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El Croquis 208: Dogma (2002-2021) Familiar / Unfamiliar
Isbn 9788412333114
Publisher El Croquis
Idea code 21235
€ 73.00
This edition begins with a conversation with Pier Vittorio Aureli and Martino Tattara, the founders of Dogma, an architectural firm concerned with the relationship between architecture and the city. By focusing mostly on urban design and large-scale projects, they consult with municipalities and agencies for urban planning and architectural issues. Atypically, El Croquis is this time only featuring plans not yet constructed, including a model for a city of 4,000,000 Inhabitants, a proposal for 44 social housing units, and a prototype for boarding houses in London. Timely articles about urban transformation follow, including an interesting genealogy of housing for the laboring classes.
320 p, ills colour & bw, 25 x 34 cm, pb, Spanish/English
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El Croquis Studio Mumbai Hb (157+200)
Isbn 9788412333107
Publisher El Croquis
Idea code 21170
€ 105.75
This hardback reprint combines two El Croquis issues dedicated to the Indian architecture firm founded by Bijoy Jain. It takes stock of Studio Mumbai’s most recognised works spanning 2003-2019. The monograph features the Studio Mumbai Work-Place in Nagaon, the Casa Tara in Kashid, the Leti 360 Resort in Leti, and the Palmyra House in Nandgaon. It then revisits more recent works such as Copper House II, the Ahmedabad Residence, and the Ganga Maki Textile Studio in the Himalayan foothills. Jain and his team of architects, engineers, carpenters, and masons excel in blending Indian and Western cultures, as seen in the thatched MPavilion 2016 in Melbourne.
536 p, ills colour & bw, 25 x 34 cm, hb, Spanish/English
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Erika Nakagawa: Architectural Studies 2007-2020
Isbn 9784887063877
Publisher Toto
Idea code 21065
€ 41.85
Erika Nakagawa has become a prominent name among young architects today. This monograph features fifteen projects and two conversations with the architect, with Chilean architect Smiljan Radić and with Japanese architect Taira Nishizawa. Among the highlighted works are Nakagawa’s Momoyama House, her first assignment as an independent architect, and an apartment in Yokohama that she designed while a project architect at Ondesign Architects. Other ongoing projects by Nakagawa are also introduced, and throughout the publication are large-scale models and drawings of the neighbourhood context, showing how the architecture and its surroundings are connected.
198 p, ills colour & bw, 26 x 36 cm, pb, Japanese/English
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Le Corbusier. Travels, Objects and Collections
Isbn 9788875708559
Publisher Corraini Edizioni
Idea code 21228
€ 44.20
This book accompanies an exhibition that traces the life of the great French-Swiss architect through documents, photographs, and many personal objects rediscovered following a restoration of Le Corbusier’s apartment on Rue Nungesser et Coli, Paris. Le Corbusier collected all kinds of everyday objects he called objets à réaction poétique: shells, pieces of wood, glass or bone, stones, enamelled ceramics, bricks, and common objects. Photographs and sketches of cars demonstrate Le Corbusier’s passion for vehicles and means of transport, and the tickets, tourist brochures, and postcards of monuments that the architect collected show his sentimentality for the journeys he took internationally.
160 p, ills colour & bw, 24 x 20 cm, hb, Italian/English
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AV Monographs 232: Office - Kersten Geers David Van Severen
Isbn 9788409287000
Publisher Avisa
Idea code 21216
€ 34.00
This edition of 'AV Monographs' showcases OFFICE, a Brussels-based architectural firm renowned for its idiosyncratic architecture, in which realisations and theoretical projects stand side by side. The projects are direct, spatial, and firmly rooted in architectural theory. The firm reduces architecture to a limited set of basic geometric rules, within which life unfolds, in all its complexity. Among the 24 projects featured, OFFICE’s warm minimalism takes the form of a ring-shaped home in Spain, a crematorium in Ostend dotted with geometrical shapes, and a state-of-the-art olive oil mill constructed on the estate of the first Medici villa outside Florence.
120 p, ills colour & bw, 24 x 30 cm, pb, Spanish/English
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Yoyogi National Gymnasium and Kenzo Tange
Isbn 9784887063891
Publisher Toto
Idea code 21184
€ 17.45
Designed by Kenzo Tange (1913–2005), the Yoyogi National Gymnasium was completed in 1964. It is situated in an open area in Tokyo and was built for the Olympic Games held that year. The iconic structure, with its elegantly curved roofs suspended from twin masts, is an architectural marvel. Inspired by the Coliseum in Rome, as well as by the architecture of Le Corbusier and Eero Saarinen, Tange adapted Western ideas to meet Japanese aesthetics. In this book, five viewpoints for evaluating the facility are examined in detail. Through the lens of Japanese modernism, it reveals how the structure was made, and how the gymnasium and swimming pool have been used and managed since.
160 p, ills colour & bw, 13 x 19 cm, pb, Japanese/English
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A+U 605 21:02 E2a - Strategic Methodologies
Isbn 9784900212602
Publisher Shinkenchiku-sha
Idea code 21114
€ 23.90
Brothers Piet and Wim Eckert founded E2A, an architecture office based in Zurich, Switzerland. In their willingness to take risks, their style dominates the eye with solid design of strong truss structure and clear vertical and horizontal lines. Beginning with a candid discussion about their early influences like the Ticino School and Hans Kollhoff, this issue then devotes a full section to their models, crafted with such precision that they are often likened to works of art. Photographs and descriptions of their projects reveal a surprising portfolio, from a mountaintop visitor centre in Japan to creating a pristine place of mourning at a crematorium in Switzerland.
208 p, ills colour & bw, 22 x 29 cm, pb, Japanese/English
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A+U 606 21:03 Alvar Aalto Houses - Materials And Details
Isbn 9784900212619
Publisher Shinkenchiku-sha
Idea code 21125
€ 25.10
As his firm’s most culturally significant buildings have been recently nominated for UNESCO World Heritage status, A+U features the humane, modern architecture of Alvar Aalto. The Finnish architect’s canon would join that of France’s Le Corbusier and the American Frank Lloyd Wright. His distinctive use of spatial vibrancy, the interaction between his works and the surrounding landscape, and the balance between materials and details — as the issue title suggests — are presented in photographs and narrative descriptions of 12 villas. This compilation is by Finnish architect and art historian Sirkkaliisa Jetsonen and architectural photographer Jari Jetsonen.
208 p, ills colour & bw, 22 x 29 cm, pb, Japanese/English
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Robin Boyd: Late Works
Isbn 9780648435594
Publisher Uro Publications
Idea code 21205
€ 34.80
One of Australia’s most iconic mid-century architects, Robin Boyd (1919–1971) rose to prominence with ‘The Australian Ugliness’ (1960), a biting attack on what he saw as the debased quality of its cities and design culture. ‘Late Works’ unveils the urban public architectural projects designed by Boyd, which were significant in the betterment of Australia’s built environment but have been largely forgotten. This work includes building and planning designs that seem counter to his reputation as an architect of polite modernist private homes. Considered alongside Boyd’s exhibition work, multimedia designs, and writing, it is an insightful window into his ambitions and struggles.
108 p, ills colour & bw, 22 x 30 cm, pb, English
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Refugee Heritage
Isbn 9789198606591
Publisher Art And Theory
Idea code 21236
€ 41.80
Refugee camps are established with the intention of being demolished. As a paradigmatic representation of political failure, they are meant to have no history and no future; they are meant to be forgotten. The history of refugee camps is constantly being erased and dismissed by states, humanitarian organisations, international agencies, and even by refugee communities themselves, who fear that any acknowledgment of the present condition in the camp may undermine their right of return to their place of origin. In tracing, documenting, revealing, and representing refugee history beyond the narrative of suffering and displacement, this book is an attempt to imagine and practice ‘refugeeness’ beyond humanitarianism.
328 p, ills colour & bw, 22 x 30 cm, pb, Arabic/English
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Platform Urbanism
Isbn 9789462086159
Publisher Nai010 Publishers
Idea code 21252
€ 34.95
By reorganizing access to a wide spectrum of fundamental domains, such as education, housing, health care, or even political information, platforms are destined to become the most powerful players regulating the way we live in cities. Digital platforms such as Facebook, Uber, Airbnb, and Amazon are not only new types of enterprises but also a completely new culture of life – from the products we handle and the services we use every day to entire urban neighbourhoods that will be built by major platform enterprises in the next few years. These multi-scalar changes raise significant questions about the social potentials and risks of the architecture of these all-encompassing ecosystems.
320 p, ills colour & bw, 17 x 24 cm, pb, English
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Yuusuke Karasawa - Toward Network Type Architecture By Algorithmic Method
Isbn 9784864800501
Publisher Lixil
Idea code 21147
€ 22.65
Yuusuke Karasawa is a Japanese architect who uses algorithmic modelling and thought to create his designs for architecture and urban spaces. It is a field that remains a frontier in Japan, and this book unravels the mystery of how his firm, Yuusuke Karasawa Architects, designs using a computer, with each graphic hinting at the mechanisms at play. Imagine entering commands like cut, fold, or stretch and generating a shape dictated by mathematical calculations, like the Fibonacci sequence. An abstract “Network Diagram” of figures connects with an actual work, conveying the intriguing nature of space and how algorithmic architecture diversifies and enriches these networks.
164 p, ills colour & bw, 15 x 21 cm, pb, Japanese/English
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Fuminori Nousaku: Edifice Of The Wild
Isbn 9784864800525
Publisher Lixil
Idea code 21148
€ 22.65
Fuminori Nousaku strives to make architecture a new kind of ecosystem that incorporates an extensive range of design requirements on the topics of land and its history, materials and resources, lifestyles, the housing industry, and social system. With sixteen chapters brimming with grand scales and detailed thought, this series probes the young Japanese architect's mind for architectural methods concerned with topical issues: residential and urban development that factors in ecosystems and the global environment, off-grid homes powered by solar energy, architecture and landscaping that restore soil health, and ecological design that plans for circulation of materials from production to disposal.
160 p, ills colour & bw, 15 x 21 cm, pb, Japanese/English
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Architecture in the Netherlands Yearbook 2020/2021
Isbn 9789462086210
Publisher Nai010 Publishers
Idea code 21273
€ 39.95
For over 30 years 'Architecture in the Netherlands' has provided an indispensable overview of Dutch architecture for everyone with a professional or more general interest in the subject. The 'Yearbook' is the international showcase for Dutch architecture. The three editors select special projects that have been completed in the preceding year and describe the most important developments that influence Dutch architecture.
176 p, ills colour & bw, 24 x 32 cm, pb, Dutch/English
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The Meaning Of A Place - National Monument Kamp Amersfoort
Isbn 9789462085954
Publisher Nai010 Publishers
Idea code 21214
€ 29.95
During World War II, around 45,000 prisoners were interned at Camp Amersfoort in the Netherlands. A new museum will open its doors on the former site of this transit and penal camp, 75 years after liberation. The new building will provide insights into the camp’s history, helping to keep the memory of the place and the reality of what happened there alive. By examining the relationship between its history and the traces it has left in the landscape, the story of the camp can be revealed. In this book, the architect, landscape architect, and experience designers offer an inside look at their multidisciplinary approach and reflect on commemoration as a design theme.
144 p, ills colour & bw, 24 x 27 cm, hb, Dutch/English
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Spiriti. Eight Photographers Recount Giancarlo De Carlo In Urbino
Isbn 9788875708924
Publisher Corraini Edizioni
Idea code 21229
€ 44.20
Coinciding with the exhibition of the same name at the Galleria Nazionale delle Marche at the Palazzo Ducale in Urbino, eight internationally-renowned photographers describe Giancarlo De Carlo's work in Urbino. They are also professors at Istituto Superiore per le Industrie Artistiche. Paola Binante, Luca Capuano, Mario Cresci, Paola De Pietri, Jason Fulford, Stefano Graziani, Armin Linke, and Giovanna Silva explore and recount the essence of the Italian architect's work through their own photographs of the spaces he designed, adding written accounts of their interpretation. De Carlo is quoted as saying a place is a space "experienced, consumed, perennially transformed by human presence".
256 p, ills colour & bw, 20 x 25 cm, pb, Italian/English
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Kerb 28: Decentre: Designing For Coexistence In A Time Of Crisis
Isbn 9780648685869
Publisher Uro Publications
Idea code 21051
€ 20.90
The events of 2020 provided the thematic framing for this issue, which endeavours to trace connectivity between them, from the global pandemic and catastrophic wildfires, to systemic racial inequality and geopolitical unrest. The issue takes up the challenge of the Anthropocene through analysing modes of human agency, forcing us to consider deep geological timescales, our co-dependence on non-humans, and the multifaceted system of socio-ecological violence called colonialism. A wide spectrum of contributors offer perspectives on these shifts, among them Monica Hutton, Edward Burtynsky, Michael Geffel, Terike Haapoja, Gina Athena Ulysse, and many more.
128 p, ills colour & bw, 21 x 30 cm, pb, English
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Log 50: Model Behavior
Isbn 9780999237380
Publisher Anyone Corporation
Idea code 21028
€ 18.95
For its 50th issue, ‘Log’ looks at models in an expanded sense, examining their values, behaviours, and the behaviours they elicit. From the economic to the political, from public health to climate, models seem to run the world. In architecture, the model is no longer just a physical tool for conceptualising or representing a vision, but must also encompass digital or 3D-printed models, data and artificial intelligence models, business models, educational models, and even engage the discipline’s own history in establishing role models. Ranging from familiar architectural thinkers to up-and-coming practitioners, 39 contributors offer perspectives on the role of the model in architecture today.
256 p, ills colour & bw, 16 x 24 cm, pb, English
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GA Houses 173: 50 Houses From Archive 2
Isbn 9784871405959
Publisher Ada Edita
Idea code 21129
€ 26.25
‘GA Houses’ documents outstanding new residential architecture from all over the world. To mark their 50th anniversary, Issue 173 of the magazine culled 50 masterpiece homes from their rich archive that have been spotlighted since 2000. This is their second archival re-listing, and this time, the goal was to choose a wide range of homes that hint at an awareness of problems, such as living vertically on a slope in Portugal, or building water tanks into the home of an Indian ornamental fish farmer. Featuring works by architects like Ettore Sottsass, UNStudio, Alberto Kalach, Aires Mateus, Frank O. Gehry, and many more.
212 p, ills colour & bw, 23 x 30 cm, pb, Japanese/English
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GA Houses 174
Isbn 9784871405966
Publisher Ada Edita
Idea code 21035
€ 26.25
‘GA Houses’ documents outstanding new residential architecture from all over the world. With projects by Ryue Nishizawa, Katsufumi Kubota, Kimiyoshi Sasaki + Takayuki Bamba, Masakatsu Matsuyama, and a review of 20 works from Kitchen of Masterpieces.
168 p, ills colour & bw, 23 x 30 cm, pb, Japanese/English
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Archifutures Volume 6: Agency
Isbn 9788412039085
Publisher Dpr-barcelona
Idea code 21266
€ 24.50
This instalment of the ‘Archifutures’ series investigates new narratives and strategies for architects to adapt their practice towards more effective agency, in order to meet the greater, more universal challenges we face today. It is increasingly obvious as we struggle to shift from extractive economies and practices towards communal regenerative responsibility that politics is no longer optional. Architects and urbanists must change behaviour and build bottom-up, commons-oriented practice with new understandings of value and cultural production. The publication presents case studies, essays, interviews, and strategies to guide future and current architects, as well as citizens.
218 p, ills colour & bw, 12 x 23 cm, pb, English
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C3 411: The Palimpsest Effect
Isbn 20925190
Publisher C3 Publishing
Idea code 21037
€ 28.80
Increasingly, designers are interested in challenging the stigma associated with utilitarian projects, public amenities that are essential but also often go unnoticed. This issue includes a section illustrating how architecture can be used to go beyond the utilitarian character usually associated with building for infrastructure, with projects by Henning Larsen, Oppenheim Architecture, BIG, and NODE. Also in this issue, four projects that show how an intervention in a historic centre can often lead to a very creative synthesis, a layering of new upon the old. This includes an abstracted museum extension by Francesca Torzo Architetto and an office complex by David Chipperfield Architects.
232 p, ills colour & bw, 23 x 30 cm, pb, Korean/English
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Arquitectura Viva 233: Lederer Ragnarsdottir Oei
Isbn 02141256
Publisher Avisa
Idea code 21196
€ 18.20
The architecture of the trio formed by Arno Lederer, Jórunn Ragnarsdóttir, and Marc Oei does not wish to dissolve the boundary between interior and exterior, but turns back to the tradition of solid walls and clearly marked enclosures; without falling into the trap of historicism, it seeks to enrich the spatial experience by means of a tactile sensuality. Arquitectura Viva, takes stock of the work of the practice based in Baden-Württemberg through four public buildings located in western Germany: a bank branch in Ulm, an ecclesiastical center in Stuttgart, a museum in Frankfurt, and a school complex in Cologne.
80 p, ills colour & bw, 24 x 30 cm, pb, Spanish/English
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Arquitectura Viva 234: David Chipperfield Architects
Isbn 02141256
Publisher Avisa
Idea code 21197
€ 18.20
Be they coherent additions in dialogue with the preexisting, silient interventions on historic buildings, or constructions raised ex novo, the works conceived by David Chipperfield Architects to harbour museum institutions are luminous supports for art and culture that demonstrate a rigorous respect for context, an exquisite way with materials, and a strong civic commitment. Arquitectura Viva has for this issue selected three recent realisations, each of them crafted in a different office of the four-branch firm: the Kunsthaus in Zurich, the Royal Academy of Arts in London, and the West Bund Museum in Shanghai.
80 p, ills colour & bw, 24 x 30 cm, pb, Spanish/English
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AV Proyectos 102: David Chipperfield Architects
Isbn 1697493X
Publisher Avisa
Idea code 21195
€ 11.40
'AV Proyectos 102' devotes its dossier to David Chipperfield Architects, a firm that from its four offices – London, Berlin, Milan, and Shanghai – develops very diverse projects, from the refurbishment of abandonded complexes to new buildings in different European cities. The issue features two recent competitions for the city of Madrid; the first with the winning proposals for the new Metropolitan Forest, the new green ring of the city; and the second with the renewal of AZCA, presenting the winning project by Diller Scofidio + Renfro with b720 to reactivate this run-down financial area, along with four finalist projects.
80 p, ills colour & bw, 24 x 30 cm, pb, Spanish/English
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Volume 58: Legacy
Isbn 9789077966686
Publisher Archis
Idea code 21225
€ 19.50
For an issue that was supposed to be about the past, this issue of VOLUME contains an awful lot about the current moment and our immediate future. All-star philosopher Peter Sloterdijk talks about a future for religious architecture. Kuba Snopek and Izabela Cichońska discuss effective strategies for architectural activism from communist Poland. The future of history writing is addressed with architecture historian Kenneth Frampton. Wytze Patijn reflects on how the “cauliflower” neighbourhoods in Holland steer the outlook of Dutch planning with their omnipresence. An artisanal future of the media landscape is the concern of writer Niklas Maak and internet critic and Syllabus founder Evgeny Morozov.
118 p, ills colour & bw, 24 x 30 cm, pb, English
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