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The making of Mexican modernist architecture. By Celia Esther Arredondo Zambrano

"This book presents the making of Mexican modernist architecture mainly through five power structures namely: academic; social status; economic/political; gender; and post-colonial, and through interviews with thirteen key Mexican architects."

Herman Miller : a way of living. By Amy Auscherman, editor.

Provides a rich history of the innovative 100 year old Michigan-based furniture company, Herman Miller. 

Practice with purpose : a guide to mission-driven design. By Leddy Maytum Stacy

"Practice with Purpose is about designing buildings beyond their property lines to address some of society’s most urgent challenges: the climate emergency, racial and ethnic injustice, chronic homelessness, educational crises, and the preservation of the embodied carbon and culture of existing buildings."

University trends : contemporary campus design. By Jonathan Coulson

"This book introduces the most significant, widespread, and thought-provoking trends that are currently shaping the planning and architecture of higher education institutions across the world. Within this completely revised third edition, Part One identifies current patterns such as student hubs, large-scale expansions and buildings for innovation and interdisciplinary research. Part Two profiles these through recent, well-illustrated, global case studies. This is the essential guide to current and future trends in campus design."

Street-level architecture : the past, present and future of interactive frontages. By Conrad Kickert & Hans Karssenber

Queer spaces : an atlas of LGBTQIA+ places and stories. By Adam Nathaniel Furman editor.

The editors "have gathered together a community of contributors to share stories of spaces that range from the educational to the institutional to the re-appropriated, and many more besides. With historic, contemporary and speculative examples from around the world, 'Queer Spaces' recognises LGBTQIA+ life past and present as strong, vibrant, vigorous, and worthy of its own place in history. Looking forward, it suggests visions of what form these spaces may take in the future to continue uplifting queer lives."

Big little hotel : small hotels designed by architects. By Donna Kacmar

"Among the topics discussed in the book are the longstanding relationship with Prada and how the early objectives in that relationship have both maintained and shifted. An underlying theme to the conversations held with students and faculty of the Knowlton School community is the topic of architect client relationships, their history, their problems, and how they have contributed to the discipline over time. Explicitly, a focus of the conversation is on a number of projects that OMA has developed or completed with Prada, a large number of which are installation scale environments that manifest in the form of runway shows and exhibitions."