Books published by Oro Editions

The first monograph on an overlooked landscape architect, whose works are ecologically significant.

Demonstrating a set of strategies to make Green Architecture feasible and practical, as well as suggesting ways architecture can be designed in favour of a benign living.

Addresses how design of low-density housing stock and neighbourhoods may better serve the common mobility, access and social needs of seniors.

Addresses a widespread yet rarely acknowledged blight that affects waterholes across the United States, and encourages trans-disciplinary communication between urban planners, ecological engineers and political decision-makers.

Illustrates the basis of the argument for a New Essentialism, through the examination of how architecture engages materials.

This book will transform your opinion of the humble bench, as it demonstrates ways in which benches orient, teach, create emotions and direct our "ways of seeing" in the garden.

A study on the single industry towns particular to Russia, established during the Soviet Union in uninhabited parts of the Siberian hinterland, and examining the challenges faced by those towns' populations, both historically and today.

A monograph on Locati Architects and Interiors, a firm dedicate to providing stellar building design, and whose motto is "Good Design Improves Lives" and this is realised in every one of their creations.

LA+ Risk invited contributors to consider the relationship between design and the evolving landscape of risk; to explore the ways in which risk shapes our behaviour and impacts our experiences of designed environments.

Mexico through the pen, brush, and camera lens of a passing traveller.

In "Be Seated" Laurie Olin writes of his long-standing interest in public seating in parks and civic spaces.

Taking a closer look at the primary influence on Canadian architectural modernism: the B.C. Binning House.

A key reference text for students of art history, and of interest to anybody who wants to learn more about this field.

Offers a glimpse into what lies ahead for Chinese architecture, and contains analysis of topics that will shape the future of China's cities.

Showcases small-scale sustainable architecture that seeks to promote spiritual health

Investigation of the tyrannical aspects of the organisation of society.

Compilation of thought-provoking experimental drawings, texts and built projects.

This set compiles short narratives by well known Los Angeles-based urban thinkers and observers, which give context for the work. Their stories add insight into both the joys and imperfections of living in an iconic city.

Examination of the theory that human activities have the greatest impact on environmental change.

Swan & Maclaren were the most prominent and prestigious architectural practice working in Singapore during the later part of the British era. This book offers a history of Singapore through its Architecture.

An invitation to tour ten beautiful gardens, as depicted in the pages of fiction written by the most skilful of novelists.

LA+ PLEASURE has an exciting line-up of global writers from architecture, planning, environmental psychology, philosophy, history, marketing and tourism, cultural studies, geography, sociology, art and landscape architecture.

The compelling story of the making of china's tallest building.

Timeless Resorts is the first major monograph of the multi-disciplinary design practice Stapati, established by Ar.Tony Joseph.

LA+ (Landscape Architecture Plus) from the University of Pennsylvania School of Design is the first truly interdisciplinary journal of landscape architecture. Within its pages you will hear not only from designers, but also from historians, artists, lawyers, psychologists, ecologists, planners, scientists, philosophers, and many more besides. The aim of LA+ is to reveal connections and build collaborations between landscape architecture/urban design and other disciplines by exploring each issue''s theme from multiple perspectives. The journal features a range of contribution types including essays, interviews, design criticism, graphic features, illustrations, and "provocations": short-form pieces designed to provoke and inspire readers. LA+ brings you a rich collection of contemporary thinkers and designers in two lavishly illustrated issues annually.