Das Terrassenhaus entspricht als Bautyp modernen Wohnbau-Anforderungen: es ist oekonomisch und bietet bei geringem Bodenverbrauch hohen Wohnkomfort mit Terrasse und Garten. Popular geworden mit den sozialen Bewegungen in den 1960er-Jahren, geriet es mit der fortschreitenden Erosion der Idee von Gesellschaft wieder in Vergessenheit und wurde gar als Bausunde abqualifiziert. Doch die anhaltende Bewohnerzufriedenheit und die oekologischen Vorteile eines begrunten Hauses machen das Terrassenhaus mehr denn je attraktiv. Die im Buch untersuchten Bauten sind heute nicht nur architektonische Ikonen; man kann auch von ihnen immer noch lernen, was der Wohnungsbau heute braucht. Ein Vertreter dieses Bautyps war Harry Gluck, dessen Pladoyer fur die grune Stadt hier in Teilen abgedruckt wird.

B.C. Binning taught that architecture has an intrinsic link to art and life. This book follows in his footsteps, focusing on what is arguably his greatest creation: the first significant piece of modern residential architecture in Western Canada, the BC Binning House. Still standing in West Vancouver as a National Historic Site, the house has influenced generations of architects and continues to do so today. The structure is often thought to have sparked Canada's West Coast Modernism movement, as it represents both the arrival of Modernist design principles and their inflection with local interests and conditions.

Broken down in the Sahara Desert, a pilot meets an extraordinary Little Prince, travelling across time and space to bring peace to his warring planet. Inua Ellams' magical retelling of the much loved story by Antoine de Saint-Exupery turns the Little Prince into a descendant of an African race in a parallel galaxy. His journey as a galactic emigrant takes us through solar systems of odd planets with strange beings, addresses climate change and morality, and shows how even a little thing can make a big difference.

Julius Ralph Davidson is widely known as the architect of Thomas Mann's house. Born 1889 in Berlin, Davidson left Germany in 1923 and emigrated to the USA. In Los Angeles, he designed some 150 projects, among them three houses for the experimental Case Study House Program. This long overdue publication is a comprehensive documentation of Davidson's life and work, highlighting J.R.'s contribution to modernism in California in the 1930s and 1940s.

In Surrealism at Play Susan Laxton writes a new history of surrealism in which she traces the centrality of play to the movement and its ongoing legacy. For surrealist artists, play took a consistent role in their aesthetic as they worked in, with, and against a post-World War I world increasingly dominated by technology and functionalism. Whether through exquisite-corpse drawings, Man Ray's rayographs, or Joan Miro's visual puns, surrealists became adept at developing techniques and processes designed to guarantee aleatory outcomes. In embracing chance as the means to produce unforeseeable ends, they shifted emphasis from final product to process, challenging the disciplinary structures of industrial modernism. As Laxton demonstrates, play became a primary method through which surrealism refashioned artistic practice, everyday experience, and the nature of subjectivity.

A groundbreaking history of the confluence of regulatory thinking and building design in the United States What is the origin of "room temperature"? When did food become considered fresh or not fresh? Why do we think management makes things more efficient? The answers to these questions share a history with architecture and regulation at the turn of the twentieth century. This pioneering technological and architectural history of environmental control systems during the Gilded Age begins with the premise that regulation-of temperature, the economy, even the freshness of food-can be found in the guts of buildings. From cold storage and scientific laboratories to factories, these infrastructures first organized life in a way we now call "modern." Drawing on a range of previously unexplored archival resources, Michael Osman examines the increasing role of environmental technologies in building design from the late nineteenth century. He shows how architects appropriated and subsumed the work of engineers as thermostats, air handlers, and refrigeration proliferated. He argues that this change was closely connected to broader cultural and economic trends in management and the regulation of risk. The transformation shaped the evolution of architectural modernism and the development of the building as a machine. Rather than assume the preexisting natural order of things, participants in regulation-including architects, scientists, entrepreneurs, engineers, managers, economists, government employees, and domestic reformers-became entangled in managing the errors, crises, and risks stemming from the nation's unprecedented growth. Modernism's Visible Hand not only broadens our conception of how industrial capitalism shaped the built environment but is also vital to understanding the role of design in dealing with ecological crises today.