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Extreme Environments - Architectural Possibilities for a Challenged World
Isbn 9788774076773
Publisher The Danish Architectural Press
Idea code 250508
€ 58.50
This volume emerges from “Architecture and Extreme Environments”, a master’s programme at the Royal Danish Academy that aims to generate a positive impact on the issues our world faces today. Through a site-specific approach, the programme responds to present and future global challenges through research by design, fine-tuned and site-specific strategies, and active fieldwork in remote locations around the world. Architectural prototypes are put to the test to inform and innovate building design at home and abroad. The book compiles work by students and offers further reflection through a number of critical essays.
496 p, ills colour & bw, 17 x 24 cm, pb, English
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Ken Isaacs - How to Build your Own Living Structures
Isbn 9782490844067
Publisher Christophe Daviet-thery
Idea code 250513
€ 32.25
Ken Isaacs (1927-2016) was an American designer and architect, known for his creation of a matrix-based modular system to build living structures. This publication is a full-scale reproduction of Isaacs' 1974 book How to Build your Own Living Structures. It is accompanied by an essay by Susan Snodgrass, critic and teacher at the Art Institute of Chicago, who recontextualizes this emblematic work of the 1970s. A manual for creating various modular structures around the concept of the "matrix", it also provides an opportunity to immerse oneself in the philosophy of this pioneering architect, whose thinking in many respects resonates strongly with our own times.
152 p, ills bw, 30 x 21 cm, pb,
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Amsterdam Urban Development 1975-2025
Isbn 9789462089068
Publisher Nai010 Publishers
Idea code 250498
€ 48.60
Urban planner Maurits de Hoog describes how Amsterdam has changed over the past 50 years, from an industrial port city in decline into a rapidly growing metropolis. Old districts are regenerated, former docklands are transformed into new residential areas, and the city is expanded with compact low- and high-rise developments. Meanwhile, Amsterdam’s city centre is now a vibrant focal point with a concentration of culture, hospitality, and tourism together with new, innovative businesses. This testifies to the city’s resilience but also introduces a variety of challenges. De Hoog looks at how urban development and spatial planning are responding to the turbo-charged growth.
240 p, ills colour & bw, 24 x 34 cm, hb, English
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Strangers Need Strange Moments Together - Designing interaction for public spaces
Isbn 9789083449852
Publisher Set Margins'
Idea code 250452
€ 26.80
“We” in this book refers both to all of us as citizens of Earth, and to Mouna Andraos and Melissa Mongiat, along with their team at the Montreal-based art and design studio Daily tous les jours, as they explore new ways of living together. It is an invitation into their journal. For over fifteen years, the studio has created interactive public art around the world, using music, movement, and storytelling to spark connection, joy, and care among strangers. Through this book, an evolving practice is shared that blends technology, design, and performance to ask deeper questions and imagine new forms of collective life, beyond the urban masterplan and towards infrastructure for the human spirit.
240 p, ills colour & bw, 17 x 24 cm, pb, English
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Architecture Yearbook in the Netherlands 2024/2025
Isbn 9789462089099
Publisher Nai010 Publishers
Idea code 250426
€ 43.70
Since 1988, 'Architecture in the Netherlands' has been an essential annual review and a source of inspiration for anyone professionally involved in - or simply interested in - Dutch architecture. Each year, a trio of editors reflects on the past year’s developments through a series of thought-provoking essays, complemented by a curated selection of the most compelling projects. Together, these elements offer a nuanced perspective on the current state of the profession. The editorial team for the 2024/2025 yearbook comprises Uri Gilad (Office Winhov), Stephan Petermann (MANN and Volume), and Annuska Pronkhorst (Crimson Historians & Urbanists). In previous editions, the editors have used their project selections to spark dialogue with peers on pressing issues such as housing development and the adaptive reuse of existing buildings.
176 p, ills colour & bw, 24 x 32 cm, pb, Dutch/English
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Buildings by Women
Isbn 9789462089334
Publisher Nai010 Publishers
Idea code 250499
€ 24.25
Embark on a journey through 50 architectural projects in Rotterdam, all designed by female architects. From iconic landmarks like De Rotterdam and Kop van Zuid to the modest yet eye-catching RVS apartment block, as well as many lesser-known gems, this guide spotlights the contributions of women in architecture. See the dynamic Rotterdam skyline from a different perspective – through the creativity, innovation, and legacy of women who have shaped its built environment. With photography by Loes van Duijvendijk and essays that offer historical and personal insights, ‘Buildings by Women: Rotterdam’ is both an elegant and practical guide to the city’s diverse architectural stories.
288 p, ills colour & bw, 11 x 17 cm, pb, Dutch/English
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New Tools Vol. 1
Isbn 9783944074559
Publisher Ruby Press
Idea code 250447
€ 21.50
This first volume in a series examining intersections between architectural theory and practice addresses environmental crisis and spatial justice through four essays. Marc Angélil and Cary Siress trace the evolution from Technocene, Thermocene, Plantationocene, to Entropocene, Capitalocene, and Urbicene. Elke Krasny reflects on scales of care within social justice and decolonization. Contributors explore the "Curated Diner" as a planning intervention. Finally, Space Caviar advocates for a non-extractive approach to architecture as part of a broader economic transformation. These interdisciplinary contributions aim to reshape the discourse and discuss equitable, inclusive, and intergenerational practices.
114 p, ills colour & bw, 11 x 17 cm, pb, English
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Envisioning Spatial Justice - Explorations, Reflections, Design
Isbn 9789493329447
Publisher Jap Sam Books
Idea code 250471
€ 26.75
Just like the rebels in Star Wars fighting for freedom against oppressive forces, urban planner, architect and political scientist Caroline Newton was drawn to the struggles over space and rights around the world. Over the years, her work has been driven by a desire to understand – and intervene in – the spatial conditions that shape human lives and social relations. Envisioning Spatial Justice is both a reflection and a proposition. It synthesises insights accumulated through research and teaching and from years of collaborating with students whose graduation projects placed justice at the core of their spatial investigations. Structured around theory, reflection, and design, the book explores what it means to design with justice in mind. Challenging neoliberal paradigms and drawing on feminist, post-colonial, and radical urban theory, it insists on the political power of imagination. Part provocation, part toolkit, part manifesto, Envisioning Spatial Justice speaks to urbanists, designers, educators, and activists committed to co-creating more just and inclusive futures.
304 p, ills colour & bw, 16 x 24 cm, pb, English
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Arquitectura Viva 273: Amann-Cánovas-Maruri
Isbn 02141256
Publisher Avisa
Idea code 250391
€ 28.45
The bold, playful spirit of Atxu Amann, Andrés Cánovas, and Nicolás Maruri is evident in both their vibrant housing on Madrid’s outskirts and the lightweight Spanish Pavilion at Expo Dubai. Yet the trio also brings that same provocative edge to more constrained contexts, as shown in their recent work in Cartagena and Luxembourg. The dossier explores how preserving modest historical structures can revitalise local memory. Projects include: Arturo Franco’s Casa das Silvas in Galicia, Martino Picchedda’s House of Traditions in Sardinia, Brandlhuber+Pernice’s converted stable in Poland, and Medprostor’s sheltering of a ruined Carthusian church in Slovenia. In the Art and Culture section, Eduardo Prieto reflects on Robert Venturi’s postmodern legacy, while Joaquín Medina Warmburg revisits Frei Otto’s pioneering ecological vision.
80 p, ils colour & bw, 24 x 30 cm, pb, Spanish/English
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AV Proyectos 128: Community Care
Isbn 1697493X
Publisher Avisa
Idea code 250392
€ 17.00
Community Care is the focus of 'AV Proyectos 128', featuring six projects that address specific needs through thoughtful, collective-oriented architecture by firms such as Mae Architects, Vivas Arquitectos, and Dorte Mandrup. Architect Paz Martín opens the dossier with an essay on how care can inform design strategies, while Izaskun Chinchilla discusses the "city of care" and its broader architectural context. The Process section highlights Herzog & de Meuron’s innovative healthcare complex in North Zealand, challenging conventional hospital typologies. The issue also explores Albania’s high-rise boom, with proposals by MVRDV, Valerio Olgiati, and Bofill Taller de Arquitectura. Finally, Luis Fernández-Galiano reflects on César Manrique’s legacy through two recent tributes to the Lanzarote artist.
80 p, ills colour & bw, 21 x 30 cm, pb, Spanish/English
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Cities on silt – the inspiring promise of a self-building delta – Venice, Rotterdam, New Orleans
Isbn 9789492474773
Publisher Blauwdruk
Idea code 250482
€ 31.60
In this book, Han Meyer recounts the compelling history of the cities of Venice, Rotterdam, and New Orleans. How have they responded to the dynamic nature of deltas and lagoons? Time and again, efforts were made to combat the process of silting in order to enable economic growth and urban development in these port cities. While often successful, these interventions came at the cost of ecological integrity. With climate change and rising water levels, a new approach is urgently needed. Han Meyer presents a fresh perspective - one in which silt plays a vital role in the natural development of deltas. By harnessing its ‘self-building capacity’, silt helps restore the natural buffer against high water and salt intrusion.
192 p, ills colour & bw, 18 x 25 cm, pb, English
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Critical Regionalism Abroad – Aris Konstantinidis without Greece
Isbn 9783856764739
Publisher Gta Verlag
Idea code 250429
€ 25.55
Critical regionalism gained global recognition in the 1980s for integrating local sensibilities into modern architecture. While many practitioners began creating "placeless" buildings worldwide, Greek architect Aris Konstantinidis (1913–1993) took a different path. Less known internationally, he shared his vision of regional modernism on his own terms, through publishing and teaching beyond Greece's borders. This book presents Konstantinidis's life and work outside his home country, revealing alternative approaches to critical regionalism in a global context.
220 p, ills colour & bw, 12 x 17 cm, pb, English
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60 Transformations – New Old Danish Architecture 1996-2025
Isbn 9788797420829
Publisher Arkitekten Books
Idea code 250412
€ 57.00
This guidebook explores architectural transformations: remodelling projects of different kinds in which an existing situation is reimagined and new elements are added to the equation. Photographs taken by some of Denmark’s top architectural photographers are combined with drawings, descriptions, and facts. The volume offers an opportunity to get an in-depth understanding of the architectural aspects of each of the 60 projects, which were all featured in the Danish journals ‘Arkitekten’ or ‘Arkitektur DK’ between 1996 and 2025. With groundbreaking Danish projects that rethought the basic approach to the existing, the book shows how the mid-1990s proved especially formative.
358 p, ills colour & bw, 16 x 24 cm, pb, English
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Architecture of Stewardship
Isbn 9789189270978
Publisher Arvinius + Orfeus Publishing
Idea code 250401
€ 32.25
This catalogue accompanies the Pavilion of Finland’s exhibition, The Pavilion – Architecture of Stewardship, at the 19th International Architecture Exhibition of La Biennale di Venezia. Curated by Ella Kaira and Matti Jänkälä, the exhibition highlights the diverse labour involved in constructing and maintaining architecture - from the design contributions of architects and engineers to the efforts of construction workers, restoration specialists, maintenance staff, and cleaners, all of whom play essential roles in shaping and preserving the built environment.
208 p, ills colour & bw, 17 x 24 cm, pb, English
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SILTASAIRAALA – Bridge Hospital
Isbn 9789189270879
Publisher Arvinius + Orfeus Publishing
Idea code 250402
€ 51.60
Inaugurated in January 2023, the Helsinki Trauma and Cancer Centre offers a new western façade to the Meilahti Campus. Located north of downtown Helsinki, it sits on the edge of Seurasaarenselkä Bay and faces the magnificent granite and seascape of the Gulf of Finland. Nicknamed Siltasairaala, this ’bridge hospital’ has created and continues to create a host of physical and symbolic links – between the city and the campus; services and their designated areas; care staff and patients; decision-makers, designers, builders and users; and between distinct architectural cultures, notably Finnish and French.
140 p, ills colour, 21 x 28 cm, hb, French/English
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No Access - Social Exclusion in Urban Spaces
Isbn 9788774072485
Publisher The Danish Architectural Press
Idea code 250509
€ 41.80
'No Access – Social Exclusion in Urban Spaces', edited by Pia Justesen, sheds light on the mechanisms and factors that contribute to exclusion in contemporary cities. It explores specific typologies and examples of exclusionary design, offers explanations and personal accounts, and addresses the professional and ethical implications of such practices. The book also examines legal restrictions on rough sleeping and begging. It includes seven interviews with people experiencing homelessness, who share their personal stories of navigating life in a city shaped by exclusion and marginalisation.
160 p, ills colour & bw, 15 x 21 cm, pb, English
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(Dis)trust The Storyteller - The Case Of Krvavica Children Health Resort
Isbn 9789083449890
Publisher Set Margins'
Idea code 250308
€ 32.35
The Children’s Health Resort in Krvavica, Croatia, is a legendary complex from the 1960s located on the Adriatic coast. Gradually left to decay since the early 2000s, it is a masterpiece of modernist architecture designed by Rikard Marasović. This book recounts the history of a place and the real and parallel lives of a building originally intended for the treatment of children with respiratory diseases. It compiles interdisciplinary research but also reflects on citizens’ initiatives for the protection and revitalisation of the building. This is a story of the loss of social memory and transformation of personal recollections caused by radical social changes, and the consequences of these processes.
500 p, ills colour & bw, 17 x 23 cm, hb, English/Croatian
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Modernist Travel Guide
Isbn 9798218638603
Publisher Sight Unseen
Idea code 250315
€ 32.00
The 'Modernist Travel Guide' is a pocket-sized reference book written and photographed by design historian Adam Štěch (@okolo_architecture), featuring nearly 400 of his favourite examples of modernist architecture across 30 major cities worldwide. Drawing from Štěch’s extensive archive of 150,000 photographs - documenting more than 6,000 buildings and interiors in 40 countries - the guide is an essential travel companion for design enthusiasts. It provides background stories, addresses, and accessibility details for both iconic landmarks and hidden gems.
220 p, ills colour & bw, 12 x 18 cm, pb, English
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A Kassen: Works in Architecture
Isbn 9788774072652
Publisher The Danish Architectural Press
Idea code 250348
€ 62.70
A Kassen is known for projects that destabilise our assumptions about the built environment, adding sensory and conceptual qualities that go beyond what either architecture or art could achieve alone. Here the artist group explores blending art and architecture in an expanded domain, highlighting the creative exchanges between the two fields. By redefining how we perceive architecture, A Kassen shifts from everyday expectations into a more playful, imaginative realm. A series of projects introduces elements that disturb and distort reality, encouraging seeing and experiencing space in new ways. The book is shipped sealed in plastic with its pages folded back from its middle.
290 p, ills colour & bw, 23 x 31 cm, pb, English
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MBL architectes - Impasse des Lilas
Isbn 9782960253092
Publisher Accattone
Idea code 250363
€ 37.65
Keeping up the tension between exhibition catalogue and monograph, Impasse des Lilas explores the interweaving of theories, personal histories, objects and projects that define the architectural practice of MBL. Conceived as a science-fiction narrative, the book brings together some 100 objects drawn from the productions and research of MBL, guest artists and architects and a selection of everyday objects, exhibition photographs by Antoine Espinasseau and contributions from international theorists Alexandra Midal, Thomas Daniell and Philip Ursprung. With works by, among many others, Etel Adnan, Maxime Delvaux, Dominique Perrault, ensamble studio, Annie Ernaux, Hiroshi Hara, Arata Isozaki, Charles Jencks, Philip Johnson, Lacaton et Vassal, Gustav Metzger and Bernard Tschumi. MBL architectes is an architectural practice founded in Paris by Sébastien Martinez-Barat and Benjamin Lafore.
252 p, ills colour & bw, 24 x 27 cm, pb, English/French
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Trans 46: Spolia
Isbn 9783856764982
Publisher Gta Verlag
Idea code 250370
€ 20.45
We persist in building, digging, finding, collecting, and assembling to produce meaning. ‘Spolia’ absorb energy from an external force and deform elastically. As archaeological tools at (de)construction sites, they form hidden testaments to political dependencies, ecosystem clashes, art in galleries, and even office tower elevators. Their input offers a strange simultaneity of icons that are immediate, available, and ready to be transformed. The output becomes remnants reorganised to serve architecture and its demands. More than 30 contributors reflect on the themes developed over four chapters: Meaning Quarry, Inherited Icon, Assemblage Shift, and Contemporary Ruins.
140 p, ills colour & bw, 21 x 28 cm, pb, English/German
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Singapore Strata Malls : A Retrospective for the Future
Isbn 9786299998501
Publisher Suburbia Projects
Idea code 250378
€ 39.35
Strata malls are multi-level commercial buildings with units individually owned and managed. Unlike traditional shopping centers, these malls often house diverse shops catering to niche interests and local communities, contributing to their unique charm and adaptability. Singapore has seen a renewed interest in strata malls, highlighted by the conservation of Golden Mile Complex in 2021 and Peace Centre’s creative revitalization in 2023. "Singapore Strata Malls: A Retrospective for the Future" explores their urban, architectural, and cultural significance. Co-authored by Calvin Chua and Aurelia Chan, this book examines these spaces' structural and intangible qualities through essays and creative analyses.
110 p, ills colour & bw, 20 x 29 cm, pb, English
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The Salève Cable Car: Experiencing a Living Landscape Maurice Braillard architect
Isbn 9782919380947
Publisher Editions 205
Idea code 250440
€ 20.45
Located near Geneva, the Salève is a haven of unspoiled nature, inviting visitors to explore while serving as a refuge for biodiversity. The mountain is an ecological sanctuary and continues to sustain the local economy. It is also exemplary of the cooperation between Switzerland and France, with a cross-border cable car as the emblem of this interconnected region. Designed by architect Maurice Braillard and engineer André Rebuffel and opened in 1932, it is a modern masterpiece that opened up trade and tourism. The awarding-winning renovation project in 2024, led by Devaux & Devaux, served to preserve this heritage while showcasing the wider area’s natural beauty.
112 p, ills colour & bw, 16 x 23 cm, pb, French/English
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Ernesto Schick - Railway Flora
Isbn 9791280336347
Publisher Humboldt Books
Idea code 250441
€ 26.90
To mark the centenary of Ernesto Schick’s birth (1925–1991), 'Railway Flora' returns to bookshops. 'Railway Flora, or Nature’s Revenge on Man: Botanical Observations on the Area around the International Marshalling Yard of Chiasso, 1969–1978' is a unique botanical guide – part travel diary, part scientific manual – documenting the surprising resurgence of wild plants around Chiasso’s international railway station. The construction of an extensive rail complex in the 1950s and ’60s had all but wiped out local vegetation, yet nature found its way back. Originally published in 1980, the book became a cult favourite, inspiring poet Fabio Pusterla to write a piece in honour of Schick’s “pilot plants,” included in this edition.
180 p, ills colour & bw, 11 x 17 cm, pb, English
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