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Louis I. Kahn

Born in Estonia in 1901, Louis Isidore Kahn was to become one of the United States' most important architects of the post-war period, alongside the Modern masters Mies van der Rohe, Walter Gropius and Le Corbusier. Although renowned for a number of seminal modern works, Louis I Kahn came to question many of the precepts of the Modern Movement. In particular, he questioned the ability of the International Style of Modernism to house the social spaces required by the latter half of the century.
Louis I. Kahn

Pierre Koenig

Pierre Koenig is a leading architect of the Modern Movement in America, and a guiding influence in the ‘Case Study House Program’. This monograph, the first to compile his pioneering work, provides an unparalleled insight into the evolution of Modernism on the West Coast. In 1957 he was chosen by Arts and Architecture magazine to design Case Study Houses #21 and #22.
Pierre Koenig

Rem Koolhaas Colours

"The nature of colour should change - no longer just a thin layer of change, but something that genuinely alters perception" and this stipulation of Rem Koolhaas is echoed by the world famous architects and designers Alessandro Mendini and Norman Foster. In this volume, they present between them a total of 90 colours - each covering half a page - accompanied by comments on the background, the significance and the applications of the colours. The studies of colours from each office form the basis of this book, and were previously only available in extravagant individual editions.
Rem Koolhaas Colours

Rem Koolhaas Mutations

The city is in the process of mutation as globalization and urbanization transform both the environment and traditional architectural forms. "Mutations" presents an atlas of new urban spaces. Featuring work and texts by: Rem Koolhaas and the Harvard Project on the City, Sanford Kwinter and Daniela Fabricius, Stefano Boeri, Hans Ulrich Obrist, Nadia Tazi, Jean Attali, Moulier Boutang, Saskia Sassen, Bart Lootsma, and many others.
Rem Koolhaas Mutations

Rem Koolhaas Projects for Prada

With his inimitable style and unique view of architecture and design in the international urban milieu, Dutch architect Rem Koolhaas presents his theories and designs for Prada stores in New York, Los Angeles, San Francisco, and Tokyo. After musing over ideas about branding, expansion, tourism, and workspace, Koolhaas launches into the specifics of his plans for the stores, including an exploration of the expanded and architecturally integrated role of information technology.
Rem Koolhaas Projects for Prada

Krefeld Villas

With all of the attention Mies van der Rohe has received over the last few years, it's hard to believe that there could be a pair of "undiscovered" buildings begging for even the slightest consideration - and receiving none. Such has been the fate, however, of Mies van der Rohe's Krefeld Villas, a pair of neighboring brick residences of typically restrained elegance built from 1927 to 1930.
Krefeld Villas