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Wood - Vandkunsten Architects
Isbn 9789189270008
Publisher Arvinius + Orfeus Publishing
Idea code 22565
€ 45.15
Wood is a living material, and humans have evolved a special relationship between this particular material and our bodies. While technological developments make this traditionally low-tech material into a digitalised and energy-efficient building material, wood’s naturally smart properties in turn give us healthy interiors, low-maintenance exteriors, and pleasant living spaces. This publication features nine recent wood-based projects by Danish studio Vandkunsten Architects, which has shaped the contemporary use of wood in Nordic architecture for over five decades. Featured projects include the Arctic House in Greenland and flexible housing in Lisbjerg Bakke.
192 p, ills colour & bw, 17 x 23 cm, pb, English
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Solar Futures – How to Design a Post-Fossil World with the Sun
Isbn 9789492852656
Publisher Jap Sam Books
Idea code 22546
€ 39.95
Solar energy needs a new narrative - one that says goodbye to old perspectives and only talks about the efficiency and the payback time of blue solar panels. This book is divided into three parts: the first part explains how we designed with the sun in the past, providing a visual timeline of the historical development of solar power. The second part discusses the present: Where are we now and what is solar design? It provides examples of innovative solar design in architecture, fashion, mobility and product design. Finally, the last part looks at the future and asks how we can ensure solar energy does not become the asbestos of the 21st century.
288 p, ills colour & bw, 17 x 24 cm, hb, English
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Arne Jacobsen (3 Volumes)
Isbn 9788774072706
Publisher The Danish Architectural Press
Idea code 22518
€ 41.80
A complete catalogue of works by Arne Jacobsen (1902–1971), the prolific Danish architect and designer. The first two volumes cover his architectural work in chronological order, which also include designs of buildings that were not built. The final volume is a collection of his drawings, which includes sketches, cartoons, and watercolours. Each volume includes an introduction by the author Félix Solaguren-Beascoa, the world’s leading specialist on the work of Arne Jacobsen. The author is a professor at the School of Architecture of Barcelona, and also the Director of the Department of Architectural Design at the Polytechnic University of Catalonia.
669 p, ills colour & bw, 24 x 22 cm, pb, English
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The New Era Magazine 4
Isbn 9789189270510
Publisher Arvinius + Orfeus Publishing
Idea code 22556
€ 25.00
What does an object do to us, to a room, to the conversations we are having? What does it say about the community where it was made? In issue four New Era looks at the things we surround ourselves with and what they mean to us. We visit the architect Petra Gipp on her island abode and spend some time at home with brand director Petrus Palmer, who uses his family home as a testing ground for new products and furniture. We discuss the concept of home with the renowned artist Miriam Bäckström and the architect Eero Koivisto, of architecture and design practice Claesson Koivisto Rune, who shares his favourite objects with us. In his home a bowl is never just a bowl, it is a bowl with a story. Elsewhere in the issue, we visit a home resembling a spaceship, and one built to celebrate wood.
216 p, ills colour & bw, 22 x 30 cm, pb, English
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Tools #02 – To Weave
Isbn 9782957876914
Publisher Tools Magazine
Idea code 22564
€ 21.50
'Tools' magazine is the brainchild of Clémentine Berry, who also founded the Twice art direction studio in Paris. This annual publication aims to simultaneously promote and investigate the details of manufacturing techniques and expertise used in art, design, interior architecture, industry and trade. Each issue focuses on a particular technique (moulding, folding, etc.), and the theme is used to select feature subjects and pieces, as well as the persons interviewed. The second issue is dedicated to weaving.
248 p, ills colour & bw, 21 x 30 cm, pb, English
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Year Zero to Economic Miracle - Hans Schwippert and Sep Ruf in Postwar West German Building Culture
Isbn 9783856764272
Publisher gta Verlag
Idea code 22498
€ 53.10
Postwar West German architecture had to confront legacies from National Socialism and drastic privation that hampered construction. As industrial production recovered and a middle-class nation emerged, so too did a new architecture influenced by the American International Style model. At its center were Hans Schwippert and Sep Ruf. Schwippert, architect of the new Bonn parliament, worked to align economic redevelopment and a burgeoning consumer goods industry with design. Ruf, to whom Schwippert directed the commission for West Germany’s first World’s Fair pavilion, mastered architectural construction amidst both scarcity and largess.
380 p, ills colour & bw, 22 x 28 cm, hb, English
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CEBRA Files 04
Isbn 9789189270404
Publisher Arvinius + Orfeus Publishing
Idea code 22492
€ 58.05
Founded in 2001 and based in Aarhus, CEBRA has since seen significant growth in the scale and complexity of the projects they encompass. This fourth instalment in a series of monographs on the iconic design firm sees it expanding internationally to Toronto, Monterrey, Abu Dhabi, and elsewhere across the globe. Interestingly, a pattern emerges when projects from 2013 to 2020 are chronologically organised. In both large and small projects, bold expressions and CEBRA’s signature crystalline geometry are tempered through a sense of approachability, tactility, and co-authorship. The book features 35 new projects and an interview with designboom’s Philip Stevens.
400 p, ills colour & bw, 20 x 28 cm, pb, English
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Volume 61: The Ultimate Guide to Guides
Isbn 9789077966716
Publisher Archis
Idea code 22573
€ 19.50
'The Ultimate Guide to Guides' helps architects and designers to navigate 64 guides, manuals and tutorials while considering the future of their professions. This issue is dedicated to pragmatic topics such as: how to make money, deal with demolition, learn to become circular, facilitate inclusivity, and rethink the legacy of the standards. It includes interviews with Marina Otero Verzier, Ben Schouten, and Alexander Walmsley, sci-fi renders of future virtual encounters, as well as contributions by Clemens Driessen, Zhu Pei, James Wescott, Mangaliso Kgosi Ngcobo, and more.
116 p, ills colour & bw, 20 x 27 cm, pb, English
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School squares | Reinventing the dialogue between school and city
Isbn 9791254930144
Publisher Corraini Edizioni
Idea code 22591
€ 18.95
The entrance of every school is a place of high potential: in this book Paolo Pileri, Cristina Renzoni and Paola Savoldi call it “school square” and explore its fundamental role for the whole city. It’s in the space in front of the school that, experiencing the first moments of autonomy, we elaborate representations and memories of the environment that surrounds us; here the younger generations directly experience how their rights and needs are considered by our society. That is why we should urgently focus on the issue of school squares, observing and reinventing these often neglected spaces: this books invites us to imagine possible solutions to critical situations, in real contexts – here analysed through the tools of drawing and photography – and takes inspiration from a number of international examples.
112 p, ills colour & bw, 16 x 20 cm, pb, Italian/English
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Aires Mateus - Chapel Of Santiago
Isbn 9789895440191
Publisher A+a Books
Idea code 22550
€ 29.05
According to Portuguese architect Francisco Aires Mateus, the chapel is an old project. The extended time it takes for such projects to mature allows and nurtures a ceaseless change in both geography and time itself. The chapel is located in the Alentejo region of south-central Portugal, in an area closer to the sea. Elements of the project are shared in this small and sober booklet, such as impressions of the surrounding landscape and drawings by the architect. Catholic theologian and professor José Tolentino de Mendonça contributed the accompanying introspective text, ‘Notes on the Silence of a Place’.
50 p, ills colour & bw, 15 x 22 cm, pb, English
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José Adrião Arquitetos - No Beginning No End
Isbn 9789893325186
Publisher A+A Books
Idea code 22551
€ 36.30
In the approach of Portuguese practice José Adrião Arquitetos, a perceptive, forward-looking contemplation of a space serves as a starting point for determining its potential for regeneration. It is an idea of the future that always contains the past. The places we encounter have neither a beginning nor an end; they are the product of successive periods of time, layer upon layer. The idea behind this book was to capture recollections of the continually evolving working processes that have resulted in various designs and projects. Fifteen selected works constructed in the decade between 2010 and 2020 are featured which have proven particularly significant for the studio.
348 p, ills colour & bw, 18 x 25 cm, pb, Portuguese/English
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Critical City
Isbn 9788774074366
Publisher The Danish Architectural Press
Idea code 22519
€ 41.80
Despite historical success and international admiration, Danish cities are facing serious economic imbalances as well as long-term and structural challenges that hamper their ability to maintain a sustainable development, part of the global crisis of inequality that has impacted cities worldwide. This book attempts a critical examination of the 20th-century transformation of Danish cities from industry and traditional trades to welfare cities with the promise of liveability for all. It aims to inspire a broader understanding of the underlying operative concepts through essays by leading urbanists, interviews, and selected projects that put the discussion into perspective.
352 p, ills colour & bw, 13 x 20 cm, pb, Danish/English
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Beyond Buildings - Studio 3XN
Isbn 9788774074380
Publisher The Danish Architectural Press
Idea code 22583
€ 73.15
Beyond Buildings. Copenhagen based architecture studio 3XN is creating projects all over the world based on high-level research and a global network of knowledge institutions. Beyond Buildings gives a portrait of the 3XN practice of designing for an agenda of humanistic values and radical sustainability. The work of GXN, the innovation unit of 3XN, provides a profound knowledge base of research in to digital design, circular design and behavioral design. The projects in this book showcases the process and realization of a design methodology of 3XN and GXN, fully engaged in The Era of Knowledge.
576 p, ills colour & bw, 25 x 34 cm, pb, English
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Gellerup
Isbn 9788774074632
Publisher The Danish Architectural Press
Idea code 22575
€ 52.25
Gellerup tells the story of one of the most ambitious and controversial urban development projects in Danish history. Gjellerupplanen was launched as a brand-new urban district, modelled after the modernist planning ideals that transformed cities all over the world. The book follows the plan, from the 1950s when the visions surfaced, to the point when the first turf was cut, and all the way up to the present, when the area has come to epitomize the social challenges associated with modernist large-scale planning.
411 p, ills colour & bw, 20 x 27 cm, pb, Danish/English
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Rome - An Architectural History
Isbn 9788774076421
Publisher The Danish Architectural Press
Idea code 22578
€ 52.25
The city of Rome is constructed of numerous historical layers and has been influenced by successions of styles, from antiquity to today. What characterizes buildings from the different periods? With text by professor in art history Maria Fabricius Hansen and illustrations by graphic novelist maker Lars Horneman, Rome: An architectural History describes key aspects of the city’s historic buildings. The book introduces Rome’s architecture and urban space while also giving an overview of European architectural history as a whole, as reflected in Rome’s millennia of architectural change.
159 p, ills colour & bw, 24 x 27 cm, hb, English
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Intertwingled | The role of the rug in the arts, crafts and design
Isbn 9791254930199
Publisher Corraini Edizioni
Idea code 22592
€ 31.60
The word intertwingled was coined in 1960 by the American sociologist and philosopher Ted Nelson to define the complexity of the interconnections in the field of knowledge, made up of myriad cross-relationships. Embracing this vision, Intertwingled. The Role of the Rug in Arts, Crafts and Design – published to mark the exhibition of the same name at the Galleria Nazionale d’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea in Rome – offers a fascinating, open, and disruptive interpretation of the interconnected world in which we live. Intertwingled started as an original project to explore, through the artworks and the objects in the context of the exhibition and the museum, rugs and tapestries in different fields: art, craft, design.
160 p, ills colour & bw, 16 x 23 cm, pb, English
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Henk Wolvers - The Golden White 2009–2022
Isbn 9789077955475
Publisher Henk Wolvers
Idea code 22544
€ 34.00
Henk Wolvers is known for his deep attachment to porcelain. As an artist who produces contemporary ceramics and has worked in Japan, he is drawn to its essence and places emphasis on its simplicity and inherent beauty. Both the material itself and the pieces he makes with it reflect the way he sees the world: subdued, balanced, careful, modest, and with consideration for others. The result must be logical, free, flowing, and uncomplicated. The period from 2009 to 2022 is covered in this illuminating overview of Wolvers and his work, initiated by historian Jan van Oudheusden. The book also offers a glimpse into his home and studio, a repurposed school building from the 1950s. Design: Irene van den Hurk.
194 p, ills colour, 21 x 21 cm, pb, Dutch/English
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