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...

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

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...

De Pieterskerk, een plek met aanzien in de sleutelstad

De Pieterskerk Leiden wordt tegenwoordig nog het meeste gezien als ‘de kerk die geen kerk meer is’. Voormalig religieus erfgoed dus, met een grote waarde voor de collectieve geschiedenis en identiteit van de stad Leiden. Dit boek biedt een nieuw perspectief op dit belangrijke monument.

In plaats van vooral te kijken naar wat vandaag resteert van de geschiedenis, legt dit boek de focus op de ontwikkeling. Het is belangrijk om oog te he...

The official book marking the centenary of the Rietveld Schröder House tells the story of two lovers and radical innovators in modern architecture: Truus Schröder and Gerrit Rietveld

"The idea of living in the house like this essentially came from me."

— Truus Schröder

Rietveld Schröder House: A Biography of the House tells the story of the iconic house and its creators, Truus Schröder (1889–1985) and Gerrit Rietveld (1888–1964). The construction of the house, the designs by ‘Sch...