The latest book title by the works of Singaporean firm Bedmar & Shi is now available worldwide.

The Fluvial Metropolis initiative was created as a joint University of São Paulo (USP) and Princeton University’s Strategic Partnership for Teaching and Research, to conduct a research program on the future of water infrastructure and its potential effects on urban space and form.

The first in a series of books to be produced by the University of Miami School of Architecture, is inspired by rappel l’ordre, the post WWI, European, art movement that rejected the extreme tenets of the avant garde and its praise of machinery, violence and war, in favour of a renewed interest in tradition.

The work of [STRANG] is beautifully explored in this robust monograph which highlights the firm’s site-specific and climate-driven designs. The ability to create stunning architectural designs while maintaining an acute awareness of the surrounding environment has come to define their work.