Princeton Architectual Press/FORuM 2009
80 pages Colour and B&W reproductions. ISBN 9781568987859
14 x 21.5 cm English text. Hardcover
Biopolitics and the Emergence of Modern Architecture concerns the dissolution of the classical paradigm of architecture as imitative form in the context of the French Enlightenment, and analyzes the emergence of a new logic of architecture based on a biopolitical process of subject formation. Wallenstein draws especially on the late work of Michel Foucault for his argument and distinguishes Foucault's theory of biopolitics from that of Giorgio Agamben.
Published shortly after the release of the first English translation of Foucault's The Birth of Biopolitics, this is the first volume that specifically relates the biopolitical concept to architecture. The book concludes with a pictorial essay on the development over the last two centuries of the modern hospital, a building type that epitomizes the unfolding of this new architectural logic.
RRP £14.99
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DGV 2008
320 pages Colour reproductions. ISBN 9783899552256
24 x 30 cm English text. Hardcover
Strike a Pose documents a new extroverted architectural language. The iconographically charged scenes and futuristic spaces featured are playful and experimental and range from private residences to schools and operas, museums and interior design. Manifested in spectacular structures, eccentric forms and vivid colours, this expressive approach goes way beyond conventional stylistic and geographic boundaries.
RRP £45.00
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Arrow 2008
224 pages Colour reproductions. ISBN 9781905211432
13.5 x 15.5 cm English text. Softcover
A record of various London landmarks. It features such landmarks such as: The Victorian Concrete House in East Dulwich; Palmers in Camden Town; and, Strand Tube Station. Price: £9.99
Chronicle Books 2009
272 pages Colour reproductions. ISBN 9780811866446
17 x 24 cm English text. Softcover
The BLDGBLOG Book -- Nearly five million readers have visited the BLDGBLOG Web site since its inception in 2004 for stories about the past, news about the present, and speculation about the future of how humans shape their environment. The site provides intriguing details from the fringes of contemporary architectural practice in an accessible, thought-provoking, and highly entertaining manner. Here, author Geoff Manaugh presents his insights in book form, combining history, urban exploration, science fiction, design, climate change, and city planning with the view that everything is relevant to architecture. With five captivating and colorfully illustrated chapters, The BLDGBLOG Book is sure to delight and inspire the builder, the thinker, and the visionary in all of us.
RRP £16.99
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Taschen 2009
440 pages Colour and B&W reproductions. ISBN 9783836510219
33 x 26 cm English/French/German text. Hardcover
The Case Study House program (1945-66) was an exceptional, innovative event in the history of American architecture and remains to this day unique. The program, which concentrated on the Los Angeles area and oversaw the design of 36 prototype homes, sought to make available plans for modern residences that could be easily and cheaply constructed during the postwar building boom.
The program's chief motivating force was Arts & Architecture editor John Entenza, a champion of modernism who had all the right connections to attract some of architecture's greatest talents, such as Richard Neutra, Charles and Ray Eames, and Eero Saarinen. Highly experimental, the program generated houses that were designed to re-define the modern home, and thus had a pronounced influence on architecture - American and international - both during the program's existence and even to this day.
Taschen brings you a monumental retrospective of the entire program with comprehensive documentation, brilliant photographs from the period and, for the houses still in existence, contemporary photos, as well as extensive floor plans and sketches.
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AA Publications 2008
128 pages B&W reproductions. ISBN 9781902902688
11 x 18 cm English text. Softcover
Originally published in German in 1985 as Die Poetik eines Mauervorsprung, Jan Turnovsky's The Poetics of a Wall Projection is ostensibly a description of a corner within the breakfast room of the Villa Stonborough in Vienna, designed by Ludwig Wittgenstein and Paul Engelmann. But it is also much more. Working from within an established Viennese tradition (practised most famously by Krauss, Freud, Loos and Wittgenstein himself), Turnovsky's study elucidates a complex set of ideas from something seemingly trivial – in this case, an analysis of the villa's corner detail expands into a wider exploration of the logics of architectural syntax and his belief that good and poetic architecture is always also practical.
Jan Turnovsky (1941–1995) at various times worked as a carpenter, graphic designer, tenor saxophonist, poet and architectural researcher at the Architectural Association and the Technical University in Vienna.
RRP £13.00
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AA Publications 2009
160 pages B&W reproductions. ISBN 781902902708
The essays in this collection extend from her 1969 text, ‘On Pop Art, Permissiveness and Planning’ (written three years before the publication of Venturi, Scott Brown and Izenour’s seminal book Learning From Las Vegas) to ‘Towards an Active Socioplastics’ from 2007, which offers an overview of Scott Brown’s education and the gestation of her key architectural and urban ideas. In between, eight other essays from the 1970s, 80s and 90s, offer insights not only into Scott Brown’s evolving architectural imagination but touch upon the changing collective ideas and aspirations of design education and practice.
The collection is bookended by two additional texts by Scott Brown, a foreword and an afterword, addressing specifically the act of writing about architecture.
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Architectural Association Publications 2008
152 pages B&W reproductions. ISBN 9781902902524
An 'object' is a work of architecture that is expressly cut off from its environment. Objects are not exclusive to any particular architectural style, but objectification has long been central to western architecture. Indeed, it might even be said to be the very strategy by which modernism succeeded in conquering the world. It is all-pervasive because it is consistent with the aim of the prevailing economic system: to transform virtually everything into a commodity.
In Anti-Object, Kengo Kuma argues that this mindset prevents us from establishing a healthy relationship with the external world and suggests that an alternative form of architecture is not only desirable but possible as well. His approach is illustrated with a discussion of works by his office in which he has sought, by various tactics, to avoid objectification. The ideas embodied in these diverse projects have much in common with the Japanese tradition, not of 'monuments', but of 'weaker' buildings characterised by their use of natural light and natural materials.
416 pages Colour reproductions. ISBN 9783836503747
20 x 25 cm English/French/German text. Softcover
Beyond the fundamental notion of shelter, what defines a house? What are its elements and limitations? This broad-ranging selection of extraordinary dwellings shows the concept to be infinitely malleable: one house seems to hover above the ground, another is embedded in it; some have stark minimal lines, others have tropical gardens; some are palatial, others monastic. From postmodern castles to hi-tech cabins, here is a connoisseur's choice of the world's most remarkable new houses, from deepest Patagonia to the Sydney suburbs, via the USA, Europe, Scandinavia and Asia.
Featured architects/firms/artists include:
3LHD Architects, Ábalos & Herreros, Ricardo Bak Gordon, Shigeru Ban, Blank Studio, Gianni Botsford, Nancy Copley, Correia/Ragazzi Arquitectos, Durbach Block, Eastern Design Office, Fuhrimann & Hächler, Terunobu Fujimori, Sou Fujimoto Architects, Kotaro Ide, Carlos Jiménez, Jouin Manku, Kamayachi + Harigai, Mathias Klotz, Kengo Kuma, Leven Betts Studio, MOS, Mount Fuji Architects Studio, Plasma Studio, Antoine Predock, Laurent Savioz, Shim + Sutcliffe, Álvaro Siza Vieira, Philippe Stuebi, Zhang Lei, René van Zuuk and many others
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Laurence King 2009
224 pages Colour reproductions. ISBN 9781856695947
19.5 x 21.5 cm English text. Softcover
Very small buildings have a special appeal. The constraints of space and cost can actually liberate the imagination. Most of the projects in this book consist of no more than a few key spaces, in many cases just a single space. They are united only by their compact nature, the pleasure that they can provide and the intelligence that they embody. A brief introduction is followed by five thematic chapters: Public Realm, Community Spaces, On the Move, Compact Living and Extra Space. The 53 case studies include a park bench that transforms into a shelter for the homeless in Australia, an inflatable treetop structure for rainforest observation, a portable house for victims of hurricane Katrina, a transportable church in Finland and a suspended office in France.
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Thames and Hudson 2009
224 pages Colour reproductions. ISBN 9780500342510
17 x 18 cm English text. Hardcover
XS Extreme considers buildings at the edge of possibility. Sited in remote locations, built to withstand wild climatic conditions, or conceptually daring or provocative, all the structures are original, innovative and instructive.
Over forty projects are presented through accessible, witty texts, with plans, drawings and photographs. A reference section gives architect and project information. Like its precedessors, XS Extreme offers striking new ideas at a human scale that will inspire anyone keen to improve the world we build around ourselves.
RRP 14.95
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Thames & Hudson 2009
352 pages Colour reproductions. ISBN 9780500514573
20 x 25 cm English text. Hardcover
An explosively growing collectors market in design has fuelled the interest in young, emerging designers, whose work has become as highly sought after as that of established names. Around the world more and more galleries are opening to meet this new demand. The Independent Design Guide is the first publication to present these undiscovered talents and their creations to a consumer audience. 400 of the most exciting design objects by the future stars of design are presented alongside its website. For professionals and consumers alike, the book features cross-references that highlight new design trends, innovative use of materials and related objects.
RRP £24.95
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BIS Publishers 2009
250 pages Colour reproductions. ISBN 9789063692049
11 x 15 cm English text. Softcover
This inspirational book seeks to discover the architectural potential of biological structures as can be found in nature, in the world of seashells, corals, plants and animals. The structures that give biological forms strength, movement, firmness and flexibility are studied, illustrated and used as an inspiration for a huge number of design experiments, of which the thinking, working and final prototyping process is shown in this book.
The book will prove to be a useful textbook resource for teaching and research in architecture, providing a theoretical basis of form, space and structure.
The British Council 2008
124 pages Colour and B&W reproductions. ISBN 9780863556173
24 x 33 cm English text. Softcover
Home / Away: Five British Architects Build Housing in Europe is the British Pavilion exhibition for the 2008 Venice Architecture Biennale. The exhibition is curated by award-winning architecture critic Ellis Woodman and features the work of five British architecture practices: de Rijke Marsh Morgan, Maccreanor Lavington, Sergison Bates, Tony Fretton and Witherford Watson Mann.
A century ago, the UK was at the forefront of thinking about the question of housing. The garden city movement promoted by urban reformers like Ebenezer Howard and planners Raymond Unwin and Barry Parker proved influential across Europe and beyond. Home / Away addresses this legacy with the work of five architects who are designing housing in the testing conditions of the contemporary UK market, and by contrasting their experience in the UK with that of building housing in another European country.
The catalogue to accompany the exhibition features each practice’s exhibited projects as well as a history of the development of housing in Britain from 1870 to the present day, researched and written by Emily Greeves. The catalogue was designed by Laurent Benner and Jon Hares.
RRP £15.00
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192 pages Colour and B&W reproductions. ISBN 9781856695909
25 x 25 cm English text. Hardcover
For each bathroom there is an image of the whole house (placing it in context and providing a flavour of the general design style), images of the bathroom, and a floor plan showing its relation to other spaces. The pages that follow are entirely devoted to detailed drawings showing the arrangement and construction of the bathroom, in particular sections, elevations and construction details of all the fitted units and joinery. These drawings are all made to a consistent style and to a set number of scales for easy comparison. Dimensions are also included with the drawings as well as details of fitted units (baths, showers, basins, etc.). The credits for the project include contact details of suppliers so that the exact materials and fixtures can be sourced. The projects are arranged into chapters by type of dominant material: glass, steel and stone. The book will be invaluable for all practising architects as well as those considering commissioning a high-quality bathroom for their own house
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576 pages Colour reproductions. ISBN 9783836501934
19.5 x 25 cm Engkish/French/German text
This sixth installment of Architecture Now! features buildings ranging from Fujimori’s tiny (6.07 sq meters) Teahouse Tetsu to Foster’s gigantic Crystal Island in Moscow (1.1 million sq meters), providing an arching overview of today's architecture, from traditional to radically avant-garde. What is the zeitgeist, and whither architecture in this new century? Architecture Now! 6 is the reference for what's happening now and what's to come. Easy-to-navigate illustrated A–Z entries include current and recent projects, biographies, contact information, and websites.
Featured architects/firms/artists:
3deluxe, 3LHD Architects, Adjaye/Associates, Ai Wei Wei/FAKE Design, Tadao Ando, Alejandro Aravena, ARGE Grazioli Krischanitz, Shigeru Ban, Barkow Leibinger, Bernardes + Jacobsen, Olafur Eliasson, KSP Engel und Zimmermann, FAM Arquitectura, Foster and Partners, Terunobu Fujimori, Massimiliano Fuksas, Antón García-Abril, Dionisio González, Zaha Hadid, Heatherwick Studio, Herzog & de Meuron, Steven Holl, Holzer Kobler, Junya Ishigami, Toyo Ito, Jakob+MacFarlane, Carlos Jimenez, Kengo Kuma, Lassila Hirvilammi, Daniel Libeskind, LIN Finn Geipel + Giulia Andi, MIII Architecten, MADA s.p.a.m., Paulo Mendes da Rocha, Corinna Menn, Merkx+Girod Architecten, José Rafael Moneo, Morphosis, MvRdV, Manfredi Nicoletti, Valerio Olgiati, Studio Pei-Zhu, Renzo Piano, PTW Architects, Studio Arne Quinze, RCR Arquitectes, Rojkind Arquitectos, Marc Rolinet, Hans-Jörg Ruch, SANAA/Sejima + Nishizawa, Thomas Schütte, Scope Cleaver, Álvaro Siza Vieira, Snøhetta, Tonkin Liu, Bernard Tschumi, UNStudio, URBANUS, Pekka Vapaavuori, Various Architects, Wandel Hoefer Lorch, Jean-Michel Wilmotte, Riken Yamamoto, Peter Zumthor
Thames & Hudson 2006
224 pages Colour reproductions. ISBN 9780500342305
What does it mean to be green? This book, a follow-up to the cult hit XS, is a celebration of idiosyncratic small buildings, and asks what we mean by building ‘green’ and how doing so enriches the world around us.
The projects here are not only about building well, but about seeing well. They embrace the spectrum of small structures from traditional nature huts and ornamental follies, to the charmingly surreal. Buildings that look after people can also be the ones that look after the earth.
RRP £14.95
Allen Lane 2008
224 pages B&W reproductions. ISBN 9781846140051
13 x 20 cm English text. Hardcover
We live in a world drowning in objects. But what do they tell us about ourselves? The Language of Things, Deyan Sudjic charts our relationship - both innocent and knowing - with all things designed. From the opulent excesses of the catwalk, or the technical brilliance of a laptop computer, to the subtle refinement of a desk lamp, he shows how we can be manipulated and seduced by our possessions.
Sudjic delivers an exhilarating insider’s history of design as he introduces us to the world's most original innovators and reveals the hidden meanings in their work. How did the design of a pistol influence a car? Why did a chair make a cafe the most fashionable place in Paris? What can we learn from a banknote, a police uniform or a typeface? And why can't any of us decide what size to wear our trousers? In an age when the word ‘designer’ has become synonymous with the cynical and manipulative, Sudjic examines the qualities behind successful design and explores the conflicting tensions between high art and mass production.
Brilliant and courageous, The Language of Things defines the visual vocabulary of our time and gives us a powerful new way of seeing the world.
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Merrell 2009
351 pages Colour reproductions. ISBN 9781858944692
26 x 26 cm English text. Hardcover
100 Houses is a superb sourcebook of contemporary private houses of all styles in all parts of the world. From North America to Japan, and from London to Sydney, the diverse range of locations, architectural styles, scales and budgets brought together here represents the very best in domestic architecture of the past few years. Each project is generously illustrated to show all its exterior and interior features, and the houses are compellingly described by architectural critic and journalist Cathy Strongman to highlight their key characteristics and how these have been accomplished. Offering the reader a rare insight into the work of some of today's top architectural practices, this is an essential reference for architects and interior designers as well as anyone wanting to build or extend their own home.
RRP 29.95
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DGV 2009
288 pages Colour reproductions. ISBN 9783899552331
Like its successful predecessor, Spacecraft 2 showcases international projects by architects, artists and designers that meet the changing spatial needs of our modern lifestyles and that are simultaneously expanding our current understanding of architecture. This sumptuous volume further documents a dynamic range of ephemeral structures such as pavilions, art projects and exhibition spaces as well as transient architecture including mobile habitats, and vacations homes that inconspicuously adapt to their natural or urban environments.
The design community’s preoccupation with space and building beyond the limits of classical architecture is more fascinating than ever before. Like its successful predecessor, Spacecraft 2 presents projects that meet the changing spatial needs of our modern lifestyles and that are simultaneously expanding our current understanding of architecture.
This book showcases international projects by architects, artists and designers all distinguished by the unconventional use and creation of space. The dynamic range of work presented in this sumptuous volume stretches the existing concepts of temporary architecture, thus unhinging conventional definitions of spatial design.
Spacecraft 2 features modular ephemeral structures that exist only for a limited time, such as pavilions, art projects and exhibition spaces. They exemplify innovative interventions often found in public spaces and urban environments. It also presents projects that deal with the transient use of space such as studios, mobile habitats and pop-up stores that either adapt to their surrounding environments or are strikingly conspicuous.
This unprecedented compendium brings together an extraordinary collection of projects by young and little-yet-known talents and mirrors the exchange, communication and development that are engaging contemporary building practices today.
Fuel 2006
304 pages Colour and B&W reproductions. ISBN 0955006139
12.5 x 20.5 cm English text. Hardcover
This book contains highlights from Russian artist Vladimir Arkhipov’s collection of unique artifacts. Objects made by ordinary Russians inspired by a lack of immediate access to manufactured goods during the collapse of the Soviet Union.
The archive includes hundreds of objects created with often idiosyncratic functional qualities made for both inside and outside the home, such as a tiny bathtub plug carefully fashioned from a boot heel; a back massager made from an old wooden abacus; a road sign used as a street cleaner’s shovel; and a doormat made from beer bottle tops.
Featuring over 220 individual artifacts of Soviet culture, each accompanied by a photograph of the creator, their story of how the object came about, its function and the materials used to create it.
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Laurence King 2008
192 pages Colour and B&W reproductions. ISBN 9781856695701
Detail in Contemporary Kitchen Design features more than 30 kitchen designs from around the world, each created by a notable architect for a specific residence. Arranged into chapters according to the dominant material used – stone, timber and steel – each design is accompanied by an image of the whole house, clear photographs of the kitchen itself and a floor plan showing its relation to the other spaces within the house. Detailed photographs and architectural drawings show the arrangement and construction of the kitchens, and sections and elevations reveal the construction details of fitted units and joinery. These drawings have been specially created to a consistent style and to a set number of scales for easy comparison. Dimensions are included, as well as model details of all the units and appliances, with suppliers’ information so that these can be easily sourced. A selection of insightful case studies include interviews with clients, designers and manufacturers and provide an overview of the whole process of commissioning and creating a contemporary bespoke kitchen. An invaluable reference for practising architects, interior designers and students, this book is also an informative and inspirational guide for anyone who is considering commissioning a high-quality kitchen for their own home.
Taschen 2008
848 pages (2 Vols, Slipcase) Colour and B&W reproductions. ISBN 9783836500913
24 x 30.5 cm English/French/German text. Hardcover
This two-volume compilation brings together highlights from TASCHEN's groundbreaking title Building a New Millennium and the first four volumes of our renowned Architecture Now! books for a comprehensive study of architecture around the world at the beginning of the 21st century. Up-and-coming architects—tomorrow's superstars—are featured alongside the field's most respected practitioners, such as Santiago Calatrava, Herzog & de Meuron, Koolhaas/OMA, Daniel Libeskind, Richard Meier, Oscar Niemeyer, and Jean Nouvel. Price: £29.99
Thames & Hudson 2008
304 pages Colour reproductions. ISBN 9780500514382
25 x 27 cm English text. Hardcover
This wide-ranging survey considers the work of those visionaries who are reimagining the relationship between technology, design products, immersive environments and human interaction. The result is a captivating assessment of pioneering approaches in art and design that encompasses a broad spectrum of humanist values, humour, magic and sensory experiences.
Leading multi-disciplinary art and design practice Troika has selected more than 100 objects, products and installations that exemplify this progressive new wave of technologically infused art and design. The book’s bold presentation is indicative of Troika’s hands-on knowledge of these fields.
Digital by Design begins with an introduction to the new possibilities and practicalities offered by technological innovation, featuring products and cutting-edge objects by emerging and established artists, designers and engineers.
The book is completed by a collection of incisive interviews with some of the most visionary practitioners and critics in the field - Dunne & Raby, Ron Arad, Steven Sacks and Machiko Kusahara. A useful and comprehensive reference section includes designers’ biographies.
RRP £32.00
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Verlagshaus Braun 2007
1024 pages Colour and B&W reproductions. ISBN 9783938780107
24 x 38 cm English text. Hardcover. Boxed
This gargantuan tome details 1000 European buildings by 1000 European architects. A page apiece is allowed in an egalitarian work that juxtaposes well-known projects like the terrific Mirador Housing with little gems such as the enhanced climbing wall in Meiac. Timber houses, oblique stadia, a converted bunker, elegant museums, discreet crematoria and bouncy banks, this book covers a wide range of architecture right across Europe.
RRP £59.95
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avedition 2005
168 pages Colour reproductions. ISBN 3899860551
23 x 23 cm English/German text. Hardcover
New international trends in affordable but sophisticated prefab architecture. Who does not dream of owning their own home? To allow these dreams to come true and to make houses affordable, more and more planners are turning to prefabrication as a solution. Whether just individual building elements or the entire house, prefabrication makes a home of one's own possible, even with limited financial resources. Price: £22.50
192 pages Colour reproductions. ISBN 1856695190
The urge to create an individualized shopping experience is a major trend around the world and consequently a new generation of independent shops has grown up. Mostly small, they set up against the odds and have to make an effort with their exteriors, interiors and branding to attract customers. Some are a triumph of ingenuity on a low budget, while others are as glamorous as their big-name counterparts. The interiors and graphics are either created by professional designers or by the owners themselves. This trend is now so widespread that the corporate retailers who sparked the reaction in the first place are getting in on the act, commissioning one-off outlets and short-term guerrilla stores to appeal to a more savvy, funky young clientele. One-Off is the first book to address this important retail trend. It covers food, home and lifestyle, fashion and accessories, random gems and pretenders and guerrilla stores.
RRP £30.00
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aaa-Peprav 2007
360 pages Colour and B&W reproductions. ISBN 9782953075106
15.5 x 20.5 cm English text. Softcover
URBAN/ACT: a handbook for alternative practice is the outcome of the EC funded project for an European Platform for Alternative Practice and Research on the City (PEPRAV) that has been initiated by aaa in partnership with the University of Sheffield, Recyclart Brussels and MetroZones, Berlin. The book presents the work of an international network including 23 groups from France, Belgium, England, Scotland, Northern Ireland, Germany, Sweden, Holland, Spain, Croatia, Slovenia and Canada. The urban act/ing described in the book addresses the creativity and criticality of a new approach to the city which reflects a multiplicity of viewpoints and ways of doing. Price: £15.00
Hatje Cantz 2006
864 pages Colour and B&W reproductions. ISBN 9783775717113
17 x 22.5 cm English text. Softcover
After the successful first volume: volume two, about international trade concepts in the fields of urban planning, architecture, landscape architecture, media, and art.Shrinking cities have pushed urban design and classical city planning to their limits. This new challenge requires new approaches in which the "hard" tools of construction are joined by the "soft" tools of political, social, cultural, and communicative interventions.
This book provides an international overview of experimental concepts for taking action in shrinking cities from the fields of architecture, landscape architecture, urban construction, the media, performance, and art. The approaches range from artistic intercessions and self-empowerment projects to architectural and landscape interventions, and from strategies of media communication and city marketing to new legal regulations and utopian designs. A series of essays provides a critical discussion of both successful and failed projects of recent decades from such countries as the United States, Great Britain, the Netherlands, Austria, Russia, and Japan. Price: £29.99
256 pages Colour reproductions. ISBN 1856695379
Featuring more than fifty major projects designed, commenced or completed in the last four years, 21st Century House looks at diverse visions of the modern house and sets them in the context of the technologial and aesthetic concerns of todays architects. Packed with illustrations and featuring detailed architectural drawings for every project, 21st Century House covers all aspects of contemporary house architecture, from grand modernist pavilions to small urban schemes, including both the celebrated and the obscure. The book emphasises both pragmatic contemporary urban and rural architecture while also addressing the wider debates of social and environmental obligations in an examination of how the projects accommodate these increasingly important aspects of house building today. Price: £12.95
Analogue Books 2007
32 pages Colour reproductions. ISBN: 0955628405
15 x 21 cm English text. Softcover
'Sheds' contains 32 pages of Peake's recent work inspired by a fascination with primitive structures, travels in China and a recent cycling trip around Europe drawing barns, sheds and grain silos. Peake's style of drawing is characterised by amazing detail and beautifully muted colours.
Peake studied architecture at Edinburgh University, with his final thesis receiving a commendation in the Silver Medal awarded by the Royal Institute of British Architects. During and after his studies he has worked for Coldcut (Ninjatune), EMI, Eastpak, Automaton Snowboards, Ubiquity, Antiz and Andy Howell. With works published in Arkitip, Blueprint, Lodown, Creative Review, Digit, Dazed and Confused and Map Magazine. Most recently he has worked as a design tutor at the Architecture School at Edinburgh University while also working on a series of prints and billboards for Scotland's Six Cities Design Festival, the summer '08 collection for Habitat and on the artwork for the Kill Your Timid Notion music festival.
Some of his influences are: bridges, pens, different paper, colour, churches and cathedrals, notebooks, lists, benches, trees, magicians, beaches, sheds, silence, National Geographics, misunderstanding things, typing, freshly cut fields, graveyards, projections, stones and bark and night time. Price: £8.00
MoMA New York 2006
280 pages Colour and B&W reproductions. ISBN 0870704990
23 x 27 cm English text. Softcover
This publication features 36 current architectural projects throughout Spain, a country that in recent years has become known as an international centre for design innovation and excellence. The projects, all of which will be in construction in 2006, reflect diversity in geography and in the architects who conceive them-from relative newcomers to established practitioners-and also represent a wide range of scales, including a private house and a new international airport. Includes 514 illustrations. Price: £24.95
English Heritage 2006
128 apges Colour and B&W reproductions. ISBN 9781873592960
19.5 x 20 cm English text. Softcover
South Shoreditch lies just north of the City of London, at the centre of a band that has become known as the ‘City Fringe’. The area’s greatest architectural legacy arises from the furniture trade and for almost a century – from the mid-19th to the mid-20th - Shoreditch dominated the industry as the major centre of furniture manufacturing and wholesale selling to the domestic and export markets. Following the industry’s demise in the 1980s, many of its buildings have been given a new life as offices, bars or restaurants and live/work units.
Shoreditch’s proximity to the City has now led to enormous development pressures and a serious threat to the architectural distinctiveness of the area from commercial clean-sweep schemes and piecemeal interventions. In 2002 English Heritage formed a partnership with Hackney Council, the Greater London Authority and other relevant agencies to present a co-ordinated response and a strategic planning framework for South Shoreditch. This highly illustrated publication draws upon the findings of a comprehensive appraisal of the character and significance of the area. It will appeal to local residents and workers, architectural historians, furniture trade practitioners past and present, conservationists, planners, and visitors to the area. Price: £7.99
DGV 2007
240 pages Colour reproductions. ISBN 9783899551921
Spacecraft presents projects that meet the changing spatial needs of our modern lifestyles and that are simultaneously expanding our current understanding of architecture. On the one hand, the book features flexible, fleeting structures that only exist for a limited time. On the other hand, Spacecraft focuses on spaces that are used temporarily. Whether vacation homes, urban hideouts, art projects, pavilions or studios, all of the included work is distinguished by a playful, unconventional use of space.
RRP £35.00
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Laurence King 2007
240 pages Colour and B&W reproductions. ISBN 9781856694827
24.5 x 30 cm English text. Hardcover
Architectural detailing makes a building unique, and an architect outstanding. "Detail in Contemporary Residential Architecture" provides analysis of both the technical and the aesthetic importance of details in the development of contemporary residential architecture from 2000 to 2005. Featuring many of the world's most highly acclaimed architects, the book presents over 50 of the most recently completed and influential house designs. For each house there are colour photographs, plans of every floor, sections and elevations as well as numerous construction details. All the drawings are styled in the same consistent way to allow for easy comparison. There is also a brief descriptive text and detailed captions. The book also features in-depth information for each project, including the location, the floor area, the client, the architectural project team, main consultants and contractors. This work features: Concrete - Alberto Campo Baeza, De Blas House, Spain; Baumschlager & Eberle, Flatz House, Liechtenstein; Daniel Libeskind, Studio Weil, Spain; Georg Driendl, Solar Tube, Austria; Jim Jennings Architecture, Visiting Artists' House, USA; Kei'ichi Irie, Y House, Japan; Leon Wohlhage Wernik Architekten GmbH, House Voss, Germany; Pugh + Scarpa, Solar Umbrella House, USA; Tadao Ando, 4X4 House, Italy GLASS: Aranda Pigem Vilalta, Casa M-LIDIA, Spain; Ian Moore Architects, Rose House, Australia; Kazuyo Sejima, Small House, Japan; Kruunenberg Van der Erve Architecten, Laminata House, The Netherlands; Shigeru Ban, Picture Window House, Japan; and, Wood + Zapata, Private House, Ecuador. Masonry - Bruckner + Bruckner Architekten, House in the Landscape, Germany; Adjaye Associates, Dirty House, UK; Carlos Ferrater, Casa Tagomago, Spain; John Pawson, Tetsuka House, Japan; MADA s.p.a.m., Father's House, China; Olson Sundberg, Chicken Point Cabin, USA; and, Will Bruder, Sky Arc House, USA. Steel: Aranda Pigem Vilalta, Bellows House, Spain; Architecture Research Office (ARO), Colorado House, USA; Julie Snow, Koehler Residence, Canada; Lorcan O'Herlihy, Vertical House, USA; Mack Scogin Merrell Elam, Mountain Tree House, USA; Marin & Trottin, Artifice/MR House, France; Shuhei Endo, Springtecture B, Japan; Troppo Architects, Rozak House, Australia; Tsukamoto Lab + Atelier Bow-Wow, Gae House, Japan; Werner Sobek, House R128, Germany; and, WPA Inc, Villa Lucy, USA. Timber: Alvaro Siza Vieira, House in Oudenbourg, Belgium; Antonius Lanzinger, Single Family House, Austria; Bernard Quirot and Olivier Vichard, Maison Convercey, France; Drew Heath, Zigzag Cabin, Australia; Edge Design Institute Ltd, Suitcase House, China; Fougeron Architecture, Jackson Family Retreat, USA; Kengo Kuma, Bamboo Wall House, China; Martin + Martin, La Vega House, Spain; Patkau Architects, Agosta House, USA; Stutchbury and Pape, Verandah House, Australia; RoTo Architects, Gompertz Residence, USA; Sean Godsell, Peninsula House, Australia; and, Smith-Miller + Hawkinson, Mustang Meadow, USA. Aluminum, Bamboo, Plastic, Rubber, and Straw: Abalos + Herreros, Studio Gordillo, Spain; Kengo Kuma, Plastic House, Japan; Masaki Endoh + Masahiro Ikeda, Natural Ellipse, Japan; Sarah Wigglesworth, Stock Orchard Street House House, UK; Simon Conder Associates, Rubber House, UK; and, Steven Holl, Turbulence House, USA.
Phaidon 2008
512 pages Colour and B&W reproductions. ISBN 0714848204
21 x 24.5 cm English text. Hardcover
The late twentieth century was the age of economic globalization. The first part of the twenty-first century will be the age of the city, the urban age. For the first time in the history of humanity, more than half of the earth’s population is living in urban areas. Questions regarding the shape, size, density and distribution of the city have become increasingly complex and politicized, and the impact of the built environment on social inclusion and quality of life are at the forefront of discussions about urban planning.
These are the issues that have led to the creation of The Urban Age Project, a network of organizations, individuals and research projects that focus on sustainable development in the world’s cities. The project gathered a group of internationally renowned professionals for six conferences held in six international cities – New York, Shanghai, London, Mexico City, Johannesburg and Berlin – to discuss the future of the contemporary urban environment. The conferences offered a platform from which to discuss how architects, urbanists and politicians should plan infrastructure and development without constraining growth and promote a better social and economic life.
This book is the result of the discussions and extensive research produced for these conferences. The research is clearly presented alongside informative texts written by some of the greatest professionals in the field of architecture, urbanism, economics and politics, including Richard Sennett, Saskia Sassens, Rem Koolhaas, Deyan Sudjic and Ricky Burdett, and is richly illustrated with photographs, maps, diagrams and statistics. The book is produced in close collaboration with the London School of Economics to ensure that all the information presented is accurate and reliable, and the accessible design ensures that this book will become the essential reference tool for everyone involved in urban planning and development.
Thames & Hudson In association with The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles 2008
272 pages Colour reproductions. ISBN 9780500513187
21.5 x 32.5 cm English text. Hardcover
The first comprehensive examination of the many overlaps and visual and intellectual principles that unite fashion and architecture
In recent years, the boundaries between architecture and fashion have become increasingly blurred, and this beautifully illustrated new book explores the intersections and concepts that underlie the two disciplines. Both architecture and fashion are based on the human body and on ideas of space, volume, and movement. Each functions as shelter or wrapping for the body – a mediating layer between the body and the environment-and can express personal, political, and cultural identity.
Fashion designers and architects share much of the same vocabulary and similar techniques of construction: pinning, darting, folding, wrapping, draping. Fashion designers have always been able to achieve complex, often architectonic garments using fabric. Today, many architects are looking to fashion and techniques of tailoring as they attempt to achieve more and more complex forms using hard materials.
The book focuses on the period 1970 to the present and includes approximately forty architects and fashion designers from the United States, Europe, and Japan. The featured designers include Rei Kawakubo, Issey Miyake, Junya Watanabe, Alexander McQueen, Hussein Chalayan, Tom Ford, Jean Paul Gaultier,Vivienne Westwood, and Azzedine Alaia, among others. The architects include Herzog & de Meuron, Zaha Hadid, Frank Gehry, Rem Koolhaas, and Eisenman Architects.
Actar 2007
384 pages Colour and B&W reproductions. ISBN 849654043X
12 x 16 cm English text. Softcover
Created for students and professionals to inspire changes in how new buildings are designed and constructed, the Self-Sufficient competition challenged participants to design a self-sufficient and ecologically oriented dwelling. In the early 20th century, the concept of “dwelling” was defined as a “machine for living”, a reference to a new way of understanding the construction of inhabitable spaces that characterized the Machine Age. Today, a century later, we face the challenge of constructing a sustainable or self-sufficient dwelling, a living organism that interacts with its environment, exchanging resources, and which functions as an entirely independent entity. The Institute for Advanced Architecture of Catalonia (IAAC) has collected a selection of entries presented during its 1st Advanced Architecture Contest: Self-Sufficient Housing.
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Carnegie Museum of Art 2007
112 pages Colour reproductions. ISBN 0880390476
23 x 28 cm English text. Softcover
Gritty Brits: New London Architecture examines the works of six young, London-based architectural firms: Adjaye/Associates, Caruso St John Architects, FAT (Fashion Architecture Taste), Níall McLaughlin Architects, muf, and Sergison Bates architects. These practices operate in and about the city’s post-industrial East End and their work responds to the vibrant diversity of contemporary culture and urban life. Price: £15.00
352 pages Colour reproductions. ISBN 1856695204
19.5 x 25 cm English text. Softcover
Interior architecture is not about cosmetic surgery but about complete organ transplant. The individuals and companies featured in this book are not only working with surface and appearance but also in the control of shape, space, services and identity. Jennifer Hudson An invaluable introduction to the key names and projects in contemporary interior architecture, this book covers the work of 55 international practitioners. It includes both the firmly established and the up and coming; the classic and the more experimental. For each entry there are 6 pages with a short text consisting of a critical appraisal as well as full biographical details. This is followed by images of the key works by that designer concentrating on the more recent but also the most iconic where relevant. The featured designers are those who control the shape of public spaces, services and identity to reflect the demands of the 21st century.
Laurence King 2006
256 pages Colour reproductions. ISBN 1856694534
20 x 22 cm English text. Hardcover
Featuring more than fifty major projects designed, commenced or completed in the last four years, "21st Century House" looks at diverse visions of the modern house and sets them in the context of the technological and aesthetic concerns of today's architects. Packed with illustrations and featuring detailed architectural drawings for every project, "21st Century House" covers all aspects of contemporary house architecture, from grand modernist pavilions to small urban schemes, including both the celebrated and the obscure. The book emphasises both pragmatic contemporary urban and rural architecture while also addressing the wider debates of social and environmental obligations in an examination of how the projects accommodate these increasingly important aspects of house building today. Price: £19.95
Prestel 2006
176 pages Colour and B&W reproductions. ISBN 3791335294
22.5 x 28.5 cm English/German text. Hardcover
The seventy residential complexes featured in this volume are widely considered architectural milestones, embodying forward-thinking attitudes towards urban planning. This book chronicles the evolution of these structures, revealing how each one best represented its era's goals and ideals. It also looks at this century’s most progressive developments including Beijing’s Looped Hybrid, a city within a city; India’s Aranya township, which provides housing for impoverished residents; the environmentally friendly Solaire Apartments in Manhattan; Maxwell Fry’s Kensal House, Hubert Bennett’s Roehampton and Norman Foster’s Albion Riverside Development in London, among others. As today’s cities face myriad global challenges, this book provides ample food for thought for anyone concerned with socially responsible architecture. Price: £35.00
224 pages Colour and B&W reproductions. ISBN 185669495X
19.5 x 21.5 cm English text. Hardcover
Actar 2006
192 pages B&W reproductions. ISBN 8496540502
17 x 22 cm English text. Flexicover
Architecture needs mechanisms that allow it to become connected to culture. It achieves this by continually capturing the forces that shape society as material to work with. Architecture's materiality is therefore a composite one, made up of visible forces (structural, functional, physical) as well as invisible forces (cultural, political, temporal). Architecture progresses through new concepts that connect with these forces, manifesting itself in new aesthetic compositions and affects. Ornament is the by-product of this process, through which architectural material is organized to transmit unique affects. This book is a graphic guide to ornaments in the twentieth century. It unveils the function of ornament as the agent for specific affects, dismantling the idea that ornament is applied to buildings as a discrete or non-essential entity. Each case operates through greater or lesser depth to exploit specific synergies between the exterior and the interior, constructing an internal order between ornament and material. These internal orders produce expressions that are contemporary, yet whose affects are resilient in time.
RRP £17.99
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Thames & Hudson 2007
224 pages Colour reproductions ISBN 9780500342336
23 x 25 cm English text. Hardcover
Can architects, designers, landscapers and artists make a real difference to people’s quality of life? If so, what are the best ways to address the problems of today’s societies – their lack of infrastucture, good-quality housing, resources and community spirit?
Through over twenty case studies this book constructs a picture of worldwide attempts to address these problems – projects that often use minimal resources to effect the maximum possible change, with the most precious resource being imagination.
Some of the ideas are breathtakingly simple:–
• a mobile farm in Chicago that turns vacant lots into a source of food and employment
• a remote Japanese mountain village making a profitable virtue out of snow
• water pumps in south African villages operated by a child’s roundabout
– others rely on more subtle interventions, working over years to rebuild the broken ties of society and encouraging communities to take responsibility for their own environments.
Brimming with ideas, inspiring stories, and the conviction that design professionals can indeed make a difference to the lives of ordinary people, this book will galvanize all those working in architecture, landscape and design, but also all those who care about the future of our societies.
RRP £29.95
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Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther Konig 2005
224 pages B&W reproductions. ISBN 3865600042
16.5 x 26 cm English text. Softcover
In Iconocity Aglaia Konrad examines the phenomenon of metropolitan space with infectious enthusiasm. Examples of local utopias, programmatic modernism and euphoric pragmatism are strung together avidly in quick succession into a visual essay on an unmistakably contemporary form of living, the city. Price: £21.00
Actar 2005
1408 pages Colour and B&W reproductions. ISBN 8495951851
16 x 22 cm English text. Hardcover
KM3 is a story about a world that is densifying. Very dense. KM3 is a city that is continuously under construction, with space for limitless populations and possibilities. A city that continues to serve all desires, that enlarges our capacities. Beyond scarcity. Beyond separation. Beyond pessimism and protectionism. A city that will lead to a new programmatic "skin" around the globe, swelling beyond the horizontal, surging vertically. The 3D City. A free fall in endless space. Pure depth. Without escape. Yet. KM3 is a hypothesis, a theoretical city, and a possible urban theory.
Three dimensionality can be seen as architecture’s fundamental existence, the profession’s acclaimed domain. In times of globalization and scale enlargement, an update of this definition seems needed: meters turn into kilometers, M3 becomes KM3. Price: £48.00
Prestel 2005
194 pages Colour reproductions.ISBN 379133297X
20.5 x 25 cm English text. Flexicover
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Architourism looks at why the world's most interesting buildings are becoming the hottest destinations for today's travelers. In the last few decades architecture has become a major focus for travelers, rather than merely a part of a larger itinerary. Illustrated with nearly one hundred color photographs, this series of provocative essays and contributions by leading scholars, critics, architects, and artists explores the role of architecture in the contemporary tourist imagination.
From Mont Saint Michel and the Taj Mahal to Bilbao's Guggenheim Museum and the Blur Building in Switzerland's Lake Neuchâtel, the authors focus on how certain iconic buildings have found their way into the cultural consciousness. At the same time they offer insights as to why other buildings, such as Minnesota's Mall of America and the faux architecture of Las Vegas, have become integral to their regions' tourist economy-and postulate how this success will influence architecture of the future.
Contributors include: Marc Auge, Diller + Scofidio, Hans Haacke, Silvia Kolbowski, Lucy R Lippard, Martha Rosler, Bernard Tschumi Architects, McKenzie Wark Price: £19.99
240 pages Colour reproductions. ISBN 1856694798
23.5 x 29 cm English text. Softcover
In recent years there has been a remarkable evolution in the design of hotels, with mainstream hotel chains rejecting characterless functionalism in favour of style-led individualism. This book gathers together over 40 of the best examples of hotel architecture and interiors from around the world, illustrating the impressive diversity of styles and forms. The chapters focus on designer and art hotels, business hotels, hideaway hotels, resort and entertainment hotels and luxury hotels. Featuring the latest work by Michael Graves, Jean Nouvel, Andrée Putman, Philippe Starck and other top names, the book is a bible of style for architects, interior designers and the hotel industry. Price: £19.95
Actar/ Musac 2007
192 pages Colour and B&W reproductions. ISBN 9788496540705
20 x 26 cm English text. Flexicover
This publication focuses on Sanaa’s housing projects, both finished (House A, S House, House in a Plum Grove, Small House and Moriyama House), and unfinished projects (Flower House, Garden & House, Seijo Apartments, Ichikawa Apartments, House in China and Eda Apartments). SANAA's architecture embraces complexities within deceptively simple appearances. It has many elements that are impossible to understand unless actually “experienced”. In contrast with modern architecture, SANAA has many aspects that cannot be revealed in “representative” media such as plans, models, and photographs. The “representations” of their architectural works incorporate ambiguity and chronological elements. This characteristic makes Sanaa one of the most innovative offices in the current architectural panorama.
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Merrell 2006
224 pages Colour and B&W reproductions. ISBN 1858943221
24 x 28 cm English text. Hardcover
The new office building designed by Foster and Partners for client Swiss Re at 30 St Mary Axe in London is already a well-established icon on the City skyline. Intelligently conceived, innovative in design and construction, and environmentally progressive, there can be few offices worldwide that have earned such affection from the public. This major new book tells the fascinating story of the genesis, development and public reception of one of the world’s most radical buildings – winner of over ten major awards, including the prestigious Stirling Prize. Price: £35.00
192 pages Colour reproductions. ISBN 185669478X
26 x 26 cm English text. Softcover
A toast to the world’s hippest nocturnal venues, this new book explores cutting-edge interiors that provide the setting for the vibrant nightlife of international cities. Featuring sections on Bars and Restaurant Bars, Hotel Bars and Clubs, it contains an introductory essay that places the development of bars and clubs in a socio-historic contact. The lively commentary on each project examines the individual design responses to the differing venues. Price: £17.95
Hatje Cantz 2005
736 pages Colour and B&W reproductions. ISBN 3775716823
From Great Britain, Belgium, Finland, and Italy to Russia, Kazakhstan, and China, cities are shrinking everywhere. While urban-planning debates of recent years have mainly focused on the growth of the megalopolis, in other places zones of shrinkage were actually developing. Enormous population losses and high unemployment contribute to this process, which is further accelerated by globalization and the transition to post-Socialism.
This book examines the causes and dynamics of the shrinking process for the first time on an international level. Citing concrete examples from Manchester and Liverpool in Great Britain, Detroit in the United States, Ivanovo in Russia, and Halle and Leipzig in Germany, it compares living conditions and cultural change in shrinking urban regions. Artistic intercessions help sensitize the public to a global phenomenon which poses a completely new social challenge. Price: £29.99
NAi 2005
200 pages ISBN 9056624075
14.5 x 22.5 cm English text. Hardcover
The spread of capsular civilization is a worst-case scenario that is taking shape before our very eyes, without us even being aware of it. In the face of the speed of our technology, the suburbanization of our daily lives and the ever more extreme but poignant polarization of our society, we feel obliged to return to the capsules of our vehicles, in architectural cocoons or urbanistic enclaves: malls, gated communities, amusement parks.
Since September 11, the war in Iraq and the War on Terrorism, it has been almost impossible to dissociate architecture from its political and social context. Add to this the massive influence of capitalism on architecture, the disturbing demographic developments and the associated political, social and ecological catastrophes, and you get the robotic snapshot of a society dominated by fear, exclusion and simulation.
De Cauter sketches a realistic and alarming account of the new world order that is an everyday concern for the architects and planners of the contemporary city as well as for its inhabitants and users. Price: £18.50
Thames & Hudson
160 pages Colour and B&W reproductions. ISBN 0500342164
21 x 25 cm English text. Hardcover
'No one had ever conceived of building a mirror on this scale before, and perhaps no one could guess what an endless series of pictures that mirror would reveal.'
– Lewis Mumford
When it was completed in 1952 along New York's East River, The United Nations Building stood as a symbol of world humanitarianism, a beacon of unity after the Second World War.
More than 50 years on, the 39-story building is regarded as one of the pinnacles of mid-century modernism. Its magnificent public spaces and assembly halls, as well as its impressive collection of art by Chagall, Henry Moore and many others make it one of the most visited sites in New York.
On the celebration of the United Nations' 60th anniversary, and before a long period of renovation, this book presents a portrait of this fascinating building. Specially commissioned photography and an illuminating text bring alive the the spaces which have played host to the historic aspirations, speeches, debates and gatherings that have been central to the world's development since 1945. Price: £24.95
Skira 2005
208 pages Colour and B&W reproductions. ISBN 8876242651
25 x 28.5 cm English text. Hardcover
Provides an overview of Richard Buckminster Fuller's design and architectural production, situating Fuller's projects in their historical context. The author's essay offers an in-depth analysis of Fuller's work - as well as an interesting perspective on post-war American society and architectural culture. Price: £34.00
Thames & Hudson 2005
256 pages Colour reproductions. ISBN 0500342121
20.5 x 22.5 cm English text. Hardcover
Profiling Britain’s most dynamic and intriguing practices, 'Anglo Files' follows the successful formula of 'SuperDutch' and 'Swiss Made', presenting the best up-and-coming architects at work in the UK today.
Unique to this survey of young British architects is the synthesis of foreign cultures with local conditions and sensibility; many of the architects featured here hail originally from outside the UK.
Fourteen studios are fully profiled, each presented in recent projects shown in detail through photographs, plans and computer renderings. The profiles are bookended by two essays, one that considers the context for the work, and one that discusses a number of fledgling studios who are beginning to make a mark in the fields of urban design and public housing.
The distinctive qualities of this book, together with its relevance to contemporary architectural practice everywhere, will make it a core volume for any architecture list.
Adjaye Associates, Alison Brooks Architects, Allford Hall Monaghan Morris (AHMM), Caruso St John, de Rijke Marsh Morgan (dRMM), Deborah Saunt David Hills Architects (DSDHA), FAT, Kathryn Findlay, Foreign Office Architects (FOA), Gollifer Langston, Klein Dytham architecture (KDa), muf, Serison Bates, S333 Price: £24.95
MAK Vienna 2005
116 pages B&W reproductions. ISBN 3775716645
30 x 21 cm English/German text. Hardcover
"System Wien is an experimental sketch of Vienna's 1st District, and shows how it might find a way to change, even radically ..." Lebbeus Woods
New York architect Lebbeus Woods (*1940), founder of the Research Institute for Experimental Architecture (RIEA), is deeply involved in architectural theory and experimental architecture. Instead of approaching individual building plans in terms of feasibility and functionality, he develops visionary projects that embrace science, philosophy, and art. His design process, a complex intellectual model also inspired by science-fiction icons, has influenced generations of architects.
Woods' sets his hypothetical projects in zones of crisis and violence, for he believes that the architect's task is to design spaces and urban structures that react to the full range of human living conditions.
The starting point for this transdisciplinary treatment is a series of architectural interventions on the urban structure of Vienna, which Woods conceived especially for the MAK. The accompanying essays provide a broader context for this project, while referring to fundamental aspects of the work and ideas of one of the most important architects of our time. Price: £19.99
August 2005
184 pages B&W reproductions. ISBN 1902854217
13 x 19.5 cm English text. Softcover
Short stories, letters and notes written by architects, artists, educationalists, design tutors, clients, makers and developers have been put together here to illustrate how, by asking more questions than is often deemed necessary or appropriate, extraordinary, unpredictable and arguably better work can be created. All of the contributors rate the use of collective imaginations highly. They actively seek to explore and build upon differences in understanding and have a shared desire to speculate. This book is a celebration of that particular kind of energy, subtlety, skill and ingenuity that is employed (sometimes) in creating the built environment. Its purpose is to serve as a reminder of what is possible, of the importance of re-defining personal roles and of re-inventing daily working practices.
Contributions by David Greene, Cedric Price, Sand Helsel, Bruce McLean, Kevin Gray, Matty Pye, Richard Wentworth, Feliks Topolski, Dickon Robinson, Ben Morris, Roger Zogolovitch, Nicholas Royle and David Rosen. Price: £12.95
The MIT Press 2005
242 pages B&W reproductions. ISBN 0262693224
23 x 23 cm English text. Softcover
In the 1960s, the architects of Britain's Archigram group and Archigram magazine turned away from conventional architecture to propose cities that move and houses worn like suits of clothes. In drawings inspired by pop art and psychedelia, architecture floated away, tethered by wires, gantries, tubes, and trucks. In Archigram: Architecture without Architecture, Simon Sadler argues that Archigram's sense of fun takes its place beside the other cultural agitants of the 1960s, originating attitudes and techniques that became standard for architects rethinking social space and building technology. The Archigram style was assembled from the Apollo missions, constructivism, biology, manufacturing, electronics, and popular culture, inspiring an architectural movement -- High Tech -- and influencing the postmodern and deconstructivist trends of the late twentieth century.
Although most Archigram projects were at the limits of possibility and remained unbuilt, the six architects at the center of the movement, Warren Chalk, Peter Cook, Dennis Crompton, David Greene, Ron Herron, and Michael Webb, became a focal point for the architectural avant-garde, because they redefined the purpose of architecture. Countering the habitual building practice of setting walls and spaces in place, Archigram architects wanted to provide the equipment for amplified living, and they welcomed any cultural rearrangements that would ensue. Archigram: Architecture without Architecture -- the first full-length critical and historical account of the Archigram phenomenon -- traces Archigram from its rediscovery of early modernist verve through its courting of students, to its ascent to international notoriety for advocating the "disappearance of architecture."
Simon Sadler is Associate Professor of Architectural and Urban History at the University of California, Davis. Price: £22.95
280 pages Colour and B&W reproductions. ISBN 849595186X
18 x 24.5 cm English text. Softcover
In its latest issue, Conditioning, the groundbreaking and visually engaging architecture "boogazine" (It’s a book and a magazine!) Verb investigates the ramifications of architectural signification. As our ability to control the production of form and the creation of environments begin to parallel that of natural processes, architecture is not only conceived as a platform for the development of human activity, but more and more as its generator and possibly also its limiting framework.~To investigate these bracing notions, Verb spans the globe, exploring the entertainment recreations of a Las Vegas casino and the hermetic communities of Biosphere 2 and Grimshaw's Eden project as well as the experimental environments of Enric Ruiz-Geli (Villa Nurbs) and Makoto Yokomizo's soap bubble inspired Tomihiro Hoshino Museum, a square containing 20-odd cylindrical spaces. As in other industries ranging from computer applications to car manufacturing, mass-customized theming in architecture infiltrates the way buildings are conceived and used. If this trend is inevitably linked to commercial success, how will that affect the discipline? The thoughtful, cutting-edge Verb Conditioning will keep you on your architectural toes. Price: £23.50
Princeton Architectural Press 2005
176 pages Colour and B&W reproductions. ISBN 1568985126
12.5 x 18 cm English text. Softcover
If...Then: Architectural Speculation is the sixth in an annual series of publications featuring work by talented architects selected by The Architectural League of New York's Young Architects Competition jury. This year, entrants were asked to explore the process of architectural speculation: the act of imagination that precedes every work, projecting future events in a space that does not yet exist. The winners of the competition—Fernando Romero; Tobias Lundquist; Anthony Piermarini and Hansy L. Better Barraza; Keith Mitnick, Mireille Roddier, and Stewart Hicks; Tom Wiscombe; and Gail Peter Borden—take on this challenge and creatively address the social and political assumptions surrounding architectural production through a rethinking of site, program, form, technology, and materials. Price: £16.99
Valiz 2005
176 pages Colour and B&W reproductions. ISBN 9080818550
24 x 17 cm English/Flemish text. Hardcover
Interview by Hans van der Beek.
If Heren 5 (translated as "5 gentlemen") were a boy band instead of an architecture firm, they’d cover Burt Bacharach’s "A House Is Not a Home." This vital Dutch architecture firm has taken great pains to tailor their residential projects--whether luxury apartments or elder-care centers--to the inhabitants' ideas about how feel "at home." Heren 5 is not interested so much in having its own "image" or "signature" as in designing buildings that suit the needs of the future residents and of the particular site. ~In this book, seven striking portraits of Heren 5 building occupants, in both interviews and in the beautiful photographs of Kees Hummel, illustrate that philosophy. In addition to providing detailed project documentation, the book gives the results of a survey of 620 occupants of Heren 5 buildings. This degree of attention to client constituent concerns about community and privacy, among other issues, is what sets the firm apart from others and signals a new paradigm, an approach that will appeal not only to architects but to those who commission and live in those structures as well. Price: £18.95
144 pages Colour reproductions. ISBN 8495951967
17 x 21.5 cm English text. Hardcover
The design for the new Management Headquarters by Massimiliano Fuksas, for Ferrari S.p.A, was the winning project in an International Competition.Construction of the new Ferrari Complex in Maranello, home town of the Ferrari factoria and the Scuderia Ferrari, started in 1997 with completion of the 150,000 square meter area planned for 2005.
The general concept behind the project was to create an environment that would bring the employees closer to nature. Water, bamboo, ecological materials and biotechnology were the main factors in Massimiliano Fuksas' design of new Management Headquarters. The main image of the building will be the shallow pools of water, bordered by rows of slender bamboo, that separate the two main volumes. The pools will reflect the light from the floor above through asymmetrical glass boxes that contain the vertical circulation and, at the same time, provide the structural elements for the suspended upper level.
To further emphasize the idea of suspension the upper level is cantilevered 7 meters over the entrance and reception area. The new Management Headquarters building will be situated by the future main entrance between the "Wind Tunnel" building, designed by Renzo Piano, and the "Meccanica Building", designed by Marco Visconti.
The first building at the new Ferrari Complex site was a "safe" low red brick building, placed next to the old vest entrance. In 1998 the first high-tech building "Wind Tunnel" by Renzo Piano was completed and in 2001 construction started on the "Nuova Officina Meccanica" designed by Marco Visconti Price: £22.50
Edinburgh University Press 2005
354 pages B&W reproductions. ISBN 0748614885
15.5 x 23.5 cm English text. Softcover
Aims to rekindle elements of Utopianism through the study of utopian visions This book is a dramatic account of utopian visions of the city in the twentieth century. It explores their radical demands for new spaces and ways of living, and considers their effects on planning, architecture and struggles to shape urban landscapes. Such visions, it shows, have played a crucial role in informing understandings and imaginings of the modern city. The book critically examines influential traditions of utopian thought associated with such figures as Ebenezer Howard and Le Corbusier, uncovering the political interests and anxieties that lie behind their ideal cities. Alongside their proposals it also sets avant-garde perspectives including those of the surrealists, who challenged fundamental conceptions of urbanism in western Europe. At the heart of the book is an original encounter with the explosive ideas of the situationists. Tracing the subversive practices of this small group, it convincingly explains the significance of their revolutionary attempts to transform urban space and why they still matter today. The book not only recovers vital moments from the past hopes and dreams of modern urbanism, it also contests current claims about the 'end of utopia', arguing that reconsidering earlier projects can play a critical role in developing utopian perspectives for the future. Price: £17.99
360 pages Colour and B&W reproductions. ISBN 0500342083
19.5 x 25 cm English text. Hardcover
ArchiLab has established itself as one of the world’s most important showcases of young architecture talent. The fourth ArchiLab catalogue – published to coincide with the major exhibition at Tokyo’s Mori Art Museum – presents the very latest projects of the rising avant-garde, focusing in particular on architecture in the city.
ArchiLab’s Urban Experiments continues the tradition of breaking conventions to explore new territories of design around the world. This ambitious publication assembles several generations of visionary architecture in a compact format that makes for accessible student research and boundless inspiration for practitioners.
Here are hundreds of seminal works by ninety architects, ranging from the groundbreaking experiments of Rem Koolhaas, Zaha Hadid, Peter Cook, Daniel Libeskind and Co(op) Himmelblau alongside a new generation of rising geniuses, including Asymptote, NOX, UN Studios and Greg Lynn.
Contributors: Hitoshi Abe Vito Acconci Actar Arquitectura Tadao Ando Paul Andreu Jun Aoki Archigram Archizoom Asymptote Shigeru Ban Daniel Buren Chanéac CJ Lim + Studio 8 Constant Nieuwenhuys Peter Cook Coop Himmelb(l)au Guy Ernest Debord Décosterd & Rahm dECOi François Dallegret Neil Denari Diller + Scofidio Pierre Du Besset & Dominique Lyon DzO Peter Eisenman David Georges Emmerich Shuhei Endo EZCT Architecture & Design Research Didier Fiuza Faustino Yona Friedman Vittorio Giorgini David Greene Zaha Hadid Itsuko Hasegawa Pascal Häusermann Haus-Rucker-Co. Eilfried Huth & Günther Domenig IaN+ Arata Isozaki Toyo Ito Jakob + MacFarlane Jones Partners Architecture KOL/MAC Studio Kiyonori Kikutake Rem Koolhaas Tom Kovac Kengo Kuma Kisho Kurokawa Daniel Libeskind Antti Lovag Fumihiko Maki Robert Mangurian Gordon Matta-Clark Morphosis Eric Owen Moss Taeg Nishimoto + Allied Architects NOX Objectile ONYX ONL (Oosterhuis_Lénárd) Claude Parent Périphériques Dominique Perrault Gianni Pettena Walter Pichler Martin Pinchis Ricardo Porro Arthur Quarmby Franco Raggi Dagmar Richter Studio R&Sie... Michele Saee Ionel Schein Eckhard Schulze-Fielitz Kazuyo Sejima + Ryue Nishizawa/SANAA Servo Graham Stevens Antoine Stinco Superstudio Pierre Székely Kenzo Tange Bernard Tschumi James Turrell & Studio Works UFO UN Studio Makoto Sei Watanabe James Wines & SITE Hideyuki Yamashita Shoei Yoh Price: £24.95
304 pages Colour and B&W reproductions. ISBN 8495951606
16.5 x 24 cm English text. Softcover
A compilation of the most recent European architecture. A sort of optimist’s manifesto about the possibilities and challenges of present-day architecture. Influenced by the new digital context, architects reconsider their work in very different ways, but all believe firmly in the material results of architecture.
Works by Actar Arquitectura, njiric + njiric, Neutelings Riedijk Architekten bv, NL Architects, Peripheriques, IaN+, WMA Willy Muller Arquitectos, Abalos & Herreros, Lacaton & Vassal, Duncan Lewis, R&Sie...Francois Roche, Federico Soriano (S&Aa), NO.MAD, Vicente Guallart, MVRDV, UN STUDIO, NOX, FOA Price: £27.99
Phaidon 2005
560 pages Colour and B&W reproductions. ISBN 0714840459
22 x 25 cm English text. Hardcover
Born in Estonia in 1901, Louis Isidore Kahn was to become one of the United States’ most important architects of the post-war period, alongside the Modern masters Mies van der Rohe, Walter Gropius and Le Corbusier. Although renowned for a number of seminal modern works, he came to question many of the precepts of the Modern Movement. In particular, he questioned the ability of the International Style of Modernism to house the social spaces required by the latter half of the century.
In 1947 Kahn was appointed Professor at Yale University. He was to continue teaching throughout his architectural career, influencing a younger generation of architects along the way. His teaching enabled him to further develop his own concepts and to inform his ever-evolving definition of design. He was drawn to investigate monumentality in architecture, creating buildings out of heavy, solid materials and forms and incorporating vivid plays of light, in complete contrast to the lightweight glass and steel structures being created elsewhere by his peers. This monumentality was also imbued with his concern for the ritual of human experience. His career, although extending to just over twenty years, was a rich and varied one, where he continually readdressed the issues of light, mass, structure, monumentality, geometry and materials.
This monograph follows a predominantly chronological order, identifying major themes and examining key works according to these themes. A comprehensive list of projects by Kahn spanning his lifetime and drawn from the Louis I Kahn Collection at the University of Pennsylvania Archives is also included, listing over 231 projects, of which at least c30 were previously unattributed. Price: £49.95
164 pages Colour reproductions. ISBN 8495951630
18 x 25 cm English text
OMA's design for the Seattle Public Library--one of the firm's most heavily anticipated projects to date--begins with a radical rethinking of the very nature of the library. If the library exists today as a threatened sanctuary, it has been done in by its own stubborn reliance on one kind of literacy and its consequent blindness to other emerging forms that increasingly dominate our culture, especially the huge efficiencies and pleasures of visual intelligence. Rather than merely package this traditional institution in a new way, OMA has completely reinvented it, transforming it wholeheartedly into a site able to aggressively orchestrate the coexistence of all available technologies for collecting, condensing, distributing, reading, and manipulating information. The library will no longer be loyal to the book... In more architectural terms, the $156 million building has an angular, meshlike glass and metal skin that surrounds a series of floating public spaces: a kid's area at the bottom; a living room for browsing, public meeting areas, and a coffee shop; a mixing chamber where patrons can work intensively with librarians; and a reading room at the top with views of Mount Rainier and Puget Sound. In between these platforms are a series of programmatic boxes containing the more stable, or fixed, parts of the library program, including a continuous four-story book spiral where the entirety of the library's books will be stored.This third book in Actar's series of Verb monographs reveals how the Seattle Public Library works, and examines it in terms of new media technologies that have changed the status of the library in the contemporary city from a traditional repository for books to an "information store." Also included is a comprehensive account of the design process, from initial concept through construction to ribbon cutting. Price: £20.00
Rakennustieto Oy 2005
384 pages Colour and B&W reproductions. ISBN 9516826296
19 x 25 cm English text. Softcover
The essays included in Encounters range from considerations of identity and intention to technology and nature, from standardized systems of construction to phenomenological approaches to architecture. Several essays, previously given as lectures, are published here for the first time. An equally careful selection of images, drawn from architecture, theatre and visual art, accompanies the essays. Price: £32.00
Black Dog Publishing 2005
280 pages Colour and B&W reproductions. ISBN 1904772102
21.5 x 30.5 cm English text. Hardcover
The pressure to build new homes has not been greater since the years of post-war reconstruction. Housey Housey fills a gaping hole in the market by presenting a collection of design concepts for contemporary homes which are not only forward-thinking, appealing, and responsive to modern needs, but also buildable, both on an individual basis and at a larger scale.
Pierre d'Avoine Architects have been developing critically acclaimed new ideas about housing for 20 years. This book brings together the rich and diverse fruits of that work for the first time in a clear and easily understandable format. Housey Housey puts across subtlety, refinement and erudition of a design approach based in a spirit of social enquiry that is wide-ranging in its cultural and architectural references. As a 'pattern book' of design concepts for modern living this collection takes inspiration from a long tradition of disseminating knowledge about architecture and construction in a from aimed at, and accessible to, experts and lay people alike. Price: £24.95
Laurence King 2005
240 pages Colour reproductions. ISBN 1856694011
23.5 x 29 cm English text. Hardcover
The public's appetite for new and excitingly designed hotels is insatiable. Never before have hotels been so earnestly responsive to the zeitgeist. How else can we explain the latest trends in design which at one extreme increasingly blur the border between lodging, lifestyle and living theatre, and at the other seek to reinvent the more discreet manners and style of the grand hotels of the late 19th century? 21st-Century Hotel highlights the latest examples of these trends and more as the international hotel sector finds newer and more imaginative ways to invent and reinvent itself in order to match the mood of the moment. A large-format bible of style for architects and interior designers, this book outlines the very latest developments in types of hotel design and then showcases the best on international scene through five themed chapters. It features 37 unusual projects from the cream of the design and architectural world. Price: £45.00
Black Dog Publiahing 2005
208 pages Colour and B&W reproductions. ISBN 1904772153
23.5 x 28 cm English text. Softcover
Since its foundation in 1987, Bennetts Associates has won numerous awards for its work and has established itself in the UK as one of the leading architects of its generation, but this is the first book to examine the firm’s ethos and the themes behind its buildings.
Four aspects of Bennetts Associates’ work are considered in depth – Perception, Form, Construction and Process – drawing on over 30 built projects in detail, as well as many others in various stages of design and construction. These projects, include Hampstead Theatre, the Wessex Water Headquarters, Brighton Central Library and the New Street Square development in the City of London.
Each of the underlying themes is examined in turn by four well-known writers or commentators – academics Richard Weston and Peter Carolin, design process theorist Frank Duffy and art consultant Vivien Lovell. Price: £24.95
