Product Description: This issue of Hunch explores the act of making architecture public, as architecture and design are playing increasingly large roles in the popular imagination. Subjects include: the relationship between design and political decision-making, the repercussions of public sponsorship for innovative design, the development of marketing strategies in design work and the use and proliferation of media exposure by architects...read more

Product Description: Andrew Bromberg of Aedas -- Recent Works is the documentation of Bromberg's design visions within the emerging economies of Asia, complete with images, drawings, models and construction photos. The book is divided into three chapters, each addressing a distinct aspect of Bromberg's design approach: Challenging Conventions, Civic Approach and Contextualization...read more

Product Description: European emigrs have been changing the face of modern American architecture for decades. Winka Dubbeldam surely belongs to that long list of distinguished practitioners. Working across scalesfrom a New York skyscraper to a rural housethe Dutch-born architect has established herself as one of the most provocative figures in the field by seamlessly integrating function and form, technology and comfort, city and home...read more

Product Description: With images that suggest a modern-day Caspar David Friedrich, sculptor Eliasson recreates in elegant forms the extremes of the landscape and the atmospheric conditions of his native Iceland, resulting in a new kind of techno-Romanticism...read more

Product Description: Like many young Dutch architects who have either worked for Rem Koolhaas or followed in his footsteps, Winka Dubbeldam situates architecture in a larger context of urbanism, society, and technology. Her inventive and colorful work addresses a variety of scales and programs, and displays a mastery of the latest computer techniques in rendering and animation...read more

Product Description: Kojin Karatani, Japan's leading literary critic, is perhaps best known for his imaginative readings of Shakespeare, Soseki, Marx, Wittgenstein, and most recently Kant. His works, of which Origins of Modern Japanese Literature is the only one previously translated into English, are the generic equivalent to what in America is called "theory...read more

Product Description: Earth Moves, Bernard Cache's first major work, conceptualizes a series of architectural images as vehicles for two important developments. First, he offers a new understanding of the architectural image itself...read more