To the Ends of the Earth - A Grand Tour for the 21st Century. The book takes the reader on an intellectual adventure through a carefully curated selection of 120 places that can be understood as metaphors of contemporary global culture. These places are divided into six chapters: Paradises, Utopias, Machines, Monsters, Ruins, and Instruments.
Implementing Sustainable Cities. This edited volume brings together international authors to explore how cities around the world are implementing their commitment towards the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).
The Minimum Dwelling. The long-awaited English-language publication of Karel Teige's influential book on the minimum dwelling as a new housing type for the working class. It has taken 70 years for an English translation...nothing of equivalent significance has appeared in the interim.
Publication November 4th - preorder now! Architecture Follows Climate - Traditional Architecture in the Five Climate Zones
Lacaton & Vassal - It’s Nice Today: On Climate, Comfort and Pleasure. This book is the first scientific study of the thermal performance of winter gardens in residential constructions, showing their potential and effectiveness via selected projects of Lacaton&Vassal: from their first house, Latapie, to a recently completed apartment and office...
Windowscape 1. Yoshiharu Tsukamoto of Atelier Bow-Wow tours the world in his quest to seek out and analyse the behaviour of windows. The book explores how windows can create uniquely cultural, urban, and social spaces, as well as stimulate activities like rest, relaxation, and rejuvenation
Windowscape 4. In this fourth volume, Atelier Bow-Wow delves into the window behavioural characteristics in nordic architecture, showing how climate and culture are strongly reflected in their windows.
Sacred Concrete - The Churches of Le Corbusier. The first comprehensive illustration of Le Corbusier's church architecture. A detailed examination of the existing research material. Third and revised edition.
Elementhuse - 1947-1955. Utraditionelle huse med særlig byggemåde. I årene 1947 til 1955 støttede den danske stat enfamiliehuse med alternative materialevalg og nye måder at bygge på for at løse efterkrigstidens boligkrise.
BiodiversitetsTaktik. Bogen beskriver essentielle bio-termer, international bio-forskning og bio-principper relevant for store såvel som små bymiljøer. Bogen leverer f.eks. ti overbevisende grunde til at integrere biodiversitet i byudvikling, og ti principper for gode levesteder i byen. Kan også købes i Arkitektforeningen, Åbenrå 34 - 2 min fra...
Tingbogen af Gitte Juul. Om, hvordan vi kan skabe rum til det levede liv og plads til det uplanlagte, når vi udvikler byer og bygger nyt.
København før og nu. Fotografen Nicolas Cosedis har været på jagt i arkiverne efter de bedste luftfotos af København fra de sidste 100 år. Efterfølgende har han fanget de samme motiver fra fly. Der er blevet bygget, revet ned og bygget igen, og København er blevet større og højere. Set oppefra er både genkendeligheden og forandringen tydelig.
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