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Get to know Tadao Ando, the only architect to have won the discipline’s four most prestigious prizes: the Pritzker, Carlsberg, Praemium Imperiale, and Kyoto Prize. This succinct introduction explores ...

Despite being shut down by the Nazis after just fourteen years in existence, the Bauhaus art school stands as one of the defining movements of modern history. This book introduces the school’s commitm...

Window frames curve like flowering branches and ceramic tiling shimmers like reptilian skin in the fervent architectural imagination of Antoni Gaudí. This introduction to the modernist Catalan archite...

Ever since Henry David Thoreaus described his two years, two months, and two days of refuge existence at Walden Pond, Massachusetts, in Walden, or, Life in the Woods (1854), the idea of a cabin dwelli...

From his Great (Bamboo) Wall house to the Japan National Stadium for the Tokyo Olympic Summer Games, originally planned for 2020, Japanese architect Kengo Kuma pioneered a truly sustainable approach t...

Over the years, talented architects have occasionally indulged themselves with the challenge of designing small but perfectly formed buildings. Today, with reduced budgets, many architects have turned...

"The Tower is also present to the entire world... a universal symbol of Paris... from the Midwest to Australia, there is no journey to France which isnt made, somehow, in the Towers name."

The contemporary architecture of Japan has long been among the most inventive in the world, recognized for sustainability and infinite creativity. No fewer than seven Japanese architects have won the ...

Open the door into 100 of the most beautiful and pioneering houses of the past two decades. With featured architects including Daniel Libeskind, Herzog & de Meuron, and Zaha Hadid, this is a dependabl...

Bem-vindo ao espaço onde a imaginação arquitetônica voará com este catálogo atraente de telhados urbanos em todo o mundo. Desde jardins exuberantes até os bares mais glamourosos, cada projeto é aprese...

From artworks, design, and everyday objects to political posters and flags, Stasi equipment, and uniforms: sift through never-before-seen archives in this encyclopedia of socialist East Germany. Based...

Including, of course, many of the world’s most famous architectural structures, Seidler’s photographs illustrate the history and style—country by country—of architecture in Europe, the Middle East, As...

Not so very long ago, some might have considered wood a material of the past, long since replaced by more modern components such as concrete and steel. The truth is radically different. Bolstered by n...

Not so very long ago, some might have considered wood a material of the past, long since replaced by more modern components such as concrete and steel. The truth is radically different. Bolstered by n...

Building is one of very few endeavours that are physically connected to the surface of the earth, fixed and enduring. Nevertheless, for centuries, especially in the West, we have considered ourselves ...

Descubra la selección más exquisita de viviendas nuevas del mundo, desde pequeñas casas de campo y lujosas villas hasta residencias de playa y refugios en bosques. Este cuidado compendio global cuenta...

Esta edição atualizada reúne as residências e interiores mais destacados da região e inclui explicações reveladoras, imagens evocativas de página dupla e novas fotografias. Este livro apresenta uma im...

With more than 280 entries, this architectural A–Z, now part of our Bibliotheca Universalis series, offers an indispensable overview of the key players in the creation of modern space. From the period...

Indoor-outdoor flow meets clean, crisp modernism in the structures of Austrian-American Richard Neutra, master of postwar architecture whose cool, sleek style synthesized technology with nature. This ...

Neste volume ilustrado sobre casas nômades, Philip Jodidio explora alguns dos exemplos mais notáveis de lares em movimento, de Airstreams renovados e casas de luxo inteligentes para habitação de refug...

Este livro cobre casas pré-fabricadas EE. UU. e da Europa para a Ásia e África , e fornece detalhes sobre os vários componentes pré-fabricados industrialmente, dificuldades de transporte para o cante...

Offering a rare glimpse inside the Hermit Kingdom, Guardian journalist and photographer Oliver Wainwright takes us on an architectural journey behind closed doors in the world’s most secretive country...

At the turn of the 20th century, architecture took an imaginative leap. As new construction materials and technologies met such far-flung stimuli as the Far East, Nirvana, and the unleashed unconsciou...

Esta monografia atualizada inclui todas as contribuições colaborativas originais de Calatrava, bem como seus projetos mais recentes. Do Centro de Transporte do World Trade Center em Manhattan até o Mu...

In this vivid new examination of a rogue architectural style, discover the roadside structures of California. Fresh discoveries and several pictorial essays explore how these buildings became synonymo...

This collection is a look through the microscope at the real fundamentals of our buildings, revealing the essential design techniques used by any architect, anywhere, anytime. Conceived by Rem Koolhaa...

Frank Lloyd Wright’s paradigm-shifting projects. This authoritative overview, based on TASCHEN’s previous three-volume monograph and unlimited access to the Frank Lloyd Wright archives, scours the len...

Hemos buscado a lo largo y ancho, a través de las junglas y los desiertos africanos, en ciudades y reservas naturales, islas y montañas, para descubrir los hogares más inspiradores del continente. Nue...