Blueprint for a hack

Over five days, some 60 residents of a northern village teamed with designers from southern Quebec to conceive and build an outdoor community pavilion that activates a central recreational area. “Blueprint for a Hack” aims to reimagine community spaces. Faced with extreme housing shortages, p...

Brand addiction

Brand Addiction is a compilation of complete visual identity systems designed for fashion shops.

Dementia-friendly hospital buildings

Everyday architecture in context

Everyday Architecture in Context goes through the growth and governance of colonial Hong Kong by tracing the past and present of public markets as a study of extensive first-hand historical materials.

Growing greener cities

Nineteenth-century landscape architect Frederick Law Olmsted described his most famous project, the design of New York's Central Park, as "a democratic development of highest significance." Over the years, the significance of green in civic life has grown. In twenty-first-century America, not onl...

Hirosaki museum of contemporary art

Hong kong art deco architecture

This study relates Art Deco architecture in Hong Kong with local socioeconomic and political contexts, and adopts the theoretical lens to examine how they framed practices of everyday life.

It happened at the palace

Discover the Palace Theatre's transformation from a Vaudeville house to a Broadway sensation, its near-demise, and the dramatic restoration that catapulted it back to stardom. With an insider's flair, Lane shares tales of legendary performances and the Herculean efforts to preserve this cultural ...

Knowledge worlds

<i>Knowledge Worlds</i> reconceives the university as a media complex through which knowledge is made, conveyed, and withheld. Reinhold Martin argues that the material infrastructures of the modern university reveal the ways in which knowledge is created and reproduced in different ki...

Moscow monumental

An in-depth history of the Stalinist skyscraperIn the early years of the Cold War, the skyline of Moscow was forever transformed by a citywide skyscraper building project. As the steel girders of the monumental towers went up, the centuries-old metropolis was reinvented to embody the greatness of...

Postindustrial diy

WINNER, 2025 CENTER FOR HISTORIC PRESERVATION BOOK PRIZEChronicles grassroots efforts to recover, rebuild, and enjoy architecturally iconic but economically obsolete places in the American Rust Belt.A pioneering Detroit automobile factory. A legendary iron mill at the edge of Pittsburgh. A campu...

Studios before the system

The first book to retell the history of film studio architecture, Studios Before the System expands the social and cultural footprint of cinema’s virtual worlds and their contribution to wider developments

The innovative urban workplace

The Innovative Urban Workplace documents the Edward P. Bass Distinguished Visiting Architecture Fellowship studio with Abby Hamlin, founder of Hamlin Ventures, Dana Tang (’95), architect and partner at Gluckman Tang Architects, and Andrei Harwell, senior critic in architecture at Yale. The studio...

The poor side of town

This book combines a critique of more than a century of housing reform policies, including public and other subsidized housing as well as exclusionary zoning, with the idea that simple low-cost housing—a poor side of town—helps those of modest means build financial assets and join in the local de...

Vertical urban factory

This revised edition focuses on the spaces of production in cities—both the modernist period and today—and the technologies that have contributed to shifts in factory architecture, manufacturing, and urban design. Vertical Urban Factory tracks the evolution of the vertical urban factory from t...