching Chinese to Speakers of Other Languages at Tongji University. With five years working experience as a journalist/ editor in Chinese architectural design magazines and five years working experience in PR in Archi-Union Architects (an avant-guard architectural studio in China), she is fully trained as an editor, curator, and in marketing in and for the architectural design field. She has been working as a commissioning editor at Tongji University Press since 2015, and established the International Office of Tongji University Press in 2017. Her recent works are mainly focused on promoting international co-publishing programs and exploring possibilities for cultural exchange.

Established in 1984, led by Ministry of Education of the People’s Republic of China, Tongji University Press (TJUP) is the official publishing house of Tongji University, one of China’s leading universities and research institutions. By establishing Urbanism + Architecture (in 2012, TJUP established a high-end professional publishing brand – LUMINOCITY, specialized in urbanism & architecture), Art + Design and Civil Engineering as its brands, Polytechnic and Medicine, Fundamental Disciplines, Humanities, German and European Culture publishing as its major publishing areas.

Under the new situation, TJUP is entering an exciting new phase focused on building the international multi-platform.

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The Evolving Project

The Journal of Architectural Education and the Expansion of Scholarship Igor Marjanović, Marc J. Neveu, Sara Stevens

The—Evolving —Project The•Journal of•Architectural Education•and the•Expansion of•Scholarship Igor Marjanović, Marc Neveu, Sara Stevens—editors

Through a selection of essays from the Journal of Architectural Education (JAE) and its 75-year history, this volume showcases not only the development of a single publication but also the evolution and expansion of the entire discipline. This book celebrates the rich history of the JAE, which is the longest continually running peerreviewed journal in the discipline of architecture, as a major platform for the dissemination of new pedagogical and scholarly ideas. From discourses on drawing and design processes to issues of new media and the environment, The Evolving Project is a journey in space and time that documents the changing project of architectural education after World War II—namely its transformation from a professional training ground to an intellectual platform that allowed architectural educators to boldly engage the larger social, cultural, and political issues of their time.

Authors Igor Marjanović is the JoAnne Stolaroff Cotsen Professor and Chair of Undergraduate Architecture Program at Washington University in St. Louis. He has published widely on the history of architectural education, including the books Drawing Ambience: Alvin Boyarsky and the Architectural Association, Marina City: Bertrand Goldberg’s Urban Vision, and On the Very Edge: Modernism and Modernity in the Arts and Architecture of Interwar Serbia (1918-1941).

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Marc J. Neveu is the head of the architecture program at the Design School at Arizona State University. In that role, he is helping to imagine what it means to be an architecture program within the model of the New American University. Neveu’s research explores the role of storytelling—both in pedagogy and practice. He is currently working on a digital archive of the work of the rhetorical architect, Douglas Darden. He is the current executive editor of the biannual peer-reviewed Journal of Architectural Education.

Sara Stevens is an architectural and urban historian. She is an assistant professor of architectural and urban design history and chair of urban design at the School of Architecture and Landscape Architecture at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver. Her research, including her book Developing Expertise: Architecture and Real Estate in Metropolitan America, focuses on real estate developers of the twentieth century, exploring the cultural economy of architectural practice, finance, and expertise.

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Shaped Places of Carroll County, New Hampshire McLain Clutter and Cyrus Peñarroyo

Shaped Places of Carroll County, New Hampshire expands upon an award-winning speculative urban design project by the architecture and design practice EXTENTS, led by McLain Clutter and Cyrus Peñarroyo. The project investigates the complex reciprocity between who we are and the shape of where we live; between identities and the built environments that support them. In doing so, Shaped Places creates a dialogue between seemingly disparate discourses spanning from critical geography, to formalist art criticism, to the urbanization strategies of the early twentieth-century Russian avant garde. The role of the rural-urban divide in affirming the divided political landscape in the United States is a central theme in the work.

The project culminates in the design of three linear cities in Carroll County, New Hampshire. In each speculative urban design proposal, rural and urban patterns of development and divergent lifestyles are combined in urban design proposals intended to produce a functional body politic from a sharply divided population.

Authors McLain Clutter is an associate professor and chair of the architecture program at the University of Michigan’s Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning, and a partner in the architecture practice EXTENTS. Clutter’s work focuses on the role of architecture within the multidisciplinary milieu of contemporary urbanism, and the interrelations between architecture and media culture.

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Cyrus Peñarroyo is a Filipino-American designer and educator whose work examines architecture’s entanglement with contemporary media and digital culture. He is an assistant professor of architecture at the University of Michigan’s Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning, and a partner in the architecture practice EXTENTS. Robert Fishman is a professor of architecture and urban planning at the University of Michigan’s Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning. An internationally recognized expert in the areas of urban history and urban policy and planning, he has authored several books that are regarded as seminal texts on the history of cities and urbanism.

Clare Lyster is an architect and writer whose work focuses urban design from the perspective of contemporary theories in landscape, and infrastructure. She is an associate professor at the University of Illinois at Chicago School of Architecture and principal of CLUAA.

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Trans-Atlantic Engagements

The Contribution and Impact of German Educators to US Architectural Education Dr. Steffen Lehmann, Dr. Alexander Eisenschmidt, and Peter Bosselmann

Contributors Dr. Steffen Lehmann is a full-time professor of Architecture and immediate past director of the School of Architecture at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas (UNLV). He is director of the Future Cities Leadership Institute. As Head of School in Australia, he was responsible for over 3,000 students and 150 academic, professional and casual staff, with offshore programs in Malaysia and Hong Kong.

Dr. Alexander Eisenschmidt is an architectural theorist and associate professor of the School of Architecture, at the University of Illinois at Chicago.

The pedagogical experiments of the Bauhaus, imported by Gropius, Mies, Hilberseimer, and others to the US system, challenged traditional Beaux-Arts thinking and played a crucial role in shaping modern architectural education. Historically, the German architectural training has been different from the Franco-Italian model. New interdisciplinary and technology-focused modes of teaching architecture and design had a long-lasting impact, however, are now again transformed by German-trained educators currently active in reshaping curricula. The conversations reveal the critical and independent thinking of this group of educators, and how they make a meaningful contribution to the discourse of architectural education appropriate to the 21st century. The book provides insight into the ways in which these German-born educators influence architectural and design education in the United States to this day.

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Peter Bosselmann is a professor of the Graduate School in Architecture, City and Regional Planning, Landscape Architecture and Urban Design at the College of Environmental Design, University of California, Berkeley.

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Frank L. Wright and the Architects of Steinway Hall A Study in Collaboration Stuart Cohen

In 1897, Frank Lloyd Wright, Robert Spencer, Dwight Perkins, and Myron Hunt, all young architects just starting out in practice, shared office space in Chicago. This book is both a history of that brief period and an attempt to assess the extent to which they collaborated on their architectural designs and on the creation of architectural theory which would impact a half century of architectural design. While there is little firsthand documentation of the time spent in their shared loft office in Steinway Hall, this study engages in a side by side comparison of projects they each designed while working there. Overlapping ideas, design similarities, and an analysis of their subsequent work, all suggest that these individuals formed a creative “collaborative circle” of friends, who jointly developed ideas later claimed as the work of Frank Lloyd Wright. This is a book about artistic collaboration at a time when discussions of art and architectural history are still largely dominated by the belief that significant works are created by the lone artistic genius.

At the turn of the last century Spencer, Perkins, Hunt, and Wright were part of a community of architects who were all active members of the Chicago Architectural. Steinway Hall, an office building designed by Dwight Perkins, became a home to Chicago’s architectural community with as many as 50 different architects renting space in that building at the turn of the last century. Based on Real Estate Directories from 1897 through 1910 the book Title: Frank Wright and the Architects of Steinway Hall Size: 6” x 9” Portrait Pages: 300pp Binding: Softbound Publication Date: Spring 2021 ISBN: 978-1-951541-50-7 Price: $35.00 World Rights: Available

includes a listing of the architects that worked and interacted there. Also included are brief biographies of Spencer, Perkins, and Hunt. Excepting Hunt, none of these men have been the subject of individual publications. While Frank Lloyd Wright’s life and work have been extensively chronicled, this book reexamines the period between Wright’s arrival in Chicago in 1887 and his move into the loft office in Steinway Hall in 1897.

Author Stuart Cohen is an author, educator, and practicing architect. His contributions to architectural history, theory and education have been recognized by the Society of Architectural Historians (2019) and the Institute for Classical Architecture and Art’s Arthur Ross Award (2018). He is a Fellow of the American Institute of Architects and Professor of Architecture Emeritus at the University of Illinois at Chicago ISBN 978-1-951541-50-7

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Landscape Architecture Frontiers 050 Persistent Landscapes Kongjian Yu

environment, the loss of landscape values, and the culture shock, are expected.

Author Kongjian Yu is a doctor of design at the Graduate School of Design, Harvard University, he is an honorary foreign fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and a professor at the College of Architecture and Landscape Architecture, Peking University.

Tao Lou is a professor and PhD supervisor at the School of Architecture and Urban-Rural Planning at Fuzhou University.

Jon Bryan Burely is an associate professor of landscape architecture at the School of Planning, Design, and Construction, College of Social Science, and College of Agriculture and Natural Resources, Michigan State University.

Robert Schutzki is an associate professor in the Department of Horticulture, College of Agriculture and Natural Resources, Michigan State University.

Yichi Zhang is a postdoctoral fellow in the Department of Cultural Studies and Oriental Languages, Faculty of Humanities, University of Oslo.

Landscape is a time-space compound shaped by human activities on natural processes; the persistence of a landscape supports its continuity and stability over time, as well as the stable variety of physical environment. For remaining landscapes, the persistence means the stability of natural ecosystems and the harmony of cultural-social contexts. The former emphasizes the ability to maintain the dynamism and stability of the landscape system against external disturbances; the latter one, by regarding the landscape as a manland composite ecosystem, refers to the ability to maintain localities and cultural legacy in response to changes of natural and social environments. For emerging landscapes, persistence manifests the ability to interact and integrate with and adapt to the remaining landscapes.

The rapid urbanization and population growth have caused tremendous changes in urban and rural landscapes worldwide, increasingly undermining the persistence of landscapes: traditional rural landscapes and urban historic neighborhoods have been replaced with massive industrial scenes; the lack of innovative design ideas, the stagnation of theoretical study, and the limitation of aesthetic awareness have resulted in the neglect of critical ecological, social, and aesthetic values of such heritages, the damage of ecological security patterns, and the disappear of people’s collective memories about vernacular landscapes. Efforts addressing the pressing issues, e.g. the destruction of natural Title: Landscape Architecture Frontiers 050 Size: 11.5” x 11” Portrait Pages: 144pp Binding: Softbound Publication Date: Spring 2022 ISBN: 978-1-954081-68-0 Price: $40.00 World Rights: Available

Holger Behm is a professor of landscape planning and design; and faculty of agricultural and environmental sciences at the University of Rostock.

Hailong Liu is an associate professor and PhD supervisor in the Department of Landscape Architecture, School of Architecture, at Tsinghua University.

Martin Allik is a landscape architect at MARELD Landscape Architects and a doctoral student at Tallinn Technical University, Estonia.

Xiaoxuan Lu is an assistant professor of landscape architecture at the University of Hong Kong.

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Landscape Architecture Frontiers 051

Ecosystem Conservation and Restoration of Regional River Basins Kongjian Yu

In all these topics, researchers and planners are called to act as leaders in interdisciplinary collaboration within the fields of biology, geography, geology, and the climate sciences to solve ecological and environmental problems by treating the water network of a basin, as a whole. In this issue, LA Frontiers also attempts to learn from cutting-edge exemplars worldwide in basin management, especially in ecosystem conservation and restoration, to provide reference for Chinese researchers and practitioners.

Contributors Kongjian Yu is a doctor of design at the Graduate School of Design, Harvard University, he is an honorary foreign fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and a professor at the College of Architecture and Landscape Architecture, Peking University.

In recent years, China has issued several basin-scale plans to deal with pressing resources, environmental, and social problems caused by regional urbanization. These plans help push ahead flood control and disaster reduction, the allocation, utilization, and conservation of water resources, water ecological environment protection, and integrated basin management. The development of Yangtze River Delta, the Yangtze Economic Belt, the Yellow River Basin, Beijing– Tianjin–Hebei Region, Guangdong–Hong Kong–Macao Greater Bay Area, etc., has now become new national agendas, which are guaranteed by top-down policies and offer opportunities for regional growth. Several new laws and regulations coming into effect as of 2021 also reinforce the collaborative basin management that drives regional social and economic development.

Meanwhile, territorial spatial planning systems established under the requirement of Multiple-Plan Integration also underscore basin development strategies in spatial management and ecological restoration. This issue, mainly focusing on the regional planning research based on water and land resources through revealing their ecological characteristics, is expected to include contribution to the following aspects (but is not limited to): 1) Research on regional ecology, land use, and ecosystem service at the basin scale 2) Research on theories, approaches, and practices relevant to basin spatial planning and ecological restoration 3) Research on spatial strategies and economic zoning to propel basin-scale social and economic development 4) Research on basin-scale collaborative planning and sustainable development of water resources and environmental protection 5) Integrated basin management planning geared to guaranteeing basins’ ecosystem services 6) ecological river-corridor conservation and restoration at the basin scale Title: Landscape Architecture Frontiers 051 Size: 11.5” x 11” Portrait Pages: 146pp Binding: Softbound Publication Date: Spring 2022 ISBN: 978-1-954081-85-7 Price: $40.00 World Rights: Available

Jay McDaniel is an Emeritus professor of world religions at Hendrix College.

John Boswell Cobb Jr. is a director for the Institute for postmodern development of China, and a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

Jinyong Zhao is a director assistant and research director at the Department of Water Ecological Environment, the head of the urban and rural water ecological landscape innovation team for the China Institute of Water Resources and Hydropower Research, and the secretary-general for the Committee of Ecological Hydraulic Engineering.

Xingzhong Yuan is a professor and PhD supervisor for the faculty of architecture and urban planning at Chongqing University. He is the director for the research center for ecological restoration and control of water level fluctuating zone in the Three Gorges Reservoir Area at Chongqing University Jessica M. Henson, RLA, ASLA, is a partner at OLIN and received a master’s degree in landscape architecture from the University of Pennsylvania.

Mark Hanna, PE, is the senior principal at Geosyntec, has a PhD in Civil Engineering from the University of California at Los Angeles.

Theresa Ruswick is a lecturer for the Department of Landscape Architecture at the University of Pennsylvania.

Laurel McSherry is an associate professor and director of the Graduate Landscape Architecture Program at Morgan State University.

Xiaoxuan Lu is an assistant professor of landscape architecture at the University of Hong Kong.

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Prototype Study in Landscape Architecture Kongjian Yu

Title: LA Frontiers 046 Size: 11” x 11.5” Portrait Pages: 188pp Binding: Softbound Publication Date: Spring 2021 ISBN: 978-1-951541-96-5 Price: $40.00 World Rights: Available ISBN 978-1-951541-96-5

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Urban Governance and Spatial Quality Improvement Kongjian Yu

Title: LA Frontiers 047 Size: 11” x 11.5” Portrait Pages: 200pp Binding: Softbound Publication Date: Spring 2021 ISBN: 978-1-954081-09-3 Price: $40.00 World Rights: Available ISBN 978-1-954081-09-3

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LA Frontiers 048

Human Desires, Social Demands, and Landscape Future Kongjian Yu

Title: LA Frontiers 048 Size: 11” x 11.5” Portrait Pages: 178pp Binding: Softbound Publication Date: Spring 2021 ISBN: 978-1-954081-40-6 Price: $40.00 World Rights: Available ISBN 978-1-954081-40-6

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Urban Wilderness and Planting Design Kongjian Yu

Title: Landscape Architecture Frontiers 049 Size: 11” x 11.5” Portrait Pages: 164pp Binding: Softbound Publication Date: Spring 2022 ISBN: 978-1-954081-54-3 Price: $40.00 World Rights: Available ISBN 978-1-954081-54-3

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Architectural Principles in the Age of Fraud Branko Mitrović

Architectural Principles in the Age of Fraud

Architectural Principles in the Age of Fraud

Author Branko Mitrović received his PhDs both in Architecture and Philosophy, working and publishing in both fields. He is employed as the professor of Architectural History and Theory at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim, Norway. He is the author (and co-author) of eight other books and has been the recipient of the Humboldt Research Award.

Why so many architects pretend to be philosophers and don’t care how buildings look

Branko Mitrović Philosophy exercises a massive influence on contemporary architectural culture and the understanding of the built environment.

Discussions of architects and architectural academics are heavily loaded with theoretical ideas, concepts and views imported from the works of philosophers. At the same time this architectural employment of philosophy rarely goes beyond the tendency to mine philosophical works for ideas, words and phrases and use them, often without much understanding, in order to promote architectural agendas and embellish theoretical claims made by architects and academics. The book presents the history of this phenomenon for the past hundred years. It describes and analyzes numerous examples of false intellectual pretense across prominent architectural influences of the era and their efforts to bamboozle readers, colleagues and the general public.

Title: Architectural Principles in the Age of Fraud Size: 6” x 9” Portrait Pages: 160pp Binding: Softbound Publication Date: Spring 2022 ISBN: 978-1-954081-45-1 Price: $24.95 World Rights: Available

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The North Atlantic Cities Charles B. Duff Foreword by Alexander Garvin

The North Atlantic Cities by Charles B. Duff, which is available for the first time in the United States, is a book on urban development and urban life masquerading as a book on architecture. It is the story of four hundred years of architecture and urban development in four countries: the Netherlands, Great Britain, Ireland and the United States, particularly cities like New York, Boston, Washington D.C., Philadelphia, Baltimore, Savannah, to name a few. The author starts with a kind of building few others have considered -the row house, which could very well be the key to understanding why many of the world’s great cities look and function as they do. From the 1600’s to today as the author theorizes, this innocuous-seeming housing type is perhaps the antidote to suburban sprawl, urban decay and the worst catastrophes of global climate change Author Charles Duff is a planner, teacher, developer, and historian. In a career of more than 35 years, he has built or rebuilt more than 300 buildings and led the revival of some of Baltimore’s most successful neighborhoods. He has been President of Jubilee Baltimore, the city’s premier community development nonprofit, since 1987, and has been President of the Baltimore Architecture Foundation.

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A graduate of Amherst College and Harvard University, he lectures widely in America and elsewhere and has taught at Johns Hopkins University. He co-wrote Then and Now: Baltimore Architecture in 2005 and contributed to The Architecture of Baltimore. His translations of two French works on Greek tragedy were published in the US in 2010 and 2012. His book The North Atlantic Cities has just been published in the UK and is available in the US. ISBN 978-1-908457-53-0

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Tramonto

Russell Shubin and Robin Donaldson, edited by Julia van den Hout

Tramonto is a contemporary single-family home that integrates the natural beauty of the adjacent state park and ocean views. The placement of the home overlooks the canyon, the surrounding Santa Monica Mountains, and the California coastline. The diffusion of the built form defines the approach for this 17,000-sqft, single-family residence (14,500-sqft main house and 2,500-sqft accessory building) into the surrounding landscape. The two-acre site embraces the steep topography, contending with the context to inform the building’s siting and orientation. The project is terraced into the natural contours of the hillside, breaking up the overall building mass while using its sub-grade structure to reinforce the hillside. The book provides a look into the 17,000-sqft home and its indoor-outdoor lifestyle. Emphasis on significant custom elements highlights the detail-oriented approach that can be found throughout the entirety of the home. From the initial conceptualization of the exterior form to the construction process and key moments, this book presents the visual story of the home’s integration into the Southern California landscape. Tramonto embodies a truly contemporary Southern California attitude, the essential principles of indoor/outdoor living afforded by embracing the temperate region and the natural beauty of the coastal landscape.

Author Russell Shubin, AIA, and Robin Donaldson, AIA, are founding partners of ShubinDonaldson, an award-winning, nationally and internationally recognized architectural design practice based in Southern California. Informed by modernism, craft, and a culture of experimentation, they respond to each client and site through an investigative design process, mining the tension between real world constraints and artistic expression to excavate each project’s unique opportunities.

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Transect Urbanism

Readings in Human Ecology

Edited by Andrés Duany, Brian Falk, and Sandy Sorlien

Richard H. Driehaus Prize, the Jefferson Medal, The Vincent Scully Prize, and several honorary doctorates. He is a co-founder of DPZ CoDesign, which has been a leader in planning, urban design, and architecture for more than 30 years, as well as a co-founder of the Congress for the New Urbanism.

Transect Urbanism: Readings in Human Ecology is the definitive reference on the rural-to-urban transect, a compilation of the most important essays, diagrams, and images on the subject. It provides historical, practical, and theoretical insights into one of the most effective urban planning methodologies developed in the 20th century. The transect is a unifying theory, serving as a framework for the various fields of urban design.

The editors selected the most important previously published essays and commissioned preeminent academics and professionals to write on the use of the transect in their areas of expertise, including retail, zoning, thoroughfare design, environmental sustainability, and philosophy. As diagrams and drawings are essential to the understanding and use of the transect, this book also contains the most complete collection of transect images ever published. Transect Urbanism will serve as a primary reference source for academics, students, and practitioners interested in creating great places.

The nonprofit Center for Applied Transect Studies supports interdisciplinary research, publication, tools, and training for the design, coding, building, and documentation of resilient Transectbased communities. It has supported the publication of numerous essays, papers, and books, including The Architecture of Community, The Smart Growth Manual, the Sprawl Repair Manual, The Language of Towns and Cities, Visions of Seaside, and The New Pioneers.

Editors Andrés Duany, architect, urban designer, planner, and author, has influenced urban planners and designers worldwide, redirected government policies in the U.S. and abroad, and produced plans for hundreds of new and renewed communities. He was the principal author of the SmartCode.

Brian Falk is director of the Center for Applied Transect Studies, which supports interdisciplinary research and publication for the design, coding, and building of Transect-based communities. He was a contributing editor of the Sprawl Repair Manual and manages the Project for Lean Urbanism, which is dedicated to making it possible for more people to participate in the building of their homes, businesses, and communities.

Andrés Duany is the author of numerous essays and articles and co-author of several books, including Suburban Nation: the Rise of Sprawl and the Decline of the American Dream, The Smart Growth Manual, Garden Cities: Agricultural Urbanism, and The New Civic Art. His work has been recognized with numerous awards, including the Title: Transect Urbanism Size: 8” x 10” Portrait Pages: 284pp Binding: Softbound Publication Date: Fall 2020 ISBN: 978-1-951541-01-9 Price: $39.95 World Rights: Available

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Return on Experience

Tim Kobe and Roger Lehman

at Eight Inc. This conversation is more than a single path but reflects the dialogue and practice of business leaders, designers, colleagues, and collaborators.

E>Return on Experience will be comfortable on the shelves of designers and artists and equally comfortable for business leaders and educators. It reflects the fundamental belief that design is integral to everything we do; that all human existence has been a result of a progression of successful design outcomes. It is not in the sense that what we have created is exclusively logical and rational but true success has been the result of emotional intelligence and meaning being infused into a new form that has caused us to progress as a species.

Inspiration and innovation are difficult to process from a purely logical perspective as it requires a broader view into the way we think and feel things. It is deeply personal and at the same time shared at a social level. In this sense, we naturally view design as possessing enormous value that is an essential part of culture with a broad value and application.

Design is a dialogue. This book is not a treatise on do’s and don’ts of design or business. It is a reflection on the nature of how to see design. Design is, and always has been, part of a conversation. As such, this book captures a dialogue that author, Tim Kobe, has been engaged in for over 30 years Title: Return on Experience Size: 8.5” x 11” Portrait Pages: 432pp Binding: Softbound Publication Date: Spring 2021 ISBN: 978-1-935935-67-4 Price: $60.00 World Rights: Available

This book would not exist without those on the other side of the conversation and is more than a lens of a single or individual point of view. Eight Inc. has been incredibly fortunate to design with some of the most successful people and companies that exist today and much of Eight Inc.’s success has been attributed to its time with Apple founder and CEO Steve Jobs.

Authors Tim Kobe founded the globally recognized strategic design firm Eight Inc. in 1989. Today, Eight Inc. consists of 200+ strategic designers and business creatives connected across 11 studios, seven time zones, and three continents, and is a leader in innovation and branded experience working with companies such as Apple, Virgin Atlantic Airways, Nike, Coke, Knoll, and Citibank.

Roger Lehman is a professor at INSEAD’s Singapore campus where he is the co-founder and director of the Executive Masters in Change (ECM) program. He has been instrumental in helping to integrate psychoanalytic concepts into executive and business practice. Roger designs and delivers programs for companies around the world, providing a focus on executive leadership, leading innovation, personal and professional development, change management, and high performance teams.

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Michele Saee

Philosophy and Process Michele Saee

This book is Michele Saee’s life’s work. A collection of projects, built, unbuilt, conceptual, and experimental which spans over more than three decades. There are over 50 projects in different cities, countries, and continents, all with different programs, scales, and sizes on sites varying from the hillsides of Tempio, Sardinia in Italy to the Champs Elysees, Paris in France to the ocean front of the Pacific in California, USA to an apartment condo in newly developed towers in Beijing, and a new aquarium in Shanghai, China. This book is about an architect’s journey of discovery—a fluid emotional exercise in life, love, work, and architecture.

The projects are presented based on their individual original design and their development. There are hand and computer sketch, drawings, and model studies of different stages of their development.

The book covers everything from conception of the projects in their early stages through the process of their creation. The book clearly shows Michele’s way of working and his personal exploration in establishing his architectural philosophy and language.

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Author Michele Saee believes that the work of architecture reflects our needs, our desires, and our ability to improve the quality of our relationships with creativity and adventure. In his words, architecture is a part of everyday life. Mr. Saee received his Master of Art in Architecture from the University of Florence School of Architecture in 1981 and then his post graduate degree in Technical Urban Planning at the Polytechnic of Milan the following year.

His professional career began with Superstudio in Florence, Italy, and he then joined Morphosis in Santa Monica, California after moving to Los Angeles in 1982. Once he started his own design firm in 1985, Michele joined the design faculty at Otis College of Art and Design in 1986, and in 1990 began teaching at the Southern California Institute of Architecture (SCI-Arc). After 21 years, Mr. Saee joined the University of Southern California (USC) in 2011 where he is currently a faculty member.

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The Cannibal’s Cookbook

Mining Myths of Cyclopean Constructions Brandon Clifford

The Cannibal’s Cookbook fiercely consumes the body of past cyclopean constructions. It assembles, re-packages, and offers this latent knowledge for your contemporary consumption. It is a manual for the hungry, for those who are not satiated by the careless building practices of the present. With one foot in the past and another in the present, the cookbook bridges the realities of our ancestors and ourselves. We propose a series of architectural “recipes” after dining on this body of past expertise. The recipes are deciphered from ancient cyclopean masonry systems, but with a contemporary twist.

They cannibalize leftover debris—building rubble that typically stuffs our landfills—to construct new buildings.

Author Brandon Clifford is the director and co-founder of Matter Design and an associate professor at MIT. He studied at Georgia Tech ‘06 and Princeton ‘11 for his bachelor’s and master’s degrees in Architecture. Brandon has been awarded a number of prizes, namely a TED Fellowship, the SOM Prize, and an American Academy in Rome Prize.

Title: The Cannibal’s Cookbook Size: 5.125” x 7.25” Portrait Pages: 192pp Binding: Softbound Publication Date: Spring 2021 ISBN: 978-1-951541-43-9 Price: $24.95 World Rights: Available

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Beautiful China

Reflections on Landscape Architecture in Contemporary China Edited by Richard J. Weller and Tatum L. Hands

Beautiful China is the title of the Chinese government’s broad policy to ensure the traditions and aesthetics of Chinese culture not only survive as heritage but apply to contemporary society and to the future. Beautiful China is also nested within the larger policy concept of creating an “ecological civilization.” Applied to a nation of over 1.3 billion people and the second most powerful economy in the world, these policies are arguably the most fascinating socio-political experiment taking place anywhere in the world today. This book is the first serious consideration of this policy and what it means for the design professions in contemporary China.

Editors Richard J. Weller is the Meyerson Chair of Urbanism, professor, and chair of Landscape Architecture, and co-director of the McHarg Center at the University of Pennsylvania.

Tatum L. Hands, PhD, is the editor in chief of the LA+ Interdisciplinary Journal of Landscape Architecture, University of Pennsylvania.

Toward a Space of Capability 走向潜质空间

上海辰山植物园矿坑花园 The Quarry Garden in Shanghai Chenshan Botanic Garden

朱育帆 | ZHU Yufan Deputy Chair, Department of Landscape Architecture, School of Architecture, Tsinghua University and director of ZHU Yufan Studio. Zhu has over 30 publications on design theory, research, and teaching methods. His award-winning design projects include the Quarry Garden in Shanghai Botanical Garden and Shougang Industrial Park in Beijing.

清华大学建筑学院景观学系副系主任。曾发表30余 篇与景观设计理论、设计教学与研究方法等相关论 文。其主持的多个工程项目均荣获奖项，包括上海辰 山植物园矿坑花园、北京首钢工业遗址公园等。

许愿 | XU Yuan Assistant Professor, Department of Landscape Architecture, School of Architecture, Tsinghua University. Xu has received several design awards including the IFLA Zvi Miller Prize (2014). Her recent published research focuses on form-finding in landscape design and Eastern traditional landscape art.

清华大学建筑学院景观学系助理教授。 获2014年国际风 景园林师联合会学生设计竞赛第二名。 主要研究方向为 景观设计及其历史与理论， 以及设计造型逻辑、 空间的 场所性、 东方传统山水艺术等。

The idea of Beautiful China marks a moment where the rapid urbanization of China is now turning into an era where the quality—not just the scale and speed—of development is a major concern. It is not only an opportunity, but also a challenge for landscape architecture. Maybe landscape architects can see through the re-adaption of the ruins of our times and open what we refer to as “the space of capability.” By this we mean the potential of every site to become something new; not entirely new, but something latent within it, drawn to the surface through the act of design – the act of respecting and recognizing a site’s potential. This space of capability is also of course a nod to “Capability” Brown, who so famously conjured a naturalistic landscape aesthetic in 18thcentury England, and we ask what the equivalent of his achievement might be today? For us, the way into this space of capability—the way into the potential of sites and the potential of our profession—is firstly and most apparently through ruins.

The wonderful book Hypnerotomachia Poliphili, first published in 1499, framed and highlighted the aesthetic values of ruins. Three hundred years later, William Gilpin venerated ruins as picturesque aesthetic objects in the English landscape garden. This aesthetic discovery of ruins is profound, because it implied that all the relics of human civilization have the potential and legitimacy for acceptance in a new situation.

During the global environmental crisis of the 1960s, artists such as Robert Smithson revealed the sublime value of abandoned industrial places, and in 1969 Richard Haag’s Gas Works Park in Seattle enshrined the beauty of such relics. In the 1990s Peter Latz went further by creating a post-industrial nature with his Duisburg-Nord Landscape Park in the Ruhrgebiet, Germany. Here Latz brought out the capability of the place through the careful placement of new things with the old.

The latest in this lineage is James Corner Field Operations’ High Line in New York City.

Another kind of ruins appears more humble, somehow “dirty” and “ugly,” yet bears a shift in deeper values. When visiting Rovira Hill in Barcelona, the honesty of the site deeply moves you. The notorious shantytown that once occupied the summit has nothing to do with heroism or political significance, but it was treasured for its “landscaping” process. Normally, things that have just lost their practical value are the least likely to be revered. It took 20 years for this site to be physically transformed, but how long have we spent to start realizing its capabilities? And what will be next?

急速城镇化进程中“美丽中国”的提出，标志着中国的整 体建设转入了一个品质化的时期，对风景园林专业既 是机遇，更是挑战。或许通过废墟再生现象，我们可以开 启“潜质空间”的议题。所谓“潜质” ，字面直解就是场地自 身潜在的素质，可以被开发但尚未被开发；在设计师的 预判下与整体目标挂钩，从而被激活、实现场地特质延 续性的增值和升级。 “Capability（潜质）”取自“Capability Brown（万能布朗或潜质布朗） ” ，在18世纪英国的土地上， 布朗唤现了一个自然风景园的空间价值维度， 也收获了后 巴洛克时代世界园林史上最为响亮的绰号。 当下看来，走 向潜质空间最主要也最显见的路径， 便是废墟再生。 1499年出版的奇书《Hypnerotomachia Poliphili》首次定格 了废墟的美学价值，三百年后英国自然风景园和法国英 中式花园中流行设计folly，废墟入园是如绘美学思潮向 纵深化发展的结果。其实发现废墟潜质的意义很深远， 因为隐含的推论是，只要是人类文明留下的遗迹就有被 认可的可能。 废墟价值拓展的下一个对象就是近代工业文明。二十世 纪六十年代世界环境危机时，罗伯特.史密森等艺术家

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Contributors Rui Yang, Yufan Zhu, Yuning Cheng, Binyi Liu, Hui Liu, Xiangrong Wang, Feng Han, Tao Han, Zheng Chen, Wei Guo, Jason Zhisen Ho, Yuelai Liu, Shulin Shi, Zhifang Wang, Jinshi Zhang, Tianjie Zhang, Zhengwei Zhang, Jijun Zhao, Xiaodi Zheng, Stanislaus Fung, Richard Weller, Marilyn Taylor, Christopher Marcinkoski, Kongjian Yu, Yuan Zhu, Junli Xu, and Tatum Hands

Images by Shengyuan Zheng

Title: Beautiful China Size: 9” x 9” Square Pages: 216pp Binding: Hardbound Publication Date: Spring 2021 ISBN: 978-1-943532-81-0 Price: $40.00 World Rights: Available

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The Philosophy of Dumbness Joseph Choma

This is the dumbest smart book on contemporary architecture.

What really is this “technology” that we speak of? How do we define “intelligence”? These are just two of the questions that this book attempts to answer through the unconventional (and seemingly ironic) lens of “dumbness.” Historical examples in science, art, and architecture ground dumbness as a means to convey a trajectory to practice “smarter.” Instead of a singular authoritative vision, over 50 contributors answer the question, “What is the dumbest, but smartest thing you’ve done?” These unique responses provide a vivid lens into the culture of contemporary architecture and the rigor behind it.

Author Joseph Choma is the founder of the Design Topology Lab and an associate professor of architecture at Clemson University. He is the author of Morphing: A Guide to Mathematical Transformations for Architects and Designers (Laurence King Publishing, 2015) and Études for Architects (Routledge, 2018).

Title: The Philosophy of Dumbness Size: 7” x 9” Portrait Pages: 140pp Binding: Softbound Publication Date: Fall 2020 ISBN: 978-1-951541-37-8 Price: $25.00 World Rights: Available

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Dynamic Geographies

W Architecture and Landscape Architecture

Barbara Wilks, Steven Handel, Alison B. Hirsch, and Peggy Shepard

Landscapes are forged by many forces and are dynamic, not static.

Yet most landscape designs are designed as static; that is, they are designed not to change substantially for 20–50 years. As cities become the dominant living space for humans, allowing non-human forces to contribute to our designs as landscape architects will make for more resilient landscapes and a healthier planet. Making these dynamic landscapes with our non-human partners will require a new landscape aesthetic, changing the public perception of “landscape,” and changing maintenance practices.

Dynamic Geographies seeks to address these perceptions with a series of our projects as examples—one for every of their 20 years in business. The book is divided into three segments of overlapping geographies: visible geographies, layered geographies, and unleashing geographies.

Contributors Barbara Wilks, the founder of W Architecture and Landscape Architecture, is a leader in design, known best for bringing together nature and the urban in lively urban ecologies for humans and other species.

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Steven Handel is an American educator and restoration ecologist.

Handel is currently Distinguished Professor of Ecology at Rutgers University and visiting professor at the Harvard University Graduate School of Design.

Alison B. Hirsch, FAAR, is a landscape theorist, historian, and designer, and is currently the director of the University of Southern California School of Architecture Master of Landscape Architecture program. Both her design and written work focus on how understanding cultural practices and social histories and memories can contribute to the design of meaningful places.

Peggy Shepard is an environmental activist who co-founded WEACT for Environmental Justice and has a long history in organizing and engaging Northern Manhattan residents in community-based planning. She is a national leader in advancing environmental justice and policy combining grassroots organizing, environmental advocacy, and environmental health community-based planning.

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A Solution to Homelessness in Your Town Valley View Senior Housing, Napa County, California Charles Durrett

Homelessness is one of the monsters that haunts our society.

Thousands of people are trying to address the challenge but fail to come up with a solution. Valley View Senior Housing, built in 2019 in Napa County, CA, is a very affordable community of 70 cottages.

This groundbreaking homeless project was organized by American Canyon’s city government, for older homeless people and homeless veterans of the area. This solution-oriented book shares the inspiring story of a compassionate and humane project. Imagine if every city could do one community like this and we can begin to make headway to solve the homeless problem. Every city can do this! And from this we can grow to do even more.

Author Charles Durrett is an architect, author, and advocate of affordable, socially responsible, and sustainable design, and has made major contributions to community-based architecture and cohousing.

Charles has designed hundreds of villages in North America and around the world. He is the principal architect at McCamant & Durrett Architects, based in Nevada City, California.

Title: A Solution to Homelessness in Your Town Size: 5.5” x 8.5” Portrait Pages: 108pp Binding: Softbound Publication Date: Spring 2021 ISBN: 978-1-935935-45-2 Price: $19.95 World Rights: Available

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Connective Tissues

Ten Essays by University of Virginia Kenan Fellows 2001–2016 Peter Waldman

This is not another treatise on the heroic nature of the Jeffersonian imagination. Rather, it offers another reading generated by Joseph Campbell’s reluctant hero in The Hero of A Thousand Faces as offered by Jef7rey Hildner in his prescient Epilogue “Labyrinth R.U.N.” It is rather weaving fictions, constructing dialogues, (Rashomon) again and again on Jefferson as boy/man, as adolescent, as dreamer and instrumental explorer of here and there, close at hand and worlds long, long ago and far, far away. This is a collection of meanders, speculations, fog-bound as well as iridescent. Joseph Brodsky, in Watermark, would say of such consequential yet circumstantial descriptions (of Venice) that they were visions not based on principles, but rather were borne from the sensibilities of a very nervous man.

The fact may be that Jefferson was a farmer and politician, but what we illuminate here was that at 13 he was an adolescent first, orphaned sooner than later as was common at the edge of the Arcadian Wild, as were Romulus and Remus, but custodian of terrains, knowledge, and human energy. He was a surveyor, nomad, and given his penchant for oculi and mirrors, a certifiable lunatic.

This is a book on American pragmaticism and self-evident truths in a new culture of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness rooted in the promise of Eden and the enduring resistance of Jerusalem, articulated by William McClung in The Literary Legacy of An Title: Connective Tissues Size: 11” x 11” Square Pages: 252pp Binding: Hardbound Publication Date: Spring 2021 ISBN: 978-1-943532-53-7 Price: $34.95 World Rights: Available

Architecture of Paradise. We aligned ourselves with contemporary philosophical debates benchmarked by Andre Gide and Bruno Latour that posit that previously called Ancient if not Archaic belief systems might hold self-evident truths coincidental with contemporary survival systems of sustainability once called common sense, grounded in the recurrent dualities of architecture.

Connective Tissues is a philosophical work framed on epistemological and ethical questions, sustained by Joseph Campbell in the Hero of a Thousand Faces. Not only is this a philosophical work, it also seeks to identify the contemporary vitality of American cultural history and contemporary topographic landscapes. If the lawn is a tabula rasa for citizenship, is Monticello the enduring place for the engagement of both the familiar and the strange? Perhaps the roots of a topographic imagination are found in generative settings. On our tour of collective sense of we the people, one must remember there was once the he—as in Campbell’s singular hero, Jefferson, who enters from the 38th north latitude connecting the myth of Daedalus with the grounds of Jefferson’s own labyrinth.

Author Peter Waldman is an architect who quarries mica and longterm educator who implements spatial tales of origin through specifications for construction sites in collaboration with surveyors, nomads, and lunatics, and author of Lessons From the Lawn (ORO Editions, 2019).

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After Dante

Divine, Design, and the Cosmos Dr. Peter Cookson Smith

The book focused initially on the philosophical, artistic, and scientific forces that impacted on the humanist of the late medieval and Renaissance period, profuse in the exchange of ideas and discovery, behind much of which was the impact of Dante’s Divine Comedy with a message which continues to reverberate through the centuries. What has also persisted is the perpetual tension between science, religion, and design because of their perceived contradictions. The book explores how we might gain inspiration and motivation to embrace a consistent artistry and sense of exploration in the face of an ever-expanding knowledge-based frontier.

Author Dr. Peter Cookson Smith is an architect, urbanist, and founder of the URBIS consultancy in Hong Kong, which has operated throughout Asia for more than 40 years. He is a former professor of architecture and former president of Hong Kong’s Institutes of Planning and Urban Design. He is the author of five previous books on cities and urban design.

Title: After Dante Size: 9” x 9” Square Pages: 272pp Binding: Softbound Publication Date: Spring 2021 ISBN: 978-1-951541-53-8 Price: $29.95 World Rights: Available

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What Kind of Architect Are You? Udo Greinacher

Architecture is commonplace. We inhabit it and use it; it is constantly present; it serves as foreground and background and usually has a story to tell. But apart from its most illustrious makers, we know almost nothing about the people who conceived it: the architects.

What Kind of Architect Are You? offers a glimpse into a vast array of professional possibilities and points out meaningful alternatives to the prevailing myth of the “starchitect.” It provides those in search of an architect with insights into how we work and helps them to formulate expectations. It challenges practitioners to think introspectively and examine how they fit into the architectural spectrum. And finally, the collection documents the cross-section of cultural and architectural practice across America.

Author Udo Greinacher teaches courses on film, futures, and urban issues at the University of Cincinnati. Born and raised in Tuebingen, Germany, he holds professional degrees in architecture from the Hochschule für Technik Stuttgart and the University of California, Berkeley.

Title: What Kind of Architect are You? Size: 6” x 9” Portrait Pages: 256pp Binding: Softbound Publication Date: Spring 2021 ISBN: 978-1-951541-56-9 Price: $25.00 World Rights: Available

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Library as Stoa

Public Space and Academic Mission in Snøhetta’s Charles Library Kate Wingert-Playdon

Library as Stoa is a reflection on the building design and construction in essays and photographs of Snohetta’s Charles Library at Temple University. The library demonstrates the role of public space and innovation in architecture. By using an Automated Storage and Retrieval System (ASRS) for the storage of Temple’s entire collection, which includes two million books on site, the Charles Library was designed to balance the amount of space for books vs. people, and significantly increase the social spaces to accommodate student and faculty research and collaboration. Using the models of library as studio and creative commons, it is a place for discovery, creation, preservation, and sharing of knowledge. The library includes university partners and important library functions in strategic locations for improved support services for the university community. University Special Collections, an important institutional asset for the university and the city of Philadelphia, is visible and accessible for visitors from the city community. Snohetta’s design approach took into account the diversity of the university community, the site conditions and the university’s aspirations. The design process included collaboration with the campus community to fully understand the social aspects and future needs of the university.

Sited in a prime location on the university’s campus, the library is an inspirational destination for the campus and city communities and serves as a change agent, reflective of the future direction of the university.

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Author Kate Wingert-Playdon is associate dean and director of Architecture and Environmental Design at Temple University’s Tyler School of Art. Her work addresses the cultural dimension of architecture as exhibited through construction and design histories.

Contributors Tyler School of Art, Temple University Justin Coffin Phillip Crosby William O’Neill Bourke Betsy Manning Joe Lucia Snohetta brightspot strategy Stantec ISBN 978-1-943532-22-3

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Our Voices II

the DE-colonial project

Kevin O’Brien, Rebecca Kiddle, and luugigyoo Patrick Stewart

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Kevin O’Brien, Rebecca Kiddle, and luugigyoo patrick stewart

Our Voices II: the DE-colonial Project will showcase decolonizing projects that work to destable and disquiet colonial built environments. The land, towns, and cities on which we live have always been Indigenous places yet, for the most part our Indigenous value sets and identities have been disregarded or appropriated.

Indigenous people continue to be gentrified out of the places to which they belong and neo‐liberal systems work to continuously subjugate Indigenous involvement in decision‐making processes in subtle, but potent ways. However, we are not, and have never been cultural dopes. Rather, we have, and continue to subvert the colonial value sets that overlay our places in important ways.

Editors Kevin O’Brien is a decenedent of the Kaurereg and Meriam people of the Torres Strait in Far North Queensland. He has a B.Arch and M.Phil from the University of Queensland and is professor of Creative Practice at the University of Sydney. He is a practicing architect and has completed a number of projects with Aboriginal communities throughout Australia.

Title: Our Voices II Size: 9” x 11” Portrait Pages: 256pp Binding: Softbound Publication Date: Spring 2021 ISBN: 978-1-943532-56-8 Price: $30.00 World Rights: Available

Dr. Rebecca Kiddle is Ngāti Porou and Ngā Puhi. She has a PhD and MA in Urban Design from Oxford Brookes University and is a lecturer in Environmental Studies at Victoria University of Wellington, NZ and is co-chair (Pōneke) of Ngā Aho, Network of Māori Design Professionals.

Dr. Patrick Reid Stewart’s Nisga’a name is luugigyoo. He has a PhD from the University of British Columbia and an M.Arch from McGill University and is an adjunct professor at the McEwen School of Architecture at Laurentian University. He is chair of the Indigenous Task Force of the RAIC and a practising architect working mainly with First Nations communities and Aboriginal organizations throughout British Columbia.

Contributors Alex Wilson, Jason Surkan, Daniele Hromek, Brian Martin and Jefa Greenaway, Krystal Clark, Chris T Cornelius, Richard Begay, Eladia Smoke, Hirini Matunga, Diane Menzies, Daniel Glenn, David Fortin, Carroll Go-Sam , Derek T, Jade Kake, Rau Hoskins, Julio Reyes, Keri Whaitiri, Desna Schollum, Michael Mossman, Dillon Kombumerri, James K. Bird, Julio C. Reyes Aguilar, Linda Kennedy, Tokie Laotan Brown, and Mohammad Ashraf Khan ISBN 978-1-943532-56-8

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Shaping Place

Duda|Paine Architects

Turan Duda and Jeffrey Paine

In Shaping Place, founders Turan Duda, FAIA, and Jeffrey Paine, FAIA, and Duda|Paine’s studio leaders discuss the evolution of their work and the history of its thematic roots. The firm’s ideas on public space, outdoor environments, new working and learning models, and contextual responsiveness come to life in projects for wellness, academia, the workplace and urban development using a range of scales, material qualities, structural systems and architectural palettes. Steve Dumez, FAIA, of Eskew Dumez Ripple, provides new perspective on the firm’s work within the larger field of architecture.

Contributors Turan Duda has helped shape the future of universities, organizations and cities nationally and internationally. He is a frequent speaker for academic programs, professional organizations and civic groups on urban place-making, the importance of public space and collaborative design methods.

Principals Russ Holcomb, Sanjeev Patel, Scott Shell and Jay Smith guide the design and delivery of Duda|Paine Architects’ corporate, commercial, cultural and higher education projects.

Together they lead a single-studio culture that fosters creativity, innovation and learning.

Duda|Paine Architects designs based on an enduring equation of people, ideas, creative thinking and technology. At the heart of their process is a workshop-based studio that generates solutions using a variety of creative tools that bring new solutions to planning, buildings and spaces for diverse clients and communities.

Jeffrey Paine advances collaboration and decision-making processes to bring successful projects to life in the U.S. and abroad.

He shares his “long view” of the impact of design on communities and economic growth in graduate programs in architecture, real estate development, business and professional practice.

Title: Shaping Place Size: 9” x 11” Portrait Pages: 348pp Binding: Hardbound Publication Date: Spring 2021 ISBN: 978-1-951541-10-1 Price: $60.00 World Rights: Available

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Capture the Moment

An Architect’s Guide to Travel Sketching Jim Lammers

With sketches form around the world, this book takes you on a journey starting with the definition of sketching from observation and an introduction to right-brain drawing. You get a discussion of black and white and color sketching with a focus on colored pencil as an easy-to-use medium. Perspective drawing is demystified and you then take side trips to understand shade and shadow, reflections, landscapes, streetscapes, sky, and skyline.

This book presents the fundamentals of rapid colored pencil sketching to “capture the moment” for designers and for travelers who have always wanted to draw the notable places they visit.

Author Jim Lammers was trained as an architect when sketching and perspective were an essential part of the curriculum. A veteran world traveler, persistent writer, and relentless sketcher, Jim has been published in professional journals and on websites.

Title: Capture the Moment Size: 8” x 8” Square Pages: 150pp Binding: Softbound Publication Date: Fall 2020 ISBN: 978-1-951541-27-9 Price: $24.95 World Rights: Available

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The City of Imagination Valerio Morabito

It is in the wilderness of cities rather than in nature that the imagination of these landscape drawings comes to life. Without any heroic emphasis, these drawings result from the observation of traces, evident or discreet, in the urban landscape, and the process to collect and memorize traces is the way to consider memory as a primary medium for creativity.

This selected collection of over 150 drawings, thought and imagined over many years, delineates a personal city experience, without any intention of building a new city theory.

No single drawing in this book is a representation of cities in-situ; all of them are interpretations, translations, and combinations of traces collected and selected while teaching, working, meeting cultures, and eating food in many different cities around the world. These drawings are a different form of communication than the beautiful renderings produced in endless numbers.

Title: The City of Imagination Size: 8.5” x 11” Portrait Pages: 212pp Binding: Hardbound Publication Date: Fall 2020 ISBN: 978-1-951541-17-0 Price: $40.00 World Rights: Available

Author Valerio Morabito is an adjunct professor at the Department of Landscape Architecture, University of Pennsylvania, and a professor at the Università Mediterranea, Italy. He has taught landscape architecture studios throughout four continents, and his students have won multiple ASLA awards. He founded the Mediterranean University spin off APScape, investigating cities’ evolutions.

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Minding the City

Field Notes on Neuroscience and the Poetics of Sustainable Urban Design Harrison Fraker, Peter Siostrom, and Atanaska Foteva

This book calls attention to the public space of cities. It proposes that the environmental performance of public space is underdeveloped, and is primed to play a more integrated role in combatting the urgency of climate change, while also creating a more meaningful experience of the city. The approach is influenced by recent insights from neuroscience that are generating a growing body of evidence for the underlying bodily basis of mind and meaning imply a reformulation of urban design theory.

Minding the City is an effort to refocus the subject of urban design on the tangible and visceral experience of public space, to remind urban designers that our concept of the city is grounded in bodily experience. It discusses emerging insights from neuroscience and their potential impact on urban design in detail, not as a formula for design, but to bring awareness and a new sensibility to the design process. It uses a set of case studies to illustrate how the insights from neuroscience are operative in how we experience and value the built environment. It finishes with an exploration of the sensory and aesthetic potential of sustainable systems and then illustrates, through a series of urban design studies, how they might be used to create better environmental performance while creating more meaningful, even poetic, urban spaces.

Title: Minding the City Size: 7” x 9” Portrait Pages: 240pp Binding: Softbound Publication Date: Spring 2021 ISBN: 978-1-951541-33-0 Price: $35.00 World Rights: Available

Contributors Educated at Princeton and Cambridge Universities, Harrison Fraker is considered a pioneer in climate responsive architecture and sustainable urban design. He has received major awards over 50+ years of teaching, practice, and research, first at Princeton, as chair and founding dean at Minnesota, and dean at Berkeley. Having retired from full time teaching, he continues to conduct research on his ecoblock concept as a professor of the Graduate School and lectures globally on the urgency of sustainable urban design.

Peter Siostrom was educated at the AA in London and received his MArch from Lund University. Currently he is the director and founder of the Masters program in Sustainable Urban Design (SUDes) at Lund, chairman of the SUDes Urban Lab, and holds distinguished international appointments related to sustainable urban research.

He has been the designer of interiors, architecture, urban design, competitions, conferences, and exhibitions for over 40 years, and lectures globally on sustainable urban design topics.

Atanaska Foteva is an enthusiastic architect with an MA (hons) degree in Architecture from Edinburgh University and MSc degree in Sustainable Urban Design from Lund University. After working as a teaching assistant in the SUDes Program, she is currently interested in addressing the fragmented identities of contemporary city development, with a keen eye on resilience and sustainability.

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BI: The Origin of Architectural Creativity 9 Modules for Non-Linear Interactive Design Flow Bio-Architecture Formosana

A3 Classroom space This building is a single-storey building with a sloping roof. The short façade is a solid wall, and the long wall is only open at a high place. With the height of the roof flap, it can also introduce sufficient natural light while controlling the north wind.

A4 Bathrooms and storage room The appearance of the building is a box shape, showing a symmetrical, harmonious and stable layout. The inner wall of the north corridor opens a high window, and the outer vertical wall cooperates to block the north wind while promoting ventilation. The south side floor-to-ceiling windows feature a gradual glass surface for privacy and interior window views.

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Nature doesn’t necessarily mean creativity, yet its diversity and beauty are stunning. We call the mechanism behind this unintended creativity of nature “BI”: Biological Intelligence. The design and construction of a building is very much like the creation of life.

The intention of Biological Intelligence (BI) is to understand how life is born, withers, and born again, and to follow the principles of evolution so architecture can also enter a sustainable cycle of design, construction, operation, disassembly, and regeneration according to its new condition. The three categories: “Origin,” “Form,” and “Interface” loosely resemble life’s condition of “Habitat,” “Physical Form,” and “Interaction with outside.” Each category contains three modules; all nine modules contain elements that architects have been familiar with for thousands of years. They exist as nine toolboxes that architects need and use during the design process—the creation of architecture. BI is a bigger box that holds the nine boxes together. The same way as nature never intends to create anything, most of architecture’s great inventions aren’t created intentionally. Rather than boosting design creativity, the mechanism we introduce in this book proves to accompany architects strolling through the maze of architecture improving the creation of architecture similarly to how nature creates itself.

Title: BI: The Origin of Architectural Creativity Size: 8.3” x 8.3” Square Pages: 352pp Binding: Hardbound Publication Date: Fall 2020 ISBN: 978-1-943532-98-8 Price: $35.00 World Rights: Available

The short façade is a solid surface, the long façade is provided with a small area of louver on the side of the machine room, and the side of the work space is provided with a garage that can be vertically opened so the interior space extends outwards. The underarmed courtyard space forms a large event space for special occasions.

Authors Ying-Chao Kuo is the principal architect of Bio-Architecture Formosana. He graduated with an M.Arch from the University of California, Los Angles in 1989, and has taught at National Cheng Kung University, National Taiwan University of Science and Technology, and National Chiao Tung University as an adjunct professor. He has won numerous awards for his design in sustainability.

Ching-Hwa Chang is the principal architect of Bio-Architecture Formosana. She graduated with an M.Arch from the University of Pennsylvania (1984), and has taught at National Cheng Kung University, National Taiwan University of Science and Technology, and is a member of USGBC. She has won numerous awards for her ecological design.

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Architecture / Art Sigrid Miller Pollin

Translations: Architecture/Art examines the architecture and artwork of Sigrid Miller Pollin. A Fellow of the American Institute of Architects and a professor of architecture at the University of Massachusetts, Miller Pollin has created a rich body of work, from residential and academic buildings to furniture and artwork inspired by the natural world. Her design sense and deep understanding of space and color combine to present an oeuvre worthy of study.

While successful women architects are still frustratingly rare, Miller Pollin stands out as a creative force, balancing her design practice with studio teaching while raising two children. Highlighting Miller Pollin’s architectural and artistic achievements, which have served as distinct translations of site and program for a wide range of clients over the years, Translations: Architecture/Art is a synthesis of history and new directions, of careful observation and sensitive site research. As an educator, Miller Pollin has trained countless students, her teaching a vital part of an ethos at the University of Massachusetts that eschews the traditional studio critique in favor of an approach to learning that is supportive and constructive. As a book about a practicing female architect who has successfully woven family, work, and art into a creative life, it offers inspiration, anecdotes, and examples for women entering the professional world of architecture.

Title: Translations Size: 9” x 11” Landscape Pages: 356pp Binding: Hardbound Publication Date: Fall 2020 ISBN: 978-1-940743-37-0 Price: $50.00 World Rights: Available

Author Sigrid Miller Pollin is an American architect, artist, and educator.

With a degree in Art History from Vassar College and a Master of Architecture from Columbia University, she is a professor in the Department of Architecture at the University of Massachusetts and maintains an active art and architecture studio in south Amherst, Massachusetts.

Contributors Text by Dr. Margaret Vickery Foreword by Christine Theodoropoulis

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Urban Grids

Handbook for Regular City Design

Joan Busquets, Dingliang Yang, and Michael Keller

Contributors Joan Busquets, world-renowned urban planner and architect, is the first Martin Bucksbaum Professor in Practice of Urban Planning and Design at the Harvard Graduate School of Design.

Urban Grids: Handbook for Regular City Design is the result of a five-year design research project undertaken by professor Joan Busquets and Dingliang Yang at the Harvard Graduate School of Design. The research that is the foundation for this publication emphasizes the value of open forms for city design, a publication that specifically insists that the grid has the unique capacity to absorb and channel urban transformation flexibly and productively. Urban Grids analyzes cities and urban projects that utilize the grid as the main structural device for allowing rational development, and goes further to propose speculative design projects capable of suggesting new urban paradigms drawn from the grid as a design tool. Consisting of six major parts, it is divided into the following topics: 1) the atlas of grid cities, 2) grid projects through history, 3) the 20th-century dilemma, 4) the atlas of contemporary grid projects, 5) projective tools for the future, and 6) good-grid city as an open form coping with new urban issues.

Dingliang Yang is an instructor in Urban Planning and Design at the Harvard University Graduate School of Design. He is an architect, urban designer, and the founding partner of VARY Design. His works are interdisciplinary and dedicated to critical research and crossscale innovative design as responses to different urban issues during cities’ developments and regenerations. His works also have been widely published in media including Archdaily, Dezeen, Archinect, and Architectural Review, as well as exhibited in the Venice Biennale, Beijing International Art Biennale, Beijing Design Week, China International Architectural Decoration and Design Art Fair, Shanghai Urban Space Art Season (SUSAS), and Architecture and Design Museum in Los Angeles.

Michael Keller is a landscape and architectural designer and a recent graduate from the Harvard University Graduate School of Design.

Gold winner of the 2020 IBPA Awards in the Professional and Technical category.

Title: Urban Grids Size: 8.27” x 11.69” Portrait Pages: 680pp Binding: Hardbound Publication Date: Spring 2019 ISBN: 978-1-940743-95-0 Price: $60.00 World Rights: Available

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Ciudad Regular

Manual Para Diseñar Mallas y Tramas Urbanas Joan Busquets, Dingliang Yang, and Michael Keller

Ciudad Regular is the Spanish-language edition translation of the impressive index of gridded cities Urban Grids. Fully translated and updated for the Spanish-speaking market the book seeks to make this important work more inclusive for the global market.

Title: Ciudad Regular Size: 8.27” x 11.69” Portrait Pages: 680pp Binding: Hardbound Publication Date: Spring 2021 ISBN: 978-1-951541-49-1 Price: $60.00 World Rights: Available

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Gathering

Bohlin Cywinski Jackson Sam Lubell

Good buildings require an understanding of the principles of structure, light, space, and material, but great buildings require an understanding of people. The most successful inspire through the interactions and connections made within them. Gathering is the latest book from the award-winning architecture firm Bohlin Cywinski Jackson. This collection of work exemplifies how architecture has the power to bring people together by design, allowing them to engage with one another in new ways, to generate ideas, share their passions, and build communities.

The 14 projects included in this volume range greatly in size, function, and aesthetic, from the High Meadow Dwellings at Fallingwater to the Newport Beach Civic Center in southern California to Apple Stores located around the world. Through full-color photographs as well as conceptual sketches and diagrams, each case study gives insight into Bohlin Cywinski Jackson’s design process, and how the firm’s approach has helped transform clients’ institutions, workplaces, retail environments, research laboratories, and public spaces into extraordinary places for people. An introductory essay and chapter text by noted architectural writer Sam Lubell accompanies this volume.

Title: Gathering Size: 7.5” x 10.5” Portrait Pages: 344pp Binding: Hardbound Publication Date: Spring 2020 ISBN: 978-1-943532-18-6 Price: $60.00 World Rights: Available

Authors Sam Lubell is a writer based in New York. He has written nine books about architecture for Phaidon, Rizzoli, Metropolis Books, and Monacelli Press. He is a contributing editor at the Architect’s Newspaper and writes for the New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, Wallpaper, Dwell, Wired, Metropolis, the Atlantic, Architectural Record, Architect Magazine, Contract, Architectural Review, and other publications. He co-curated the exhibition Never Built New York at the Queens Museum, and the shows Never Built Los Angeles and Shelter: Rethinking How We Live in Los Angeles at the A+D Architecture and Design Museum, Los Angeles.

Bohlin Cywinski Jackson is a network of studios around the country united by a singular purpose—to design buildings that inspire connection and wonder in every person who experiences them. By understanding the nature of place, materials, and people, the firm’s work reveals a timeless yet specific architecture through bold moves and obsessive details.

Since its inception, Bohlin Cywinski Jackson has received hundreds of design awards, including ten AIA National Honor Awards and four AIA Committee on the Environment (COTE) Top Ten Awards. In 1994, the firm received the American Institute of Architects Architecture Firm Award, which is the highest honor the institute can bestow on a firm.

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France

Sketchbook Series Laurie Olin

This is the first book in a series of books on France by Laurie Olin.

For centuries artists and designers have recorded places, people, and life in travel sketchbooks. Over a period of 50 years, Laurie Olin, one of America’s most distinguished landscape architects, has recorded aspects of France: its cities and countryside, streets and cafes, ancient ruins, vineyards, and parks—from humble to grand, things that interested his designer’s eye—taking the time to see things carefully. Paris in its seasons, agriculture in Provence and Bordeaux, trees, dogs, and fountains, all are noted over the years in watercolor or pen and ink.

Originally intended for the pleasure of merely being there as well as self-education, this personal selection from his many sketchbooks is accompanied by transcriptions of notes and observations, along with introductory remarks for the different regions included: Paris, Haute Loire, Provence, Haute Provence, Normandy, Aquitaine, and Entre des Meures.

Title: France Size: 8.5” x 8.5” Square Pages: 200pp Binding: Hardbound Publication Date: Fall 2020 ISBN: 978-1-943532-57-5 Price: $40.00 World Rights: Available

Author Renowned landscape architect Laurie Olin lives in Philadelphia where he taught at the University of Pennsylvania for 40 years. His award-winning designs include Bryant Park in New York, the Getty Center in Los Angeles, and the Barnes Foundation in Philadelphia.

CO-Editor/Designer Pablo Mandel, director of Circular Studio, is a graphic designer renowned for his work with a variety of firms, ranging from notable architecture studios, universities, publishers, musicians, and artists in Canada, the United States, Australia, Japan, Singapore, China, Italy, Germany, England, Spain, Chile, and Argentina. He graduated from Buenos Aires University in 1995 with a degree in graphic design. His book designs have been published worldwide and have won several awards.

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Space and Anti-Space

The Fabric of Place, City, and Architecture Barbara Littenberg and Steven Peterson

These two different spatial models are explored in depth in the eponymous article, “Space and Anti Space,” first published in the Harvard Architectural Review in 1980, which forms the core of the book and postulates that the underlying attitudes toward spatial formation, at both domestic and urban scales, determine our ability to shape place and human experience.

In a series of essays, articles, and urban projects extensively illustrated by plans, analytic diagrams, and dramatic images, this book makes a visual and verbal argument for the steps that need to be taken to re-urbanize the city in order to achieve an urbanity consisting of multiple discrete places that depend on the essential concept of contained geometrical space. These spatial ideas are illustrated in this book in three proposals: for Rome, in “Roma Interrotta,” 1979; Paris, the “Consultation Internationale pour L’Aménagement du Quartier des Halles,” 1980; and New York in the “World Trade Center Site Innovative Design Study,” 2002.

This book challenges the conventional idea of what constitutes the physical form of the contemporary city. Observing the absence of extended urban fabrics—the missing urbanism—in the new global cities developed today, it argues that these cities are merely statistical accumulations of density that lack the positive attributes of a genuine urban condition. Cities as urban places cannot be made by individual buildings alone but rather depend on the intertwined combination of an architecture that is bound to the creation of public spaces and streets, and engaged in the structure of urban blocks to form a complex field pattern of interactive solids and voids.

Broad in scope, the book explores the nature of the fundamental relationship between architecture and urbanism as one of spatial formation. As an independently designed entity, the city forms the ordering framework in which architecture is partially subordinated to the mutual sustainability of the overall urban fabric. If a new urban architecture is to be an integral constituent of public place making, it must be composed using a radically different paradigm of positive, figurally constructed “space” rather than the indefinite background of “anti-space” as exemplified in the chapter on Mies van der Rohe’s architectural quest for the ineffable modern void.

Title: Space and Anti-Space Size: 8.375” x 9.75” Portrait Pages: 300pp Binding: Softbound Publication Date: Spring 2020 ISBN: 978-1-941806-77-7 Price: $40.00 World Rights: Available

Editors Barbara Littenberg and Steven Peterson are New York-based architects, urban designers, and educators who pursued an unconventional practice that explored the relationship between architecture and cities through an amalgam of competitions, public debates, lectures, seminars, teaching, and collaborative charrettes.

They have worked on urban problems at sites in Rome, Paris, Montreal, and New York, culminating in their proposal for the “World Trade Center Site Innovative Design Study” competition of 2002.

Barbara taught architecture for 25 years. She was an associate professor at the Yale University Graduate School of Architecture for 10 years, directing the Graduate Urban Housing studio. She was on the faculty of graduate schools of architecture at Princeton, Columbia, and Harvard universities, and the Kei Distinguished Professor at the University of Maryland. She also taught in Rome, Italy, for Notre Dame University’s architectural program.

Steven worked as architect at Milton Keynes New Town in England prior to establishing their New York practice. He taught urban design at Cornell and Columbia universities, and at the Notre Dame Post Professional Program in Rome, Italy. He directed the Syracuse University School of Architecture graduate program in Florence, Italy, and was director of the Institute of Architecture and Urban Studies in New York. He is the author of numerous speculative essays and has lectured widely.

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Draw in Order to See

A Cognitive History of Architectural Design Mark Alan Hewitt

Draw In Order to See is the first book to survey the history of architectural design using the latest research in cognitive science and embodied cognition.

Beginning with a primer on visual perception, cognitive science, design thinking, and modes of conception used by groups of architects in their practices, Mark Alan Hewitt surveys a 12,000-year period for specific information about the cognitive schemata used

by Homo sapiens to make their buildings and habitats. The resulting history divides these modes of thinking into three large cognitive arcs: crafting, depicting, and assembling, within specific temporal frames.

His analysis borrows from Merlin Donald’s thesis about mimetic and symbolic cognition as critical to the emergence of the modern mind, and further employs theories of enactment and embodiment to clarify their relationship to architecture.

Individual chapters treat the emergence of depiction during the Renaissance, the education of architects in the modern era, baroque illusionism and scenography, the breakdown of artisanal literacy during the enlightenment, and modern experiments with models, montage, and illusions of movement. The author concludes with a critique of contemporary design and education, and promotes

Title: Draw in Order to See Size: 7” x 9” Portrait Pages: 296pp Binding: Softbound with full flaps Publication Date: Spring 2020 ISBN: 978-1-943532-83-4 Price: $34.95 World Rights: Available

design with embodiment as a tonic for a profession in crisis, facing the challenges of climate change, energy shortages, inequality, and housing a population of over seven billion in the coming decades.

This groundbreaking and valuable study presents a clear view of current research in two related fields that have not heretofore been compared, and outlines a strategy for future research. An extensive bibliography offers readers an up-to-date reference to both the science and the architectural history behind the text.

Author Mark Alan Hewitt, FAIA, is an architect, historian, and preservationist working in the New York area. He taught architecture at Rice University, Columbia University, and the New Jersey Institute of Technology before serving for 18 years as an adjunct faculty member in the Art History Department at Rutgers University. He is the author of six books and numerous articles on American architecture, representation, architectural practice, and building conservation. His renowned work as a biographer of modern architects became a springboard for this provocative book.

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Thinking a Modern Landscape Architecture, West & East Christopher Tunnard, Sutemi Horiguchi Marc Treib

The complex story of modern landscape architecture remains to be written, as does its precise definition. Thinking a Modern Landscape Architecture, West and East, written by one of the field’s most prolific and insightful authors, provides a rare cross-cultural study that examines the written and design contributions made by two of the movement’s most influential early protagonists: Christopher Tunnard (1910–1979) in England—and later the United States, and Sutemi Horiguchi (1896–1984) in Japan. Tunnard’s pioneering manifesto, Gardens in the Modern Landscape, first published in 1938, laid out the thinking and provided the direction for a landscape architecture engaged more strongly with contemporary life, adopting ideas from modern art as well as the historical gardens of Japan. Rather than a book, it was the architect Horiguchi’s 1934 essay “The Garden of Autumn Grasses” that initiated a new direction for garden making in Japan, with a considered and artful use of seasonal plants and a stronger connection to the modern architecture it accompanied.

Unlike Tunnard, who sought inspiration and sources in contemporary art, Horiguchi looked to the eighteenth-century Rimpa School of painting for insights into the composition of the new garden by carefully placing individual plants against a simple background.

Although the two theorists-practitioners never met, Tunnard’s interest in Japan, and use of Horiguchi’s work as illustrations, links them in a shared quest for a landscape architecture appropriate to their times and respective countries.

Title: Thinking a Modern Landscape Architecture Size: 7.75” x 10” Portrait Pages: 248pp Binding: Hardbound Publication Date: Spring 2020 ISBN: 978-1-943532-78-0 Price: $45.00 World Rights: Available

Lavishly illustrated with 150 historical and contemporary photos and drawings, Thinking a Modern Landscape Architecture, West and East: Christopher Tunnard and Sutemi Horiguchi offers the first compressive study into their thinking, landscape designs, and consequent influence on landscape architecture in the years that followed.

Author Marc Treib is professor of Architecture Emeritus, University of California, Berkeley, and a historian of landscape and architecture who has published widely on modern and historical subjects in the United States, Japan, and Scandinavia. Recent books include Landscapes of Modern Architecture: Wright, Mies, Neutra, Aalto, Barragán (Yale, 2017); Austere Gardens: Thoughts on Landscape, Restraint, and Attending (ORO, 2016); and The Landscapes of Georges Descombes: Doing Almost Nothing (ORO, 2018).

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Increments of Neighborhood

A Compendium of Built Types for Walkable and Vibrant Communities Brian O’Looney

Author Brian O’Looney, AIA, LEED-AP, is a design architect, master planner, and a principal at Torti Gallas and Partners, with a practice that focuses on making places of enduring beauty based upon principles of sustainable urbanism and community enrichment. He lectures on a range of topics for livable communities and sustainable development. O’Looney began his career at Cesar Pelli and Associates, now Pelli, Clarke, Pelli, and subsequently contributed to work at Weihe Design Partnership, now WDG, as well as David Schwarz Architects. Through his career, he has led the design of buildings across the built spectrum including an urban flagship grocer, a train station, a ballpark, multiple mixed-use downtown districts, hotels, high-rise multi-family buildings, simple townhouses, stacked housing, and affordable housing neighborhoods. Brian is a graduate of Yale University and the School of Architecture and Urban Planning at the University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee.

Contributors Alex Dickson is a project manager and lead designer based in Washington, DC, with over fifteen years diverse project experience in residential, office, mixed-use, and entertainment facilities with award winning built projects in the Metro DC area, Florida, and Texas.

Intended as a comprehensive resource, Increments of Neighborhood is a compendium of recent built work for urban neighborhoods, encompassing the spectrum of building types financed/built by today’s American real estate industry—from single family and townhouses, through “missing middle” stacked housing, stick-built housing, large multi-family, and high-rise buildings. This publication is the only resource in the marketplace that tabulates market-rate products that fill America’s cities, as well as being a comparative resource that shows how these types can be deployed in a way befitting smart-growth using sustainable principles. The only resource of its type, Increments of Neighborhood will demystify the understanding of costs and type, contribute to the public realm for the non-architectural professional, and provide a breadth and range of significant new information for experienced architects who typically specialize in a particular segment of building products such as hospitals or single-family houses, information with which they are frequently unacquainted.

Title: Increments of Neighborhood Size: 8.5” x 11” Portrait Pages: 380pp Binding: Hardbound Publication Date: Spring 2020 ISBN: 978-1-940743-86-8 Price: $80.00 World Rights: Available

Kelly Mangold is a vice president based in RCLCO’s Washington, DC, office. Her work is focused within RCLCO’s Urban Real Estate and Community and Resort Advisory Groups, where she has had broad exposure to a wide variety of project types. Kelly is a licensed architect and LEED accredited professional. Prior to joining RCLCO she was an architect at Kohn Pedersen Fox in New York City where she worked on large mixed-use projects in the United States and abroad. Kelly holds a Bachelor of Arts in Architecture from the University of Pennsylvania and a Master of Architecture from Harvard University, with a focus on Real Estate and Urban Planning.

Her studies concentrated on design and economics of the built environment.

Payton Chung writes about the inter-related crafts that build cities and transformative places—namely architecture, development, finance, landscape, planning, and transportation.

Nat Bottigheimer is an urban transportation planner with twentyfive years of experience in coordinated land use and transportation planning, having worked as a senior official in both state DOT and transit agency settings, and as a planning consultant.

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Future Airports Ali Rahim

Future Airports re-examines the relationship between the growth of capital and the history of New York City real estate by speculating that airports play a role in the city’s financial success. What is the typology of a successful airport for the 21st century? What role does the airport play in the context of rapid globalization and everexpanding international logistics networks? Can the airport become a regional economic catalyst while also creating an inspiring and novel experience for passengers? The future airport becomes an important infrastructural space intricately weaving New York City’s desire to maintain its leadership in global financial markets with the imminent need of improved air infrastructure and the emergence of the logistics hub as an important and growing building typology.

Title: Future Airports Size: 10” x 10” Square Pages: 278pp Binding: Softbound Publication Date: Spring 2021 ISBN: 978-1-951541-00-2 Price: $35.00 World Rights: Available

Author Ali Rahim is an architect and founding director of Contemporary Architecture Practice and a professor of architecture at the University of Pennsylvania where he directs the Advanced Architectural Design program. Ali Rahim holds a Master’s Degree in Architecture from Columbia University, where he won the Honor Award Excellence in Architectural Design and the Kinney Traveling Fellowship. Ali has previously served as the Zaha Hadid Studio visiting professor at the University of Applied Arts in Vienna and Louis Kahn visiting Architecture Design professor at Harvard University. Ali Rahim has authored and co-edited books on contemporary design including Catalytic Formations (2011) in Chinese with additional projects and texts, Elegance (2007) with Hina Jamelle, Catalytic Formations: Architecture and Digital Design (2006) in its second edition, and Contemporary Techniques in Architecture (2002).

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Donald Gray

The most beautiful designs of Traditional Neighborhoods in Andalucia Javier Cenicacelaya and Alejandro Garcia Hermida Javier Cenicacelaya Alejandro García Hermida

THE MOST BEAUTIFUL DESIGNS OF TRADITIONAL NEIGHBORHOODS IN ANDALUCIA

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LOS DISEÑOS MAS BELLOS DE BARRIOS TRADICIONALES EN ANDALUCIA

Author Javier Cenicacelaya is an architect at the University of Navarra, Spain. He holds an MA from Oxford Brookes University, England, an MSc from the University of Oxford, England, and a PhD in architecture from the University of Navarra. He is a full-time professor of architecture at the School of Architecture of San Sebastian (University of the Basque Country) and President of INTBAU-Spain.

Alejandro Garcia Hermida is an architect at the Polytechnic University of Madrid. He holds a PhD from the School of Architecture, of the Polytechnic University of Madrid, where he is a lecturer of architecture. He has organized numerous symposia, and conferences, and has visited different universities in Europe and the USA.

Javier Cenicacelaya Alejandro García Hermida

The book describes in detail the works of Donald Gray in Andalusia.

They are all of imposing beauty. These neighborhoods are made following the centuries-old architectural and urban traditions of this beautiful region of Spain. The book shows from the floors of these developments, to that of the buildings; as well as details of windows, doors, ironworks, fountains, gardens, etc. The many beautiful photographs prove the magnificent creations of Donald Gray.

In short, a very complete book, of undoubted interest to architects, urban planners, and the different trades that intervene in the setting up of architecture, from carpenters, blacksmiths, gardeners, etc., and for those having responsibilities in the city, with its pavements, urban furniture, etc.

Title: Donald Gray Size: 8.98” x 11.81” Portrait Pages: 142pp Binding: Hardbound Publication Date: Spring 2022 ISBN: 978-1-954081-94-9 Price: $50.00 World Rights: Available

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Great Architects of the 20th Century Manuel I. Galindez

Javier Cenicacelaya, Iñigo Saloña, and Iñigo Basarrate JAVIER CENICACELAYA IÑIGO BASARRATE IÑIGO SALOÑA

GREAT ARCHITECTS OF THE 20th CENTURY GRANDES ARQUITECTOS DEL SIGLO XX

JAVIER CENICACELAYA IÑIGO BASARRATE IÑIGO SALOÑA ORO Editions

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Galíndez is, without any doubt, the most brilliant of the architects that have ever existed in Bilbao: a city with a very high architectural quality, due to its privileged place in economic terms within Spain, and to the existence of an industrial bourgeoisie very relevant not only locally, but nationally. The book analyses eight buildings by Manuel Galíndez, located in Madrid, Barcelona, and Bilbao. The book’s purpose is to fill the gap related to the absence of the great architects of the 20th century ignored by the sectarian modern historiography. Galíndez works are very conscious with the integration within the urban context. He is an architect that cares for the compositional issues beyond the style he uses in a given building, and his construction is meticulous, rigorous, and exquisite. This book is bi-lingual.

Author Javier Cenicacelaya, an architect from the University of Navarra, Spain, holds an MA from Oxford Brookes University in England, an MSc from the University of Oxford, England, and a PhD in architecture from the University of Navarra, Spaine. He is a full-time professor of architecture at the School of Architecture San Sebastian (University of Basque County), and is president of INTBAU–Spain.

Iñigo Saloña, an architect from the University of Navarra, Spain, is a professor of architecture composition at the School of Architecture of San Sebastian (University of the Basque Country).

Title: Great Architects of the 20th Century Size: 11.14” x 9.64” Portrait Pages: 216pp Binding: Hardbound Publication Date: Spring 2022 ISBN: 978-1-954081-82-6 Price: $50.00 World Rights: Available

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1, 10, 100 Years

Of Form, Typography, and Interaction at Parsons Parsons School of Design

1, 10, 100 Years of Form, Typography, and Interaction

at Parsons Since the school’s founding in the early 20th century, Parsons has had the unique distinction of establishing the oldest graphic and communication design course of study in the United States. Over the past decade, the Communication Design program has developed a unique curriculum involving the integration of form-making, typography, and interaction. In addition, the program has seen tremendous growth from a population of a hundred students in a cluster of sections to close to five hundred across three undergraduate and graduate programs. 1, 10, 100 Years: Form, Typography, and Interaction at Parsons captures three distinct moments in time: the last year, the last decade, and the last century. Each moment serves as a retrospective on the evolving nature of the discipline as seen through the unique pedagogical lens and work of the teachers and students that form the Communication Design community at Parsons.

Contributors Jarrett Fuller is a designer, writer, educator, editor, and podcaster. He is an assistant professor of graphic design at North Carolina State University, director of twenty-six, a design and editorial studio, host of the podcast Scratching the Surface, and is a contributing editor at AIGA Eye On Design.

Juliette Cezzar is a designer, writer, and an associate professor of communication design at the New School’s Parsons School of Design.

She directed the Parsons BFA Communication Design and BFA Design & Technology programs from 2011–2014. She served as president of the board of directors of AIGA NY from 2014–2016.

Pascal Glissmann is a designer, media artist, and educator. He has held academic positions alongside his creative practice in Cologne, Hong Kong, Beirut, and New York since 2001. He is associate professor of communication design and co-director of the Observational Practices Lab, Parsons.

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Brendan Griffiths is an interaction designer and educator based in New York City. He is a partner in the design practice Zut Alors!, and currently serves as director of the Master of Professional Studies program in Communication Design at Parsons School of Design. He holds an MFA in Graphic Design from Yale University.

E Roon Kang is an assistant professor of interaction design at Parsons School of Design. He is a TED Senior Fellow, was previously a research fellow at SENSEable City Laboratory of MIT. His work was selected as an inaugural project of LACMA’s Art + Technology Lab, was the winner of the NSF Science and Engineering Visualization Challenge.

Lynn Kiang is co-founder and partner at Dome, an experience design studio working at the intersection of media and the built environment for cultural institutions. As an educator, she is an assistant professor in communication design at Parsons School of Design and former adjunct faculty and visiting critic at the SVA and RISD. Caspar Lam is a partner at Synoptic Office, an internationally recognized design consultancy that works with some of the world’s leading cultural institutions and business organizations. He is the undergraduate Program Director and an assistant professor of communication design at Parsons.

He serves as the education committee chair on the AIGA NY Board of Directors.

Andrew LeClair is a designer and art director based in New York, with work in the collections of the Museum of Modern Art and The Whitney.

He led digital design at Bloomberg News and was an art director, working across print and digital, at Bloomberg Businessweek.

YuJune Park is a partner at Synoptic Office, an internationally recognized design consultancy that works with some of the world’s leading cultural institutions and business organizations. She is an assistant professor of communication design at Parsons where she was the Program Director from 2014-2017. She serves on the board of directors of the Type Directors Club.

Lucille Tenazas is the Henry Wolf Professor of Communication Design and recipient of the AIGA Medal in 2013 for her lifetime contribution to design practice and outstanding leadership in design education. Her design work is at the intersection of typography and linguistics, reflecting complex and poetic means of visual expression.

Kelly Walters is a designer, educator, and founder of the multidisciplinary design studio Bright Polka Dot. She is the author of Black, Brown + Latinx Design Educators: Conversations on Design and Race and the associate director of the BFA Communication Design Program at Parsons School of Design at The New School.

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APPLIED RESEARCH + DESIGN PUBLISHING SPRING 2022 AR+D, or Applied Research and Design Publishing is a thriving editorial platform that creates a space for research-based publications within the fields of Architecture, Landscape Architecture, Urbanism, and Design. With a diverse and talented editorial board consisting of a select group of the brightest practitioners, educators, and design thinkers in the world, we specifically focus on emerging dialogues between diverse modes of applied research that currently dominate a range of architectural practices, and their role in defining new modalities of spatial synthesis best afforded by design. This peer-reviewed imprint concentrates on the study of emergent spatial dynamics taking place across multiple scales and geographies, in order to construct a new ground for both established and emerging voices to disseminate their ideas in physical print.

Blank brings together texts and work from a wide range of theorists and practitioners who make CLT central to their inquiry and, in turn, suggest design approaches that broaden the material’s cultural, spatial, and technological significance for architecture, education, engineering, and industry.

Werewolf explores an emerging but under-investigated branch of architecture that embraces the transformation of form, performance, and the responsiveness to environments and context. These ideas are studied through architectural precedents and framed by critical essays. Werewolf expands on the architect’s agency to critically address political, social, and environmental unrest.

A Landscape Approach promotes a landscape approach as a method for understanding and addressing the complex interdependent issues of environmental and climatic change, ecological degradation, and socio-cultural inequalities. The twenty-three book essays are structured into five sections around concepts of urban landscape systems, ecology, politics, territory, and practice.

In what is arguably a most crucial time for discourse around issues that are concerned with the political, institutional, and social shape of worlds to come, this book explores the agency of the project of architecture and its processes of innovation by constructing an opportunistic and contingent map of effectual positions.

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David Grahame Shane trained at the Architectural Association School of Architecture in London in the 1960s during the Archigram years. He completed an MArch in Urban Design and a PhD in Architectural and Urban History at Cornell with Colin Rowe. He taught at the A.A. School under Alvin Boyarsky before joining Columbia University in 1985 (and the Urban Design Program in 1991). He now also lectures at Cooper Union and City College in New York. Over the past twenty years he has taught Urban Design master-classes and lectured internationally, as well as being published widely.

In 2008 Kenneth Schwartz was appointed as dean of the Tulane School of Architecture after serving as professor, department chair, and associate dean for twenty-four years at the University of Virginia. As a founding principal of CP+D (Community Planning + Design) and Schwartz-Kinnard Architects, he has won four national design competitions exploring the constructive force that progressive urbanism and architecture can play in rebuilding cities. In addition to his design work, Mr. Schwartz has served as a planning commissioner and member of the Board of Architectural Review for the City of Charlottesville, focusing on design and preservation issues in the community. Mr. Schwartz served on the University of Virginia Master Planning Committee and the Art and

Architecture Review Board for the Commonwealth of Virginia. He is a past president of the National Architecture Accrediting Board and recent board member of the Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture.

Monica Ponce de Leon is the dean of the School of Architecture at Princeton University. Along with her success in academia, she is widely recognized as a pioneer in robotic architecture and practices widely through MPdL Studio, which she is the founder of.

Throughout her career she has won various design awards including the Young Architect Award in 1997 from the Architectural League of New York, the Award in Architecture in 2002 from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, and the Emerging Voices award in 2003.

Her past academic career includes being the former dean of A. Alfred Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning at the University of Michigan and work as a professor at the Graduate School of Design at Harvard University.

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John Parman is a visiting scholar in Architecture at UC Berkeley and the co-founder of Snowden & Parman, an editorial studio. He was editorial director at Gensler from 1997 through 2017, launching its client magazine, its trends annual, and a monograph series. He co-founded and published Design Book Review from 1983 through 1999, and is an advisor to ARCADE (Seattle), Architect’s Newspaper (Los Angeles), and Room One Thousand (Berkeley).

Michelangelo Sabatino, PhD, is the interim dean of the College of Architecture at the Illinois Institute of Technology (IIT). Michelangelo is an architect, preservationist, and historian whose research broadly addresses intersections between culture, technology, and design in the built and natural environment. From his research on preindustrial vernacular traditions and their influence on modern architectures of the Mediterranean region, to his current project, which looks at the transnational forces that have shaped the architecture, infrastructure, and landscape of the Americas over the course of the 19th and 20th centuries, he has trained new light on larger patterns of architectural discourse and production. Sabatino is professor and director of the doctoral program at the Illinois Institute of Technology College of Architecture in Chicago.

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Lake Douglas, PhD, FASLA, is the associate dean of research and development at the College of Art and Design, Louisiana State University, and professor in LSU’s Robert Reich School of Landscape Architecture.

He received a BLA in landscape architecture from LSU, MLA from Harvard, and PhD from the University of New Orleans. He is the author of seven books—the most recent being Buildings of New Orleans (University of Virginia Press, 2018), which he co-authored with Karen Kingsley—and dozens of articles, book chapters, essays, and book reviews. His writings have been recognized with numerous awards. In addition to teaching, he is active in efforts to support open space equity and revitalize public spaces in New Orleans.

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BLANK

Speculations on CLT

Jennifer Bonner and Hanif Kara

This book advances a much-needed and transformational agenda for making architecture today through a close reading of crosslaminated timber (CLT) and its material unit, the CLT blank. Both matter-of-fact and multivalent, economical and excessive, the blank has untapped potential for experimentation, innovation, and research in architecture at various scales. Blank brings together texts and work from a wide range of theorists and practitioners who make CLT central to their inquiry and, in turn, suggest design approaches that broaden the material’s cultural, spatial, and technological significance for architecture, education, engineering, and industry.

The book claims new conceptual territory for a material with extensive appeal whose theorization has been stuck in narratives of its sustainability. Slippages between art, architecture, and science help position Blank as an antidote to current conversations about CLT, which are fixated on its mass production and carbon footprint, portraying it as a bland product rather than an enabler of design.

The book argues for the material’s aesthetic and spatial potential, conjuring the kind of world that CLT can create. Striking visuals contribute to repositioning CLT architecture though new forms of representation and design responses that continue to stay in touch with pragmatics.

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Authors Jennifer Bonner is director of MALL and associate professor of architecture at the Harvard Graduate School of Design. She is the author of A Guide to the Dirty South—Atlanta and guest editor of a special issue of ART PAPERS on Los Angeles. Her design work, including Haus Gables, a single-family residence in Atlanta constructed of eighty-seven CLT panels, has been widely published and exhibited.

Hanif Kara is cofounder and design director of AKT II, a design-led structural and civil engineering firm based in London, and professor in practice of architectural technology at the Harvard Graduate School of Design. Kara has gained international standing in the field of the built environment through practice, pioneering research, and education in interdisciplinary design.

Contributions by Jennifer Bonner, Nelson Byun, Victoria Camblin, Sean Canty, Courtney Coffman, Sam Jacob, Hanif Kara, Christopher C. M. Lee, Erin Putalik, Nader Tehrani, and Yasmin Vobis.

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Werewolf

The Architecture of Lunacy, Shapeshifting, and Material Metamorphosis Edited by Caroline O’Donnell and José Ibarra

José Ibarra is director of transformation and research of CODA. He is an assistant professor at the University of Virginia. Ibarra’s interdisciplinary work focuses on the intersection between architecture and environmental uncertainty, looking at design tactics for remediation and justice that work across different temporal scales.

Cynthia Davidson is an architecture editor, writer, and critic based in New York City. She is the founding editor of Log: Observations on Architecture and the Contemporary City as well as the ANY series of conferences and publications. She was cocurator of the American Pavilion at the Venice Architecture Biennial in 2014.

Peter Eisenman is a world-renowned architect and educator. He has designed several structures throughout the world, including the Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe in Berlin, the City of Culture of Galicia, Santiago de Compostela in Galicia, and the Wexner Center for the Arts in Columbus, OH. Jimenez Lai works in the world of art, culture, and education. He is founder of Bureau Spectacular. Lai is widely exhibited and published around the world, including the MoMA-collected White Elephant. Lai has won various awards, including the Architectural League Prize for Young Architects.

As climate, culture, and technology evolve and become increasingly unpredictable, architecture’s stasis becomes more incongruous.

Werewolf explores an emerging but under-investigated branch of architecture that embraces the transformation of form, performance, and the responsiveness to environments and context. These ideas are studied through architectural precedents and framed by critical essays by Jesse Reiser, Greg Lynn, Jimenez Lai, Spyros Papapetros, Kari Weil, as well as the editors. The shift from passive buildings to reactive structures is now imperative, as climate change and political turmoil exacerbate the unpredictability of environments.

Werewolf expands on the architect’s agency to critically address political, social, and environmental unrest. Revealing the cunning and agile ways in which architecture can negotiate rather than resist change, this book departs from the fixed Vitruvian man and uses the figure of the werewolf to propose a model where changes of state, mutation, and decomposition are conceptually fundamental.

Contributors Caroline O’Donnell is an architect, writer, educator, and principal of CODA. She is the Edgar A. Tafel Associate Professor and director of the M.Arch program at Cornell University, as well as author of Niche Tactics: Generative Relationships between Architecture and Site.

O’Donnell specializes in ecological theory and material innovation, looking toward natural and local resources to produce meaningful environments.

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Greg Lynn is an innovator, redefining design with digital technology as well as pioneering the fabrication and manufacture of complex functional and ergonomic forms using CNC machinery. The buildings, projects, publications, teachings, and writings associated with his office have been influential in the acceptance and use of advanced materials and technologies for design.

Spyros Papapetros is an art and architectural historian and theorist whose work focuses on the historiography of art and architecture, the intersections between architecture and the visual arts, as well as, the relationship between architecture, psychoanalysis, and the history of psychological aesthetics.

Jesse Reiser is an architect and educator whose work has been published and exhibited widely. He was a fellow of the American Academy in Rome in 1985 and he worked for the offices of John Hejduk and Aldo Rossi prior to forming Reiser + Umemoto with partner Nanako Umemoto.

Kari Weil is the university professor of letters at Wesleyan University.

She has published numerous essays on literary representations of gender, feminist theory, and, more recently, on theories and representations of animal otherness and human-animal relations.

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A Landscape Approach

From Local Communities to Territorial Systems

Dr. Shelagh McCartney, Samantha Solano, Sonja Vangjeli, and Hannes Zander

The book promotes a landscape approach as a method for understanding and addressing the complex interdependent issues of environmental and climatic change, ecological degradation, and socio-cultural inequalities. The twenty-three book essays are structured into five sections around concepts of urban landscape systems, ecology, politics, territory, and practice. By linking individual sites and local communities to territorial socio-ecological systems and processes, they discuss issues of urban growth and development, remote areas of extraction and production, environmental degradation and transformation, and social inequality and discrimination. While the book allows for parallel readings of such issues in multiple cultural and geographical contexts, a geographic focus is placed on Canada and other environmentally complex and sensitive northern regions. One key theme is the integration of Indigenous knowledge, experience, and storytelling throughout several of the chapters. The book draws lessons that are grounded in inclusive, contextual, and multi-scalar readings which suggest landscape-informed practices that are both socially and environmentally resilient, just, and sustainable.

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of design from the Harvard Graduate School of Design and is the founding director of the Together Design Lab. Samantha Solano is an assistant professor at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. She holds a master in landscape architecture degree from the Harvard University Graduate School of Design and is a co-founder of The VELA Project and principal of the research practice JUXTOPOS. Sonja Vangjeli is a landscape architect and design project manager at Waterfront Toronto and has international experience as landscape designer and researcher. She holds a master of landscape architecture degree from the Harvard University Graduate School of Design and a master of architecture degree from the University of Waterloo.

Hannes Zander is working as PhD Fellow at The Oslo School of Architecture and Design. He holds a master in landscape architecture degree from the Harvard University Graduate School of Design and is co-founder of the International Landscape Collaborative ILC. ISBN 978-1-954081-23-9

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Innovation in Practice In Theory

Valeria Federighi Elena Todella is an architect and a post-doc research fellow at Politecnico di Torino. Her research activities concern complex urban and architectural transformations, by focusing on both architectural design and decision-making processes. She is currently involved in an excellence department project about the Agenda 2030 and the SDG 11.

Caterina Quaglio is an architect and a research fellow at the Politecnico di Torino. Her research work focuses on policies and practices of urban regeneration of public housing districts. She is part of the Future Urban Legacy Lab research group.

Andrea Alberto Dutto is an architect and research associate at the Chair of Architecture Theory of the RWTH Aachen University. In 2017 he completed his PhD as a joint title between Politecnico di Torino and the RWTH Aachen University. His research focus concerns encyclopedism, handbooks, dictionaries, and diagrams employed in the making of architecture.

In what is arguably a most crucial time for discourse around issues that are concerned with the political, institutional, and social shape of worlds to come, this book explores the agency of the project of architecture and its processes of innovation by constructing an opportunistic and contingent map of effectual positions.

The book is built around two sets of questions: the first set of questions concerns itself with the distinction between built objects and actions as the focus of observation, and as objects that are susceptible to innovating, or being innovated. The second set of questions concerns itself with the understanding of the relationship between theory and practice and is defined by two positions: one that looks to theory as a result of practice, another that looks to practice as subsequent to theory. These two axes are used to locate and compare different positions, thus allowing the readers to construct their own readings of what it means to innovate the project of architecture.

Daniele Campobenedetto is an architect and an assistant professor in architectural and urban design at the Department of Architecture and Design of Politecnico di Torino. His research activities especially investigate urban transformation and urban design in European cities, focusing on architectural typologies and urban rules. He is a Research Fellow of the interdisciplinary research center “Future Urban Legacy Lab.” He is also Journal Manager and Editor of the journal Architectural Design Theory.

Caterina Barioglio is an architect and an assistant professor at the Department of Architecture and Design of Politecnico di Torino. Bridging history and design, her research relates to urban regeneration processes and urban design, with a main focus on building typologies and the effects of urban rules on the city form.

Since 2018 she has been a research fellow at the interdepartmental center FULL – Future Urban Legacy Lab. She is an Editor of Ardeth - Architectural Design Theory journal.

Contributors Valeria Federighi is an architect and assistant professor at the Department of Architecture and Design of Politecnico di Torino. Her research work focuses on analyzing mechanisms of innovation in architecture as expanding practice. She is on the editorial board of the journal Ardeth and she is part of the China Room research group.

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Curb-scale Hong Kong Narratives of Infrastructure Sony Devabhaktuni

Curb-scale Hong Kong is about the infrastructural objects that constitute the street in Hong Kong. Through drawing and text, the book renders these objects visible and argues for their relevance as story tellers and civic protagonists. The book opens an alternative imagination of infrastructure and asserts the importance of the ground to Hong Kong’s urban realm.

The book is structured around measured plan drawings of five streets in Hong. The drawings represent stopping points in a desire to draw everything. This impossible task resulted in documents suspended between narrative and a stilled, abstract distance. Details of growth, error, decay, undoing, and repair provide a register of happenings and becomings. Each drawing speaks to an entanglement between the objects and agencies of Hong Kong’s urban realm. A second axonometric index names and examines these objects, registering more closely the material and technical decisions that give them their qualities. Texts that accompany the drawings are coincident descriptions; they thicken the street plans and index. Longerform opening and closing essays situate the curb-scale within architecture’s contemporary engagement with infrastructure and with the practice of architectural drawing.

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Author Sony Devabhaktuni is an assistant professor of design in the department of architecture at the University of Hong Kong (HKU).

His research and teaching focuses on collaborative processes in architectural design and urban infrastructure.

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Architectural Ceramic Assemblies Workshop V Omar Khan

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Ceramic Assemblies V Edited by Laura Garofalo and Omar Khan

This book chronicles experimental approaches to the design and production of architectural terra cotta facades and structures. Under the auspices of the Architectural Ceramic Assemblies Workshop (ACAW), a research collaborative supported by Boston Valley Terra Cotta, the largest manufacturer of architectural terra cotta in the United State, architectural firms work with manufacturing to explore material and design innovation. Now in its fifth year, the workshop aims to educate architects about terra cotta through the production of unique prototypes of rain screen facade systems, modular assemblies, columns, and structural systems.

Architectural Ceramic Assemblies Workshop V chronicles the work of architectural firms Kohn Pederson Fox (KPF), LMN Architects, Smith + Gill Architecture, Pelli Clarke Pelli, Perkins and Will, PLP Architecture, Skidmore Owings and Merrill (SOM), Studio Gang, and academic teams Haptek Lab and Alfred University/University at Buffalo.

Contributors Omar Khan (editor) is Head at CMU School of Architecture. His research is located at the nexus of architecture, digital fabrication, and smart technologies.

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Laura Garofalo (editor) is an associate professor at the CMU School of Architecture. Her research, pedagogy, and practice focus on the conjunction of natural and architectural systems.

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Impossible and Hyper-Real Elements of Architecture Carl Lostritto, Viola Ago, Julie Kress, and Hans Tursack

Impossible and Hyper-Real Elements of Architecture addresses how and why architects, artists, and designers manipulate reality.

Front and center in this discourse is the role of rendering. Most often, to render is to engage a thick software interface, to accept a photographic framework of variables and effects, and to assume an unquestioned posture of articulating material, mass, and color. But like drawing, rendering is an interdisciplinary, algorithmic, historically rooted cultural practice as much as it is a digital vocation. The elements explored in this book are labeled “impossible” because they avoid a fixed relationship to a singular built reality. Digital bonsai trees, pixels, video game levels, grids, and dioramas extend like skewers through multiple media and formats. Through work that looks very real and can’t possibly exist, representation becomes the territory of speculation, ambiguity, and curiosity.

Julie Kress is a lecturer at the University of Tennessee Knoxville College of Architecture + Design. Her work straddles across realms of architecture, exhibition design, and research in digital media.

Authors Carl Lostritto is an associate professor and graduate program director at RISD Architecture. His teaching, practice, and research explores the intersections between computation and representation.

Hans Tursack recently served as the MIT Pietro Belluschi research fellow. His writing and scholarly work have appeared in Perspecta, Pidgin, Thresholds, Log Dimensions, Archinect, and the Architects Newspaper.

Viola Ago is an Albanian architectural designer and researcher.

She directs MIRACLES Architecture and recently held the Wortham fellowship at the Rice University School of Architecture.

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Neural Architecture

Architecture and Artificial Intelligence Matias Del Campo

This book explores the interdisciplinary project that brings the long tradition of humanistic inquiry in architecture together with cutting-edge research in artificial intelligence. The main goal of Neural Architecture is to understand how to interrogate artificial intelligence—a technological tool—in the field of architectural design, traditionally a practice that combines humanities and visual arts.

Matias del Campo, the author of Neural Architecture is currently exploring specific applications of artificial intelligence in contemporary architecture, focusing on their relationship to material and symbolic culture. AI has experienced an explosive growth in recent years in a range of fields including architecture but its implications for the humanistic values that distinguish architecture from technology have yet to be measured. The book provides an opportunity to survey the emerging field of Architecture and Artificial Intelligence, and to reflect on the implications of a world increasingly entangled in questions of the agency, culture and ethics of AI. Author Matias del Campo is a registered architect, designer and educator.

Founded together with Sandra Manninger in Vienna 2003, SPAN is a globally acting practice best known for their application of contemporary technologies in architectural production. Their awardwinning architectural designs are informed by advanced geometry, computational methodologies, and philosophical inquiry.

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Designing the Computational Image Imagining Computational Design

Edited by Daniel Cardoso Llach and Theodora Vardouli

During the three decades following the Second World War, and before the advent of personal computers, government investment in university research in North America and the UK funded multidisciplinary projects to investigate the use of computers for manufacturing and design. Designing the Computational Image, Imagining Computational Design explores this period of remarkable inventiveness, and traces its repercussions on architecture and other creative fields through a selection of computational designers working today. Situating contemporary expressions of design in relation to broader historical, disciplinary, and technical frames, the book showcases the confluence, during the second half of the twentieth century, of publicly funded technical innovations in software, geometry, and hardware with a cultural imaginary of design endowing computer-generated images with both geometric plasticity and a new type of agency as operative design artifacts.

Authors Daniel Cardoso Llach, Ph.D., is an associate professor of architecture at Carnegie Mellon University and the author of Builders of the Vision: Software and the Imagination of Design (Routledge, 2015) and the co-editor of Other Computations (Uniandes, 2020).

Theodora Vardouli, Ph.D., is an assistant professor at the Peter Guo-hua Fu School of Architecture, McGill University. She is coTitle: Designing the Computational Image Size: 7” x 9” Portrait Pages: 240pp Binding: Hardbound Publication Date: Spring 2022 ISBN: 978-1-954081-34-5 Price: $35.00 World Rights: Available

editor of Computer Architectures: Constructing the Common Ground (Routledge, 2020).

Contributors Gabriela Aceves Sepulveda, Matthew Allen, Moa Carlsson, Sean Keller, Anna-Maria Meister, Akshita Sivakumar, Olga Touloumi, David Theodore, Jacob Gaboury, Molly Wright Steenson, Nathalie Bredella, Ranjodh Singh Dhaliwal, Andres Burbano, Mario Carpo, and Wendy Chun.

Featured Artists Ken Knowlton, Janet Tomlinsen, George Stiny, Steve A. Coons, Andrew Heumann, Golan Levin, Philip Beesley, Zach Lieberman, Lillian Schwartz, Kristy Balliet, Joseph Choma, Dana Cupkova, Jer Thorp, Elizabeth Vander Zaag, Carl Lostritto, Gilles Fortin, Leslie Mezei, Dennis Peters, Charles E. Eastman, Robin Forrest, Timothy E. Johnson, Nicholas Negroponte, Paul Pangaro, George Stiny, Rachel Strickland, Jonah Ross-Marrs, Hexagram collective, Christos Yessios, and Jürg Lehni.

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Fulfilled

Architecture, Excess, and Desire Ashley Bigham

Based on the eponymous symposium and exhibition, Fulfilled: Architecture, Excess, and Desire considers the role of architecture in a culture shaped by the excessive manufacturing and assuagement of desire. Until the term became synonymous with Amazon warehouses, the concept of fulfillment described the achievement of a desire—sometimes tangible, often psychological or spiritual. With the rapid growth of e-commerce, our understanding of fulfillment has evolved to reflect a seemingly endless cycle of desire and gratification—one whose continuity hinges on our willingness to overlook the cultural, economic, and environmental impacts of our ever-increasing expectation of quick and efficient fulfillment. A closer look at fulfillment reveals a social, typological, formal, aesthetic, and economic practice constructed collectively through both digital and physical interactions. It is a cultural practice which evolves like a language, both universally transferable and contextually specific. As a symposium, exhibition, and now publication, this project aims to draw out these new arrangements, sticky relationships, and material byproducts of cultural production and to ask again the age-old question, “What does it mean to be fulfilled?”

This book examines the architecture of fulfillment through three lenses: logistical, material, and cultural fulfillment. Each reveals the new forms of architectural practice and research that are possible, typical, and even surreptitiously encouraged in the age of Amazon.

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Fulfillment networks are not invisible systems; they are tangible objects—warehouses, suburban houses, parking lots, cardboard boxes, shopping malls, mechanical systems, shipping containers— with which architects necessarily interact. From political mapping and questions of labor to digital and physical storage typologies, contemporary architects learn from and work critically within the architecture of fulfillment. Their interests and approaches include the material and environmental shortcomings of global logistics and the formal, representational, and cultural potentials of a culture of excess. This book highlights architecture’s unique capacity to offer methodologies for confronting an increasingly ambiguous, alienating world and produce new knowledge and unexpected solutions that go beyond the dichotomies of rural and urban territories.

Author Ashley Bigham is an assistant professor of architecture at the Knowlton School of Architecture and co-director of Outpost Office.

She is a former Walter B. Sanders Fellow at the University of Michigan’s Taubman College, a MacDowell Fellow, and a Fulbright Research Fellow in Lviv, Ukraine.

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Rem Koolhaas / OMA + AMO, Spaces for Prada Source Books in Architecture No. 14 Edited by Benjamin Wilke

Source Books in Architecture No.14: Rem Koolhaas / OMA + AMO Spaces for Prada is the most recent volume in the Source Books in Architecture series. Among the topics discussed in the book are the long-standing relationship with Prada and how the early objectives in that relationship have both maintained and shifted.

An underlying theme to the conversations held with students and faculty of the Knowlton School community is the topic of architectclient relationships, their history, their problems, and how they have contributed to the discipline over time. Explicitly, a focus of the conversation is a number of projects that OMA has developed or completed with Prada, a large number of which are installationscale environments that manifest in the form of runway shows and exhibitions. The challenge of such projects is to retain a commitment to the political and cultural agenda that OMA embeds in the larger and permanent buildings. Given the ephemerality and role of these environments as literal backgrounds to highlighted events, the projects are ideal scenarios in which to develop an architecture that lacks the permanence of buildings while still carrying potency and contributing to larger cultural discussions involving, for example, event, place, concept, product, staging, the crowd, lighting, and materiality.

Title: Rem Koolhaas / OMA + AMO Size: 8” x 9” Portrait Pages: 588pp Binding: Softbound Publication Date: Spring 2021 ISBN: 978-1-951541-54-5 Price: $49.95 World Rights: Available

Source Books in Architecture No.14 contains project documentation from the OMA and Prada archives, transcripts from Koolhaas’s conversations with students at the Knowlton School at The Ohio State University, and commentary and critique from architects, critics, and theorists.

Contributors Benjamin Wilke is a senior lecturer at the Knowlton School of Architecture at The Ohio State University, where he teaches graduate and undergraduate studios and seminars.

Rem Koolhaas founded OMA in 1975 with Elia and Zoe Zenghelis and Madelon Vriesendorp. In 1978, he published Delirious New York: A Retroactive Manifesto for Manhattan. In 1995, his book S, M, L, XL summarized the work of OMA in “a novel about architecture.” He co-heads the work of both OMA and AMO, the research branch of OMA, operating in areas beyond the realm of architecture.

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Best Practices Erin and Ian Besler

Contributors Erin Besler is a designer whose work focuses on construction technologies and building practices that are less about mastery and exclusivity, and more about ubiquity and access. Erin is an Assistant Professor of Architecture at Princeton University and co-founder of Besler & Sons, a design studio located in central New Jersey.

Ian Besler is a designer whose work is situated at the edges between interfaces, software, and cities. Ian’s work is especially interested in the defaults, incidentals, and workarounds of visual communication and digital interactions. He is a Visiting Assistant Professor at Pratt Institute and a co-founder of Besler & Sons.

Sylvia Lavin is a critic, curator and historian whose work explores the limits of architecture across a wide spectrum of historical periods.

Her books include Form Follows Libido: Architecture and Richard Neutra in a Psychoanalytic Culture; Everything Loose Will Land: 1970s Art and Architecture in Los Angeles and Architecture Itself and Other Postmodernization Effects. She is Professor of Architecture at Princeton University and is currently working on a book about trees.

A thought-provoking guide to the endearing and enigmatic ways in which the built environment takes shape, Best Practices proposes a new way of thinking about neighborhoods, housing developments, streetscapes, and storefronts, not so much as places defined by building codes, dimensions, or geographic features, but as assemblages of ad hoc interventions and incidental ephemera.

Best Practices is an invitation to thoroughly reconsider issues of expertise, professionalism, power, ubiquity, defaults, communication environments, construction practices, and how these things confront architecture. The book proposes a broader and more all-encompassing set of interests and references for contemporary architecture and design discourse.

Pairing photographic documentation with extensive captions and citations, Best Practices defines a territory within the margins between the sanctioned and unsanctioned, the regulated and unregulated, the tasteful and tacky, the novel and the nonsense.

While not necessarily in opposition of those mechanisms, Best Practices asserts that interest, knowledge, and meaning are more often generated on the lines that divide such categories. The book advocates for a more thorough consideration of the unauthorized remodels, slap-dash handiwork, haphazard paint jobs, halfhearted do-it-yourself projects, cracked facades, contradictions, compromises, and coincidences.

Title: Best Practices Size: 6.13” x 9.25” Portrait Pages: 224pp Binding: Softbound Publication Date: Spring 2021 ISBN: 978-1-951541-11-8 Price: $29.95 World Rights: Available

Jonathan Jae-an Crisman is an artist and urban scholar whose work focuses on the intersections between culture, place, and politics. He is currently an assistant professor of public & applied humanities at the University of Arizona.

Fiona Connor (born in New Zealand) is an artist based in Los Angeles. She has made solo exhibitions at Secession, Vienna; SculptureCenter, New York; MAK Center for Art and Architecture, Los Angeles; Govett-Brewster Art Gallery, New Plymouth; Monash University Museum of Art, Melbourne; Hammer Museum, Los Angeles among others. Connor received an MFA from the California Institute of the Arts in 2011.

Wendy Gilmartin is a licensed architect and writer based in Los Angeles and the Mojave Desert. She holds a Master of Architecture from Rice University and is an educator at California Polytechnic State University, Pomona. Prior to becoming an architect, Wendy was a music critic at LAWeekly for ten years.

Courtney Coffman, editor, is manager of lectures and publications at Princeton University’s School of Architecture. She has served as a content and copy editor for various architectural publications and monographs. Her own writings explore the visual culture of contemporary architecture and design.

Christina Moushoul, associate editor, obtained her undergraduate degree from UCLA and is currently a Master of Architecture candidate at the Princeton University School of Architecture, where she is an editor of the journal Pidgin.

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Posthuman Architecture A Catalogue of Archetypes Jacopo Leveratto

For a long period of time, spatial design has been seen as an action that could be performed by people, and for people only.

Today, as some of the most meaningful projects of our times seem to challenge this concept, qualitative research still struggles to emerge. This book collects, reconstructs, and discusses archetypal models of posthuman architecture, from the cabin of Henry David Thoreau to the Svalbard Global Seed Vault. This book aims to show how architectural, landscape, and industrial designers, be they professional practitioners or not, redefined their tools in order to meet the functional and symbolic needs of new and different kinds of subjects. All this in ten monographic architectural tales, thought to trace the evolution of an extended idea of coexistence between humans and other species or technologies.

Author Jacopo Leveratto is a PhD architect and an assistant professor of interior architecture at the Department of Architecture and Urban Studies of Politecnico di Milano. He has led different researches and authored numerous publications in peer-reviewed international journals and edited volumes.

Title: Posthuman Architecture Size: 5.5” x 8.5” Portrait Pages: 250pp Binding: Softbound Publication Date: Fall 2021 ISBN: 978-1-954081-21-5 Price: $35.00 World Rights: Available

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Internal

Developing Informed Architectural Languages Tom Diehl

INTERNAL D E V E L O P I N G I N F O R M E D ARCHITECTURAL L A N G U A G E S

Tod Williams Billie Tsien

Tom Diehl

Tom Kundig

Enrique Norten

Thom Mayne

Brian Mackay-Lyons

Neil Denari

Eric Owen Moss

John and Patricia Patkau

As the number and distinctiveness of design directions in contemporary architecture expands an outcome has emerged of a contradictory nature. While many of these directions hold great intrigue, a troubling aspect arises in that in their realization an “incompleteness” is often exhibited, one expressing a less developed architectural richness expressed by an under-utilized nature of the architectural language itself.

Internal addresses this issue with a focus on topics underlying the creation of architectural languages. Concentrating on strategies and concepts that inform the creation of cohering architectural languages versus “external” issues affecting design, such as those necessary to accommodate site or program, Internal focuses on design considerations with the authority grounded in “internal” languagebased architectural issues. Identifying underlying themes and strategies necessary to create coherent and informed architectural languages constitutes the effort underlying this book.

Author Tom Diehl is an associate professor of architecture at the Gerald.

D. Hines College of Architecture and Design at the University of Houston where he has taught for over 40 years. He is a registered architect with a professional practice in Houston, Texas.

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Blue Papers

Studies on Digitational Architecture Giuseppe Bono

During the last thirty years, the use of digital technologies in architecture has exponentially increased. New computational tools and methods are significantly changing the way we design and perform our buildings.

The book analysis the current digital evolution of architecture through a series of considerations related to several aspects of the ongoing digital era, ranging from the problem of authorship and human creativity in computational design to notions related to architectural pedagogy, professional practice, and robotic construction. This publication aims to identify an alternative and possible understanding of architecture in the current digital era based on the relationship between technological development and human progress Author Giuseppe Bono is an Italian and British registered architect and senior postgraduate teaching assistant at The Bartlett School of Architecture, UCL. He holds a MArch(Hons) in Architecture and Construction Engineering from Politecnico di Milano, and he is now an MSc candidate in Architectural Computation at The Bartlett School of Architecture, UCL.

Title: Blue Papers Size: 5.8” x 8.3” Portrait Pages: 156pp Binding: Softbound Publication Date: Fall 2021 ISBN: 978-1-951541-91-0 Price: $24.95 World Rights: Available

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Ailing Cities

History, Assessment, and Remedy Kwaku L. Keddey

Ailing Cities is a book written largely to educate and facilitate a dialogue with people of all backgrounds on environmental sustainability, architecture, urban planning, and design. It has been necessitated by urban ills in Ghana and other sub–Saharan African countries. Urbanization has led to the creation of informal settlements within communities in sub-Saharan countries that are most vulnerable to the effects of climate change, coupled with the lack of enforcement of planning and building laws that have resulted in spatial chaos and vegetative depletion. Ailing Cities addresses relevant topics essential to give the reader an understanding of how individuals and communities can bring lasting changes to their communities.

Author Kwaku L. Keddey is an architect and urbanist. He earned an MSc. in Urban and Environmental Planning from the University of Virginia, Charlottesville in 2014. He is a member of the Ghana Institute of Planners and the Ghana Institute of Architects.

Title: AIling Cities Size: 5.5” x 8.5” Portrait Pages: 200pp Binding: Softbound Publication Date: Fall 2021 ISBN: 978-1-954081-08-6 Price: $29.95 World Rights: Available

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Creatures are Stirring

Architectural Friends of the Anthropocene Joseph Altshuler and Julia Sedlock

Creatures Are Stirring is an optimistic manifesto that rescripts the anthropocentric narratives of Western architecture with new myths for a playfully compassionate and nonviolent future. The book reconceptualizes buildings as our friends by amplifying architecture’s creaturely qualities—formal embellishments, fictional enhancements, and organizational strategies that suggest animal-like agency. In a burning world, such qualities may initiate more companionable relationships between humans and the built environment, and ultimately foster greater solidarity with other human and nonhuman lifeforms.

Addressing a broad audience, Creatures Are Stirring uses the apparent subjecthood of familiar objects like plush toys and sports mascots to guide readers toward a novel way of seeing, reading, and making creaturely architecture. The book combines the authors’ expository text and illustrated mythical interludes with contributions from contemporary architects whose work collectively defines an architectural territory that is at once grounded in disciplinary rigor and urgent realities, and liberated to elicit fantastical futures.

Title: Creatures are Stirring Size: 7” x 10” Portrait Pages: 180pp Binding: Softbound Publication Date: Fall 2021 ISBN: 978-1-951541-61-3 Price: $30.00 World Rights: Available

Authors Joseph Altshuler is co-founder of Could Be Architecture, a Chicago-based design practice, and the founding editor of SOILED, an architectural literary magazine. Joseph teaches and coordinates the undergraduate curriculum for the Architecture and Interior Architecture programs at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.

Julia Sedlock is co-founder of Cosmo Design Factory, a Hudson Valley practice that combines residential client work with a commitment to local community development and activism. As a founding member of Philmont Land and Opportunity Trust (P.L.O.T.), Julia collaborates with neighbors and local government to improve housing equity and inclusivity in the village of Philmont, NY.

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Toward an American Spolia

A Loose Inventory of Antecedents and Possibilities Aleksandr Mergold

Spolia is what historians call the ancient practice of recycling of building materials, and until recently it was deemed rather inconvenient as it contaminates an understanding of history as a linear progression of time. It is both constructive (re-use) and destructive (“spoils” imply conquest, destruction, and uprooting). Yet as a way of engagement with historic artifacts, spolia opens a new door into the creation of built form. This publication is an inventory of the processes of spolia, a distinctive cultural practice from the ancient times to ours, framing the necessity for the spoliation of the American 20th century—its materials, inventions, aesthetics, and debris. The book will contain appropriated and repurposed images, drawings, and texts presented as a series of unbound plates affording multiple ways of sorting, comparing, mixing, and reusing.

The book consists of antecedents of ancient and contemporary spolia in the form of images, texts, and drawing, composed of an introductory Bound Volume and a Loose Inventory, a collection of plates. Both the Volume and Inventory address the idea of spolia through the primary lenses of Form, Material, Type, and Tech; and the contents of the Inventory are sorted, at least initially, according to those categories. The loose plates can be also organized chronologically, alphabetically, programmatically, volumetrically, chromatically, etc., and, of course, sorted randomly.

Title: Toward an American Spolia Size: 7” x 9” Portrait Pages: 248pp Binding: Softbound Publication Date: Spring 2021 ISBN: 978-1-943532-85-8 Price: $29.95 World Rights: Available

The introductory Bound Volume contains a foreword, a series of essays, illustrated footnotes, and an afterword. The essays are essentially short “chapters” on the phenomenon of spolia in art, architecture, design, and landscape composed by the author out of short fragments provided by prominent academics, curators, and practicioners (detailed below). The Bound Volume is followed by the Inventory, a collection of loose plates with images on recto and text on verso. Recto contains photographs of buildings & objects, drawings & diagrams, paintings reproductions, and book spread reprints where contemporary spolia is case-studied. On each plate’s verso is an accompanying explanatory/exploratory text by the author.

Author Aleksandr Mergold is a partner at Austin+Mergold, an architecture, landscape, and design practice, a testing ground for his study of the contemporary interpretation of spolia. This research also continues at Cornell University where Mergold teaches architecture. Prior to the practice and the teaching, Mergold worked at Pentagram in New York on a variety of architecture and design projects.

A third-generation architect, Aleksandr was born in the ancient city of Tashkent, that contains simultaneous traces of the Great Silk Road, colonial conquests, and a socialist planned economy.

Contributors Aleksandr Mergold, Ada Tolla, Adam Nathaniel Furman, Alexander Brodsky, Allan Wexler, Anna Bokov, Bijoy Jain, Carmello Baglivo, Dale Kinney, Dennis Maher, Ed Eigen, Ernesto Oroza, Giuseppe Lignano, James Wines, Jimenez Lai, Joan Ockman, Jorge Otero-Pailos, Julie Bargmann, Leonid Slonimsky, Luca Galofaro, Mario Carpo, Mark Morris, Michael Ghyoot, Nikole Bouchard, Renny Ramakers, Sam Jacob, Sean Anderson, and Vladimir Paperny ISBN 978-1-943532-85-8

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Unresolved Legibility In Residential Types Clark Thenhaus

In his new book, Unresolved Legibility in Residential Types, architect and academic Clark Thenhaus proposes new understandings and interpretations of American residential architecture by investigating and graphically illustrating the forms, spaces, and histories of ten residential types through careful analyses that link social, cultural, and political histories with architectural expressions. Noting that houses are long-standing subjects of architectural discourse, cultural reflection, and experimentation, Thenhaus exposes a confluence of architectural and broader cultural phenomena by articulating that the house is not only susceptible to, but in fact requires renewal and re-imagination as it reflects shifting societal and architectural values.

Unresolved Legibility in Residential Types proposes that legibility in architecture requires both visual clarity of a building’s appearance such that its formal, spatial, and material compositions can be comprehended, as well as a certain clarity of its received social, cultural, and political or contextual histories. Rather than an exercise in objective typological or historical analyses of ten residential types, Thenhaus positions legibility in architecture as an open, inconclusive, and unresolved source for historical investigations, formal analysis, and projective architectural imaginations.

Populated with over 500 drawings, diagrams, rendered images, and photographs across 12 chapters, Unresolved Legibility in Residential Types explores concepts of character, context, frontality, corners, systemization, physiognomy, symmetry, doors, walls, and stacks as they pertain to the circumstances, qualities, and effects of residential architecture ranging from a remote one-room cabin to urban row houses. Designers and scholars interested in the interrelations between architectural design, history, and theory will appreciate the breadth and depth of this book.

Author Clark Thenhaus is founding director of Endemic Architecture and assistant professor of Architecture at the California College of the Arts. Thenhaus has won numerous design awards and published original work and ideas extensively.

Editor Ryan Roark is an independent editor and studio critic at Rice University School of Architecture.

Sean Yendrys, Graphic Designer

Title: Unresolved Legibility Size: 8” x 10” Portrait Pages: 220pp Binding: Softbound Publication Date: Fall 2019 ISBN: 978-1-943532-39-1 Price: $35.00 World Rights: Available

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Monotown

Urban Dreams Brutal Imperatives Clayton Strange

Winner of the 2020 John Brinckerhoff Jackson Book Prize

Monotown: Urban Dreams Brutal Imperatives examines the postindustrial transformation and transnational legacy of planned singleindustry towns that emerged as a distinctive sociopolitical project of urbanization in the Soviet Union during the 1920s. Monotowns took form through the teleological establishment of industrial enterprises strewn across remote parts of the Siberian hinterland and entailed the relocation of vast populations requiring services, housing, and social and physical infrastructure, all linked to a given town’s productive apparatus. Today, having outlasted the political and economic systems which made them viable, many have become shrinking towns with graying populations and obsolete enterprises, even as they are subjected to considerable national investment and commanded to grow in order to catalyze their respective regions.

Given this implied imperative for transformation, the work goes on to explore the largely overlooked legacy of the Monotown as a model of urbanization that was deployed upon remote geographies of China and India through Soviet-aided industrial development projects. By exploring the etymology of the Monotown over time in this expanded field, the work establishes a broader yet more specific dialogue about this model’s complex legacy and future.

Title: Monotown Size: 7” x 10.5” Portrait Pages: 430pp Binding: Hardbound Publication Date: Fall 2019 ISBN: 978-1-939621-57-3 Price: $45.00 World Rights: Available

Author Clayton Strange is an architect, urbanist, and educator. He is currently a design critic at the Harvard Graduate School of Design where he holds a Master of Architecture in Urban Design with distinction. He is also the founding principal of Strange Works, a Boston-based research and design office.

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Uncertainty

Experiments in Making from the Chinese Countryside John Lin, Olivier Ottevaere, and Donn Holohan

here for the trait they have in common: an exploration of the limits of material, geometry, construction methods, and even historical context.

The diversity manifested in this collection of projects is a direct reflection of the incredible diversity of climates, locations, and conditions that underlie the ongoing Chinese urbanization experiment. The focus here is not on the what but the how, as each project engages with its own set of limiting factors or unideal conditions. They are stories of design, overcoming and even embracing adverse situations in order to discover some hidden advantage. Each chapter explores a different attempt to revert seemingly challenging limitations (particularly those which the architect cannot exert control over) and turn these into novel building approaches.

Working in rural China is unlike other countryside: it is full of contradiction, neither rural nor urban, both traditional and modern, abandoned in some areas and yet others are becoming cities overnight. It is in fact a laboratory for new ways of living. And it has become our laboratory for new ways of making architecture.

Whereas contemporary architecture since the advent of modernism has developed increasingly controlled, prototypical, and standardized mechanisms for building, our experiments embrace the opposite: a lack of control, taking place within the flux of political, social and economic uncertainties.

The experiments presented here are examples taken from a series of design and build projects conducted from the Department of Architecture at the University of Hong Kong over the past 10 years.

They are remarkable in their diffuse explorations and situations.

Some were urgent post-earthquake reconstructions, often adapting to extreme topographies or taking place in the midst of major urbanizing transformations, whereas other experiments occurred in forgotten villages with left-behind craftspeople and their disappearing building cultures. These forays and what can be best described as adventures in building, left us with varied and novel (sometimes failed) experiments with structure and program. But they are presented

Title: Uncertainty Size: 7.09” x 9.45” Portrait Pages: 216pp Binding: Softbound Publication Date: Spring 2022 ISBN: 978-1-954081-18-5 Price: $34.95 World Rights: Available

As often occurs for architects working in a foreign landscape, the differences in language and culture have proven to be a source of constant miscommunication and surprising discovery. The lack of a common spoken language—these remote areas speak their own dialects—has placed an emphasis on drawing as another means of communication. Through drawing we have explored a means of design and a means of building. Therefore, this is also a book about ways of drawing that represent ways of control and, inversely perhaps, what not to control.

Authors John Lin is an associate professor at the University of Hong Kong and the director of Rural Urban Framework (RUF), a research and design platform dedicated to developing sustainable prototypes for rapidly urbanizing areas. The approach combines research into large scale processes of urbanization and the integration of local construction practices with contemporary technology in built projects.

Olivier Ottevaere is an associate professor of practice at the University of Hong Kong. He is the director of Double (o) studio, an architecture practice focusing on the design integration of active structural principles, properties of materials, and procedures of construction.

Donn Holohan is a designer, maker, and founding partner of multidisciplinary design studio Superposition and is based in Hong Kong and Ireland. His work is focused on the potentials of emerging technology not only as it relates to the practice of architecture, but also to the question social and environmental sustainability.

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Lunch 14 Frontier

Sam Johnson, Hutch Landfair, Sherry Ng, and Taryn Wiens

Hutch Landfair is a recent graduate (MArh 2016, MArch 2019) and current lecturer at the University of Virginia. His research exists at the intersection of history and design with a focus on collective memory within the built environment.

Sherry Ng recently graduated with a Master of Architecture from UVA, where she was a Dean’s Honor Teaching Fellow. Her research focuses on the decline of American suburban publics and their future possibilities. She currently lives and works in New York.

With LUNCH 14, the editors wondered if they could use the frontier story itself to de-center its power. They divide this task into four sections: Edges explores the form and possibilities of the edge itself, and unravels the hard binary condition of the frontier; Wild flips the narrative around, picking apart established categorizations of wild and tame to deny their separate-ness; Metrics examines methods of observing and quantifying themselves as tools for gaining new understandings: the map creates “the frontier,” so to change the way we map or measure is to change the frontier itself; and finally, Culture takes on the “us” and “them” of the frontier, shifting our perception of this as a binary divide to a growing rhizomatic network of beings: where the meeting of cultures does not mean appropriation, erasure, and dominance but a hope for generative complexity.

Contributors Sam Johnson received his Master of Architecture from the University of Virginia, where he was a Dean’s Honor Teaching Fellow. His research focuses on the effects of historic districts on social equity in New York, where he lives and works.

Title: Lunch 14 Size: 7” x 10” Portrait Pages: 236pp Binding: Softbound PublicatiSofton Date: Fall 2020 ISBN: 978-1-951541-16-3 Price: $25.00 World Rights: Available

Taryn Wiens is a Master of Landscape Architecture candidate at UVA, and co-leader of ManifestA (the UVA School of Architecture student group for equity in design). Her research focuses on broad conceptions of land management, maintenance, and the politics of landscape material transformations.

Other Contributors Weaam Alabdullah Margaret Baldwin JT Bachman Sean Burkholder Sekou Cooke Laura Diamond Peter Del Tredici Alex Felson Maddie Hoagland-Hanson Richard Hobbs Sara Jacobs Leah Kahler Kevan Klosterwill Perry Kulper Karen Lutsky Shiqiao Li Erin McLean

Leigh Miller Rozana Montiel Jeffrey S Nesbit Jesse Ng Nicholas Rajkovich Office of Living Things Alexander Robinson Aisha Sawatsky Katie Stranix Jonah Susskind Rodrigo Valenzuela Mary Velez Alex Kachun Wong Joy Zedler Zihao Zhang Shurui Zhang

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Archive, Matrix, Assembly

The Photographs of Thomas Struth 1978–2018 Nana Last

Title: Archive, Matrix, Assembly Size: 7” x 10.5” Portrait Pages: 200pp Binding: Softbound Publication Date: Spring 2021 ISBN: 978-1-943532-82-7 Price: $34.95 World Rights: Available ISBN 978-1-943532-82-7

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Typological Drift

Emerging Cities in China Shiqiao Li and Esther Lorenz

Title: Typological Drift Size: 6.75” x 9.5” Portrait Pages: 336pp Binding: Softbound Publication Date: Fall 2021 ISBN: 978-1-951541-71-2 Price: $29.95 World Rights: Available ISBN 978-1-951541-71-2

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Social Urbanism

Reframing Spatial Design + Discourses from Latin America María Bellalta

Title: Social Urbanism Size: 10” x 10” Square Pages: 272pp Binding: Hardbound Publication Date: Fall 2020 ISBN: 978-1-943532-68-1 Price: $45.00 World Rights: Available ISBN 978-1-943532-68-1

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City of Refugees A Real Utopia

Peter Jay Zweig and Gail Peter Borden

Title: City of Refugees Size: 8” x 10” Portrait Pages: 412pp Binding: Hardbound Publication Date: Spring 2021 ISBN: 978-1-943532-84-1 Price: $45.00 World Rights: Available ISBN 978-1-943532-84-1

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As Found Houses

Experiments from Self-Builders in Rural China John Lin and Sony Devabhaktuni

Title: As Found Houses Size: 6.7” x 9.4” Portrait Pages: 212pp Binding: Softbound Publication Date: Fall 2020 ISBN: 978-1-943532-79-7 Price: $34.95 World Rights: Available ISBN 978-1-943532-79-7

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Pratt Sessions Volume 3

David Erdman

Title: Pratt Sessions Volume 3 Size: 8” x 9” Portrait Pages: 200pp Binding: Softbound Publication Date: Fall 2021 ISBN: 978-1-951541-73-6 Price: $29.95 World Rights: Available ISBN 978-1-951541-73-6

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12 Projects in 120 Constraints Plan:b Architects

Felipe and Federico Mesa

Title: 12 Projects in 120 Constraints Size: 5.5” x 8” Portrait Pages: 144pp Binding: Softbound Publication Date: Spring 2021 ISBN: 978-1-951541-42-2 Price: $24.95 World Rights: Available ISBN 978-1-951541-42-2

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Architecture of Nature Nature of Architechture

Diana Agrest, Irwin S. Chanin School of Architecture The Cooper Union

Title: Architecture of Nature Size: 9” x 11.75” Portrait Pages: 280pp Binding: Hardbound Publication Date: Spring 2019 ISBN: 978-1-939621-94-8 Price: $49.95 World Rights: Available ISBN 978-1-939621-94-8

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Bracket

[Takes Action]

Neeraj Bhatia and Mason White

Title: Bracket Size: 7.87” x 10.62” Portrait Pages: 320pp Binding: Softbound Publication Date: Spring 2020 ISBN: 978-1-943532-91-9 Price: $40.00 World Rights: Available ISBN 978-1-943532-91-9

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The Miralles Projection

Thinking and Representation in the Architecture of Enric Miralles Dr. Javier F. Contreras

Title: The Miralles Projection Size: 8” x 10.5” Portrait Pages: 220pp Binding: Softbound Publication Date: Fall 2020 ISBN: 978-1-943532-67-4 Price: $34.95 World Rights: Available ISBN 978-1-943532-67-4

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Animating Guarini

An Orthographic Project Mark Ericson

Title: Animating Guarini Size: 9” x 10” Portrait Pages: 200pp Binding: Softbound Publication Date: Spring 2020 ISBN: 978-1-943532-74-2 Price: $34.95 World Rights: Available ISBN 978-1-943532-74-2

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Architecture Beyond Experience Michael Benedikt

ARCHITECTURE BEYOND EXPERIENCE

ARCHITECTURE BEYOND EXPERIENCE

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Title: Architecture Beyond Experience Size: 7” x 10” Portrait Pages: 312pp Binding: Softbound Publication Date: Spring 2020 ISBN: 978-1-943532-89-6 Price: $35.00 World Rights: Available ISBN 978-1-943532-89-6

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Architectural Ceramic Assemblies Workshop Bioclimatic Ceramic Assemblies IV Omar Khan and Laura Garofalo

Title: Bioclimatic Ceramic Assemblies IV Size: 6.7” x 9.4” Portrait Pages: 180pp Binding: Softbound Publication Date: Spring 2021 ISBN: 978-1-951541-22-4 Price: $29.95 World Rights: Available ISBN 978-1-951541-22-4

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Architecture Stuff / More Stuff Robert Livesey

Title: Architecture Stuff / More Stuff Size: 6” x 8.5” Portrait Pages: 176pp / 64pp Binding: Softbound Publication Date: Fall 2020 ISBN: 978-1-951541-04-0 Price: $35.00 World Rights: Available ISBN 978-1-951541-04-0

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Fresh Water

Design Research for Inland Water Territories Mary Pat McGuire and Jessica M. Henson

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Way Beyond Bigness

The Need for a Watershed Architecture Derek Hoeferlin

Title: Way Beyond Bigness Size: 6” x 9” Portrait Pages: 250pp Binding: Softbound Publication Date: Fall 2021 ISBN: 978-1-940743-59-2 Price: $34.95 World Rights: Available ISBN 978-1-940743-59-2

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GOFF BOOKS SPRING 2022 GOFF BOOKS publishes asthetically vibrant books that provoke the imagination and rouse the creative spirit. Our hope is to inspire individuals and communities by illuminating and illustrating a world filled with beauty and potential for unique and awesome opportunities.

From breathtaking photography to lifestyle topics, from chic fashion to world-class art and urgent social issues, Goff Books features stimulating insight into the worlds of pop culture and visual literature. The artistic foundation of our projects drives our inventive production process—further presenting vivid imagery that illuminates original content and creating the ultimate reader experience.

Labels of Empire begins with the late 19th-century heyday of British textile manufacturing and closes with Indian independence in 1947. By combining visual narrative, popular culture, and magical realism in a way never done before, this book offers an unprecedented look at the British textile industry in the time of the Raj—and its remarkably successful use of paper labels as trademarks.

The overall purpose of Anti-trend is to encourage designers and consumers to take responsibility for overproduction and overconsumption, and to alter unsustainable production and behavioral patterns. Through a study of anti-trend as opposed to volatile trends the importance of pursuing resilience in life in general and in relation to the creation of sustainable designobjects and living solutions is underlined.

From germ theory to plantation logic, Botany of Violence charts the 528-year legacy of global, colonial powers in the violent search for the elusive Cinchona plant of South America, the only known natural cure for malaria in the world. Composed as a geopolitical treatise, this book proposes a counter-map to rebuild relations with the Cinchona plant—originally known to its peoples as the “Quino tree”—and to challenge territorial destruction that continues to increase amidst state-sanctioned resource extraction and benevolent conservation.

G.H. Hovagimyan is an absurdist, a strategist, a serial collaborator, and nothing short of a cultural icon in the world of contemporary art, particularly as it relates to how artists have adopted the digital technological tools of our times, adapting them in his work for critique of art, popular culture, and social engagement. Situationist Funhouse is a joyride through this history.

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Labels of Empire

Textile Trademarks: Windows into India in the Time of the Raj Susan Meller

At one time Great Britain clothed the world. In the 1880s, when the British textile industry was at its height, 85 percent of the world’s population wore clothing made from fabric produced in the mills of Lancashire. From 1910 to 1913 alone, seven billion yards of cloth were folded, stamped, labeled, and baled. Most of this output was for export, and 30 percent of it went to India.

Labels of Empire begins with the late 19th-century heyday of British textile manufacturing and closes with Indian independence in 1947.

By combining visual narrative, popular culture, and magical realism in a way never done before, this book offers an unprecedented look at the British textile industry in the time of the Raj—and its remarkably successful use of paper labels as trademarks.

British textile manufacturers selling into the competitive Indian market were dealing with a largely illiterate population. In order to differentiate their goods, they stamped their cloth with distinctive images—a crouching tiger or perhaps an elephant standing on top of a globe.

When chromolithography came into widespread use in the late 1800s, illustrated paper labels (known in the trade as “shipper’s tickets”) made to appeal to the local people were added. Designed, printed, and registered in Manchester, these brightly colored images were pasted onto the pieces of cloth being sold, further helping to establish a company’s brand. Hindu gods, native animals, scenes from the great Indian epics—the Mahabharata and Ramayana—and views of everyday life were common subjects. In a sense a form of premium, they provided the consumer with an additional incentive to buy the goods of a particular firm.

Author Susan Meller is co-author of Textile Designs: Two Hundred Years of European and American Patterns (Abrams, 1991); author of Russian Textiles: Printed Cloth for the Bazaars of Central Asia (Abrams, 2007) and Silk and Cotton: Textiles from the Central Asia that was (Abrams, 2013; La Martinière, 2013); and contributing author to Colors of the Oasis: Central Asian Ikats (The Textile Museum, 2010).

Title: Labels of Empire Size: 9” x 11.75” Portrait Pages: 544pp + tip on + over 1,270 full-color illustrations Binding: Hardbound + jacket + reinforced spine binding Publication Date: Fall 2022 ISBN: 978-1-954081-25-3 Price: $130.00 World Rights: Available

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Anti-trend

Resilient Design and the Art of Sustainable Living Kristine Hornshøj Harper

The overall purpose of Anti-trend is to encourage designers and consumers to take responsibility for overproduction and overconsumption, and to alter unsustainable production and behavioral patterns. Through a study of anti-trend as opposed to volatile trends the importance of pursuing resilience in life in general and in relation to the creation of sustainable design-objects and living solutions is underlined. Hence, the anti-trend investigations navigate through two main focal points: anti-trendy living and the anti-trendy design practice. Establishing a sustainable lifestyle and designing durable products have one very important thing in common: they revolve around the formation of an enduring core that can function as a stable, yet flexible foundation for actions and usage.

One of the most important and vital ways of overcoming and turning around the immense environmental problems we are currently facing worldwide is radical reduction of consumption. However, despite the fact that altering our habitual consumer ways might sound straightforward, it appears to be unbelievably hard. Even though we are bombarded with horrific and very tangible scenarios involving starving polar bears, whales with plastic-filled stomachs, and burning rivers, and even though these images are presented as interlinked with overconsumption, we continue to shop, and we continue to discard the majority of our belongings way before they don’t work anymore or are worn out, and hence we continue to add to the Title: Anti-trend Size: 7” x 9” Portrait Pages: 304pp Binding: Softbound Publication Date: Fall 2021 ISBN: 978-1-954081-05-5 Price: $35.00 World Rights: Available

mountains and islands of trash that are building up in landfills and in oceans. Why? Because we are evil? No, of course not. Rather, the reason could be partly interlinked with an increasing detachment from our physical, natural environment and partly with the fact that habits are hard to change, particularly when engulfed in a busy daily routine.

Our lack of sustainable action is likely connected to the fact that status symbols are to an extent associated with new, flashy things, and to the constant craving for more that seems to govern our late-modern minds and societies, as well as to the despair that this entails. Therefore, a significant part of Anti-trend is dedicated to an investigation of despair as well as authentic, sustainable living. Other parts of the book are committed to solutions: to an investigation of how objects and living solutions can encourage fulfilled, sustainable, resilient living with less as well as to a concretization hereof in the shape of three legitimations for creating new products in a world that is already overflowing with things and product waste.

Author Kristine H. Harper is a freelance writer and researcher. Her main research areas are sustainable object-design and living, aesthetics, permaculture, and preservation of endangered crafts traditions. She worked as a lecturer in Copenhagen for a decade and is the author of Aesthetic Sustainability and has written a wide range of articles on sustainability.

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A Botany of Violence

528 Years of Resistance & Resurgence Pablo Escudero, Ghazal Jafari, Pierre Bélanger

From germ theory to plantation logic, this book charts the 528year legacy of global, colonial powers in the violent search for the elusive Cinchona plant of South America, the only known natural cure for malaria in the world. Stolen by the Jesuits in the 17th century, smuggled abroad by Britain and Holland during the 18th century, mapped by German explorer Alexander von Humboldt in the 19th century, and exploited by global pharma in the 20th century, the Cinchona plant and the story of its powerful quinine extract not only lie at the base of modern civilization but trace the deep roots of Indigenous, territorial resistance back to the Amazon and the Andes. Composed as a geopolitical treatise, this book proposes a counter-map to rebuild relations with the Cinchona plant—originally known to its peoples as the “Quino tree”—and to challenge territorial destruction that continues to increase amidst state-sanctioned resource extraction and benevolent conservation.

Using the unfamiliar format of an illustrated historical timeline, the chronological organization of images and stories presented as unique spatial evidence offer counter-narratives to the conventional bounded map of the nation state and the distancing of the past that often overshadows and obscures realities of the present-future.

Contributors Pablo Escudero is a farmer, architect, and urbanist from the Andean region of Pichincha in northern Ecuador and US Fulbright Scholar living on traditional territories of Kechwa People. He is founding director and research coordinator of LA MINGA Collective based in Quito focusing on territories of conflict at the intersection of the Amazon and the Andes.

Ghazal Jafari is a designer of Persian and Azeri descent and territorial scholar in exile. Originally from Tehran, her practice focuses Title: A Botany of Violence Size: 5.5” x 6.5” Landscape Pages: 500pp Binding: Softbound Publication Date: Spring 2022 ISBN: 978-1-951541-93-4 Price: $50.00 World Rights: Available

on spatial and environmental justice, immigrant narratives, women resistance movements, and non-Western spatial discourses. She is founding director of Miyan Rudan “Between Rivers,” a longterm territorial initiative based along the Karun River watershed, borderlands of Iran and Iraq.

Pierre Bélanger is a settler designer and landscape architect, originally from Montréal and Ottawa, currently in Boston, traditional lands of the Massachusett Peoples, territory of the Wampanoag and Nipmuc Nations. He currently coordinates The 1492 Project, an initiative dedicated to the removal of Columbus monuments across the Americas and the dismantling of structures of white supremacy.

Together, they are founding members of OPEN SYSTEMS / Landscape Infrastructure Lab, a non-profit organization dedicated to the opening of knowledge of complex ecological challenges and raising awareness of geopolitical conflicts at the intersection of environmental justice, spatial inequality, climate change, and community self-determination.

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Situationist Funhouse G.H. Hovagimyan Stephen Zacks

G.H. Hovagimyan is an absurdist, a strategist, a serial collaborator, and nothing short of a cultural icon in the world of contemporary art, particularly as it relates to how artists have adopted the digital technological tools of our times, adapting them in his work for critique of art, popular culture, and social engagement.

Situationist Funhouse is a joyride through this history. The journey Stephen Zacks so meticulously documents and describes is not only an incredibly comprehensive ride through G.H.’s life work to date— Hovagimyan adopted G.H. as an acronym in the 1990s as a kind of gesture of personal rebirth and to ease others’ difficulty with his last name [pronounced ho-va-GIM-yan]—it also serves as a document that tracks a particular view on the alternative contemporary art scene of New York from the 1970s to the present day.

Author Stephen Zacks is an advocacy journalist, architecture critic, urbanist, and organizer based in New York City. A graduate of Michigan State University and New School for Social Research with a bachelor’s degree in interdisciplinary humanities and a master’s in liberal studies, he founded Flint Public Art Project in 2011 and serves as president of the nonprofit Amplifier Inc., which promotes new conceptual frameworks and proven strategies to influence public policy and improve local and global governance. He has Title: Situationist Funhouse Size: 7” x 9” Portrait Pages: 208pp Binding: Softbound Publication Date: Fall 2021 ISBN: 978-1-951541-99-6 Price: $29.95 World Rights: Available

been published in the New York Times, Village Voice, Art in America, Abitare, L’Architecture d’Aujourd’hui, Dwell, the Architectural Review, Oculus, Landscape Architecture Magazine, Architectural Record, the Architect’s Newspaper, Brownstoner, Curbed, Monocle, Blueprint, Mic, Print, and Hyperallergic, and previously served as an editor at Metropolis. His projects have received awards from ArtPlace, Creative Capital, Warhol Foundation, National Endowment for the Arts, Graham Foundation, MacDowell Colony, and the New York State Council on the Arts.

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Think Before You Shoot

The Art of Taking Creative Photographs Santino Zafarana

This is a book is a visual feast, an offering both for those who love fine art and those who recognize the thought behind its creation. It is in addition, a book for photographers seeking to learn how to make your own photographs more artistic.

The goal of this book is to offer readers a guide for those seeking to take fine, interpretive photographs and a joyful thought-provoking journey that the photographs in this book will inspire.

Author For more than 45 years, Santino Zafarana has simply photographed “the magic of light,” and now shares his key techniques in this book. Think Before You Shoot is a fine art photography book and educational guide created to help inspire photographers of all levels to learn how to see and creative great photographs, no matter where they are in their photographic journey.

Title: Think Before You Shoot Size: 9” x 12” Portrait Pages: 204pp Binding: Hardbound Publication Date: Fall 2021 ISBN: 978-1-951541-78-1 Price: $70.00 World Rights: Available

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Complements

Eloquence of Small Objects Patricia Z. Smith

Complements is a gem, an intimate book to be savored on first readings and held near as a resource on what is real. It contains 115 luscious photos of small objects juxtaposed in ways that evoke emotions, thoughts, questions, and remembrance of beauty. The photographs tell stories, make wry jokes, and elude to larger realities of the esoteric. As complements, the objects are more than the sum of their parts.

A sentence or two of text accompanies each photograph, creating storylines that draw the viewer into the world of the objects as strongly as if they were human, except, their not being human allows the viewer a purer sense of what they tell us. David Hume Kennedy, the Pulitzer Prize-winning photographer, says in the foreword, “The narrative and pictures reunite twins separated at birth.”

The photographs pull the viewer in with their emotional content, then ask the viewer to step back for another look—to both feel and think, to understand truths beyond words.

Authors Patricia Z. Smith was the photographer for the “War on Poverty.”

She taught photography at the Smithsonian Institution and has had several one-person shows. She has a playwright, a collector of pre1850 quilts exhibited at the Smithsonian, and is a globally-recognized peace activist.

Louise Brody has designed more than 100 books for a variety of leading British, American, and French publishers, museums, and international press, as well as working with private clients to produce publications for important events or to commemorate achievements.

David Hume Kennerly is a Pulitzer Prize-winning photographer and was the White House photographer under President Gerald Ford. He has photographed eight presidents, and historic events around the world. His photographs are icons of American history.

Title: Complements Size: 6.7” x 8.07” Portrait Pages: 128pp Binding: Hardbound Publication Date: Spring 2021 ISBN: 978-1-951541-74-3 Price: $30.00 World Rights: Available

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Inflatable Planet Addi Somekh

A balloon artist and photographer travels the world surprising people with improvised, inflatable crowns and offer a deep view into the nature of joy.

The simple act of twisting a balloon for a complete stranger can make people instant friends. This idea animated balloon artist Addi Somekh and photographer Charlie Eckert to improvise balloon crowns for unsuspecting people throughout 35 countries and document their reactions. Part photography book, part sociological study, part spontaneous party, Inflatable Planet chronicles features of over 200 photos from this international experiment in joy.

Authors Addi Somekh has been twisting balloons for almost 30 years and specializes in improvising elaborate headdresses. His side hustles include teaching a critical thinking course at UC Santa Cruz and playing music with his homemade balloon bass in his LA-based band Unpopable.

Charlie Eckert is a photojournalist, living in New York City and working around the world.

Reggie Watts is a musician, comedian and the bandleader on the Late Late Show with James Corden.

Title: Inflatable Planet Size: 9” x 11” Portrait Pages: 252pp Binding: Hardbound Publication Date: Spring 2022 ISBN: 978-1-951541-15-6 Price: $40.00 World Rights: Available

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American Industry

Photography of Kim Steele Introduction by Paul Goldberger

American Industry is as much a celebration as it is documentation.

Through his unique vision and privileged access, photographer Kim Steele has achieved a spectacular distillation of a variety of icons of power. Some of these places of power are literal: sources of hydro-electric energy, such as dams or atomic and accelerators.

Other places of power are more metaphorical: the might of massive construction as only heavy industry can achieve, whether in architecture or ships; or the romance of aviation and the exploration of space.

The photographic images are as iconic as their subjects. Formally pure and powerful in their scale and clarity, they mirror the ambitious and inspirational quality of what are now understood to be quintessential and classic symbols of American ingenuity and drive. Together, the seven chapters, Hydro Power, Aviation, Heavy Industry, Energy, Space, Atomic Energy, and The Future, create a visual tapestry of American industrial power in the twentieth century.

A testimony of a guilded age of American Industrial might.

Contributors Kim Steele is a San Francisco-based American photographer.

He was educated at the Newhouse School of communications at Syracuse University. After graduating he received a National Endowment for the Arts fellowship and attended graduate school at the University of New Mexico, where he studied under Beaumont Title: American Industry Size: 10” x 10” Square Pages: 124pp Binding: Softbound Publication Date: Spring 2022 ISBN: 978-1-951541-70-5 Price: $40.00 World Rights: Available

Newhall. In the 1970s through 2000s, his work was exhibited at the Foster/White Gallery in Seattle, OK Harris in New York, then Charles Cowles Gallery in Chelsea. His work is in the collections at MoMa, New York, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, LACMA, the Minneapolis Institute of Art, Denver Art Museum, Seattle Art Museum, and many other collections. As well as in corporate collections such as Chase Manhattan Bank, Goldman Sachs, and New York Life.

In addition to fine artwork Kim Steele has also taken on editorial assignments from clients such as Life, Fortune, Forbes, Smithsonian, Paris Match, and Stern.

He also produces unforgettable images for corporate clients include such as EDS, Mobil Oil, Mead Paper, AT&T, Frito-Lay, and Exxon.

Paul Goldberger is a contributing editor at Vanity Fair. From 1997 through 2011, he served as the Architecture Critic for the New Yorker, where he wrote the magazine’s celebrated “Sky Line” column.

He also holds the Joseph Urban Chair in Design and Architecture at the New School in New York City. He was formerly dean of the Parsons school of design, a division of the New School. He began his career at the New York Times, where in 1984 his architecture criticism was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Distinguished Criticism, the highest award in journalism.

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New York: Stilled Life

Portrait of a City in Lockdown Gregory Peterson

Memorial Day due to fears of civil unrest as, documented in the chapter “Plywood New York.”

New York: Stilled Life is a comprehensive record of a unique, vanished moment; a memento of a time we all endured and how it changed us and our cities—perhaps forever.

Mid-March 2020: native New Yorker Gregory Peterson is on an i early evening walk through the city, suddenly shut down by the coronavirus pandemic. Manhattan’s grand public spaces are bare.

The monumental Lincoln Center Plaza is empty. The sounds of skates on ice and bustle of tourists and workers at Rockefeller Center are absent. Not a soul on Easter Sunday at the Cathedral of Saint John the Divine. Starkly silent, the city is stilled, as no one had ever seen it before.

Traveling on foot and by bike to avoid public transportation, Peterson took more than 400 photographs of over 200 locations in Manhattan, Brooklyn, and Queens through the spring and summer of 2020.

Using his iPhone 11, he captured myriad surreal landmarks—the United Nations Secretariat with no traffic, people, or flags, Grand Central Terminal without a person or even a car in sight, as well as gelled neighborhood streets, churches, shops, and other tourist destinations. Without people, these photos reveal the city’s primeval soul. They unveil a serene beauty most often obscured by the frenzy of our fast-paced lives. We see New York with new eyes.

Authors Gregory Peterson is a corporate lawyer and noted art collector. A native, life-long New Yorker, he is a graduate of the High School of Music and Art (now the LaGuardia High of Music and the Performing Arts), where he studied oil painting and other media, and is an alumnus of Columbia College and Columbia Law School. Prior to becoming a lawyer he was a filmmaker and television producer.

Barry Bergdoll is Meyer Schapiro Professor of Art History at Columbia University and the former Chief Curator in the Department of Architecture and Design at the Museum of Modern Art, New York. A specialist in the history of modern architecture, he curated numerous exhibitions at MoMA, the Canadian Centre for Architecture, the Musée d’Orsay, and other venues.

During the height of the lockdown, Peterson also captures the city’s response to swelling Black Lives Matter protests that shook the world after the killing of George Floyd. For the first time in living memory, midtown Manhattan and other areas were boarded up following Title: New York: Stilled Life Size: 9” x 11” Portrait Pages: 204pp Binding: Hardbound Publication Date: Fall 2021 ISBN: 978-1-954081-26-0 Price: $50.00 World Rights: Available

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Po Po Says

Eight Inspiring Stories in Asian American History Ashley Ng

Did you know Po Po (paw-paw) means grandma in Chinese? Did you know Filipino settlers were the first Asian American community?

When Po Po knits, she shares parts of American history that are not often told. As her young granddaughter listens with admiration, Po Po talks about Asian Americans and how their resilience has helped shape the strength and beauty of the United States of America.

In this inspiring picture book, Po Po brings to light the hardships and discrimination that many endured in eight events that took place in American history. Accompanied by rich and colorful illustrations inspired by historical photography, Po Po wants her young granddaughter to know that not only have Asian Americans lived in the United States for centuries, but the different types of people are what make our nation unique and extraordinary. Each story has a special message and embraces the Chinese language–emphasizing that America is a culture of many cultures.

Title: Po Po Says Size: 7.28” x 5.83” Portrait Pages: 76pp Binding: Hardbound Publication Date: Fall 2021 ISBN: 978-1-935935-53-7 Price: $19.95 World Rights: Available

Author Ashley Ng is passionate about diversity, equity, and inclusion. She graduated with an MFA in Graphic Design and sees her skills as a tool to influence change in the world. Ashley hopes that her work encourages young readers to learn from the past and embrace the beauty of differences. She is currently a UX/Product Designer in the San Francisco Bay Area.

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Who Am I? Jean-Paul Bordier

The lush surreal illustrations of this book and its short humoristic story telling make it a fun, quick read for all ages and for anyone obliquely interested in our thirst for development and the nature of who we are.

Through a poetic parody of human’s desires for more of everything, we become aware that such a quest does not bring us any closer to knowing ourselves or seeing, as contemporary scientific or spiritual leaders are telling us: all things and beings of our planet are intimately related, alive and ultimately “One.” While each colorful painting alludes to our close relationship with the world, short lines innocently and wryly comment on the predicaments of our lives pertaining to the industrial world, where dream and reality often appear intertwined. Through the shifting identities of forms, this album gives us a glance at our own formless nature and how our excessive wish for love, home, comfort, power, and productivity inexorably transforms our worldview and make us bypass our deep infinite nature, which cannot be contained through words. As some indigenous traditions have taught us: “life is like a dream. One wonders whether it is by living that we dream or by dreaming that we live.”

Title: Who Am I? Size: 8.5” x 11” Portrait Pages: 96pp Binding: Hardbound Publication Date: Fall 2021 ISBN: 978-1-954081-29-1 Price: $35.00 World Rights: Available

Author Jean-Paul Bourdier has taught in many US Universities, in Senegal and Italy; author of nine books; he collaborated with Trinh Minh-ha on a number of installations and eight feature-length films. He is co-founder and co-editor of Traditional Dwellings and Settlements Review. He is Emeritus Professor of Architecture, Photography and Visual Studies at the University of California, Berkeley.

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Arches to Zigzags An Architectural ABC

Michael Crosbie, Steve and Kit Rosenthal

Arches to Zigzags introduces its audience (both young and old) to the world of architecture through the alphabet. It challenges young readers with new words and images, adults will widen their own knowledge of architecture. Captivating images and clever wordplay entertain folks of all ages to explore the built environment. The book begins its journey through architecture with an Arch (for the letter A), then a Balcony, and next on to Column Capitals. Along the way, readers will learn about some less-familiar architectural examples (such as, Finial, Keystone, Obelisk, and Quoin). Each letter and its corresponding image are described with light verse, which asks the reader some quick questions about what they see. This colorful, lively, and entertaining book closes with some thoughts about what architecture is, why it’s important, and where you’ll find examples of architecture in the buildings you visit and use every day. There’s also information on the location and history of each of the 26 beautiful images in the book, in case you want to check them out on your own. Created by an architect, writer, photographer, and librarian, Arches to Zigzags connects architecture with the letters of the alphabet, from A to Z.

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Author Architect, writer, and educator Michael J. Crosbie is the awardwinning author of or contributor to more than 70 books on architecture and design. He writes and lectures on architecture in the U.S. and abroad, and teaches at the University of Hartford.

Steve Rosenthal is a nationally recognized photographer who has run an architectural photography business with his wife, Kit, for the past 40 years. Trained as an architect, Steve is a graduate of Yale and the Harvard Graduate School of Design. Kit also studied architecture at Harvard, and has been a public-school library volunteer for the past dozen years.

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’93 til

A Photographic Journey Through Skateboarding in the 1990s Pete Thompson

Bestseller To be a skateboarder today is a much different experience than it was for much of the 1990s. The photographs, quotes, and anecdotal text in ’93 til captures a time in skateboarding when making a livable income as a professional skater was a luxury and public understanding of skateboarding was at an all-time low. It was a time when skateboarding was searching for an identity, a time before Instagram and big corporate influences. Street skating was coming of age, testing its limitations and aligning itself with a new and innovate style of hip-hop culture that was emerging. Looking back, many skaters today feel as though the ’90s were the golden years of skateboarding. ’93 til is a captivating portal into a decade and a culture that is remembered with warmth and nostalgia. Much of the photography that Pete has unearthed for ’93 til was buried in boxes for close to two decades and hasn’t never been seen or published before. The 236-page book also contains several timeless images from his years shooting for SLAP and Transworld Skateboarding Magazine that will be familiar to the initiated. In addition to his stunning action shots are plenty of portraits and unguarded, candid moments that span from the late ’80s up through 2004. The book reveals a raw, unapologetic perspective of a world that no longer exists.

Also included in the book alongside Pete’s imagery are quotes and anecdotes from legends like Tony Hawk, Arto Saari, Jamie Thomas, Guy Mariano, Nyjah Huston, Geoff Rowley, Stevie Williams, and others. Pete moved on from his career in skate photography in 2004 and is currently living in Brooklyn.

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Author In a photography career spanning nearly three decades, Pete Thompson worked as senior staff photographer for Transworld Skateboarding Magazine and contributing photographer for SLAP and Skateboarder Magazine. Pete has photographed many of the best skateboarders in the world, during a time in the ’90s that some call “the golden era” of skateboarding, before leaving the skate industry in 2004.

After re-locating to New York City in 2008, and assisting Danish fashion photographer Anders Overgaard, Pete’s work made a pivotal shift, exploring a more nuanced, spontaneous feeling. His current work focuses on capturing candid moments that communicate a spirit of honesty, and authenticity. Pete currently resides in Brooklyn, NY. ISBN 978-1-951541-46-0

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Street Culture Seleen Saleh

Street Culture is a stunning collection of photographs representing women and men of color who exhibit a unique style. Seleen Saleh’s photographs reveal individuality, fearlessness, and creativity in the most vibrant beings who collectively represent street style. This style is as varied as the people; it is a personal expression that changes day to day. It is an expression of a person’s culture, mood, influences, and esthetics. Street style originated in the street where top designers look for inspiration for their next collections. The book preserves the integrity of street style and features some of the muses that have been forgotten or were never acknowledged.

In the book Seleen combines photographs from her work at Essence Magazine with new images of jaw-dropping, creative and colorful moments. As a lover of fashion, art, and people, Seleen brings out the authentic nature of these known and unknown muses. Each person depicted here can be considered a brilliant artist in his or her own right. These portraits were taken in New York City—the perfect global destination—diverse and open and where people are not afraid to tell you who they are. There is an underfed audience for this book; the world is waking up and wants to see more diversity and more eclectic styles.

Author Seleen Saleh in her younger years painted fashion spreads and collected inspiration from magazines and the world around her. In school at the Art Institute of Philadelphia she merged her love of fashion and photography. It was during this time that she began to develop her bold and vibrant style.

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Her editorial work has been featured in magazines such as British Vogue, People, Essence, Fault, Gilt, as well as gracing the cover of Footwear News. In addition to her own projects as a fashion photographer, Seleen began working at Essence Magazine in 2009. There, she helped develop the “Street Style” section of the magazine’s website, which boasts 658K unique visitors every month.

Seleen enables her subjects to show their best selves. She takes photos of a snippet of time which immortalize her models making them bigger than life. She enables her viewers to experience and live in and through all her subjects. She has made it a priority to create and foster relationships with all these beautiful people. She cultivates connections while generating exponential exposure for her evolving brand. Her highly praised work stands as a divine tapestry of culture and sensuality.

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The Gold Lotus

Thousands of Cupid’s Arrows on the Battlefield of Love A. D. Dauphinais

This is an epic tale; a fantasy replete with grand romances and countless avenues leading to divine love. Venture through diverse time perspectives and complex mythologies of the gods in this multidimensional drama, inspired by ancient Asian principles. The Gold Lotus is a dance in written form; a saga with a rhythmic delivery that will transport you through intricate plots, legendary wars, unsettling separations and passionate love, unbound.

Manifested in a time of darkness and war, the celestial being Kānu prepares for a journey brought on by Muniji, the minstrel saint, to face a destiny that stands between destruction and salvation. Weaving through the ways of love and power, the almighty Kānu will learn to become the saviour of his heavenly kingdom while discovering the deepest desires of the heart and defeating evil – both within and without.

As the heavenly kingdom yearns for its saviour, a formidable and broken God of War comes to battle with an unpredictable foe that has bested the mightiest of warriors before him: finding the lost love capable of fulfilling the void in his heart. What (or who) he finds as the answer proves to be a riddle never before encountered by the revered warrior. Alongside Kānu and a kingdom of mystical beings that oversee the forces of existence, the celestial war for balance is far from won and the stakes grow higher with every heartbeat.

Title: The Gold Lotus Size: 5.5” x 8” Portrait Pages: 432pp Binding: Hardbound Publication Date: Spring 2021 ISBN: 978-1-951541-59-0 Price: $21.99 World Rights: Available

Author A. D. Dauphinais started her “out of this world” life journey during a long, solo pilgrimage throughout India at the age of eighteen.

For the past twenty-five years, she has been immersed in ancient knowledge, fascinated by Buddhist, Vedic, and Sanskrit literatures.

Recently she compiled a fantasy novel filled with timeless possibilities of divine love, based upon the Vedic viewpoint of time. The Gold Lotus multi-world drama series is not only a page-turner, but also a perception changer. Filled with poems, ancient knowledge, wars and romance.

She is the founder of two non-profits, an ancient temple dance teacher, director of Devi Communications Music, and founder of TerraVoyage LLC. She spends most of her free time planting trees and saving ancient seeds at her organic permaculture-based farms.

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Behind the Camera

American Women Photographers Who Shaped How We See the World Maria Ausherman

Each of the women in this series stepped out of the bounds of physical and social expectations to pursue her personal vision through photography. Some were fortunate to have come from wealthy families who fostered their interests. Others had to make their way by supporting themselves, or they found encouragement from other, more established photographers.

Many chose to avoid or leave behind the comforts of married life at a time when marriage provided the primary source of financial security for a woman. Each of them surmounted the challenges they encountered in order to pursue their dreams. I hope their true stories inspire you, and I invite you to continue documenting and recording whatever is most important in your life through the ever-evolving tool of photography, just as these women did before you.

Author Maria Ausherman is the author of The Photographic Legacy of Frances Benjamin Johnston and co-author with Patricia Jennings of Georgia O’Keeffe’s Hawaii.

Title: Behind the Camera Size: 6” x 9” Portrait Pages: 200pp Binding: Softbound Publication Date: Spring 2021 ISBN: 978-1-951541-51-4 Price: $25.00 World Rights: Available

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Death by Design at Alcatraz Anthony Poon

A mystery of obsession and murder exploring the heights and depths within the world of architecture: Who would you kill to satisfy your creative ego?

On a fog enshrouded morning, a world-famous architect plunges to his death off a San Francisco cliff. Architects are being murdered as they compete for developer Magnar Jones’s prized commission: a new museum at the notorious Alcatraz Island. Magnar’s devious plan? Turn his design competition into a spectator sport, where architects soon find themselves prisoners.

Tormented architect Parker A. Rand confronts the police as the prime suspect, and Magnar’s alluring girlfriend, Celadonna Kimm, has her sights on this “friendly neighborhood” architect. With Parker’s tortured ambition spiraling into darkness, can this beloved local hero win the commission without losing his mind and his soul? A tale of death and intrigue examines arrogance, ambition, and redemption. Who will succeed—and at what cost?

Author Anthony Poon, AIA, is an award-winning architect, mixed-media artist, and classically trained musician. His Los Angeles company, Poon Design Inc., has completed over 300 buildings. Anthony received his degrees from Harvard University and University of California, Berkeley.

Title: Death by Design at Alcatraz Size: 6” x 9” Portrait Pages: 330pp Binding: Hardbound Publication Date: Fall 2021 ISBN: 978-1-954081-28-4 Price: $24.95 World Rights: Available

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The Wisdom of Buddha

A Photographic Pilgrimage into the Traditional World of Buddhism Paige Lee Baron-Schrier

Title: The Wisdom of Buddha Size: 9.75” x 12.5” Landscape Pages: 140pp Binding: Hardbound Publication Date: Spring 2020 ISBN: 978-1-943532-90-2 Price: $50.00 World Rights: Available ISBN 978-1-943532-90-2

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Body Mirror Jean-Paul Bourdier

Title: Body Mirror Size: 12” x 12” Square Pages: 220pp Binding: Hardbound Publication Date: Fall 2020 ISBN: 978-1-951541-20-0 Price: $50.00 World Rights: Available ISBN 978-1-951541-20-0

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City of Immortals

Père-Lachaise Cemetery, Paris Carolyn Campbell

Title: City of Immortals Size: 6” x 9” Portrait Pages: 200pp Binding: Softbound Publication Date: Fall 2019 ISBN: 978-1-943532-29-2 Price: $24.95 World Rights: Available ISBN 978-1-943532-29-2

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American Eagle

A Visual History of Our National Emblem Preston Cook

Title: American Eagle Size: 11” x 14” Portrait Pages: 264pp Binding: Hardbound Publication Date: Spring 2019 ISBN: 978-1-941806-28-9 Price: $75.00 World Rights: Available ISBN 978-1-941806-28-9

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