Print fact sheet - Agave
If you want bold, architectural plants in your garden, Peter Valder thinks that it's hard to go past agaves. This fascinating group of perennial succulents occurs naturally in southern USA and Mexico. There are over 300 species, and many have ... [... more]
Burke's Backyard |
Michael Henry Adams
Written by Michael Henry Adams, Photographed by Paul Rocheleau Long identified with African-American style and culture, Harlem is also a pillar of New York's social and architectural history. In this beautifully illustrated study, historian ... [... more]
Random House |
Katherine Ashenburg
A work of unexpected delights and surprises: here is a one-of-a-kind guidebook that pinpoints the best of Ontario's architectural heritage in its most charming towns, offers tantalizing and informative details of provincial history, indulges... ... [... more]
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Bernardo Gomez-Pimiento
In the years since its 1985 founding, the architectural firm TEN (Taller de Enrique Norten) Arquitectos has altered not only the face of Mexico City but also the international perception of Mexican architecture. Partners Enrique Norten and ... [... more]
Random House |
Bernard Tschumi
The State of Architecture at the Beginning of the 21st Century In March 2003, Bernard Tschumi convened forty of the world's leading architectural designers and theorists -- Elizabeth Diller, Peter Eisenman, Zaha Hadid, Steven Holl, Rem Koolhaas, ... [... more]
Random House |
Helene Furjan
Architectural discourse today is characterized by an overlapping conversation between architects and academics, teachers and students, theorists and practitioners. Certain terms -- "diagram, " "extreme form, " "autonomy, " [... more]
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