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Polycultural Environment Sustainable Cities
Desitecture is a research-based practice developing propositions which consider the future of polyculture and sustainable cities and the use of emerging materials and processes.
The work focuses on the potential for a creative response to societal change and commercial imperatives in a time of climate change. Desitectures high density and vertical city projects work have featured in exhibitions, publications, and at conferences internationally.
Design Research for Uncertain Futuresassembles a diverse group of thinkers and makers, and thinking-through-makers, to situate design research as a form of knowledge generation that is complementary to science, and especially needed now, given changing climates and uncertain futures. Our model of design research envisions a distinct and powerful role for design researchers to work confidently with uncertainty and to skillfully negotiate contested futures as part of creating more equitable and resilient worlds. Using the tools of design research, knowledge is built through an iterative process of questioning, probing, proposing, building, testing, analyzing and revising. The climate crises that are challenging our collective survival demands—indeed, provokes—bold partnerships among the curious and committed to align creativity, analytic rigor and the plurality of values in the broader contexts of uncertainty and experimentation.
Richard Neutra’s landmark publication 'Survival Through Design,' in print again for the first time in decades, is a cycle of essays providing insights far ahead of their time. With a new introduction by Dr. Barbara Lamprecht and foreword by Dr. Raymond Neutra, it is richly illustrated and intended as a reference for years to come. Neutra’s themes are wide-ranging and he extensively plumbs through history to develop his insights, however, the general theme of man-made environment and its impact on human physiological, neurological, emotional states over time, and the designer’s potential role as mediator of these conditions, is a constant throughout 'Survival Through Design' with ever greater relevance for the present day.
Delta Design Futures
ENDURANCE FOR NEW FRONTIERS
The Pearl River Delta region has been severely engineered throughout its process of historical emergence. As it is about to confront a new wave of changes in the present century driven by economic growth, industrial activity, and growth of maritime operations, the book proposes “endurance” as a way of urban design in the Pearl River Delta region to organize space around the changing frontiers between territory inhabited by people and South China Sea. The book addresses the urgency to counter the risks posed to the delta city-region by proposing scenarios for urban growth.
The design futures for the Pearl River Delta are formed by acknowledging the socio-political drift towards one direction above another, which influences the future organization or reorganization of space. The historical emergence of the river delta highlights the fact that it is conditioned to multiple directives and multiple transformations, which at the same time makes it exemplary yet idiosyncratic. Therefore, the scenarios of city-region development presented in the book, depict an integration of systems of flows, and the symbiosis of conflicting powers. A series of specific questions lead to principles that drive each future growth trajectory, which is represented through a series of diagrammatic logics in order to organize space through structures of landscape systems and those of new territories and networks.
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ARCHITECTURE AND NATION-BUILDING IN BANGLADESH
Muzharul Islam was one of the principal stalwarts of South Asia who established the norms and practices of modernity. Uniquely passionate about architecture and political engagement, Muzharul Islam’s life and legacy contributed to the building up of a vibrant architectural culture in Bangladesh, with an impact beyond the boundaries of that country. The book Muzharul Islam, An Architect of Tomorrow is the first comprehensive book on the architect featuring his works and texts, and essays by notable figures from across the world. Muzharul Islam (1923-2013) was active from the early 1950s in defining the scope and form of modern architecture, first in Pakistan and then, after 1971, in Bangladesh. His task was an enormous one: to create a modern yet Bengali paradigm for architecture. For Muzharul Islam, modernism meant more than an architectural vocabulary; it was part of an ethical and rational approach for addressing social inequities of the region. His steadfast commitment to a modernist ideology stemmed from an optimistic vision for transforming society. Consequently, his commitment for establishing a strong design culture in Bangladesh is paralleled by a deep engagement with the political and ethical dimension of society, with building the nation, so to speak.
Challenging Neoliberal Urbanization Between Crises
Cohabitation Strategies: Challenging Neoliberal Urbanization Between Crisis presents twelve years of urban theories, projects, and interventions developed by Cohabitation Strategies, a Rotterdam- and New York City-based non-profit cooperative committed to radical socio-spatial research, design, and development. Centering on the development of new action-research methodologies, neighborhood-based initiatives, and the facilitation of community-driven transformative interventions, the book offers critical insights and progressive visions on the dramatic impact that neoliberal spatial-restructuring had in communities of color and low-income neighborhoods in the Netherlands, Italy, France, Canada, and the United States.
From the French Hôtel to the City of Modern Architecture
The French Hôtel, an aristocratic Paris townhouse, is to the art of the plan as the Venetian Palace is to the art of the facade—the quintessential level of architectural achievement. The development of the hôtel between approximately 1550 and 1800 chronicles the formal transformation from an embedded urban building type to a free-standing suburban building type; it also illuminates the social transformation from total emphasis on the public realm under Louis XIV, to the dominance of private life in our time. In contrast to the principles of continuity and regularity of classical buildings, the design principles of the hôtels were based on discontinuity and irregularity, allowing freer, more adaptable architectural compositions. The French Hôtel is a direct ancestor of the modern “free-plan,” thus enabling a rich contemporary architectural vocabulary.
The Soul of Architecture
As a contributor to the esteemed magazine l’architettura, under the discerning eye of Bruno Zevi, I first encountered the architectural brilliance of Arthur Dyson through a 1995 article on the Jaksha House. My fascination deepened during a pilgrimage to the United States in 2007, where I met Dyson in person, igniting an insatiable desire for a profound understanding of his work. This desire crystallized over the years, ultimately inspiring the writing of this book. Dyson’s architecture, resplendent and visionary, emerges from a wellspring of fervent creativity and an intimate engagement with the unique qualities of its inhabitants. As an authentic organic architect, he envisions a reality that transcends the present, evolving into forms and narratives that are in perpetual flux. The remarkable Jaksha House serves as a precursor to the emblematic Woods House, which in turn leads to the spatial grace of the Hilton House. These are complemented by urban interventions such as the Webster Elementary School and the Selma Police Station, while the ethereal essence of the Betsuin Buddhist Temple offers a contemplative pause, resonating with spiritual depth.
The idea of “environment” is foundational to landscape architecture – as backdrop, as surround, as something to help save. But what is the environment, or an environment? First and foremost, it is a word that is so pervasive—and its meaning taken for granted—that it is easily forgotten how recently the term has proliferated, particularly as a qualifier for myriad disciplines, institutions, and activities: environmental history, environmental studies, environmental science, environmental justice, environmental art, environmental planning, environmental protection, environmentalism. In our upcoming issue, LA+ ENVIRONMENT, designers and scholars illuminate the wide range of interpretations, histories, and projects that engage with this elusive idea.
The Work of Maryann Thompson
Between Shadow and Light is the first comprehensive monograph on the work of Cambridge-based architect Maryann Thompson. As one of her clients recently declared, Thompson inhabits a “liminal” space, a space of both-and, of inside and outside, of light and shadow.[1] It is a dialogic space, a position from which to examine a situation from multiple perspectives, to facilitate opportunities for discussion, and, ultimately, to seek a consensual basis for design. For Thompson, architecture is the stage on which we live out our lives, a philosophy that foregrounds its inherent symbolism, its ability to arouse our emotions, to challenge our preconceptions, and to provide sites of individual solace and respite from quotidian affairs as well as of heightened collective interaction. Her inclusive design process encompasses extended conversations with clients, patrons, users, and ultimately with the public at large—all envisioned as a means to address the collective social dimension of the work.
Modern, Again: The Benda House & Garden in Chicagoland is equal parts a history of modern residential architecture in America and a rewarding journey of preservation and stewardship. Ambrose and Sabatino—co-authors of this book and co-owners of the Winston Elting designed Benda house—summarize their in-depth archival research and hands-on work undertaken for the restoration of their 1939 International Style house in Riverside, a historic village designed by Olmsted & Vaux in Chicago’s western suburbs. The Benda House was commissioned during a time when excitement for modern architecture, art, and design was very much alive amongst the public in America, partly due to the enthusiasm created by Chicago’s Century of Progress International Exposition held between 1933 and 1934 and culminated with the New York World’s Fair of 1939. This book features archival materials ranging from architectural drawings to historic building product catalogues alongside contemporary photographs taken before and after the restoration process. Finally, the co-authors discuss their addition of a new landscaped garden that re-establishes the relationship between nature and this modern house while extending Olmsted’s vision of idealized suburban living in America.
DRIVEN: The Road to Iconic Design invites readers into the world of award-winning classical architect Patrick Ahearn, FAIA, where automotive artistry intersects with timeless architectural design. In DRIVEN, his third published volume, Ahearn shares his ambitious pursuit of the extraordinary with a focus on bespoke carriage houses featured in so many of his legacy properties and classic cars that have shaped his design purview throughout his career.
Whether freestanding or seamlessly connected to the main residence, these exquisitely crafted carriage houses are tailored to their owners’ lives and dreams. Not just home to prized automobiles, they offer everything from gracious guest quarters to collector’s galleries, angler’s lounges, poolside retreats and elegant entertaining spaces.
Through ten inspiring projects, Ahearn reveals how these architectural gems elevate both the form and function of a property. Interwoven throughout are classic automobiles that have impacted Ahearn’s life, each photographed against the backdrop of one of his homes, creating a dialogue between enduring forms of excellence.
With captivating photography and thoughtful narrative, DRIVEN will inspire architecture enthusiasts, car aficionados, and design connoisseurs alike with a celebration of historically inspired architecture, classic automobiles, and Ahearn’s lifelong journey towards iconic design.
A Long View explores the award-winning residential design of Bohlin Cywinski Jackson through the lens of fifteen private residences across the United States and Canada. With a curated selection of homes completed between 2016 and 2026, the book tells the story of how BCJ’s work has evolved across a wider range of geographical regions and fresh material expressions, led by an emergent group of design voices within the practice who are carrying forward its ethos of humane, deeply collaborative design.
The homes presented here exist in diverse settings: from a rustic retreat in the wilderness of Ontario to the transformation of an existing Pittsburgh home into a container for light; a home embedded in a sagebrush-covered butte in Wyoming to a delicate wood framed guest cabin on a remote island in the Pacific Northwest. Each resonates within its unique circumstances of client, place, and material.
The award-winning landscape architecture firm Virginia Burt Designs is widely celebrated for a diverse body of work—including landscapes and gardens for private individuals, therapeutic gardens for hospitals, estate master plans, and native landscape restoration, in both the United States and Canada—that is at once beautiful and profoundly meaningful. A holistic approach to design and realization serves as the foundation to each project, expressing a respect for people and place while also attending to our physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual experience of space.
Published upon the firm’s thirtieth anniversary, Capturing Essence features seventeen projects that collectively express the firm’s ethos and encapsulate the expansive nature of its work—from a site of transformation and environmental restoration at Acadia Point in Nova Scotia, a former whaling station and now place of renewal, to Schneider Healing Garden, expressly designed as a healing garden to support the mission of the Seidman Cancer Center in Cleveland.
The book provides an experience of these extraordinary spaces, through words and images, through touch and imagination, through story and inspiration. An invitingly tactile and sensuous object, Capturing Essence is a natural expression of the work of the firm, made with care and an attention to detail, to materials, to form, and to spirit.
To build a home is perhaps the most primal form of architecture. A place of complete particularity to human existence, houses both influence and incubate individuality. A house situates the fragile territory between container and creator, “the house shelters day-dreaming, the house protects the dreamer, the house allows one to dream in peace” (Bachelard). This selection of 20 houses by Patrick Tighe shows a diverse spectrum of work, all tied by a shared occupation of the west coast. His work highlights the dramatic variance that can exist within residential architecture, how each project has been approached organically and intuitively but held by the familiar siting among the “smoke and goldenness of the late afternoon of time” (Kerouac, Out/West).
This selection of ninety halls traces their evolution from the baroque era to the latest innovations and explains how architects and acousticians enrich the experience of playing and listening. It’s a celebration of two arts that support each other and of a glorious legacy that is constantly renewing itself.
Architectural writer Michael Webb and music impresario Thomas Aujero Small travelled all over Europe, exploring theaters, talking to their artistic directors and attending performances. They chose exemplars, grand or modest, which delight the eyes and the ears, while embodying a rich heritage or building a new audience. Their account of the history, architecture and programming of each theater is illustrated with 190 vivid images.
The halls are featured chronologically, with break-out chapters on the musical capitals of Berlin, Vienna, Paris, Prague and London, as well as festivals and music academies. Yasuhisa Toyota, who worked on eight of the halls, offers his insights on acoustics. Renzo Piano and Esa-Pekka Salonen contributed forewords.
This is a perfect gift for opera-lovers, concertgoers, and everyone who is captivated by great architecture and design, old or new. It will also serve as a guide to inspire cultural tours of European cities, small towns and summer festivals.
In this compelling photographic journey Arthur Becker captures the intensity and power of the ceiling frescoes of the Renaissance and Baroque periods. Vividly presented here in all of their diversity and splendor, these illusionistic ceilings, mainly located in the churches and palaces of sixteenth to early eighteenth-century Italy but also found in Austria, Germany, and Spain, are revealed as dazzling examples of Italian artistic imagination by some of the major figures of the period, including Mantegna, Melozzo da Forlì, Michelangelo, Correggio, Tintoretto, the Carracci, Caravaggio, Guercino, Guido Reni, Giovanni Battista Gaulli, Andrea Pozzo, Sebastiano Ricci, and the Tiepolo dynasty.
These images, many of which represent turning-points in the history of art, are accompanied by an in-depth introductory essay placing them in context by the art and architectural historian Daniel Sherer, who teaches at the Princeton University School of Architecture, and concise descriptions by Brian Kish, a well-known expert on Italian art and design. Bringing together in one place these remarkable frescoes for the first time, this book will be indispensable for art historians, connoisseurs of photography, and all those interested in Renaissance and Baroque art.
Saarinen’s Munkkiniemi-Haaga (1910–15), was commissioned by businessman Julius Tallberg. His masterplan bears the influences of urban thinkers like Camillo Sitte, Raymond Unwin, as well as Georges-Eugène Haussmann. Saarinen provided urban and building typologies, which included terraced houses (a new development in Finland), and blocks with apartments centered around courtyards. The unrealized plan was published in book form as well as a model. As part of Tallberg’s Pro Helsingfors project (1918), Saarinen’s future vision for Helsinki envisaged a decentralized but radial organization linking various nodes to the urban centre by an ample hierarchy of streets. Saarinen’s social vision included accommodating citizens with a a mix of various income levels.
Classicism is not a style; it is the philosophy of free will nurtured by tradition.In a series of tightly argued essays, the author discusses the role of imitation, tectonics, ornament and originality in architecture, showing that the classical is that which speaks of tradition always in a modern voice.
In the first chapter the author examines the theory of imitation, the position it occupies in classical thought and the way by which it can be shown that imitation is at the core of both traditional and modernist art. The second chapter is devoted to the significance of tectonics in architecture. The third chapter examines the relations between building and architecture and the way in which we may say that “classicism is not a style.” The fourth chapter studies classical ornament and the role it plays in architecture. The fifth chapter addresses the principles of the traditional city and makes the claim for revitalizing common sense. Finally, in the sixth chapter, the author looks at what tradition really means and how it relates to modernity. The book also features an extensive appendix that makes accessible to readers excerpts from some of the most important classical texts relating to architecture.
What does it take to design a capital city for a culturally diverse nation from the ground up? This book offers a rare, behind-the-scenes look at Nusantara, the new capital of Indonesia, told through the eyes of the lead designer from its earliest conception to its current development.
Moving beyond public headlines, the narrative traces the transformation of Nusantara from its first conceptual sketches to monumental realization of foundations being laid on site. Readers are invited to unpack the intricate urban vision and complex planning processes that have defined this “Forest City.” The book documents the technical milestones and early implementation challenges faced when designing at a national scale—a process where environmental resiliency, cultural identity, and bold national ambitions meet.
Featuring a foreword by the world-renowned urbanist Jon Lang, the text provides essential context for how high-level design decisions are made in a rapidly evolving landscape. Whether you are a professional architect, an urban planning student, or a member of the general public curious about Indonesia’s future, this book provides the definitive insider’s perspective on the birth of a 21st-century capital. It is a compelling exploration of a city designed to be a global benchmark for sustainable urbanism.
Hand drawing is arguably architecture’s oldest technology. Even as we plunge headlong into the age of artificial intelligence, drawing remains a timeless, intuitive, and powerful tool for exploring, explaining, and understanding both built and imagined environments. It remains a timeless tool for design thinking. This richly illustrated monograph features over 250 works from the 40-year career of architect Wesley L. Page, FAIA, ASAI, one of the nation’s top traditional media architectural illustrators. Rather than a “how-to” book of drawing tricks and techniques, it is a visual journal organized around a purpose-based approach to drawing architecture and how understanding the overlap of drawing, design, and storytelling can profoundly impact the power and effectiveness of architectural illustration. The drawings collectively represent a holistic approach to both conceiving of and executing drawings—not just drawing for illustration, but drawing to achieve a more intentionally targeted outcome driven by purpose and story. Every Picture Tells a Story is a virtual encyclopedia that displays compelling, beautiful evidence of the lasting relevance, appeal, and storytelling capacity of hand drawing in the digital age.
A collection of essays published from the 1970s to the present on architectural theory and architectural history.
This second Wild Side book continues to explore Elena Agostinis’s fascination with artists using the ordinary in extraordinary ways. In this book, the focus is on artists who make jewelry using materials not commonly associated with traditional jewelry-making.
While traveling afar, Elena’s profound realization was that people in the most far-flung places in the world all have this powerful urge to self-adorn. Despite never having been a jeweler, what she found fascinating was that the materials used by these artists and artisans are often simply what the earth yields. She’s tried to include works that illustrate these remarkable innovations and the materials used.
The wearable artworks chosen for this book all appear to comply with this extraordinary principle. Ms. Zanella’s work and the unique creations of so many other artists included here, all follow suit. Elena tried to carry this “lightness” through in my presentation of the artists’ creations as well.
The hope is that readers, conformists and non-conformists alike, will marvel at concepts that can open all our minds and hearts to a world of colorful, wearable art, enabling us to seek out, try on, to feel the “fit” and to understand its formidable existential effect.
Washington Alley Project: A Field Guide to Public Space Advocacy is a richly illustrated, practice-based guide that reimagines urban alleys as vital, inclusive, and participatory public spaces. Centered on Washington, D.C., this field guide blends design thinking, grassroots organizing, and urban policy to offer a replicable model for civic action in overlooked spaces.
At its core, the guide addresses a critical and often ignored component of urban design: the potential of alleys to serve as meaningful public spaces. In many American cities, alleys are perceived as hidden, utilitarian zones—reserved for waste collection, parking, or delivery access. The Washington Alley Project reframes this perception by demonstrating that alleys can support community interaction, small business growth, environmental sustainability, and artistic expression.
The guide is both a conceptual framework and a practical toolkit. Rather than focusing solely on design outcomes, the guide emphasizes process—an open, iterative model of engagement and exploration. Crucially, the guide illustrates how design professionals can play a central role in public space advocacy. As spatial thinkers and community connectors, designers are uniquely positioned to translate civic aspirations into tangible design interventions. The project includes several examples of author-led initiatives that have demonstrated the impact of thoughtful, small-scale design in transforming public perception around alleys.
Grounded in the success of the Washington Alley Project, the book provides both inspiration and instruction: visualizing forgotten spaces in new ways and offering the tools to make those visions real.
Timeless Homes of South Florida is an architectural and visual study of the region’s most distinguished private residences, celebrating homes defined by classical influence, disciplined proportion, and enduring craftsmanship. Featuring a curated collection of new builds, and landmark renovations, the book highlights estates where thoughtful massing, refined materials, and carefully composed forms create a lasting architectural presence.
From gracious Old Florida cottages to expansive British West Indies and Palm Beach–inspired residences, each home is presented as a balance of heritage and modern livability. Open floor plans, axial views, and seamless indoor-outdoor connections reflect a lifestyle shaped by climate, light, and landscape, while bespoke detailing and tailored interiors elevate each space.
More than a showcase of beautiful houses, this volume offers insight into architectural lineage, design intention, and the art of building with longevity in mind. Timeless Homes of South Florida is a sophisticated reference for design enthusiasts, architects, and collectors alike—an enduring tribute to elevated coastal living and the homes that define it.
What if schools were designed not just to educate, but to help students and teachers truly thrive?
Created through a powerful collaboration between educators and architects, Still Modern: Where Learning Lives reimagines school design as a force for well-being, resilience, and community connection. Drawing on Perkins&Will’s 90-year legacy in educational design, the book translates research on physical, social/emotional, and cognitive well-being into practical design strategies for learning environments that support the whole child — and the whole community.
The book reveals timeless design principles adaptable to any school, regardless of size or budget. Grounded in decades of practice and the enduring lessons of Crow Island—America’s first modern school—it offers an actionable vision of schools as places where learning, health, and human potential flourish.
Architecture has never been more challenged than it is today. Addressing the sheer scale of the triple challenges of environmental sustainability, in the form of climate change; the social, in the form of class, gender, and racial inequality; and the cultural, in terms of identity, exclusion, and prejudice, in particular against First Nations Peoples, is a seemingly overwhelming task for architecture.
At the same time, these great challenges come at a moment when architecture has never been so marginalised and diminished. The practice of architecture has been progressively desiccated, undermined, and commodified through the instrumental processes of the contemporary development industry and professional practice, together with the simplistic reductionism of media technology and market consumption demands.
How could this happen? How can the true nature of architecture have been so undermined?
Transparent Architecture 2 is an exploration of the nature of transparency in architecture, ranging from spatial and physical transparency, to a clarity of structure, to the dematerialization of the actual physical object, and further to evolving and expanding states of architectural awareness. This exploration is revealed through a juxtaposition of experimental drawing, subliminal texts, and actual constructed work. The projects in this book are an expansion of the approaches in the original Transparent Architecture. These projects begin with earlier experimental drawing, then the seminal ideas come to fruition years later in actual constructed work. Even across time, a consistent architectural stance emerges and seems to permeate all the work. The etymology of the word transparent is interesting. It has its origins in Latin, transparere, meaning to show through. Whereas the original Latin derivation is trans + parere, meaning to show oneself, thus suggesting both looking out, and looking in.
The built projects are fully congruent in spirit with the earlier investigations for which construction is not an issue. The question is how the architect moves from what appears immaterial to the transformation of the ideas into something very concrete. That which appears to unite both aspects is transparency. The work in this new book points to an architecture that seems to suggest a multiplicity of qualities. Paradoxically, it is also architecture that reveals itself and its own singular nature clearly. Activities happen all at once, in a seamless whole, in a simultaneity of experience, where the normal boundaries and usual edges do not hold. The experimental drawings, texts, and built projects on the following pages are visual and spatial explorations. They aim toward architecture that provokes thought, refines one’s abilities to see, and embraces the ongoing confluence and mutability of things. The inhabitant then moves through and interacts, in a live and changing world.
Richly illustrated, and accompanied by in-depth analysis, Flansburgh Architects: Structure, Form, Community 2010-2025 is the first-ever comprehensive monograph from one of America’s most prodigious makers of public buildings, bringing together twenty remarkable projects from around the country and around the world. Since its founding more than six decades ago, the Boston-based firm has built a reputation for a uniquely resourceful approach to institutional work, with designs that frequently make a virtue of constraint: in delicate urban as well as rural environments, in complex historical contexts and under challenging practical conditions, Flansburgh has again and again produced dazzling buildings that solve tough, real-world problems with grace and ingenuity to spare. In a sleek new international school in Croatia; at a rustic dance studio for the Jacob’s Pillow retreat in western Massachusetts; and in the new Lili’uokalani Center for at-risk youth in Honolulu, gleaming like a lighthouse on the nighttime streets—everywhere Flansburgh has left its mark, the practice’s dedication to an architecture of honesty and simplicity has made for stronger, more vibrant communities. Through images and words, this book affords a glimpse into fifteen years of extraordinary activity and accomplishment.
Richly illustrated, and accompanied by in-depth analysis, Flansburgh Architects: Structure, Form, Community 2010-2025 is the first-ever comprehensive monograph from one of America’s most prodigious makers of public buildings.
Too often, buildings are evaluated through narrow, predefined criteria—energy performance, regulatory compliance, cost, or aesthetic standards—creating a hierarchy in which the new appears rational and future-oriented while the existing is cast as obsolete, messy, and expendable. Demolition becomes the default response: one we can no longer afford environmentally, socially, or economically.
This book proposes a different way of engaging with the built fabric. At its core is the capacity to recognize value in what already exists—to begin not from deficiency, but from what already sustains life.
The study focuses on Bourj Hammoud, a dense, low-income neighborhood in the eastern suburbs of Beirut, where the author grew up. Through three case studies, immersive fieldwork, and direct engagement with residents, the research examines how architecture can identify overlooked spatial potential and intervene with precision rather than replacement. In a place where space is a luxury and public areas are nearly absent, small, targeted interventions can meaningfully improve spatial quality and daily life—within real economic constraints. Rather than proposing a master plan, this book presents a way of seeing and working: one that might be applied elsewhere.
Impact by Design: Lessons from Medical Drones to Kitchen Tools and Beyond traces the stories of five breakthrough innovations—Zipline drones, the ClearRx prescription system, LifeStraw, Raspberry Pi, and OXO Good Grips—to show how real impact is designed, not accidental.
Drawing on interviews, research, and practice, Thamer Abanami and Albert Shum surface nine repeatable patterns across three lenses: human, systems, and catalyst. Together, these patterns help leaders move from promising ideas to durable outcomes: seeing problems more clearly, shaping solutions that work in the messy reality of organizations and markets, and sustaining momentum over time.
Written for designers, engineers, product leaders, policy makers and students, the book combines narrative case studies with actionable frameworks you can immediately apply to your own work. Rather than offering a rigid methodology, Impact by Design helps you connect human-centered design, systems thinking, and strategic management to shape solutions that are meaningful, transformative, and enduring.
Fortune Favors the Brave details the incredible story of the making of a real estate tycoon.
Fortune Favors the Brave is the memoir of David Walentas, the visionary behind the iconic rejuvenation of the DUMBO neighborhood in Brooklyn, NY. The detailed journey chronicles his formative years in upstate New York and his sheer will to succeed. Filled with anecdotes and personal stories of triumph and failure, it is sure to inspire generations of future businessmen.
Sergei Tchoban: Architectural Drawings opens a window into the work of a draftsman-architect who treats drawing as a diary, a philosophical instrument, and a dialogue. Through sustained, analytical, and fantastical renderings, Tchoban explores the interplay of history and modernity, reality and imagination, and the balance between preservation and daring transformation. His urban mise-en-scènes reveal the relationships between the iconic and the background, the unique and the ordinary, the man-made and the natural, while tracing spaces that remain open-ended and evocative. He envisions architectural sections impossible to cut, reconstructs buildings from memory, and reflects on continuity, proportion, harmony, and the spirit of place.
From the historic streets of his native Saint Petersburg to layered visions of Berlin, deconstructed monuments of ancient Egypt, and submerged towns along the heroic Volga-Don Canal, Tchoban reimagines vanished cultures, envisions audacious architectural undertakings, and honors the poetry of ruin. Rich in contrast, scale, perspective, and drawing techniques, his works guide exploration of real and imagined environments, offering a meditation on how history, architecture, and imagination shape the urban world—and the fragile, enduring beauty of a city in perpetual transformation.
Witness braids text and image to tell the story of Duvall Decker, an AIA Firm Award-winning architecture office rooted in Mississippi and committed to a practice in search of the public good. Spanning the firm’s early beginnings through the completion of the Greenville Federal Courthouse, the book illustrates ten milestone projects that reveal the breadth and depth of their built work. Seven critical essays offer textured readings of the firm’s ethos, situating their practice within its cultural, social, and temporal context. Written from the perspective of an attuned witness who shares a love for the South and its people, the essays explore themes of kinship, resistance, place, tectonics, and orchestration in architectural practice. Visual and textual marginalia thread through the book, standing on their own while also enriching the primary essays and project narratives. Observational voices from those who have collaborated with or been shaped by the firm provide rare and intimate insights. A sister volume to Foundations, Witness is both a close study of Duvall Decker’s architecture and a broader meditation on what it means to practice architecture as an act of witness in and from the American South.
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