Piano, virtuoso. This book covers the wide-ranging career of the master architect. "The array of buildings by Renzo Piano is staggering in scope and comprehensive in the diversity of scale, material, and form. He is truly an architect whose sensibilities represent the widest range of this and earlie[...]

How green is your blueprint? This title looks at architecture as sustainable technology. The ecological impact of new construction, once a secondary concern, has become a crucial issue. Badly designed buildings guzzle natural resources and pollute their surroundings; in an era of rocketing energy co[...]

Life in the woods. Creative cabin architecture. Ever since Henry David Thoreau's described his two years, two months, and two days of cabin existence at Walden Pond, Massachusetts in Walden or, Life in the Woods (1854), the idea of a refuge dwelling has seduced the modern psyche. In the past decade,[...]

Some of the most spectacular architectural designs of the moment have to do with our most basic needs: eating, drinking, and shopping. From Kobe, Japan to Turku, Finland to Sao Paulo, Brazil, this book rounds up the newest and brightest places to see and be seen.[...]

Building genius. This is the fabulous fifth volume of the elaborate survey of contemporary architecture. "The Architecture Now!" series is an ongoing project documenting the work of the most innovative and influential architects across the globe. This special edition of selection from Volume 5 featu[...]

No place like home. This title features new houses of elegance and distinction from around the world. Beyond the fundamental notion of shelter, what defines a house? The broad-ranging selection of extraordinary dwellings in the Architecture Now! Houses series shows the concept to be infinitely malle[...]