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50 Hybrid Buildings. Catalogue On The Art Of Mixing Uses
Isbn 9788409188222
Publisher A+t Architecture Publishers
Idea code 20216
€ 26.20
Hybrid buildings are urban artefacts which are often characterised by their mixed-use role in the city. The ones that manage to get built and endure are true survivors of a rare and vigorous category that flourishes in locations of opportunity. This volume presents 50 of these hybrid buildings, designed from the 19th century to the present, as a catalogue of types without any specific typology. Each project is drawn in section, revealing both its functions and a fascinating narrative about how it came to be, as well as its place in the urban context. The publication demonstrates how buildings which insist on mixing uses and users can more naturally incorporate complexity and indeterminacy.
360 p, ills colour & bw, 13 x 17 cm, pb, Spanish/English
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How To Build An Indian House - The Mumbai Example
Isbn 9789462085534
Publisher Nai010 Publishers
Idea code 20223
€ 29.95
'How to Build an Indian House' focuses on one of Mumbai’s and India’s perennial and most daunting questions: mass housing. It documents, analyses, and represents robust examples of different housing types in the city. Along with the documentary drawings and photographs, Sameep Padora developed a series of analytical models in order to understand spatial organisation and infrastructure in residential building typologies. The cases studied here range from residential typologies in Mumbai, such as the chawls (originally workers’ housing that has morphed into vibrant communities), to more hybrid examples such as the Swadeshi Market, which demonstrates an interesting multiuse building.
280 p, ills colour & bw, 17 x 24 cm, pb, English
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Archives 6: Solano Benitez & Gloria Cabral
Isbn 9788412162516
Publisher C2C Editorial
Idea code 20203
€ 24.50
Solano Benítez founded Gabinete de Arquitectura in 1987, which Gloria Cabral joined as partner in 2004. The studio uses knowledge drawn from Paraguayan craftsmanship to create and construct buildings of vernacular materials such as brick and tile. This special expertise has become a source of innovation in much of the architects’ work. By focusing on sustainability and respect for the environment across a range of projects of various scales, they engage with both the surroundings and material recycling in their unique approach to problem solving. Nine works from 1998 to the present are featured, along with an interview with Gloria Cabral by Peter Zumthor.
304 p, ills colour & bw, 17 x 24 cm, pb, Spanish/English
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AV Monographs 222: Heatherwick Studio: 2000-2020
Isbn 9788409196340
Publisher Avisa
Idea code 20138
€ 34.10
Thomas Heatherwick is a designer and the founder of London-based design practice Heatherwick Studio, which was started in the late 1990s. Considered one of Britain’s most significant designers, Heatherwick is known for his work on all scales. This instalment is divided across four themes – Reuse, Nurture, Connect, Gather – and takes stock of the last 20 years of the studio’s practice through a detailed look at no less than 20 exemplary projects. Among these are Eden Residential Tower in Singapore, Google’s Mountain View Campus, New York’s Pier 55, and Rolling Bridge in London. Deyan Sudjic, former director of the Design Museum, London, contributes the opening essay.
112 p, ills colour & bw, 24 x 30 cm, pb, Spanish/English
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AV Monographs 223-224: Spain Yearbook 2020
Isbn 9788409196357
Publisher Avisa
Idea code 20196
€ 56.85
No less than 24 recent buildings are featured in this overview of the architectural discipline in Spain over the past year. The projects are divided among six themes – cultural context, health spaces, education, children’s play, exercise and leisure, and plural housing – and are representative of a globalised world undergoing massive shifts. The yearbook presents a selection of works scattered throughout the Spanish territory, including the Climate Museum in Lérida by Toni Gironès, Vallehermoso Stadium in Madrid by Estudio Cano Lasso, Germina Foundation in Barcelona by b720 Fermín Vázquez Arquitectos, Loyola Campus by Luis Vidal + Arquitectos, and more.
232 p, ills colour & bw, 24 x 30 cm, pb, Spanish/English
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Designing For Precarious Citizens: Building On The Bauhaus Legacy
Isbn 9789491444661
Publisher Artez Press
Idea code 20205
€ 14.95
Inspired by the 2019 Bauhaus centennial, ‘Designing for Precarious Citizens’ links the ideals of the Bauhaus to research by designers and students on the living and housing conditions of vulnerable groups in society today. For the Bauhaus, technology was a tool for reducing the vulnerability of working-class citizens, but in modern society it often prevents people from being able to make decisions about their own future. The various design projects featured here follow on the ideas of architect Johan Niegeman, one of the few Dutch educators at the Bauhaus. The book also includes key research by designers Frank Kolkman, Giuditta Vendrame, and Klasien van de Zandschulp.
136 p, ills colour & bw, 17 x 24 cm, pb, English
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Housing the CO-OP. A Micro-Political Manifesto
Isbn 9783944074474
Publisher Ruby Press
Idea code 20204
€ 16.15
Since 2008, there has been a renewed search for alternative forms of housing production that can move beyond speculative interests and are based instead on models of co-ownership, co-production, and co-management. Hence the concept of the cooperative has experienced a true renaissance in recent years. This book explores how cooperative housing construction and forms of self-determined building production might offer effective solutions to the global housing crisis, moving us closer to a more equitable and sustainable future through systematic change. With case studies from Germany, Switzerland, Brazil, Uruguay, Ethiopia, and China, as well as a glossary of important terms.
244 p, ills bw, 11 x 17 cm, pb, English
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The City As A Project (New Ed)
Isbn 9783944074061
Publisher Ruby Press
Idea code 14047
€ 35.00
What if the city can be seen differently than as a sort of self-organising chaos? Shaped not only by material forces, but also by cultural and didactic visions, the city may instead result from political intention in the form of architectural projects. This collection of eight essays, edited by Pier Vittorio Aureli, examines a fascinating set of urban conditions across more than two millennia of history, from the political theology of the Islamic city to the political economy of Renaissance architecture, and from the planned Mesoamerican metropolis to the Fordist factory floor, revealing the ways in which the city arises from the constant interaction between ideas and spatial conditions.
346 p, ills in b&w, 19 x 26 cm, pb, English
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Isle Of Models. Architecture And Scale
Isbn 9783038630531
Publisher Triest Verlag
Idea code 20217
€ 26.90
Why do we still need physical models to design and carry out architectural projects in the digital age, despite the possibilities of rendering and simulating buildings and connected spaces? 'Isle of Models' searching for answers to this question based on the central role of model making in the architectural studios at EPFL Lausanne. The history of the model and its use in past architectural production is also discussed in this framework. The accompanying series of images illustrates the different forms and possibilities which the model can offer as part of the design process.
148 p, ills colour & bw, 17 x 23 cm, pb, English
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Vesper 2: Author-Matter
Isbn 9788822904782
Publisher Quodlibet
Idea code 20225
€ 19.35
The second instalment of ‘Vesper’ scrutinises the concept of authorship and overcoming the author-persona. Forms of authorship are no longer dependant on the individual-creator, a remnant of the modern myth, but are rather a process to be shared with the anonymous powers of matter. Freeing authors from their individuality, it opens up hybrid creative subjectivities and explores the sensitive and material consistency of design forms, whereby they alone encompass a subjectivity that is “authoriality”. It features contributions by architects, designers, urbanists, and more, including Andreas Angelidakis, Philippe Rahm, Mieke Bal, Francesco Bergamo and many others.
224 p, ills colour & bw, 21 x 29 cm, pb, Italian/English
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Arquitectura Viva 225: Vida Y Virus
Isbn 02141256
Publisher Avisa
Idea code 20199
€ 18.20
The unprecedented covid-19 crisis has killed hundreds of thousands worldwide, threatened our way of life, and called some of our fundamental values into question. Arquitectura Viva cannot be indifferent to any of this, so this issue addresses the vicissitudes of the pandemic and the reverberations it is bound to have on architecture. Six articles by experts – including John Gray, Slavoj Žižek, Richard Ingersoll, José María Ezquiaga, Paz Martín, and Ramón Araujo – tackle themes that range from the political repercussions of the situation to the need for new hospital models, touching as well on the pandemic’s connection to climate change, impact on cities, and effects on building types.
80 p, ills colour & bw, 24 x 30 cm, pb, Spanish/English
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Arquitectura Viva 224: Ryue Nishizawa
Isbn 02141256
Publisher Avisa
Idea code 20160
€ 18.20
Ryue Nishizawa arrived on the international scene as one half of the studio SANAA, but has also carried out numerous projects on a solo basis. His independent office, established in 1997, can be characterised by a formal and organicist radicality. This issue presents three recent works by Nishizawa: Jining Art Museum (in eastern China), Ochoquebradas House (along the coast of Los Vilos, Chile), and Terasaki House (outside Tokyo, Japan). Also in this issue, Herzog & de Meuron’s Meret Oppenheim Tower in Basel; Kistefos Museum in Jevnaker, Norway, by BIG; a Barcelona preschool by b720 Fermín Vázquez Arquitecos; and Neri & Hu’s Junshan Cultural Centre in Beijing.
80 p, ills colour & bw, 24 x 30 cm, pb, Spanish/English
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Accattone Magazine On Architecture Issue 6
Isbn 9782960253016
Publisher Accattone
Idea code 20202
€ 26.90
The magazine’s sixth issue features projects and ideas about a renewed relationship with land, matter, nature, and localities against the backdrop of the new climatic regime. Its topics and features include sacred forests and courtyards in southern Benin, earthen structures around Paris, a low-tech high-rise in Kinshasa, the many faces of Berlin’s Tiergarten, Piet Oudolf’s garden concepts, the personal experience of nature in the urban environment, painting fake minerals, Japanese architects’ interest in working in remote islands and villages, and much more. Contributors include Go Hasegawa, Eva Le Roi, Annee Grøtte Viken, Junya Ishigami, Christopher Roth, and others.
228 p, ills colour & bw, 24 X 32 cm, pb, English
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Adrian Phiffer Strange Primitivism
Isbn 9789492058089
Publisher The Architecture Observer
Idea code 20193
€ 27.50
This book from The Architecture Observer (Dutch architecture critic Hans Ibelings) takes readers through some of the unexpected twists and turns in the mind of the Toronto-based Romanian architect and urbanist Adrian Phiffer. It can be seen as an attempt to produce architecture with images and words – a non-linear flow of images interrupted by text, and vice versa. Its point of view is that of a youngish architect, and at times the book takes the form of a distorted self-portrait. He writes, “The cruelty of our profession is that we always have to imagine something special… we are required to make something sophisticated, slightly complex, preferably very expensive.”
304 p, ills colour & bw, 12 x 17 cm, pb, English
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Concrete Oslo
Isbn 9788293104230
Publisher Torpedo
Idea code 20206
€ 32.15
Concrete Oslo gives the reader an opportunity to explore a great number of buildings, structures and objects through curated tours across the city. But more than mere tourist guide, this book is an opportunity to reflect upon an enigmatic building tradition and to engage with the city, in literal and physical ways.Accompanying the tours are a number of theoretical essays, original drawings, unique photos and other historic documentation combining historical accounts and theory with 1:1 field studies. The book springs from a master studio course, taught by the three editors of this volume, at The Oslo School of Architecture and Design. The format escapes the confines of academia and invites everyone to indulge in an architectural treasure hunt in Oslo.
496 p, ills colour & bw, 13 x 20 cm, pb, English
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Designing A Spoon To Change The City
Isbn 9788822905161
Publisher Quodlibet
Idea code 20226
€ 17.20
In this book, which emerges from a dialogue of eight Italian designers and thinkers, Claudio Larcher poses questions about what contemporary design is, and what the role of design will be in the future. Through in-depth analysis and a sharp and accessible writing style narrated by Valentina Dalla Costa, they consider this complex subject across a number of current themes having to do with design today, including its challenges, new scenarios, problems, changes in models, markets, and scales. From the real city to the digital one, from the value of the given to that of the object, the result is an attempt to more comprehensively define what we refer to as contemporary design.
144 p, no ills, 14 x 22 cm, pb, English
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Encounters With Plecnik
Isbn 9789616669634
Publisher Museum Architecture And Design
Idea code 20156
€ 6.00
This booklet presents architecture in a manner rarely seen today: sketches drawn by hand. A sketch captures architecture through the eyes of its author, and this personal aspect is what makes it so valuable. Here, the sketch also serves as a tool to illustrate the fundamental concepts of designs by Slovene architect Jože Plečnik (1872–1957), who gave the city of Ljubljana its modern identity through his iconic buildings and urban plans, which reflect a timeless aesthetic and qualities. Plečnik holds a special place among his Slovenian peers, and the complex project of nominating his architectural work for inscription on the UNESCO World Heritage List is this book’s starting point.
52 p, ills colour & bw, 15 x 21 cm, pb, Slovenian/English
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Social Matter, Social Design
Isbn 9789492095848
Publisher Valiz
Idea code 20214
€ 19.90
This publication challenges the way we look at, think of, and interact with the social realm by emphasising the role of materiality. The field demands that design incorporates a more nuanced and complex reading of how the social is intertwined with the material, which confronts the often reductive or simplistic notion of “social design” and offers novel forms of critical and meaningful engagement in today’s world of mounting social contradictions. Essays by more than 25 contributors explore and unveil connections, assumptions, and more, and focus on critical junctures for transformation. The analyses centre around four major themes: the body, the earth, the political, and technology.
240 p, ills colour & bw, 14 x 22 cm, pb, English
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The World As Project - A Political Theory Of Design
Isbn 9789492852236
Publisher Jap Sam Books
Idea code 20147
€ 15.00
Architect and educator Friedrich von Borries argues in this manifesto for a design (of survival, society, the self) that evades the totalitarian logic of securitisation and imagines new forms of living together. Humans have always been forced to design the conditions under which they live. But if this occurs in such a way that our options for action are limited, it could be thought of as subjugation. In the past, designers simply created objects. Today, practically everything is designed, from processes to refugee camps. In such a world, it is paramount to stop judging design solely on aesthetic criteria. ‘The World as Project’ advocates the need for a political theory of design.
48 p, no ills, 21 x 30 cm, pb, English
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Log 48: Expanding Modes Of Practice
Isbn 9780999237366
Publisher Anyone Corporation
Idea code 20180
€ 20.05
Once again, architecture is looking at itself in the mirror. Theorists and practitioners are reorienting the field’s tools and methods to address social complexity at the scales of both systemic conditions and interpersonal exchange. These expanding modes of practice suggest that the centre of architecture is shifting and cannot hold. Approaching this shift in multiple ways, contributors Bryony Roberts (introduction), Peggy Deamer (feminist architecture), Katy Barkan (reshuffling hierarchies), Ana Miljački (collective learning), Jia Yi Gu (cultivating care), Mabel O. Wilson (decolonising practice), Margo Handwerker (parsing social practice), and others weigh in on the issue.
172 p, ills colour & bw, 16 x 24 cm, pb, English
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