Asia

This book provides an illustrated introduction to Chinese architecture, a reference for modern design and a window into China's history.

This issue, Winter 2020, Architecture as Infrastructure, selects a series of pioneering architectural cases in China elaborating on how a new kind of architectural infrastructure can be formulated.

A comprehensive overview on the architecture of Hong Kong's transformative period featuring more than 300 buildings, with detailed background information explaining and illustrating the design and history of these buildings.

This issue features three essays and eleven projects that discuss how cultural identity and social responsibility can be embodied within architecture and space design.

This issue focuses on how old buildings realise renovation and innovation, and features three essays and eleven projects that elaborate on this topic.

A richly illustrated history showing how the British Empire used buildings in early colonial India to influence attitudes among those who saw and used them.

An Architectural Guide focusing on the period of Chisinau transformation into a socialist city, after annexation by the USSR, covering the Stalinist Empire, Soviet Modernism, Postmodernism, Soviet Brutalism, and the Industrial City.

The Genius of Japanese Carpentry tells the story of the 1200-year-old Yakushiji monastery in Nara, a UNESCO World Heritage Site, and the dedicated modern-day craftsmen who are working to restore what has been lost to the depredations of time, fire and warfare.