Presents a wave of designers who are applying architectural techniques to create innovative new furnishing options. Furnitecture is a sourcebook exploring the furnishings, interior environments, and solutions for small spaces at the meeting point between design and architecture. The book features the work of a rising generation of designers across the globe who are starting to think about furniture in an architectural way, resulting in pieces that brilliantly transform interior spaces. Boosted by digital design and new manufacturing possibilities, furniture design that morphs into “micro architecture” is one of the most innovative fields of design today. Surveyed here are hundreds of examples of these objects, including bookshelves that can dynamically divide and reshape a room, chairs that create intimate room-like enclosures, and self-contained, expandable kitchen cubes. From Chicago-based firm Bureau Spectacular’s “Briefcase house,” and Japanese architect Shigeru Ban’s moving boxes within rooms to Dutch designers Makkink & Bey’s conversational Ear Chairs and the French atelier 37.2’s series of self-standing cubes, Furnitecture opens the door to a world of design invention and innovation. Presented in a compact, beautifully illustrated format, this volume will be an essential resource for designers and hip consumers everywhere. 400+ color illustrations "Furniture as micro-architecture? AnnaYudina in her book FURNITECTURE published by Thames & Hudson presents a new and quite fascinating area of design - architectural furniture that transform the space. This inconspicuous squared book offers amazingcontent and given the amount of projects it features, it's welldesigned. There are many books on design but only a few on such acaptivating subject and nice layout." (BOA: Books on Art) - boablog.net/work/#/furnitecture/ "Creating a new compound word is the first step to decoding a trend, and 'furnitecture' is no exception. The author Anna Yudina has trawled the past decade of visual culture and compiled a selection of product design that's intended to transform the space it occupies." - Wallpaper "Anna Yudina's book is not to be taken at face value: behind the images, there's a story. (...) It may be excessive to say that Yudina flirts with deconstructing the hierarchy that sees architecture dominant over furniture, but it's not incorrect to claim that she's at least attempting to bring things back into balance by exploring the borderline between the two types of design: interior and exterior. And she does it very well, with plenty of examples" - Pianoprimo Anna Yudina is co- founder and editor- in- chief of MONITOR magazine. She has curated design exhibitions on Zaha Hadid and Jakob + MacFarlane and has authored several books on architecture, including Furnitecture and Lumitecture . She lives in Paris.