Masterworks of the Jazz Age architect whose residential buildings are as significant in their impact on the character of New York as the skyscrapers of Wall Street.Known and celebrated for many of the apartment buildings on Park Avenue, Fifth Avenue, and...

An idiosyncratic guidebook to architectural (and other) wonders of Italy, accompanied by the author’s own witty illustrations.In Some Reasons for Traveling to Italy, architect Peter Wilson offers a Grand Tour of Grand Tours, providing an idiosyncratic...

Hollow Land is a groundbreaking exploration of the political space created by Israel’s colonial occupation.In this journey from the deep subterranean spaces of the West Bank and Gaza to their militarized airspace, Eyal Weizman unravels Israel’s...

Designed Forests: A Cultural History explores the unique kinship that exists between forests and spatial design; the forest’s influence on architectural culture and practice; and the potentials and pitfalls of “forest thinking” for more sustainable and...

The first in-depth publication of drawings that reveal the creative genius of H. H. Richardson, the greatest American architect of the nineteenth centuryThe trove of 4,000 drawings, preserved since Richardson’s death, have been largely unpublished, until...

A history of post-war playgrounds and their enduring legacy.After World War II, a new kind of playground emerged in Northern Europe and North America. Rather than slides, swings, and roundabouts, these new playgrounds encouraged children to build shacks...

An original call to reorient architecture around our relationship to plants.When we look at trees, we see a form of natural architecture, and yet we have seemingly always exploited trees to make new buildings of our own. Whereas a tree creates its own...

A Particular History Of How Encounters Between Architects And People With Disabilities Transformed Modern Culture. Window Shopping With Helen Keller Recovers A Series Of Influential Moments When Architects And Designers Engaged The Embodied Experiences...

An Examination Of Monument-making In The Dutch Republic During The Early Modern Period, During Which This Form First Manifested And Flourished-- Provided By Publisher.,How The Founding Of The Dutch Republic Compelled Artists And Intellectuals Of...