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New Titles in Architecture & Landscape

24 May 2024

El Croquis 225: Macías Peredo (2014–2024)

Isbn 9788412823400
Publisher El Croquis
Idea code 24232
€ 83.55

The architects of Studio Macías Peredo, based in Guadalajara and led by Salvador Macías Corona, Magui Peredo Arenas, and Diego Quirarte Contreras, believe that the act of designing is inseparable from the act of remembering. Architecture is a living testimony to the culture of a place. The studio is greatly influenced by pre-Hispanic architecture, archaeology, and Mexican colonial styles, and the partners travel extensively, studying vernacular and modern buildings throughout Mexico in order to grasp how they work. This issue presents their work from 2014 to 2024, including the Punta Caliza Hotel, Izamal Water Garden, and tropical residential complexes.

328 p, ills colour & bw, 25 x 34 cm, pb, Spanish/English

AV Monographs 263: Tham & Videgård

Isbn 9788412796872
Publisher Avisa
Idea code 24212
€ 43.20

Stockholm-born architects Bolle Tham and Martin Videgård lead a studio whose work is characterised by a practical approach and conceptual experimentation with a global ambition. Respectful dialogue and meticulous integration, accompanied by a sober material palette and formal clarity, are the fundamental strategies of the 20 works and projects featured in this issue of the magazine, including Moderna Museet Malmö, Västra Kajen Housing, and the utopian Casa Creek. The selection is organised in three thematic sections (Urban Essays, Domestic Devices, Built Future) and introduced with an essay by Chilean architects Mauricio Pezo and Sofía von Ellrichshausen.

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

AMAG 34 - AMAA | Associates Architecture | Studio Wok

Isbn 9789893530429
Publisher AMAG Publisher
Idea code 24180
€ 53.95

This issue features three Italian architecture studios from the new generation of emergent practices. Marcello Galiotto and Alessandra Rampazzo founded AMAA in 2012 after collaborating during their university studies. The studio capitalises on the personal sensitivity gained in the field of architecture thanks to their experience working alongside Massimo Carmassi and Sou Fujimoto. Associates Architecture was started in 2017 and operates through a process its partners define as “archaeological”. Since 2012, Studio Wok has focused its efforts on architecture, design, and landscape, paying particular attention to the quality of living, with a design approach that can be called artisanal.

208 p, ills colour & bw, 24 x 32 cm, pb, Portuguese/English

Building Communities – Rehabilitation and Housing in Barcelona & Zurich

Isbn 9788412659153
Publisher C2C Editorial
Idea code 24236
€ 20.45

Initiated by architects Eva Prats and Ricardo Flores, Building Communities is a studio interested in working with the architecture that shapes the networks of human relationships. They aim to identify and propose a community between new and old neighbours and fragments of a built city. As an exercise on urban rehabilitation, the challenge is to observe and identify the qualities of the social and physical fabric of an area, putting them in action so that they can contribute to create a new chapter. By observing and incorporating the memory of hundreds of civic, cultural, or personal relationships built over time, we are able to read the memory contained in buildings and people alike.

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

The Green Dip - Covering the City with a Forest

Isbn 9789462087941
Publisher Nai010 Publishers
Idea code 24137
€ 29.95

'The Green Dip' offers ways to reintroduce nature into our cities, by critically examining architectural strategies and green solutions. The research group The Why Factory (Delft University of Technology) has produced a series of visualizations of various greened cities (Hong Kong, São Paulo, Dubai and many more). These visualizations respond to the analysis and calculations made for each of the biomes in which the cities are located. The visualizations are accompanied by sets of objective data, from the amount of oxygen that can be produced, via the gallons of water than can be stored, to the number of birds that can be provided with a habitat.

352 p, ills colour & bw, 15 x 21 cm, pb, English

Urbanistic Projects, The Next Generational Paths: A European Perspective

Isbn 9788822921338
Publisher Quodlibet
Idea code 24258
€ 24.50

The book is an investigation of the multilayered field of urbanism practices in the European context. A series of seminars implemented a dialogue between a Scholar and a Practitioner from seven Europan territories (Spain, France, Belgium, The Netherlands, Denmark, Greece, Germany). It starts from an anthology of seminal texts on planning by classics (from Vittorio Gregotti to Rem Koolhaas) presented as a shared approach to urbanism as a reflective practice whose subject matter is the critical reinterpretation of the form of the world we live in. Then the discussions scanned forms of thinking and ways of designing, ideas and concepts, tools and alliances that respond to changing urban questions in the European context. The book aims to contribute to the current public debate on the links between concrete spaces, society, economy, ecology, and politics, detecting elements of continuity and novelty.

272 p, ills bw, 14 x 21 cm, pb, English

The Autonomy of Theory: Ticino Architecture and Its Critical Reception

Isbn 9783856764319
Publisher Gta Verlag
Idea code 24226
€ 25.55

Following the exhibition 'Tendenzen—Neuere Architektur im Tessin' in Zurich in 1975, contemporaneous architecture in Ticino became the subject of fervent coverage in Swiss and international publications. This extended essay argues that the critical attention emancipated the narratives of Ticino architecture from the actual conditions of production, leading to the paradoxical divergence of its historiography from its history. Placing well-known external constructs, such as the notion of the School of the Ticino, against the robust skepticism of local architects and historians, the essay chronicles the long-term consequences of the misalignment between autonomous theory and situated knowledge.

188 p, ills colour, 12 x 17 cm, pb, English

AV Monographs 261–262: Spain 2024. The Yearbook Turns Thirty

Isbn 9788412796865
Publisher Avisa
Idea code 24151
€ 68.20

It has been 30 years since the release of the first ‘AV Monographs’ yearbook, a publication that gathers the best architecture built in Spain, taking stock of the most important debates, trends, and events of the cultural, economic, and social panorama in each period. With its latest edition, a new phase begins in which more pages are devoted to the selection of 24 buildings. Featured are the Royal Collections Gallery by Mansilla + Tuñón in Madrid, the Pallars Building by BAAS in Barcelona, social housing by Harquitectes in Gavà, and the Hortensia Herrero Art Center by ERRE arquitectura in Valencia. For the first time, space is also devoted to work by Spanish studios abroad.

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

Arquitectura Viva 263: Peris+Toral

Isbn 02141256
Publisher Avisa
Idea code 24233
€ 22.75

Against market fevers, housing in Barcelona has in recent years found the protection of public policies whose effectivity is partly due to the know-how of its architects. Marta Peris and José Toral have contributed to this promising panorama through their two decades of experience, demonstrating that quality is not at odds with the affordable and that the field is still full of programmatic, spatial, and material potential, as seen in the five public housing development featured in Arquitectura Viva.

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

a+u 643 24:04 Architecture Surrounding Food

Isbn
Publisher Shinkenchiku-sha
Idea code 24229
€ 21.75

a+u’s April issue, guided by guest editors Ko Nakamura, Keigo Kobayashi, and Mamiko Miyahara, investigates the interconnection of architecture and food. Food insecurity is a major challenge that cities face in the Anthropocene that architects and urbanists must rise to meet. Presenting more than 20 projects of varying scales, this issue highlights alternative strategies that architecture and urban design may adopt in the urgent effort to address this shared global burden. Five key themes – New Ways of Production, Globalism and National Strategies, In Community, Meeting the City, and Exploring Food Space – organize the projects.

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

Pascal Greco - Kwai Shing West Estate

Isbn 9782492680021
Publisher Building Books
Idea code 24221
€ 29.55

Kwai Shing West Estate is a residential complex in Hong Kong that is home to 18,000 people. It attracted the attention of filmmaker and photographer Pascal Greco because of its architecture and its atypical hillside construction. This book presents Greco’s ten-year investigation into the complex, during which he captured his strange fascination through both photography and film: walls, staircases, cables, pipes, neon lights, and not a soul to be seen. And yet, discreetly, life pulsates. Together with musician Lea Bertucci he produced an immersive audio-visual work, a tribute to the sometimes strange architecture of public housing but also to the loneliness experienced in such complexes.

144 p, ills colour & bw, 22 x 30 cm, pb, French/English

The upside-down museum - Practice-based institutional critique, working up from the actual museum floor by Aldo Giannotti

Isbn 9789083350172
Publisher Set Margins'
Idea code 24172
€ 26.00

In defiant response to the mechanisms, habits, and status of the museum, artist Aldo Giannotti’s concepts and props, initially conceived in sketchbooks, transform into tangible institutional realities, reshaping the museum’s social and spatial architecture and sometimes literally breaking its walls. This realignment establishes accountability, on the spot and without holding back, to meet real needs. Through dialogue with the museum staff, guards, and visitors, Giannotti develops an inclusive engagement with the institution and its underlying purpose. This is a practice-based institutional critique based in ongoing, in-person practice, working up from the actual floor. This book surveys numerous cases and obstacles that threaten the sustainability of long-standing habits in high culture. It emphasizes working on the ground rather than from office spaces, focusing on accountability in the very spaces where the museum functions. It presents a challenge to the art world, offers insight to those who passively endorse the existing order of public art, and serves as a mediator between current art workers and outdated art systems.

160 p, ills colour & bw, 17 x 21 cm, pb, English

AV Proyectos 121: Robotic Construction

Isbn 1697493X
Publisher Avisa
Idea code 24216
€ 13.65

'AV Proyectos' joined the AV/Arquitectura Viva family twenty years ago. To mark the occasion, it is presented now with updated graphics and an approach adapted to the reality of architects, with more articles and works and a greater emphasis on construction. Issue 121 carries in ‘Portfolio’ a cover feature on robotics and an interview with two experts in prefabrication: Antón García-Abril and Débora Mesa from Ensamble Studio; and its two new sections, ‘Pieces’ and ‘Products’, give an overview of the technical scene. The old ‘Competition’ and ‘Construction’ sections are revamped under the headings ‘Proposals’ and ‘Process,’ collecting the proposals for the future Madruelo Museum in Cáceres, all commented by José María Sánchez, and the development process of four parkings by Christian Kerez in Bahrain.

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

scape #04 / 23: A woman's perspective

Isbn
Publisher Blauwdruk
Idea code 24207
€ 24.50

This issue is about women’s perspectives – about how they approach their work as landscape architects, architects, and urban planners. We speak with Tarna Klitzner, Marti Fooks, Olga Felip, Sara Candiracci, and Martha Fajardo. Next to the women’s dossier, this issue contains a portrait of Terremoto’s designers, including founder David Godshall, landscape architect Jenny Jones, and senior designer Molly Butcher. Landscape architects Cannon Ivers (LDA Design), and Catherine Dee and creative director Jeroen de Willigen (De Zwarte Hond) share their Insta-inspiration. Also part of this issue: reviews about how buildings and places with an industrial past are being transformed in a circular way into fine, surprising places to work, live, and enjoy.

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

Amsterdam Architecture City: The 100 Best Buildings

Isbn 9789462088412
Publisher Nai010 Publishers
Idea code 24198
€ 19.95

Amsterdam is home to numerous architectural treasures dating from the Middle Ages to the present. This guide presents 100 must-see buildings and places, including the Royal Palace, Rijksmuseum, Artis Zoo, Amsterdam School housing blocks, and the latest architectural marvels: the Sluishuis (BIG and Barcode Architects), Jonas (Orange Architects), and the Valley (MVRDV). Not only does the book highlight things to see, it also suggests what to do while visiting: lunch in De Hallen, a movie at Theater Tuschinski, a night out in the Tolhuistuin, or an overnight stay in one of the city’s many bridge keepers’ houses. With photography by Ossip van Duivenbode.

128 p, ills colour & bw, 13 x 23 cm, pb, English

Enlightenment, Culture, Leisure: Houses of Culture in Czechoslovakia

Isbn 9788090843349
Publisher Vi Per Gallery
Idea code 24197
€ 40.00

Enlightenment, Culture, Leisure: Houses of Culture in Czechoslovakia is the first book that provides a comprehensive overview of the creation of a nationwide network of houses of culture that were systematically established during the period of state socialism in the former Czechoslovakia. As places of public life in post-war society, these buildings enjoyed generous economic, political and legislative support. In addition to their specific typology, the book also looks at the educational and emancipatory potential of houses of culture and their role in the organization and control of leisure time. The publication also takes in the programmatic precursors of this type of cultural and social institution dating back to the nineteenth-century and the inter-war period (clubhouses, national or workers’ houses), as well as overlaps into the period after 1989, when buildings and their operators had to, and sometimes still have to, cope with the demands of modernisation. The book covers both the Czech and Slovak context of the construction of houses of culture, which not only manages to cover the entire territory of the former Czechoslovakia, but also to capture the different historical experiences.

888 p, ills colour & bw, 12 x 16 cm, hb, English

Arquitectura Viva 262: Lina Ghotmeh

Isbn 02141256
Publisher Avisa
Idea code 24156
€ 22.75

“Lina Ghotmeh has lived an itinerant life between East and West, going from the Beirut of her birth and education to the Paris where she set up a practice characterized by an inevitable international profile but also a sensitivity to contexts and materials. Arquitectura Viva takes stock of this through four examples: the Estonian National Museum in Tartu, the Stone Garden residential tower in Beirut, the Hermés workshops in Louviers, and the Serpentine Gallery’s 2023 pavilion in London.

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

AMAG PT 05 Aurora Arquitectos

Isbn 9789893561713
Publisher AMAG Publisher
Idea code 24181
€ 26.75

This issue features the work of Aurora Arquitectos, a Portuguese practice from the new generation. Founded in 2010 by Sofia Couto and Sérgio Antunes, the studio works on projects of a variety of scales, from small houses to residential buildings, as well as cultural facilities. Recently, the most developed theme is urban regeneration, which is the focus of the studio’s specialisation and research. In their approach, the architects are particularly attentive to how to react to the site and how to handle the existing space and elements. The challenge, therefore, is to interpret, scrutinize, copy, and distort those raw materials, giving them back to the site in a new, unexpected way.

112 p, ills colour & bw, 24 x 32 cm, pb, Portuguese/English

LB 18 AFF Spore Initiative

Isbn 9789893561744
Publisher AMAG Publisher
Idea code 24182
€ 32.50

The Long Books collection continues with a feature on the Spore project, the result of collective collaboration between clients, architects, engineers, project controllers, construction managers, and craft companies. A self-assured, if somewhat quirky presence, the Spore Initiative building interweaves several strands from almost 30 years of philanthropic work. Sited in Berlin-Neukölln, this place is a cross-pollination of understanding of environmental justice and corporate accountability, art and creativity, democratic practice and the preservation of biodiversity, and education understood as deeper learning. Maintaining the building and filling it with ideas remains the task of the users.

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

LB 20 Viana de Lima Casa das Marinhas

Isbn 9789893561768
Publisher AMAG Publisher
Idea code 24184
€ 32.50

This edition of the series presents the Casa das Marinhas (1954–1957), which corresponds to what architect Alfredo Viana de Lima would designate as “the manor of modern times”. What does this house communicate to us, and what does its iconicity evoke? Once a private dwelling, the building is transformed into a museum. From this perspective, the house transitions into the public domain as a sign of plurality disguised as heritage to save it from collapse. This new role brings together a set of indivisible principles that cannot be isolated, because they belong to a unified whole. Today this new perspective reconfigures the architect’s sense, subordinating the unified achievements.

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

LB 19 Lynch Architects n2

Isbn 9789893561751
Publisher AMAG Publisher
Idea code 24183
€ 32.25

Lynch Architects has been involved in the transformation of Victoria Street since 2007 and has realised a number of urban blocks, each of which responds very precisely to their immediate context. Featured here is n2, the third of five structures which Lynch Architects will have built there. Completed in 2023, n2 is an eighteen-storey office block, part of what is now known as the Nova development. The other projects nearby include Kings Gate, a fifteen-storey stone apartment building beside Westminster City Hall; its neighbour, the thirteen-storey Zig Zag Building, with offices; Westminster Coroner’s Court; and n3, another office building set to be completed in 2028.

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

Johann Bernhard Fischer von Erlach Project of a Historical Architecture

Isbn 9791280336200
Publisher Humboldt Books
Idea code 24144
€ 41.95

On 26 July 1721 the Wiener Diarium informed its readers that a new book by the general surveyor of constructions, Johann Bernhard Fischer von Erlach, titled Entwurff Einer Historischen Architectur, was ready for subscribers to collect from the architect’s place. The Entwurff is a collection of 86 sheets illustrating the architecture of the Jews, Egyptians, Syrians, Persians, Greeks, Romans, Arabs, Turks, Siamese, Chinese and Japanese, along with some of the author’s projects. Upon the third centenary of the author’s death this re-print proposesto look back at Fischer’s book as a precise cultural project, reacting to a specific historical and geographical context, and yet suggesting a more general attitude that can challenge contemporary architecture as well.

296 p, ills bw, 27 x 17 cm, pb, English

Taiwan Strait. Conscious City Incubator

Isbn 9789493329089
Publisher Jap Sam Books
Idea code 24200
€ 55.00

The Taiwan Strait is a liminal body, which means it is a threshold between two spaces, but the threshold itself is a space. This space, in this case the sea with its islands, coastal lines, mists, animals, and shipping lanes is a region which combines the best of both sides of the threshold, but as a body has its own dreams and desires and has access to other spirits and imaginary beings. What if this space acts as a visual and visionary device, and a future is seen through this lens, which is if not a complete utopia, at least a collection of fragments of this future?

472 p, ills colour & bw, 23 x 29 cm, hb, English


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