This book is a collection of detailed studies of recent construction projects that will help all architects learn and expand the possibilities of their own work. Projects have been selected for their use of innovative techniques, and these insights could help overcome problems, reduce a project's cost, speed up work on site or help with an idea that is hard to achieve.

What if the house you are about to enter was built with the confessed purpose of seducing you, of creating various sensations destined to touch your soul and make you reflect on who you are? Could architecture have such power? This was the assumption of generations of architects at the beginning of modernity.
Exploring the role of theatre...

Housing the maximum number of cars in a well-designed space is one of the most challenging aspects of twentieth-century architecture, which has attracted a stellar array of architects. From Louis Kahn to Rem Koolhaas, from Paul Rudolph to Zaha Hadid to Kengo Kuma, architects have used the parking garage as a scene of experimentation for innovating new ideas about materiality...

The focus of businesses today is more than ever on transparency, flexibility, openness, and the ability to communicate, values that must also be reflected in a company's architecture. Only those who clearly define their own objectives and values and take them into account in their building projects convey a coherent and unified image to the outside world...

Architextiles explores the links between architectural and urban design and fashion and textile design. Focussing on fashion and textile design’s potential for architectural design, this issue explores the intersections of research and practice within these disciplines. The articles from architects, fashion and textile designers, academics and...

This pictorial guide to Asias cutting-edge modern architecture illustrates why today's designers and builders are looking eastward for inspiration and new challenges.
Asia's recent economic explosion has resulted in an unprecedented building boom of some of the world'
s most innovative architecture. Organized by country, Asia Now is the first...

"Assessing Urban Design" is a search to better understand how people perceive the physical environments that surround them. Touching on issues of urban design, planning, architecture, historic preservation, and tourism, Berman combines theoretical essays and empirical research to explore waterfront sites in Philadelphia and Yokohama.

Montecito, California is home to some of America's most spectacular private residences. Most amazing perhaps is Val Verde, the house built in 1915 on a breathtaking seventeen-and-one-half-acre coastal plot by American architect Bertram Goodhue. Besides its status as the most preserved of the great early twentieth-century Southern California estate properties...

Sicilian Baroque architecture was open to the whole world of European Baroque and yet stubbornly protective of its own unique identity. Sicilian Baroque was once described by Anthony Blunt as the style ?in which the energy and imagination of the south attained full and mature expression?. This volume superbly affirms that this era in the island?s history...