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New Titles in Architecture & Landscape

28 June 2024

Autonoom: 100% Carel Weeber

Isbn 9789083286020
Publisher Maas Lawrence
Idea code 24317
€ 39.50

Het definitieve boek over Carel Weeber, geschreven door architectuurhistoricus Wouter Vanstiphout. Het boek behandelt behalve Weebers werk ook zijn leven, van zijn jeugd op Curaçao tot zijn loopbaan als Nederlands meest controversiële architect, inclusief zijn verrassend productieve bestaan als 'ex-architect'. Vanstiphout analyseert op originele wijze de architectuur en stedenbouw van Weeber, de ontwikkeling van zijn ideeën, zijn rol in het architectuuronderwijs en zijn bijdrage aan de Nederlandse architectonische cultuur sinds de jaren zestig.

416 p, ills colour & bw, 17 x 23 cm, pb, Dutch

a+t 60: Frugality Series. Abstraction and Responsibility

Isbn 9788409620234
Publisher A+t Architecture Publishers
Idea code 24296
€ 28.20

Frugality means less material, energy, and expense, but also greater respect for the environment, constructive sincerity, and social honesty. Rather than being imposed by social or cultural movements, or even by political shifts, frugality is the pure awareness of the moment of restriction and deprivation that conditions the manner in which action is taken. It is the dismantling of the iconic and symbolic character of architecture, imbuing it with standardised technology, programmatic flexibility, and basic rationality. The first issue of this new series is titled after the essential features of this frugal architecture, the sole aim of which is to become a structure-shelter of life.

120 p, ills colour & bw, 24 x 32 cm, pb, Spanish/English

AV Monographs 264: Níall McLaughlin Architects

Isbn 9788412796889
Publisher Avisa
Idea code 24324
€ 43.55

After studying at University College Dublin, Níall McLaughlin moved to London, where in 1990 he set up his own office. Since then, he has developed a solid career, defined by a timeless language and an attentive dialogue with context. The latest issue of AV Monographs takes stock of his career with a selection of twenty of his main works. Featured in chronological order these key projects reflect a commitment to the discipline that makes no distinctions of scale or program. Floor plans of bold geometry and facades of tactile sensuality are as present in the domestic projects of Piper’s End and Goleen as they are in the large buildings for the universities of Oxford and Cambridge, as well as in the civic complexes in London and Limerick, in all of which shines the so very British spirit of honouring the past without ceasing to look in the direction of the future.

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

Pleasant Place 5: Mien Ruys

Isbn 9789083284347
Publisher Pleasant Place
Idea code 24378
€ 12.00

Dutch landscape and garden architect Mien Ruys (1904–1999) was born into a horticultural family in Overijssel, where her father owned an internationally renowned plant nursery. Her immersion in planting and gardens from a young age contributed to a lifelong passion. Ruys received formal education as a garden designer and became actively involved in the modernist movement, in particular its unifying philosophy of good design for all. Along with names such as Piet Oudolf, she is considered a pioneer in the New Perennial Movement. This issue of ‘Pleasant Place’ is dedicated to her legacy, with extensive biographical information, garden designs, personal accounts, and more.

36 p, ills colour & bw, 18 x 24 cm, pb, English

Architecture in the Netherlands Yearbook 2023 | 2024

Isbn 9789462088443
Publisher Nai010 Publishers
Idea code 24332
€ 44.95

Before unveiling the 28 projects selected for this edition of the yearbook, the editors examine what the Dutch construction sector has delivered in the past year in an introductory essay, “The 99.85 per cent”. Statistics are the main tool for establishing benchmarks in the yearbook selection, which represents a mere fraction of total building production. The projects are grouped thematically in order to highlight their interrelationships: workplace, education, client, mixed-use, facilities, and housing. Standouts include the BunkerToren by Powerhouse Company in Eindhoven, Tripolis-Park in Amsterdam by MVRDV, and KCAP’s adaptation of the Stationspostgebouw in The Hague.

168 p, ills colour & bw, 24 x 32 cm, pb, Dutch/English

Forgotten Architecture – An Archive of Overshadowed Projects

Isbn 9788880562504
Publisher Nero
Idea code 24335
€ 43.00

‘Forgotten Architecture’ began as a Facebook group, founded in May 2019 and dedicated to researching and unearthing modern architecture around the globe that is not widely known. The publication attempts to recover projects by obscure architects, delve into the work of “minor” figures, and unite alternative takes on the history of architecture. In addition, several forgotten projects by renowned architects, such as the house for Arnaldo Pomodoro by Ettore Sottsass and the avant-garde Binishells by Dante Bini, make their appearance alongside resorts, gas stations, drive-in churches, ephemeral inflatable architectures, and more. A series of critical essays rounds out the research.

308 p, ills colour & bw, 22 x 30 cm, hb, English

Oase 117: Project Village

Isbn 9789462088399
Publisher Nai010 Publishers
Idea code 24404
€ 24.95

The village has recently received more attention in architectural and urban discourse, in part due to a growing demand for spatial densification, climate change, and the pursuit of biodiversity. A need for a qualitative approach to village densification exists in the Netherlands and Belgium, in addition to an increasing interest in preserving and restoring the identity of villages and their surrounding landscapes. This edition of ‘OASE’ contributes to the discussion, examining villages not as the antithesis of modernity but as its complex product. Eight essays analyse images, inventories, idealisations, and makeovers of villages in light of currently shifting socio-political contexts.

144 p, ills colour & bw, 17 x 24 cm, pb, Dutch/English

Dutch Waterworks Worldwide

Isbn 9789462088467
Publisher Nai010 Publishers
Idea code 24420
€ 49.95

‘Dutch Waterworks Worldwide’ chronicles architecture and landscape photographer Luuk Kramer’s journey around the world to find waterworks built by Dutch engineers between the 16th century and today. From Polish polders to dikes and dams in Japan, from canals in Brazil to a small lock in Suriname, the Dutch brought knowledge gleaned from centuries of experience with living in a delta, land reclamation, and catastrophic floods. Arriving with colonising forces or invited by local governments, the Dutch left varied legacies and perspectives on their contributions and roles. In interviews and essays by local experts, the book presents a collection of shared global water heritage.

256 p, ills colour & bw, 28 x 31 cm, hb, English

Discursive Architecture. Tactics for critical intervention in the work of BAVO

Isbn 9789462088993
Publisher Nai010 Publishers
Idea code 24415
€ 39.95

Criticism is largely an unprofessional affair, more often than not a friendly service, at best a civil service for the good cause of architecture culture. In any case, it is poorly paid and not meant to be taken seriously. Therefore architect-philosopher Gideon Boie proposes to rethink criticism on the basis of overidentification: a counter-strategy in which artists identify with the current trends in such an excessive way that it becomes rather difficult to digest. In 'Discursive Architecture', Boie reflects on the practice of BAVO: the collective he co-founded with Matthias Pauwels in the early 2000s. Boie sketches how the strategy of overidentification and its wider psychoanalytical framework allows us to explore new critical tactics. The interventions of BAVO tackled various urgent social issues, ranging from regional development, city marketing and art in the public space, to spatial management, humane detention and mental healthcare.

270 p, ills colour & bw, 15 x 23 cm, pb, English

Vesper 10: Progetto Eden | Eden Project

Isbn 9788822922182
Publisher Quodlibet
Idea code 24342
€ 19.35

Eden Project gives space and visual representation to goals. It explores the ‘essence’ of pursued destinies, the tangible ‘collapse’ of imagined goals, and the tools employed in the realms of work, life, and thought to achieve them. Karl Kraus once argued: ‘Origin is the goal’. If Eden represents the origin, as such it is eternally lost and only attainable as a goal. In his theses On the Concept of History, Walter Benjamin referred to ‘progress’ as the project of modernity that compels us to establish Eden as a goal, but it is our fixation on this goal that perpetually distances us from the origin, leaving us trapped in the melancholic state of lost paradise.

216 p, ills colour & bw, 20 x 30 cm, pb, Italian/English

AV Proyectos 122: Material Scarcity

Isbn 1697493X
Publisher Avisa
Idea code 24340
€ 13.65

At a time marked by the climate crisis and violent conflicts, an increasing number of architects are turning to impermanence and adaptability to show an alternate path to tackle the fragility and scarcity affecting our planet. Counter to the neoliberal appetite for abundance and the delirium of indefinite growth, this issue explores the relationship between nature and economy. It examines the social construction of scarcity, finding in certain communities signs of resilience and adaptative intelligence. Case studies in Thailand, India, Iran, Rwanda, Niger, Colombia, and Ecuador serve to illuminate this new path. Also in this issue, an interview with Mexican architect Fernanda Canales.

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

scape #1 2024 | Cahier

Isbn
Publisher Blauwdruk
Idea code 24347
€ 12.50

This issue highlights three urban projects. First, the commissioned redesign of the public space of Monte, a small mountain village in Castel San Pietro, Switzerland, by studioser. Second, Maamito’s project to revitalise the Calle Alta in Calaceite, a small town in north-eastern Spain, as an homage to limestone and craftsmanship. Finally, a new pavement for the Swiss village of Vercorin that deftly combines natural stone and asphalt, commissioned by the municipality of Chalais and executed by En-Dehors. Also in this issue, Turkish artist and designer Refik Anadol on AI, machine dreaming, and art, a profile of Tenerife-based architect Fernando Menis, plus book reviews and more.

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

39 Garden Plans - Unusual gardens for an ordinary house

Isbn 9789492474636
Publisher Blauwdruk
Idea code 24348
€ 24.50

This English edition of the classic '39 Garden Plans' (1966) by renowned Danish garden and landscape architect C.Th. Sørensen presents a series of exceptional examples of garden architecture. Simplicity, originality, love, and expertise are characteristics that apply to the gardens in this volume. Every garden plan is based on an idea, an inspiration that is depicted along with the plan. The example could be a farm garden or a park at a castle, a greenhouse complex or a Renaissance parterre. But the idea is the same all the time: the idea must be realisable within the grounds of an ordinary house. '39 Garden Plans' is thus a catalogue of the (spatial) possibilities of garden art.

40 p, ills colour & bw, 16 x 24 cm, pb, English

Arquitectura Viva 264: Fernanda Canales

Isbn 02141256
Publisher Avisa
Idea code 24325
€ 22.75

As she does with her academic work, Fernanda Canales roots her practice in a thorough knowledge of the environment, its resources, and its people, thanks to which she has made it possible for projects conceived in the spirit of mending inequality in her native Mexico to be veritable agents of change and sources of pride for their users. Arquitectura Viva features five of them in a journey from the the capital to two cities in Sonora, close to the United States border. The issue’s dossier further presents two libraries recently completed in Asia by international firms: the National Library of Israel in Jerusalem by Herzog & de Meuron, and the Beijing City Library by Snøhetta.

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

gta papers 8: The Crit

Isbn 9783856764562
Publisher Gta Verlag
Idea code 24318
€ 25.55

Whether experienced as a courtroom, a competitive talent show, or a theatre of the absurd, critical reviews are a confrontational and memorable rite of passage in architectural education. The “crit” stages a drama where students are asked to present and defend their work in front of peers, teachers, and external experts. A close analysis of the crit uncovers radical possibilities in experimental teaching, process-driven design, and the presentation of ideas. Yet this analysis also reveals fault lines in global architectural discourse and education, its historical dissemination, and its contemporary discontents. This issue is both a critique and a celebration of this storied rite.

156 p, ills colour & bw, 21 x 30 cm, pb, English

Hybrid Worklife

Isbn 9788774077800
Publisher The Danish Architectural Press
Idea code
€ 52.25

How do you get people back to the office? What's the role of leadership in times of transition? What does the new people-centric, forward-thinking workplace look like? How can the actual state offer socially relevant and people-centric spaces? These are some of the questions that the new book Hybrid Worklife explores. Written by Gitte Andersen, founder and former CEO of SIGNAL Architects and Global Head of Workplace Management and Design at SIGNAL/ISS, the book offers insights into strategies that align top management's success criteria with effective and people-centric workplaces.

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

Jean-Christophe Quinton Architecte

Isbn 9782492680236
Publisher Building Books
Idea code 24306
€ 49.95

This second, massive monograph by architect Jean-Christophe Quinton is made up of a strict alternation of sections of drawings and projects which, in this structural recurrence, reproduce the incessant interweaving of his drawing culture and his architectural culture. He writes, “Drawing is an act so deeply rooted in my practice that it has become inseparable from it, consubstantial with it. It has become a resource. The existential experience of drawing the world, the intimate experience of design drawing, and the shared experience of representational drawing are three singular practices that each lead to a specific form: drawings to see, drawings to design, drawings to show.”

720 p, ills colour & bw, 18 x 30 cm, hb, French/English

Before the Future — Catalog of the Ukrainian Pavilion at the 18th Biennale Architettura in Venice

Isbn 9786179539206
Publisher Ist Publishing
Idea code 24274
€ 40.00

'Before the Future' marks the return of the Pavilion of Ukraine to the Biennale Architettura after a nine-year absence. In the exhibition and its accompanying program, the grass-covered defensive earthworks in the Giardini and the dark, enclosed shelter in the Arsenale are spaces for Ukrainian architects and practitioners from various fields to raise questions—questions about telling stories during wartime, about the value of collective action in the face of threat, about the multitude of topics that unite architects in Ukraine today, about questions that must be asked today, before the future. Over a period of four months during the Biennale, five temporary collectives create a program of changing exhibitions in both locations of the Pavilion.

400 p, ills colour & bw, 17 x 24 cm, pb, Ukrainian/English

a+u 644 24:05 Manthey Kula

Isbn
Publisher Shinkenchiku-sha
Idea code 24248
€ 23.90

Manthey Kula is a Norwegian architecture office founded in 2004 by Beate Hølmebakk and Per Tamsen. This issue is dedicated to their practice and presents thirteen built works and five projects on paper. The buildings result from the encounter between the given programme, sensitivity to the site, and methods of construction, while the architecture overall is based on storytelling, making, and how things are made. Manthey Kula uses words, drawings, and materials to construct a new and potent reality. Targeting the public realm of fiction through intuition and imagination, the projects featured here include a ferry port and hydro power station, plus memorials, a rest area, and houses.

168 p, ills colour & bw, 22 x 30 cm, pb, Japanese/English

Roberto Paci Dalò - eBAU | Art Dreams for the New European Bauhaus

Isbn 9788822922458
Publisher Quodlibet
Idea code 24259
€ 23.65

eBAU is a collection of thoughts and ideas on what a New European Bauhaus could be. Not an essay, not an administrative document, not a plea, nor a manifesto. Simply a series of suggestions morphing into fleeting visions, sudden vistas breaking through the fog of daily life. What can art mean for the European Bauhaus? What can artists bring to the idea of a new school that invents a new aesthetics, green and sustainable and equal, for a better world? Artist Roberto Paci Dalò shares his thoughts in drawings and texts. An artist’s book, a light collection of insights and incitements fluttering out of the page, to point to other realities that are ours to invent.

128 p, ills colour & bw, 13 x 21 cm, pb, English

AALTO – Aino Alvar Elissa - The Human Dimension of Design

Isbn 9788822922168
Publisher Quodlibet
Idea code 24343
€ 25.80

The narrative of Aalto’s design philosophy is a tale where buildings and design exist in perfect harmony with both nature and the people who inhabit them. This intent, which has assumed an entire new dimension of relevance in the decades since the years in which the Studio was active, is the founding principle and key point of interest around which the exhibition catalogue Aalto – Aino Alvar Elissa. The Human Dimension of Design revolves. In the Aalto vision, architecture, art, and design are inseparable components of a unified whole, at the centre of which lies the human being. Their buildings have become icons, influencing architects worldwide, while their design objects, aided by the Studio’s attention to low-cost mass production, have found places in many homes and are still in production today.

192 p, ills colour & bw, 15 x 24 cm, pb, Italian/English

The Chips: Ukrainian Naive Mosaics of the 1950-90s

Isbn 9786177948437
Publisher Ist Publishing
Idea code 24367
€ 35.00

The Chips: Ukrainian Naїve Mosaics of the 1950–90s by photographer Yevgen Nikiforov and art historian Polina Baitsym records a vanishing phenomenon on the periphery of art and public life. The archive, collected between 2013 and 2023 and conceived as a book in 2019, presents mosaics by unknown authors in a state of half-decay—when they have already lost their initial glow, are decaying, or are disappearing into the lower layers of facades and city panoramas. Naïve mosaics are often a mundane backdrop for local residents, or an uncomfortable and problematic material for the transformation process of public spaces. The book focuses on them as a phenomenon that raises questions about memory and space, past and present, self-expression and imitation, and captures the fragility of the monumental, which, like chips, eventually became crumbs at the bottom of the package.

190 p, ills colour & bw, 17 x 22 cm, hb, Ukrainian/English

Kuijer, Rietveld / Rietveld, Kuijer

Isbn 9789462088627
Publisher Nai010 Publishers
Idea code 24414
€ 19.95

For Kuijer, Rietveld / Rietveld-Kuijer, Dutch sculptor Ruud Kuijer (1959) curated eleven striking combinations of chairs from the famous Dutch designer Gerrit Rietveld (1888-1964) and his own sculptures. The focus is not on Rietveld as a designer, architect, or member of De Stijl, but specifically on the process of making a chair versus making a sculpture. Particularly, Rietveld's early and lesser-known works reveal a making process rooted in the inherent properties of the materials used.

48 p, ills colour & bw, 17 x 22 cm, pb, English

Decolonizing Nature Contemporary Art and the Politics of Ecology (reprint)

Isbn 9783956790942
Publisher Sternberg Press
Idea code 24278
€ 22.00

While ecology has received little systematic attention within art history, its visibility and significance has grown in relation to the threats of climate change and environmental destruction. By engaging artists' widespread aesthetic and political engagement with environmental conditions and processes around the globe—and looking at cutting-edge theoretical, political, and cultural developments in the Global South and North— Decolonizing Nature offers a significant, original contribution to the intersecting fields of art history, ecology, visual culture, geography, and environmental politics.

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


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