Books published by Oro Editions

Urban environments (including built, natural, and social environments) crucially impact children s physical and psychological health, particularly in cities.

This issue focuses on exploring the significance of territorial spatial, strengthening research on related methodologies and techniques, analyzing and learning from diversified efforts, exploring feasible approaches, and encouraging applications of research frontiers.

Minding the City is an effort to refocus the subject of urban design on the tangible and visceral experience of public space, to remind urban designers that our concept of the city is grounded in bodily experience.

This book is Michele Saee s life's work. A collection of projects, built, unbuilt, conceptual, and experimental which expands over more than three decades.

Fairy Tale Architecture is a ground-breaking book, the first study to bring architects in conversation with fairy tales in breathtaking designs.

The book presents a unique model for exploring the state of the art in terra cotta design through the production of experimental prototypes.

Animating Guarini is a historical account and a reimagining of orthographic projection as a drawing technique that precedes convention.

Erratic Boundaries is a collection of ten pen and ink drawings by architect and artist Sigrid Miller Pollin, coupled with ten ekphrastic poems by poet and economist Jane D'Arista.

This book is the first serious consideration of the Chinese government's 'Beautiful China' policy and what it means for the design professions in contemporary China. Text in English and Chinese.

Combining how-to with why-to, 9 Ways to Make Housing for People lays out the core principles that David Baker Architects uses to help communities develop great urban housing.

Clean Slate combines Dogen's poetry with images of plants he might have seen during his lifetime while living in Japan.

Architecture Beyond Experience is an interdisciplinary work in the service of one goal: the bringing about of a more relational, 'posthuman' and yet humanist strain in architecture.

Transect Urbanism: Readings in Human Ecology is the definitive reference on the Rural-to-Urban Transect, a compilation of the most important essays, diagrams, and images on the subject.

Bracket [Takes Action] contains over 28 essays and 15 design projects that are structured into six sub-themes: ReAction, CounterAction, InterAction, FAction, InAction, and RetroAction. The intent of the fourth almanac of Bracket is to unpack the contemporary possibility of action through design.

This issue of LA+ explores the notion of vitality as a proxy for the health of all things, and explores how design can improve the vitality of people, cities, systems, and landscapes.