With their original and innovative projects, Amyas Connell and Basil Ward from New Zealand and the British architect Colin Lucas introduced a new and uncompromising [...]

John Nash – architect, town-planner, landscape designer, bridge-builder, engineer and entrepreneur – was born in 1752 and died in 1835, outliving his principal patron, George [...]

Preface
Introduction: Notes on Invention
Part I The Formative Years of Charles Edouard Jeanneret 1887–1922
The Home Base
In Search of Personal Principles
A Classicism for the Jura
Paris, Purism and [...]

Tadao Ando: The Colours of Light is the result of ten years’ collaboration between the English photographer Richard Pare and Japan’s leading architect, Tadao Ando [...]

Internationally renowned as one of the major achievements of modern architecture, the work of Alvar Aalto (1898–1976) is deeply rooted in the culture and landscape [...]

Tadao Ando (b. 1941) is Japan’s leading architect and a designer with a dazzling international reputation. This complete catalogue of Ando’s work examines in detail [...]

Volume 1 features numerous case studies including the Bari Sports Stadium in Italy and the first stages of the Kansai Airport International Terminal in Japan. [...]

Extremely private and unprepossessing, Irish-born designer Eileen Gray (1878–1976) has remained an elusive subject despite her lasting influence. Known primarily for her highly original furniture [...]

John Pawson is one of the foremost proponents of Minimalism in architecture and design. Already known to designers for his austere yet luxurious interiors, he [...]

R M Schindler (1887–1953) was a pivotal Modernist architect who remained largely unrecognized by the critical establishment during his lifetime. A pragmatist and theoretician, Schindler [...]