Thames & Hudson 2002
192 pages Colour and B&W reproductions. ISBN 0500341885
27 x 23 cm English text. Hardcover
Ever since the discovery of the cave, humans have made use of nature’s geological formations. Only recently, however, have developments in structural engineering made it possible to engage the earth’s surface as a building element in its own right.
With an increasing awareness of our planet’s limited natural resources, the most acclaimed architectural practices from around the world are building into the earth and merging man-made forms with the contours of the land. The results are at once preternatural and breathtaking. From Zaha Hadid’s Tram Terminal in France to Snøhetta’s Bibliotheca Alexandrina in Egypt, from Future System’s hill-burrowing house in Wales to Antoine Predock’s Spencer Theater in the United States, over fifty projects displayed here expose the breadth and depth of this new direction in architecture.
Aaron Betsky first considers our historical preoccupation with communing with the land through building, then four central chapters – ‘Engineered Utopias’, ‘Caves and Caverns’, ‘Unfolding the Land’ and ‘A New Nature’ – explore the ways in which ‘geotecture’ responds to, becomes a part of and yet remains distinctive within our natural landscape.
Landscrapers reveals some of the most important, influential and appealing building forms for today and the future.
Price: £29.95
Actar 2002
184 pages Colour reproductions. ISBN 8480033460
22 x 28 cm Englsih text. Softcover
Photographs, diagrams, infographs, this catalogue offer a stimulating overview of Jean Nouvel's rich conceptual and formal universe, looking at his personal aesthetic of glass and inmateriality, of the real and the instantaneous and of his "precise mists" from differing viewpoints. It also looks at his most important buildings and other projects, including unrealised ones and those in the course of construction, in order to appreciate his permanent willingness to go beyond predefined limits. The catalogue is strategically divided into five thematic sequences. First the atlas. The saturation of the space, which brings one directly into the depth and density of the constructed work. Then the multiplicity, the range. The urban cause is assuredly the essential question for Jean Nouvel, underlying all his projects, exemplified here by the two urban projects for Paris, Seine Rive Gauche (the Left Bank) and the Stadium of France. The facts: eleven emblematic buildings are revisited, from the Institute of the Arab World to the Gasometer of Vienna. And finally the office. Taking up the theme of the studio, it carries out an inventory: archives, files, databanks, storing inside computers the memory of over two hundred projects, conceived over some twenty years. Price: £35.99
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Birkhäuser 2001
96 pages Colour and B&W reproductions. ISBN 3764364505
12 x 19 cm English text. Softcover
In the last twenty years we have seen radical changes take place in the design of buildings. Present-day constructions are incorporating more and more elements which are "intelligent", providing a high degree of flexibility. Electronic systems control the regulation of light, temperature and energy flows, security devices are automated, even facades and the internal structures are becoming "intelligent".
More recently, the advances in Information Technology are making what was once considered futuristic a very real possibility. "Building automation", where everything within an edifice is integrated and linked up is examined and investigated in this publication, providing a concise overview of the latest developments which will be helpful for both architects and engineers. Price: £9.50
Laurence King 2002
240 pages Colour reproductions. ISBN 1856692205
23 x 32.5 cm English text. Hardcover
Computers have revolutionized architecture, raising issues that are forcing a paradigm shift in the profession. Intially seen as a positive breakthrough that would make previously inconceivable explorations possible, computer-aided design programmes are increasingly being viewed as a mixed blessing that should be carefully accommodated so that architects retain creative identity. A fascinating introduction expolores the theory behind cyberspace and traces the effects that the worship of technology has had on society. This is followed by five chapters exploring different aspects of the computer in architecture. Themes discussed include the computer as a design tool; Frank Gehry's pioneering use of the CATIA programme, first developed to design fighter planes; the results of letting the computer lead the design process; the graphic backlash led by Moore, Ruble, Yudell; and the place of the computer in education, with examples of student projects from the University of Southern California School of Architecture. The book features prominent projects by Gehry, Fric Own Moss, Morphosis, Foster and Partners, Nicholas Grimshaw and Partners, and others. Price: £35.00
208 pages with CD-ROM for Windows and Macintosh Colour and B&W reproductions. ISBN 3764364165
28 x 24 cm English text. Hardcover
33 innovative projects show the vast potential of CAAD for the future. Edited by Professor Maia Engeli and with a contribution by Professor Gerhard Schmitt, both of the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH Zürich), this book presents 33 exciting new projects which demonstrate the growing significance of CAAD for today's architects. Divided into 5 main chapters: Design in Space and Time; Learning and Creative Collaboration; Virtual Environments; IT and Practice; and Blurring Boundaries, the projects illustrate how computers can be used innovatively and creatively in designing physical, virtual and hybrid architecture. Particular emphasis is placed on the interaction between man and computer, and also on the aesthetic aspects.
The book is accompanied by a CD-Rom which documents the design processes through animation sequences, demonstrating the dynamic features of the projects. Whilst these tools, installations and multi-media projects have arisen out of the field of architecture, they exceed the narrow confines of this discipline to touch upon areas such as interior design, graphic design and information technology. The designs presented are colourful and complex, seeking to fire the imagination in creating a fitting environment for today's society. Price: £29.99
Springer Verlag 2001
104 pages Colour and B&W reproductions. ISBN 3211834923
18 x 21 cm English text. Softcover
By means of his experimental designs, Masahiko Yendo analyses "liveable-in space" under the changing and occasionally limiting conditions of today's global culture. In doing so, the architect, who, in 1989, won the "Sidney Katz Award" for design, goes to the limits of what is technically possible, sometimes probing even further. Fascinating at the same time, Yendo finds, is the unavoidable decay of each and every product through its daily use and against the emblematic background of human needs and desires. For Yendo, architecture is, too, always a manifestation and instrument of individual and social transformation. This volume, edited by Lebbeus Woods, documents the last ten years of Yendo's experimental work. Much of it is based on lectures held at the Pratt Institute, New York, the University of Innsbruck, the Bartlett School of Architecture, London and the Southern Institute of Architecture (SCIARC) in Vico Morcote, Switzerland. Price: £20.00
Hatje Cantz 2002
176 pages Colour reproductions. ISBN 3775712402
25 x 28 cm English/German text. Softcover
This book documents a decade-long cooperation of the internationally renowned photographer Gerald Zugmann with the architectural team COOP HIMMELB(L)AU. The architects, who call themselves "post-industrial expressionists", frequently base their work on spontaneous and psychographic images and models. The volume illustrates the thinking and working process by means of photographs of numerous projects. The development of COOP HIMMELB(L)AU forms may be traced by means of pictures of models in various stages of experimentation.
Preface by Boris Groys, text by Christian Reder Price: £29.95
Collegi d'Arquitectes de Catalunya 2003
448 pages Colour and B&W reproductions. ISBN 8488258887
15 x 19.5 cm Englsih/Spanish text. Softcover
Architecturanimation is a hybrid gaze to the connections between architecture and animation techniques. This concept aims to foster the reflection and debate on issues related to the acts of doing and imagining contemporary architecture.
Essay: readings on the meeting of architecture with animation and the meeting of animation with architecture. Price: £23.99
Harry N Abrams 2003
400 pages Colour and B&W reproductions. ISBN 0874271312
22 x 28 cm English text. Hardcover
Among the most talked-about names in contemporary architecture, the firm of Diller + Scofidio has, since 1980, redefined what architecture can be. Through site-specific, highly conceptual works such as the acclaimed redesign of the famed Brasserie restaurant in New York City's Seagram Building, to the "Blur" building created for the Swiss Expo 2002 and composed entirely of mist, the firm has consistently challenged and expanded the role of architecture and design in our technology-oriented environment. In this comprehensive survey of the work of this internationally recognized firm, ten of Diller + Scofidio's most important site-specific pieces are examined, along with several of the artefacts they have created in order to examine issues of gender, surveillance, place and travel. With essays by respected scholars and a contribution by contemporary artist Laurie Anderson, this illustrated volume offers a look at the work of Elizabeth Diller and Ricardo Scofidio. Price: £30.00
Skira Editore 2003
248 pages Colour and B&W reproductions. ISBN 8884915694
17 x 21 cm English text. Hardcover
At the heart of the avant garde in architecture and design during the late 1960s and 1970s, the radical Italian design group Superstudio is equally influential today. Founded in Florence in 1966, Superstudio challenged the modernist orthodoxy that architecture and technological advances could change the world for the better by creating alternative visions of the future in photo-montages, sketches, collages and films. Equally pessimistic about politics, the five members of Superstudio questioned its ability to solve mounting social, cultural and environmental problems. This exhibition, drawn from Superstudio's archive and curated in collaboration with members of the group, will revisit its work and trace its influence on subsequent generations of architects from the Memphis collective in mid-1980s Italy, to Rem Koolhaas and Foreign Office Architects today. Price: £19.95
154 pages Colour reproductions throughout. ISBN 8495951169
20 x 30 cm English/French/German text. Hardcover
New structures enhancing Berlin's reunification process, these two buildings and the premises that connect them are buried within an orchard of apple trees, thus dissolving their status as objects, and creating a void that attracts new recreational activities. Price: £12.50
224 pages Colour reproductions. ISBN 0500 341915
30.5 x 24 cm English text. Hardback
At the beginning of the twentieth century, a new vision of architectural space was born. New construction methods eliminated the need for interior partitions, enabling modern architects to break free from spatial constraints and traditional limits to design houses that were unbound, dynamic and open.
The first half of this book explores the evolution of the open plan in the work of well-known American and European architects. From Frank Lloyd Wright's breaking of the suburban box to Le Corbusier's dynamic purist spaces, architects abandoned self-contained rooms and discarded traditional social and familial constraints.
Gerrit Rietveld and Mies van der Rohe made attempts to open the house, philosophically as well as physically. In the 1950s, Rudolf Schindler, Richard Neutra and Oscar Niemeyer replaced windows with glass walls; the Case Study Houses in Los Angeles offered casual, free-flowing space and a seamless integration of exterior and interior. The open house had arrived, and today, Shigeru Ban's minimalist retreat perched in the hills of Japan, or LOT/EK's industrial vernacular duplex in New York prove it is alive and well.
Twelve projects by today's leading international architects, including Ben van Berkel and Caroline Bos, Patkau Architects, Robert Mangurian and Mary-Ann Ray, Wes Jones, Daly Genik, Kuth Ranieri and Glenn Murcutt, are showcased in full-page colour photographs that illustrate and celebrate the enduring relevance and formal variety of the open house.Air Guitar: essays on art and Democracy. Price: £40.00
Birkhuaser 2001
240 pages Colour and B&W reroductions. ISBN 3764366567
24 x 28 cm English/German text. Softcover
What can innovative, highly experimental and brand oriented architecture achieve today? The answers here are formulated by architects, construction engineers and marketing experts using two examples from the International Motor Show, Frankfurt.
For some years the architecture of buildings has been discovered as a potential form of brand communication. The automobile industry in particular has made use of such "communicative" architecture to give expression to brand image. This book investigates the underlying concepts and processes by examining the pavilions of two makes of car - BMW and the Mini- - at the International Motor Show in Frankfurt. Their pavilions, Dynaform + Cube were designed using High-End software to create free-form shapes. The realisation of these forms proved highly challenging, but just a few years ago such utopian designs would have been considered impossible to build.
Eighteen authors have contributed generously illustrated reports; architects and engineers have shed light on the plans, structures, the construction, and also on the less tangible furnishings such as the films; marketing experts explain the significance of architecture in brand communication. With in excess of 600 colour illustrations and an accompanying CD Rom containing video sequences from the projects, this publication will be of interest to readers active in architecture, the construction industry and marketing. Price: £29.99
Andreas Papadakis 2003
144 pages Colour and B&W reproductions. ISBN 1901092127
26 x 32 cm English text. Softcover
Contemporary currents in architectural theory and practice in their dialogue in the time and state of in between, as Wolf Prix describes it. Essays by Jean Baudrillard, Kenneth Frampton, Lionel March and Franco Purini; projects by Asymptote, Hadid, Hasegawa, Hollein, Ito, Philip Johnson, Foster and Partners, Renzo Piano and Pran. Price: £17.50
Thames & Hudson 2005
352 pages Colour reproductions. ISBN 0500285217
16.5 x 21 cm English text. Softcover
A complete guide to beautifully conceived, ecologically sensitive and consumer-friendly furniture and objects for everyday use.
Whether you are interested in design or the sustainability of our environment, building a house or looking for new furniture, whether your office is buying stationery supplies or looking for ergonomic chairs, here is a complete resource, invaluable for the broad consumer market and design professionals.
• Completely revised and updated
• 570 detailed product listings
• 125 specially selected materials
• Information on hundreds of designers, manufacturers and green organizations
The Eco-Design Handbook offers the best-designed objects for every aspect of the home and office, including environmentally sound materials and building products. Some pieces are prototypes, some have already become classics; others have been discovered from far-away or unexpected places or difficult-to-find one-person studios.
The book contains an introduction that puts forward the history of green design and the latest eco-design strategies, and addresses the search for international standards. Two sections are devoted to detailed illustrated descriptions of furniture and objects for domestic living and products for the office or work-related activities, a third section is a catalogue of eco-materials, and the fourth part is a vast reference resource, including detailed listings of manufacturers, design studios and green organizations; a checklist of eco-design strategies; further reading; and a glossary of useful terms and concepts.
Easy-to-use information panels for each product and a cross-referencing system tie all the book’s sections together, while a comprehensive index enables the reader to find any product, designer or manufacturer instantly. Price: £16.95
