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Reprint of legendary designer Enzo Mari's 1974 manual Autoprogettazione, loosely meaning "self-design". The book contains a collection of simple furniture designs that can be easily built from ready made cuts of timber. The exercise sets out to improve our personal understanding of the sincerity beh...

This book showcases detached houses designed by architects in Japan since 1945. It is the publication from an exhibition at the Barbican, London in 2017.A beautiful book, showcasing 75 houses, designed by over 50 architects, divided into 13 themes such as: "Japaneseness", "Earthy Concrete", "A House...

Over the past decade we have seen a growing social movement towards collectivity, sharing, and participation. This paradigm shift in social values can be seen in architecture as well, where recent years have seen the emergence of increasingly innovative collective housing projects. Many of them have...

TOO MUCH is a magazine about romantic geography. Its purpose is to document our collective experience of cities, and look at the ways people and landscapes make and remake one another. Founded in 2011, TOO MUCH is produced and designed in Japan by a global group of writers, researchers, artists and ...

Based in Osaka, dot architects is an interdisciplinary practice with a portfolio that spans architecture, research, art, and more. This volume features five of the studio’s completed projects. Images which portray the projects in their current state are complemented by texts outlining the histo...

‘Make Do With Now’ presents a new perspective on Japanese architecture by introducing a young generation of architects and designers. Influenced by the Tohoku earthquake and Fukushima nuclear disaster of 2011, they share the desire for a sincere engagement with social, economic, and ecolog...

The duo behind New York restaurant Dimes presents a sensitive, gastronomical roadmap for the heart and the belly with their debut cookbook, Dimes Times: Emotional Eating.The collection of recipes, derived from the Dimes menu, is organised by time of day and state of mind, from 8AM, Determined and 4P...

Sanzo Wada (1883-1967) was an artist, teacher, costume and kimono designer during a turbulent time in avant-garde Japanese art and cinema. Wada was ahead of his time in developing traditional and Western influenced colour combinations, helping to lay the foundations for contemporary colour research....

We are unable to offer exchanges or refunds on sale items, so please choose carefully.mono.kultur's most colourful issue yet presents the life and work of architect Francis Kéré, known in equal measure for his lighthearted and innovative architecture, his remarkable background, and his infecti...

We are unable to offer exchanges or refunds on sale items, so please choose carefully.Issue #32 of brilliant Berlin interview magazine mono.kultur covers the intriguing oeuvre of Italian-born, London-based furniture designer Martino Gamper, famed for his 100 Chairs in 100 Days project, in which he r...

TOO MUCH is a magazine about romantic geography. Its purpose is to document our collective experience of cities, and look at the ways people and landscapes make and remake one another. Founded in 2011, TOO MUCH is produced and designed in Japan by a global group of writers, researchers, artists and ...

Shelter II was published in 1978, five years after Shelter. A practical book for an owner-builder interested in building a simple stud-frame house. Contains a condensed 24-page instruction manual for the novice builder for building a stud-frame home: foundation, floor, wall and roof ­framing; roof...

From 1933 to 1934 Sanzo Wada published a collection of colour combinations that was the first of its kind in Japan. Following on that enduring bestseller, 'A Dictionary of Color Combinations' Vol. 2 brings back two more works by Wada published in 1935–1936 and 1938, respectively. The book prese...

To achieve truly climate-friendly architecture means not just switching to sources of renewable power, but building with materials that produce zero carbon emissions, use no fossil fuels, and create no waste. This publication contains essays, case studies, and a catalogue of building materials compi...

An understanding of the ways of our tupuna, coupled with the best of new thinking from New Zealand and abroad, has significant potential for sustainable housing models.Colonial settlement and the discriminatory policies of successive governments have challenged Maori connections to whenua and kainga...

As his firm’s most culturally significant buildings have been recently nominated for UNESCO World Heritage status, A U features the humane, modern architecture of Alvar Aalto. The Finnish architect’s canon would join that of France’s Le Corbusier and the American Frank Lloyd Wright. H...

Golconde in Pondicherry, India was completed in 1945. It was built as a dormitory for members of the Sri Aurobindo Ashram. It was designed by American architect Antonin Raymond (who was based in Japan and previously worked for Frank Lloyd Wright) and later completed by George Nakashima, who also bec...

With over 1,000 photographs, Shelter is a classic celebrating the imagination, resourcefulness, and exuberance of human habitat. It includes a history of shelter and the evolution of building types: tents, yurts, timber buildings, barns, small homes, domes,. There is a section on building materials...

Fascinating and unique, Wonderful Houses Around the World gives children a welcome entrée into places and lives throughout the world.Glorious two-page photographic spreads capture families outside their homes, be they simple or imposing. Detailed cutaway illustrations reveal the inside of each h...

These are physical gift vouchers that we send to you by courier, on the gift voucher is a unique code to use at checkout. We leave the 'to' and 'from' blank for you to fill  in.We also sell digital gift vouchers that are emailed.Designed by Chloe Larkin. They are risograph printed & come in a tran...

 is the result of extensive artistic and architectural research on the village of Kaliurang (Yogyakarta region, Indonesia). This publication brings together different essays and a series of photographs that critically explore the spatial, transformative effects of globalisation and heritage formati...

The architectural work of Donald Judd.Donald Judd was one of the most important exponents of American Minimal Art. Among the lesser-known aspects of his work are the numerous built architectural projects in which he explores the relationship between architecture art, furniture, and landscape. One p...

This carefully curated compilation celebrates the rich detail in the work of Aino, Elissa and Alvar Aalto. Every support, railing and handle is the result of intensive formal and functional research. The authors document 50 Aalto buildings – some well-known and others less so – and arrang...

The story of the building of an iconic mid-century housing estate, that is often seen as the model for housing architecture. Fully illustrated with commissioned photography of the interiors and exteriors, archive images and newly commissioned writing by leading architectural historians, plus interv...