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El Croquis 220-221: SANAA II (2015-2023)
Isbn 9788412532364
Publisher El Croquis
Idea code 23327
€ 98.35
The magazine once again brings the Japanese architecture powerhouse duo of Kazuyo Sejima and Ryue Nishizawa into the spotlight, highlighting their collaborative and individual work between 2015 and 2023. Featuring even more projects than part one (‘El Croquis’ 205), it also includes an essay by architecture critic and curator Bart Lootsma. Notable works are the New National Gallery in Budapest, a canopy for Umekita Park in Osaka, and the Suzhou Arts Theatre (SANAA); Nichia Corporation Yokohama Research Centre and three private homes (Sejima); and Mishima Office Building and the Sirakawa Exit Plaza at Kumamoto Station in southern Japan (Nishizawa).
400 p, ills colour & bw, 25 x 34 cm, pb, Spanish/English
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dot architects – Politics of Living
Isbn 9784887064003
Publisher Toto
Idea code 23324
€ 46.65
Based in Osaka, dot architects is an interdisciplinary practice with a portfolio that spans architecture, research, art, and more. This volume features five of the studio’s completed projects. Images which portray the projects in their current state are complemented by texts outlining the history and background of each structure and the surrounding town. As a whole, it gives a detailed insight into the properties which acutely reflect the “politics of living” – critical faculties needed to create small autonomous spaces through design, construction, and involvement, which in turn shapes the principle the architects describe in this book and adhere to in their daily practice.
240 p, ills colour & bw, 21 x 30 cm, pb, Japanese/English
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See All This 30: Paradise Found Curated by Piet Oudolf
Isbn 24683981
Publisher See All This
Idea code 23338
€ 19.95
Piet Oudolf is admired worldwide for his wildly flourishing natural gardens. Over the past decades, Oudolf has revolutionised our relationship with the outdoors, opening our eyes to the power of perennial plants, to a garden that retains its beauty in every season. In this issue of ‘See All This’, explore what it means to be in nature and how we can attune ourselves to its rhythms. Comprising artworks, colourful drawings and sketches, cuisine, photographs, architecture, landscapes, a botanical glossary, and more, the magazine offers a breath of fresh air. Participating artists include Simon Heijdens, Zora Ottink, Naoko Benom-Miura, Sophie Steengracht, and Curcubita Maxima.
200 p, ills colour & bw, 21 x 27 cm, pb, English/Dutch
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Datapolis
Isbn 9789462087194
Publisher Nai010 Publishers
Idea code 23369
€ 39.95
Data has become a critical component in our lives. When was the last time you spent 24 hours offline? In a way we take for granted the idea that we are and will be connected. Yet, we hardly comprehend its mechanisms: connected objects, self-driving vehicles, satellites, global internet cable networks, data centres, and humanoid robots are the tangible evidence of a complex and connected world. 'Datapolis' contributes to a theoretical debate on data and its effects on space, architecture and environments including ecological, economic, political and societal dimensions. By means of academic papers, short essays, a historical timeline and a catalogue of gizmos, maps and diagrams, this book intends to be speculative on the ways in which architecture can get engaged with data, its infrastructural space and its scale.
256 p, ills colour & bw, 17 x 24 cm, pb, English
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An Fonteyne – Chambres d'Amis
Isbn 9783907363188
Publisher ETH/Studio Jan De Vylder
Idea code 23311
€ 20.00
Presented by ETH Studio Jan De Vylder, Carrousel Confessions Confusion is a series revealing both the authors’ personal interests and the studio’s own pursuits in the form of confessions. For this edition, interior architect An Fonteyne reflects on the year 1986. The year of the disaster at Chernobyl. The year the space shuttle ‘Challenger’ exploded while millions watched. The year Belgium was fourth at the World Cup. The year of the ‘Chambres d’Amis’ exhibition in Ghent, where more than 50 international artists were invited to create work in as many private homes. Which she visited as a teenage girl and would only later realise, to her embarrassment, the absence of women.
72 p, ills colour, 20 x 27 cm, pb, English
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Adam Caruso – Mount Royal
Isbn 9783907363164
Publisher ETH/Studio Jan De Vylder
Idea code 23309
€ 20.00
Presented by ETH Studio Jan De Vylder, Carrousel Confessions Confusion is a series revealing both the authors’ personal interests and the studio’s own pursuits in the form of confessions. This instalment invites Adam Caruso, who established Caruso St John Architects with Peter St John in 1990. Since then, the practice has built throughout Europe, with projects ranging in scale from major urban developments and cultural venues to interventions in complex historic settings. Caruso reflects on his experiences growing up in Montreal and visiting Mount Royal every week with his family, the mountain located directly west of downtown and one of the city’s largest greenspaces.
72 p, ills colour, 20 x 27 cm, pb, English
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Christophe Girot – Beyond the Edge
Isbn 9783907363171
Publisher ETH/Studio Jan De Vylder
Idea code 23310
€ 20.00
Presented by ETH Studio Jan De Vylder, Carrousel Confessions Confusion is a series revealing both the authors’ personal interests and the studio’s own pursuits in the form of confessions. Landscape architect Christophe Girot is the featured personage in this volume. Girot writes about his experiences growing up in England and France, and how the juxtaposition of the regions’ landscapes already happened in his mind, long before he had ever heard or studied anything about it. These contradictory aesthetic and cultural values drove him to study landscape architecture someplace else entirely – Berkeley, California, in the 1980s – where he found his own values challenged anew.
72 p, ills colour & bw, 20 x 27 cm, pb, English
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Architecture in the Netherlands Yearbook 2022/2023
Isbn 9789462087866
Publisher Nai010 Publishers
Idea code 23348
€ 44.95
'Architecture in the Netherlands' has been an indispensable survey and source of inspiration for anyone interested or professionally involved in Dutch architecture since 1988. In this publication, a three member editorial team annually presents a review in the form of essays of the past architectural year, as well as a selection of sensational projects that reflect the state of the profession.
160 p, ills colour & bw, 24 x 32 cm, pb, Dutch/English
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Oase 114: Optimism or Bust?
Isbn 9789462087804
Publisher Nai010 Publishers
Idea code 23349
€ 22.95
Despite climate catastrophes, increasing inequality and growing geo-political instability, architecture remains stubbornly optimistic about the future. More than this; it usually sees itself as the discipline best capable of showing society a way out of disaster. Optimism seems to be a genuine "strategy" that strongly shapes architectural and urban design practice. We can hardly imagine a different – and hopefully better – built future if we are not optimistic about it. This issue of 'Oase' focuses on this specific position of optimism in architecture and urban design.
128 p, ills colour & bw, 17 x 24 cm, pb, Dutch/English
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Lessons from the Social Condensers
101 Soviet Workers' Clubs and Spaces for Mass Assembly
Isbn 9783856764463
Publisher Gta Verlag
Idea code 23320
€ 35.75
In the Soviet Union in the 1920s, the term “social condenser” came to signify architecture’s agency in shaping individual behaviours and reforming society at large. The buildings conceived as structures for public assembly according to these ideals are among the earliest experiments of the modern movement. Despite their indisputable impact, there is little insight into this considerable body of work. The 101 case studies presented here reflect the wide reach of early Soviet social condensers and serve as precedents for how architecture can activate social function, yet also as cautionary tales of architecture as an instrument of state propaganda, social engineering, and territorial control.
190 p, ills colour & bw, 21 x 28 cm, pb, English
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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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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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a+u 633 23:06 Hombroich
Isbn 9784900212923
Publisher Shinkenchiku-sha
Idea code 23333
€ 23.90
Featuring the iconic Hombroich in this issue of ‘a+u,’ the publication explores the museum located between Düsseldorf and Cologne in Germany. Built on the grounds of a former NATO missile base, Raketenstation, the space was transformed in a unique integration of art and architecture. The creativity and environmental harmony of Hombroich can be experienced through the visuals and insightful articles of this magazine, with contributions from Wilfred Wang, Barbara Hoidn, and more. It also features site plans of Hombroich and the experimental SpacePlaceLab, as well as the artists in residence: Thomas Kling, Ute Langanky, Katsuhito Nishikawa, and Oliver Kruse.
160 p, ills colour & bw, 22 x 29 cm, pb, Japanese/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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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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Huussi – Death to the flushing toilet
Isbn 9789189270596
Publisher Arvinius + Orfeus Publishing
Idea code 23340
€ 26.90
‘Death to the flushing toilet’ challenges traditional water-based sanitation, spotlighting freshwater shortages, and broken nutrient flows that cause serious ecosystem damage globally. It encourages readers to recognise waste as a valuable resource and to explore alternative, sustainable sanitation solutions. This book includes expert articles by various contributors on topics such as the history of sanitation, nutrient flows, and circular waste economies. Edited and curated by Arja Renell, this book accompanies the exhibition ‘Huussi – Imagining the Future History of Sanitation’ that was presented at the 18th International Architecture Exhibition of La Biennale di Venezia.
112 p, ills colour & bw, 16 x 21 cm, pb, English
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Critical Coast
Isbn 9788774074885
Publisher The Danish Architectural Press
Idea code 23422
€ 52.25
'Critical Coast' is a cross-disciplinary reader that explores the ecologies and spaces of coastal landscapes, the urgencies of contemporary coastlands, and diachronic ideas about coastal futures. In continuation of the exhibition 'Coastal Imaginaries' curated by Josephine Michau in the Danish Pavilion at the Biennale Architettura di Venezia 2023, the book presents a series of artistic representations, essays, poetry, found material, visual suites, fairy tales, and empirical conversations with numerous international voices such as Dipesh Chakrabarty, Emanuele Coccia, Rebecca Solnit, Susannah Drake, Inuuteq Storch, Amitav Ghosh, Jane da Mosto, Katherine Richardson, Superflex, Bathsheba Demuth, Hans Christian Andersen, Amalie Smith, Rakel Haslund-Gjerrild, Kim Stanley Robinson and many others. Critical Coast comes in the format of a handbook made in a durable hardcover that readers can bring along into the field.
512 p, ills colour & bw, 19 x 21 cm, hb, Danish/English
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