Creating Shade presents all conceivable types and forms of shade-providing design made of a host of different materials such as wood, fabrics and concrete. Trendsetting technological innovations and design concepts have been collected in this book. Published by Braun.

The images of buildings that we have in our minds are rarely based on a personal perception. Without actually having seen them we think that we know these famous buildings - solely from the media and from photographs. Published by Merian.

SOM journal 8 is the 2013 issue in a continuing series presenting the work of Skidmore, Owings & Merrill in the context of a critical discussion. The jurors for this issue were Oliver Schulze, Einar Jarmund, and Robert Diemer. Published by Hatje Cantz.

In the heart of the Hanseatic city of Hamburg, the IBA Hamburg is presenting, until 2013, more than sixty building, social, and cultural projects and programmes to demonstrate how major cities can undergo ecologically and socially balanced growth in the present day. Published by Jovis.

Reiulf Ramstad is one of Norway's most promising architects representing a revitalized Nordic architecture and adopting the tradition known as Critical Regionalism. The book is published by Hatje Cantz Verlag and wont explain his work, but rather explore it.

The city as digital (art-)space - a response to the issue of the mediatisation of urban space and the concommitant impacts. Four essays approach the phenomenon theoretically, eleven artworks attempt to represent our altered world by aesthetic and media means. Christof Merian Verlag.

Ralph E. Hammann presents projects, which have set international standards in the architecture and technology debate. The volume illustrates how architecture and engineering can work hand in hand. DOM Publishers.

Renowned international architects have contributed their finest work. Photographs, plans, sketches and detailed explanatory texts provide insights into each of the featured projects. The latest addition to the respected Stands series. Published by LinksBooks.

The Digital Design Manual in the series Construction and Design Manuals by DOM Publishers offers hands-on instructions on the digital tools for the design and planning process. Author Marco Hemmerling shows how to harness the possibilities of digital technology to creativity.

Thomas Struth unveils, his most important and certainly most extensive and long-standing series, his street photographs. He is famous for directing his camera at the kind of places that are usually suppressed from conscious everyday perception. Published by Schirmer Mosel.