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Nelson Byrd Woltz (NBW) is one of the most in-demand and respected firms working in landscape architecture today with major commissions across the United States. This collection of twelve projects illustrates the power of design to create vital public realms at the heart of communities. Through the celebrated firm’s process, ecological and cultural histories are revealed(...)
Landscape Architecture, Monographs
November 2024
The land is full: Nelson Byrd Woltz Landscape architecture
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Nelson Byrd Woltz (NBW) is one of the most in-demand and respected firms working in landscape architecture today with major commissions across the United States. This collection of twelve projects illustrates the power of design to create vital public realms at the heart of communities. Through the celebrated firm’s process, ecological and cultural histories are revealed and integrated into meaningful public experiences. The firm has worked with exceptionally sensitive sites across the United States, including those that hold the vital histories of enslaved peoples, the rich cultures of indigenous peoples, and the natural habitats that have been threatened by infrastructure and construction.
Landscape Architecture, Monographs
The playground project
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From the 1950s to the 1980s, the open-air playground was a social laboratory. Innovative, wacky, and educational playground designs emerged in European and American cities, as well as elsewhere around the world. Artists, landscape designers, architects, and activists sought to provide children with the best possible place to play, while also reimagining cities and(...)
Commercial interiors, Building types
February 2024
The playground project
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From the 1950s to the 1980s, the open-air playground was a social laboratory. Innovative, wacky, and educational playground designs emerged in European and American cities, as well as elsewhere around the world. Artists, landscape designers, architects, and activists sought to provide children with the best possible place to play, while also reimagining cities and communities as a whole. This expanded new edition revives the wealth of ideas of that period to inspire us today. It offers many previously unpublished images, numerous new portraits—especially of female protagonists of the time—as well as findings from the latest research on playground design.
Commercial interiors, Building types
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Canada is situated geographically, historically, and culturally between old empires (Great Britain and France) and a more recent one (the United States), as well as on the terrain of First Nations communities. Poised between historical and metaphorical empires and operating within the conditions of incomplete modernity and economic and cultural dependency, Canada has(...)
Canadian cultural studies: a reader
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Canada is situated geographically, historically, and culturally between old empires (Great Britain and France) and a more recent one (the United States), as well as on the terrain of First Nations communities. Poised between historical and metaphorical empires and operating within the conditions of incomplete modernity and economic and cultural dependency, Canada has generated a body of cultural criticism and theory that offers unique insights into the dynamics of both center and periphery. The Reader brings together for the first time in one volume recent writing in Canadian cultural studies and work by significant Canadian cultural analysts of the postwar era.
Architecture in Canada
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Strata malls are multi-level commercial buildings with units individually owned and managed. Unlike traditional shopping centers, these malls often house diverse shops catering to niche interests and local communities, contributing to their unique charm and adaptability. Singapore has seen a renewed interest in strata malls, highlighted by the conservation of Golden Mile(...)
Commercial interiors, Building types
June 2025
Singapore strata malls: A retrospective for the future
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Strata malls are multi-level commercial buildings with units individually owned and managed. Unlike traditional shopping centers, these malls often house diverse shops catering to niche interests and local communities, contributing to their unique charm and adaptability. Singapore has seen a renewed interest in strata malls, highlighted by the conservation of Golden Mile Complex in 2021 and Peace Centre’s creative revitalization in 2023. "Singapore Strata Malls: A retrospective for the future" explores their urban, architectural, and cultural significance. Co-authored by Calvin Chua and Aurelia Chan, this book examines these spaces' structural and intangible qualities through essays and creative analyses.
Commercial interiors, Building types
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Memorials hold a special position in the cultural memory of communities, cultures and nations, and ''In memory of'' demonstrates this as never before. This extraordinary and moving collection of more than 60 exceptional structures commemorates some of the most destructive events of the 20th and 21st centuries, including war, genocide, massacre, terrorism, famine, and(...)
In memory of: designing contemporary memorials
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Memorials hold a special position in the cultural memory of communities, cultures and nations, and ''In memory of'' demonstrates this as never before. This extraordinary and moving collection of more than 60 exceptional structures commemorates some of the most destructive events of the 20th and 21st centuries, including war, genocide, massacre, terrorism, famine, and slavery. At the same time, ''In memory of'' shows that the power to overcome, to survive, even to forgive, is just as impactful and important. Thoughtful essays on the subjects of hope, strength, grief, loss, and fear help to contextualize the projects and address the emotional aspects of memorialization.
Contemporary Architecture
Icebergs, zombies, and the ultra thin: architecture and capitalism in the twenty-first century
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In "Icebergs, zombies, and the ultra thin," Matthew Soules issues an indictment of how finance capitalism dramatically alters not only architectural forms but also the very nature of our cities and societies. We rarely consider architecture to be an important factor in contemporary economic and political debates, yet sparsely occupied ultra-thin "pencil towers" develop in(...)
Icebergs, zombies, and the ultra thin: architecture and capitalism in the twenty-first century
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In "Icebergs, zombies, and the ultra thin," Matthew Soules issues an indictment of how finance capitalism dramatically alters not only architectural forms but also the very nature of our cities and societies. We rarely consider architecture to be an important factor in contemporary economic and political debates, yet sparsely occupied ultra-thin "pencil towers" develop in our cities, functioning as speculative wealth storage for the superrich, and cavernous "iceberg" homes extend architectural assets many stories below street level. Meanwhile, communities around the globe are blighted by zombie and ghost urbanism, marked by unoccupied neighborhoods and abandoned housing developments.
Architectural Theory
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We live in challenging times. There is overwhelming evidence that massive change is required in order to survive impending environmental collapse. Yet this fifth volume in the Archifutures series takes the position that the "apocalypse" is not an imminent event, but an insidious process that is already happening. Communities everywhere are facing it on a day-to-day basis.(...)
Archifutures Vol.5: Apocalypse
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We live in challenging times. There is overwhelming evidence that massive change is required in order to survive impending environmental collapse. Yet this fifth volume in the Archifutures series takes the position that the "apocalypse" is not an imminent event, but an insidious process that is already happening. Communities everywhere are facing it on a day-to-day basis. Many are already resisting and adapting. Despite the implied drama of the word "apocalypse", the reality is actually far more mundane: surviving it is not about building bunkers, it is about building resilience - everywhere and in all kinds of ways.
Contemporary Architecture
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Grands ensembles, centres commerciaux, gratte-ciel, gated communities et « grands projets » sont les principaux dispositifs architecturalo-urbanistiques qui accompagnent l’accélération de l’urbanisation partout dans le monde. Emblématiques de la société productiviste et construits au nom du « progrès » et de la « marche de l’histoire », ces désastres urbains n’ont en(...)
Désastres urbains : les villes meurent aussi
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Grands ensembles, centres commerciaux, gratte-ciel, gated communities et « grands projets » sont les principaux dispositifs architecturalo-urbanistiques qui accompagnent l’accélération de l’urbanisation partout dans le monde. Emblématiques de la société productiviste et construits au nom du « progrès » et de la « marche de l’histoire », ces désastres urbains n’ont en réalité comme seule fonction que de rentabiliser des territoires désincarnés et interconnectés. Cette enquête montre – visites de bâtiments, romans, essais, films ou rapports officiels à l’appui – comment ils façonnent l’uniformisation des paysages urbains, amplifient les déséquilibres sociaux, économiques et écologiques et contribuent à l’enfermement et à l’assujettissement de leurs habitants.
Urban Theory
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''Lifting the Gaze'' is an examination of how architecture affects the ways we live, learn, and work. It provides reflections on the possibility of bringing forth new communities and new collaborations in spite of differences and in spite of people's individual interests. The themes of the book share an urban affinity in terms of the urban environment's inherent diversity(...)
Juul / Frost Architects: Lifting the gaze
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''Lifting the Gaze'' is an examination of how architecture affects the ways we live, learn, and work. It provides reflections on the possibility of bringing forth new communities and new collaborations in spite of differences and in spite of people's individual interests. The themes of the book share an urban affinity in terms of the urban environment's inherent diversity and potential for offering different meeting places. Through three themes, ''Lifting the Gaze'' revisits three projects, rereads theorists, fuses them with present day conditions, and reflects upon what they can teach us about challenges and possibilities of the future.
Architecture Monographs
A town called Asbestos : environmental contamination, health, and resilience in a resource community
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A Town Called Asbestos looks at how the people of Asbestos, Quebec, worked and lived alongside the opencast Jeffrey Mine, the largest chrysotile asbestos mine in the world. Dependent on this deadly industry for their community’s survival, the town’s residents developed a unique, place-based understanding of their local environment; the risks they faced living next to the(...)
A town called Asbestos : environmental contamination, health, and resilience in a resource community
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A Town Called Asbestos looks at how the people of Asbestos, Quebec, worked and lived alongside the opencast Jeffrey Mine, the largest chrysotile asbestos mine in the world. Dependent on this deadly industry for their community’s survival, the town’s residents developed a unique, place-based understanding of their local environment; the risks they faced living next to the giant opencast asbestos mine; and their place within the global resource trade. This book unearths the local-global tensions that defined Asbestos’s proud and painful history and reveals the challenges similar resource communities have faced - and continue to face today.
Architecture du Québec