From nomadic labour to online services and from street food kitchens to pop-up shops, informality is on the rise as never before. Its transformative power can be seen in the new ways we produce, consume and live, with commerce playing a crucial role in these changes. The resulting tension between the formal and the informal is nowhere more evident than in the struggles over contested marketplaces.

This book provides a deeper understanding of the formal-informal linkages that have given shape ...

Towards Home / / Ruovttu Guvlui, an Indigenous-led publication,

explores how Inuit, Sámi, and other communities across the Arctic are creating

self-determined spaces. It is informed by the perspectives of a group of Inuit,

Sámi, and settler co-editors who share the ambition to promote northern Indigenous

forms of sovereignty shaped by an understanding of the land as home.

The project emphasizes caring for and living on the land as a way of being, and

celebrates practices of spacemaking and ...

For more than forty years, the beautifully illustrated Architecture: Form, Space, and Order has served as the classic introduction to the basic vocabulary of architectural design. In this fifth edition, more recent additions to the architectural panoply illustrate how contemporary digital and building technologies have influenced the development of architectural forms and spaces and how architectural siting and design have responded to the call for more environmentally responsible buildings. ...

An inspiring collection of 50 spectacular houses built almost entirely from glass

Glass Houses presents 50 stunning architect designed homes that utilize glass to maximum effect. The international selection includes early modernist houses from the 1930s, such as Philip Johnson’s Glass House and Mies van der Rohe’s Farnsworth House, and glamorous mid-century LA villas like Pierre Koenig’s Case Study #22, alongside outstanding contemporary examples, where new innovations have made even mo...

Aldo und Hannie van Eyck lernten sich als Architekturstudenten kennen und heirateten 1942. Sie arbeiteten bei den meisten Projekten eng zusammen, nur Ende der 1970er Jahre für einige Jahre unterbrochen. Dieses Buch aus der Reihe Everything von Kersten Geers präsentiert 24 ihrer Gebäude in Zeichnungen (Lage, Grundrisse, Schnitte und Ansichten) von Studenten der Architekturakademie USI, Mendriso, sowie zahlreichen Fotografien von Bas Princen. Die vorgestellten Gebäude umfassen nicht nur ihr...

A colour illustrated study of some thirty houses in various rural environments which have been built or converted or rehabilitated for modern comfortable living.

The Ghent University library with its famous "Book Tower" was designed by Henry van de Velde in the 1930s. It re-opened recently after a long restoration process under the supervision of Robbrecht en Daem architecten.

Book Tower Images focuses on the rich artistic imagery of the monument. Over the years, leading artists and photographers such as Frans Masereel, Lucien Hervé, Candida Höfer, and Carl De Keyzer have visualized it abundantly. Jan De Cock, Marie-Jo Lafontaine, Anne Teresa De Ke...