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The New Urbanism: Toward an Architecture of Community

The New Urbanism: Toward an Architecture of Community

by Peter Katz

The move to liveable communities--ideal ``small towns'' and neighborhoods where people work, live, play, and walk from place to place--is on. Profit from what a visionary group of architects leading this movement has learned about designing new ``small towns'' in Peter Katz's The New Urbanism. You'll discover the amazing potential for this kind of work as well as case studies, site plans, project analyses, and 180... (more)

Tadao Ando: Complete Works

by Tadao Ando?, Francesco Dal Co

This monograph covers all of Ando's work, examining in detail over 100 buildings and projects, illustrated drawings, sketches, plans and other material from the artist's studio.

Paul Rudolph: The Florida Houses

by Christopher Domin

Paul Rudolph, one of the 20th century's most iconoclastic architects, is best known-and most maligned-for his large "brutalist" buildings, like the Yale Art and Architecture Building. So it will surprise many to learn that early in his career he developed a series of houses that represent the unrivaled possibilities of a modest American modernism. With their distinctive natural landscapes, local architectural... (more)

Seaside: Making a Town in America

by Keller Easterling

Seaside provides a history of the town, interviews with its planners, zoning and building codes, and drawings, photographs, and descriptions of over 120 buildings by 40 architects.

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