Landscape Urbanism emerged in the late 1990s, as a critique of urban design's inability to deal wtih the expanded character of urbanization. Intended as a medium through which to interpret the contemporary city, Landscape Urbanism hopes to develop a...

In contrast to tabula rasa urbanism, this book considers strategies and possibilities for tabula plena – urban sites that are full of existing buildings and systems that have accumulated over time. Such dense urban sites prompt designers to work betw...

"Climates: Architecture and the Planetary Imaginary" brings together discussions and projects at the intersection of architecture and climate change. Comprehensive essays consider cultural values ascribed to climate and ask how climate influences our...

Old things, historic things, smelly dirty things, all the things that were considered the very opposite of "contemporary", have suddenly irrupted forcefully into architecture and art, blurring their boundaries. This book takes stock of the emerging g...

Not for sale in Estonia! "Parallel Cities" examines the history of the multilevel city with a focus on elevated pedestrian systems as a recurrent concept in urban planning and design. The book chronicles the evolution and migration of this concept...

Since cities emerged ten thousand years ago, they have become one of the most impressive artifacts of humanity. But their evolution has been anything but linear-cities have gone through moments of radical change, turning points that redefine their ve...

Not for sale in Ukraine and Russia! Today, nobody doubts that in the same way we can parameterize a building, to know its height, its weight (the famous question that Buckminster Fuller made to Norman Foster, "How much does your building weigh Mr F...

Highlights of this fully revised and updated guide are the magnificent medieval fortresses of Warwick and Kenilworth Castles, but this county is also home to some of the most significant developments of England's postwar modern architecture, notably...

How are changing conditions in society likely to affect Germany's built environment? What are the catalysts for transformation in its cities and regions? "Speculation Transformation" is devoted to the social and spatial transformations that Germany w...

Marking the centennial of the 1916 establishment of a professional program, Pedagogy and Place is the definitive text on the history of the Yale School of Architecture. Robert A. M. Stern, current dean of the school, examines its growth and change ov...