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The compelling story of the making of china's tallest building.

Kanner Architects have created their own approach to designing Modernist buildings and interiors that relate to their environments and exhibit distinct personalities. The firm works internationally, applying the optimism and adventurousness of its Southern California roots to the conditions indigenous to each site. Stephen H. Kanner, president and director of design, guides his staff in a fusion of structure, volume, material and color that re...

The official John Yeon Biography.

A thorough examination of the work and ethos of the Canadian firm Hughes Condon Mahler Architects.

A presentation of MKPL's most important work throughout Asia.

LA+ WILD explores the concept of WILD and its role in design, large-scale habitat and species conservation, scientific research, the human psyche, and aesthetics. This issue of LA+ includes contributions drawn from disciplines as diverse as evolutionary ecology, biology, visual arts, bioengineering, landscape architecture, planning, architecture, climatology, environmental history, philosophy, and literature. It features essays by Timothy Mous...

An intimate project, this publication arises out of an anxiety towards the fast-changing built landscape of Singapore. Its objective is to look at place, memory, and nostalgia through architecture, while attempting to understand the images of Singapore in the collective minds. How do we, as agents and recipients of the built environment, come toget

In the wake of the Great Depression, one of President Franklin Roosevelt's most successful New Deal programs was the formation of the Tennessee Valley Authority, a federal government-owned corporation created in 1933 to revitalize the Tennessee  River Valley. This book includes essays by experts in the fields of architecture, landscape architecture, graphic design, industrial design, and the fine arts. Featuring new photography by Richard Barn...

Considering architecture in an expanded field, Locations goes far and near, big-time and small-scale, to assemble a unique set of projects, features, and reports.

Focus on the work of PWP, highlighting over 20 recent and on-going projects, and featuring previously unseen material.

A new four-volume set in the Ennead series.

First and foremost, this is a book about New Zealand landscape architecture and urban design, viewed through the lens of Isthmus, an award-winning design studio that for more than twenty-five years has been shaping and reshaping the way we experience our¿land and cityscapes. It is also a story about New Zealand, about changing perspectives and attitudes¿to the use of land and water, the way we organise our cities, the way we play, live, and wo...

The third publication to come out of the renowned firm, Ronald Lu & Partners celebrates the breadth and creativity of their work in honor of their 35th anniversary. Rather than a retrospective since day one, it illustrates both their recent works and the people that make RLP what it is today. The book shares their projects, the stories of the people that work there and the changes they have experienced over the past ten years. With raw and un-...

Compilation of thought-provoking experimental drawings, texts and built projects.

The Nature of Design focuses on the design theory and practice, and presents previously unseen drawings.

Our epoch has been dubbed the Anthropocene Era to mark the significance of human activities as the greatest force of environmental change. The distinctions between biology/technology, organic/synthetic, and natural/artificial are increasingly impossible to maintain. Cloned sheep, climate models, digitally-printed tissue and lab-grown meat - this is not the nature of our predecessors. This issue of LA+ addresses the theme of SIMULATION in terms...

Built in 1955, and fully restored in 2014, House Friedman was designed by internationally-trained architect Frederic Lasserre, founder of the UBC School of Architecture. Situated near the university, just outside the city of Vancouver limits, the house combines a modernist aesthetic with a distinctively West Coast Modern ethos. Distinguished by its spatial complexity, and by its seamless relationship to the landscape design of Cornelia Oberlan...

Ever since the 18th century when Alexander Pope advised his peers to "consult the genius of place, " the idea that designers could interpret and then express the essential identity of a place has been venerated in landscape architecture. This issue of LA+ is devoted to critically exploring the nexus between place and identity with contributions from disciplines as varied as landscape architecture, architecture, philosophy, literature, ethics, ...