Garden City Mega City Rethinking Cities for the Age of Global Warming
by Patrick Bingham-Hall
London: Pesaro Publishing, 2016
At a time of climbing urbanization rates and alarming climate change, WOHA’s future prospects for vertical villages serve as an enlightening template for architects, designers, and engineers, as well as developers and investors – all those concerned with the future of our cities.
From commercial mixed-use to hospitality and social housing, Singapore-based WOHA reinterprets the skyscraper as a prototype for hyper-dense, green urban living.
Inventive Minimalism Architecture of Roger Ferris+Partners
by William S. Saunders
The Monacelli Press | $50
Inventive Minimalism, the firm of Roger Ferris + Partners’ first monograph, includes residential and commercial projects, both small and sprawling, illustrating Ferris’ rare ability to cross-pollinate different building types and contexts with his singular design approach. Based on simple geometric forms and sustained explorations of layering planes to bound space and permit light, Ferris’ work can be seen as an updated take on the modernist, refined and innovative houses of Philip Johnson, Marcel Breuer and Eliot Noyes in New Canaan, Ferris’ hometown. This richly illustrated monograph makes clear the ingenuity of Ferris’ innovative design solutions, for which he has been awarded dozens of prestigious regional, national, and international awards and citations.
Toward an Urban Ecology SCAPE / Landscape Architecture
by Kate Orff
The Monacelli Press | $50
Toward an Urban Ecology is an extended case study of the firm’s practice, showing in detail how they construct narratives of projects, what kinds of questions they ask, and how they’ve engaged in a constellation of sites and issues in a way that is useful to inspire the next generation of landscape design practitioners and activists. Essays and interviews with scientists, aquaculture experts, sociologists, and community activists and advocates are combined with descriptions of the immersive, regenerative and engaging design projects that continue to emerge from this methodology.
The Creative Architect Inside the Great Midcentury Personality Study
by Pierluigi Serraino
The Monacelli Press | $45
In The Creative Architect: Inside the Great Midcentury Personality Study, Pierluigi Serraino charts the development and implementation of this historic study, producing the first look at an amazing and matchless episode in the annals of modern architecture and psychology. For the first time, the study’s primary documents have been culled from numerous original sources, including questionnaires, aptitude test, and interview transcripts that show how some of the greatest American architects evaluated their own creativity – and, controversially, that of their peers – and how they perceived their place in architectural history.
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