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On the Necessity of Gardening - An ABC of Art, Botany and Cultivation
Isbn 9789493246003
Publisher Valiz
Idea code 21470
€ 29.90
'On the Necessity of Gardening' tells the story of the garden as a rich source of inspiration. Over the centuries artists, writers, poets, and thinkers have each described, depicted, and designed the garden in different ways. In medieval art, the garden was a reflection of paradise, a place of harmony and fertility, shielded from worldly problems. In the eighteenth century this image tilted: the garden became a symbol of worldly powers and politics. The Anthropocene is forcing us to radically rethink the role we have given nature in recent decades. Through essays and an extensive abecedarium this book reflects on the garden as a metaphor for society.
240 p, ills colour & bw, 24 x 32 cm, pb, English
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New Standards - Timber Houses Ltd 1940 - 1945
Isbn 9789527222133
Publisher Garret Publications
Idea code 21420
€ 42.90
‘New Standards’ examines the conditions that affect standard, industrial, and manufactured buildings by revisiting a forgotten chapter of wood construction in post-war Finland. Puutalo Oy (Timber Houses Ltd.) was established in 1940 as part of Finland’s response to the war refugee crisis. The company quickly became one of the largest manufacturers of prefabricated wooden buildings – tens of thousands were shipped from Finland to every inhabited continent, constructing a largely overlooked legacy of housing and urbanisation. A new perspective on this legacy is given through careful analysis of these buildings and projects as they emerged from a rapidly changing political landscape.
294 p, ills colour & bw, 17 x 24 cm, hb, English
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Thorsten Baensch & Norbert Schöbel - Von Ort zu Ort - 12 Jahre zu Fuss
Isbn 9789492051509
Publisher The Eriskay Connection
Idea code 21493
€ 75.00
In 2004 Norbert Schöbel had the idea to walk from his adpotive home, Brussels, to his native city, Munich. But in fact he and his partner Thorsten Baensch ended up continuing from Munich to Prague, to Berlin, and Hamburg, and returning to Brussels. A walk of more than 3,000 kilometres, in a closed circle across Central Europe in 155 stages, over a period of twelve years and seven months. This large sized book is the report of their quest. The reader is taken on a journey through ordinary, yet oddly fascinating places, while discovering various leitmotifs in the man-made landscape.
752 p, ills colour & bw, 24 x 33 cm, pb, German (English summary)
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Spectre 3: Contemporary Ruins
Isbn 9782491039066
Publisher Cosa Mentale
Idea code 21416
€ 40.85
The third issue of ‘Spectre’ invites various artists to deliver their interpretation of contemporary ruins. Ruins are necessary because they question our historical records, making us fleetingly aware of a distance between a past meaning, which has been abolished, and a present perception, which is incomplete. They introduce a temporal doubling, where the present is no longer the epicentre of our perceptions. It is uncertain whether future history will be capable of generating new ruins, but the contemporary capacity to leave significant ruins is undoubtedly certain. Our era has and will continue to produce abandoned, unfinished, deteriorated, and rapidly obsolete spaces.
208 p, ills colour & bw, 25 x 31 cm, pb, French/English
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Working Environments. Spaces Of Productivity
Isbn 9783946154532
Publisher Deutscher Architektur Verlag
Idea code 21457
€ 60.25
Our way of working is subject to constant processes of transformation. From the challenges and opportunities of digitalisation and issues of sustainability in production, administration, and office structures, to healthcare strategies and contemplation, architecture must translate influences on the realm of work into space. We need workplaces that not only provide the materials for carrying out professional activities but also contribute to identification and well-being. With high standards in architecture and interior design, these innovative and game-changing working environments respond to the desire for concentration and optimised workflows while also focusing on the people who work there.
304 p, ills colour & bw, 22 x 29 cm, hb, German/English
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Apollo Architects & Associates Vol 2
Isbn 9791188529131
Publisher Nemo Factory
Idea code 21344
€ 128.05
This second monograph covers projects between 2006 and 2020 by Apollo Architects & Associates, which Satoshi Kurosaki established at the turn of the 21st century. Since that time, Apollo has completed around 200 projects and is currently growing and broadening its design areas to include residential projects as well as hotel design. The firm’s simplistic architecture represents the human effort to pursue timeless beauty at its essence while seeking constant change – buildings that are admired but are also able to satisfy functional purposes and safety needs. These are creative spaces that meet and exceed the expectations of clients and society, aesthetically and logically.
476 p, ills colour & bw, 19 x 25 cm, hb, Korean/English
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Waro Kishi - Time Will Tell
Isbn 9791188529179
Publisher Nemo Factory
Idea code 21343
€ 108.85
This publication traces Waro Kishi’s architectural trajectories through time, from thinking to practice to education, as his architecture ultimately serves as a frame and stage for the dynamic worlds of nature and human experience, ever-changing as past, present, and future continually intersect. Its chapters are distributed among the broad topics which Kishi addresses in his work – place, time, living, landscape – while featuring standout projects such as KIT House, Katsura Library at Kyoto University, KIM House, Yunoka Bridge, Kyoto-Kagaku Research Institute, and more. A thoughtful essay by Ken Tadashi Oshima examines the arc of Kishi’s architectural practice over time.
408 p, ills bw, 25 x 25 cm, hb, Korean/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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Atmosphere and Building Culture
Isbn 9788792700346
Publisher The Architectural Publisher B
Idea code 21409
€ 33.00
With this study, architect and educator Anders Gammelgaard Nielsen aims to shed light on the relationship between the way we build and the atmosphere in our spaces. He selected nine spaces, different in both character and underlying building culture, where each offers its own contained universe. Examining them chronologically, it becomes apparent that variation decreases as building culture transitions from artisan-based to industrial processes. This is also marked by decisive changes in their atmospheres. Gammelgaard Nielsen’s research uncovers a cultural shift where, in the space of a few generations, we have moved from warm emanations to cold rationality.
152 p, ills colour & bw, 23 x 29 cm, pb, Danish/English
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A+U 611 2021:08 Nenia Project - Smiljan Radic
Isbn 9784900212664
Publisher Shinkenchiku-sha
Idea code 21403
€ 23.90
This issue features the work of Chilean architect Smiljan Radić. It opens with Nenia Project, which reveals the visions of the past and future that drive his architectural approach. The project is a sort of memoir by Radić, a collection of metaphorical manifestos and artefacts that have equipped him with “subversive artistic strategies” and “scores for object-based works”. Ranging from sculptures to buildings, 25 key works are presented along with Radić’s own conceptual drawings and paintings. All were produced between 2010 and 2021. Adding depth to the collective sense of temporal progression of the works are two essays by Ryue Nishizawa and Fredi Fischli and Niels Olsen.
190 p, ills colour & bw, 22 x 29 cm, pb, Japanese/English
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A+U 610 21:07 House Looking Into The World
Isbn 9784900212657
Publisher Shinkenchiku-sha
Idea code 21356
€ 23.90
This issue brings forward the work of six architectural practices, each of which provides a statement on the meaning of life, place, and form. Guest editor Go Hasegawa belongs to the same generation as these offices, who all share a similar attitude towards the house and its relationship to the world beyond. In her essay, Giovanna Borasi discusses the evolving concept of lifecycle and work, new models of co-living, and a perceived misalignment between new societal needs and the architecture that accommodates them. The featured practices are: 6a architects (London), Vector Architects (Beijing), MOS (New York), adamo-faiden (Buenos Aires), and HARQUITECTES (Barcelona).
168 p, ills colour & bw, 22 x 29 cm, pb, Japanese/English
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C3 414 Thresholds Between Landscape And Architecture
Isbn 20925190
Publisher C3 Publishing
Idea code 21360
€ 28.80
This edition explores the thresholds between landscape and architecture in a feature that includes an inverted pyramid space with an underground pavilion (Atelier David Telerman), a chapel and meditation room surrounded by natural hills in Portugal (Studio Nicholas Burns), Majara Residence on Hormuz Island (ZAV Architects), and the Yangliping Performing Arts Centre (Studio Zhu-Pei). A second theme covers local identity and community buildings, featuring diverse projects such as a rammed earth healthcare hub in Australia, a mixed-use mud construction in rural Bangladesh, a new brick-vaulted church for a Mexican community, a repurposed historic hall in France, and more.
240 p, ills colour & bw, 23 x 30 cm, pb, Korean/English
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Archi-Lab 3: Neighborhood Facility
Isbn 9791189659233
Publisher Nemo Factory
Idea code 21341
€ 104.55
Featuring more than 50 new buildings and projects, ranging in scale from 50 to more than 500 square metres and designed by architectural studios from Asia, Europe, and the Americas, this extensive anthology covers a lot of ground. A neighbourhood facility can be anything, from small shops, restaurants, and commercial premises, to apartments, community facilities, company offices, galleries, and more, as long as it is situated comfortably in its closely built urban context. This broad typology is explored throughout its many facets, with works by Richue Architects, MMKM associates, Hitzig Militello architects, space matter, PHENOMENA arquitetura, and more.
378 p, ills colour & bw, 24 x 30 cm, hb, Korean/English
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Archi-Lab 4: Neighboorhood Facility
Isbn 9791189659240
Publisher Nemo Factory
Idea code 21342
€ 104.55
Featuring more than 50 new buildings and projects, ranging in scale from 50 to more than 500 square metres and designed by architectural studios from Asia, Europe, and the Americas, this extensive anthology covers a lot of ground. A neighbourhood facility can be anything, from small shops, restaurants, and commercial premises, to apartments, community facilities, company offices, galleries, and more, as long as it is situated comfortably in its closely built urban context. This broad typology is explored throughout its many facets, with works by ROOM+ Design & Build, Yong Ju Architecture, Declerck-Daels, Calujac Architecture, Affleck de la Riva Architects, and more.
378 p, ills colour & bw, 24 x 30 cm, hb, Korean/English
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Studio Velocity - Kentaro Kurihara & Miho Iwatsuki
Isbn 9791188529162
Publisher Nemo Factory
Idea code 21345
€ 96.05
Having worked together at Junya Ishigami + Associates in 2004 and 2005, Kentaro Kurihara and Miho Iwatsuki decided to establish Studio Velocity in 2006. Since then, they have pursued an innovative vision of small-scale residential architecture and dwellings which soften the boundaries between interior and exterior, allowing the proximity of natural elements to enhance and benefit everyday urban living spaces and attitudes. In their practice, they investigate the possibility of urban space and new architecture by expanding the range that is considered the environment. This large monographic volume allows a detailed look at the studio’s numerous projects throughout Japan.
468 p, ills colour & bw, 19 x 26 cm, hb, English
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GA Houses 177: 50 Houses From Archive 3
Isbn 9784871405997
Publisher Ada Edita
Idea code 21648
€ 26.25
‘GA Houses’ documents outstanding new residential architecture from all over the world. To mark their 50th anniversary, Issue 177 of the magazine culled 50 masterpiece homes from their rich archive that have been spotlighted since 2000. This is their third archival re-listing, this time featuring Waro Kishi, Jun Aoki, Ryoji Suzuki, Tadao ando, Shuhei Endo, Ryue Nishizawa, Terunobu Fujimori, and many more, all projects between 2001 and 2021.
212 p, ills colour & bw, 23 x 30 cm, pb, Japanese/English
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Kiyokazu Arai - Architectural Composition With Ordering Principles In Scale
Isbn 9784904894491
Publisher Flick Studio
Idea code 21363
€ 32.85
Kiyokazu Arai began his professional career in 1982 when, as a student at the Southern California Institute of Architecture, he joined Morphosis, the office founded ten years earlier by Thom Mayne. As Mayne writes in his introduction to this monograph, “Though we didn’t speak the same verbal language it was clear from the first weeks that we spoke from a remarkably copacetic and familiar visual one”. The two would work together for ten years, until Arai returned to Japan and started his own firm, Arai Architects. The publication traces his evolution as an architect from the very beginning until the present day, detailing shifts in thinking and notable projects each step of the way.
208 p, ills colour & bw, 18 x 26 cm, pb, 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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Of Sand And Stones - Architecture By Tvk & Tolila + Gilliland
Isbn 9791097416225
Publisher Rue Du Bouquet
Idea code 21314
€ 38.95
‘Of Sand and Stones’ is a journey into the construction of a building in Paris by two firms also based in the city, TVK and Tolila+Gilliland. It offers an alternate vision of architecture and time, spanning landscape and earth, geometry, and craft and construction in a format that recounts the material and cultural stories entangled in the project, through drawing, photography, and literature. Deepening the story the book proposes, it contains excepts from more than fifteen authors distributed across a broad range of interests and backgrounds, such as Reyner Banham, Marie Richeux, Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari, Italo Calvino, Robert Smithson, and Marguerite Duras.
176 p, ills colour & bw, 21 x 27 cm, pb, French/English
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Log 51: Winter/spring 2021
Isbn 9780999237397
Publisher Anyone Corporation
Idea code 21296
€ 19.50
In this open issue, ‘Log’ gathers essays and observations from architects, historians, designers, and curators from around the world. Tatiana Knoroz discovers ingenuity in Japanese danchi, Thomas Daniell explores Seiichi Shirai’s unbuilt atomic memorial, Ruo Jia defines post-Maoist architecture in China, Iman Fayyad sees flatness as a productive framework, Harish Krishnamoorthy questions India’s new government district, and much more. Also, part of this issue is devoted to “Excursions in the Ecosphere”, the sequel to “The Return of Nature” in ‘Log’ 49, guest edited by Sanford Kwinter and with contributions by Bruce Mau, Aleksandra Jaeschke, and Gökhan Kodalak.
200 p, ills colour & bw, 16 x 24 cm, pb, English
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The Dutch Look At A House
Isbn 9788875708412
Publisher Corraini Edizioni
Idea code 21329
€ 15.15
At first glance a children’s book, Jeane D'aam’s illustrated story is actually an introduction to modern Dutch architecture. Everything starts with a square. A square can be rotated, doubled, divided in two, and then again in four. Its corners can then be cut, stretched, and more. One page at a time, the shape of a house begins to appear. The Dutch, however, love houses with low roofs in the countryside, so these shapes change again to become hexagonal. In cities, on the other hand, a lot of rectangular houses are needed, perhaps joined together by a bridge. Finally, by adding doors, windows, and a touch of colour, this series of geometric shapes turns into perfect Dutch houses.
40 p, ills colour, 22 x 22 cm, pb, English
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