The Architecture of Will Bruder
Will Bruder with contributions by Robert McCarter, Reed Kroloff, Nadir Tehrani, Scott Jarson, J. Meejin Yoon, Eric Howler, and Billie Tsien
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8.5” x 11” Portrait • 300pp • Softbound • 978-1-961856-76-9
Publication Date: Fall 2025
In celebration of his 50th year in practice, architect Will Bruder is pleased to share this selection of his most-exemplary projects, presented through hundreds of gorgeous photographs, drawings, and original sketches.
Influenced by Frank Lloyd Wright, as well as Paolo Soleri, Bruce Goff and Gunnar Birkerts, Bruder opened his own design studio in 1974. His self-built house/studio on the desert edge of Phoenix won the 1975 Architectural Record House of the Year award.
A Fellowship in Architecture at the American Academy in Rome was a career turning-point permitting several months of intense reflection from a studio overlooking Rome, and travel throughout Europe to study historic and contemporary architecture.
Filled with fresh perspective, Bruder won the commission to design the 280,000sf Phoenix Central Library. It opened in 1995. Cultural, civic and private commissions followed, as did opportunities to travel, lecture, and teach. The library was awarded the AIA 25 Year Building Award in 2021.
This superb collection is divided into two sections: pre-Rome Prize projects, presented in black and white, and post-Rome projects dating from 1987 to buildings still currently under construction, presented in color. Scholarly essays and candid conversations with colleagues round out this long-awaited Bruder monograph.
Author
For 50 years Will Bruder has explored inventive and contextuallyexciting architectural solutions in response to site opportunities and client needs. His work celebrates the craft of building in a manner not typical of contemporary architecture.
All contributors:
Essay by Robert McCarter
Scott Jarson and Will Bruder dialogue
Foreword and essay by Reed Kroloffi
Preface by Will Bruder
Contributions from Nader Tehrani, J Meejin Yoon, Eric Howler and Billie Tsien
Fast Forward
How HKS Shapes the Future of Design
Fast Forward: How HKS Shapes the Future of Design showcases recent work by global design firm HKS and offers a look ahead to the future of innovation in architecture and design. The firm’s portfolio of architecture, interior design, urban planning and research demonstrates how HKS contributes to improving communities and transforming the design industry. For more than 85 years, HKS has brought a depth of knowledge and expertise to clients spanning diverse markets and sectors, crafting design solutions that rise to meet the challenges of today and tomorrow. The firm is now poised to continue its path of progress, influencing how the combined power of technology and design thinking will be an asset to society throughout the 21st century.
Author
HKS creates transformative designs that enrich lives and enhance communities. Our global team of experts collaborates with clients to deliver elegant solutions to complex issues. From iconic gathering places to healing environments, our designs are driven by research, technology, and a deep understanding of human needs. We don’t just design places, we create experiences that inspire, engage, and empower.
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9.6” x 11.4” Portrait • 338pp • Hardbound • 978-1-961856-65-3
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Publication Date: Fall 2025
All credited contributors:
Directors: Dan Noble, FAIA, FACHA; Heath May, FAIA
Preface: James P. Cramer, Hon. AIA, Hon. IIDA
Editors: William Richards, Kathleen M. O’Donnell
Editorial Direction: Anthony Montalto, AIA; Upali Nanda, PhD, Assoc AIA, EDAC, ACHE; Ann Kifer; Shalmir Johnston, Julie Obiala
Creative Director: James Frisbie
Graphic Designers/Illustrators: Estefanía Larragoity, Jaya Tolefree
No Excuses Integrated Design for a Sustainable Future
Dan Heinfeld
LPA Design Studios rose to national prominence by demonstrating that designers can make a real impact on carbon reduction on a large scale. The firm’s integrated design approach breaks down the traditional model, eliminating barriers between disciplines to develop innovative designs that reduce energy and water and create a better human experience. The firm’s diverse body of work has earned the industry’s top awards and set new benchmarks for building performance, proving that there is a better process for designing buildings.
No Excuses presents a beautifully curated collection of LPA projects that illustrate what can be achieved through a collaborative design process with architects, engineers, interior designers and landscape architects working together from a development’s earliest stages. The projects cross a wide range of sizes and types, including transformational education, commercial, civic, cultural and healthcare facilities. Each was created through a repeatable process focused on cost-effective research-driven design strategies. As a collection, LPA’s work is an inspirational model for an integrated, inclusive approach that connects design excellence and building performance.
$60.00
Author Dan
Heinfeld, FAIA, is President of LPA Design Studios, an integrated firm focused on a collaborative design process that views sustainability as an essential part of a building’s DNA. Since 1986, he has been responsible for the design direction and strategic initiatives for the company, making the synergetic relationship between design excellence and sustainability the focus of his career. During Dan’s tenure, LPA projects have won more than 350 AIA design awards and set new standards for efficiency and the human experience.
5 Houses on the Wild Side
Elena Agostistinis
Five Houses on the Wild Side is a visual feast showcasing the wildly imaginative, rules-free, cozy and sumptuous interiors Elena Agostinis has created for her family’s homes in New York, Montana, and Mexico.
Bold and courageous choices of colors and patterns, elements from the wildlife and fauna of her South African childhood, mixed and matched with the best of local artisanry, textiles purchased from souks and markets all around the world, giant papier-mâché’ animal garden sculptures, and wall art that spans from the elevated to the quirky and amusing, are Elena’s traits that will inspire readers to free-styling their own homes.
Elena’s irresistible style, originality, and use of wild colors has not only been restricted to her family homes, but inspired a quiet town in Upstate New York, Tannersville, to repaint its own Main Street store fronts, contributing to the town being selected in 2021 for the $10-milliondollars New York State Downtown Revitalization Initiative award.
Elena shares the inspiration from her childhood, travels, heritage, and family needs, encouraging readers to find their free spirit and apply it to their own interiors.
Author
Elena Agostistinis was born in Cape Town, South Africa, and holds a BA in Graphic Design degree from the University of Stellenbosch. She emigrated to the United States in 1975 with her husband Mark Patterson and worked at Conde’ Nast. She freelanced for design projects while raising their two sons, and initiated the Tannersville New York Paint Project in 2003, that, in 2021, won a $10 million Downtown Revitalization Initiative Award, typically reserved for large cities.
Mark Cavagnero Architect
Mark Cavagnero introduction by Joseph Giovannini
Over the past two decades, Mark Cavagnero Associates has been quietly making an imprint on San Francisco’s urban fabric. Born of the Modernist tradition of clean lines, abundant natural light, and functional, flowing open space plans, the firm’s work expands on these values, encompassing a deep understanding of the city and Bay Area. Mark Cavagnero Architect surveys fifteen of the firm’s foundational projects, ranging from cultural and civic buildings to recreational and educational facilities. Across this collection unfolds the development of a distinct design language that is at once remarkably consistent and refreshingly new with each individual project. The principles of interlocking volumes, a limited palette of wood and concrete, lightness, authenticity, and presence are applied and varied per the unique demands of client, community, and context. The resulting body of work is not based on style but on substantive thought.
Authors
Mark Cavagnero directs a large California architecture firm, founded in 1993. His work has earned over 200 design awards and extensive national and international recognition. His notable projects include the SFJAZZ Center, Oakland Museum, and Moscone Center.
Joseph Giovannini is a practicing architect who has written on architecture and design for three decades for such publications as the New York Times, Architectural Record, Art in America, and Art Forum, and he has served as the architecture critic for New York Magazine and the Los Angeles Herald Examiner.
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7.5” x 9” Portrait • 260pp • Hardbound • 978-1-966515-18-0 World Rights: Available
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SCDA Works
Soo K. Chan
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10” x 13” Portrait • 420pp • Hardbound • 978-1-961856-55-4
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SCDA celebrates the acclaimed firm’s extensive portfolio of work across the globe—from Singapore and China to the United States. Through SCDA’s diverse array of projects, spanning mixed-use high-rises, hospitality venues, commercial and institutional developments, and residential masterpieces, the monograph showcases Soo K. Chan’s mastery of shaping unique spatial experiences that transcend conventional boundaries. At the heart of SCDA’s design ethos lies a meticulous attention to detail and a profound understanding of form, light, and scale. Whether it’s crafting inviting public landscapes or sculpting dynamic high rises, Chan’s architectural visions tell a compelling story of harmony between the built environment and its natural surroundings.
Author
Soo K. Chan is the founding principal and design director of SCDA, a design studio seamlessly integrating architecture, interior design, landscape architecture and product design to create holistic spatial experiences. SCDA has offices in Singapore, Shanghai, Manila and New York. The firm has projects in over 70 locations across Asia, Africa, Europe, Oceania, and North America.
Chan was the inaugural recipient of the President’s Design Award, and the recipient of three American Institute of Architects (AIA) International and AIA New York Awards, and three Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA) International prizes, and nine Chicago Athenaeum awards among others. The works of SCDA has been published extensively and was presented at the Venice Biennale. He has been featured at the Salone Del Mobile for product design for established Italian brands: Poliform and Cristina.
Chan obtained his Master of Architecture degree at Yale University. He is a Professor in practice and has taught in several international architecture schools including Syracuse University and National University of Singapore.
Other contributors:
Julia van den Hout
Vladimir Belogolovsky
Leon van Schaik
Puzzling Assemblies
Dwayne Oyler and Jenny Wu
Puzzling Assemblies, by award-winning architects and educators
Dwayne Oyler and Jenny Wu, is an in-depth investigation into the robust relationship between architectural concepts and puzzle logics.
Organized into three primary sections, Puzzling Assemblies is a dissection of this idea—offering insights into its potential to enrich contemporary architectural thinking. Through rigorous design investigations, detailed drawings, and diverse analysis, Oyler Wu unpacks some of the fundamental assembly methods of puzzled forms and engage a series of physical and perceptual operations that boldly reimagine them at a range of scales.
Succinctly composed and incisively abstract, Oyler Wu presents an inviting examination that expands on tectonic and aesthetic principles of this process, offering a fresh perspective on the evolution of their design approach. With essays from practicing architects like Nader Tehrani, Marcelyn Gow, Paul Lewis, Ed Ford, David Erdman, and Anna Neimark, and a new series of models and projects—Puzzling Assemblies presents a technical primer for multivalent explorations in design, introducing a methodology that emphasizes experimentation and discovery.
Authors
Dwayne Oyler and Jenny Wu are partners at the Los Angeles based architecture firm, Oyler Wu Collaborative. Internationally recognized for its innovative designs in tectonic form and architectural intervention, their projects range from high-end furniture design and installation to buildings and urban planning.
Jenny Wu received her Bachelor of Architecture from Columbia University and a Master of Architecture from Harvard Graduate School of Design. In addition to her architectural practice, she also founded LACE by Jenny Wu, a line of 3D printed fine jewelry in 2014. Since 2006, Jenny has taught at SCI-Arc and is currently a senior design faculty member and has taught visiting design studios at Cooper Union, Columbia GSAPP, Syracuse University, the University of Tennessee, the University of Texas at Austin, and the Harvard Graduate School of Design.
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7” x 9” Portrait • 312pp • Hardbound • 978-1-961856-90-5
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Tashiding: Between Earth and Sky
The
Gardens of Douglas & Tsognie Hamilton
Douglas Hamilton Jr., Norman Barker and Foreword by Kate Markert
Tashiding: Between Earth and Sky presents a sumptuous portrait of a 100-acre rural landscape and stunning residence developed in connection with the land and the environment. Visited by up to 500 guests annually, this number promises to increase with additional garden club registrations and publicity. Stunning photographs and the book’s elegant design take readers on an exquisite visual tour of the property and its development, including the origins and culture of its owners—Douglas Hamilton former president and chairman of The Walters Museum in Maryland and Tsognie Wangmo, the eldest child of the last king of Sikkim, shortly before the Himalayan royal kingdom was taken over by India.
This is the poignant and inspirational story of the origins and creation of Tashiding, which was developed by Douglas and Tsognie without plans, a design on paper, or a professional landscape architect or garden designer, personify their intuitive sensibility and innate knowledge—approaches that every gardener can use, and every designer will appreciate.
Tashiding showcases the joining of two distinct cultures, and how their Western and Eastern backgrounds are manifest in the landscapes, garden themes, sculpture, ornament, and the house’s interiors. Everyone who has visited Tashiding is moved by the experiential sensation of the landscape’s different places. In developing Tashiding’s four-seasons gardens, Douglas and Tsognie envisioned an environment that invites a sense of harmony and well-being—part arboretum, part park, and part Xanadu. It is a garden for both walking and quiet contemplation, for feeling the thrill of the wind on a cool March day or for sitting in the teahouse on a rainy afternoon, watching the wind form abstract ripples on the surface of the lake. Collecting and arranging the extraordinary quantity of rocks, boulders, trees and shrubs, they see their hands in all they did. Yet as the years have passed, each tree and plant grows in its own unique way, knitting together to form and new and perhaps more naturalistic landscape.
Author
Douglas Hamilton Jr., a self-taught gardener, credits his lifelong curiosity about the natural world, horticulture, travel, and Asian aesthetics as inspirations for the gardens he and his wife, Tsognie, developed at Tashiding. Douglas serves as board chair of Hamilton Associates and related entities, a family of entrepreneurial companies where he served as CEO for thirty-seven years. A former board chair and president of Baltimore’s renowned Walters Art Museum, Douglas has also served on the board of the Bhutan Foundation as well as those of the McDonogh School and the Valleys Planning Council. Douglas and Tsognie have two sons, Douglas III and Palden, and three granddaughters, Charlotte, Alice, and Tara.
Norman Barker is a Professor of Pathology and Art as Applied to Medicine at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. Norman is an award-winning science photographer, writer, and designer. His work appears in textbooks, journals, and museums worldwide. His photographs are in the permanent collections of more than forty museums, including the Smithsonian Museum of Natural History, the George Eastman Museum, the American Museum of Natural History, and the Science Museum in London. He is an Accredited Senior Imaging Scientist and a Fellow of the Royal Photographic Society in Great Britain and the Biocommunications Association.
Foreword writer Kate Markert, executive director of Hillwood Estate, Museum, and Gardens since 2010, knows something about transforming a public treasure in the heart of northwest Washington, DC, into a major, landscaped destination.
Book Designer, Sarah Gifford.
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9.5” x 12.5” Landscape • 348pp • Hardbound 978-1-961856-86-8
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ISpace
Davide Macullo
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8.2” x 5.5” Portrait • 150pp • Hardbound • 978-1-966515-12-8 World Rights: Available Publication Date: Fall 2025
The Ispaces are a territorial redevelopment project born and developed in Rossa, in the canton of Grisons, Switzerland. They are an integral part of the broader initiative known as The Rossa Project, a collection of artistic, architectural, and cultural activities aimed at engaging the local population in social and sustainable initiatives capable of generating interest from external audiences.
Among the planned initiatives are the construction of private residences, facilities dedicated to cultural activities, such as a library and a youth hostel, the Temple of Thought, and the Ispaces themselves. These Ispaces are sculptures made from local larch wood, distributed throughout the forests surrounding Rossa, and can be visited along an immersive nature trail. The eight structures are inspired by geometric shapes - sphere, cube, pyramid, and hourglass - sometimes combined to create more complex compositions. The Ispaces explore and apply the principles of spatial psychology, with the goal of evoking specific emotions and sensations. While common elements may be identified in the exploration experience, the project takes into account all psychological, behavioural, and social aspects.
Ispaces also embody the philosophy of the studio behind the initiative: the awareness that space exerts a profound impact on us and the ability to integrate principles of psychology and neuroarchitecture into present and future projects. It is not merely about constructing spaces
but about creating places that enhance the potential of architecture, transforming design into fuel for a meaningful experience that puts humanity at its core.
Author
Davide Macullo, a Swiss architect, worked with Mario Botta for twenty years before founding his own studio in 2000. With over 800 projects in 49 countries, his work is distinguished by an ecological approach and a focus on the connection between places and human emotions.
DAVIDE MACULLO ARCHITECTS
Notes of Happiness
Davide Macullo
Drawing, the cornerstone of the book Notes of Happiness, is described as an authentic and profound reality, an absolute space where one can explore their essence. It is not merely a graphic representation but an existential experience that allows every life event to be transformed into a spontaneous and sincere gesture. Through the coordination of body and mind, drawing becomes a bridge between the conscious and the unconscious, the real and the imagined, offering a personal navigation through different dimensions.
The Iscapes collection emerges from artistic and stylistic innovation, breaking the boundaries of classical drawing. Here, the stroke becomes a universal language capable of evoking deep emotions, from the ancestral charm of a mark in nature to the comfort of a place designed to be inhabited. This gesture, as simple as it is powerful, transforms abstract space into a lived place where individuals can find balance, introspection, and truth.
With Notes of Happiness, Davide Macullo invites us to rethink drawing as a critical and creative tool, a means to imagine and design authentic spaces. It is a journey through the beauty of the stroke and emotional engagement, fostering a connection between artistic gesture and humanity, offering new perspectives on life and reality.
Author Davide Macullo, a Swiss architect, worked with Mario Botta for 20 years before founding his own studio in 2000. With over 800 projects in 35 countries, his work is distinguished by an ecological approach and a focus on the connection between places and human emotions.
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4” x 6” Portrait • 300pp • Hardbound • 978-1-966515-11-1 World Rights: Available
Publication Date: Fall 2025
Go
Native
A
Go Fish Card Game with California Plants
Nahal Sohbati and Eric Arneson
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3.5” x 5.5” Portrait • 54 cards + 20pp selfcover pamplet + box • Card Deck and pamphlet • 978-1-966515-15-9 World Rights: Available Publication Date: Fall 2025
Go Native is a Go Fish card game that celebrates California’s native plants and fosters ecological awareness. Each card features vibrant illustrations by Lesley Goren, showcasing the beauty and uniqueness of these plants, along with their scientific and common names. The game is accompanied by a booklet offering insights into plant families, their connections, and their essential role in California’s culture, history, and ecosystems.
Rooted in the belief that learning is most impactful when it’s fun, Go Native combines interactive gameplay with educational content, providing an engaging experience for families, educators, and nature enthusiasts of all ages.
Through playing Go Native, participants will begin to recognize these plants in their surroundings and gain a deeper appreciation for the vital role they play in California’s diverse ecosystems.
Author Nahal Sohbati and Eric Arneson, the creative duo behind Topophyla, are landscape architects dedicated to designing spaces that honor the interconnectedness of life. Their work blends ecological harmony with a deep sense of place and purpose.
Between Shadow and Light
The Work of Maryann Thompson
Caroline Constant and Maryann Thompson
Between Shadow and Light probes Maryann Thompson’s commitment to an architecture that is sustainable and regionally driven and her penchant for heightening the experiential qualities of each project through a holistic, consensus-building approach to design.
Between Shadow and Light is the first comprehensive monograph on the work of Cambridge-based architect Maryann Thompson. As one of her clients recently declared, Thompson inhabits a “liminal” space, a space of both-and, of inside and outside, of light and shadow. It is a dialogic space, a position from which to examine a situation from multiple perspectives, to facilitate opportunities for discussion, and, ultimately, to seek a consensual basis for design.
For Thompson, architecture is the stage on which we live out our lives, a philosophy that foregrounds its inherent symbolism, its ability to arouse our emotions, to challenge our preconceptions, and to provide sites of individual solace and respite from quotidian affairs as well as of heightened collective interaction. Her inclusive design process encompasses extended conversations with clients, patrons, users, and ultimately with the public at large—all envisioned as a means to address the collective social dimension of the work.
To address the myriad ways in which certain prominent themes in the work transcend notions of chronological development or typological
classification, the book has a tripartite organization. A set of essays on certain theoretical starting points is followed by an elaboration of distinctive architectural themes. It concludes with brief analyses of selected examples of the work, grouped according to programmatic type.
Authors
Caroline Constant is Professor Emerita of Architecture at the University of Michigan, where she taught from 2001 to 2013. A fellow of the American Academy in Rome, she is author of numerous books and articles on the interrelationship of architecture and landscape.
Maryann Thompson, FAIA, is founding principal of Maryann Thompson Architects, a practice devoted to architecture that is sustainable and regionally driven, with a commitment to heightening the experiential qualities of each project through a holistic, consensus-building approach to design.
$55.00
8” x 10” Portrait • 192pp • Hardbound • 978-1-961856-27-1 World Rights: Available
Publication Date: Fall 2025
Desitecture
Polycultural Environment Sustainable Cities
Layton Reid
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.
Authors
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.
All Credited Contributors:
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9.5” x 9.5” Square • 300pp • Softbound • 978-1-966515-20-3
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Paul Finch, Nick Lambert, Jeremy Melvin, Professor Alan Phillips , Elantha Evans, Professor Neil Thomas, Richard Patterson , Indujah Sikaram, Albert Talyor , Nick Lambert , David Gloster, Nigel Coates , Ada Yvars, Elsie Owusu, Rene Tan, Hariet harries ,
Inverness By Design
How Berkeley Made a Summer Place
Courtney Linn
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8.5” x 11” Portrait • 180pp • Hardbound • 978-1-961856-71-4 World Rights: Available Publication Date: Fall 2025
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 wood-clad 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.”
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.
Bunshaft Form Through Tectonics
Nicolás Sica Palermo
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Portrait • 206pp • Softbound with flaps • 978-1-961856-91-2
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The works of Gordon Bunshaft, developed while working for the multinational architectural firm SOM (Skidmore, Owings & Merrill), put together a number of concrete and abstract elements that fully reflected the modern movement during the years of its maximum artistic expression.
In the early fifties, the Lever House attracted fame and commissions, becoming a paradigm for new modern office buildings projects. The evolution of SOM’s design and construction processes generated a wide variety of formal solutions during the 50s. Fundamental to this process, the work organization of the firm was based on three fundamental aspects: modern architecture, American organizational methods and expertise, and development of techniques and industrialized building materials. Towards the sixties, SOM projects started to have more expressive and technically refined structures, which enhanced formal attributes and gained more functions than usual. The triad of SOM—modern architecture, North American organizational methods and the mastery and development of available industrialized construction techniques and materials—fully supported him.
Along four decades, his production accompanied technological advances, the state of the art and some cultural and social changes in the US, which are revealed in the presence of materials, construction systems and spatial configurations. Even so, Gordon Bunshaft never abandoned architectural modernity as the formal matrix for his projects.
Author Nicolás Sica Palermo graduated with a degree in Architecture and Urbanism (2004) and Master in Architecture (2006) from the Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS); His Master’s (2008) and PhD (2012) in Architectural Projects is from Universidad Politecnica de Catalunya. He is an associated professor of the Faculty of Architecture—UFRGS.
California Changing 50 Sites of Climate Change in Augmented Reality
Brett Snyder
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5” x 8” Portrait • 120pp • Softbound 978-1-961856-18-9
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The state of California has emerged as a pioneering force in designing for climate change, yet it has also faced the devastating impacts of numerous climate-related disasters, including droughts, wildfires, and rising sea levels. This book offers a unique climate change tour, delving into architectural scale sites across the state. From innovative houses using sustainable techniques to historical locations ravaged by the combined forces of drought and wildfire, the book explores a range of poignant examples. The main visual contents are a set of architectural site illustrations that are each enhanced by an augmented reality component showcasing the interplay between past, present, and future scenarios. The publication caters to architects, landscape architects, planners, design enthusiasts and general audiences alike, fostering a curiosity about climate change and its relevance to our daily lives.
This book takes a small-scale approach seeing the ways that climate vulnerability and resilience has changed and is changing the very places we reside. A cabin at risk of wildfire. A house at risk of erosion. A public walkway that is estimated to be underwater in ten years time. This book is illustrated with 50 sites across California—an atlas of sorts—raising questions about how we live, what we value, and issues we might consider as we plan for the future.
Author Brett Snyder
and media. Snyder is an associate professor of design at the University of California Davis, and a principal of Cheng+Snyder, an experimental architecture and design studio based in Oakland, California.
CALIFORNIA CHANGING
Battersea Power Station
The Architectural Rebirth of a Romantic Ruin
WilkinsonEyre
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9.75” x 9.75” Square • 184pp • Softbound • 978-1-961856-85-1
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Having stood empty for almost forty years since being decommissioned in 1983, Battersea Power Station reopened its doors to great fanfare in 2022. Originally designed in the 1930s by renowned architect, Sir Giles Gilbert Scott, the Grade II* Listed Power Station’s thirty-year neglect had created a modern ruin. It was in a critical state of disrepair when it was purchased in 2012 by an ambitious consortium of Malaysian investors who entrusted architects WilkinsonEyre with the design of its repair and regeneration.
Battersea Power Station—The Architectural Rebirth of a Romantic Ruin charts the practice’s journey and processes to transform the building— one of the largest brick structures in the world and one of the UK’s most recognizable landmarks - from twentieth century industrial relic to the sustainable heart of a thriving new London district.
Author
Architectural practice WilkinsonEyre has built some of the world’s most recognizable landmarks. Fusing architecture, engineering and culture with an informed use of technology and materials, they craft buildings of durability and delight, with people at their heart.
Designing for Dignity Elements of Practice
Jennifer Wilson, Rachelle Macur, and Chad Holtzinger
Dignity is a state of being, a quality of humanness inherent to each individual. It describes a sense of value, worth, honor, and respect for one’s personhood—how we all individually navigate, independently experience, and uniquely perceive the world around us. It is the ultimate quality of being, a celebration of the human spirit, and the potential of each of us to live as fully as we define and determine.
Dignity in design, therefore, requires an intentional examination of the human experience—how we process information and connect with the world around us, how we fundamentally seek survival and pleasure in all we do, how we react in the presence of adversity and stress, surprise and delight. And with this understanding comes empathy for what it means to navigate the world as a complex, conscious, affectable human beings.
Dignified Design recognizes the role of our built environment in supporting and fostering the health of individuals, neighborhoods and communities. It acknowledges that nothing we design is neutral and that the places we inhabit shape our ideas about who we are and what we deserve. Drawing on broad multidisciplinary evidence and more context-specific lived expertise of end users in the spaces we design, Dignified Design aims to create places that protect, promote, and celebrate the dignity of life.
Authors
Jennifer Wilson is the Director of Research and Impact at Shopworks Architecture. As a social worker and social scientist, Jennifer has direct practice and program management experience in shelter and service delivery. Her research agenda focuses on social innovation and interdisciplinary collaboration in housing and homeless service systems. Currently, her research at Shopworks is dedicated to examining traumainformed design to promote dignity, equity, and healing in housing as a key social determinant of health.
Rachelle Macur is the Director of Sustainable Design and Social Impact at Shopworks Architecture and helps lead their research in Dignified Design. As a social scientist with a deep background in ecological and social sustainability, her focus is on the cross-section of humans, nature, and the built environment. Rachelle works with evidence-based research in trauma, health, neuroscience, and biophilia to further the industry’s knowledge and impact in designing spaces that are healing, people-centered, and dignified.
Chad Holtzinger has practiced architecture for more than 20 years and has been licensed in Colorado since 2001. His career has primarily consisted of affordable housing design and urban mixed-use development in Colorado and the Mountain West region of the US.
All Credited Contributors:
Daniel Brisson, PhD, MSW | Center for Housing and Homelessness
Research, University of Denver
Tom Otteson, AIA| Shopworks Architecture
Laura Rossbert, MDiv | Shopworks Architecture
Rachel Speer, PhD, LCSW, MSW | Bryn Mawr College
Stacey Twigg, NCIDQ | Shopworks Architecture
Other contributors:
Graphic Design: Matt Brozovich
Editing: Chelsey Baker-Hauck
Art & Graphic Images: Catalina Lopez
Architectural Drawings: Jamie Wallace & Steph Pham
Photography: Matthew Staver Photography all images feature projects designed by Shopworks
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Common Architecture
Sunwoo Kim
What is the common value of architecture? The first description that come to mind is: something normal, ordinary, or rational. These keywords are pointing toward the opposite of newness. A brave jump of logic would make out that architecture does not need to call for newness. On the contrary, one must admit that other fields of design and art in fact need to be attracted to newness and the endeavors themselves are meaningful. But architecture has always been unique because it does not exclusively belong to either art or technology because it requires enormous amounts of coordination with various consultants to make one building work in addition to what we call “design.” This unique character of architecture demands commonness rather than newness.
Author
Born into a family of architects, Sunwoo Kim earned his Bachelor’s degree from the University of Seoul and a Master’s from the Yale School of Architecture, where he was profoundly influenced by Peter Eisenman’s pedagogy. His professional journey has taken him from Soltozibin Architects in Seoul to SOM in Chicago, and now to his current role as a project manager at Butler Armsden Architects in San Francisco. Through these experiences, he has developed a conviction that architects must go beyond simply constructing beautifully designed structures; but must also engage in building a value system around architecture to foster more meaningful and constructive discussions within the field.
$30.00 5.83” x 8.27” Portrait • 120pp • Softbound • 978-1-961856-97-4 World Rights: Available Publication Date: Fall 2025
Intelligence Force Printing
Philip F. Yuan nd Dr. Din Wen ‘Nic’ Bao
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9.44” x 6.69” Portrait • 200pp • Softbound • 978-1-961856-23-3 World Rights: Available Publication Date: Fall 2025
This book delves into the forefront of architectural innovation by exploring the potential applications of 3D robotic concrete printing as structural prototypes. With a focus on intelligent computational design, the studio aims to revolutionize additive manufacturing techniques, particularly within the realm of large-scale concrete 3D printing. Through the utilization of digital design and cutting-edge fabrication methods, including three-dimensional graphic statics, bidirectional evolutionary structural optimization, and FURobot robotic manufacturing, students undergo a transformative journey, refining their design thinking, methodologies, and construction skills.
As a tangible outcome, the studio presents an experimental large-scale pavilion, serving as a testament to the practical implications of their research. This volume, soon to be published, encapsulates the studio’s findings, delving into both the aesthetic forms shaped by emerging design philosophies and the potential future applications of 3D articulate printing technology within the construction industry.
Authors
Philip F. Yuan is a professor and associate dean of the College of Architecture and Urban Planning at Tongji University. He is an Hon. FAIA and the co-founder of DigitalFUTURES Association, as well as president of CDRF Conference and Editor-in-Chief of Architectural Intelligence.
Dr Ding Wen ‘Nic’ Bao is a Senior Lecturer of architecture at the School of Architecture and Urban Design, RMIT University. He is a practicing registered architect and director of BW Architects, Wonderform Studio, FormX Research Lab, and a Partner at Ameba.
The Metabolism of Settlement Coexistences
Carlos Arnaiz, Peter G. Rowe, and Claire Doussard
With the onset of the Anthropocene Era, concern for the metabolism of various kinds of settlement has risen appreciably. Of particular concern in the study of architecture and urban design are metabolic contributions of flows of stocks that go into the construction and operation of settlements of one kind or another. This book is about a methodological approach that allows urban settlement patterns to be re-written, as it were, into water, energy and other material flows emanating from original sources in the geosphere, biosphere, hydrosphere, and so on, through various stages of transformation during settlement construction and operation and then on to end-of-life activities. In short, the methodology produces a so-called ‘cradle-tograve’ account of the material aspects of urban settlement from which technological and design proposals can be crafted ameliorating and diminishing adverse impacts, as well as related outcomes such as embodied energy and carbon concentrations so deleterious to climate change and proliferation of other hyperobjects.
Authors
Carlos Arnaiz is an architect, educator, writer and urban design consultant. He is the founder and principal of CAZA, the co-founder of SURBA and an Adjunct Assistant Professor at the Graduate School of Architecture & Urban Design at Pratt Institute. Prior to founding CAZA, Carlos was an associate partner at SAA in charge of over 20 global projects. Carlos started his career working as a design associate at a number of world-renowned architecture firms such as Office dA and Field Operations.
Peter G. Rowe is the Co-Founder and Chairman of SURBA: Studio for Urban Analysis. He is also the Raymond Garbe Professor of Architecture and Urban Design at Harvard University and a Harvard University Distinguished Service Professor. He served as Dean of the Graduate School of Design at Harvard from 1992 to 2004, and was Chairman of the Urban Planning and Design Department there from 1988 until 1992, and Director of the Urban Design Programs from 1985 until 1990. Prior to Harvard, Rowe served as the Director of the School of Architecture at Rice University from 1981 to 1985 and also directed many multi-disciplinary research projects through the Rice Center, where he was Vice President from 1978 onwards, and at the Southwest Center for Urban Research. He has also served several other cultural and academic institutions, including the Center for Canadian Architecture, the Aga Khan Trust for Culture, and the Cities Programme of the London School of Economics, as well as holding several honorary professorships in China, as well as in Taiwan and Hong Kong. Currently, he is also a High-Level Foreign Expert and Guest Professor at Tsinghua University in Beijing. Rowe’s research and consulting are extensive and international in scope, including subjects dealing with matters of cultural interpretations and design, as well as urban formation in relationship to issues of economic development, housing provision, resource sustainability, and historic conservation. A recognized critic and lecturer in the field of architecture and urban design, in addition to numerous articles, Rowe is the author, co-author, or editor of thirty books
Claire Doussard is a landscape engineer, urban designer and doctor of planning. She is a specialist in sustainable urban planning and urban environmental and technological innovations. She holds a Doctor of Philosophy from Ecole Spéciale d’Architecture.
Other contributors:
Yona Chun
Yun Fu
Rolando Girodengo
Boya Guo
Trinity Kao
Priyanka Kar
Elyjana Roach
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9.45”
Muzharul Islam, An Architect of Tomorrow
Architecture and Nation-Building in Bangladesh
Kazi Khaleed Ashraf
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11.8” x 9.4” Portrait • 500pp • Hardbound • 978-1-961856-48-6
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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 in Bangladesh is paralleled by a deep engagement with the political and ethical dimension of society, with building the nation, so to speak. f our graphic [visual] design profession, its history and evolution.
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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.
Merrill, Pastor & Michael Architects
Scott Merrill
This is the first place these projects have been collected, and they reflect 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 faction of an acre to forty acres. Merill, Pastor, and Michael Architects describes work with a range of master planners, but 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
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Second-Century Modernism
John Jennifer Marx
It could be said that Walter Gropius laid the cornerstone of modern architecture in 1919 by founding the Bauhaus. As a result, modern architecture is now over 100 years old. This first century of modernism has come to a close with a mixed review. Enthusiasm for its achievements goes hand in hand with a discontent about a sizeable portion of its outcome, as well as its effect on the natural and built environments. The most vocal supporters of these modernist ideals crafted epic claims that modernism was bound to deliver progressive and humane environments. Alas, the follow through of those promises was uneven at best.
Can we update this ideological framework, establishing a new outlook that is both open-ended and operational? If the first century of modernism can be considered an architecture of abstraction and ideas, then what might we design if we turn our attention, in this second century of modernism, to an architecture of emotional abundance? Second-Century Modernism creates an architecture of richness and community by placing a higher priority on emotional meaning, through a shift in the design process that balances the rational with the intuitive, and a “Less + More” approach to expanding the range of cultural values we can inclusively balance in our environments. It welcomes you to embrace the paradoxical qualities of human existence.
Author
John Jennifer Marx, AIA, is a co-founding principal and chief artistic officer of Form4 Architecture in San Francisco, California. He is responsible for developing Form4 Architecture’s design vision and philosophical language. In order to return a sense of humanity back into architecture, he advocates for the inclusion of philosophy, art, and poetry in the thoughtful making of place by creating emotionally resonant architecture and urban spaces. He is a student of absurdity, paradox, kindness, and art.
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11.5” x 11.5” Square • 264pp • Hardbound • 978-1-957183-34-3 World Rights: Available Publication Date: Fall 2025
A Legacy of Positive Consequence
Celebrating 50 Years of Design Excellence
Trivers Architects
$40.00 8” x 9” Landscape • 200pp • Softbound • 978-1-961856-92-9 World Rights: Available Publication Date: Fall 2025
Celebrating 50 years of design excellence:, A Legacy of Positive Consequence showcases Trivers’ enduring commitment to creating architecture that shapes communities and leaves a lasting impact. Featuring a selection of significant projects, the book underscores the firm’s dedication to historic preservation, adaptive reuse, sustainability and innovative solutions to complex challenges. As Trivers’ first publication, it honors the firm’s history and milestones while looking ahead to a future shaped by the transformative power of design.
Author
In 1975, Trivers was founded in St. Louis on values that still characterize the firm today: creating architecture of lasting positive consequence. Over five decades, the firm has expanded its impact, blending innovation and context to shape communities and inspire change.
Portuguese Houses with History
Ana Anahory and Felipa Almeida
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For almost a decade we had an interior design studio which led us a unique opportunity to discover and visit Portuguese family houses, with stories and beauty that deserved to be portrayed. Since then, time has passed and with the growth of tourism in our country, many of these houses ended up being transformed into hotels, vacation rentals, airbnbs and rural hotels, as it was too expensive to keep them just as family homes. Watching this made us feel the need to make a book about the ones that still resist. Our shared passion for these houses and their unrepeatable identity convinced us that this could be a project where we could work together again, photographing the properties that we still managed to find so that at least their visual memory didn’t get lost. We want this book to pay homage to a memory, a Portuguese savoir-faire and taste that is disappearing with the massification of design, objects and furniture. We hope that this book will help raise awareness to what we feel is most valuable about these homes: the notion that this heritage is precious, that it is part of our history and must be preserved.
This book pretends to be a homage to Portuguese family houses, with stories and beauty that deserved to be portrayed. We hope this book will help raise awareness to what we feel is most valuable about these homes: the notion that this heritage is precious, that it is part of our history and must be preserved.
Authors
Ana Anahory is a Portuguese architect specializing in interior design. She is the co-owner of Estúdio Lisboa, a hospitality development company that focuses on creating locally crafted, timeless projects with a strong sense of place.
Felipa Almeida is a Portuguese curator and art director specializing in the intersection of art, crafts, and Portugal’s material culture and traditions. With degrees in Art History and Curatorial Studies, Felipa’s work aims to celebrate and preserve Portuguese heritage.
In Search of Spatial Scripts
Introspective Improvisations for Two Construction Sites: Parcel X Encampment (1994) and The Goodwin Memorial (2004
Peter Waldman
IN SEARCH OF SPATIAL SCRIPTS
In Search of Spatial Scripts is a re-collection of improvisational stories and stage sets and serves those interested in Spatial Tales of Origin Revealed through Specifications for Construction. Peter Waldman first recounts Mining Mica in the alleys of Manhattan only to initiate a resultant collaboration with a bunch of boyhood buddies eight decades ago. Other magical oases were later encountered with both Citizens and Strangers, mapped odysseys somewhere between Princeton and Peru.
This project traces two construction sites through the self-reflective eyes of generations of others. One encampment is found in North Garden Virginia and one student memorial is situated on the North Terrace of Campbell Hall at Mr. Jefferson’s University spanning a decade in the cross hairs of the Millennium. Located somewhere between Rebecca Solnit’s A Field Guide to Getting Lost, Eugene O’Neill’s A Long Day’s Journey into Night, and Pirandello’s Six Characters in Search of an Author, this collection of collages evolves into vellum scrims which promotes architecture as The Word Made Flesh, Lessons and Carols. Through the eyes of others, a Cast of Circumstantial Characters re-read Lessons From the Lawn and then repair Connective Tissues to set a stage for perhaps the seventh Memo for the Next Millennium.
Authors
Peter Waldman is an architect and educator who narrates Spatial Tales of Origin through Specifications for Construction. He has explored foundational curricula for five decades first at Princeton, then Rice, and since 1992, at the University of Virginia. His extensive built practice concerns Climatic Dwellings and Urban Precincts of Resilience with Surveyors, Nomads and Lunatics.
Patrick Sardo is a designer and photographer in Boston and holds a Master of Architecture from University of Virginia and an undergraduate degree in architecture from Ohio State University. His research focuses on architectural typologies emerging from the digital industrial revolution.
Sofia Kuspan is a designer in Boston and holds a Master of Architecture from University of Virginia and an undergraduate degree in architecture from Ohio State University. Her family’s restoration of a Usonian-style Frank Lloyd Wright apprentice home informs her explorations of preservation. These lessons contributed to her interest in alternative approaches to preservation, which contributed to her graduate thesis project, Wasteland Spolia.
David Turnbull is an educator and architect and the President & CEO of the Cosanti Foundation. He is also a senior advisor at GRoW Oyster Reefs LLC and a Senior Research Fellow of the Urban Futures Lab in Las Vegas. He has led major international projects while working in the office of James Stirling, Michael Wilford and Associates and has held academic appointments at universities around the world.
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All contributors:
Peter Waldman, Ben Small, Sofia Kuspan, Patrick Sardo, David Turnbull, Ann Hamilton, Henry Moss, Karen Van Lengen, W.G. Clark
PETER WALDMAN
Introspective Improvisations for Two Construction Sites Parcel X Encampment (1994) and The Goodwin Memorial (2004)
Constructing Invisibility
Infrastructure,
Jeffrey S. Nesbit
Militarization, and
the Extreme Environment
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8” x 10” Portrait • 232pp • Softbound • 978-1-935935-57-5 World Rights: Available Publication Date: Fall 2025
Today, designers, researchers, and scholars must responsibly engage the entangled networks and delineated systems far beyond boundaries of typical design practice to engage in thoughtful critique of the past and consider counter-imaginations of the future. Our discussion of the unseen begins first with an understanding of the power of sight. A look back at the technologies of control implicated in documenting the world reveals the closely intertwined evolution of imperial occupation and technological progress. Constructing Invisibility continues the exchanges initiated during the first symposium and builds upon the diversity of knowledge shared. The late French philosopher Bruno Latour reminds us that “politics has always been oriented toward objects, stakes, situations, material entities, bodies, landscapes, places. This is in effect the decisive discovery of political ecology: it is an object-oriented politics. Change the territories and you will also change the attitudes.” This issue uses these economies, landscapes, and places, including the boundless corporations and destructive climate realities, to better see the world. Further, the collection of essays seeks to understand how the construction of such sight impacts civilian occupation in the remaining world. Illuminating stories and places has become the aim of this volume, and shedding light on distant territories has become confounded by extremity, complexity, disparity, and secrecy.
Authors
Jeffrey S. Nesbit is an architect, urbanist, and assistant professor of architecture and urbanism at Temple University. Nesbit’s research focuses on processes of urbanization, infrastructure, and the evolution of “technical lands.”
Contributors:
Tyler School of Art and Architecture, Temple University, Kate WingertPlaydon (foreword), Pedro Ignacio Alonso, Ryan Bishop, Keaton Bruce, Randy Crandon, Lindsey Freeman, Philip Glahn, Gretchen Heefner, Ghazal Jafari, Eliyahu Keller, May Khalife, César Lopez, Jeffrey S. Nesbit, Hugo Palmarola, Victoria Sanger, Malkit Shoshan, Mark Stanley, Charles Waldheim, Dongwoo Yim
Annina Nosei
Roberto Lambarelli
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Art historian by training, gallerist and art dealer by profession, Annina Nosei is an essential art-world figure. While still a student of the celebrated Giulio Carlo Argan at Rome’s Sapienza University, she took part in the first Happenings to export the cutting edge of 1960s US art to Europe. Completing her studies in the early sixties with a thesis on Marcel Duchamp, she promptly began her professional career at Ileana Sonnabend’s renowned Parisian gallery. Relocating to the United States soon after, she moonlighted as a freelance curator while lecturing at various universities, ultimately leading to the launch of her gallery in 1980: the enterprise that would cement her place among the international art world’s outstanding figures.
Author
Roberto Lambarelli is the founder and director of Arte e Critica. A notable contributor to the renewal of the Italian art scene of the 1980s, his many exhibitions and publications have charted his continuous reflection on modern and contemporary art.
Court and Garden
From the French Hôtel to the City of Modern Architecture
Michael Dennis
The French Hôtel, an aristocratic Paris townhouse, is to the art of the plan as the Venetian Palace is to the art of the facade—the quintessential level of architectural achievement. The development of the hôtel between approximately 1550 and 1800 chronicles the formal transformation from an embedded urban building type to a free-standing suburban building type; it also illuminates the social transformation from total emphasis on the public realm under Louis XIV, to the dominance of private life in our time. In contrast to the principles of continuity and regularity of classical buildings, the design principles of the hôtels were based on discontinuity and irregularity, allowing freer, more adaptable architectural compositions. The French Hôtel is a direct ancestor of the modern “free-plan,” thus enabling a rich contemporary architectural vocabulary.
Author
Michael Dennis is an architect in Boston and Emeritus Professor of Architecture at MIT. He was the 1986 Thomas Jefferson Professor of Architecture at the University of Virginia, the 1988 Eero Saarinen Professor of Architecture at Yale University, and the 2006 Charles Moore Professor of Architecture at the University of Michigan. In 2011, he was awarded the CNU Athena Medal for his contributions to urbanism.
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8.5” x 11” Portrait • 336pp • Hardbound • 978-1-966515-23-4
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Shamsul Wares
An Architecture of Elemental Modernism
Adnan Zillur Morshed
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.
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,
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9.6” x 11.4” Portrait • 328pp • Hardbound • 978-1-966515-14-2
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Arthur Dyson
The Soul of Architecture
Giuliano Chelazzi
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.
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.
Author
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.
All Credited Contributors: Douglas Cardinal, Preface Eric Lloyd Wright, Foreword David Swann and Susan Thompson, photographers
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Soundscape Architecture
Karen Van Lengen and Jim Welty
SOUNDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE
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Soundscape Architecture presents historical examples, design projects and art works related to the sonics of architectural spaces and landscapes. This work grew out of our interest in listening to places that sponsor distinct sonic characteristics with specific and memorable identities. We have addressed this challenging design territory by beginning with the act of listening itself. We record the spaces, create new compositions from the recordings, draw (by hand and digitally) the sounds of these compositions, animate these drawings, and then create digital paintings as a memory of this process. We also present sonic installations, projects, and other exemplary art works as creative demonstrations that support the act of listening to the atmospheres of our natural and built environments.
Authors Karen Van Lengen, FAIA, is an architect, artist, professor and former dean. Her recent work focuses on the sounds of iconic buildings and landscapes, by discovering methods to visually portray these sonic characteristics, in addition to designing architectural projects that deploy sound in the design process.
Jim Welty is an accomplished sculptor and digital artist, whose recent collaborative work with Soundscape Architecture has included the creation of drawings, animations and digital art to visualizes the sounds of space.
KAREN VAN LENGEN AND JIM WELTY
Cohabitation Strategies
Challenging Neoliberal Urbanization Between Crisis
Cohabitation Strategies (CohStra), Lucia Babina, Emiliano Gandolfi, Gabriela Rendón, Miguel RoblesDurán, David Harvey, Jeanne van Heeswijk, and Ruedi Baur
Cohabitation Strategies: Challenging Neoliberal Urbanization Between Crisis presents twelve years of urban theories, projects, and interventions developed by Cohabitation Strategies, a Rotterdam- and New York City-based non-profit cooperative committed to radical sociospatial research, design, and development.
Centering on the development of new action-research methodologies, neighborhood-based initiatives, and the facilitation of communitydriven transformative interventions, the book offers critical insights and progressive visions on the dramatic impact that neoliberal spatial-restructuring had in communities of color and low-income neighborhoods in the Netherlands, Italy, France, Canada, and the United States.
The book proposes new transdisciplinary methodologies, practices, tools, and strategies to challenge for-profit-driven urban development and the advancement of the right to the city.
Authors
Cohabitation Strategies (CohStra) is an international non-profit organization for socio-spatial research, design, and development which focuses on conditions of urban decline, inequality, and segregation within the contemporary city. CohStra brings transdiciplinary methodologies to acquire a comprehensive understanding of the agents affecting urban areas and provides cross-disciplinary working frameworks to communities to generate sustainable transformations. It seeks to amplify the interest of individuals and communities through neighborhood-based initiatives and local programs connecting citizens with public officials, government agencies, and public institutions. CohStra was founded in 2008 by Lucia Babina, Emiliano Gandolfi,
Gabriela Rendón, and Miguel Robles-Durán in the City of Rotterdam. Since then, this non-profit has been engaged in urban and community projects of diverse scales and complexities commissioned by art, cultural, and academic institutions, as well as municipalities and government agencies in diverse countries, including the Netherlands, Italy, France, Germany, Venezuela, Ecuador, Canada, and the United States.
Lucia Babina is a cultural activist focused on research and reactivation of sustainable ways of cohabitation and coexistence. Her work aims to reflect on the current global unevenness and injustice through collective and artistic processes. She is the co-founder of Cohabitation Strategies and iStrike.
Emiliano Gandolfi is an urbanist and independent curator with a specific interest in communal agency and cultural strategies. He is cofounder of Cohabitation Strategies and Urban Front. Formerly, Gandolfi was the director of the Curry Stone Design Prize.
Gabriela Rendón is an urbanist committed to social and spatial justice. She is an assistant professor of urban planning and community development at Parsons School of Design, The New School, in New York City. Rendón is co-founder of Cohabitation Strategies and Urban Front.
Miguel Robles-Durán is a unitary urbanist focused on the design and analysis of complex urban systems, urban political-ecology and anticapitalist strategy. He is an associate professor of urbanism at Parsons School of Design, The New School, in New York City. Robles-Durán is co-founder of Cohabitation Strategies and Urban Front.
David Harvey (foreword) is a distinguished professor of geography and anthropology at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. His work in the fields of anthropology, geography, Marxists studies, political-economy, urban studies, and cultural studies have made him one of the most influential thinkers alive. He is co-founder of Urban Front.
Jeanne van Heeswijk (epilogue) is Dutch visual artist and curator who facilitates the creation of dynamic and diversified public spaces in order to “radicalize the local.” Her work focuses on social practice art and the relationship between space, geography, and urban renewal. She is co-founder of Urban Front.
Ruedi Baur (book designer) is graphic designer who looks at the relationships between architecture, urbanism, and political territory. He is professor of design at the École des Arts Décoratifs in Paris and the University of Strasbourg. He is co-founder of Institute of Research in Design Civic City, 10-Milliards-Humains and Urban Front.
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9.4” x 11.8” Portrait • 300pp • Hardbound • 978-1-954081-74-1
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Reimagining Environmental Identity
Selected Works by Atelier Ping Jiang | EID Arch 2015–2023
Ping Jiang
Reimagining Environmental Identity by Ping Jiang presents a compelling exploration of architectural practice designed to navigate the dynamic urban landscapes of China and beyond. The book showcases 19 diverse projects from Jiang’s studio, reflecting a novel approach to architecture that engages deeply with social, cultural, technological, and environmental issues. Rather than adhering to conventional architectural norms, Jiang’s practice emphasizes the creation of meaningful, contextsensitive designs that foster a profound connection between people and their environment. Through a range of projects, from high-rise buildings to urban interventions and civic structures, the monograph highlights a non-linear design process that blends spatial experience with cultural relevance and environmental sensitivity. It underscores the importance of forging a unique sense of place and identity in architecture, advocating for designs that resonate with both local and global contexts. This collection offers insights into how contemporary architecture can address the complexities of urban life while preserving and enhancing cultural and environmental values.
Author Ping Jiang, FAIA, is the founding principal of Atelier Ping Jiang | EID Arch, a leading international design practice based in Shanghai. Seeking a holistic approach to architecture, landscape and urbanism, Ping Jiang’s practice explores and integrates design innovation that is culturally relevant and environmentally responsive to create meaningful place.
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9.3” x 10.8” Portrait • 260pp • Hardbound • 978-1-961856-38-7 World Rights: Available Publication Date: Spring 2025
Framework Thinking Lessons in Community Planning and Design
William J. Johnson and Har Ye Kan
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Framework Thinking distills key lessons in creating extraordinary design outcomes. It shares how the clarity, power, and enduring presence of an inspired vision can be increased through holistic thinking, inclusive collaboration, and intentional process – in short, a framework thinking mindset.
Reflecting on decades of planning and design experience, and recent projects together, Bill Johnson and Har Ye Kan address the search for more complete, meaningful solutions. As an attitude, Framework Thinking features a ‘context-centered’ frame of mind, where every turn of the process, from start to finish, points to the larger picture of people and place.
While seeking short-term, achievable, design outcomes, Framework Thinking also embraces the long-term visionary guidance in the early discovery stages. Finding this ‘big idea’ in the structure of the place is often the difference maker in shaping communities of distinction.
In short, Framework Thinking is an encouragement to see more, to expect more, and to offer a way forward to the stewardship of our common good by making the little choices for digging deeper and thinking bigger.
Authors
William J. Johnson, FASLA, is a landscape architect, community planner, designer, teacher, and academic leader. A cofounder of Johnson, Johnson and Roy (JJR) and an Emeritus Professor at the University of Michigan, Bill’s contributions over his 60-year career have focused on contextual fitness, harmony, and community involvement in local and international settings.
Har Ye Kan, AICP, is a community planning/design consultant. She received her Doctorate in Design from the Harvard GSD and practices in West Michigan. Har Ye has co-authored two books and various articles on housing and community design.
Arturo Mezzèdimi, AFRICA HALL
A Monument to African History
Marcello Mezzèdimi
$60.00
9.61” x 11.02” Portrait • 400pp • Hardbound • 978-1-961856-63-9
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Publication Date: Fall 2025
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 MehereteSelassie Dereje, Bekele Mekonnen, Daniel Mulugeta, Ephrem Nigussie, Mengesha Seyoum, Kongit Sinegiorgis, and Martin Welz
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).
New York Geologics
Representations of Manhattan from the Anthropocene
Tiago Torres-Campos
Manhattan is commonly regarded as an iconic island-territory of the twentieth century. Conventional representations reinforce its reading as an urban condition resulting from neoliberal capitalism. These forces have expanded the city grid and extruded its architectures as a laboratory of urban ideas.
Yet, like many other coastal and insular conditions, twenty-first century Manhattan faces adverse Anthropogenic climate change. Stronger storm surges and sea level rise now demand that the island recalibrates its social and environmental positions. The city needs to consider once again its fluid archipelagic conditions inherited from glacial dynamics.
$50.00
7” x 9” Portrait • 400pp • Softbound • 978-1-961856-39-4
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Publication Date: Spring 2025
With a focus on iconic city representations, the book examines distinct logics that try to make capitalist progress compatible with its territorial conditions. Even though these logics of land, water and ground—here called geologics—are perhaps less dominant than the dense urban culture and, therefore, less predominant in the representation of the city, they are still important to explain why Manhattan evolved to its current condition. The book explores these geologics through relationships between three nineteenth-century plans of Manhattan and three latetwentieth-century architectural manifestos—Delirious New York (Rem Koolhaas), The Manhattan Transcripts (Bernard Tschumi), and Lower Manhattan (Lebbeus Woods).
Plans and manifestos are explored creatively through design experimentation that retrospectively repositions these representations from the perspectives offered by the Anthropocene. With an intricate connection between image, text, and installation, the book is an open invitation to radically interconnected imagination.
Geologics advocate for architecture to become a productive and fluid mediation between city and geology. They propose a reconfiguration of urban territories as resilient hybrid possibilities amongst accelerated change and large-scale geoengineering.
Author
Tiago Torres-Campos is a Portuguese landscape architect and Associate Professor at Rhode Island School of Design. He co-edited Postcards from the Anthropocene (2022) and is currently writing a new book that offers alternative ways of thinking and visualizing Manhattan geologically.
It’s
About the People
Unlocking the Social Art of Architecture
Benjamin Clavan
$50.00
IT’S ABOUT THE
6” x 9” Portrait • 300pp • Softbound • 978-1-961856-67-7
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Publication Date: Fall 2025
This book is about architecture, but not about formal architectural images. It is about the people who inhabit and use buildings and places. It is about the people who have made and will make buildings and places. It is a book about subjects and themes that directly impact the lives of the people who will utilize these efforts.
All these issues open the door to the systematic investigation of the question of value, of what works and what does not, of what is good and bad. Inside the academy, it questions the accepted dogma of subjectivity and neutrality in traditional teaching, particularly as it applies to subjects of taste and perception in architecture. Outside the academy, it requires a willingness to engage with the community in ways much different from traditional detached observation and recordation. The result is a much different and much more sensitive relationship between architects and their clients, teachers and their students, and even between students and their peers.
Effectively, it points to the need of a seminal change in the way we look at the production of architecture as a whole today. Nothing is lost: not beauty, not individuality, nor the eagerness to experiment with form. The wonder of it all is that there is everything to gain.
Benjamin Clavan is one of the founding members of the Berkeley Prize and has served for many years as its coordinator, organizing the yearly competitions, the prize’s worldwide outreach, and guiding the editorial content of the prize’s website. Benjamin is a licensed architect in California with completed projects in Los Angeles and beyond. He holds a Bachelor’s, Master’s and Ph.D. degree in Architecture with associated studies in anthropology and journalism.
Benjamin Clavan
Benjamin Clavan
Foreword by Raymond Lifchez
Author
Travel Artist
Sketchbook Drawings and True Stories from the Road
James Richards
Travel Artist: Sketchbook Drawings and True Stories from the Road is an illustrated travelogue drawn from 20 years of travel to 50 countries, and from the scores of sketchbooks and journals created along the way. A sketchbook changes travel, from checking off an itinerary checklist and Instagram moments to a journey of discovery: about places, about people, about yourself. Richards’ stories are told through hundreds of full color and black and white travel sketches and essays that cross the globe, from the savannahs of Kenya to the Central Highlands of Vietnam, from the Hemingway haunts of Key West to the customs interrogation room of the Havana airport. The stories and drawings pull the reader into the transformational experience of international travel, and the added richness and creative rush that closer observation and on-location sketching brings to it. The book is a must-have for creatives, for urban sketchers, and for anyone with an explorer’s heart and a creative itch.
Author
James Richards is a traveling artist, designer, professor and international workshop instructor. His sketching workshops and lectures have taken him to 50 countries and 27 universities. He’s the author of Freehand Drawing and Discovery and a popular online instructor, as well as an instructor and former Board of Directors member for Urban Sketchers. He’s based in Siesta Key, Florida.
$40.00
8.5” x 8.5”
Alameda: More Boss Architecture
WORDS, BUILDINGS, MACHINES
Wes Jones
This third volume in the monograph series of work by Jones, Partners: Architecture picks up where the previous volume El Segundo left off. After 10 years in El Segundo the office has relocated near Sciarc in the arts district of DTLA (Downtown Los Angeles) where Jones is teaching and many of the team members have matriculated or are studying. Alameda covers all the work done in this location between 2007 and 2013, in 330 densely packed (but artfully designed, by the Afton Klein Design group) pages, including “words, buildings, machines,” as well as projects, competitions, furniture and over forty pages of the firm’s signature graphic production in convenient tear-out sheets of posters, competition boards and other client presentation material. As the title suggests, the spirit of the work continues to be Boss, but this volume also records a new and ongoing exploration of what Jones terms “hard modernism,” which is to architecture what hard cider is to apple juice. This work sees itself as continuing the evolution of the machines for living as mechanisms for contemporary meaning.
This third volume in the monograph series of work by Jones, Partners: Architecture continues the coverage of the firms “words, buildings, machines,” in the same signature graphic form that made the previous two volumes inspirational collector’s items.
Author
Wes Jones is a partner in the Los Angeles practice of Jones, Partners: Architecture, a Professor of Practice at the University of Southern California School of Architecture, an artist, author, inventor and father of Jack.
Photographers
Taiyo Watanabe, Ben Lepley, Doug Jackson, Steven Purvis, Aaron Olko
88 Spins with Bill Pechet
Leslie Van Duzer
This book is about architecture, but not about formal architectural images. It is about the people who inhabit and use buildings and places. It is about the people who have made and will make buildings and places. It is a book about subjects and themes that directly impact the lives of the people who will utilize these efforts.
All these issues open the door to the systematic investigation of the question of value, of what works and what does not, of what is good and bad. Inside the academy, it questions the accepted dogma of subjectivity and neutrality in traditional teaching, particularly as it applies to subjects of taste and perception in architecture. Outside the academy, it requires a willingness to engage with the community in ways much different from traditional detached observation and recordation. The result is a much different and much more sensitive relationship between architects and their clients, teachers and their students, and even between students and their peers.
Effectively, it points to the need of a seminal change in the way we look at the production of architecture as a whole today. Nothing is lost: not beauty, not individuality, nor the eagerness to experiment with form. The wonder of it all is that there is everything to gain.
Author
Leslie Van Duzer, professor at the University of British Columbia, has held academic positions in architecture schools across North America, Europe and Japan. She has published numerous monographs on modern architecture and was lead editor of the series, West Coast Modern Houses.
All contributors:
Interviewers: Thena Tak and Lőrinc Vass
Photographers: Michael Perlmutter and Greg Girard
Drawings: Lőrinc Vass + Bill Pechet
Book Design: Pablo Mandel of Circular Studio
$40.00
8.5” x 9.5” Portrait • 192pp • Softbound with flaps • 978-1-961856-53-0
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Publication Date: Fall 2025
Everyday Architecture
A Vast Wasteland?
Kenneth M. Moffett
A long-deserved survey, of the everyday building types that line our suburban roads and parking lots, affords an informative and diverting critique of their architectural and sociocultural foibles.
This project began with an essay on the “McMansion” phenomenon, and it grew to become a meditation on the assorted different building types that are found in every American city and suburb. While it’s true that good buildings do exist for each of those categories, they are very much the exception, these buildings more typically ranging from dull to assertively ugly. The book is meant to be a fairly pitiless and revealing look at this “vast wasteland,” with an architect’s hat on but without resort to the profession’s fads and verbiages. Several natural categories inform the organization of the contents, including commercial, residential, and institutional, even including cars and other manifestations of “architecture on the move” that have also lost their way in stylistic terms. The writing includes capsule histories of many of the building types included, plus some lesser-known facts and some sidebars on sociocultural aspects which make up much of one’s experience of these places. Stylistically, a bit of an acerbic tone makes for diverting as well as informative reading.
Author
$30.00
8.5” x 11” Portrait • 120pp • Softbound • 978-1-961856-87-5
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Following a year abroad as a Paris Prize scholar and interning with The Architects Collaborative, Kenneth M. Moffett co-founded the award-winning Tennessee architecture firm BullockSmith, where he spent a career as design director.
Hotel Design
Peter Fillat
$65.00
9” x 11” Portrait • 284pp • Hardbound • 978-1-957183-56-5
World Rights: Available Publication Date: Fall 2024
Hotel Design presents the beautiful, inviting, and defining hotels and resorts designed by FILLAT+ Architecture. With four studios and over 27 years of experience in hospitality design, the firm was founded in 1992 by Peter Fillat to explore a personal view of how people interact with the environment and to create an Architecture of Permanence, which delights and inspires the human spirit. FILLAT+ specializes in creating places and spaces for people to enjoy life. In the careful planning and sequencing of the interior and exterior spatial experience, the work creates comfortable, inviting spaces that are accommodating, respectful, and memorable. Each project responds to the unique needs and vision of its client as well as the needs of every guest that walks through its doors.
The book features 12 built works and 15 projects on the boards. Richly illustrated, the projects elaborate on FILLAT+’s unique approach to designing new destination hotels and resorts, whether building upon historic foundations or designing icons as key anchors in urban redevelopment master plans. Hotel Design features a foreword by Stacy Shoemaker, editor in chief of Hospitality Design magazine, and contributions by David Ashen and Michael Dennis.
Author
Peter Fillat is the principal of FILLAT+ Architecture, founded in 1992. He has over 30 years of experience with an international portfolio comprised of hospitality, mixed-use, multi-family residential, and retail projects. Fillat and his innovative designs have received numerous awards and citations from organizations across the globe. He holds a Bachelor of Architecture degree from Syracuse University and studied in Florence, Italy.
FILLAT+ is a design studio headquartered in Washington, DC. The practice serves both the public and private sectors with a focus on architecture, interior design, urban design, and sustainable practices. Its international portfolio encompasses hotels, resorts, multi-family residential buildings, offices, retail, restaurants, and mixed-use developments. The firm is committed to creating lasting works of architecture and designing in harmony with the environment. FILLAT+ is dedicated to engaging communities and individuals with the spaces we create. The studio creates works based in permanence that delight the people they serve, are respectful of the environment, and create unity between form, function, and spirit.
Value of Design Creating Agency Through Data-Driven Insights
Dr. Andrea Chegut, Minkoo Kang, Helena Rong, and Juncheng “Tony” Yang
$45.00
6” x 8.75” Portrait • 224pp • Softbound with jacket 978-1-951541-97-2
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Publication Date: Spring 2025
In the context of architecture and real estate, the value of design—be it financial or social value—remains largely unmeasured, overlooked, and inadequately researched. By failing to acknowledge the potential of design, we miss opportunities to address the wide-ranging social and sustainability challenges at play today. This book acts as a platform to bridge the gap between design and finance, using empirical research to dissect design into measurable features through data-driven methodologies, with New York City serving as the experimental research site. Novel analytical tools such as AI, machine learning, and natural language processing, along with new forms of data like anonymized mobile phone data, social media data, and image data, unlock new dimensions for gauging the impact of previously immeasurable design elements of the built environment on human behaviors. These novel measurements, when integrated into real estate valuation models, establish a financial benchmark for design, catalyzing a shift in the industry’s perspective on the intrinsic worth of design and ensuring that future projects properly account for the qualitative impact of design on economic value and social benefits. As we uncover and quantify the inherent value of design, it becomes possible to persuade key stakeholders—real estate developers, investors, and policymakers—about the significant returns of thoughtful, sustainable, and human-centric design strategies. In essence, we aim to explore how the amalgamation of design and finance via empirical research and innovative data-driven methodologies can lead to a more integrated and holistic valuation practice.
Authors
Dr. Andrea Chegut (1981-2022) was the Founder and Director of the MIT Real Estate Innovation Lab, and was Head of Research and a cofounder of MIT’s DesignX venture accelerator. Her work centered on the financial performance and economic outcomes of change in the built environment, stemming from design, technology and innovation. Her research identified product innovation with the aid of data science and machine learning techniques to measure how real estate and planning policy can be aligned across stakeholders to create more sustainable, healthy, socially-inclusive and intelligent real estate.
Minkoo Kang is currently a real estate developer based in Boston. His practice is informed by his various international experiences as an architect. He started as a researcher of urban affairs in Moscow, then worked at the Office for Metropolitan Architecture (OMA) in Rotterdam, Doha, Hong Kong, and the New York office. He got his Master’s in Real Estate Development from MIT in 2018.
Helena Rong is an urbanist, designer, and technologist, whose work leverages design and emerging technologies such as blockchains and AI to foster collective intelligence and resilience in the built environment. She is the founder of CIVIS Design and Advisory, a design and research practice based in Boston and Shanghai that engages in multi-scalar and interdisciplinary projects. She is working on completing her PhD in Urban Planning at Columbia University and will join NYU Shanghai in the Fall of 2024 as a Tenure-Track Assistant Professor Faculty Fellow in Interactive Media Business.
Juncheng “Tony” Yang is a doctoral candidate at the Harvard Graduate School of Design and Partner at CIVIS Design and Advisory. His research focuses on the institutional arrangements for governance in tech-enabled urban environments. He received a Master of Science in Urbanism from MIT and Bachelor of Architecture from Rice University.
Searching for Authenticity
Rustic Architecture in America 1877-1940
Edward Ford
$60.00
9.5” x 9.5” Square • 500pp • Softbound • 978-1-957183-94-7
World Rights: Available Publication Date: Fall 2025
Rustic Architecture in America 1887-1940 is a history of a series of misunderstood masterpieces, the log-based architecture that emerged in the Adirondacks and the National Parks between 1890 and 1935. It is a history of how both form and technology of construction were determined by the tourist industry and the railroads who built the buildings and the social and environmental damage caused by the larger process of which they were a part. Many of these buildings were constructional shams driven by romantic pretenses, but there is also in the best of this architecture something truly original. It is also a history of how the rustic aesthetic transcended glib, mythic romanticism to produce a truly original architecture, how the unique conditions of the West merged craft with the industrial, of how its designers drew on the landscape of the West in combination with the European traditions of the rustic to create an original architecture and a unique way of building. Forty buildings are examined in detail. The text and the numerous original drawings unfold the story how the work was actually constructed in relation to its many enduring myths.
Author Edward Ford is the author of the two volumes of The Details of Modern Architecture (MIT), and The Architectural Detail (Princeton Architectural Press). His architectural work is the subject of Five Houses, Ten Details (Princeton Architectural Press) He has taught at Washington UniversitySt. Louis, the University of Virginia, the University of Texas Austin, and other universities.
Robotic Fabrication and Architectural Design
Integrated Approaches to Fabrication, Computation, and Architectural Design
Robert Stuart-Smith
$50.00
8” x 10” Portrait • 240pp • Hardbound 978-1-957183-96-1
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Robotics and Autonomous Systems 1: Integrated Approaches to Fabrication, Computation and Architectural Design presents design research from the University of Pennsylvania Weitzman School of Design’s MSD-RAS program. At present, architectural design and construction approaches are unable to meet immediate and projected societal needs in productivity, affordability, and sustainability or to adequately engage with the diverse conditions found in our built environment. The MSD-RAS seeks to address these challenges through bespoke design solutions that are integral to a critical and creative approach to production. Implied in the term “RAS”, the program seeks to harness the potential of AI and robotic systems to work more adaptively than automation affords. Primarily operating through the development of robotically fabricated prototypes, projects are presented that incorporate custom approaches to generative computational design, machine learning, robot tooling, real-time adaptive robot programming, sensor feedback, material and manufacturing processes or human-in-theloop activities. Serving as a graphical reflection on the first three years of the program, research projects are presented alongside interviews with some of the program’s graduates together with insights into the exciting career trajectories they embarked on post-study. Essays from the program’s faculty dive deeper into several core topics such as the MSD-RAS’s approach to design research, critical engagement with industrial manufacturing processes, and the integration of semiautonomous workflows in design and production. Also discussed is the program’s unique integrated approach to coursework and why it is inducive to the creation of novel collaborative work that expands design agency into unchartered territories and careers.
Author
Robert Stuart-Smith is Director of the MSD-RAS Program, an assistant professor of architecture, and an affiliate faculty in engineering’s GRASP Lab at the University of Pennsylvania. He also directs the Autonomous Manufacturing Research Lab in Penn’s Department of Architecture and University College London’s Department of Computer Science.
All contributors:
Robert Stuart-Smith
Jeffrey Anderson
Billie Faircloth
Nathan King
Andrew Saunders
Evangelos Kotsioris
Ezio Blasetti
Patrick Danahy
$40.00
7” x 9” Portrait • 240pp • Softbound 978-1-961856-10-3
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Design Research for Uncertain Futures
Jamie Vanucchi, Ozayr Saloojee, and Sarah Dooling
Design Research for Uncertain Futures assembles a diverse group of thinkers and makers, and thinking-through-makers, to situate design research as a form of knowledge generation that is complementary to science, and especially needed now, given changing climates and uncertain futures.
Our model of design research envisions a distinct and powerful role for design researchers to work confidently with uncertainty and to skillfully negotiate contested futures as part of creating more equitable and resilient worlds. Using the tools of design research, knowledge is built through an iterative process of questioning, probing, proposing, building, testing, analyzing and revising. The climate crises that are challenging our collective survival demands—indeed, provokes—bold partnerships among the curious and committed to align creativity, analytic rigor and the plurality of values in the broader contexts of uncertainty and experimentation.
Authors
Jamie Vanucchi is an associate professor in landscape architecture at Cornell University and a partner with the Great Lakes Design Labs. Her research is funded by NIFA, the Atkinson’s Center for Sustainability, The Landscape Architecture Foundation, and The Graham Foundation.
Ozayr Saloojee is an Associate Professor of Architecture at Carleton University, a co-director of the Carleton Urban ResearchLab, cross-appointed faculty at the university’s Institute for African Studies and affiliate faculty in Carleton’s Center for the Study of Islam.
Sarah Dooling is based in Duluth, MN. She has 22 years of leadership in urban ecology and advocacy experience fighting for climate and energy justice, and equitable building decarbonization.
Applied Research and Design Publishing (AR+D) is a thriving editorial platform that creates a space for research-based publications within the fields of architecture, landscape architecture, urbanism, and design. With a diverse and talented editorial board consisting of a select group of the brightest practitioners, educators, and design thinkers in the world, we specifically focus on emerging dialogues between diverse modes of applied research that currently dominate a range of architectural practices, and their role in defining new modalities of spatial synthesis best afforded by design. This peer-reviewed imprint concentrates on the study of emergent spatial dynamics taking place across multiple scales and geographies, in order to construct a new ground for both established and emerging voices to disseminate their ideas in physical print.
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 Architecture Review Board for the Commonwealth of Virginia. He is a past president of the National Architecture Accrediting Board and recent board member of the Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture.
Monica Ponce de Leon is the dean of the School of Architecture at Princeton University. Along with her success in academia, she is widely recognized as a pioneer in robotic architecture and practices widely through MPdL Studio, which she is the founder of. Throughout her career she has won various design awards including the Young Architect Award in 1997 from the Architectural League of New York, the Award in Architecture in 2002 from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, and the Emerging Voices award in 2003. Her past academic career includes being the former dean of A. Alfred Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning at the University of Michigan and work as a professor at the Graduate School of Design at Harvard University.
John Parman is a visiting scholar in Architecture at UC Berkeley and the co-founder of Snowden & Parman, an editorial studio. He was editorial director at Gensler from 1997 through 2017, launching its client magazine, its trends annual, and a monograph series. He co-founded and published Design Book Review from 1983 through 1999, and is an advisor to ARCADE (Seattle), Architect’s Newspaper (Los Angeles), and Room One Thousand (Berkeley).
Michelangelo Sabatino, PhD, is the interim dean of the College of Architecture at the Illinois Institute of Technology (IIT).
Michelangelo is an architect, preservationist, and historian whose research broadly addresses intersections between culture, technology, and design in the built and natural environment. From his research on preindustrial vernacular traditions and their influence on modern architectures of the Mediterranean region, to his current project, which looks at the transnational forces that have shaped the architecture, infrastructure, and landscape of the Americas over the course of the 19th and 20th centuries, he has trained new light on larger patterns of architectural discourse and production. Sabatino is professor and director of the doctoral program at the Illinois Institute of Technology College of Architecture in Chicago.
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.
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The Urban Design Legacy of Colin Rowe
Steven Hurtt, Antonio Pietro Latini, and James Tice
$70.00
8.5” x 11” Portrait • 508pp • Hardbound 978-1-940743-51-6
World Rights: Available Publication Date: Fall 2025
The Urban Design Legacy of Colin Rowe describes the ideas developed and described primarily by Colin Rowe, professor of architecture and head of the Urban Design Studio at Cornell, and additionally by his students, his co-authors, and colleagues throughout the course of the last half of his highly influential career spanning the years 1963 till his death in 1999. From the simplest of techniques regularly used in present day planning, urban design, and architectural analysis and design work to the philosophical and aesthetic ideas related to them, these techniques and ideas inform much of current discussion about the appropriate forms of human settlement, sustainability, and even architectural style.
Colin Rowe is acknowledged to be the most influential figure in architectural theory in the last half of the 20th century. Although his contribution to the discipline and practice of urban design is equally important, there is no single text which specifically focuses on his work in this sphere. This book intends to address this omission by critically examining Rowe’s urban design theory and its evolution, which began at the Cornell University Urban Design program in 1963 and continued until his death in 1999. The text features a score of previously unpublished essays by prominent scholars, educators and practitioners, many of whom were his students or close collaborators. The Urban Design Legacy of Colin Rowe provides a window to explore past, present and
future themes central to the discipline of urban design as seen through the critical lens of Colin Rowe and those who continue to define their creative work in relationship to that extraordinary intellect.
Authors
Professor Steven Hurtt (University of Maryland); BA, MFA, Princeton; M. Arch, Cornell Urban Design with Colin Rowe (1966-67). Hurtt and his classmates dubbed Rowe’s developing theories “contextualism.” Intuitively understood, contextualism and associated ideas were quickly assimilated into teaching and practice.
Antonio Pietro Latini, DArch, University Rome Sapienza; M.Arch Urban Design, Columbia University; Architect, Order of Rome: Fellow, Italian National Institute for Urbanistics; twice Fulbright Fellow to the U.S., author of Battery Park City, New York; and trilogy on urban design.
James Tice, B.Arch and M.Arch in Urban Design, with Colin Rowe, is Professor of Architecture at the University of Oregon teaching studio and theory. He has co-authored books on American architecture and websites focusing on architecture and urbanism in Rome.
Smallx20
Twenty Years of Community Engaged Design in New Orleans
Maggie
Hansen and Nick Jenisch
The Albert and Tina Small Center for Collaborative Design is the outreach arm of the Tulane School of Architecture. The Center works with nonprofit organizations and community-based groups to provide design services to communities who are consistently underserved by the design professions. The work focuses on equitable participation, meaningful outcomes, design excellence, and inclusion as critical parts of the design process. Smallx20 tells the story of the Center’s founding and illustrates the Center’s approach to design in service to community needs. In August 2005, Hurricane Katrina struck New Orleans, and the ensuing federal levee failure flooded 80% of the city. While the groundwork for Small Center was established before the storm, the Center’s early work served to support community needs during the city’s recovery. Smallx20 details how the Center’s responsiveness to community voice continues to characterize its approach to public interest design and architectural education. The Center is consistently recognized as a national leader in community-based design, with a commitment to deep collaboration and design excellence. Through guest reflections, case studies, and photographs Smallx20 offers a window into the Center’s working methods, the resulting designs, and a portrait of the communities and traditions that shape New Orleans culture.
Authors
Maggie Hansen is an assistant professor in Landscape Architecture at the University of Texas at Austin. From 2014-17 she was director of Tulane’s Small Center for Collaborative Design, and continues to write, teach, and research models of participatory practice across disciplines.
Nick Jenisch is associate director of Urban Design at Tulane’s Small Center for Collaborative Design. He has worked in public interest design for twenty years, with projects encompassing architectural design/ build, water management, park & public space design, and cultural sustainability.
Other contributors:
Austin Allen, Scott Bernhard, Jackson Blalock, Anna Brand, Pam Broom, Maxwell Ciardullo, Maurice Cox, Dan Etheridge, Rashida Ferdinand, Johanna Gilligan, Doug Harmon, Baha Javadi, Anya Groner, Melissa Lee, Jazmin Miller, Suzanne-Juliette Mobley, Andreanecia Morris, Sarah Satterlee, jackie sumell, Matt Williams, Ann Yoachim
$40.00
8” x 10” Portrait • 260pp • Softbound • 978-1-966515-09-8
World Rights: Available Publication Date: Fall 2025
Images, Artifacts, Architecture
22 Projects by SU11 Architecture and Design
Ferda Kolatan
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 countermovements 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
With
and Without Walls
The Southern California Institute of Architecture in the 1970s and 1980s
Benjamin J. Smith
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 Angelesbased 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.
$55.00
7” x 10” Portrait • 300pp • Softbound • 978-1-961856-93-6
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Claying Architecture
Making Machine and Material Kin
Doyle, Melendez, Murphy, and Scelsa
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.
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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6” x 9” Portrait • 260pp • Softbound • 978-1-961856-84-4
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Re-scaling the Rural Some
Reflections from Europe
Mo Michelsen Stochholm Krag, Sophia Meeres, and Ben Stringer
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).
Authors
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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8” x 10” Portrait • 252pp • Softbound • 978-1-966515-05-0
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Oblique Experiments
Claude Parent’s Architectural Installations (1969–1975)
Igor Siddiqui
With the radical proposition of life on inclined planes—a theory known as the oblique function—the French architect Claude Parent sought to free architecture of orthogonal form, renew its social relevance, and inspire people’s interest in the built environment. Oblique Experiments: Claude Parent’s Architectural Installations (1969–1975) explores the significance of a series of temporary interventions that he designed in an attempt to convert his theory into practice. Referred to as practicables, these installations incorporated oblique geometries, involved interdisciplinary collaboration, and made themselves at home in existing buildings, often inside of French cultural centers known as maisons de la culture. Using rarely published archival materials as well as new drawings produced by the book’s author, Oblique Experiments brings overdue attention to this series of architectural experiments with enduring intellectual and creative appeal. Moreover, the book prompts the reader to imagine the radical potential of obliqueness in a range of contemporary practices—beyond the literal prospect of life on sloped floors. As such, Oblique Experiments builds upon Parent’s work in order to imagine new forms of experimentation in architecture, design, and art.
Author Igor Siddiqui is an architect and Associate Professor at The University of Texas at Austin School of Architecture where he has served on the faculty since 2009. His research, practice, and teaching explore the relationship between design experimentation and public engagement. Siddiqui is the editor of the journal Interiors: Design/Architecture/Culture.
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6.5” x 9.5” Portrait • 268pp • Softbound • 978-1-966515-22-7
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The Mechanized Landscape
Statecraft and Environment in the Tennessee Valley
Micah Rutenberg and Avigail Sachs
In 1933 the United States government created the Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) and gave it jurisdiction over a demarcated region – the watershed of the Tennessee. The TVA was authorized to develop the resources in the Valley and promote the welfare of its residents. The TVA pursued these goals by constructing three large-scale operations, referred as the river, land and power machines. The TVA also invested in social projects, including support for housing and tourist industries in the region. The Mechanized Landscape: Statecraft and Environment in the Tennessee Valley examines this comprehensive effort as a form of statecraft—the art of government persuasion and diplomacy—manifested through environmental transformation. It follows the TVA’s physical transformations and its investment in infrastructural power – programs that extended the state’s capacity to reach even the most remote residents. The product of this process, the mechanized landscape, is a testament to the TVA’s complex approach to democracy, its racial and middle-class biases, and its technical and managerial acumen. By bringing together original photography, newly created maps, and text, this book offers a well-researched, visually compelling appraisal of the TVA’s plans and their implementation. Rather than following a linear textual narrative, readers are invited to explore the complexity of the mechanized landscape through multiple media.
Authors
Micah Rutenberg is an assistant professor at the University of Tennessee’s College of Architecture and Design. His teaching and research explore the large-scale infrastructural, technological, and ecological dynamics that shape patterns of settlement.
Avigail Sachs is a Professor of Architectural History at the University of Tennessee’s College of Architecture and Design. Her 2023 book, The Garden in the Machine: Planning and Democracy in the Tennessee Valley Authority.
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8.25” x 11.5” Lanscape • 200pp • Softbound • 978-1-961856-64-6
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Infrastructure Adaptation
Transitioning Linear Systems
Anya Domlesky
Transportation infrastructure is typically big, central, connective, dramatic, and public. Because of these attributes, infrastructure adaptation projects can serve to improve carbon outcomes with urban design while catalyzing positive economic change. By transforming transportation corridors through adaptive reuse, retrofitting, or right sizing, cities can provide low carbon mobility, densify urban form, and attract residents who value livability—in addition to garnering the traditional benefits of open space like community building, improved mental and physical health, biodiversity, and climate adaptation.
This book brings together port, river, rail, and road infrastructure adaptation interventions into a typology, highlighting strategies, benefits, elements, and processes in common. Each of the 60 built project examples, by a range of international landscape architects, urban designers, and architects, demonstrate different ways engineered systems evolve from monofunctional megastructures to multi-functional platforms designed to support living systems.
Infrastructure adaptation as an emerging project type was studied over many years by XL Lab, the research and innovation lab at SWA Group, an urban design, planning, and landscape architecture firm. This project continues practice-based commitments to large-scale landscapes, anticipating near future conditions in the built environment, analyzing design performance, and addressing emerging complexities and unprecedented challenges.
Author
Anya Domlesky is an urban designer and landscape architect, currently the Director of Research at SWA Group. She founded and runs XL Lab, an innovation lab undertaking practice-based research on three drivers of change in the built environment: climate change, emerging technologies, and processes of urbanization.
$60.00
7” x 9.5” Portrait • 400pp • Hardbound • 978-1-966515-33-3
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Hot Air
Erik G. L’Heureux
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7.87” x 11.02” Portrait • 232pp • Softbound 978-1-961856-03-5
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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.
Imaging Heaven
Arthur Becker
In this compelling photographic journey Arthur Becker captures the intensity and power of the ceiling frescoes of the Renaissance and Baroque periods. Vividly presented here in all of their diversity and splendor, these illusionistic ceilings, mainly located in the churches and palaces of sixteenth to early eighteenth-century Italy but also found in Austria, Germany, and Spain, are revealed as dazzling examples of Italian artistic imagination by some of the major figures of the period, including Mantegna, Melozzo da Forlì, Michelangelo, Correggio, Tintoretto, the Carracci, Caravaggio, Guercino, Guido Reni, Giovanni Battista Gaulli, Andrea Pozzo, Sebastiano Ricci, and the Tiepolo dynasty.
These images, many of which represent turning-points in the history of art, are accompanied by an in-depth introductory essay placing them in context by the art and architectural historian Daniel Sherer, who teaches at the Princeton University School of Architecture, and concise descriptions by Brian Kish, a well-known expert on Italian art and design. Bringing together in one place these remarkable frescoes for the first time, this book will be indispensable for art historians, connoisseurs of photography, and all those interested in Renaissance and Baroque art.
Authors
Arthur Becker’s formal exploration of the arts began at Bennington College in 1972, where he earned a degree in ceramics and photography, fostering his captivation of antiquity. Taking a hiatus from the art world to traverse into meditation, architecture practices, business school, and serving as CEO of two technology companies, Becker resumed his photographic work in the late 1990s.
Brian Kish is an Italian architecture and design expert specializing in production from the High Renaissance and 20th century. He is the curator of the first US exhibition on Gio Ponti: A Metaphysical World (Queens Museum of Art, NY, 2001) and a contributor to Entryways of Milan (Taschen, 2017), Gio Ponti Archi-Designer (M.A.D. Paris, 2018, and Gio Ponti (Taschen, 2021).
Dan Sherer is a professor of architectural history and theory at Princeton School of Architecture. He received his PhD from the Harvard University Department of the History of Art and Architecture in 2000 and his BA from Yale University in 1985. He has previously taught at Columbia, Cornell, Harvard, Yale, University of Venice, and others on the interaction of architecture, art, and design across various stylistic eras, including Italian Modernism, Italian Renaissance, and Baroque architecture. He has been published in numerous European and American journals as well as curated exhibitions related to these research interests.
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12” x 12” Square • 220pp • Hardbound • 978-1-961856-62-2 World Rights: Available
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All a Blur Photographs from the Infinity Series
Bill Armstrong
The numinous work of Bill Armstrong has long stretched the boundaries and expectations of contemporary photography. In his visual explorations, Armstrong foregrounds qualities of the photographic medium that have been typically underexplored—ambiguity, misdirection, and radiant color. The ostensible objectivity and precision that have distinguished photography among the visual arts yields here to a process that is as personal to the artist as it is revelatory to the viewer.
A resplendent presentation of more than 300 photographs, All a Blur: Photographs from the Infinity Series is the first in-depth monograph of Armstrong’s decades-long exploration of photographic abstraction. Named after the focus setting on his camera that blurs his subjects to near unrecognizability, the Infinity Series contends with topics central to art history and criticism—figure and ground, color relationships—but only more recently in photography.
With a foreword by art and photography critic Lyle Rexer, whose groundbreaking survey The Edge of Vision (2009) documents the rise of abstraction in photography that Armstrong is a critical part of, as well as contributions by prominent collectors, curators, and critics including W.M. Hunt, A.D. Coleman, and Katherine Ware, All a Blur is a majorcontribution to fine art photography, and a testament to Armstrong’s singular vision.
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10” x 11” Portrait • 336pp • Hardbound • 978-1-966515-32-6 World Rights: Available Publication Date: Fall 2025
Authors
Bill Armstrong is an internationally acclaimed fine art photographer known for the blurred color work which has been exhibited in 30 solo and 100 group exhibitions over the past 25 years. Mr. Armstrong’s Sistine Gestures is a permanent installation in the Vatican Museums in Rome.
All credited contributors:
Lyle Rexer holds two degrees from Columbia University and was a Rhodes Scholar at Merton College, Oxford University. He is the author of many books, including How to Look at Outsider Art (2005), The Edge of Vision: The Rise of Abstraction in Photography (2009), and The Critical Eye: 15 Pictures to Understand Photography (2019).
He has published hundreds of catalogue essays, reviews, and articles on art, photography, and contemporary literature and contributed to such publications as the New York Times, Art in America, Aperture, BOMB, Harper’s, and The Brooklyn Rail.
All credited contributors
A. D. Coleman is an independent American critic, historian, educator, and curator of photography and photo-based art, and a widely published commentator on new digital technologies. He has published eight books and more than 2000 essays on photography and related subjects. He has lectured and taught internationally; his work has been translated into twenty one languages and published in more than thirty countries.
Katherine Ware is Curator of Photography at the New Mexico Museum of Art and served as Curator of Photographs at the Philadelphia Museum of Art and Assistant Curator in the Department of Photographs at the J. Paul Getty Museum, among other positions. She is author of numerous publications on historic and contemporary photography.
W. M. “Bill” Hunt is a New York based collector, curator and consultant — a champion of photography. His collection Dancing Bear consists of m agical, heartstopping images of people whose eyes cannot be seen. The book of his collection, The Unseen Eye , is published by Aperture
Brian Sholis was previously an editor at Artforum and Aperture and the curator of photography at the Cincinnati Art Museum. He is a writer, editor, and the cofounder of Valise, an inventory tool for artists. He lives in Toronto.
Collier Brown is a poet, photography critic, and literary scholar. He holds a PhD inAmerican Studies from Harvard University, where he continuesto teach, and an MFA in Poetry from McNeese State University. He is the former editor at 21st Editions and Od Review. His essays on photography have appeared in more than twenty books.
Mies van der Rohe
The Centric and the Peripheric
Randall Ott
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.
$65.00
9”
Architects in Memories: Toshio Nakamura
Kenneth Frampton and Ashley Simone
ARCHITECTS IN MEMORIES
Toshio Nakamura
Translated by Junichi
Satoh
$50.00
5” x 8.25” Portrait • 220pp • Softbound • 978-1-966515-36-4 World Rights: Available Publication Date: Fall 2025
As the first English translation of Toshio Nakamura’s 2015 memoir, this expanded facsimile of “Architects in Memories” offers a new audience access to a seminal text that intimately charts the evolution of modern global architecture from a post-war Japanese perspective. As the founder/editor of the influential architecture magazine a+u, Nakamura was deeply engaged, personally and professionally, with leading figures in architecture worldwide, such as Louis Kahn, Philip Johnson, and Peter Eisenman. His diary records reflections from 1953 to 1915 and later became his memoir, chronicling personal observations, pivotal moments, interactions, and observations that collectively offer insight into the making of postmodern architecture and architectural culture. The translation by Junichi Satoh carries images by Michael Moran. It is complimented by other media, expanding the original volume with essays by Kenneth Frampton and Ashley Simone, and images of each cover produced during Nakamura’s tenure as the editor-in-chief of a+u.
Authors
Kenneth Frampton, born in 1930, is one of the world’s most renowned architectural theorists, the author of the world bestseller Modern Architecture: A Critical History, and a professor at Columbia University, New York.
Ashley Simone is the editorial director of Axiomatic Editions and Architectural Design (AD) and an adjunct associate professor at the Pratt Institute School of Architecture.
Other contributors
Junichi Satoh, Translator
Michael Moran, Producer
Glen Cummings, Designer
Contributions by Kenneth Frampton, Michael Moran and Ashley Simone
Drawing Proper Drawing Improper
Kevin Hirth
$35.00
8” x 10” Portrait • 176pp • Softbound • 978-1-961856-59-2
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Drawing Proper/Drawing Improper is a meditation on contemporary architectural drawing practice framed through 56 artifacts created by 28 architectural firms from around the globe. Each drawing replies to a simple prompt: How can architectural drawing be dutiful? How can it be mischievous? This open-ended question invited diverse responses, spanning the spectrum from practical to whimsical.
By presenting this dichotomy—dutiful or mischievous—the book’s drawings expose the diverse and often conflicting values embedded in the practice of representing architecture. Some adhere strictly to functional rigor, while others embody open-ended explorations with no fixed outcome.
In this way, Drawing Proper/Drawing Improper expands the scope of architectural drawing, revealing the diverse motivations and approaches within the field. The collection is a testament to the diversity of thought and method that characterizes architectural practice today.
Accompanied by descriptions of the works and a series of reflective essays and interludes by Anca Matyiku and Marc Swackhamer, editor Kevin Hirth brings varied drawing practices into conversation, offering a dynamic cross-section of contemporary architecture. Contributors include: Current Interests, Perry Kulper, Frank Fantauzzi & Charie O’Green, CJ Lim, Lanza Atelier, NEME Studio, Norman Kelley, Office CA, William O’Brien Jr., The Open Workshop, Outpost Office, T8 Projects, Nada Subotincic, SORT // Studio, Variable Projects, Mark West, Design Earth, Alam Profeta, Studio Ames, Studio Sean Canty, Now Here, Bair Balliet, JaJa Co, CJ Lim, Medium Office, HouMinn, EXTENTS, and Hume Coover Studio.
Author
Kevin Hirth can be found in the mountains and city streets of Colorado. His design practice, KEVIN HIRTH Co., founded in 2013, has been published widely for its valued architectural design and novel drawings. Kevin is an Assistant Professor and the Director of Undergraduate Architecture at the University of Colorado Denver.
Credited Contributors (essays): Anca Matyiku and Marc Swackhamer
Landscapes for Adaptation
Evidence from China
Charles Waldheim with Boya Zhang
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.
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9” x 10.5” Portrait • 508pp • Hardbound • 978-1-961856-33-2 World Rights: Available
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Seeking Abundance
Design, Ecology and a Flourishing Planet
Sierra Bainbridge and Alan Ricks
Regenerative design is a way of building that heals our planet and our communities by halting biodiversity loss, reversing climate change, and improving social equity. Over the last decade, the nonprofit design practice MASS has proven that we can yield positive social, environmental, and economic results through a series of projects in Rwanda and the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Seeking Abundance argues for reducing the harm our building activities wage in our environments and that we can—and must—help people and the planet thrive together. The proof? MASS’ projects represent a coherent and replicable philosophy that responds to local ecologies and transforms lives. This groundbreaking new book, co-edited by Sierra Bainbridge and Alan Ricks, examines how the power of multidisciplinary collaboration, regenerative practices, and community engagement can actively contribute to a healthier, more harmonious world.
Authors
Alan Ricks is Co-Executive Director and Founding Principal and Sierra Bainbridge is a Senior Principal and Managing Director of MASS Design Group, a design firm that focuses on creating spaces that foster human flourishing while considering the needs of the environment. Their work spans a variety of sectors, including education, healthcare, and conservation, with a commitment to using architecture as a force for positive change.
Editor
William Richards
All credited contributors:
Lesley Lokko
Sam Nshutiyayesu
Dieuveil Malonga
Gaël Ruboneka Vande Weghe
Patricia Gruits
Chris Hardy
John Paul Sebuhayi Uwase
Emily Goldenberg
Anita Berrizbetia
Maggie Jacobstein Stern
Niels Datema
Theresa Graf
Hanif Kara
Sarah Ichioka
Joe Christa Giraso
James Kitchin
Chris Schwaga
Andrew Brose
Rachel Brose
$65.00 9” x 11” Portrait • 360pp • Softbound • 978-1-966515-02-9 World Rights: Available Publication Date: Fall 2025
Architectural Design Issue 95-1
Staged: Architecture for Performance, Exhibition, and Fiction
Ashley Simone and Neil Spiller
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8.5” x 11” Portrait • 156pp • Softbound • 978-1-961856-98-1 World Rights: Available Publication Date: Spring 2025
This issue of Architectural Design Journal focuses on how architectural skills are deployed in entertainment to communicate design and form the backdrops for stories to play out. It includes articles on installations, exhibition designs, entertainment architecture, narrative projects, speculations on future human identities, video gaming, and memorial tombs—an international plethora of staged examples of how architectural thinking can bring vitality to situations not usually perceived to be within the realms of traditional practice. The issue engages with popular culture, fictions, art, performance, technology, and architectural history and theory.
Exploring the full spectrum of spatial propositions that architects can bring to staging events, the work featured is theatrical and exuberant, and the product of many collaborative architectural voices including curators, artists, performers, digital intelligences, fabricators, and writers.
Authors
Ashley Simone is the editorial director of Axiomatic Editions and Architectural Design (AD) and an adjunct associate professor at the Pratt Institute School of Architecture.
Neil Spiller is the Former Visiting Professor of Architecture, Carleton University, Canada and Visiting Professor IAUV Venice. Previously Hawksmoor Chair of Architecture and Landscape at the University of Greenwich, London. He was Vice-Dean and Graduate Director of Design at the Bartlett School of Architecture, University College London.
All credited contributors
Peter J Baldwin, Mark Burry, Leah Kelly, Jaffer Kolb, Adrian Hawker, Charles Holland, Owen Hopkins, Elena Manferdini, Eva Menuhin, Mark Morris, Luke Casper Pearson, Bart-Jan Polman, Rahesh Ram, Jessica Reynolds, Stephen Rustow, Ashley Simone, Neil Spiller, Michael Szivos, and Sandra Youkhana
Featured architects and artists:
Atelier Manferdini, Charles Holland Architects, Frederick Kiesler, Metis, New Affiliates, Sam Jacob Studio, SOFTlab, STUFISH, Pamela Phatsimo Sunstrum, TAKK, vPRR, Mark Wasiuta, and You+Pea
Image credit:
New Affiliates, Beaux Arts Ball installation, Brooklyn Navy Yard, New York,2022
Front cover: The architects focused on designing a series of ice-joints that ranged from small props to large sculptural armatures to hold the reclaimed panels in multiple orientations. Some leaned casually and slightly in a contrapposto stance while others were held in acrobatic suspension. © Michael Vahrenwald/Esto
Architectural Design Issue 95-2
Architects and Furniture
Ashley Simone and Neil Spiller
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8.5” x 11” Portrait • 144pp • Softbound • 978-1-961856-99-8
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Publication Date: Fall 2025
Architects have designed some of the most iconic items of furniture. This Architectural Design Journal features ingenious architectprotagonists of this genre, and explores the recent history and chronology of architectural involvement in the discipline.
Furniture augments architect-designed environments, contributing to the holistic ambience of a space and displaying in microcosm architects’ preoccupations with material palettes, haptic sensitivities and structural invention. It can take the form of props for commercial purposes including business meetings and offices, for spaces susceptible to the weather, or for convivial, domestic settings. Whatever the programmatic imperative, architects have contributed in the most aesthetic ways. This issue honors some of the best.
Authors
Ashley Simone is the editorial director of Axiomatic Editions and Architectural Design (AD) and an adjunct associate professor at the Pratt Institute School of Architecture.
Neil Spiller is the Former Visiting Professor of Architecture, Carleton University, Canada and Visiting Professor IAUV Venice. Previously Hawksmoor Chair of Architecture and Landscape at the University of Greenwich, London. He was Vice-Dean and Graduate Director of Design at the Bartlett School of Architecture, University College London.
All Credited Contributors:
Nigel Coates, Johan Deurell, Carrie Eastman, Nick Elias, Todd Gannon, Kiki Goti, Vanessa Grossman, Dimitra Tsachrelia, Sandy Jones, Dean Maltz, Nana Mendes da Rocha, Eoin Shaw, John Szot, and William Richards
Featured architects and designers: 4/16 Architects, AL_A, Ron Arad, Shigeru Ban, CRAB Studio, Foster + Partners, Frank Gehry, Zaha Hadid, Steven Holl Architects, Greg Lynn, Paulo Mendes da Rocha, Morphosis, Geatano Pesce, Oyler Wu Collaborative, Reiser+Umemoto, Neil Spiller, Guilherme Wisnik, and Andrew Skey
Photo captions/credit: Nigel Coates, Gallo collection, Poltronova, Firenze, Italy The Gallo armchair was inspired by the wings of a cockerel, the sofa stretched a single wing into an upholstered back, and the console has a carved and curved bow supporting a glass top and a single sculpted leg. They are still in production today. © Poltronova, photo Carlo Gianni
Architectural Design Issue 95-3
Printworks
Mark Dorrian, Reit Eeckhout, and Arnaud Hendrickx
$40.00
8.5” x 11” Portrait • 144pp • Softbound • 978-1-966515-00-5
World Rights: Available Publication Date: Fall 2025
Tradition and precedent inspire invention, architectural drawing, and media practice. This issue presents a series of encounters with printed drawings, leading to their transformation and reimagination in a series of new works. Archival media from the John Nichols Printmakers Archive, located at the a83 gallery in New York City, is the foundation for these new inventions by contemporary architects.
International contributors extend the discourse on architectural representation and its evolution through print media, offering critical reflections on specific pieces. The project and a83 exhibition— entitled “The Sixth Somewhat Annual Meeting”—from which this issue stems concern questions of the archive; modes through which archival materials may become activated; situated approaches to intricate material objects that allow them to be read in non-normative ways; media transformations; and issues of disciplinary indebtedness and influence. The writers address and/or extend these concerns in their consideration of specific works.
Guest editors
Mark Dorrian holds the Forbes Chair in Architecture at the University of Edinburgh, is Co-Director of Metis and Editor-in-Chief of Drawing Matter Journal. His work spans topics in architecture and urbanism, art history and theory, and media studies.
Riet Eeckhout is an associate professor in Drawing Architecture at KU Leuven, Belgium. Her research explores the critical role and the generative capacity of drawings beyond mere representation within the discipline of architecture. She exhibits, lectures and writes about the practice of drawing from within the discipline of architecture.
Arnaud Hendrickx is an Architect, Associate Professor and program director of the Master of Architecture at KU Leuven. His research and teaching explore the overlapping field between art and architecture. His current practice focuses on artistic collaborations, installations, and exhibitions rather than buildings.
All contributors
Stan Allen, Greg Barton, Paddi Alice Benson, Peter J. Baldwin, Adam Dayem, Iman Fayyad, Jimenez Lai, Jason Lee, Bea Martin, Thom Mayne, Alex Pillen, Aleksandra Wagner, and Bart Verschaffel.
Drawings and works by:
Bryan Cantley, Nat Chard, Peter Cook, Riet Eeckhout, Arnaud Hendrickx, James Kennedy, CJ Lim, Metis, Shaun Murray, Owen Nichols, Neil Spiller, Smout Allen, Michael Webb, and Michael Young.
Cover image © Smout Allen
Prague Revisited
From World War II to the Velvet Revolution
Bernis and Peter von zur Muehlen
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10” x 11.5” Landscape • 240pp • Hardbound • 978-1-961856-75-2
World Rights: Available Publication Date: Spring 2025
This book of over 200 photographs by Bernis and Peter von zur Muehlen covers the sweep of Prague’s history from World War II to the “Velvet Revolution.”
The first chapter, illustrated by his mother’s black and white snapshots of the city, is an account of Peter’s life in Prague as a young boy during the months leading up to the end of World War II and of his family’s narrow escape days before the Red Army entered the city. The following chapters describe four visits by Bernis and Peter between 1985 and 1992, an epoch that saw Czechoslovakia’s transformation from Communist dictatorship to the restoration of democracy. The images reveal not only a glorious city, but also the many less prominent sites that give Prague its unique charm. Haunting images of the Old Jewish Cemetery remind the reader of the turbulent history of the Jews, nearly exterminated by the Nazis. One chapter traces the evolution of the Lennon Wall, a famous symbol of Prague’s long struggle for freedom. Lively accounts of the photographers’ travel experiences document a city slowly coming to terms with its own history. A foreword by John Rasmussen, Director and Curator of the American University Museum at the Katzen Arts Center, sets the stage for the story and images in this book. An afterword by Ori Z. Soltes, noted lecturer and author of twenty five books, illuminates the city’s Judaeo-Christian history.
Author
Bernis von zur Muehlen’s work has been widely recognized and includes images of the male and female nude, portraiture, still life, and natural landscapes. Since 1974, her work on the male nude has been published in several anthologies and has also been exhibited in numerous commercial galleries as well as in museums in the US and abroad. In the mid-eighties she began to focus on other subjects, including Nepal and Prague, producing photographs that have been exhibited in commercial galleries and in museums. In 2023, an exhibit at the American University Museum featured her most recent photographs of natural landscapes.
Peter von zur Muehlen is an economist with a Ph.D from Princeton University who has published papers on monetary and climate policy utilizing game theory. His photographs of still lives and urban landscapes have been shown in group and solo exhibits in commercial galleries and in a number of museums.
Hitting the Head
Andre Howard
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9” x 9” Square • 250 pp • Softbound • 978-1-961856-79-0
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Publication Date: Fall 2025
Hitting the Head is a compelling photography and art book that dives deep into the heart of New York City’s iconic dive bar scene. Published by Goff Books in 2025, this visual archive captures the character-filled, often overlooked interiors of these cultural landmarks, preserving their stories and essence before they disappear amidst urban renewal.
The title, rooted in maritime tradition, reflects both the literal act of visiting the restroom and the figurative moments of joy, community, and spontaneity found within these cherished spaces. From gritty interiors to neon-lit corners, Hitting the Head tells the tale of a world that thrives on camaraderie and rebellion, offering readers a nostalgic journey through NYC’s counterculture history.
Perfect for fans of urban history, design, and nightlife, this book invites readers to explore the vibrant soul of the city through its hidden gems— dive bars that have long been sanctuaries for connection, storytelling, and authenticity.
Author Andre Howard, a creative music executive and NYU adjunct professor, has driven innovation and artist growth at Def Jam, Republic Records, eOne, Warner/ADA, and UnitedMasters, collaborating with icons like JAY Z, Brandy, YoungBoy Never Broke Again, and Brent Faiyaz.
Petra Rephotographed A Century of Change in the Rose Red City
Dr. Kaelin Groom
Petra Rephotographed represents an exploration of time and change across the iconic archaeological city of Petra, Jordan, through repeat photography––meticulously replicating historic images of the landscape and monuments a century later.
In the early 1920s, retired civil engineer Sir Alexander Kennedy set out to explore and photograph the archaeological wonder of Petra, an ancient city of ruins nestled in the striking Jordanian Highlands. Armed only with a field camera of the day, Sir Kennedy captured the Rose Red City’s magnificent features: dramatic stone façades, sweeping vistas, and hewn carvings—shedding light on what was then a mostly untouristed region. One hundred years later, Dr. Kaelin Groom, a noted heritage scientist and geographer with over a decade of experience in Petra, retraces Sir Kennedy’s footsteps with a modern field camera, meticulously rephotographing his 100-year-old images in the contemporary landscape. Studying Petra a century later, now a UNESCO World Heritage Site and one of the New Seven Wonders of the World, Dr. Groom visualizes the profound resiliency of the indomitable Rose Red City through modern imagery and observes the influence humans have had on the landscape for generations. Petra Rephotographed takes the reader on a historic photographic journey, incorporating meticulously replicated images of the past which help the reader visualize changes and evolution of the archaeological city’s iconic monuments and timeless landscapes.
$35.00
9” x 10” Portrait • 160pp • Softbound • 978-1-961856-70-7
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Publication Date: Spring 2025
Author
Dr. Kaelin Groom is a two-time Fulbright scholar and educator at Arizona State University focused on geography, landscape change, and cultural resource management. As Director of the Stone Heritage Research Alliance, Groom has served as consultant to USAID, UNESCO, and Wadi Rum in Jordan.
All Credited Contributors:
His Royal Highness (HRH) Prince El Hassan Bin Talal of Jordan (Foreword)
Dr. Casey Allen (Supplemental photo credits)
Molly Groom (Supplemental photo credits)
McKay Barker (Featured in new photos)
Habis Abdullah Al-Samahin (Featured in new photos)
Rami Abdullah Juma Al-Samahin (Featured in new photos)
Ahmad Al-Masry (Featured in new photos)
A Photographic Journey
Jeffrey Heller
This book is a compilation of four decades of pictures taken in places familiar and remote. It is entirely of the film era and ends with the beginning of the 21st century. In Jeffrey Heller’s 20s and 30s, he had two professions—he was working as an architect as well as a professional photographer, burning the candle at both ends. He had briefly studied with Ansel Adams and for a year with Minor White. In his mid-30s, he realized that he could not continue both professions and decided to make architecture his primary calling and photography his artistic outlet. This freed Heller to photograph as he wished, and he took his cameras with him wherever he went, whether the travel was vacation or business he would make time to photograph. Heller always used professional equipment and took his photography as seriously as his architecture. Heller worked with his wife, a photographer and artist herself, and went through probably 2000 images to Select the ones for this book. The book is from a wide range of places, but the emphasis is on the image and not the place. The photographs are an impression in time and character and visual content.
Author
Jeffrey Heller, born in New York City, finished his higher education in Architecture at MIT in the Boston area. He has lived in California since the late ’60s. He attended a summer workshop-1 week with Ansel Adams in Yosemite in1966. He studied photography with Minor White at MIT for one year in 1968. Heller has been principal at his own international Architecture firm for the past 40 years. He did commercial photography for a decade and personal work for the past 50 plus years.
$45.00 11” x 12” Portrait • 232pp • Hardbound • 978-1-966515-01-2
World Rights: Available Publication Date: Fall 2025
Point Lobos
Bixby Creek Bridge, 1966
Guggenheim Museum, Frank Gehry, Bilbao
Click, Bid, Collect
The Modern Guide to Online Art Buying
Simone Falanca
The Modern Guide to Online Art Buying
Simone Falanca
Click, Bid, Collect offers a clear and insightful guide to the rapidly changing world of online art buying. With the online art market projected to exceed $13.5 billion in sales by 2027, Simone Falanca combines practical advice with thoughtful analysis to explore this exciting and growing space. From navigating online auctions to discovering digital galleries, this book provides readers with the tools to confidently engage with the art market from the comfort of their screens. Packed with expert insights and real-world examples, it is a valuable resource for both new and experienced collectors. An essential read for anyone looking to understand how technology is reshaping the way we discover, buy, and appreciate art.
Author
Simone Falanca (1979) is an Italian author and investigative writer, currently based in Belgium, known for his incisive exploration of political and financial intrigue. He authored the book Banche Armate alla Guerra: L’intrigo politico-finanziario dietro la guerra infinita, which critically examines the connections between financial institutions and military conflicts, shedding light on the political and financial complexities that drive global wars.
Falanca is also known for his work Alfa e Beta: Cosa c’entrano Berlusconi e Dell’Utri con la stagione delle bombe 1992-93? This book delves into the controversial links between prominent Italian political figures, including Silvio Berlusconi and Marcello Dell’Utri, and the series of bombings that shook Italy during 1992-1993. His writing is marked by a sharp, analytical style that seeks to uncover the hidden mechanisms of power and influence.
After publishing these works, he embarked on a corporate career that took him to live between Paris and Brussels. Recently, he has returned to the literary scene with a focus on the art world, writing about the art market and art collecting. Simone leverages his extensive experience to advise private clients on building their art collections, highlighting significant emerging and established artists. He also manages a popular Instagram account, @auctionsinsider, where he shares insights into the world of art auctions, “one bid at a time.”
$30.00
6” x 9” Portrait • 104pp • Softbound • 978-1-961856-96-7
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Publication Date: Fall 2025
A Cursed Life
Gabriella Guidi
$45.00
9.25” x 10.5” Landscape • 160pp • Hardbound 978-1-961856-20-2
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Alida is from the mountains of northern Albania, where she grows up with her family: her father, her mother, and two twin sisters. The book is set in the historical period of Enver Oxa, but in the northern countryside of Albania people are raised and live according to the rules of Lek Dukagjin’s Kanun. Alida’s father falls victim to a revenge sanctioned by the Kanun: a bullet in the back, which causes a severe injury and makes him lose the use of his legs. This given, one of his daughters has to become a Burrnesh, or ‘Sworn Virgin’: a man.
The chosen one is Alida, who is forced by her mother to undergo a transformation that makes her lose her life as a woman. Such operation follows an archaic ritual in which any aspects of womanhood are erased in front of the leaders of the Twelve Clans, and it is her own mother to perform it: she cuts Alida’s hair very short, she binds her breasts until they disappear, and then Alida has to wear her father’s clothes.
Alida is now allowed to drink, smoke, and handle weapons as if she really were man, since the ritual and her vow of chastity have transformed her into a man—on the surface. And she will actually deal with all male typical duties, but never giving up her femininity, or the desire to become a mother. It thus begins an incredible journey that will bring her to the United States, where Alida will be reborn and become again the woman she was.
(Translated to English from Italian.)
Author
Gabriella Guidi is from Italy and a woman full of interests who has always been a reading and books enthusiast. During one of her trips, she has met Alida, the protagonist of A Cursed Life.
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