As a practitioner, Adrian Luchini is fundamentally interested in the ethereal; as an educator, in the way the practice of architecture influences the development of new theories. In this regard, his pursuit of architecture is by necessity expanded, general, imprecise, and all-encompassing. His mode of resistance is by engagement instead of withdrawal, evidenced by the severe oscillation from the small practice to the large corporation for architecture, engineering, and construction; from the carefully delayed guarded residential project to the almost anonymous, shared medium of global practice. This breadth of work and exploration of philosophy is illustrated in this beautiful monograph. Adrian Luchini is based in St. Louis, Missouri.

Examples of world-renowned masters of architecture are used in this enlightening book that explores the "why" of architectural drawing, rather than the "how." By emphasizing the value of drawing over technique, the authors demonstrate how the drawing itself influences the designer's processes of thought, and exerts its own pull on the evolution of the concept.

Now that information technologies are fully embedded into the design studio, Instabilities and Potentialities explores our post-digital culture to better understand its impact on theoretical discourse and design processes in architecture. The role of digital technologies and its ever-increasing infusion of information into the design process entails three main shifts in the way we approach architecture: its movement from an abstracted mode of codification to the formation of its image, the emergence of the informed object as a statistical model rather than a fixed entity and the increasing porosity of the architectural discipline to other fields of knowledge. Instabilities and Potentialities aims to bridge theoretical and practical approaches in digital architecture.

Demonstrates the existence of public space catalysts, as well as the need for their presence for an expectant or indifferent place to be activated. This work -- which understands that the city, now and always, has had and must have public spaces of intensity -- proposes urban catalysts as agents that are capable of activating a place that was previously indifferent. The comparative work of historical and recent cases, developed by research and drawings, has allowed us to discover that the vivid public spaces of identity and reference have been formed due to the urban effect caused by these agents that we call "catalysts." Manuel Bailo's work includes a wide range of projects, ranging from urban scale to interiorism. It has been widely published and presented with awards. Co-published with University of Virginia: School of Architecture.

Adam Kalkin's projects using containers to build houses.