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New Titles in Architecture & Landscape 17 October 2016
El Croquis 186: Aires Mateus 2011-2016

Isbn 9788488386922
Publisher El Croquis
Idea code 16553
€ 57.10

Based in Lisbon, the office of Manuel and Francisco Aires Mateus has developed a prolific portfolio over the years, gaining recognition through a number of awards. This issue presents more than 25 works developed within the past five years. Besides an in-depth interview with the architects, it focuses on both finished projects and as yet unrealised ones, including a number of renovations. Small-scale residential works in the countryside and city feature prominently, among them House on the Alentejo Coast, House in Time, and House in Ajuda. Public projects include the Architecture Faculty in Tournai, a Meeting Centre in Grândola, and the Islamic Centre in Bordeaux.

288 p, ills colour & bw, 25 x 34 cm, pb, Spanish/English

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AV Monographs 189-190: MVRDV Dream Works

Isbn 9788461742950
Publisher Avisa
Idea code 16558
€ 56.85

Visionary and magical, the oeuvre of MVRDV is a collection of works, projects, and publications that amaze with their abundance and diversity. Since the studio was set up in 1993, Winy Maas, Jacob van Rijs, and Nathalie de Vries have shown a dazzling creativity that has placed them in the Dutch avant-garde of 21st century. AV Monographs devotes a double issue to their career with a selection of 30 works grouped into six chapters describing the most characteristic themes in their architecture: ‘Compact Puzzles’ (density), ‘Illusory Walls’ (form and skins), ‘Colorful Worlds’ (use of color), ‘Leisure Land’ (entertainment), ‘Green Fantasies’ (ecology and sustainability), and ‘Visionary Cities’ (analysis and utopias).

210 p, ills colour & bw, 24 x 30 cm, pb, Spanish/English

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A.MAG 09: Sergison Bates | Jonathan Woolf

Isbn 9788460862659
Publisher Amag Publisher
Idea code 16566
€ 37.50

This instalment focuses on two British practices: Jonathan Woolf and Sergison Bates. Editor Ana Leal uses the word “serendipity” to refer to their respective bodies of work, describing how “the reinterpretation of the site, to acknowledge the culture and tradition of the place through local materials and techniques, is a clear example of an answer to contemporary needs… dictated by an extraordinary sensitivity.” Along with the highlighted projects it includes a conversation with Jonathan Sergison, Stephen Bates, and Tony Fretton. Featured are Woolf’s Lion Rooms, Lost Villa, and Brick Leaf House, as well as various urban and suburban housing projects by Sergison Bates.

270 p, ills colour & bw, 24 x 32 cm, pb, Portuguese/English

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Barcode - Instant City

Isbn 9789187543173
Publisher Arvinius + Orfeus Publishing
Idea code 16546
€ 52.80

Representing the best of new urbanism, Barcode has drawn international attention to the Oslo harbour and has become a showcase for Norway's most innovative architecture. Author Hans Ibelings explores how the project has brought together esteemed firms such as A-Lab, Dark, MVRDV, Snøhetta, Lund Hagem, MAD and SJ-Arkitekter to bring new life and centrality back to this once historically significant area.

272 p, ills colour & bw, 20 x 25 cm, hb, English

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Cobe - Our Urban Living Room (3rd updated ed)

Isbn 9789187543395
Publisher Arvinius + Orfeus Publishing
Idea code 16570
€ 85.00

Over the last decade, Copenhagen has undergone a major transformation – not just in its appearance, but in the way the city functions and is experienced by its residents. COBE’s projects are spread out over Copenhagen, but they aren’t cookie-cutter buildings that are placed without meaning or context. Each structure is highly aware of what the local markers mean in a globalised world. What unites them is the architects’ desire to achieve a more sustainable, socially inviting urban environment for city residents. This monograph speaks to all those who live and work in cities, with contributions ranging from established architects and architecture critics to the those in municipal and urban planning roles and the residents themselves.

488 p, ills colour & bw, 21 x 26 cm, pb, English

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Residential Masterpieces 23: Paulo Mendes Da Rocha

Isbn 9784871406482
Publisher Ada Edita
Idea code 16555
€ 26.70

Begun in São Paulo in 1964 by Paulo Mendes da Rocha when he was just 36 years old, the Brazilian architect’s own residence was highly influential in his home country but little published due to the political climate of the time. An entire “heroic” phase of Brazilian architecture, with significant works by Oscar Niemeyer, Lina Bo Bardi, and others, was impacted by the Brazil’s increasing cultural isolation. Mendes da Rocha’s work was not recognised internationally until the 1990s, which led to a “rediscovery” of this house as a kind of manifesto. Its brutalist reinforced concrete surfaces and structural simplicity resonate with history in this series of photographs by Yukio Futagawa.

56 p, ills colour & bw, 26 x 37 cm, pb, Japanese/English

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Torafu Architects - Inside Out

Isbn 9784887063624
Publisher Toto
Idea code 16557
€ 25.60

Founded in 2004 by Koichi Suzuno and Shinya Kamuro, Torafu Architects works extensively within a broad scope on a diverse range of products, from architectural to interior design, exhibition and spatial installations, product design, and film-making. The projects are free from the hierarchy of cities, architecture, furniture, and things, undertaken with the view that everything is equal. This collection presents 47 works, including the most recent, and enables us to gain an appreciation of their future potential, which continues to create new value. Past works, born from the office’s distinctive perspective and ideas, have been reworked based on the eight keywords they value.

416 p, ills colour, 12 x 17 cm, hb, Japanese/English

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Modern Churches In Sweden

Isbn 9789178434961
Publisher Bokforlaget Arena
Idea code 16547
€ 52.00

'Modern Churches in Sweden' features some thirty churches built between 1940 and 2014, a period characterized by innovative thinking in both ecclesiastical architecture and liturgy. The book focuses on the architecture – from well-known buildings such as Sigurd Lewerentz' St. Peter's in Klippan to contemporary works like the Tureberg Church in Sollentuna, whose sustainable approach is expressed in an altar made of scrap lumber and chair fabric made from plastic bottles.

240 p, ills colour & bw, 20 x 28 cm, hb, English

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Arquitectura Viva 187: Spanish Solutions - Under 50 The Crisis Generation

Isbn 02141256
Publisher Avisa
Idea code 16523
€ 18.90

In Spain, the last ten years have seen the profession become a desolate ecosystem which architects have been forced to adapt to in order to stay afloat, turning small commissions into near-manifestos, working in universities, publishing, or curatorial activities, or looking for greener pastures in other countries. Eduardo Prieto presents this panorama in all its rawness, but points out the capacity for ‘creative destruction’ that the crisis has had in certain aspects. For his part, Richard Ingersoll takes stock of the different work methods of the generation of the crisis, exemplifying them with six works then featured in detail.

80 p, ills colour & bw, 24 x 30 cm, pb, Spanish/English

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AV Proyectos 076: Dossier OMA

Isbn
Publisher Avisa
Idea code 16522
€ 11.85

The new issue of 'AV Proyectos' features ten projects by the office of Rem Koolhaas in New York. Among these, two spectacular skyscrapers in Manhattan and two large cultural buildings recently inaugurated in Quebec and Miami. The issue also includes the first initiative by the Madrid-based Norman Foster Foundation: Droneport is an ambitious plan to set up a transportation infrastructure with hangars in Africa, and the first prototype has been presented at the current Venice Biennale. Next, four small acoustic pavilions that perform as amplifiers or as true music instruments. The construction section analyzes the Palace of Justice in Córdoba by the Dutch team Mecanoo, whose design takes inspiration from the urban fabric of the traditional Arab city.

80 p, ills colour & bw, 24 x 30 cm, pb, Spanish/English

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GA Houses 149

Isbn 9784871400978
Publisher Ada Edita
Idea code 16554
€ 30.85

‘GA Houses’ documents outstanding new residential architecture from all over the world. Included in each issue also are retrospective looks at residential works of the past which are now considered epoch-making. With projects by Steven Holl, Andra Matin, Emiko Tsuno, Studio Tonton, Hiroyuki Arima, and others.

160 p, ills in colour & bw, 23 x 30 cm, pb, Japanese/English

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Presentation For Architecture

Isbn 9788968010491
Publisher Damdi
Idea code 16519
€ 137.60

The ins and outs of creating an effective PowerPoint presentation are explored from the perspectives of eighteen international architecture and design offices, among them Casanova + Hernandez Architecten, modostudio, Diba Tensile Architecture, Ricardo Bofill Taller de Arquitectura, Keiichi Hayashi, and b4 Architects. Comprising more than 1000 slides, plus a CD of nine presentations, it offers a comprehensive and diverse look at the essence of what makes such presentations successful. An architect is not only a professional with technical and artistic knowledge, but also a storyteller who must execute a performance that inspires the audience to dream along.

736 p, ills colour, 28 x 23 cm, hb, English

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