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AMAG VVD Vincent Van Duysen special issue
Isbn 9789893602669
Publisher AMAG Publisher
Idea code 250179
€ 103.90
This special issue of the magazine offers an in-depth, insightful exploration of Belgian architect and designer Vincent Van Duysen’s body of work. The exclusive archive brings together the full collection of 53 projects originally featured in AMAG 04 and AMAG 22, both of which are out of print. With extensive coverage and rich visual documentation, including essays by Ana Leal, José Manuel Pedreirinho, Manuel Aires Mateus, and Marc Dubois, the issue serves as a definitive resource – a rare opportunity to experience the breadth of Van Duysen’s architectural vision in a single limited-edition volume.
400 p, ills colour & bw, 24 x 32 cm, pb, Portuguese/English
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Herman Hertzberger Shaping Freedom: Architecture 1959-2025
Isbn 9789083286044
Publisher Maas Lawrence
Idea code 250491
€ 38.40
This book, a reflection on Herman Hertzberger’s legacy, spanning from 1959 to today, is as much about making architecture as it is about world-making. The Dutch architect never considered his works as stand-alone objects, but rather as parts of webs of connections on different scales. In this collection of texts, photographs, drawings, his own work, and architecture and art by others, all of these layers come together to form a universe of inspirations, ideas, and solutions – in Hertzberger’s words, his ‘musée imaginaire’. Edited by Suzanne Mulder and Hans Ibelings, the book is written and compiled by Hertzberger himself and features an essay by Thomas Hertzberger.
272 p, ills colour & bw, 21 x 27 cm, pb, English
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Shinohara Kazuo (reprint)
Isbn 9784887064188
Publisher Toto
Idea code 250354
€ 223.90
Shinohara Kazuo is “a key figure who explicitly rejected Western influences yet appears on almost every branch of the family tree of contemporary Japanese architecture.” Commemorating the centenary of architect Kazuo’s birth, this volume reprints his self-edited 1996 collection of architectural projects, which earned a special award at the 38th Mainichi Art Awards. The book presents 55 projects, including unbuilt works, accompanied by a new essay written for this 2025 edition. Showcasing Shinohara's influential architectural achievements through detailed drawings and black-and-white illustrations, this publication includes a separate English-language leaflet to complement the Japanese text.
476 p, ills bw, 30 x 30 cm, hb in slipcase, Japanese/English
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AMAG 39 Ivan Bravo | Santiago Valdivieso
Isbn 9789893602683
Publisher AMAG Publisher
Idea code 250436
€ 53.95
The work of the two Chilean architects presented in this edition – Ivan Bravo (founded 2002) and Santiago Valdivieso (founded 2015) – is further proof of an approach to a professional practice in which architectural production has almost always developed in parallel with intense intervention in the field of visual arts and design. It is a characteristic that, while certainly not applicable to all, is quite common in the work of other Chilean offices, and encompasses various interventions and installations, as well as the curation of exhibitions. Both have also completed pavilions for the restructuring of the landscape.
186 p, ills colour & bw, 24 x 32 cm, pb, Portuguese/Spanish/English
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Carlo Scarpa March 2025 Special Issue (Reprint a+u 85:10)
Isbn 9784900213166
Publisher Shinkenchiku-sha
Idea code 250184
€ 52.65
Italian architect and designer Carlo Scarpa (1906–1978) left a huge mark not only on architecture but also on a wide range of design fields. His success in his field developed from those moments when he devoted himself to the study of the various techniques of construction. Whether in glassware or museum design, in the use of materials or those involved in essential building skills, what seems to have first seized his attention was the creative limitations implicit in them. This issue is a reprint of an extra edition of the magazine on Scarpa that first appeared in October 1985. Revived 40 years after its initial publication, it once again celebrates the complete picture of Scarpa’s designs.
264 p, ills colour & bw, 22 x 29 cm, pb, Japanese/English
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Water Works: Eco-Social Design
Isbn 9789493246454
Publisher Valiz
Idea code 250650
€ 29.10
Rivers and watersheds are Earth’s life-giving arteries. They are essential to our survival. Yet, we have damaged them terribly. This book’s real-world projects answer what to do now through a collection of essays and case studies. Over forty innovative and creative approaches to rising sea levels and drought are divided into seven themes: Purity, Wild, Scale, Representation, Violence, Infrastructure, and Commerce. Case studies presented deconstruct dams, design better waterfalls, listen to ice, and research different irrigation methods to combine local knowledge with science.
400 p, ills colour & bw, 17 x 24 cm, pb, English
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Imagine - Embracing Chaos and Possibility in a Planetary Emergency
Isbn 9783948440893
Publisher Slanted Publishers
Idea code 250649
€ 30.00
'Imagine—Embracing Chaos and Possibility in a Planetary Emergency' is not a typical guidebook, but a rich collection of conversations and reflections exploring life amid global crisis. It brings together voices from science, art, activism, ecopsychology, and systems thinking. Rather than offering solutions, 'Imagine' encourages readers to pause, reflect, and engage with the complexity of our ecological and social realities. It’s a thoughtful companion for uncertain times – opening space for deeper inquiry and new ways of relating to ourselves, each other, and the planet. This publication is published with the kind support of Awe Exchange.
160 p, ills colour & bw, 12 x 19 cm, pb, English
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In the Daylight of Our Existence: Architectural History and the Promise of Queer Theory
Isbn 9783856764753
Publisher Gta Verlag
Idea code 250619
€ 32.70
In 1991, poet, author, and professor June Jordan encouraged radical alterations of the built environment as crucial to a new politics of sexuality, eliciting her audience’s imagination to conceive a place for living and showing affection openly without fear, what that space would look and feel like, and what else it would make possible. This book takes up Jordan’s theoretical premise to work against normative ideas about gender and sexuality through environmental transformation. It present methodologies of writing feminist and queer histories of architecture by investigating planning and urbanism, refusal and resistance, and women’s health and communal life in various cities.
280 p, ills colour & bw, 15 x 23 cm, pb, English
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The Greening Revolution - From Paris with Love
Isbn 9789492474780
Publisher Blauwdruk
Idea code 250601
€ 26.75
The urban landscape of Paris is characterised by its high density of buildings and lack of greenery, which brings heat stress during the summer months. But an exhilarating green revolution is already underway. Roundabouts are turning into urban forests, the Périphérique is becoming a parkway, and traffic is disappearing in favour of pedestrians on hundreds of streets. Dense strips of planting are changing the city’s appearance, and even areas surrounding the city’s most famous landmarks are undergoing a green metamorphosis. This book captures the changes through 50 projects, providing portraits of the designers and ecologists who are contributing to these sweeping changes.
192 p, ills colour & bw, 17 x 24 cm, pb, English
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Thinking Space: Readings from a Life in Architecture
Isbn 9781922601322
Publisher Uro Publications
Idea code 250622
€ 32.20
In ‘Thinking Space’, architect and educator Leon van Schaik explores how books, and book collecting, have framed his lifelong research into spatial intelligence – the ways in which our past experiences in physical space shape our mental space, which in turn informs how we act in the world. Journeying through the history of the author’s own library, the book reveals some of his most prized texts, the often deeply personal relationships they represent, and their influence on him as conceptual touchstones. In this extended reflection, Van Schaik essentially offers a celebration of the art, poetry, and philosophy of inhabitation – and its power to change our understanding of the world.
148 p, ills colour & bw, 17 x 24 cm, pb, English
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DOMa 12: LAN, Zeller & Moye, Onsitestudio, Jean-Benoît Vétillard Architecture
Isbn 26542064
Publisher DOMa Magazine
Idea code 250433
€ 27.30
LAN (Local Architecture Network) rethinks the economy of sustainability beyond its technical aspects in the ‘PARIS XVIII’ housing project. Zeller & Moye explore the row house layout in ‘La Ribera’, drawing inspiration from the traditional Mexican vecindad, centered around a shared courtyard. Onsitestudio analyzes the formal and functional contradictions in the “newly invented tradition” of a sports facility: the ‘Sassuolo Training Centre’. Jean-Benoît Vétillard Architecture presents six design iterations before arriving at the final scheme for ‘Maison Nana’. Andreas Angelidakis shares an extensive archive of concrete façade studies and other architectural objects for a ‘House in Evia’.
164 p, ills colour & bw, 23 x 30 cm, pb, Greek/English
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Liminal and entangled spaces: the philosophy behind the works of architect Akihisa Hirata
Isbn 9784861529603
Publisher Seigensha
Idea code 250342
€ 25.50
Running through Akihisa Hirata’s oeuvre is the concept of architecture as the creation of ‘karamarishiro’. This term, coined by Hirata, loosely translatable as “margin for entanglement”, denotes spaces that are not clearly delineated, but shot through by fuzzy interstices – spaces that are layered one upon the other and that may be considered to adjoin all things. Featuring 21 projects, this book examines the architectural embodiments of Hirata’s worldview through a blend of conceptual drawings, photographs, and texts. Notable works are the Masuya Building in Tokyo (2006), the prize-winning Art Museum & Library in Ota (2017), and the Nerima Art Museum and Nukui Library (2028).
168 p, ills colour & bw, 23 x 28 cm, pb, Japanese/English
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Moving Mountains – Carl Fredrik Svenstedt Architects
Isbn 9789190045053
Publisher Arvinius + Orfeus Publishing
Idea code 250403
€ 69.90
Building in stone implies carving a mountain, resulting in profound structures with a self-evident materiality. Using stone from Roman quarries, these buildings harmonize with the landscape’s timeless essence. The process demands teamwork, intuition, and perseverance. The first part of this book presents four built projects by Carl Fredrik Svenstedt Architects, showcasing the specificity and craftsmanship of solid stone construction. The second part serves as a sketchbook, compiling ideas for projects that have or may not become buildings. Based in Paris, Carl Fredrik Svenstedt Architects spans scales from public projects to furniture design, focusing on innovative, sustainable construction. Named Firm of the Year for Sustainable Architecture 2019 and winner of the 2021 Archdaily Building of the Year Award, the studio exemplifies excellence in design.
256 p, ills colour & bw, 22 x 29 cm, pb, English
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Practices of Urban Inclusion: Exploring Space and Migration in Four European Cities
Isbn 9788412892246
Publisher Dpr-barcelona
Idea code 250314
€ 18.40
In recent years, migration policies have led to the erosion of fundamental rights for migrating persons in urban areas, with pathways to safe havens, both geographically and legally, gradually diminishing. This book explores the role of urban space and urban practice in creating conditions of exclusion and inclusion in European cities, especially in Berlin, Brussels, Milan, and London. It shares learnings and concerns raised by an experimental programme at the intersection of architecture, urbanism, and migration, through texts, visual essays, interviews, and situated examples from citizen-led solidarity initiatives, pedagogical experiences, and spatial practitioners.
206 p, ills colour & bw, 17 x 23 cm, pb, English
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'Scape #1 2025 | Cahier
Isbn
Publisher Blauwdruk
Idea code 250620
€ 12.15
This edition is about coming together for a better world. Features include a temporary pop-up park at the Budapest City Hall, where landscape architects from studio Újirány created a design to help democratic values blossom; the six plans selected for the development of the open, democratic, and free public space of Berlin’s Tempelhofer Feld; and a nature garden in Valle de Bravo, Mexico, designed by Hortense Blanchard and Susana Rojas. The podcast Swimmable Cities Summit is also highlighted, where a city’s potential to offer swimming opportunities is enthusiastically discussed as an indicator of urban health and the positive attraction of water in bringing people together.
ills colour & bw, pb, English
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AMAG PT 10 Less is More - Menos é Mais
Isbn 9789893602690
Publisher AMAG Publisher
Idea code 250437
€ 26.95
Generally used to refer to the study of the Earth’s crust – or, in architecture, for the analysis and understanding of structural and morphological conditions of built forms – tectonics is a key analytical lens in architectural discourse. With their diversity in formal approaches, it is through the understanding of tectonics in each work that the architecture firm Menos é Mais Arquitectos (Cristina Guedes, Francisco Vieira de Campos) finds the expressive strength of their works. Since 1994, the Porto-based architects have pursued the ability to do more and better with less, seeking to balance the “economy” of means with the “richness” in the materiality and emotional involvement of the users.
106 p, ills colour & bw, 24 x 32 cm, pb, Portuguese/English
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C3 435: Tomoaki Uno, Factory + Office for Humans + Nature
Isbn 20925190
Publisher Archban
Idea code 250280
€ 28.80
Issue 435 highlights three projects: a university facility in the Netherlands by KAAN Architecten, a residential apartment in Finland by Steven Holl Architects, and a hospital in the United Kingdom by HKS + Cagni Williams Associates + Sonnemann Toon Architects. These innovative designs showcase diverse typologies, emphasizing functionality, sustainability, and architectural creativity. Additionally, this issue explores three transformative examples of evolving factory architecture—integrating production spaces with offices and incorporating natural elements to create healthier and more inspiring work environments. Last chapter takes a deep dive into the world of Japanese architect Tomoaki Uno. Known for his philosophy of creating “the unprecedented ordinary,” Uno’s work challenges conventional thinking and raises profound questions about the essence of architecture.
240 p, ills colour & bw, 23 x 30 cm, pb, Korean/English
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C3 436: Seung H-Sang
Isbn 20925190
Publisher ArchBan
Idea code 250281
€ 28.75
C3 436 explores architecture shaped by place, purpose, and poetic depth. New Projects chapter features Leopold Banchini Architects who craft an off-grid house inspired by ancestral wisdom in the Moroccan desert, while a modernist library by Jakob + MacFarlane reimagines the Tree of Knowledge. Seung H-Sang’s meditative designs reflect an architecture of boundaries and the afterlife, portrayed here in the Order of St. Benedict Waegwan Abbey. K-Projects illustrates layered stories: Seoul’s urban transformation, subtle civic centers, and cultural roots nurtured in agricultural settings. Featuring Terminal 7 Architects, 818 architects, Chak Chak Studio and Young-pil Kim + YuMi Hyun. Across interviews and essays, architects and critics reflect on building with memory, identity, and imagination in a rapidly shifting world.
240 p, ills colour & bw, 23 x 30 cm, pb, Korean/English
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Siza (exhibition Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation)
Isbn 9789723116694
Publisher C2C Editorial
Idea code 250547
€ 145.00
'Siza' is the official catalogue of the Gulbenkian Foundation’s 2024 exhibition celebrating one of architecture’s greatest living figures. Curated by Carlos Quintáns, it presents ninety of Álvaro Siza’s projects - organised around thirty verbs that define his approach - alongside original archival material, sketches, and photographs by Juan Rodríguez. Essays by nine leading architects and eight rare texts by Siza himself offer fresh insights into his work, while exhibition views capture the spirit of the show. Richly illustrated and thoughtfully edited, this book is both a tribute and an essential study of Siza’s enduring influence.
490 p, ills colour & bw, 22 x 30 cm, pb, English
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LB 33 Vincent van Duysen Casa M
Isbn 9789893628409
Publisher AMAG Publisher
Idea code 250493
€ 32.50
Set in the deep heart of Portugal’s Alentejo coast and landscape, Casa M stands not only as a gesture but also as a material silent presence, both tactile and profoundly attuned to its surroundings. It is a reflection of how Belgian architect Vincent Van Duysen feels and draws architecture back to its essence: space, matter, light, and human scale. With this building, he writes not in words but with walls: thick, earthen, and textured. The result is a house that feels as though it has always belonged to the site.
64 p, ills colour & bw, 23 x 30 cm, pb, Portuguese/English
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LB 32 Nicola Baviera Apartment House Urdorf
Isbn 9789893602652
Publisher AMAG Publisher
Idea code 250494
€ 32.25
Nicola Baviera heads a practice based in Zurich, founded in 2014. This edition of the Long Books series features an apartment house in nearby Urdorf, designed by the architect. The uniform use of corrugated sheets enveloping the entire building highlights the horizontal nature of the volume. The plan is divided into four parts, and the facades are proportionally adapted to the context. Overhangs, recesses, and symmetries break up the building’s mass. Like large “drawers”, three volumes disrupt the form and provide the building with strength and identity. Curiously, the entrance stands out as the only architectural element reminiscent of traditional houses in the area.
64 p, ills colour & bw, 23 x 29 cm, pb, Portuguese/English
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AV Proyectos 129: Escalas de color
Isbn 1697493X
Publisher Avisa
Idea code 250543
€ 17.00
'AV Proyectos 129' explores the architectural potential of colour at different scales, and three exhibitions in Madrid – reviewed by Luis Fernández-Galiano – serve as the introductory frame for a series of projects that are examples of this versatility: the detailed domestic intervention of Beatriz Ramo and Bernd Upmeyer, the unique housing by TEST, Wiki World, and selgascano, and the large-scale works by Padilla Nicás and BIG. Along this line, the architect and interior designer Javier Jiménez Iniesta, of Studio Animal, talks with AV Proyectos about his defense of chromatism as a project tool and not just an aesthetic whim.
80 p, ills colour & bw, 21 x 30 cm, pb, Spanish/English
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A Tremor in the System: Chronicles of the Crisis 2007-2013
Isbn 9788412903492
Publisher Avisa
Idea code 250568
€ 56.85
‘Chronicles of the Crisis’ presents a selection of texts written between 1976 and 2020. Following on previous manifestations, this first of two new volumes begins with the mortgage crisis, the financial shock of 2008, and the Great Recession that followed, a period marked by austerity policies and popular indignation against elites. It draws from ‘AV Monographs’ and ‘Arquitectura Viva’, the sister magazines that editor Luis Fernández-Galiano has helmed since their creation in 1985. Chronicles of architecture, but also records of the past half-century in Spain and the world at large, with articles as a testimony of these hope-filled, brilliant, and tumultuous years.
396 p, ills colour & bw, 21 x 26 cm, hb, Spanish/English
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Time of Uncertainty: Chronicles of the Crisis 2014-2020
Isbn 9791399032604
Publisher Avisa
Idea code 250569
€ 45.50
‘Chronicles of the Crisis’ presents a selection of texts written between 1976 and 2020. Following on previous manifestations, this second of two new volumes spans a period of geopolitical mutations – Crimea’s annexation, the rise of populism with Brexit and Trump’s election – right up to the pandemic that paralysed the world in 2020. It draws from ‘AV Monographs’ and ‘Arquitectura Viva’, the sister magazines that editor Luis Fernández-Galiano has helmed since their creation in 1985. Chronicles of architecture, but also records of the past half-century in Spain and the world at large, where the articles are a testimony of these hope-filled, brilliant, and tumultuous years.
272 p, ills colour & bw, 21 x 26 cm, hb, Spanish/English
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The Art of Building — William Morris
Isbn 9781838282134
Publisher Zegris
Idea code 250661
€ 17.50
The Art of Building is a collection of essays on architecture by William Morris (1834–1896), revealing him as an ecological designer avant la lettre. In these essays, Morris develops his philosophy of simplicity, equality, and care for nature in relation to architecture, presenting the integrated vision that has led to his recognition as a forerunner to both the Bauhaus and today’s environmental movements. The themes include building quality housing for all, preserving nature, using local building materials, a surprisingly ecological vision of high-density living, and a proto-minimalist approach to interior decoration. These texts reveal an author many associate primarily with floral patterns at his most radical, modern, and prescient—demonstrating a thinker thoroughly relevant to our present moment.
126 p, no ills, 12 x 20 cm, pb, English
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Architecture and Modern Life — W. R. Lethaby
Isbn 9781838282141
Publisher Zegris
Idea code 250662
€ 17.50
Architecture and Modern Life is a collection of essays by influential architect and educator W. R. Lethaby (1857–1931). In these writings, Lethaby foreshadows Le Corbusier and marks a fascinating transitional point between 19th- and 20th-century architectural thought. With radical foresight, he argues for an “efficiency style” in architecture, for towns that cultivate vitality, and against the science of “profit grinding and grabbing.” Often eerily prescient, phrases such as “there is a culture war going forward” and “There is much talk of Housing at the present time, but it is a case of much talk and little house” could be taken from today’s newspapers. The profound importance of these texts lies in Lethaby’s vision of art and design grounded not in style-novelty or aesthetic theory (“the mystification of architecture”) but in “some reality like health, serviceableness, or even perfect cheapness.”
72 p, no ills, 12 x 20 cm, pb, English
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