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This book is a compendium of American building types and other elements, buildable in today's world, that serve walkable neighbourhoods - a resource that should prove indispensable to those interested in dense communities and cities.

Pratt Sessions presents a series of conversations between notable practitioners and thinkers. It is a distributed symposium that is curated and yet open-ended.

This book is a inspirational guide into the world of fashion and all things beautiful.

Multi-disciplinary and broad in scope, this volume of essays and artworks converges perspectives on contemporary rurality from different academic and creative fields. It contains contributions from artists, geographers, architects, media scholars and anthropologists.

Issue 07 of LA+ Journal brings you the results of the LA+ IMAGINATION open international design ideas competition, in which we asked designers to create a new island.

Pressing Matters VI is an exciting compilation of design and research performed at PennDesign's Department of Architecture.

By nature Herb Cohen was actually an observer but he became a participant in the lives of his camera's reticent subjects because, simply, he loved engaging with the people he befriended.

Native Places is a collection of sixty-four watercolor sketches that are paired with mini-essays about architecture, landscape, everyday objects, and nature.

This book portrays the exquisite beauty that is found amid the ruins of a handful of tiny trading towns located along an ancient trade route in Rajasthan, India.

Translations examines the architecture and artwork of Sigrid Miller Pollin. Pollin has created a rich body of work, from residential and academic buildings to furniture and artwork inspired by the natural world.

Modern to Classic II: Residential Estates by Landry Design Group explores the Los Angeles firm's recent work, defined by an eclectic range of references and styles.

The field of robotics is coming of age. Robotics and artificial intelligence represent the next cutting edge technology to transform the fields of architecture and design.

A graphic survey of the endangered ancient stone mosques of the Maldives.

Explores our increasingly polarised view of urban growth, as either an opportunity or a threat, through the lens of architecture.

Highlights the recent work of this leading global design firm, including architecture, interior design, planning, urban design and product design.

The history of the earth is explored through the architect's mode of seeing and techniques of representation.

Showcase of the new building by Belzberg Architects, the Los Angeles Museum of the Holocaust, with its innovative concepts in building design and merger of sustainability with aesthetics.

The story of Blackbarn, the home that Mark Zeff designed and built for himself and his family.

Patrick Ahearn explains his urbanistic perspective, as well as how he works with clients to develop timeless, dream-houses.

The first monograph on an overlooked landscape architect, whose works are ecologically significant.

A re-interpretation of Robert Venturi's Rome, by two subsequent Rome Prize fellows, producing a text which is vital for young architects as they focus on the relationship between architecture, art and landscape.

Demonstrating a set of strategies to make Green Architecture feasible and practical, as well as suggesting ways architecture can be designed in favour of a benign living.

Addresses how design of low-density housing stock and neighbourhoods may better serve the common mobility, access and social needs of seniors.

Addresses a widespread yet rarely acknowledged blight that affects waterholes across the United States, and encourages trans-disciplinary communication between urban planners, ecological engineers and political decision-makers.

Illustrates the basis of the argument for a New Essentialism, through the examination of how architecture engages materials.

This book will transform your opinion of the humble bench, as it demonstrates ways in which benches orient, teach, create emotions and direct our "ways of seeing" in the garden.

A study on the single industry towns particular to Russia, established during the Soviet Union in uninhabited parts of the Siberian hinterland, and examining the challenges faced by those towns' populations, both historically and today.

A monograph on Locati Architects and Interiors, a firm dedicate to providing stellar building design, and whose motto is "Good Design Improves Lives" and this is realised in every one of their creations.

A photographic call for a renewed commitment to empower those enslaved, an estimated 36 million throughout the world who live without dignity or rights.

LA+ Risk invited contributors to consider the relationship between design and the evolving landscape of risk; to explore the ways in which risk shapes our behaviour and impacts our experiences of designed environments.