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El Croquis 226: OFFICE 2017-2024
Isbn 9788412823417
Publisher El Croquis
Idea code 24407
€ 83.55
This monographic issue examines recent work by Belgian architects Kersten Geers and David Van Severen and their Brussels-based firm, OFFICE, which was established in 2002 as a means of exploring the prospect of architecture within the contemporary culture and urban environment. Currently a team of about 40 architects, it has evolved a practical and pragmatic approach to design in which architecture becomes nothing less than a civic obligation. An overview of 25 projects, including a crematorium, dental clinic, and art gallery, is introduced by a conversation with Giovanna Borasi, director of the Canadian Centre for Architecture in Montreal, and the two founding architects.
328 p, ills colour & bw, 25 x 34 cm, pb, Spanish/English
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AMAG 35 LCLA - Manthey Kula - Sanden+Hodnekvam Architects
Isbn 9789893530474
Publisher AMAG Publisher
Idea code 24375
€ 53.65
This issue turns its gaze towards Norway in a fresh exploration of Nordic design, featuring three Oslo-based studios. LCLA Office is led by architects Luis Callejas and Charlotte Hansson since 2016. They combine architecture and landscape architecture in sophisticated site surveys to create projects that pay equal attention to interior and exterior. Oslo native Beate Hølmebakk and Swedish architect Per Tamsen launched Manthey Kula in 2004, while Sanden+Hodnekvam Arkitekter was founded by John Sanden and Ingvild Hodnekvam in 2014. Active in a range of projects, the small studio’s work balances between simplicity in form and richness in tectonics and ambiance.
208 p, ills colour & bw, 24 x 32 cm, pb, Portuguese/Spanish/English
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Living Places - Principles and Insights for a New Way of Thinking Buildings
Isbn 9788774077787
Publisher The Danish Architectural Press
Idea code 24462
€ 51.20
‘Living Places’ is an innovative approach to home construction that benefits both people and planet, and a valuable model that thrives on collaboration. The concept’s lessons demonstrate how to construct healthy buildings using readily available materials and technologies. Its scalability and feasibility aspire to influence the housing sector by assessing prototypes and integrating valuable knowledge into the construction industry at large. This book offers a comprehensive look at this approach through the voices of the project’s main partners, its shareable data, and a description of the process and method that can create change where it is most needed – a manual of tools and insights.
200 p, ills colour & bw, 19 x 25 cm, pb, English
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Time to Play
Isbn 9782491906429
Publisher Archipress Editons
Idea code 24442
€ 28.60
In the lead-up to the Paris 2024 Olympic Games, 'Time to Play' explores how play shapes our cities and societies. This collection includes texts on topics like grieving in video games, play therapy in psychiatric asylums, excessive sport (bigorexia), the unbalanced rules of international trade, the overlap between sports and sacred rites, the symbolism of color in sports, casino architecture and addiction, the dangers of online betting, gender equality in French sports, and urban sports like parkour and skateboarding. Born from the desire to discuss play through play, 'Time to Play' employs a freeform approach inspired by the exquisite corpse game. Each author contributes independently, creating a polyphonic ensemble of interviews, photo reports, illustrations, analyses, essays, articles, and excerpts. This format allows readers the freedom to navigate the content as they see fit.
170 p, ills colour & bw, 21 x 28 cm, pb, French/English
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DOMa issue 10: AgwA, Langarita Navarro, Atelierdacosta, Kwong Von Glinow, Co.Creation.Architects
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Publisher DOMa Magazine
Idea code 24387
€ 25.55
In DOMa 10, AgwA share tools and strategies for reusing an office building, from structure to materials, and transforming it into the school complex ‘Karreveld’. Langarita Navarro document the two lives, ephemeral and temporary, of their installation ‘Red Bull Music Academy – Nave de Música' in the Matadero warehouse. Atelierdacosta provide a detailed overview of the production of ‘Casa Crespo’, questioning both their work and the discipline of architecture itself. Kwong Von Glinow reproduce the microcosm of 'Ardmore House’ as a transformation of the typical wooden frame house into a complex alternative in terms of space and programme. Co.Creation.Architects present their community work that precedes their built projects, called the co-creation process, focusing on the case of 'Urban River Spaces’.
164 p, ills colour & bw, 23 x 30 cm, pb, Greek/English
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Steffen Nijhuis - Landscape Logic
Isbn 9789493329102
Publisher Jap Sam Books
Idea code 24475
€ 15.00
Landscape Logic is an essay on the need for a landscape-based approach to designing sustainable urban environments. Urbanization is one of the biggest challenges of this century. Urban development comes at the expense of fragile ecosystems that protect and provide us with food and water, not to mention the associated increasing vulnerability to flooding, drought, and social inequality. We therefore need a landscape-based approach to urbanism that considers the biosphere as the context for social and economic development and takes the landscape as its basis. Landscape-based urbanism utilizes the understanding of the landscape system and its ecological and social-cultural processes and relationships – landscape logic – as the foundation for designing sustainable urban environments across scales. Design with nature, people, and history are at the approach’s core. Using landscape logic, we can build nature-inclusively and climate-adaptively and ensure a healthy and safe living environment for everyone.
72 p, ills colour & bw, 13 x 18 cm, pb, English
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Earthly Cities
Isbn 9788774070559
Publisher The Danish Architectural Press
Idea code 24464
€ 20.90
The first volume in the publisher’s pocket book series comprises two distinct sections. Firstly, architectural educator Tom Nielsen introduces the concept of the earthly city as a close, harmonious interweaving of people and nature in the history of urban development. From the muscle city, powered by human and animal labour, through the machine cities of the industrialised era, to the boundless cities of now, characterised by global communication and blurred urban distinctions. Secondly, Nielsen grapples with the urgent need to rethink urbanism in the face of the climate crisis by exploring the polarised responses to the climate crisis: technological optimism versus hyperlocal sustainability.
74 p, ills colour & bw, 11 x 18 cm, pb, English
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Circular Construction for Urban Development: A System
Isbn 9788774076261
Publisher The Danish Architectural Press
Idea code 24463
€ 41.80
This publication is the result of a collaborative research process between 20 co-authors and multiple organisations, created with the aim of providing developers and other actors in the building industry with knowledge and tools that support the application and practice of circular construction principles in urban development. The book’s production is therefore akin to the industrial and organisational processes it promotes: modular elements of knowledge provided by a cluster of experts and assembled as a package of relevant perspectives, divided across five thematic chapters. It also includes several downloadable resources to help you in your pursuit of applying the principles.
196 p, ills colour & bw, 19 x 24 cm, pb, English
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North Sea Rising: A Case for Water-Based Commons
Isbn 9788090843356
Publisher Vi Per Gallery
Idea code 24351
€ 25.55
In North Sea Rising, Nabi Agzamov and Francesca Vanelli argue for a new perspective on regional commons across the North Sea watershed. Through a series of essays, experts and practitioners examine the historical evolution of this dynamic region and its legacy, climate change challenges, and the potential approaches needed to imagine a vision of a resilient and equitable future for the North Sea. Tom Holbrook's “A New Hansa?” explores the region’s historical and present-day significance of trade and urban networks, “Mapping the Human-Ocean Nexus” by Di Fang critiques traditional cartography and advocates for biodiversity-focused “ocean thinking”, and Nashin Mahtani’s “To Dream Like a River” highlights the importance of community-led governance. The book concludes with “North Sea Manifesting”, where Agzamov and Vanelli propose a fluid, inclusive governance model that balances ecological and social dimensions. The book challenges conventional notions of territory and governance, advocating for a vision of a North Sea rooted in cooperation, resilience, and environmental equilibrium.
116 p, ills colour & bw, 12 x 18 cm, pb, English
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a+u 646 24:07 Post-Digitality in Architecture
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Publisher Shinkenchiku-sha
Idea code 24457
€ 23.90
Recent years have seen significant changes in architectural practice, where digital technology is widespread and commonplace – a condition referred to as “post-digital”. Technological and ecological disruptions are forcing architects to adapt and re-strategize. This issue features research and education institutions where such explorations are being actively pursued: Southern California Institute of Architecture in Los Angeles, Bartlett School of Architecture at University College London, and the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich. It introduces pioneering projects that push the boundaries in their respective fields, redefining architecture within the post-digital context.
168 p, ills colour & bw, 22 x 29 cm, pb, Japanese/English
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a+u 645 24:06 20 Years of Mass Timber Constructions in Canada
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Publisher Shinkenchiku-sha
Idea code 24353
€ 23.90
At the turn of the 21st century, Canada adopted a constructive environmental approach for sustainable forest management, timber use, and climate change mitigation. Canadian architects have since demonstrated their ingenuity in this respect. In addition, careful use of timber resources is also deeply intertwined with Indigenous cultures and land rights. Mass timber is construction that uses large-volume wood laminated timber, which is highly relevant to today’s building methods: using local materials, recycling resources, and reducing carbon footprints. Nineteen projects by six architectural firms are highlighted, illustrating the evolution and potential of mass timber in the Canadian context.
160 p, ills colour & bw, 22 x 30 cm, pb, Japanese/English
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Suburban Alternatives – Survey of Low-Rise High-Density Housing Projects in the United States
Isbn 9782492680168
Publisher Building Books
Idea code 24402
€ 39.75
The expression “low-rise high-density” refers to the ensembles of grouped housing units that maintain characteristics of the individual home, but whose compactness facilitates collective services and amenities, thereby reducing land consumption. These hybrid projects also generate a variety of housing typologies and forms of agglomeration, opening up more sustainable and ecological alternatives. In this atlas of 50 projects from across the United States, Florian Camai and Mathilde Luguet present their observations alongside essays by French and American researchers specialised in suburban areas and coordinated by Marc-Antoine Durand – an open reflection on the future of suburban living.
288 p, ills colour & bw, 19 x 30 cm, pb, French/English
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Colour Trilogy in Landscape Design, an Asian Story
Isbn 9788412622256
Publisher Altrim Publishers
Idea code 24441
€ 33.35
Through an introduction of landscape design methods, beginning from surveying, field assessment, and combining senses, and with a focus on the South Asian region, this publication examines the creative method and theory behind design concepts in landscape architecture. Its contents cover three core components of landscape: green space, water surface, and architectural elements. Aimed at students and others who are interested in pursuing landscape architecture, planning, and urban design, the publication functions as a handbook for knowledge, insight, and learning.
212 p, ills colour & bw, 21 x 21 cm, pb, English
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Researching Otherwise – Pluriversal Methodologies for Landscape and Urban Studies
Isbn 9783856764678
Publisher Gta Verlag
Idea code 24447
€ 32.70
How can landscape and urban studies more effectively engage in transdisciplinary dialogue, sensuousness and affect, and pluriversal worlds? ‘Researching Otherwise’ presents sensory, collaborative, and restitutive methodological tools for crafting new spaces of knowledge production. Through activities such as drawing, photographing, filmmaking, sounding, listening, walking, and mapmaking, these researchers explore regenerative futures in new ways, from non-human companions to visual ethnographic studies with refugees. With contributions by Nitin Bathla, Denise Bertschi, Nancy Couling, Luke Harris, Metaxia Markaki, Bonnie Kate Walker, and more.
270 p, ills colour, 16 x 22 cm, pb, English
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Archiving the Commons – Looking Through the Lens of bak.ma
Isbn 9788412494280
Publisher Dpr-barcelona
Idea code 24393
€ 18.40
This book is about stories of archives. By delving into bak.ma, a digital media archive born out of the social movements in Turkey, we are guided through a journey in which archives become sites of other kinds of stories: ones that involve solidarity, activism, and the commons. Author Özge Çelikaslan uses the concept of archives of the commons to reimagine archives as spaces of commoning in which creative, autonomous, platforms are generated collectively to perpetuate knowledge and sociopolitical relations grounded in solidarity and an ethics of care – not in some distant future, but in the here and now. With contributions by Thomas Keenan and Pelin Tan.
320 p, ills colour, 11 x 18 cm, pb, English
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AMAG PT 06 SIA Arquitectura
Isbn 9789893561706
Publisher AMAG Publisher
Idea code 24376
€ 26.75
Ana Cravinho, Inês Cordovil, and Sofia Pinto Basto have been working together since 2000. They created SIA arquitectura in 2007. Current projects include single-family homes, residential buildings, public buildings, small-scale interventions, and commercial and scenic spaces. Their practice is based on rehabilitation and attention to the uniqueness of each circumstance, and they believe that small interventions can amplify and transform reality. The work the studio produces collaboratively with other architects with whom they have had a close relationship since their start is representational of the studio’s collective thinking. The project always emerges from this collaboration.
112 p, ills colour & bw, 24 x 32 cm, pb, Portuguese/English
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Accattone #08
Isbn 9782960253085
Publisher Accattone
Idea code 24427
€ 26.90
Accattone #8 addresses matters of construction in relation to time, use, change and technical knowledge against the backdrop of the "negative commons" inherited from the productivist society of the past century — "zombie" habits, desires, products and processes that our contemporary condition can no longer sustain, yet cannot help but reproduce. With contributions by Clément Hébert, Élodie Degavre, all the 50+ participants to the High Tech Low Tech exhibition at EPFL Lausanne, DSCTHK (Jérôme André & Thibaut Blondiau), Oliver Burch, Kosmos, Fuminori Nousaku & Mio Tsuneyama, Antoine Angeard & Lise Duchamp, Lars Lerup, Pierre Leguillon.
180 p, ills colour & bw, 24 x 32 cm, pb, English
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Chacarita Moderna – The Brutalist Necropolis of Buenos Aires
Isbn 9782492680199
Publisher Building Books
Idea code 24403
€ 35.65
In 1949 the construction of the Sexto Panteón, an underground necropolis containing 150,000 burial plots, was launched. This monumental brutalist-style cemetery is the first and largest experimentation of modern architecture applied to the funerary field, and yet it remains relatively unknown. Ítala Fulvia Villa (1913–1991), the project’s architect, was one of Argentina’s first female architects and urban planners, a pioneer of South American modernism who also contributed to Le Corbusier’s master plan for Buenos Aires. In this book, French architect Léa Namer rediscovers the necropolis through an in-depth investigation and feminist re-reading of this unique site and its creator.
224 p, ills colour & bw, 22 x 29 cm, pb, French/English
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Seasonal Matters Rural Relations
Isbn 9789083362182
Publisher Onomatopee
Idea code 24371
€ 25.00
What if traditional relationships, between humans and non-humans, plants, the weather, and the rhythm of the seasons, are being lost in the race for profit and for increasingly intensive methods of production? In sixteen contributions, interdisciplinary collective Seasonal Neighbours attempts to observe, record, and archive narratives for the existing, disappearing, and newly emerging relationships in the countryside. Both theoretical and artistic contributions serve as a guide for perceiving the agricultural landscape. As a collage-style field-guide, 'Seasonal Matters Rural Relations' addresses the role that artistic practices and fieldwork can play in the complexity of rural relations.
304 p, ills colour & bw, 13 x 19 cm, pb, English
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Louis De Belle - Glasraum Ganko
Isbn 9782493283160
Publisher Caryatide
Idea code
€ 26.90
Ganko is the Milan-based practice led by Nicolà Munaretto and Guido Tesio. The work of the office spans different realms and scales—from urban planning to architecture up to interior design and scenography for exhibitions and events. Ganko understands architecture as the creative negotiation between desires and possibilities, subject and context, form and content. Favouring a certain classicism in the strand of the modernist tradition it most identifies with, the office is interested in the unpredictable consequences embedded in a (apparently) utilitarian, rational approach. Ganko understands design as the definition of precise conditions of indeterminacy; and architecture as the formal infrastructure allowing for multiple, often unexpected, appropriations. Unapologetically modern, Ganko is after an architecture that is as precise in its presence as it is open in its experience.
34 p, ills colour & bw, 24 x 32 cm, pb, English/Italian
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Kenzō Tange, Kengo Kuma - Architectes des Jeux de Tokyo
Isbn 9784887064089
Publisher Maison de la culture du Japon à Paris and Toto publishing
Idea code
€ 23.65
Une présentation de l'héritage architectural fascinant des Jeux olympiques de Tokyo au travers de deux constructions emblématiques, le Gymnase olympique de Yoyogi et le Nouveau stade national, mettant en lumière les deux architectes japonais de renommée mondiale à l'origine de ces projets : Kenzō Tange et Kengo Kuma.
120 p, ills colour & bw, 21 x 30 cm, pb, French
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AHA In Practice – A Travelogue by Leeke Reinders – L'Ermitage, Jubel, Ulysse
Isbn 9789464987379
Publisher MER. B&L
Idea code 24433
€ 29.05
For the fifth book in the In Practice series, Aurélie Hachez and Leeke Reinders invite readers on a road journey through three transformative projects: L’Ermitage in urban Brussels, suburban Jubel, and rural Ulysse. This volume not only explores the design process and its subsequent adoption by inhabitants but also delves into the theoretical implications of object agency in AHA’s work, the strategic day-to-day work ethic, and the creative portrayal of buildings as entities with their own narratives
288 p, ills colour & bw, 17 x 24 cm, pb, English
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