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El Croquis 228: RCR Arquitectes (2017–2024)
Isbn 9788412823431
Publisher El Croquis
Idea code 250001
€ 87.80
This edition takes stock of the output of RCR Arquitectes since receiving the Pritzker Prize for Architecture in 2017. Led by principals and co-founders Rafael Aranda, Carme Pigem, and Ramon Vilalta, the relatively unknown – compared to other finalists – Spanish architecture firm was catapulted to global fame with the recognition. Besides featuring nineteen recent projects representing an array of building typologies, including Seibert Bridge, the Soulages Museum extension, Perelada Winery, and a dental clinic, the magazine also includes an essay by Philip Ursprung and an illuminating conversation between the architects of RCR and Santiago de Molina.
368 p, ills colour & bw, 25 x 34 cm, pb, Spanish/English
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AMAG 37 Christ & Gantenbein
Isbn 9789893530498
Publisher AMAG Publisher
Idea code 24901
€ 53.65
For 25 years, Basel-based Christ & Gantenbein have developed architecture deeply rooted in local context while bridging historical heritage and contemporary needs. Revisit their angular new wing for the Swiss National Building, or the Lindt headquarters standing on Lake Zurich like a tall piece of white chocolate, and see how their design process, emphasizing physical models and drawings, reflects their commitment to craftsmanship and rigorous thinking. Recognition through international competitions confirms their universal approach to creating timeless solutions. The practice focuses on redefining urban identity through careful consideration of heritage, materiality, and the dialogue between past and present.
208 p, ills colour & bw, 24 x 32 cm, pb, Portuguese/English
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LB 25 Tomoaki Uno – Terabe Guest House
Isbn 9789893576724
Publisher AMAG Publisher
Idea code 24894
€ 32.25
Inspired by the 8th-century Shosoin storehouse, architect Tomoaki Uno designed this guest house to float above its crowded tourist site on wooden pilotis. The innovative structure eschews traditional bracing and load-bearing walls, instead using epoxy resin anchors to create rigid joints between pillars and foundation. This contemporary interpretation of historical Japanese architecture creates a serene elevated space while accommodating parking below. The design process focused on precise dimensioning of the pillars to achieve both structural integrity and visual harmony – illustrated here in true colour.
64 p, ills colour, 23 x 29 cm, pb, Portuguese/English
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Shigeru Ban - Simose: Architecture and Design
Isbn 9784306047174
Publisher Kajima Institute
Idea code 24885
€ 19.30
With the Simose Art Museum as its centrepiece, accompanied by the ten accommodation buildings of the Art Garden Villa, plus a restaurant, the Simose complex by Shigeru Ban Architects sits on a site facing the Seto Inland Sea in Hiroshima. The complex is thus divided into several buildings with different functions and features a long mirrored glass screen at its centre. The private museum showcases paintings, crafts, and other works collected over two generations. This book examines the project in detail, from its context in the landscape and city to insights into material choices and the construction itself, and features a text by Shigeru Ban and Kenya Hara.
140 p, ills colour & bw, 15 x 21 cm, pb, Japanese/English
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The Global Turn - Six Journeys of Architecture and the City, 1945–1989
Isbn 9789462085831
Publisher Nai010 Publishers
Idea code 250041
€ 29.95
‘The Global Turn’ offers insightful journeys into the complex phenomenon of globalisation as it relates to modern architecture and the city. In this collection of six short essays, educators and historians Michelangelo Sabatino and Tom Avermaete seek answers by analysing a series of global sites, types, and issues, ranging from airports and hotels to construction materials and labour. Addressing spatial, political, and social geographies, they offer anyone who is interested in the built environment a fresh set of architectural perspectives on a phenomenon that gives and takes in equal measure. Learn how the global turn has simultaneously expanded and shrank the world in which we live.
238 p, ills colour & bw, 12 x 19 cm, pb, English
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Yearbook Landscape Architecture and Urban Design in The Netherlands 2024
Isbn 9789492474711
Publisher Blauwdruk
Idea code 24921
€ 36.50
This edition of the yearbook provides insight into the design of the Dutch environment in 20 projects that are as timely as they are remarkable. Notable themes include renewal and transformation of 20th-century city districts; the softening of inner cities, and research into systemic change. The “long run” is also discussed: projects created with a strong sense of consistency over an extended period of time. Finally, this edition focuses on connections in the urban realm achieved through good design. Essays and a portrait complete the selection. The yearbook is compiled by an independent committee of professionals in collaboration with the editors of ‘Blauwe Kamer’ magazine.
184 p, ills colour & bw, 23 x 30 cm, pb, Dutch/English
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Material Gesture - Studio Anne Holtrop 2019–2024 ETH Zurich
Isbn 9783907363805
Publisher ETH Studio Anne Holtrop
Idea code 250037
€ 44.95
'Material Gesture' presents a comprehensive reflection on six years of student work produced at Studio Anne Holtrop at the ETH Zurich. The Studio’s approach is rooted in site explorations, material testing, dialogues with experts, gestures of making, climatic and geological studies, and cultural practices. These elements inform the process of shaping matter and space through architecture, creating a unique methodology of engagement and creation. The book delves further into the Studio's methodology, featuring conversations with Bijoy Jain, Ila Bêka and Louise Lemoine, Mario Monotti, Petra Blaisse, and Smiljan Radic. It also includes visual contributions by Aglaia Konrad and Armin Linke, alongside essays by Carlos Irijalba, Flavio Anselmetti, and Philip Ursprung.
492 p, ills colour & bw, 24 x 32 cm, pb, English
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Sjoerd Soeters - 12 Huizen
Isbn 9789083286037
Publisher Maas Lawrence
Idea code 250036
€ 43.75
In 12 Huizen toont Sjoerd Soeters een dozijn huizen, ontworpen tussen het einde van de jaren zeventig en nu. Soeters is vooral bekend geworden door omvangrijke en in het oog springende projecten zoals Inverdan in het centrum van Zaanstad. Dit boek presenteert zijn subtiele werk op huiselijke schaal. Soeters’ uitvoerige toelichtingen op de twaalf huizen worden voorafgegaan door een uitvoerig essay waarin hij terugblikt op zijn carrière en vertelt over het plezier dat hij beleeft aan het ontwerpen van huizen waarin mensen zich werkelijk thuis voelen. Het boek sluit af met een nawoord van Hans Ibelings.
324 p, ills colour & bw, 17 x 19 cm, pb, Dutch
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PB 07 - Álvaro Siza - Unbuilt Works
Isbn 9789893576762
Publisher AMAG Publisher
Idea code 24891
€ 21.50
This is a very special compilation of almost all unbuilt works by Portuguese architect and architectural educator Álvaro Siza. It includes sketches, drawings, and plans, as well as in-depth analysis by José Manuel Pedreirinho, along two foreword essays, one of which likening his work to “a bird. Astonishing, inexplicable and yet incredibly familiar.“ The book reflects on projects whose ideas sometimes went into other projects, were reformulated in some way, or simply forgotten. Nevertheless, the scribbles and blueprints are essential to understanding how one of the most prolific contemporary architects thinks and works.
264 p, ills bw, 13 x 22 cm, pb, English
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AMAG PT 08 Camilo Rebelo
Isbn 9789893561775
Publisher AMAG Publisher
Idea code 24900
€ 26.75
Portuguese architect Camilo Rebelo's practice centers on precise geometric forms that forge connections between architecture and landscape. His projects – from cultural institutions to private residences – reveal meticulous attention to context, memory, and function. Whether working with Susana Martins on the pristine white KTIMA villa in Greece, or collaborating with RAC studio on the bamboo-topped Element'U research pavilion in China, Rebelo balances formal simplicity with conceptual depth. This monograph features essays by Ana Leal, José Manuel Pedreirinho, and Manuel Aires Mateus examining his poetic sensitivity to site and materiality.
106 p, ills colour & bw, 24 x 32 cm, pb, Portuguese/English
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AV Proyectos 125: Social Heritage
Isbn 1697493X
Publisher Avisa
Idea code 24805
€ 13.65
'AV Proyectos 125' dedicates its cover to social heritage, a concept that includes the conversion of industrial buildings into civic spaces. As Ricardo Flores and Eva Prats point out in the article that accompanies the section, such interventions aim to give new life to the traces – material or immaterial –, that are identified after a careful observation of the existing. And in its further analysis of this theme, the magazine conducts an interview with BURR, the young Madrilenian studio that focusses its practice on the reactivation of unused industrial facilities. The issue also features several proposals of G124, the university working group set up by Renzo Piano, which plans for the peripheries of Italian cities, and much more.
80 p, ills colour & bw, 21 x 30 cm, pb, Spanish/English
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Contested Landscapes
Isbn 9783949973000
Publisher Archive Books
Idea code 24863
€ 18.40
'Contested Landscapes' is dedicated to different rural regions – their landscapes, their producers, and their work. The paths of the family of the artist Sandra Schäfer and those of the famous German photographer August Sander cross in the Westerwald, a rural area in Germany shaped by farming and mining. A hundred years ago, the photographer August Sander captured his series of peasants there including the artist’s relatives. Schäfer’s “homecoming” is represented in the book by three works dealing with the changes of the landscape, its farming, and Sander’s photographs, as well as amateur ones from Schäfer’s family. Contributions from Schäfer’s interlocutors reflect on how these ghosts from the past appear in her work. Further artists and architects research rural cultivation in Thuringia, southern Sweden, Lebanon’s Bekaa Valley, Syria, and southern Colombia. In different ways, they deal with the issues of agriculture, feminism, and global economy. The book therefore also takes up the pressing question of how agricultural production could be rethought within capitalism.
234 p, ills colour & bw, 12 x 18 cm, pb, English
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Futuring Spaces of Possibility – Contemporary Art and Architecture in a World Heritage City
Isbn 9789464987188
Publisher MER. B&L
Idea code 24869
€ 32.15
How to deal with transformation and degrowth in a city whose boundaries have been shaped by its medieval history? How to question dominant histories, use underutilised public space and set in motion new cohabitations in the city? This book is published on the occasion of Bruges Triennial 2024: Spaces of Possibility, curated by Shendy Gardin and Sevie Tsampalla. Featuring contributions by the twelve artists and architects in the exhibition, it offers insights into the research processes behind the commissions, through texts, archival images, preparatory sketches and interviews. Newly commissioned essays address issues of urban transformation and the role that contemporary art, architecture and exhibition-making can play for futuring cities marked by their heritage. Featuring Iván Argote, Bangkok Project Studio, Mariana Castillo Debal, Mona Hatoum, Ivan Morison, Norell/Rodhe, Shingo Masuda + Katsuhisa Otsubo, Architects, Studio Ossidiana, SO–IL, Traumnovelle, Adrien Tirtiaux, Sumayya Vally.
264 p, ills colour & bw, 17 x 27 cm, pb, Dutch/English
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scape #3 2024 | Cahier
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Publisher Blauwdruk
Idea code 24920
€ 12.50
Rugged yet rewarding: select Norwegian landscape projects showcase innovative approaches to experiencing dramatic natural features. Østengen & Bergo's erosion-resistant trail up the granite dome to Torghatten's rock tunnel. Aksent Arkitekter's panoramic shelter offers firelit views over a lush, magnificent landscape at Hovdenuten. Hølmebakk Øymo's thoughtful landscaped paths and protruding plateaus serve as viewing platforms over the intense depths of the Vøringsfossen waterfall. The collection also features Eleni Mente's study of Japan's use of native plants for disaster prevention, bridging Scandinavian and Japanese approaches to landscape architecture.
52 p, ills colour & bw, 17 x 24 cm, pb, English
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Powered by AI – Artificial intelligence in landscape architecture and urbanism
Isbn 9789492474728
Publisher Blauwdruk
Idea code 24919
€ 27.50
In collaboration with guest editor LOLA Landscape Architects, ‘scape examines the transformative role of artificial intelligence in spatial design disciplines. This pivotal issue explores AI's impact on creative processes, data analysis, and design potential through conversations with leading figures including plantsman Piet Oudolf (of High Line fame) and digital artist Refik Anadol. From automated software to digital climate twins, the publication delves into both opportunities and challenges, questioning how AI reshapes the relationship between designer and tool. How does it change the designer's work process? How far does data processing and analysis extend? What is the creative potential?
176 p, ills colour & bw, 17 x 24 cm, pb, English
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