| FORTHCOMING TITLES & RECENT RELEASES |  Farming the City Edited by Francesca Miazzo, Mark Minkjan. The Farming the City project began in November 2010 as an initiative of the Amsterdam-based organization CITIES, bringing city dwellers and urban farmers together to explore inspirational ways of producing, storing, cooking, preserving, distributing and >>more
Valiz/Trancity
ISBN 9789078088639
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Pbk, 6.75 x 9 in. / 240 pgs / 200 color / 100 b&w.
Pub Date: 05/31/2013 Forthcoming/Awaiting stock
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|  Islands of Promise Text by Philippe Vallette, Christine Causse. Photographs by Alexis Rosenfeld. Full of sumptuous color photographs, this fascinating volume takes a broad overview of islands as geological and cultural entities, approaching them from every angle: as isolate ecologies, as mini-states, as outposts, as land with a >>more
Actes Sud
ISBN 9782330010089
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Hbk, 7.75 x 10 in. / 251 pgs / 120 color.
Pub Date: 04/30/2013 Active/In stock
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|  Sustainable Design II Edited by Marie-Hélène Contal-Chavannes, Jana Revedin. In 2007, the architect and scholar Jana Revedin created the Global Award for Sustainable Architecture in collaboration with Cité de l’Architecture et du Patrimoine, to recognize architects leading the field in environmentally friendly design and >>more
Actes Sud
ISBN 9782330000851
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Hbk, 8.75 x 11 in. / 184 pgs / 120 color.
Pub Date: 06/30/2012 Active/In stock
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|  T. R. Hamzah & Yeang: Green Buildings, Tropical Gardens Text by Farah Azizan, Lucy Bullivant, Iris Lenz et al. Green design is more than just architecture: it is a philosophy that must also involve consequential thought and education for the future. This publication presents two landscape architects and activists from Malaysia, Ken Yeang and >>more
Wasmuth
ISBN 9783803007568
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Pbk, 7.25 x 9.75 in. / 144 pgs / 145 color.
Pub Date: 08/30/2013 Forthcoming/Awaiting stock
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|  The Skin of the Rainforest Foreword by Fernándo Ortega Bernés, Nuria Sanz, Carlos Vidal Angles. Text by Gerardo Ceballos, Heliot Zarza, Juan M. Labougle, et al. Ranked as one of the world’s most important ecosystems, the Campeche rainforest covers more than seven million acres of southeast Mexico and Belize, and contains more than 2,000 plants species and 350 species of bird. >>more
Turner
ISBN 9788415427933
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Hbk, 11.75 x 13 in. / 272 pgs / 100 color.
Pub Date: 03/31/2013 Active/In stock
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| VISUAL BOOK INDEX | ACTIVE BACKLIST  Architecture of Consequence Text by Ole Bouman, Anneke Abhelakh, Martine Zoeteman, Mieke Dings. Architecture of Consequence began life as the Dutch presentation at the São Paolo Architecture Biennale in 2009. “Shape our country!” was the call that the Netherlands Architecture Institute (NAi) made to its public over a >>more
nai010 publishers
ISBN 9789056627263
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Pbk, 8 x 10 in. / 168 pgs / 128 color.
Pub Date: 03/31/2010 Active/In stock
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|  Arium: Weather & Architecture Edited by Neeraj Bhatia, Jürgen Mayer H. Text by George Baird, Chad Dembski, Robert Levit, Henry Urbach, Mason White, Rodolphe el-Khoury. Contributions by Eric Bury. Today, economic and ecological forces have finally collided and forced humankind to reassess its relationship to each. For architecture, this means facing its nemesis: the weather, with its attendant forces of instability and unpredictability. The >>more
Hatje Cantz
ISBN 9783775725408
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Hbk, 6.25 x 9.25 in. / 320 pgs / 37 color / 170 b&w.
Pub Date: 03/31/2010 Active/In stock
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|  Beyond Shelter Edited by Marie J. Aquilino. Text by Sheikh Ahsan Ahmed, Zahid Amin, Marie J. Aquilino, Jennifer E. Duyne Barestein, Alfredo Brillembourg, Guillaume Chantry, Patrick Coulombel, Robin Cross, Teddy Cruz, James Dart, Rajedra and Rupal Desai, Sandra D'Urzo, Guy Fimmers, Andrea Fitrianto, Francesca Galeazzi, Deborah Gans, Mehran Gharaati, Victoria L. Harris, Rohit Jigyasu, Jenny Kivett, Hubert Klumpner, Arlene Lusterio, Andrea Nield, John Norton, Kimon Onuma, Sergio Palleroni, Raul Pantaleo, Dan Rockhill, Brittany Smith, Maggie Stephenson, Anita Van Breda, Thiruppugazh Venkatachalam, Naomi Handa Williams. Across Africa, Asia, Latin America and the United States, groundbreaking work is being done by small teams of outstanding professionals who are helping communities to recover from disaster and rebuild, bridging the gap that separates >>more
Metropolis Books
ISBN 9781935202479
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Pbk, 8 x 8 in. / 304 pgs / 300 color.
Pub Date: 07/31/2011 Active/In stock
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|  Bio Design Edited and text by William Myers. Foreword by Paola Antonelli. For centuries, designers and artists have looked to nature for inspiration and materials, but only recently have they developed the ability to alter and incorporate living organisms or tissues into their work. This startling development, >>more
The Museum of Modern Art, New York
ISBN 9780870708442
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Hbk, 8.25 x 10 in. / 288 pgs / 400 color.
Pub Date: 12/31/2012 Active/In stock
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|  Comeback Cities Text by Nienke van Boom, Hans Mommaas. For centuries, certain cities in Europe were dominated by the textile industry—until the industry relocated to lower-wage countries, leaving these formerly prosperous cities languishing, their abandoned factories sitting unpurposed and untenanted. Com >>more
nai010 publishers
ISBN 9789056627072
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Flexi, 6.75 x 9.75 in. / 256 pgs / 150 color.
Pub Date: 03/31/2010 Active/In stock
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|  Design Like You Give A Damn: Architectural Responses To Humanitarian Crises Edited by Cameron Sinclair and Kate Stohr. The greatest humanitarian challenge we face today is that of providing shelter. Currently, one in seven people lives in a slum or refugee camp, and more than 3,000,000,000 people--nearly half the world's population--do not have >>more
Metropolis Books
ISBN 9781933045252
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Paperback, 8 x 8 in. / 336 pgs / 350 color.
Pub Date: 01/15/2006 Active/In stock
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|  Design Revolution: 100 Products That Empower People By Emily Pilloton. Foreword by Allan Chochinov. In January of 2008, with a thousand dollars, a laptop and an outsized conviction that design can change the world, rising San Francisco-based product designer and activist Emily Pilloton launched Project H Design, a radical >>more
Metropolis Books
ISBN 9781933045955
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Pbk, 8 x 8 in. / 304 pgs / 250 color.
Pub Date: 10/31/2009 Active/In stock
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|  Design and the Elastic Mind Edited by Paola Antonelli. Text by Paola Antonelli, Hugh Aldersey-Williams, Peter Hall, Ted Sargent. Over the past few decades, we have experienced dramatic changes in some of the most established dimensions of human life: time, space, matter and individuality. Today our minds must be able to synthesize such transformations, >>more
The Museum of Modern Art, New York
ISBN 9780870707322
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Paperback 7.5 x 9.5 in. / 192 pgs / 250 color.
Pub Date: 03/01/2008 Active/Not available
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|  Edible Estates: Attack on the Front Lawn, 2nd Revised Edition Preface by Fritz Haeg. Text by Will Allen, Diana Balmori, Rosalind Creasy, Fritz Haeg, Michael Pollan, Eric W. Sanderson, Lesley Stern, et al. Since the first edition of Edible Estates: Attack on the Front Lawn was published in 2008, interest in edible gardening has exploded across the United States and abroad. Even First Lady Michelle Obama is doing >>more
Metropolis Books
ISBN 9781935202127
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Pbk, 8.5 x 8.5 in. / 176 pgs / 86 color / 85 b&w.
Pub Date: 03/31/2010 Active/In stock
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|  Energizing Architecture Edited by Claudia Lühling. The harnessing of solar energy via photovoltaic (i.e. solar electrical) technology has become one of the world's highest priorities, as dwindling oil resources compel nations all over the world to reconsider their energy policies. Soon, >>more
Jovis
ISBN 9783939633716
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Pbk, 6.75 x 9.25 in. / 192 pgs / 150 color.
Pub Date: 12/31/2009 Active/In stock
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|  Energy Atlas Global climate change calls for swift, decisive measures, particularly from the world's metropolises. But how can cities ensure that urgently needed strategies are enacted, forging a path to a post-fossil fuel, post-atomic energy era? Using >>more
Jovis
ISBN 9783868590746
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Pbk, 9.5 x 10.25 in. / 224 pgs / 300 color.
Pub Date: 04/30/2011 Active/In stock
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|  Expanding Architecture: Design as Activism Edited by Bryan Bell and Katie Wakeford. Foreword by Thomas Fisher. Texts by Steve Badanes, Roberta M. Feldman, Sergio Palleroni, John Peterson, Katie Swenson, et al. Expanding Architecture presents a new generation of creative design carried out in the service of the greater public and the greater good. Questioning how design can improve daily lives, editors Bryan Bell and Katie Wakeford >>more
Metropolis Books
ISBN 9781933045788
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Paperback, 6.5 x 9 in. / 288 pgs / 120 color / 30 b&w.
Pub Date: 10/01/2008 Active/In stock
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|  Food for the City Text by Peter de Rooden, Adam Grubb, Han Wiskerke, Lola Sheppard, Mason White, Gaynor Paradza, et al. By the year 2050 there will be nine billion people living on Earth. Seventy-five percent of them will be living in cities. If the world population continues to grow at this rate, it will take >>more
nai010 publishers
ISBN 9789056628543
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Pbk, 6.75 x 9.5 in. / 256 pgs / 150 color.
Pub Date: 08/31/2012 Active/In stock
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|  Hong Kong Fantasies Text by Winy Maas, et al. With this ambitious volume, The Why Factory throws down the gauntlet to the city of Hong Kong. A theoretical and visual expedition into Hong Kong's future, Hong Kong Fantasies plots out alternative paths, new visions >>more
nai010 publishers
ISBN 9789056627645
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Pbk, 6 x 8.25 in. / 176 pgs / 202 color.
Pub Date: 03/31/2012 Active/In stock
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|  Less is Future A massive reduction in population and collosal overhaul of economic structure have presented enormous challenges for the people of east Germany over the past 20 years. As part of the International Building Exhibition Urban Redevelopment >>more
Jovis
ISBN 9783868591019
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Flexi, 5 x 10 in. / 876 pgs / illustrated throughout.
Pub Date: 10/31/2010 Active/In stock
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|  On the Water: Palisade Bay By Guy Nordenson, Catherine Seavitt, Adam Yarinsky. On the Water: Palisade Bay is the collaborative initiative of a group of engineers, architects, landscape architects, planners and students to imagine a "soft infrastructure" for the New York/New Jersey Upper Bay by developing interconnected >>more
The Museum of Modern Art, New York
ISBN 9780870707858
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Hbk, 8.75 x 8.75 in. / 320 pgs / 434 color.
Pub Date: 04/30/2010 Active/In stock
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|  Rising Currents Edited by Barry Bergdoll. Foreword by Judith Rodin. Text by Barry Bergdoll, Michael Oppenheimer, Guy Nordenson. In the fall of 2009, The Museum of Modern Art and MoMA PS1 selected five interdisciplinary teams of architects, engineers and landscape designers to propose solutions to the effects of climate change on New York's >>more
The Museum of Modern Art, New York
ISBN 9780870708077
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Pbk, 8 x 10 in. / 112 pgs / 106 color.
Pub Date: 12/31/2011 Active/Awaiting stock
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|  Safe Agua Edited by Mariana Amatullo, Liliana Becerra, Dan Gottlieb, Penny Herscovitch, Elisa Ruffino. Preface by Lorne M. Buchman. Introductions by Mariana Amatullo, David Mocarski. Text by Peter H. Gleick, Patrice Martin, Adlai Wertman. Safe Agua addresses a basic necessity easily taken for granted by those of us who have it at our fingertips, at the turn of a tap. In developing countries and impoverished communities around the world, >>more
Designmatters at Art Center College of Design
ISBN 9780961870546
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Pbk, 8 x 10 in. / 164 pgs / 200 color.
Pub Date: 01/31/2011 Active/In stock
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|  Sustainism Is the New Modernism By Michiel Schwarz, Joost Elffers. Michiel Schwarz and Joost Elffers' Sustainism Is the New Modernism declares the dawn of a new cultural era, as we transition from modernity to sustainity--towards a world that is more connected, more localist, more digital >>more
D.A.P./Distributed Art Publishers
ISBN 9781935202226
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Pbk, 7 x 9 in. / 240 pgs / color.
Pub Date: 12/31/2010 Active/In stock
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|  Testify! The Consequences of Architecture Edited by Lukas Feireiss. Introduction by Ole Bouman. A skateboarding school in Kabul; a children’s community center in southwest Chicago; project row houses in Houston; an open-air library in Salbke-Magdeburg, Germany; colorful murals in the favelas of Rio de Janeiro: what difference do >>more
nai010 publishers
ISBN 9789056628239
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Pbk, 8 x 9.75 in. / 240 pgs / 264 color.
Pub Date: 10/31/2011 Active/In stock
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|  Textile Tectonics By Lars Spuybroek. Until recently, thanks to the unforgiving geometric rigors of modernism, biomorphism in design and architecture was seen a purely decorative feature--as in Art Nouveau, for example. Textile Techtonics turns this idea on its head, offering >>more
nai010 publishers
ISBN 9789056628024
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Hbk, 7 x 10.25 in. / 224 pgs / 25 color.
Pub Date: 08/31/2011 Active/In stock
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|  The Politics of the Impure Edited by Joke Brouwer, Arjun Appadurai, Bruce Sterling, Gunnar Heinsohn, Lynn Margulis, Raj Patel. Piet Mondrian once wrote that "Life is basically simple. It may grow more and more complex, but it need not lose this simplicity. Complexity needs to be perfected, simplicity is man's perfect state." This statement >>more
nai010 publishers
ISBN 9789056627485
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Pbk, 6.25 x 9 in. / 356 pgs / 90 color.
Pub Date: 03/31/2011 Active/Awaiting stock
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|  Visionary Cities Edited and with text by Winy Maas and The Why Factory. Recognizing that our civic responsibilities towards our environments have drastically increased, Visionary Cities ambitiously sets the agenda for the city of the future. Amid crippling bureaucracies and economic crises, present-day thinking on cit >>more
nai010 publishers
ISBN 9789056627256
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Pbk, 5.75 x 8.25 in. / 240 pgs / 100 color.
Pub Date: 03/31/2010 Active/In stock
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|  Water Sensitive Urban Design Text by Jacqueline Hoyer, Wolfgang Dickhaut, Lukas Kronawitter, Björn Weber. In recent years, decentralized stormwater management has come to the forefront of debates on sustainable urban design. Water Sensitive Urban Design (WSUD) aims to harmonize the urban built environment and urban water systems. >>more
Jovis
ISBN 9783868591064
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Pbk, 7.5 x 9.25 in. / 144 pgs / 112 color.
Pub Date: 11/30/2011 Active/Awaiting stock
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|  Waterfront Visions Edited by Huib Haye van der Werf, Kate Orff, Merijn Oudenampsen, Klaske Havik. In 2009, the NAi-Ymere biennial celebrated the explorer Henry Hudson, whose pioneering travels laid the foundation for the development of New York City. In the vein of the Fort Amsterdam military post he built on >>more
nai010 publishers
ISBN 9789056627300
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Pbk, 6 x 9.5 in. / 128 pgs / 60 color.
Pub Date: 08/30/2010 Active/In stock
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