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El Croquis 218: Eduardo Souto de Moura (2015-2023)
Isbn 9788412532340
Publisher El Croquis
Idea code 23001
€ 80.40
This issue of ‘El Croquis’ features the iconic works of Portuguese architect Eduardo Souto de Moura. Spanning 2015–2023, the volume presents a wide range of projects such as the Abade Pedrosa Municipal Museum; the tourist complex in São Lourenço do Barrocal; the Doz Tua Dam hydroelectric power plant; the Colinas do Douro and Casa Sarmento wineries; the Alcobaça Monastery; and many more. Also included is the biography of Souto de Moura, as well as a conversation with him by Inmaculada Maluenda and Enrique Encabo. The architect opened his own office in 1980 and is the recipient of numerous prestigious awards, most notably the Pritzker Architecture Prize in 2011.
328 p, ills colour & bw, 25 x 34 cm, pb, Spanish/English
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Lina Bo Bardi & Studio de Arte Palma - Revived Masterpieces from Bittencourt House
Isbn 9788412604719
Publisher This Side Up
Idea code 22765
€ 32.70
This book presents the masterpieces designed by Lina Bo Bardi for Casa Bittencourt, through her studio de Arte Palma in 1949-50. Casa Bittencourt is a project from Vilanova Artigas, godfather of the so-called Paulista school. It encompasses the encounter of two of Brazilian most prominent architects and the rare vision that Lina pioneered and tried to accomplish for Brazilian furniture, their materials, their use, their beauty, and unique tools.
130 p, ills colour & bw, 17 x 24 cm, hb, Portuguese/English
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AMAG 29: Boltshauser | Lilitt Bollinger | Raphael Zuber
Isbn 9789895333059
Publisher AMAG Publisher
Idea code 22772
€ 53.65
Swiss architecture is generally considered austere and rigourous, but this issue of ‘A.Mag’ showcases the distinct styles of three Swiss architects: Roger Boltshauser, Lilitt Bollinger, and Raphael Zuber. Despite their differences, their works reflect similar characteristics, blending traditional structures in a formal model with contemporary needs. Due to their shared education at ETH Zurich where ‘analogous architecture’ was developed, their approaches to projects are conceived using associations, correspondences, and analogies. With an attention to sustainability, high quality, and the relationship between the past and the present, they manage to achieve unique atmospheres in their works.
208 p, ills colour & bw, 24 x 32 cm, pb, Portuguese/French/English
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AV Monographs 247: Houses of the Year 2022
Isbn 9788412604412
Publisher Avisa
Idea code 22629
€ 39.80
The tough experience of lockdown during the pandemic has made us reflect on the design of domestic space, and particularly on its connection with the outdoors. Inserted in built-up urban spaces, located in sprawling suburban areas, or embedded in natural landscapes, the eighteen houses collected in this publication – which travels from the United States to Australia via Ecuador, Brazil, Paraguay, Spain and Portugal, South Africa, and Japan – all show that engaging in dialogue with the environment is one of the key factors in the design.
120 p, ills colour & bw, 24 x 30 cm, pb, Spanish/English
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a+u 627 22:12 Engineering Art
Isbn 9784900212855
Publisher Shinkenchiku-sha
Idea code 22740
€ 23.90
In this issue of ‘a+u’, collaborations between artists and engineers are presented in twenty diverse works ranging from 60-year old project plans from Christo and Jeanne-Claude, Richard Serra’s tallest sculpture, monumental sculptures of steel and concrete by Pablo Picasso, and Janet Echelman’s net installations. These projects present engineering as an artistic and aesthetic discipline, liberated from conventional architectural constraints. Dialogues with artists, sketches, and reflections highlight the crossovers between engineering and art. This volume is guest edited by Guy Nordenson, with eight essays from contributors Mike Schlaich, Sigrid Adrianssens, and many more.
168 p, ills colour & bw, 22 x 29 cm, pb, Japanese/English
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Included - Architecture As A Means For A New Future Mei Architects And Planners
Isbn 9789462086142
Publisher Nai010 Publishers
Idea code 22787
€ 39.95
Both social and innovative, Mei architects and planners realises trendsetting buildings in the Netherlands and abroad. This Rotterdam-based architecture firm has built up an idiosyncratic oeuvre in which respect for the environment is central. This first overview features works from the past 25 years. From the 1995 modular Smarthouse to the wooden residential building SAWA that is currently being developed, each displays a fascination with intelligent building systems. Ambitious transformation plans, including those of projects such as the Schiecentrale, show how the firm has evolved into a redevelopment pioneer.
320 p, ills colour & bw, 17 x 24 cm, pb, Dutch/English
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Pleasant Place 1: Enclosures
Isbn 9789083284309
Publisher Pleasant Place
Idea code 22752
€ 11.00
‘Pleasant Place’ is a growing collection of publications about the art of gardening, offering both practical and in-depth information to everyday garden tasks and garden design. This first issue features essays such as ‘A Sisterly Witch Dance in the Walled Garden’ by Laurie Cluitmans, ‘New Enclosures’ on new experimental enclosures by artists Cindy Bakker, Iede Reckman, Jesse Greulich, and Daniel Slats, a photo-essay on Derek Jarman’s fenceless garden, an article on the benefits of ‘Living Enclosures’ with illustrations by Gijs Deddens, and a set of hortus conclusus miniatures by Sophie Artz.
32 p, ills colour & bw, 18 x 24 cm, pb, English
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Pleasant Place 2: Nasturtiums (Tropaeolum Majus)
Isbn 9789083284316
Publisher Pleasant Place
Idea code 22753
€ 11.00
‘Pleasant Place’ is a growing collection of publications about the art of gardening, offering both practical and in-depth information to everyday garden tasks and garden design. The second instalment is dedicated entirely to the nasturtium (Tropaeolum majus); every part of this plant is edible. From ‘A Botanical Introductions’ to ‘Nasturtiums in Art History,’ there are also the following: an interview with artist-gardener Elspeth Diederix, nasturtium recipes from Amazonian cuisine expert Noni Kooiman, and an article on the astonishing spring tradition involving this plant at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston.
40 p, ills colour & bw, 18 x 24 cm, pb, English
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Off-grid Toilets - Compilation, Analysis and Comparison
Isbn 9788412274783
Publisher Altrim Publishers
Idea code 23004
€ 29.00
Sanitation and access to clean water is still an issue for billions. ‘Off-grid Toilets’ is a practical, user-friendly manual to help fight water contamination. Starting as a research project to explore sanitation conditions in Karali, one of the densest informal settlements in Dhaka, Bangladesh, it includes findings and contributions from various collaborators. Detailing the main principles for human waste disinfection, the authors then present a selection of sixteen off-grid toilet systems, how they work, and their advantages and disadvantages. A comprehensive comparison of the proposed solutions is also made to show how different systems can be adapted to respective groups and conditions.
180 p, ills colour & bw, 18 x 24 cm, pb, English
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Probing Zurich (Pamphlet 26)
Isbn 9783856764371
Publisher Gta Verlag
Idea code 22783
€ 22.45
Based on the research and teachings of Christophe Girot, Professor and Chair of Landscape Architecture at ETH Zurich, cloud point technology is used as a tool for perception, communication, design, visualisation, and representation in Zürich’s urban landscape. This issue presents student projects on five unique sites, representing the city in multifaceted layers both above ground and underground. It also includes essays authored by various experts which provide different perspectives and reflections on spatial complex systems in the urban context, hinting at new possibilities for designing communication through digital models.
86 p, ills colour & bw, 15 x 23 cm, pb, English
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Transitional Space - Six Japanese Houses Traversed (Pamphlet 25)
Isbn 9783856764296
Publisher gta Verlag
Idea code 22782
€ 22.45
The articulation of transitional space forms a key element in Japanese architecture and its relationship to landscape. Climate and cultural history have shaped myriad forms and expressions of these spaces, which connect as well as separate. We pass through or dwell within them; these transitional spaces differentiate between one space and another, inside and outside, public and private, our body and what surrounds it. This issue of Pamphlet documents a conversation about six residential houses in Kyoto, Osaka, and Tokyo. The houses and their surroundings were captured through sound recordings and Point Cloud laser scanning, the results of which were processed into short videos.
80 p, ills colour, 15 x 23 cm, pb, English
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Negotiating Ungers 2 - The Oberhausen Institute and the Materiality of the Social
Isbn 9780988290631
Publisher Common Books
Idea code 22785
€ 17.75
The Oberhausen Institut zur Erlangung der Hochschulreife realised by Oswald Mathias Ungers between 1953 and 1959 is a project that leads to the centre of the architectural debate of the 1950s in Germany. His design for a school building followed emancipatory ideas; the spatial arrangement and the material aesthetics were conceived in close dialogue with the desired social processes and structures. This publication centres around the building, its in-built behaviour and material strategies, and its atmospheric and perceived qualities.
236 p, ills bw, 12 x 17 cm, pb, English
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Shiroiya Hotel - Giving Anew
Isbn 9784903348575
Publisher Adp
Idea code 22705
€ 85.25
The Shiroiya Hotel in Maebashi city has a long history, originating 300 years ago as the renowned Shiroiya Ryokan, carrying on as a business hotel until it closed down in 2008. Rescued from demolition for new condominiums by Hitoshi Tanaka, the local entrepreneur and founder of eyewear brand JINS had a bold plan for the hotel to revitalise his city. In collaboration with architect Sou Fujimoto, the iconic design has come to embody the future vision of Maebashi City itself. This book follows the transformation and art of Shiroiya Hotel, with its concrete atrium and grassy hill cabins, documenting the daring vision that defied economic rationality to create amazing architecture.
264 p, ills colour & bw, 23 x 28 cm, hb, English
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Arquitectura Viva 248: MAD Architects
Isbn 02141256
Publisher Avisa
Idea code 22723
€ 20.45
Few architects can claim to have materialized their most ambitious ideas at a young age, but Ma Yansong (Beijing, 1975), by the time he had passed his 40s, was already at the helm of a practice based in three countries and boasting a long list of completed projects. All of them demonstrate a fondness for buildings “flowing with people” that throb with an oneiric spatiality and a close bond with the territory on which they stand. These are the recurring motifs in a brilliant career that this issue of Arquitectura Viva wishes to present through four cultural works located in his native land: an opera house, a library, a convention center, and a large sports complex.
80 p, ils colour & bw, 24 x 30 cm, pb, Spanish/English
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AV Proyectos 113: Christ & Gantenbein
Isbn 1697493X
Publisher Avisa
Idea code 22729
€ 13.65
The 113th issue of ‘AV Proyectos’ is dedicated to Basel-based studio Christ & Gantenbein, founded in 1998 by Emmanuel Christ and Christoph Gantenbein. They established a delicate aesthetic balancing the new and the existing, with designs that blend in with the urban environment rather than ostentatiously assert their presence. Highlighting a selection of the most recent projects that are distinguished in major international competitions, this issue features Pont Neuf in Aarau, Switzerland, in which a concrete bridge from 1949 is replaced with a stone bridge with five openings; the Vaugirard Housing scheme of more than a hundred social housing units in Paris, France; and many more.
80 p, ills colour & bw, 21 x 30 cm, pb, Spanish/English
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Kerb 30: Power
Isbn 9781922601261
Publisher Uro Publications
Idea code 22746
€ 24.95
We are immersed in power, seen and unseen, explicit and implicit, felt and feared. It is tightly held, seldom deserved and often misplaced. Landscape architects play a vital role in expressing human and non-human centred stories in our environment. In doing so, they address, navigate, and ultimately influence the power dynamics intrinsic to our living world—for better or worse. Kerb 30 is an exploration of the powers that make and unmake us. How does power manifest in the built environment? How do we address existing ecologies of power?
128 p, ills colour & bw, 21 x 30 cm, pb, English
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Dhaka Delirium
Isbn 9788412274745
Publisher Altrim Publishers
Idea code 23003
€ 34.40
'Dhaka Delirium' is a collection of short essays written over almost two decades. Morshed is an architect, a professor, and a public intellectual, but more than anything he is a lover of Dhaka. His passion for the city is evident in these op-ed pieces written for the general public in a straightforward language but in elegant prose. In this anthology, he turns specialized knowledge into an arena for political activism in the pursuit of social justice and policy impact.
224 p, ills colour & bw, 18 x 24 cm, pb, English
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