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KINO architects - Kyoto/Tokyo ??/?? (De aedibus international) (Bilingual Edition)

Fri, 21 Aug 2026 14:48:11 +0000

Masahiro Kinoshita designs spaces and landscapes that focus on people and community: from kindergartens and libraries to cemeteries, office buildings and residential buildings. Text in English and Japanese.

With his Tokyo and Kyoto-based firm KINO architects, founded in 200..

Price: $49.50

Mesoamérica Moderna (Spanish Edition)

Mon, 10 Aug 2026 18:13:55 +0000

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Price: $79.95

The Age of Spectacle (Adventures in Architecture and the 21st-Century City)

Tue, 04 Aug 2026 14:56:45 +0000

In Dubai, a luxury apartment block is built in the shape of a giant iPod. In China, President Xi Jinping denounces the trend of constructing "bizarre" new buildings in wacky shapes and colors. In Cincinnati, celebrity architect Zaha Hadid is paid millions to design a single "iconic’ struct..

Price: $19.95

Retrospecta 49: Yale School of Architecture 2025-26 (Arriving, Becoming, Departing)

Sun, 19 Jul 2026 01:34:04 +0000

Retrospecta 49 collects design and research work from Yale School of Architecture from 2025 to 2026.

Architecture is often described through buildings, drawings, and ideas. Yet architectural education is equally shaped by the people who bring those works into being. Yale School of Ar..

Price: $35.00

Advanced Architecture 2001-2051 (Prototyping the Future)

Sat, 18 Jul 2026 01:36:03 +0000

For 25 years, the Institute for Advanced Architecture of Catalonia—a center for education, research, and innovation based in Barcelona—has explored the potential of architecture to anticipate and prototype futures.

This book brings together research and projects that articulate the r..

Price: $54.95

Like Songs About Airports

Thu, 09 Jul 2026 10:04:06 +0000

Poems and essays by the late revolutionary geographer.

Leijia Hanrahan (1987–2022) was a revolutionary, geographer, essayist and poet. This collection of poems and essays, a sequence of places lived and traversed, of avenues and cartographies, traces the human geography of lives enab..

Price: $21.95

The Mannerist Phase in Architecture (On Early Style)

Fri, 03 Jul 2026 19:01:49 +0000

This book frames mannerism as an inescapable stage in the creative process. The mannerist phase is usually an adolescent stage of language, preceding the consolidation of thought. It is that period when architects design spaces, not yet knowing what it means to design places.

Price: $33.99

Decoding Luigi Moretti's Architettura Parametrica (Negotiating Theory and Practice in the Forecasting of Computer-Aided Architectural Design)

Fri, 03 Jul 2026 18:38:26 +0000

Decoding Luigi Moretti’s Architettura Parametrica presents an unprecedented critical discussion of one of the earliest theoretical and practical explorations into the integration of scientific thought, mathematical models and digital tools in architectural design.

Price: $33.99

The Sphere and the Labyrinth, updated 40th anniversary edition (Avant-Gardes and Architecture from Piranesi to the 1970s)

Wed, 01 Jul 2026 05:13:02 +0000

The 40th anniversary updated edition of the highly influential foundational text that changed how we think about architecture, the limits of avant-garde movements, and the connection between design, power, and politics.

The Sphere and the Labyrinth by Manfredo Tafuri reshaped ..

Price: $60.00

Forever Young (A Critical History of Student Accommodation)

Wed, 01 Jul 2026 04:47:14 +0000

Set against the emergence of medieval colleges, Forever Young traces the architectural history of student housing from its origins to the present day. It situates case studies within key moments of educational reform, from the medieval colleges of Paris, Oxford, Cambridge, and Bologna, the Isla..

Price: $41.99