Landscape Site Grading PrinciplesGrading with Design in Mind

A complete guide to site grading for designers and other visual learners Grading With Design in Mind: Landscape Site Grading Principles is a comprehensive guide to grading, written specifically from the design perspective. Heavily illustrated and non-technical, this book meets the needs of designers and visual learners by presenting the principles and methods of site grading with less emphasi…

The Diaspora of BelongingGentrification, Systems of Oppression, and Why Our C…

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Lighting Design Basics

Lighting is a basic, yet difficult-to-master, element of interior design, and Lighting Design Basics provides the information you need in a concise, highly visual format. Two leading designers, both with decades of experience, offer straightforward coverage of concepts and techniques, and present realistic goals you can use as guides to creating simple, typical lighting designs and when collabo…

Emerging TalentsTraining Architects

There is a newfound interest in architectural education. This AD is a survey of some of the best contemporary architecture student work in the world. The most forward-looking architecture schools worldwide are reinventing pedagogy in the hope of developing radical syllabi that are a rich mix of the virtual and the actual. Design education is changing and adapting to compensate for the new mater…

Made by RobotsChallenging Architecture at a Larger Scale

Although highly ambitious and sophisticated, most attempts at using robotic processes in architecture remain the exception; little more than prototypes or even failures at a larger scale. This is because the general approach is either to automate existing manual processes or the complete construction process. However, the real potential of robots remains unexploited if used merely for the execu…

Confucius' CourtyardArchitecture, Philosophy and the Good Life in China

For more than three thousand years, Chinese life – from the city and the imperial palace, to the temple, the market and the family home – was configured around the courtyard. So too were the accomplishments of China's artistic, philosophical and institutional classes. Confucius' Courtyard tells the story of how the courtyard – that most singular and persistent architectural form – holds…

Make SpaceHow to Set the Stage for Creative Collaboration

"If you are determined to encourage creativity and provide a collaborative environment that will bring out the best in people, you will want this book by your side at all times." —Bill Moggridge, Director of the Smithsonian's Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum " Make Space is an articulate account about the importance of space; how we think about it, build it and thrive in it." —James P…

Berlin ContemporaryArchitecture and Politics After 1990

For years following reunification, Berlin was the largest construction site in Europe, with striking new architecture proliferating throughout the city in the 1990s and early 2000s. Among the most visible and the most contested of the new projects were those designed for the national government and its related functions. Berlin Contemporary explores these buildings and plans, tracing their ante…

Machine LandscapesArchitectures of the Post Anthropocene

The most significant architectural spaces in the world are now entirely empty of people. The data centres, telecommunications networks, distribution warehouses, unmanned ports and industrialised agriculture that define the very nature of who we are today are at the same time places we can never visit. Instead they are occupied by server stacks and hard drives, logistics bots and mobile shelving…

Espacios ZeroCasa/Vivienda, Territorio Y Tiempo

El espacio que antes de ser algo otro es aún muy poco o casi nada puede ser origen de muchas cosas. Espacios Zero es un nombre genérico para referirnos a vacíos, ámbitos, fragmentos, espacios o momentos que ofrecen o generan oportunidad no condicionada; susceptibles de ser utilizados o apropiados con libertad, por uno o por muchos; con carácter instantáneo, efímero o duradero; mediante a…