Gustav III:s divansrum på Kungliga slottet är en rikt illustrerad bok med färglagda ritningar av Louis Masreliez och med nytagna bilder av de befintliga inredningarna, liksom av de högklassiga möbler och inredningsföremål som fanns i rummen och som fortfarande finns bevarade i de kungliga samlingarna.

Recent advances in technologies and home-generated renewable energy have made building away from urban and rural infrastructures more practical and affordable than ever. This survey of the world's most innovative off-grid homes reveals the cutting-edge architecture and technology that is enabling us to escape to some of the most extraordinary natur...

How do you create inviting and authentic urban spaces where people feel at home? In Urbanism Without Effort, Chuck Wolfe argues that "unplanned" places can often teach us more about great placemaking than planned ones. He highlights "first principles" of what makes humans feel happy and safe, drawing lessons from an impromptu movie nights in a Seat...

From the Athens 2004 Olympic Sports Complex to the World Trade Center Transportation Hub in Manhattan, Santiago Calatrava exhibits a remarkable aesthetic and engineering prowess with a simultaneous sensitivity for both the appearance and the anatomy of a structure. With influences ranging from NASA space design to da Vinci's nature studies, Calatra...

Who has not heard of concrete? It is that ugly stuff they make highway bridges and crumbling walls out of, right? Well, yes, and no. Concrete is actually a name applied to a remarkably wide range of substances used in construction, and, when it is properly handled, it is actually one of the noble materials of contemporary architecture. This title h...

This large-format and generously illustrated book captures the visionary approach to the land embraced in designs for The Sea Ranch, the planned community that has become a touchstone of 1960s West Coast modernism.

Gino Valle has been recognized by international critics as one of the most original and creative European architects of the post-war period. This edition makes available for the first time in English the only critical monograph dedicated to his complete works.

A new overview of the work of world-renowned Belgian architect Vincent Van Duysen, featuring his most recent projects over the past decade.

"Each day of my life has been dedicated in part to drawing. I have never stopped drawing and painting, seeking, where I could find them, the secrets of form."-Le Corbusier

A spectacular, visually rich monograph on one of the most visionary architecture firms of the twenty-first century led by 2016 Pritzker Prize-winner Alejandro Aravena

The most thoroughgoing survey of nearly all of Le Corbusier's extant projects, beautifully photographed and authoritatively detailed.

The post-war period of progressive civic architecture and art gave rise to some of the UK's most important pieces of publically owned artwork. Acclaimed photographer Simon Phipps journeyed around the UK uncovering forgotten treasures as well as unexplained losses. This is the first photographic survey of Modernist sculpture within the Brutalist con...

This book takes a close look at seven houses designed by Steven Holl, considered one of America s most influential architects. It offers the reader unprecedented access to the thought processes and work of this ground-breaking, cutting-edge architect through his own words and watercolours and more than 100 photographs.

Tredje boken i kokbokserien Wingårdhs villor är Hansson Den allra första villan där allt gick fel: fönstren sprack, spisen rök inne och myrarméer åt upp väggarna. När ekonomin tillät byggde man till och blev av med de värsta felen. Följ med och upptäck vad som är utbytt, vad som blev fel och vad som fortfarande känns alldeles underbart sådär fyrtio...