Urbanization metabolizes territories surrounding cities as well as territories that are located far beyond the centers themselves and provide the needed resources and goods. Landscapes of extraction are probably one of the most evident examples of th...

Taken from a research project entitled Re-Loaded City: Strategies of ReCycle to Restart the City, based in the city of Palermo, this book tests means of reinvigorating abandoned and wasted urban space. Reclaiming polluted or destitute land is a diffi...

Ephemeral Urbanism invites us to ponder material impermanence. Is a recognition of the transitory nature of physical substances integral to the city construction process? This book makes a convincing argument in the affirmative. A creation of the Eph...

This book proposes a dialogue between two key 20th-century architects, Albert Frey and Lina Bo Bardi. Frey moved from Switzerland to the US in the early 1930s and Bo Bardi emigrated from Italy to Brazil after the end of World War II. While they never...

Tracing the history of cottages ornes (ornamental cottages), this copiously illustrated volume offers an engaging survey of an often-overlooked architectural genre. An invention of mid-18th-century England, these cottages were designed to facilitate...

In 2010, photographer Cemal Emden set out to document every building designed by the master architect Le Corbusier. Traveling through three continents, Emden photographed all the 52 buildings that remain standing. Each of these buildings is featured...

"Reyner Banham and the Paradoxes of High Tech" reassesses one of the most influential voices in twentieth-century architectural history through a detailed examination of Banham's writing on High Tech architecture and its immediate antecedents. Taking...

Founded in 1975, the Robbrecht en Daem architectural firm has built an extensive and impressive portfolio – architecture and infrastructure projects, interiors and landscapes – in Belgium and across Europe. What links the diverse projects designed by...

This authoritative guide, the companion to "Yorkshire West Riding: Leeds, Bradford and the North", covers a vast area marked by tremendous diversity of both landscape and buildings. The territory is rich in medieval churches and castles, 17th-century...

The Architect Kuno Mayr has developed a way of working on reality in which the rigorousness of his process manifests itself first in the model. Through a long and laborious procedure, overlooked things are saved from abandonment and neglect so as to...