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New Titles in Architecture & Landscape

3 March 2022

a+t 55: Is this Rural? The Intermediate

Isbn 9788409369294
Publisher a+t architecture publishers
Idea code 22061
€ 26.20

The third and final instalment in the “Is This Rural?” series focuses on the intermediate territory: the most indeterminate in terms of use, the setting where the most complex situations occur, and where the mix of uses is part of its identity. An analysis of this diffuse and increasingly expanded portion of the environment originates a series of explorations towards possible futures in which architecture is obliged to enter into dialogue with the natural sciences. Besides essays by architect and urbanist Javier Mozas and Wrocław-based PROLOG +1, it also features works by Colectivo C733, B-Architecten, Atelier Fanelsa, KOSMOS Architects, Rural Office for Architecture, and others.

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

Wiel Arets - Nature Is Nature

Isbn 9788997775101
Publisher C3 Publishing
Idea code 22076
€ 110.00

A monograph on the architecture and design studio of Wiel Arets, ‘Nature is Nature’ encompasses drawings, images, diagrams, texts, theories, sketches, and more. In his work and philosophy, Arets engages with the relations between humans and nature, interior and exterior, and the experience of the body moving through space within a series of prescribed cinematographic sequences. It is this circulation and routing in his oeuvre, and the ergonomics of interaction with his industrial designs, which is the key feature that defines the studio. The publication gathers signature projects by Arets alongside thoughtful essays, together allowing unique insight into his design approach.

1172 p, ills colour & bw, 24 x 34 cm, hb, Korean/English

Anna Heringer. Essential Beauty

Isbn 9788412454147
Publisher Avisa
Idea code 22065
€ 34.10

‘Anna Heringer. Essential Beauty’ covers the main works and projects by the German architect, from her buildings in Bangladesh – the METI and DESI schools or the Anandaloy Building –, in China – the bamboo shelters and the Ceramics Museum in Majiayao – and in Africa – an educational campus in Ghana or a kindergarten in Zimbabwe –, to the projects developed in Europe, in which she has incorporated traditional materials and techniques from those countries, such as rammed earth. Under the motto ‘Architecture is a tool to improve lives,’ Heringer has also impulsed initiatives like the Dipdii Textiles workshop for women in Bangladesh or the Laufen Manifesto for a more humane design culture.

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

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

Subjective Atlas of Kaunas

Isbn 9789464448009
Publisher Subjective Editions
Idea code 22099
€ 24.50

Between 1919 and 1940, Kaunas served as Lithuania’s temporary capital, triggering a massive boom in construction that greatly increased its urban area. For this instalment of the Subjective Atlas series, a group of almost 40 creative residents mapped the contemporary identity of Kaunas through their personal interests, experiences, and domesticity, visualising the heritage and history of Lithuania’s second-largest city. The book highlights a surprising collection of urban, natural, and everyday spaces and artefacts, inviting readers to reflect on how this material and immaterial modernist heritage is perceived or observed, appreciated or disliked, ignored or associated with.

192 p, ills colour & bw, 17 x 22 cm, pb, Lithuanian/English

Water Futures - Where Will the Water Come From?

Isbn 9780578529080
Publisher A/D/O MINI
Idea code 22087
€ 22.15

Jane Withers Studio has a particular interest in raising awareness of environmental issues andinspiring change through design. The studio draws on an extensive network of architects,designers and professional and academic experts from different fields as collaborators on eachproject. Jane has created critically acclaimed exhibitions and events at the Victoria and AlbertMuseum and Royal Academy of Arts among many others. This research catalogue brings together the findings from the year-long Water Futures programme, exploring the ongoing relationship between drinking water and city life, curated by Jane Withers Studio.

192 p, ills colour & bw, 18 x 26 cm, pb, English

Lost Tablets

Isbn 9781922601186
Publisher Uro Publications
Idea code 22127
€ 25.70

The 'Lost Tablets' are a series of works by Jan van Schaik that explore the geometric language of architecture through the medium of children’s toy building blocks. Constructed by Van Schaik from found blocks, with a mute face on one side and a dynamic, distinctly architectural side on the other, each tablet flickers with strange resonances that point to a shared but deeply subjective symbolism of building. From the buttresses of Gothic cathedrals and the blue ceilings of the Shah Mosque of Isfahan, to the inhabited machines and weightless engineering of the Space Age, the genetic lineage of the 'Lost Tablets' is impossible to unpick, even while the potential connections are hard to ignore.

108 p, ills colour & bw, 15 x 21 cm, pb, English

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

Momentography of a Failure - Addis Ababa

Isbn 9783948212407
Publisher Archive Books
Idea code 21659
€ 30.00

Momentography of a failure [Addis Ababa] brings essays, timelines, film, photography, and a series of conversations together to deal with Ethiopia’s controversial urbanisation and the transformative space of the city. It explores the gradual transition of rural-urban space, inner-city migration, emerging and disappearing spaces, and commoning in public space.

288 p, ills colour & bw, 21 x 28 cm, pb, English

Tadao Ando Recent Project 3

Isbn 9784871406932
Publisher Ada Edita
Idea code 22045
€ 27.65

The third edition of ‘Recent Project’ features new work by Tadao Ando. A total of ten built and unbuilt projects are presented, including Bourse de Commerce (Pinault Collection) in Paris, the Kröller-Müller Museum in the Netherlands, Nakanoshima Children’s Book Forest in Osaka, Wrightwood 659 in Chicago, LG Art Centre in Seoul, International Pacific University (IPU) in Okayama, and more. In his introductory essay, “Architecture as ‘Jewel Box’ to Stimulate the City”, Ando writes how architecture is implemented through a critical attitude towards an existing city. The more essential the criticism, the more radical its expression, and the more it confronts the existing urban and social systems.

160 p, ills colour & bw, 26 x 30 cm, pb, Japanese/English

Emilio Ambasz | Green Architecture & Design Tales

Isbn 9788875709563
Publisher Corraini Edizioni
Idea code 22060
€ 31.60

A pioneer of sustainable architecture, the architect Emilio Ambasz has been pushing forward pressing themes and ideas since the 1970s, from urban forestation to the reuse of existing buildings through the revitalising use of natural elements. Wary of ideology that fades with the passage of time, Ambasz also innovated in the way he presented his projects through the medium of the fable, whose poetic essence resists time with the core of a truth disguised as a children's fairy tale. This book brings together for the first time the design stories and writings with which Emilio Ambasz accompanied his projects.

176 p, ills colour & bw, 18 x 25 cm, hb, English

Private Views - A High Rise Panorama Of Manhattan (Reprint)

Isbn 9788027091256
Publisher Vi Per Gallery
Idea code 22064
€ 76.60

Many want to see Manhattan from above, but very few can do it from their own living room. Andi Schmied’s ‘Private Views’ will satisfy that incessant curiosity about an elite, hidden world we can only observe from the outside. Posing as an apartment-hunting Hungarian billionaire named Gabriella, she accessed and documented Manhattan’s most exclusive high-rise properties, from Trump World Tower and One Madison to the Ritz-Carlton Central Park and the Woolworth Building. The book showcases the surreal strategies of persuasion used by real estate agents, features samples of the world’s most luxurious materials, and is complemented by essays from twelve authors.

228 p, ills colour / bw, 23 X 31 cm, hb, English

Can this be? Surely this cannot be? - Architectural Workers Organizing In Europe

Isbn 9788090843301
Publisher Vi Per Gallery
Idea code 22062
€ 23.50

Comprising a set of essays for and about architectural workers in Europe, this book takes stock of the many people and attitudes involved in the production of architecture. It is for workers who are appalled and disillusioned but who are still part of the architectural industry. For those who are trying to reconcile their dismay with the need to make a living, but who also hold onto a cautious sense of optimism that things will change. Marisa Cortright’s critique of architectural work draws from the direct experiences of architectural workers in Europe, including her own, to address the ideological truths that keep the embattled industry afloat. With an introduction by theorist Douglas Spencer.

100 p, ills colour & bw, pb, English

There, Is The City... And, Here Are My Hands

Isbn 9788090843318
Publisher Vi Per Gallery
Idea code 22063
€ 19.40

This collection can be seen as a fugitive practice in which a group of seven people came together and told stories in order to put into words what they referred to as “Afro-geographies in European enclaves”. It is a storytelling exercise that serves to illuminate their African peoplehood against a backdrop of cities that did not want them and in countries that did not love them back. These are stories of the migrant, the diasporic, the displaced and their carved-out places, spoken aloud to makes sense of their own spatiality and shake the Eurocentric epistemic grounds on which they have been forced to stand. The book is edited, curated, and annotated by Menna Agha and Ola Hassanain.

100 p, ills bw, 12 x 18 cm, pb, English

A+U 615 2021:12 Paulo Mendes Da Rocha

Isbn 9784900212725
Publisher Shinkenchiku-sha
Idea code 21698
€ 23.90

Hailing from Brazil, architect Paulo Mendes da Rocha (1928–2021) played a key role in the creation of the country’s brand of modernism through his distinct and powerful use of concrete. In his public buildings can be found something more than materiality, however, sensed in their profound ethic towards users and inhabitants. Together with new analyses by José Paulo Gouvêa, this monographic issue features six of Mendes da Rocha’s most significant projects, demonstrating his contributions to public space. In addition, it offers glimpses into his home and office as well as a number of newly conserved and digitalised sketches and drawings from his archive.

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

A+U 616 22:01 Dwelling Studies and Japan’s Women Architects

Isbn 9784900212732
Publisher Shinkenchiku-sha
Idea code 22003
€ 23.90

The first issue of 2022 is entirely dedicated to a special feature, “Dwelling Studies and Japan’s Women Architects”. Beginning with an introduction by Atelier Bow-Wow co-founder Momoyo Kaijima, it includes insightful written contributions from Yuzuru Tomonaga, Izumi Kuroishi, Namiko Minai, and Michelle L. Hauk. A wide array of works by women architects is presented, among them projects by Yuki Ishiguro, Akiko Miya, Rie Azuma, Masako Hayashi, and SANAA co-founder Kazuyo Sejima. The feature also includes an interview with Nobuko Ogawa and a conversation between Kazuyo Sejima and Satoko Shinohara, architect and professor at Japan Women’s University.

ills colour & bw, 22 x 29 cm, pb,

A+U November 2021 Special Issue Infraordinary Tokyo: The Right To The City

Isbn 9784900212718
Publisher Shinkenchiku-sha
Idea code 22092
€ 28.35

This special issue empowers and encourages the reader to choose paths, as if walking through the city, an intellectual dérive. Rather than presenting a book of pictures, its strategy provides a basic, research-driven bibliography to assist the further exploration of ideas. Opening with an introduction by Darko Radović, it goes on to closely examine the multifaceted Tokyo metropolis from an array of perspectives and themes. These include shared housing, public bathhouses, pseudo-public space, urban spectacle, infills and alleyways, graffiti and street art, stacking historical times, hidden poverty, and more. Radović, Kengo Kuma, and Hidenobu Jinnai discuss the city’s urban DNA.

176 p, ills colour & bw, 18 x 26 cm, pb, Japanese/English

GA Document 158: Steven Holl, SANAA, Kengo Kuma

Isbn 9784871402545
Publisher Ada Edita
Idea code 21565
€ 29.45

GA Document presents the finest in international design, focusing on architecture that expresses our time and striving to record the history of contemporary architecture. International scholars and critics provide insightful texts to further inform the reader of the most up-to-date ideas and events in the profession. This issue features projects by Steven Holl, SANAA, Kazuyo Sejima, Junya Ishigami, and Kengo Kuma + Kajima Design.

144 p, ills colour & bw, 16 x 30 cm, pb, Japanese/English

Anna Bates - 111 Inception

Isbn 9789492852472
Publisher Jap Sam Books
Idea code 22055
€ 25.00

This book is a chain of inspiration that involves 111 architects from around the world. How does inspiration move through the atmosphere? How do we inspire each other? And how does creative inspiration itself change through each person’s unique experience? To find out, Anna Bates initiated an experiment in 2017, tasking one architect to use a painting by Theo van Doesburg as a stimulus for creating their own work. This would then be passed on to other architects, who in turn would draw inspiration for their new work, and so on, growing into a web of conversation, interplay, and inspiration. Gary Bates of Space Group was invited to create the first work.

296 p, ills colour & bw, 13 x 19 cm, pb, English

Against And For Method - Revisiting Architectural Design As Research

Isbn 9783856764135
Publisher gta Verlag
Idea code 21575
€ 30.65

Like researchers, many architects proceed rationally while including acts of spontaneity. Like scientists, architects consider the state of the field as well as gaps in research when creating design proposals. And like laboratories, studios are often sites characterised as much by categorising and arranging knowledge as they are by its pursuit. Teaching studios use procedures that can be considered scientific, approaches which fulfil the requirements of scientific conduct. The contributions and interviews with various practitioners in this book, such as Dietmar Eberle, Anne Lacaton, and Momoyo Kaijima, offer examples of such methodologies and demonstrate their necessity.

250 p, ills colour & bw, 11 x 18 cm, pb, English

Regional Bureaucracy

Isbn 9781922545060
Publisher Perimeter Editions
Idea code 22075
€ 39.85

Over a period of three decades, from 1958 to 1988, the New South Wales Government Architect’s Office (GAO) in Australia realised nearly a thousand buildings across the state. This enormous production was the direct result of an ideological choice, one that involved a brutal commitment to building architecture that was merely adequate. In terms of scale and ambition, the GAO’s operation resembles the laying out of the Roman Empire. It built the infrastructure that holds the territory together, and in doing so literally constructed the state while obliterating the pre-existing country. Through numerous examples, this volume meticulously documents the phenomenon.

224 p, ills colour & bw, 20 x 30 cm, pb, English

Paul Andreu, Architect and Engineer

Isbn 9782373820201
Publisher HYX Editions
Idea code 22057
€ 25.80

Paul Andreu is a key figure in international architecture, renowned for his design and construction of Charles de Gaulle airport from 1968 onwards. The book presents the architect's major projects, most of which were completed: Paris Charles de Gaulle Airport (T1/1968-1974 and T2/1975-2008), Grande Arche de la Défense (1984-1989), Kumihama Golf (study, 1991), Seoul Metropolitan Airport (competition, 1992), Guangzhou-Baiyun Airport (competition, 1998), Osaka Maritime Museum (1993-2000), Shanghai Oriental Arts Centre (2000-2004), National Centre fotr the performing art, Beijing Opera (1999-2007).

104 p, ills colour & bw, 24 x 30 cm, hb, French/English

This Is Sirai Seiichi

Isbn 9784861528712
Publisher Seigensha
Idea code 21633
€ 24.85

Born in Kyoto, Shirai Seiichi (1905–1983) was an architect whose eccentric yet refined style and use of materials conspicuously diverged from the common architecture of the time in Japan. Upon graduating from the design department of the forerunner to today’s Kyoto Institute of Technology, he studied philosophy in Germany before returning to Japan and becoming a self-taught architect. His use of European classicist features and facades, as well as materials like marble and brick, gained him numerous commissions which he executed in a variety of architectural styles. This densely illustrated book appears with the eponymous exhibition at the Shoto Museum of Art.

244 p, ills colour & bw, 19 x 25 cm, pb, Japanese/English


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