Architecture at the Interval
Asymptote’s first monograph, establishing the studio’s early discourse on the interval between built and unbuilt, real and virtual.
Available from RizzoliLibrary
Three decades of monographs, anthologies, and periodicals featuring Asymptote Architecture and Hani Rashid
A working bibliography — monographs on Asymptote’s built and unbuilt work, anthologies and surveys in which the studio appears alongside its contemporaries, the two Studio Hani Rashid volumes from the University of Applied Arts Vienna, and a few magazine features and adjacent edited volumes.
Monographs
Books primarily on Asymptote Architecture and its projects.
Flux
Phaidon monograph documenting the studio’s pivot from drawing-based research into built and digital projects across the late 1990s and early 2000s.
Available from Phaidon
Asymptote
Phaidon monograph covering the studio’s mid-period work — the transition from experimental practice to realized architecture.
Available from Phaidon
Architectural Laboratories
Greg Lynn + Hani Rashid
Catalogue for the US Pavilion at the 2002 Venice Architecture Biennale, co-curated by Hani Rashid and Greg Lynn — a survey of contemporary digital and experimental practices.
Available from NAi
Actualizations
Asymptote Architecture
Survey volume taking stock of two decades of Asymptote’s built and unbuilt work.
SCAPE — Asymptote Architecture / USA
Design Document Series 29
Volume 29 of the Korean Design Document Series, dedicated to the work of Asymptote.
The ARC
Four Rivers Culture Pavilion
Monograph on The ARC, the Four Rivers Culture Pavilion designed by Asymptote in Daegu, South Korea.
NYSE Virtual Trading Floor
CCA publication on the 3DTF Virtual Trading Floor designed for the New York Stock Exchange — one of the earliest fully navigable architectural environments built for an operating institution.
Available from CCA
Ocular New York I II III
Catalogue produced with the Center for Book Arts and Aedes Galerie in Berlin, documenting the Ocular New York exhibition.
Studio Hani Rashid — University of Applied Arts Vienna
Volumes from the studio Hani Rashid has led at the Angewandte since 2011.
Re:Futures
Studio Hani Rashid
Five years of work from Studio Hani Rashid at the University of Applied Arts Vienna, with essays by Gerald Bast, David Benjamin, Barbara Imhof, Edward Jung, Hans Ulrich Obrist, Hani Rashid, and Matthew Ritchie.
Available from De Gruyter
Re:Action
Studio Hani Rashid
Second Studio Hani Rashid volume from the Angewandte, with contributions by Anab Jain, Greg Lynn, Lenia Mascha, Timothy Morton, Claudia Pasquero, and Hani Rashid.
Available from De GruyterAnthologies & Surveys
Books in which Asymptote’s work appears alongside that of its contemporaries.
Architecture Unbound
A Century of the Disruptive Avant-Garde
Joseph Giovannini’s history of the disruptive avant-garde in late-twentieth-century architecture — transgressive, oblique, aberrant, deconstructed, digital. Asymptote is treated extensively.
Available from Rizzoli
The Phaidon Atlas of Contemporary World Architecture
Phaidon’s comprehensive global atlas of contemporary architecture. Includes Asymptote.
Available from Phaidon
Disappearing Architecture
From Real to Virtual to Quantum
Anthology on the dissolution of architecture into digital and quantum media. Includes Asymptote.
Available from De Gruyter
Absolutely Fabulous! Architecture and Fashion
Prestel anthology on the convergence of architecture and fashion retail. Includes Asymptote’s Carlos Miele Flagship alongside Massimiliano Fuksas, Ron Arad, OMA, Toyo Ito, Renzo Piano, and others.
Available from Prestel
The Art of Architecture Exhibitions
NAi survey of major architectural exhibitions and their curatorial strategies.
Available from NAi
The Mutiara Masterplan
Catalogue of the invited international competition for the Mutiara masterplan in Malaysia, with proposals by Asymptote, Grüntuch Ernst, Atelier Soeren, OMA, Michael Sorkin, Morphosis, Riken Yamamoto, and Field Shop.
Index Architecture
MIT Press anthology on indexing as an operative method in contemporary architectural practice.
Available from MIT PressMagazine Features
Periodicals with cover features on Asymptote and Hani Rashid.
Metropolis
The Brothers Rashid — Hani, the Theorist / Karim, the Pragmatist
Cover story profiling Hani Rashid and his brother, the industrial designer Karim Rashid.
a+u Architecture and Urbanism
No. 283 — Special Feature: Asymptote Architecture, Coop Himmelb(l)au, Raimund Abraham, Steven Holl
Japanese journal a+u, special feature on Asymptote alongside Coop Himmelb(l)au, Raimund Abraham, and Steven Holl.
Edited & Related
Adjacent volumes on figures and themes central to Asymptote’s thinking.
Magic Architecture
The Story of Human Housing
Frederick Kiesler’s manuscript on the deep history of human housing, published from the Kiesler Foundation archive. Kiesler is a long-standing reference in Asymptote’s work.
Introducing
Short Essays on Influential Thinkers and Designers in Architecture
Short essays by David Erdman on architects and thinkers who have shaped contemporary practice.