Dezeen have got together with Steven Holl Architects to give away five copies of their latest monograph, Urbanisms - Working with Doubt.

The book uses a selection of projects from the firm's 30 year history to illustrate their approaches to the specific demands of each unique location.

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Here are more details from publishers Princeton Architectural Press:

Urbanisms: Working with Doubt

Urbanisms: Working with Doubt, the new book of Steven Holl, which presents a selection of urban and architectural projects from the acclaimed architect’s thirty-year practice, has been released by Princeton Architectural Press. Urbanisms presents design solutions for diverse locations, including Linked Hybrid in Beijing, China; Sliced Porosity Block in Chengdu, China; Horizontal Skyscraper in Shenzhen, China; Green Urban Laboratory in Nanning, China; Toolenburg Zuid Schiphol, in Amsterdam, the Netherlands; Fondation Pinault Ile Seguin in Paris, France; and the master plan for M.I.T.'s Vassar Street in Cambridge, Massachusetts. A comprehensive exploration of each project illustrates this much-celebrated and influential architect's perspective on urban planning.

Contemporary urban development is increasingly characterized by a reliance on diagrams, maps, and graphs to convey the rational, statistical point of view of the professional urban planner. In his new book, Urbanisms, architect Steven Holl suggests that just as modern medicine has recognized the power of the irrational psyche, urban planners need to realize that the experiential power of cities cannot be completely rationalized and must be studied subjectively. With a selection of urban and architectural projects from his thirty-year practice, Holl stretches urban planning into the domain of uncertainty, from prose into poetry. Urbanisms examines how perception and the senses are intertwined with the material, space, and light of urban form.

Arguments are illustrated by a catalog of projects organized geographically. Holl explores concepts such as creating cities from pieces or edges; moving in and out of the spaces between a built environment; inserting architectural elements into complex urban situations; constructing small-scale miniurbanisms; and preserving natural landscapes. Urbanisms presents design solutions for diverse locations, including Linked Hybrid in Beijing; Sliced Porosity Block in Chengdu, China; Horizontal Skyscraper in Shenzhen, China; Green Urban Laboratory in Nanning, China; Toolenburg Zuid Schipol, in Amsterdam, the Netherlands; Fondation Pinault Ile Seguin in Paris, France; and the master plan for M.I.T.'s Vassar Street in Cambridge, Massachusetts. A comprehensive exploration of each project illustrates this much-celebrated and influential architect's perspective on urban planning.

Steven Holl has been recognized with architecture's most prestigious awards and prizes and has lectured and exhibited widely. He is a tenured professor at Columbia University's Graduate School of Architecture and Planning and has published numerous books, including Anchoring, Intertwining, Parallax, and House.

Urbanisms: Working with Doubt
Steven Holl
Afterword: Kenneth Frampton
Princeton Architectural Press / 288 pp / 8.5 x 8.5 in  / Hardcover
ISBN 978-1-56898-679-1
$ 55.00

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Congratulations to our winners! Libor Mládek in the Czech Republic, Glenn O’Connell in New Zealand, Felix Heisel in Germany, Andrew R. Lee in the UK and Laurens de Boer in the Netherlands.