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New Titles in Architecture & Landscape

8 October 2024

AMAG 36: Simon Pendal | Taylor + Hinds| Vokes and Peters

Isbn 9789893530481
Publisher AMAG Publisher
Idea code 24644
€ 53.65

Three Australian practices are featured in this edition. Established in 2005, Simon Pendal Architect works on a range of projects and seeks to create memorable places that, besides being highly individual and tailored, respond deeply to their physical context. The Tasmanian duo of Taylor and Hinds was formed by Poppy Taylor and Mat Hinds in 2013 and offers liveable, functional, and memorable environments for people. Stuart Vokes and Aaron Peters started the Brisbane-based Vokes and Peters in 2015 as a conscious attempt to reassess cultural practices and contribute to a collective city-making project, with a special focus on reimagining classic ‘Queenslander’ houses.

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

Building + Breaking: Eight Conversations about Spatial Justice

Isbn 9788774073888
Publisher The Danish Architectural Press
Idea code 24638
€ 41.80

The publication stems from a series of conversations with architects, academics, and activists about the role of architecture in social justice. Eight accessible chapters delve into topics such as being an activist in architecture, how architectural practice can include more diverse perspectives, how education shapes the architect’s image, and a women’s history of architectural practice in Jutland. The book continues to discuss how race, religion, and architecture are co-implicated, how architects can learn from queer spatial practices, develop caring relationships with the more-than-human, and finally, how minoritarian futurisms can illuminate more just and joyful architectural futures.

164 p, ills colour & bw, 13 x 19 cm, pb, English

Democracy and Urban Form

Isbn 9781915609472
Publisher Sternberg Press
Idea code 24590
€ 19.00

“Never have the potential political consequences of architecture been greater, and never has the political sensibility of architecture been less.”This was the state of the discipline that social theorist and urban thinker Richard Sennett declared when he addressed an audience at the Harvard University Graduate School of Design in 1981. Over a series of six lectures, Sennett presented social discourse as the foundation of democracy, and posited that our cities are uniquely positioned to either empower or constrict this discourse—and that the difference could lie in architecture and urban design.Now, over forty years later, as political polarization persists and its consequences arise in both new and familiar ways, Democracy and Urban Form revisits questions that remain relevant: If discourse is the foundation of democracy, how can the design of our cities empower and enable it?

200 p, no ills, 11 x 18 cm, pb, English

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

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

a+u 647 24:08 OMA Shohei Shigematsu

Isbn
Publisher Shinkenchiku-sha
Idea code 24553
€ 25.90

Shohei Shigematsu, whose works include projects from educational facilities, art museums, and exhibition designs to high-rise commercial complexes, has been the lead at OMA New York since 2006. All his designs can be described as “open-ended” and able to “absorb and reflect society in the moment”. Through a curated selection of images, this issue captures architecture that demonstrates how the rational box and soft form can coexist, as embodied in the contemporary public realm. A selection of 34 projects representing the architecture of both New York and Tokyo is expanded upon with essays by Shigematsu and others, plus two conversations with the architect.

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

a+u 648 24:09 Dwelling in France

Isbn
Publisher Shinkenchiku-sha
Idea code 24554
€ 23.90

The magazine examines residential architecture in France by showcasing a diverse array of projects. From newly built urban homes and renovated farmhouses to mixed-use apartment blocks in redevelopment districts, the selection covers six multi-unit projects and twelve single-family houses. The projects emphasise the varied efforts of architects and stakeholders when building within unique and historic areas in Paris and elsewhere, as well as architects’ sensitivity to existing conditions. Included are works by Lacaton & Vassal, Studio Muoto, BAST, Studio Odile Decq, Avignon Architecte, FREAKS Architecture, Atelier du Pont, Moussafir Architectes, and more.

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

OASE 118: Book Reviews: From Words to Buildings

Isbn 9789462088955
Publisher Nai010 Publishers
Idea code 24631
€ 22.95

In this issue, the history of the architectural book review is outlined through 25 critical case studies from the 18th century until today. Geared towards a shifting audience of architects, interested readers, and historians, the genre is more or less universally accessible. The primary aim of this examination is to reveal how the book relates to the architectural practice, and how this relationship has evolved over time. The book review provides an excellent opportunity to learn about architectural production in the distant or recent past as well as speculate about its future. In short, architecture needs books, and vice versa.

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

AMAG PT 07: Nuno Melo Sousa

Isbn 9789893561720
Publisher AMAG Publisher
Idea code 24645
€ 26.75

Architect Nuno Melo Sousa lives and works in northern Portugal. His work can be briefly characterised as making spaces that provide sensory and emotional experiences. The use and combination of materials, often bare, takes advantage of their textures and tactile and expressive qualities, as does the use of light and shadow, which throughout the day provide different sensory experiences in his works. Each building is an exercise in exploring this relationship between form, light, and materials, which translate into functional spaces that are also capable of engaging us emotionally. This issue is entirely dedicated to his various projects, spread across Portugal and Brazil.

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

A Complicated Organism: The Architecture of the Global Morovian Network 1722–1922

Isbn 9783944425344
Publisher M Books
Idea code 24650
€ 12.00

The modern Moravian Church is notable as an independent religious movement that for over two centuries developed a highly interconnected global network of settlements and mission stations. By 1800, close to 20 carefully planned Moravian communities had been established on either side of the Atlantic Ocean. Part of the CCSA Topics series, ‘A Complicated Organism’ examines the role of architecture and spatial thinking in enabling the modern Moravians to perform their unique brand of organisational governance, aimed at establishing similar conditions in diverse environments scattered across an increasingly connected world.

132 p, ills colour & bw, 11 x 15 cm, pb, English

Take Back Mokum - Squatting and The Housing Struggle in Amsterdam

Isbn 9789083453200
Publisher Spookstad
Idea code 24659
€ 19.45

'Take Back Mokum' portrays the housing struggle in Amsterdam today. It shows how the squatting movement intersects with queer activism, the struggle of undocumented migrants, with ecological issues, and grassroots right-to-the-city initiatives. Consisting of essays, interviews, visual stories and much more, it compiles the insights and practical knowledges of a large variety of activists and collectives from all over Amsterdam. Together, they represent a shared exploration of urban life lived autonomously. Mokum is Amsterdam’s nickname. Originally meaning refuge or safe haven, it is a place we create in resistance, in community, in escape of the established order. This book shows you how – and invites you to join in.

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

Novartis Campus Guide

Isbn 9783039690299
Publisher Christoph Merian
Idea code 24592
€ 31.20

Over the course of twenty years, the biotechnological and pharmaceutical company Novartis has succeeded in transforming the industrial estate of its preceding companies into a modern and open campus. An urban grid based on a master plan by Vittorio Magnago Lampugnani emerged to the north of Basel, where successive open spaces as well as world-ranking buildings and artworks have found a place. Since autumn 2022, the campus has also been freely accessible to the public on work days. The Novartis Campus Guide is the first publication devoted to the company’s global headquarters. It serves both as a chronological review and a thematic guide.

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

Novartis Campus Guide (FR)

Isbn 9783039690282
Publisher Christoph Merian
Idea code 24593
€ 31.20

Over the course of twenty years, the biotechnological and pharmaceutical company Novartis has succeeded in transforming the industrial estate of its preceding companies into a modern and open campus. An urban grid based on a master plan by Vittorio Magnago Lampugnani emerged to the north of Basel, where successive open spaces as well as world-ranking buildings and artworks have found a place. Since autumn 2022, the campus has also been freely accessible to the public on work days. The Novartis Campus Guide is the first publication devoted to the company’s global headquarters. It serves both as a chronological review and a thematic guide. French edition.

240 p, ills colour & bw, 15 x 21 cm, pb, French

Jan Kinsbergen Architects – Plates

Isbn 9782493283214
Publisher Caryatide
Idea code 24629
€ 43.00

Swiss architectural designer Jan Kinsbergen presents a visual, experimental investigation into the architectonic potential of the horizontal surface in building processes. Taking the format of a folded manifesto, ‘Plates’ encompasses both drawings and images, alongside texts by Kinsbergen, structural engineer Neven Kostic, and architect David Klemmer. The publication concludes with a conversation between Kinsbergen and Claudia Mion, architect and editorial director of Caryatide, a Paris-based platform for reflection on architecture, art, and design.

184 p, ills colour & bw, 24 x 34 cm, pb, English

LB 24 Kengo Kuma CAM

Isbn 9789893576717
Publisher AMAG
Idea code 24610
€ 32.25

Based in Lisbon, the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation promotes the development of people and organisations through art, science, education, and charity. Founded in 1983, the Gulbenkian Modern Art Centre, designed by English architect Leslie Martin (1908–2000), offers a complete overview of modern and contemporary Portuguese art. It reopened to the public in 2024, reimagined by architect Kengo Kuma, featuring new facilities and establishing new relationships with the garden to the south of the building. The centre’s experimental programme required a number of corrections and adaptations to match its new functional needs, reflected in a prominent use of wood and tile.

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

Arquitectura Viva 267: García de Paredes / La-Hoz

Isbn 02141256
Publisher Avisa
Idea code 24604
€ 22.75

The year 2024 is the birth centenary of José María García de Paredes and Rafael de La-Hoz, two architects who, before embarking on their solid individual careers, took their first steps in the profession together. To commemorate both centennials, Arquitectura Viva has gathered the fruits of that fleeting but intense shared experience of the 1950s: the Chamber of Commerce of Córdoba and the Aquinas Student Dormitory in Madrid, two examples of Spain’s then incipient modernity, illustrated with material from family archives and enriched with biographical sketches by Kenneth Frampton and Luis Fernández-Galiano.

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

Norman Foster. Visual Record

Isbn 9788412730180
Publisher Ivorypress
Idea code 24601
€ 28.95

A look through Norman Foster’s very own lens, this book offers a selection of 135 slides captured by the architect on 35mm film between 1961 and 2000. The images provide a record of Foster’s many interests and passions, from architecture and the arts to cityscapes, design, machines, aircraft, cars, and more. Also showcased are his travels and visits to iconic architectural sites as well as buildings by Frank Lloyd Wright and Le Corbusier, among others. Inspired by a display of these photographs at a Centre Pompidou exhibition in Paris in 2023, the book brings together a spontaneous and eclectic mixture of images – visual memories that give insight into his creative process.

220 p, ills colour, 21 x 15 cm, hb, English

LB 22 Josep Ferrando Centro Social

Isbn 9789893576700
Publisher AMAG Publisher
Idea code 24485
€ 32.25

Josep Ferrando proposed a rehabilitation strategy for a former prison in Reus (Catalonia, Spain). It consists of unravelling the building’s form and content, thereby revealing its temporality and integrating a conscious present. The architect’s methodology frees the project from preconceptions conditioned by fashionable tendencies, resulting instead in a clear, orderly, and timeless architecture. To embrace its new function as a centre for the community, the rehabilitation required a completely different fit with the public space. The starting point was reversing the hierarchy of the street fronts, followed by replicating a pavilion attached to one side of the building on the opposite wing.

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

LB 21 SPASM Parikrama House

Isbn
Publisher AMAG Publisher
Idea code 24486
€ 32.25

Nestled between a lush hillside and swaying palms, this home by architects Sangeeta and Sanjeev harmonizes tropical rhythms with modern design. Made of glass and granite, it combines Brutalist presence with contemporary minimalism, creating a light, airy feel. The 150 x 30 ft house features rooms in a line with large, floor-to-ceiling sliding glass walls. Surrounded by wide verandas and topped with a light Zinc roof, it engages seamlessly with its environment. The linear plot preserves palm trees, while 20mm thick, self-cleaning glass walls enhance the design. Architecturally unique, it resembles a "double-headed snake," with elevated living rooms at both ends offering panoramic views.

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

LB 23 SJB 19 Waterloo Street

Isbn 9789893561799
Publisher AMAG Publisher
Idea code 24484
€ 32.25

Situated in the Sydney suburb of Surry Hills, 19 Waterloo Street is a project by SJB, an architecture studio founded in Melbourne and active since 1976. The brick and timber home on Waterloo Street, sited in the neighbourhood of their studio, is an amplified investigation into the housing challenges within the Australian context – doing more with less. Advocating a crafted approach to modernism, SJB is interested in an approach to urbanism that is both efficient and unique to the place. Alongside compact projects such as 19 Waterloo Street, SJB completes larger, more complex ones that help to mend the unique Australian way of life; infill that they describe as urban acupuncture.

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

Unrealised Projects: Conversation Series Volume III

Isbn 9788412730173
Publisher Ivorypress
Idea code 24602
€ 18.60

This third instalment of the Conversation series from the Norman Foster Foundation features an interview conducted in 2019 by Hans Ulrich Obrist with the British architect on the topic of his unrealised projects. Beginning with the early years of Foster’s career, the conversation traces the various reasons why some projects remain unbuilt – from politics and finances to misleading competition guidelines. It becomes clear that while a project may never come to fruition, elements from its design can later be incorporated into realised projects, perhaps even decades later. The book includes a small selection of drawings from Foster’s archive that illustrate some of the projects discussed.

80 p, ills colour & bw, 13 x 20 cm, pb, English

Analogue Images, Rory Gardiner, Maxime Delvaux

Isbn 9781922545329
Publisher Perimeter Editions
Idea code 24538
€ 43.65

Focusing on the practice of two leading architectural photographers, Rory Gardiner from Australia and Maxime Delvaux from Belgium, this book explores their output and poses key questions around the underpinning and parameters of the broader milieu in which they work. The coupling of the two practitioners’ images discloses specific nuances in the nature of their collaborations, their modes of authorship, and how they capture everyday life. By presenting a comprehensive selection of their work alongside texts by photographers, collaborators, and critics, the book explores the dialogues, tensions, and reciprocities between photography and architecture.

80 p, ills colour, 23 x 30 cm, pb, English

GA Houses 194

Isbn 9784871407458
Publisher Ada Edita
Idea code 24295
€ 26.55

GA Houses documents outstanding new residential architecture from all over the world. Ga Houses 193 features projects by Pezo von Ellrichshausen, Kazuyo Sejima, Tomohiro Hata, Peter Stutchbury, Yusuke Nakagawa + Hidefumi Okumura, Satoshi Ishida + Tetsuya Kobayashi + Yusuke Koyama, Sean Godsell, Yasushi Ikehara + Masayuki Tomiyama, and Osamu Morishita.

ills colour & bw, 23 x 30 cm, pb, Japanese/English

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

Three Becomes Two Becomes One Becomes None - cosmopoiesis of mandragoras

Isbn 9789493382060
Publisher Onomatopee
Idea code 24633
€ 20.30

The plant genus ‘Mandragora’, commonly known as the mandrake, is one of the best recorded gynaecological herbal substances. It is also the only plant in the European context to be historically depicted as a half-human, half-plant creature. In this book, artist Leonie Brandner explores the medicinal and magical properties of the plant, along with the many stories that have grown around it throughout history. Joining rigorous historical research with her own perception and encounters, she traces ‘Mandragora’ from the beginning of recorded storytelling through medicinal tomes and folklore, eventually arriving at the impact the plant had during the witch hunts of the Middle Ages.

196 p, ills colour, 15 x 20 cm, pb, English

A Tree, A Reader on Arboreal Kinship

Isbn 9789493382077
Publisher Onomatopee
Idea code 24632
€ 13.85

'A Tree', is about vegetal agency, plant knowledge, and the interaction between plants and people, with a specific focus on trees. This book comprises a variety of contributions that take a multitude of approaches to tree life, from sensory to ancestral, intimate to speculative. Taking the time to think about trees through imagination, art, music, storytelling, poetry, and images, the works in this reader share the aim of nurturing and furthering dialogue that exercises arboreal kinship. Moreover, the contributions inspire us to move beyond large systems of oppression and towards exorcizing anthropocentrism, capitalism, individualism, heteronormativity, and coloniality, by learning from and with tree time

128 p, ills bw, 11 x 17 cm, pb, English


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