Building a Museum is a comprehensive guide designed to assist museum professionals in navigating the complex process of planning, designing, and constructing a museum. In it, seasoned design professionals from the award-winning Integrated design firm SmithGroup condense their decades of experience guiding numerous cultural institutions through successful projects, emphasizing best practices in organizing a capital project and offering suggestions to keep projects moving toward completion. Building a Museum is a user-friendly tool for museum leaders to easily understand every aspect of the building process and includes intuitive graphics and a handy glossary for common terms. It encourages readers to rethink the traditional approaches and embrace forward-thinking and collegial strategies that could revolutionize their projects. Collaboration and inclusivity in the process is encouraged, with an emphasis on the importance of building a strong network and leveraging professional connections. Building a Museum draws on the authors' decade of conducting workshops on the museum capital project process, refining their content based on feedback from over 300 museum leaders, board members, administrators, curators, and facilities professionals. The book aims to demystify the planning and design process, making it accessible and practical for museum professionals at any stage of their project.

Expos as Great Urban Projects: Present and Future is an outcome of a multiyear design research project that has been conducted at the Harvard University Graduate School of Design in collaboration with the Bureau International des Expositions (BIE) since 2018. The overall research has been led by Professor Joan Busquets, with Dingliang Yang and Michael Keller as co-principal Investigators.

The Republic of Togo premiered its first national pavilion at the 19th International Architecture exhibition - La Biennale di Venezia in 2025 - with a project titled Considering Togo's Architectural Heritage. It was curated by Studio NEiDA and comissioned by Sonia Lawson, the founding director of Palais de Lomé.

This pioneering monograph on Shamsul Wares, Bangladesh's acclaimed architect and educator, demonstrates architecture as a reflection of the sociocultural conditions of a country, as well as global
modernity. Shamsul Wares is widely known in Bangladesh to be a fiercely passionate teacher who professes architecture as a philosophy of modernism, one that views the challenges of space-making through the lens of twentieth-century modernist experiments through abstraction, platonic clarity,
and humanism. Edited by Adnan Zillur Morshed with contributions from a diverse range of authors, this profusely illustrated book explains a cerebral architect's design work with careful analysis and contextuality.

This book delves into the forefront of architectural innovation by exploring the potential applications of 3D robotic concrete printing as structural prototypes. With a focus on intelligent computational design, the studio aims to revolutionize additive manufacturing techniques, particularly within the realm of large-scale concrete 3D printing. Through the utilization of digital design and cutting-edge fabrication methods, including three-dimensional graphic statics, bidirectional evolutionary structural optimization, and FURobot robotic manufacturing, students undergo a transformative journey, refining their design thinking, methodologies, and construction skills.

ARCHITECT CRAIG ELLWOOD'S AUTOBIOGRAPHY SURFACES

The Ispaces are a territorial redevelopment project born and developed in Rossa, in the canton of Graubünden, Switzerland. They are an integral part of the broader initiative known as The Rossa Project, a collection of artistic, architectural, and cultural activities aimed at engaging the local population in social and sustainable initiatives capable of generating interest from extemal audiences. Among the initiatives are the construction of private residences, facilities dedicated to cultural activities, such as a library and a youth hostel, the Temple of Thought, and the Ispaces themselves. These spaces are sculptures made from local larch wood, distributed throughout the forests surrounding Rossa, and can be visited along an immersive nature trail. The eight structures are inspired by geometric shapes sphere, cube, pyramid, and hourglass sometimes combined to create more complex compositions. The Ispaces explore and apply the principles of spatial psychology, with the goal of evoking specific emotions and sensations. While common elements may be identified in the exploration experience, the project takes into account all psychological, behavioural, and social aspects. Ispaces also embody the philosophy of the studio behind the initiative: the awareness that space exerts a profound impact on us and the ability to integrate principles of psychology and neuroarchitecture into present and future projects. It is not merely about constructing spaces but about creating places that enhance the potential of architecture, transforming design into fuel for a meaningful experience that puts humanity at its core.

This is the first place these projects have been collected and reflects 37 years of work in the US and abroad. The scale of the projects ranges from houses to a federal courthouse. Sites range from a fraction of an acre to forty acres. Merrill, Pastor & Michael Architects works with a range of master planners, principally with DPZ and DPZ CoDesign.

New Book Illuminates the Birth of Modern Architecture in San Diego

A stylish exploration of one of the greatest cities for Modernist architecture in the world.

Modernist Villages explores a distinctive trajectory within Swiss modernism: low-rise, high-density housing developments created between the 1950s and the 1980s.
Through the analysis of eleven case studies, supported by archival research, interviews, and on-site investigation, this monograph reveals how pioneering architects reimagined urban form, domestic space, and modes of communal life. These projects synthesise the qualities of single-family dwellings within collective housing environments, where architecture, landscape, and social interaction are carefully interwoven.
The book's threefold structure – comprising the main chapters Memory, Archive, and Theory – offers a layered approach through which these works are examined. Combining historical narrative, primary sources, and conceptual reflection, it explores how themes such as modularity, spatial depth, and the delicate equilibrium between built form and nature continue to be relevant for a critical dialogue with contemporary architectural discourse.
Far from representing static artefacts of modernism, these projects resonate today as models for sustainable urban density and community-making opportunities.
Modernist Villages will be of interest to architects, urbanists, historians, and all those interested in the future of housing and the evolving potential of low-rise, high-density living.
The book combines a research synthesis and a travel journal focused on eleven case-study buildings of low-rise, high-density housing from the 1950s to the 1980s, designed by Atelier 5, H. U. Scherer / Metron, Itten + Brechbühl, and Spirig + Fehr.

The original impetus behind this project was the desire to document the extraordinary richness, variety, and quality of Havana's Art Deco architecture. Looking back at these photographs, he is still glad he made the decision to undertake that adventure, despite the fact that the result of that effort, due to a series of circumstances, lay dormant for decades in a drawer in his studio. There is no doubt that, the documentary value of the photographs remains intact or perhaps increased, since it is possible that over these thirty years some of the works portrayed have succumbed to successive cyclones and lack of maintenance. The valuable aesthetic and compositional charge of the images does not seem to have been compromised by the passage of time. Today, however, alongside with the worn beauty of the buildings portrayed, what captures the viewer is the life that has been encapsulated in these photographs. A life frozen in most cases accidentally.

Over the past two decades, Mark Cavagnero Associates has been quietly making an Imprint on San Francisco's urban fabric. Born of the Modernist tradition of clean lines, abundant natural light, and functional, flowing open space plans, the firm's work expands on these values, encompassing a deep understanding of the city and Bay Area. Mark Cavagnero Architect surveys fifteen of the firm's foundational projects, ranging from cultural and civic buildings to recreational and educational facilities.

This book is a photographic journey on the origin and life of "Africa Hall" in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia-a building declared in 2015 "Monument to African History" and recently renovated-which was donated in 1961 by Emperor Haile Selassie to the United Nations. Africa Hall was designed by Arturo Mezzedimi, a young self-taught architect, to serve as the UN's continental headquarters and was the birthplace, In 1963, of the Organization of African Unity, now African Union.

Los Angeles Lost and Found is a collection of essays and photographs that explores Los Angeles as a city of constant reinvention, where history is often buried beneath layers of change. Experience designer Margaret Chandra Kerrison uses the lens of narrative placemaking to examine how LA's physical spaces—its streets, neighborhoods, and landmarks—shape both individual and collective identity.

Existing as it does on the brink of being overrun, urbanized or abandoned, rurality is contested. Even in the field of academia, it is often questioned or considered a minor subordinate appendix to urbanity. Since the ancient Greeks, conceptions of the rural have praised it as an idyllic and tranquil place where humans were closer to nature. Nowadays however, notions of the countryside are more complex, it is also a place in constant flux, a place defined and controlled by the urban. Can rurality continue to depend on the urban? Or will future scenarios recognize it for its potential to live truly 'closer to nature' and as the place to be? What can we learn from current counter-urbanization movements that have sprung up in the wake of changing geopolitical circumstances as well as geographical and social inequallity? Re-scaling the Rural aims to generate a broader understanding of contemporary rurality as it exists in different countries, seen by different disciplines in the context of different scales in space and time: Rurality may become the place that answers to the Anthropocene and its crises of pollution, climate change, biodiversity loss, wars and rising inequalities. The publication combines conceptual and practical explorations, from the outside-in (urban viewpoints) and inside-out (departing from an unknown rurality).

Hotel Design presents the beautiful, inviting, and defining hotels and resorts designed by FILLAT+ Architecture. With four studios and over 27 years of experience in hospitality design, the firm was founded in 1992 by Peter Fillat to explore a personal view of how people interact with the environment and to create an Architecture of Permanence, which delights and inspires the human spirit. FILLAT+ specializes in creating places and spaces for people to enjoy life. In the careful planning and sequencing of the interior and exterior spatial experience, the work creates comfortable, inviting spaces that are accommodating, respectful, and memorable. Each project responds to the unique needs and vision of its client as well as the needs of every guest that walks through its doors. The book features 12 built works and 15 projects on the boards. Richly illustrated, the projects elaborate on FILLAT+'s unique approach to designing new destination hotels and resorts, whether building upon historic foundations or designing icons as key anchors in urban redevelopment master plans Hotel Design features a foreword by Stacy Shoemaker, editor in chief of Hospitality Design magazine, and contributions by David Ashen and Gary Dollens.

Regenerative design is a way of building that heals our planet and our communities by halting biodiversity loss, reversing climate change, and improving social equity. Over the last decade, the nonprofit design practice MASS has proven that we can yield positive social, environmental, and economic results through a series of projects in Rwanda and the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Seeking Abundance argues for reducing the harm our building activities wage in our environments and that we can—and must—help people and the planet thrive together. The proof? MASS' projects represent a coherent and replicable philosophy that responds to local ecologies and transforms lives. This groundbreaking new book, co-edited by Sierra Bainbridge and Alan Ricks, examines how the power of multidisciplinary collaboration, regenerative practices, and community engagement can actively contribute to a healthier, more harmonious world.

Brutalist London is the definitive guide to London's post-war Brutalist architecture, documenting more than fifty buildings across the city.

In 1933 the United States government created the Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) and gave it jurisdiction over a demarcated region—the watershed of the Tennessee. The TVA was authorized to develop the resources in the Valley and promote the welfare of its residents. The TVA pursued these goals by constructing three large-scale operations, referred as the river, land and power machines. The TVA also invested in social projects, including support for housing and tourist industries in the region. The Mechanized Landscape: Statecraft and Environment in the Tennessee Valley examines this comprehensive effort as a form of statecraft—the art of government persuasion and diplomacy—manifested through environmental transformation. It follows the TVA's physical transformations and its investment in infrastructural power—programs that extended the state's capacity to reach even the most remote residents. The product of this process, the mechanized landscape, is a testament to the TVA's complex approach to democracy, its racial and middle-class biases, and its technical and managerial acumen. By bringing together original photography, newly created maps, and text, this book offers a well-researched, visually compelling appraisal of the TVA's plans and their implementation. Rather than following a linear textual narrative, readers are invited to explore the complexity of the mechanized landscape through multiple media.

MATERIA · FORMA is a visual and editorial project documenting the transformation of Spazio Moby, formerly the site of the Moretti furniture factory in Treviso, Italy. The publication — conceived as a photographic and written reflection — chronicles the full arc of an architectural revitalization: from abandonment to renewal, from raw structure to inhabited space.
Opening with a quote from Italo Calvino's Invisible Cities, the book sets its tone immediately: cities of the future already exist in the present, layered and folded within one another. This idea of temporal stratification runs through the entire work. In an era defined by speed, the project deliberately slows down, choosing to dwell on the complexity and nuance of a process that cannot be rushed. Quality, the authors argue, demands care, attention, and the willingness to change direction — a process that is rarely linear.
The photographic gaze at the heart of the publication is intentionally unhurried and non-standardized. Rather than imposing a predetermined visual language, the images adapt to the space and context, seeking to read each environment in its deepest essence. The lens captures fleeting, unrepeatable moments — scenes that exist only in a specific "here and now" during the construction site's successive phases.
The building itself becomes the protagonist: first an abandoned shell, motionless and forgotten, yet rich with traces and memories of its industrial past. As demolition and transformation begin, the structure reveals its latent tension — a potential energy pointing toward what it might yet become. This tension becomes the generative force behind the design process, giving rise to new forms, new spatial relationships, and ultimately a renewed dialogue with the surrounding city.
Text by Silvia Possamai accompanies the visual narrative, weaving together architectural reflection and poetic observation. Together, image and word construct a layered account of time, material, and place — a record of how a forgotten building reclaims its identity and is reintegrated into the urban fabric of Treviso.
MATERIA · FORMA is both a document and a meditation: on the nature of transformation, on the patience that meaningful architecture requires, and on the quiet power of spaces that have been given a second life.

New Schools on the Block presents a decade of school building practice by AFF Architekten, a collective of architects, craftspeople and researchers in Berlin and Lausanne.
For AFF, schools are not just places for learning, but also formative spaces for personal identities. As such, AFF aspires to create buildings that, through the interplay of their design and ways of use, provide settings for experiences that foster a sense of identity. The designs in this book range from the transformation of conventional corridor schools to the creation of new learning clusters. Numerous floor plan studies invite the reader to imagine diverse learning environments, and photos of the built projects show that even handrails or sanitary facilities can constitute engaging elements of design. Essays by Barbara Pampe and Gregor Harbusch, an interview with the architects by Josepha Landes, and cartoons by Peter Auge Lorenz contribute further perspectives that add depth over and above that of a lesson on school design.

The object of this guide is to provide architecture learners with concise and accessible information about contextualized styles and movements. Think of the style or movement as a bright star in the sky. This book takes us beyond its shine, exploring it from every angle and uncovering its every detail. after explaining the historical context, we provide details for each style about the architectural concepts, landmarks, notable architects and architectural elements, so whether the reader was a student, enthusiast or professional in the field, this book aims to serve as a valuable resource to deepen your understanding of architecture.

Samoa's Iconic Fale: How Culture Informs Architecture (ISBN: 978 4 9910659 0 3) is a new, brilliant book that brings decades of research together to document the traditional construction of Sāmoa's iconic meeting houses. Drawing on rare knowledge from master builders, early travellers, and recent scholarship, it highlights why the fale remains central to Sāmoan identity, community, and cultural life.