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In what is arguably a most crucial time for discourse around issues that are concerned with the political, institutional, and social shape of worlds to come, this book explores the agency of the project of architecture and its processes of innovation by constructing an opportunistic and contingent map of effectual positions.

Rancho Sisquoc: Enduring Legacy on an Historic California Land Grant Ranch is a richly illustrated and engagingly written portrait of one of the last intact Mexican land grant ranches; granted in 1845-One of only remaining intact land grant ranches in the U.S.

Of interest to architects and non-architects alike, this book heralds a new generation of creative techniques and design technologies that promise to redefine how we think of the past, present and future of the built environment in the 21st century and beyond.

This book celebrates seventy years of outstanding design by Dreyfuss + Blackford Architecture. It starts with historical milestones, shows some examples of process and practice, and concludes with a few consequential recent projects.

The book promotes a landscape approach as a method for understanding and addressing the complex interdependent issues of environmental and climatic change, ecological degradation, and socio-cultural inequalities.

Impossible and Hyper-Real Elements of Architecture addresses how and why architects, artists, and designers manipulate reality. Front and centre in this discourse is the role of rendering.

The study Reimagining the Library of the Future investigates the various models of public buildings and civic space through the lens of the library.

LA Frontiers focuses on re-examining the man-land relationship, which asks planners and designers to better understand the persistent landscape by comprehending land systems and landscape characteristics, in order to maintain the integrity of the landscape and ecosystem, and respect the regionality and locality. Text in English and Chinese.

This is a collection of provocative essays that journey into the vexed circumstance of contemporary architectural practice.

This issue hopes to interpret and display the treasured qualities of urban wildernesses and inspire landscape architects to strike the balance between urban wildernesses and human settlements via ecological planting methods that facilitate natural evolution and ecological flows.

The lush surreal illustrations of this book and its short humouristic story telling make it a fun, quick read for all ages and for anyone obliquely interested in our thirst for development and the nature of who we are.

The book presents the history of this phenomenon for the past hundred years.

Supertall | Megatall: How High Can We Go? highlights the design, sustainability, innovative technology, programming, and contextualism that defines supertall and megatall towers.

RESIDENSITY: A Carbon Analysis of Residential Typologies is the culmination of a seven-year study analysing nine building typologies to understand the relationships between building densities and the amount of land and infrastructure required to support them.

Designing the Computational Image, Imagining Computational Design explores this period of remarkable inventiveness, and traces its repercussions on architecture and other creative fields through a selection of computational designers working today.

Adrian Smith + Gordon Gill Architecture's, 2006-2020 monograph showcases the spectacular work of the firm from the first 15 years of its practice through drawings, renderings, model photography, photography of built work, competition entries, exhibition materials, master plans, interiors, and special research projects and publications.

Adrian Smith + Gordon Gill Architecture's Performance + Assembly: The Experience of Space covers a range of performance and assembly spaces designed by AS+GG from central spaces in the world's largest expositions to small, flexible high-technology theatres to expressive and functional auditoriums.

A tale of death and intrigue examines arrogance, ambition, and redemption. Who will succeed - and at what cost?

The general reading public is likely to think of architecture as buildings. But, with this book, Robert Steinberg would like to help readers understand that architecture shapes lives. Architecture can help communities integrate and thrive.

Thirteen Ways of Looking at a House both participates in and critiques this contemporary tradition.

Fun Mill. The Architecture of Creative Industry in Contemporary China looks closely on transforming existing real estate by promoting creative clusters, starting with specific architectures that are examined using an open-minded approach.

Wide-ranging, captivating, and deeply introspective, the memoir of William Zeckendorf Jr. (1929-2014) documents the celebrated real estate developer's impact on New York City, Washington, D.C., and Santa Fe.

Situationist Funhouse is a joyride through the history of G. H. Hovagimyan is an absurdist, a strategist, a serial collaborator in the arts.

This book considers the architectural cooperative: a critical mode of practice that is equitable, democratic, and addresses systemic inequalities plaguing the profession.

Along the Betwa documents the lives of people living in the drought-prone region of Bundelkhand, touching upon themes related to water scarcity, climate change, agrarian distress, and caste and gender inequalities.

Composed as a geopolitical treatise, this book proposes a counter-map to rebuild relations with the Cinchona plant and to challenge territorial destruction that continue to increase amidst state-sanctioned resource extraction and benevolent conservation.

The book analyses the current digital turn in the architecture from multiple perspectives, raising awareness on its social and cultural implications and prefiguring the rise of an alternative and possible architecture.