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El Croquis Christian Kerez (1992-2015) HB
Isbn 9788412333169
Publisher El Croquis
Idea code 22018
€ 105.75
A special hardcover edition examines more than two decades of practice by Swiss architect Christian Kerez. Presented are 26 varied projects, including education, housing, and commercial and public functions. The Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw, the Flemish Radio and Television Headquarters (VRT), the University of Applied Sciences and Arts in Muttenz, and Werkbund Wiesenfeld Residential Estate are among the notable works. Essays, the architect’s own photographs, and two conversations (with Georg Franck and with Catherine Dumont D’Ayot, Anh-Linh Ngo, and Nikolai von Rosen) add critical depth to this analysis of one who sees his work as an “adventure”.
360 p, ills colour & bw, 25 x 34 cm, hb, Spanish/English
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Yearbook Landscape Architecture and Urban Design in the Netherlands 2021
Isbn 9789492474469
Publisher Blauwdruk
Idea code 22043
€ 32.50
Through a selection of 23 examples from current practice, landscape architects and urban designers in the Netherlands demonstrate the power of their creativity. Inspiring solutions are offered by Glifberg-Lykke’s inviting skatepark in Amsterdam, an “urban country estate” in Vlissingen by H+N+S, an innovative district in Woerden and the expansion of the national cemetery by Karres en Brands, West 8’s new Coolsingel in Rotterdam, and more. In addition, the inclusion of a forest area conceived by Bosch Slabbers for Zeeland draws attention to the importance of research. Further analysis of the selected projects is provided by articles, interviews, and a photo reportage.
206 p, ills colour & bw, 23 x 30 cm, pb, Dutch/English
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Oase Journal For Architecture 110: A Project Of The Soil
Isbn 9789462086555
Publisher Nai010 Publishers
Idea code 22039
€ 22.95
For a long time, the theme of soil has been the quasi exclusive subject of agriculture, geography, and soil science. Only in the last few decades, due to a rapidly growing awareness of climate change, has soil increasingly come into focus in urban design, in particular as a matter that can also provide ecosystem services in urban environments. The editors of OASE 110 believe that soils, although degraded and fragmented, call to be looked upon with a new gaze. They should be rearticulated in a new project aimed at the construction of a shared, productive and inhabited nature, containing different elements of urbanity and offering – at the same time – a more resilient and sustainable environment for all.
128 p, ills colour & bw, 17 x 24 cm, pb, Dutch/English
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AV Monographs 240: Barozzi Veiga
Isbn 9788412454123
Publisher Avisa
Idea code 21739
€ 34.10
Founded in 2004 by Fabrizio Barozzi and Alberto Veiga, the Barcelona-based studio Barozzi Veiga has become one of the most prominent Spanish firms on the international scene. Since then, along with teaching and research, they have worked on public and private projects, focussing on cultural, civic, and education buildings. This issue presents eighteen works and projects that track the evolution of a language marked by serene and bold geometries, control of scale and light, and a determination to combine the autonomy of the building’s form with the specifics of context.
112 p, ills colour & bw, 24 x 30 cm, pb, Spanish/English
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AV Monographs 239: El Equipo Mazzanti
Isbn 9788409341481
Publisher Avisa
Idea code 21738
€ 34.10
Author of some of the most prominent buildings completed in Colombia in the past years, like the Spain Library and the Sport Centers in Medellín, or the extension of Santa Fe Foundation in Bogotá, Giancarlo Mazzanti (Barranquilla, 1963) takes inspiration from construction games to generate, starting from geometric elements and modular pieces, spatial structures that become living spaces for the community. Understanding architecture as a collective action, the Bogotá-based studio focusses its work on play, experimentation, and exchange of ideas among a variety of professionals, including engineers, sociologists, and artists.
112 p, ills colour & bw, 24 x 30 cm, pb, Spanish/English
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Dash Experimental Housing
Isbn 9789462085855
Publisher Nai010 Publishers
Idea code 22004
€ 29.95
The new edition of DASH, concerning experimental housing, examines the subject in the broadest sense: What is the European experience with housing experiments? What have the Dutch prototypes brought us? In a series of articles and interviews, we look at the past, but also at the future: if, say, a million homes have to be realized in the Netherlands by 2030, what kind of dwellings are we talking about? In the project documentation we present experimental housing projects based on themes that are relevant in the contemporary situation.
160 p, ills colour & bw, 23 x 28 cm, pb, Dutch/English
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H+N+S Landscape Architects - 30 Years Of Innovative, Careful And Radical Design - Thinking+Acting+Letting Go
Isbn 9789492474346
Publisher Blauwdruk
Idea code 22041
€ 32.50
H+N+S Landscape Architects has enjoyed a prominent role in landscape architecture in the Netherlands ever since their successful debut with Plan Stork over 30 years ago. Their designs are a testament to deep insights and long-term perspectives, while water management and our relationship with nature feature strongly in their portfolio. The practice has evolved over the years from being primarily a “thinking office” to becoming a “making office” as well. This edition features over 30 projects by H+N+S, including Rotterdam’s Maasvlakte II, Van Abbemuseum, IJburg in Amsterdam, and Belle-Vue Park in Leuven, as well as contributions from Hans van der Meer and Siebe Swart.
192 p, ills colour & bw, 23 x 30 cm, pb, Dutch/English
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Scape 17 Landscape Architecture Urbanism
Isbn 9789492474490
Publisher Blauwdruk
Idea code 22042
€ 24.50
The bulk of this edition is devoted to a dossier on designers who work in the margins of the profession, in areas where “world-class” is not relevant. Traversing the globe, from the slums of Cape Town and degraded farmlands in Kenya, to a refugee camp in Jordan and a Peruvian rainforest, new concepts are of lesser importance where the desire for change is a lot more urgent. Six projects are featured in which the designers are driven by a sense of “loyalty” to our capacity to alter environments and make a spatial difference that matters. Several of them were also invited to talk about these aspirations, including from the landscape architecture firms OKRA, BALJON, and H+N+S.
224 p, ills colour & bw, 17 x 24 cm, pb, English
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René Heyvaert - Denver Mosaic 1961
Isbn 9789464460063
Publisher Roma Publications
Idea code 22022
€ 24.00
In 1961, Belgian architect René Heyvaert conceived ‘Denver Mosaic’ for a building on the outskirts of Denver, Colorado. Due to its scale, permanence, and site specificity, the mosaic has a spatial operation that is closely linked to architecture and embodies many aspects that would play an important role in Heyvaert’s later two-dimensional and sculptural works as an artist. The time he spent in the United States marks a transformative period in which he initiated his transition from architect to visual artist; the mosaic is the most significant work produced in this period. This edition is a spin-off of research conducted by the design office AVDAK for an exhibition on Heyvaert’s work.
34 p, 22 x 28 cm, ills colour, pb, English
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Arquitectura Viva 239: Expo Dubai 2020
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Publisher Avisa
Idea code 21740
€ 18.20
Themed ‘Connecting Minds, Creating the Future,’ the first universal exposition ever to be held in the Middle East will until 31 March 2022 showcase proposals that the participating nations have brought, in the spirit of strengthening ties and confronting current challenges together. Mobility, opportunity, and sustainability are the conceptual threads of the Expo, around which the rest of the pavilions are arranged. Arquitectura Viva takes stock of the event through an article by the Dubai-based Spanish architect Ignacio Nieto de la Cal and a selection of twelve pavilions.
80 p, ills colour & bw, 24 x 30 cm, pb, Spanish/English
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AV Proyectos 108: Dossier Flores & Prats
Isbn 1697493X
Publisher Avisa
Idea code 21741
€ 11.40
After cutting their teeth at the office of Enic Miralles, Ricardo Flores and Eva Prats started their own practice in Barcelona in 1998. Their systematic, disciplined manner of thinking and analysis is inseparable from their work as architects, which is in turn represented by the selection of projects here. Featured are the New Arnau Theatre, La Favorita Refurbishment, and Cal Maiol School, all in Barcelona; new projects in London, Belgium, and Sweden; and Liquid Light, for the Biennale in Venice. Also in this edition, an overview of playgrounds as colourful landscapes, with examples by SLAS architects, Tomas Ghisellini, Crossboundaries, De Villar Chacón Arquitectos, and more.
80 p, ills colour & bw, 24 x 30 cm, pb, Spansih/English
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gta Papers 6 The Cornice
Isbn 9783856764173
Publisher gta Verlag
Idea code 22036
€ 25.50
Cornices are everywhere in architecture. But it is in their nature to be viewed indirectly or observed inadvertently. Once the focus of attention, their omnipresence is almost irritating. So a particular ambivalence persists around the cornice in architecture. In terms of design and composition, it seems to be among the essential elements, like the column, wall, and beam. Yet it can also be too decorative, even artificial. These ambiguities lend the cornice a particular status. Celebrated, censured, and condemned, it emerges as a key witness to fundamental debates about architecture, both as a design problem and a cultural practice. This edition examines the cornice in all its facets.
134 p, ills colour & bw, 21 x 30 cm, pb, English
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C3 416: Irregular Living - Heritage And Reuse
Isbn 20925190
Publisher C3 Publishing
Idea code 21629
€ 28.80
Two themes are the focus of this issue, “Irregular Living” and “Heritage and Reuse”. The first looks at new approaches to mid-size, multi-unit residential housing projects which are situated on an atypical or unusual site. Among the five examples are Gardenhouse in Los Angeles by MAD Architects and Pedra Líquida’s São Bento Residences in Porto. The second theme addresses the adaptive reuse of industrial heritage, such as Studio Gang’s reinvention of the Beloit Powerhouse in Chicago, Silo Erlenmatt Renovation in Basel by Harry Gugger Studio, and the redevelopment of aeronautical buildings in Toulouse into La Cité Innovation Hub by Taillandier Architectes Associés.
232 p, ills colour & bw, 23 x 30 cm, pb, Korean/English
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GA Houses 178
Isbn 9784871406000
Publisher Ada Edita
Idea code 22044
€ 26.25
‘GA Houses’ documents outstanding new residential architecture from all over the world. In this issue: Morphosis' Alison-Mayne Residence, Pavillion House by Gus Wusterman, along houses by Hiroyuki Arima, Tomohiro Hata, Takeshi Hirobe, Hirotaka Kidosaki, Masakatsu Matsuyama and Takashi Ikeda+Takako Ikeda.
160 p, ills colour & bw, 23 x 30 cm, pb, Japanese/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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Vesper 5: Moby Dick
Isbn 9788822907141
Publisher Quodlibet
Idea code 21699
€ 19.35
Published in 1851, Herman Melville’s famous seafaring narrative serves as a manifesto of motions and actions such as challenge, obsession, adventure, and failure. As such, it inspires the theme of this issue, “frontier research” – a mode of investigation literally positioned at the extremes of knowledge, at the edge of what is known. Working at the edges means tackling controversial issues which are difficult to reconcile with established methodologies. It aims to refute dominant paradigms, which means working with a high degree of uncertainty and failure. To search for the white whale is to swim against the tide, to see beyond or pursue other ways of seeing, and to challenge oneself.
224 p, ills colour & bw, 21 x 29 cm, pb, Italian/English
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Recipes For The Future
Isbn 9789493148413
Publisher Onomatopee
Idea code 21707
€ 16.00
Sixteen culture makers who are Zeitzeugen (contemporary witnesses) of the COVID-19 pandemic sketch how things can be different in the future. Their visions for the future came about as a reaction to the disruption of their plans for 2020, and have one thing in common: the ambition to change and to widen the limits of our imagination. The visions and recipes of these writers, academics, philosophers, singers, visual artists, theatre makers and designers working in the Netherlands and Germany, paint a heterogeneous picture. They develop through themes such as real utopias, sustainability, the new domesticity, and the role of cultural institutions in our society.
384 p, ills ills colour & bw, 17 x 24 cm, pb, Dutch/German/English
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What Bungalows Can Tell
Isbn 9789493148505
Publisher Onomatopee
Idea code 21720
€ 20.00
This book is the result of extensive artistic and architectural research on the village of Kaliurang (Yogyakarta region, Indonesia). It brings together different essays and a series of photographs that critically explore the spatial, transformative effects of globalisation and heritage formation on a local scale. It looks specifically at the colonial bungalows —what can they tell?— and the stories around them, questioning how they were used in the past, what their function is in the present and what they can represent in the future.
172 p, ills ills colour & bw, 17 x 21 cm, pb, Indonesian/English
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Arquitectura Viva 240: Herzog & de Meuron
Isbn
Publisher Avisa
Idea code 22012
€ 18.20
Jacques Herzog and Pierre de Meuron have been successful in combining an artistic idea of architecture with an efficient response to the changing scenarios of globalisation. On the other hand, they display a stubborn militancy in their design discipline and have a firm grasp of the economic and logistical demands faced by a firm that is simultaneously a “brand” and an “enterprise”. This issue features three of their recently completed museums: M+Museum in Hong Kong, Küppersmühle Museum extension in Duisburg, and SONGEUN Art Space in Seoul. Also in this issue, projects that show how dwellings designed for animals can still be sensitive, inspiring architecture.
80 p, ills colour & bw, 24 x 30 cm, pb, Spanish/English
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Urban Oases - Dutch Hofjes As Hidden Architectural Gems
Isbn 9789462086609
Publisher Nai010 Publishers
Idea code 22015
€ 39.95
Dutch hofjes have been capturing the imagination for six centuries; their special architecture makes these small, hidden urban oases unabatedly topical. In every period architects have innovated the 14th-century archetype in response to changing societal needs. Residents and visitors always experience a special, urban intimacy in an atmosphere of collectivity. 'Urban Oases' unravels the sustainable manifestation of the hofje. It takes the reader into the alleyways of ancient cities and also addresses an important contemporary question: How can we create high-quality, compact residential environments that bring peace to the often chaotic urban environment?
192 p, ills colour & bw, 21 x 26 cm, pb, English
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Glass Design Innovations In Architecture
Isbn 9789462086722
Publisher Nai010 Publishers
Idea code 22016
€ 39.95
Many buildings are made with standard or system products. However, a whole new world opens up when the architect, in line with his or her design, designs parts that specifically match the architectural expression of the building. The hidden possibilities of glass are a great source of inspiration for this. This book covers product development in glass facades, glass roofs and even applications of cold bent and cold turned double laminated glass. Based on many examples realized in the Netherlands and abroad, Mick Eekhout shows how to design new glass components and develop them step by step from wild ideas to certified building components that enhance the specific character of the building.
192 p, ills colour & bw, 21 x 30 cm, pb, Dutch/English
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How A City Listens - Zine#5
Isbn
Publisher Onomatopee
Idea code 22019
€ 5.00
This zine is the last of five publications exploring what it means to live in a city of the future. The topics covered while local, tie into the wider global debate surrounding big data and citizenship. In this edition sound is used to understand the presence of microphones on our streets. Two case studies have been used to demonstrate the difference between amplification and capture in public space. Where do we collectively stand when our voices are seized and uploaded to the network?
44 p, ills ills colour & bw, 12 x 20 cm, pb, English
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Symbiosis Polymorf
Isbn 9789492051776
Publisher The Eriskay Connection
Idea code 21667
€ 12.00
Symbiosis is a performative, multi-user and multi-sensory VR installation which redesigns the human body, allowing participants to embody the inhabitants of this post-human reality. This publication takes a deeper dive into these post-human body architectures and their social context, and includes the full scripts for the experience as well as an in-depth look at its creation. Based on Donna Haraway’s “speculative fabulations”, Dutch experience design collective POLYMORF offers a speculative future, investigating the effects of a more symbiotic exchange of genetic, cultural and technological traits between people and other living entities.
96 p, ills colour & bw, 11 x 16 cm, pb, English
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