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New Titles in Architecture & Landscape 4 April 2022
El Croquis 213: Taller Héctor Barroso (2015–2022)

Isbn 9788412333176
Publisher El Croquis
Idea code 22152
€ 73.00

Based in Mexico City, Taller Héctor Barroso primarily focuses on residential architecture. This issue features recent work since 2015, including profiles of thirteen projects that range from standalone dwellings and groups of houses to apartment buildings and a sports complex. To supplement the selected projects, Hugo Sánchez converses with Héctor Barroso about the creative process. The issue also includes an in-depth analysis of the practice’s architecture written by Spanish architect and critic Jesús Vassallo.

320 p, ills colour & bw, 25 x 34 cm, pb, Spanish/English

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AMAG 26: Tomoaki Uno

Isbn 9789895333028
Publisher AMAG Publisher
Idea code 22155
€ 42.90

Tomoaki Uno founded his practice in Nagoya in 1990 and has since gained a reputation for great attention for detail, accuracy, and pureness of form. This approach is reflected both technically and emotionally in the twelve works featured in this issue, which offers an intimate and close reading of the Japanese architect’s approach to design. Among these are Haguro House, Kikko House, Shigo Atelier, and Shironishi House. Essays by Ana Leal and José Manuel Pedreirinho lend additional insight.

208 p, ills colour & bw, 24 x 32 cm, pb, Portuguese/Japanese/English

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Residential Masterpieces 32: Gerrit Rietveld - Rietveld Schröder House

Isbn 9784871405652
Publisher Ada Edita
Idea code 21722
€ 29.45

An icon of the modern movement and De Stijl, the Rietveld Schröder House in the Netherlands was designed by Dutch architect Gerrit Rietveld (1888–1964) and completed in 1924. In 2000 the house was placed on the UNESCO World Heritage List. Built together with his client, it was Rietveld’s first architectural manifestation, and would prove to be the key work for his entire oeuvre. The relationship between interior and exterior, for instance, would continue to play a major role in the form and situation of his houses. Another fascination of Rietveld’s was the open floor plan. Photographer Yoshio Futagawa pays tribute to a pioneering monument of experimental residential design.

64 p, ills colour & bw, 26 x 37 cm, pb, Japanese/English

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Harvard Design Magazine 49: Publics

Isbn 9781934510834
Publisher Harvard University
Idea code 22153
€ 17.85

There are deep concerns for the status of our shared commonwealth in the wake of the multiple political controversies and social crises of the past two decades. This issue of ‘Harvard Design’ addresses the status of “the public” in political and social discourse, in design thinking and practice, and in the built environment itself. Leading public intellectuals, scholars, and practitioners in architecture, urban planning, landscape architecture, social sciences, and humanities ponder the fate of the public in a world where xenophobic thinking and challenges to collective responsibility are becoming ever more dominant. The magazine is guested edited by Anita Berrizbeitia and Diane E. Davis.

160 p, ills colour & bw, 23 x 30 cm, pb, English

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New Public Spaces

Isbn 9783944425122
Publisher M Books
Idea code 22025
€ 58.30

Public spaces are being renegotiated in the 21st century. Throughout Europe, there are demands for car-free, climate-compatible, diversely usable, and aesthetically attractive places where people can gather. Urban squares play a key role in this respect. This publication highlights 32 squares located in 16 European countries, all of which have been designed or redesigned in last 20 years. Among these are Trafalgar Square, London, Benthemplein, Rotterdam, Stephansplatz, Vienna, and Nørre Voldgade, Copenhagen. The book introduces the current debate and methods for organising and designing such places, then goes on to present detailed analyses of the selected examples.

384 p, ills colour & bw, 23 x 30 cm, pb, German/English

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Faschismus und Architektur - Max Bächer's confrontation with Albert Speer

Isbn 9783944425153
Publisher M Books
Idea code 22026
€ 15.05

Architect Max Bächer established himself at the forefront of West German post-war architecture, considerably influencing the state’s architectural development from 1960 through the 21st century. In particular, he studied the architecture of fascism as a historical phenomenon. In this publication, Frederike Lausch analyses his extensive collection of documents for the first time, including on the National Socialist period. Bächer himself met Nazi architect Albert Speer in 1973. The previously unpublished record of that exchange is the starting point for this examination of Bächer’s intensive search to reveal the complex relationship between architecture and fascism.

276 p, ills colour & bw, 16 x 23 cm, pb, German/English

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50U, 50 years United Arab Emirates

Isbn 9789077966921
Publisher Archis
Idea code 22135
€ 34.00

Published on the occasion of the 50th anniversary of the confederation of the United Arab Emirates, ‘50U’ tells the story of the seven Gulf states in 50 portraits of people, plants, and places. Designed by Irma Boom, the book paints an intimate picture of life in the Emirates through the memories, hopes, and ambitions of its inhabitants. Over a period of just half a century, they have witnessed the transformation of a partly nomadic, partly urbanised community into a metropolitan and globally active society, from open desert to high-rise buildings. Numerous interviews with people from all walks of life give a first-hand impression of what it has been like to grow up or settle in the region.

352 p, ills colour, 17 x 24 cm, pb, English

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On Cities: Masterclass Series Vol. 1

Isbn 9788494717963
Publisher Ivorypress
Idea code 22133
€ 22.75

This first volume launches the Norman Foster Foundation’s Masterclass Series with a close examination of cities and urbanism today. Following an introduction by Norman Foster, “Cities in Pandemics”, various experts and critics in the field weigh in on a number of themes around the topic, including Urban Equity and Inclusivity, Participation and Community Building, Working and Well-Being, Mobility and Transport, Urban Form and City Behaviour, Sustainability and Urban Resilience, and Urban Morphology. Foster writes that, post-pandemic, our cities could be more beautiful, more desirable, offer more opportunities and be quieter, safer, greener, and simply more fun.

200 p, ills bw, 17 x 23 cm, pb, English

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A+U 618 22:03 Colombia

Isbn 9784900212756
Publisher Shinkenchiku-sha
Idea code 22156
€ 23.90

This issue offers an inside look at the architecture, landscape, and cities of Colombia, a land of fabulous natural beauty that has used architecture as a key agent in rebuilding its cities and civil society following decades of strife. A photo essay by Camilo Echavarría shows how travels through the tropical region reveal a homogenous, abstract passage of time, where architecture is conditioned by various landscapes and geographic diversity. Medellín-based architect and guest editor Camilo Restrepo Ochoa leads this journey through Colombia, showing works by fourteen practices across three generations, and neighbourhoods that are reinvigorated through mobility and urban space.

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

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A+U 617 22:02 Bernardo Bader

Isbn 9784900212749
Publisher Shinkenchiku-sha
Idea code 22068
€ 23.90

The Austrian practice of Bernardo Bader comes into focus in this edition, illuminated in essays by Arno Ritter and Florian Sauter. Featured are projects for sporting events and activities, such as Reichshof Stadium, Ski Lodge Wolf, and the Alpine Sports Centre, as well as profiles of renovations and new works, encompassing several houses, the Susi Weigel Kindergarten, Salgenreute Chapel, Klostergasse Studio, and an Islamic cemetery. Also in this issue, the winning entries of the Central Glass International Architectural Design Competition 2021 are presented and the awarded British architect Richard Rogers (1933–2021) is remembered.

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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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Kerb 29: Wild

Isbn 9781922601025
Publisher Uro Publications
Idea code 22100
€ 25.00

An expanding array of human-made disturbances confronts our world: climate crises, global pandemic, species extinctions, land degradation. Yet the full extent of our impact on the planet remains uncertain. The systems we have established to civilise and control our environment have distanced us from our landscapes, their non-human inhabitants, and each other. Looking through the lens of the “wild”, this issue considers notions such as the human/wild binary, empty wilderness, “othering” and “abandonment”, as well as emergent practices in designing with wilderness and digital tools. With contributions by Dermot Foley, Charles Massy, Carol Moukheiber, Martin Hogue, and more.

128 p, ills colour & bw, 21 x 30 cm, pb, English

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GA Houses 179

Isbn 9784871406031
Publisher Ada Edita
Idea code 22170
€ 26.25

‘GA Houses’ documents outstanding new residential architecture from all over the world. In this issue projects by Wespi & De Meuron (House in Klingnau), Fran Silvestre (Pati Blau and House Of Silence), as well as Waro Kishi, Yohei Takano+Sachiko Morita, Naoto Fukasawa, Yo Shimada, and others.

160 p, ills colour & bw, 23 x 30 cm, pb, Japanese/English

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C3 417: Civic Architecture in Transition

Isbn 20925190
Publisher C3 Publishing
Idea code 22050
€ 28.80

Besides new projects by Miralles Tagliabue EMBT, Renzo Piano Building Workshop, and JKMM Architects, this issue includes a special feature on civic architecture in an age of transition, introduced by an article on the legacy of civic space by Gihan Karunaratne. The feature includes four examples of optimistic 21st-century projects: the Urban Environment House by Lahdelma & Mahlamäki Architects, Bodø City Hall by Atelier Lorentzen Langkilde, Province of Antwerp Headquarters by Xaveer De Geyter Architects, and Kiruna Town Hall by Henning Larsen. A feature on dwellings presents work by Bak Gordon, Studio Billy Maynard, Ludwig Godefroy, and Barclay & Crousse.

232 p, ills colour & b/w, 23 x 30 cm, pb, Korean/English

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Imagination and Participation - Next Step In Public Library Architecture

Isbn 9789462086623
Publisher Nai010 Publishers
Idea code 22002
€ 41.75

How can the public library fulfil its classic social mission in our individualised and sometimes fragmented society? And how does such a library fit into the urban public space, in which commerce and consumption seem to reign supreme? This requires innovative architecture, the strength of imagination and the willingness to think countercyclically. In 'Imagination and Participation' librarians Rob Bruijnzeels and Joyce Sternheim examine the most important transitions in public library work. With insight from experts and top Dutch architects who have designed public libraries in the Netherlands and abroad.

192 p, ills colour & bw, 23 x 28 cm, pb, English

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Co-emerging Economies - Exploring Radical Perspectives on Post-Anthropocentric Economies

Isbn 9789464370959
Publisher Lecturis
Idea code 22129
€ 12.00

There is a growing awareness that the current global economic model is responsible for the deterioration of the environment and natural systems on our planet. This not only threatens humans but also has consequences for all Earth’s species. This book presents contributions from a workshop developed by Baltan Laboratories and Philips Experience Design and Research Group New Economy at Avans University of Applied Sciences in the Netherlands. The perspectives put forward join two future trajectories inspired by a post-anthropocentric view. In sharing the process of co-creation, the editors seek to engage others in this collective effort for radical future economic thinking.

284 p, ills colour & bw, 12 x 20 cm, pb, English

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