Dimensions. journal of architectural knowledge

Dimensions. Journal of Architectural Knowledge is an academic journal in, on and from the discipline of architecture, addressing the creation, constitution and transmission of architectural knowledge.

The empire remains shop

The Empire Remains Shop speculates on the possibility and implications of selling back the remains of the British Empire in London today. Based on a public installation, the book catalogues and develops the installation's critical program, using food to trace new geographies across the present an...

Mapping malcolm

Mapping Malcolm interrogates the limits and possibilities of the archive as a purveyor of community development, the Black diaspora, and the state through a lens of the Black radical tradition.

Radio as art

Acoustic signals, voice, sound, articulation, music and spatial networking are dispositifs of radiophonic transmission which have brought forth a great number of artistic practices. Up to and into the digital present radio has been and is employed and explored as an apparatus-based structure as w...

Urban alchemy

Urban Alchemy delves into the pressing challenges and unique opportunities facing developing countries in their quest for sustainable urban transformation. Readers are introduced to a comprehensive framework designed to guide policymakers, urban planners, and scholars in reimagining the future of...

Portrait in red

The quest to uncover the history of a mysterious painting, and a joyous exploration of art in the twentieth century and beyond.While wandering the streets of Paris in 2015, L. John Harris finds an abandoned, unfinished, and strangely compelling painting. The subject: a girl wearing a bright-red h...

Decoding asian urbanism

Shaping the space

This text explores the value of Arts education in Australia, mandated for K-9 students. It addresses the shortage of specialized Arts educators and offers insights into planning, teaching, and assessing each discipline. The book is accessible, innovative, and aligned with contemporary learning pr...

Architecture as a global system

This book provides a clear-sighted analysis which suggests that architectural design may yet shape and order the future of cities. A clear argument that emerges is that to retain their future agency, architects must understand the contours and ecologies of practice that constitute the global syst...

The ontario cottage

The time is now

This book highlights how artmaking and justice-oriented work empower high school students, teachers, and community members. It explores art as a vehicle for transformation, bridging relationships, and promoting social change. The authors emphasize collaboration, diversity, and inclusivity in thei...

The spirit within / el espíritu inherente

This volume, coinciding with the opening of permanent Art of the Americas galleries at the Walters Art Museum in 2025, examines how, for people in the Indigenous Americas, materials had and continue to have a life of their own.Ancient and modern craftspeople shaped jade, gold, feathers, and clay ...

The development of an art history in the uae

Work by artists from the United Arab Emirates (UAE), interviews and first-hand accounts form the core of this book about the development of the country’s art history. Learning about artists and seeing how their practices fit into global art historical discourses can help viewers gain insight into...

Gateways

A dynamic, personal, and poignant collection of over 90 works from Eric Key’s extensive collection of art by American artists of African descent, spanning the Harlem Renaissance to the twenty-first century.Since he started collecting in the 1990s, Eric Key’s intent has always been to help preserv...

Smart cities for sustainability

As decision-makers apply digitalization in global cities to achieve their SDG goals, contributors from around the world here shed light on forthcoming developments in Smart Cities, and set out how to plan for increasingly rapid changes,

Italy’s renaissance in buildings and gardens

This book looks at the major buildings and gardens of the Italian Renaissance.

Curve!

WINNER OF THE 2025 BILL DUTHIE BOOKSELLERS' CHOICE AWARD – BRITISH COLUMBIA & YUKON BOOK PRIZESAn eighty-year overview of wood and argillite carving by Indigenous women artists on the Northwest Coast.Though women of the Northwest Coast have long carved poles, canoes, panels, and masks, many o...

Ulises carrión

A richly illustrated account of the life and work of the twentieth-century Mexican artist and writer who reimagined what the book could look like, mean, and doUlises Carrión (1941–1989) was one of the most remarkable artists and writers of the second half of the twentieth century. Part of a gener...

Architects, sustainability and the climate emergency

Architects, Sustainability and the Climate Emergency: A Political Ecology chronicles how architects have shaped their ideas of the city—and sustainability—as knowledge of the climate emergency has unfolded. Have architects responded to the climate crisis too slowly?

Art in diverse social settings

This edited volume examines the important and multi-varied role that art plays in today’s diverse society. Built on a multidisciplinary and dialogical approach, the book brings together the views of scholars and artists from around the world to explore central questions relating to the purpose(s)...

The politics and possibilities of self-tracking technology

The Politics and Possibilities of Self-Tracking Technology focuses on the dialectical relationship between users and designers of wearable technology to examine how datafication processes redefine the body, and explores what this means for the design, administration and study of self-tracking sys...

Chinese architecture

An unprecedented survey of the origins and evolution of Chinese architecture, from the last millennia BCE to todayThroughout history, China has maintained one of the world’s richest built civilizations. The nation’s architectural achievements range from its earliest walled cities and the First Em...

Pure space

Floppy logic

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...

Houston genetic city

Houston Genetic City offers a vision for a future Houston as a global city, beyond its current petro-economy, its laissez-faire land speculation, and its notorious sprawl. The book speculates about new forms of urbanism that offer resiliency against our changing climate—from flooding to sea level...

Once more unto the breach

Container and modular buildings

Flowers of edo

Tokyo sweet gwendoline

Www.drawing

What is the role of hand drawing play for architecture in a digital age, as drawing moves off the page and onto the screen? How might computer-generated drawings emulate the ambiguities and nuances of the hand? WWW Drawing: Architectural Drawing from Pencil to Pixel documents the eponymous pr...

Rembrandt, vermeer and the dutch golden age

Louvre Abu Dhabi exhibition catalogue including over 100 artworks by Rembrandt, Vermeer and other leading Dutch artists, as well as essays by key curators.

Dana claxton

Colour, light and wonder in islamic art

An original investigation into the aesthetics of colour in pre-modern Islamic world

Torn signs

Zawa zawa

This comprehensive collection of the best of Ashley Wood’s work covers nearly 400 “treasured” art works in a range of media, from his oil paintings, sketches and drawings, to his package and figurine designs. These works have either been unpublished or have only been available in previous exhibit...

Aubrey beardsley

This 240-page book, Aubrey Beardsley: The Decadent Magician of the Light and the Darkness, reveals the core of the artist Aubrey Beardsley through more than 180 of his art works, compiled under the supervision of Hiroshi Unno, a critic and a writer who has contributed to many books on the fin-de-...

Machiya: the traditional townhouses of kyoto

Human figure drawing

This book shows how to learn to draw the human figure regaining our ability to observe the subject.

Insect artifice

How the nature illustrations of a Renaissance polymath reflect his turbulent ageThis pathbreaking and stunningly illustrated book recovers the intersections between natural history, politics, art, and philosophy in the late sixteenth-century Low Countries. Insect Artifice explores the moment when...

Yokai storyland

The absurd and surreal world of Yokai is back with full of stories to tellFollowing the success of Yokai Musuem and Yokai Wonderland, we are proud to publish Yokai Storyland, the third book from Yumoto Koichi, renowned Yokai art collector who has collected more than 4,000 artworks ranging from pa...

Arabicity

Beautifully produced volume, including over 150 artworks by 50 contemporary Arab artists, whose ground-breaking works reflect the pulse of region

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...

Exploring the invisible

How science changed the way artists understand realityExploring the Invisible shows how modern art expresses the first secular, scientific worldview in human history. Now fully revised and expanded, this richly illustrated book describes two hundred years of scientific discoveries that inspired F...

The intellectual culture of the english country house, 1500–1700

A ground-breaking collection of essays by leading and emerging scholars, which uncovers the vibrant intellectual life of early modern provincial England.

Platform 11

Pratt sessions

Pratt Sessions presents a series of conversations between notable practitioners and thinkers. It is a distributed symposium that is curated and yet open-ended. Based on an ongoing lecture series at Pratt Institute’s Graduate Architecture and Urban Design program, each session brings together two...

Khatt

Bringing together over 200 colour photographs, this is a beautifully produced source-book on calligraphy found across cities in Egypt.