(Hardback, English)
By: Rosetta S. Elkin
ISBN: 9781940291833
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Nov 2017
UK Publication Date: 30th November 2017
Publisher: Actar Publishers
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Tiny Taxonomy offers a visually engaging collection of images and texts drawn from a series of contemporary garden installations, which highlight the role of individual plants in landscape architecture.
(Paperback, English)
By: Ana de Brea
ISBN: 9781940291475
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Sep 2016
Publisher: Actar Publishers
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A selected, fully open, and deep assemblage, that carries the explicit intent of outlining, conceptual and practical verifications, on critical views and specific projects, concerning the actual architecture in the Latin American territory.
(Paperback)
By: Hans Kollhoff
ISBN: 9781638409021
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Aug 2021
Publisher: Actar Publishers
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(Hardback)
By: Architecturestudio
ISBN: 9781638400509
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Mar 2024
Publisher: Actar Publishers
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(Paperback, English)
By: Matyas Gutai
ISBN: 9781940291444
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Mar 2015
Publisher: Actar Publishers
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The book introduces water as a building material to build unique, responsive-able structures and define a new paradigm for architecture and sustainable design.
(Hardback, 2nd New edition)
By: Jacques Herzog
ISBN: 9781945150111
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jan 2017
Publisher: Actar Publishers
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Treacherous Transparencies analyzes transparency as expressed in architecture and art in an attempt to understand the intentions and objectives that underlie its use by pertinent architects and artists.
(Hardback, English)
By: Mehrdad Hadighi
ISBN: 9781940291949
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Dec 2018
Publisher: Actar Publishers
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A collected volume of essays using the Lafayette 148 New York factory in Shantou, China as a foil to discuss issues of textile manufacturing, global/local building practices, concrete construction in relation to labor, and evolving nature to factory typology.
(Paperback, English)
By: Wiel Arets
ISBN: 9781945150654
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jun 2019
Publisher: Actar Publishers
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Un-Conscious-City navigates and questions the future of the modern metropolis, and how largely invisible, unconscious forces, increasingly lead by interconnected technologies-as artificial intelligence-shape and influence the world's cities, and the ways they're experienced by global citizens.
(Paperback, English)
By: Juan Elvira
ISBN: 9781940291482
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 2015
Publisher: Actar Publishers
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(Paperback, English)
By: Iaqui Carnicero
ISBN: 9781945150685
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Aug 2018
Publisher: Actar Publishers
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The book displays the work of seven photographers and fifty-five projects of architecture, presenting the problem through the unfinished constructions strewn across different points of Spain's geography, as well as five critic essays and eleven interviews with prestigious professors from the international academia.
(Paperback, Bilingual edition)
By: Beatrice Lampariello
ISBN: 9781638409922
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 2023
Publisher: Actar Publishers
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(Hardback)
By: Laura Andreini
ISBN: 9781948765855
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Mar 2022
Publisher: Actar Publishers
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(Paperback, 2nd edition)
By: Nina Rappaport
ISBN: 9781948765145
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jun 2020
Publisher: Actar Publishers
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(Paperback, English)
By: Seth McDowell
ISBN: 9781940291406
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 2017
Publisher: Actar Publishers
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A book that highlights critical design projects from around the world that radically engage the fragile issues of drought, flooding, and contamination, revealing opportunistic, adaptive design strategies in response to the mounting global crisis.
(Paperback)
By: Deborah Saunt
ISBN: 9781638400820
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Feb 2025
Publisher: Actar Publishers
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(Paperback, English ed.)
By: Daniel Ibanez
ISBN: 9781945150814
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jan 2020
Publisher: Actar Publishers
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Wood has latent propensities not well addressed in the current discourse on wood construction. Through a range of design research formats-from material testing to in-situ documentation to specualtive urban projects- this book articulates and illustrates future architectural and ecological potentials of wood.
(Hardback)
By: Joao Rapagao
ISBN: 9781638400004
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Aug 2022
Publisher: Actar Publishers
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(Hardback)
By: Joao Rapagao
ISBN: 9781948765947
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jun 2022
Publisher: Actar Publishers
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(Hardback, English)
By: Yichen Lu
ISBN: 9781945150623
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Aug 2018
Publisher: Actar Publishers
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In May 2015, Studio Link-Arc completed its most prominent work to date, the China Pavilion for Expo Milano 2015. The project was China's first free-standing Expo Pavilion outside of its own borders.
(Paperback, English)
By: Mitchell Joachim
ISBN: 9781940291871
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jul 2017
Publisher: Actar Publishers
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Architecture must not only be functionally green, but its formal, conceptual and physical properties also need to constitute a novel and integrated living material system, one that can flourish within the larger world around it.
(Paperback, English)
By: Dongwoo Yim
ISBN: 9781940291352
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 2017
Publisher: Actar Publishers
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"[UN]Precedented Pyongyang" is an urban research on how Pyongyang, the capital of North Korea, was reconstructed from the Korean War based on the idea of socialist urbanism and how those socialist urban spaces will transform when it adopts the new market-economy system.
(Hardback)
By: Espinet/Ubach Arquitectes
ISBN: 9781638400035
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jun 2024
Publisher: Actar Publishers
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(Hardback)
By: Espinet/Ubach Arquitectes
ISBN: 9781638400042
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Dec 2023
Publisher: Actar Publishers
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(Hardback, English ed.)
By: Neeraj Bhatia
ISBN: 9781948765169
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jul 2019
Publisher: Actar Publishers
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