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AA Publications Cedric Price Works 1952 – 2003 A Forward-Minded Retrospective Edited by Samantha Hardingham Published in conjunction with the Canadian Centre for Architecture (CCA), this anthology brings together for the first time all of the projects, articles and talks by British architect Cedric Price (1934 – 2003). A chronological arrangement places Price in postwar England, illuminating how cultural, social and political factors conditioned his work from the outset and then shaped its development as his practice changed from the 1960s – 90s. Full project descriptions are set alongside illustrations, many previously unpublished. Content material is drawn from the original work, now largely held in the Cedric Price Fonds at the CCA to present the munificence of Price: thinker, philosopher, artist and unparalleled raconteur.
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Autumn 2016 Two vols (912 pp and 528 pp) Extensive col & b / w ills 310 × 240 mm, hardback & paperback in slipcase 978-1-907896-43-9 £ 1 50
AA Publications
AA Publications
In Progress: The IID Summer Sessions
Memo for Nemo
Edited by Irene Sunwoo Co-published with the Graham Foundation
William Firebrace
The International Institute of Design (IID) was an independent school of architecture founded and directed by AA chairman Alvin Boyarsky from 1970 – 72. In Progress details this short-lived experiment and reveals how three informal architectural gatherings, held over three summers, helped to establish a new model for architectural education. February 2017 272 pp, extensive col & b / w ills 297 × 215 mm, paperback 978-1-907896-45-3 £ 25
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Memo for Nemo is an account of the human inhabitation of the undersea, in fact and fiction. It takes as its starting point Jules Verne’s novel Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Sea, with the Nautilus submarine and its captain Nemo – inventor, explorer, oceanologist, gastronome and terrorist. An analysis of this undersea is paralleled by a fictitious history of films such as The Abyss, The Life Aquatic and other hallucinogenic delights. June 2016 222 pp, b / w ills 225 × 140 mm, paperback 978-1-907896-54-5 £ 20
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AA Files 73
AA Files 72
AA Files 73 features essays on Luigi Moretti, by Fabrizio Ballabio and Alessandro Conti, on the oddness of William Butterfield, by Nicholas Olsberg, on Palladio’s battle formations, by Gabriela García de Cortázar, on the mathematics of Shinohara’s houses, by Hans Frei, a conversation with Alberto Ponis, and multiple oral histories on the life and work of Patrick Hodgkinson.
AA Files 72 features essays by Irénée Scalbert on the nature of gothic, Davide Spina on Casa Malaparte, Mario Tedeschini-Lalli on Saul Steinberg’s years in Italy, Emma Letizia Jones on Schinkel’s panoramas, Nicolas Kemper on Isaiah Berlin’s architectural responsibilities and a conversation with the Russian paper architect Alexander Brodsky.
December 2016 172 pp, col & b / w ills 297 × 245 mm ISSN 0261 6823 978-1-907896-82-8 £ 1 5
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June 2016 176 pp, col & b / w ills 297 × 245 mm ISSN 0261 6823 978-1-907896-81-1 £ 1 5
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AA Agendas: Rituals and Walls – The Architecture of Sacred Space
Tales from the Dark Side of the City Box Set
Edited by Pier Vittorio Aureli and Maria Shéhérazade Giudici
Unknown Fields
This book is the result of a year-long investigation of sacred space developed within the AA’s Diploma Unit 14. It consists of design proposals that range from a multifaith school in Strasbourg to the reconstruction of a festival hall in the city of Xian, China; from a Jesuit monastery in Detroit to a women’s Islamic centre in Paris.
This six-book set presents the work and travels of the AA’s Unknown Fields, a nomadic design studio that ventures into the shadows cast by the contemporary city to uncover the industrial ecologies and precarious wilderness its technologies and cultures set in motion. The series forms an atlas to the territories and stories of a global city that sits between fact and fiction.
October 2016 272 pp, extensive col & b / w ills 310 × 240 mm, paperback 978-1-907896-63-7 £ 30
9 78 1 907 896637
October 2016 Six-book set, 64 pp each, col & b / w ills 170 × 240 mm, hardback in a slipcase 978-1-907896-90-3 £ 40
9 78 1 907 896903
AA Publications Tales from the Dark Side of the City, individual titles
AA Book 2017
The Breastmilk of the Volcano 978-1-907896-84-2
AA Book 2017 offers an overview of the AA’s 2016 / 17 academic year and features hundreds of drawings, models, installations, photographs and other materials documenting the world’s most international and experimental school of architecture.
Never Never Lands 978-1-907896-85-9 A World Adrift 978-1-907896-86-6
June 2017 Extensive col & b / w ills 978-1-907896-92-7 £ 25
Treasured Island 978-1-907896-87-3 Snowing in the Supercomputer 978-1-907896-88-0 High Strange 978-1-907896-89-7
AA Files 74 £ 7 per individual title
Bedford Press Fieldwork, The Complete Reader Ryan Gander Fieldwork serves as a reader to the on-going and ever-evolving practice of the artist Ryan Gander. October 2016 464 pp, col ills 280 × 210 mm, paperback 978-1-907414-51-0 £ 25
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Edited by Vanessa Norwood In The Construction of an Image, Dutch photographer Bas Princen takes a single image – Ringroad, Houston – to deconstruct and discuss. By studying one photograph, time is given over to process, allowing insight into both the mind of the photographer and the trajectory of a project. November 2016 80 pp, col ills 290 × 230 mm, paperback 978-1-907414-38-1 £ 20
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Ricardo de Ostos and Nannette Jackowski The latest AA Agendas title is the culmination of eight years of research in Intermediate Unit 3. Led by Ricardo de Ostos and Nannette Jackowski, the unit and the book argue for an alternative reading of ‘environment’ in which the brutal and lyrical are juxtaposed through visually compelling narrative architectural explorations.
AA Files 74 features essays on Theo Crosby, Francesco Borromini, Albert Kahn, Gordon Matta-Clark, the concrete office buildings of Mies van der Rohe, the nineteenthcentury toilets of Berlin, a Roman drive-in cinema, a vast Chilean swimming pool and a conversation with Kate Macintosh.
October 2017 176 pp, extensive col & b / w ills Paperback 978-1-907896-47-7 c £ 30
June 2017 172 pp, col & b / w ills 297 × 245 mm ISSN 0261 6823 978-1-907896-83-5 £ 1 5
Anthony Vidler
Breaking the Mould: AA Women in Architecture Edited by Lynne Walker and Elizabeth Darling
The Construction of an Image: Bas Princen
AA Agendas: Scavengers and Other Creatures in Promised Lands
October 2017 marks the centenary of the admission of the first female students to the Architectural Association. Published to coincide with a symposium, exhibition and series of talks all celebrating this event, Breaking the Mould puts forward the stories of women who have entered the architectural profession and their contributions to architectural practice and education. October 2017 Extensive col & b / w ills 978-1-907896-91-0 c £ 40
Architecture Words 10: Second-Best Utopia
This latest instalment of the Architecture Words series presents not so much a descriptive history of utopia, but a series of questions that have emerged throughout history when utopian thought, as derived from literary and philosophical genres, has been adopted by architects and urban designers. December 2017 B / w ills 180 × 110 mm, paperback 978-1-907896-16-3 £ 1 5
Architecture Words 14: The Hero of Doubt Ernesto Nathan Rogers Translated by Steve Piccolo, edited by Roberta Marcaccio with Shumi Bose Ernesto Nathan Rogers (1909 – 1969) can be credited with expanding the appreciation of modern architecture within the Italian context and beyond. Yet he is relatively unrecognised in the historiography of twentiethcentury architecture. Most of the texts selected for this volume have been translated into English for the first time. December 2017 B / w ills 180 × 110 mm, paperback 978-1-907896-66-8 £ 1 5 Architecture Words 9 – 12 Boxed Set Contains Tectonic Acts of Desire and Doubt, by Mark Rakatansky; Stones Against Diamonds, by Lina Bo Bardi; Second-Best Utopia, by Tony Vidler; and The House of Light and Entropy, by Alessandra Ponte December 2017 B / w ills Hardback 978-1-907896-46-0 £ 80 OM Ungers TU Berlin Lectures Translated by Pamela Johnston and with an introduction by Sam Jacoby December 2017 Extensive col & b / w ills 978-1-907896-93-4 c £ 25
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