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Written by Mark Jones – a respected practitioner-academic architect – Success in Architectural Practice sets out the simple, yet profound proposition that genuine success as an architect is founded on three mutually reinforcing pillars: Excellence, Happiness and Profit. This notion is presented...

Based in Mallorca, Aulets is an architecture practice working across design, research, teaching, and action. It understands architecture as a means of making a territory habitable for a community through the resources available in a specific place. The work of Aulets therefore extends beyond constru...

This second edition of Tall has been updated with new information about the construction of high-rise architecture. A lot has happened in the world since 2019 – the updates respond to these changes.There has been a strong uptake in the purchase of electric cars and hybrid vehicles, so the book has...

Through a dozen projects around the world-from New York to Tokyo, and Mexico to Qatar- architect Tatsuro Miki reveals his singular talent for designing spaces that embody subtle beauty, harmony, and proportion in close kinship with nature. Drawing on key aspects from his childhood in Japan as the so...

An architectural monograph on leading cross-Atlantic practice Michaelis Boyd's largely residential projects focusing on the importance of connecting design to sustainability and the natural world.Architects Alex Michaelis and Tim Boyd are known for their site-sensitive and highly contextual approach...

Riverside Modern journeys into one of Melbourne's most remarkable architectural enclaves. Framed on three sides by the winding Yarra River, the quiet streets of Studley Park in Kew contain Australia's finest concentration of modernist houses, a rare snapshot of mid-century Australian design.In the d...

Can architecture ever be democratic? An elegant new theory of politics and urban designBuilding requires power and resources - then, once created, our environment structures how we relate to each other. But what would a distinctly democratic built environment look like? Should we prioritize an inclu...

Architecture needs women. How can the built environment be designed without the expert input of half the population? In spite of the significant number of women choosing to study architecture as undergraduates, once qualified women remain in the minority. As professionals their expertise is often ov...

Tadao Ando is one of the most celebrated architects of our time. Winner of the Pritzker Prize and numerous other international awards, his bold, concrete buildings and their interplay with light, shadow, and nature have become emblematic symbols of the modern world, blending modernist design with Ea...

A must-have guide to the glories of Dunedin’s buildingsThis fourth book in the series of handy pocket guides to New Zealand city architecture is the biggest yet. It features more than 130 Dunedin buildings curated into seven rewarding, self-guiding walks that range from the university district rig...

The third in a trilogy of monographs from Van Duysen, show a range of product, architectural, and interior design from the last eight years.The latest projects from prolific Belgian architect, interior, and product designer Vincent Van Duysen, bring the trilogy of monographs up tothe present day. Th...

A visual celebration and record of Japan’s demolished postwar architectural gems and a look at why they’ve been torn down.As in other countries, not every mid-century modern building in Japan can be, or even deserves to be saved. Yet a swathe of these works―those that achieved new architectura...

Peris Toral was founded in 2005 by Marta Peris and José Toral. Together they dedicate their Barcelona-based practice to research on dwelling and building methods, with theoretical and written work that addresses areas such as the relationship between film and architecture, modern ways of living, lo...

Now available in paperback, this essential book on modern architecture presents over one hundred of the most significant houses of the past hundred years.The Iconic House features over one hundred of the most important and influential houses designed and built since 1900. With seminal works by Le Co...

A new design expression is being formed in China as architects look internally for visionary design instead of toward the West. The transformation of China in the past three decades has been nothing short of spectacular. Now a cultural and economic player on the world stage, its rise has also given...

A House in Japan explores the home as a space where ideas of dwelling are constantly reimagined. In a culture shaped by precision and restraint, domestic projects become sites of quiet experimentation. These houses privilege clarity over excess, intent over display. Rigorous yet flexible, they adapt...

Monsters and Mutants stellt einen neuen Ansatz vor, wie in Architektur und Städtebau auf eine Umkehr der Folgen des Anthropozäns für den Planeten Erde hingewirkt werden kann: Lernen von der organischen Intelligenz der Pflanzenwelt. Das von Winka Dubbeldam gegründete Büro Archi-Tectonics in New...

How does an architect become an architect? In this intimate and playful work of autobiography and criticism, Turner Brooks explores this very question, mapping the way his childhood impressions and enthusiasms later influenced his award-winning architectural work.In Spatial Memories and Preoccupatio...

A persistent narrative portrays the ocean as an uninhabited space. However, centuries of commercial trade and an expanding network of infrastructures above and below the water’s surface have long challenged this view, prompting researchers to conceptualize the sea as an urbanized environment. Whil...

The follow-up to Kengo Kuma: Complete Works, first published in 2012 and expanded in 2018 with forty new projects. Since the first monograph, Kuma’s international star has ascended considerably.Kengo Kuma is one of Japan's leading architects and professor emeritus at the University of Tokyo. A pro...

The magazine presents an overview of eight years in the evolution of David Chipperfield’s practice, leading up to his receiving the Pritzker Prize in 2023. It features a diverse range of exemplary projects from this period, including Kunsthaus Zürich, the Neue Nationalgalerie refurbishment and BÃ...

'Cape to Bluff Vol.2' traverses Aotearoa New Zealand from north to south, composing a unique portrait of residential architecture across the islands. A sense of place lies at the core of the curatorial vision, featuring 30 exceptional homes that respond to and are in harmony with the land - its form...

The first comprehensive overview of Charles and Ray Eames’s residential architectureThe Eames Houses is the first comprehensive overview of Charles and Ray Eames’s residential architecture. It includes several previously unpublished buildings and places the powerhouse couple’s architectural wo...

A new monograph on Korea's most important architect, offering an exclusive look at his seldom-­published houses.offers a unique glimpse into the residential buildings of one of Korea’s most influential architects. The monograph presents this lesser known aspect of Cho's work through stunning phot...