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Roger Boltshauser
Isbn 9783038630579
Publisher Triest Verlag
Idea code 21389
€ 90.40
The act of building and its material reality play a defining role in the work of Swiss architect Roger Boltshauser. His architectural language thus develops in the context of the examination of materials and their intrinsic constructive and structural possibilities. Edited by architect and lecturer Martin Tschanz, this monograph examines how Boltshauser’s architecture is neither an implementation of a pictorial idea nor a display of a certain principle. Rather, it is integrative and open to complexity, particularly that of the act of building itself. Contrary to the abstractness of modernism and neo-modernism and the arbitrariness of free forms, his is a unique, contemporary expression.
538 p, ills colour & bw, 22 x 30 cm, hb, German/English
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Maria Bottero - Forays Beyond The Modern: The Architecture Of Umberto Riva
Isbn 9782491039011
Publisher Cosa Mentale
Idea code 21415
€ 69.90
Italian architect Umberto Riva (1928–2021) was also an accomplished designer and painter. A student of Carlo Scarpa, he inherited an artistic and artisanal attitude, a taste for open forms, and a sensitivity for an operational scale that extends from the material detail to the landscape. His work ranges from designing objects and lamps to urban housing projects and exhibition installations. This book is conceived as an anthology with an elucidating series of critical essays taken from out-of-print books. A collaboration with the architect’s personal archive and with the Canadian Centre for Architecture in Montreal allowed the retrieval and presentation of his sketches and drawings.
352 p, ills colour & bw, 22 x 33 cm, pb, Italian/French/English
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AV Monographs 236: Alberto Campo Baeza: Lyrical Longing
Isbn 9788409325382
Publisher Avisa
Idea code 21400
€ 34.10
Creator of some of the most emblematic houses in Spanish architecture, Alberto Campo Baeza has also designed prominent works like the Museum of Memory and Caja Granada Headquarters, both in Granada, and the Offices for the Junta de Castilla y León in Zamora. These and more are featured among a total of 20 essential buildings by Campo Baeza. An introductory essay by his collaborator, Alejandro Cervilla, talks about the poetic vocation underlying the conception of his houses, while Kenneth Frampton reflects on the main themes in Campo Baeza’s career, which shape an architecture built with geometry and light, at once tactile and visual, massive and immaterial.
120 p, ills colour & bw, 24 x 30 cm, pb, Spanish/English
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AV Monographs 235: Masters' Memoirs
Isbn 9788409309702
Publisher Avisa
Idea code 21367
€ 34.10
The voice of memory rings loud and clear on the pages of the new issue of 'AV Monographs', a compilation of conversations that Luis Fernández-Galiano has had over the years with ten masters recounting their respective lives and professional trajectories. Arranged by age of the speakers – from Frank Gehry, the most veteran of all, to Bjarke Ingels – and transcribed in the form of monologues, the interviews trace the biographical journey of each architect, from family origins, upbringing, and educational training to latest projects at the time of the dialogue, and are illustrated with the most characteristic works and projects of their career.
120 p, ills colour & bw, 24 x 30 cm, pb, Spanish/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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DOMa Issue 04: Nuno Brandao Costa, Area, Diller Scofidio + Renfro And Neiheiser Argyros, Fala, Piovenefabi
Isbn 26542064
Publisher Doma Magazine
Idea code 21383
€ 25.50
‘DOMa’ revisits the architectural process in an informed and elaborate manner to highlight the story of each project, not the moment of its completion. In issue four, Nuno Brandão Costa revisits the layout, architecture, and public space of São João de Deus social housing complex; AREA reveals the interplay between design variations and the context of a vacation house on Salamis; Fala presents images, drawings of Suspended House; Piovenefabi retraces the Metro Series, from the Milan project’s appropriation to the building and exhibition of individual pieces; and Diller Scofidio + Renfro and Neiheiser Argyros document the construction of the structural supports of The Tide.
128 p, ills colour & bw, 23 x 30 cm, pb, Greek/English
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Tom Wiscombe Architecture - Objects Models Worlds
Isbn 9780578794204
Publisher Aadcu
Idea code 21179
€ 96.50
Based in Los Angeles, Tom Wiscombe heads an internationally recognised architecture practice, known for its powerful massing, graphic qualities, and tectonic inventiveness. His team’s approach stems from their theory of the flat ontology of architecture, which imagines architecture – and the world – as a set of discrete, lively entities that exist democratically on a flat plane. In this imposing monograph, the practice challenges the discipline of architecture to reimagine its place in contemporary culture. A body of work produced over the last decade is presented as part of a constellation of objects, ideas, precedents, and references and articulated with humour and clarity.
600 p, ills colour & bw, 21 x 24 cm, pb, English
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.bak Gordon
Isbn 9789895440153
Publisher A+A Books
Idea code 21408
€ 35.50
Based in Lisbon, Bak Gordon Arquitectos was established in 2002 by Ricardo Bak Gordon. The studio has since built a reputation for its residential houses and educational and public buildings, projects that are rooted in place, with a strong sense and sensibility for the local features and contexts. Bak Gordon’s architecture is characterised by its pragmatism and intelligence. This book introduces the practice through a number of projects from over the past two decades along with recent work, including the Roman Theatre and National Coach Museum, both in Lisbon, as well as residences in Portugal, schools in Switzerland, and a mixed-use waterfront development in Mozambique.
296 p, ills colour & bw, 17 x 21 cm, hb, Portuguese/English
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Ensamble Studio - Architecture of the Earth
Isbn 9784887063907
Publisher Toto
Idea code 21298
€ 34.90
Ensamble Studio was founded in 2000 and is led by architects Antón García-Abril and Débora Mesa. Their practice is rooted in a fascination with the fact that architecture comes from the Earth. For thousands of years, with the extraction of metals, minerals, fibres, and soil, the process was relatively simple. Today’s emerging technologies are changing this. In this monograph, the studio revisits the remains of megalithic constructions spread across the Galician landscape and speculates on what will become of modern buildings and cities in the future. It examines how they have applied their work in both urban and wild contexts, combining natural and human-made environments.
204 p, ills colour & bw, 19 x 25 cm, pb, Japanese/English
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gta Papers 5: Social Distance
Isbn 9783856764159
Publisher gta Verlag
Idea code 21404
€ 25.50
Once only a vague metaphor to describe the relationship between different social groups, the term “social distance” has acquired a precise meaning during the Covid-19 pandemic. It is the mandatory minimum distance for face-to-face contact between persons, and can vary slightly depending on the jurisdiction. Rather than asserting a diagnosis of our contemporary global emergency, this issue offers perspectives from architectural history and theory. From the great plague of Venice to cholera in the industrialising city, and from the human placenta to the 1960s bubble or the office of today, here a broad range of reflections on contagion, disease, and health can be found.
150 p, ills colour & bw, 21 x 30 cm, pb, English
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AV Proyectos 105: NP2F
Isbn 1697493X
Publisher Avisa
Idea code 21401
€ 11.40
Featured are a spotlight on the French studio NP2F, which uses drawing to grasp the logic that comes with a location and foresee its potential future, focusing on the essential and on an economy of gestures. In addition, the magazine presents five projects from the international competition “Shenzhen Ten Cultural Facilities of New Era”, submitted by Jean Nouvel, Dominique Perrault, Sou Fujimoto, EMBT, and SANAA. Other features include the varied uses of ceramic materials as seen through five buildings in Catalonia by local studios and Gregory Crewdson’s dystopian urban landscapes, photographs closer to the world of dreams and the imagination than to the reality we know.
80 p, ills colour & bw, 24 x 30 cm, pb, Spanish/English
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Arquitectura Viva 236: Kengo Kuma
Isbn 02141256
Publisher Avisa
Idea code 21402
€ 18.20
When the eyes of the world see the Olympic flame in the cauldron of the Japan National Stadium, many will look at the sophisticated branches of its timber trusses and the soothing foliage of its galleries, and recognize the material discipline and love for nature of its author. Kengo Kuma (Yokohama, 1954) embodies that Japanese spirit where the craft of the artisan fuses with the sensitivity of ukiyo-e prints, and this issue of Arquitectura Viva presents this mastery through six works encompassing a range of scales, from large buildings in Tokyo to a modest interior design in another city that bears an Olympic stamp, Barcelona.
80 p, ills colour & bw, 24 x 30 cm, pb, Spanish/English
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Fort Hoofddorp: Strategic Interventions - Serge Schoemaker Architects
Isbn 9789492058126
Publisher The Architecture Observer
Idea code 21437
€ 25.00
By making public what was previously inaccessible for defensive reasons, Serge Schoemaker has brought Fort Hoofddorp, located just south-west of Amsterdam, out of its isolation. The architect’s design method can be best described as architectural editing, keeping the tone and tenor of the fort, completed in 1904, intact and strengthening its character wherever possible. As such, Schoemaker elucidates its “story” while simultaneously expressing the essence of its architecture. His interventions and alterations, whether additions or removals, optimise the existing structures and landscape, freeing them from the original military purpose and imparting a universal significance.
96 p, ills colour & bw, 20 x 27 cm, pb, English
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Fort Hoofddorp: Strategische Interventies - Serge Schoemaker Architects
Isbn 9789492058119
Publisher The Architecture Observer
Idea code 21436
€ 25.00
Een evocatief fotoboek met drie essays over de transformatie van het negentiende-eeuwse Fort Hoofddorp, onderdeel van de Stelling van Amsterdam. De strategische interventies van architect Serge Schoemaker zijn in beeld gebracht door Max Hart Nibbrig en beschreven door Kirsten Hannema, Hans Ibelings en Jolanthe Kugler.
96 p, ills colour & bw, 20 x 27 cm, pb, Dutch
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Doing, Seeing; Seeing, Doing
Isbn 9781922601001
Publisher Uro Publications
Idea code 21412
€ 28.65
For architect and educator Leon van Schaik, the way we understand our world is not an abstract consideration, but deeply rooted in physical experience. Our spatial intelligence is inflected by homes and places of work, gardens and the landscapes we have travelled through. In this book, Van Schaik unearths a lineage of landscape and garden ideas that have influenced his thinking. It unfolds as a series of journeys with friends and colleagues through their shared histories in architecture and landscape. The partly autobiographical process explores how every line drawn in our world brings with it a system, demonstrating why an awareness of our own spatial histories is crucial.
176 p, ills colour & bw, 17 x 24 cm, pb, 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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Dixit 02: A Matter Of Data
Isbn 9782491039097
Publisher Caryatide
Idea code 21310
€ 19.35
Second issue of the critical magazine Dixit in which the words of the architect Yony Santos from the swiss architecture practice TYPICALOFFICE and of Marina Otero Verzier, director of research at Het Nieuwe Instituut (HNI), confront each other around the theme of “A Matter of Data”.
64 p, ills colour & bw, 23 x 30 cm, pb, English
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Accattone 07
Isbn 9782960253030
Publisher Accattone
Idea code 21309
€ 26.90
Accattone #7 deals with open-air domesticity and the diplomatic hospitality of land. It presents intellectual and architectural projects, both contemporary and historical, for alternative modes of living. With Costantino Nivola, SNCDA et al. at the Venice Architecture Biennale, Aglaia Konrad, Alice Paris on De Smet Vermeulen, Osamu Ishiyama and Kenji Kawai, TEN, Wim Cuyvers, moilesautresart, DSCTHK, Piovenefabi, Emmanuelle Chiappone Piriou on Superstudio, Carlo Goncalves on Smiljan Radic, The Museum of Mistakes on Arakawa & Gins, and Zuber panoramic wallpapers.
196 p, ills colour & bw, 24 x 32 cm, pb, English
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C3 413: Small Condolences
Isbn 20925190
Publisher C3 Publishing
Idea code 21256
€ 28.80
With a well chosen selection of projects covering the related areas of architecture, urban design and landscape architecture, C3 is a well documented, high quality monthly magazine with an international perspective. Issue 413 features funerary architecture with projects such as Hugh Masekela Memorial Pavilion by Adjaye, Hall of Immortality at Longshan Cemetery by Studio 10 and the Ceremonial Spaces of Houthalen-Helchteren Cemeteries by Hans Maes.Aside the memorial theme, this issue includes work by Pezo von Ellrichshausen, C.F. Møller Architects, Cumulus Studio, Studio Zhu-Pei, Bangkok Project Studio, TERROIR and more.
240 p, ills colour & bw, 23 x 30 cm, pb, Korean/English
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Edu.arh: Practices In Architectural Education
Isbn 9789616669719
Publisher Museum Architecture And Design
Idea code 21272
€ 31.20
What kind of profile should the future architect have? What would an institution charged with educating such an architect look like? This volume addresses such questions and more, and is the manifestation in print form of an eponymous exhibition held at the Museum of Architecture and Design in Ljubljana in 2020/2021, in collaboration with the Faculty of Architecture at the moment of its centennial. The exhibition’s information and spatial atmosphere are transposed here in 2D form, in graphics, photographs, and text. As a new artefact, the publication broadly addresses practices in architectural education that have affected or should affect change in contemporary society.
224 p, ills colour, 22 x 30 cm, pb, Slovene/English
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Overholland 21
Isbn 9789463663991
Publisher Tu Delft
Idea code 21339
€ 24.50
Water management and cultural heritage in the Netherlands are inextricably linked. This edition of ‘OverHolland’ looks at the area known as the Randstad, where the water system is almost entirely below sea level. It is regarded as the main driver of the Dutch economy, being the most urbanised and most densely populated part of the country. A comprehensive map published by Willem Hendricus Hoekwater in 1901 was an important source of inspiration for the joint study of the genesis of the Randstad’s water system conducted by the Cultural Heritage Agency and the Faculty of Architecture at TU Delft that forms the core of this edition and its detailed cartographic reconstructions.
220 p, ills colour & bw, 23 x 22 cm, pb, Dutch/English
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Manual Of Urban Ecology
Isbn 9782378962432
Publisher Les Presses Du Reel
Idea code 21414
€ 19.35
Audrey Muratet and François Chiron present the current state of knowledge on how nature functions in an urban environment: its ecology. Cities are complex structures with many disparate living conditions. These can both generate and destroy pools of biodiversity. Cities are also organisms that develop, mutate, and die. In analysing these phenomena, this book affirms principles to overcome the ecological blindness of city dwellers and avert collisions with urban ecosystems. Ecologist and botanist Muratet explores the composition and dynamics of urban biodiversity. Chiron, a specialist in birds and mammals, studies those landscapes most transformed by humans.
120 p, ills colour & bw, 13 x 20 cm, pb, English
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