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El Croquis 222: David Chipperfield (2015–2023) Selected Works
Isbn 9788412532371
Publisher El Croquis
Idea code 23538
€ 80.40
The magazine presents an overview of eight years in the evolution of David Chipperfield’s practice, leading up to his receiving the Pritzker Prize in 2023. It features a diverse range of exemplary projects from this period, including Kunsthaus Zürich, the Neue Nationalgalerie refurbishment and Bötzow Brewery in Berlin, restoration of the Procuratie Vecchie, Inagawa Cemetery Chapel and Visitor Centre in Hyogo Prefecture, Hoxton Press residential district in East London, and more. A conversation with Marina Tabassum and the architect adds insightful details to this examination of Chipperfield’s practice and recent work.
336 p, ills colour & bw, 25 x 34 cm, pb, Spanish/English
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AV Monographes 255: Barclay & Crousse
Isbn 9788412721577
Publisher Avisa
Idea code 23546
€ 43.20
From their European beginnings almost thirty years ago to their return to Peru in 2006, the long career of Barclay & Crousse, is characterized by the critical analysis of the connections between landscape, climate, and architecture. The reading of the territory, the study of the social structures, the attention to the itinerary and the close relationship with the environment are the fundamental strategies in the sixteen works and projects presented here, in four thematic sections; Built geographies, Voluntary Microcosms, Domestic Depth, and Patient Search.
112 p, ills colour & bw, 24 x 30 cm, pb, Spanish/English
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AV Monographs 253-254: Spain 2023
Isbn 9788412721546
Publisher Avisa
Idea code 23514
€ 73.90
An overview of the best architecture in Spain that takes stock of architectural issues and trends in the field, placing them in the context of cultural, political, and economic events. The selection of 24 works reflects commitments to sustainability, materialised in buildings which use resources more efficiently. This includes refurbishments like Ombú for Acciona by Foster + Partners in Madrid and Palace-House by Tuñón & Albornoz in Cáceres. Nieto Sobejano and Alcolea, Ercilla, and Tárrago promote sustainability through courtyards and building orientation in university buildings, while other projects rely on low-impact, recyclable, or locally sourced materials like wood or ceramic.
256 p, ills colour & bw, 24 x 30 cm, pb, Spanish/English
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Oase 115: Interferences
Isbn 9789462087835
Publisher Nai010 Publishers
Idea code 23540
€ 22.95
European architecture is characterised by an ongoing exchange of cultures, ideas, and influences. In recent decades, this process has intensified. Ideas developed in one region can migrate and bear fruit elsewhere. Existing architectural conventions are thus questioned, supplemented, and remodelled. This issue of 'Oase' discusses the poetics of architectural design that emerge from the complex web of idea exchange throughout Europe.
164 p, ills colour & bw, 17 x 24 cm, pb, Dutch/English
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Muoto - Holy Highway
Isbn 9782493283184
Publisher Caryatide
Idea code 23587
€ 40.85
The highway as an obsession, capable of illuminating the unconscious of an architectural practice. Such could be the succinct description of this book, that gathers unreleased or already published texts by Studio Muoto on this intriguing theme. This eclectic collection of texts - extracts from articles or lectures, notes, project descriptions - is complemented by an outright photographic scrapbook produced by the architects who designed the French pavilion at the 18th Venice Architecture Biennale, 2023. These images, taken during their travels and their many projects, illustrate their obsessions as much as the wanderings of their thoughts. Holy Highway reflects the principle of the exploratory journey as the foundation of an architectural sensibility.
200 p, ills bw, 22 x 30 cm, pb, French/English
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Jenny Grettve - Abody Abode
Isbn 9789151990132
Publisher Plastic Letters Press
Idea code 23521
€ 22.00
Swedish architect, artist, and systems change designer Jenny Grettve’s ‘Abody Abode’ is a chronicle of modern womanhood, a collection of stories that are both memories of emotions and moments. It consists of numerous descriptive vignettes paired with architectural drawings that represent the spaces inside individuals. We are encouraged to consider how we as people construct them, move through them, and allow them to protect us. Grettve’s multidisciplinary practice focuses on care, feminism, and futures, and the ways these move creative fields like philosophy, shared spaces, rethinking object design, art installations, economic futures, and urban architecture.
104 p, ills bw, 11 x 18 cm, pb, English
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ALA Architects | Practice
Isbn 9789527222188
Publisher Garret Publications
Idea code 23518
€ 69.90
In late summer of 2004, four young architects are kicked out of co-working space in Helsinki for getting a bit too worked up about a museum competition in Kotka, Finland. Retiring to a nearby bar to continue the conversation, they decide to set up a practice where loudness is encouraged. Twenty years later, ALA still works by combining quiet grinding with big ideas, and dialogue with digital craftsmanship. This monograph brings together the firm’s main built works and the thinking behind these projects. It features ALA’s breakthrough building, the Kilden Performing Arts Centre in Norway, plus Helsinki Central Library Oodi, the Helsinki Airport expansion and renovation, and more.
150 p, ills colour & bw, 24 x 31 cm, hb, English
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Tezzo Nishizawa – Chance Favors the Prepared Mind
Isbn 9784887064010
Publisher Toto
Idea code 23593
€ 45.20
The first monograph of the collected works of architect Tezzo Nishizawa introduces 30 projects across three typologies: art exhibitions, museums, and residences. The publication begins with a series of photographs that illustrate the unique perspective and philosophy underlying and linking these works. Following that are detailed plans and commentaries on each project, where the images and drawings serve to reveal the architect’s methodology and thought. A postscript by Nishizawa touches on the relationship between exhibition layouts and architectural design, in which the architect also elaborates on the reasons for his particular interest in collaborative design.
264 p, ills colour & bw, 19 x 25 cm, pb, Japanese/English
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Commons in Design
Isbn 9789493246300
Publisher Valiz
Idea code 23550
€ 29.50
The scarcity of resources, climate change, and the digitalization of everyday life are fuelling the economy of swapping, sharing, and lending—all of which are in some way linked to a culture of commoning. In this context, we understand commons as community-based processes that use, collectively manage, and organize generally accessible resources—referring to both goods and knowledge. Commons in Design explores the meaning and impact of commons—especially knowledge-based peer commons—and acts of commoning in design. It discusses networked, participatory, and open procedures based on the commons and commoning, testing models that negotiate the use of commons within design processes. In doing so, it critically engages with questions regarding designers’ positionings, everyday practices, self-understandings, ways of working, and approaches to education.
352 p, ills colour & bw, 17 x 23 cm, pb, English
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Provocations on Media Architecture
Isbn 9789083318868
Publisher Set Margins'
Idea code 23534
€ 20.00
How does media architecture distribute suspicion and trust? What is a collage of media architecture? How is media architecture vectored? How can media architecture address privilege? These questions -or more broadly, conceptual provocations- aim tochallenge the binary of techno-optimism and technological agoraphobia, offering a platform upon which to construct new, critically- and contextually rooted theories upon which media architecture might grab hold. Intentionally open-ended and dialogical, Provocations on Media Architecture brings together twenty-one thought leaders across architecture, visual arts, design, curation, academia, and public policy to address these ideas and themes. Authors respond with images and brief texts, incorporating the perspective of their own creative and scholarly practice. Entries range from descriptions of relevant artworks and design projects to reflections spawned from first-person encounters with media architecture in situ to scholarly analyses to AI-assisted theory. These themselves transfigure into a set of provocations, supplanting the original questions which inspired their construction, through which to encourage further theory and practice. Across the diverse and at times contradictory arguments and methods employed, new constellations and connections emerge.
96 p, ills colour & bw, 11 x 16 cm, pb, English
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a+u 636 23:09 ≤ 50 m2
Isbn 9784900212954
Publisher Shinkenchiku-sha
Idea code 23532
€ 22.70
A special feature on projects with an extremely small footprint: 50 square metres or less. Whether limitations on size are imposed by context, budget, programme, project brief, or the client’s wishes, creative solutions to design challenges inevitably emerge. More than 25 works are presented, conceived by a diverse range of international architects and studios, including H&P Architects (Vietnam), MAPA Arquitectos (Uruguay), Atelier Poem (France), 100A associates (Korea), and many more. While the selection mostly includes residential works such as houses and bungalows, there are also designs for outbuildings, park or garden features, chapels, a fireplace, and more.
ills colour & bw, 22 x 29 cm, pb, Japanese/English
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Dutch Landscape - An Overview
Isbn 9789462087897
Publisher Nai010 Publishers
Idea code 23541
€ 34.95
'Dutch Landscape: An Overview' is the ultimate introduction to the Dutch landscape for students, professionals, and landscape enthusiasts. Largely created by its inhabitants, the landscape of The Netherlands is primarily a project, a work in progress, requiring constant adaptation and maintenance – if only because otherwise it will flood. This publication covers all Dutch landscape types, from dunes to peat clearings, from sandy soils to polders. It presents the geological composition of the land, the climate, the historical development of the landscape, and modern developments.
336 p, ills colour & bw, 17 x 24 cm, pb, English
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Design by Accident - For a New History of Design (reprint)
Isbn 9783956791437
Publisher Sternberg Press
Idea code 23553
€ 22.00
In 'Design by Accident', Alexandra Midal declares the autonomy of design—in and on its own terms. This meticulously researched work proposes not only a counterhistory but a new historiography of design, shedding light on overlooked historical landmarks and figures while reevaluating the legacies of design’s established luminaries from the nineteenth century to the present. Midal rejects both linear narratives of progress and the long-held perception of design as a footnote to the histories of fine art and architecture. By weaving together critical analysis of the canon of design history and theory, with special attention to the writings of designers themselves, she draws out the nuances and radical potentials of the discipline—from William Morris’s ambivalence toward industry, to Catharine Beecher’s proto-feminist household appliances, to the Bauhaus’s Expressionist origins and the influence of Herbert Marcuse on Joe Colombo.
408 p, no ills, 11 x 20 cm, pb, English
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Arquitectura Viva 256: fala
Isbn 02141256
Publisher Avisa
Idea code 23547
€ 22.75
For Filipe Magalhães, Ana Luisa Soares, Ahmed Belkhodja, and Lera Samovich, a mix of diversified training, international experience, and above all shared obsessions have carried the day over mere physical ties to the city they work in, and enabled them to surpass the influence that Porto wields over its architects. Arquitectura Viva presents the firm’s wide repertoire of projects, heterogeneous but always guided by an insistence on clarity.
80 p, ils colour & bw, 24 x 30 cm, pb, Spanish/English
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Re: Natur
Isbn 9783907262429
Publisher Edition Clandestin
Idea code 23506
€ 37.65
‘Re:Natur’ is an interdisciplinary art project involving various artists, cultural workers, and scientists from Switzerland and Germany. Their contributions combine to form a kind of mycelium, or the entirety of the root-like structure of a fungus. In everyday language, only the fruiting body is referred to as a “mushroom”. But the actual fungus is this subterranean network of cells. In this project, a thought space with exchange potential is opened through photography, drawing, painting, nature, and science. Its aim is the formation of an unplanned symbiosis of the various disciplines (cultural anthropology, botany, microbiology, and fine arts) that address nature-human encounters.
146 p, ills colour & bw, 19 x 28 cm, pb, German/English
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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
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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
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Cross Cultural Chairs
Isbn 9789083350103
Publisher Set Margins'
Idea code 21599
€ 25.00
The anatomy of our bodies requires sitting; but do we design seats in the same way? Has our meaning of sitting been colonised by Modern design? And how is the diverse, social-cultural act of sitting itself reflected in this functional commodity? In observing and analysing social and cultural differences through chairs from eight cultures in the most populated countries, Sicilian designer Matteo Guarnaccia went on a field research to portray each country, in collaboration with selected local design studios, to situate each cultural context into the form of a chair.
388 p, ills colour & bw, 17x24 cm, pb, English
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