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El Croquis 219: IBAVI (2019-2023) - A collective research
Isbn 9788412532357
Publisher El Croquis
Idea code 23127
€ 89.90
The Balearic Social Housing Institute (IBAVI) is a public organisation attached to the Mobility and Housing Ministry of the Balearic Islands. Since 1986, its main objective has been the promotion and rental of social housing. The institute bases its constant efforts on two core objectives: tackling both the current housing crisis and the ongoing climate emergency. The majority of projects are designed by external studios – from experienced, well-known teams to young, emerging talents. Besides presenting the most significant works carried out by IBAVI, this issue includes a conversation with IBAVI general manager Cris Ballester Parets and architect Carles Oliver Barceló.
384 p, ills colour & bw, 25 x 34 cm, pb, Spanish/English
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a+t 57: Generosity. Housing Design Strategies. The Experience of Exteriority
Isbn 9788409475773
Publisher a + t architecture publishers
Idea code 23131
€ 28.20
In the series ‘Generosity: Housing Design Strategies’, architectural projects identifying with specific design strategies are grouped into four sections: indeterminacy, exteriority, privacy, and interactivity. At the core of the series is the concept of generosity, an essential quality for the design of collective housing. Generosity transforms the condition of the built volume and makes it habitable, generating comfort, well-being, and much more. The second issue in the series focuses on the experience of exteriority, featuring work by Atelier Kempe Thill, Caruso St John Architects, Studio Woodroffe Papa, MVRDV, Henley Halebrown, Schneider Studer Primas, Vivas Arquitectos, and more.
120 p, ills colour & bw, 24 x 32 cm, pb, Spanish/English
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The Renewal Of Dwelling. European Housing Construction 1945-1975
Isbn 9783038630388
Publisher Triest Verlag
Idea code 23130
€ 89.40
Most of Europe’s housing was built between 1945 and 1975. It took only 30 years to not only renew the stock but also significantly expand it. More than 50 estates and buildings from throughout Europe and the United Kingdom are presented in this detailed compendium of post-war housing, which delves into how this renewal process was implemented. Comparisons reveal universal themes, as well as local aspects integrated in the architecture. As a whole, the research forms the basis for a fresh assessment of buildings from this period. Contrary to the generally negative image they have received, the projects are highly diverse, experimental, and specific to the local context.
396 p, ills colour & bw, 22 x 31 cm, pb, English
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Yearbook Landscape Architecture and Urban Design in the Netherlands 2022
Isbn 9789492474599
Publisher Blauwdruk
Idea code 23069
€ 33.55
The keywords these days are circular, symbiotic, and nature-inclusive. We have entered the age of biology – urban planning and landscape architecture are increasingly guided by natural processes. The yearbook presents nineteen projects featuring outstanding work from both landscape and urban designers, including Buro Lubbers, Powerhouse Company, Studio Libeskind, LOLA Landscape Architects, Piet Oudolf, and many more. Each project is accompanied by a short explanatory essay. In addition, the yearbook includes a photo reportage on the “walking trees” of Leeuwarden and an interview with the Dutch minister of Housing and Spatial Planning, Hugo de Jonge.
184 p, ills colour & bw, 23 x 30 cm, pb, Dutch/English
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Subjective Atlas of Amsterdam
Isbn 9789464448016
Publisher Subjective Editions
Idea code 23109
€ 24.50
Who is Amsterdam, really? This 'Subjective Atlas of Amsterdam' presents the Dutch capital as experienced by the residents themselves. Many who call Amsterdam home – especially those most often pushed to the margins – translate their experiences into maps, drawings, photos, and graphics. You’ll see streets you’ve not yet walked down, far beyond the historical centre, through the eyes of people you may not have met, but who could be your neighbours. These pages illustrate unsung neighbourhoods, subjective mundanities, vital criticism, and declarations of love, creating a nuanced collection that captures something difficult to quantify or make tangible: how cultures shape a city. Initiated by the Architecture Centre of Amsterdam (Arcam), this book, and the plural realities within it, reflect on how to make the city a better place, for everyone.
192 p, ills colour & bw, 17 x 22 cm, pb, English
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How to not Demolish a Building
Isbn 9783944074412
Publisher Ruby Press
Idea code 23141
€ 30.10
Part of the Chapters series developed by the Belgian architects 51N4E, this third instalment tells the story of two office towers from the 1970s that have been transformed according to the principles of reduce/reuse/recycle. Against all odds, the former World Trade Centre in Brussels is being repurposed in a previously unimaginable way. After many years of vacancy, the building now represents a new approach to urban development and a showcase for dealing in a more sustainable way with older buildings threatened with demolition. And although the adaptive reuse of this building is unique, the underlying concepts and processes are not – a lesson on how not to demolish a building.
152 p, ills colour & bw, 24 x 32 cm, pb, English
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Automated Landscapes
Isbn 9789083301105
Publisher Nieuwe Instituut
Idea code 23053
€ 29.00
'Automated Landscapes' examines a series of work environments at the forefront of automation – from dairy farms and greenhouses to factories and data centers in the Netherlands and China's Pearl River Delta. Furthering contemporary debate, the book debunks the myth that automation replaces people with machines, revealing that human bodies remain present in assembly and supply lines, albeit performing different tasks and governed by the rhythms of automation. The publication presents the results of the Nieuwe Instituut’s research project 'Automated Landscapes', developed in collaboration with the Faculty of Architecture and the Built Environment of TU Delft, Aformal Academy Shenzhen, and the Royal College of Art London.
190 p, ills colour & bw, 17 x 24 cm, pb, English
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a+u 629 23:02 HARQUITECTES
Isbn 9784900212879
Publisher Shinkenchiku-sha
Idea code 23062
€ 23.90
Founded in 2000 by four classmates from Barcelona’s Vallès School of Architecture, HARQUITECTES exudes a clear ambition toward universal relevance while being rooted in Catalonia. Which is why their architecture still holds a particularly Mediterranean feel, blurring the threshold between inside and outside. Simply put, their buildings are passive thermal machines that harmonise the built and natural surroundings to achieve comfort. Of the eighteen projects featured here, half are public buildings while the rest are private residences. Needless to say, their detailed and holistic approach has garnered much-deserved acclaim in the 21st-century architecture world.
168 p, ills colour & bw, 22 x 29 cm, pb, Japanese/English
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Architecture in Islamic Countries: Selections from the Catalogue for the Second International Exhibition of Architecture Venice 1982/83
Isbn 9783856764364
Publisher Gta Verlag
Idea code 23107
€ 29.60
Directed by Paolo Portoghesi, the Second Venice Architecture Biennale raised questions about a postmodernity through realms extending south and east from the Mediterranean, where modernity and decolonisation were converging. Translated here for the first time for an English-speaking audience are selected texts by Mehdi Kowsar, Udo Kultermann, and Portoghesi from the original exhibition catalogue, accompanied by additional commentary. Furthermore, Esra Akcan reflects on the historical and socio-political contexts of the exhibition, while Asli Çiçek and Véronique Patteeuw consider the catalogue itself from the perspective of architectural history.
120 p, ills colour & bw, 22 x 24 cm, pb, English
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Julio Cano Lasso - Natures
Isbn 9788449810527
Publisher Ministerio de Transportes
Idea code 23129
€ 37.65
Spanish architect Julio Cano Lasso (1920–1996) was celebrated for his rational and austerely engineered buildings as well as his commitment to designing social housing and urban infrastructure. Lasso’s buildings are practical, modern, and immediately recognisable for their bare-bones aesthetic. He was in the real sense of the word an “eclectic”, fusing diverse sources and periods in his built works. Featuring previously unpublished texts by authors such as William J.R. Curtis, Juhani Pallasmaa, Iñaki Ábalos, and Juan Navarro Baldeweg, as well as archival images complemented by recent photographs by Iwan Baan, ‘Natures’ proudly presents Cano Lasso’s legacy.
350 p, ills colour & bw, 21 x 28 cm, hb, English
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On Foraging – Food knowledge and Environmental Imaginaries in the UAE's landscape
Isbn 9786148035500
Publisher Kaph Books
Idea code 23112
€ 43.00
This publication showcases transformative solutions for food insecurity in the UAE over the past 50 years. From innovations in the private sector to public policy initiatives, these strategies aim to eliminate hunger by providing year-round access to nutritious food in a country whose natural landscape is unconducive to farming. The book is published on the occasion of 'On Foraging: Food Knowledge and Environmental Imaginaries' in the UAE’s Landscape, an exhibition commissioned by Warehouse421 for the UAE Pavilion at Expo 2020, Dubai, UAE.
352 p, ills colour & bw, 15 x 21 cm, pb, English/Arabic
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Social Sauna - Bathing & Wellbeing
Isbn 9781399910903
Publisher Therme Group/ Jane Withers Studio
Idea code 23105
€ 25.55
Edited by Jane Withers Studio, Social Sauna – Bathing and Wellbeing presents a new perspective on global sauna culture, ritual and design. By defining the sauna’s essence and exploring how this practice is evolving for the 21st century, the authors reveal how sauna is a deeply social practice that can offer renewed benefits for health, wellbeing, and community. Social Sauna explores sauna culture from ancient global traditions of steam bathing through to modern experimental sauna practices. The publication reveals the important role that design plays in creating spaces that contribute to wellbeing. With examples such as the Bathing Culture sauna in Gothenburg by architects raumlabor, the Agora sauna created for the nomadic SALT festival and Steam of Life by JKMM Architects for Burning Man Festival. Creatives such as Bauhaus Sauna Society observe sauna traditions and stage sauna lectures and workshops, developing their own rituals with a deep respect for the vernacular spirit.
126 p, ills colour & bw, 16 x 23 cm, pb, English
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gta papers 7: Care
Isbn 9783856764326
Publisher Gta Verlag
Idea code 23108
€ 25.55
Care work is at once omnipresent and invisible, encompassing all forms of socially necessary or reproductive labour: raising children, cooking, cleaning, looking after the elderly or ill, and more. Yet, although care work allows and sustains productive labour, including architecture, it is usually unpaid and ignored. That care work falls disproportionately on women and unevenly along racial and class divides is indisputable. Demographic changes, environmental crises, growing mobility, transformations of labour, and the reconfiguration of traditional care institutions have therefore made the inequity of care a key issue in architectural debates, some of which are addressed in this volume.
156 p, ills colour & bw, 21 x 30 cm, pb, English
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Forum Groningen
Isbn 9789462086760
Publisher Nai010 Publishers
Idea code 23139
€ 34.95
For more than 20 years, work was done at the East side of the Grote Markt square, with the Forum as the cultural heart of the intervention. Commissioned by the City of Groningen, NL Architects designed a new type of building, moving way ahead of the international competition in the multiple assignment early 2017. With columns, articles, in-depth analyses and stories in pictures, Forum Groningen highlights the context in which the building came to be, and also the design process, the challenging realisation and enthusiastic use. This richly illustrated book thus provides various perspectives on the living room of Groningen, from design decisions concerning the bannisters to considerations on the urban planning level.
240 p, ills colour & bw, 21 x 28 cm, pb, English
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Footprint 30: Epiphylogenetic Turn And Architecture
Isbn 9789492852403
Publisher Jap Sam Books
Idea code 23055
€ 25.00
Dive into the complex oeuvre of French philosopher of technology Bernard Stiegler (1952–2020), who composed an evolving apparatus of adopted concepts to deconstruct and think through our current technological condition. Epiphylogenesis is one among many intricate neologisms developed within Stiegler’s theory of anthropotechnical evolution. In the simplest sense, it describes a form of technically conditioned co-evolution. It is read here alongside related ways to approach theorising socio-techno-environmental relationships in architecture, through writings by Claire Mary Colebrook, Georgios Tsagdis, Jacob Vangeest, Davide Landi, and Tim Gough.
168 p, ills colour & bw, 19 x 27 cm, pb, English
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GA Houses 185
Isbn 9784871406222
Publisher Ada Edita
Idea code 22687
€ 26.25
‘GA Houses’ documents outstanding new residential architecture from all over the world. With projects by Aires Mateus + Miguel Passos de Almeida, Tom Wiscombe, Tomohiro Hata, Wespi de Meuron Romeo Architects, Akinori Yoshimura, Gregorius Supie Yolodie + Maria Rosantina, Antony Liu + Studio TonTon, Shigeru Fuse, and Hiroyuki Unemori.
168 p, ills colour & bw, 23 x 30 cm, pb, Japanese/English
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GA Document 161
Isbn 9784871402576
Publisher Ada Edita
Idea code 22604
€ 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 Riken Yamamoto, MVRDV, Aires Mateus, Barozzi Veiga, Kengo Kuma, and Sou Fujimoto.
132 p, ills colour & bw, 26 x 30 cm, pb, Japanese/English
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