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El Croquis 206: Studio Anne Holtrop (2009-2020)
Isbn 9788412003482
Publisher El Croquis
Idea code 20570
€ 73.00
Dutch architect Anne Holtrop started his own practice in 2009 and completed his first two major projects in 2015, Museum Fort Vechten in the Netherlands and the National Pavilion of the Kingdom of Bahrain. In some of his works, form is explored through appropriations from natural occurrences and random drawings, while others focus on the unique gestures dictated by a particular material. This overview of his practice to date features nineteen projects spread among the Netherlands, United Kingdom, Middle East, and Japan. Included are several projects designed and built in Bahrain, where the studio maintains its second office, such as the shopping district Qaysariyah Suq.
304 p, ills colour & bw, 25 x 34 cm, pb, Spanish/English
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A+U 601 2020:10 Valerio Olgiati - Non-Referential Architecture
Isbn 9784900212565
Publisher Shinkenchiku-sha
Idea code 20436
€ 25.10
The magazine’s second monograph dedicated to Swiss architect Valerio Olgiati, whose buildings can be typified by their “non-referential” character. It includes an essay by Olgiati and Mark Breitschmid, as well as a short piece by Go Hasegawa that engages the reader’s senses in an intimate encounter with Villa Além, designed by Olgiati in Portugal. The issue introduces a total of fifteen diverse works, each accompanied by textured drawings and a text by the architect, who is considered to operate in a cultural rather than political manner. Among these are Pearling Site in Bahrain, Torre San Felipe in Lima, the Céline flagship store in Miami, and Zurich’s School Building Schauenberg.
160 p, ills colour & bw, 22 x 29 cm, pb, Japanese/English
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A+U 20:09 600 Mad Architects Dreamscape
Isbn 9784900212558
Publisher Shinkenchiku-sha
Idea code 20451
€ 23.90
MAD Architects was established by Chinese architect Ma Yansong in 2004, and has since become a global practice. Its futuristic designs have been bold and experimental since the start. For the partners at MAD, it is important that the environment they build maintains spiritual and emotional connections with people through nature. This combination of technology and nature results in a sort of fictional architecture with a strongly artistic component. This issue details a selection of seventeen projects, taking readers from early design concepts to final realities. Featured works include Harbin Opera House, Xinhee Design Centre, Floating Island, and the Ordos Museum in Mongolia.
168 p, ills colour & bw, 22 x 29 cm, pb, Japanese/English
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AV Monographs 227-228: 24 World Houses
Isbn 9788409244478
Publisher Avisa
Idea code 20488
€ 59.15
The Covid-19 pandemic has put the vital importance of domestic space on the forefront, and this double issue of ‘AV Monographs’ presents a selection of 24 residences, both in Spain and abroad, designed by internationally prestigious architectural practices. Among these are Emilio Tuñón, Harquitectes, OFFICE, Ryue Nishizawa, Aires Mateus, Alejandro Aravena, and Smiljan Radić. Special emphasis is given to construction details, material quality, and interior designs. A multipart essay by editor Luis Fernández-Galiano throws light on the timeless character of eight spaces of the home.
224 p, ills colour & bw, 24 x 30 cm, pb, Spanish/English
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Valuing Architecture - Heritage and the Economics of Culture Vis-A-Vis Series
Isbn 9789492095930
Publisher Valiz
Idea code 20525
€ 25.00
Architecture has always been found in a space between its economic and cultural values. Yet these values are often seen as compromised by, or contingent upon, forces outside the discipline: property prices, real estate markets, and the vicissitudes of local and global economies. The intersections of cultural and economic values are especially conspicuous in architectural heritage, where conflicts between them are most publicly and passionately contested. This book examines the different sites and occasions where such values are bestowed, exchanged, and can create friction through a collection of essays that tackle concrete cases, both historical and contemporary.
240 p, ills colour & bw, 17 x 24 cm, pb, English
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Building With Nature - Creating, Implementing And Upscaling Nature - Based Solutions
Isbn 9789462085824
Publisher Nai010 Publishers
Idea code 20556
€ 41.75
Over the past decade, EcoShape has collaboratively designed, realised, monitored, and researched multiple projects that involve building with nature, not only in the Netherlands but also across Europe and in South East Asia. These projects demonstrate the ability to build nature-based solutions which create safe and sustainable flood protection as well as ecologically rich and resilient environments that provide attractive places to live, work, and visit. Here a dialogue with experts and stakeholders is presented on methodologies and experiences, illustrating key concepts and linking them to a range of landscapes and their underlying ecological, economic, and social systems.
256 p, ills colour & bw, 17 x 24 cm, pb, English
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Toxic Garden
Isbn 9789657725078
Publisher Yundler Brondino Verlag
Idea code 20551
€ 38.00
Appearing at a crucial time in which we are being forced to reconsider our relationship with the planet, this book explores the irony of toxic plants. By exposing the fragile beauty of dried specimens in photographs, we learn of their physical potency in their potential to cause detrimental harm. Part one is an assemblage of archival images of plants which are found in Israel and neighbouring countries. Part two is a philosophical meditation that considers the different facets of reality, providing an opportunity to encounter the speculative aspects of architecture through plantscapes. This collection is presented by Tel Aviv-based collaborative design practice AN+. Foreword by Piet Oudolf.
160 p, ills colour, 21 x 28 cm, pb, English
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The Activity-Based Working Practice Guide (Second Edition)
Isbn 9789082347920
Publisher Icop
Idea code 20554
€ 28.70
What is the perfect workplace? The answers to this question largely depend on individual needs and context, and can range from a private room to a collaborative space, a comfy sofa, or a coffee lounge. Rather than providing workers with a fixed workstation, the concept of activity-based working (ABW) offers a diversity of work settings for different kinds of activities. When properly implemented, it can deliver cost savings and improvements in organisational performance and well-being. Besides offering many examples, the guide explains how ABW works and how to best implement it. Author Juriaan van Meel is an expert in construction briefing and workplace design.
160 p, ills colour & bw, 17 x 24 cm, pb, English
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Mission Blue-Green
Isbn 9789526400044
Publisher Aalto University
Idea code 20460
€ 37.50
We are undeniably living in an era of enormous environmental crisis with climate change and species extinction as the most outstanding features of it. These issues challenge our societal systems and relationship with nature. In addition, more than half of the planet's population live in urban areas, where environmental problems tend to culminate and where counteractive efforts should be concentrated. How can landscape architecture solve these urgent problems? This dissertation provides new scientific knowledge on collaborative planning and design of urban socio-ecological systems.
138 p, ills colour & bw, 18 x 25 cm, pb, English
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Urbanisation Of The Sea - From Concepts And Analyses To Design
Isbn 9789462085930
Publisher Nai010 Publishers
Idea code 20575
€ 41.75
This book tells the story of the sea-land continuum based on the case of the North Sea – one of the world’s most industrialised seas, in which the Netherlands plays a central role. The space of the North Sea is almost fully planned and has been simultaneously loaded with the task of increased economic production both from new and traditional maritime sectors, and emptied of cultural significance. Through different projects from academia, art, literature, and practice, from analysis to design, the book explores synergies for designing this new spatial realm.
296 p, ills colour & bw, 17 x 24 cm, pb, English
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Residential Masterpieces 30: Mies Van Der Rohe Farnsworth House Plano, Illinois Usa, 1945-51
Isbn 9784871405638
Publisher Ada Edita
Idea code 21014
€ 29.45
Built between 1945 and 1951, the Farnsworth House in Plano, Illinois, is among Mies van der Rohe’s most famous works. Having relocated to the United States just prior to the war, he embraced the new opportunities the country provided for his modernist vision. The house appears in the same style as others in a series of buildings from the architect’s American period, and is considered something of a prototype. Commissioned to design a weekend retreat for a prominent Chicago psychiatrist, Van der Rohe created an enchanting space that was at once both a sanctuary and a monument to modern architecture. With photographs and text by Yoshio Futagawa.
64 p, ills colour & bw, 26 x 37 cm, pb, Japanese/English
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Negotiating Ungers - The Aesthetics Of Sustainability
Isbn 9780988290624
Publisher Common Books
Idea code 20552
€ 18.00
In 1980, German architect Oswald Mathias Ungers (1926–2007) participated in a competition for solar housing. His contribution received a special prize, but the design was never realised and has been largely ignored since. Yet it remains the only project in which the architect explicitly addressed the issue of sustainability. This publication brings his design to light once again, and is the outcome of an unconventional approach to the architect’s design practice that was undertaken as part of the 2018 summer school at the Ungers Archiv für Architekturwissenschaft (UAA) in Cologne. What can the position of an “outsider” contribute to the debate on sustainability?
224 p, ills bw, 12 x 17 cm, pb, English
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The Public School For Architecture Brussels
Isbn 9780988290617
Publisher Common Books
Idea code 20553
€ 15.00
This book was conceived following the first eight weeks of the Public School for Architecture Brussels, which took place in 2014 as part of the Gare de Bruxelles-Congrès. It documents the activities during the residency and reflects more broadly on the event by asking what an alternative education in architecture can be and why it is necessary. Presented here are texts from committee members and documents from all of the classes that were held, in addition to material from participants. Several contributions from individuals outside of the school provide wider perspectives on pedagogy and help to contextualise the programme in the dialogue about architecture in the city.
152 p, ills bw, 14 x 19 cm, pb, English
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The Walter Benjamin And Albert S. Project
Isbn 9789492852243
Publisher Jap Sam Books
Idea code 20486
€ 29.15
Walter Benjamin and Albert S. sit simultaneously – I can’t imagine it any other way – at their respective writing and drawing tables, bent over their papers. One in Paris, the other in Berlin. Perhaps there is a moment when, as in a choreography, they both lift their right hand from the paper, in exact synchronization, and look to the side. Staring into the distance, for a moment, to summon a thought – and then, the moment is over. Albert S. stands up, and Walter Benjamin crosses out the sentence he has just written. 'The Walter Benjamin and Albert S. Project' is a book about the parallel lives of Walter Benjamin and Albert Speer and the quest to bring these two lives together.
224 p, ills bw, 16 x 23 cm, pb, English
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Oase 107: The Drawing In Landscape Design And Urbanism
Isbn 9789462085787
Publisher Nai010 Publishers
Idea code 20561
€ 22.30
In recent decades, the drawing practices in landscape design and urbanism have seen a number of transformations. Current developments in theory and practice have rendered the distinction between the two more diffuse. Both disciplines are no longer regarded as architecture – or gardening – ‘on a larger scale’, primarily anchored in questions of housing, land development, or embellishment. Today ecology, energy transition or ‘metabolic’ issues are much more present, which leads to new forms of drawing. For designers it is an essential question how all these flows and processes come together, materialize, and become visible, and how their ‘spatialization’ in drawings is represented in analysis and design.
128 p, ills colour & bw, 17 x 24 cm, pb, Dutch/English
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Arquitectura Viva 228: Jose Maria Sanchez, Material Atmospheres
Isbn 02141256
Publisher Avisa
Idea code 20489
€ 18.75
Although Madrid is where he studied architecture and set up practice in 2006, José María Sánchez has carried out much of his oeuvre in his native Extremadura. Benefiting from a special knack for interpreting and giving form to contexts, his work shows great skill in adapting to different scales and programs, from the private realm to the public sphere, always with a simple but bold expressivity in handling materials. Buildings featured in this issue: two single-family houses – one in an urban neighbourhood, the other in a natural spot – and two interventions on historical premises: a medieval fortress and a neoclassical hospital.
80 p, ills colour & bw, 24 x 30 cm, pb, Spanish/English
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AV Proyectos 100: Mad Architects
Isbn 1697493X
Publisher Avisa
Idea code 20490
€ 11.40
'AV Proyectos 100' devotes its dossier to MAD Architects, an international firm that, from its offices in Beijing, Los Angeles, Rome, or Jiaxing develops futuristic, organic, and dreamlike projects based on a contemporary interpretation of the spirit of nature. The issue also publishes the competition for the new headquarters of the MUPAC (Museum of Prehistory and Archaeology of Cantabria) in Santander, with the winning proposal by Mendoza Partida and those of the other four finalists.
80 p, ills colour & bw, 24 x 30 cm, pb, Spanish/English
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GA Houses 172
Isbn 9784871405942
Publisher Ada Edita
Idea code 20543
€ 26.25
GA Houses documents outstanding new residential architecture from all over the world. Ga Houses 172 features work from Yo Shimada, Eizo & Yuko Shiina, Shotaro Suga, Makoto Tanijiri/Suppose Design Office, Takashi Fujino, and Tomohiro Hata, and studio talks with the architects featured in this issue.
176 p, ills colour & bw, 23 x 30 cm, pb, Japanese/English
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Writingplace 3 - Reading And Responding - Transversal Writing
Isbn 9789462085312
Publisher Nai010 Publishers
Idea code 21005
€ 24.95
The new magazine Writingplace Journal for Architecture and Literature is an international, open-access, peer-reviewed journal on architecture and literature. This journal is a vehicle for the Writingplace platform to continue its exploration of the productive relationship between architecture and literature – a quest that already resulted in the publication of Writingplace: Investigations in Architecture and Literature in 2016. Each issue of the series focuses on themes central to the productive relationship between architecture and literature. The third issue, Transversal Writing Reading and Responding, focuses on the complex process of writing itself, and in particular on the question of reading and reviewing works in progress.
144 p, ills colour & bw, 17 x 24 cm, pb, English
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Writingplace Journal For Architecture And Literature #4: Choices And Strategies Of Spatial Imagination
Isbn 9789462085749
Publisher Nai010 Publishers
Idea code 21006
€ 24.95
The magazine 'Writingplace Journal for Architecture and Literature' is an international, open-access, peer-reviewed journal on architecture and literature. This journal is a vehicle for the Writingplace platform to continue its exploration of the productive relationship between architecture and literature. The issue C'hoices and Strategies of Spatial Imagination' focuses on the use of methods and approaches of spatial imagination between various disciplines, such as philosophy, literature, cinema, visual arts, and architecture.
144 p, ills colour & bw, 17 x 24 cm, pb, English
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