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New Titles in Architecture & Landscape 22 July 2021
El Croquis 209: Roger Boltshauser (2002-2021) Impure Materiality

Isbn 9788412333138
Publisher El Croquis
Idea code 21384
€ 73.00

Covering almost two decades of work by Roger Boltshauser, this issue takes a fresh look at the Zurich-based architect’s uniquely contemporary manner of expression. With profiles of more than 20 projects conceived since the turn of the century, it outlines Boltshauser’s approach to materials and the methods he uses to reveal their intrinsic constructive and structural possibilities. Among the highlights are the rammed earth Rauch House, a clay observation tower at the Brickworks Museum in Cham, Oerlikon Sports and Swimming Centre, Ozeanium at Basel Zoo, and more. The issue also features a conversation with the architect and Jonathan Sergison, plus an essay by Jesús Vassallo.

352 p, ills colour & bw, 25 x 34 cm, pb, Spanish/English

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A+T 54 Is This Rural? Culturing The Country, Cultivating The City

Isbn 9788409301256
Publisher a+t Architecture Publishers
Idea code 21300
€ 26.20

With No. 54, the 'Is This Rural?' series continues with a second installment that reflects on the binary city-country vision, as opposing scenarios, and on the intermediate space spontaneously having arisen between both. It is also an inventory, a synchronously-displayed timeline of the events that have taken place in these three territories over the last 250 years. Meanwhile, the Culturing the Country, Cultivating the City section is a selection of projects that overthrows the prejudices related to urban and rural tasks. Works featured in this issue are by Grand Huit, Feilden Fowles Architects, Atelier Raum, Felt, Taller Capital, and many more.

120 p, ills colour & bw, 24 x 32 cm, pb, Spanish/English

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AV Monographs 233-234: Spain Yearbook 2021

Isbn 9788409297634
Publisher Avisa
Idea code 21336
€ 56.85

The world came to a standstill in the year 2020. Aside from the health crisis presented by the global pandemic, the economic catastrophe deepened peoples’ suffering and uncertainty in a tense climate of political polarisation. In his introduction, editor Luis Fernández-Galiano analyses the year’s main architectural events and key topical issues in a chronicle of four seasons. The yearbook presents a selection of 24 buildings that reflect the discipline’s current panorama in Spain, categorised as destinations, industrial spaces, cultural or social projects, edifices for education, and collective alternatives. Other features reflect on a year like no other, but with hope for the future.

242 p, ills colour & bw, 24 x 30 cm, pb, Spanish/English

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Lacaton & Vassal (Extended Reprint AV 170)

Isbn 9788409287017
Publisher Avisa
Idea code 21237
€ 45.45

Faithful to a radical understanding of the profession, the recipients of the 2021 Pritzker Prize have over three decades developed a highly committed architecture that has managed to translate the social and environmental concerns of our times into a simple but powerful language. On the occasion of their winning the prestigious award, Arquitectura Viva presents Lacaton & Vassal. 1991–2021, that gathers 30 of the French practice’s most acclaimed works and projects. Four articles written by Luis Fernández-Galiano, Richard Scoffier, François Chaslin, and Enrique Sobejano complement the selection.

176 p, ills colour & bw, hb, Spanish/English

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AMAG 23: Carmody Groarke

Isbn 9789895493821
Publisher AMAG Publisher
Idea code 21376
€ 42.90

Focusing on the London-based practice founded in 2006 by Kevin Carmody and Andy Groarke, this issue features a selection of around 20 works, including projects published here for the first time. Carmody Groarke has developed an international reputation for its wide range of arts, cultural, heritage, and residential projects. The ingredients which define them are innovation, use of classical forms, and a profound coherence, all boldly manifested in the multifaceted identity of their work. This can be seen in projects such as the 7 July Memorial, Studio East Dining, Hill Box House, and Highgate House.

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

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51n4e, Denkstatt, Endeavour, Design in Dialogue

Isbn 9783944074351
Publisher Ruby Press
Idea code 21337
€ 30.10

The second volume in the ‘Chapters’ series from Brussels-based architecture firm 51N4E focuses on how design processes can be shaped through dialogue. First, it investigates their work together with two design-focused consulting firms, endeavour (Antwerp) and Denkstatt (Basel), wherein all three explore the boundaries of architecture, advocating openness and dialogue with clients and users as opposed to autonomy and monologue. The book’s second part examines the hidden presence of this “design in dialogue” approach in a wide range of European architecture firms and their projects, illustrating how this can create productive momentum and foster engagement.

104 p, ills colour & bw, 24 x 32 cm, pb, English

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DOMa Issue 03: Devylder Vinck, So-Il, Baukuh, Diego Arraigada

Isbn 26542064
Publisher Doma Magazine
Idea code 21221
€ 25.50

‘DOMa’ revisits the architectural process in an informed and elaborate manner, to understand and criticise it from within while ensuring the creative process is not overlooked. The magazine’s third edition follows the Belgian office of Jan de Vylder and Inge Vinck as they inhabit the architecture of an old warehouse, details the progression of a Swiss house by Lütjens Padmanabhan, watches SO-IL unveil the tension between materiality and the urban fabric while designing the Amant Campus in Brooklyn, documents Baukuh’s positioning of a pavilion-as-monument within an old factory, and traces the geometrical exploration of Diego Arraigada’s House in La Pedrera.

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

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Concrete & Ink - Storytelling And The Future Of Architecture

Isbn 9789462086166
Publisher Nai010 Publishers
Idea code 21359
€ 24.25

What role does storytelling play in urban imaginaries? How do these imaginaries converge or diverge from reality? Can we use stories to test ideas for future architecture? This volume brings together commissioned writing in fiction and non-fiction, graphic stories, illustrations, and interviews, narrating buildings, housing estates, and cities, between utopias and dystopias, through imagination, dreaming, magic, games and concrete realities, across past and present, and into the future. Contributors include acclaimed international writers: Ben Okri, Sophie Mackintosh, Adania Shibli, and Alia Trabucco Zerán.

160 p, ills colour & bw, 15 x 23 cm, pb, English

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Compact Courtyard Housing. Handbook For A New Building Type For Sustainable High-Density Urban Development

Isbn 9783038630524
Publisher Triest Verlag
Idea code 21370
€ 48.40

Thousands of years old, the courtyard house building type was reinterpreted as a building block for urban quarters of high density and heterogeneity. The resultant “compact courtyard house”, with its low height and up to four living units, has a very small footprint and can replace detached houses and other conventional dwelling types. Outside space is integrated into the buildings as a private courtyard space, thus merging interiors and exteriors into a spatial continuum with high residential value. The book describes this comprehensive typology in eight basic concepts from which space-saving compact courtyard houses can be derived, or even combined to form urban ensembles.

178 p, ills colour & bw, 25 x 18 cm, pb, English

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AV Proyectos 103: Caruso St John Architects

Isbn 1697493X
Publisher Avisa
Idea code 21334
€ 11.75

Established in 1990, the studio led by Adam Caruso and Peter St John has a diverse portfolio including commercial, residential, and cultural buildings, and much experience working in historic locations. Here the studio is profiled through proposals from eight recent competitions, each marked by the architects’ devotion to exploring materials and approaches. Among these are the conversion of a military barracks in Zurich, a corporate campus in Prague, Swiss residential blocks, and a research complex in Dresden. In addition, the magazine publishes five recent competition projects awarded to Spanish architects and several new cabin hotels ensconced in natural surroundings.

80 p, ills colour & bw, 24 x 30 cm, pb, Spanish/English

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Arquitectura Viva 235: Reiulf Ramstad

Isbn 02141256
Publisher Avisa
Idea code 21335
€ 18.20

In this issue, the magazine examines the work of the Norwegian studio Reiulf Ramstad Arkitekter. With a style often referred to as revitalised Nordic and characterised by its contemporary use of natural materials, the studio’s Scandinavian sensibility is a living reality that is far from becoming any kind of trademark. The four projects highlighted here, two in Norway and the others in Denmark and France, present daring forms that nevertheless draw inspiration from the context and local material culture. A second feature in this issue looks at new architecture in France, such as the Centre for Circus Arts by NP2F and a stacked tower of unobstructed spaces in Caen by Bruther.

80 p, ills colour & bw, 24 x 30 cm, pb, Spanish/English

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Amos Rex Art Museum - Jkmm Architects

Isbn 9789189270022
Publisher Arvinius + Orfeus Publishing
Idea code 21348
€ 49.50

Art museums seldom manage to be fully functional for all types of art and at the same time deliver an architecturally strong experience that transforms the city. But since its opening in 2018, the Amos Rex Art Museum in Helsinki has been a popular success among both architecture critics and the international public. Tucked away in the heart of the city, the futuristic expansion by JKMM Architects sets new boundaries for what a museum can and should be. The subterranean, two-storey building occupies the site of a former bus station, where a series of protruding skylights now funnel daylight into the galleries. This volume offers a close reading of the unusual museum and its genesis.

128 p, ills colour & bw, 19 x 25 cm, hb, English

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Participate! Portraits Of Cities And Citizens In Action

Isbn 9789462086319
Publisher Nai010 Publishers
Idea code 21320
€ 39.95

'Participate! Portraits of Cities and Citizens in Action' offers an introduction to the complex world of urban development, identity, and participation. It explains how the self-understanding of cities is mirrored in their approach to urban development. The basis of the book is formed by portraits of six European cities: Berlin, Hamburg, Paris, Lyon, Amsterdam, and Groningen.

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

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A+U 608 21:05 S-Mao Sancho-Madridejos Architecture Office

Isbn 9784900212633
Publisher Shinkenchiku-sha
Idea code 21227
€ 23.90

This issue of a+u magazine features the work of Sancho-Madridejos Architecture Office (S-MAO). An ensemble of 20 projects, framed according to two investigative themes, are featured in this monograph, supported by axonometric diagrams and concept models. An essay by the founders’ close friends, Antón García-Abril and Débora Mesa, reveals the deeper origins to S-MAO’s approach and describes how their trials and investigations have yielded “new processes in engineering, new construction systems, and a new language”. Based in Madrid and established in 1982, the office has developed a nuanced and committed practice, rooted in investigations in plastic arts and aesthetic theory.

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

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A+U 607 21:04 Mecanoo

Isbn 9784900212626
Publisher Shinkenchiku-sha
Idea code 21191
€ 23.90

This publication provides a comprehensive review of Mecanoo works over three decades, divided into two distinct sections. The first is a foundation of projects in their native Netherlands, tracing their Dutch roots back to early housing projects that reveal a strong social agenda, as “they forge a trail through people, place, and purpose to that poetry” through their designs, described in an essay by founding partner Francine Houben. The second section features works that define their influence outside of the Netherlands. In this first monograph devoted to Mecanoo, a+u reveals modern libraries, theaters, and campuses that can be found all over the world.

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

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Landscape Works With Piet Oudolf & Lola - In Search Of Sharawadgi

Isbn 9789462086302
Publisher Nai010 Publishers
Idea code 21299
€ 34.95

'In Search of Sharawadgi' presents the ideas and dreams of Piet Oudolf and LOLA Landscape Architects. Piet Oudolf is the Netherlands’ most well-known garden designer and he has completed such famous projects as the High Line in New York. This book takes the reader on a journey, showing them how public gardens and landscapes across the world have been transformed. Form the High Line in New York, the gardens of Hauser & Wirth in Somerset, the Star Maze in Tytsjerk to the Leisure Lane in Parkstad. Familiarise yourself with Oudolf’s and LOLA's ultimate vision for the future: a global forest against the warming of the earth.

184 p, ills colour & bw, 20 x 28 cm, pb, English

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Form, Structure, Space - Notes On Luigi Moretti's Architectural Theory

Isbn 9789895493876
Publisher AMAG Publisher
Idea code 21378
€ 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. For its second edition, written and compiled by Federico Bucci, the series reflects on the multidisciplinary work of Luigi Moretti (1906–1973). Moretti was the embodiment of the intellectual architect, capable of interweaving art and architecture, and his works are considered among the most original examples of Italian modernism. This book reveals the complex aspects of his theory on form and structure, space and time.

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

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Retail Apocalypse

Isbn 9783856764142
Publisher gta Verlag
Idea code 21297
€ 47.00

Shopping is history, in both senses of the word. As shopping shifts online and the economic shocks associated with the COVID-­19 pandemic push bankruptcies to unprecedented levels, retail is facing its own version of the end of days. The arsenal of commercial techniques that retail has developed can no longer function as usual. The entangled worlds of architecture, fashion, business, and art that supplied those techniques now appear to us in a new way. At the same time, retail’s techniques of attraction and distraction have become visible in a new way. 'Retail Apocalypse' presents a compendium of case studies, interventions, and object lessons rescued from the bonfire of retail culture.

614 p, ills colour & bw, 22 x 28 cm, pb, English

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Volume 59: Futures Implied

Isbn 9789077966693
Publisher Archis
Idea code 21289
€ 19.50

When brought into the city, no technology is a neutral enabler, a mere decoration, or even a marketplace of supply and demand. Urban technologies are built upon spoken and unspoken assumptions about urban life, each with peculiar implications for social relations and the natural ecosystem. This volume claims it is time for the discipline of media architecture to get under its own skin, and address the implied futures of new technologies. Volume 59 investigates the philosophy of citizen participation, artificial civil intelligence, terraforming the world order, ephemeral matters regarding climate disaster, and an extra colour insert on civic design.

102 p, ills colour & bw, 24 x 34 cm, pb, English

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Ricardo Carvalho - Work Situation Process

Isbn 9789895440146
Publisher A+A Books
Idea code 21332
€ 36.55

Offering an extensive analysis of the work of Ricardo Carvalho, this volume introduces the thinking and methods of the critically acclaimed Portuguese architect. It focuses on a number of his past projects, among them Lisbon’s Design and Fashion Museum (MUDE), a hotel in Douro Vineyards, Ribeira 11 apartment building, Sebastião da Gama School, Lima de Freitas School, exhibition designs, and several houses and apartments, as well as examples of interior design. The monograph features a number of texts authored by Carvalho, together with pieces by Manuel Aires Mateus, João Belo Rodeia, and Chilean architect Mauricio Pezo.

232 p, ills colour & bw, 21 x 26 cm, pb, Portuguese/English

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C3 412: Learning Within Location And Place

Isbn 20925190
Publisher C3 Publishing
Idea code 21157
€ 28.80

Architecture with a social conscience comes in several forms in this issue. Miquel Adrià calls for a “redensification” of social housing. In a section on the ‘Corporate Drive to be in Good Shape’, the Hyundai education and research training facility gives workers breathability between sea and mountain in Gyeongju. An all-timber construction of a Norwegian bank in Stavanger has a positive effect on user experience and well being. In ‘Learning within Location and Place’, the patterns of Sami indigenous people shape a major Swedish school. New projects include a Möbius strip-inspired lakeside cultural complex.

240 p, ills colour & bw, 23 x 30 cm, pb, Korean/English

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Residential Masterpieces 31: Tadao Ando Row House In Sumiyoshi Osaka

Isbn 9784871405645
Publisher Ada Edita
Idea code 21137
€ 29.45

The three works selected for this volume on Tadao Ando are not recent in chronological terms. However, the quality of being novel is one of the least appropriate ways to approach the Japanese architect’s work, which is wholly disassociated from this. The three houses – in Osaka, Ashiya (Hyogo), and Tokyo – can be described as symbolic junctures in Ando’s exploration of residential design, with clear differences in their respective scales, plans, and contexts, but with an identical radical approach through which the building’s form reacts to these conditions and transforms them into its intrinsic qualities. Includes an extensive text and magnificent photographs by Yukio Futagawa.

80 p, ills colour & bw, 26 x 36 cm, pb, Japanese/English

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GA Houses 175: Project 2021

Isbn 9784871405973
Publisher Ada Edita
Idea code 21138
€ 26.25

‘GA Houses’ documents outstanding new residential architecture from all over the world. With projects by Pezo von Ellrichshausen, Studio Mumbai, Aires Mateus, Alberto Kalach, Kengo Kuma, Steven Holl, Sean Godsell, and many more.

176 p, ills colour & bw, 23 x 30 cm, pb, Japanese/English

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