Product Description: Rooms You May Have Missed: Umberto Riva, Bijoy Jain is an unexpected story of architectural attitudes that starts unfolding from the interior. The book pairs two architects operating in distinctive contexts, Mumbai and Milan, in order to uncover new possibilities for ways of conceiving and producing space...read more

Product Description: This book presents three architectural responses to the idea of journeys through outer space in a future based on technology. After the 1969 moonwalk, Alessandro Poli with Superstudio considered it critical to imagine our environment as connected to outer space...read more

Product Description: The year 1973 marks one of the most important turning points in the history of the twentieth century. Prior to that year, the world had become accustomed to a plentiful supply of inexpensive fossil fuels--especially oil. During this first major international oil crisis, however, the western world's dependency on unstable eastern energy resources became dramatically clear...read more

Product Description: The most complete monograph dedicated to the work of Michael Maltzan and his Los Angeles-based architecture practice, this book presents 16 of Maltzan's most recent projects with full-color photographs, drawings and plans. Maltzan is an architect who deals with the realities of urban landscape through the manipulation of ground, circulation and perception...read more

Product Description: "The land has always been more important to the American than the city,"?begins Christian Zapatka in this sweeping overview of American landscape?painting, planning, and design. Focusing largely on the origins and?progress of city and national parks, The American Landscape examines the?history of the physical environment of the United States from the 1830's?to the present...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: This book is a unique view of a creative endeavour that has set standards for the architects and designers of the future. * For his inspiration, Calatrava draws on organic, human and zoomorphic shapes such as ribs, bones, or insect eyes and has fascinated many with the lightness of his touch in transferring small format models in wood and metal into immense constructions...read more

Shows drawings, plans, and photographs of office buildings, theaters, homes, recreation areas, urban renewal projects, banks, gymnasiums, schools, and libraries designed by the Swiss architect