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El Croquis 215-216: Álvaro Siza (2015-2022)
Isbn 9788412532302
Publisher El Croquis
Idea code 22445
€ 92.00
The magazine profiles Alvaro Siza’s recent work in this special edition. Featuring projects since 2015, it underlines why the Portuguese architect remains one of the most respected designers today. A variety of typologies and scales are covered, from extremely compact works such as the Clay Pavilion for teaching local earthenware techniques in Oaxaca (Mexico), a chapel in Miljana (Croatia) as part of a farmhouse restoration project, and an observation tower with lookout post in the Portuguese mountains, to prominent works like the Huamao Museum of Art Education (China) and the Gramaxo Foundation Headquarters in Maia (Portugal), and many more.
424 p, ills colour & bw, 25 x 34 cm, pb, Spanish/English
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SUEP. 10 Stories of Architecture on Earth
Isbn 9784887063976
Publisher Toto
Idea code 22387
€ 40.70
Since its establishment in 2003, the architectural practice SUEP. has been engaged in design activities based on the theme of “symbiosis with nature”. Led by Hirokazu Suemitsu and Yoko Suemitsu, the practice’s focus lies in not only bringing happiness to people or to the Earth, but to both. This book presents ten architectural projects undertaken by the SUEP. team, introduced as a series of stories in order to highlight the trajectory of their thinking. In addition to these works, numerous investigations and studies conducted during the process of design and creation provide clues for thinking about the future of our planet.
400 p, ills colour & bw, 15 x 23 cm, pb, Japanese/English
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AV Monographs 243-244: Spain 2022
Isbn 9788412520231
Publisher Avisa
Idea code 22461
€ 68.25
After the traumatic experience of the previous year, 2021 was the year of overcoming the pandemic and of preparing for a long-awaited return to normalcy. The ‘AV Monographs Yearbook’ covers the most important events of the period, gathering 24 buildings that represent the best architecture constructed in Spain. Aside from a few large-scale works, like the Córdoba Library by Paredes Pedrosa or the Celta FC Sports City by Irisarri Piñera, the selection clearly reflects how the climate crisis has become a top priority for architects, especially younger ones, who choose sustainable materials like wood.
240 p, ills colour & bw, 24 x 30 cm, pb, Spanish/English
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Scape Volume #18 Landscape Architecture Urbanism
Isbn 9789492474568
Publisher Blauwdruk
Idea code 22468
€ 24.50
Marc Wilson’s images of World War II defence structures inspire thinking about how we deal with these scars in the landscape. Should they be left to the elements and become ruins? Or are they useable for new functions? In the Netherlands, designers are turning similar objects into extraordinary places. The global pandemic has been a time of experimentation as we tried to navigate altered cities. How might a period of upheaval help us rethink the future trends of urban development? Plus, a portrait of the female-led and ecologically focused Finnish office Nomaji, street art in Madrid as sociocultural intervention, the importance of rural places for urban renewal, and more.
176 p, ills colour & bw, 17 x 24 cm, pb, English
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a+u 622 22:07 Landscape Urbanism in France
Isbn 9784900212794
Publisher Shinkenchiku-sha
Idea code 22414
€ 23.90
Since the 1970s, the pioneering generation of Michel Corajoud, Alexandre Chemetoff, Gilles Clément, and Jacques Simon have brought the modern discipline of landscape architecture to the urban realm in France, along with its emphasis on a horticultural approach. Yet this urban turn has deep roots in agriculture and land management, formal gardens, and the military and civil engineering practices of the nation’s early modern period in the 18th and 19th centuries. Exploring the evolution of the discipline among French practitioners while taking stock of the multitude of forms, this issue features six canonical works by these pioneers and seventeen projects representing current trends.
168 p, ills colour & bw, 22 x 29 cm, pb, Japanese/English
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Opening Cities - Migrants In Urban Space
Isbn 9789068688535
Publisher Thoth
Idea code 22384
€ 24.95
Migration is one of the most pressing and complex spatial urban challenges in Europe today. At present, not a single urban strategy convincingly enables us to receive new arrivals – labour migrants, refugees, asylum seekers, etc. – at the heart of our societies and cities. Policymakers often see migrants’ housing problems as temporary. Not only does this lead to exclusion and missed opportunities, it also results in a monoculture that can be seen as negative for urban space. By focusing on two case studies, in Athens and Amsterdam, Lena Kappers presents a strategy in three steps that forms the basis for an alternative approach to the organisation of migration in the European city.
240 p, ills colour, 17 x 24 cm, pb, English
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Nikola Dobrović: The Shifting Modes of Critical Practice in Architecture
Isbn 9789081920773
Publisher The Architecture Observer
Idea code 22465
€ 25.00
Nikola Dobrović, the Serbian architect and urban planner, is generally considered to be Yugoslavia’s most important modern architect, having significantly contributed to the nation’s post-war identity. Recognised among the European intellectual avant-garde, he was a pioneer among Yugoslavian architects in resisting the influence of tradition. Dobrović is best known for his Federal Ministry of Defence building in Belgrade, bombed by NATO in 1999, and enjoyed a prolific career in cities like Prague, Dubrovnik and Belgrade. Dobrović’s life, career and achievements, not to mention a rich and complex body of work that resists simple categorisation, are documented in full.
248 p, ills bw, 15 x 20 cm, pb, English
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Dixit 04: On Process Jan Kinsbergen/David Klemmer
Isbn 9782493283108
Publisher Caryatide
Idea code 22426
€ 19.35
This fourth issue features a dichotomous visual atlas around the theme of the process, with input from architects Jan Kinsbergen and David Klemmer. A visual documentary of architectonic conception, structural engineering, and visualisation, it shows how the ultimate ambition of the real construction site only marks the start of another process of appropriation, life cycle analysis, and change. Kinsbergen studied architecture at ETH Zurich and later moved to New York City, where he worked at Steven Holl’s office until 1999. Klemmer is an Austrian architect based in Zurich who has worked as a CGI artist in collaboration with renowned architecture firms for over a decade.
64 p, ills bw, 23 x 30 cm, pb, French/English
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Shinkenchiku March 2022 Special Issue - Japan National Stadium
Isbn 9784786903267
Publisher Shinkenchiku-sha
Idea code 22405
€ 38.70
The Japan National Stadium was completed at the end of November 2019. The new stadium connects to the surrounding environment through its abundant use of wood, building height reduced to a minimum, and intermediate spaces created by eaves and engawa, despite being a massive sports facility that can house over 60,000 people for games and events such as the Tokyo Olympic and Paralympic Games. This special issue captures the National Stadium through various themes, recording and introducing in detail the design concept and process, engineering, construction, etc.
200 p, ills colour & bw, 22 x 30 cm, pb, Japanese/English
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Arquitectura Viva 244 Ecosistemas.zip Spain's Next Generation
Isbn 02141256
Publisher Avisa
Idea code 22381
€ 20.45
The generation born since 1986, the year Spain joined the European Union, marks a turning point in Spanish architecture. They started architecture school during years of plenty, only to soon find themselves challenged by the sombre reality of recession. Now, these young architects are dealing with a pandemic that has eroded all hope of stability. For ‘Ecosistemas.zip’, four curators examined the work processes of architects under 35 years old to define the professional ecosystem in which they operate. A selection from among the 300 practices in the exhibition’s database features in this issue, along with special projects that illustrate the country’s young architectural scene.
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AV Proyectos 111: TEd’A arquitectes
Isbn 1697493X
Publisher Avisa
Idea code 22403
€ 13.65
'AV Proyectos 111' dedicates its dossier to TEd’A arquitectes, the Palma de Mallorca-based studio led by Irene Pérez and Jaume Mayol, whose projects reinterpret traditional building techniques. The ensuing chapter covers the competitions to design the Joint Research Centre in Sevilla, with BIG’s winning project as well as the second and third prizes. Also included six examples of interventions on heritage in Spain, which avoid altering the relationship between the remains and their environment. The construction section features the sports park designed by MAD Architects in Quzhou, where the stadium, the first element to be completed, is gradually unveiled as a light floating structure from the different paths that lead to the venue.
80 p, ills colour & bw, 21 x 30 cm, pb, Spanish/English
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Hotel do Mar 1960-1970 Terraces on a cliff by the sea
Isbn 9789895440184
Publisher A+A Books
Idea code 22390
€ 41.95
This volume focuses on the period 1960–1970, which coincides with documents found in the archives of architect Francisco da Conceição Silva, who, like his peers at the time, broke with the reverence for traditional fine arts embedded in the previous generation in Portugal to conceive a modernist solution which both responded to the wishes of his client and to the demands of the site. Built in two phases, the Hotel do Mar started on a hillside and subsequently cascaded down the cliff to meet the sea. Part of the S1NGLE series, each of which is dedicated to analysing a single work of architecture from a historical and critical perspective, but also from a current one.
130 p, ills colour & bw, 20 x 25 cm, pb, Portuguese/English
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Log 54 Winter/Spring 2022: Coauthoring
Isbn 9781736500729
Publisher Anyone Corporation
Idea code 22377
€ 21.25
With the addition of the prefix “co-”, the word authoring is expanded beyond the idea of the singular writer to a multiplicity that includes both people and things. In this issue, guest edited by Ana Miljački and Ann Lui, coauthoring functions as both noun and verb. In architecture, authorship is an uncommon term, and yet books and mass media have created the idea of an architectural author that is singular and does not reflect the teams of people and things that produce buildings. Architecture may always have been a collaborative project, but as this issue shows, the introduction of coauthoring into the terminology of design discourse refers to more than individual credit for a project.
176 p, ills colour & bw, 17 x 24 cm, pb, English
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Paden door de Jungle – Architectuurkritiek van Hans van Dijk
Isbn 9789077966945
Publisher Archis
Idea code
€ 24.30
De selectie artikelen van Hans van Dijk in WonenTABK/ARCHIS, NRC Handelsblad, Forum, Jaarboek Architectuur, etc. geven zowel een portret van zijn werk als ‘journalist’, criticus en hoofdredacteur (van Archis), als van een invloedrijke generatie architecten en het toenmalig debat over structuralisme, stadsvernieuwing, (post)modernisme, en de legitimiteit van architectuur. Een goed begrip voor het werk van Hans van Dijk kan helpen in het huidige, globale landschap van architectuurpublicaties nieuwe mogelijkheden voor kritiek te vinden, in de context van de mondiale klimaat- en ongelijkheidscrisis. Door het aanreiken van noties en achtergronden kan een lezer zelf tot een oordeel komen. Met die aanpak wist hij keer op keer een bodem in de oordeelsvorming te leggen
256 p, ills colour & bw, pb, Dutch
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The Future is a Journey to the Past. Ten Stories About Architecture
Isbn 9788822908247
Publisher Quodlibet
Idea code 22464
€ 15.00
After decades spent sensitizing his own field of work to themes concerning people’s respect for nature, Mario Cucinella has collected his memories of ten journeys to cities and other places. Each one of them provided him with food for thought that was neither exotic nor “stylistic,” but rather pragmatically environmental, and helped him to reflect on the rational exploitation of available energy resources – a common practice in the vernacular traditions of every culture, from Iran to China, and from Maghreb to Ireland. These ten stories about architecture project us forward.
128 p, ills bw, 12 x 18 cm, pb, English
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The Public Interior As Idea And Project
Isbn 9789490322526
Publisher Jap Sam Books
Idea code 22347
€ 26.75
The interior is that space that architecture makes, which is at once set apart from the world and in its midst. Regardless of its scale, whether that of a dwelling, a temple, a settlement, a city or a continental territory, the interior is informed and shaped by ideas. These ideas appear in architecture and in the great variety of its interiors that we take to be public: those within which we consider ourselves to be free individuals, and where we see ourselves among others; those within which we are conscious of our place in society and in the world. Public interiors have been designed to affect and condition our consciousness and our behaviour, our relations to others and to authority.
302 p, ills colour & bw, 17 x 24 cm, pb, English
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Back To The Office - 50 Revolutionary Office Buildings And How They Sustained
Isbn 9789462086524
Publisher Nai010 Publishers
Idea code 22435
€ 69.00
Able to work anywhere we have a tortured relationship with the office today. Desperate to work again in physically shared spaces, we are also now questioning whether offices are needed at all. Offices themselves labour under intolerable forces too: 21st-century building regulations suggest redesigning them every seven-to-ten years, managerial strategies shift every five years, and employees cycle every two. As a result, offices are renewed with alarming frequency. With the future of our workspaces so uncertain, Back to the Office works overtime inside the revolutionary offices of the 20th century, and asks what endured from their architecture, their materials, and the work ideologies they embodied.
520 p, ills colour & bw, 24 x 32 cm, hb, English
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Architecture and Technology: Future of Cities
Isbn 9788494717932
Publisher Norman Foster Foundation
Idea code 22454
€ 45.50
‘Architecture and Technology’ is an anthology of selected lectures from the Norman Foster Foundation education programme of workshops, seminars, and public debates which bring together mentors to engage with students, architects, artists, designers, and experts from around the world. One of the prime objectives of this programme is to prepare younger generations to anticipate the future, and a common thread is the role cities around the globe will play in that future. Following the setbacks and lessons of the global pandemic, the question is not whether cities will survive, but how they will move forward and change. This is our chance to strive for something better.
608 p, ills colour & bw, 17 x 23 cm, pb, English
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Urban Commons Handbook
Isbn 9788412494211
Publisher Dpr-barcelona
Idea code 22460
€ 15.30
Cities have always been a critical space of experimentation. The urban commons transform cities around the globe through projects and practices that challenge capitalist accumulation, extraction, and enclosure. Together, they give shape to a political proposal that requires the invention of new kinds of institutions, spaces, and actors responsible for their production and reproduction. The Urban Commons Research Collective offers this handbook – a compilation of definitions, experiences, and references – as a way to address some of the questions that arise when thinking about the urban commons as open organisational systems for collective management.
218 p, ills colour & bw, 15 x 21 cm, pb, English
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