This book examines a number of European terriories that are both fragile and affected by climate change. These characteristics – one inherent to the regions under study, the other caused by their transformation over time – produce significant effects...

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...

This is a definitive guide to the materials used in architecture during the past century, as well as tips on building repair and restoration. Over the concluding decades of the 20th-century, the historic preservation community increasingly turned its...

This beautifully illustrated book celebrates the opening of the new Visitor Center at the Clark Art Institute, designed by Pritzker Prize recipient Tadao Ando. Noted architectural photographer Richard Pare captures the building's indoor and outdoor s...

Not for sale in Poland! This volume coins the term "Team 10 East" as a conceptual tool to discuss the work of Team 10 members and fellow travelers from state-socialist countries – such as Oskar Hansen of Poland, Charles Polonyi of Hungary, and Rado...

Torre David, a 45-story skyscraper in Caracas, has remained uncompleted since the Venezuelan economy collapsed in 1994. Today, it is the improvised home to more than 750 families living in an extra-legal and tenuous squat, that some have called a "ve...

Among practising architects today, perhaps only Robert A. M. Stern once contemplated a career as a historian, an interest that has informed both his built work and his writings. "Tradition and Invention in Architecture" brings together 26 of Stern's...

After the vast destruction wrought by Hurricane Katrina, New Orleans faces a rare chance to rebuild, with an unprecedented opportunity to plan what gets built. As the city's director of planning from 1992 until 2000, Kristina Ford is uniquely placed...

For nearly twenty years now, Blair Kamin of the "Chicago Tribune" has explored how architecture captures our imagination and engages our deepest emotions. A winner of the Pulitzer Prize for criticism and writer of the widely read Cityscapes blog, Kam...

This title explores the issues surrounding the study and conservation of earthen architecture. Earthen architecture constitutes one of the most diverse forms of cultural heritage and one of the most challenging to preserve. It dates from all periods...