[4] The company was the first to publish many international architects in the 'Architectural Monographs No...' series,[7] which included Alvar Aalto (No 4), Michael Graves (No 5), Edwin Lutyens (No 6), John Soane (No 8), Terry Farrell (No 9), Richard Rogers (No 10), Mies van der Rohe (No 11), Hassan Fathy (No 13), Tadao Ando (No 14), Daniel Libeskind (No 16), etc.
The series was lauded for marrying science and visual art in a unique way, featuring vividly coloured electron micrograph images of microscopic plant structures and informative scientific text.
[3] Under Alexandra's directorship, the company have maintained a reputation as producers of groundbreaking art, architecture, photography and natural science books, and have undertaken a number of high-profile collaborations.
[8] Notable recent titles include Hunting the Higgs: The inside story of the Atlas experiment at the Large Hadron Collider, published in association with CERN, Green Universe: A Microscopic Voyage Into the Plant Cell with the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh[15] and Nanoscience: Giants of the Infinitesimal which was awarded a gold medal in the Science category at the Independent Publisher Book Awards in 2015.
[8] 2006 Gold Medal, Outstanding Book of the Year, Independent Publisher Book Awards (IPPY) for Pollen: The Hidden Sexuality of Flowers and Seeds: Time Capsules of Life 2008 Longlisted, Royal Society Prize for Science Books for Why the Lion Grew Its Mane: A Miscellany of Recent Scientific Discoveries from Astronomy to Zoology 2008 Bronze Medal, Environment, Ecology & Nature, Independent Publisher Book Awards (IPPY) for Nomads of the Wind: The Journey of the Monarch Butterfly and Other Wonders of the Butterfly World 2008 Bronze Medal, Science, Independent Publisher Book Awards (IPPY) for Why the Lion Grew Its Mane: A Miscellany of Recent Scientific Discoveries From Astronomy to Zoology 2009 Special Prize of the Jury, Gourmand Awards for Fruit: Edible, Inedible, Incredible 2009 Silver Medal, Environment, Ecology & Nature, Independent Publisher Book Awards (IPPY) for Where Have all the Flowers Gone?