The ELEMENTAL studio, headed by artistic director Alejandro Aravena and based in the capital of Chile, Santiago, is untraditionally composed of people with a variety of skills and abilities. Their analytical approach to architecture and urban plannin...

"Architecture in Context" analyzes the work of contemporary international architects through the presentation of projects that exemplify their architectural vision and their connection with the spaces with which they work. It explains how the interac...

Not for sale in Ukraine and Russia! More and more people prefer the simplicity of a small mobile home to enjoy nature instead of a conventional house. It's about swapping luxury for freedom. These houses are built on a trailer so they can be transp...

Social design is design for society and with society. As social innovation and on the basis of dialogue and participation, social design strives for a new networking of the individual, civil society, government, and the economy. Social design is thus...

This volume, a companion to "Hampshire: Winchester and the North", covers the county's southern half, from the woodland and heath of the New Forest to the cities along the Solent, and from remote Saxon churches to Modernist seaside villas. The origin...

It presents a series of legwork explorations of geographically disparate landscapes historically connected by copper. It maps sites of transformation along the production network and commodity chain, documenting the mutation and transformation of cop...

How is the alpine urban countryside modified by widespread industrial production? How can the productive mikrokosmos be reinforced as a system into complex orographic contexts? What design devices can be used to rethink the existing situations? The b...

"Public Without Rhetoric" brings together 12 public building projects created by Portuguese architects, whose construction was completed between 2007 and 2017, a decade ravaged by the severe financial and economic crisis. The chosen works highlight t...

Not for sale in Estonia! "Mexico City: Architecture Guide" is a compilation of more than 150 works of architecture dating from the early 20th century up to the present day. To help orient readers, the guide is divided into five areas and includes s...

Contemporary large scale interventions, leading ongoing transformation processes of world cities, are often related to mobility systems. Developed around the re-conversion or the implementation of infrastructural nodes, they deeply impact surrounding...