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Win a Copy of “WORKac: We’ll Get There When We Cross That Bridge”!

2018-03-01T12:00:00-05:00

In their latest “duograph”, as WORKac co-founders Amale Andraos and Dan Wood call it, “WORKac: We'll Get There When We Cross That Bridge” revisits the firm's formative projects that shaped their practice to what it is today. Thanks to The Monacelli Press, Archinect is giving away five copies of the book to our readers!

Encased in a hardcover accented with bright colors and various paper stocks and page sizes, the book spotlights WORKac's core principle since its founding in 2003: an “utterly personal, ongoing conversation about what architecture could become,” Andraos and Wood write in the introduction.

Anthropologie, Dos Lagos retail store. Photo: Bruce Damonte.

Stealth Building. Photo: Bruce Damonte.

Some of the projects include the biodegradable Public Farm 1 at MoMA PS1, the first two buildings of Edible Schoolyards NYC, an addition to the Blaffer Art Museum in Houston, their proposal for the Beirut Museum of Art, and the Kew Gardens Hills Library expansion in Queens that was fina...

Win LOT-EK's latest monograph, “LOT-EK: Objects + Operations”

2017-11-10T12:24:00-05:00

New York-based design practice LOT-EK showcases their crafty upcycling of ordinary objects in their latest monograph, “LOT-EK: Objects + Operations”. Want to learn more about the practice's design process? Thanks to publisher The Monacelli Press, Archinect is giving away five copies of the book to our readers!

Featuring a hardcover designed by MTWTF, the 400-page book was authored by LOT-EK founding partners Ada Tolla and Giuseppe Lignano with architectural writer Thomas de Monchaux.

Qiyun Mountain Camp in Huangshan, China. Photo by Noah Sheldon.

LOT-EK's UrbanScan61. Photo courtesy of The Monacelli Press.

Readers can peruse LOT-EK's built, unbuilt, and in-progress works — such as their shipping container projects — as well as their exploration of ideas. The projects are accompanied by photos from the firm's ongoing URBAN SCAN project, a “raw and observational” photo documentation that “focuses on man-made objects and systems and the way they proliferate, accumulate, overlap and inte...

Win “The Structure of Design: An Engineer’s Extraordinary Life in Architecture” by Leslie E. Robertson!

2017-09-01T12:00:00-04:00

“The Structure of Design: An Engineer's Extraordinary Life in Architecture” examines the long career of Leslie Earl Robertson, one of the most celebrated structural engineers in modern architecture. Thanks to publisher The Monacelli Press, Archinect is giving away five copies of the book to our readers! Read on for more about the book.

In this personal and accessible chronicle of the engineer's innovative career, Robertson details the partnerships and problem-solving that have forged classics of modern architecture including the IBM buildings in Pittsburgh and Seattle, the World Trade Center in New York, AT&T Headquarters in New York, the Parliament House in Canberra, Australia, the Bank of China Tower in Hong Kong, the Suzhou Museum, the Miho Museum Bridge, and the Shanghai World Financial Center.

Photo courtesy of The Monacelli Press.

Among other key projects, this book delves into the extensive collaborations with titans of architectural practice, as well as leading sculptors of ...