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Episodes - Powerhouse Company
Isbn 9789083286006
Publisher Maas Lawrence
Idea code 23060
€ 85.00
With 18 projects ranging from a chair to high-rise buildings, this book offers a cross section of the recent work of Powerhouse Company, which is based in Rotterdam, Munich, and Oslo.These projects are episodes in the success story of an architectural office that only completed its first building, a villa, in 2007. In three essays, Mimi Zeiger, Hans Ibelings, and Gay Gassmann share their insights on the work and the motivations of Powerhouse Company. Episodes traces how Powerhouse Company’s architecture has evolved while retaining what sets it apart: its attention to craftsmanship and innovation, its generosity, its comfort, and its resolute beauty.
344 p, ills colour & bw, 24 x 32 cm, hb, English
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VTN architects
Isbn 9788412520293
Publisher Avisa
Idea code 23012
€ 45.50
Just like the rest of the countries in Southeast Asia, Vietnam has experienced a deep transformation over the last three decades, from a rural and agricultural economy to an urban and industrial one. This fast metamorphosis has brought along huge economic growth but also devastating ecological consequences such as the loss of greenery in urban environments and the increase of pollution in cities. In this context, Vo Trong Nghia decided to return to his home country, with offices today in Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh City. Since then, VTN Architects has worked to achieve a new balance between the built and the natural, defending form as the main path towards efficiency, and asserting the importance of local knowledge, the social and ecological value of vegetation, and a modern reinterpretation of accessible and affordable materials like bamboo.
160 p, ills colour & bw, 25 x 31 cm, hb, Spanish/English
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Francis Kéré
Isbn 9788412604450
Publisher Avisa
Idea code 22770
€ 68.20
Pritzker Prize laureate of 2022, Francis Kéré has become a symbol of social and sustainable construction. Born in the Burkinabè village of Gando in 1965, Kéré studied in Germany and set up his office in Berlin, from which he returns time and again to his country to help transform his community. The success of the school he designed while still a student took him to build a large complex in his home village, and this determination to do ‘more with less’ has extended, beyond the frontiers of Burkina Faso, to several African countries – Mali, Kenya, Mozambique, Uganda, Sudan, Niger, Senegal, and Benin. Since being selected to build the Serpentine Gallery of 2017 in London, his works have also reached different countries in Europe and the United States.
184 p, ills colour & bw, 25 x 31 cm, hb, Spanish/English
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AV Monographs 248: E2A
Isbn 9788412604467
Publisher Avisa
Idea code 23010
€ 39.80
Strong and ironic, material and program-based, contained and purposeful are some of the adjectives that could be used to sum up the sound and lucid oeuvre of Piet and Wim Eckert (born in 1968 and in 1969, respectively). After graduating at the ETH Zürich and a period working at the studio of Rem Koolhaas in Rotterdam and living in cities like Los Angeles or Seoul, they set up their own office, E2A, in 2001. Two decades later, AV Monographs gathers a selection of twenty works that reflect the intellectual maturity and constructive precision of the Zurich-based studio. Despite the scarce geographic variety (only two of the buildings featured are outside of Switzerland), the projects published on these pages address a wide range of programs, from schools to sport centers and headquarters for newspapers, foundations or factories via single-family houses, apartment buildings, mixed-use blocks and even a police station.
128 p, ills colour & bw, 24 x 30 cm, pb, Spanish/English
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a+u 628 2023:01 Becoming Frank Gehry
Isbn 9784900212862
Publisher Shinkenchiku-sha
Idea code 22779
€ 23.90
Canadian-born American architect Frank Gehry is considered one of the most important and influential architects in contemporary architecture. This issue of ‘a+u’ features drawings by Frank Gehry that span three decades, from his early works in the 1960s to the “exploding” box in Los Angeles, through to the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao in the late 1990s. While the projects showcased vary greatly, they document the emergence of Gehry’s radical style, which he would pursue in the following decades. With texts by Jean-Louis Cohen and Megan Meulemans, as well as drawings, sketches, and photographs.
ills colour & bw, 22 x 29 cm, pb, Japanese/English
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Rotterdam Ripresa
Isbn 9789461400734
Publisher Architectura & Natura
Idea code 23021
€ 59.50
Waking up to the idea of a post-growth society, 'Rotterdam Ripresa' presents a city that aims to amend instead of renew, accepting not just the pleasant past, but also the impudent present. To find the new in the old may well be the most sustainable thing of all. Can a city change while remaining the same? 'Rotterdam Ripresa' adopts an alternative method towards the production of striking visions for the city. An urbanism of fragmentary intervention as a grand cadavre exquis where authorship is deluded rahter than distilled. A collection of future fragments for the Neo Liberal City found ensembles that never were, but always, could have been.
150 p, ills colour & bw, 25 x 19 cm, pb, English
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Construction Briefing
Isbn 9789082347937
Publisher Icop
Idea code 23059
€ 38.50
Every building project should start with a brief. A good brief clearly explains what the client wants while providing the design team with the information and inspiration they need to create a successful building. Beyond that, the brief functions as a framework for quality management during the project. To this end, experts Juriaan van Meel and Kjersti Bjørkeng Størdal assembled this practical guide for developing high-performance briefs. Using clear language, the book succinctly explains the briefing process, different kinds of briefing techniques, and the topics that the brief should address. It also offers examples, checklists, and recommendations to apply directly in practice.
272 p, ills colour & bw, 15 x 23 cm, pb, English
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Oase 113: Authorship
Isbn 9789462087330
Publisher Nai010 Publishers
Idea code 23048
€ 22.95
What does the author’s ’owning’ of a project mean? And does this sense of ownership still prevail in contemporary architecture culture? Is the concept of individual authorship not a cul-de-sac, preventing the processes of invention and innovative thinking often necessary for addressing a practice that is more collaborative than ever? What, then, might be the essential argument for retaining the concept of authorship in architecture today? Perhaps the most resounding argument is this: authorship is not only an act that implies originality, it is also a deeply felt commitment to a work that until its realisation belongedonly to the author, but to which he or she is also completely devoted.
128 p, ills colour & bw, 17 x 24 cm, pb, Dutch/English
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Building Around Architecture | Francesco Venezia Outside The Mainstream
Isbn 9789895390557
Publisher AMAG Publisher
Idea code 23049
€ 21.50
The Pocket Books are a series of small publications which compile theoretical texts by various architects or institutions in different collections. These writings reflect various areas of interest and performance in architectural discourse. For this edition, Annette Condello, educator in architectural theory and urban design at Curtin University, Australia, delves into themes in Italian architect Francesco Venezia’s writings and works which expand on the evolution of fragmentary design strategies and their pre-Christian foundations. The analysis goes on to critically question the foundations and conditions for productive reuse in Italy, relevant in terms of the circular economy.
104 p, ills colour & bw, 13 x 22 cm, pb, English
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Scape 19
Isbn 9789492474605
Publisher Blauwdruk
Idea code 23068
€ 24.50
The theme “across” appears here, again and again. A whole dossier is even devoted to it: crossing borders between north and south, academics and practice, students and professionals, residents and researchers, rich and poor, tradition and experiment. Living labs are an important tool in this sense, according to scientists from Argentina and Sweden who expand on the theme. Featured also is landscape architect Adriaan Geuze, who agrees that one cannot go far enough when thinking “across”. Further topics include a reportage by the French firm Pareto Paysages on indigenous landscapes in Tunisia and the Andes and a photo essay on agricultural landscapes.
192 p, ills colour & bw, 17 x 24 cm, pb, English
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Arne Jacobsen in London
Isbn 9788774070078
Publisher The Danish Architectural Press
Idea code 23020
€ 41.80
In 1977 the Embassy of Denmark in London opened its doors to an extraordinary building designed by internationally renowned Danish architect Arne Jacobsen. This book presents both the history and ideas behind the architectural masterpiece and the ambitious art collection of the Embassy representing contemporary Danish art, design, and culture. Add to this a number of important historic artworks, each of which has its own fascinating history, including works by H. C. Andersen, Bertel Thorvaldsen and Laurits Tuxen.
116 p, ills colour & bw, 25 x 30 cm, hb, English
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Arquitectura Viva 250: Useful Utopias
Isbn 02141256
Publisher Avisa
Idea code 23009
€ 20.45
From the Ideal City to the Domestic Dream. Arquitectura Viva celebrates its 250th issue with a special edition that presents utopias as an optimistic alternative to the dim panorama marked by economic decline, epidemic threats, and the devastation of war, all this in the context of a climate emergency. Luis Fernández-Galiano makes a revision of different notions of the ideal city without forgetting about the dangers looming over them; the collective Dogma reflects on urban villas as feasible housing proposals grounded on 'commoning'; and James Bradford DeLong presents his thesis on a long 20th century during which humanity has pursued its utopias of freedom and prosperity.
88 p, ils colour & bw, 24 x 30 cm, pb, Spanish/English
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Arquitectura Viva 249: Tuñón y Albornoz
Isbn 02141256
Publisher Avisa
Idea code 22769
€ 20.45
Shifting towards works of a smaller scale in the decade since Luis Moreno Mansilla passed away, this issue of ‘Arqitectura Viva’ features six trademark works by Emilio Tuñón and Carlos Martínez Albornoz: the refurbishment of the Paredes-Saavedra House; the Helga de Alvear Museum; a Stone House in Cáceres; a Stone and Tile Cabin in the Sierra of Soria Province; a Brick House; and the new Arquia Bank headquarters in Madrid. Also included are the four stadiums in Qatar built to host the 2022 FIFA World Cup, and texts by Estrella de Diego on Pablo Picasso, Justo Isasi on the graphic work of Hergé, and Francis Fukuyama on the moderation that should take hold of liberalism.
80 p, ils colour & bw, 24 x 30 cm, pb, Spanish/English
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AV Proyectos 114: Lina Ghotmeh
Isbn 1697493X
Publisher Avisa
Idea code 23011
€ 13.65
AV Proyectos 114 dedicates its dossier to the latest projects by the French-Lebanese architect Lina Ghotmeh – selected to design the Serpentine Gallery summer pavilion of this year in London –, which show that tradition and ecological innovation can go hand in hand in making a unique architecture. The chapter that follows features the proposal by Europarc, winner of the competition to revitalize the current headquarters of the European Parliament in Brussels. The issue also includes four works built in marés stone in Mallorca, offering examples of how this multipurpose material is used in residental projects of different scales.
80 p, ills colour & bw, 21 x 30 cm, pb, Spanish/English
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Gianni Pettena - Absolutely Everything… or Almost
Isbn 9788822908087
Publisher Quodlibet
Idea code 23030
€ 40.85
Gianni Pettena was a founding member of the Radical architecture movement in the late 1960s, which included names like Archizoom, Remo Buti, 9999, UFO, Superstudio, and Zziggurat. Besides critiquing modernist functionalism, the self-proclaimed “anarchitect” became noted for a purposeful reluctance to actually design. The uniqueness of Pettena’s prolific career is informed by his rejection of discipline-based roles or methodologies, creating temporary works while constantly seeking alliances with radical design in other countries, as well as conceptual art, Land Art, and experimental music. This book covers almost all of his works, supported by an extensive anthology of his writings.
528 p, ills colour, 17 x 24 cm, pb, Italian/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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C3 422 Korean Architecture, Carlana Mezzalira Pentimalli
Isbn 20925190
Publisher C3 Publishing
Idea code 22677
€ 28.80
With a well chosen selection of projects covering the related areas of architecture, urban design and landscape architecture, C3 is a well documented, high quality monthly magazine with an international perspective. Issue 422 features Korean architecture with examples by Seung H-Sang (and an interview) and Dongjin Kim's Yeonliji, among others, and a special on Carlana Mezzalira Pentimalli. New projects feature Zaha Hadid Architects, Studio Zhu Pei Studio Cochi Architects and Rojkind Arquitectos.
224 p, ills colour & bw, 23 x 30 cm, pb, Korean/English
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Microbiopolitics of Milk
Isbn 9783956796609
Publisher Sternberg Press
Idea code 23038
€ 18.00
In the context of INLAND’s Academy at documenta fifteen, 'Microbiopolitics of Milk' presents the grounding basis for a research project around Milk as a bio-cultural substance, through its implications in the regimes of contemporary biopolitics, economics, and representation. Featuring texts by Heather Paxson, Esther Leslie & Melanie Jackson, Harry G. West, Vinciane Despret, Chris Fite-Wassilak, and Richie Nimmo, reflecting the different dimensions of milk in a variety of research fields.
280 p, ills bw, 13 x 20 cm, pb, English
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GA Houses 184
Isbn 9784871406215
Publisher Ada Edita
Idea code 23033
€ 28.85
‘GA Houses’ documents outstanding new residential architecture from all over the world. With projects by Christian Kerez, Andrea Matin, João Mendes Ribeiro, Yo Shimada, Suzuko Yamada, Chris Bligh + Sonia Graham, and Makoto Tanijiri + Ai Yoshida.
160 p, ills colour & bw, 23 x 30 cm, pb, Japanese/English
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LB 05 André Campos | Joana Mendes – Centro Coordenador de Transportes
Isbn 9789895333066
Publisher AMAG Publisher
Idea code 22773
€ 32.25
This issue of ‘AMAG Long Book’ proposes a new transport coordination centre in Chaves, Portugal, as a significant example of autonomous architecture. Designed by Porto-based architects Joana Mendes and André Campos, the anonymous building and simple metallic structure show an order and rigour based on the autonomy of the discipline. They explore the meaning and scale between the existing fragments of the stadium, other existing buildings, the structure of the transport centre, and the new green space that would also serve the inhabitants of the city. With images by Alexander Bogorodskiy, and essays by João Pedro Serôdio and the authors.
208 p, ills colour & bw, 23 x 29 cm, pb, Portuguese/French/English
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LB06 André Campos, Joana Mendes and Pedro Guedes de Oliveira - Fábrica em Barcelos
Isbn 9789895333073
Publisher AMAG Publisher
Idea code 22774
€ 32.25
The 6th issue of ‘AMAG Long Book’ features the Fábrica em Barcelos, a family manufacturing textile facility in Northern Portugal designed by Porto-based architects Joana Mendes and André Campos. Showcasing a repetitive module of a window detail for the reception entrance, as well as a careful choice of interior beams to accommodate a special staircase, the sober architecture retains traits and materials that are shared by the existing structures and the neighbouring industrial buildings. With images by Alexander Bogorodskiy, and texts by André Campos, Joana Mendes, Pedro Guedes de Oliveira, and José Paulo dos Santos.
68 p, ills colour & bw, 22 x 29 cm, pb, English
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LB 13 Brandenberger Kloter - School Birrwil
Isbn 9789895390540
Publisher AMAG Publisher
Idea code
€ 32.25
This is the final issue of five titles from the ‘Long Book’ series featuring designs by the Brandenberger Kloter Architects. Inviting readers to engage with the relevance and function of public buildings, it questions existing structures to find answers for the contemporary design of public buildings. This volume begins with an interview conducted and written by Niki Zaugg, with author Zoë Jenny, and includes comments from Oliver Brandenberger and Adrian Kloter, and images by Basile Born. A special feature of School Birrwil is the additional niches above the classrooms, which can be accessed through a ladder and a circular opening, reminiscent of a ship's berths.
64 p, ills colour & bw, 22 x 29 cm, pb, English
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LB 12 Brandenberger Kloter: School Aarwangen
Isbn 9789895390533
Publisher AMAG Publisher
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€ 32.25
This issue is the fourth of five titles from the ‘Long Book’ series featuring designs by the Brandenberger Kloter Architects. Inviting readers to engage with the relevance and function of public buildings, it questions existing structures to find answers for the contemporary design of public buildings. This volume begins with an interview conducted and written by Niki Zaugg, with the urban psychologist Alice Hollenstein, and includes comments from Oliver Brandenberger and Adrian Kloter, and images by Basile Born. The design of School Aarwangen was developed from a child's perspective, with CO2 sensors to ensure good air quality.
64 p, ills colour & bw, 22 x 29 cm, pb, English
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LB09 Brandenberger Kloter Culture Hall Laufenburg
Isbn 9789895390502
Publisher AMAG Publisher
Idea code
€ 32.25
This issue is the first of five titles from the ‘Long Book’ series featuring designs by the Brandenberger Kloter Architects. Inviting readers to engage with the relevance and function of public buildings, it questions existing structures to find answers for the contemporary design of public buildings. This volume begins with an interview conducted and written by Niki Zaugg with podcaster and editor, Gülsha Adilji, including comments from Oliver Brandenberger and Adrian Kloter, and images by Basile Born on the Culture Hall Laufenburg. The Basel-based architects regard the needs of future users in conceiving new buildings, which forms the basis of their designs.
68 p, ills colour & bw, 22 x 29 cm, pb, English
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LB 11 Brandenberger Kloter Double Kindergarten
Isbn 9789895390526
Publisher AMAG Publisher
Idea code
€ 32.25
This issue is the third of five titles from the ‘Long Book’ series featuring designs by the Brandenberger Kloter Architects. Inviting readers to engage with the relevance and function of public buildings, it questions existing structures to find answers for the contemporary design of public buildings. This volume begins with an interview conducted and written by Niki Zaugg, with the organization developer Petra Slembek, and includes comments from Oliver Brandenberger and Adrian Kloter, and images by Basile Born. The Double Kindergarten Rüti’s has a split-level design, a light-coloured brick façade, and a metal roof inspired by the local surroundings.
64 p, ills colour & bw, 22 x 29 cm, pb, English
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LB 10 Brandenberger Kloter School Pfeffingen
Isbn 9789895390519
Publisher AMAG Publisher
Idea code
€ 32.25
This issue is the second of five titles from the ‘Long Book’ series featuring designs by the Brandenberger Kloter Architects. Inviting readers to engage with the relevance and function of public buildings, it questions existing structures to find answers for the contemporary design of public buildings. This volume begins with an interview conducted and written by Niki Zaugg, with the documentary filmmaker Anna Thommen, and includes comments from Oliver Brandenberger and Adrian Kloter, and images by Basile Born. School Pfeggeingen’s design is a simple, rectangular structure with a detailed façade using narrow, vertical wood frames.
64 p, ills colour & bw, 22 x 29 cm, pb, English
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