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Celebrate Women’s History Month

Celebrate Women's History Month

Gesture & Response

Gesture & Response

Celebrate Women's History Month

ORO Editions is proud to have published dozens of books by women in the often male dominated fields of Architecture, Landscape, Design, and Applied Research. 

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‘Houses that Sugar Built – An Intimate Portrait of Philippine Ancestral Homes’ explores the largely unknown architectural legacy to be found in the ancestral houses of Iloilo, Negros Occidental and Pampanga – the three main sugar-producing provinces of the Philippines…

ISBN: 978-1-957183-80-0
Size: 9.13 x 11.61 Portrait
Binding: Hardbound
Pages: 252pp
Publication Date: Fall 2023
World Rights: Available

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‘Designing Women’s Lives’ calls for a place-making revolution based on women’s culturally nurtured “feeling” sensibility…
 
Size: 8” x 10” Portrait
Pages: 200pp
Binding: Softbound
Publication Date: Spring 2023
ISBN: 978-1-954081-11-6
World Rights: Available

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In ‘Reimagined Worlds: Narrative Placemaking for People, Play, and Purpose,’ Margaret Chandra Kerrison presents an indispensable manifesto, compelling designers of environments and experiences to embrace a people-centered approach fueled by intentional narratives…
 
ISBN: 978-1-957183-92-3
Binding: Softbound
Pages: 200pp
Publication Date: Spring 2024
Size: 7” x 9” Portrait
World Rights: Available

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‘Adèle Naudé: A Form of Practice’ celebrates the architect’s forty years of practice and teaching. In notable academic leadership positions, Naudé taught across many locations globally, and her practice followed to new locations around the world…

 Size: 9” x 11” Portrait
Pages: 340pp
Binding: Hardbound
Publication Date: Fall 2023
ISBN: 978-1-957183-43-5
World Rights: Available

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‘Haute Couture Architecture: The Art of Living Without Walls’ by Anneke van Waesberghe is so much more than a book about tented green building architecture. The book is part design manifesto, part personal diary…
 
ISBN: 978-1-954081-62-8
Binding: Hard Bound
Pages: 304pp
Publication Date: Spring 2022
Size: 8.27” x 11.8” Landscape
World Rights: Available

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The business of architecture—shaped by anti-trust legislation and pro-corporate governmental policies—has created an extractive, inequitable, and precarious environment for its practitioners…
 
ISBN: 978-1-951541-95-8
Size: 6” x 9” Portrait
Binding: Softbound
Pages: 120pp
Publication Date: Fall 2023
World Rights: Available

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This book examines the social, political, and cultural factors that have and continue to influence the evolution of the urban waterfront as seen through production created from art and design practices…

Trim: 7 “ x 10” portrait
Extent: 240pp
Binding: Softbound with flaps
ISBN: 978-1-943532-97-1
Cost: $40.00
Pub. Date: June 2022

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Fun Mill. The Architecture of Creative Industry in Contemporary China looks closely on transforming existing real estate by promoting creative clusters, starting with specific architectures that are examined using an open-minded approach…


ISBN: 978-1-954081-27-7
Binding: Softbound
Pages: 248pp
Publication Date: July 2022
Size: 8.25″ x 11.8” Portrait
World Rights: Available

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‘Athens Unveiled’ will appeal to travelers, adventurers, artists, architects, museum lovers, historians, and urban anthropologists who wish to experience the city off the beaten track by visiting quaint streets and neighborhoods that hold a historical relevance to the development of modern Athens…
 
Size: 7.08” x 8.2” Portrait
Pages: 300pp
Binding: Hardbound
Publication Date: January 2023
ISBN: 978-1-957183-03-9
World Rights: Available

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This book, the first monograph on Leonardo Ricci’s work, uses archive materials, some of which have never been published, to investigate the entire range of his activity by examining some of his most interesting projects, and putting them into the context of the current architectural panorama…

ISBN: 978-1-935935-50-6
Binding: Softbound
Pages: 300pp
Publication Date: June 2022
Size: 8” x 10” Portrait

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‘Experiential Design Schemas’ presents a new theoretical and practical framework for designing architectural experiences developed by two seasoned researchers, an architect, and a building scientist…
 
Size: 9” x 9” Square
Pages: 448pp
Binding: Softbound
Publication Date: Fall 2023
ISBN: 978-1-957183-73-2
World Rights: Available

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Shim-Sutcliffe’s masterful work at Point William intertwines landscape and architecture with ancient rock…

ISBN: 978-1-943532-54-4
Binding: Hard Bound Pages: 256pp
Publication Date: Fall 2020
Size: 10 x 10″ Square
World Rights: Available

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This book foregrounds critical questions about public art, the policies that govern it, and the processes that realize it. What makes art public? What makes good public art?…
 
ISBN: 978-1-957183-15-2
Binding: Hardbound
Pages: 260pp
Publication Date: Spring 2023
Size: 9″ x 11″ portrait

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


ISBN: 978-1-951541-28-6
Binding: Soft Bound
Size: 6.5” x 8.625” Portrait
Pages: 192pp
Publication Date: Fall 2020
World Rights: Available

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Offers design strategies for architects who want to make an environmental and social impact…

Size: 8” x 10” Portrait
Pages: 200pp
Binding: Softbound
Publication Date: Winter 2023
ISBN: 978-1-957183-04-6
Price: $39.95
World Rights: Available

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The theme of “modernity” was the launching pad for architecture in the 20th century, to the point of completely revolutionizing our way of life. By causing in its development absolutizations and misunderstandings, actual motives linked to the profound desire to improve everyone’s life were reconsidered…
 
ISBN: 978-1-954081-90-1
Binding: Softbound with flaps
Pages: 200pp
Publication Date: September 2022
Size: 5.5” x 7.8” Portrait
World Rights: Available

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‘digitalSTRUCTURES’ and the corresponding mixed digital media project explore contemporary issues on how Western and Eastern countries define the future of work and urban living. The research provokes interrogations of the post-COVID-19 digital era, pertaining to supply chains, data structures, urban strategies, construction, and civic planning for the cities of our future...
 

Size: 5” x 8” Portrait
Pages: 240pp
Binding: Softbound
Publication Date: Spring 2023
ISBN: 978-1-954081-81-9
Price: $35.00
World Rights: Available

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A gathering of fourteen essays about landscapes with photographic artworks by world traveler and artist Jenny Okun...
 
Size: 12” x 12” Square
Pages: 240pp
Binding: Hardbound
Publication Date: Fall 2023
ISBN: 978-1-957183-40-4
Price: $75.00
World Rights: Available

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“Foto-projections suggest the intricate nature of human perception by reordering visual information to propose irreconcilable time frames, shifting vantage points, changing moods, and memory traces. Each image represents one of the many possible ways of evoking a place or moment; and the series
all together suggests the complex way we experience the world.”
—Nancy Goldring

ISBN: 978-1-954081-66-6
Binding: Hardbound
Pages: 120pp
Publication Date: Fall 2022
Size: 11.8” x 8.5” Landscape
World Rights: Available

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Landscapes are forged by many forces and are dynamic, not static. Yet most landscape designs are designed as static; that is, they are designed not to change substantially for 20-50 years...

ISBN: 978-1-951541-05-7
Binding: Hard Bound
Pages: 128pp
Publication Date: Fall 2020
Size: 8.27″ x 10.63″ Portrait
World Rights: Available

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‘Rancho Sisquoc: Enduring Legacy of an Historic California Land Grant Ranch’ celebrates the spectacular landscape, fascinating history, colorful characters, and timeless traditions of one of California’s last intact Mexican land grant ranches…

ISBN: 978-1-954081-24-6
Binding: Hardbound
Pages: 180pp
Publication Date: August 2022
Size: 10” x 12” Portrait
World Rights: Available

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