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Pezo von Ellrichshausen - Window Wall
Isbn 9788792700513
Publisher The Architectural Publisher B
Idea code 24904
€ 72.50
Extending the figure-ground visual paradox to a fundamental architectonic problem – that of the reciprocity between a wall and a window – this book by Mauricio Pezo and Sofia von Ellrichshausen reflects on the intersection between painting and architecture. If a window is inherently a subtraction of a wall’s surface but also an infill with a “view” beyond it, a painting is as much a flat, opaque surface as the illusion of space beyond. Containing over 1,000 works, including paintings, sketches, and line drawings, this alphabetical catalogue presents a broad examination of the Chilean duo’s practice to date. The book also includes an essay by the authors and an index of the artworks.
416 p, ills colour & bw, 21 x 28 cm, hb, English
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Design Stories – New Perspectives on a Collection
Isbn 9789189270671
Publisher Arvinius + Orfeus Publishing
Idea code 24778
€ 37.65
The traditional perspective is that design shapes things to make them more attractive to consumers, easier to manufacture and use, and to generate market value. However, it is also a matter of creation linked to change – a way to protest injustices or offer social commentary. How design is approached affects the possibility of challenging dominant power structures, which have themselves determined the path of design over time. This volume appears with a new permanent exhibition at Gothenburg’s Röhsska Museum. Through essays, conversations, and images, a range of design-critical issues are discussed, reflecting on the roles of both design and the museum in society.
376 p, ills colour & bw, 16 x 24 cm, pb, English
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Filling Stations. Studies on Types
Isbn 9783038630913
Publisher Triest Verlag
Idea code 24350
€ 29.55
While the function of a building may change over time, its architecture remains. In lessons, EAST examines the aspects of construction that determine the use, morphology, and spatial structure of buildings. The history and change of these aspects serve as a basis for analyzing the design of new buildings as well as for reusing and transforming existing buildings. Urban settlements are thus a laboratory for architectural ideas, which are further developed using the technical means and spatial concepts of our time. The joint project work in the studio spacefacilitates a continuous discussion of different design approaches and helps the students to develop their own ideas.
136 p, ills colour & bw, 17 x 24 cm, pb, English
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Time Matters
Isbn 9783944074542
Publisher Ruby Press
Idea code 24873
€ 30.10
The visibility of climate-emergency phenomena and multiplying crises results in a growing awareness of immediate and long-term repercussions of our design actions. Led by Urszula Koźmińska, the project ‘Time Matters’ is a collective reflection on an open and experimental approach towards sustainability in which the idea of time is the core of investigations. It aims to showcase the power of fictional architectural narratives in stimulating new ways of mapping, designing, constructing, and communicating. Furthermore, the project promotes an architecture that evolves alongside shifting conditions and introduces its dynamics as a primary design parameter.
224 p, ills colour, 12 x 19 cm, pb, English
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Barrault Pressacco: Wallness – Nature and culture of insulation – Building with hempcrete
Isbn 9782493283221
Publisher Caryatide
Idea code 24868
€ 43.00
Wallness, through technical and cultural considerations, overturns the act of building and opens up a conversation. Insulation is now an integral part of the repertoire of architectural elements, while thermal engineering reveals unsuspected fields of construction. The quest for comfort in interior spaces calls into question the nature of the building envelope. Wallness expands the role of the wall, summoning up all its components and defining a new rationality. The issue of transparency is no longer limited to the visible, but extends to all the invisible chemical and physical phenomena passing through the wall. Wallness sees the solid as both a necessity and an unprecedented formal potential. As always, materials are at the heart of the revolution.
196 p, ills colour & bw, 24 x 32 cm, pb, French/English
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Volume 66: The guide to designing with animals, plants and other critters
Isbn 9789077966983
Publisher Archis
Idea code 24858
€ 22.50
This guide to designing with animals, plants, and other species offers a glossary that explores their roles and interconnections in addressing climatic and ecological challenges. It examines individual species and interspecies collaboration, providing tools to move beyond homocentric design toward a richer, more nature-integrated approach. Organized by species and interconnected themes, the 60 entries delve into the spatial needs and behaviors of creatures like beavers, termites, and fungi, alongside interviews with experts and case studies from past and present design projects.
208 p, ills colour & bw, 17 x 22 cm, pb, English
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Curating Ecologies on Architecture
Isbn 9788412892208
Publisher Dpr-barcelona
Idea code 24395
€ 15.30
Throughout their history, architecture exhibitions have embraced different approaches and constructed other modes of action within the discipline, playing a pivotal role in disseminating, diffusing, and experimenting with architectural culture. This volume looks at curatorial practice in architecture and how ecological issues are addressed in the context of curatorial thinking and exhibition-making. Five architects with a curatorial practice are interviewed (Paola Antonelli, Pedro Gadanho, Paula Nascimento, Maria Otero Verzier, and Paulo Tavares), all of whom contribute to current debates in architecture while exploring how to perceive the main challenges of our world.
148 p, ills colour & bw, 11 x 18 cm, pb, English
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Harvard Design Magazine 52: Instruments of Service
Isbn 9781934510940
Publisher Harvard University
Idea code 24872
€ 24.70
The issue poses a simple question: What do architects actually make and how is this changing? Instruments of service are the instruction manuals that architects and other designers make so others can make something. They define the architect’s relationships with labour, construction, clients, and society. These relationships are changing as a growing number of external pressures and divergent interests force these instruments to change. In this respect, architects and designers can also be seen as instruments of service to society, responsible to a continually shifting set of values. At a fundamental level, the designer’s job is to imagine and articulate a better future.
160 p, ills colour & bw, 23 x 30 cm, pb, English
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Conversations on Architecture – Swiss Talks – About and Beyond
Isbn 9782493283252
Publisher Caryatide
Idea code 250022
€ 34.40
Based in Rome, Milan, and Palermo, Istituto Svizzero is an interdisciplinary platform for artistic and scientific research, with a residency programme for emerging artists and researchers. 'Swiss Talks', part of its public programme, promotes Swiss architectural culture in Italy through events in cities such as Milan, Rome, Palermo, and Venice. This publication captures the essence of 'Swiss Talks', a collaboration between Istituto Svizzero and Casabella Formazione since 2017. Chapters explore topics like 'Architecture in the Age of Tourism' and 'Experimental Architecture' through emblematic projects and concise texts. The diverse perspectives, generational and thematic, reflect the multiplicity of viewpoints intrinsic to Swiss culture, presented in an inclusive and plural format.
144 p, ills colour & bw, 17 x 24 cm, pb, Italian/English
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Temples for Industrious Lombards. Architecture by Mario Galvagni in Inveruno
Isbn 9791280336255
Publisher Humboldt Books
Idea code 24866
€ 31.20
On the Lombard plain between the Ticino river valley and the industrial outskirts of Milan, ensconced amid fields of crops, lies Inveruno, home to the architecture of Mario Galvagni. Each of these villas, designed between the 1960s and 1980s for local industrial families, is unique while still sharing certain characteristics with the others, including suspended shell structures, underground living rooms, and luminous domes. Photographed by Allegra Martin and Francesco Paleari, the architecture serves as the backdrop against which stories by Emmanuela Carbé and Paolo Colagrande take shape. A critical essay by Francesca Olivieri frames Galvagni’s oeuvre.
326 p, ills colour & bw, 17 x 21 cm, pb, Italian/English
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Kerb 32: Unsaid
Isbn 9781922601339
Publisher Uro Publications
Idea code 24771
€ 25.60
'Kerb 32' explores the unsaid and unnoticed undercurrents that flow through the landscapes we inhabit. We may not know or remember the language to describe them, but they are still there,quietly connecting us.This year’s issue features landscape practices and methodologiesthat voice or listen to what is often unacknowledged. Contributors consider their place as designers and their capacity to create environments grounded in empathy and reciprocity.
128 p, ills colour & bw, 21 x 30 cm, pb, English
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Grounds, Romberg & Boyd: Melbourne’s Midcentury Modernists
Isbn 9781922601278
Publisher Uro Publications
Idea code 24876
€ 41.35
Grounds, Romberg and Boyd (1953–1962) was among the most innovative modernist architectural firms ever to practice in Australia. Led by Roy Grounds, Frederick Romberg, and Robin Boyd, it had a role in shaping many enduringly iconic and significant buildings. After less than a decade, however, this tripartite powerhouse imploded, overburdened by the weight of strident personalities and striving individual ambitions. This is the only book ever published on the work of the practice, unusual in that it focuses not only on the finished buildings but also the relationship between the three directors, giving a rare glimpse into the inner workings of a high-profile architecture firm.
200 p, ills colour & bw, 20 x 25 cm, pb, English
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Dutch designers Yearbook '24-'25
Isbn 9789462088818
Publisher Nai010 Publishers
Idea code 24859
€ 29.95
Presented by BNO, the Association of Dutch Designers, the publication traces the significant recent trends and developments in the Dutch design sector. This edition revolves around the theme “(Off) Balance”. How do designers find inspiration and balance in a world increasingly complicated by the major issues of our time? Is it business as usual or are new forms of functionality and meaning being sought amid polarisation, global conflicts, climate change, and technological innovation? The yearbook includes essays and interviews, standout graduation projects from Dutch design academies, award-winning work, and profiles of influential people in the scene.
192 p, ills colour & bw, 21 x 26 cm, hb, English
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USA 1966 – Luisa Castiglioni, Hans Deichmann, Enzo Muzii, Umberto Riva
Isbn 9791280336248
Publisher Humboldt Books
Idea code 24867
€ 21.50
In the spring of 1966, four illustrious travellers crossed the United States from west to east, documenting America’s architecture at its heyday. Starting out from San Francisco, the architects Umberto Riva and Luisa Castiglioni, the flaneur Enzo Muzii, and the art patron Hans Deichmann visited California before heading south to Phoenix, Dallas, and New Orleans, then on Atlanta, Chicago, and Philadelphia. After a month on the road, they reached New York. The group captured cities, deserts, and encounters in numerous black-and-white images. ‘USA 1966’ retraces that epic journey and explores the context in which it took place through critical contributions by several authors.
88 p, ills bw, 17 x 21 cm, pb, Italian/English
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Peter Bertram - The Drafty House – The Beginnings of a Fourth Typology
Isbn 9788792700506
Publisher The Architectural Publisher B
Idea code 24905
€ 35.00
‘The Drafty House’ shows how architectural typology can bring together the best examples of architectural archetypes and creates a framework where experiences from past building traditions can meet new ideas. This aspect is crucial, whether one is transforming the existing building stock or constructing new buildings. We can use typology to consider how architecture remains meaningful when our current world is replaced by a new one. Presenting new projects alongside historical works from cultures that understand a building’s climate as a dynamic and open concept, the book is illustrated with material experiments, contemporary exhibition projects, and more.
216 p, ills colour & bw, 19 x 26 cm, pb, English
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