Arts, Architecture & Design Books

This book is Michele Saee's life's work. A collection of projects, built, unbuilt, conceptual, and experimental which expands over more than three decades. There are over fifty projects in different cities and countries, with different programs, scales...

This body of work is a contemplation of human beings' passage on earth and their intimate interrelation with the environment. This book attempts to bring humour to the things we are getting attached to. It points at the invisible within the...

How does one envision architecture? Forays gathers the work of Joe Day and Deegan-Day Design into six diptychs, unified by this question. Working in a wide range of media and scales, Day's work mines the differentials between perspective and...

With Lunch 14, the editors of Lunch Journal wondered if they could use the frontier story itself to decenter its power. The journal is divided into 4 sections. Edges explores the form and possibilities of the edge itself, and unravels...

Dynamic Geographies seeks to addresses the changing public perception of the term landscape. Landscapes are forged by many forces and are dynamic, not static. Yet most landscape designs are designed as static; that is, they are designed...

In Dale Maharidge's four-decade career as a writer and journalist, he has documented the downward spiral of the American working class into poverty. That is the destiny for increasing numbers of people in the 2020s and, as Maharidge discovers...

The explosive novel based on the eagerly anticipatedStarCraft IIvideo game expansion,Heart of the Swarm!The sinister zerg leader no longer commands her legions of bloodthirsty aliens against the humans of the Koprulu sector, all thanks to the combined...

Prepare for the Next Classic Adventure Return to Outland and defeat the Burning Legion. Step through the Dark Portal in 2021 and stop The Burning Crusade!This 1000 piece puzzle features art from upcoming video-game expansion, World of Warcraft: Burning...

The groundbreaking trilogy concludes! Struggling to forgether harrowing past, Nova, a powerful psionic soldier-in-training, has foundstrength in her fellow trainees.That newfound resolve will be put to the test whenshe and her team are dispatched to an...

A brand-new original graphic novel featuring characters from the bestselling video game franchise, World of Warcraft! A stalwart mage searches for a powerful artifact, stolen by dark riders, only to find his son accused of murder. A righteous priest,...

For more than ten years, Diablo has been one of PC gaming's iconic and blockbuster franchises, with millions of players experiencing to this day all the adventure and terror in the world of Sanctuary.Now, to tie-in with the long-awaited release...

This 1000 piece puzzle features art from upcoming video-game expansion, World of Warcraft: Shadowlands from Blizzard Entertainment!

Choose your faction, pick your weapon, and prepare for an astonishing vision of the world of Azeroth like you've never seen before! Built by best-selling paper engineer Matthew Reinhardt, the World of Warcraft Pop-Up Book brings the well-loved locations...

"The masterful art of chess, Kung-fu sword play, and the sweet science of boxing are all hip-hop expressions that connect us universally.Beatboxingtells the story. It's razor sharp."-Masta Killa, Wu-Tang Clan"I love howTodd Snyder's brain works. Like...

In (Low)life, Charles Farrell lets the public in on his gripping, harrowing, rich, and often amusing life that transverses his path from a teenage jazz prodigy, to mob-involved boxing fight-fixer, to his business partnership with the legendary Floyd...

Here is an anthology that can be shelved with the comics as well as in the poetry section. Comics characters-and futurism-have become increasingly prominent subjects for Black poets, in particular in the years following the expansion of Marvel and the...

On February 25, 1963, Columbia Records released The Barbra Streisand Album. The first song was "Cry Me a River," and with that a star was born. Barbra Joan Streisand had a zany personality backed by a talent that Stephen Sondheim once described as "one...

"I was a writer before I knew what a writer was." -Joseph DoughertyJoseph Dougherty has been a successful playwright and television writer, producer, and director for more than thirty years. He's written for breakthrough series that have changed the way...

Spirits surround us in the latest Illuminated Edition: a tome of all the Japanese ghost stories and strange tales collected and translated by author Lafcadio Hearn and depicted by the majestic brushwork of artist Kent Williams.Brimming with over sixty...

A Voyage to Arcturus, the gender-bending, genre-smashing epic by David Lindsay, is a neglected landmark in the history of science fiction and fantasy.Cited as a major influence by J.R.R. Tolkien and C.S. Lewis, its impact continues to resonate across...

Artemisia Gentileschi was a painter of passions...of rich colors and fraught moments...of women taking command of their own stories. She reversed the classical depictions of female characters in mythology, presenting them with agency, as the protagonists...

A collection of the stories of Algernon Blackwood, precursor of Lovecraft and early master of weird fiction and uncanny horror. Lavishly illustrated by the celebrated graphic artist Paul Pope. Algernon Blackwood was one of the first true masters of...

Vacant Spaces NY begins gathering the incomplete data available and documenting vacant spaces in New York City. Organized from large to small, general to specific, vacancy in the United States to case studies of specific vacancies in Manhattan, Michael...

Green Obsession traces the long path that architect Stefano Boeri and his studio - Stefano Boeri Architetti - have followed in the last fifteen years of practice, aiming at the redefinition of the relationship between city and nature. The book follows a...

Projective Ecologies takes stock of the diversity of contemporary ecological research and theory - embracing Felix Guattari's broader definition of ecology as at once environmental, social, and existential - and speculates on potential paths forward for...

The book provides a reflection on the conceptual framework of Milanese architect and industrial designer Vico Magistretti, his work and relevance to issues facing designers today.Following and extending from the Vico Magistretti-Travelling Archive...

Scott Ruff's studio, "Gullah/Geechee Institute," investigated architecture's role as a cultural signifier in the African-American GullahGeechee community off the South Carolina coast. It challenged students to translate cultural ideas into tectonic and...

Unless dissects the construction ecology, material geographies, and world-systems of a most modern of modern architectures: the Seagram Building.In doing so, this book aims to describe how humans and nature interact with the thin crust of the planet...

A critical and interdisciplinary exploration of our world's continuously urbanising and expanding coastline.For centuries, cities have grown and expanded onto previously saturated grounds, 'reclaiming' land from estuaries, marshes, mangroves, and seabeds...

How do designers in research-driven practices differentiate themselves from each other and form distinctive platforms for future practice? The research presented in this second edition and carried out in Australia as part of an Australian Research...

An architectural drawing book looking at the critical practice of various methods of drawing, their conception and their reception in the world.WWW.Drawing refers to two realms - One is the realm of the three 'W' authors - West, Wines...

Design with Life chronicles the breakthroughs and projects of a nonprofit that is defining resolute new directions in socio-ecological design and other deep-seated intersections of synthetic biology, architecture, and urban systems. In the challenging...

Design Practice Research at RMIT University is a longstanding program of research into what venturous designers actually do when they design. It is the most enduring and sustained body of research of its kind: empirical, evidence-based and surfacing...

Are you obsessed with John Carpenter's iconic music for the Halloween series? Do you thrill to the unforgettable stabs of the Psycho score, or the pounding synth of Goblin's soundtrack to Suspiria? Do you find yourself being pulled into...

'Weird Al' Yankovic is one of music's most beloved figures. A skilled accordion player and songwriter, the California native is known for his meticulous parodies of popular songs, hilarious originals, and, of course, for upbeat polkas!For much of Al's...

How did a low-budget British movie about Londoners battling zombies in a pub become a beloved global pop culture phenomenon?You've Got Red on You, the horror-comedy whose fan base continues to grow and grow. The book reveals how a group of friends...

Hailed as 'photography's new conscience,' photographer and psychiatrist Dr. Glenn Losack has spent a lifetime traveling the world, determined to extend healing, hope, and compassion. With a camera in hand, he goes places that tourists rarely visit,...

Meet the world's most fascinating sea creatures-see the lives and curiosities of colourful fish and coral reefs-this spectacular volume has more than 300 color photos and extraordinary text from a leading marine biologist and underwater photographer, and...

How can so many people pledge allegiance to punk, something with no fixed identity? Depending on who and where you are, punk can be an outlet, excuse, lifestyle, escapism, conversation, community, ideology, sales category, social movement,...

This installment of the Oscar Riera Ojeda Masterpiece series focuses on Fort 137 by Daniel Joseph Chenin. Set in a remote location to the west of Las Vegas, Nevada, the brief was for a residence that established a direct connection to its surroundings in...

The beauty of regional China captured with exquisite mastery in 23 original, exhibition-quality drawings by a leading architectBetween 1915 and 1917 the Russian composer, Sergei Prokofiev wrote a series of twenty piano pieces. While playing them for a...

An inspiring architectural interpretation of the concept of Shibusa, a masterclass on how to ensure seamless all-round views when building in a place of outstanding natural beauty.This instalment of the Oscar Riera Ojeda Publishers Masterpiece Series...

A comprehensive monograph on an award-winning, bespoke structure for teaching architecture that is an architectural triumph in its own right: a class embedded in a buildingThis book presents a privileged insight into the design and construction of the...

Located on a hillside meadow in rural Vermont, Bank Barn is a new residence conceptually inspired by the eponymous regional farm structures built into the banks of hills.

Emilio Sanchez Fonts (1921-1999) was a Cuban-American artist known for his architectural paintings, drawings, and graphic prints of New York, Latin America, and the Caribbean. As a realist artist, he was attracted to folklore and the vernacular, with...

In the early 1980's with the customary dearth of commissions for a young architectural practice Massimo Vignelli had designed a series of prototypical houses. These were specifically affordable houses, houses that could be built inexpensively, but...

The visitor centres in Can Gio, south Vietnam and Bruoux en Provence in the south of France are designed by the architectural firm DE-SO and DE-SO Asia.Both buildings integrate into their respective landscape and climate. The Bruoux en Provence building...

From the world's leading publisher of Architecture and Architectural Practices, comes a look into how VTN Architects have used bamboo to create groundbreaking projects. With the climate crisis raging and awareness of humanity's...