Conversations with the Land follows Stan and Jess Field’s journey of exploration across the places and events that influenced their creative process. From their native country of South Africa to their adopted home in Northern California, Stan and Jess learned how to pair architecture with natural terrain by examining its range and diversity.

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This beautifully curated collection showcases remarkable homes that embody the essence of the California coast, exploring how architecture responds to its diverse landscapes. "The California coast is a living landscape, shaped by the ever-changing interplay of land and sea” - authors Heather Hebert and Chase Ewald.

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This collection of houses and wineries spans the winemaking regions of Napa and Sonoma counties, Carmel, Oregon, Washington State, and British Columbia, making it the ultimate tour of vineyard living in breathtaking locales. Across the region, architects are creating innovative houses for country living, reimagining ways to engage the dramatic landscapes of the coastal regions that play host to North America's best vineyards.

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The New Rural explores the interiors of some thirty homes all sited within rural environments that make the most of their settings to reflect modernity while not sublimating nature. New houses, converted spaces or rehabilitations, which ensure maximum comfort for their inhabitants without giving up the benefits of modern life – all while maintaining a close link with nature.

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Designing Ubuntu reveals the design and philosophy behind the award-winning Ubuntu Community and Health Centre in Port Elizabeth, South Africa.

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The 2012 Sophia Gray Memorial Exhibition and Catalogue highlights Stan Field’s career.

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This opulently illustrated volume, with informative texts by the architectural historian Andres Lepik and documentation of models and maps, examines a broad range of examples of contemporary architecture in Africa. The selection is confined to countries south of the Sahara, such as Burkina Faso, Rwanda and South Africa, where the transformation of the architectural landscape has been particularly pronounced and remarkable in recent years. Currently out of print.

Louis I. Kahn is widely known as an architect of powerful buildings. But although much has been said about his buildings, almost nothing has been written about Kahn as an unconventional teacher and philosopher whose influence on his students was far-reaching. Teaching was vitally important for Kahn, and through his Master’s Class at the University of Pennsylvania, he exerted a significant effect on the future course of architectural practice and education.

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