Anna Yudina

How far can we expand the concept of 'urban nature'? How would it make us feel? And how is it going to transform our cities - and, eventually, ourselves? Garden City captures the growing global movement among contemporary architects for biodesigning buildings less as skin and bodies—structure and façade—and more as living entities. These structures are capable of being ecologically...

A compact sourcebook of ideas for innovative furnishing, interior environments and small-scale architectural interventions. As the definition of 'designer' expands and architects today create everything from jewellery to urban masterplans, a new wave of objects is transforming our interior spaces. They include bookshelves that can dynamically divide and reshape a room, chairs that create intimate room-like enclosures, home-office spaces-within-spaces, and...