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MacGuffin 14: The Wall
Isbn 24058203
Publisher Macguffin
Idea code 24531
€ 23.00
From the Apartheid wall in Palestine to the digital paywall, from memorial murals in Jamaica to the increasingly tall glass facades of modern office blocks, walls testify to the tumult of history and humanity’s ceaseless urge to communicate and to sow division. They force us to reflect on the paradoxes of openness and isolation, of enclosure and exclusion. In a world drowning in borders, barriers and barbed-wire fences, this issue of MacGuffin pauses for thought and asks: What exactly do we want to express or protect? And why?
216 p, ills colour & bw, 21 x 28 cm, pb, English
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Science of the Secondary 15: Floor
Isbn 9789811896088
Publisher Atelier Hoko
Idea code 24363
€ 19.00
Very few things in our everyday thrive by doing absolutely nothing. The floor might just be a rare exception; devoid of any vitality or ambition—characteristics at odds with a society obsessed with progress—it remains unapologetically passive. Yet, despite its unyielding commitment to inertia, the floor remains largely ignored and relegated to the background. One would think that its sheer size alone, comparable to that of the lesser tamed ground that we trample upon outdoors, ought to make it a subject of wide interest. As the only building element that we physically contact with the most, our expectations of the floor are disappointingly pragmatic; it should not shake, give way, or tilt. Mostly, it should be flat as we all know of those amongst us, who descend into melodramatic despair each time they encounter an uneven floor, though the rationale behind such obsession with flat-ness is beyond us here. ‘Science of the Secondary: Floor’ is the fifteenth edition in the series of ongoing research conceived and developed by Atelier HOKO.
60 p, ills colour & bw, 18 x 25 cm, pb, English
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It's About Time. The Architecture of Climate Change
Isbn 9789462088795
Publisher Nai010 Publishers
Idea code 24584
€ 29.15
This publication reveals time as a crucial but overlooked aspect in designing sustainable futures. Bridging past, present, and future, it presents historical and contemporary projects such as solar houses, autonomous structures, and earth buildings alongside dozens of key moments in environmental history, like the first Earth Day and the European Green Deal. The book intertwines climate action and architectural design, examining experiments in the past and the current transition, while offering hopeful glimpses of the future. The message is urgent: the momentum to realise change has arrived, and the architectural field is poised to play an important role in the time ahead.
258 p, ills colour & bw, 17 x 24 cm, pb, English
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onishimaki+hyakudayuki ⁄ o+h – Architecture, a place to be loved
Isbn 9784887064119
Publisher Toto
Idea code 24569
€ 38.60
This book is a collection of works by onishimaki+hyakudayuki / o+h, an architectural design firm led by the acclaimed young architects Maki Onishi and Yuki Hyakuda. It introduces 15 works, including their debut work, "Double Helix House," the Prize of the Architectural Institute of Japan for Design 2023-winning "Shelter Inclusive Place Copal," and their latest work, "Office in a Cherry Field," through photographs, drawings, and explanatory texts. It also includes forewords by Maki Onishi and Yuki Hyakuda, as well as contributions from Toyo Ito and Ryue Nishizawa. This book compiles the philosophy and works of o+h, continually questioning what makes architecture a place to be loved.
208 p, ills colour & bw, 18 x 26 cm, hb, Japanese/English
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Poul Kjaerholm: Timeless Minimalism
Isbn 9784861529610
Publisher Seigensha
Idea code 24561
€ 27.75
Poul Kjærholm (1929–1980) is counted among the giants of modern Scandinavian furniture design. While mid-twentieth-century Scandinavian furniture is typically associated with the warmth of wood, Kjærholm’s designs were marked by highly disciplined forms shaped from hard stone and metal; his works harmonize well with Japanese architecture, which perhaps explains why he is so well embraced by connoisseurs in the country. This book presents the collection of one such enthousiast, Noritsugu Oda, who specializes in chairs. Some fifty masterpieces along with a wealth of valuable design drawings and archival photographs trace Kjærholm’s career from his beginnings under the noted furniture designer Hans J. Wegner to his death at the age of fifty-one.
208 p, ills colour & bw, 22 x 30 cm, pb, Japanese/English
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AV Monographs 266: Houses 2024
Isbn 9788412903409
Publisher Avisa
Idea code 24487
€ 43.55
The climate crisis has meant a return to the principles of traditional construction and the use of passive systems, with the purpose of achieving maximum comfort with a minimum environmental impact using strategies such as solar orientation, form factor, or wind patterns. AV Monographs collects sixteen houses designed according to this bioclimatic approach to respond to a huge variety of situations, from the intense heat of the African coast to the heavy snowfall of northern Europe, via the tropical rain of Southeast Asia, the marked seasonality in some areas of South America or China, and the mild temperatures in Central America and the Mediterranean.
120 p, ills colour & bw, 24 x 30 cm, pb, Spanish/English
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AV Monographs 265: Arquitectura-G
Isbn 9788412796896
Publisher Avisa
Idea code 24422
€ 43.55
Since they set up their studio in 2006 – a time marked by the impact of the financial crisis – Arquitectura-G has completed a considerable number of projects while continuing their research and dissemination work in the field. Almost two decades later, AV Monographs collects twenty works that take stock of the polyphonic creativity and international expansion of the studio: from exemplary interventions on existing structures to lucid new-build housing projects, via experimental spaces for retail or transformations of historical complexes. All this is accompanied by a foreword signed by Harquitectes, who propose an impressionistic analysis of their work; and an epilogue written by the architects themselves, in which they unravel the office’s internal work process.
112 p, ills colour & bw, 24 x 30 cm, pb, Spanish/English
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Plant Magic Issue 2: Weeds
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Publisher Hooops Publications
Idea code 24511
€ 25.00
The second issue of Plant Magic brings together a range of artistic perspectives that explore the complex, resilient, and sometimes contradictory existence of spontaneous vegetation, which is referred to as “weeds”. Weeds embody ambivalence and resistance, thriving in the cracks of crumbling worlds and wastelands. They whisper secrets of life that refuses to give up, of beauty that insists on being seen, of healing that happens stubbornly, even in the poorest of soils. Spontaneous flora reminds us that survival goes beyond mere endurance and becomes an art of thriving against the odds. They dare us to look beyond the obvious, to queer the gaze, and unearth worth in what is so often overlooked.
124 p, ills colour & bw, 21 x 28 cm, pb, English/German/Chinese
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Pleasant Place 6: Topiary
Isbn 9789083284354
Publisher Pleasant Place
Idea code 24559
€ 11.50
Topiary is the practice of trimming and pruning trees and shrubs into clearly defined and fanciful shapes. As an art form, it is a type of living sculpture, and its practice in Europe dates from Roman times. Featured in this issue are a history of topiary and the changing views of nature by botanical philosopher Norbert Peeters; a conversation with Chris Crowder, head gardener of the celebrated topiary gardens at Levens Hall; the ancient Japanese tradition of ‘niwaki’, or sculpting trees; a glimpse of topiary’s future by artist Rustan Söderling; centrefold miniatures by Andrei Pacea, and more. ‘Pleasant Place’ is a growing collection of publications about the art of gardening.
40 p, ills colour & bw, 18 x 24 cm, pb, English
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Stéphanie Baechler – Forget Me Not (Vergissmeinnicht)
Isbn 9789083375625
Publisher Building Fictions
Idea code 24534
€ 60.00
The picturesque landscape of East Switzerland is home to a diminishing number of Hänggiturme and Tröckneturme: peculiar yet monumental wooden towers once used for drying dyed textiles. These structures are remnants from the 19th century, when the region was a booming global centre of textile production. Once herself a textile designer in St. Gallen, Stéphanie Baechler decided to uncover the histories of these towers and the work they housed, as well as to re-invigorate their present through an artistic intervention. 'Forget-Me-Not' catalogues a series of photographs of the remaining towers taken by Ladina Bischof in the form of an atlas, photographs that become the surface onto which Baechler’s research unfolds visually.
404 p, ills colour & bw, 22 x 34 cm, pb, English
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Volume 65: Living Together
Isbn 9789077966990
Publisher Archis
Idea code 24509
€ 22.50
'Volume 65: Living Together' explores ways in which we cohabitate, capturing a wide array of modes and models of living across the globe and presenting a mosaic of stories, addressing both the ongoing crises while also offering new perspectives, cases and creative engagements with housing. In-depth stories report on the scandalous ripple effect of the Syrian civil war, the transitory routes used by migrants in the Balkans, compound life in Afghanistan, and the precarious position of mental health infrastructure in China. More hopeful stories look at new building in Abidjan, cooperative practices from Zimbabwe, to Switzerland, and careful house construction in the Colombian hinterland.
68 p, ills colour & bw, 20 x 27 cm, pb, English
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The Space of Technicity
Isbn 9789493329140
Publisher Jap Sam Books
Idea code 24496
€ 39.95
Desperate times demand optimistic, transdisciplinary measures. This book unites a select group of thinkers who traverse disciplinary boundaries to tackle a shared problem: the space of technicity. The latter is a consequence of dwelling within and not extending beyond a given domain. Each configuration of surfaces comprising the built environment produces an intangible effect, acting as a quasi-cause. In this examination, technicity is approached from the perspective of axiology – the philosophical study of value. The space of technicity allows us to evade techno-determinism without adopting an anything-goes attitude: design moves beyond mere imagination or reason.
266 p, ills colour & bw, 17 x 24 cm, pb, English
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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
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Arquitectura Viva 266: architecten de vylder vinck
Isbn 02141256
Publisher Avisa
Idea code 24488
€ 22.75
The Ghent-based studio now presented in Arquitectura Viva has renamed itself with every shift of partners at the helm. In the chapter initiated by Jan De Vylder it maintained Inge Vynck and Jo Taillieu on board as associates, and now the first two continue a practice in which it is never easy to tell where exactly the role of one or the other begins and ends. But as the five featured interventions on existing constructions show, what endures is an understanding of design from the very essence of the profession, a deep love for detail, and the pursuit of beauty in imperfection.
80 p, ils colour & bw, 24 x 30 cm, pb, Spanish/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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+/– 1 °C: In Search of Well-Tempered Architecture
Isbn 9789616669979
Publisher Museum Architecture And Design
Idea code 24476
€ 38.70
Ecology has significantly influenced architecture in the past decade, often due to the energy-efficient design of buildings. Advancements like heat pumps, zero-energy technology, and heat recovery ventilation have transformed homes into high-tech machines. However, “energy efficiency” is often treated as a separate component, unlike in the past where ecology was integral to architectural design. This book explores European vernacular architecture that integrates ecology holistically, but also discusses the broader socio-economic context of ecology in architecture through interviews with experts like Jane Withers, Janez Potočnik, Michael Braungart, and Timothy Morton.
176 p, ills colour & bw, 21 x 24 cm, pb, English
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AV Proyectos 123: The Mannerist Mind
Isbn 1697493X
Publisher Avisa
Idea code 24453
€ 13.65
In line with The Mannerist Mind, the essay by Francisco González de Canales, AV Proyectos 123 publishes the innovative proposals of six European studios that emerged in the post-crisis context, and which apply traditional solutions with a contemporary approach. Anna Puigjaner sits down for an interview with this magazine about these ‘new mannerisms’, and to discuss how MAIO, the office she directs with María Charneco, Alfredo Lérida and Guillermo López, shies away from classifications to defend a political practice, more sustainable and inclusive. The issue continues with the conversion of an old warehouse in Rotterdam into the new FENIX Museum, carried out by MAD Architects.
80 p, ills colour & bw, 21 x 30 cm, pb, Spanish/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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Arquitectura Viva 265: Óscar Miguel Ares
Isbn 02141256
Publisher Avisa
Idea code 24423
€ 22.75
Although the emptying of the countryside is now a matter of importance on a state level, it is still those close to rural environments who are most active in ensuring that the wrongly understood idea of progress responsible for vacating that world does not become the remedy to reinhabit it. Óscar Miguel Ares has harnessed the profilts yielded by wind farms in small towns of his native Valladolid to strengthen their network of facilities, through buildings rooted to the place that create community ties, a selection of which is featured in the latest Arquitectura Viva.
80 p, ils colour & bw, 24 x 30 cm, pb, Spanish/English
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Sub Topo Graphia - Espai Cràter Museum Olot
Isbn 9788412622294
Publisher Altrim Publishers
Idea code 24219
€ 30.10
The new Crater Museum designed by Anna Codina and Toni Casamor is built on an ancient dormant volcano near the town centre of Olot in Catalonia. The subterranean building suggests a geological rift and frees up a large area of land for a new urban park. Its exterior is only visible from the two facing entrances, which create a walkway that crosses the interior of the building, itself constructed using materials from the volcanic landscape. The park is conceived as a natural beech grove, illuminated at night by lamps in the trees that simulate the flight of fireflies. With an introduction by Juhani Pallasmaa, this book digs into the evocative museum and its geological context in detail.
164 p, ills colour & bw, 23 x 31 cm, pb, Spanish/English/Catalan
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GA Houses 195
Isbn 9784871407465
Publisher Ada Edita
Idea code 24482
€ 27.70
‘GA Houses’ documents outstanding new residential architecture from all over the world. With projects by selgascano + Diego Cano, Olson Kundig, Norisada Maeda, Luciano Kruk, Takashi Fujino, Antony Liu + Studio TonTon, Makoto Tamada + Natsuko Wakimoto, Ignacio Rojas Hirigoyen, Tomohiro Hata, and Taichi Mitsuya + Yuwa Saito.
168 p, ills colour & bw, 23 x 30 cm, pb, Japanese/English
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GA Document 21: Carlo Scarpa Selected Drawings
Isbn 9784871401210
Publisher Ada Edita
Idea code
€ 32.95
A limited number of copies of an old issue of GA Document on the drawings of Carlo Scarpa is now available.
144 p, ills colour, 30 x 30 cm, pb, Japanese/English
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Amy Ching-Yan Lam – Property Journal
Isbn 9781912570317
Publisher Book Works
Idea code 24575
€ 20.70
From December 2021 to December 2022, artist and writer Amy Ching-Yan Lam kept a record of each time real estate, property, or housing came up in conversation. What began as a simple journal and framework soon became an index of precarity, told through the indignities, dread, and dreamscapes of what we are able to call “home”. Just as property organises people’s lives, it also overtakes them. Over the course of a year, neighbourhood landmarks are demolished, politicians break promises, friends despair, and parents age. ‘Property Journal’ is a damning indictment of the permanent state of affairs known as the housing crisis.
216 p, ills bw, 13 x 19 cm, pb, English
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