Forty years after French protestors took to the streets with the rallying cry Sous les pavs, la plage!

In the late 1980s, Japan was awash in seemingly unlimited wealth and rising toward what would be the peak of its modern economic success, power, and influence.

Architectural Lighting, the latest addition to the Architecture Briefs series, provides both a criticalapproach to and a conceptual framework for understanding the application of lighting in the built environment.

The book teaches the reader how to take first-rate photographs of buildings, inside and out. Step-by-step instructions help you learn how to choose the right kind of camera, to use it effectively, and to enhance and manipulate your images.

In this rapidly globalizing world, any investigation of architecture inevitably leads to considerations of regionalism.

Drawing on an encyclopedic reading of contemporary philosophy, as well as from the work of architects whose work he admires, including Peter Zumthor, Renzo Piano, Le Corbusier, and Frank Lloyd Wright, Leatherbarrow...

Plywood is arguably the most modern design artifact: it is a material born of natural wood and formed by vigorous industrial processes that can assume the most organic of shapes through bending, laminating, and molding.

Far from being just a simple outer wall or decorative element, the building envelope, or facade, determines a building'sstructural stability, climate control, and degree of energy performance.

In the twenty-first century the design of cities is more important than it has ever been. Far from being the cause of contemporary problems, cities can offer solutions to many of today's most serious concerns.

This follow-up to Kate Nesbitt's best-selling anthology Theorizing a New Agenda collects twenty-eight essays that address architecture theory from the mid-1990s, where Nesbitt left off, through the present.

Recent years have seen a rapidly growing interest among contemporary architects in the use of curtain walls to create innovative, attention-grabbing building facades.

DIY: Design It Yourself, provides you with all the tools you'll need to create your own projects, from conception through production.

All over the world, parents are raising kids to get active and embrace the "design-it-yourself" spirit of homemade arts and crafts.

Contemporary architects are under increasing pressure to offer a sustainable future.

In an age of globalization and connectivity, the idea of "mainstream culture" has become quaint.

Now available in paper, this newly revised and expanded classic in book design argues for a non-dogmatic approach, one open to both traditional and modern, and symmetrical and asymmetrical, solutions.

What separates good architecture from great architecture? The difference lies in the details. The way an architect chooses to treat architectural detailing—walls, doors, windows, roofs, and stairs—can transform the merely ordinary into the extraordinary.

How is it that text can be set perfectly and yet look insufferably dull? How do you achieve perfect congruence between the type itself and its meaning?