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Mecanoo - People Place Purpose Poetry
Isbn 9789462085602
Publisher Nai010 Publishers
Idea code 23862
€ 69.95
Of the Dutch architecture bureau Mecanoo, is has been said that it has the ‘power to give ordinary things an unusual experience’, and of its projects that they are ‘pieces of time-bound spatial poems’. Like poetry, Mecanoo’s projects can resonate deep in our mind, generate emotion, conjure up magic, and evoke memory, either personal or collective. Taking this poetic quality as an important focus, this new book offers a completely fresh look at Mecanoo’s work. A surprisingly diverse range of new Mecanoo designs have been completed, ranging from a futuristic arts centre to a pavilion retreat in a historic country estate.
496 p, ills colour & bw, 24 x 29 cm, hb, English
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Before is Before. Landscape Strategy Catalogue
Isbn 9788409555369
Publisher a+t Architecture Publishers
Idea code 23837
€ 40.90
Presented by a+t research group, ‘Before Is Before’ explains the design and construction of public space and landscape through a catalogue of strategies and actions. Rather than a universal set of recipes and solutions, they are real cases that demonstrate the methodology and approach of the more than 60 contributors, an internationally diverse group of architecture firms and studios. The book reflects on the moment “before” the project. Founded in 2011 by journalist Aurora Fernández Per and architect Javier Mozas, a+t research group focuses on collective housing, mixed-use public buildings, public space, and landscape.
496 p, ills colour & bw, 15 x 26 cm, pb, Spanish/English
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AMAG 33 Miller & Maranta + AMAG PT 04 Atelier Local/ Ilhéu Atelier (special offer pack)
Isbn 9789895390595
Publisher AMAG Publisher
Idea code 23833
€ 53.65
Receive a free copy of the fourth issue of ‘AMag PT’, a new series exclusively dedicated to Portuguese architecture, together with the purchase of ‘AMag’ 33 on JMiller & Maranta. This fourth portuguese special features Atelier Local / Ilhéu Atelier. ‘AMag’ 33 is dedicated to the work of Miller & Maranta, a Swiss studio based in Basel. Architects Quintus Miller and Paola Maranta met in the 1980s while studying at ETH Zurich. The teaching of analogue architecture, with which Fabio Reinhard and Miroslav Sik challenged the traditionally polytechnic orientation of this school and its deep anchoring in modern architecture, was formative for both of them. In close dialogue with models, mostly from the early or pre-modern period, the duo set out creating pictorial, atmospheric, and often almost theatrical projects. Today, Miller & Maranta’s architecture still retains this narrative element – their buildings tell stories.
320 p, ills colour & bw, 24 x 32 cm, pb, Portuguese/English
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AV Monographs 257-258: Nieto Sobejano 2012-2024
Isbn 9788412721591
Publisher Avisa
Idea code 23809
€ 68.20
Experimentation and dialogue are central to the creative process of Fuensanta Nieto and Enrique Sobejano, and in their works light, matter, and space are as intimately connected as they are to landscape, history, and architecture. This is clear from the texts in which the architects themselves interpret each one of the twenty-two projects in the monograph at hand, a double volume which covers their career over the last twelve years, a fertile period in which the office, from its studios based in Madrid and Berlin, has strengthened its presence outside Spain, with buildings as the Arvo Pärt Center in Estonia, the Archive of the Avant-Garde, or Montblanc Haus, both in Germany.
216 p, ills colour & bw, 24 x 30 cm, pb, Spanish/English
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Frank Lloyd Wright and the World
Isbn 9784306047068
Publisher Kajima Institute
Idea code 23715
€ 28.40
Marking the centennial of the completion of the Imperial Hotel in Tokyo in 1923, this retrospective of the architectural work by Frank Lloyd Wright (1867–1959) explores this central attribute of his oeuvre. Wright was notable for his efforts to integrate unique elements of culture from Japan and other Asian countries, and from Mesoamerica and the Indigenous groups of North America, with European influences and his own architectural vocabulary. Human culture, in its many hues and forms, was central to Wright’s organic architecture, respecting as it did the unique circumstance of when and where a building was constructed, who would inhabit it, and how it would be used.
254 p, ills colour & bw, 18 x 26 cm, pb, Japanese/English
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See All This 32: Bijoy Jain
Isbn 24683981
Publisher See All This
Idea code 23791
€ 19.95
Home is where life is held. It is the womb, the room, the world where we make our mark. A space that we have breathed life into and where that same life lingers even after we have left. For this winter issue, See All This explores the definition of home – should such a thing exist – with the help of artists, writers, travellers and architects, who understand the value of a place to call one’s own. Experience belonging in its every facet, guided by the ultimate homemaker, architect and artist Bijoy Jain, founder of Studio Mumbai.
192 p, ills colour & bw, 21 x 27 cm, pb, Dutch/English
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LB 16 Álvaro Siza Monte da Lapa vol 1
Isbn 9789895390687
Publisher AMAG Publisher
Idea code 23761
€ 32.25
This is the first of two volumes featuring Álvaro Siza’s renewal of Monte da Lapa in Porto. Volume I focuses on the project’s background, concept, and work under construction. The design starts from what had by 2014 become an isolated pocket of urban remains, stranded between the city’s downtown and its expansion to the west, a mixture of completely degraded, abandoned, or unhealthy housing. Siza’s intervention transforms it into a living space capable of advancing intersocial, intercultural, and intergenerational junctures. The publication includes a conversation between the Siza and architect and critic Nuno Grande. The completed work is featured in Volume II.
76 p, ills bw, 22 x 29 cm, pb, Portuguese/English
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60 Small Houses – Danish Architecture 1915–2023
Isbn 9788797420812
Publisher Arkitekten Books
Idea code 23871
€ 51.00
Architect-designed single-family houses make up an important chapter in Danish architectural history. The 60 selected examples in this guidebook date from 1915– 2023 and have all previously featured in one of the two Danish architecture journals Arkitektur DK (Architecture DK) or Arkitekten (The Architect). The presentation includes professional architecture photographs, scale drawings, factual details and brief quotes from descriptions over the years. With a short introduction and a handy name index, the book provides a richly illustrated overview of Danish architecture across a timespan of more than 100 years.
192 p, ills colour & bw, 16 x 24 cm, pb, Danish/English
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Oase 116: The Architect as Public Intellectual
Isbn 9789462088160
Publisher Nai010 Publishers
Idea code 23883
€ 24.95
The role of the architect is about more than designing buildings. Architecture and space are always related to social issues and challenges. This means that architects may be well placed to contribute to the public debate on challenges related to climate change, mobility issues, the housing crisis, healthcare and migration. Social geographers and sociologists, journalists and planners often make the link between the built environment and social issues. However, designers are rarely heard in the debate, or are not allowed to be. This may be because both the profession and the public debate reduce architecture to aesthetics and architects to designers. As a result, social, environmental, economic and political challenges are lost from view, and no one notices how and with what knowledge and skills architects could contribute to the debate.
160 p, ills colour & bw, 17 x 24 cm, pb, Dutch/English
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Neuroarchitecture - Designing High-rise Cities at Eye-level
Isbn 9789462087880
Publisher Nai010 Publishers
Idea code 23855
€ 39.95
How can we design streetscapes on a human scale in high-density environments? In Western cities, an increasing number of inhabitants need to be accommodated. This often means the introduction of taller high-rise buildings. Although these new urban projects are designed with the intention to create a sense of human scale for the inhabitants, it remains unclear how the users of these streetscapes actualy experience them. This books explores the insights offered by the new hybrid field of neuroarchitecture.
224 p, ills colour & bw, 17 x 24 cm, pb, English
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Building Urban Nature
Isbn 9789462088115
Publisher Nai010 Publishers
Idea code 23869
€ 39.95
The city is not only the habitat of people, but also of plants and animals. Building Urban Nature is a plea for nature-inclusive, bioreceptive architecture that inspires designers to give nature a place in their work. Through the presentation of realized projects, the book shows how the values of nature can be incorporated into our buildings. It discusses the conditions under which flora and fauna settle on and around our buildings, and the design methods, strategies and techniques that can help them to do so.
224 p, ills colour & bw, 17 x 24 cm, pb, English
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Norman Foster Sketchbooks Volume IV · 1991-1995
Isbn 9788412730128
Publisher Ivorypress
Idea code 23743
€ 58.90
'Norman Foster Sketchbooks Volume IV' spans five years, 1991–1995, with a total of 451 drawings representing 77 sketchbooks. The opening year saw the completion of two important works: Stansted, London’s third airport, and Century Tower in Tokyo. Towards the end of 1991, the results of changes made to the practice’s organisational structure became concrete. This was further reflected when in January 1992, its name changed to Sir Norman Foster and Partners, incorporating the title bestowed upon Foster two years previously. By the time of this volume’s close in 1995, the studio was busy with numerous projects around the globe: in Europe, Japan, the United States and, for the first time, in the Middle East.
394 p, ills colour & bw, 22 x 31 cm, hb, English
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Volume 63: The not-so-easy guide to circular interior design
Isbn 9789077966730
Publisher Archis
Idea code 23872
€ 22.50
If reality were solely based on Linkedin announcements, design biennials, and conferences, you’d think design and architecture are nearing perfection in terms of complete sustainable design. In contrast, the actual practice of circular building is messy, complicated, stacked with dilemmas, and still far from achieving its goals. This guide helps readers and designers untangle the intricate web of interlocking issues that keep us from realizing most of our ambitions. It takes an inside-out approach to architecture, starting from the interior. This is particularly important as interiors are characterized by high turnover rates, driven by trends, and consist of highly customized components made from a variety of materials, making implementing circular principles even more challenging. Organized into three levels of expertise – beginner, intermediate, and expert – this guide will help you navigate circular design based on your own practice and experience.
224 p, ills colour & bw, 17 x 23 cm, pb, English
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Yearbook Landscape Architecture and Urban Design in the Netherlands 2023
Isbn 9789492474643
Publisher Blauwdruk
Idea code 23870
€ 36.50
The 2023 yearbook presents 22 outstanding projects ranging from park designs with intriguing combinations of land art, history, and music, to residential neighbourhoods with a clever mix of old and new. Other projects address current issues in rural areas, such as biobased crops, or the reimagining of both urban and natural focal points, like the Lebuinus squares in Deventer by BoschSlabbers, Stationseiland in Amsterdam by wUrck and VenhoevenCS, and the core zone of De Hoge Veluwe National Park by H+N+S. Special features include a critical reflection on temporary housing for refugees and a unique court case to defend the rights of the North Sea.
184 p, ills colour & bw, 23 x 30 cm, pb, Dutch/English
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Swiss Window Journeys - Architectural Field Notes
Isbn 9783856764586
Publisher Gta Verlag
Idea code 23861
€ 39.85
A window is a mediating device between our body and the environment: by simply opening or closing it, we can regulate air, light, and sight. Both climatic and cultural conditions, alongside technological developments, shape the architecture of windows. Due to its mountains, climate, and geographical position at the heart of Europe, Switzerland has generated a wide variety of window forms. Presented here is a collection of windows gathered from field research, with full-page hand drawings portraying each window as part of a complex network of elements. Short texts offer insight into the historical, technological, and socioeconomic conditions of each spatial configuration.
240 p, ills colour & bw, 21 x 30 cm, pb, English
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Metro 010 Unlikely But True. A Graphic Novel About a Metropolis Called Rotterdam
Isbn 9789462088047
Publisher Nai010 Publishers
Idea code 23875
€ 29.95
Whoever you are and wherever you are from, if you love Rotterdam and stories, this is the book for you. METRO 010 is a graphic novel about important events in the past that made the city what it is today; it tells the history of the city in 12 comic strips. The story begins far in the past, when Rotterdam was just a fishing village, and ends in 2050, with visions of what the future might bring. Rotterdam was not created in a single moment, by a single person, but over the centuries, by many. And now by you.
274 p, ills colour & bw, 17 x 24 cm, hb, English
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Atlas of Urban Mythologies
Isbn 9788412494242
Publisher Dpr-barcelona
Idea code 23879
€ 15.30
Contemporary mythologies are out there, in the urban chaos. Monsters, giants, constructions, spirits, and creatures of all sorts tell the cities’ everyday life struggles if one is willing to listen to them. 'Atlas of Urban Mythologies' welcomes all their voices in a collection of short stories set in seven cities across Europe: Athens, Nicosia, Tbilisi, Belgrade, Ljubljana, Basel, and Tirana. When embarking on these journeys, the narrators — and the readers — are faced with real urban issues that are revealed through the power of myths.
132 p, ills colour & bw, 11 x 18 cm, pb, English
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Ad Hoc Baroque - Marcel Raymaekers’ Salvage Architecture in Postwar Belgium
Isbn 9789464776652
Publisher Rotor vzw
Idea code 23813
€ 45.95
Marcel Raymaekers was a household name in much of Belgium from the 1970s to the 90s. More than an architect – though technically he wasn’t qualified as one anyway – he concocted and sold dreams of nobility to Belgium’s growing middle class through his business empire Queen of the South, an implausible mix of antiques salvage yard and nightclub/restaurant/ ‘estaminet’/jazz venue. For nearly 50 years, Raymaekers bought and restored thousands of tons of antique building components and reused them in hundreds of buildings of his own design. These elements, without exception impressive in their craftsmanship and materiality, were – and still are – a testimony to past material cultures and the staggering amountof buildings demolished in Belgium since the end of the Second World War.
196 p, ills colour & bw, 21 x 30 cm, pb, English
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Ad Hoc Barok - Marcel Raymaekers’ hergebruikarchitectuur in naoorlogs België
Isbn 9789464776638
Publisher Rotor vzw
Idea code
€ 45.95
Marcel Raymaekers was a household name in much of Belgium from the 1970s to the 90s. More than an architect – though technically he wasn’t qualified as one anyway – he concocted and sold dreams of nobility to Belgium’s growing middle class through his business empire Queen of the South, an implausible mix of antiques salvage yard and nightclub/restaurant/ ‘estaminet’/jazz venue. For nearly 50 years, Raymaekers bought and restored thousands of tons of antique building components and reused them in hundreds of buildings of his own design. These elements, without exception impressive in their craftsmanship and materiality, were – and still are – a testimony to past material cultures and the staggering amountof buildings demolished in Belgium since the end of the Second World War. Dutch edition.
196 p, ills colour & bw, 21 x 30 cm, pb, Dutch
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Universum Plečnik: Between Workshop and Myth
Isbn 9789616669955
Publisher Museum Architecture And Design
Idea code 23745
€ 38.70
Edited by Tomaž Štoka with Miloš Kosec, Natalija Lapajne, and Bogo Zupančič, Universum Plečnik expands on the articulation of Plečnik’s heritage and highlights the lasting relevance of his designs, thereby opening the doors for further exploration of new sources. The book elaborates on the architect’s approaches to designing public space and focuses on the complex relationship between the teacher and his students to reflect on certain aspects of Plečnik’s rich legacy that were previously only rarely discussed. Archival plans, sketches, and photographs reveal the architect’s legacy of communal spaces that unfolds as a complex and holistic vision of a connected world.
292 p, ills colour & bw, 18 x 26 cm, hb, Slovenian/English
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OverHolland 22
Isbn 9789090378121
Publisher Koninklijke Nederlandse Oudheidkundige Bond
Idea code 23858
€ 22.65
In the 1950s and ’60s, both in the Netherlands and beyond, university campuses were the predominant site of important experiments in modern architecture and urban planning. The often long-term involvement of leading designers in their development makes these campuses a subject of particular interest. This examination of the architecture and urban planning of post-war university campuses builds on ‘OverHolland’ 18/19, which featured TU Delft and TU Eindhoven. This is now expanded to include Twente University and comparisons with campuses built elsewhere, reflecting the significance of a worldwide trend, including expansion proposals and heritage management.
200 p, ills colour & bw, 23 x 22 cm, pb, Dutch/English
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On Archives: Masterclass Series Volume II
Isbn 9788412730104
Publisher Ivorypress
Idea code 23741
€ 22.75
The ‘On Archives’ Masterclass Series Volume II explores the fundamental aspects related to architectural archives and libraries around the world. Given by leading experts in the fields of archiving, architecture, art, design, and heritage management, this Masterclass series supports the Norman Foster Foundation’s extensive educational programme by promoting an exchange of knowledge across a range of geographic and disciplinary perspectives. The masterclasses are divided into chapters that encapsulate the most pressing issues related to archives today.
136 p, ills colour & bw, 17 x 23 cm, pb, English
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Future Archives: Conversation Series Volume II
Isbn 9788412730111
Publisher Ivorypress
Idea code 23742
€ 18.60
The ‘Future Archives’ Conversation Series Volume II explores the most fundamental aspects related to architectural archives and libraries around the world. The series consists of ten dialogues, hosted by Estrella de Diego, Professor at the Universidad Complutense of Madrid and Academician at the Royal Academy of Arts of San Fernando; and Hans Ulrich Obrist, art curator, critic and historian of art and Artistic Director of the Serpentine, London. From a spoken conversation to a carefully edited chapter, the most pressing issues concerning the future of archives are presented in this book.
136 p, no ills, 13 x 20 cm, pb, English
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