Architecture November 2013

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Nordic Architects - Ebbs and Flows Arvinius + Orfeus Publishing 2013 ISBN 9789198075625 Acqn 21673 Hb 21x26cm 528pp 500col ills 50 Ebbs and Flows, the second volume of Nordic Architects, features the work of 60 leading offices on the Nordic architectural scene. Showcasing their latest works, including as-yet unbuilt competition entries, this book gives an incomparable view of the present and future of the new wave in Nordic architecture. Starring studios such as BIG, Snhetta and sandellsandberg are already claiming their share of the global market with important assignments in South Korea, Russia, Saudi Arabia, and the USA, suggesting warm winds blowing from the North. Overarching themes framed by the interviews with featured offices, are the broader definition of sustainability and the mission to save the Nordic welfare state. Whether it be schools in Finland, community centers in Denmark and kindergartens in Sweden, or cultural institutions in Norway and Iceland, the resolute Nordic minds are invested in social and cultural integration and sustainable urban life. Using contextualism and multi-disciplinary, participatory design as its methodology, architecture in this Nordic sense proves to be a catalyst of social interaction and the future of cities. As author David Sokol concludes in his introduction: They all acknowledge that a building, mixed-use development, or whole neighborhood that is beloved by its community stands a better chance of enduring for generations."
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FRESH! The Irresistible Appeal of Wingardh's Architecture Arvinius + Orfeus Publishing 2013 ISBN 9789187543258 Acqn 21674 Pb 22x24cm 656pp 850col ills 50 Since their breakthrough in the mid 1980s Wingrdhs have been Swedens leading architects. They have proved constant success in innovation and evolution, while main- taining a deeply rooted pragmatic and humanistic Nordic tradition in which embracing the resources is key. Our buildings are based on responsiveness. Its a different approach, a unique approach, says Gert Wingrdh. They deal with Lean Architecture, a style of architecture which avoids excesses and does as it should, contributing to and developing the foundation of societies, writes the German architecture critic Dirk Meyhfer in one of the books essays.
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Deventer 010 Publishers 2013 ISBN 9789064507496 Acqn 19757 Pb 12x19cm 324pp 15col ills 21 In Deventer, the Netherlands, a routine real estate deal and demolition became the site of innovation and new intelligence in urban design. Not all of the endings were happy ones. This is the story of how it happened. As architecture dissolves into the blurry middle ground between individual art practice and urban planning, the profession's discourse falls apart. We lack a vocabulary for the hugely important middle ground: projects that are neither local nor global, neither temporary nor permanent, neither original (in the protean sense) nor strictly an act of preservation. Outmoded dichotomies - local/global, temporary/permanent, new/somehow-not obscure the daily challenge of designing and building real architecture. Two linked projects in Deventer help map this middle-ground: the creation and sale of an unusual development plan for a disused mid-20th century hospital complex; and the transformation of a 1956 Catholic hospital monastery into a community health center, Jozef Health Center Deventer. Deventer tells the human story that drove these projects to their checkered ends, and connects them to broader changes in the professions as a first step toward finding a vocabulary for the new scale of change in architecture.
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Megastructure Schiphol - Design in Spectacular Simplicity NAi Publishers 2013 ISBN 9789056628529 Acqn 21082 Hb 30x24cm 320pp 400ills 250col 53.50 Airports look alike all over the world. Schiphol has conformed to the patterns of the airport, but its unique design makes it stand out. The book Megastructure Schiphol looks into the history of the Netherlands most famous national airport and its sophisticated appearance. Schiphol has grown in fits and starts as a result of ever-expanding traffic in freight and passengers. The area around Schiphol is constantly evolving, yet there is great consistency in the visual aspect of this airport, which can rightly be called a megastructure. This is not merely due to the efforts of its designers, who have strived to achieve a spectacular simplicity. Other factors, such as its location in a polder and the local planning culture, have also played a role. In Megastructure Schiphol an analysis of its metamorphoses over the past century demonstrates Schiphols unique character and its function as a model for other airports. The question of how Schiphol and the surrounding metropolis can be tailored to one another is examined from the standpoint of economics, infrastructure, design and image-making.
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GA Houses 133 A.D.A.Edita Tokyo Co. Ltd. 2013 ISBN 9784871400817 Acqn 22889 Pb 23x30cm 162pp 200ills 100col 26.50 GA Houses documents outstanding new residential architecture from all over the world. Included in each issue also are retrospective looks at residential works of the past which are now considered epoch-making. With projects by Alberto Kalach, Smiljan Radic and Marcela Correa, Masahiro Takasago and Johnston Marklee amongst others.
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Suo Fujimoto - Recent Project A.D.A.Edita Tokyo Co. Ltd. 2013 ISBN 9784871406840 Acqn 22890 Pb 26x30cm 192pp 350ills 200col 36 More than 30 recent projects by Japanese architect Sou Fujimoto are presented in this edition of the Recent Project series, along with two interviews in which he considers perspectives and recurrent themes in his work, especially with regard to the 2013 Serpentine Gallery pavilion. Both realised and unbuilt projects since 2010 are explored in detail, along with urban planning proposals and exhibitions. Highlights include residences in Japan, California, Spain and Chile, the YUZ Museum in Shanghai, Souk Mirage/Particles of Light, a commercial complex in Belgrade, pavilions in Taiwan and Geneva, and gallery spaces in Berlin and Guangzhou.
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AV 162 - BIG 2001-2013 Arquitectura Viva SL 2013 ISBN 9788461655922 Acqn 22895 Pb 24x30cm 144pp 225ills 150col 36.50 According to editor Luis Fernndez-Galiano, the explosive growth of Bjarke Ingels studio evokes an expanding universe. Leader of a streamlined and motivated team, he practices a proactive architecture with a media slant, fresh and spontaneous, something more akin to a technology startup than a conventional studio. In this overview of BIGs production over the last decade and more, an optimistic portrait of the practice is formed, with the charismatic Ingels at its beating heart. Included are ten works, such as Superkilen Urban Park, the Danish Pavilion in Shanghai and 8 House, plus fifteen projects, among them the Kimball Art Centre, Telus Sky Tower and West 57th Street.
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Arquitectura Viva 155 - Spaniards In Europe Arquitectura Viva SL 2013 no ISBN Acqn 22897 Pb 24x30cm 96pp 115ills 90col 18.50 This issue features the work of emerging Spanish offices working outside Spain. Included are projects by Carlos Arroyo in Belgium, Casanova + Hernndez in the Netherlands, Carmen Izquierdo in Sweden and Ecosistema urbano in Norway.
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A.Mag Xs 04 - Vincent Van Duysen A.Mag 2013 ISBN 9789899782594 Acqn 22929 Pb 16x21cm 112pp 82ills 45col 17.50 This is the XS edition of the A.MAG magazine on the work of Vincent Van Duysen.
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C3 348 - Dwelling Shift. Serving The City C3 2013 no ISBN Acqn 22996 Pb 23x30cm 208pp 275ills 200col 22.50 Recent transformations in approaches to urban housing projects are the primary theme in this issue, which examines the contemporary paradigm shift with respect to dwellings from the standpoint of its history, the repercussions of 20th-century modernism, and the complex social phenomena involved in the conceptualisation and success (or failure) of housing projects. Examples include social housing in Paris by KOZ Architectes and Red Apple Apartments by Aedes Studio. A second theme centres around current trends in architectural realisations for municipal governments, from Wexford County Council by Robin Lee Architecture to Bilbao City Hall by IMB Arquitectos.
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Club Donny 10 - Grande Finale Club Donny 2013 no ISBN Acqn 23003 Pb 22x320cm 112pp 70ills 40col 18.50 Club donny is a strictly unedited journal on the personal experience of nature in the urban environment. Club Donny invites participants to share their personal experience on nature in cities from all over the world and offers a platform that aims to bring into the limelight observations, coincidences, stories and encounters of the obvious and sometimes endearing or absurd existence of nature in cities.
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Amsterdam Places - Interiors, Buildings And Cities Delft Architecture Series Architectura & Natura Press 2013 ISBN 9789076863672 Acqn 22923 Hb 13x20cm 368pp 200ills 42 More than half the people of the world live in cities, a percentage that continues to rise. Amsterdam, home to 180 nationalities, is hailed as an urban success story and ranked as one of the most liveable cities in the world. Yet the evolution and regeneration of Amsterdams urban space is one of the citys constant and controversial major challenges. What spatial solutions best respond to Amsterdams dynamic demographics? Improve its social, economic and cultural contexts? Fulfil its populations ever-changing requirements? For over a decade, the TU Delft architectural design programme Interiors, Buildings and Cities has run a series of research studios investigating three Amsterdam districts that are undergoing rapid and contested structural change: the abundantly green, postwar expanses of multicultural NieuwWest; fragmented and edgy, post-industrial Noord, and the charismatic, yet increasingly affluent and exclusive historic Centrum. This book charts their findings in a collection of twenty, thoughtprovoking essays by multi-specialists involved in the research studios. Historical perspectives, research and informed description and debate on the past, present and future of these three districts raise topical issues relevant to cities worldwide. The thirty student design proposals that conclude the book present a series of public interiors whose architecture seeks to promote and enhance the highly specific realities and values of each district: public spaces the population might enthusiastically endorse and appropriate for their personal or collective forms of interaction and sociability.
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Wilson Meetes Wirkkala - The Story Of Wirkkala Park Designed By Robert Wilson Aalto 2013 ISBN 9789526047577 Acqn 22945 Pb 21x22cm 172pp 100ills 50col 43.95 The narrative of Tapio Wirkkala Park, a recently completed commission in Helsinki conceived by the esteemed stage designer Robert Wilson, is laid out in chapters with titles derived from music and opera. Although the planning phase for the park lasted nine years and involved temporary, on-site rehearsals with the designer and project team, the actual construction took place during 2012. With abundant texts, photos and images, the book guides readers through the location, creators, planning and working methods, as well as the parks artistic elements. Special attention is given to the behind-the-scenes work performed by an art coordinator in order to realise works of art.
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Hiroshi Naito, Yasuhiro Ishimoto - Space, Spirits Art Design Publishing 2013 ISBN 9784903348339 Acqn 22956 Hb 26x25cm 228pp 140ills 78 With Toba Sea-Folk Museum as its primary subject, this stunning overview of four works by Japanese architect Hiroshi Naito centres upon the black-and-white images made by renowned photographer Yasuhiro Ishimoto. Upon Naitos request, Ishimoto photographed each project in detail, flawlessly capturing the moment when a particular light manifests at a certain place, when nature and building fall into dialogue. In his revealing writings, Naito not only lends detailed insight regarding his works, but also expresses his gratitude for the photographers keen eye, the warmth inherent in buildings, and the refined intervention of human endeavour in the natural landscape.
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How Much Does Your Building Weigh, Mr. Foster - 3 DVDS Ivory Press 2011 ISBN 9788493949839 Acqn 22964 DVD 15x19cm 29 +VAT For Norman Foster, the drawing is a significant analytical and working tool, a way of relating to reality and an expression of his belief that design can improve our environment and quality of life. Within this multimedia publication are emblematic projects such as the Hearst Building in New York, the Beijing Airport and 30 St Mary Axe in London. Arranged chronologically, the drawings offer a concise history of work by Foster spanning 50 years and supplement a DVD of the awardwinning documentary film directed by Norberto Lpez Amado and Carlos Carcas, plus a second DVD with more than 100 minutes of interviews and images and an audio CD of the films original soundtrack.
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Borrowed City Motoelastico Damdi 2013 ISBN 9788968010125 Acqn 22968 Pb 15x23cm 228pp 250ills 200col 18 The Borrowed City is the way private citizens use public space for personal benefit, from simply standing or walking in it to more elaborate exploitations, such as commercial or leisure activities. Once individual interaction with public space begins, our presence must be constantly negotiated with the rest of the community, something which changes according to local culture or rules and becomes self-defining, a mutual agreement among citizens. In this fascinating study, experimental space-lab MOTOElastico delves extensively into the uses of Seouls public spaces, documenting and analysing a diverse spectrum of typologies and activities through photographs, diagrams and installations.
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Gert Boon The Architecture Observer 2013 ISBN 9789081920766 Acqn 22969 Pb 17x24cm 208pp 210ills 150col 31 This monograph by architecture critic Hans Ibelings sheds light on the little-known work of Dutch architect Gert Boon, who steadfastly adhered to his principle of seeking coherence through geometry. Belonging to the same generation as celebrated names like Aldo van Eyck, Herman Hertzberger and Piet Blom, he held very decided views but rarely aired them in public. Boons work and career are documented here on the basis of his projects and archive at the Netherlands Architecture Institute, with specially commissioned photographs of buildings and interiors, such as holiday homes in Bergen, a school in Marken, a large housing complex in Arnhem and private houses.
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Lisbon Architectural Guide 1948-2013 A+A Books 2013 ISBN 9789899846203 Acqn 23012 Hb 14x19cm 374pp 500ills 41.95 This comprehensive guide to the post-war architecture of Lisbon divides the city into sixteen urban districts, organised into individual chapters with an introductory text and a map displaying the location of each selected project, which in turn are illustrated with photographs and drawings along with relevant data and explanatory text. The year 1948 saw the conclusion of the master plan for the city of Lisbon coordinated by tienne de Grer, something that has deeply marked the way in which the municipality has been organised up until the present day. The examples chosen were also considered in response to social and community interests, and avoid limited perspectives.
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Bernard Tschumi - Chronomanifestes 1950-2010 HYX 2013 ISBN 9782910385835 Acqn 23023 Pb 13x18cm 128pp 100ills 17.50 This small volume accompanies the exhibition of the same name celebrating the 30th anniversary of the establishment of the Regional Funds for Contemporary Art at the FRAC Centre in Orlans. Conceived by architect Bernard Tschumi as a series of manifestoes on the city and the most radical post-war, contemporary architecture, it gathers together notable and lesser-known artists and architects who at some point have made a proclamation a vision of the city and of architecture in an attempt to illustrate the process of this new and experimental discourse. In this way, the book narrates the logical assertion that architecture, before becoming forms, is about ideas.
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Christian Kerez - Uncertain Certainty Toto 2013 ISBN 9784887063341 Acqn 22894 Pb 19x25cm 288pp 250ills 100col 47.50 This monograph of work and projects by Venezuelan-born, Swiss-based architect Christian Kerez seeks to elucidate his particular approach, which emphasises how architecture does not exist in and of itself, but is rather a reflection of a practice of questioning, and of working with the unexpected. At its core, the things we take for granted must be seen again, in a new light. Architecture critic Erwin Viray delves into this kind of reasoning in a conversation with Kerez, while the book beautifully presents examples of his designs, among them, a high-rise in Zhengzhou, the Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw, social housing in Paraispolis and a school building in Munich.
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Ricciotti Architect Le Gac Press 2013 ISBN 9782364090415 Acqn 22904 Pb 24x30cm 350pp 200ills 150col 46 The weighty catalogue for the first solo exhibition to highlight the collected work of Rudy Ricciotti at the Cit de l'Architecture et du Patrimoine. The architect, winner of the Grand Prix National de lArchitecture in 2006, practices constructive rationalism giving a central role to form, material and structure which comes to the fore in his technical prowess and experiments with concrete. Besides interviews and critical texts by Jean-Paul Curnier, Julien Blaine and Bernard Khoury, the book includes detailed profiles and stunning photos of 30 works and projects, including MuCEM, Jean-Cocteau Museum, Jean-Bouin Stadium and the Louvre Department of Islamic Arts.
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Log 29 Anyone Corporation 2013 ISBN 9780983649175 Acqn 22865 Pb 17x24cm 160pp 156ills 85col 15 Given the social, economic, environmental, and even media demands on architecture today, how are architectural ideas sustained beyond conception to become buildings? In a special, tenth anniversary issue, Log 29: In Pursuit of Architecture presents ten outstanding architectural projects from the past decade--some well-known, others completely new--in a full-colour portfolio format that illustrates the concepts and processes of each building. Selected from an open call for work built since 2003, these buildings demonstrate a range of architectural ideas, and together open a conversation about the production and significance of architecture today. To situate the ten-project portfolio, Log 29 includes essays by four critics who reflect on recent and emerging themes in architecture and directions the discipline may develop.
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Archilab 2013 - Naturalizing Architecture HYX 2013 ISBN 9782910385828 Acqn 22913 Pb 24x28cm 296pp 325ills 250col 51.95 "Naturalizing Architecture" is the new edition of Archilab 2013. Today, through recourse to the most advanced digital tools, architects envisage projects which evolve according to principals similar to those found in nature. The architecture is therefore designed like an organism in constant adaptation, with the ability to evolve in close interaction with the material conditions of its environment. Broadly exceeding the boundaries of their practice, architects now develop a practice at the crossroads of design, computer science, engineering and biology. Conditions for production in the domain of architecture are radically redefined by this convergence, as well as by the constant evolution of the processes and tools for digital manufacturing.
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bOb Van Reeth Architect A+ Editions 2013 ISBN 9789490814045 Acqn 22957 Pb 25x33cm 158pp 250ills 100col 31 One of the most important post-war Belgian architects, bOb Van Reeth became the first Flemish Master Architect in 1999. Published on the occasion of a retrospective exhibition at the Centre for Fine Arts in Brussels, this richly illustrated book compiles 40 designs produced over the past 50 years. With numerous sketches, drawings, models and photos, it presents a cross-section of his oeuvre, a collection of notable projects spanning an entire career, from competition entries to realised works. Each is accompanied by an existing text, from draft proposals to interviews, essays, newspaper articles, student theses, and more, to reflect the broad cultural presence of his work.

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