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The definitive monograph on Swedish modernist architect Sigurd Lewerentz, offering the most comprehensive survey to date of his manifold work, featuring a wealth of previously unpublished material from Lewerentz's estate held at ArkDes, Sweden's national center for architecture and design, alongside new essays by leading experts.

First publication on the work and philosophy of London-based 6a architects.

The name Montessori is widely and inextricably associated with an entirely child-centered and careful pedagogy and education of children. Maria Montessori (1870-1952) was an Italian physician, reform educator, and philosopher whose ideas and work have remained influential throughout the world ever since the 1910s. Her educational concept covers the entirety of development from infancy to young adulthood. It is based on the image of the child as a "builder of his or her self" and therefore uses for the first time the form of open teaching and free work in a prepared learning environment. Montessori schools became trendsetting educational institutions early on, and their concept is strongly reflected in their architecture and equipment. Montessori Architecture is the first book that comprehensively addresses architectural design, construction, and the use of materials in and the furnishing of educational spaces according to Montessori's ideas. The book's first part explores spatial and design principles that make up good kindergarten and school buildings. In the second part, nine case studies are featured in detail through photographs, plans, and concise texts. These examples are located in Europe (the Netherlands, Belgium, Great Britain) as well as in tropical countries (Burkina Faso, Tanzania, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka). Thus, this highly illustrative volume offers practical advice and a wealth of information that is of utmost importance for the design of school buildings in general.

The Eishin Campus near Tokyo is Christopher Alexander's largest and most significant project based on the Pattern Language he developed in the 1970s together with Sara Ishikawa and Murray Silverstein, and is the first examination of Alexander's 'systems generating systems' theory and its application to a concrete building design.

Demonstrates a new approach to architecture in a world increasingly free of ideologies and references and offers a foundation for conceiving a non-referential architecture in such a non-referential world

Louis I. Kahn (1901-74) was one of the foremost architects in America during the twentieth century. His notable buildings include the Yale Study Center; the Salk Institute in La Jolla, California; and the Exeter Library in Exeter, New Hampshire. On February 12, 1969, Kahn gave a lecture at the School of Architecture at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zürich. Entitled Silence and Light, the lecture explains Kahn's spiritual understanding of architecture, which goes far deeper than simply constructing buildings. It also gives a remarkably prescient account of a belief in sustainable architecture that prefigures the twenty-first century's focus on green technology. The lecture is represented in transcripts in five different languages (German, Italian, English, French, and Spanish), as well as an audio recording of Kahn giving the lecture in English included on CD. To complement the original text, the editor has included a preface written by Kahn's close friend and fellow architect Balkrishna V. Doshi, as well as many of Kahn's own images and drawings, some of which have never been published before.

Das Bauen mit wiederverwendeten Bauteilen ist derzeit eines der meistbeachteten Phänomene der europäischen Architekturdiskussion. Dieses 2021 in Deutsch erschienene und nun auch in Englisch vorliegende Buch ist ein umfassendes Kompendium, das allen Fragen zur Wiederverwendung von Bauteilen im Detail nachgeht.Interdisziplinäre Fachgespräche verorten die Wiederverwendung innerhalb der Rahmenbedingungen heutiger Bau- und Planungspraxis, Essays stellen zirkulär gedachte Bauten und Konstruktionen vor, acht Thesen zeigen architektonische Herausforderungen sowie Potenziale und ein umfassender Aufsatz erläutert die Kulturgeschichte der Bauteilwiederverwendung.Mit Beiträgen von Andreas Abegg, Marc Angst, Guido Brandi, Barbara Buser, Arne Vande Capelle, Michael Eidenbenz, Nathanea Elte, Deborah Fehlmann, Patric Fischli-Boson, Oya Atalay Franck, Michaël Ghyoot, Pascal Hentschel, Meinrad Huser, Christian Kohler, Marc Loeliger, Ákos Moravánszky, Kerstin Müller, Andreas Oefner, Katrin Pfäffli, Michael Pöll, Tina Puffert, François Renaud, Barbara Rentsch, Alexis Ringli, Andreas Sonderegger, Eva Stricker, Cyrille Veron und Barbara Zeleny.

New edition of the most comprehensive survey of modern architecture in Africa to date that explores the close relationship between architecture and nation building after African countries gained independence from their former colonial powers.

The first book on the use of robotic technology in landscape design, introducing new, dynamic methods and previously inconceivable scenarios for implementation.

First-ever monograph on Johan Celsing, one of Sweden's most renowned contemporary architects, offering a uniquely intimate portrait of the architect and his work.

A documentation of Villa Carlsten on the Falsterbo peninsula in southern Sweden, designed by Austrian-born architect Josef Frank in 1926-27. Lavishly illustrated in colour throughout, highlights the building's outstanding qualities and puts it in context with Frank's other work in architecture.

This new book focuses on 'Features' - a selection of nine essays by renowned British architectural critic and scholar Irenee Scalbert, comprising detailed studies of major buildings and pieces that represent broader studies of historical movements and ideas.

A documentation of a seminal and internationally recognised re-naturalisation project for a river in Switzerland.

An authoritative overview of Northern Italy's modernist architecture between 1946 and 1976, providing a handy guide book for architecture lovers and professionals alike.

An authoritative overview of Northern Italy's modernist architecture between 1946 and 1976, forming a handy guide for architecture lovers and professionals alike.

The first monograph on Alberto Ponis, featuring much previously unpublished material.