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A.MAG 28: Clancy Moore| Ryan W. Kennihan | Steve Larkin
Isbn 9789895333042
Publisher AMAG Publisher
Idea code 22511
€ 53.65
Common to the practices featured in this issue, besides that all three are based in Dublin, is that the interpretation of the location and the simultaneous understanding of the needs of both client and programme always begin the design process. Each project is generated collectively and progressively in the encounter between the inhabitants, the environment where it is embedded, and the dialogue established between the parties. From this combination, a solution is devised and built. Five works by each office are highlighted, reflecting the shared trait of a slow architecture, the characteristic purpose of which is well-being, adaptability, and absence of any stylistic pretension.
210 p, ills colour & bw, 24 x 32 cm, pb, Portuguese/Spanish/English
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AV Monographs 245: David Adjaye
Isbn 9788412520286
Publisher Avisa
Idea code 22449
€ 39.80
After a childhood spent in several African cities and initiatory journeys in the Middle East exploring architectures removed from the hegemonic European canons, David Adjaye settled in London, where he established his first office in 2000. Featured here is a selection of fourteen works and seven projects arranged chronologically, from the architect’s early domestic commissions in the British capital (Elektra House, Dirty House) and iconic buildings in Washington, D.C., and New York, to recent proposals for cultural institutions in Benin City and Johannesburg. It is a varied architecture at the service of its context and the community, determined to offer a diverse account of history.
112 p, ills colour & bw, 24 x 30 cm, pb, Spanish/English
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Holz Bau (Toto)
Isbn 9784887063983
Publisher Toto
Idea code 22493
€ 45.35
‘Holz Bau’ is a study conducted by a small architectural office in Tokyo on German timber architecture. It began with a hunch, a feeling of disconnection between conventional timber construction and traditional methods when designing timber buildings in Japan. The first part features a reissue of a pre-war architectural magazine that served as source material and inspiration to explore further. The second contains photographs of researched buildings, with plans and sections newly created for this book. Lastly, essays about the technical history and potential of timber engineering, plus conversations with architect Go Hasegawa and German architect Jan Theissen of AMUNT. Adjusted re-print.
392 p, ills colour & bw, 16 x 26 cm, pb, Japanese/English
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Casa Kalman – Luigi Snozzi
Isbn 9783856169787
Publisher Christoph Merian
Idea code 22538
€ 40.85
Casa Kalman ranks as a milestone in Swiss architecture of the 1970s. The architect, Luigi Snozzi (1932–2020), considered it to be his most important residential project. This is the first publication devoted specifically to this building. In examining Casa Kalman, it engages with the special topographical context of the holiday home and provides insight into its conception and recognition by the media as an architectural icon. The book also features previously unpublished archival material and an interview with its current owner and inhabitant, the daughter of the woman who commissioned it. Part of a new monographic series on selected examples of Swiss architecture.
160 p, ills colour, 17 x 23 cm, pb, German/English
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a+u 624 09:22 Grafton Architects
Isbn 9784900212817
Publisher Shinkenchiku-sha
Idea code 22524
€ 23.90
Headquartered in Dublin, Grafton Architects was founded in 1978 by Shelley McNamara and Yvonne Farrell. Over four decades, they have built up an impressive roster of buildings and accomplishments. This monographic feature looks back on their development and body of work, presenting key projects such as the Dublin City Library, Solstice Arts Centre, Dunshaughlin Civic Offices, Luigi Bocconi University, and the Marshall Building at the London School of Economics. In addition, essays by Hugh Campbell, Fintan O’Toole, Edward McParland, and the architects themselves lend depth and insight into their attitudes towards architecture and design.
160 p, ills colour & bw, 22 x 29 cm, pb, Japanese/English
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a+u 623 08:22 6a architects
Isbn 9784900212800
Publisher Shinkenchiku-sha
Idea code 22497
€ 23.90
Founded by Tom Emerson and Stephanie MacDonald in 2001, 6a architects is based in London and deeply immersed in the British art and design scene. With a sensitivity to the environment, community, and context, this edition presents 20 projects as distinct experiences, divided into four chapters – “Repairing,” “Gardening,” “Shaping,” and “Walking.” 6a’s earlier works at Raven Row and Clore Studio showcase how the architects “work with what is already there and understand time as part of that existing material.” Includes opening statements by the architects and essays by Sam Jacobs, Anna Puigjaner, Nicholas Lobo Brennan, and Lucia Allais.
176 p, ills colour & bw, 22 x 29 cm, pb, Japanese/English
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Peter Cook On Paper
Isbn 9788774075325
Publisher The Danish Architectural Press
Idea code 22517
€ 52.25
English architect and writer Sir Peter Cook, renowned for his free-thinking spirit translated into architectural lines and shapes, is perhaps most well-known as the co-founder of the avant-garde architectural group Archigram in the 1960s. A selection of his drawings is offered here as part of the exhibition series “Louisiana On Paper” at the Louisiana Museum of Modern Art. Cook believes that visions of the future – whatever it might offer – are most clearly expressed and can best be discussed in drawings. In his work we encounter kaleidoscopic colours and spiralling shapes, voluntary architectural mutations, and twisting and turning buildings transforming into escapist dreamscapes.
158 p, ills colour & bw, 23 x 32 cm, pb, English
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The design of Tactics. Critical Practices Transforming Public Spaces.
Isbn 9788412494204
Publisher Dpr-barcelona
Idea code 22457
€ 18.40
This publication explores the significance of encounters between people and culture in public spaces, points of encounter where they may take place, and counterpoints which may be contained, silenced, or expressed within them. It presents the process and initial outcomes of a three-year investigation into the design of tactical interventions, actions, strategies, and other experiences for revitalising and enhancing the quality of marginal and neglected public spaces in today’s European cities. Public spaces are where many of the contests and negotiations over culture and integration are taking place, whether through participatory activities, activism, or the appropriation in and of these spaces.
194 p, ills colour & bw, 15 x 21 cm, pb, English
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Roadside Picnics. Encounters with the uncanny.
Isbn 9788412494228
Publisher Dpr-barcelona
Idea code 22458
€ 15.30
Through a combination of essays, memoirs, guided imagery, and speculative storytelling, ‘Roadside Picnics’ re-enacts the famous science-fiction novel that addresses the problem of humanity’s contact with another intelligence in the environmental impact and devastation left behind by the visitors. It highlights how architecture and the built environment participate in and condition both our encounters with the unthinkable and possible futures in the Anthropocene. What if, simultaneously, such landscapes of unintended encounters, with the technologies, monuments, ruins, traces, and waste of seemingly supernatural forces, may also afford – and teach us – new designs and tools for survival?
92 p, ills colour & bw, 11 x 18 cm, pb, English
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GA Document 160: International 2022
Isbn 9784871402569
Publisher Ada Edita
Idea code 22437
€ 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 Aires Mateus, Barozzi Veiga, Ensamble Studio, Alberto Kalach, Kengo Kuma, MAD Architects, Jean Nouvel, and SANAA, amongst others.
176 p, ills colour & bw, 26 x 30 cm, pb, Japanese/English
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Arquitectura Viva 245: Francis Kéré
Isbn 02141256
Publisher Avisa
Idea code 22450
€ 20.45
Amid the grandiloquence that architecture of success sometimes seems to don as proof thereof, this year’s Pritzker is the definitive anointing of a practice that stands out for humility and commitment to serve people in the most efficient and economical way possible. This is the hallmark of Francis Kéré, who fuses the best of his Western training with the traditions of a culture anchored to the earth and to a strong sense of community. Arquitectura Viva takes part in celebrating the accolade through a selection of works and projects – two educational centers, a cultural institution, a national legislative assembly – that the Gando-born architect has carried out in different countries in his continent.
ils colour & bw, 24 x 30 cm, pb, Spanish/English
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ZAA Zamboni Associati Architettura - The Cloisters of Saint Peter in Reggio Emilia
Isbn 9788822905864
Publisher Quodlibet
Idea code 22300
€ 36.55
The Cloisters of Saint Peter, a 16th-century Benedictine monastery in the city of Reggio Emilia, have undergone a major restoration and redevelopment. The transformation undertaken by Zamboni Associati Architettura, which falls within the scope of action of the European Fund for Regional Development, is well documented and illustrated in this book. The work boosts the area’s appeal as a cultural magnet and triggers new dynamism through the activities of the Urban Open Laboratory, a sort of forge in which cognitive fields are explored, ideas are distilled, projects are implemented, and processes are created for sustainable social and economic development in the future.
264 p, ills colour & bw, 17 x 24 cm, pb, Italian/English
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La Maddalena - Atlas of an Occupation
Isbn 9788822908230
Publisher Quodlibet
Idea code 22302
€ 34.40
In early autumn 2018, a series of investigations and exploratory experiments took place on the shores of the La Maddalena archipelago, northern Sardinia. The story of these workshops, intended to inspire new images and ideas of the territory, unfolds here. Somewhere between a guide and an atlas, it presents a journey through the different aspects of La Maddalena, from the most visible to the most intangible, from external forces to cross-pollination. More than 100 designers, architects, sociologists, artists, photographers, historians, and biologists were involved in the exploration, participating in round table discussions and moments of collective and individual creation.
240 p, ills colour & bw, 21 x 27 cm, pb, Italian/English
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Typology of Intimacy. An Emotional Catalog of Booths
Isbn 9783944425252
Publisher M Books
Idea code 22380
€ 23.10
Conceived as an emotional compendium of small, function-specific enclosures and temporary structures, ‘Typology of Intimacy’ proposes the booth as the embodiment of intimacy through the voices of an eclectic group of people. Through a series of in-depth interviews and contributions from researchers, artists, architects, and writers, it formulates the core of an ongoing artistic and architectural investigation into the entanglement of space and emotion. With contributions by David Bergé, Carla Ferrando, Balts Projects, Mirko Zardini, Cynthia Davidson, Nikos Magouliotis, Girão Lima Arquitectos, Dawn Nilo, Lev Bratishenko, Mariana Siracusa, TAB Collective, Manuel Henriques, and more.
160 p, ills colour & bw, 15 x 21 cm, pb, English
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Designs and Concepts 2017-2021
Isbn 9788494717949
Publisher Norman Foster Foundation
Idea code 22455
€ 28.95
Because the Norman Foster Foundation is in the unique position of being able to link its mission and educational programme to the execution of live projects by an in-house design team, it can develop conceptual and experimental projects on a wide range of scales and in multiple locations around the world. This volume presents fourteen of these endeavours, ranging from designing objects like the Cosmos Table and the travelling art installation Our Blood, to landscape interventions like Foster Retreat and The Grasshopper, as well as to enhancing cultural activities using modular structures at Waddesdon Manor Estate in England or even restoring the open-air Teatro Verde in Venice.
104 p, ills colour & bw, 17 x 23 cm, pb, English
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Serious Fun - Architecture & Games
Isbn 9789462086890
Publisher Nai010 Publishers
Idea code 22494
€ 39.95
Games and playfulness are serious tools for architects and urban designers. ‘Serious Fun’ dives into games conceived and created by architects, urban designers, artists, and game developers since the end of the 20th century. The games are examined from both a game technical and an architectural critical point of view, where as much attention is paid to the games themselves as it is to playing them; and in particular, to the space that players either receive or take for their personal, spontaneous, unexpected, and subversive moves and ideas. The book concludes a trilogy about alternative forms of representation and communication in architecture and urban design. Cover image by Zupagrafika.
224 p, ills colour, 22 x 30 cm, hb, English
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Patchwork IBA Parkstad
Isbn 9789462086920
Publisher Nai010 Publishers
Idea code 22506
€ 36.90
What started as an expo for modern construction in 1901, the Internationale Bauausstellung has developed into an urban planning instrument that often provides a powerful impulse to the local economy, public space, and society. In 2020 the IBA was held outside Germany for the first time, in Parkstad Limburg, the Netherlands. This book documents how, through intricate and far-reaching urban and rural interventions, the transformation of Parkstad has been expanded and accelerated since its launch in 2014. It presents projects by Piet Oudolf and Francine Houben as well as reflections by Jo Coenen, Dirk Sijmons, and others on successfully healing landscapes and stunted cities.
240 p, ills colour & bw, 23 x 28 cm, pb, Dutch/English
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Fieldguides for a Preternaturalist 1
Isbn 9783947858354
Publisher K. Verlag
Idea code 22378
€ 11.00
‘Fieldguides for a Preternaturalist’ is a series of small chapbooks designed to bring collaborators, audiences, and readers together as part of the project ‘Nothing of Importance Occurred: Recuperating a Herball for a 17th-Century Enslaved Angolan Midwife at the Cape’, initiated by South African artist Wendy Morris. Through speculative investigations of plants-as-archive and storytelling-as-method, the project focuses on retrieving a library of botanical-medicinal knowledge that perhaps informed Morris’s enslaved ancestor. The ‘Fieldguides’ invite collaborators to shed light on this from multiple angles. The first edition features South African storyteller and author Nadia Kamies.
48 p, ills bw, 11 x 17 cm, pb, English
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Fieldguides for a Preternaturalist 2
Isbn 9783947858408
Publisher K. Verlag
Idea code 22379
€ 11.00
‘Fieldguides for a Preternaturalist’ is a series of small chapbooks designed to bring collaborators, audiences, and readers together as part of the project ‘Nothing of Importance Occurred: Recuperating a Herball for a 17th-Century Enslaved Angolan Midwife at the Cape’, initiated by South African artist Wendy Morris. Through speculative investigations of plants-as-archive and storytelling-as-method, the project focuses on retrieving a library of botanical-medicinal knowledge that perhaps informed Morris’s enslaved ancestor. The ‘Fieldguides’ invite collaborators to shed light on this from multiple angles. The second edition has Rachel O’Donnell, an expert on Latin American practices.
48 p, ills bw, 11 x 17 cm, pb, English
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Fieldguides for a Preternaturalist 3
Isbn 9783947858415
Publisher K. Verlag
Idea code 22473
€ 11.00
‘Fieldguides for a Preternaturalist’ is a series of small chapbooks designed to bring collaborators, audiences, and readers together as part of the project ‘Nothing of Importance Occurred: Recuperating a Herball for a 17th-Century Enslaved Angolan Midwife at the Cape’, initiated by South African artist Wendy Morris. Through speculative investigations of plants-as-archive and storytelling-as-method, the project focuses on retrieving a library of botanical-medicinal knowledge that perhaps informed Morris’s enslaved ancestor. The ‘Fieldguides’ invite collaborators to shed light on this from multiple angles. Joshua Cohen and Johanna Lot are the guest contributors of the third edition.
44 p, ills colour & bw, 11 x 17 cm, pb, German/English
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The Earthly Community
Isbn 9789082893533
Publisher V2
Idea code 22452
€ 15.00
Historian and political theorist Achille Mbembe explores what remains of the human subject in an age when the instrumentality of reason is carried out by and through information machines and technologies of calculation. In ‘The Earthly Community’ he discusses who will define the threshold or set the boundary that distinguishes between the calculable and the incalculable, between that which is deemed worthy and that which is deemed worthless, and therefore dispensable. Are we capable of inventing different modes of measuring that might open up the possibility of a different aesthetics, an alternative politics of inhabiting the Earth, of repairing and sharing the planet?
144 p, ills colour & bw, 16 x 23 cm, pb, English
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Quadra Minerale
Isbn 9788492772766
Publisher Rosell Meseguer
Idea code 22439
€ 43.00
In the compendium ‘Quadra Minerale’, science and art intersect through Rosell Meseguer’s attentive and reflective gaze. Appropriating the dictionary format, she offers a simplified reading of some of the elements of the periodic table and their derivatives. The volume thus takes the concept of traditional treatises as a way of learning to look at the practical applications of these substances. Technology, geology, biology, politics, economics, and art come together, drawing new associations that find commonality in everyday life. Deeply linked to the history and practice of “mineral colonialism”, it seeks to expand geopolitical readings on the subject and the problems derived from it.
416 p, ills colour & bw, 16 x 23 cm, hb, Spanish/English
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