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New Titles in Architecture & Landscape

7 February 2024

Attitudes: MVRDV

Isbn 9789083286013
Publisher Maas Lawrence
Idea code 24001
€ 75.00

Co-edited by MVRDV founding partner Jacob van Rijs and MVRDV partner Jan Knikker, this book presents twenty-five recently completed projects in Europe, North America, and Asia. Among them are several that show the potentials of reuse and transformation, such as 'High Profile', a lamp made from leftover metal profiles, or 'Seoullo 7017', the transformation of an elevated highway in Seoul into an urban park. Many of the projects also have a distinct public dimension, welcoming people in, around, and sometimes also on top of buildings, as in the case of the depot of Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen in Rotterdam, or the Idea Factory in Shenzhen. With essays by Tim Abrahams, Hans Ibelings, and Joann Plockova.

344 p, ills colour & bw, 22 x 29 cm, hb, English

How is Life? Designing for our Earth

Isbn 9784887064058
Publisher Toto
Idea code 23826
€ 37.85

We have come to enjoy plentiful lifestyles in the 21st century, yet we are also facing issues such as climate change, social inequality, epidemics, and the shifts in global dynamics brought on by these things. ‘How is Life?’ takes another look at the various facets of our everyday lives, reframing architecture as something that serves to make people’s lives better and exploring ways in which design can be employed to achieve prosperity not premised on growth. By introducing projects that offer possibilities which depart from traditional conceptions of architecture and the city, the book sparks a fresh awareness, inspiring you to explore new perspectives for living together with our Earth.

364 p, ills colour & bw, 15 x 21 cm, pb, Japanese/English

Mission Neighbourhood - (Re)forming Communities

Isbn 9788774070047
Publisher The Danish Architectural Press
Idea code 24033
€ 52.25

Neighbourhoods are a fundamental framework for our everyday lives and local communities. Yet, the intricate mix of physical and social relations that together makes up a neighbourhood is rarely given the attention it deserves in policy making or urban planning. With more than 30 contributions from acclaimed architects, academics, activists, developers and public servants from the Nordics and beyond, Mission Neighbourhood – (Re)forming Communities offers new insight into how to form more sustainable, generous and joyful neighbourhoods. The book explores some of the urgent issues of our time – from social infrastructure, nature, and biodiversity, to mobility and urban governance – in a neighbourhood perspective. Intent on inspiring action, the book offers a rich variety of best practice projects, perspectives and hands-on advice.

420 p, ills colour & bw, 16 x 22 cm, pb, English

AV Monographs 260: Portfolio 2023

Isbn 9788412796827
Publisher Avisa
Idea code 24005
€ 43.20

After 30 volumes of the Spanish Yearbook, this special 2023 edition adds an international portfolio featuring the most noteworthy buildings completed outside Spain’s borders. The selection of twelve buildings includes iconic works by Renzo Piano in Turkey, Herzog & de Meuron in Israel, and MVRDV in Albania, plus more modest projects completed by Diana Kellogg in India, JEJU.studio in Tanzania, and Productora in Mexico. Also shown are major museums in China and the United States by Neri & Hu, Zaha Hadid, and Studio Gang, as well as exceptional civic complexes by Lina Ghotmeh in France, Níall McLaughlin in Ireland, and Behet Bondzio Lin in Taiwan.

120 p, ills colour & bw, 24 x 30 cm, pb, Spanish/English

AV Monographs 259: Four Cities

Isbn 9788412796810
Publisher Avisa
Idea code 23890
€ 43.20

In March 2019, Luis Fernández-Galiano gave a series of lectures at the Fundación March that intended to condense the culture of the 20th century in four episodes with four cities as protagonists: a series that gathered large audiences and since continues having a remarkable number of viewings online. In an effort to capture them on paper without losing the oral freshness or the graphic profusion of slides, the new issue of AV revisits golden Vienna, interwar Paris, Cold War New York, and the Los Angeles of Hollywood and Disney to take stock of the flourishing of cities that attracted the best talent of their time.

128 p, ills colour & bw, 24 x 30 cm, pb, Spanish/English

Modern Architectures in Central America

Isbn 9789492058188
Publisher The Architecture Observer
Idea code 24003
€ 25.00

The Architecture Observer offers an overview of different forms of modern architecture in Central America since the outset of the 20th century. Although modern architectures constituted only a small percentage of the total building production in Guatemala, Honduras, El Salvador, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, and Panama, they hold in these countries an evident symbolic significance. Such buildings functioned as models for the desired societal, economic, and cultural changes, or as aspirational placeholders for a future state of modernity. With contributions by Mauricio Quirós Pacheco, Andrés Fernández, Hans Ibelings, Gloria Grimaldi, Sandra Gutiérrez, Martín Majewsky, and others.

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

Arquitecturas Modernas de Centroamérica

Isbn 9789492058195
Publisher The Architecture Observer
Idea code
€ 25.00

The Architecture Observer offers an overview of different forms of modern architecture in Central America since the outset of the 20th century. Although modern architectures constituted only a small percentage of the total building production in Guatemala, Honduras, El Salvador, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, and Panama, they hold in these countries an evident symbolic significance. Such buildings functioned as models for the desired societal, economic, and cultural changes, or as aspirational placeholders for a future state of modernity. With contributions by Mauricio Quirós Pacheco, Andrés Fernández, Hans Ibelings, Gloria Grimaldi, Sandra Gutiérrez, Martín Majewsky, and others.

158 p, ills colour & bw, 17 x 24 cm, pb, Spanish

Simple Architecture – The Villa Baizeau in Carthage By Le Corbusier and Jeanneret

Isbn 9782960253078
Publisher Accattone
Idea code 24065
€ 59.15

The social, economic, constructional, environmental and climatic issues that, at the start of the twenty-first century, have called into question the foundations of the architectural project make up the theoretical background to the book devoted to the villa that Le Corbusier and Pierre Jeanneret built in Carthage for Lucien Baizeau, Blanche Thiéblin and their family.The book is organized around two complementary analytical perspectives. The first is devoted to the history of Villa Baizeau, providing a full understanding of its reasons and meanings, its genesis, its theoretical importance, the role of the client and the joy provided by the house to the family, with the aim also of gathering the knowledge necessary for its restoration as a fundamental architecture of the twentieth century. The second is open to some of the greatest protagonists of architecture today and is in line with the cultural strategy of Le Corbusier, who was always able to reconsider his works in the light of contemporary phenomena, even through graphic manipulations, inverted plans and reversed photographs, in order to discover their unexpected potential.

456 p, ills colour & bw, 22 x 29 cm, pb, English

100 Copenhagen Typologies

Isbn 9788774076308
Publisher The Danish Architectural Press
Idea code 24044
€ 41.80

'100 Copenhagen Typologies' presents 100 examples of re-use, adaptation and mixed-use architecture. In this book, Martin Marker and his students from The Royal Danish Academy - Architecture, Design, Conservation at the Institute of Architecture, Urbanism and Landscape - BA Programme investigate Copenhagen as a Wunderkammer of architectural typologies. Leaving the focus on materiality and visual aesthetics aside, the book explores how programmatic complexities and existing structures can form foundations for future urbanism in a rapidly changing world with a growing population, climate changes, and limited resources. This book extends a welcoming invitation to explore and examine our urban structures, sparking a vital conversation that encourage a fresh perspective on our existing typologies, ensuring their continued relevance for the people who inhabit them.

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

a+u 639 23:12 Edelaar Mosayebi Inderbitzin Architekt*innen

Isbn 9784900212985
Publisher Shinkenchiku-sha
Idea code 23825
€ 22.70

This issue features the Swiss architecture firm known as EMI, established in 2005 by architects Ron Edelaar, Elli Mosayebi, and Christian Inderbitzin. Their works span exhibitions, refurbishments, new buildings, and urban planning, but housing remains their primary interest as they examine and reinterpret the small-scale components that contribute to human agency and enjoyment within a dwelling. The 21 projects featured here range from gardens and landscapes to villas and high-rises. In all of them, EMI embeds rational design choices with notions of poetry, as evidenced in the Brüggliäcker Housing Complex in Zurich, Stockmattstrasse Townhouses in Baden, and others.

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

Free the Map - From Atlas to Hermes: a New Cartography of Borders and Migration

Isbn 9789462088122
Publisher Nai010 Publishers
Idea code 24035
€ 34.95

A map is a visual story of the world. It feeds our imagination and shapes our view of the world. A standard atlas, however, predominantly tells only one story, that of the nation-state. It depicts a world in which people are uniformly packed into national containers, enclosed by borders, and in which migration is is often represented as threatening arrows of invasion. 'Free the Map' goes beyond this narrow, state-centric cartography. The book argues for a new cartographic story: a Hermes – the grandson of Atlas and the god of mobility and human connections. To this end, it discusses several visually compelling, alternative cartographic representations of borders and migration.

150 p, ills colour & bw, 20 x 28 cm, pb, English

Samia Henni – Colonial Toxicity: Rehearsing French Radioactive Architecture and Landscape in the Sahara

Isbn 9789492139245
Publisher Framer Framed
Idea code 24010
€ 29.95

In the 1960s the French colonial regime detonated four atmospheric atomic bombs, thirteen underground nuclear bombs, and conducted other nuclear experiments in the Algerian Sahara. This secret, still-classified programme occurred during and after the Algerian War (1954–1962). Meticulously culled together from numerous sources by architectural historian Samia Henni, this publication’s wealth of materials documenting the violent history of France’s activities in the Algerian desert offers a rich repository for all those concerned with histories of nuclear weapons and engaged at the intersections of spatial, social, and environmental justice, as well as anticolonial archival practices.

592 p, ills colour, 17 x 24 cm, pb, English

C3 426: The dead do not bury themselves

Isbn 20925190
Publisher C3 Publishing
Idea code 24029
€ 28.80

This issue features three main themes. The first offers an examination of contemporary funerary architecture, from a crematorium in Belgium and the Montpellier Metropolitan Cemetery, to the revitalisation of Bigelow Chapel at Historic Mount Auburn Cemetery and other projects. The second looks at new and innovative architectural solutions for factories and storage facilities, with diverse examples in China, Norway, Belgium, and Portugal. Lastly, Silvio Carta delves into an analysis of light, texture, and volumes in the different contexts of three new houses in Mexico, respectively designed by Ludwig Godefroy Architecture, Escobedo Soliz, and González Muchow Arquitectura.

224 p, ills colour & bw, 23 x 30 cm, pb, Korean/English

C3 427: Pavillions That Last/ Fresh Today at the Local Market

Isbn 20925190
Publisher C3 Publishing
Idea code 24030
€ 28.80

New projects in this issue include the Panguipulli Educational Theatre in rural Chile, designed by a trio of Chilean architects; the renewal of the area around Plaza Gomila in Mallorca by MVRDV and GRAS Reynés Arquitectos; and Sou Fujimoto Architects’ Sky Mountain at the Haikou waterfront on China’s tropical Hainan Island. In addition, the issue has a feature on creating sustainable – rather than ephemeral – pavilions, plus new concepts for the local market: Targ Błonie Market, a park and bazaar under one roof in Poland; the Braga Municipal Market, with a new canopy over an old city square; and the Abastos Market rehabilitation in Tomelloso, Spain, by Studio Metamorphosis.

224 p, ills colour & bw, 23 x 30 cm, pb, Korean/English

Volume 64: World Tour 2023

Isbn 9789077966747
Publisher Archis
Idea code 24031
€ 22.50

With this second collaborative issue between Archis Foundation and Nieuwe Instituut, the magazine is now a cross-pollinator between its editorial content and the programmes of the Nieuwe Instituut itself. “World Tour 2023” is about appreciating “the naïve” and using it as a tool for enrichment. Readers embark on an itinerary through 22 contributions, covering a range of developments in design and architecture around the globe. From loss and transformation to parables and politics, it touches on pop culture in Japan, Indonesian post-colonialism in Jakarta, Mexican airports, Australian ugliness, Indian urban and cultural development, the next generation of American cars, and much more.

68 p, ills colour & bw, 20 x 27 cm, pb, English

Arquitectura Viva 260: On Visual Thinking

Isbn 02141256
Publisher Avisa
Idea code 24006
€ 22.75

The AV/Arquitectura Viva project celebrates in 2024 its fortieth year, and the magazine has wanted to mark the occasion with a special issue that reproduces the last lesson Luis Fernández-Galiano gave at the Madrid School of Architecture before his retirement. Reviewing a life trajectory essentially devoted to communicating architecture, the director of the magazines shows the back side of the publications to explain their history, and unravels how images, as much as words, have been his tools to understand the world; an approximation to visual thinking that is completed with a thematic section of books that reviews different editions focussed on the gaze.

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

AV Proyectos 120: Alberto Campo Baeza

Isbn 1697493X
Publisher Avisa
Idea code 24009
€ 13.65

'AV Proyectos' dedicates its last dossier of the year to the most recent projects by Alberto Campo Baeza, examples of an architecture that surrenders to the naturality of logic, and lets gravity and light order the space. Tthe issue also presents the complete set of projects shortlisted in the competition to design the Spanish Pavilion at Expo 2025 in Osaka and six examples of ephemeral interventions, from pavilions for architecture or music festivals to experimental housing modules. The construction section presents an in-depth feature on the new Aviva Studios cultural space in Manchester, the first public building by OMA in the United Kingdom.

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

Building Carbon Europe - Coal, Steel, and Nuclear Power

Isbn 9781915609014
Publisher Sternberg Press
Idea code 23891
€ 17.95

In this volume of the Critical Spatial Practice series, Dennis Pohl locates the origin of Europe's dependency on carbon and nuclear power in the postwar architectural designs and energy policies of the European Community. Since the 1950s, architects have proposed territorial, regional, and urban development plans that served the European political project. They collaborated with the European Coal and Steel Community in an effort to render the steel building industry as efficient as the car industry; they incorporated the ideas of infinite nuclear energy, as promoted by the European Atomic Energy Community, into their designs.The book demonstrates how architecture served the political economy of postwar Europe as a means of turning coal, steel, and radioactivity into tools of European governance. Pohl's work not only sheds light on how architecture has contributed to the carbonization of Europe, it also highlights the environmental issue, which challenges both architectural criticism and historiography in the era of the Anthropocene.

320 p, ills colour & bw, 11 x 16 cm, pb, English

Between the Building and the Street. A Phenomenology of the Facade

Isbn 9788822921260
Publisher Quodlibet
Idea code 24019
€ 36.55

This volume explores the subject of facades, from both an architectural and an urban point of view. Each building has two facades: one is private, hidden, free, the other is public and belongs to the people who look at it. A facade tells of the cultural climate in which the building was born, the lives of the people who have resided or worked there, though it often conceals the activities that take place behind it. Facades that constitute the visible side of the city have generally employed a sort of triple coding, exhibiting the nature – and thus the character – of the building, the connection, more or less direct, with the plan and the section, and the relationship with the context. Between the Building and the Street, the result of many years of study and research, it is a work that deals in a complete way with the theme of the facade through interpretative paths, evolutionary readings, compositional itineraries. One of its strengths is the study of the etymology of the word “facade” through the centuries, in dictionaries, encyclopedias, and in all the means that have helped to spread knowledge, from the Accademia della Crusca to the present time.

496 p, ills bw, 17 x 24 cm, pb, English

GreytoGreen

Isbn 9783946154778
Publisher Deutscher Architektur Verlag
Idea code 24012
€ 50.95

At a time when climate change and resource scarcity are forcing a radical rethink of architecture and urban planning, this book provides in-depth insights into the future of sustainable building. The renowned architecture and engineering firm SSP, a pioneer of innovative and responsible architecture since its establishment in 1977, presents its groundbreaking approaches and strategies under the “GreytoGreen®” label, which stands for sustainable design and construction with an ecological focus. The book features 53 projects that are leading the way, not only in terms of planning, but also in the implementation of forward-looking ecological designs. From increasing climate resilience to promoting biodiversity, this book provides a comprehensive insight into the realisation of SSP`s environmental sustainability goals.

308 p, ills colour & bw, 22 x 28 cm, hb, German/English

meier + associés architectes

Isbn 9783946154754
Publisher Deutscher Architektur Verlag
Idea code 24013
€ 56.15

The international reputation of contemporary Swiss Architecture is often linked to its German- and Italian-speaking regions. In 1998, theorist and critic Martin Steinmann turned his attention to the rich production of the French-speaking region, as well as its elegance – “that mutable idea that in its classic interpretation combines simplicity, serenity, and a certain sensuality”. Prefaced by architectural historian Jacques Gubler, this volume offers an overview of more than a dozen architectural works designed by the Geneva-based agency meier + associés architectes over the last 25 years, spread across the country’s francophone region.

152 p, ills bw, 22 x 28 cm, pb, German/English/French

Architectures of Transition – emerging practices in south asia

Isbn 9788412622232
Publisher Altrim Publishers
Idea code 24016
€ 37.65

In the nations of South Asia – India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Afghanistan, Sri Lanka, Nepal, Bhutan, and the Maldives – tradition and modernity, prosperity and poverty, communality and communalism, medieval society and silicon- chip technology, cohere to create a landscape of incredible plurality. It is in this South Asia, that architecture has and continues to play a poignant role. 'Architectures of Transition' is a document of essential conversations around architecture in South Asia and the emergent models of practice. It will ask collectively, across the region, the fundamental question: Does architecture matter in these states of transition?

252 p, ills colour & bw, 17 x 23 cm, hb, English

Civita Without Adjectives or Other Specifications

Isbn 9788822920188
Publisher Quodlibet
Idea code 23868
€ 45.15

The history of Civita di Bagnoregio throbs in the relentless movement of change and metamorphosis. Such is the nature of this wounded territory: collapse and reconstruction, abandonment and repopulation, vital links that are broken and new relationships that are interwoven with one another. Whenever defeat has seemed inevitable, the hamlet has always breathed anew. A new ability to inhabit. Civita is thus a place where time is circular: a time when death foreshadows a periodical re-establishment of the pre-existing. It is this cyclical conception that allows Civita’s land to signify death. To be its travel companion. After all, Civita’s history has always been that of a place capable of transforming death into a living place. But history is familiar with sudden lacerations. Now that commodification has engulfed every aspect of life in the hamlet, death has divested itself of its sacred nature and been reduced to a spectacularized icon. In this new and tragic frontier of the irremediable, Civita has expelled life and its capacity for regeneration. That living that was at one time firmly connected to the land is coming apart in the absence of actions that can cast ahead and into the future what exists.

400 p, ills colour & bw, 16 x 24 cm, hb, English

Shallow Time: The Burren

Isbn 9788412494259
Publisher Dpr-barcelona
Idea code 23880
€ 15.30

Humans lack the capacity to comprehend geological time, a breadth unfathomable from our biological perspective. Our callous extraction of resources negates the patience of geomorphology. The Burren’s karst landscape instinctively rejects the notion of deep time. Its proximity to the visible surface belies its layered creation over millennia. It is a unique terrain where natural processes can be appreciated rather than exploited. A landscape that can be interpreted in the tension between depth and shallowness, mass and volume.

132 p, ills colour & bw, 11 x 18 cm, pb, English

Bruther / Saint Blaise

Isbn 9782954817910
Publisher Bruther
Idea code 24028
€ 13.45

The Saint-Blaise cultural and sports center (Centre Paris Anim’ Wangari Maathai) is not only one of the first projects built by Bruther, but it is also the one that is geographically closest to their offices. It is located in one of the most dense and popular districts of the capital, marked by a somewhat defaced urbanism of the 1980s (concrete blocks and pedestrianized streets). The architects have always thought of it as an open and appropriable structure, which can be understood from the very permeable ground floor. Today the building has, in a way, become independent of the project’s intentions. It has become a new pole of attraction. The building is nothing more than a tool to respond to the demands of users who arrive, each with their own stories, their own desires. But things don’t just happen inside. The small square in front of the building often becomes an agora for organized or spontaneous events. The center is a neighborhood facility, which will evolve over time, and which allows architecture to radiate towards societal concerns.

38 p, ills bw, 39 x 56 cm, pb, French/English


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