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El Croquis 231: SelgasCano (2014–2025) Loose Parts Play
Isbn 9788412823462
Publisher El Croquis
Idea code 250686
€ 85.80
The Spanish architecture firm SelgasCano was founded in 1998 by architects José Selgas and Lucía Cano, who have since built a reputation for their creative use of materials and focus on the relationship between architecture and nature. Following on an earlier issue of ‘El Croquis’ featuring work by the Madrid-based practice completed between 2003 and 2013, this one presents the studio’s work since then, including the Bathing Pavilion at the Bruges Triennial, Beijing Xicheng Exhibition Hall, a bookshop on Hanbury Street in London, and several homes. The studio is recognised for its lightweight, transparent designs and experimental use of colour and new technologies.
360 p, ills colour & bw, 25 x 34 cm, pb, Spanish/English
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a+t 62: Frugality Series – Hunting, mining and biosourcing
Isbn 9788409742172
Publisher A+t Architecture Publishers
Idea code 250709
€ 28.20
In today’s context, concepts such as component hunting, urban mining, and biosourced materials do not merely denote technical strategies. Rather, they articulate ways of reconfiguring the relationship between architecture, materiality, and productive processes. A critical response to the demands of the environmental agenda, this issue explores how these three approaches can shift architectural focus towards an active engagement with resources, their cycles, and material trajectories. It challenges the notion of architecture as a finite object, advancing instead a material ethic in which design becomes an act of negotiation, translation, and ecological and economic commitment.
104 p, ills colour & bw, 24 x 32 cm, pb, Spanish/English
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AV Monographs 275: Christ & Gantenbein
Isbn 9791399032628
Publisher Avisa
Idea code 250606
€ 45.50
This edition is dedicated to the work of the Swiss firm Christ & Gantenbein, and in particular the material aspects of their architecture. Emanuel Christ and Christoph Gantenbein opened their office in Basel in 1998, immediately after completing their studies at ETH Zurich. A chronological overview of their fundamental works since is provided, from the pioneering expansion of the Swiss National Museum to recent proposals for art museums in Barcelona and Antwerp. Accompanied by a text by Reto Geiser, it offers reflections on the intellectual intensity and geometric perseverance with which the architects approach their interventions, regardless of scale, function, or material.
120 p, ills colour & bw, 24 x 30 cm, pb, Spanish/English
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AV Monographs 276: Houses of the Year 2025
Isbn 9791399032635
Publisher Avisa
Idea code 250623
€ 45.50
The house is a fertile ground for architectural experimentation: a space for innovation where technical solutions, aesthetic alternatives, and new ways of dwelling are tried out. 'AV Monographs 276' gathers sixteen projects built in diverse geographical and cultural contexts, organized around for key materials – wood, earth, concrete, and metal – which, when combined, expand the expressive and constructive possibilities of each one of them. From the vernacular to the experimental, from the Alpine cabin to the urban dwelling, these houses show how material becomes an expressive tool, capable of linking up with the context, the climate, and the landscape.
112 p, ills colour & bw, 24 x 30 cm, pb, Spanish/English
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Reuse in Teaching
Isbn 9783038630975
Publisher Triest Verlag
Idea code 250696
€ 41.95
Reuse in Teaching focuses on the highly topical issue of the adaptive reuse and transformation of buildings. The premise is that even though refurbishing and recycling buildings is gradually becoming part of mainstream practice, the education of future architects is lagging behind. Dealing with existing buildings in an academic context is complex and challenging: it requires additional time, resources and, most importantly, different teaching methods and formats. Based on a research project at the TU Wien, this book presents a methodological discussion of the work of three separate design studios, including contributions from international experts involved in the project. It offers both theoretical depth and practical insight, showing how working with the existing requires new teaching formats, studio briefs, and design approaches.
208 p, ills colour & bw, 19 x 27 cm, pb, English
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77 Questions about Architectural Space
Isbn 9783907384220
Publisher Everyedition
Idea code 250668
€ 36.55
Developed between 2017 and 2025 during the two-part course in Design Construction at the Department of Architecture at ETH Zurich, this publication could be seen as the legacy of teachings by professor and practicing architect Andrea Deplazes. It brings together key questions, models, and sketches to explore the fundamentals of spatial design. These are complemented by images from seminar weeks and even excerpts from Deplazes’s personal notebook. The book stands as a synthesis of his pedagogical approach and marks the conclusion of his academic career on the eve of his retirement.
72 p, ills colour & bw, 24 x 33 cm, pb, English
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Urban Shores - Towards Landscape-Based Coastal Adaptation
Isbn 9788774075790
Publisher The Danish Architectural Press
Idea code 250678
€ 52.25
Based on a five-year research project (2019–2024), ‘Urban Shores’ focuses on how coastal cities can adapt to rising sea levels through landscape-based solutions. It presents concrete methods and international cases, contributing to the broader conversation about how we understand and shape coastal cities for the future. Highlighted are Denmark’s landscape-based solution in Køge Bay, how the Netherlands and the United States are working to move buildings away from flood-prone areas, and how Venice is restoring lost wetlands in the lagoon surrounding the city. The book serves as a tool for planners, architects, biologists, engineers, decision-makers, and others.
288 p, ills colour & bw, 17 x 24 cm, pb, English
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Cooking Up Dinner Speeches – Ise Gropius in Japan
Isbn 9783856764548
Publisher Gta Verlag
Idea code 250652
€ 32.70
When Ise Gropius (1897–1983) embarked on a three-month trip to Japan with her husband, architect Walter Gropius, in 1954, she proved to be a gifted chronicler. In detailed reports – her only known cohesive writings from the post-war period – she vividly describes the country and its people. With keen wit and understanding, she comments on everything from discussions about reconstruction, lectures, and the Bauhaus exhibition in Tokyo, to evening parties, the role of Japanese women, Zen Buddhism, and the local cuisine. Extensively annotated by art historian and editor Almut Grunewald, this volume publishes Ise’s travelogues in facsimile for the first time.
152 p, ills colour & bw, 22 x 30 cm, pb, 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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OASE 120: Quality Settings
Isbn 9789462089105
Publisher Nai010 Publishers
Idea code 250690
€ 24.25
This issue of 'OASE' considers contemporary processes and environments in which the quality of (public) architecture is negotiated. How do state or city architects, urban quality commissions, or design competitions ensure the quality of regional planning? What is the importance of the exchanges and negotiations between designers, experts, mediators, and other stakeholders? And how do these ‘settings’ fit into the evolving frameworks of architectural culture, urban or infrastructural policy, and the political economy?
128 p, ills colour & bw, 17 x 24 cm, pb, Dutch/English
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Ordinary Beauty – An Italian Scenario
Isbn 9782493283269
Publisher Caryatide
Idea code 250735
€ 43.00
By combining two seemingly antithetical values, ‘Ordinary Beauty’ is an open investigation aimed at fostering a generation of architects who, on a daily basis, dismantle the wall separating the ordinary from beauty, construction from architecture. The research project features 61 architectural offices from across Italy, along with reflections from scholars and professionals in the field. It encapsulates a generation of designers who begin with people and life itself, reclaiming the ordinary and elevating it to a common practice of architectural quality – first imagining a new way of living and then designing the very spaces that will be used and inhabited by this new life.
208 p, ills colour & bw, 24 x 32 cm, pb, Italian/English
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Album Architectures – Maputo
Isbn 9782493283313
Publisher Caryatide
Idea code 250736
€ 34.40
The ‘Album Architectures’ collection reflects on contemporary heritage through the architectural landscapes of cities. This edition focuses on the modernist architecture and urban transformation of Maputo, Mozambique. Featuring photography by Giovanna Silva, it captures the postcolonial city’s evolving landscape and social fabric, serving as a lens to explore changes to its streets, public spaces, and urban adaptation. Interviews with Ana Tostões and Ana Raquel Machava provide insights into Maputo’s architectural heritage and challenges, while architects Matteo Poli and Luca Astorri discuss its possible futures and enduring legacies, examining resilience and identity.
128 p, ills colour & bw, 24 x 32 cm, pb, French/English
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Let's Talk Wild!
Isbn 9783944425511
Publisher M Books
Idea code 250725
€ 16.15
Urban design and wildness may seem at odds, yet as cities evolve, wildness is increasingly seen as a resource - shaping how we think about and create our living environments. From urban gardening to rewilding projects, wild practices are gaining ground. Are these trends signs of genuine transformation or just the commercialization of sustainability? How are other disciplines rethinking wildness? And how can architects and planners engage critically with these ideas? Let’s Talk Wild! brings together 12 interdisciplinary voices in a multi-layered dialogue on chaos, creativity, and the complex meanings of wildness.
120 p, ills colour & bw, 11 x 18 cm, pb, English
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Bauhaus Clouds. Challenges to the Nebula of Architectural Histories and Archives
Isbn 9783944425160
Publisher M Books
Idea code 250727
€ 16.15
The Bauhaus, as we know it, never truly existed. Instead, it is a construct of clichés, interpretations, and ideological appropriations. While celebrated as the most important art school of modernity, it also reflected the decline of art and architecture under capitalism. Bauhaus Clouds takes these contradictions as a point of departure. It explores how new narratives, centered on architectural archives, shape Bauhaus debates. At the same time, it examines how such narratives influence both architectural culture and society’s broader relationship with building.
92 p, ills colour & bw, 19 x 30 cm, pb, English
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Flooded by Mail. How George Floyd (Remember?) Landed at the Tate
Isbn 9783944425405
Publisher M Books
Idea code 250726
€ 12.90
The 2020 murder of George Floyd in Minneapolis led to the closure of the Tate Britain restaurant in London, which had advertised its 55-foot-long racist mural from the 1920s as “the most amusing room in Europe.” Suddenly it was obvious. Flooded by Mail introduces strategies of antihegemonic amateur collecting and examines why the killing of a Black man by U.S. police in public implicates us in Europe. A number of objects found online are useful for this task: the trial minting of a coin commemorating the collapse of the Cologne City Archive that never entered circulation, a board game from a 1932 German film, stock photos and generic copperplate engravings from the same family over centuries, Köllnflocken trading cards, postcards from a wall in Morocco, a procession in Cologne and a possessed harbor in Spain, and a 1970s conceptualist installation with postcards of rough seas along the British coast.
148 p, ills colour & bw, 10 x 15 cm, pb, English
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Marion Mailaender - Architecture à Emporter
Isbn 9782492175602
Publisher Rvb Books
Idea code 250712
€ 16.15
With ‘Architecture à Emporter’, interior architect Marion Mailaender explores design in all its forms, from architecture to DIY and open-source practices. Architecture is explored as a work in progress, where the aesthetics of the unfinished are celebrated. The project highlights the construction phases that shape space, serving as a reminder that the work is never truly complete and questioning contemporary practices that too often favour demolition over transformation. Rather than a fixed object, architecture is a creative process in perpetual motion: something to carry, transform, reinvent. Included are plans for four models, offered as starting points to be adapted and reimagined.
24 p, ills colour & bw, 17 x 24 cm, pb, French/English
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HOH Architecten – Re-thinking
Isbn 9789493329560
Publisher Jap Sam Books
Idea code 250716
€ 31.10
Imagine a dialogue and collaboration between Dutch and Japanese cultures revolving around building, where differing perspectives enrich and inspire. This project by HOH Architecten embraces the reuse and transformation of existing buildings, structures, and materials, encouraging exchange between generations of architects and builders, between innovation and craftsmanship. By learning from traditions and views on the present, the past, and change, the project seeks a new and guiding balance. At a time when the construction sector faces the ecological impact of its actions, this book offers a sustainable perspective rooted in continuity and evolution within the built environment.
368 p, ills colour & bw, 15 x 22 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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Venice Forever | From reality to imagination
Isbn 9791254931738
Publisher Corraini Edizioni
Idea code 250688
€ 24.20
Presented at the 2025 Venice Architecture Biennale, Venice Forever is a project by Cibic Workshop and Andrea Rinaldo that reimagines the city’s future in light of urgent challenges: depopulation, mass tourism, and the environmental fragility of the lagoon. It poses bold questions - Who will live in Venice? Why can’t its canals be clean? - and proposes a vision of the city as a sustainable urban laboratory. By integrating a new generation of skilled young professionals into Venice’s social fabric, and drawing on research from Ca’ Foscari University and experts like Rinaldo, the project offers both practical and visionary paths to regeneration.Illustrations by Chuck Felton bring to life a futuristic Venice, reminding us that imagination is key to shaping new urban horizons.
144 p, ills colour & bw, 15 x 21 cm, pb, Italian/English/Chinese
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Pressure Cooker recipes: An architectural cookbook
Isbn 9786148035944
Publisher Kaph Books
Idea code 250516
€ 40.85
Cooking and architecture have a lot in common. Both start with a set of ingredients that are combined to create a whole - one that is often greater than the sum of its parts. Conceived as a publication for this year’s National Pavilion UAE at La Biennale di Venezia 2025, this architectural cookbook features recipes that range from the technical to the fictional to the historic. It showcases a multitude of responses to a curated selection of key ingredients, providing creative, flavourful, and accessible ways to reflect on food production in a harsh desert climate such as the UAE’s.
316 p, ills colour & bw, 16 x 22 cm, pb, Arabic/English
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Learning Ecologies in Architecture
Isbn 9783966800365
Publisher ArchiTangle
Idea code 250677
€ 40.75
'Learning Ecologies in Architecture' examines how exemplary educational buildings both shape and are shaped by their ecological contexts through translation, research, innovation, and collaboration. These ecologies extend beyond the environment to include interactions between people, organisations, and materials in the creation of learning spaces. Effective educational design has always reached beyond the classroom, engaging with individual learners and the wider communities that support them. The book centres on two Senegalese projects that received the Aga Khan Award for Architecture (2019 and 2022): the Alioune Diop University Teaching and Research Unit by IDOM, and Kamanar Secondary School by Dawoffice.
256 p, ills colour, 17 x 25 cm, hb, English
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Écologies d´apprentissage en architecture
Isbn 9783966800372
Publisher ArchiTangle
Idea code
€ 45.95
'Learning Ecologies in Architecture' explores how exemplary educational buildings actively shape, and are shaped by, their ecological contexts through processes of translation, research, innovation, and collaboration. These ecologies are not only environmental but encompass dynamic interactions between people, organisations, and material resources, to bring educational spaces into being. Good educational design has always extended beyond the boundaries of the building, fostering and addressing the individual learners in the classroom as well as the community and contexts that nurture them. The book is guided by two Senegalese projects that won the Aga Khan Award for Architecture (in 2019 and 2022 respectively): the Alioune Diop University Teaching and Research Unit designed by IDOM and the Kamanar Secondary School by Dawoffice.
256 p, ills colour, 17 x 25 cm, hb, French
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Reyner Banham - A Set of Actual Tracks
Isbn 9781919624570
Publisher Architectural Association
Idea code 250669
€ 21.85
This book brings a contemporary critical lens to the work of Reyner Banham, one of the most prescient architectural and design critics of the 20th century. Thirteen of the acerbic historian's essays and book chapters have been selected by contributors, ranging from classics such as The Great Gizmo to lesser-known texts such as The Wall, an intimate confession he penned in hospital shortly before his death. Each is accompanied by a contemporary response that contextualises Banham's writing, drawing out reflections on what the critic's work means today.
232 p, ills bw, 14 x 19 cm, pb, English
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Translations from Drawing to Building and Other Essays - Robin Evans
Isbn 9781907896972
Publisher Architectural Association
Idea code
€ 43.75
This book brings together eight of the most interesting and significant essays by the unequalled historian Robin Evans. Written over a period of 20 years from 1970 to 1990, the essays cover a wide range of architectural concerns: domestic space, society's involvement with building types, aspects of geometry, modes of projection and drawing as a process for generating ideas. 'What makes this book so captivating is not just the individual insights, but also the intensity of Evans's vision and the coherence of his approach.' -Joseph Rykwert, Harvard Design Magazine This book brings together eight of the most interesting and significant essays by the unequalled historian Robin Evans, author of The Projective Cast.
292 p, ills bw, 13 x 21 cm, pb, English
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Related Paths 4 Architects
Isbn 9789893602676
Publisher AMAG
Idea code 250432
€ 39.80
‘Related Paths 4 Architects’, an exhibition of Portuguese architects in Japan, seems to address Japanese culture itself. Its subject is a group of architects whose work has informed aspects of Western culture since the beginning of the 20th century. Following the exhibition, this book showcases the work of four Lisbon-based architecture studios. Their projects address topics such as heritage, reuse, landscape, and more. The four studios display various points of contact in terms of how they approach architectural culture and the places they operate. In this reflection, a dialogue and cooperation is sought between the two countries, with the discipline of architecture as the common territory.
180 p, ills bw, 17 x 24 cm, pb, English
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Arquitectura Viva 274: Expo Osaka 2025
Isbn 02141256
Publisher Avisa
Idea code 250536
€ 28.45
Visitable until 13 October is the World Expo of Osaka, the Japanese city’s second. If in 1970 the future envisioned was one of steel and concrete, this time the fair is a sampling of sustainable construction that will leave no built legacy: the premises will be totally dismantled to let the artificial island recover its port function. To cover this huge event, 'Arquitectura Viva' presents a full article signed by Néstor Montenegro, Fernando Muñoz, Rocío Pina, and Carmelo Rodríguez, the designers of the Spanish Pavilion, who highlight the conceptual swerve of an exposition historically characterised by excess and deficits. It is followed by a dossier of twelve national participations that features interesting exercises in innovation, in which local sugi wood will either give the buildings a second life or return materials to the production chain.
80 p, ils colour & bw, 24 x 30 cm, pb, Spanish/English
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Arquitectura Viva 275: OFFICE Kersten Geers David Van Severen
Isbn 02141256
Publisher Avisa
Idea code 250607
€ 28.45
Kersten Geers and David Van Severen design buildings with emphatic configurations and precise spatial sequences. The Belgian architects’ quest for conceptual clarity also emerges in their texts and lectures. While straddling this ambiguous position between practice and theory, they have managed to freely navigate history, types, and programmes without neglecting the pragmatism inherent to their profession. This is demonstrated by the six recent works – three public and three private – featured in this issue of the magazine. These include a crematorium, public library, university campus, and private residences.
80 p, ils colour & bw, 24 x 30 cm, pb, Spanish/English
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'Scape #1 2025 | Cahier
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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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Norman Foster Sketchbooks 1975-2020 (reprint)
Isbn 9788494717925
Publisher Ivorypress
Idea code 20571
€ 58.85
This introductory volume launches a new series that reflects on architect Norman Foster’s career from the 1970s until today, through his sketchbooks. Edited by architectural historian Jorge Sainz, more than 500 drawings are presented in a comprehensive collection which contains insights into the design process of Foster’s most influential projects, as well as his inspirations. After all, a particular kind of drawing happens in an architectural sketchbook, something at once very personal, reflective, and portable. Through these fascinating sketches, drawings, and notes, readers can trace how Foster’s complex concepts are made manifest and develop on paper.
416 p, ills colour & bw, 22 x 31 cm, hb, Spanish/English
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