Product Description: Is democracy spatial? How are the physical aspects of our cities, houses, streets, and public spaces―the borders, the neighborhoods, the monuments―bearers of our values? In a world of intensifying geo-economic integration, extreme financial and geopolitical volatility, deepening environmental crises, and a dramatic new wave of popular protest against both authoritarian government and capitalist speculation, cities have become leading sites for new claims on state power and new formations of political subjectivity...read more

Product Description: The Aga Khan Award for Architecture was established in 1977 by His Highness the Aga Khan to enhance the understanding and appreciation of Islamic culture as expressed through architecture. Its method is to seek out and recognize examples of architectural excellence, encompassing concerns as varied as contemporary design, social housing, community improvement and development, restoration, reuse, and area conservation, as well as landscaping and environmental issues...read more

Product Description: Structure as Space is a monograph on the work of the innovative Swiss engineer Jurg Conzett, who has been instrumental in redefining the relationship between structural engineering and architecture.This volume illustrates Conzett's own exquisite designs, such as his granite stress-ribbon Suransuns Bridge, as well as his collaborations with Switzerland's leading architects, among them Peter Zumthor and Meili & Peter...read more

Product Description: Although architecture has always been a collaborative process, only recently has it been explicitly recognized as such. A growing number of engineers are playing a prominent role in the formulation, development, and transformation of architectural ideas, and a leader in this group is the young Swiss engineer Jürg Conzett...read more

Product Description: In 1998 Barkow Leibinger achieved instant acclaim with the completion of their innovative laser factory near Stuttgart. Their style of architecture is both functional and undogmatic, as can be seen in their earlier projects, in particular the daycare and youth centre in Berlin Buchholz built in 1994...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Mohsen Mostafavi is director of the Architectural Association in London.

Product Description: On Weathering illustrates the complex nature of the architectural project by taking into account its temporality, linking technical problems of maintenance and decay with a focused consideration of their philosophical and ethical implications...read more