Featuring exquisite photographs of every structure the architect designed from scratch or incorporated into a historical building, this elegant volume is as sumptuous and inviting as a Scarpa interior.

Although he was not widely known during his lifetime, Carlo Scarpa has in the past-half century become one of the most revered of modern architects. His passion for integrating the ancient with the modern, the natural with the built environment, and the sensual qualities of glass, wo...

This highly original and personal exploration of Tadao Ando's work, one of Japan's leading architects, traverses both the physical and spiritual world.

In 2012, Philippe Se¿clier visited Tadao Ando's iconic Church of the Light, and was immediately compelled to journey around the world to further study the architect's buildings. This unique presentation of Ando's work is the result of what turned into a nine-year project to photograph 130 buildings. Walking around each structure, try...

School building architecture has greatly gained in pedagogical significance during the last years. This work presents more than 60 international projects which set themselves apart not only with their modern architectural vocabulary, but also with their architects hope of being their contribution to the improvement of educational standards.

Showcasing modern living spaces that are functional, aesthetic and sustainable and which express a deep connection to the surrounding environment and culture.

New York: de stad waar zovelen van dromen, die in vrijwel eenieders top vijf van citytrips staat en meteen ook de stad die je zo met Amerika vereenzelvigt maar tegelijk toch bitter weinig met de rest ervan te maken heeft. "The Big Apple",

"The City That Never Sleeps", "Gotham", "Center of the World",... het zijn maar een paar van de populaire bijnamen voor deze stad, die ongeveer twaalf keer zoveel inwoners telt als Amsterdam en pakweg evenveel inwoners als geheel België.

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Mass housing and prefabrication shaped global modernist architecture like no other aspect of industrialised construction. This book offers a comprehensive exploration of how both conventional and experimental prototypes and series gave rise to an architecture for all, often responding to crises, the imperatives of nation-building, and housing shortages by rapidly developing, distributing, and assembling structures.

The book’s contributions, with a geographical emphasis on Europe and Israel,...

Borders between countries, neighbourhoods, people, beliefs, and policies are proliferating and expanding despite what self-proclaimed progressive societies wish or choose to believe. For a wide variety of reasons, the early 21st century is caught struggling between breaking down barriers and raising them. Architecture is complicit in both. It is central to the perpetuation of borders, and key to their dismantling. Architectures of Resistance: Negotiating Borders Through Spatial Practices appr...