The book opens many questions. Can the architectural research still be eros towards study, the deepening of its principles? Can a temporary, ephemeral, mutant building, a minimal set-up be the privileged place of our attention? And, can we with the e...

After studying media and photography in Lima, Pablo Hare entered film studies at the Escuela Internacional de Cine y Television in San Antonio, Cuba. He has been a resident at the Kunsthochschule fur Medien in Cologne and at the Cite Internationale d...

Once a city of verdant gardens and parks, Cairo in the 1980s was severely overcrowded, economically struggling, and many of its inhabitants lived in unsanitary conditions. Historic Cairo, a World Heritage Site centered on the original Fatimid settlem...

When is a blue dress not blue but navy, indigo, denim, or lapiz lazuli? With this fascinating and informative book in hand, young readers will be able to identify the colors that speak to them – and understand the reason there are so many subtle diff...

One of the great innovations of the Impressionists was their radical use of colour: their application of strokes of complementary or contrasting hues captured the shifting effects of light and foregrounded the nature of vision. Using colour as the le...

The dramatic story of the American team's journey from obscurity to the silver-medal and ultimately the gold-medal win at the world's most renowned cooking competition, the Bocuse d'Or, is told in riveting narrative, breathtaking photographs, and exp...

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...

Much has changed in Burma since Birgit Neiser first visited in 1981.The country is now known as Myanmar, and military rule - which lasted nearly half a century - has given way to a tentative democratic process. Returning in 2010, at the cusp of this...

Originally from the Valencia region, Berenguer moved to Barcelona to study. There he lived through the tumult of the final years of the Franco regime and the early years of the transition to democracy in Spain, participating in the ferment of counter...

"A painting must stand as a painting, made by human hand", wrote Caspar David Friedrich, "not seek to disguise itself as Nature". One of his generation's most popular painters, Friedrich imagined landscapes of powerful beauty and spirituality from wi...