Books

Dominica's ti kai houses are symbols of resistance and survival

A new book looks at the Caribbean island's vernacular timber structures, robust enough to survive hurricanes

Review: On the Street by Edwin Heathcote gives street furniture its human context

Forensic study is a paean to the ubiquitous, overlooked and magnificently evocative

New year books: a utopian vision with architectural consequences

Sean Griffiths is inspired by Half-Earth Socialism’s vision for a society addressing climate change and social justice

New Year books: a 1930s guide to New York City

Owen Hatherley is fascinated by this guide, which provides a flavour of the time while still being an effective guide today

New Year books: architectural practice in interwar London

Neal Shasore’s gripping book is highly relevant to the present day, says Deborah Saunt

New Year books: a trip to Tokyo brings the world to life

Hana Loftus makes a journey that resonates personally and professionally

Elain Harwood turns to Brutalist Britain

The historian's favourite selections from her new book

Architecture's first publicist: review of When Eero Met his Match by Eva Hagberg

How Aline Saarinen made Eero a household name

New mindsets will help the world flourish

A new book suggests ways to bring nature into our economic, political and societal systems

Queer Spaces celebrates and protests in a diverse collection of essays

An important read for architects, designers and planners

Revived Outram colours our world again

Geraint Fanklin’s book reflects a highly individual designer

Boris Iofan: The architect who outlived Stalin

Gillian Darley reviews Deyan Sudjic’s Stalin’s Architect, a biography of Boris Iofan

Modern Buildings in Britain: Owen Hatherley’s lucky dip

Owen Hatherley’s swashbuckling tour of Britain’s modern buildings

Vienna’s MAK returns Josef Hoffmann to his place in the architectural canon

Josef Hoffmann - Progress Through Beauty, at MAK, Vienna

Favourite books: Madeleine Kessler on why all architects should read Caleb Femi’s Poor

Why Madeleine Kessler had to reconsider her preconceptions

Favourite book: To understand post-modernism, start in Dunkirk says Amin Taha

Amin Taha recommends the Measure of All Things

Favourite books: Nimi Attanayake chooses the business case for different thinking

How diversity keeps organisations agile and relevant

Favourite books: Naila Yousuf finds out what the Saracens did for us

What the English Gothic church owes to Islam

All our yesterdays: a wander through extinct ideas

A new book celebrates ideas that have had their time

How Victorian London was built to better our lot

Andrew Saint’s atmospheric history of how building helped improve life for the poor

Lessons from history can help decarbonise buildings

Form follows energy: Barnabas Calder puts climate crisis in context

Every picture tells a story

Architectural drawings inspired the stories, real and imagined, in Philippa Lewis' new book

Discover the stories of Inagawa Cemetery, the Colour House pavilion and Mole House

Three revealing and inventive monographs

Lessons from Syria: Make architecture a craft again and restore a sense of society

Homs-based Marwa al-Sabouni explores how the built environment can help mend society

State of the art museum

Charles Saumarez Smith 's book on architect’s role in defining the modern art museum

Modernist Escapes takes you round the world in your armchair

Travel vicariously to a promising future

The future is here

A new book highlights 79 projects that push the boundaries of architecture

Favourite books: What we can learn by taking a child’s view of the city

The Child in the City, Colin Ward, New York: Pantheon Books/London: The Architectural Press, 1978

Favourite books: Context and client are welcome constraints

It’s the personal relationship that makes it all worthwhile

Favourite books: why is so much of England's land is owned by so few?

The effects of William the Conqueror's land grab are with us still

Favourite books: Hope, humanity and our natural instincts

Are humans essentially bad or good?

Feelings, frames and fakes: how to woo visitors at an exhibition

‘Closed on Mondays’ looks at what makes a show work

How to get your head round being an architect

Hone your critical, creative and collaborative thinking

In the footsteps of a follies fanatic

Rory Fraser takes a tour of England's architectural oddities

Evolution of our towns captured in collection of historic drawings

Medieval to industrial: ancient drawings chart how towns changed

Porritt’s Hope in Hell ducks the political questions

How can we change political thinking?