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PRODUCTORA - Some Realized Projects 2014—22
Isbn 9789464460445
Publisher Roma Publications
Idea code 23683
€ 40.00
Based in Mexico City, the architectural studio PRODUCTORA was founded by Abel Perles, Carlos Bedoya, Victor Jaime, and Wonne Ickx. In creating buildings that function, delight, stimulate, and are likely to withstand tectonic fads as well as telluric shifts, the studio never compromises the restless intellectual curiosity at its heart. Both a compendium and a promise of this singularity, this book surveys the groundwork PRODUCTORA has set down over a decade of activity, presaging what is possible as these foundations continue to be built upon. Their work is distinguished by an interest in precise geometries and the search for timeless material and spatial resolutions.
216 p, ills colour & bw, 21 x 28 cm, pb, English/Spanish
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AV Monographs 256: Houses of the Year 2023
Isbn 9788412721584
Publisher Avisa
Idea code 23605
€ 43.20
If there is no doubt that ‘size matters’, and that scale is one of the main factors in architecture, it is also true that the propositional interest of a building is independent from its size. To support this argument, the sixteen houses selected here represent the very different strategies and dimensions that can address domestic space. With size as organising element, the issue starts with a minimum shelter of less than 30 square meters in southern Australia, and includes examples that range from careful interventions on heritage to daring typological experiments, ending at the Chilean Andes with a large house-studio of over 2,000 square meters.
120 p, ills colour & bw, 24 x 30 cm, pb, Spanish/English
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Together: Towards Collaborative Living
Isbn 9789462087859
Publisher Nai010 Publishers
Idea code 23668
€ 34.00
Collaborative living is experiencing a revival in The Netherlands.In the midst of an unprecedented housing crisis, more and more people trun to collective self-organisation to provide housing that is community-oriented, environmentally sustainable, and affordable. 'Together' presents a collection of essays, interviews, and cases from The Netherlands and other European countries that build on a knowledge programme developed in 2022 by Project Together!.
160 p, ills colour & bw, 17 x 24 cm, pb, English
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50 Buildings - Danish Architecture 2016-2022
Isbn 9788797420805
Publisher Arkitekten Books
Idea code 23610
€ 52.00
All the buildings featured in this guide have been previously reviewed and presented in the Danish architecture journal ‘Arkitekten’. While the editors select which projects to cover in the journal, the specific features and qualities of the individual buildings are evaluated by a team of qualified critics. The best excerpts from each review are included here, along with brief descriptions of the buildings and factual information about the specific project and its architect. Photography and drawings complete the narratives of each of the selected exemplary Danish architectures, which includes new builds as well as conversions and restorations, representing a wide range of typologies.
316 p, ills colour & bw, 16 x 24 cm, pb, English
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Formats for Living Amsterdam
Isbn 9789461400710
Publisher Architectura & Natura
Idea code 23645
€ 39.50
Immerse yourself in a wide range of modern housing designs, from micro-lofts and innovative social housing to lavish apartments. This publication features 59 contemporary residential projects built in Amsterdam between 2013 and 2023, accompanied by more than 250 detailed floor plans. In addition, the large-format book designed by Ricky Rijkenberg contains a series of critical essays and interviews that position housing development with respect to its societal dynamics. Edited by Marc Reniers and Jan Loerakker, it features architecture by Powerhouse Company, Benthem Crouwel, Space&Matter, Atelier PUUUR, Studioninedots, SeARCH, Zecc, and many more.
254 p, ills colour & bw, 24 x 33 cm, pb, 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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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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Works – New Danish Architecture
Isbn 9788774071365
Publisher The Danish Architectural Press
Idea code 23666
€ 52.25
This publication explores a paradigm shift in architecture, transitioning from abstract design to the artistry of construction and materials. Drawing its inspiration from the exhibition ‘SUPER DANISH – Art and Craftsmanship in New Danish Architecture’ in Aalborg, it delves into the innovative works of Danish architects who embrace resource-conscious practices. From detailed precision to elegantly weathered creations, these architects showcase a merger of sculptural form and material poetry. Contributing architects include Johansen Skovsted Arkitekter, Panum & Kappel, Lynge Lynge Arkitekter, Reværk, Hahn Lavsens, Jespersen Nødtvedt, Noaa, and several more.
168 p, ills colour & bw, 21 x 29 cm, pb, English
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Building Stories – Alastair Philip Wiper
Isbn 9788774070108
Publisher The Danish Architectural Press
Idea code 23667
€ 40.75
This collection of photographs unveils the uncanny beauty of overlooked structures and familiar architectural icons from around the world. British photographer Alastair Philip Wiper, renowned for his work in industrial, scientific, and architectural photography, presents a unique perspective on architecture as he infuses each image with hyper-realistic colours and atmospheres, creating an intimate connection between the viewer and the buildings. This publication dives into untold stories and emotions carried by architectural forms, as Wiper's work transcends traditional photography, presenting a narrative element that resonates with everyday life. Among the buildings featured in the book are works by architects such as Arne Jacobsen, Marcel Breuer, Santiago Calatrava, and Zaha Hadid.
144 p, ills colour & bw, 23 x 32 cm, hb, English
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Reset Materials
Isbn 9788774070030
Publisher The Danish Architectural Press
Idea code 23671
€ 40.75
‘Reset Materials’ investigates the potential of locally available, regenerative, and recycled materials at the intersection of architecture and art. Behind these works are ten interdisciplinary teams made up of architects, artists, and manufacturers; a new generation of Denmark’s creatives joining forces to present their visions of a post-carbon architecture. As an extension of the exhibition curated by Chrissie Muhr at Copenhagen Contemporary, this catalogue interweaves shared learning and practice, science, and aesthetics, expanding the discourse locally and globally by providing a series of tactile collages and empirical voices in interview transcripts, reports, and essays.
192 p, ills colour & bw, 17 x 24 cm, hb, English
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Among Buildings
Isbn 9781922601292
Publisher Uro Publications
Idea code 23620
€ 36.80
'Among Buildings' encourages readers to imagine afresh the buildings around us. A collaboration between photographer Tom Ross, architect and poet Michael Roper, and graphic designer Stuart Geddes, it reflects on 26 examples of significant Melbourne architecture through photography and poetry. Exploiting the productive tension between the written wordand the photographic image, the book draws upon aspects of place, myth, history, and personal experience in an open-ended exploration of some of Australia’s most iconic works architecture, including Robin Boyd’s Featherston House, the Griffins’ Capitol Theatre, Yuncken Freeman’s Sidney Myer Music Bowl and many others.
208 p, ills bw, 17 x 24 cm, pb, English
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Mark Manders – House with All Existing Words. An exhibition in Juliaan Lampens’s Woning Van Wassenhove
Isbn 9789464460490
Publisher Roma Publications
Idea code 23629
€ 20.00
Sculptor Mark Manders installed an exhibition in the Woning Van Wassenhove, a post-Brutalist house designed by Juliaan Lampens in 1974. Although Manders hardly touched some spaces, he treats the bed, office, and kitchen as stages for aggregation in line with the original occupant’s mindset: drawings, architectural proposals, photographs, artworks, paint pots, and seemingly wet clay are piled on top of one another. In Manders’s words: “The aim is to show the house in a perfect situation. While some spaces derail when you zoom in on them, there is a kaleidoscopic element to it, as if you are looking inside a head.”
64 p, ills colour & bw, 20 x 27 cm, pb, Dutch/English
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The Green Heart – World in between Cities
Isbn 9789462264939
Publisher Lecturis
Idea code 23592
€ 49.95
Unique to the Netherlands is the “Green Heart”, a vast rural area at the centre of a metropolitan conurbation of major cities. It is home to several thousand people, while seven million live in the surrounding Randstad. With its iconic Dutch landscape, the Green Heart’s rural character is both complement and contrast to the urban centres. The government and other parties are working together to meet the challenges currently facing the Green Heart: subsidence, salination, water supply and drainage, drought, housing, natural preservation, and a healthy economic climate. This volume maps the cultural-historical significance and spatial quality of the Green Heart to discover its identity.
192 p, ills colour & bw, 25 x 30 cm, hb, English
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Arquitectura Viva 257: Pezo von Ellrichshausen
Isbn 02141256
Publisher Avisa
Idea code 23594
€ 22.75
Mauricio Pezo and Sofía von Ellrichshausen steer their practice with rigid frames out of which a profoundly lyrical architecture comes forth: works where pure geometries and matrix order help them make a link between artistic image and spatial experience. Arquitectura Viva now presents a selection of them – from a large public facility and two houses to a group of pavilions – that shows how life can spontaneously arise also from fixations. In this issue’s dossier, four European buildings present new constructional uses of wood, the retrospective that Herzog & de Meuron have organised at the Royal Academy of Arts, and three exhibitions in Europe on Yayoi Kusama.
80 p, ils colour & bw, 24 x 30 cm, pb, Spanish/English
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AV Proyectos 118: Dorte Mandrup
Isbn 1697493X
Publisher Avisa
Idea code 23595
€ 13.65
AV Proyectos 118 collects the latest projects by Dorte Mandrup, the Danish architect who works on projects that set out to intervene with care for urban and natural contexts. The issue also includes the winning and shortlisted proposals in the two competitions held in Spain over the last months: the refurbishment of the station of Chamartín in Madrid, finally won by b720, UNStudio, and Esteyco; and the conversion of the former convent of St. Clare into the Museum of Pontevedra, commissioned to Nieto Sobejano. The construction section covers Snøhetta’s proposal for the new Beijing sub-center library.
80 p, ills colour & bw, 21 x 30 cm, pb, Spanish/English
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a+u 637 23:10 fala
Isbn 9784900212961
Publisher Shinkenchiku-sha
Idea code 23609
€ 22.70
This issue introduces fala, a practice based in Porto and led by four partners: Filipe Magalhães, Ana Luisa Soares, Ahmed Belkhodja, and Lera Samovich. Founded in 2013, much of their built work, mostly residential, is located in and around Porto. The city has served as their testing ground, where they respond sensitively to its specific culture and situation, translating the solutions they developed into their own architectural language. All of fala’s 54 built works are included here. These buildings, together with 150 or so unrealised projects, form an archipelago – a collective system. This issue arranges their projects into seven themes, each with text from fala and their generation of architects.
168 p, ills colour & bw, 22 x 29 cm, pb, Japanese/English
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GA Houses 189
Isbn 9784871407403
Publisher Ada Edita
Idea code 23491
€ 26.75
‘GA Houses’ documents outstanding new residential architecture from all over the world. With projects by Deegan Dee Design & Architecture, Tomohiro Hata, Marko Brajovic, Taichi Mitsuya, Suzuko Yamada, Bercy Chen Studio, spbr arquitetos, Keisuke Maeda, and others.
160 p, ills colour & bw, 23 x 30 cm, pb, Japanese/English
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Objective: Earth – Designing our Planet
Isbn 9782378964504
Publisher MUDAC
Idea code 23625
€ 22.60
Has our planet become an object of design? In today's world of geoengineering, cloud seeding and ambitious projects to control planetary ecosystems, the question seems more justified than ever. We map the world using cartography, we shape it with spatial planning. We model the planet to predict natural phenomena and try to influence it through climate control. This book focuses on a posture that has existed since the first human settlements, that gained pace with the scientifi c breakthroughs of the Age of Enlightenment and, in step with industrial revolutions, was furthered by a techno-scientific vision: to see the planet as designable. Designers, artists, and researchers investigate this "becoming object" of planet Earth.
160 p, ills colour & bw, 15 x 22 cm, pb, English
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Fugitive Archives – A Sourcebook for Centring Africa in Histories of Architecture
Isbn 9789492852939
Publisher Jap Sam Books
Idea code 23662
€ 30.00
'Fugitive Archives' is not a book about African architecture or its history. It is a book about the role of primary research in the work of the fellows and about how, to centre Africa in histories of architecture, they had to develop new ways of finding, seeing, and listening. The sources presented here are starting points for dismantling and expanding existing architectural archives, in which what is considered valuable enough to archive remains dominated by colonial or Western knowledge frameworks. Through varied media and format, the sources multiply histories by highlighting diverse actors, practices, and geographies – on and off the continent – implicated in the history of architecture in Africa.
232 p, ills colour & bw, 24 x 31 cm, pb, English
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[un]finished - Atlas Of Athens' Incomplete Buildings
Isbn 9789492852267
Publisher Jap Sam Books
Idea code 23655
€ 30.00
‘[Un]finished’ presents the phenomenon of a particular kind of pending architecture, mutely present all over Athens. The concrete skeletons of ‘polykatoikia’ – multistorey apartment buildings – are emblematic of the development of modern Greece throughout the second half of the 20th century. This book deals with the politics of urban space by treating these unfinished buildings as study objects and tracing their individual histories. Through stories from current owners and photographs, archival documents, and found artefacts, a different chronicle of the development of modern Athens takes shape.
288 p, ills colour & bw, 20 x 28 cm, hb, Greek/English
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