The MIT Press 2004
126 pages Colour and B&W reproductions. ISBN 0262524325
18 x 23.5 cm English text. Softcover
Selected designs and essays document a multiyear national design initiative aimed at creating sustainable and environmentally-friendly low- and moderate-income housing. Imagine affordable homes that are both well-designed and environmentally friendly, better for the families who live in them and for the planet. The HOME House Project brings such imagining closer to reality. This book chronicles a multi-year national design initiative aimed at addressing issues of design, affordability, and sustainability in housing. Launched by the Southeastern Centre for Contemporary Art (SECCA) in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, this project challenged designers and architects to imagine a world in which sustainable and environmentally friendly materials, technologies, and techniques were considered important elements of housing for low- and moderate-income families. A SECCA-sponsored open competition in 2003 drew 440 entries from the United States and six other countries, all using Habitat for Humanity's three- and four-bedroom house plans as a point of departure for the design of affordable and environmentally friendly housing. This book, published in conjunction with a travelling exhibition, documents the 25 prize-winning designs as well as fifty other selected submissions with 396 colour illustrations. The accompanying text includes Michael Sorkin's essay connecting democratic values to quality of housing, Ben Nicholson's satiric critique of American excess, Steve Badanes's insights on the social responsibilities of architects, and HOME House Project Director David Brown's overview of the project and its continuing evolution. 2005-2006 exhibition dates: El Paso Museum of Art, April 24, 20005 - August 14 2005 Museum of Design, Atlanta, January 16 - April 15, 2006 Frederick R. Weisman Art Museum, Minneapolis, February 4 - April 30 2006 Arizona State University at Tempe in conjunction with the A.I.A. Phoenix chapter, dates to be announced Other venues to be announced. Price: £16.95
Black Dog Publishing 2005
160 pages Colour and B&W reproductions. ISBN 1904772110
25.5 x 18.5 cm English text. Softcover
Airports are cities of mobility. Their citizens are passengers who form a migratory population that must negotiate an infrastructure that is perpetually upgrading. The contemporary airport offers "laboratory conditions" to analyse the global interconnections of life in the information age.
Aviopolis is the first book-length critical study of how information, architecture, people and machines are converging into a new urban form dominated by logistics. The project presents a unique approach to the study of airports, blending cutting-edge cultural analysis with rich visual material. It will be of interest to all those concerned with current debates on globalisation, urbanism, information, architecture and the politics of mobility.
This project is a multimedia collaboration between theorist Gillian Fuller and artist Ross Rudesch Harley, featuring: original photographs of Kansai, Narita, Changi, JFK, Heathrow, Frankfurt, Schiphol, Sydney, Pudong, Dulles, and other high-traffic international airports; archival research from the birth of the jet-age; and studies of air traffic from the morning of September 11. Price: £19.95
Merrell 2005
192 pages Colour reproductions. ISBN 1858943086
27 x 35 cm English text. Hardcover
Features over sixty remarkable projects in which school children thoughout Britain have commissioned pioneering concepts from a dazzling array of international designers and architects, including Richard Rogers Partnership, Paul Smith, Will Allsop, Marks Barfield,Thomas Heatherwick,Wolff Olins, Conran & Partners, Priestman Goode and Kevin McCloud The first scheme worldwide in which client teams of children have engaged today's leading designers to respond to their everyday needs and concerns Engagingly describes and illustrates an inspiring range of projects that deal with the built environment, communications, storage, colour, clothing and identity in schools Coincides with a major exhibition of all the projects at the Victoria and Albert Museum, London, in February-March 2005 Essential reading for designers, architects, teachers and anyone who cares about the environment in which our children learn. Price: £29.95
Taschen 2004
544 pages Colour reproductions. ISBN 3822830704
17 x 22.5 cm English/French/German text. Softcover
"Content is a follow-up to SMLXL, an inventory of seven years of OMA's tireless labor. In many ways it is structured according to what its predecessor is not—dense, cheap, disposable..."
—Brendan McGetrick, Editor
This book takes place at the cusp of the 20th and 21st centuries, in the pre- and post-September 11th world. It is a singular product of its time, packed full of words and images portraying the architectural projects and metaphysical mechanics that have defined Rem Koolhaas's OMA-AMO firm over the past seven years. In the format of a small, thick magazine, this "book" is more of an anti-book, an informal tribute the ephemeral world we inhabit. Focusing on the theme "Go East," this visual journey follows OMA-AMO from San Francisco to Tokyo, traversing our massive and turbulent planet in search of "an opportunity to realize the visions that make remaining at home torturous." Price: £6.99
Laurence King 2005
192 pages Colour and B&W reproductions. ISBN 1856694038
21 x 30.5 cm English text. Hardcover
Ever taller and more dramatic, skyscrapers are being built everywhere. This book looks at contemporary examples, from the perspective of both their architecture and their engineering. The author explains the structural principles behind the creation of tall buildings and how they are designed to withstand earthquakes, high winds, fire and terrorist attack. An introduction covers the architectural and cultural history of the skyscraper, using choice examples to illustrate key engineering developments and the variety of basic design types. The main part of the book then analyzes 29 of the most interesting recent skyscrapers from around the world. Each project is illustrated in full colour, while the text, architects' drawings and details show how the each is constructed and what innovative design features it incorporates. Featured architects include Foster & Partners, Renzo Piano, Jean Nouvel and Zaha Hadid. Price: £30.00
240 pages Colour and B&W reproductions. ISBN 185669402X
25 x 25 cm English text. Hardcover
Timber is having a renaissance as an architectural material, as more architects come to understand its properties, and enjoy adding it to their repertoire of materials. With a growing crop of good new timber buildings, architects are coming to realise that this is no longer the sole preserve of the traditionalist, but a material that has an important role to play in the contemporary world. The book’s introduction examines the ways in which a raw material of diminishing quality (but abundant quantity) can be ‘stretched’ to perform as it has never done before using new technology and careful detailing. The 40 case studies are devoted to some of the most interesting new wood projects from around the world. The projects are grouped in seven themed chapters. Featured architects from around the world include Steven Holl, Foster and Partners, Rural Studio, Renzo Piano and Shigeru Ban. Price: £35.00
240 pages Colour and B&W reproductions. ISBN 1858942551
24 x 28 cm English text. Hardcover
• The most comprehensive study ever published of Modern Movement architecture in Britain – typified by the buildings’ simple, undecorated aesthetic that is free of historical styles
• Encyclopedic in scope and structure, with architect-byarchitect entries arranged A–Z and specially commissioned photographs throughout of all the major extant buildings, from private houses and apartment blocks to schools and factories
• Covers the work of such internationally well-known architects as Walter Gropius, Marcel Breuer, Eric Mendelsohn and Serge Chermayeff (all of whom went on to work in the United States), as well as such architects as Maxwell Fry, Ernö Goldfinger, Oliver Hill, Berthold Lubetkin and others who changed the vocabulary of architecture in Britain between the wars
• An essential reference for anyone interested in twentiethcentury architecture and culture Price: £35.00
Prestel 2005
320 pages Colour and B&W reproductions. ISBN 3791329731
22 x 28 cm English text. Softcover
This topical examination of a key moment in modern architecture pointedly and critically evaluates the role of the neo-avant-garde in today's world. International in scope and exhaustive in detail, the book explores important exponents of "visionary" and "utopian" architecture in the closing juncture of the modernist era, coinciding with the cultural upheavals and social transformations of the 1960s and '70s. By revisiting New Babylon, the magnum opus of the Dutch painter Constant Nieuwenhuys, whose vision of a situationist urban environment made him one of the most influential artists of this time, this collection of essays re-examines decisive work by Yona Friedman, the Archigram group, the Italian Radicals Superstudio and Archizoom, Koolhaas/Zenghelis and the Office for Metropolitan Architecture, and Leon Krier.
Timely, in depth essays and exhaustive project documentations trace the decline of the avant-garde in architecture. The result is a significant work of architectural theory and history, which will interest anyone studying ideologies of the past and dreaming the cities of tomorrow. Price: £35.00
Buchhandlug Walther Konig 2004
118 pages B&W reproductions. ISBN 3883755303
16.5 x 27.5 cm English/German text. Softcover
Philip Johnson (born 1906) was director of architecture at the New York Museum of Modern Art during the 1930s. In Layout, he converses with colleagues and curators Rem Koolhaas and Hans Ulrich Obrist about art, artists, and architects. Subjects include his legendary exhibit International Style (1932) at MOMA, the work of Schwitters, Mondrian, Finsterlin, Warhol, Duchamp and his admiration for Mies van der Rohe.
From this interview material, the artist Thomas Bayrle has created an extraordinary book, taking as its design basis the layout of the New York Times and fleshing it out with text. English and German text Price: £15.50
