GA Document presents the finest in international design, focusing on architecture that expresses our time and striving to record the history of contemporary architecture. International scholars and critics provide insightful texts to further inform the reader of the most up-to-date ideas and events in the profession. With projects by Morphosis, Sanaa, Tod Williams Billie Tsien, Jean Nouvel, Steven Holl, and Zaha Hadid.

Filled with stunning colour and black-and-white photographs of ten remarkable residences from around the globe, this instalment of æGA HousesÆ presents Paul Rudolph''s masterful Deane Residence as its top feature. Also highlighted are two homes by Smiljan Radic, Kengo Kuma''s Jejuball, the House in Takamatsu by Tadao Ando, as well as notable residences by Barclay & Crousse, Hiroyuki Arima, Ricardo Torrejón Schellhorn and Masaki Endoh. A detailed project description accompanies each residential profile, plus architectural plans and drawings.

''GA Houses'' documents outstanding new residential architecture from all over the world. Included in each issue also are retrospective looks at residential works of the past which are now considered epoch-making. With projects by Issey Miyake, Sou Fujimoto, Reiko Sudo, Matthias Klotz, Barclay & Crousse, Jean Prouvé, and Keisuke Maeda.

''GA Houses'' documents outstanding new residential architecture from all over the world. Included in each issue also are retrospective looks at residential works of the past which are now considered epoch-making. With projects by Tadao Ando, Sou Fujimoto, Akihisa Hirata, Kengo Kuma, Alphaville, Selgascano, and many more.

Architects are now taking advantage of the computer in new ways through experimentation with algorithmic and simulation-driven design. Computation Works: The Building of Algorithmic Thought focuses on this emerging theme in design practice, showcasing built and soon-to-be-built projects and providing a state of the art in computational design. This issue raises important questions such as: How is computation changing the way architects design? Are the design tools and methods related to the result? What is computational design in the context of architectural practice? and How is computation changing the processes of design and construction?

This monographic issue of ''a+u'' features Swiss architect Valerio Olgiati, whose confident and stark conception of architectural forms has made him internationally renowned. Included is an interview by Markus Breitschmid, plus a selection of Olgiati''s projects, each one accompanied by an explanation from the architect. Among the detailed project profiles are the residential building Zug Schleife, Visiting Center Swiss National Park, Bardill Studio, entrance to the Grisons Parliament Building and the Plantahof Auditorium. The issue also includes a critical essay by Kenjiro Hosaka and slides from a lecture by Olgiati entitled ''Fascination for Japan'', given in October 2012.

This issue features a selection of 100 notable recent projects in Germany, with detailed profiles of more than 30 works across three categories: sustainability/ecological, working with the existing, and contextual. Opening with an essay by Peter Cachola Schmal, "Working with the Bestand in a Contextual and Sustainable Way", it goes on to include critical texts by Wolfgang Pehnt and Layla Dawson, plus an interview covering the 5th International Highrise Award. Barkow Leibinger, Behnisch Architekten, Sauerbruch Hutton, Jürgen Mayer H, David Chipperfield, Max Dudler, Hild und K and Peter Zumthor are among the many architects spotlighted.

Now that we''re able to actively change the performance of living entities, and make use of living nature in new and fascinating ways, spatial design becomes a different game. A lot of "use and discar" practices can be replaced with the creation of complete life cycles, functions that used to be performed by inorganic constructions (light bulbs and lamp posts) can be replaced with organic ones (light emitting trees). Different materials, different techniques, a different notion of what the power of design can be.

The New Pastoralism demonstrates how small-scale additions or conversions using planting and wildlife can bring about engaging, delightful and efficient structures and spaces. The book''s numerous contributors each showcase a particular Nature device that they used to enhance their built proposals. Images are provided with text as annotation. The prominent featured architects will include: Michael Sorkin, Nicholas Grimshaw, Ken Yeang, Kathryn Findlay and Mos Architecture. The other contributors will show small or medium sized built projects they have worked on. All contributors will showcase a building, structure or surface as either drawn proposal or built construction.

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Pamphlet Architecture was begun in 1977 by William Stout and Steven Holl as an independent vehicle for dialogue among architects, and has become a popular venue for publishing the works and thoughts of a younger generation of architects. Small in scale, low in price, but large in impact, these books present and disseminate new and innovative theories. The modest format of the books in the Pamphlet Architecture Series belies the importance and magnitude of the ideas within.

Pamphlet Architecture was begun in 1977 by William Stout and Steven Holl as an independent vehicle for dialogue among architects, and has become a popular venue for publishing the works and thoughts of a younger generation of architects. Small in scale, low in price, but large in impact, these books present and disseminate new and innovative theories. The modest format of the books in the Pamphlet Architecture Series belies the importance and magnitude of the ideas within.

In 1977 Steven Holl and William Stout created a grittier alternative to mainstream architectural publishing called Pamphlet Architecture. With Holl''s Bridges, the landmark series was born, and for 30 years Pamphlet has served as soapbox and laboratory for such notable architects and theorists as Lebbeus Woods, Zaha Hadid, Lars Lerup, and Michael Sorkin. With its twenty-eighth installment, Pamphlet Architecture celebrates its thirtieth anniversary no less bold than when it began. Augmented Landscapes features a landscape architecture practice for the first time in Pamphlet history. London''s Smout Allen presents five projects that respond to the way in which man has enlarged the landscape through architecture and infrastructure, manipulating and blurring perceptions of what is natural and what is artificial.

This instalment of the journal of landscape architecture considers the shifting paradigms found in the current ''post-evolutionary world of extreme technological escalation.'' In order to foster new bio-cultural relationships, strategies available to the practice of landscape architecture are presented in order to understand, embrace and challenge the opposition that has persisted between human culture and the natural world. Detailed project overviews are presented along with conversations with several of the leading conceptual practitioners of the moment, among them Teresa Moller, Daan Roosegaarde, Magnus Larsson, David Gissen and Liam Young.

Volume presents the latest in New Town development: the city as enterprise. With the exponential growth of urban populations, thousands of new towns and city extensions will be needed in the near future. While governments are seemingly in retreat, the private sector has stepped in to fill the gap. Private-sector development is nothing new, but scale and ambition are on the rise. Single companies now vie to build entire cities, and package their services so that their product can be replicated elsewhere. Meet here the people driving and managing these multibillion dollar projects.