Product Description: The sequel to Urbanomad (2004), Urbanomad 2 finds Guy Lafranchi as he sets off as his alter ego, the Urbanomad once again. Traveling to Taiwan, South Africa, and the United States, Lafranchi reports on a 1999 earthquake in Chi Chi, Taiwan; sickness and poverty in Siyathemba, South Africa; and technological evolution in Chicago and New York...read more

Product Description: "The museum is a typology long overdue for change. New museums proliferate, with sometimes spectacular innovations in form, but their underlying conceptual structures remain much as they have been for the past two hundred years. They are Faustian incarnations, young bodies with old and weary souls...read more

Product Description: "The book is dedicated to all those structures that are loaded with poison. Whether it is a system of empty petrol storage tanks or a historical Landhaus from 1700, ‘A.R.C.H.O.N.P.O.I.S.O.N.’ (Architecture on Poison) deals with structures which are welcome or not, destroyed or renovated, accepted or despised, structures looking forward neither to being replaced nor to ending in archives of conservation, but to an activation of their latent transformative power...read more