Books published by Oro Editions

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

Visual Discoveries: A Collection of Sections is an image-forward book that is devoted to showcasing notable section drawings throughout history and demonstrating that the section drawing, while having roots in architecture, has spread to many other professions and disciplines.

The book explores the confluence of typology, geometry, landscape, and constructive systems in a design process that brings them into a difficult synthesis.

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.

In With Reference, Soo Chan of SCDA explores the fundamentals of architecture going back to inspirations and precedents, examining basic building blocks and core values - in search of a universal spatial vocabulary for contemporary practice.

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.

A balloon artist and photographer travel the world surprising people with improvised, inflatable crowns and offer a deep view into the nature of joy.

Egyptian Places: An Illustrated Travelogue, presents an architect's account of visits to 12 of Ancient Egypt's most spectacular sites, a journey that transports the reader from the urban metropolis of Cairo and the Great Pyramid of Giza to the remote desert setting of the rock-cut temple at Abu Simbel

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

Archive, Matrix, Assembly: The Photographs of Thomas Struth 1978-2018 presents the first comprehensive, systematic theory of contemporary German artist Thomas Struth s works from main body of the late 1970s to 2018.

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.

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.