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Over the last six decades Barcelona-based MBM Architects has evolved as one of the pre-eminent architectural practices in Europe. Their work has helped shape many cities and fundamentally influenced the evolution of European architecture and city planning. Martorell, Bohigas and Mackay's work is characterised by its simplicity of form and human scale. They create urban spaces which are welcoming to their inhabitiants and add to the vibrancy of cities.

David Mackay's autobiographical review of the places which have informed his experience and served as the focus of his creative endeavour does not conform to a traditional chronology. Instead he blends personal and architectural explorations of the cities which have defined his life. This book travels through numerous cities and many decades. It touches upon diverse historical events and brings a uniquely sensitive personal perspective to a consideration of Europe's cities at the start of a new century.

Reviewers have showered praise on Graham's recent biography of Adam with critics declaring the comprehensive tome to be "vivid", "absorbing and intelligent" and "a tremendous, sometimes mischievous piece of work."
 
No one contributed more to the artistic eminence of ‘Age of Elegance’ than Robert Adam (1728-92), the pre-eminent architect of his day whose expertise and imagination extended also to interior design, furniture and garden design. His legacy has echoed through design ever since, his name synonymous with elegance, the Enlightenment, of the best features of the eighteenth century. Graham follows Adam’s life and career from schooldays in Edinburgh through study in Italy and the establishment of his architectural practice in London.

This book looks at two contrasting but equally extraordinary phases in the recent history of Japanese architecture: first, the explosive 'Bubble' era of the 1980s and early 1990s, and second, the post-'Bubble' era which leads up to the present day. The early period, also referred to as the 'new golden age of Japanese architecture', saw a spectacular overproduction of unusual buildings and urban complexes in Japan's major cities; while the period that followed, around the mid-1990s, shows work that demonstrated a sense of modesty, restraint and 'earthly' innovation.

The book is divided into two sections: 'The Bubble Years: The Epitome of Japanese Postmodernism'; and 'After the Bubble: New Realities, New Priorities'. In the first section, architectural projects produced during the 1990s are discussed and illustrated in the general text, while in the latter part of the book more recent projects, mainly from the twenty-first century, will be introduced on an individual basis, with plans, drawings and photos, along with detailed project descriptions. The book will handle the whole spectrum of cultural detail to explore Japan's extraordinary architectural life.

From his geodesic dome to books popularizing the terms “spaceship earth” and “synergetics,” the life mission of R. Buckminster Fuller (1895–1983) was to create living environments that minimized consumption of the earth’s resources while maximizing interconnections with global systems of information and transportation. This book explores Fuller's extraordinary body of work focusing on his wide-ranging and sometimes controversial role within the worlds of art, architecture, and utopian thought.

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This eagerly anticipated and richly illustrated 304 page biography of Mackintosh, by RIAS honorary Fellow James Macaulay, is an essential and beautiful addition to the Mackintosh canon and to architectural history.

Charles Rennie Mackintosh was Scotland’s greatest architect and arguably one of the world’s most admired. With a few bold and innovative structures—the Glasgow School of Art and Hill House among them—he had a profound influence on art and architecture at the turn of the twentieth century. Like Wright, Mackintosh designed in totality, down to the furniture and fabrics used in his structures, and he was influenced by the Japanese, particularly in the simplicity of his designs and themes from nature.

• approximately 120 images, including photographs, sketches, drawings, and floor plans
• introductory essays exploring the architect's life and work, touching on family and background as well as collaborations with other architects
• the most important works presented in chronological order, with descriptions of client and/or architect wishes as well as construction problems and resolutions
• an appendix including a list of complete or selected works, biography, bibliography and a map indicating the locations of the architect's most famous buildings