A Field Guide To Sprawl

Jaidah, Ibrahim Mohamed

An architectural journey through the three most significant decades—1950s, 1960s, and 1970s—of urban development in Doha, Qatar, since the oil discovery.Encompassing a superb collection of rare photographs, drawings, and reproductions, this volume unlocks the architectural changes that took place in Doha from urban transition in the 1950s to urban necessity in the 1960s to urba...

Mary Martín / Tina Skinner

More than 300 antique postcard images take readers through Mexico's streets and palaces, churches and courtyards. Architects, designers, and landscape professionals will find endless inspirations in this rich collection of images. Postcard collectors will appreciate this wealth of "real photo" postcard imagery, as well as artistic hand-tinting and color makeovers created for to...

Philip Jodidio

A look at the most significant architectural and territorial projects by the world-renowned Chilean architect, a leader in the "geopoetic" methodology in architecture.This is the first major book on Zegers, who practices an intensely artistic and ecological form of architecture based on landscapes in which she builds. Working frequently in timber, Zegers reaches unique, sustain...

Cochran, Samuel / Sestig, Glenn

The second Rizzoli publication dedicated to an important member of the Mexican and Latin American architectural vanguard, celebrating exceptional craftsmanship and refined sophistication, and guided by the ideals of Mexican modernism.Farca looks to the work of the late design icon Luis Barragán for inspiration, blending tradition with modernity. He focuses on the importance of ...

Henrietta Spencer-Churchill

The most important, most visited, and most renowned of all of Britain's stately homes, Blenheim has been home to the Churchill family for more than 300 years.Regarded as perhaps the greatest of the stately homes and the finest example of baroque architecture in Great Britain, Blenheim is a treasure of English heritage. In this stunning volume, Lady Henrietta Spencer-Churchill, ...

Jason M. Barr

From one of the world's top experts on the economics of skyscrapers—a "fascinating" (Daily Mail, London) and "informative" (Publishers Weekly) account of the ever-growing quest for super tall buildings across the globe.The world's skyscrapers have brought us awe and wonder, and yet they remain controversial—for their high costs, shadows, and overt grandiosity. But, decade by de...