Manual Exploring the Built Environ Author:Philip Ursprung The name of the new independent scholarly journal Manual intentionally evokes two meanings of the word: it tells us how things work, with the added implication of hands-on activity. It also tells us how things fail and how to make things ourselves. Above all, it strives to be useful. As a platform for research and critical discourse, ... more »Manual serves a diverse readership of scholars, practitioners, and students interested in architecture, visual arts, landscape architecture, urbanism, design, engineering, and technology. Its subjects are complex but its language is always lucid, and by treating single themes with each issue, it explores those themes diversely and thoroughly. Published three times a year and distributed worldwide, the journal was initiated by the Faculty of Architecture at the ETH Zürich (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology) and has an international editorial board of theorists and practitioners who serve as contributors, guest editors, and peer reviewers for submitted articles. Among those is curator, academic, and writer Philip Ursprung, editor of Herzog & de Meuron: Natural History. If you're at all curious about the space around you, you'll want to get your hands on Manual. Paperback, 6.5 x 9.5 in./160 pgs / Illustrated throughout.« less