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El Croquis 207: Estudio Gustavo Utrabo (2015-2020)
Isbn 9788412003499
Publisher El Croquis
Idea code 21113
€ 67.70
Based in São Paulo, Gustavo Utrabo was formerly part of Aleph Zero, a practice he founded in 2012 that won the 2018 RIBA International Emerging Architect prize. Now on his own, Utrabo sees his work as a means to connect people and imagine the future through sustainable and inclusive approaches. In his practice, he strives to consolidate his interests with a social impact, often engaging in remote constructions for indigenous people in the Amazon. This edition presents fourteen recent works, from private houses, a public market, and a cultural centre, to shading structures and children’s villages in the jungle. Includes an interview with the architect and an essay by Marta Bogéa.
256 p, ills colour & bw, 25 x 34 cm, pb, Spanish/English
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50 Urban Blocks 2 (Cards) - How To Use Form, Floor Area Ratio & Density
Isbn 9788409253555
Publisher A+t Architecture Publishers
Idea code 21052
€ 28.20
This set of cards consists of ten families of mixed-use urban forms. Each family develops a proposal for grouping and occupying an area according to the same formal pattern. All of the proposals seek a balance between permeability, the relationship with the environment, and the protection of the interior. On every card is a possible urban form together with height and density data, total living units, ground plans, and usage ratios. Measurements in metres, and axonometric diagrams offer a clear visual supplement to the data, illustrating the various spatial arrangements. The easy-to-use format offers inspiration for architects, designers, and urbanists everywhere.
55 cards, ills colour & bw, 8 x 13 cm, sheet, Spanish/English
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AV Monographs 229: B720 Fermin Vazquez
Isbn 9788409257119
Publisher Avisa
Idea code 20577
€ 34.10
Over the past two decades, the studio led by Fermín Vázquez has completed a broad repertoire of projects, often co-authored with prominent international firms. With an introduction on the team’s method by Vázquez and an essay on its evolution by Richard Ingersoll, this issue introduces a varied selection of eighteen works. From his first office buildings to two corporate headquarters currently being built in Madrid and Barcelona, the list of works also comprises residential experiments like the Forma Itaim Tower and the Buenavista sustainable housing, plus notable buildings like the Mercat dels Encants and Lycée Français in Barcelona and the new Hotel VP in Madrid.
112 p, ills colour & bw, 24 x 30 cm, pb, Spanish/English
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Leisure Spaces - Holiday And Architecture In 20th Century Estonia
Isbn 9789949726271
Publisher Eesti Arhitektuurimuuseum
Idea code 20420
€ 40.50
Similar to the rest of the world, holidays and leisure spaces emerged as a trend in Estonia in the early 20th century. During the Soviet era, holiday-making became a universal right, and the state promoted its development in various forms. This book offers a first overview of the rich legacy of Estonian holiday and summer cottage architecture. While focusing on the most common building types which helped make holidays available to a large part of the population, the book also explores the meaning of leisure time in the late Soviet society. A fascinating look at how the boundaries between public and private space, austerity and material well-being, were closely interwoven.
192 p, ills colour & bw, 20 x 28 cm, hb, English
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Planet City - Liam Young
Isbn 9780648685821
Publisher Uro Publications
Idea code 21050
€ 34.00
Based in Los Angeles, film director and architect Liam Young’s work is situated within the fields of design fiction and critical design. ‘Planet City’ is an urgent examination of the productive potential of extreme densification in an imagined future where ten billion people surrender the rest of the planet to a global wilderness. In a vision that runs counter to our current world, the book describes a radical reversal of planetary sprawl, where humans retreat from our vast network of cities and supply chains into one hyper-dense metropolis. Not a techno-utopian fantasy, this work of critical architecture and speculative fiction is grounded in statistical analysis, research, and traditional knowledge.
408 p, ills colour, 11 x 18 cm, pb, English
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A+U 603 20:12 Simon Velez Vegetarian Architecture
Isbn 9784900212589
Publisher Shinkenchiku-sha
Idea code 20584
€ 23.90
Colombian architect Simón Vélez is known for his innovative use of bamboo filled with cement mortar as a structural material, an expression of his belief that architecture should contain more plants. His work often includes a variety of natural materials. Conscientious of both local vegetal materials and site, he continues to create structurally rational buildings today. This issue includes a selection of early works (1973–1997) along with many others built since 1999, plus a conversation between Vélez and Shigeru Ban in which they discuss discovering solutions through repeated experimentation. The two met in 2000, when they designed and built adjacent pavilions at the Expo Hannover.
200 p, ills colour & bw, 22 x 29 cm, pb, Japanese/English
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Carme Pinos - Building For Life
Isbn 9788409261697
Publisher Avisa
Idea code 21080
€ 35.50
This volume appears on the occasion of an extensive retrospective exhibition on the architecture of Carme Pinós, curated by Luis Fernández-Galiano at Museo ICO. Considered a major figure in contemporary Spanish architecture, Pinós began her career in the 1980s together with Enric Miralles, and eight of their joint projects are also featured. She went on to establish her own studio in 1991 and is still active today. From this latter period, 80 projects have been assembled and presented here in detail. Her strong belief in the necessity to embrace the environment, whether natural or urban, can be seen as a guiding principle in her diverse work, which constantly seeks to beautify the context.
240 p, ills colour & bw, 21 x 28 cm, hb, Spanish/English
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The Landscapes Of Dieter Kienast
Isbn 9783856763879
Publisher gta Verlag
Idea code 21095
€ 86.80
Dieter Kienast (1945–1998) is a key Swiss figure in European landscape architecture. Amidst a striking change in societal understandings of nature, he sought a synthesis between design and ecology. He designed spaces to make the dissolving opposition between city and countryside legible and to enable aesthetic experience to help cope with increasingly complex everyday life. Kienast introduced new challenges into the discussion of those fields. Critique of urban planning, processes of participation and the significance of urban vegetation played just as much a role in these discussions as did art, literature, architecture, and the popularity of postmodernism.
432 p, ills colour & bw, 23 x 31 cm, pb, English
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Welfare Architecture For All - C.f. Moller Architects
Isbn 9789198533514
Publisher Arvinius + Orfeus Publishing
Idea code 21101
€ 63.80
Good architecture can shape a better future for both people and the planet. This thoughtful publication by C.F. Möller Architects illuminates their human, holistic, and generous approach to architecture. Featuring the Danish firm’s most recent projects, it tackles today’s biggest themes in architecture and urban design to inspire a new, welfare-centric approach in the industry. An introduction by Kent Martinussen of the Danish Architecture Centre explains how architecture has helped create and support the welfare societies in Scandinavia. Through the lens of the featured projects, we can explore how beneficial architecture can help us live, work, learn, heal, and move better.
256 p, ills colour & bw, 21 x 28 cm, hb, English
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Tallinn Architecture 1900 - 2020 Architecture Guide
Isbn 9789949726257
Publisher Eesti Arhitektuurimuuseum
Idea code 20419
€ 34.95
Over the last decade, the look of the Estonian capital has been radically transformed. Part of this change is due to the emergence of new urban areas and a complete shift in perspective on historic neighbourhoods. Rather than focusing only on new buildings or competitively rating their aesthetic worth, this architecture guide selects works based on sustainability and technological modernism. Attention is paid to new buildings that adapt to the historical and environmental context, while typical and representative buildings are also pointed out in a broad cross-section of Estonian architectural culture. For this reason, examples of Stalinist and later Soviet architecture also appear.
176 p, ills colour & bw, 16 x 24 cm, pb, English
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To The New World: Estonian Architects In Toronto
Isbn 9789949726219
Publisher Eesti Arhitektuurimuuseum
Idea code 20421
€ 34.95
Toronto has been called the Estonian capital abroad, because it is where the largest and most active community of Estonian immigrants was located. Revolutionary in its architecture and social aims, modernism’s post-war emergence was at odds with the cautious, evolutionary nature of Canadian culture. But in the context of growing internationalism, a large number of Estonians began to find success in private practice, influencing Toronto’s cultural landscape and new ideas in architectural discourse. The largely untold story of their remarkable impact on the city and their contribution to an emerging Canadian identity has driven the research presented in this volume.
298 p, ills colour & bw, 21 x 27 cm, pb, Estonian/English
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Co-Creating Architecture No.1 - Nord Architects
Isbn 9788793341036
Publisher 10 - Grafisk Design & Forlag
Idea code 21066
€ 25.00
The ‘Co-Creating Architecture’ series looks at design studios in Denmark that emerged in the first decades of the 21st century. This generation of designers blazed a trail in Danish architecture with their ability to offer sustainable answers to global, societal, and social challenges in the form of innovative and lasting design solutions. Each book consists of three parts: an interview, a catalogue of completed and upcoming projects, and an outside perspective on the design practice with an analysis of its processes and solutions. This first book features NORD Architects, known for being creative facilitators with a strong social commitment and challenging hierarchies in the public sector.
112 p, ills colour & bw, 24 x 16 cm, hb, English
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Co-Creating Architecture No.2 - Effekt
Isbn 9788793341029
Publisher 10 - Grafisk Design & Forlag
Idea code 21067
€ 25.00
The ‘Co-Creating Architecture’ series looks at design studios in Denmark that emerged in the first decades of the 21st century. This generation of designers blazed a trail in Danish architecture with their ability to offer sustainable answers to global, societal, and social challenges in the form of innovative and lasting design solutions. Each book consists of three parts: an interview, a catalogue of completed and upcoming projects, and an outside perspective on the design practice with an analysis of its processes and solutions. This instalment features EFFEKT, “empathetic designers” who enhance the quality of their projects through a constant dialogue with the world around them.
104 p, ills colour & bw, 24 x 16 cm, hb, English
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Yearbook Landscape Architecture And Urban Design In The Netherlands 2020
Isbn 9789492474339
Publisher Blauwdruk
Idea code 21069
€ 29.50
The yearbook compiled by the editors of ‘Blauwe Kamer’ magazine consists of out- standing projects showcasing the range of urban and landscape design that the Neth- erlands has to offer. Among them are new housing in both densified cities and the countryside, activism in design, engineer- ing through beauty in infrastructure, and remarkable ways to create public space. The chosen projects were selected by an independent committee, and in addition to the committee’s findings the book con- tains a photo reportage on public space in current times of worldwide pandemic and demonstrations.
198 p, ills colour & bw, 23 x 30 cm, pb, Dutch/English
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Volker Dohne - Moving Mies
Isbn 9783946848097
Publisher Grass Publishers
Idea code 20515
€ 24.75
Established in 2018, the exhibition series Collection Satellite invites artists from different fields to engage with the Kunstmuseen Krefeld’s collection and present works in an entirely new light. The series launches with a project by Volker Döhne, developed specifically for the city’s public space, which reveals the artist’s familiarity with architect Mies van der Rohe’s Krefeld villas. Here he examines the year-long restoration of the iconic Bauhaus residences. Not only do the photographs follow the restoration process, they also highlight the architectural strategies of Van der Rohe: flowing spaces, interweaving interior and exterior, and almost painterly and decorative interplay between materials.
144 p, ills colour & bw, 15 x 24 cm, pb, German/English
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Pavlo Makov - Do Po
Isbn 9789669765765
Publisher Ist Publishing
Idea code 20470
€ 45.00
Ukrainian graphic artist Pavlo Makov’s fourth book derives from his notebooks with drawings of city plans, which describe both fictional and real cities. The drawings, originally envisioned as sketches for future works, were digitised for this book in collaboration with designer Tania Borzunova. Cities are one of the most predominant themes in Makov’s practice, in which he focuses on future cities and the products of interactions between contemporary humans and digital technologies. The buildings and plans are derived from hexagrams and linked by a single, continuous line. Also included is an enlarged reproduction of a map of the city, created as an engraving comprised of four large parts.
148 p, ills colour & bw, 20 x 25 cm, pb, Ukrainian/English
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Fietsparkeren Bij Stations
Isbn 9789068688283
Publisher Thoth
Idea code 21061
€ 29.95
Cycling is an essential part of Dutch culture and identity, and the Netherlands ranks first in the world in terms of the total number of kilometres covered by bike each year. The country also has one of the busiest railway networks in Europe. Not surprising, then, that the Dutch pay such close attention to the combined quality of their cycling and rail environments. Authored by building and civil engineer Folkert Piersma and urban planner Wout Ritzema, this publication reveals the intensive infrastructural projects undertaken in many cities across the Netherlands involving the development, design, realisation, management, and operation of bicycle parking facilities at railway stations.
256 p, ills colour & bw, 21 x 27 cm, hb, Dutch/English summaries
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Vesper 3: Wildness
Isbn 9788822905338
Publisher Quodlibet
Idea code 21030
€ 19.35
In its third issue, ‘Vesper’ marks the return of a new sense of the archaic in European culture through the “sylvan”, both as an image, capable of distilling the character of places and the modalities of crossing them, and a reality wherein forests are advancing and the constantly expanding presence of wild and untamed areas within cities. These two levels of reading require a codification of the tools and modes of inhabiting such an unknown locus, whether through precise and concrete realities or multiple imaginaries. Included are diverse contributions from Lawrence Halprin, Lara Garciá Díaz, Emanuele Coccia, Ishita Jain, Agostino De Rosa, and many others.
208 p, ills colour & bw, 21 x 29 cm, pb, Italian/English
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AV Proyectos 101: Mos
Isbn 1697493X
Publisher Avisa
Idea code 21018
€ 11.75
'AV Proyectos 101' dedicates its dossier to MOS, a small New York office self-defined as a studio that benefits and suffers from contradiction, and that creates projects that appear to one thing and something else at the same time - familiar and strange, childish and sophisticated, precise and vague. The issue includes the competition for Tuchkov Buyan Park, a new urban garden on Vatny Island in Saint Petersburg, with the winning proposal of Studio 44 and West 8 plus the two finalist projects, and six projects that take on the challenge of designing kindergartens.
80 p, ills colour & bw, 24 x 30 cm, pb, Spanish/English
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Arquitectura Viva 229: Christ & Gantenbein - Rational Expressionism
Isbn 02141256
Publisher Avisa
Idea code 21016
€ 18.20
With the scheme for the competition to extend the Kunstmuseum Basel, Christ & Gantenbein became known outside Switzerland, and it has since consolidated a place among leading practices in the Alpine country. With geometric severity and a serene presence, it sets the new in confrontation with the existing, and creates spaces of stark material quality, as we can see in the three projects featured in this issue of Arquitectura Viva: the Swiss National Museum Extension, the LIST Customer Center, and the Lindt Home of Chocolate.
80 p, ills colour & bw, 24 x 30 cm, pb, Spanish/English
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Arquitectura Viva 230: Big - Sustainable Topographies
Isbn 02141256
Publisher Avisa
Idea code 21017
€ 18.20
With over 40 built works in different parts of the planet the practice established in 2001 by Bjarke Ingels lives up to its name. From four offices the firm runs a vast network of professionals that has produced an architecture halfway between pragmatism at its strictest and utopia at its most idealistic, always with a sustainable approach which, regardless of program, seeks to improve people's lives. Such is the philosophy that shines through in the works featured in this issue: a museum in Switzerland, dwellings in Sweden, and a zoo and an unusual waste-energy plant in Denmark.
80 p, ills colour & bw, 24 x 30 cm, pb, Spanish/English
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Orphanage Amsterdam / Playgrounds Aldo Van Eyck
Isbn 9789461400604
Publisher Architectura & Natura
Idea code 18476
€ 48.15
In 1954 there existed in Amsterdam around 200 playgrounds designed by Dutch architect Aldo van Eyck, which in turn gave him the opportunity to design what is considered one of the most significant buildings in modern architectural history: the Amsterdam Orphanage. Completed in 1960, the building has been visited by numerous architects, among them Buckminster Fuller and Louis Kahn. Every detail, material, and colour of Van Eyck’s masterpiece, with its multiple pavilions, picturesque domes, and ingeniously linked patios, can be found in this richly illustrated book edited by Christoph Grafe.
268 p, ills colour & bw, 22 x 30 cm, hb, English
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