Explores the history and significance of rammed earth construction in Central Europe, particularly in Switzerland, using historical examples to investigate the potential of the technique for contemporary construction. Cyril Veillon.

Focuses on the pivotal years of 1919 - 1933 in European graphic design in which fifty artists (such as El Lissitzky, Jan Tschichold, and László Moholy-Nagy) redefined the field and helped form the modern movement.

Insight into Kengo Kuma's design additions to the Portland Japanese Garden. His group of small buildings are designed to incorporate traditional Japanese architecture and craftsmanship, while using contemporary materials and integrating seamlessly into the landscape.

Explores the impact of medical discourse and imaging technologies on the shaping twentieth-century architecture. The book suggests that the dominant medical obsession of tuberculosis and the new technology of the X-Ray shaped the development of modern architecture. Beatriz Colomina.

Brings together examples from across Asawa's full and extraordinary career, expansive volume serves as unprecedented reorientation of her sculptures within the context of 20th century art. 160 pp. Tamara H. Schenkenberg.

Casa Wabi, a nonprofit arts center located in Puerto Escondido, Oaxaca, Mexico, is a stage for world-renowned contemporary artists and architects to engage with the local community, designed by Tadao Ando, and with structures by Alberto Kalach, Alvaro Siza, Kengo Kuma, Gloria Cabral, Solano Benitez, Jorge Ambrosi, and Gabriela Etchegaray. Founded in 2013 by renowned Mexican artist Bosco Sodi, it combines artist residencies, a gallery, and living quarters with classrooms, gardens, and public space. 162 pp.

Legendary and unsurpassed botanical masterwork, large-format, features more than 400 quill-pen illustrations of 211 tree species, drawn in 1:100 scale, with and w/o foliage, and with tables of seasons and projections of shadows. 424 pp. Cesare Leonardi and Franca Stagi.

A detailed look into the life and work of Italian architect and designer Gio Ponti who revolutionized postwar architecture and design. Highlights many aspects of his work, and his method of giving equal attention and applying the same innovative design thinking to spoon and skyscraper alike. 312 pp. Olivier Gabet, Salvatore Licitra, Fulvio Irace, Ugo La Pietra, Sophie Bouilhet-Dumas.

In over 400 pages and 900 images, tells an essential chapter in the history of Murano glassmaking, and its connection to the young Scarpa. 560 pp.

Renowned Swiss architect Hans-Jorg Ruch, famous for careful and sensitive contemporary restorations of historic houses in the Swiss valley of Engadine. Book covers the full range of their projects, including private homes, multi-unit, public buildings. Edited by Ruch & Partner Architects. With contributions by Hans-Jörg Ruch and Franz Wanner. Photographs by Filippo Simonetti

Showcases how staircases provide buildings and gardens with horizontal and vertical movement, and the opportunity of ever-changing vistas. Focuses on Geoffrey Bawa's interest in European architectural movements. David Robson, photography by Sebastian Posingis.

A subjective field guide to design, written by one of the world’s leading design and culture commentators, London-based critic and journalist Alice Rawsthorn. Rawsthorn explores the most dynamic developments in contemporary design and assesses their impact on our lives now and in the future.

Comprehensive source combining cultural history with a guide to plants and animals finding their habitat in dry stone walls and a practical step-by-step building manual.

Eighteen projects that explore present-day meanings of "collectivity," and "living." Not limited to collective housing, the edition of JA includes a capsule hotel, college dormitory, shared house, plaza renovation for a large housing complex.

Binder containing NASA's visual identity guidelines. The original visual communications system, designed and augmented by Richard Danne and Bruce Blackburn from 1975 on, was rescinded in 1992. It was made available to the public by NASA as a PDF document before being reprinted in an expanded deluxe edition by Jesse Reed and Hamish Smyth in 2015. It is an exhaustive presentation of visual identity – from letterheads to the markings on the space shuttle Discovery—and thus allows the reader to apprehend the different formal, political and technical scales of the use of signs.

Presents more than a decade of conversations between Serra and Foster, publised for the first time. 240 pp.

Collection bringing together more than 250 of the finest architectural drawings of all time. 320 pp. Helen Thomas.

Reveals the profound link between the art and architecture of ancient Mesoamerica and Albers' abstract works on paper. 128 pp. Lauren Hinkson and Joaquin Barriendos

Examines the development of the 1960s modernist planned community, looking at the site's master plan and iconic early designs through sketches, drawings, and contemporary and archival photographs of its astonishing landscapes and distinctive timber-framed structures. Features the work of architects Lawrence Halprin, Barbara Stauffacher Solomon, Charles Moore, William Turnbull, Donlyn Lyndon, Richard Whitaker, and Joseph Esherick. Jennifer Dunlop Fletcher.

Thoroughly documents more than 850 examples of Brutalist architecture from around the world. Highlights a variety of structures existing and demolished, classic and contemporary - organized geographically into nine continental regions with over 1,000 duotone photographs in an oversized volume. 560 pp.