Books

A new book titled Birmingham: The Brutiful Years celebrates the UK city’s brutalist structures. Here Birmingham-based creative Sharonjit Sutton, who designed the volume, picks 10 favourites. The UK’s second city was a hotspot for post-war construction and innovation, though its modernist architecture has not always been widely appreciated. “I think many things from Birmingham are

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Dezeen promotion: a new book presents 17 years of visionary projects by Chinese architect Ma Yansong and his studio MAD, from organically shaped skyscrapers to rooftop landscapes. MAD Rhapsody highlights 23 of MAD Architects’ key projects from 2004 – when the studio was founded – up until the present day. It features some of the studio’s best-known

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Low-energy buildings can “make communities more resilient to climate shocks,” says author Jared Green. Here he picks ten examples of low-energy buildings from his book Good Energy: Renewable Power and the Design of Everyday Life. Following the recent IPCC climate report, there has been an increased focus on the impact of emissions from buildings, with the

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Architecture discussion platform Sound Advice has gathered essays and interviews from 60 architects and urbanists of colour in a book to highlight racial inequality in architecture. Sound Advice founders Joseph Henry and Pooja Agrawal assembled the book, titled Now You Know, in the wake of the murder of George Floyd and the #BlackoutTuesday. The duo created

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