Publisher's Synopsis
This ground-breaking quarterly aims to act as an international forum for practitioners and academics by publishing cutting-edge work covering all aspects of architectural endeavour. Generously illustrated throughout, ARQ is edited with busy practitioners and academics in mind. Contents include building design, urbanism, history, theory, environmental design, construction, materials, information technology, and practice. Reviews of significant buildings are published at a length and in a detail matched today by few other architectural journals. Articles in ARQ 5:3 include: Koolhaas on shopping, The shaping of architectural research, An Integrated design: the Jersey Archive, From table to basin: St Mary's Island, On the sublime, The Pyramid and the wall: an unknown project of Le Corbusier in Venezuela, Passive downdraught evaporative cooling: principles and practice, Figuring ground: notes on recent work by the Office of Zaha Hadid.
