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New Titles in Architecture & Landscape

7 August 2023

Arne Jacobsen Life & Work

Isbn 9788774070023
Publisher The Danish Architectural Press
Idea code 23485
€ 71.00

Arne Jacobsen (1902–1971) is regarded as one of the 20th century’s greatest Danish architects. Although he established his international reputation mainly in furniture design, having produced some of the world’s most recognisable and sought-after chairs, he also ranks as a master of modern architecture. He painted watercolours, took an active interest in new building and production methods, and experimented with new materials in order to realise his vision. This reprint of an exhaustive monograph on Jacobsen that was a decade in the making, as researchers Carsten Thau and Kjeld Vindum delved into the archives and material, draws forth new aspects of the architect’s genius.

560 p, ills colour & bw, 30 x 25 cm, pb, English

Doughnut for Urban Development - A Manual

Isbn 9788774078326
Publisher The Danish Architectural Press
Idea code 23494
€ 41.80

Created by experts in climate science, impact assessment, ecology, and building design, this book introduces an innovative framework by applying the principles of the book ‘Doughnut Economics’ by Kate Raworth to a specific industry. In terms of urban development, the “doughnut” consists of an inner ring defining social standards and an outer ring outlining ecological limits, in turn fostering regenerative and distributive communities. As a manual, it empowers developers with comprehensive knowledge and practical tools to achieve sustainable urban development, and includes chapters on social foundation, ecological ceiling, planetary boundaries, and business design.

176 p, ills colour & bw, 30 x 25 cm, pb, English

Danish Ceramic Architecture

Isbn 9789189270169
Publisher Arvinius + Orfeus Publishing
Idea code 23447
€ 69.90

Danish Ceramic Architecture offers a presentation of Danish architecture that has not been seen before. With ceramic and light brick facades as a medium, it narrates a piece of Danish architectural history unknown to most people. It is thus a new way of approaching the Danish architectural treasure – by zooming in on approximately the past 130 years and otherwise overlooked buildings, as well as telling new stories about well-known works. Through essays by and interviews with leading architecture thinkers and practitioners – as well as dozens of projects with facades in ceramic and light tile, by major Danish architectural firms such as Vilhelm Lauritzen, Cobe and BIG – the purpose of the book is to relate ceramic and light tile facades to central Danish (and international) currents in architecture and material. In this way, it will help pointing forward to new forms of architectural expression.

256 p, ills colour & bw, 21 x 29 cm, hb, English

Port City Atlas - Mapping European Port City Territories

Isbn 9789462087422
Publisher Nai010 Publishers
Idea code 23450
€ 44.95

A multitude of port cities dots Europe’s coastline, all serving to facilitate maritime transportation. Over millennia, public and private leaders have built harbours, urban spaces and infrastructures in diverse territories to serve hinterlands, including landlocked capital cities and metropolitan areas. As nodes on the edge of water and land, port city territories embody knowledge on maritime flows and water conditions. At a time of climate change, they can be paradigms and stewards of sustainable development. Taking a comprehensive, mapping based approach, 'Port City Atlas' visualises 100 port city territories located on four seas and connected through shared waters.

320 p, ills colour, 17 x 22 cm, hb, English

African Water Cities

Isbn 9789462087767
Publisher Nai010 Publishers
Idea code 23430
€ 34.95

On the African continent, the impact of climate change is now the day-to-day reality. Coastal and waterfront cities in particular experience loss and damage due to significant increases in sea level rise, rainfall, and flooding. At the same time, Africa is the second most rapidly urbanising continent, after Asia. The intersections between water and cities are therefore critical for understanding the future of urban and rural developments in Africa. 'African Water Cities' presents research how African cities by waterfronts deal with this impact.

272 p, ills colour & bw, 20 x 25 cm, pb, English

a+u 635 23:08 The Seven Principles of R. Buckminster Fuller

Isbn 9784900212947
Publisher Shinkenchiku-sha
Idea code 23490
€ 22.70

Buckminster Fuller (1895–1983) dedicated more than five decades of his career during the 20th century to inventing and pioneering solutions to reform the environment for all humanity. His far-reaching perspective on the world’s challenges and issues left behind a legacy of numerous patents and inventions, exerting a massive influence over the generations that have followed. This issue of the magazine zooms in on Fuller’s seven principles: 4D, dymaxion, synergetics, geodesic, tensegrity, design science, and Spaceship Earth. Besides highlighting examples of various designs and projects, it also reprints Fuller’s article “Experiment in Individual Initiative”.

160 p, ills colour & bw, 22 x 29 cm, pb, Japanese/English

Building Diversity - who is the architect?

Isbn 9788774079941
Publisher The Danish Architectural Press
Idea code 23493
€ 31.35

who is the architect? explores how the figure of the architect has been constructed and challenged in recent years. Traditionally perceived as male, Western and individualistic, architects are now being urged to redefine themselves in a more diverse, inclusive manner. The publication discusses the need to challenge norms and establish caring as an essential quality in the architectural discourse. With the threat of environmental collapse and other societal challenges, the need for collective teamwork and empathy has become central in establishing a common understanding that includes all beings. Building Diversity aims to tackle these issues and explore topics on diversity and equality in the architectural field's past, present and future. The publication features thoughts and ideas from a broad range of countries and diverse perspectives on the architectural field, contributing to a wider dialogue about inclusion, intersectionality and progress. Building Diversity is not intended to provide concrete solutions but aims to stimulate discussion and open up venues for hosting dialogues pointing to possible paths and the expansion of perspectives. It is an important contribution to the ongoing conversation about diversity and equality in the architectural field.

256 p, ills colour & bw, 13 x 20 cm, pb, English

Cobe - Our Urban Living Room (3rd updated ed)

Isbn 9789187543395
Publisher Arvinius + Orfeus Publishing
Idea code 16570
€ 85.00

Over the last decade, Copenhagen has undergone a major transformation – not just in its appearance, but in the way the city functions and is experienced by its residents. COBE’s projects are spread out over Copenhagen, but they aren’t cookie-cutter buildings that are placed without meaning or context. Each structure is highly aware of what the local markers mean in a globalised world. What unites them is the architects’ desire to achieve a more sustainable, socially inviting urban environment for city residents. This monograph speaks to all those who live and work in cities, with contributions ranging from established architects and architecture critics to the those in municipal and urban planning roles and the residents themselves.

488 p, ills colour & bw, 21 x 26 cm, pb, English

Micronarratives and the City - An Annotated Map of Bucharest

Isbn 9789492574244
Publisher Grafische Cel
Idea code 23438
€ 20.80

Mapping spatial experiences and wanderings through the city of Bucharest through photography, text, drawing, film, and various mixed media, three contributors explore (micro) situations witnessed in the city. Alina Cristea applies her own artistic research and practice, Mira Sanders introduces the act of drawing to represent and explore ways to have spatial experiences, and Ileana Marin examines the creative power of wandering in the city through a selection of Romanian literary works. Rather than aiming for an exact representation of Bucharest, the book makes sidenotes of its urban qualities and to what extent the authors’ actions reveal (or not) the features of the city.

104 p, ills colour & bw, 17 x 24 cm, pb, English

Finn Larsen - Topografi (3 volumes)

Isbn 9788792700476
Publisher The Architectural Publisher B
Idea code 23471
€ 90.00

Topographic photography takes an interest in everyday, inconspicuous landscapes and how they are transformed in the interaction between human culture and nature. Comprising three volumes – ‘Hække og Stativer’, ‘Orpik’, and ‘Dumpen’ – Finn Larsen’s ‘Topographi’ is based on his long-term projects. Since the end of the 1980s, Larsen has worked with topographic photography in ways that focus on specific places, observing them over multiple decades. The first volume is based on his first project, located in Randers, Denmark, in the late 1980s. The second and third volumes are both part of Larsen’s Greenlandic project: one is about trees, while the other focuses on waste.

552 p, ills colour & bw, 20 x 34 cm, pb, Danish/English/Greenlandic

Finn Larsen - Topografi 3: The Dump

Isbn 9788792700445
Publisher The Architectural Publisher B
Idea code
€ 35.00

Topographic photography takes an interest in everyday, inconspicuous landscapes and how they are transformed in the interaction between human culture and nature. Comprising three volumes – ‘Hække og Stativer’, ‘Orpik’, and ‘Dumpen’ – Finn Larsen’s ‘Topographi’ is based on his long-term projects. Since the end of the 1980s, Larsen has worked with topographic photography in ways that focus on specific places, observing them over multiple decades. The first volume is based on his first project, located in Denmark. The second and third volumes are both part of Larsen’s Greenlandic project: one is about trees, while this third one focuses on waste. All 3 available likewise as a package.

184 p, ills colour & bw, 20 x 34 cm, pb, Danish/English/Greenlandic

Finn Larsen - Topografi 2: Trees in Greenland

Isbn 9788792700421
Publisher The Architectural Publisher B
Idea code
€ 35.00

Topographic photography takes an interest in everyday, inconspicuous landscapes and how they are transformed in the interaction between human culture and nature. Comprising three volumes – ‘Hække og Stativer’, ‘Orpik’, and ‘Dumpen’ – Finn Larsen’s ‘Topographi’ is based on his long-term projects. Since the end of the 1980s, Larsen has worked with topographic photography in ways that focus on specific places, observing them over multiple decades. The second and third volumes are both part of Larsen’s Greenlandic project: this one is about trees, while the other focuses on waste. All 3 available likewise as a package.

184 p, ills colour & bw, 20 x 34 cm, pb, Danish/English/Greenlandic

Finn Larsen - Topografi 1: Hedges and Stands

Isbn 9788792700438
Publisher The Architectural Publisher B
Idea code
€ 35.00

Topographic photography takes an interest in everyday, inconspicuous landscapes and how they are transformed in the interaction between human culture and nature. Comprising three volumes – ‘Hække og Stativer’, ‘Orpik’, and ‘Dumpen’ – Finn Larsen’s ‘Topographi’ is based on his long-term projects. Since the end of the 1980s, Larsen has worked with topographic photography in ways that focus on specific places, observing them over multiple decades. This first volume is based on his first project, Hedges, photographed in the late 1980s in Randers, Denmark. The second and third volumes are both part of Larsen’s Greenlandic project: one is about trees, while the other focuses on waste. All 3 available likewise as a package.

184 p, ills colour & bw, 20 x 34 cm, pb, Danish/English

Henrik Valeur - An-other City

Isbn 9788792700452
Publisher The Architectural Publisher B
Idea code 23472
€ 31.00

The modern city is the most significant expression of modern (Western) culture, which has its roots in the sedentary ideals of material prosperity and private property rights, and in the notion that nature can be controlled. It is this culture that engenders the extreme global inequality and the catastrophic destruction of nature. Does the culture that creates the problems also have the answers? This book is a combined, edited, and slightly rewritten English-language version of two small Danish debate books about these issues.

264 p, ills bw, 15 x 23 cm, pb, English

The Landscape as Union between Art and Science

Isbn 9788822920461
Publisher Quodlibet
Idea code 23425
€ 30.10

In 2019 the 250th anniversary of the birth of Alexander von Humboldt (1769–1859) and the 100th anniversary of the death of Ernst Haeckel (1834–1919) offered the opportunity to reconsider their contribution to the natural sciences and to cosmopolitan vision, transdisciplinary approaches, and the discovery of interconnected systems. Their work attests to the value of joining together scientific, humanistic, and artistic thinking, a significant premise for landscape design. Framed and supported by their respective legacies, this book offers fresh approaches to a contemporary commitment to landscape design education as well as current teaching attitudes in environmental design.

376 p, ills colour & bw, 15 x 22 cm, pb, Italian/English

Vesper 8: Vesper

Isbn 9788822920645
Publisher Quodlibet
Idea code 23426
€ 19.35

The eighth issue of “Vesper” is dedicated to the theme Vesper, and therefore calls for a double mirror: one inherent in the figure of the number eight and the other found in the contents and the name of the volume that contains them. Vespers and the design of time, twilight, the duality of West and East, the double as a condition and as a strategy, Venus and Venice, the sunset as a propitious direction, the drawing of shadows, camouflage, Vesper Lynd and the Vesper cocktail (both inventions from the pen of Ian Fleming) are the constellation points that propagate from the term vesper and that “Vesper” 8 plans to illuminate.

216 p, ills colour & bw, 20 x 30 cm, pb, Italian/English

City Without Fear of Heights - The Development of a European High Rise Typology

Isbn 9789462087996
Publisher Nai010 Publishers
Idea code 23449
€ 29.95

High-rise is in Rotterdam's DNA. As early as 1898 the city attracted attention with "Het Witte Huis", which at 43 metres was considered Europe's tallest office building at the time. Now, 125 years later, new insights and techniques have allowed the highest point of the Rotterdam skyline to run to more than 200 metres. 'City Without Fear of Heights' takes stock of the past decades of high-rise construction and describes main lessons and learning points.

184 p, ills colour & bw, 17 x 24 cm, pb, Dutch/English

AV Proyectos 117: O’Donnell +Tuomey

Isbn 1697493X
Publisher Avisa
Idea code 23418
€ 13.65

'AV Proyectos 117' dedicates its ‘dossier’ to O’Donnell + Tuomey, the Irish studio led by Sheila O’Donnell and John Tuomey. With studios based in Dublin, Cork, and London, the practice conveys its ability to create timeless architecture through the use of traditional materials combined with contemporary strategies. The four works published in the section following this reflect on the possibilities offered by metal enclosures, inviting to explore new aesthetic horizons and building systems. The ‘detail’ section covers the development of the new Google campus in Mountain View (California), commissioned to BIG and Heatherwick Studio.

80 p, ills colour & bw, 21 x 30 cm, pb, Spanish/English

Marker Wadden - Nature, Building, Designing

Isbn 9789462087729
Publisher Nai010 Publishers
Idea code 23386
€ 39.95

The design story of the Marker Wadden is unique. This man-made group of uninhabited islands in the Markermeer (Marker Lake) mainly comprises marshes and shallow waters, which makes them perfect bird habitats. Only the main island is accessible to the public. This newest piece of The Netherlands – its landscape, the urban design of the settlement, and the architecture – has been designed with care and attention.

200 p, ills colour & bw, 24 x 32 cm, pb, Dutch/English

Eric Owen Moss - Vespertine

Isbn 9798218104009
Publisher AADCU
Idea code 23362
€ 51.75

A collaboration between renowned architect Eric Owen Moss, and innovative chef Jordan Kahn, ‘Vespertine’ details the process behind the avant-garde restaurant of the same name located in Culver City, California. Affectionately nicknamed ‘the Waffle’ due to its reticulated steel facade, the distinctive building and dramatic interiors offer guests an immersive, multi-sensory experience. Visitors travel from one floor to another in the dining process, going from dining room to kitchen, the patio and finally, the landscaped garden. Other than photos and plans, this book also includes a conversation between Moss and Kahn, as well as recipes from the unique restaurant.

250 p, ills colour & bw, 29 x 28 cm, hb, English

Arquitectura Viva 254: Sou Fujimoto Architects

Isbn 02141256
Publisher Avisa
Idea code 23352
€ 22.75

Sou Fujimoto has managed to find in Europe the same rural beauty and urban complexity that fascinate him so much in his own land, and in 2016 he opened a branch of his Tokyo practice in the French capital. Arquitectura Viva presents some of his latest works where nature and artifice, chance and rigor, are alloyed no matter which side of the world they are in: the House of Hungarian Music in Budapest (Hungary), the HSG Learning Center in St. Gallen (Switzerland), the Shiroiya Hotel in Maebashi (Japan), the Flowing Cloud Pavilion in Tonglu (China), and the Sky Mountain Coastal Station in Haikou (China).

80 p, ils colour & bw, 24 x 30 cm, pb, Spanish/English

Foster in the Future

Isbn 9788412604597
Publisher Avisa
Idea code 23377
€ 13.65

Beginning with the architect’s formative years, this collection of essays attempts to do justice to Norman Foster’s mighty trajectory. A visionary humanist, Foster has built his oeuvre on the margins of aesthetic fashions and with an extraordinary continuity between early and later projects. From the Hong Kong and Shanghai Bank and the Bilbao metro to interventions in historical areas for cultural institutions, transformative airport concepts like London Stansted or Hong Kong’s Chek Lap Kok, and the symbolic weight of the Reichstag in Berlin, Foster’s constructions speak a language of technique and prefigure the future while also being attentive to the lessons of the past.

96 p, ills bw, 16 x 21 cm, pb, English

Professor Moneo

Isbn 9788412721508
Publisher Avisa
Idea code 23378
€ 13.65

Sixteen articles published over the past three decades are compiled here, tracing the fertile career of Spanish architect Rafael Moneo. The sequence begins with what was the prologue to the monograph on his work that AV published back in 1992, and concludes with two of Moneo’s own reflections on his intellectual journey and the evolution of his oeuvre. Other articles detail projects like the Pilar and Joan Miró Foundation, the Murcia City Hall annex, or the Cathedral of Our Lady of the Angels in Los Angeles, using the academic side of the architect’s character to point out lessons inherent in each of his buildings that he has explained in various essays and books.

96 p, ills bw, 16 x 21 cm, pb, English

Piano the Builder

Isbn 9788412721515
Publisher Avisa
Idea code 23379
€ 13.65

This selection of texts on Renzo Piano’s life and work begins with a short biography and ends with an extensive conversation held at his home in which the Genoese architect looks back on his many active years. In between is a chronological reprinting of articles from different episodes in his career, which is sometimes contrasted with the approach of other architects. From the Kansai airport and the headquarters of ‘The New York Times’ to museums like the mythical Centre Pompidou that he designed with Richard Rogers and Centro Botín in Santander, Spain, all his buildings evince a combination of technological refinement, love of craftsmanship, and civic sensibility.

96 p, ills bw, 16 x 21 cm, pb, English

Surrealist Koolhaas

Isbn 9788412721522
Publisher Avisa
Idea code 23380
€ 13.65

This collection of articles on the work and person of Rem Koolhaas introduces the Rotterdam-based architect with a simultaneous reference to his surrealist impulses and the disjointed nature of a career, in which books and exhibitions mark intellectual and formal turning points. Commentaries on these seminal moments are interspersed with critiques on the major buildings and projects. In the end, it is difficult to pinpoint which are more important in defining the architect’s conceptual and aesthetic trajectory. The book concludes with a detailed analysis of Koolhaas’s curatorship of the Venice Biennale, yet another swerve in a dazzling, provocative, and paradoxical itinerary.

96 p, ills bw, 16 x 21 cm, pb, English

The Art of Herzog & de Meuron

Isbn 9788412721539
Publisher Avisa
Idea code 23381
€ 13.65

The career of Jacques Herzog and Pierre de Meuron is presented through a series of essays that starts off with a critical appraisal of their first twenty years working together; a trajectory driven by a spirit of constant research that has made every project a fresh experience. Several of their essential works are described in detail, but the book goes further to encompass commentary on unbuilt projects and stage sets for operas, a new cataloguing of the architects’ stylistic traits, and an exploration of their intellectual roots through texts the duo has published themselves. Wrapping it all up is an article that ventures to explain why they have become the “gold standard” of architecture.

96 p, ills bw, 16 x 21 cm, pb, English

trans magazin, ed. Time: trans 42

Isbn 9783856764555
Publisher Gta Verlag
Idea code 23424
€ 20.45

In architecture, time is an eternal topic. Buildings are made up of different layers, which in turn have different lifespans. They are witnesses to other times, times before us and times yet to come. Thresholds that allow us to see how previous generations lived and how the coming ones might carry on. Our perception of time is constantly changing, too. It seems we picked up the pace of pre-pandemic times and rushed to readapt to the capitalist structure where acceleration, growth, and consumption define the modus operandi. So take your time and slow down with this issue. It might seem to have a clear start and finish, but its content meanders well beyond the boundaries of its pages.

164 p, ills colour & bw, 21 x 28 cm, pb, German/English


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