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Explore highlights of contemporary architecture built across London from 2000 to 2025 with this two-sided map by Olly Wainwright. The map features 50 projects, from museums and major redevelopments to social housing and urban gardens, alongside an introduction, building details and original photography.
London contemporary architecture Map
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Explore highlights of contemporary architecture built across London from 2000 to 2025 with this two-sided map by Olly Wainwright. The map features 50 projects, from museums and major redevelopments to social housing and urban gardens, alongside an introduction, building details and original photography.
Architectural Plans and Cartography
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Led by Pritzker Prize–winning artistic director Alejandro Aravena (born 1967), the Elemental studio, based in Santiago, Chile, possesses a diversely skilled staff whose analytical approach has produced highly original solutions to social challenges such as the housing shortage in Santiago's poorer neighborhoods. Instead of designing cheap housing, Elemental builds "half(...)
Architecture Monographs
November 2018
Alejandro Aravena: Elemental. The architect's studio
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Led by Pritzker Prize–winning artistic director Alejandro Aravena (born 1967), the Elemental studio, based in Santiago, Chile, possesses a diversely skilled staff whose analytical approach has produced highly original solutions to social challenges such as the housing shortage in Santiago's poorer neighborhoods. Instead of designing cheap housing, Elemental builds "half houses" at the same cost and enables buyers to build the other half themselves. This combination of good design with the engagement of the buyers creates more sustainable housing areas. The studio works on both large and small scales in Chile and in the rest of the world; all projects bear the marks of their pragmatic approach. "Alejandro Aravena: Elemental" portrays the company's working methods and provides examples of its most important projects.
Architecture Monographs
Modern London map
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Explore extraordinary examples of Modern architecture built across London between 1930 and 1960 with this two-sided map. Featuring over fifty buildings, from social housing to churches and the Festival Hall, this guide includes original photography by Nigel Green and building details and an introduction by Robin Wilson.
Modern London map
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Explore extraordinary examples of Modern architecture built across London between 1930 and 1960 with this two-sided map. Featuring over fifty buildings, from social housing to churches and the Festival Hall, this guide includes original photography by Nigel Green and building details and an introduction by Robin Wilson.
Architectural Plans and Cartography
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A documentation of the 2008 annual Martell Lecture given by Thom Mayne on March 19, 2008. Includes the Caltrans Headquarters in Los Angeles, Social Housing in Madrid, 41 Cooper Square in Manhattan, Diamond Ranch High School, Giant Group Company in Shanghai, San Francisco Federal Building, Phare Tower in Paris and more.
The continuity of contradiction
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A documentation of the 2008 annual Martell Lecture given by Thom Mayne on March 19, 2008. Includes the Caltrans Headquarters in Los Angeles, Social Housing in Madrid, 41 Cooper Square in Manhattan, Diamond Ranch High School, Giant Group Company in Shanghai, San Francisco Federal Building, Phare Tower in Paris and more.
Architecture Monographs
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This edition begins with a conversation with Pier Vittorio Aureli and MartinoTattara, the founders of Dogma, an architectural firm concerned with the relationship between architecture and the city. By focusing mostly on urban design and large-scale projects, they consult with municipalities and agencies for urban planning and architectural issues. Atypically, El Croquis(...)
El Croquis 208 : Dogma (2002-2021) familiar / unfamiliar
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This edition begins with a conversation with Pier Vittorio Aureli and MartinoTattara, the founders of Dogma, an architectural firm concerned with the relationship between architecture and the city. By focusing mostly on urban design and large-scale projects, they consult with municipalities and agencies for urban planning and architectural issues. Atypically, El Croquis is this time only featuring plans not yet constructed, including a model for a city of 4,000,000 Inhabitants, a proposal for 44 social housing units, and a prototype for boarding houses in London. Timely articles about urban transformation follow, including an interesting genealogy of housing for the laboring classes.
El Croquis
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From tenements to alleyways to latrines, twentieth-century American cities created spaces where pests flourished and people struggled for healthy living conditions. In Pests in the City, Dawn Day Biehler argues that the urban ecologies that supported pests were shaped not only by the physical features of cities but also by social inequalities, housing policies, and ideas(...)
Pests in the city : flies, bedbugs, cockroaches & rats
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From tenements to alleyways to latrines, twentieth-century American cities created spaces where pests flourished and people struggled for healthy living conditions. In Pests in the City, Dawn Day Biehler argues that the urban ecologies that supported pests were shaped not only by the physical features of cities but also by social inequalities, housing policies, and ideas about domestic space.
Urban Theory
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Architecture with a social conscience comes in several forms in this issue. Miquel Adrià calls for a “redensification” of social housing. In a section on the ‘Corporate Drive to be in Good Shape’, the Hyundai education and research training facility gives workers breathability between sea and mountain in Gyeongju. An all-timber construction of a Norwegian bank in(...)
C3 412 : Learning within location and place
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Architecture with a social conscience comes in several forms in this issue. Miquel Adrià calls for a “redensification” of social housing. In a section on the ‘Corporate Drive to be in Good Shape’, the Hyundai education and research training facility gives workers breathability between sea and mountain in Gyeongju. An all-timber construction of a Norwegian bank in Stavanger has a positive effect on user experience and well being. In ‘Learning within Location and Place’, the patterns of Sami indigenous people shape a major Swedish school. New projects include a Möbius strip-inspired lakeside cultural complex.
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C3 329: Aires Mateus
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Modern architecture and historical heritage do not often go hand in hand. This issue looks at a love and hate relationship between modern architecture and historical ornaments. How can modern architecture be enriched by the past? And what lessons may architects learn from past examples? Special attention is also paid to the changing social functions of today's modern(...)
C3 329: Aires Mateus
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Modern architecture and historical heritage do not often go hand in hand. This issue looks at a love and hate relationship between modern architecture and historical ornaments. How can modern architecture be enriched by the past? And what lessons may architects learn from past examples? Special attention is also paid to the changing social functions of today's modern cities. Projects include: Inter-Municipal school in Saint-Denis by AAVP Architecture, the Social Housing in Terrassa by Flores & Prats Arquitects, Le Lorrain Residential Complex by MDW Architecture, and the Lucien Rose Complex in Rennes by Atelier du Pont.
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With Common Space, activist and architect Stavros Stavrides calls for a reconceiving of public and private space in the modern age. Stavrides appeals for a new understanding of common space not only as something that can be governed and open to all, but as an essential aspect of our world that expresses, encourages, and exemplifies new forms of social relations and shared(...)
Common space : the city as commons
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With Common Space, activist and architect Stavros Stavrides calls for a reconceiving of public and private space in the modern age. Stavrides appeals for a new understanding of common space not only as something that can be governed and open to all, but as an essential aspect of our world that expresses, encourages, and exemplifies new forms of social relations and shared experiences. He shows how these spaces are created, through a fascinating global examination of social housing, self-built urban settlements, street peddlers, and public art and graffiti. The first book to explicitly tackle the notion of the city as commons, Common Space, offers an insightful study into the links between space and social relations, revealing the hidden emancipatory potential within our urban worlds.
Architectural Theory
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The photograph Joel Sternfeld has selected sixty representative historic or present American co-housing "utopias" or communities. A photograph of each is accompanied by a brief text that summarizes the most salient aspects of the history or organization of the community. Neither a conventional history nor a conventional book of photography, "Sweet earth" brings together(...)
Joel Sternfeld : sweet earth - experimental utopias in America
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The photograph Joel Sternfeld has selected sixty representative historic or present American co-housing "utopias" or communities. A photograph of each is accompanied by a brief text that summarizes the most salient aspects of the history or organization of the community. Neither a conventional history nor a conventional book of photography, "Sweet earth" brings together what might otherwise seem disparate, individualized social phenomena and makes visible the community of communities.
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