A selected bibliography featuring photographs by Julien Lanoo.
The book explains the complex architecture and the genesis of the building: from the design concept behind the circular layout to the sustainable prefabricated wooden carrier structure to the zero energy media façade which will be made available to different artists.
Built( )Unbuilt is a comprehensive 2017 book by architect Julien De Smedt (JDS Architects) detailing 16 years of his firm’s work, featuring a mix of completed projects and unrealized proposals. It explores the practical realities, successes, and "failures" (unbuilt projects) of modern architecture, focusing on innovation, urbanity, and environmental design.
Once seen as a cheap and simple building solution, prefab houses are now recognized for their design ambition, precision, and architectural quality. This updated edition brings together notable examples by international architects including Albert Frey, Jean Prouvé, Shigeru Ban, Renzo Piano, and Norman Foster. Authors Arnt Cobbers and Oliver Jahn combine expertise in architectural history, design, and publishing, offering a concise and informed perspective on the evolution of prefabricated housing.
“Memoryscapes,” the second volume in the “Architecture Connecting” series, explores how human narratives, memory, and place shape future architecture. Co-published with the Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, the book presents the work of DnA Architecture and Design and Atelier Tsuyoshi Tane Architects, whose practices connect cultural heritage, social traditions, and site-specific research. Through projects, essays, and visual documentation, the publication shows how both studios use the past as a resource for contemporary architectural thinking, linking memory, craftsmanship, and local knowledge to create new possibilities for the future.
*Unfinished Atlas: 19 Projects by Manuel Herz Architects*, published by Park Books and edited by Ludovic Balland and Francesca Mautone, presents a critical overview of the Basel-based firm’s work since 2004. Through built and unrealized projects across Europe, Africa and Asia, the book explores architecture as an open-ended process shaped by context, collaboration, adaptation and change.
Architecture is one of the clearest human acts of building the future — a central idea in this first anthology of work by Tsuyoshi Tane, an architect based between Paris and Japan. The book presents seventeen major projects through concepts, images, and drawings, including the Estonian National Museum, designed with DGT Architects co-founders Lina Ghotmeh and Dan Dorell, and the recent Todoroki House in Valley, Tokyo. Together, these works reveal Tane’s thinking and his approach to materialising what he calls the “archaeology of the future.”
Reducing material consumption is essential to a more sustainable future. *Circular Materials* explores innovative uses of reclaimed, recycled, and upcycled materials across architecture, design, and fashion, presenting 50 projects that transform waste into value and replace conventional materials with circular alternatives. Each chapter focuses on a material’s origins and potential, paired with a standout case study. With strong visuals and thoughtful commentary, the book invites designers, architects, and makers to rethink material use — balancing beauty, function, and environmental responsibility.
Arctic Practices: Design for a Changing World emerges at a critical juncture wherein the very stability of Arctic ecosystems hangs in a precarious balance induced, almost entirely, by humans. This volume assembles forty-six contributors—designers, educators, artists, photographers, filmmakers, some Indigenous, some residents, and some visitors to the Circumpolar North—to create a polyvocal assembly of Arctic practices.
First volume on the use of the material in modern construction, bringing together a series of images from the exhibition of the same name at Escola da Cidade, curated by Mexican architect Sol Camacho.
In Bangladesh, flooding is becoming more frequent as a result of climate change, forcing countless people to find new homes. In response, Bangladeshi architect Marina Tabassum and her team have developed the Khudi Bari – Little House: A low-cost structure that can be assembled, disassembled, transported,and reassembled in another location by the inhabitants themselves.
Twentyfive x Herzog & de Meuron is the result of an almost fifty-year long relationship between its two editors, art historian and architectural critic Stanislaus von Moos and architect and ETH professor emeritus Arthur Rüegg, and our two founding partners, Jacques Herzog and Pierre de Meuron, both former professors at the ETH themselves. Out of more than 600 projects in nearly 40 countries, the twenty-five case studies taken together aim to cover the essential aspects of the complete body of work, as the two editors put it in their preface: ‘Our intention was, starting from a selection of works, to identify the office’s most significant design strategies and simultaneously, to do justice to its artistic ambitions, or what we understood them to be, with a targeted selection from the extensive image material.’
Basel-based architecture firm Herzog & de Meuron has evolved remarkably since its founding in 1980. This monograph, their fifth in AV’s series, chronicles the firm’s last seven years of work (2017-2024). Now a global studio with seven offices and over 600 projects, they maintain their commitment to material innovation while addressing contemporary challenges. The volume showcases pivotal projects including Zurich’s Children’s Hospital, Hong Kong’s M+ museum, and the HORTUS development in Allschwil, alongside commentary on their Royal Academy of Arts retrospective. Luis Fernández-Galiano’s essays provide critical context for their continued architectural evolution.
The publication »Tane Garden House, «designed by Tsuyoshi Tane, provides a deep insight into the design process that stretched over several years.
The book Eames & Vitra is an inspiring publication that tells the story of the collaboration between Vitra and the Eameses in the third generations — from Vitra’s beginnings as a furniture manufacturers to possessing part of Charles & Ray Eames’s estate within the Vitra Design Museum.
A major monograph on the Dutch garden designer, featuring his gardens and the largest collection of his drawings ever published.
*Designing Modernity: Architecture in the Arab World 1945–1973* explores the influence of modernist architecture across the Arab world through ten case studies. Focusing on buildings from countries including Iraq, Lebanon, Kuwait, Syria, Palestine, Jordan, Egypt, and Morocco, the book examines their cultural, political, climatic, and social contexts. Through essays, photographs, drawings, and archival material, it traces each project from design and construction to use.
A comprehensive monograph on Barozzi Veiga, featuring texts by Fabrizio Barozzi and Alberto Veiga. Edited by Diletta Trinari and designed by John Morgan and Adrien Vasquez of John Morgan Studio, this 384-page English-language volume is published by Buchhandlung Walther König.
Domestic Dawns at Madrid’s Museo ICO explored new approaches to collective housing across twenty-first-century Europe. Curated by Andrés Cánovas, Carmen Espegel and José María de Lapuerta, the exhibition presented 28 projects from ten countries. Seven furnished interiors were reconstructed at full scale, turning architectural research into an immersive domestic experience.
The catalogue of the exhibition ‘Anna Heringer. Essential Beauty’ covers the main works and projects by the German architect, from her buildings in Bangladesh – the METI and DESI schools or the Anandaloy Building –, in China – the bamboo shelters and the Ceramics Museum in Majiayao – and in Africa – an educational campus in Ghana or a kindergarten in Zimbabwe –, to the projects developed in Europe – the birth space in Austria, an Ayurveda center in Germany or an ecotourism project in Spain, in which she has incorporated traditional materials and techniques from those countries, such as rammed earth. Under the motto ‘Architecture is a tool to improve lives,’ Heringer has also impulsed initiatives like the Dipdii Textiles workshop for women in Bangladesh or the Laufen Manifesto for a more humane design culture.
Celebrating the work of 31 of the most outstanding contemporary architecture practices and design firms - each a winner in the A+Firm Awards program from Architizer, the website used by over 335,000 architects throughout the world to celebrate and share innovation This celebration of the finest and most innovative contemporary architecture practices around the world accompanies Architizer's inaugural A+Firm Awards program. Chosen by an international panel of experts, the winners include industry stars, such as Foster + Partners, Neri & Hu Design and Research Office and Michael Green Architecture, alongside emerging talents like Shulin Architectural Design and OfficeOffCourse. The ultimate accolade for collaborative creativity, recipients include architecture firms, landscape architects, engineers, interior designers, photographers and real estate developers.
By 2030, 2.5 billion women will live and work in cities, yet urban planning has long been shaped mainly by men. *Women Build the City* profiles 18 female urban planners from around the world, offering new perspectives on the future city. Through contributions from architecture, urban planning, art, and theory, the book explores how cities can better respond to women’s experiences, needs, and visions.
Architektur Forschung Bauen: ICD/ITKE 2010–2020 presents ten years of experimental research by Achim Menges and Jan Knippers at the University of Stuttgart. The book explores how digital design, robotic fabrication, and new material systems are transforming the way architecture is conceived and built. Through realized pavilions, buildings, and research projects, it shows how computational methods can connect architectural elegance with structural intelligence — offering a clear view of future possibilities in construction.
Contemporary architectural practice now extends far beyond the design and construction of buildings. This thought-provoking book brings together original projects by architects, designers, artists, filmmakers, writers, and researchers who explore space through digital landscapes, installations, films, apps, virtual reality, and art.
The Umbrella House is the smallest residential work by Japanese architect and mathematician Kazuo Shinohara (1925–2006). This book traces the story of this remarkable house, first built in Tokyo in 1961. More than sixty years later, a fortunate turn of events made it possible to save the building from demolition and relocate it to the Vitra Campus in Weil am Rhein, Germany, where it now stands.
This is the first book of a collection of monographic books on the projects of h2o architectes. It showcases the construction of a 32-home building in the 15th arrondissement in Paris that features 24 cm ashlar masonry facades. Requiring neither firing nor the addition of other products, stone material allows a 60% reduction in CO2 in comparison to concrete where the construction phase is concerned, and a 35% reduction over a period of 50 years. h2o architectes successfully demonstrate that load-bearing stone, a geo-sourced material, represents an economical alternative, equivalent to more common solutions, and has the advantage of offering buyers a higher-quality standard of finish. photographs by Julien Lanoo and Stéphane Chalmeau
Since the 1980s, the Vitra company has been erecting buildings in collaboration with some of the leading architects of the present day, including Zaha Hadid, Frank Gehry, Tadao Ando, SANAA, Álvaro Siza, Nicholas Grimshaw and Herzog & de Meuron.
This book presents twenty-nine completed and ongoing projects by Paris-based h2o architectes from the past decade. Ranging from housing in Paris and a hotel in Rio de Janeiro to public spaces, temporary structures, and cultural renovations, the projects reveal the firm’s radical yet sensitive approach to architecture. Interviews, essays, poems, photographs, renderings, and plans offer a comprehensive portrait of one of France’s most promising architecture practices. Photographs are by Julien Lanoo and Stéphane Chalmeau.
The volume Environmental Change and African Societies contributes to current debates on global climate change from the perspectives of the social sciences and the humanities.
A visual exploration of red’s powerful role in architecture across centuries and cultures. From historic structures to contemporary landmarks, the book presents more than 150 striking buildings where red appears as both tradition and innovation. Through vivid photography, concise texts, and unexpected visual pairings, it offers a fresh way to see and understand architecture, featuring works by leading architects of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries.
*Enclose | Build* explores the building envelope as both structure and expression. Focusing on walls, façades, and roofs, the book examines how different construction methods, materials, and surfaces shape the appearance, performance, and character of architecture. As part of the *SCALE* series, it offers a clear guide to the relationship between loadbearing structure and protective envelope — from solid walls to complex façade systems — making it a practical reference for architectural design and construction.
With contributions by Edward Barber, Ronan and Erwan Bouroullec, Simon Denny, Rolf Fehlbaum, Eva Franch, Konstantin Grcic, Lena Henke, Hella Jongerius, Mark Lee, Jasper Morrison, Alice Rawsthorn, Robert Stadler and many others.
*Call to Order*, published by ORO Editions and edited by Carie Penabad, brings together reflections on architecture, urbanism and the built environment through a carefully curated lens. The book explores how design can respond to civic life, cultural memory and the changing structures of contemporary cities.
This field guide to the Vitra Schaudepot offers insight into the Herzog & de Meuron–designed building, opened in 2016, and its role as a showcase for more than 400 important works from the Vitra Design Museum’s collection of around 20,000 objects. It also highlights the museum’s archives and designer estates, including those of Charles and Ray Eames, Verner Panton, and Alexander Girard.
The definitive architecture travel guide that lets you visit 1,000 of today's most must-see contemporary buildings – whether at home or on the road Featuring 1,000 of today's most compelling buildings by the world's finest architects, Destination: Architecture is an unparalleled and comprehensive resource for anyone wanting to get more out of their travels. No journey, from a long weekend to a long-haul trip, would be complete without this expertly curated 'who's who' of the most exciting architecture in the world. Each building is illustrated with a single image and accompanied by a brief description, with addresses, websites, and opening details. It's the best way to find and enjoy contemporary built culture on every continent.
[a]FA is a laboratory of the Institute of Architecture of the University for Applied Arts in Vienna, in which spatial, infrastructure, ecological and cultural phenomena of the Sub-Saharan region are investigated. The concept for each project is based on an interdisciplinary and trans-cultural approach. This publication documents three projects that were carried out between 2011 and 2015. GUABULIGA _ WELL BY THE THORN TREE / ON OTHER PLANNING in northern Ghana, STAGING APAM / ON OTHER ARCHITECTURE at Ghana’s Atlantic coast, and LUBUNGAMODE / ON OTHER ARTISTIC RESEARCH in Kisangani, DR of Congo. The book illustrates the projects’ creative processes and contexts, embedded in contemporary discourses – well-known experts from architecture, art, theory, and urban sociology take a stand.
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This book presents 24 exemplary social housing projects from the UK and Europe, exploring new typologies, design approaches, and refurbishment strategies. It highlights alternatives to market-led housing and argues for the vital role of well-designed, low-cost housing in cities. Developed from two years of studio research, the publication combines case studies with interviews from key figures in the sector, aiming to inspire students, architects, and housing professionals to rethink and improve public housing standards.
As urban living intensifies in density and numbers, the city landscape expands both outwards and upwards. Architects and urban designers craft new and experimental structures while also investigating existing buildings for potential reinvention or expansion. In particular, the roof of a building, once a perfunctory structural element, is now a city space in and of itself, beloved for the capacity to eke out further room for living or to craft inspiring refuges away from the bustle of the metropolis. This international selection of urban rooftops catalogs a new urban dimension. Through over 50 bars, restaurants, temporary art installations, and gardens, it testifies to the variety of intelligent and exuberant designs that grace city summits from Sydney to Hong Kong, Oslo to Chicago. Whether it's the panoramic views, the exposure to the elements, or a slight giddiness that comes with height, we see just how the roof has nurtured not only architectural invention but a whole new facet and thrill to city living.
De Bâle – Herzog & de Meuron traces the local roots of Jacques Herzog and Pierre de Meuron’s internationally renowned architectural practice. Starting from Basel, the city where their biographies and office are deeply embedded, the book explores the ideas, ethics, and development of their work since the founding of the practice in 1978. Through essays, exemplary buildings, architects’ statements, and photographs by George Dupin, it reveals how place, memory, construction, and spatial thinking have shaped the architecture of Herzog & de Meuron — from everyday habitat to monument.
Documenting twenty-five renewed housing neighbourhoods for 3F, recording social-housing renovation, neighbourhood transformation and urban renewal.
*I Don’t Have a Favourite Colour* by Hella Jongerius offers a vivid insight into the creation of the Vitra Colour & Material Library. Developed over ten years for the Swiss furniture company Vitra, this research project explores the subtle interaction between colour, texture, surface and material. Jongerius presents an intelligent and nuanced system that helps designers create richer, more inspiring environments for offices, homes and public spaces. The book shows how colour is never fixed or isolated, but always shaped by context, light, material and use.
A monograph on LAN’s work and research, combining architectural projects with travel, urban observations and reflections on the city.
Wonder Wood explores wood as a timeless yet constantly evolving material in design, architecture, and art. Bringing together international projects, experiments, making-ofs, and interviews, the book shows how architects, designers, and artists continue to rediscover wood through new forms, technologies, and creative processes. With its focus on both inspiration and material knowledge, Wonder Wood serves as a rich reference on contemporary uses of wood — from craft and construction to innovation, atmosphere, and ecological potential.
Bozar LXXX explores the history and architecture of Brussels’ Centre for Fine Arts, an Art Deco masterpiece designed by Victor Horta. Richly illustrated, the book traces the building’s innovative design, construction and restoration, while highlighting its exhibition galleries, theatres and celebrated Henry Le Bœuf concert hall. It presents Bozar as both a major cultural institution and an essential part of Belgium’s architectural heritage.
