BIS Publishers 2004
144 pages Colour and B&W reproductions. ISBN 9063690592
10.5 x 15 cm English text. Softcover
Folding is a relatively new trend in architecture. It is very playful way of designing, which offers free rein to spontaneity and surprise during the design process. The book Folding Architecture - spatial, structural and organizational diagrams gives insight into the possibilities together with results of the research the architectural faculty of the TU in Delft has conducted into this technique since 2001. The technique of folding in contemporary architecture is vividly illustrated with a survey of much-discussed concepts, projects and buildings in which this technique was applied. Compulsory for every architect wishing to design outside the mainstream. Sophia Vyzoviti is an architect and teaches design method at the architectural faculty of the TU in Delft. Price: £8.99
Actar 2003
648 pages Colour and B&W reproductions. ISBN 8495951223
18 x 22 cm English text. Hardcover
This volume is an enlarged version of the Spanish edition and seeks, as its predecessor, to identify a new architectural will and a new social and cultural panorama. It aims to contribute to forming a vision that is global - but not necessarily absolute - of what is already showing itself to be a new architectural action, related to that coined as "advanced culture", present in various art disciplines, thought and technology. It talks about an architecture inscribed in the information society and influenced by the new technologies, the new economy, care of the environment and interest in the individual. The diversity of the authors and the special contributions should be seen as an initial decision aimed at promoting the intersecting and collaboration of visions and proposals along these lines. Price: £31.99
Ludion 1998
160 pages Colour and B&W reproductions. ISBN 9055440981
23.5 x 31 cm English text. Hardcover
Paul Robbrecht and Hilde Daem's work is both multifaceted and multilayered. The Architects stand for the autonomy of an architectural order, while at the same time continually exploring its boundaries.
Paul Robbrecht and Hilde Daem have been appointed architects for London's Whitechapel Gallery expansion due to open in 2007. See www.whitechapelgallery.org for more details Price: £34.99
MAK, Vienna 2003
192 pages Colour and B&W reproductions. ISBN 3775713646
24 x 32 cm English/German text. Softcover
Zaha Hadid. Architecture is published on the occasion of the exhibition of the same name at the MAK in Vienna. The book is the first to document the artist´s newest projects and presents an extensive overview over the oeuvre of one of the most renowned exponents of contemporary architecture: Zaha Hadid, who has always been in search of a visionary aesthetics covering all areas from urban planning to interior and furniture design.
This publication contains numerous color illustrations of designs, models and - as yet mostly unpublished - Major Paintings by Hadid as well as photographs of buildings realised and under construction, granting profound insights into all stages of project development from the abstract concept to its technical implementation. The texts by the architecture critic Andreas Ruby and Patrik Schuhmacher, a Zaha Hadid Architects, London, project partner, are integral parts of the book shedding profound light onto the architect´s oeuvre.
Another special feature is the documentation of the installation Ice-Storm especially developed for the MAK exhibition, a "space experiment" with a surface area of 300 m2, a weight of eight tons and height of seven metres, providing the audience with a possibility for an active approach to Hadid´s radically new language of form and space. Price: £29.99
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160 pages Colour and B&W reproductions. ISBN 8495951371
17 x 22 cm English/Italian text. Softcover
This book is a description of the project by Massimiliano Fuksas and Doriana Mandrelli of the Emporio Armani shop in Hong Kong, Chater House.
Architecture and fashion are aspects of our reality that originate from the same universal culture. Architecture appears to be permanent whereas fashion is ephemeral, but the acceleration of our society puts these values in competition. The Emporio Armani in Hong Kong refuses any form of traditional architectural formalism. The real inspiration is not the decoration, but the fluxes inside the shop. Price: £19.99
NAi Publishers 2002
160 pages Colour and B&W reproductions. ISBN 9056622676
12 x 20 cm English text. Softcover
In this essay Hans Ibelings identifies and examines a new tendency towards abstract, neutral architecture, which in many ways can be seen as the last word in the modern architecture of the post-war International Style. Observable in work by OMA, Jean Nouvel, Dominique Perrault, Herzog & De Meuron and Toyo Ito, among others, this development can be related to one of the dominant forces of the present time: the globalization taking place in almost every aspect of life. After postmodernism and its deconstructivist offshoot, a new architecture seems to be emerging in which such postmodern notions as place, context and identity have lost their meaning.
Almost five years since its initial appearance Ibelings' essay has in no way lost its relevance, in fact the developments in international architecture he describes have only taken firmer root. In a new last chapter Ibelings charts the latest examples of supermodernism. In the revised introduction and conclusions he responds to the numerous reactions his provocative stance has triggered. With editions in Dutch, Spanish, English, Italian and soon Portuguese, and with combined sales approaching 17,500 copies Supermodernismis a runaway success. It is particularly popular in architecture schools - all the more reason, then, for publishing this new enlarged edition. Price: £15.00
Laurence King 2003
240 pages Colour reproductions. ISBN 1856692957
25 x 25 cm English text. Hardcover
After a century largely dominated by discussions of space and form there is now renewed interest in the material aspects of architecture. Backlashing against the digital and virtual wave, there is a fresh emphasis on the material qualities of buildings while, ironically, it is the information technologies that allow the architect direct control over what happens on the building site once more. The early chapters of the book survey the field historically and explore the theory of materials and form. These are followed by seven thematic chapters and a well-illustrated discussion of the future of materials with examples chosen from contemporary architecture. The book aims to excite students, and architects to take more interest in this often neglected aspect of architecture. It counters the tendency to think of materials as a ‘technical’ issue by addressing the subject historically and critically, linking cultural ideas to technical means. Price: £35.00
18.5 x 23.5 cm English text
Covering all aspects of japanese architectural interiors including retail, domestic spaces, offices, cafes, bars and restaurants.
Price: £17.95
400 pages Colour reproductions. ISBN 393771801X
Essential reference on lounge design from around the world. Interior shots from airports, clubs, hotels, offices, trade fairs. Price: £17.95
400 pages Colour reproductions. ISBN 3937718087
Interior shots from numerous new clubs in the UK, Europe and US.
Verso 2003
148 pages ISBN 1859844642
13 x 18.5 cm English text. Softcover
Wherever and whenever state and church, state and autocracy, political and architectural ambition have met and loved one another hungrily, domes have raised their imperious, lofty heads.
At once magnificent and messy, old-fashioned and ultra-modern, opulent and squalid, London is something of a mongrel city, cross-bred over the centuries from cut-throat commerce, high finance and unrestrained creativity. For all its inventiveness, however, it is now also a city unable to provide its citizens with decent public transport, housing or services, beset and betrayed by governments who take from it but refuse to give back.
In the lead-up to the much-hyped Millennium, a fortune was spent on lavish building projects—giant wheels, great courts, titanic art galleries, ambitious museums, a Brobdingnagian dome—but little in the way of public services, intelligent urban planning and infrastructure except by default.
Has the right kind of money been spent on the wrong sort of projects? Who, in this pluralistic age, will cut through the layers of bureaucracy to restore some of the city’s unruly splendour?
In this elegant and polemical book, the architecture critic Jonathan Glancey explores London’s Millennial follies and asks how and where London might now channel its energies. Combining anecdote and analysis with a sustained critique of the way the city is governed and financed, he draws a detailed picture of the state London’s in and speculates on how it might be transformed. Price: £7.00
Lawrence King 2003
208 pages Colour and B&W reproductions. ISBN 1856692965
Small houses are no longer synonymous with cheap houses and lack of privilege. Instead, they symbolize a range of culturally coded values: compactness, efficiency, discrimination, discreteness, minimalism. Opening with a detailed exploration of the social and historical background behind compact housing in the twentieth century, this book goes on to feature 37 illustrated case studies that represent some of the best examples of small houses built worldwide within the past decade. Plan areas range from 7 to 150 square metres (75 to 1615 square feet) and each project embodies a particular design approach towards compact accommodation. The case studies are organized into three chapters – Rural Retreats; Urban and Suburban Bases; and Small Clusters and Multiples – and include work by such architects as Toyo Ito, Lacaton & Vassal, LOT/EK and Kazuyo Sejima. Price: £35.00
Black Dog Publishing
304 pages Colour and B&W reproductions. ISBN 1901033589
15 x 21 cm English text. Softcover
ROAM is an unconventional 'reader', looking at 'the Aesthetics of Mobility'. Ideas about what it is to 'roam' are explored by looking at a range of material, from theoretical texts to magazine style snippets of information. Against an architectural understanding of urban spaces and mobility, ROAM also engages with discourses from art, cultural studies, design and politics. In line with its unconventional approach, the texts in ROAM are designed to be read at different speeds. Design projects are inter-spliced with essays and sound bites, provoking the reader with new views about our increasingly mobilised society. Contributors to ROAM include: the photographer Andrew Cross, whose images of trucks and trains evoke the landscape and nostalgia of US road movies; current work by acclaimed architect Zaha Hadid; younger architectural practices such as Monolab and NL Architects; animations by Geoffrey de Crecy; and the design collective FAT. Price: £19.95
