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New Titles in Architecture & Landscape

2 February 2021

AMAG 21: Wespi De Meuron

Isbn 9789895493814
Publisher AMAG Publisher
Idea code 21026
€ 42.90

Based in Switzerland and situated near the Italian border, Wespi de Meuron Romeo was established in 2002 with a particular dedication to small-scale buildings. The office is recognised for its approaches to existing buildings, rebuilding and repurposing them in a formally simple yet extraordinary architecture. Classical geometries are explored while, from a material and contextual perspective, traditional building methods and local materials, natural surroundings and the dynamic between interior and exterior remain paramount. This issue presents an overview of their work, including new houses, residential conversions, and various projects still under construction.

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

LB 01 David Adjaye Mole House

Isbn 9789895462087
Publisher AMAG Publisher
Idea code 21025
€ 37.65

The new 'A.MAG Long Collection' presents a single project by a single architect in a special graphic design format that distinguishes it from other collections the magazine publishes. Each instalment will document works of different scales and formal contexts. This unique selection of projects which establish new paradigms in architecture begins with David Adjaye’s Mole House. The derelict property in the London borough of Hackney, made infamous by a landlord who incessantly tunnelled underneath it without a permit, was completely renovated by the architect as a three-storey live/work space that also serves as a single-family dwelling for artist Sue Weber.

64 p, ills colour & bw, 23 x 29 cm, pb, English

Dudok By Iwan Baan

Isbn 9789462085817
Publisher Nai010 Publishers
Idea code 21011
€ 39.95

Top photographer Iwan Baan reflects on the work of renowned architect Willem Dudok. A century on, Dudok's way of designing continues to be attractive and relevant: space-conscious, hyper-contextual, and environment-loving. With the photographs in this book, Baan breaks with a tradition. Rather than static architecture photographs, he includes images that reveal the whole story: the story of Dudok as a designer of landscapes in which people can live, work, mourn, and learn.

352 p, ills colour & bw, 17 x 24 cm, pb, Dutch/English

Norman Foster Sketchbooks 1975-2020

Isbn 9788494717925
Publisher Ivorypress
Idea code 20571
€ 58.85

This introductory volume launches a new series that reflects on architect Norman Foster’s career from the 1970s until today, through his sketchbooks. Edited by architectural historian Jorge Sainz, more than 500 drawings are presented in a comprehensive collection which contains insights into the design process of Foster’s most influential projects, as well as his inspirations. After all, a particular kind of drawing happens in an architectural sketchbook, something at once very personal, reflective, and portable. Through these fascinating sketches, drawings, and notes, readers can trace how Foster’s complex concepts are made manifest and develop on paper.

416 p, ills colour & bw, 22 x 31 cm, hb, Spanish/English

Dixit 01: Hypercomfort - Bruther & Laurent Stalder

Isbn 9782491039059
Publisher Caryatide
Idea code 20566
€ 10.80

The first issue of the magazine published by Cosa Mentale revolves around the theme of “hypercomfort”, as critically dissected and interpreted by Paris-based studio Bruther and Laurent Stalder, professor of architecture history at ETH Zurich. Keeping the body in its comfort zone is the secret watchword of our daily environment. As soon as a door is crossed, as soon as an interior is roamed, the environment must be controlled, air conditioned, sanitised. This invisible normalisation is not merely an infra-spatial issue. From comfort to conformism, even conformation, there is only one step. The issue explores how this process is already insidiously changing some of our behaviours.

64 p, ills bw, 23 x 30 cm, pb, French/English

A+U 602 20:11 So-Il Unfinished Business

Isbn 9784900212572
Publisher Shinkenchiku-sha
Idea code 20585
€ 23.90

The magazine presents its first monograph to feature the work of SO–IL, an architecture firm based in New York City and headed by Jing Liu and Florian Idenburg. They spend much of their time thinking about boundaries in the built environment, the interfaces between them, and where our bodies fit in. Work by SO–IL appears in urban situations with confounding levels of structural complexity, yet still manages to integrate into them, encouraging touch and consideration rather than untangling from them. Besides a number of notable projects and works, the issue features an essay by Mohamed Sharif and a conversation between SO–IL and the Zurich-based office of Karamuk Kuo.

176 p, ills colour & bw, 22 x 29 cm, pb, Japanese/English

GA Document 155+156: Fifty Buildings 1980-2000

Isbn 9784871402507
Publisher Ada Edita
Idea code 20503
€ 35.00

Double issue of GA Document featuring 50 buildings from the last two decades of the twentieth century by architects like Carlo Scarpa, Tadao Ando, Michael Graves, Toyo Ito, Hans Hollein, Jean Nouvel, OMA, Steven Holl, Kengo Kuma, Norman Foster, and many more.

232 p, ills colour & bw, 26 x 30 cm, pb, Japanese/English

DOMa Issue 02: 2020 Ensamble Studio, Xaveer De Geyter, Salottobuono, Monadnock, Point Supreme Architects

Isbn 26542064
Publisher DOMa Magazine
Idea code 20528
€ 26.50

‘DOMa’ revisits the architectural process in an informed and elaborate manner, to understand and criticise it from within. Today we are often pushed to simply consume the final architectural product, frequently while overlooking the creative process. The magazine seeks to remedy that. In its second issue, Ensamble Studio plans to inhabit an old quarry in Spain, Point Supreme Architects analyse the Petralona House in Athens, Xaveer De Geyter reconstructs the Headquarters of the Province of Antwerp using construction photos, Monadnock looks at the Atlas House in Eindhoven, and Salottobuono arrays the eclectic affinities of “Teatrino” found in architectural precedents.

128 p, ills colour & bw, 23 x 30 cm, pb, Greek/English

Eduardo Souto De Moura - Learning From History. Designing Into History

Isbn 9789895462063
Publisher AMAG Publisher
Idea code 21027
€ 21.50

The Pocket Books series is an assemblage of small publications which compile theoretical texts by various architects or institutions in different collections. These writings reflect different areas of interest and performance in the architectural discourse. This first edition in the series is the result of research conducted by Barbara Bogoni, PhD in Interior Architecture at the Polytechnic University of Milan, with the participation and collaboration of Portuguese architect Eduardo Souto de Moura, who is also a Professor in Architectural and Urban Design at the university.

104 p, ills colour & bw, 13 x 22 cm, pb, English

Upscaling Earth - Material, Process, Catalyst

Isbn 9783856763930
Publisher gta Verlag
Idea code 21010
€ 30.65

Earth building is not only one of the oldest, but also one of the most modern construction methods of our time. What economic, environmental, and social conditions are necessary to make this building method more attractive? In the future, cement – the most important component of concrete – will, like other finite resources, become less viable to produce and significantly more expensive. Considering appropriate alternatives for building materials is imperative. This book presents a wide range of built and unbuilt projects as well as strategies for architecture using earth materials – a construction method that can be adapted to every culture and context.

152 p, ills colour & bw, 16 x 21 cm, pb, English

Bart Lodewijks & Jan Kempenaers - Kerselare Drawings And Photographs

Isbn 9789492811899
Publisher Roma Publications
Idea code 21019
€ 29.15

Juliaan Lampens originally sketched the design for the Chapel of Our Lady of Kerselare in chalk on a blackboard wall in his studio in Eke before it was built from 1963 to 1966. Half a century later, Bart Lodewijks is drawing on Lampens’ masterpiece, also with blackboard chalk. The chalk drawings on the chapel represent a reimagination, a return to the design that originated on the wall in Eke. The temporary drawings and surrounding environment, in all its seasonal changes, are being photographed by Jan Kempenaers.

240 p, ills bw, 16 x 22 cm, pb, Dutch/English

Architecture And Remembrance - European Memorials Of The Post-War Period

Isbn 9789462085961
Publisher Nai010 Publishers
Idea code 21044
€ 53.50

Architect Jacques Prins brings together 40 commemorative sites from across Europe, all built during the post-war period, documenting them through texts, drawings, and photographs. His aim is to convey the oppression and detachment felt by the site’s visitor without creating a reconstruction, thereby allowing them to identify with the past. Each site is presented as it was during World War II and as it appears today. The juxtaposition creates an image of the strategies that various designers have employed over the years in their visualisation and depiction of this heritage. With contributions by heritage and history professor Rob van der Laarse and heritage advisor Max Meijer.

240 p, ills colour & bw, 23 x 28 cm, hb, Dutch/English

Urbanism - Fundamentals And Prospects

Isbn 9789024425709
Publisher Boom Uitgevers
Idea code 21036
€ 66.00

Urbanism creates the spatial conditions needed for society to function, with fundamental distinctions between the public and private domains. Its task comprises four aspects: designing the urban ground plan, the programme and the utilisation of space, the design of public space, and the rules for building. Yet these should also be seen in relation to a fifth aspect: the way territory is reshaped. This volume provides an overview of the foundations of urbanism as a discipline and discusses the relevance of those fundamentals to 21st-century challenges. Seen through the lens of centuries of experience and tradition as well as current practice in urban planning in the Netherlands, the relevance of such rules for building extend far beyond national borders.

510 p, ills colour & bw, 20 x 25 cm, pb, English

Japan - Nation Building Nature

Isbn 9789462086135
Publisher Nai010 Publishers
Idea code 21055
€ 39.95

'Japan: Nation Building Nature' is the first book to map out the views of nature that have shaped the widely acclaimed but often misunderstood modern architecture of Japan. By connecting the dots between philosophy, design, geopolitics, and an earnest quest for a greener tomorrow, this book explains how Japanese culture can shed new light on our understanding of ecology, and vice-versa. Using a distinctive blend of academic research and personal experience, Joachim Nijs draws on architectural history to navigate Japan's complex and unique ecological ethic through the lens of four stereotypical phenomena: earthquakes, monsoon climates, nuclear erasure of life, and insularity.

272 p, ills colour & bw, 17 x 24 cm, pb, English

Arts For Living

Isbn 9780988290600
Publisher Common Books
Idea code 20559
€ 24.00

Common Room and Kim Förster present ‘Arts for Living’, which examines the Abrons Arts Center, a community art facility in New York City’s Lower East Side, as a case study for an architecture designed to address issues of public space and community life. Built during the fiscal crisis in the 1970s, it was designed by the architecture firm of Prentice & Chan, Ohlhausen as a cultural institution with new educational facilities intended to enable, foster, and serve the everyday activities of the local low-income population. Designed by Geoff Han, it includes essays by Alan Moore and Kim Förster, an interview with architect and founding partner Lo-Yi Chan, and photographs by Jason Fulford.

128 p, ills colour & bw, 20 x 20 cm, pb, English

Designing For Sustainibility Through Upcycling

Isbn 9789462086203
Publisher Nai010 Publishers
Idea code 21056
€ 39.95

While increasingly more people live in cities, urban peripheries are expanding at the cost of nature. This book explains how sustainability can be achieved by urban redevelopment and upcycling. The large-scale processes of urban redevelopment in this book are based on a successful brownfield project in Netherlands, the Paleiskwartier in ‘s-Hertogenbosch. 'Designing for Sustainability through Upcycling' tells the inside story of nearly three decades how policies were made, decisions taken, designs created, how the projects developed in phases and how the city government partnered the private sector in a unique way.

160 p, ills colour & bw, 20 x 25 cm, pb, Dutch/English

gta Papers 4: Grand Gestures

Isbn 9783856764074
Publisher gta Verlag
Idea code 21007
€ 25.50

Many leaders wish for a “Grand Projet” to leave a monumental mark on the fabric of the city, but none wish to be remembered for a “Grand Gesture”. The former is a symbolic project that shapes the identity of the city as much as it serves its physical needs, while the latter implies a performance in which the intention never quite determines the result. Modernity is full of grand gestures, the logic of hyperbole. This issue deals with urban history and architectural historiography as characterised by irony, the inevitable outcome of any grand historical gesture. With contributions by John Macarthur, Maarten Delbeke, Liam Ross, Sarah Nichols, André Bideau, Berthold Hub, and Davide Spina.

152 p, ills bw, 21 x 30 cm, pb, English

Gram 02: Homu, Office U67, Gafpa, Ted'a, Gartnerfuglen, Motoproprio

Isbn 26497085
Publisher Edition Qndmc
Idea code 20550
€ 20.00

‘GRAM’ is a multiple research tool that combines graphic investigations with architectural explorations, where the publication is just a pretence and only the process matters. Its second edition portrays the methods and processes of six different practices – homu, Office U67, GAFPA, Ted’A, Gartnerfuglen, Motoproprio – through a series of emails. Each architecture office was asked to send a picture and a short description of its background, working process, philosophy, and so on. The narrative that resulted became the material for this publication. Its outcomes are both theoretical and practical, and open the doors to the endless thought processes behind the production of space.

112 p, ills colour & bw, 17 x 24 cm, pb, English

Reverse Perspective - Wim Goes & Volkmar Muhleis

Isbn 9789492574121
Publisher Grafische Cel
Idea code 20431
€ 19.35

‘Reverse Perspective’ revolves around practice-based architectural, art historical, and philosophical research on presence via images, buildings, and texts. In the book, Belgian architect Wim Goes explores three of his main projects: Yohji Yamamoto Boutique Antwerp, Royal Belgian Sailing Club, and Refuge II. Crucial to the book’s introspection is the conversation between Volkmar Mühleis, professor of philosophy and aesthetics at LUCA School of Arts in Brussels and Ghent, and Bulgarian art historian Clemena Antonova, who discuss the concept of reverse perspective in relation to Orthodox icons, cubism, the cinema of Andrei Tarkovsky, and paintings by David Hockney.

152 p, ills bw, 14 x 21 cm, pb, English

Open Mind Places - Christoph Hesse Architects

Isbn 9783946154631
Publisher Deutscher Architektur Verlag
Idea code 20568
€ 30.65

Christoph Hesse developed “Open Mind Places” in his home region of Sauerland in Germany. The project consists of nine follies that invite pause, reflection, and the exchange of ideas. Hesse designed them as low-budget and simple constructions with a mindfulness towards nature, made from locally available materials and erected by volunteers, including local residents, craftsmen friends, and even members of his family. The sites can be seen as spaces that, in their archetypal essence, relate to French philosopher Gaston Bachelard’s ‘Poetics of Space’ (1960). Hesse’s ambivalent objects evoke subjective images while simultaneously encouraging people to use them.

158 p, ills colour & bw, 24 x 30 cm, hb, German/English

Passion For Space - Lorenzateliers

Isbn 9783946154594
Publisher Deutscher Architektur Verlag
Idea code 20567
€ 42.90

The catalogue for an exhibition divided into seven sections that represent aspects of thought and work by Lorenz Ateliers: Metamorphosis, Connectivity, Dreams, Affordable, Intelligence, Demolition, and Trieste. Conceived as a starting point for new discourses on urban planning and architecture in Italy and beyond, it also offers a specific reflection on the city of Trieste. Through photographs, drawings, and models, it not only traces the studio’s activity but proposes projects designed for Trieste and never realised, emphasising the need for dialogue in urban planning. With contributions by Christian Kühn, Maik Novotny, Bernd Rießland, Peter Lorenz, Giulia Decorti, and more.

276 p, ills colour & bw, 23 x 29 cm, hb, German/English

Irusan Or, Canting For Architects

Isbn 9783856764081
Publisher gta Verlag
Idea code 21009
€ 45.95

In 1931, architect Ivan Il’ič Leonidov was sent 2,800 kilometres northeast of Moscow to assist in constructing the new Soviet arctic port of Igarka. The city, though presented as an inscription of the future into the vast void of Siberia, in fact stood in the traditional territory of speakers of the indigenous language of Ket. Today spoken fluently by fewer than twenty people, the language isolate offers a grammatical model of reality unrelated to Indo-European language structures. This transdisciplinary work employs the Ket language as a medium of academic architectural discussion.

246 p, ills colour & bw, 17 x 26 cm, pb, English

Cloud '68 - Paper Voice

Isbn 9783856763916
Publisher gta Verlag
Idea code 21008
€ 36.75

'Cloud ’68 – Paper Voice' pays homage the radical architecture movement in Europe from the 1950s to the 1970s, which initiated numerous new forms of experimental expression. A selection of 177 graphic pieces – lithographs, drawings, original etchings, and ephemera from the personal collection of the Chilean architect Smiljan Radić—reveal the scope of the diverse architectural approaches from those years. Works by Constant, Utopie, Guy Debord, Asger Jorn, Haus-Rucker-Co, Archigram, and Superstudio, among others, are displayed in 33 panels that recall Aby Warburg’s ‘Mnemosyne Atlas’. The publication is complemented by interview fragments by the critic and curator Hans Ulrich Obrist.

120 p, ills colour & bw, 21 x 16 cm, pb, English

Architecture Of Counterrevolution - The French Army In Northern Algeria

Isbn 9783856763763
Publisher gta Verlag
Idea code 21032
€ 49.05

An examination of the intersection of French colonial policies and military counter-insurgency operations in architecture during the Algerian Revolution (1954–1962), Samia Henni’s study focuses on the politics of three interrelated spatial measures: the forced resettlement of Algerian farmers, the mass housing programmes designed for the Algerian population, and the fortified administrative new town planned for the French authorities during the war’s final months. In great detail, it relays how the French colonial regime planned and undertook not only tactical demolition programmes but also developed new structures in order to facilitate the strict control of the Algerian population.

336 p, ills bw, 17 x 25 cm, pb, English


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