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As innovators in the publishing industry, ORO Editions and its imprints are renowned for their specialized process of book making, constructing meaning through editorial collaboration, design, and material craft. ORO Editions’ well-established publishing program maintains an inventory of exceptional content, sustained across three decades of exemplary work. With an index of distinguished books on architecture, landscape, urban planning, applied research and design, photography, and art, ORO’s growing catalog is outfitted with the creativity of modern-day thinkers and practitioners. ORO’s structured program is built on the performance of our expert team which aims for cohesive partnership on each book project. This working design delivers a distinct and aesthetically oriented approach to the development and production of every book. Likewise, ORO’s distribution and marketing program ensures visibility in libraries, bookstores, and art and design fairs worldwide. With this concept of practice, ORO and its catalog of Works have been recognized by the Society of Architectural Historians Exhibition Catalog Awards, Next Generation Indie Books Awards, the Pattis Family Foundation Global Cities Book Award, and the Hayek Book Prize, among other international juries.

Driven

A Road to Iconic Design

$60.00 10” x 12” Portrait • 220pp • Hardbound 978-1-966515-54-8 Publication Date: Spring 2026

DRIVEN: The Road to Iconic Design invites readers into the world of award-winning classical architect Patrick Ahearn, FAIA, where automotive artistry intersects with timeless architectural design. In DRIVEN, his third published volume, Ahearn shares his ambitious pursuit of the extraordinary with a focus on bespoke carriage houses featured in so many of his legacy properties and classic cars that have shaped his design purview throughout his career. Whether freestanding or seamlessly connected to the main residence, these exquisitely crafted carriage houses are tailored to their owners’ lives and dreams. Not just home to prized automobiles, they offer everything from gracious guest quarters to collector’s galleries, angler’s lounges, poolside retreats and elegant entertaining spaces. Through ten inspiring projects, Ahearn reveals how these architectural gems elevate both the form and function of a property. Interwoven throughout are classic automobiles that

have impacted Ahearn’s life, each photographed against the backdrop of one of his homes, creating a dialogue between enduring forms of excellence. With captivating photography and thoughtful narrative, DRIVEN will inspire architecture enthusiasts, car aficionados, and design connoisseurs alike with a celebration of historically inspired architecture, classic automobiles, and Ahearn’s lifelong journey towards iconic design. Author One of America’s most celebrated classical architects, AIA Fellow Patrick Ahearn has focused on historically motivated, site-sensitive residences that have advanced the art of placemaking in some of the nation’s most desirable destinations for the past 50 years.

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Award-winning American architect Patrick Ahearn’s lifelong pursuit of excellence is celebrated in DRIVEN: The Road to Iconic Design, spotlighting ten bespoke carriage houses and classic cars that have shaped his design purview throughout his career.

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A Long View

Bohlin Cywinski Jackson Houses 2016-2026 A Long View explores the award-winning residential design of Bohlin Cywinski Jackson through the lens of fifteen private residences across the United States and Canada. With a curated selection of homes completed between 2016 and 2026, the book tells the story of how BCJ’s work has evolved across a wider range of geographical regions and fresh material expressions, led by an emergent group of design voices within the practice who are carrying forward its ethos of humane, deeply collaborative design. The homes presented here exist in diverse settings: from a rustic retreat in the wilderness of Ontario to the transformation of an existing Pittsburgh home into a container for light; a home embedded in a sagebrush-covered butte in Wyoming to a delicate wood framed guest cabin on a remote island in the Pacific Northwest. Each resonates within its unique circumstances of client, place, and material. Author Bohlin Cywinski Jackson is an internationally acclaimed, award-winning architecture practice focused on designing places that inspire connection and wonder. We believe in an architecture that springs from the nature of place, people, and the way we make things.

$70.00 10” x 12” Portrait • 304pp • Hardbound 978-1-961856-94-3 World Rights: Available Publication Date: Spring 2026

John Gendall is a New York-based writer specializing in architecture, landscape architecture, and cities. He is the co-founder of Chapter, an award-winning editorial and communications agency specializing in architecture, landscape architecture, and design.

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Capturing Essence Virginia Burt Designs

$75.00 Trade Edition / $150.00 Special Edition with Slipcase 13.46” x 9.4” Portrait • 248pp • Hardbound with half jacket 978-1-966515-24-1 / 978-1-966515-68-5 World Rights: Available Publication Date: Fall 2026

The award-winning landscape architecture firm Virginia Burt Designs is widely celebrated for a diverse body of work—including landscapes and gardens for private individuals, therapeutic gardens for hospitals, estate master plans, and native landscape restoration, in both the United States and Canada— that is at once beautiful and profoundly meaningful. A holistic approach to design and realization serves as the foundation to each project, expressing a respect for people and place while also attending to our physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual experience of space. Published upon the firm’s thirtieth anniversary, Capturing Essence features seventeen projects that collectively express the firm’s ethos and encapsulate the expansive nature of its work— from a site of transformation and environmental restoration at Acadia Point in Nova Scotia, a former whaling station and now place of renewal, to Schneider Healing Garden, expressly designed as a healing garden to support the mission of the Seidman Cancer Center in Cleveland. The book provides an experience of these extraordinary spaces, through words and images, through touch and imagination, 8

through story and inspiration. An invitingly tactile and sensuous object, Capturing Essence is a natural expression of the work of the firm, made with care and an attention to detail, to materials, to form, and to spirit. Author Virginia T. Burt, FCSLA, FASLA founded Virginia Burt Designs in 1996. A landscape architect and creator of gardens and landscapes of meaning, she is the recipient of numerous honors for her work, including national awards for excellence from both the American Society of Landscape Architects and the Canadian Society of Landscape Architects. She is one of seven women in the world with fellowships from both societies for outstanding contributions to the profession.

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“The deft choreography of engaging photography, richly articulated plans, annotated sections and perspectives, and evocative sketches thoughtfully captures the essence of Virginia’s personal approach to garden planning, design, and craftsmanship, one she has refined over three decades of practice.”

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Yinka Ilori Chairman Author Yinka Ilori MBE is a multidisciplinary British-Nigerian artist, designer and founder whose bold visual language draws on his dual heritage to convey new narratives through contemporary design. Humorous, provocative, and playful, his projects demonstrate how design can bring together communities, reimagine spaces, and have a positive impact on society, while evoking a sense of joy and optimism. Spanning a wide range of disciplines-including architecture, furniture, sculpture, interior and graphic design, and his own line, Yinka Ilori Objects-his work engages themes that resonate with audiences worldwide and is guided by a belief that art and design should be accessible to everyone. A graduate of London Metropolitan University’s BA in Furniture and Product Design, Ilori’s work has been showcased globally through solo and group exhibitions, public commissions and set and exhibition design. In 2025, the same year that he was appointed a Royal Designer for Industry (RDI) by the Royal Society for Arts (RSA), he launched the Yinka Ilori Foundation with a mission to create playful, inclusive, and sustainable community spaces that foster creativity, opportunity, and self-sufficiency, especially for children and youth.

$40.00 7” x 9” Portrait • 120pp • Hardbound 978-1-966515-58-6 World Rights: Available Publication Date: Fall 2026

Chairman is the first comprehensive book dedicated to artist and designer Yinka Ilori, tracing his celebrated chairs and the vibrant design language shaped by his British-Nigerian heritage. Bringing together over a decade of work, the book explores how Ilori transforms discarded and overlooked furniture into powerful vessels of memory, migration and joy. Rooted in the storytelling traditions of his Nigerian upbringing and shaped by the visual landscape of London, Ilori’s chairs operate at the intersection of art, design and social commentary. Each piece carries a narrative, often inspired by parables shared in his childhood, reimagined through bold colour, pattern and craft. Through newly commissioned photography, archival material and in-depth studio insights, Chairman reveals the processes behind Ilori’s distinctive aesthetic, from material sourcing and restoration to surface intervention and conceptual development. Essays situate his practice within wider conversations on diasporic identity, sustainability, and contemporary design culture, positioning the chair as both a functional object and a cultural archive. Visually rich and critically engaged, Chairman is both a collector’s object and a significant contribution to twenty-first-century design discourse, offering the first sustained study of an artist whose work reshapes how we understand furniture, authorship and belonging. 10

Dr. Jareh Das is an independent curator working between the UK and West Africa. Her research and curatorial practice span global modern and contemporary art, with a cross-disciplinary approach rooted in performance art, shaping both her academic and creative endeavours. Das holds a PhD in Curating Art and Science: New Methods and Sites of Production from Royal Holloway, University of London. Her curatorial and writing practices privilege embodied knowledge and move fluidly across exhibitions, performance, and critical texts. Between 2020 and 2024, she developed and led curatorial projects with institutions across Europe and West Africa, including Camden Art Centre, Deptford X Festival, and Galerie Atiss Dakar. Her writing spans exhibition catalogues, academic journals, magazines, and artist monographs. Julianknxx is a poet and filmmaker who uses West African oral traditions to challenge fixed identities and linear Western narratives. His work functions as a “living archive,” exploring the human experience and the complexities of existing in liminal spaces. Martino Gamper OBE is a London-based designer and artist known for furniture, interiors, and exhibition designs that emphasize material reuse and transformation. His prolific career includes the award-winning 100 Chairs in 100 Days and an OBE for services to design. Jane Atfield is a pioneer in sustainable design who founded the agency MADE OF WASTE to explore the use of recycled materials in furniture. Her landmark recycled plastic chairs are held in permanent collections at prestigious institutions like the Victoria and Albert Museum.

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Liljestrand House

$75.00 9.75” x 11.375” Portrait • 364pp • Hardbound 978-1-972474-11-2 World Rights: Available Publication Date: Fall 2026

Rooted in the belief that a house is the product of the time, the place, and the people, Liljestrand House takes us through the lives of Betty Liljestrand, Howard Liljestrand, and Vladimir Ossipoff. Told through narrative prose and enriched with personal, primary source materials from the family’s archive, the book reveals how the combined lived experiences of everyone involved, and the unique climate of Hawai’i, informed the decisions that shaped the design of the home. Diving deep into the history of the land, people, and the politics of the time, it features original photographs from Betty and Howard; sketches and early designs by Vladimir Ossipoff; and a collection of personal and professional photographs taken of the house, then and now. Author Julia Steele All contributors: Betty Liljestrand, Howard Liljestrand, Bob Liljestrand, Liljestrand Foundation

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Out/West

Houses by Patrick Tighe

To build a home is perhaps the most primal form of architecture. A place of complete particularity to human existence, houses both influence and incubate individuality. A house situates the fragile territory between container and creator, “the house shelters day-dreaming, the house protects the dreamer, the house allows one to dream in peace” (Bachelard). This selection of 20 houses by Patrick Tighe shows a diverse spectrum of work, all tied by a shared occupation of the west coast. His work highlights the dramatic variance that can exist within residential architecture, how each project has been approached organically and intuitively but held by the familiar siting among the “smoke and goldenness of the late afternoon of time” (Kerouac, Out/West). Author Patrick Tighe, FAIA, FAAR, is one of Los Angeles’ preeminent architects and Interior Designers. Patrick Tighe received a Master of Architecture from the University of California, Los Angeles. Prior to establishing Tighe Architecture, Tighe worked in the offices of Frank Gehry and Thom Mayne. Tighe is a professor at the University of Southern California. 14

$75.00 9” x 11.5” Portrait • 256pp • Hardbound 978-1-966515-81-4 World Rights: Available Publication Date: Fall 2026

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Music and Architecture in Harmony Opera Houses and Concert Halls of Europe, 1672-2022

This selection of ninety halls traces their evolution from the baroque era to the latest innovations and explains how architects and acousticians enrich the experience of playing and listening. It’s a celebration of two arts that support each other and of a glorious legacy that is constantly renewing itself. Architectural writer Michael Webb and music impresario Thomas Aujero Small travelled all over Europe, exploring theaters, talking to their artistic directors and attending performances. They chose exemplars, grand or modest, which delight the eyes and the ears, while embodying a rich heritage or building a new audience. Their account of the history, architecture and programming of each theater is illustrated with 190 vivid images. The halls are featured chronologically, with break-out chapters on the musical capitals of Berlin, Vienna, Paris, Prague and London, as well as festivals and music academies. Yasuhisa Toyota, who worked on eight of the halls, offers his insights on acoustics. Renzo Piano and Esa-Pekka Salonen contributed forewords. This is a perfect gift for opera-lovers, concertgoers, and everyone who is captivated by great architecture and design, old or new. It will also serve as a guide to inspire cultural tours of European cities, small towns and summer festivals. Author Michael Webb Hon. AIA/LA is the author of thirty books on architecture and design and writes for leading journals in Europe, the U.S. and Asia. Thomas Small won musical fellowships to the Columbia Graduate School of Journalism and to the Sorbonne Nouvelle in Paris, and has written extensively for the French journal Concertonet and other publications. 16

$60.00 10” x 10” Square • 304pp • Hardbound • 978-1-966515-37-1 World Rights: Available Publication Date: September 15th 2026

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A Scheme to Annihilate Magnificent Distances An Artist’s Memoir

How does one emancipate herself when the constrictions of society are too great to bear? A Scheme to Annihilate Magnificent Distances is both a memoir and the reflection of an era of social and political unrest. Thea’s memories of growing up in post-World War II Brooklyn emerge in poetry-like texts that live beside her story of breaking into the male-dominated New York City art scene in the late 1960s. This combined narrative style, which moves between stream-of-consciousness and structured prose, establishes the rhythm and tone of the book. Thea’s art, much of which is exhibited in this volume, received immediate recognition. Her feminism and her role in the women’s rights movement are telling of the times and deeply personal, and understanding this is central to understanding her art. Following the death of her mother, the nature of Thea’s creative output shifts, and she produces critical rhetoric for the art world in which she was so immersed. A Scheme to Annihilate Magnificent Distances is a record of the artist’s memories and experience, of her art and activism, and it is yet another way in which she has expressed her perception of the world she inhabits.

career, Ms. Thea transitioned to art writing, ultimately writing three books of interviews with some of the most significant curators in the world: Foci: Interviews with Ten International Curators (2001), On Curating (2006), and On Curating 2 (2016). Her writing has been featured in such publications as Artnet, ArtAsiaPacific, NYArts Magazine, Sculpture Magazine, among others, and she served on the editorial board of the fifth issue of Heresies. She has taught at Pratt Institute, Parsons School of Art, and the College of New Rochelle, among others. Thea attended Skidmore College and Columbia University, and in 1976, she earned her MA from Hunter College, City University of New York. Her books continue to be relevant to contemporary debates around globalization and the role of the international curatorial apparatus.

Author Carolee Thea is a New York City-based artist, writer, curator, and art critic. In her three decades as a multimedia artist, her work was exhibited across the country in galleries, museums, art centers, sculpture gardens, and universities. In the late 1960s, she entered the New York art world and received recognition for her contributions to the development of contemporary art and to the growing feminist movement. Her work spanned sculpture, film, photography, performance, and public earthworks, breaking with tradition by blurring formal conventions and precipitating urgent conversations about gender, authorship, and corporeality. In the second half of her 18

$70.00 6.5” x 9.5” Portrait • 177pp • Hardbound 978-1-966515-40-1 World Rights: Available Publication Date: Fall 2026

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Imaging Heaven

Imaging Heaven is a visual narrative—a collection of approximately 150 photographs—that invites the reader on a journey of painted ceilings, many of which depict heaven, as envisioned by masters from the Proto-Renaissance through the Baroque periods. The focus of this book is the painted or frescoed church ceiling, a monumental canvas where artists engaged the ultimate challenge: illustrating the unseen reality of Heaven. The photographed ceilings are not merely decorative art; they are visual records of a profound shift in human understanding of the cosmos, of the self, and of the divine. The narrative aims to guide the reader to observe the progression of imagination and painting style through three intertwined visual threads that trace the evolution of this celestial vision. These threads have to do with light and how it is imagined and rendered from mosaics and shadowless gold to technically sophisticated radiance conveying the divine; the innovations of illusion, that is the stylistic and technical advancements that conveyed depth and limited space thereby transforming a flat ceiling into what appeared to be open sky; and the articulation of the human body and human gesture from stylized forms to anatomically detailed, emotionally resonant figures, ultimately leading to the ethereal, spiritual beings populating the upper reaches of the heavens. 20

The visual journey described above and narrated in the book is supported by an inextricably linked overarching theme: the intellectual revolution ignited by historical events and fueled by new scientific inventions, technological breakthroughs, and world discoveries which relentlessly challenged the established, Earth-centric religious paradigms, pushing artists to reinvent Heaven’s architecture and inhabitants to accommodate an expanding, dynamic cosmos. Author Primarily known for his business career, Arthur Becker, is also an artist. In past work, Becker has explored cultural materialism and our relationship value and money. While his commitment to photography has been ongoing, his interest in the particular topics dispelled in Imaging Heaven began during an incidental visit to Rome.

$80.00 9” x 12” Portrait • 208pp • Hardbound • 978-1-961856-62-2 World Rights: Available Publication Date: Fall 2025

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Architecture of Life $35.00 5” x 7” Portrait • 276pp • Softbound 978-1-966515-97-5 World Rights: Available Publication Date: Fall 2026

What is the secret to architecture that feels truly comfortable? Architecture of Life is the first essay collection distilling three decades of groundbreaking work from the architectural duo behind the iconic Fuji Kindergarten and Roof House. Moving beyond mere blueprints, this book explores a radical philosophy: buildings are not static objects, but dynamic organisms that breathe, weather, and evolve. The authors challenge the modern obsession with sterile, climate-controlled isolation, proposing instead a return to creating “architecture of life”. Through world-renowned projects, they demonstrate how environments can foster freedom, dignity, and joy. Drawing on “open monism” and Zen concepts like ensō, these essays reveal how architecture can bridge the gap between humans and ecosystems and how the authors create “generative fields” where life can truly unfold by embracing risk and nature. Part personal narrative and part philosophical meditation, this book is an essential call to rethink our built environment as an act of trust—reminding us that the most meaningful spaces are those that allow us to feel the world again. Author Takaharu Tezuka is a Japanese architect and co-founder of Tezuka Architects. Known for playful, human-centered schools such as Fuji Kindergarten, he creates imaginative and versatile spaces that elevate the human experience through deep sensitivity to environment and community. 22

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Ratio et Architcaectura

University of Notre Dame

Merrill, Pastor & Michael Architecture and Urban Design

This is the first place these projects have been collected and reflects 37 years of work in the US and abroad. The scale of the projects ranges from houses to a federal courthouse. Sites range from a fraction of an acre to forty acres. Merrill, Pastor & Michael Architects works with a range of master planners, principally with DPZ and DPZ CoDesign. Author Scott Merrill received a BA from the University of Virginia and a Master of Architecture from Yale University. The firm’s work received the Arthur Ross Award from the Institute of Classical Architecture in New York in 2004. Scott Merrill received the Seaside Prize in 2012 and the Richard H. Driehaus Prize in 2016. All Credited Contributors: Vincent Scully (posthumously) Andres Duany Leon Krier $65.00 10” x 12” Landscape • 400pp • Hardbound 978-1-961856-88-2 World Rights: Available Publication Date: Fall 2025 24

The Driehaus Laureate Series on new traditional architecture and urbanism at the University of Notre Dame is dedicated to master architects and urbanists whose exemplary work ranges in scope from the vernacular to the classical. This book was made possible in part by support from the Driehaus Trust, Chicago, Illinois. In collaboration with the University of Notre Dame, ORO Editions is honored to inaugurate this series and champion the enduring relevance of classical design.

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Ratio et Architcaectura University of Notre Dame Munkkiniemi-Haaga and Greater Helsinki Urban Planning Studies and Proposals by Eliel Saarinen

Saarinen’s Munkkiniemi-Haaga (1910–15), was commissioned by businessman Julius Tallberg. His masterplan bears the influences of urban thinkers like Camillo Sitte, Raymond Unwin, as well as Georges-Eugène Haussmann. Saarinen provided urban and building typologies, which included terraced houses (a new development in Finland), and blocks with apartments centered around courtyards. The unrealized plan was published in book form as well as a model. As part of Tallberg’s Pro Helsingfors project (1918), Saarinen’s future vision for Helsinki envisaged a decentralized but radial organization linking various nodes to the urban centre by an ample hierarchy of streets. Saarinen’s social vision included accommodating citizens with a a mix of various income levels. Author Eliel Saarinen was a Finnish American Architect who practiced in Finland and the United States. He received the second prize for the competition for Australia’s capital Canberra. His most comprehensive urban vision has been published in Munkkiniemi-Haaga (1910–15), a plan for a new suburb of Helsinki for 170,000 inhabitants. His most significant buildings in the U.S. are his design for Cranbrook Academy. $60.00 10” x 12.5” Portrait • 176pp • Softbound 978-1-966515-93-7 World Rights: Available Publication Date: Fall 2026 26

The Driehaus Laureate Series

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Ratio et Architcaectura

University of Notre Dame

Classical Architecture Author Demetri Porphyrios has an international reputation as practicing architect, urban designer, theorist, author and teacher. He has built in Europe, the United States and the Middle East and he is Founder and Principal of London-based Porphyrios Associates.

The Driehaus Laureate Series Classicism is not a style; it is the philosophy of free will nurtured by tradition. In a series of tightly argued essays, the author discusses the role of imitation, tectonics, ornament and originality in architecture, showing that the classical is that which speaks of tradition always in a modern voice. In the first chapter the author examines the theory of imitation, the position it occupies in classical thought and the way by which it can be shown that imitation is at the core of both traditional and modernist art. The second chapter is devoted to the significance of tectonics in architecture. The third chapter examines the relations between building and architecture and the way in which we may say that “classicism is not a style.” The fourth chapter studies classical ornament and the role it plays in architecture. The fifth chapter addresses the principles of the traditional city and makes the claim for revitalizing common sense. Finally, in the sixth chapter, the author looks at what tradition really means and how it relates to modernity. The book also features an extensive appendix that makes accessible to readers excerpts from some of the most important classical texts relating to architecture.

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Ratio et Architcaectura

University of Notre Dame

The Venetian Facade

There are no books that focus on the unique artistic characteristics of the Venetian facade and its potential relevance to contemporary architectural and urban issues, as this book intends. This book is about architecture. It is not about history, although a bit of history is necessary to set the context. It is not about theory, although, again, a bit is necessary to connect the facade with urbanism. It is also not about structure and technology. And, most definitely, it is not about the plan. All of these topics are well-covered elsewhere. This book is about the facade. It explores the art and typology of the Venetian facade, not only as a high point of architectural literacy and achievement, but as a potentially useful contemporary stimulant. Author Michael Dennis is the principal of Michael Dennis & Associates in Boston, and Professor of Architecture Emeritus at MIT. 1986 Thomas Jefferson Professor of Architecture, University of Virginia; 1988 Eero Saarinen Professor of Architecture, Yale University; 2006 Charles Moore Professor of Architecture, University of Michigan.

$40.00 8.5” x 11” Portrait • 160pp • Hardbound 978-1-961856-35-6 World Rights: Available 30

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Designing Nusantara

The Making of Indonesia’s New Capital

What does it take to design a capital city for a culturally diverse nation from the ground up? This book offers a rare, behind-the-scenes look at Nusantara, the new capital of Indonesia, told through the eyes of the lead designer from its earliest conception to its current development. Moving beyond public headlines, the narrative traces the transformation of Nusantara from its first conceptual sketches to monumental realization of foundations being laid on site. Readers are invited to unpack the intricate urban vision and complex planning processes that have defined this “Forest City.” The book documents the technical milestones and early implementation challenges faced when designing at a national scale—a process where environmental resiliency, cultural identity, and bold national ambitions meet. Featuring a foreword by the world-renowned urbanist Jon Lang, the text provides essential context for how high-level design decisions are made in a rapidly evolving landscape. Whether you are a professional architect, an urban planning student, or a member of the general public curious about Indonesia’s future, this book provides the definitive insider’s perspective on the birth of a 21st-century capital. It is a compelling exploration of a city designed to be a global benchmark for sustainable urbanism.

Author Sibarani Sofian, founder of URBAN+ and President of IARKI, is a specialist in strategic urban design & planning. With a background at international firms like SOM and AECOM, he now focuses on creating integrated, resilient environments across Indonesia’s emerging markets. David Hutama is the co-founder of Nenun Ruang, an open education platform dedicated to fostering the growth and development of architecture and design education in Indonesia. He earned his doctoral degree from the AA School of Architecture in London, United Kingdom, in 2021 under the LPDP scholarship program. He was commissioned as co-curator of the Indonesian Pavilion at the International Architecture Exhibition, La Biennale di Venezia, in 2014 and 2018.

$60.00 9” x 11” Portrait • 264pp • Flexibound 978-1-966515-59-3 World Rights: Available Publication Date: Spring 2026

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Every Picture Tells a Story

$65.00 9” x 11” Landscape • 204pp • Hardbound 978-1-966515-77-7 World Rights: Available Publication Date: Fall 2026

Hand drawing is arguably architecture’s oldest technology. Even as we plunge headlong into the age of artificial intelligence, drawing remains a timeless, intuitive, and powerful tool for exploring, explaining, and understanding both built and imagined environments. It remains a timeless tool for design thinking. This richly illustrated monograph features over 250 works from the 40-year career of architect Wesley L. Page, FAIA, ASAI, one of the nation’s top traditional media architectural illustrators. Rather than a “how-to” book of drawing tricks and techniques, it is a visual journal organized around a purpose-based approach to drawing architecture and how understanding the overlap of drawing, design, and storytelling can profoundly impact the power and effectiveness of architectural illustration. The drawings collectively represent a holistic approach to both conceiving of and executing drawings—not just drawing for illustration, but drawing to achieve a more intentionally targeted outcome driven by purpose and story. Every Picture Tells a Story is a virtual encyclopedia that displays compelling, beautiful evidence of the lasting relevance, appeal, and storytelling capacity of hand drawing in the digital age.

Author Wesley L. Page, FAIA, ASAI, is a design principal and illustrator with Hanbury Design in Norfolk, Virginia. Over a 40-year career as a designer and architectural illustrator, his work has garnered numerous national and international awards and been published and displayed regularly in juried shows across the United States and abroad. He has long been a vocal national advocate for hand drawing as a still critical design tool, even in the digital age.

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While Away

An Architect’s Travel Sketches

$60.00 7” x 10.5” Landscape • 252pp • Hardbound 978-1-966515-65-4 World Rights: Available Publication Date: Fall 2026

An intimate and inspiring journey through the travel sketches of renowned architect Steve Ziger. Part memoir, part travel guide, part drawing manual and architectural history, this captivating book features 240 ink, pencil, and watercolor sketches rendered over five decades. Ziger’s personal experiences are blended with insightful observations about the built environment and the wondrous potential of human-made design. This timely collection of sketches reminds us of the value of being present to the world around us, and the power of drawing to help us see, learn, and understand a place. Author Steve Ziger, FAIA, is the cofounder of the award-winning studio of Ziger|Snead Architects. He is a founding trustee of the Baltimore Design School, a pioneering public middle- and high school that focuses on fashion, architecture, and graphic design.

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Contextualism and Essays on Architectural History and Theory A collection of essays published from the 1970s to the present on architectural theory and architectural history. Author Stuart Cohen is an author, educator, and practicing architect. He is a Fellow of the American Institute of Architects and recipient of the Chicago Chapter of the AIA Lifetime Achievement Award for 202. He is professor of architecture emeritus at the University of Illinois Chicago. He is the recipient of an award for excellence in design from the Society of Architectural Historians and in 2018 he received the Arthur Ross Award from the Institute for Classical Architecture and Art for his writing.

$35.00 6” x 9” portrait • 240pp • Softbound 978-1-966515-69-2 World Rights: Available Publication Date: Fall 2026

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ONRAMP 8 SCI-ARC

ONRAMP 8 captures the culminating thesis work and final projects of SCI-Arc’s Undergraduate, Graduate, and Postgraduate programs for the 2024–25 academic year. Edited by Marcelyn Gow under the editorial leadership of Director and CEO Winka Dubbeldam, the publication presents a wide-ranging body of work that confronts climate resilience, artificial intelligence, advanced fabrication, and new material systems. Developed within SCI-Arc’s experimental studio culture, these projects reflect the institution’s commitment to critical inquiry, technological advancement, and speculative design. Richly illustrated and thoughtfully organized, ONRAMP 8 serves as both an academic archive and a forward-looking survey of emerging architectural thought. Author Winka Dubbeldam is an architect, educator, and Director and CEO of SCI-Arc. Founder of Archi-Tectonics, she is internationally recognized for her leadership in sustainable design, advanced technologies, and forward-thinking architectural education.

$45.00 6.5” x 8.75” Portrait • 360pp • Softbound 978-1-966515-85-2 World Rights: Available Publication Date: Fall 2026

Contributors: Winka Dubbeldam, Marcelyn Gow, Kristy Balliet, Elena Manferdini, David Ruy, Liam Young, M. Casey Rehm, Jackilin Hah Bloom, Maxi Spina, Pierce Myers, Anna Neimark, Graham Harman, Thomas Heatherwick, Herwig Baumgartner, Shigeru Ban, John Cooper, Erik Gheniou, Sophie Pennetier

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Dreams and Nightmares in Architecture

Architecture has never been more challenged than it is today. Addressing the sheer scale of the triple challenges of environmental sustainability, in the form of climate change; the social, in the form of class, gender, and racial inequality; and the cultural, in terms of identity, exclusion, and prejudice, in particular against First Nations Peoples, is a seemingly overwhelming task for architecture. At the same time, these great challenges come at a moment when architecture has never been so marginalised and diminished. The practice of architecture has been progressively desiccated, undermined, and commodified through the instrumental processes of the contemporary development industry and professional practice, together with the simplistic reductionism of media technology and market consumption demands. How could this happen? How can the true nature of architecture have been so undermined? Author Richard Francis-Jones is a highly awarded practising Australian architect. He is a graduate of Columbia University, New York, 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 a Member of the Royal Institute of British Architects. He is Design Director of fjcarchitects and has led the design of many highly acclaimed and internationally award-winning works, including the World Building of the Year Award, the AIA Jørn Utzon Award, the RIBA International Award, the NZ Architecture Medal, and the Sir John Sulman Medallion. He is the author of the book Truth and Lies in Architecture.

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Washington Alley Project

A Field Guide to Public Space Advocacy Washington Alley Project: A Field Guide to Public Space Advocacy is a richly illustrated, practice-based guide that reimagines urban alleys as vital, inclusive, and participatory public spaces. Centered on Washington, D.C., this field guide blends design thinking, grassroots organizing, and urban policy to offer a replicable model for civic action in overlooked spaces. At its core, the guide addresses a critical and often ignored component of urban design: the potential of alleys to serve as meaningful public spaces. In many American cities, alleys are perceived as hidden, utilitarian zones—reserved for waste collection, parking, or delivery access. The Washington Alley Project reframes this perception by demonstrating that alleys can support community interaction, small business growth, environmental sustainability, and artistic expression. The guide is both a conceptual framework and a practical toolkit. Rather than focusing solely on design outcomes, the guide emphasizes process—an open, iterative model of engagement and exploration. Crucially, the guide illustrates how design professionals can play a central role in public space advocacy. As spatial thinkers and community connectors, designers are uniquely positioned to translate civic aspirations into tangible design interventions. The project includes several examples of author-led initiatives that have demonstrated the impact of thoughtful, small-scale design in transforming public perception around alleys. Grounded in the success of the Washington Alley Project, the book provides both inspiration and instruction: visualizing forgotten spaces in new ways and offering the tools to make those visions real. Author

$45.00 8” x 10” Portrait • 200pp • Softbound 978-1-966515-80-7 World Rights: Available Publication Date: Fall 2026

The Washington Alley Project is led by EL Studio, a Washington, D.C.–based architecture and design practice committed to advancing civic engagement and equitable urban transformation through design. The project is spearheaded by Mark Lawrence, AIA, and Elizabeth Emerson, AIA, co-founders of EL Studio, who are both practicing architects and academics. All contributors: Dom Andreano Sarah Beth Combs Tyler Crain Andrew D’Angelo Karl Gleason Luke Halverstadt John Kirya Win Overholser Juli Petrillo Madelynn Ringo Spencer Rosner Max Rosner Meredith Sells Shariwa Sharada Clare Striegel Tess Temple Kate Troutman Morgan Weber

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Curating Earth

The Practice of Everyday Architecture

Curating Earth: The Practice of Everyday Architecture reflects on two decades of design by INI Design Studio—not through a conventional monograph, but through a series of reflective dialogues. What defines INI’s ethos is not a fixed aesthetic language, but a set of ten design drivers that allow the studio to approach each project as uniquely situated. The ‘Design Drivers’ are not rules, but lenses—flexible, evolving principles that respond to each project and its context. The dialogues— staged between architects, planners, theorists, and students— form the heart of the book. As these exchanges show, INI does not merely describe buildings; it probes the values, constraints, and aspirations that give rise to them. Spanning 40 projects, the book explores how architecture can remain responsive in a time of ecological urgency, digital acceleration, and shifting human needs. It begins with ancient concepts like technē, and moves through contemporary discussions on technology, sustainability, and aesthetics, ultimately returning to questions of beauty, justice, and the condition of being human, of being-in-the-world. $50.00 9.5” x 11.7” Portrait • 356pp • Softbound 978-1-972474-02-0 World Rights: Available Publication Date: Fall 2026 46

Author Rupinder Singh is a practitioner-academician educated at MIT and Princeton. He has served as Dean and Head at various institutions and is a Board Member of the Council of Architecture, India. His publications include Ctrl+Alt+Del and the forthcoming The Inhabited Modern: Messy Transformations of Objects and Space in Everyday India. Jayesh Hariyani, FAIA, RIBA, is the founding principal of INI Design Studio. An architect, planner and sustainability advocate with over 35 years of global experience across USA, Europe, UAE, and South Asia, he has led over 850 million square metres of built and ongoing projects. He holds an Executive MBA from the Katz School of Business, a post-professional M.Arch II from Syracuse University and B.Arch from CEPT University. Conversation with Vladimir Belogolovsky: A New York–based curator, critic, author, and founder of Curatorial Project, Vladimir trained as an architect at The Cooper Union. He has authored 20 books and has interviewed more than 500 architects worldwide. He has curated over 70 architectural exhibitions internationally and lectured in more than 30 countries.

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Coastal

Timeless Homes of South Florida Timeless Homes of South Florida is an architectural and visual study of the region’s most distinguished private residences, celebrating homes defined by classical influence, disciplined proportion, and enduring craftsmanship. Featuring a curated collection of new builds, and landmark renovations, the book highlights estates where thoughtful massing, refined materials, and carefully composed forms create a lasting architectural presence. From gracious Old Florida cottages to expansive British West Indies and Palm Beach–inspired residences, each home is presented as a balance of heritage and modern livability. Open floor plans, axial views, and seamless indoor-outdoor connections reflect a lifestyle shaped by climate, light, and landscape, while bespoke detailing and tailored interiors elevate each space. More than a showcase of beautiful houses, this volume offers insight into architectural lineage, design intention, and the art of building with longevity in mind. Timeless Homes of South Florida is a sophisticated reference for design enthusiasts, architects, and collectors alike—an enduring tribute to elevated coastal living and the homes that define it. Author As founder of MHK Architecture, Matthew has been practicing since 1998. He’s proud of the firm’s lasting influence across South Florida and beyond—and most of all, of the exceptional team leading nine offices from Florida to Colorado.

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All contributors: Waterside Builders Architectural Land Design Seaside Builders Freestyle Interiors Renee Gaddis Interiors Brantley Photography Broad Avenue Studios London Bay Homes Kidago Creative Giovanni Photography John Trigiani Photography Amber Frederiksen Photography T. Jerulle Construction Ficarra Design Associates Inspiro 8 Studios Naples Kenny Photography Michael Owen Photography Kelly & Co Designs Furniture Etc. Courchene Development Metis Landscapes Bardes Interiors Fasca Inc. Romanza Interiors Linda Sonders Design Corrine Jones Interiors Preferred Builders of Florida Inc.

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Still Modern: Where Learning Lives Design Principles for Thriving Schools

$60.00 8” x 10” Portrait • 320pp • Softbound 978-1-966515-70-8 World Rights: Available Publication Date: Fall 2026 What if schools were designed not just to educate, but to help students and teachers truly thrive? Created through a powerful collaboration between educators and architects, Still Modern: Where Learning Lives reimagines school design as a force for well-being, resilience, and community connection. Drawing on Perkins&Will’s 90-year legacy in educational design, the book translates research on physical, social/emotional, and cognitive well-being into practical design strategies for learning environments that support the whole child — and the whole community. The book reveals timeless design principles adaptable to any school, regardless of size or budget. Grounded in decades of practice and the enduring lessons of Crow Island—America’s first modern school—it offers an actionable vision of schools as places where learning, health, and human potential flourish. Author Laura Moore utilizes human-centered design practices to transform classrooms, systems and experiences meant to elevate student voice, foster creativity, harness agency, and build partnerships that extend learning beyond the classroom. Over the last 20 years, she has served students as a teacher, instructional leader, High School Research & Design Lab Leader, and district-level Leader of Experiential Learning & Community Engagement. 50

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LA+ 23: Media

$30.00 8.75” x 10.5” Portrait • 116pp • Softbound 978-1-966515-07-4 World Rights: Available Publication Date: Spring 2026 The word “media”—the plural of “medium”—is from the Latin medius, meaning “middle.” Since the 19th century, the term has pertained broadly to anything that is a means of transmission or communication; however, media are not simply neutral channels that transmit content created through other means, as the contributors to this issue demonstrate. Authors from a wide array of disciplines explore the “middleness” of media by considering how its various forms influence our knowledge, shape our understanding, and affect our interpretation of the world around us. Author Karen M’Closkey is an associate professor of landscape architecture at the University of Pennsylvania’s Weitzman School of Design and Editor in Chief of LA+ Interdisciplinary Journal of Landscape Architecture. All contributors: Christina Antiporda Etienne Benson Holly Jean Buck Lino Camprubí Bueno Dipesh Chakrabarty Jess Conard Vinita Damodaran Sonja Dümpelmann Diana Guo Maria Ivanova Rami Kanafani Laura J. Martin Chad Montrie Michael Oppenheimer Marcus Owens Melissa S. Ragain Jessica Varner Andrew Witt Contributors include Brooke Belisle, Alenda Y. Chang, Dave Colangelo, Daniel Coombes, Rania Ghosn, Abelardo Gil-Fournier, Alison Griffiths, Martin Hogue, Bryan Norton, Jussi Parikka, John Durham Peters, Ann Reynolds, David Salomon, Susan Schuppli, Nina Lager Vestberg. We end with a tribute to the late Richard Weller, co-founder with Tatum Hands of this journal.

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Transparent Architecture 2

$35.00 6” x 7.75” Landscape • 110pp • Softbound 978-1-961856-56-1 World Rights: Available Publication Date: Fall 2026

Transparent Architecture 2 is an exploration of the nature of transparency in architecture, ranging from spatial and physical transparency, to a clarity of structure, to the dematerialization of the actual physical object, and further to evolving and expanding states of architectural awareness. This exploration is revealed through a juxtaposition of experimental drawing, subliminal texts, and actual constructed work. The projects in this book are an expansion of the approaches in the original Transparent Architecture. These projects begin with earlier experimental drawing, then the seminal ideas come to fruition years later in actual constructed work. Even across time, a consistent architectural stance emerges and seems to permeate all the work. The etymology of the word transparent is interesting. It has its origins in Latin, transparere, meaning to show through. Whereas the original Latin derivation is trans + parere, meaning to show oneself, thus suggesting both looking out, and looking in. 54

O R O E D I T I O N S FA L L 2 6 The built projects are fully congruent in spirit with the earlier investigations for which construction is not an issue. The question is how the architect moves from what appears immaterial to the transformation of the ideas into something very concrete. That which appears to unite both aspects is transparency. The work in this new book points to an architecture that seems to suggest a multiplicity of qualities. Paradoxically, it is also architecture that reveals itself and its own singular nature clearly. Activities happen all at once, in a seamless whole, in a simultaneity of experience, where the normal boundaries and usual edges do not hold. The experimental drawings, texts, and built projects on the following pages are visual and spatial explorations. They aim toward architecture that provokes thought, refines one’s abilities to see, and embraces the ongoing confluence and mutability of things. The inhabitant then moves through and interacts, in a live and changing world.

Author Gordon Gilbert was born in Washington DC, raised in Latin America, and established his architectural office, Gordon Gilbert Architect, in New York City in 1984. He was a founding member of the Research Institute for Experimental Architecture and has developed conceptual and experimental projects over the years. His book Transparent Architecture was published in 2017. More recently, his work Collection of Architecture and Experimental Drawings is archived with the Architecture Research Center at the University of Miami.

Flansburgh Architects

Structure, Form, Community 2010-2025 Author Flansburgh Architects is one of America’s most prolific makers of innovative, high-performance institutional and cultural buildings. Launched in 1963 by Cornell-trained designer Earl Flansburgh, the Boston-based office—now led by David Croteau with principals Jorge Cruz, Kent Kovacs, and Joseph Marshall—has carried forward the modernist tradition of its founder while pursuing an approach to practice that puts communities first. The recipient of numerous awards and media accolades, the firm’s architecture is driven by a belief that the quality of our surroundings has a direct influence on the quality of our lives, whether on campus, in the workplace, or in the public realm. Ian Volner has contributed articles on architecture, design, and urbanism to The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The New Republic, The Atlantic, Harper’s, and The New Yorker among other publications, and is a contributing editor at Architecture Today (UK). His books and monographs include The Great Great Wall: Along the Borders of History from China to Mexico (Abrams, 2019), Philip Johnson: A Visual Biography (Phaidon, 2020), Droese Raney X Design (Monfried Editions, 2023) and Arquitectonica: Living (Rizzoli, 2026).

Richly illustrated, and accompanied by in-depth analysis, Flansburgh Architects: Structure, Form, Community 2010-2025 is the first-ever comprehensive monograph from one of America’s most prodigious makers of public buildings, bringing together twenty remarkable projects from around the country and around the world. Since its founding more than six decades ago, the Boston-based firm has built a reputation for a uniquely resourceful approach to institutional work, with designs that frequently make a virtue of constraint: in delicate urban as well as rural environments, in complex historical contexts and under challenging practical conditions, Flansburgh has again and again produced dazzling buildings that solve tough, real-world problems with grace and ingenuity to spare. In a sleek new international school in Croatia; at a rustic dance studio for the Jacob’s Pillow retreat in western Massachusetts; and in the new Lili’uokalani Center for at-risk youth in Honolulu, gleaming like a lighthouse on the nighttime streets—everywhere Flansburgh has left its mark, the practice’s dedication to an architecture of honesty and simplicity has made for stronger, more vibrant communities. Through images and words, this book affords a glimpse into fifteen years of extraordinary activity and accomplishment.

Marianela D’Aprile’s writing on architecture, design, and culture has appeared in, among others, The Nation, the Architectural Review, the Cleveland Review of Books, and the New York Review of Architecture. She has also contributed to the volumes The Matter of Photography in the Americas (Stanford University Press, 2018), Who Can Afford to Be Critical? (Set Margins’, 2022), Co-Designing Publics (ORO Editions, 2023), and Towards Another Architecture (Lund Humphries, 2024). She is a contributing editor at the New York Review of Architecture and BOMB Magazine. Green Dragon Office of Los Angeles is a design practice with a specialty in the design of books on art and architecture for educational institutions, museums and publishers. Recent publications include Tom Kundig Complete Houses (Phaidon/ Monacelli 2025); Robert Rauschenberg: Fabric Works of the 1970s (Menil Art Gallery / Yale 2025); and Hilma af Klint: What Stands Behind the Flowers (MoMA, 2025).

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The Value of the Existing Too often, buildings are evaluated through narrow, predefined criteria—energy performance, regulatory compliance, cost, or aesthetic standards—creating a hierarchy in which the new appears rational and future-oriented while the existing is cast as obsolete, messy, and expendable. Demolition becomes the default response: one we can no longer afford environmentally, socially, or economically. This book proposes a different way of engaging with the built fabric. At its core is the capacity to recognize value in what already exists—to begin not from deficiency, but from what already sustains life. The study focuses on Bourj Hammoud, a dense, low-income neighborhood in the eastern suburbs of Beirut, where the author grew up. Through three case studies, immersive fieldwork, and direct engagement with residents, the research examines how architecture can identify overlooked spatial potential and intervene with precision rather than replacement. In a place where space is a luxury and public areas are nearly absent, small, targeted interventions can meaningfully improve spatial quality and daily life—within real economic constraints. Rather than proposing a master plan, this book presents a way of seeing and working: one that might be applied elsewhere. Author $50.00 8.26” x 10.82” Portrait • 300pp • Softbound 978-1-966515-99-9 World Rights: Available Publication Date: Fall 2026

Lebanese-Armenian architect, designer and researcher Arine Aprahamian explores affordable and sustainable futures through architecture. She co-founded MÜLLER APRAHAMIAN in 2018. A Fulbright scholar, she was mentored by Pritzker Prize laureate Anne Lacaton through the Rolex Mentor and Protégé Arts Initiative.

Impact by Design

Lessons from Medical Drones to Kitchen Tools and Beyond

Impact by Design: Lessons from Medical Drones to Kitchen Tools and Beyond traces the stories of five breakthrough innovations—Zipline drones, the ClearRx prescription system, LifeStraw, Raspberry Pi, and OXO Good Grips—to show how real impact is designed, not accidental. Drawing on interviews, research, and practice, Thamer Abanami and Albert Shum surface nine repeatable patterns across three lenses: human, systems, and catalyst. Together, these patterns help leaders move from promising ideas to durable outcomes: seeing problems more clearly, shaping solutions that work in the messy reality of organizations and markets, and sustaining momentum over time. Written for designers, engineers, product leaders, policy makers and students, the book combines narrative case studies with actionable frameworks you can immediately apply to your own work. Rather than offering a rigid methodology, Impact by Design helps you connect human-centered design, systems thinking, and strategic management to shape solutions that are meaningful, transformative, and enduring. Author Thamer Abanami is a strategic product and program leader working at the intersection of business, design, and technology. A Latham Fellow at Illinois Tech’s Institute of Design and founder of Lumova Strategies, he brings over two decades of experience, including leadership roles at Microsoft, guiding complex initiatives in rapidly changing environments and helping organizations turn ambitious ideas into durable impact. 58

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Barcelona

The Urban Evolution of a Compact City

Trim: 8.66” x 8.98” Portrait Extent: 496pp Binding: Softbound ISBN: 978-1-966515-71-5 Cost: $45.00 Season: Fall 2026

Barcelona can be regarded as a prototype of a European Mediterranean city with a long urban tradition. As such, it has undergone a specific process of historic formation: density and compactness of urban form, evolution by extension rather than by reform, etc. A history of urban planning necessarily includes a summary of the territorial and urban experience, and pays particular attention to the physical dimensions of the city that condition its cultural and economic development. This book centers on the construction of Barcelona, taking as its basis the most important planning operations and city projects, and drawing on various sources for the different phases. Its urban development was very varied, even without taking into account the interventions of royalty or aristocrats that produced large avenues and parks. The local scale of many of the projects contrasts with the cosmopolitan aspirations that have made some of these interventions so innovative; these might include some of the major projects carried out for special events, such

as the events in 1888 (World Exhibition), 1929 (Electrical Industries Exhibition) and 1992 (Olympic Games). Now, in the 21st century, new prospects are opening up thanks to the recent European institutional framework, particularly changes in the economic system to a post-industrial phase, during which the various means of communication are coming to the fore. It is difficult to gauge the spatial repercussions, but the urban planning history of Barcelona shows how it has already overcome major contradictions in recent centuries. Author Joan Busquets is Professor of Urban Planning and Design at the GSD, Harvard University. A world-renowned urban planner and architect, Busquets has been awarded with many prizes for his urban projects developed in several cities around the World. 59

Monument to Instrument

Straight Talk About the Future of Architects

Architects must play an important role if American society is to survive climate change and immigration. Defining ourselves as artists limits that role. This book argues for a redefinition of architects as the experts on the relationships between humans and built environments. Architects must come to the public rather than asking the public to come to them. Consequently, the book attempts through “straight talk” to avoid the poetic language prevalent among architects writing about architecture. The book has six sections: A prologue describes the author’s path to the book; A collection of the author’s experiences illustrate the chasm between architects and the public; A brief iconoclastic history of western architecture describes the profession’s focus transitioning from monuments to instruments; Proposed changes to the practice of architecture designed to enable the architects to become, and convince the public they are, THE experts at the relationships between humans and built environments; Proposed changes to architectural education designed to develop those experts and produce more confident young architects; and An appendix includes a short professional biography of the author and an annotated list of the author’s favorite books.

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The author’s position arises from principles developed during 50 years of practice, including: “Radical Functionalism,” practicing towards tight fit based on comprehensive programming; “Extreme Programming,” inspired by the writings of Ian McHarg and Louis Kahn’s conversations with bricks, a belief that there are many right answers and definitively wrong answers; “Legitimate Individuation,” searching for right answers based on a wide-ranging discovery of specifics of the project, including site characteristics, client wishes, current architect enthusiasms, community concerns and locally available skills and materials; and “Everything for a Reason, Artfully Done,” a goal that we and the client understand every move’s purpose and that every move contributes to the art of the project. Author Mike Mense, FAIA, has a 1973 Virginia Tech B.Arch. with highest honors and a 2016 CCNY master’s in urban design. Leading mmenseArchitect(s) since 1979, he chaired the 2012 AIA Committee on Design and, with morphosis, won the Alaska Capitol Competition.

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Coastal

MHK Architecture

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Trim: 10” x 12” Portrait Extent: 250pp Binding: Hardbound ISBN: 978-1-966515-64-7 Cost: $65.00 Season: Spring 2026

Coastal is an inspiring exploration of Florida’s most exquisite high-end and boutique homes where architecture, design, and the spirit of the sea come together. Through stunning photography and captivating storytelling, the book reveals how light, texture, and craftsmanship define modern coastal living. From sun-washed beachfront estates in Naples to serene retreats along the Gulf and Atlantic shores, each home reflects a distinct interpretation of coastal elegance that is rooted in its surroundings yet elevated by sophisticated design. Featuring projects by visionary architects and designers, Coastal highlights spaces that blur the lines between indoors and out, creating an effortless dialogue with the natural landscape. Readers are invited to step inside a world of calm and beauty, where timeless materials meet contemporary vision and every detail is crafted to capture the essence of life by the water. Whether you are an architecture enthusiast, design professional, or admirer of coastal living, Coastal offers a rare glimpse into the artistry and allure that define Florida’s shoreline today.

As founder of MHK Architecture, Matt has been practicing since 1998. He’s proud of the firm’s lasting influence across South Florida and beyond—and most of all, of the exceptional team leading nine offices from Florida to Colorado. All Credited Contributors: Kristen Williams Waterside Builders Giovanni Photography Exacta FL Broad Avenue Studios Dreamhouses of Old Naples Architectural Land Design DLY Design The Williams Group Build LLC Amber Frederiksen Photography Naples Kenny Renee Gaddis Interiors Encore Development Kidago Creative Koastal Design Group Big Island Builders Naples Bay Construction Caple Landscaping Kelly Godsey Design Naples Redevelopment Tom Broccolo Custom Homes Environmental Design Studio Jett Thompson Interiors Gardenbleu Landscape Architecture Jerry Maxson Outside Productions 61

Arturo Mezzèdimi, AFRICA HALL A Monument to African History

All contributors Antonio Baio, Dawit Benti, Amzat Boukari-Yabara, Monica Brondi, Laura Callea, Nelly Cattaneo, Kate Coucher, Edward Denison, Shimelis Bonsa Gulema, Fasil Giorghis, Rasselas Lakew, Gianfrancesco Lusini, Gianmarco Mancosu, Chloé Maurel, Hannah Mariam Meherete-Selassie Dereje, Bekele Mekonnen, Daniel Mulugeta, Ephrem Nigussie, Mengesha Seyoum, Kongit Sinegiorgis, and Martin Welz $60.00 9.61” x 11.02” Portrait • 400pp • Hardbound 978-1-961856-63-9 World Rights: Available Publication Date: Fall 2025 This book is a photographic journey–complemented by a collection of academic essays on related historical, architectural and artistic topics–on the origin and life of “Africa Hall” in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, a building recently declared “Monument to African History,” which was donated in 1961 by Emperor Haile Selassie to the United Nations and designed by architect Arturo Mezzèdimi to serve as its continental headquarters, becoming also the birthplace, in 1963, of the Organization of African Unity. The building came to life with an inspiring story of reconciliation at a crucial moment in African history, when the continent was emerging out of the colonial period and making headway into a new era of independence and envisaged unity. Through its architectural composition and the embedded artworks, it embodied a Pan-Africanist vision and its rising ideals. Edited by the grandson of the architect and representing Italy’s contribution to the renovation project, the book sits at the crossroads of photography, architecture, history, and art and comprises an amplitude of independent essays, contributions and recollections from authors of diverse profiles. Through impacting images and short articles, it addresses events of historical relevance on a global scale, for the entire continent of Africa, at a national level for Ethiopia, and locally for the city of Addis Ababa, concluding with an introduction to the life and work of its architect. Author Marcello Mezzèdimi (PhD) is the grandson of Arturo Mezzèdimi, architect of Africa Hall, and currently directs the Djibouti-based activities of the MEZZ group in the fields of construction, real estate development, architectural design, and family heritage. His educational background comprises an MSc in Aerospace Engineering (La Sapienza, 2002), an MSc in Mathematical Finance (Oxford, 2011), a PhD in Applied Mathematics (La Sapienza/Luiss, 2011), and a Master in Real Estate (Bocconi, 2006). 62

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White Compositions

$35.00 10” x 10” Square • 84pp • Hardbound • 978-1-966515-17-3 World Rights: Available Publication Date: Fall 2025 The White Compositions are symbolically charged with highly specific references that speak to Ames’s work and life as an architect in Georgia preoccupied with modernism, art and basketball, among other cultural and literary meanings. Ames playfully collages architectural elements, such as facades organized by grids, with everyday (yet highly specific) objects—like a Morandi-esque vase, a Corbusian pair of glasses, a can of coke, an electric guitar, or a basketball hoop. The contrast between the (supposedly) rational, objective, and universalizing characteristics of modernism in confrontation with the particular, the idiosyncratic, and the autobiographical quotidian communicates a uniquely Ames-ian sensibility that provides a distinctive and refreshing take on the 20th-century architectural movement. Based in Atlanta, Georgia, Anthony Ames has operated his eponymous architecture office since 1976 and began painting in 1984. Ames’ White Compositions—a series of 11 monochromatic relief wall sculptures—originate from and elaborate on the architect’s painting practice, closely attending to proportion, layout, recurring forms, and motifs found within both his artistic and built works. His paintings—as described by Courtney Coffman in her previous review of Ames’s solo exhibition at a83 gallery in New York—“oscillate somewhere between the formality of a still life, the dynamism of sculptural relief, and the juxtaposed delight of collage.” A natural evolution in Ames’s practice, the 11 wall sculptures are accompanied by documents that provide insight into the precise and accomplished nature of Ames’ design process: from buildings to art. —Clara Syme Author 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 at 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); Ames, Residential Work: Volume 2, (Oro Editions, 2007); and Ames, Fifty Paintings, (Oro Editions, 2021). He began painting in 1984 and has been struggling with it ever since. 64

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Expos as Great Urban Projects Present and Future

Trim: 8.27” x 11.69” portrait Extent: 1,292 pages in two volumes Binding: hardbound (two books in slipcase set) ISBN: 978-1-957183-22-0 Cost: $125.00 Season: Spring 2026 Expos as Great Urban Projects: Present and Future is an outcome of a multiyear design research project that has been conducted at the Harvard University Graduate School of Design in collaboration with the Bureau International des Expositions (BIE) since 2018. The overall research has been led by Professor Joan Busquets, with Dingliang Yang and Michael Keller as co-principal investigators.

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The research and publication explore the capacity of World Expositions as mega-event strategies in transforming and creating new conditions for urban development, and retrospectively reviews the innovative ideas on urbanism and architecture in Expos and examines future design strategies. The overall research is framed under the title “Expos as Great Urban Projects, Present and Future,” and the outcome is correspondingly organized in two volumes:

Dingliang Yang is an architect, urban designer, and McKnight Land-Grant Professor at the University of Minnesota. Prior to joining the School of Architecture at the University of Minnesota Twin Cities, he taught at the Harvard University Graduate School of Design from 2018 to 2022. His current research focuses on urban form and the integration of AI, geospatial technologies, and design in shaping future cities. He is the author of multiple books on architecture and urbanism. Yang’s practice, vari architects, has received international recognitions for innovative and sustainable work in architecture and urban design.

Volume 1: Understanding Expos in an Urbanizing World, condense two parts: the urbanistic impact of expositions at the scale of the metropolis or territory and the catalog for Interpreting Expos in the Urban Context, that explores the design and legacy impact of expositions at the scale of the site and immediate locality. Volume 2: Learning from World Expositions, opens comparative studies of main Expos urbanistic features and conclusional analysis on the design of future expos. 66

Joan Busquets is a wond-renowned architect, urban designer, and educator. He is the Martin Bucksbaum Professor in Practice of Urban Planning and Design at the Harvard University Graduate School of Design, and the founder of the design firm, BAU Barcelona.

Michael Keller is an architect based in Seattle and a former research associate at the Harvard University Graduate School of Design.

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Period 1 1851–1888

Period 2 1889–1918

Period 3 1919–1945

Period 4 1946–1991

WWI

Period 5 1992–

WWII

ORGANICISM

Ian Carter

Shanghai

Turin

Richard Rogers

Alvaro Siza

Tongji Urban Planning & Design Institute Architecture Studio

Eliot Noyes

Seattle

Van Ginkels

Paul Thiry

Lyon

Helsingborg

Paris

Modernism

Port-au-Prince

Paris

Leon Jaussely Albert Laprade

Renzo Piano

Lisbon

Otto Bartning

Functionalism

Pier Luigi Nervi

Herzog de Meuron

Structural Expressionism

Santiago Calatrava

San Antonio

Frei Otto

Adalberto Libera

Liege

Stockholm

Nordic Classicism Gunnar Asplund

Regional Modernism

Rationalism

Louis Skidmore Nathaniel Owings

Turin

Regionalism

Seville

Marcello Piacentini

Mies van der Rohe

Munich

Henri Prost

Montreal

Eugène Hénard

Giorgio Grassi

Giuseppe Terragni

Brussels Berlin

Minoru Yamasaki

Symbiosis Kiyonori Kikutake

Metabolism

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Modernisme Joseph Vilaseca

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Habana Deco’

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The original impetus behind this project was the desire to document the extraordinary richness, variety, and quality of Havana’s Art Deco’ architecture. Looking back at these photographs, he is still glad he made the decision to undertake that adventure, despite the fact that the result of that effort, due to a series of circumstances, lay dormant for decades in a drawer in his studio. There is no doubt that, the documentary value of the photographs remains intact—or perhaps increased, since it is possible that over these thirty years some of the works portrayed have succumbed to successive cyclones and lack of maintenance. The valuable aesthetic and compositional charge of the images does not seem to have been compromised by the passage of time. Today, however, alongside with the worn beauty of the buildings portrayed, what captures the viewer is the life that has been encapsulated in these photographs. A life frozen in most cases accidentally. 68

Author Born in La Spezia, Italy, in 1960, Duccio Malagamba moved to Barcelona after graduating with an Architecture degree, and for several years he worked as an architect. In 1989, he obtained a grant for researching contemporary Spanish architecture. This research rekindled his youthful interest in photography, and in 1991 he decided to devote himself professionally to it. In his more than 30 years as an architectural photographer, he has participated in various exhibitions, conferences and juries, and specialized rankings have often included him among the most influential architectural photographers in the world. Other contributors: Zoé Valdés

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Paris from Behind

A Flaneur’s Guide To The Erotic Backside of Paris

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This book is a photo essay of all the 17th-, 18th-, and 19th-century statues of nude men in the squares, parks and museums of Paris. The pictures concentrate on the rarely photographed backsides of these statues. It is a celebration of the beauty of the male nude from the back with a particular focus on the muscular strength, sensual curves and erotic power of the derriere. It also celebrates the sculptors who have created these statues. Almost half were recipients of the Grand Prix de Rome, an award for exceptional young artists to go to Rome to study the art of the antiquities and the Renaissance. The majority of the artists had works shown in the Salons of Paris and most received major awards and commissions. The text features literary quotes about the beauty of the male, often particularly the derriere, by authors from ancient times to the present. The book is the product of a flaneur who had the time and leisure to walk the streets of Paris for the last six years collecting these images always from behind. 70

Author Daniel R. Brooks, a former creative director for several global advertising agencies, has lived in New York, London and Rome. For the past several years, he has called Paris his home, where he lives with his long-time partner, Douglas Scott Perlman, and their two Cavalier King Charles Spaniels, Loulou and Lolly. Roger J. Kilmartin is an international creative director and designer who has lived and worked in Auckland, Bahrain, Istanbul and London. Currently, he is residing and working in New York, where he lives with his husband, Toby O’Rorke, their daughter, Imogen, and their Jack Russell Terrier, Agnes.

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Architecture Educators and Practitioners in Collaboration Chicago Studio over 25 years

contributors are well-known while others are emerging professionals. All have an unwavering commitment – every semester, every year. Over 20 Chicago architecture practices have served as host firms, over 250 allied practitioners, and many other community organizations and neighborhood residents have impacted the students’ education.

Author Kathryn Clarke Albright is a professor of architecture at the College of Architecture, Arts, and Design, Virginia Tech. She is a founder of Chicago Studio, which was awarded the National Council of Architecture Registration Boards’ 2005 Prize for Creative Integration of Education and Practice in the Academy. $40.00 7” x 9” Portrait • 208pp • Softbound 978-1-966515-50-0 Spring 2026

The book tells the unwritten story of Chicago Studio over 25 years—a semester-long, place-based, experiential learning program harnessing the city as a learning lab through engagement of practitioners, city leaders and neighborhoods, while also providing pedagogical assessment and a look going forward. The authors have played various roles—lead educator, host firm, mentor—for the program at various times and have come together to write their collective story. Architects usually write about buildings and their practices, but here the authors write about pedagogy and the collaboration between educators and practitioners. The book presents this unique model and what constitutes the elements for its resilience. It also includes pedagogical assessment of Chicago Studio with other transformational pedagogies globally. Originating in 2002, more than 400 students have benefitted from this program. It developed from a network of professional and alumni relationships, and persisted as the network grew. The architects, allied professionals, city and community leaders rigorously supported the program through interactions with students – as mentor, critic, community activist, etc. Some 72

Andrew Balster is a Chicago-based leader in the areas of architecture, urbanism, public policy, sociology, and academia. He is the former director of Chicago Studio 2011-2015, he outlined his vision in an article titled, “Into the world by way of the city,” published in DesignIntelligence in 2013. Chip von Weise is a Chicago-based architect, director of Chicago Studio, associate professor of Practice in Virginia Tech’s School of Architecture. In 2022 he received the Nathan Clifford Ricker Award for Architecture Education from the American Institute of Architect’s Illinois chapter. John Syvertsen is a retired Chicago architect, instructor in Virginia Tech’s School of Architecture. He taught at six Architecture schools and has 45 years leading firms ranging in size from 3 to 1,000. In 2019 he received the Lifetime Achievement Award from the American Institute of Architect’s Chicago chapter. Ashraf M. Salama is a professor of architecture and Urbanism, Head of Architecture and the Built Environment, Northumbria University Newcastle. He is a renowned pedagogue for experiential learning where architecture education intersects practice and results in transformative educational models. Karine Dupre is a professor of architecture, Associate Dean for Research and Creative Scholarship in the College of Architecture, Arts, and Design at Virginia Tech. She has published over 100 peer-reviewed publications as an expert in architectural pedagogy and social design.

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Arthur Dyson

The Soul of Architecture

As a contributor to the esteemed magazine l’architettura, under the discerning eye of Bruno Zevi, I first encountered the architectural brilliance of Arthur Dyson through a 1995 article on the Jaksha House. My fascination deepened during a pilgrimage to the United States in 2007, where I met Dyson in person, igniting an insatiable desire for a profound understanding of his work. This desire crystallized over the years, ultimately inspiring the writing of this book.

Author

Dyson’s architecture, resplendent and visionary, emerges from a wellspring of fervent creativity and an intimate engagement with the unique qualities of its inhabitants. As an authentic organic architect, he envisions a reality that transcends the present, evolving into forms and narratives that are in perpetual flux. The remarkable Jaksha House serves as a precursor to the emblematic Woods House, which in turn leads to the spatial grace of the Hilton House. These are complemented by urban interventions such as the Webster Elementary School and the Selma Police Station, while the ethereal essence of the Betsuin Buddhist Temple offers a contemplative pause, resonating with spiritual depth.

All Credited Contributors: Douglas Cardinal, Preface Eric Lloyd Wright, Foreword David Swann and Susan Thompson, photographers

Giuliano Chelazzi was born and completed his architectural studies in Florence. After a stay in Germany, he carried out professional and journalistic activities, collaborating with the magazine l’architettura, directed by Bruno Zevi. In the last twenty years he has organized exhibitions on organic architecture.

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Shamsul Wares

An Architecture of Elemental Modernism Author Adnan Zillur Morshed is an architect, architectural historian and critic, urban theorist, and professor at the School of Architecture and Planning, Catholic University of America in Washington, DC. He received his Ph.D. and Master’s in architecture from MIT and BArch from the Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology, where he taught before coming to the USA. Adnan Morshed was featured in the acclaimed documentary, Louis Kahn’s Tiger City (2019), and was a TEDx speaker at George Washington University, Wyeth Fellow at the Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts (National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC), and Verville Fellow at the Smithsonian Institution. He served as the principal architect of the team that designed eight regional offices for BRAC (the world’s largest NGO) across rural Bangladesh. Writers/Contributors: Adnan Zillur Morshed, Nurur Rahman Khan, Farida Nilufar , Mohammed Zakiul Islam , Mohammad Foyez Ullah, Naushad Ehsanul Huq, Sujaul Islam Khan, Shams Mansoor Ghani, Aida Hassan, Sumaiya Sarwat, Rifat Ara Mostafa , Doujita Kasfi, Nuzhat Shama, Sadia Ishtiaque, Noshin Tasfia Proma, Halima Hasin Tofa, Wahida Munsi Bani, Sazia Khan, Suriya Zabin, Fahmida sabah, Umme Habiba Turna,

This pioneering monograph on Shamsul Wares, Bangladesh’s acclaimed architect and educator, demonstrates architecture as a reflection of the sociocultural conditions of a country, as well as global modernity. Shamsul Wares is widely known in Bangladesh to be a fiercely passionate teacher who professes architecture as a philosophy of modernism, one that views the challenges of space-making through the lens of twentieth-century modernist experiments through abstraction, platonic clarity, and humanism. Edited by Adnan Zillur Morshed with contributions from a diverse range of authors, this profusely illustrated book explains a cerebral architect’s design work with careful analysis and contextuality.

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Muzharul Islam, An Architect of Tomorrow Architecture and Nation-Building in Bangladesh

Muzharul Islam was one of the principal stalwarts of South Asia who established the norms and practices of modernity. Uniquely passionate about architecture and political engagement, Muzharul Islam’s life and legacy contributed to the building up of a vibrant architectural culture in Bangladesh, with an impact beyond the boundaries of that country. The book Muzharul Islam, An Architect of Tomorrow is the first comprehensive book on the architect featuring his works and texts, and essays by notable figures from across the world. Muzharul Islam (1923-2013) was active from the early 1950s in defining the scope and form of modern architecture, first in Pakistan and then, after 1971, in Bangladesh. His task was an enormous one: to create a modern yet Bengali paradigm for architecture. For Muzharul Islam, modernism meant more than an architectural vocabulary; it was part of an ethical and rational approach for addressing social inequities of the region. His steadfast commitment to a modernist ideology stemmed from an optimistic vision for transforming society. Consequently, his commitment for establishing a strong design culture

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in Bangladesh is paralleled by a deep engagement with the political and ethical dimension of society, with building the nation, so to speak. Author Kazi Khaleed Ashraf is an architect, and architectural historian and critic, working at the intersection of architecture, urbanism and landscapes. He has established the Bengal Institute for Architecture, Landscapes and Settlements in Dhaka, Bangladesh, as a leading research and design organisation in the subcontinent. Ashraf has authored books and essays on architecture in Bangladesh and India, on the work of Louis Kahn, Balkrishna Doshi, Kongjian Yu, and on other critical topics.

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Inverness By Design

How Berkeley Made a Summer Place Author Courtney Linn works at a Sacramento-based credit union. His articles about Inverness have appeared in the Point Reyes Light and Under the Gables, a publication of the Jack Mason Museum of West Marin History. He lives part time in Inverness with his wife Sarah.

Inverness is a coastal village on Tomales Bay about 40 miles north of the Golden Gate Bridge. For more than a century, Inverness has been where many Berkeley families vacationed for the summer. Its residential architecture—rustic, simple woodclad houses set in a hillside landscape—echoed Berkeley’s. These summer families shaped Inverness and its surroundings. The story of how Berkeley families shaped Inverness and its surroundings runs counter to the prevailing narrative about California coastal living. Inverness avoids the California feeling of restless change. It remains purposefully underdeveloped at a time when stretches of California’s coastline are overdeveloped. Its houses generally present as a unified whole, not a bunch of expressions of conflicting individual tastes, as we often see today in California when affluence meets coastal landscapes. Inverness’s simple rustic cottages, and its siting along a calm, unspoiled bay, share more in common with Martha’s Vineyard on Cape Cod than with any Southern California beach community running from San Diego to Santa Barbara. Inverness is a frosted window through which to glimpse Berkeley’s Arts and Crafts past. More generally, it provides a backwards view into what Lewis Mumford termed the “usable past.”

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Alexandre Chemetoff, Landscapes & Urbanism Changing Everything without Changing Everything Alexandre Chemetoff’s urban design draws on decades of designing landscapes, using new methods to reinvigorate older areas of the city and their architecture, while simultaneously proposing new buildings and neighborhoods—an innovative and unique method. Alexandre Chemetoff’s professional trajectory and practice has veered from small to large as well as large to small. In contrast to much of the verbiage about so-called “landscape urbanism,” his work at city-scale draws on his experience designing landscapes, using new methods to reinvigorate older areas of the city and their architecture, while simultaneously proposing new buildings and neighborhoods—an innovative and unique method. Early works by his office, the Bureau des paysages, such as the internationally celebrated Garden of Bamboo at the Parc de la Villette in Paris and the Place de la Bourse in Lyon are more easily identified as beautiful landscape architecture; less easily categorized are major renewal projects such as the Île de Nantes and the creation of a new neighborhood and re-creation of an existing quarter in Nancy. While these works, products of intelligent and thoughtful design, can rightly qualify as either landscape architecture or urban design, there really is no specific term for the process that produced them. Adopting a mode of operation intending to change everything without changing everything, designs by Chemetoff and the Bureau des paysages have eschewed any singular style. Chemetoff claims that he seeks “to construct a singular aesthetic which draws its sources from the surrounding world,” and in some projects the hand of the designer may not be at all apparent. Some design proposals have challenged governments and governmental policies with an attitude he terms “attentive disobedience,” in reference to naturalist and essayist Henry David Thoreau’s proposal of civil disobedience. The program provided or derived may be provocative, but it only poses the question. The program initiates; the designer questions; the context enriches the intensity of the enquiry and suggests an aesthetic. “There are no places abstracted from their context, places which are not inscribed in a history and a geography,” claims Chemetoff. In all, the environments created over more than forty years of practice are worthy of study and the methods employed by Chemetoff and the Bureau des paysages worthy of consideration and emulation.

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Author Marc Treib, Professor of Architecture Emeritus at the University of California, Berkeley, is a historian and critic of landscape architecture and architecture and an honorary member of the American Society of Landscape Architects. His publications span a wide range of modern and historical subjects concerning architecture, landscape architecture, and art in the United States, Japan, and Scandinavia. More recent books include The Landscapes of Modern Architecture: Wright, Mies, Neutra, Aalto, Barragán; The Aesthetics of Contemporary Planting Design; Serious Fun: The Landscapes of Claude Cormier; The Shape of the Land: Topography and Landscape Architecture; and Noguchi’s Gardens: Landscape as Sculpture. Alyssa Schwann is an environmental artist and designer whose work enfolds landscape conservation and cultural heritage across several regions. She is co-founding director of the Atelier Anonymous Global Landscape Foundation (AA-GLF), which advances community-based projects in Indigenous and intangible landscape traditions. A former tenured associate professor at the University of Manitoba in Winnipeg, Canada, she taught environmental design, landscape architecture, ecology, and climate change. Her current practice, grounded in both science and art, examines forest ecosystems and ecological conditioning in the context of shifting biogeoclimatic zones.

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MOD Time

Dreaming of Alternative Future for Modular Design

partmentalization of matter and the optimization of time ushers in a better process of making. Process is the eternal fount of modular design intelligence. This is a book that speculates on what the world might look like if modular design fulfills all our dreams. this book attempts to describe what modular can be if it vaults and clears our wildest aspiration. This is book filled with ghosts and fairies. It is haunted by realities of failures and the glorious floating images of visions. Our angel of history, Walter Benjamin’s is compelled to be looking back to the past as it is propelled forward. Author

$60.00 8” x 10” Portrait • 220pp • Hardbound 978-1-972474-05-1 World Rights: Available Publication Date: Fall 2026 In the realm of architecture, modular design has been both a tool of great potential and an enigma wrapped in contradiction. It promises flexibility, speed, and sustainability, yet it has often struggled to transcend the limits imposed by materiality, systems, and human imagination. MOD TIME: Rethinking the Future of Modular Design begins as a search for definition and ends as a journey into the limit and architect practice, challenging the conventional wisdom about modularity’s past and inviting readers to reconsider its place in the future of design. Modular design casts a magical dust over a human-made object. It embodies the ingenuity of the planner, the designer, the engineer, the architects and even the builders. The factory introduced the ability to distort both speed and distance. Building materials could be made faster and at a greater distance from the site. Industrialization disrupted the way in which buildings were conceived and yet modular design persists as a kind of interpretive salvo: we look to decode. And yet, the closer one gets to the history of modular design the more chimeras appear. The future was bright because manufacturing would solve our problems. Architecture has always been enamored with problem-solving. Proper planning, speedy logistics, the com84

Carlos Arnaiz is an architect, educator, writer, and urban design consultant. He is the founder and principal of Brooklyn-based design studio CAZA and the co-founder of SURBA, an urban design think-tank that uses data and analysis to improve urban policy and development. In his practice and research, Carlos advocates for more equitable, sustainable, and socially engaged forms of architecture, planning, and development. He has led the design of projects around the world ranging from civic and community institutions, affordable housing prototypes, strategic sustainability plans for new and developing cities, and mixed-use towers and complexes. His recent projects include the Camsur Capitol Building (Camsur, Philippines),Victorias Eco-Hub (Negros, Philippines), and the Haishu Waterfront District (Ningbo, China). Carlos currently serves as an Adjunct Professor at Pratt Institute’s Graduate School of Architecture & Urban Design, where he teaches a class on the history of ideas about the city and a studio on multi-family housing. He holds a Master’s Degree with Honors from Harvard University’s Graduate School of Design and a Bachelor’s Degree, Magna Cum Laude, from Williams College. His work has received awards, including the prestigious Architectural Review Emergent Architecture Award (2016), two Progressive Architecture Awards (2008, 2009), and the AIANY Building Merit Award (2008). His projects have been featured in ARCHITECT Magazine, Metropolis, Surface, Blueprint Kerb, 50UNDER50, and Dialogue. Editor: Erika Jing

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Annina Nosei Interviews On Basquiat (and More) AN: I’d say, “Jean-Michel, you know, you don’t have to be on time. You are not working for the gallery.” But it was like he wanted to have a job. JD: Any comments about key people in the circle in 1981? The circle around him? AN: I only knew Suzanne Mallouk and Keith Haring. NV: He was dating Suzanne Mallouk at that time. JD: Yes, they were living together. AN: Yes. She is very intelligent. She later studied medicine. Suzanne was nice, but then things didn’t work out, I don’t think. I would say that he was in love with her, but at a certain point, she wasn’t there anymore. NV: Did you keep track of Jean-Michel, you know, follow his work and exhibitions up to the end? AN: Well, Baghoomian got in touch with Jean-Michel somehow, and later, in 1988, Baghoomian had a beautiful show. There were some incredible works, and in that exhibition he showed paintings that were very aware–very strongly aware of his situation, particularly one, which was called Riding with Death. He made a big party and invited all kinds of old friends. Then I left for Italy, and that summer he died.

$40.00 8.75” x 6” Portrait • 152pp • Softbound with flaps 978-1-966515-92-0 World Rights: Available Publication Date: Spring 2027 The relationship between Annina Nosei and the early career of Jean-Michel Basquiat has been widely examined over the years. From the pivotal moment Nosei first encountered Basquiat’s work in the “New York/New Wave” group exhibition at MoMA PS1 and chose to support him as his first gallerist, to the point when their professional relationship came to an end— amid increasing tensions that included Basquiat’s escalating drug use—those formative years have been endlessly revisited, debated, and analyzed. A broad consensus endures: the works Basquiat produced in the basement of the Nosei Gallery rank among the most prolific and compelling of his career. Yet Nosei remained troubled by the persistence of inaccurate or embellished accounts of that period. In response, she assembled a concise collection of interviews conducted over the years, in which she reflects in depth on her relationship with Basquiat 86

and her interactions with key figures in the art world, including Larry Gagosian, Robert Rauschenberg, Mario Schifano, and Piero Manzoni. She also discusses the artists whose careers she helped launch, among them Julian Schnabel, Barbara Kruger, and Shirin Neshat. Author All Contributors: Jeffrey Deitch, Vincent Gallo, Paul Tschinkel, Nicola Vasell, Michael Bullock, Dieter Buchart, David White, Antonio Gnoli, Robert G. Edelman, Ginevra Addis

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STORIES PROJECT. ACC 54. ROBERT RAUSCHENBERG FOUNDATION, NEW YORK. Annina Nosei (b.1939) is an Italian-born gallerist best known as Jean-Michel Basquiat’s first dealer. After stints working at the Ileana Sonnabend Gallery in Paris and as a professor in the U.S. during the early 1960s, she married contemporary art dealer John Weber (whom she met through Robert Rauschenberg) and began to show and deal contemporary works in 1979. Open 1981 to 2006, the Annina Nosei Gallery exhibited works by artists including Keith Haring, Barbara Kruger, and Shirin Neshat. She first encountered Rauschenberg’s work while assisting Michael and Ileana Sonnabend and met the artist during the 1964 Venice Biennale. Due to her longtime friendship with Cy Twombly, association with the ONCE Group, and a variety of gallery connections, she and Rauschenberg shared social circles throughout his lifetime.

David White

Transcript of interview with Annina Nosei conducted by David White, Senior Curatorial Advisor from the Robert Rauschenberg Foundation, March 7, 2024.

David White: Okay, now we are recording. I see the little numbers are going up. I’m sitting here with Annina Nosei in her apartment in Manhattan on Riverside Drive, and we’re going to speak about her knowledge and involvement with Rauschenberg. Annina Nosei: Yes, long time ago. I was in Paris one summer because I was with a group of actors together with Ken Dewey [(1934–1972) performance artist and director active in the Happening and Action Theatre movements in the U.S.] that was friendly with [Anna] Halprin [(1920–2021) forerunner of postmodern dance and founder of San Francisco Dancers’ Workshop], and there was a big show done in the theater. I forgot the name [Théâtre Récamier].

FROM DUCHAMP TO BASQUIAT Antonio Gnoli

Originally published in italian in La Repubblica magazine, July 12, 2015.

The Italian gallerist, deeply loved abroad, recounts a life of passions and discoveries between Rome, Paris, and New York: “It’s all a matter of alchemy.” To me, her name is tied to the 1970s and 1980s: Annina Nosei, a successful gallerist and talent scout between Paris, New York, and Rome—the city where she was born. Annina lives in Manhattan, in a beautiful home overlooking the Hudson River. Every now and then, a couple of times a year, she returns to Italy. I meet her by chance at a dinner. At the table with her are an American antiques dealer, a young professional Latin-American dancer, Luigi Ontani—whom I had “talked endlessly” with a few weeks earlier—and a couple of others. I sit opposite her. She eats with determination. She thinks with determination. She acts, I suspect, with determination. After all, I don’t believe it’s easy to make your way in New York. I know an old story, which she quickly denies: after discovering Jean-Michel Basquiat, Annina “chained” him in the basement of her gallery. She set up a studio for the artist and forced him to produce. “It’s all bullshit. Do you think Jean-Michel would have accepted any kind of constraint?” she says briskly, twirling her napkin like a matador’s cape.

Porphyrios

Selected Essays and Writings

Porphyrios is one of the world’s leading architects. His architecture and writings of humanism have given us new insights into the dialogue between tradition and modernity. His architecture always speaks of tradition in a modern voice. Many have spoken of the connection between tectonics and form but almost no one has put this in practice with the richness and maturity of Porphyrios. “Architecture”, he writes, “makes us see the building craft and technology from which it is born, from which it detaches itself as art and to which it always alludes”. His architecture and writings are not about style; they are about living traditions open to adaptation and responsive to region, climate, nature and culture. This volume brings together selected essays on Scandinavian Doricism and on Alvar Aalto as well as essays on the architectural history of the Enlightenment. The questions they address concern architectural design and the history, theory and practice of architecture. “These were questions”, Porphyrios writes, “raised by my students as well as by professional practice alike; questions about design, construction, propriety, functionality, urban and rural life, real estate, nature, local cultures, shelter and beauty. 88

Author Demetri Porphyrios has an international reputation as practicing architect, urban designer, theorist, author and teacher. He has built in Europe, the United States and the Middle East and he is Founder and Principal of London-based Porphyrios Associates.

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For An Architecture of Reality

In For an Architecture of Reality, Michael Benedikt explains four quintessential qualities of Realness; presence, materiality, significance and emptiness. Benedikt’s objections to Postmodern inauthenticity in the 1980’s is relevant once more as architects design in an increasingly virtual world. Author Michael Benedikt was the Director of the Center for American Architecture and Design at the University of Texas at Austin, where he taught from 1975-2025. Michael held the Hal Box Chair in Urbanism, and was an ACSA Distinguished Professor of Architecture. He was a graduate of Yale University and of The University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa. His previous books are For an Architecture of Reality, Deconstructing the Kimbell, Cyberspace: First Steps, Shelter: The 2000 Raoul Wallenberg Lecture, God Is the Good We Do, and fourteen volumes of the journal series CENTER: Architecture and Design in America. 40th Anniversary Reprint Edition

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Desitecture

Polycultural Environment Sustainable Cities

Desitecture is a research-based practice developing propositions which consider the future of polyculture and sustainable cities and the use of emerging materials and processes. The work focuses on the potential for a creative response to societal change and commercial imperatives in a time of climate change. Desitectures high density and vertical city projects work have featured in exhibitions, publications, and at conferences internationally. Through Desitecture his research-based group he considers and produces solutions for the design of cities and their construction, based on applied research on polyculture and the development of emergent technologies and materials, reconsidering the city as a responsive participant in society, through internationally exhibited, presentations, debate and published projects, Vertical City, Osteon Cumulus Aero City Towers and Linearpolis, and PolyCity.

Author Layton Reid is an architect, designer and educator, he is founder and Design Director of Desi(tect)ure a research-based practice developing propositions considering the future of Polyculture and Sustainable cities and the use of emerging technologies, materials and processes, producing speculative solutions for the design of cities, based on Cultural research reconsidering the city as a responsive participant in society. Focusing on the potential for a creative response to societal change and commercial imperatives in a time of climate change. Desi(tect)ure’s projects have featured in exhibitions, publications, and international conferences. Awards include Diatom City WAFX 2023, Polycity GADA and WAF shortlists, Seacole Pods, Cryptopolis, Vertical City, Poly City, Osteon Cumulus. Reid’s work includes championing IDE in design education and is co-Founder of Ikenga Organsiation.org working with Soho House internationally, transforming creative education. Recent publications include, Inside as Outsiders, II Dialogues and

Dreams, University of Westminster Press 2021.

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Fortune Favors the Brave details the incredible story of the making of a real estate tycoon. Fortune Favors the Brave is the memoir of David Walentas, the visionary behind the iconic rejuvenation of the DUMBO neighborhood in Brooklyn, NY. The detailed journey chronicles his formative years in upstate New York and his sheer will to succeed. Filled with anecdotes and personal stories of triumph and failure, it is sure to inspire generations of future businessmen. Author When David Walentas moved to New York City in 1968, he was immediately inspired by the cityscape. Motivated by this appreciation, Walentas set out to mindfully develop New York City neighborhoods and the things that make them so unique: artistry, family-owned businesses and connectivity. Since founding the company almost 50 years ago, David’s son, Jed, joined the family business as CEO of Two Trees. In recent years, Jed has assumed daily operating responsibility of Two Trees and oversees all aspects of the acquisition, development, construction building and leasing of Two Trees’ properties. D A V I D

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The Art of City Design Urban Architecture and Human Experience

The city is, first and foremost, an experience. It’s made of architecture, but the experience goes beyond the expression of each individual building form a collage of images created by the work of many over time. In the book Frank Wolden presents 35 years of work illustrating the evolution of his ideas on the art of city design. The projects presented range from creative infill in downtown San Diego to visionary master plans for cities across the globe. Frank’s design philosophy starts with a creative view of the city where everything from background buildings to iconic super stars are part of a larger urban experience. At the core of his design approach is the breakdown of the architectural object into smaller parts and pieces that connect with the surrounding urban context and result in a human scale experience. Beyond response to context is a search for ideas that drive design, Frank’s background in fine art inspires a fusion of art, architecture, and urban design focused on the design of places that promote creative experiences and enrich urban life. The ART of City Design illustrates Frank Wolden’s philosophy on urban architecture through the presentation of twenty-one high profile projects from San Diego to Shanghai China. Author For the past 30 years, Frank Wolden has worked as a “handson” designer leading creative teams of architects and planners on projects ranging from individual buildings designed to connect with complex urban settings, to large-scale visionary master plans. His background in fine arts is reflected in his commitment to an “idea driven design process” where projects focus on human experiences and tell stories of the places they create. $50.00 10” x 12” Landscape • 200pp • Hardbound 978-1-966515-60-9 World Rights: Available Publication Date: Fall 2026

For over 20 years Frank Wolden has served as adjunct faculty to the NewSchool of Architecture and Design where he acted as a distinguished professor of practice. Frank has worked as a collaborating professor for the Tricontinental Studio through the University of Europa de Madrid and has lectured extensively from the NewSchool to the University of Michigan. Other contributors Mike Stepner David McCullough

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Sergei Tchoban Architectural Drawings

Sergei Tchoban: Architectural Drawings opens a window into the work of a draftsman-architect who treats drawing as a diary, a philosophical instrument, and a dialogue. Through sustained, analytical, and fantastical renderings, Tchoban explores the interplay of history and modernity, reality and imagination, and the balance between preservation and daring transformation. His urban mise-en-scènes reveal the relationships between the iconic and the background, the unique and the ordinary, the man-made and the natural, while tracing spaces that remain open-ended and evocative. He envisions architectural sections impossible to cut, reconstructs buildings from memory, and reflects on continuity, proportion, harmony, and the spirit of place. From the historic streets of his native Saint Petersburg to layered visions of Berlin, deconstructed monuments of ancient Egypt, and submerged towns along the heroic Volga-Don Canal, Tchoban reimagines vanished cultures, envisions audacious architectural undertakings, and honors the poetry of ruin. Rich in contrast, scale, perspective, and drawing techniques, his works guide exploration of real and imagined environments, offering a meditation on how history, architecture, and imagination shape the urban world—and the fragile, enduring beauty of a city in perpetual transformation. Author Vladimir Belogolovsky is a curator and founder of Curatorial Project, a New York City collective that produces, curates, and designs architectural exhibitions worldwide. He curated exhibitions of Sergei Tchoban’s drawings in New York, Buenos Aires, Bangalore, Beijing, Shanghai, Singapore, and Venice.

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Witness

The Practice of Duvall Decker

been shaped by the firm provide rare and intimate insights. A sister volume to Foundations, Witness is both a close study of Duvall Decker’s architecture and a broader meditation on what it means to practice architecture as an act of witness in and from the American South. Author Jori Erdman is an architect and architectural educator with a 25-year career, primarily in academia. Her work centers on researching, supporting, and promoting the architectural design culture of the American South through scholarship and teaching. She is currently Professor of Architectural Design at James Madison University in Harrisonburg.

$45.00 8.75” x 11.75” Portrait • 340pp • Hardbound 978-1-961856-69-1 World Rights: Available Publication Date: Spring 2027 Witness braids text and image to tell the story of Duvall Decker, an AIA Firm Award-winning architecture office rooted in Mississippi and committed to a practice in search of the public good. Spanning the firm’s early beginnings through the completion of the Greenville Federal Courthouse, the book illustrates ten milestone projects that reveal the breadth and depth of their built work. Seven critical essays offer textured readings of the firm’s ethos, situating their practice within its cultural, social, and temporal context. Written from the perspective of an attuned witness who shares a love for the South and its people, the essays explore themes of kinship, resistance, place, tectonics, and orchestration in architectural practice. Visual and textual marginalia thread through the book, standing on their own while also enriching the primary essays and project narratives. Observational voices from those who have collaborated with or 98

Anne Marie Duvall Decker, FAIA, sees architecture as instrument, engaging the material phenomena of the environment and culture to create the potential for education and growth. She leads the studio in creating elusive forms and engaging public spaces, no matter the type, size, or budget of projects. Anne Marie a is teacher, leader, and an accomplished pianist. She has served the profession in many capacities, as a longterm board member and past president of AIA Mississippi and as a Trustee and 2021 Chair of the AIA Trust. Anne Marie is often invited to share her experience as a lecturer, critic, visiting professor, and design juror. She was recently appointed to serve the U.S. Department of State Bureau of Overseas Buildings Operations as a 2021-2023 Industry Advisory Group peer and was awarded the 2023 Mississippi State University College of Architecture, Art, & Design Alumna of the Year Recipient. In 2023, Anne Marie Duvall Decker was a recipient of Architectural Record’s Women in Architecture Design Leadership Award. Roy Decker, FAIA, expands the role of an architect in search of public good. Roy’s dedication to design excellence, education, and craft infuses the firm’s work with meaning. For the past three decades, Roy has led the firm to complete public projects of varying scales and types and to achieve significant design recognition. Roy is a design and critical thought leader, whether he is participating in an inner-city neighborhood meeting, serving on student reviews across the country, sharing his perspective in lectures and publications, or inspiring an individual in conversation. In all of these encounters, he exhibits an unwavering commitment to considering the consequences of architectural design work in the lives of others.

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Kit Pannill

Kit’s Garden in Palm Beach

$60.00 9” x 12” Portrait • 284pp • Hardbound 978-1-972474-22-8 World Rights: Available Publication Date: Fall 2026 Kit’s Garden in Palm Beach is an intimate and richly illustrated portrait of renowned horticulturist Kit Pannill and the extraordinary garden she has cultivated over more than three decades. More than a book about plants, it is the story of a woman whose curiosity, creativity, and unwavering commitment to stewardship transformed a residential landscape into one of Palm Beach’s most remarkable private gardens. Through stunning photography and engaging narrative, readers are invited to explore a world of rare orchids, exotic tropical plants, towering ficus trees, and unusual botanical specimens chosen as much for their sculptural beauty as for their hor ticultural significance. Along the way, the book reveals Kit’s unique philosophy of gardening—one rooted in observation, patience, experimentation, and a lifelong desire to “see things grow.” 100

The garden’s story extends beyond its gates, reflecting Kit’s enduring contributions to horticulture, conservation, and civic life in Palm Beach. From innovative preservation techniques and award-winning plant collections to public garden projects that have enriched the community, her influence can be seen throughout the island. Both inspiring and educational, Kit’s Garden in Palm Beach celebrates the transformative power of gardening and the legacy that can emerge when passion, purpose, and nature come together. It is a testament to beauty, stewardship, and a life devoted to cultivating both plants and community. Author Jacelyn Botti is an award-winning author, philanthropist, and nationally distinguished real estate executive. Her acclaimed children’s book Maximilian Rescues Abaco supported hurricane recovery efforts in the Bahamas. Through Kit’s Garden in Palm Beach, she celebrates horticulture, preservation, and Palm Beach’s enduring civic and cultural legacy. Contributors Lynn Eberenz, Illustrator Daniel Tanner, Photographer

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APPLIED RESEARCH + DESIGN Meet the AR+D Publishing Editorial Board 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 ArchitectureReview 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. 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 whoseresearch 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. Lake Douglas, FASLA, is Professor Emeritus, Robert Reich School of Landscape Architecture, LSU. 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, many of which have been recognized with academic and professional awards. He is active in efforts to support open space equity and revitalize public spaces in New Orleans. To learn more about our editorial board or to contact us about submitting a proposal, visit us at: www.appliedresearchanddesign.com

Collective Living and The Architectural Imaginary Author Felipe Correa is a New York–based architect, author, and educator, and a founding partner of Somatic Collaborative. His research and books examine urban form, resource extraction, and territorial transformation across Latin America and beyond. He is the author of Beyond the City, Mexico City: Between Geometry and Geography, A Line in the Andes, and São Paulo: A Graphic Biography. Anthony Averbeck is Visiting Associate Professor of Architecture and the 2025–26 Design Research Fellow at Northeastern University. His teaching and research explore collective housing as a territory for reimagining domesticity, civic identity, and the design of the city in response to the contemporary housing crisis. Devin Dobrowolski is a trained landscape architect and practicing architect. As a designer and educator, his work investigates questions of landscape, urban design, and architecture through the critical application of drawing, mapping, modeling, and other forms of graphic representation.

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In an era defined by housing precarity, social fragmentation, and environmental urgency, Collective Living and the Architectural Imaginary examines how architects have reimagined—and can continue to reimagine—the way in which we live together. Tracing a lineage of collective housing projects from early twentieth-century experiments to contemporary proposals that challenge dominant market-driven paradigms, the book presents sixty projects from across the globe, redrawn by the authors and organized into ten distinct approaches to housing design. Bridging past and future, built form and experimental drawings, the book summons readers to reconsider housing not only as shelter, but as a critical framework for rethinking domesticity, civic identity, and urban life. This volume invites architects, urbanists, and scholars to embrace collective housing as a critical arena for the design of the contemporary city—and for reexamine the terms of how we can dwell together.

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Border Ecologies Aqui/Allá

$40.00 6” x 9” Portrait • 160pp • Softbound 978-1-966515-45-6 World Rights: Available Publication Date: Fall 2026 Water, species, waste, and human settlements move continuously across boundaries, producing ecologies born of contrast. As these flows persist, fragmentation emerges as the visible structure of interdependence. A defining manifestation of this condition unfolds along the United States–Mexico border. Here, the landscape is an archive of movement, adaptation, and negotiation shaped by survival, economic asymmetries, and political forces. Within this terrain, the Tijuana River Watershed sustains a complex estuarine system despite jurisdictional division and contamination, a unique natural threshold from which this book departs. Border Ecologies: Aquí/Allá explores landscapes of division—both physical and conceptual—as sites of negotiation and transformation. Grounded in the U.S.–Mexico border and extended through parallel investigations across other divided landscapes, the book advances landscape as method, reading watersheds, estuaries, quarries, districts, and migratory territories as living systems shaped by extraction, cultivation, and repair. Through essays, drawings, and experimental modes of representation, twelve scholars and practitioners in landscape architecture, urbanism, history, and environmental studies— working across contested geographies—propose new ways of seeing, drawing, and inhabiting shared boundaries. Border Ecologies positions the border as a living ecology, where inter102

dependence is sustained by contrast and exchange. Author Adriana Cuéllar is Associate Professor at the University of San Diego, founder of the Border Design Lab, and co-partner of CRO studio. Her work examines architecture and representation as critical tools for reimagining socially and environmentally engaged design practice at the US–Mexico border.

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Bouwman Zago

Source Books in Architecture 17 Led by partners Laura Bouwman and Andrew Zago, Bouwman Zago brings open-ended, creative inquiry to disciplinary concerns in architecture. Noted for its prescient articulation of emerging sensibilities, the practice weds quasi-autonomous aesthetic studies to the art of making buildings and cities. In doing so, Bouwman Zago reaffirms the substantial and productive link amongst art, architecture and urbanism. The firm has completed projects in the United States, Mexico, Iran, and Korea including the Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit, Arup Downtown Los Angeles, the Fine Venture office tower in Seoul, Cornell Synthesis Studio for Cornell University’s Sibley School of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, and the Casa Autoproyectar in Nanacamilpa, Mexico. Current projects include “Blossom,” a multi-paneled digital billboard on the Sunset Strip in West Hollywood, California. This volume features detailed presentations of Bouwman Zago’s designs for the University of Illinois Chicago’s Visual and Performing Arts Center; “A New Federal Project for Detroit,” commissioned for the US Pavilion at the 2015 Venice Architecture Biennale; Michigan; and “Property with Properties,” the firm’s contribution to the exhibition, Foreclosed: Rehousing the American Dream, at the Museum of Modern Art in New York. Alongside, Bouwman and Zago present the theoretical underpinnings of their approach to architectural form, urban space, color, and other topics. Critical essays by Jeffrey Kipnis, Anna Niemark, and R.E. Somol further elucidate the significance of the firm’s work and speculate on its disciplinary stakes and implications. Source Books in Architecture is a product of the Herbert Baumer seminars, a series of interactions between students and seminal practitioners at the Knowlton School of Architecture at The Ohio State University. Following a significant amount of research, students lead discussions that encourage the architects to reveal their architectural motivations and techniques. Author Laura Bouwman and Andrew Zago are principals of Bouwman Zago. Zago is a faculty member at the Southern California Institute of Architecture and is clinical professor of architecture at the University of Illinois Chicago. Bouwman is program director and interim assistant professor of architecture at Woodbury University. Laura Bouwman is principal of Bouwman Zago. She is program director and interim assistant professor of architecture at Woodbury University.

Anna Neimark is principal of First Office, based in Los Angeles and Berkeley, California. She is a faculty member and Visual Studies Coordinator at SCI-Arc. R.E. Somol is an architectural critic and theorist. He is professor of architecture at the University of Illinois Chicago, where he was director of the school of architecture from 2007 to 2022. Andrew Zago is principal of Bouwman Zago. He is a faculty member at the Southern California Institute of Architecture and is clinical professor of architecture at the University of Illinois Chicago.

Todd Gannon is an architect, architectural historian, and critic. He is professor of architecture at The Ohio State University’s Knowlton School. Jeffrey Kipnis is an architectural critic and theorist. He was a professor of architecture at The Ohio State University for 35 years before his retirement in 2022. 104

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Images, Artifacts, Architecture 22 Projects by SU11 Architecture and Design

This book chronicles 25 years of design research at SU11 Architecture + Design, where ideas, concepts, and techniques have both shaped and been shaped by the evolution of digital and post-digital paradigms. The projects presented here reflect an era defined by the rise of new technological tools, their rapid proliferation, and the counter-movements critiquing some of their consequences—such as increasing formal homogeneity and the tendency to foster a new “universal” style. Through 22 individual projects, the book offers an eyewitness account of a practice deeply embedded in these transformations. As readers explore these works, they will uncover the influences, concepts, and techniques that have shaped SU11’s pioneering design strategies. Organized around distinct conceptual and aesthetic themes, the projects trace a disciplinary arc, positioning them within the broader digital and post-digital discourse. Two guiding questions drive SU11’s research: How do technological innovations intersect with contemporary cultural needs and desires? And how can such entwinements be effectively represented through architectural images, artifacts, and buildings? The evolution of these inquiries forms the core of SU11’s design research and the subject of this book. Author Ferda Kolatan is a founding director of SU11 Architecture + Design and an Associate Professor at UPenn. His work has been published and exhibited globally; he authored Misfits & Hybrids (2024) and coauthored Meander: Variegating Architecture (2010). $45.00 8” x 10” Portrait • 180pp • Hardbound • 978-1-961856-81-3 World Rights: Available Publication Date: Fall 2025 106

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Repairing Greenville An Architectural Case Study

In August 2021, the Dixie Fire destroyed much of Greenville, California, highlighting the growing threat of climate-driven disasters, especially in wildland-urban interface zones. The town’s loss revealed the urgent need to rethink rebuilding through resilience, repair, and community collaboration.

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In response, the California College of the Arts (CCA) Architecture Division partnered with Greenville, led by alumnus and resident Tyler Pew. Bringing together students, faculty, and community members, the effort embraced participatory design to reimagine not only buildings but also the town’s social, economic, and ecological systems. Grounded in CCA’s mission to serve the common good, the collaboration sought a more sustainable and equitable future.

Alia Brookshire is a graduate of CCA’s MArch program and practices in the Bay Area.

Mark Donohue is an Associate Professor, former Chair of the BArch program at CCA, and principal of Visible Research Office.

Over several years, design studios explored strategies to revitalize Main Street, create community-focused spaces, and address housing and land stewardship. Guided by faculty, students engaged both immediate recovery needs and longterm regional challenges. Inspired by the idea of the “subtle arts of repair,” the work framed rebuilding as a holistic process involving social cohesion, economic renewal, and environmental resilience. This book documents that journey through design proposals, resident reflections, and visual narratives. Ultimately, Repairing Greenville is both a tribute and a call to action—demonstrating how collaboration and thoughtful design can help communities rebuild stronger, more resilient futures in the face of climate change. 108

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With and Without Walls

The Southern California Institute of Architecture in the 1970s and 1980s

With and Without Walls

The Southern California Institute of Architecture in the 1970s and 1980s Benjamin J. Smith

The institutional history, With and Without Walls, reveals the origins and progress of the influential Southern California Institute of Architecture (SCI-Arc) through the 1970s and 1980s. After separating from the California State Polytechnic University, Pomona in 1972 amidst feelings of bureaucratic and ideological oppression, Ray Kappe, a Los Angeles-based architect and professor, proposed the formation of SCI-Arc and was the school’s first director. Focusing on its early years under Kappe’s leadership and the context of the social, cultural, and ecological idealism of the 1960s, the culture of the emerging school became an alternative model for training architects. Building off of the school’s founding premise, that in providing freedom through self-study it would be possible to produce both architects and architecture, the book shows how SCI-Arc utilized the “college without walls” concept, a variation on a pedagogical approach popular in the 1970s, “school without walls,” in the specific context of an architecture school. SCI-

Arc’s institutional culture adjusted over time, and it increasingly relied on the versatility of the institutional framework to forge its pedagogy. The principles engendered by the college without walls concept created challenges over the operation of the school and provided opportunities for the creative resolution of those challenges by empowering experimentation. In this way, SCI-Arc was, in itself, both a design problem and a solution in the field of architectural education. Author Benjamin J. Smith, Ph.D., is an assistant professor of architecture at the University of Minnesota where he coordinates and teaches the first design course for undergraduate students and the capstone studio for graduate students. Smith is a design theorist whose research focuses on design education and architectural aesthetics.

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Claying Architecture Making Machine and Material Kin

Claying Architecture: Making Machine and Material Kin presents a curated collection of essays, interviews, and projects from leading architects, designers, and researchers who are analyzing the role of clay 3D printing in contemporary architecture. The book blends research, theory, and practice to highlight how this ancient material is being reimagined through 3D printing, robotic fabrication, and innovative construction techniques. Through original essays and project showcases, Claying Architecture brings together 30 plus voices from contemporary architectural academia and practice to interrogate why clay is a protagonist in contemporary architecture as an agent capable of binding new kinships between processes, environments, and culture. In this sense, our ‘kinship’ with the machines of digital fabrication mirrors our ‘kinship’ with one another and opens up ways to reflect on how 3D printing clay is a method to reconsider how we code, construct, and conceive architecture.

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Author Doyle, Melendez, Murphy, and Scelsa are United States based architects and educators working in digital clay 3D printing as integral to their teaching and research practices. Other contributors: Matthew Allen, Rachel Armstrong, Ehsan Baharlou, Martin Bechthold, Richard Beckett, Van Beerendonk, Jennifer Birkeland, Jan Contala, Sandy Curth, Nancy Diniz, Shelby Doyle, Laura Garofalo, Nate Hume, Erin Lindsey Hunt, Margaret Ikeda, Evan Jones, Negar Kalantar, Omar Khan, Christian Lange, Adam Marcus, Kelley Van Dyck Murphy, Pierre Oskam, Sutherlin Santo, Shawn Protz, Jenny Sabin, Virginia San Fratello, Andrew Saunders, Jonathan A. Scelsa, Alex Schofield

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Supergraphic Landscapes From Public Art to Urban Design

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Supergraphic Landscapes is a book about the future of public spaces—and how reimagining graphics in the built environment can unlock new ways of enacting civic participation. What if the city could remember, care, and play back? Supergraphic Landscapes reimagines how graphics in the built environment can transform public space into places of connection, care, and collective memory. Architect Joseph Altshuler and Graphic Designer Nekita Thomas introduce three design strategies: Play-scapes, Care-scapes, and Action-scapes, that reshape how we move, access, and commemorate in the city. Through essays, speculative drawings, and collaborations with guest contributors, they reveal how a painted pattern, a textured path, or a layered graphic can disrupt routines, nurture intimacy, and hold shared histories in place. 114

Author Joseph Altshuler is cofounder of Could Be Design, a Chicago-based architectural design practice, and Assistant Professor at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign where he teaches in the School of Architecture and the Department of Landscape Architecture. His teaching, practice, and scholarship explore architecture’s capacity to build solidarity, initiate serious play, and amplify participation in civic life. Nekita Thomas is an experiential graphic designer, researcher, and Assistant Professor of Design at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, School of Art & Design. Her teaching, practice, and scholarship examine discourse on racial identity and urbanism, activating design’s power to spatialize justice, cultivate radical imagining, reclaim cultural narratives, and enact community-driven design.

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Reviewing Design Book Review A Counteranthology

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Design Book Review, published between 1983 and 2001, was a wide-ranging journal of architectural ideas founded and edited in offices in Berkeley, California. Taking the book review as its primary format, the journal connected its community of readers with emerging ideas in architecture, design, urban planning, and beyond. DBR guided its readers through this expanding landscape of architectural publishing with a distinctly accessible voice—”no less than the indispensable record and the liveliest critique of contemporary architectural consciousness,” as the late Michael Sorkin put it. Gathering together a remarkable constellation of authors, it remains an enduring document of design discourse in the closing decades of the twentieth century. Assembled by the editors in a spirit of counteranthology, Reviewing Design Book Review features notable texts from DBR’s pages alongside an oral history and newly commissioned essays that extend the journal’s ambitions into the present. Author James Graham is an architect, historian, and assistant professor at California College of the Arts. He is an editor of Climates: Architecture and the Planetary Imaginary (2016), and he previously led Columbia Books on Architecture and the City and founded The Avery Review. 116

William Littmann served as a Senior Adjunct Professor at California College of the Arts from 2012 to 2025. An architectural historian and former Design Book Review editor, he has published on the built landscape of Japanese-American incarceration and the use of walking as a tool for researching urban landscapes. His current work examines the architecture of maternity homes in postwar America. Keith Krumwiede is Dean of Architecture at California College of the Arts. His work examines architecture’s cultural and political contexts. Author of Atlas of Another America (2017), he is a Rome Prize Fellow whose work has been widely exhibited and published. Luke Bulman works at the intersection of graphic design and architecture at Office of Luke Bulman. Clients include publishers Rizzoli, Yale University Press, Princeton University Press, MIT Press, Lars Müller Publishers, and Actar; practices including MAD Architects, Interboro Partners, Stan Allen Architects, and Design Earth; educational institutions including Yale, Harvard GSD, Princeton, Rice, Carnegie Mellon, and Stanford; and cultural institutions including the Whitney Museum, ICA Philadelphia, the Architectural League of New York, and the Menil Collection. He is a member of the faculty at Yale School of Architecture.

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Community First, By Design Infrastructure as Civic Practice

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Across North America, obsolete infrastructures are being reimagined as platforms for public life in the twenty-first century. Celebrated for their design ambition and catalytic potential, these projects promise to reconnect neighborhoods and transform landscapes—but also risk intensifying uneven development and displacement. Community First, By Design reveals why infrastructure reuse projects so often encounter similar equity challenges, regardless of location or intent. Organized around five recurring typologies—rail and linear corridors, waterfronts, highways and bridges, cultural networks, and legacy park systems—the book links physical form to inherited histories, development pressures, and institutional leverage, offering practical pathways forward. Drawing on nearly 40 reuse projects, Stephen Francis Gray shows how decisions about sequencing, land control, partnership structure, and governance shape outcomes as decisively as design itself—often long before projects become publicly visible. 118

At its core is the award-winning Community First Toolkit: 18 actionable tools, collaboratively developed by Harvard and the Urban Institute for the High Line Network, that help practitioners clarify purpose, align internal systems, structure partnerships, and embed accountability while leverage still exists. Neither manifesto nor mitigation strategy, this book positions equity as a design discipline—exercised through deliberate, cumulative decisions that shape how cities evolve. Author Stephen Francis Gray directs the Urban Design Program at Harvard GSD and leads Grayscale Collaborative. His work examines how design reflects and reshapes power, advancing equitable development through the award-winning Community First Toolkit developed with the Urban Institute for the High Line Network.

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LUNCH 19 Leftovers

Author Seongmin Kim (Master of Architecture ’26), Julia MacNelly (Master of Landscape Architecture ’25), Hetvee Panchal (Master of Landscape Architecture ’26), Olivia Quintero (Bachelor of Science in Architecture ’26), Agnes To (Master of Landscape Architecture ’25), and Leopold Wehner (Master of Architecture ’26) are the editors of LUNCH 19: Leftovers.

Whether we’re in the kitchen or someone’s in there for us, something’s cooking. We turn living things into food. Our bodies turn food into energy. Using this energy, we go around all day turning things into other things. We wake up the next day and do it again, and again, until one day our own bodies turn into something else. We like to think of things as stable. When we fashion raw materials into a creation, we don’t like to imagine that someday somebody else will turn it—the thing that we spent so long making—into yet another thing. But if we free ourselves, just for a moment, from clutching onto the things, we might just be able to see the turning.

All Credited Contributors: JT Bachman Missy Barro Vivian Chiu Hayley Coolbaugh Ipsita Datta Aleksander De Mott Cam Fullmer Sean Geygan Alex Glick Valentina Guk Alex Heald Samantha Hubbard Tony Lin Connie Liou Sophie Maffie Monica Nichta Emily Ploppert Saadia Rais Mason Robertson Cole Rozwadowski Alexia Sayyed Theodore Teichman Marissa Walrath Jack Wasielewski Allison Wenner Alec Yuzhbabenko

This turning is rarely a perfect process. Transformations produce by-products and leave residue. They create leftovers. Like just about everything else we do, the transformational processes of design leave leftovers at every step. We oversee the transformation of a site, materials, and labor into a project. What is left from the site’s previous life? What materials are saved, what are used, and what are lost? What happens when a thing’s originally intended purpose no longer applies? When do the effects of someone’s work spill out of their container? These questions strike at the heart of active debates within our discipline exactly because they don’t look at things head-on, the way they’re designed to be looked at. In reading design metabolically, we can trace what gets left behind. Only then can we imagine new things—and, more importantly, new processes.

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Re-scaling the Rural Some Reflections from Europe

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Existing as it does on the brink of being overrun, urbanized or abandoned, rurality is contested. Even in the field of academia, it is often questioned or considered a minor subordinate appendix to urbanity. Since the ancient Greeks, conceptions of the rural have praised it as an idyllic and tranquil place where humans were closer to nature. Nowadays however, notions of the countryside are more complex, it is also a place in constant flux, a place defined and controlled by the urban. Can rurality continue to depend on the urban? Or will future scenarios recognize it for its potential to live truly ‘closer to nature’ and as the place to be? What can we learn from current counter-urbanization movements that have sprung up in the wake of changing geopolitical circumstances as well as geographical and social inequality? Re-scaling the Rural aims to generate a broader understanding of contemporary rurality as it exists in different countries, seen by different disciplines in the context of different scales in space and time. Rurality may become the place that answers to the Anthropocene and its crises of pollution, climate change, biodiversity loss, wars and rising inequalities. The publication combines conceptual and practical explorations, from the outside-in (urban viewpoints) and inside-out (departing from an unknown rurality). 120

Mo Michelsen Stochholm Krag is an architect with specialization in adaptive reuse, rural transformation, radical preservation, and research by design. His special research focus is radical preservation of the rural built environment in Denmark. Sophia Meeres is a landscape architect specialized in urban forestry and policymaking. Member of ARENA and the alterRurality network, she teaches at University College Dublin, her focus is on the design of a future woodland network, in towns and villages across Ireland. Ben Stringer teaches architecture at the University of Westminster where he also contributes to the Emerging Territories research group. He is a member of ARENA and the AlterRurality network. His publications include the book Rurality Re-Imagined. All Credited Contributors: Stefan Darlan Boris , Morten Daugaard, Corinna Dean , Anne Mette Frandsen, Keith Halfacree, Marie-Laure Garnier , Sabine Girard, Eric Guibert, Knud Aarup Kappel, Mathilde Kirkegaard, Cæcilie Kildahl Kramer, Ditte Bendix Lanng, Jane Mcallister, Tom Nielsen, Karen Olesen, Tina Vestermann Olsen, Jens Christian Pasgaard, Pieter Versteegh, Katrina Wiberg

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Hot Air

$40.00 7.87” x 11.02” Portrait • 232pp • Softbound 978-1-961856-03-5 World Rights: Available Publication Date: Fall 2025

Hot Air is a monograph that situates and defines the hot air of the urban equator through the architecture and creative practice of Erik L’Heureux and the Office of Equatorial Intelligence. By critically evaluating intersections of architecture, the tropics, the equator, urbanization, colonialism, mechanical cooling, and fossil fuel dependency, L’Heureux’s built work offers decarbonization, passive comfort, and contextual case studies appropriate for the urban equator. The architectural projects are also the outcome of deeply personal and self-reflective thinking, having lived on the equator for 20 years. The book offers insights into the practice of architecture on the equator in an age of climate calamity. Themes embedded in a series of architectural projects engender writings on tropical representation, postcolonialism, monoliths, jungles, carbon, and others from diverse contributors. Each contributor offers a divergent inquiry and critical reflection on Hot Air, examining the architectural work through different cultural and geographical contexts while situating the work at the equator and in our rapidly warming world.

Author Erik G. L’Heureux (PhD) FAIA is an award-winning architect based in Singapore. Through his creative design practice, the Office of Equatorial Intelligence, Erik specializes in designing for the dense equatorial city in a rapidly warming world. He employs simple monolithic forms and delicate veils to harmonize buildings, interiors, and experiences with the hot air of the urban equator, resulting in delightful and surprising outcomes. Erik holds the position of Dean’s Chair Associate Professor at the National University of Singapore, where he imparts his knowledge to the next generation of architects, nurturing their commitment to decarbonization and the creation of planet-positive architecture tailored for the equator.

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Mies van der Rohe

The Centric and the Peripheric This volume presents anew the influential twentieth-century architect Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, whose reputation has unfairly languished. Critics often see him as a chameleon who turned against the vibrant aesthetic culture of Berlin upon emigrating to Chicago and created instead the spare, tectonically obsessed, blank box stylism that looms over so many American downtowns. That prevailing interpretation ignores the aesthetic and conceptual coherence within his oeuvre. Mies often spoke vaguely of a “great form” emerging within modernity. He spent his career seeking to express this condition in the spaces he designed. Through close analysis of over sixty of his buildings and projects, this study reveals that underlying essence. A formal dialectic of center/periphery threads throughout his production, which gives nascent form to the profound societal tensions he sensed. A peculiar interleafing of the centric and the peripheric dominates his shaping of space. Rarely is Mies considered formally. Using nearly a hundred new analytical diagrams, this book unlocks fresh interrelations between his compositions and between his career’s phases. Unexpected parallels are struck with nineteenth-century Romantic artists like Caspar David Friedrich and with modernists like Piet Mondrian and Mark Rothko. The strands within Mies’s deep readings on philosophy are expanded by comparing him with regional thinkers—Kant on the sublime, Novalis on infinity, Kierkegaard on repetition, Freud on the uncanny, Adorno on negation, and Gadamer on hermeneutics. The outlines of the “great form” Mies sensed become clearer. A new and integral Mies emerges, far different from previous interpretations and with enhanced relevance for our contemporary condition. He intuited our pulse and built phenomenological expressions of our societal evolution. Author Randall Ott is a registered architect and educator who served as Dean of the School of Architecture and Planning at the Catholic University of America in Washington D.C., from 2003 to 2020. Previously, he has taught at the University of Colorado, the University of Michigan, and Columbia University. Ott has written widely on Modernism in central and Northern Europe with a critical focus on Mies van der Rohe, Karl Friedrich Schinkel, and Germany.

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Landscapes for Adaptation Evidence from China

The climate crisis is now readily evident rather than a future possibility. After decades of failing to mitigate our impacts, we must now adapt to survive in the context of a rapidly changing climate. Adaptation requires enlightened planning and reconceptualization of our urban environments. The engineering solutions inherited from the nineteenth century are obsolete. These Western single-purpose civil engineering systems are brittle and prone to catastrophic failure. Climate adaptation demands that we replace those obsolete systems with landscapes for human adaptation. This process demands the best available scientific knowledge, experiments, and evidence. In the twenty-first century, China has built more experiments in climate adaptation than any other culture. An overwhelming number of those experiments are the work of Kongjian Yu and his firm, Turenscape. Over the past two decades, Turenscape has realized hundreds of built experiments in climate adaptation through landscape architecture and planning. This publication presents sixty of the most significant of those experiments. The book analyzes those projects and evidence of their environmental performance. Landscapes for Adaptation assembles a menu of practical strategies and real-world tactics for landscape adaptation in China and around the world. Author Charles Waldheim is an architect and urbanist whose research examines the relationships between landscape, ecology, and contemporary urbanism. Waldheim is John E. Irving Professor of Landscape Architecture at the Harvard University Graduate School of Design where he directs the Office for Urbanization. $70.00 9” x 10.5” Portrait • 508pp • Hardbound • 978-1-961856-33-2 World Rights: Available Publication Date: Fall 2025 126

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Jewelry on the Wild Side Elena Agostinis

$80.00 9.25” x 12.75” Portrait • 300pp • Hardbound (cloth) 978-1-966515-42-5 Fall 2026

This second Wild Side book continues to explore Elena Agostinis’s fascination with artists using the ordinary in extraordinary ways. In this book, the focus is on artists who make jewelry using materials not commonly associated with traditional jewelry-making.

hearts to a world of colorful, wearable art, enabling us to seek out, try on, to feel the “fit” and to understand its formidable existential effect.

While traveling afar, Elena’s profound realization was that people in the most far-flung places in the world all have this powerful urge to self-adorn. Despite never having been a jeweler, what she found fascinating was that the materials used by these artists and artisans are often simply what the earth yields. She’s tried to include works that illustrate these remarkable innovations and the materials used.

Elena Agostinis is a bold creative force, best known for her fearless use of color, eclectic design sensibility, and commitment to joyful living. Her homes, featured in publications and admired by design lovers worldwide, are unapologetically expressive, deeply personal, and utterly unforgettable. Elena’s background in graphic design, her years at Condé Nast, and her experience running boutiques all shape her joyful visual language. Her interiors are layered with family treasures, outsider art, quirky upcycled pieces, and one-of-a-kind finds from around the globe. Each space tells a story. Each choice is intentional. Each home becomes an immersive, livable work of art.

The wearable artworks chosen for this book all appear to comply with this extraordinary principle. Ms. Zanella’s work and the unique creations of so many other artists included here, all follow suit. Elena tried to carry this “lightness” through in my presentation of the artists’ creations as well. The hope is that readers, conformists and non-conformists alike, will marvel at concepts that can open all our minds and 130

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Iron Harvest

The World’s Great War Journey in Postcard Images

Iron Harvest employs contemporary picture postcard images to take the reader on a graphic journey through the cataclysm recalled by history as the “Great War.” Before there was Twitter, Snapchat, or Instagram there were picture postcards. World War I—the Great War—was fought at the height of an international love affair with those postcards. Soldiers at the front and their loved ones behind the lines did not exchange emails, tweets, or Snaps: they exchanged picture postcards—millions of them. Employing five hundred curated examples, Iron Harvest uses postcard images to document the political and military course of the war, and the emotional journey of those caught up in the maelstrom—the journey from deluded romanticism regarding the war-in-prospect to disillusionment and despair as the war’s reality revealed itself. Author Stephen Dvorkin had a career in the practice of law. He served as chief of an enforcement branch of the United States Environmental Protection Agency; as an Assistant United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York; and, in private practice, as a partner in a law firm with a national presence. He received B.A., J.D., and LL.M degrees from New York University.

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All In

Trim: 9.1” x 10.8” Portrait Extent: 220pp Binding: Hardbound ISBN: 978-1-966515-47-0 Cost: $65.00 Season: Spring 2026

All In: Skateboard Photography by Dave Swift 1989–2025 brings to print his four decades of skateboard photography. As the longtime editor of Transworld Skateboarding and The Skateboard Mag, Dave Swift documented skateboarding around the world with the best amateur and professional skateboarders of all time. From Tony Hawk to Sky Brown, Dave has captured many timeless images over the course of his career. This book encapsulates those images and brings them to life with stories and quotes from the author and many of the skaters featured in the book. Skateboard icons such as Tony Hawk, Geoff Rowley, Rob Dyrdek, Christian Hosoi, Kris Markovich, Atiba Jefferson, Jeremy Klein, Danny Way, Sky Brown, Keegan Palmer, Lizzie Armanto, and many others have contributed to the book. The book is a must-have for lifelong skateboarders as well as those new to the sport looking to learn a bit of history or for inspiration.

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Author Dave Swift grew up in San Diego, California, where he started his skateboard journey. He was a sponsored amateur skateboarder and Del Mar Skate Ranch local through the rest of the 1980s. In 1989 he was hired as an editorial assistant at Transworld Skateboarding. At this time, he picked up photography with the help of his co-worker J. Grant Brittain and began a lifelong career in photo journalism.

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$50.00 10” x 11.5” Landscape • 240 pp • Hardbound 978-1-966515-72-2 World Rights: Available Publication Date: Spring 2026

This book describes the authors’ experiences living in Kathmandu between May 1984 and May 1985. It is about a country and a culture that has undergone significant changes driven largely by growing economic inequality and turmoil, in large part caused by governmental mismanagement and corruption and punctuated by the disastrous earthquake of 2012. It is a country that anyone, who lived there forty years ago, may perhaps no longer recognize, a Nepal that is lost forever. Much of the book dwells on intimate details of life in the Kathmandu Valley, its people and their environs, including places of worship, mostly represented by thousands of “power places” known as “Shaktipita” that are scattered all over the valley. The images of the two great stupas, Swayambunath and Boudhanath, capture the haunting beauty of their ancient architecture and spirituality unifying art, religion, and nature. The book ends with an account of a trek to 18,519-foot high Kala Patharr for a spectacular view nearby Mt. Everest. The images display the majesty of Nepal’s snow-covered mountains and also hint at the dangers that humans face when seeking to conquer them. Along the way, the authors meet and photograph the Sherpas, renowned for their unparalleled moun136

taineering prowess, physical stamina, adaptation to extreme altitudes, and expert guiding skills. Author Bernis and Peter began photographing in 1972 and have widely exhibited in the US and abroad, in public spaces, private galleries, and Museums. Bernis’s work has also been published in a dozen anthologies.

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Signs and Visions

$40.00 10” x 11.5” Landscape • 120 pp • Hardbound 978-1-966515-73-9 World Rights: Available Publication Date: Spring 2026 This book of photographs, documenting urban and suburban architecture from the seventies and eighties, uncovers the hidden, abstract, even painterly beauty found in America’s often-overlooked, seedy industrial back alleys and passageways. The book is also a record of a time and of real—though now mostly redeveloped—places, provoking an inevitable sense of nostalgia In many scenes, the images depict not random signs and residues of human activity but intentional messages and visions expressed through architecture, advertising, graffiti, and even art, occasionally imbuing the subject with an unintended surrealism. Leading up to the medium-format photographs of the book, sixteen Polaroid SX-70 photographs move from realistic scenes in ex suburbia to increasingly abstract views of often-overlooked details on city streets, such as close-up building details and the hues of car hoods against graffitied walls. With its soft undersaturated palette and its tendency toward translucency, the SX-70 film/print became a means of turning landscapes and urban scenery into miniature still lifes, evoking earlier snapshot photography. Author By training an economist with a PhD from Princeton University, Peter began photographing in 1972 and has exhibited public spaces, private galleries, and Museums. 138

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Mother Goddess

The Vietnamese Ceremony of Fire

Mother Goddess worship took shape in the 16th century as an alternative to Confucian ideals that cast women in passive, subordinate roles. In this religion, female deities and their spirit mediums stand at the center of vivid ceremonies filled with fire, music, trance, and offerings. Women needed a symbol and found it in the goddess Lieu Hanh, who represents their desire for freedom, independence, and happiness. The narrative would follow selected mediums and their communities in several regions, from the birthplace of the religion in Nam Dinh to urban temples in Hanoi and beyond. Through long nights of ceremony and the everyday presence of the religion in local life, we see how this faith gives women and their families a way to negotiate power, identity, and hope in a rapidly changing country. Modernization, urbanization, and social media are reshaping the practice. Once associated mainly with farmers and working class families, Mother Goddess worship now attracts civil servants and high-level officials. The religion is being revived, regulated, and commercialized at the same time, which makes this an ideal moment to document what endures, what transforms, and what may be lost.

phy. For the next four decades, beginning in the late 1970s, he completed more than 35 projects around the world with the National Geographic Society. He also freelanced for numerous American and international publications including Time, Life, Newsweek, Fortune, Forbes, New York Times, Paris Match, and Stern-Geo magazines. His latest memoir Paul Chesley, A Photographic Voyage won the National Ben Franklin Gold Award for America’s best coffee table book. Chesley was also honored by the inclusion of his work in the Society’s first major exhibition The Art of Photography at National Geographic: A 100 Year Retrospective at the Corcoran Gallery of art in Washington DC. Solo exhibitions of his work have appeared in museums in London, Tokyo, New York and Honolulu. In 2012 during the National Geographic Society’s 125th anniversary, Chesley’s work was included in the exhibition and auction at Christie’s in New York City. His greatest enjoyment is capturing the lives of people and cultures on his international projects.

Author Paul Chesley comes from a family of inventors, artists, and adventures who encouraged exploration into the unknown. By the time Chesley was in his mid- twenties, he realized that he could make a larger contribution to life through his photogra140

$60.00 8.5” x 11.24” Portrait • 160pp • Hardbound 978-1-966515-87-6 World Rights: Available Publication Date: Fall 2026

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Glideology

Deliberations on Traffic and Reimagining Urban Space Author Andrew Furman is a design professor at Toronto Metropolitan University. He is pursuing his PhD at TMU and York University. He lives in Toronto with his wife and three children. He enjoys riding his bike and walking through the ravines. Other contributors: Peter Birkemoe Andrew O’ Malloy Orion Ussner Kidder

Trim: 7” x 10” Portrait Extent: 150pp Binding: Softbound ISBN: 978-1-966515-30-2 Cost: $35.00 Season: Spring 2026

This is a book about the amenity that we call streets and how we choose to use them to move about. What makes the street so vitally important today is that it has the capacity to allow for many different modalities of travel to coexist in the public space instead of being dominated by any single mode of travel. Glideology, an invented word, is meant to evoke memories of gliding downhill on your bicycle as a child or sledding down a hill in the winter. Glideology represents an optimistic outlook for traffic for the near future. It anticipates that common-sense will take hold and urban public space will be improved to focus on the many different reasons that one travels; short local trips, medium-distance trips of 15 minutes or less, multi-modal options to travel offer an antidote to simply defaulting to taking the car to get some milk at the corner store because this is a learned behavior that can be altered for a more sustainable and obvious options. This book explores in a comic format the many shared experiences and feelings that go into commuting in urban areas and it looks to how the street can accommodate a multi-modal approach to sharing the laneways so that real options exist for the pedestrian.

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Coney Island Ink

Portraits of The Coney Island Tatto Festival

Trim: 9.5” x 11.75” Portrait Extent: 120pp Binding: Hardbound ISBN: 978-1-966515-53-1 Cost: $60.00 Season: Spring 2026

Starting in the mid 1980s, Sideshows by the Seashore on the legendary Coney Island Boardwalk hosted an event distinct from its usual fare of sword-swallowers, contortionists, and other marvels: the Annual Coney Island Tattoo Festival, which gathered together tattoo enthusiasts of every walk of life from all over the city, the country, and eventually, the world. It also drew a photographer from the Bronx with a fascination for tattooing, at a time when the art form was illegal in NYC and widely condemned as part of a dangerous fringe culture. For several years, Thomas Santelli served as the festival’s “unofficial official photographer,” documenting this lively, colorful event and the remarkable people who attended it. In this book, he shares approximately 200 of his black-and-white and color portraits from the festival, to celebrate the tattooing community and this slice of Coney Island history and to honor all of the people who graciously sat for his camera.

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Author Thomas Santelli is a portrait and fine art photographer—retired after 32 years of teaching at the rank Professor Emeritus of Art. He has a BFA from Pratt Institute, and an MFA from Rochester Institute of Technology. All contributors: Amy G. Krakow Dr. Matt Lodder Essay by Amy Shearn

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