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Kengo Kuma (AV)
Isbn 9788412604498
Publisher Avisa
Idea code 23201
€ 102.35
According to editor Luis Fernández-Galiano, “The architecture of Kengo Kuma is an exemplary exercise in relinquishment. Though in his work material is particularly important, each and every one of the projects expresses a will to attain a bareness that we can only call spiritual”. This special monograph features a broad compendium of the Japanese architect’s output, highlighting no less than 50 completed works, plus ten minimal designs and ten ongoing projects. In addition, an essay by Kuma entitled “Earthquakes and Nature” reflects on the role of architects and contemporary society’s reverence for nature when faced with devastating earthquakes, such as in Japan in 2011.
368 p, ills colour & bw, 25 x 31 cm, hb, Spanish/English
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Norman Foster Sketchbooks Volume III · 1986-1990
Isbn 9788494717994
Publisher Ivorypress
Idea code 23212
€ 58.80
A continuation of the published series on the contents of the sketchbooks of Norman Foster, a project which began in 2020 with a selection that gave an overview of Foster’s entire output in the period between 1975 and 2020. Volume I covers the six years from the first archived sketchbook (1975) to the official designation of Foster Associates as architects of the Hongkong and Shanghai Bank (1980). Volume II then spans the period 1981–1985, with a total of 210 sketchbooks. Volume III covers a period of major reorganisation within Foster’s practice and includes more than 700 drawings gathered from 123 sketchbooks. Like the previous volumes, it is thematically structured.
528 p, ills colour & bw, 22 x 31 cm, hb, English
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AV Monographs 251: Sauerbruch Hutton
Isbn 9788412604535
Publisher Avisa
Idea code 23215
€ 43.20
Berlin-based architects Sauerbruch Hutton are the focus of this edition, which features 20 works that together span three decades of architectural design. Over the years, the office has developed sustainable buildings as well as a notable use of colour as a building material on projects throughout Europe. Sauerbruch Hutton has also explored the applications of both printed glass and glazed ceramic as facade materials. Major works included profiled here include Museum Brandhorst (Munich, 2008), ADAC Headquarters (Munich, 2012), Haus 6 (Berlin, 2017), and M9 Museum District (Venice, 2018).
112 p, ills colour & bw, 24 x 30 cm, pb, Spanish/English
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a+u April 2023 Special Issue Pelli Clarke & Partners
Isbn 9784900212909
Publisher Shinkenchiku-sha
Idea code 23225
€ 51.55
Founded in 1977, Pelli Clarke & Partners (PC&P) is an international architecture practice based in New Haven, Connecticut, and New York City. From the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) to World Financial Center, César Pelli led the firm through many pivotal moments, and his legacy continues to resonate and inspire all of PC&P’s subsequent work, as explored in the projects presented in this publication. Outlined in 4 thematic sections – Partnerships, Urbanity, Envelope, and Public Realm – selected buildings and spaces designed by PC&P, from its formative years to today, illustrate how the firm nurtures sustainable collaborations and makes meaningful connections and contributions to communities and cities.
216 p, ills colour & bw, 22 x 29 cm, pb, Japanese/English
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a+u 632 23:05 Point Supreme
Isbn 9784900212916
Publisher Shinkenchiku-sha
Idea code 23272
€ 23.90
A full issue dedicated to the Athens-based office for research, architecture, and urban design known as Point Supreme. Founded in Rotterdam in 2008 by Marianna Rentzou and Konstantinos Pantazis, after living and working in Athens, London, Brussels, Tokyo, and Rotterdam for offices such as OMA and MVRDV, Point Supreme is known for regularly publishing self-initiated projects on a variety of scales, as well as conceiving and executing intimate interiors. The issue features a selection of works and projects, from houses, apartments, and a flower shop to cabinets, totems, and a fire station, along with essays by Pier Paolo Tamburelli, Eric Lappiere, and Freek Persyn.
168 p, ills colour & bw, 22 x 29 cm, pb, Japanese/English
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AV Proyectos 115: COBE
Isbn 1697493X
Publisher Avisa
Idea code 23216
€ 13.65
Scandinavian roots are explored in this issue’s main feature on COBE, a firm founded by architect Dan Stubbergaard and based in Copenhagen. Included are significant works such as the Gothenburg University Library, Schuman Square in Brussels, Opera Park in Copenhagen, and the National Archaeological Museum in Rostock, Germany. Also in this issue, a look at the San Pellegrino Flagship Factory by BIG, currently under construction in Bergamo, plus four formats for different residences in Europe and South America by AMUNT Nagel Theissen, Taller General + José Maria Sáez, MARS Architectes, and Cristián Izquierdo.
80 p, ills colour & bw, 21 x 30 cm, pb, Spanish/English
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Chandigarh and Le Corbusier - The Creation of a City in India 1950-65
Isbn 9788494933059
Publisher Altrim Publishers
Idea code 23303
€ 38.70
This book addresses the question of time in Le Corbusier’s urban project of Chandigarh. It covers the entire period of the conception of the city, from 1951 to the death of Pierre Jeanneret in 1967. The book takes a detailed look at the link between the buildings as built and the archives of the Le Corbusier Foundation. An architect with a specialisation in heritage building, author Rémi Papillault aims to make this information accessible to all, especially to the inhabitants and leaders of Chandigarh, so that a detailed knowledge of the city’s design can be used to help preserve it.
322 p, ills colour & bw, 30 x 21 cm, hb, English
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AgriValley
Isbn 9789492852823
Publisher Jap Sam Books
Idea code 23276
€ 30.00
Mirte van Duppen’s ‘AgriValley’ is a long-term poetic study of agriculture in the Netherlands. In her cinematographic representations, the video artist brings together various production landscapes as a social construct. Here, humans and machines live and work side by side. The futuristic, almost dreamlike images offer insight into the enormous impact of technological innovation in the nation’s agricultural sector. She reveals the contemporary landscape in associative analyses, using visual rhyme and essayistic camerawork. Besides a conversation with former Chief Government Architect Floris van Alkemade, there are contributions by Willem Claassen, Corinne Heyrman, and others.
176 p, ills colour, 17 x 24 cm, pb, Dutch/English
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Resilient Estate Landscapes Gelderland
Isbn 9789492852540
Publisher Jap Sam Books
Idea code 23277
€ 39.50
The province of Gelderland in the Netherlands has numerous castles, country houses, and estates. Together they form historic landscapes that partially determine the regional character. Urbanisation and climate change have a significant effect on the management and protection of these landscapes, creating a complexity of challenges requiring a regional perspective. This volume seeks to understand, plan, and design future-proof heritage estate landscapes by defining a preservation-through-planning strategy that takes spatial development with historical landscape structures as its basis. A valuable resource, it showcases best practices from Gelderland and beyond.
208 p, ills colour & bw, 25 x 31 cm, hb, English
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Disquietude - Architecture and Energy in Portugal
Isbn 9789898763730
Publisher Common Books
Idea code
€ 14.25
In the age of the Anthropocene, in which humanity acts on cycles and systems with all its power and capital, architecture and energy together mean more than operational or embodied energy, active and passive solutions. In the face of the climate crisis, beyond the phase-out of fossil fuels, architecture has a mediating role; it is about socio-cultural rethinking. Disquietude addresses the entanglement between architecture and energy in the 20th century, using Portugal as an example. Featuring different local Portuguese voices, the publication identifies the potential for a transition that could be local, sustainable, diverse, and just and be meaningful also in an international perspective.
88 p, ills colour & bw, 23 x 33 cm, pb, Portuguese/English
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Reuse to Reduce – Architecture within a Carbon Budget
The Case of BioPartner 5 – Popma ter Steege Architects
Isbn 9789492852793
Publisher Jap Sam Books
Idea code 23263
€ 29.90
‘Reuse to Reduce’ documents the building of BioPartner 5 at Leiden Bio Science Park, the first Paris Proof, demountable building in the Netherlands designed by Popma ter Steege Architechten. Unable to ignore the pressing challenges our world faces, the architects developed ideas for a circular building, finding ways to reduce the consumptions of raw materials, energy, and water. They dismantled and reused steel from the base of another nearby university building, repurposing 165,000kg of steel for the skeleton of the new building. From the steel structure to the internal walls, the floor finish to the toilets, this project shows the promising future of sustainable architecture.
192 p, ills colour & bw, 21 x 28 cm, pb, English
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cc-tapis an encounter with Charlotte Perriand (1972-2023)
Isbn 9789077745281
Publisher A Magazine
Idea code 23249
€ 39.00
By 1972, architect and designer Charlotte Perriand had dedicated a significant amount of her life to Les Arcs, a sprawling ski complex in the French Alps that would become one of her most ambitious projects. Six unpublished colour studies for a series of woven panels intended to brighten the alpine apartments, dated that same year, have laid untouched for 50 years in her Paris archives. Now they are brought to life by cc-tapis as a collection of handwoven carpets, presented in an exhibition celebrating Perriand’s unpublished archives and mastery of colour – testament to her lifelong passion for artisanal craft, from Japanese lacquer work to line block printing.
48 p, ills colour, 15 x 21 cm, pb, English/French
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The Making of the Netherlands - Landscape, Cities and Architecture
Isbn 9789068688610
Publisher Thoth
Idea code 23234
€ 34.95
The Netherlands consists of a series of man-made landscapes, connected by rivers, canals, railways, and roads. This book explores why the country looks the way it does, and how it acquired its current appearance over the past 2,000 years. Using historical maps, new maps, plans, paintings, and photos to explain the developments with urban planning and architecture, this book also details the large-scale reclamation of peat bogs, the new villages build on reclaimed land, the construction of the railway network and stations, the extraction of the IJsselmeer polders, the construction of the Delta works, and the construction of the motorway network.
160 p, ills colour, 25 x 33 cm, hb, English
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Spaarndammerhart – A Story of the City
Isbn 9789492058171
Publisher The Architecture Observer
Idea code 23252
€ 44.50
Spaarndammerhart in Amsterdam is designed by the architectural offices of Korth Tielens and Marcel Lok_Architect, artist Martijn Sandberg, and the landscape architects of DS Landschapsarchitecten. Photography of Max Hart Nibbrig, Dennis De Smet, and Raimond Wouda (who has been commissioned to document the life in and of Spaarndammerhart), and texts by Fred Feddes, Hans Ibelings, Vincent Kompier, and Hannah Schubert document and discuss this housing complex, in which architecture, art, courtyard, gardens and street form a comprehensive whole.
148 p, ills colour & bw, 24 x 30 cm, hb, English
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Spaarndammerhart – Een verhaal van de stad
Isbn 9789492058157
Publisher The Architecture Observer
Idea code
€ 44.50
Het Spaarndammerhart in Amsterdam is ontworpen in een samenwerking tussen architectenbureaus Korth Tielens en Marcel Lok_Architect, beeldend kunstenaar Martijn Sandberg, en DS Landschapsarchitecten. Fotografie van Max Hart Nibbrig, Dennis De Smet, en Raimond Wouda (die speciaal voor dit boek het leven van en in het Spaarndammerhart heeft vastgelegd), en teksten van Fred Feddes, Hans Ibelings, Vincent Kompier, en Hannah Schubert geven een veelzijdig beeld van dit inmiddels meermalen bekroonde woningbouwcomplex waarin architectuur, kunst, hof, tuinen en straat zijn opgevat als een samenhangend geheel.
148 p, ills colour & bw, 24 x 30 cm, hb, Dutch
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Arquitectura Viva 252: Carmody Groarke
Isbn 02141256
Publisher Avisa
Idea code 23165
€ 22.75
The Permanence of the Ephemeral. The crisis of 2008 forced the young Kevin Carmody and Andy Groarke to explore less trodden paths: mostly temporary structures that enabled them to develop a subtlety which the London-based duo has maintained while consolidating its practice and expanding its register of scale, as Arquitectura Viva shows through three works and two recent projects: the Windermere Jetty Museum in the Lake District, the Hill House Box in Helensburgh, the Großmarkt Theater Pavilion in Hamburg, the extension of the Design Museum of Ghent, and facilities for the British Library in Boston Spa.
80 p, ils colour & bw, 24 x 30 cm, pb, Spanish/English
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Repository. 49 Methods and Assignments for Writing Urban Places
Isbn 9789462087798
Publisher Nai010 Publishers
Idea code 23292
€ 24.95
'Repository' offers a set of methods and assignments intended to stimulate new approaches in architecture, urban studies, and other fields of spatial development and to invite creative, often embodies, and sometimes playful engagements with the material and immaterial dimensions of urban places. The publication collects 49 methods, defined here as systematic procedures, techniques, and ways of acting, to explore, examine, and discover urban places.
224 p, ills colour & bw, 14 x 21 cm, pb, English
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The Brussels of Victor Horta
Isbn 9789493039940
Publisher Ludion
Idea code 23297
€ 24.00
In 2023, Brussels, and by extension the whole country, celebrates the year of art nouveau. And who better represents this revolutionary style in than the famous architect Victor Horta? This useful guide takes you along his many creations in Brussels, from public buildings to private homes and monuments, all built in art nouveau style. Born in Ghent in 1861, Victor Horta was a pioneer with his architecture: think of the typical decorative forms, the experimental layout of the interiors around the central light shaft, the level differences, unusual fenestration, staircases and winter gardens. Also consider all the metal and glass, which would become important components for construction from then on. Horta brought in the light and created an unprecedented sense of space in the townhouses of his time. In doing so, he ushered in a completely new architectural era. This practical guide covers Horta's buildings in chronological order showcasing the architect's stylistic evolution, from the still classic House Matyn to the houses Solvay, Van Eetvelde, Tassel or the Palace of Fine Arts. The book is not only a hands-on directory with a handy bookmark and map, but also contains fascinating box texts that delve deeper into selected themes.
144 p, ills colour & bw, 17 x 24 cm, pb, English
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Het Brussel van Horta
Isbn 9789493039926
Publisher Ludion
Idea code
€ 24.00
In 2023 viert Brussel, en bij uitbreiding het hele land, het jaar van de art nouveau. Wie vertegenwoordigt deze revolutionaire stijl in ons land beter dan de beroemde architect Victor Horta? Deze handige gids loodst u langs zijn creaties in Brussel, van openbare gebouwen tot privéwoningen en monumenten, allen opgetrokken in art nouveau-stijl. Victor Horta wordt in 1861 in Gent geboren en verricht baanbrekend werk met zijn architectuur: denk aan de typische decoratieve vormen, de experimentele indeling van de interieurs rond de centrale lichtschacht, de niveauverschillen, bijzondere raampartijen, trappenhuizen en wintertuinen. Denk ook aan al het metaal en het glas, die vanaf toen belangrijke onderdelen van de constructies zouden uitmaken. Horta haalde het licht naar binnen en creëerde een ongekend ruimtegevoel in de burgerwoningen van zijn tijd. Hij luidde daarmee een compleet nieuw architecturaal tijdperk in. Deze handige gids behandelt Horta’s gebouwen in chronologische volgorde waaruit de stijlevolutie van de architect blijkt, van het nog klassieke Huis Matyn tot de huizen Solvay, Van Eetvelde, Tassel of het Paleis voor Schone Kunsten. Het boek is niet alleen een praktische gids met een handige bladwijzer en plattegrond, maar bevat tevens ook boeiende kaderteksten die dieper ingaan op bepaalde thema’s.
144 p, ills colour & bw, 17 x 24 cm, pb, Dutch
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