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Architectural objects confront their environment. They constitute a boundary, a form with an internalised point of view.

Architecture is the quintessential generalist pursuit, requiring practical knowledge of geometry, technology, politics, history, culture, and economics, as well as an understanding how these disparate pieces fit together within the context of architectural practice. In short, an architect's expertise lies in big picture constructs, or totalisation.

HEC Paris is a leading European school of advanced business studies with a global community of students from Europe, North and South America, Asia, Africa, and the Middle East.

Utopia and Collapse documents the rise and fall of Metsamor, Armenia's 'Atomograd' in topical essays and photographic research and visual mapping by Hungarian artist and photographer Katharina Roters.

Since 2014, CARTHA has provided a platform for critical thinking on architecture and society. Each year, CARTHA initiates research and publishes issues on a topic in its online magazine, which are then brought together in an annual book.

In architecture, nothing is ever truly new; everything has been tried before. And nowhere is this more evident than in the architecture of housing.

The first monograph of the work of neri & hu design and research office, featuring previously unpublished material.

First volume of a five-volume set documenting the complex and innovative St Gallen hospital extension project in Switzerland. Text in English and German.

A building monograph documenting OEAMTC's innovative new headquarters in Vienna and its collaborative project development process.

Documents Kashef Chowdhury's fascinating display at the 2016 International Architecture Exhibition of the Venice Biennale.

An urbanist research project on concepts of social space rooted in land domestication and landscape idolatry; and an exploration of the role agriculture played in modern Israel's urbanisation processes, creation of a national narrative, and changes in local climate.

First monograph on this significant representative of Italy's post-war modernism.

Presents latest research on settlement structures that belong neither fully to metropolitan nor to rural spaces.

Offers an overview of work by young architects in Latin America, sheds light on practice and aesthetics in contemporary Latin American architecture, and looks at the manifold difficulties and challenges faced by local architects.

Features the fifty winning and shortlisted designs submitted for the 2018 international Wienerberger Brick Award, richly illustrated with atmospheric images and plans and complemented with topical essays by renowned international authors.

The Climate Garden experiment enables the experience of climate change's consequences firsthand. This new book serves as manual for its implementation on a local or regional level anywhere in the world.

An exploration of Edelaar Mosayebi Inderbitzin Architects' interest in the garden as a topos and its meaning for their work, and a documentation of their temporary garden installation in Berlin in 2016.

Baku is a textbook case of the interdependency between energy extraction and urban design, and is featured in this first comprehensive study on the close interplay between the oil industry and urbanism.

Offers fourteen previously unpublished essays by Lars Lerup, who ranks among the most significant teachers and researchers in the theory of urbanisation.

An unusual, surprising 100-fold encounter with Mies van der Rohe and his work.

Alfred Neumann is regarded as one of Israel's most significant architects, and this is the first comprehensive critical overview of his built and unbuilt work, his theories and methodology.

An important contribution to the discourses on the social integration of refugees and the requirements mass migration movement create in architecture and urban design, and featuring essays with and contributions by high-profile figures in academia, international architecture and design firms.

A revised edition of the 2001 original, this is an intellectual introduction to iconic ideas of modern living by Inaki Abalos who ranks as one of the most significant contemporary teachers of architecture.

A handy guidebook to significant historic architecture in Lower Austria, which is a popular tourist destination around Vienna.

Cedric Price is revered as one of the 20th century's most highly original architectural theorists, whose ideas and concepts are much recognised to the present day, and this is the first comprehensive presentation of Prices' radical thinking and his visions.

New survey of award-winning contemporary architecture in Austria, including around 170 projects presented with text, images and plans.

Berlin's Tiergarten is a metropolitan biotope of unique biodiversity and a vast public space beyond economic, cultural, political, or urban conventions, and this book examines this historic landscape from biological, socio-cultural, historical, urbanist, and socio-political perspectives.

Dietmar Steiner ranks among Europe's most eminent architectural experts, and here his diary of observations about international architecture in recent decades contributes to the understanding of current trends.

First book in English on architect Rolf Muhlethaler.