Initially proposed for the US Pavilion at Expo 67 in Montreal, Buckminster Fuller's World Game was played for the first time in 1969 in New York. Over the next decade the World Game evolved and expanded. Across its different manifestations the World...

The sequel to the authors' "Are We Human?", this provocative book is an urgent manifesto for an alternative architectural philosophy. It treats bacteria as the real architects, construction workers, maintenance crews and inhabitants of buildings. Col...

This monograph on the work of Austrian architect Carl Pruscha (born 1936) is divided into the three geographical areas of his life and legacy: the United States, Kathmandu, and Vienna. Following his study of architecture at the Academy of Fine Arts V...

The bestselling volume on the multifaceted career of one of the leading figures in Italian Modernism, now in English. Gio Ponti (1891-1979) was a giant of Italian Modernism, contributing to a multitude of fields: architecture, industrial design, fur...

An investigative record of the architectural movement emblematic of the Soviet Orient. After World War II, Tashkent, Uzbekistan, was designated as the capital of the Soviet Orient, a vitrine of socialism in the East. Conceived by both local and Mosc...

Welcome planetary gardeners! This book, edited brought to you by French gardener, botanist and writer Gilles Clement and landscape architects Coloco, showcases how we can live in harmony with nature and appreciate the ecosystem in all its diversity,...

"Architecture Connecting: Living Structures" is the first book accompanying a new exhibition series at the Louisiana Museum of Modern Art and presents three design studios with a diverse use of biology and biochemistry as a basis for their practices:...

Appraising the legacy of the Delos Symposia as both global humanitarian network and intellectual theater. Spearheaded by members of the digital humanities Delos Project, The Delos Symposia offers a contemporary critical reassessment of the extravaga...

The residential projects of the award-winning architecture firm responsible for the first Frieze New York pavilion. For over a decade, Brooklyn-based architecture firm SO - IL has been envisioning houses and other projects in between and adjacent to...

The Doldertal, a small valley north of the city of Zurich, is best known in the history of architecture as the residence of Swiss architectural theorist Siegfried Giedion, whose book "Space, Time and Architecture" (1941) is considered a landmark in t...