Thames & Hudson Ltd

Architecture matters. To our cities, to our planet, to our personal lives. How we design and what we build has an impact that usually lasts for generations. This book focuses on the mechanisms, politics and personalities that play a role in how buildings in our societies and urban centres come to be.

The first major overview of the UK's leading garden designer, Tom Stuart-Smith.

Piet Oudolf, one of world's most visionary and influential landscape gardeners, is at the forefront of the New Perennial planting movement. This title features twenty-three of Oudolf's most beautiful public and private gardens. It explains how these gardens and the plants fit the specific environment.

A fun, well-structured collection of facts and trivia about the climate.

This expanded and up-to-date volume showcases Zaha Hadid's remarkable and inspiring work over the course of her career

Sri Lankan architect Geoffrey Bawa fused local construction traditions with modern forms and sensibility to create harmonious and pleasurable buildings that have become legendary in the region and influential around the world. This volume is a documentation and appreciation of the man and his work.

The world's best buildings created from 1950 to the present, dissected and analysed through specially commissioned freehand drawings.