Browsing: Books

The Books section showcases essential reads on architecture and design, from monographs and theory texts to visual studies and critical essays. These works trace how ideas are documented, debated, and disseminated, capturing the voices and projects that shape the discipline.

Here you’ll find reviews, recommendations, and features that highlight both classic references and new publications. Whether it’s a deep dive into an architect’s body of work, explorations of materials and construction, or studies on urbanism and technology, this category gathers books that expand the conversation around architecture.

PRINT! ARCHITECTURE explores the history of additive manufacturing in architecture as well as presents and examines the technology. The book edited by Oliver Tessmann, Ulrich Knaack, Chris Borg Costanzi, Philipp Rosendahl and Bastian Wibranek.

KOICHI TAKADA (Architecture, Nature, and Design), the recent book by Philip Jodidio, provides a range of Koichi Takada’s recent projects over the last ten years. The captivating photographs of the buildings and interiors demonstrate how the architect incorporates natural elements like light, air, water, and even sound perfectly within the built environment.

Formgiving (An Architectural Future History), the new book by BIG (Bjarke Ingels Group), and the latest installment in its TASCHEN trilogy is a visionary attempt to look at the horizon of time, from the Big Bang into the most distant future.