Deyan Sudjic looks at some really very real issues pertaining to the world of architecture and its promiscuous relationship with power.

Compulsory reading for anyone in the design field.

Conflict resolution and conflict urbanism are intrinsically bound to both the political and social spheres spinning amidst countries with sensitive and ambiguous boundaries. In times like these, architecture can hardly avoid being a political handle between these tenuous boundaries.

This publication documents the diversity of City Speculations exhibits that were presented under the curatorial wing of Patricia C. Phillips, Associate Professor and Chair of the Art Department at the State University of New York, New Paltz.

WHEN SPACE MEETS ART / WHEN ART MEETS SPACE Spatial, Structural and Graphic Design for Event and Exhibition Edited, produced and published by viction:workshop ltd. ISBN-13: 978-988-98228-0-4 Hardcover: 240 pages What makes a good events exhibition? What makes for a spectacular experience at an events ...

IMMATERIAL ARCHITECTURE Jonathan Hill Routledge ISBN 0-415-36342-1 (pbk) Can architecture be regarded merely as a composite of its materials? Is a building only what it is made of, as opposed to the architect’s decisive interplay of space and volume? If the three little pigs had built invisible houses of motion-sensor laser guns, would the big bad wolf have been tricked into dashing at them, and end up pulverised into smithereens before he could even huff and puff? Immaterial Architecture questions the material in architecture, and what are our oft-held ideas of conventional materiality. No, it does not take the stance of recycling unconventional materials in building, nor that we rethink the use of materials in the building fabric. Rather, it highlights a foreign realm of materials that, surprisingly, do make other architectures as insidiously as we strain to reject its rational.

ACTIONS OF ARCHITECTURE Architects and Creative Users Jonathan Hill Routledge ISBN 0-415-29043-0 (pbk) If you are one to be drawn to innovative and alternative strains of architectural thought, this book will whet your intellect with its multi-disciplinary approach to understanding architectural design. Drawing on the text ‘The Death of the Author’ by French literary critic Roland Barthes, Actions of Architecture is inspired by Barthes’s argument for a writer who is aware of the creativity of the reader. This approach compares the relations between the author and reader and the artist and viewer, thus informing us on the relations between the architect and user.

SUPERUSE Constructing new architecture by shortcutting material flows Ed van Hinte Cesare Peeren Jan Jongert 010 Publishers ISBN: 978-30-6450-592-8 A practical, inspiring book about constructing new buildings with surplus materials, SUPERUSE was initiated as a movement by the Recyclicity foundation in Rotterdam. Compiled by Ed van Hinte, Cesare Peeren and Jan Jongert from 2012 Architects, the book presents ideas for tools and methods for SUPERUSE, such as a ‘harvest map’ of everything reusable within a given distance of a building’s site.

The Reflections of Tokyo Hiroya Kawabata DESIGN OFFICE K Co. Ltd. 2005 ISBN: 4-902684-05-5 Light seems to cut both ways. Without it, there would be no depth to reality; no texture to perceive, no polish and shine ...

[Image: Cover and contents of Temporary Urban Spaces. Photograph by JJ Yeo. All copyrights of book belongs to their respective owners] TEMPORARY URBAN SPACES: Concepts for the Use of City Spaces Edited by Florian Haydn, ...