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This issue hopes to interpret and display the treasured qualities of urban wildernesses and inspire landscape architects to strike the balance between urban wildernesses and human settlements via ecological planting methods that facilitate natural evolution and ecological flows.

In this inspiring picture book, Po Po brings to light the hardships and discrimination that many endured in eight events that took place in American history.

The lush surreal illustrations of this book and its short humouristic story telling make it a fun, quick read for all ages and for anyone obliquely interested in our thirst for development and the nature of who we are.

The book presents the history of this phenomenon for the past hundred years.

Supertall | Megatall: How High Can We Go? highlights the design, sustainability, innovative technology, programming, and contextualism that defines supertall and megatall towers.

RESIDENSITY: A Carbon Analysis of Residential Typologies is the culmination of a seven-year study analysing nine building typologies to understand the relationships between building densities and the amount of land and infrastructure required to support them.

Designing the Computational Image, Imagining Computational Design explores this period of remarkable inventiveness, and traces its repercussions on architecture and other creative fields through a selection of computational designers working today.

Adrian Smith + Gordon Gill Architecture's, 2006-2020 monograph showcases the spectacular work of the firm from the first 15 years of its practice through drawings, renderings, model photography, photography of built work, competition entries, exhibition materials, master plans, interiors, and special research projects and publications.

Adrian Smith + Gordon Gill Architecture's Performance + Assembly: The Experience of Space covers a range of performance and assembly spaces designed by AS+GG from central spaces in the world's largest expositions to small, flexible high-technology theatres to expressive and functional auditoriums.

A tale of death and intrigue examines arrogance, ambition, and redemption. Who will succeed - and at what cost?

The general reading public is likely to think of architecture as buildings. But, with this book, Robert Steinberg would like to help readers understand that architecture shapes lives. Architecture can help communities integrate and thrive.

Thirteen Ways of Looking at a House both participates in and critiques this contemporary tradition.

Fun Mill. The Architecture of Creative Industry in Contemporary China looks closely on transforming existing real estate by promoting creative clusters, starting with specific architectures that are examined using an open-minded approach.

Wide-ranging, captivating, and deeply introspective, the memoir of William Zeckendorf Jr. (1929-2014) documents the celebrated real estate developer's impact on New York City, Washington, D.C., and Santa Fe.

Situationist Funhouse is a joyride through the history of G. H. Hovagimyan is an absurdist, a strategist, a serial collaborator in the arts.

This book considers the architectural cooperative: a critical mode of practice that is equitable, democratic, and addresses systemic inequalities plaguing the profession.

Composed as a geopolitical treatise, this book proposes a counter-map to rebuild relations with the Cinchona plant and to challenge territorial destruction that continue to increase amidst state-sanctioned resource extraction and benevolent conservation.

The book analyses the current digital turn in the architecture from multiple perspectives, raising awareness on its social and cultural implications and prefiguring the rise of an alternative and possible architecture.

Through the presentation of 14 projects alongside essays by leading voices in the history and preservation of New York City, DXA Ten Years explores the deep, inextricable relationship between the unique past and future potential of architecture that defines DXA's practice.

The book is a systematic critique, sometimes acerbic, of some 21st century trends in architectural design, trends that have become assertively extreme (or indefensibly peculiar) in their approaches to form.

California architect Maria Ogrydziak shares eight residential case studies for extraordinary living in the Central Valley.

Issue 14 of LA+ Journal brings you the results of the LA+ CREATURE international design ideas competition, which explored how we can use design to achieve a more symbiotic existence with other creatures.

This book represents a collection of stories of posthuman architectures, structured in a way to face the topic from both a vertical and a horizontal perspective.

The experiments in the book are a collection of design and build projects conducted from the Department of Architecture at the University of Hong Kong over the past 10 years and represent a direct reflection of the incredible diversity of climates, locations, and conditions that underlie the ongoing Chinese urbanisation experiment.

Shobac is recognised internationally as the masterwork of famed Canadian architect Brian Mackay-Lyons.

Emergence of a Modern Dwelling: Richard Neutra's Hassrick House is the first publication sponsored by Thomas Jefferson University's Center for the Preservation of Modernism and fulfills a key goal of the Center-to spotlight architecture and sites of the modern movement.

From a distance, all of the discussed topics start to intertwine and melt into each other, becoming a wider reflection on the topicality of the international component in the portfolios of future architects.

A select international group of landscape architects and historians discuss the subject of planting design through the lens of their own work, contemporary and historical.

On Rigor provides an engaging, in-depth look at 13 seminal residential and commercial projects by critically acclaimed Johnsen Schmaling Architects, whose award-winning work is widely known for its conceptual rigor, serene simplicity, and an unequivocal commitment to architectural innovation and environmental sustainability.

This monograph features stunning reproductions of Stephen M. Sullivan's tradition-based, exquisitely detailed, high-end residential architecture and the themes that drive his work.