A timely study, erudite and exciting, about the ordinary―and oftentimes unseen―lives of memorialsMemorials are commonly studied as part of the commemorative infrastructure of modern society. Just as often, they are understood as sites of political...

A visual and scholarly deep dive into Cuba's modernist gems of the postwar eraIn the decades after World War II, from just prior to the revolution and into the mid-1980s, modernist architecture blossomed in Cuba, attracting both native talent and leading...

An astonishing photographic record of a form of wooden architecture rapidly vanishing from the post-Soviet landscapeA dacha is a country house, made of wood, used by Soviet citizens to escape the rigors of the city for a rural idyll. Widespread in the...

How architects and designers helped define America’s ecological movement in the 1960s―featuring Ant Farm, Buckminster Fuller, John C. Lilly and many moreDuring the 1960s, as Western notions of endless progress and growth gave way to concerns over...

How are the far-away, invisible landscapes where materials come from related to the highly visible, urban landscapes where those same materials are installed? Reciprocal Landscapes: Stories of Material Movements traces five everyday landscape...

A monumental illustrated survey of the architecture of thirteenth- and fourteenth-century ChinaThe Yuan dynasty endured for a century, leaving behind an architectural legacy without equal, from palaces, temples, and pagodas to pavilions, tombs, and...

Gives both a biography of the man--his early years in Vienna, his apprenticeships to Eric Mendelsohn and Frank Lloyd Wright, his lengthy and successful Los Angeles-based practice--and a detailed analysis of his pioneering work in residential,...

A richly illustrated history and sourcebook spanning the world of Islamic architecture.Islamic architecture is a broad topic, covering some 1,400 years up to the present day. The richness of building types, regional styles, and architectural details is...

Book by Smith, Earl Baldwin

Studies the development of the use of caves in landscape gardens from ancient times to the modern world in the context of changes in attitudes toward nature

The description for this book, The Crowning of the American Landscape: Eight Great Spaces and Their Buildings, will be forthcoming.

The first monograph to showcase the work of one of Russia’s most influential architectural firmsStudio 44 Architects is one of the largest private architectural firms in St. Petersburg and in Russia. Founded in 1991 and led by Nikita Yawein, the company...

The Aga Kahn Award for Architecture was established in 1977 to encourage and bring to international attention the work of architects and designers building in Islamic societies. Previous winners of the award, which is given every three years, include...

A rich contribution to the understanding of Inca archaeology and architecture and an invaluable guide for visitors to Peru. The stone monuments of the Incas, set against the dramatic backdrop of the Andes, are among the most magnificent structures in the...

One of the world’s greatest and most thoughtful architects recounts his extraordinary career and the iconic structures he has built—from Habitat in Montreal to Marina Bay Sands in Singapore—and offers a manifesto for the role architecture should play in...

A dual portrait of America’s first great architect, Henry Hobson Richardson, and her finest landscape designer, Frederick Law Olmsted―and their immense impact on AmericaAs the nation recovered from a cataclysmic war, two titans of design profoundly...

Thirty years have passed since eminent cultural and literary critic Fredric Jameson wrote his classic work, The Political Unconscious: Narrative as a Socially Symbolic Act, in which he insisted that 'there is nothing that is not social and historical -...

The only comprehensive book on the fascinating life and work of the celebrated architectural designer, John PawsonThis visual biography brings together John Pawson’s architecture, life, clients, travel, photography, design, books, and ideas. Written by...