Product Description: Trained both as an architect and art historian, An Te Liu is a Canadian installation artist working across a number of different media. Featuring an interview with multimedia artist Ken Lum, contributions from Kitty Scott, Curator of Creative Arts at the Art Gallery of Ontario, and critic and curator Andrew Berardini, this richly illustrated monograph provides the first comprehensive overview of the artist’s work in a series of expressive, personal and critical texts...read more

Product Description: He draws like a dream... apparently effortlessly. --Peter Cook on Archigram's Ron Herron. The Architectural Drawing Book: A Survey of Drawing from Prehistory to the Present comprises an overview of drawing and architecture related imagery, as well as key texts in the field throughout history, and touches on subjects such as developments in technology and their impacting on both the methods and manifestations of drawing...read more

Product Description: The second title in Artifice books on architecture s Contemporary Architecture series, Contemporary Architecture North America, is an insightful and provocative exploration of the most significant architecture and architectural movements developing in the United States and Canada today...read more

Product Description: A critical perspective on contemporary architecture in the United Kingdom and its emerging themes and preoccupations. Contemporary Architecture United Kingdom is the first title in Artifice books on architecture's new Contemporary Architecture series...read more

Product Description: Outside the Box: Cardboard Design Now reconfigures the conception of a generic industrial material into one of myriad artistic, creative, and practical purposes and potential, revealing just how far it is possible to push the medium by the way of contemporary design...read more

Product Description: Following on from Mapping New York and Mapping London, Mapping America: Exploring the Continent takes a similar approach in its presentation, thematically arranging a vivid collection of historic, demographic, cultural and artistic maps to aid the reader on their journey...read more

Product Description: Recycle: The Essential Guide is a basic introduction to the how’s, what’s, when’s and where’s of recycling. With vibrant visuals and a clear, accessible layout, the book illustrates all angles of the subject – from the urgency of resource depletion to the lighter, consumer-oriented aspect of eco-design...read more

Product Description: Edge Futures are a series of five books that explore the impact that climate change will have on different aspects of our lives in the future. They are available to order as individual titles or as a complete set. By the year 2025, the climate will have changed irrevocably, mainly as a result of greenhouse gas emissions...read more

Product Description: International engineering practice Atelier Ten has been at the forefront of designing and engineering environmentally friendly buildings since its conception almost 20 years ago. in that time, global attitudes toward ecological issues and energy consumption have changed drastically, and Environmental Design for the 21st Century is an exploration of the increasingly pressing issues of sustainability and energy efficiency in building design...read more

Product Description: This volume is made up of a series of studies examining the changes taking place in the contemporary art world, such as the politicization of art practices and the increasing commodification of art objects. The contributors take up various themes within essays combining artists' and curators' statements, political comment, analytic and thematic writings...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: The contents of this volume of "Artifice" include a study of human rights abuses in the Kosovo region of Albania by photojournalist Melanie Friend; an essay on "Monstrosity Today" by writer and architect Mark Dorrian; a review of prize-winning architectural drawing from the Bartlett School of Architecture and an introduction to the work of Witness, the New York based Lawyers Committee for Human Rights...read more

Product Description: The contributors to this book raise issues of relevance to architectural discourse and, in particular, this discourse as it is affected by gender. As such, it attempts to introduce a gendered awareness of architectural practice through criticism, architecture and psychoanalysis, and politics...read more