Field Guide to Indoor Urbanism asks a fundamental question: What is architecture’s capacity to transform? 

Field Guide to Indoor Urbanism

By MODU
Published by Hatje Cantz
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The Field Guide to Indoor Urbanism proposes a shift in environmental thinking, designing for exchanges between architecture and the city that are both outside-in and inside-out. The concept of indoor urbanism connects urban and interior scales, allowing architectural boundaries to recede.

Co-authored by Phu Hoang and Rachely Rotem, the book unfolds as a walk through three cities: New York, Rome, and Tokyo. Through projects, drawings, essays, and conversations, each city reveals its own form of indoor urbanism. At its core, the book asks: in the face of climate change, what is architecture’s capacity to transform?

The book is part of the collection of the Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum Library. It has been reviewed by Metropolis  magazine and recognized by The Architect’s Newspaper in its annual list of best architecture books.