Expanded Field /Book by Ila Berman and Douglas Burnham / AR+D Publishing (hardcover, 383 pages)

• If architecture, interiors, sculpture and landscapes are the four points that define the artificial, then the wide-open world of architectural installation occupies the blurry zone between them. In this ambitious book, authors Ila Berman and Douglas Burnham set out to map this territory with a “taxonomical framework” defining 12 types of installation, the “expanded field” of the title. With 75 case studies amply documented by photos and diagrams, the authors flesh out the axes of their matrix; “Architecture/Sculpture,” for instance, claims pavilions such as Anish Kapoor’s Cloud Gate, while Julio Le Parc’s reflective mobiles, Lumière en Mouvement, stand in for “Interior/Sculpture.”

Lo and Behold / Film directed by Werner Herzog / Magnolia Pictures (138 minutes)

• “Have the monks stopped meditating? They all seem to be tweeting,” muses filmmaker Werner Herzog, narrating a shot of an orange-robed brotherhood gathered lakeside, poking at their smart phones. The moment illustrates the grip of the Internet, the focus of this feature documentary. A cast of computer scientists and such innovators as Elon Musk takes us through the thrill of the first host-to-host communication, before spiralling into a darkening tale of man versus machine. Interviewees share ideas on where the web could take us, from driverless cars and robot servants to telepathic computers and pure chaos.

The City of Tomorrow / Book by Matthew Claudel and Carlo Ratti / Yale University Press (hardcover, 180 pages)

• In a series of well-developed essays, architect Carlo Ratti and designer Matthew Claudel (both of MIT’s Senseable City Lab) argue that “the digital revolution is poised to be the most radically disruptive change that has ever recast the design, construction, and operation of our built environment.” Their exploration of the possibilities – presented as “what ifs” rather than hard-and-fast predictions – looks closely at the ties between technology, the city and the citizens who inhabit it. In what they refer to as “futurecraft,” a method that uses present conditions to imagine a “fictive but possible future context,” the two cover everything from energy distribution and architecture to mobility and knowledge sharing.