This is a book that students of architecture will want to keep in the studio and in their backpacks

A Companion to Museum Studies captures the multidisciplinary approaches to the study of the development, roles, and significance of museums in contemporary society

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

Working in Busia, a small Kenyan border town, economist Edward Miguel began to notice something different starting in 1997: modest but steady economic progress, with new construction projects, flower markets, shops, and ubiquitous cell phones.

Architectural Papers is edited by the Josep Lluís Mateo Chair at the ETH Zurich since 2005. Covering the wide range of topics related to architectural culture in general, it is aimed at expanding the narrow boundaries of the discipline.

The city's reign over our senses, our moods, our very ways of being is outmoded. The suburban metropolis has superseded the city.

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.

In 2000, the average driver in US metropolitan areas endured 27 hours of traffic delays, a rise from 7 hours in 1980. In many other countries, traffic delays are considerably worse than in the United States..

In Alternative Pathways in Science and Industry, David Hess examines how social movements and other forms of activism affect innovation in science, technology, and industry.

This is a lucid and lively account of American architecture since the settlement of the New World in the 17th century

In the 1960s, the architects of Britain's Archigram group and Archigram magazine turned away from conventional architecture to propose cities that move and houses worn like suits of clothes.

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.

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

This book brings together all of the most important and influential essays about architecture written since the Renaissance, copiously illustrated and neatly organized chronologically by country

Architecture depends—on what? On people, time, politics, ethics, mess: the real world. Architecture cannot help itself; it is dependent for its very existence on things outside itself.

This collection of essays—Stern’s first—brackets the years defined by the changes in architectural thinking introduced by Robert Venturi in 1966 and the exhibition Deconstructivist Architecture at the Museum of Modern Art in 1988.

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...

In the discussion of architecture, the prevailing sentiment of the past three decades has been that cultural production can no longer be understood to arise spontaneously, as a matter of social course...