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El Croquis 210-211: Gion A. Caminada
Isbn 9788412333145
Publisher El Croquis
Idea code 21518
€ 83.55
A special double issue devoted to the world of Gion A. Caminada, known for his minimalist style that mixes modern design with traditional Swiss methods and materials, especially using wood. Featuring seventeen projects spanning the past three decades, the magazine offers a comprehensive overview of Caminada’s body of work, including notable projects such as the Stiva da Morts community mourning place in Vrin, the Ballenberg Open-Air Museum, the Girls’ Boarding School at Disentis Abbey, and a forest hut in Domat – a communal and educational space for the local community and schools. An interview and personal reflection by Caminada himself complete the tribute.
400 p, ills colour & bw, 25 x 34 cm, pb, Spanish/English
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AMAG 24: Morq
Isbn 9789895493838
Publisher AMAG Publisher
Idea code 21448
€ 42.90
MORQ is an Italian office established in 2001 by Matteo Monteduro, Emiliano Roia, and Andrea Quagliola. Their work ranges from small-scale projects to large landscape and urban plans, with meaningful spaces integrated within simple and thoughtful buildings, in dialogue with existing conditions. As such, MORQ sees constraints as a starting point for its designs, not impediments to creativity. Featured in this issue are fifteen small-scale works, both built and unbuilt, that demonstrate the studio’s talent for envisioning intimate yet open spaces that engage with shades of natural light, changing throughout the day and activated by the emotive and sensorial qualities of the materials.
208 p, ills colour & bw, 24 x 32 cm, pb, Portuguese/English
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Raimond Wouda - Polder VIII, Tuindorp Oostzaan, Amsterdam 1920 - 2020
Isbn 9789083165813
Publisher Fw: Books
Idea code 21544
€ 35.00
Tuindorp Oostzaan was the first real garden village in Amsterdam, intended to offer working-class families light, air and space, and a decent accommodation. Each family has its own front door and a garden at the front and back. Located near the shipyards, but far from the city centre. The village grew and the world changed. The Vegabuurt was added and in the 1950s came Tutti-Fruttidorp and Tuindorp Oostzaan-West. New residents moved to Noord, where thousands of people worked in the yards. Now that heavy industry has disappeared, North is trending and the houses are popular with young city dwellers.
256 p, ills colour, 21 x 28 cm, pb, Dutch/English
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Contemporary Copenhagen: Vilhelm Lauritzen Architects
Isbn 9789198533538
Publisher Arvinius + Orfeus Publishing
Idea code 21445
€ 71.50
For almost a century, Vilhelm Lauritzen Architects has aimed to make the Danish capital a better city to live in. The studio strives for a design that transcends time and manages a constantly changeable reality, and is behind many of the most notable contemporary community buildings in Copenhagen, such as the Danish Radio House, Copenhagen Airport, the Krøyers Plads residential district, New North Zealand Hospital, and DR Byen, headquarters of the Danish Broadcasting Corporation. The conviction held by the studio’s founder, Vilhelm Theodor Lauritzen (1894–1984), that “architecture is applied art for the people – never a privilege for the few”, lives on in its projects today.
272 p, ills colour & bw, 25 x 28 cm, pb, English
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LB 03 David Adjaye - The Webster
Isbn 9789895493869
Publisher AMAG Publisher
Idea code 21528
€ 32.25
The third instalment in the ‘A.MAG Long Collection’ looks at The Webster’s flagship store in Los Angeles, a retail development adjacent to the historic Beverly Center shopping mall. Juxtaposed beneath this monolithic eight-storey structure, Adjaye’s design elegantly asserts itself as a sculptural and experiential counterpoint to the larger mall. In an ode to the luminosity of California’s natural light, the cantilevered concrete facade presents as saturated pink while its form also references and reimagines the brutalist envelope of the existing building.
64 p, ills colour & bw, 23 x 29 cm, pb, English
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A+U 613 21:10 Marie-Jose Van Hee
Isbn 9784900212695
Publisher Shinkenchiku-sha
Idea code 21512
€ 23.90
The Ghent-based practice of Marie-José Van Hee is characterised by buildings that blend in with their environment as if they have always been there, evoking reflection, serenity, and silence in a kind of spatial poetry. Van Hee works almost exclusively in Flanders, and this issue features eighteen of her designs, along with essays by Sam De Vocht, Sylvia Van Peteghem, and Hera Van Sande. Each of the presented works starts from an aerial photo of the broader site and context, juxtaposed with Van Hee’s sketches. Besides private homes, these include housing developments, urban plazas, and the renovation of ModeNatie Fashion Museum and Academy in Antwerp.
190 p, ills colour & bw, 22 x 29 cm, pb, Japanese/English
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A+U 612 21:09 Urban Science And New Design Tools
Isbn 9784900212688
Publisher Shinkenchiku-sha
Idea code 21472
€ 23.90
This issue is devoted to new technologies in urban science and their applications in settings that range from the aesthetics of urban spaces to participatory democracy and public health. Guest editor Yuji Yoshimura, an architect and researcher at the University of Tokyo, seeks to answer how such technologies will change the ways in which architects shape urban spaces. Projects from Barcelona, which is at the forefront of using these new tools at the municipal level, are presented together with recent efforts in the United States and Japan. In addition, these cutting-edge developments are further contextualised in the longer historical framework of urban science.
168 p, ills colour & bw, 22 x 29 cm, pb, Japanese/English
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Anachoresis: Upon Inhabiting Distances
Isbn 9783948212759
Publisher Archive Books
Idea code 21540
€ 25.55
Published on the occasion of Cyprus' participation at the 17th Architecture Biennale in Venice, 'Anachoresis: Upon Inhabiting Distances' gathers a collection of texts and visual material from a multidisciplinary group of Cypriot and international practitioners, including architects and designers, curators and writers, sound and movement artists.The publication offers a combination of established and emerging voices, reflecting on the spatial experiences that occur when 'inhabiting distances' is proposed as a thematic for the development of new forms of sociality and living together.
176 p, ills colour, 17x24 cm, pb, English
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Raining Stories - Netherlands Pavilion, Dubai World Expo
Isbn 9789462086692
Publisher Nai010 Publishers
Idea code 21532
€ 34.00
'Raining Stories' portrays the Dutch contribution to the World Expo. It presents the story behind V8’s design and explains how the architects worked together with artists and designers to integrate water, food and energy systems into a true Gesamtkunstwerk thereby showing how art and design can contribute to the solution of one of the biggest challenges of our time.
128 p, ills colour & bw, 23 x 32 cm, hb, English
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Writingplace Journal For Architecture And Literature #5: Narrative Methods For Writing Urban Places
Isbn 9789462085756
Publisher Nai010 Publishers
Idea code 21542
€ 24.95
The magazine 'Writingplace Journal for Architecture and Literature' is an international, open-access, peer-reviewed journal on architecture and literature. This journal is a vehicle for the Writingplace platform to continue its exploration of the productive relationship between architecture and literature. This issue 'Narrative Methods for Writing Urban Places' presents a repertoire of narrative methods for analysis and design that deal with both socially inclusive and locally specific urban places. The issue will be developed in context of the EU COST Action "Writing Urban Places".
144 p, ills colour & bw, 17 x 24 cm, pb, English
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Jordi Ludevid - A City Of Professions
Isbn 9788409319343
Publisher My16 Edit
Idea code 21523
€ 26.90
‘A City of Professions’ is positioned to take part in the current debate on the present and future of professions, an inquiry sparked by Daniel and Richard Susskind in their book ‘The Future of the Professions: How Technology Will Transform the Work of Human Experts’ (2015). Echoed by psychologist Howard Gardner of Harvard University, at its core the debate is a questioning of the future of our society. By moving closer to Gardner and taking distance from the Susskinds, this book proposes a radical regeneration of the whole of the professional world. While focusing on the connection that professions have with cities, it also promotes the new social pact currently emerging.
200 p, no ills, 17 x 24 cm, pb, English
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Lisbon Architectural Guide 1948-2021 (2nd Expandend Ed)
Isbn 9789895440160
Publisher A+A Books
Idea code 21508
€ 34.40
A construction boom in the second decade of the 21st century, driven by both the city’s recovery from the earlier economic crises of 2008/2012 and the growth of the tourist industry, necessitated a second edition of the ‘Lisbon Architectural Guide’, first published in 2013. Now revised and expanded with recent projects and new historical insights, this comprehensive guide to the post-war architecture of Lisbon divides the city into sixteen urban districts, organised in respective chapters. Each chapter includes an introductory text and map displaying the location of the selected buildings, which in turn are illustrated with photographs, drawings, relevant data, and an explanatory text.
466 p, ills bw, 14 x 19 cm, hb, Portuguese/English
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Norman Foster Sketchbooks Volume I 1975 - 1980
Isbn 9788494717956
Publisher Ivorypress
Idea code 21479
€ 58.90
Following the earlier release of ‘Norman Foster Sketchbooks 1975–2020’, which compiles a selection of the architect’s graphic production taken from his collection of notebooks, this publication commences a systematic catalogue series consisting of drawings organised according to time period. The start date, 1975, marks the beginning of the initial sketchbooks saved in the archive of the Norman Foster Foundation. The closing year, 1980, represents the final decade of Foster Associates. Edited by architectural historian Jorge Sainz, the volume is organised in sections, first according to architectural projects and second by regularly occurring themes in Foster’s sketchbooks.
450 p, ills colour & bw, 22 x 31 cm, hb, English
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Off Centre / On Stage
Isbn 9789490939236
Publisher Khatt Books
Idea code 21458
€ 29.50
This fascinating book appears in conjunction with an exhibition at Jameel Arts Centre in Dubai that reveals and illuminates archival images taken between 1976 and 1979. The photographers, Stephen Finch and Mark Harris, did not intend to make pictures for commercial, documentary, or artistic purposes, but rather record visual notes of urban life in order to create designs for the city’s future. Conceived and written by Todd Reisz, an expert on the UAE’s urban transformations, the book offers an intriguing account of Dubai on the cusp of monumental change, an insignificant patch of empty sand, driven by human invention to become the exceptional nexus of architecture we know today.
224 p, ills colour & bw, 17 x 24 cm, hb, Arabic/English
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C3 415: SANAA and Gehry in Tranformation
Isbn 20925190
Publisher C3 Publishing
Idea code 21454
€ 27.25
The highlight of this issue is a feature entitled “SANAA and Gehry in transformation”, where a single new project from each office is examined: La Samaritaine, SANAA’s undulating glass department store in Paris, and Gehry’s Van Gogh-inspired project, The Tower at LUMA Arles. Other offerings include the game of spatial logic architects play when challenged to make additions to educational campuses is explored in “Enlarging the mind”, which looks at recent work by 3h architects, Arquitectura DESE UC, and Vector Architects. And getting creative on a limited footprint is an age-old fascination for designers, reflected in the five houses presented in “Cool Concrete”.
240 p, ills colour & bw, 23 x 30 cm, pb, Korean/English
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ICU Architects Office - Naoyuki Nagata
Isbn 9791188529148
Publisher Nemo Factory
Idea code 21346
€ 120.35
Naoyuki Nagata presents a multi-layered overview of his architectural firm, ICU Architects Office. Floor plans, section drawings, and site plans are gathered together but not arranged per single project. In this way, the reader is encouraged to move freely back and forth between the profiles of finished works and the initial concepts, in order to gain a better understanding of the vision behind each as well as of how all of the office’s work is interconnected.
300 p, ills colour & bw, 22 x 29 cm, hb, English/Japanese
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The New Era Magazine 3
Isbn 9789189270190
Publisher Arvinius + Orfeus Publishing
Idea code 21446
€ 24.50
In its third issue, the magazine dedicated to Scandinavian living, with topics such as interiors, design, art, and craft, investigates a world brimming with possibilities. Visit the enchanting studio of artist Eva Lange, or travel to an island with a house in the midst of a forgotten fairy-tale garden. Design icon Pia Wallen gives an exclusive tour of her home, architect Thomas Sandell shows off his seaside home that measures just thirteen square metres, and architect Pernilla Wåhlin Norén explains her home built entirely of pine. Also in this issue, the tendencies shaping our future, from breaking away from the homogenisation of social media to mass exodus from cities, are examined.
216 p, ills colour & bw, 22 x 30 cm, pb, English
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AV Proyectos 104: Tatiana Bilbao Estudio
Isbn 1697493X
Publisher Avisa
Idea code 21366
€ 11.75
'AV Proyectos 104: Tatiana Bilbao Estudio' devotes its dossier to the Mexico City-based office Tatiana Bilbao ESTUDIO, founded in 2004. The firm’s projects are characterized by their flexibility and capacity to address the needs of the communities where they are developed. The issue continues with the competition to extend the MACBA in Barcelona, with the winning proposal by Harquitectes and Christ & Gantenbein as well as the four shortlisted entries. The following section includes four projects in which small stone buildings in rural areas are refurbished and converted into domestic spaces.
80 p, ills colour & bw, 24 x 30 cm, pb, Spanish/English
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UDR Udaipur Architectural Travel Guide
Isbn 9788494933035
Publisher Altrim Publishers
Idea code 21492
€ 2.00
The historic city of Udaipur offers a good reference point for the architecture of the Mewar region in south-central Rajasthan. This useful guide introduces the visitor to the city’s various historical periods, architectural typologies, and artistic styles, and is designed to allow an immersive experience of its living heritage. The curated itineraries cover the City Palace Museum in full detail, along with six itineraries exploring the city of Udaipur and two more that take you to the region’s historic hill fort capitals of Chittorgarh and Kumbhalgarh. Accurate and enhanced information on the exact location of the various sites is made easier by the inclusion of geodata, which is embedded in QR codes.
228 p, ills colour & bw, 13 x 18 cm, pb, English
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