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The book analyses the current digital turn in the architecture from multiple perspectives, raising awareness on its social and cultural implications and prefiguring the rise of an alternative and possible architecture.

Through the presentation of 14 projects alongside essays by leading voices in the history and preservation of New York City, DXA Ten Years explores the deep, inextricable relationship between the unique past and future potential of architecture that defines DXA's practice.

The book is a systematic critique, sometimes acerbic, of some 21st century trends in architectural design, trends that have become assertively extreme (or indefensibly peculiar) in their approaches to form.

California architect Maria Ogrydziak shares eight residential case studies for extraordinary living in the Central Valley.

Issue 14 of LA+ Journal brings you the results of the LA+ CREATURE international design ideas competition, which explored how we can use design to achieve a more symbiotic existence with other creatures.

This book represents a collection of stories of posthuman architectures, structured in a way to face the topic from both a vertical and a horizontal perspective.

The experiments in the book are a collection of design and build projects conducted from the Department of Architecture at the University of Hong Kong over the past 10 years and represent a direct reflection of the incredible diversity of climates, locations, and conditions that underlie the ongoing Chinese urbanisation experiment.

Shobac is recognised internationally as the masterwork of famed Canadian architect Brian Mackay-Lyons.

Emergence of a Modern Dwelling: Richard Neutra's Hassrick House is the first publication sponsored by Thomas Jefferson University's Center for the Preservation of Modernism and fulfills a key goal of the Center-to spotlight architecture and sites of the modern movement.

From a distance, all of the discussed topics start to intertwine and melt into each other, becoming a wider reflection on the topicality of the international component in the portfolios of future architects.

A select international group of landscape architects and historians discuss the subject of planting design through the lens of their own work, contemporary and historical.

On Rigor provides an engaging, in-depth look at 13 seminal residential and commercial projects by critically acclaimed Johnsen Schmaling Architects, whose award-winning work is widely known for its conceptual rigor, serene simplicity, and an unequivocal commitment to architectural innovation and environmental sustainability.

This monograph features stunning reproductions of Stephen M. Sullivan's tradition-based, exquisitely detailed, high-end residential architecture and the themes that drive his work.

Featuring contributions from more than a dozen contemporary architects, Fulfilled: Architecture, Excess, and Desire presents an unparalleled and multidisciplinary exploration into the ways tangible and intangible fulfilment have shaped modern architecture.

Young Architects 21: JUST presents the work of the six winners of the 2019 Architectural League Prize for Young Architects + Designers competition.

Designing-Women's Lives offers a revolutionary, psychological approach for women to use to create emotionally-satisfying places of personal liberation.

Urbanism Beyond 2020 explores numerous questions triggered by the COVID-19 pandemic as relates to urban planning and design.

A simple guide on how to address urban ills and promote environmentally responsible community planning in developing countries.

This book is about what it means to become urban. By describing the impact of rural nomads moving and settling to the city of Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia, it allows us to reflect on our contemporary urban condition and the urgent challenges facing millions of people around the world as they transform from rural to urban life.

This book weaves a much needed and transformational narrative about making architecture through paying close attention to cross-laminated timber as a material for today.

LA+ COMMUNITY aims to explore how, over time, each of us moves in and out of multiple communities, shaping them as they shape us, and in turn shaping our landscapes and cities.

In this issue, LA Frontiers focuses on the topics about urban governance and spatial quality improvement under the promotion of inventory planning and governance refinement.

Almost, Not: The Architecture of Atelier Nishikata is the story of a remarkable architecture practice in Tokyo.

The goal of this book is to offer readers a guide for those seeking to take fine, interpretive photographs and a joyful thought-provoking journey that the photographs in this book will inspire.

In this issue, LA Frontiers focuses on prototype studies by examining those traceable and repeatable landscape theories, methodologies, and pedagogies, and introducing the knowledge from allied disciplines to inspire knowledge innovation, with a particular highlight on the prototypes adaptive to future uncertainties.

The book explores the computational mechanisms and diagrammatic grammar within these craft-based aggregation systems, paying close attention to geometrical configurations, material effects and fabrication details and take advantage of these qualities to produce a unique spatiality.

This book represents the articles from 20 outstanding design researchers from 11 countries, including many works from international designers, who are engaging with and pushing the boundaries of the medium.

This book documents the impact of the Chinese culture on the development of city types in China in the past four decades.

Pratt Sessions presents conversations with notable names in architecture, discussions that unpack their work in non-standard ways, revealing new insight to familiar terms circulated in the discipline and profession.

This book celebrates the rich history of the JAE which is the longest continually running peer-reviewed journal in the discipline of architecture, as a major platform for the dissemination of new pedagogical and scholarly ideas.