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El Croquis 232: Smiljan Radic (2019–2025)
Isbn 9788412823479
Publisher El Croquis
Idea code 250987
€ 85.80
A monographic issue presenting a selection of Chilean architect Smiljan Radić’s projects since 2019. Among these are the Sky Bubble, a temporary pavilion in London; the rehabilitation of Chanchera, a former rural shed in Puerto Octay, Chile; Petty Bourgeois in Santiago; Solo Hotel in Matarraña, Spain; and Artifact, the winning proposal for the Montjuïc Fairground in Barcelona. The issue also includes a conversation between Radić and Christian Kerez, a short essay by architect Enrique Walker on the Pavilion for the XXII Chilean Architecture and Urbanism Biennial, and an analysis of key terminology by Radić himself. The architect currently lives and works in Chile.
344 p, ills colour & bw, 25 x 34 cm, pb, Spanish/English
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Cultivated Landscapes - Learning From the Landscape by 3RW
Isbn 9789190045039
Publisher Arvinius + Orfeus Publishing
Idea code 251038
€ 53.75
3RW was established in year 2000 as a young and independent office, strongly rooted in Bergen’s art and cultural scene. 3RW architects regularly works on the completion of diverse sociocultural site analyses, also using this site-oriented methodology in other participation processes, both in the fields of planning and architecture. The starting point for carrying out socio-cultural place analyses is supported by the fact that a place is not reducible to its physical components, but also an ensemble made of local inhabitants’ various experiences, memories, values and feelings. These analyses help 3RW to identify the many understandings, interests, differences, wishes and needs of an area-bound population. Such analyses critically contribute to the dimension of social sustainability of projects; their purpose is to unearth the relevant aspects of ‘the socially constructed place’.
672 p, ills colour & bw, 21 x 28 cm, pb, English
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AV Monographs 277: Studio Anne Holtrop
Isbn 9791399032642
Publisher Avisa
Idea code 250857
€ 45.50
Experimental and radical, material and gestural are adjectives that could define the suggestive projects of the studio led by Anne Holtrop (Netherlands, 1977). On the border between art and architecture, his work avoids typological reference and is built from unexpected elements: topography, trail layouts, material molds, textures extracted from everyday objects, or traces of natural processes that become the starting point for architectural definition. AV Monographs presents this intuitive practice through a selection of works and projects – with an introduction by Adrian Lahoud –, which take stock too of the life course of their author: from the beginnings at his home country to the move to the Persian Gulf.
120 p, ills colour & bw, 24 x 30 cm, pb, Spanish/English
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a+u 659 25:08 Pezo von Ellrichshausen
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Publisher Shinkenchiku-sha
Idea code 250638
€ 23.90
This issue continues Mauricio Pezo and Sofia von Ellrichshausen’s first monograph published by the magazine in 2013. These 20 works showcase the evolution of their methodology and philosophy towards the link between painting and architecture. As they play with the limits of the architectural surface through explorations in geometry, they invite a consideration of the “architectonic picture” – not as a rigid reproduction but as a method of visualising the self in the world, a point where the physical eye and mind’s eye meet. Besides the houses, pavilions, and more, paintings by the duo allow us to enter their perception of architecture as both sensual and conceptual.
176 p, ills colour & bw, 22 x 29 cm, pb, Japanese/English
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a+u 658 25:07 Manhattan Towers and Thresholds
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Publisher Shinkenchiku-sha
Idea code 250637
€ 23.90
New York City is renowned for its busy streets and congested sidewalks; walking is as essential to the metropolis as the skyscrapers of its dramatic and ever-evolving skyline. Here, projects are executed on a grand scale, and designing spaces to walk, rest, work, and play centres the human experience. The selected projects from Midtown and Lower Manhattan in this issue offer but a small cross-section of the varying typologies of differing scales currently enhancing the city’s architecture. This includes works by Kohn Pederson Fox Associates, Snøhetta, Heatherwick Studio, Diller + Scofidio + Renfro, and SOM, among others, alongside insightful essays on the city’s evolution.
176 p, ills colour & bw, 22 x 29 cm, pb, Japanese/English
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Five Footnotes Toward an Architecture
Isbn 9781915609762
Publisher Sternberg Press
Idea code 250965
€ 21.95
On the occasion of his fifth and final year as Chair of the Department of Architecture at the Harvard University Graduate School of Design, architect and educator Mark Lee (Johnston Marklee) strings together five “footnotes”—on history, on cadence, on autonomy, on America, and on point—to assess the relationship between architectural education, research, and professional practice. Evoking a similar position that marked his tenure, Lee delivers a lecture that embraces dialogue, context, and precedent, and rejects the notion of a heroic manifesto in favor of the footnote: “something ancillary, something used for referencing and providing citations for metanarratives that already exist.” And why five? “It’s a ubiquitous number in the culture of architecture. Five orders, five architects, five points.”
150 p, ills colour & bw, 12 x 18 cm, hb, English
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How Modern - Biographies of Architecture in China 1949-1979
Isbn 9783944425535
Publisher M Books
Idea code 250840
€ 34.40
Between the founding of the People’s Republic of China in 1949 and the start of Reform and Opening Up policies in 1979, architecture played a key role in shaping China’s vision for socialist modernity. The book reconsiders the architectural production of China during this period as a site of innovation, negotiation, and creative agency. Through essays, archival materials, and multimedia documentation, it sheds light on the overlooked microhistories behind design institutes, architects, and everyday users, revealing a complex and diverse architectural landscape shaped by shifting ideologies, technical ingenuity, and transnational influences, challenging enduring misconceptions.
360 p, ills colour & bw, 17 x 24 cm, pb, English
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Follow the river - Designs that make her beautiful
Isbn 9789492474858
Publisher Blauwdruk
Idea code 251021
€ 26.75
Danube, Rhône, Bow, Mississippi, Chao Phraya, Buffalo Bayou, Tagus, Meuse, North Sea - Follow the River reveals how designers devoted to river landscapes are creating remarkable projects around the world. Whether high upstream or at a river’s mouth, these initiatives treat waterways with care, knowledge, imagination, and deep affection. They show rivers being given space to breathe again, restoring natural environments while inviting people to enjoy them in park-like settings. The book brings together twelve such projects, arranged along an imaginary river that rises in the mountains of Central Europe and flows through Canada, the United States, Thailand, and Portugal before reaching the Dutch delta. Enriched with insightful interviews, thoughtful essays, and a striking visual narrative, this publication offers a heartfelt tribute to the enduring beauty and power of rivers.
192 p, ills colour & bw, 17 x 24 cm, pb, English
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Volume 68: The Guide to Bursting Bubbles
Isbn 9789077966860
Publisher Archis
Idea code 250996
€ 21.90
Marking the occasion of Volume’s contribution to the 19th Venice Architecture Biennale curated by Carlo Ratti, Volume 68 hosted 13 conversations in which architects and designers meet inspiring figures outside of their bubble to find points of engagement and exchange notes on professional practices. The participants are Andrea González, Ethel Baraona Pohl, Gabriel Fontana, Ippolito Pestellini Laparelli, Juana Salcedo, Julia Minson, Netherlands Angry Architects, Paul Cournet, Rem Koolhaas, Rimini Protokoll, WAI Think Tank, Ludwig Engel, David Zilber, Silvia Dal Dosso, Andy Piper, Pelin Tan, Sjeng Scheijen, Daniela Maldonado Salamanca, Peter van Assche, Hanno Pijl, Félix “Tito” Trinidad, Roger Bernat, Olivier Létang, Céline Zimmer, Paulette Lenert and Evgeny Morozov.
192 p, ills colour & bw, 17 x 23 cm, pb, English
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INCOMPIUTO: The Birth of a Style – Alterazioni Video
Isbn 9791280336361
Publisher Humboldt Books
Idea code 251009
€ 42.00
Almost ten years after its first publication, 'Incompiuto' – defined by the authors as “the most important Italian architectural style from the post-war period to the present day” – has taken on growing cultural significance in the debate on the country’s architectural landscape. The volume represents the first and only systematic investigation, the result of over fifteen years of field research, into a much-discussed but not yet fully recognised reality: the widespread presence, throughout Italy, of buildings and infrastructure whose construction was never completed. This new edition updates and expands the project with additional visual material, an essay on the current state of the phenomenon, and an updated census of unfinished works.
348 p, ills colour, 22 x 30 cm, pb, Italian/English
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Women Writing Architecture 1700–1900: Expanding Histories
Isbn 9783856764890
Publisher Gta Verlag
Idea code 251059
€ 42.90
For centuries, women have influenced architecture worldwide by exerting power over space through their writing. By exploring a wide variety of sources, from diaries and travelogues to inventories and political pamphlets, this book expands architectural histories to include these women. Female spatial agencies are revealed using rare written sources, new methodologies, and in-depth re-readings of canonical histories. Women from all walks of life, writing as clients, users, or critics, are relevant voices for understanding the built environment’s past. Examining specific spaces such as churches, homes, gardens, or boulevards, it proposes a novel take on feminist historiographies.
304 p, ills colour & bw, 17 x 23 cm, pb, English
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Heinz Isler: Built Experiments – Entrepreneurial Networks
Isbn 9783856764777
Publisher Gta Verlag
Idea code 250844
€ 70.45
With an impressive portfolio of over one thousand reinforced concrete shells, Heinz Isler (1926–2009) gained an international reputation as a designer of spatial structures. His practice was based on experimental methodologies that differed vastly from conventional approaches. This same pioneering spirit led the Swiss engineer to explore innovative materials and techniques in the building industry throughout his career. By making his complete oeuvre accessible through essays, selected projects, a list of built works, archival materials, and photographs, this is the first book to comprehensively examine Isler’s work from both an engineering and cultural-historical perspective.
320 p, ills colour & bw, 23 x 30 cm, hb, English
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Architecture is Climate
Isbn 9788412892284
Publisher Dpr-barcelona
Idea code 250821
€ 18.40
Rejecting outdated paradigms of endless linear growth, technocratic fixes, and the separation of humans from nature, ‘Architecture Is Climate’ argues that architecture must be fundamentally rethought – not as the design of objects, but as a practice entangled with climate, politics, history, and social justice. Through eight key themes (knowledge, economy, land, resources, infrastructure, work, policy, and culture) it explores how climate breakdown reshapes every aspect of architectural thinking and doing. Drawing on diverse voices and grounded examples from around the world, it offers a critique but also a vision of other possible architectures already in the making.
208 p, ills bw, 14 x 21 cm, pb, English
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Shaping the possible. Atelier du Rouget
Isbn 9782919380930
Publisher Editions 205
Idea code 250941
€ 29.60
Atelier du Rouget has cultivated a thoughtful, hands-on practice rooted in rural and marginal territories. Dissolving boundaries between landscape, urbanism, and architecture, the studio treats social, economic, and territorial questions as inseparable from design. Led by Simon Teyssou, its methodology is shaped by workshops, residencies, and deep local engagement, where the village of Le Rouget, both home and laboratory, serves as a proving ground for re-imagining rural life. This book gathers a selection of projects alongside sketches from Teyssou’s notebooks, revealing how drawing becomes a tool for inquiry, invention, and renewed ways of inhabiting rural space.
352 p, ills bw, 16 x 23 cm, pb, French/English
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Arquitectura Viva 278: Herzog & de Meuron
Isbn 02141256
Publisher Avisa
Idea code 250910
€ 28.45
Jacques Herzog and Pierre de Meuron have time and again reinvented themselves over the course of their almost fifty-year career, and now they use their experience to undertake cycles and processes with the conscience the moment demands. Arquitectura Viva showcases five of their latest works, which reinterpret types and programmes – from an office block to a museum pavilion – striking a balance between brand image and auteur touch. This issue’s dossier brings together the seven winning projects of the 2023-2025 cycle of the Aga Khan Award for Architecture: buildings such as the emergency housing prototype developed by Marina Tabassum, as well as heritage and social initiatives such as the revitalization of historic Esna or AAU Anastas’ Wonder Cabinet – all of which dispel Orientalist stereotypes and underscore the vitality of the Muslim world.
ils colour & bw, 24 x 30 cm, pb, Spanish/English
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Reporting the Delta – An Exploration of climate, space, and society through archival documentaries
Isbn 9789462089136
Publisher Nai010 Publishers
Idea code 250905
€ 38.85
The Netherlands is one big river delta. Here, several major European rivers meet and mingle with the North Sea, a confluence that produces beautiful nature and generates enormous economic activity. Since the 20th century, this delta region has undergone drastic changes, many of them engineered by humans. In this book, archival documentaries provide a tool for understanding these transformations from a historical perspective. Essays, interviews, and visual materials blend multiple disciplines and academic discourse with artistic practices, offering a fresh approach to examining the complex relationship between technological interventions, climate change, and everyday life.
256 p, ills colour & bw, 17 x 24 cm, pb, English
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C3 437: Small Galleries
Isbn 20925190
Publisher ArchBan
Idea code 250489
€ 28.75
C3 437 features Small Galleries and five distinctive new projects. The Small Galeries chapter, Anti-Transparent Architecture, spotlights four small-scale exhibition spaces tucked within dense urban settings. These compact yet resonant spaces stand on their own amid extreme spatial constraints, offering an experience of “invisible architecture” that is tactile, layered, and sensorially rich precisely because it resists transparency. Projects include Space Woon Gallery and Gguggum Art Center. In the feature five distinctive new projects: a courtyard house inspired by classical Mediterranean villas; a marine research center envisioned as a passage to the hidden world beneath the sea in Mexico; a museum that reclaims the industrial legacy of a former sugar factory in Granada; three glass pavilions rising atop preserved steel structures in Shanghai; and a business center that gently nestles into the rolling foothills of its site.
240 p, ills colour & bw, 23 x 30 cm, pb, Korean/English
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C3 438: The Walls are New but the Air is the Same
Isbn 20925190
Publisher Archban
Idea code 250552
€ 28.75
For its main feature, this edition showcases three European examples of the small church typology. In their diversity, these churches – sited in the Czech Republic, Sicily, and Tenerife – illustrate the breadth of interpretations that contemporary architecture can apply to identical liturgical criteria. In addition, the magazine examines urban context, morphological rhythm, and material imagination through the theme “Continuity vs. Intermittence”, with three projects in South Korea: Seoul Theater Creation Center, Photography Seoul Museum of Art, and Elystay Boryeong. The issue also presents new projects by Benedetta Tagliabue and EMBT Architects, Colectivo C733, and more.
240 p, ills colour & bw, 23 x 30 cm, pb, Korean/English
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Paul Couch, Field Studies
Isbn 9781922601384
Publisher Uro Publications
Idea code 250667
€ 65.50
Paul Couch has long been an elusive figure in Australian architecture. For over six decades he has busied himself creating substantial works, rarely stopping to document his achievements, nor to speak of them in public. As a result, his built works have gone largely unrecognised. 'Paul Couch, Field Studies' seeks to redress this, introducing readers, for the first time in print, to one of Australia’s most significant and enduring architects. The book focuses on four major residential projects spanning the breadth of Couch’s career, from his own family home in 1975, to the Kew House completed in 2019. Each of the four projects is represented by Couch’s original hand drawings, a written essay and a photo essay.
192 p, ills colour, 21 x 28 cm, hb, English
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Chandigarh Furniture
Isbn 9782970173083
Publisher Maxitype
Idea code 250907
€ 16.35
This self-published volume presents, across 40 pages, a selection of heavily worn pieces of furniture from Chandigarh, some featuring inventive, improvised repairs. The cover, designed in Chandigarh and printed on Sri Aurobindo handmade paper, reinforces the book’s close connection to the city and its material culture. Awarded in the “Most Beautiful Swiss Books 2014,” this second edition (2025 reprint) expands the project with five additional pieces of furniture.
40 p, ills colour & bw, 21 x 30 cm, pb, English
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Norman Foster Sketchbooks Volume VI · 2001-2005
Isbn 9791399081114
Publisher Ivorypress
Idea code 250915
€ 58.90
This volume in the sketchbooks series marks the beginning of the 21st century and includes nearly 300 illustrations taken from 72 sketchbooks. As in previous volumes, the structure of the book is thematic, with the first part on architecture, arranged by individual projects, and an additional section devoted to further schemes scarcely developed in the sketchbooks. The section on professional practice has been reinstated in this volume, with parts on furniture and objects included as well. The end of this five-year period would be significant for Foster: at the age of 70, and with no intention of retiring, he reorganised the firm to become Foster + Partners in 2006.
258 p, ills colour & bw, 22 x 31 cm, hb, English
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Granular Configurations
Isbn 9783947858828
Publisher K. Verlag
Idea code 251015
€ 31.90
‘Granular Configurations’ explores the world’s most widely used – yet often overlooked – building material: sand. Gathering voices from geography, geology, social sciences, art, and the humanities, the book traces how sand moves and transforms, resisting easy capture by political and ecological systems. From extractive practices and colonial legacies to grassroots struggles and fragile infrastructures, sand emerges not just as a resource, but as an unstable force shaping the planetary urban condition. The research explores environmental speculation and emerging material and territorial configurations shaped by planetary urbanisation and the climate crisis.
302 p, ills colour & bw, 17 x 23 cm, pb, English
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Creators Climate Emergency - Fondation Thalie
Isbn 9782490505722
Publisher Manuella Editions
Idea code 251033
€ 21.50
Creators Climate Emergency invites readers into a series of rich, inspiring dialogues that unite leading artists, architects, scientists, and thinkers around the defining issue of our time: human-driven climate change. Held between 2020 and 2022, the nine conversations in this book arose during the Covid pandemic from the initiative of Nathalie Guiot, founder of the Fondation Thalie, who sought to spark a collective reflection on what can—and must—be done, and on the role artists can play in this urgent context. Curated by Stefano Vendramin, the series demonstrates the power of dialogue in shaping more sustainable futures. The invited artists are pioneers in addressing environmental issues through their practice, each paired with a counterpart whose scientific or theoretical expertise expands the discussion. At the heart of these exchanges lies a shared conviction: art holds a unique ability to illuminate, challenge, and transform our relationship with the living world, working collaboratively across disciplines to confront the climate emergency.
386 p, no ills, 16 x 22 cm, pb, French/English
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Construire l’avenir - Une architecture préservante du climat et des ressources (french ed)
Isbn 9783038630937
Publisher Triest Verlag
Idea code 250979
€ 41.95
Comment réussir la transition vers une construction respectueuse du climat et des ressources ? Cette question était au cœur d'une conférence organisée par le t-lab Wood Architecture and Wood Materials à l'université RPTU de Kaiserslautern-Landau, dans le hall d'atelier et de recherche Diemerstein. Des experts venus de France, de Belgique, d'Allemagne, du Liechtenstein et de Suisse ont exploré les voies d'une révolution de la construction, en se concentrant sur les matériaux renouvelables, la construction circulaire, les principes de suffisance et la réutilisation du parc immobilier existant. Cette publication rassemble leurs contributions et propose des stratégies pour les futures pratiques de construction. Divisée en quatre chapitres - Matériaux, Construction, Parc Immobilier Existant et Utilisation des Ressources - elle fournit des solutions et des idées pour transformer le secteur de la construction en un avenir durable.
248 p, ills colour & bw, 17 x 27 cm, pb, French
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