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 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...

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...

Muji's art director shares his own personal creative process. Kenya Hara inspires the world with his impeccable design, from the subtle atmospheres and environments he creates as the art director of Muji and his ethereal exhibition designs to his si...

Working from a conceptual atlas, Felzmann's photographs of California counties combine the natural with the cultural. Swiss photographer and Stanford University professor Lukas Felzmann (born 1959) takes a two-part approach to California's geography...

At once fitting into and standing out from their surroundings, Moeller's sculptures provide a welcome break from workaday life. Renouncing his former self-designation as a "media architect", Christian Moeller (born 1959) created a series of large-sc...

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 d...

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...

Inverting "Learning from Las Vegas" to build a new dialogue between two of the world's most opulent cities. When architects Denise Scott Brown and Robert Venturi published Learning from Las Vegas in 1972, they revolutionized architecture by claiming...

Through a series of essays, photographs, and archival content, this book highlights the diverse young and old diaspora communities of the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) around the world. Drawing on topics from the ten-year archive of Brownbook m...