A brilliant collection of stories, ideas, themes, solutions and images - all in relation to water, and living with water. Wright has made a very clear case for having some sense, some modesty, some dignity, some true intuition regarding the earth and its components, in specific its water. The world will think now in an entirely new format its relationship of buildings to water, its relationship of humans to water. Architecture to learn the subtlety of accommodation, of interaction. There is considerably more water and it is in the game now, it is at the table, and it has both rights and power.

FRONTS uncovers a growing geography of codependence between the global security complex and the urban morphologies of the developing world, which it increasingly incriminates. Military training sites provide a lens through which we can better understand the shape of the city to come.

Edited by Nina Stritzler-Levine, cloth 696 Pages, 7.50 x 10.20 in, 500 color + b-w illus. Artek, the brilliant notion, begun in 1935 in Helsinki, to bring modernism, standards, details, and design to all the world. The Aaltos, Aino and Alvar, joining with friends, to create a furniture company that was a matter of craft and new furnishing. This is a revised edition, also by the great Irma Boom, and catalog from the Bard. It is the Aalto stool, the fabrics, the lighting, the entire integration of modernism in everyday life. A history of Western design in the very intricacies of a design company.

422 pp, colour and full drawings, cloth bound. First comprehensive monograph on Caruso St John, this the initial volume. Using the comments and details from clients, critics, artists and the office itself, they review all the early projects, the renowned and the minor. This is a prototype for how to do a brilliant monograph. Includes Caruso work on the Stockhold exhibit for Lewerents and a long essay of his thoughts and realizations as he worked on the project. Also includes the New Art Gallery Walsall. A very fine book - " the world is composed not solely of the new but of everything that had come before."

Hackers, scholars, artists and activists of all regions, races and sexual orientations consider how humans might reconstruct themselves by way of technology

The potentials of the building material timber in terms of design and construction by means of 30 constructions of various sizes and usages. The spectrum encompasses a small mountain hut, residential or school buildings, large office buildings and institutions for culture and leisure. The respective building method – solid timber construction, modular construction, heavy framing, light framing or hybrid construction – is presented by means of plans and detailed design drawings. The holistic solution approaches of the 30 architectures demonstrate the potential of timber as a sustainable building material for a climate-friendly future.

The Danish Architectural Press, Louisiana Museum of Modern Art

360 Pages, 7.75 x 9.50 in, 54 color + 115 b-w illus. In this sweeping history, from the Stone Age to the present day, Witold Rybczynski shows how architectural ideals have been affected by technological, economic, and social changes—and by changes in taste. The host of examples ranges from places of worship such as Hagia Sophia and Brunelleschi’s Duomo to living spaces such as the Katsura Imperial Villa and the Alhambra, national icons such as the Lincoln Memorial and the Sydney Opera House, and skyscrapers such as the Seagram Building and Beijing’s CCTV headquarters. Rybczynski’s narrative emphasizes the ways that buildings across time and space are united by the human desire for order, meaning, and beauty.

138 pp., 14 x 10 in, 111 color illus., 125 b&w photos Paperback, publ Nov 15, 2022

160 p, ills colour & bw, 20 x 30 cm, pb, French/English A selection of nearly 120 works from different series produced between 2005 and 2022 are brought together in this first book devoted to the drawings of designer Pierre Charpin. The works presented in this book are distinguished by the variety of techniques – coloured pencils, graphite, pen, chalk, coloured ink, and more – but also by the permanence of certain motifs such as lines and loops, ribbons and arabesques, made in series and often representing elementary forms.

This book is an exhibition. The pages can be arranged in sequence on a wall, creating a site-specific installation of 340 individual images over 21 square meters. Distributed in a limited edition of 750 copies, Martens invites participation in the transformation of the book as an object and the movement of the exhibition through time and space.