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Architecture / Architects
February 2014
Formats 100 Projects and 2000 days of Herreros Arquitectos Critical Practice Juan Herreros, Jens Richter Ricardo Devesa (ed.) these three methods —of work, investigation and education—, both the discourse and the presentation of the most significant of Herreros Arquitectos’ projects. Contributions: Juan Herreros, Mark Wigley, Hrvoje Njiric, Lluís Ortega, Antonio Muntadas, Stefan Devoldere. English 978-1-940291-04-8 336 pages 16,5 × 23,5 cm Flexibound cover Color images Price € 34,75 / $ 44.95 / £ 29.75 Related title: Recycling Madrid; 1999; 978-8495273437
In Herreros Arquitectos every commission is treated as a project, being a text or an exhibition installation, a book or a building: only its format is changing 100 projects, in 2000 days, are the works of Herreros Arquitectos compiled in this monograph book. Though project means, in this office that works in collaborative regime under Juan Herreros’s direction, any practical action, but always in a critical matter. In each project they only change the format in which their critical practice is delivered. The book therefore is structured according to its own way of operating, following the three principal activities of the office: the professional (based on the Reality), the research (that operates from the Utopia), and the teaching (taking the experience accumulated as Learning base). So, the contents are arranged following
February 2014
Architecture / Architects
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Create!!!!!!! NO.MAD / Eduardo Arroyo living, thinking and creating Eduardo Arroyo Amadeu Santacana (ed.) orders and the essential complexity or the combination of matter and energy turn out to be here interlaced. They shape a kaleidoscopic optics that though has guided always by an invincible illusion has never been exempt from the risk of diving in the unknown thing. The trip across these invisible paths demonstrates a critical vision of the world and the voluntary obligation to try to transform it from the creative independence, the determination and the valor that they are the transparent message of this book
This book shapes a thick network of experiences and crossed interests opened throughout last twenty-five years in the office NO.MAD and its founder Eduardo Arroyo. In its pages there are mixed reflections, anecdotes and creations that shape an exciting cocktail between living, thinking and creating In some time of our physiological life something inside each one gets lost and the mind fills with doubts. In spite of the inertia of the long crossed distance, to stop and to look behind with exploratory smell can help us to enter with courage in the unknown days. This book shapes a thick network of crossed interests opened throughout last twenty-five years of the office NO.MAD and its founder Eduardo Arroyo. Topics like the origin and the memory, the soul and the precision, the random and the instability, the empathy, the instants and the choice, the hybridization and the blurry systems, the cloning, the invisible
English 978-1-940291-05-5 13 × 18 cm 350 pages Flexibound cover Color images Price € 34,75 / $ 44.95 / £ 29.75
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Architecture / Analysis
October 2013
The Petropolis of Tomorrow Neeraj Bhatia & Mary Casper (edts.)
methodologies for integrating infrastructure, landscape, urbanism and architecture within the larger spheres of economics, politics, and culture that implicate these disciplines.
The Petropolis of Tomorrow examines the role of resource extraction infrastructure in the production of new forms of urbanism In recent years, Brazil has discovered vast quantities of petroleum deep within its territorial waters, inciting the construction of a series of cities along its coast and in the ocean. We could term these developments as Petropolises, or cities formed from resource extraction. The Petropolis of Tomorrow is a design and research project, originally undertaken at Rice University that examines the relationship between resource extraction and urban development in order to extract new templates for sustainable urbanism. Organized into three sections: Archipelago Urbanism, Harvesting Urbanism, and Logistical Urbanism, which consist of theoretical, technical, and photo articles as well as design proposals, The Petropolis of Tomorrow elucidates not only a vision for water-based urbanism of the floating frontier city, it also speculates on new
Articles by: Neeraj Bhatia, Luis Callejas, Mary Casper, Brian Davis, Farès el-Dahdah, Rania Ghosn, Carola Hein, Bárbara Loureiro, Clare Lyster, Geoff Manaugh, Alida C. Metcalf, Juliana Moura, Koen Olthuis, Albert Pope, Maya Przybylski, Rafico Ruiz, Mason White, Sarah Whiting. Photo Essays by: Garth Lenz, Peter Mettler, Alex Webb. Research/ Design Team: Alex Gregor, Joshua Herzstein, Libo Li, Joanna Luo, Bomin Park, Weijia Song, Peter Stone, Laura Williams, Alex Yuen. Published with Rice School of Architecture
English 978-0-9893317-8-4 15,2 × 22,7 cm 576 pages Hardcover Color and b/w illustrations Price € 29,50 / $ 34.95 / £ 23.10
January 2014
Architecture / Bracket series
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Bracket 3 [at extremes] Lola Sheppard, Maya Przybylski (edts.)
With projects by: Lindsay Bremner, Caty Newell, Casey Mack, Fabrizio Gallanti, Elija Huge, Martin Hogue, Bart Overly and Beth Blostein, Jonathan Scelsa, Mathias Kempton, Brett Milligan. Contributions: Alessandra Ponte, Keller Easterling, Michael Hensel, Julien De Smedt, Lola Sheppard, Maya Przybylski, and others.
Bracket 3 [at extremes] includes critical articles and unpublished design projects that investigate architecture, infrastructure and technology as they operate in conditions of imbalance, negotiate tipping points and test limit states We are conditioned, as designers of the built environment, towards the organization of people, programs and movement. Indeed the history of modern urbanism, architecture and building science has been predicated on an anti-entropic notion of programmatic and social order. But are there scenarios in which a state of extremity or imbalance is productive? Bracket [at extremes] seeks to understand what new spatial orders emerge in this liminal space. How might it be leveraged as an opportunity for invention? What are the limits of wilderness and control, of the natural and artificial, the real and the virtual? What new landscapes, networks, and urban models might emerge in the wake of destabilized economic, social and environmental conditions?
English 978-0-9893317-6-0 20,3 Ă— 26,7 cm 270 pages Softcover Color and duotone Price â‚Ź 34.00 / $ 39.95 / ÂŁ 32.00 Related title: Bracket 2 [goes soft]; 2012; 978-84-15391-02-9
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Architecture / Architects
November 2013
Traces LAN (Local Architecture Network) Umberto Napolitano, Benoit Jallon
English 978-1-940291-02-4 608 pages 16,5 × 23,5 cm Hardcover Color images Price € 35 / $ 44.95 / £ 31.50
Undertaken at the occasion of LAN’s 10th anniversary, Traces recalls the journey of Umberto Napolitano and Benoit Jallon through their projects and their travel impressions The city is the point of departure and arrival for the “architectural experience”. It is, therefore, a palpable, external fact as well as a product of the mind, an abstraction. This book attempts to recreate this trajectory and to describe this exchange between the mind and the world through the traces it has produced. Two separate moments lie at the heart of this book’s very structure and shape: one when the city is the site of an experience and of reflection and the other, when architects modify this site through a new project.
November 2013
Architecture / Buildings
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Critical Prison Design Mas d’Enric Penitentiary by AiB arquitectes + Estudi PSP Arquitectura Roger Paez Ricardo Devesa (ed.) Contributions: Keller Easterling, Adrià Carbonell, Lluís Ortega, Juan Azulay, Juan Elvira, Ramon Faura, Èoghann MacColl, Josep M. Camí, Angela Kay Bunning, Jordi Bernadó, José Hevia, Paula Arroyo. English 978-0-9893317-7-7 16.5 × 21 cm 208 pages Softcover Color and b/w illustrations Price € 28.80 / $ 34.95 / £ 28.00 Related title: Architecture and Violence; 2011; 978-84-92861-73-6
The newly built Mas d’Enric penitentiary sparks a series of reflections on architecture’s role in the problematic subject of prison design The prison is an uncomfortable institution and its architecture is often subjugated to technocratic criteria. This servility forces the prison out of the socio-cultural realm where it belongs, thus erasing it from public discourse. “Mas d’Enric” is a new penitentiary that overturns preconceptions and posits architecture as a medium to critically rethink contemporary prison buildings. The discussion is enriched by contributions from a number of influential architects and architectural theorists, and is complemented by original work in film, photography, literature, sculpture and visual arts.
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Architecture / Urban Design
December 2013
Networked Self Sufficient City Inhabiting at the Information Society Vicente Guallart
accumulated for centuries by the human beings and having present that the growth cannot be unlimited and the energetic resources that our planet offers have expiry date. Vicente Guallart exposes this fascinating process in a book loaded with ideas, information and proposals. English 978-1-9402910-3-1 12 × 16 cm 256 pages Softcover Duotone images Price € 19,25 / $ 24.95 / £ 16.50
The Barcelona Architect in Chief peels the axes in which the cities must be sustained to adapt them to the new information age, and to generate its own resources Internet has changed our lives but it has not yet changed our cities. Any technological revolution takes paired radical transformations in the life styles. If the age of the car and the oil shaped the cities of the 20th century, the society of the information will form those of the 21st century. It is an unstoppable evolution that, nevertheless, it is necessary to be able to lead with criterion. It is a question of taking advantage of the urban experiences
December 2013
Architecture / Urban Design / Public Space
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Public Space Acupuncture Helena Casanova, Jesús Hernández (edts.)
strategies that have a positive impact on the urban habitat. One such strategy is Public Space Acupuncture, in which independent, but coordinated small interventions help regenerate urban public space and city life. It is based on Zygmunt Bauman’s characterization of the current era as Liquid Modernity.
Acupuncture strategies to renovate infrastructure, landscape elements and public space of a city As the financial crisis deepens in many European countries and the construction sector remains in a slump, many plans for urban regeneration have been shelved. Cities are cutting their spending on large public works, so the time is ripe for low-cost
With works on Switzerland, The Netherlands, Austria, China, Germany, Spain, Albania, Denmark, Hungary, Slovakia, Latvia and Korea. Contributions: Oriol Bohigas, Arnold Reijdorp and Casanova+Hernandez English 978-0-9893317-0-8 24 × 19 cm 350 pages Softcover Color and b/w Price € 35 / $ 44.95 / £ 31.50 Related title: Globalization of Urbanity; 2012; 978-84-92862-81-1;
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November 2013
Architecture / Academy
GSD Platform 6 Melissa Vaughn, Carolyn Deuschle, Rosetta Elkin (edts.)
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A year of research through studio work, theses, lectures, exhibitions and events GSD has always recognized the indispensable importance and values of architecture, landscape architecture, urban planning, and urban design, yet has transcended their individual aspirations through intellectual cross-fertilization and collaboration. The material presented in this publication forms a small part of the incredible range and diversity of proposals and visions that our students and faculty have produced during the past academic year. This work is indicative of the School’s commitment, as a global leader in the field, to exploring and articulating transformative ideas through the power of design. It is as important for us to share and communicate the outcome of our research and design investigations as it is to show the fertile circumstances and conditions for the making of these projects.
“GSD Platform 5 represents years of research, exhibitions, and lectures based on events from the Harvard Graduate School of Design, and packs in insights on the expanded GSD and the works produced by the school during 20112012. Material represents only a small selection of the overall projects and includes discussions of the School’s continuing commitment to architecture, landscape architecture, and urban planning and design. Links between the design school’s changing structure and evolving global trends make this a particularly important college-level analysis suitable for design and architectural studies alike.” --California Bookwatch Published with Harvard Graduate School of Design
English 978-1-940291-06-2 15,5 × 23 cm 368 pages Hardcover Color illustrations Price € 30 / $ 34.95 / £ 26.00 Related title: GSD Platform 4; 2012; 978-84-15391-0-05 —GSD Platform 5; 2013; 978-84-15391-28-9
October 2013
Architecture / Academy
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Catalyst Conditions Ghazal Abbasy-Asbagh (ed.)
Contributions: Ghazal Abbasy-Asbagh, Iñaki Alday, Robin Dripps, Rebecca Hora, Ryan Metcalf, Matthew Pinyan Published with University of Virginia School of Architecture
English 978-1-940291-00-0 256 pages 14,5 × 21 cm Hardcover Color images Price € 28 / $ 36.95 / £ 24.50
An interdisciplinary monograph, this volume examines the work of multiple disciplines, many peoples and a multitude of approaches, all operating under the umbrella of one institution This volume examines one year of research and pedagogy at the University of Virginia School of Architecture, engaged in the conditions of the built environment, relative to 3 states of Flux, Stasis and Crisis. The questions we ask are: What is the impact of design on the forces that shape our contemporary reality? To what extent do contingencies of time and place impact our practice, and in return how effective is our response in re-shaping the same contingencies?
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August 2013
Architecture / Buildings
Constructing Europe 25 Years of Architecture Diane Gray (ed.)
English 978-84-936901-6-8 16,7 × 24 cm 308 pages Hardcover Duotone images Price € 35 / $ 49.95 / £ 32.95
European Union Prize for Contemporary Architecture Mies van der Rohe Award 25th Anniversary, a reflection about the past, present and future of European Architecture As a part of the activities that will celebrate the 25th anniversary of the European Union Prize for Contemporary Architecture - Mies van der Rohe Award, this catalogue explains the value of the Prize as a platform for discovery and debate about two main topics: the historical value of the Prize as a demonstration of the significance of European architecture, and the Award’s role as a mechanism for bringing up topics of concern in today’s European architecture, and as a process that contributes to building an architectural and urban discourse, both in Europe and throughout the world. The works of the last 25 years are essential tools for defining the future in the upcoming years.
August 2013
Contemporary Art
Venezia Venezia
October 2013
Artist
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Chiharu Shiota
Alfredo Jaar
Venezia, Venezia is an immersive installation by Jaar at the 2013 Venice Biennale The Alfredo Jaar’s cataloge, who represents Chile at the 2013 Venice Biennale, includes more than fifteen essays by prominent thinkers—critics, writers, theorists—from all over the world who consider Jaar’s contextual installation within the historical trajectory of the Venice Biennale and amidst volatile contemporary global, geographic, political, and cultural transformations. The passage begins with a confrontation of a photographic image of the Argentine-born Italian artist Lucio Fontana, following his return to Milan in 1946, unsteadily poised amidst the catastrophic evidence of the Second World War. Beyond this image of a pandemonium of dust and destruction, steps lead to the physical embodiment of a historic utopia and a conceptual opportunity for reconstruction. English 978-0-989331-73-9 296 pages 17 × 24 cm Hardcover Color images Price € 35.00 / $ 39.95 / £ 31.50
Casa Asia presents the contents of the first exhibition by Chiharu Shiota (Osaka, 1972) in Barcelona, showing installations integrated in a unique project at its headquarters Shiota’s installations produce their own spaces, where hundreds of invisible threads that bond us to things can be seen. In these domestic scenarios she proposes, threads become bridges between a bride’s dress and the absent subject, a piano, suitcases and a mirror. In her work, these threads are veins with tears, fear for abyss, life and death; threads that are plots of particular and universal stories, interweaving like the inverted roots of a tree, just like a rhizome through multiple branches that hold up the relationship between she and the world. Published with Casa Asia
English 978-1-940291-07-9 17 × 24 cm 320 pages Softcover Color illustrations Price € 35.00 / $ 44.95 / £ 31.50
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December 2013
Architectural theory
Projective Ecologies Chris Reed and Nina-Marie Lister (eds.)
potential paths forward for design practices. Where are ecological thinking and theory now? What do current trajectories of research suggest for future practice? How can advances in ecological research and modeling, in social theory, and in digital visualization inform, with greater rigor, more robust design thinking and practice? New original essays by Peter Del Tredici, Erle Ellis, Christopher Hight, Sanford Kwinter, Sean Lally, Nina-Marie Lister, Chris Reed, Jane Wolff Reprinted/excerpted essays by Robert Cook, David Fletcher, Richard T.T. Forman, C.S. Holling. Ecological research applied to current architectural practice The past two decades have witnessed a resurgence of ecological ideas and ecological thinking in discussions of urbanism, society, culture, and design. The field of ecology has moved from classical determinism and a reductionist Newtonian concern with stability, certainty, and order in favor of more contemporary understandings of dynamic systemic change and the related phenomena of adaptability, resilience, and flexibility. But ecology is not simply a project of the natural sciences. Researchers, theorists, social commentators, and designers have all used ecology as a broader idea or metaphor for a set of conditions and relationships with political, economic, and social implications. Projective Ecologies takes stock of the diversity of contemporary ecological research and theory—embracing Felix Guattari’s broader definition of ecology as at once environmental, social, and existential—and speculates on
With drawings by, Gross.MAX, James Corner Field Operations, Sean Lally, Anuradha Mathur and Dilip DaCunha, OMA, Stoss Landscape Urbanism, West 8. Published with Harvard Graduate School of Design
English 978-1-940291-12-3 17 × 22 cm 288 pages, Soft cover color illustrations Price € 32 / $ 34.95 / £ 29.90
February 2014
Architecture / Verb series
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Urban Dilemmas Questioning the Urban Next from sustainable theories and practices, plus an observation of Masdar City as study case
of green. Urban Dilemmas will sheds light on new design perspectives in our post-bublle economy and global crisis.
A plural discussion by academics and professionals on the present state of sustainability. Urban Dilemmas, tries to reveal the significant economic, cultural and political issues that prevent sustainability from operating as a planning and construction prerequisite, and questions the recipes for a socially and environmentally responsible practice. In order to do this, Verb has organized the content in four dilemmas: city & territory; power & economy; lifestyle & politics; energy & risk. Three main blocks organise the content: 1. The observation on Masdar City (Abu Dhabi, UAE) by Boris Brorman, and the interviews with Tobias Wallisser (LAVA), Matthias Schuler (Transsolar) and Nawal Al-Hosany (Masdar); 2. The discussions with the Underdome Project presented at Studio-X New York (a Lab extension of Columbia University’s GSAPP) that maps contending models of energy efficiency to explore their impact on public life; 3. The reflection with series of interviews connected to the Shades of Green lecture sessions held at the Princeton University’s SOA, that re-assesses the discursive, performative, and formal richness
Contributions: Boris Brorman Jensen, Matthias Schuler (Transsolar), Tobias Wallisser (Lava), Dan Wood & Amale Andraos (Work AC), Gianni Pettena, James Wines (SITE), Stefano Boeri, Winy Maas (MVRDV), Bjarke Ingels (BIG), Minsuk Cho (Mass Studies), Erik Carver & Janette Kim (Underdome project). English 978-1-940291-13-0 204 pages 17 × 24 cm Flexibound cover Color images Price € 34 / $ 39.95 / £ 32.00
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Architecture
February 2014
The Arsenal of Exclusion / Inclusion 101 Things that open and close the city Interboro Partners
50 leading experts provide tools for analysing how the Open City is made and unmade The Arsenal of Exclusion / Inclusion is a book about 101 “weapons” that architects, planners, policy-makers, developers, real estate brokers, community activists and other urban agents use to restrict or promote access to the space of the city. The Arsenal includes minor, seemingly benign things like “No loitering” signs and Bouncers, but also big, headline-grabbing entities like Gated Communities and Eminent Domain. It includes policies like Inclusionary Zoning and Rent Control, but also physical things like Bombs and those Armrests that they put on park benches to make sure homeless people don’t get too comfortable. Some of the entries in the Arsenal-like Halloween and Famous Peoples’ Houses—are probably things you didn’t know had anything to do with cities at all, let alone this war for what Henri Lefebvre
called the “right to the city.” With contributions from Charles Connerly, Beryl Satter, Nathan Connolly, Gerald Frug, Bradford Hunt, Wendy Plotkin, Naa Oyo Kwate, David Freund, Raymond Mohl, Andrew Kahrl, Katherine Gilespie, Setha Low, Ellen Pader, Bill Bishop, Susanna Schaller, Gabriella Modan, Meredith Tenhoor, Gabrielle Esperdy, Joseph Heathcott, Lisa Selin Davis, Margaret Crawford, Vincent James & Jennifer Yoos, Susan M. Schweik, Theresa Schwarz, Michael Kubo, Albert Pope, Bureau EAST, Urban Studio, Jeff Goldenson, Sean Vance, Matthew Lassiter, , Michael Piper, Damon Rich, Kaja Kuhl, Julie Behrens, Jerold Kayden, Stephen Walker, James Rojas, Robert Beauregard, LA Urban Rangers, Tom Vanderbilt, Marshall Brown, Chester Hartman, Elizabeth Evitts, among others English 978-84-92861-80-4 16.5 × 23.5 cm 288 pages Softcover Color images Price € 34 / $ 39.95 / £ 32
November 2013
Housing
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Total Singular Housing Global Domesticity, resource-enhanced, docile indoors and colonized outdoors Ricardo Devesa (ed.) tight budgets, who do not want to give up their domestic dreams. Seemingly, in contraposition to an interiororiented habitat, the house opens itself to the exterior and to the landscape. And lastly, in contraposition to the environmental carelessness, the house seeks and demands a low environmental footprint. The postmodern house, exuberant, full of useless devices, becomes obsolete; a more sustainable, inexpensive home (but at the same time vibrant, intrepid and evolved) is preferred today.
Selection of houses from the 21st century. New houses in response to new needs The single-family house, the jewel of the crown of architecture since 19th century, constitutes a fine and subtle transmissor and detector of changes—by adopting the formal, technical and theorical advances in architecture, but also by being responsive to the social and cultural changes of the times. The house incorporates and reacts to the mutations imposed by the globalization, the spread of the new technologies and the environmental, social and financial crisis from the 21st century. In contraposition to the globalization, a new approach arises to recover the traditional and ancient building knowledge. In contraposition to the single-family house for the highest social classes, comes that from lower classes, with
Projects by: MVRDV, Sou Fujimoto, OFFICE KGDVS, Tato Architects, CLOUD 9, Andres Jaque, Adjaye, Lacaton&Vassal, Pezo Von Ellrichshausen, Rural Studio, LOHA, Amunt Architects among others. English 978-1-940291-10-9 17 × 24 cm 396 pages Softcover Color illustrations Price € 39 / $ 49.95 / £ 34.95 Related title: Total Housing; 2010; 978-84-96540-88-0
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Vertical Urban Factory Nina Rappaport
Vertical Urban Factory focuses on the spaces of production in cities that both comprise factories that are significant in their design and contribute to a vital urban environment. This book reexamines the historic modernist and contemporary factories through the lens of an urbanist while provoking the future of urban manufacturing. It shows that now factories are cleaner and greener they can be reintegrated in city life creating a new paradigm for sustainable urban industry that is also more self-sufficient. Illustrated with historic and contemporary photographs, manufacturing process diagrams, and infographics by MGMT Design. Published with Yale School of Architecture
English 978-84-15391-32-6 350 pages 19 × 25,5 cm Hardcover 300 Illustrations Price € 39 / $ 49.95 / £ 36
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September 2013
Product and Interior Design
Fuksas Design
compared to the standard procedure ingrained in the logic of Italian design. Mandrelli and Fuksas’s design originates in the collision and encounter between two forces that have entered the design profession from experiences far removed from design, and it is precisely this procedural unconventionality that lends the objects their character.” Alessandro Mendini (text from the book)
Objects, pieces of furniture, scenographies, interior design... another dimension in the work of Fuksas architects This companion book to Fuksas Buildings features the works by the studio focused on product design, interior design, scenographies, furniture and jewelery. Perhaps the less known aspect of Fuksas work, their product design emphasizes a natural condition in changing scales, materials and uses. Research is also very present behind every piece. Richly illustrated projects such as the Armani stores, the Alessi collection and the furniture for Haworth Castelli, among many others. “I would like to start by observing how the design made in the Fuksas office takes its character from combining and contrasting two distinct types of poetic expression: abstract and narrative in Doriana Mandrelli’s approach, and intuitive and textural in Massimiliano’s. Brought into contact, these two all-encompassing means of seduction produce a world of objects that are autonomous and original, when
English 978-1-940291-11-6 360 pages 21 × 30 cm Softcover Color images Price € 35 / $ 49.95 / £ 32.00
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September 2013
Sluminsider
and organizing size encounters that made São Paulo the world capital of the debate on transformation of contemporary cities.
Sluminsider is a choral narrative that attempts to reveal the complexity of the slum of Mathare, one of the biggest shantytowns in Nairobi. The project of expansion of a street school, the Why Not Junior Academy, and the process of environmental improvement of the surrounding area, where a community agriculture initiative has been set up to replace an unauthorized dump, is the starting point from which to combine experiences and identities from very different disciplines, including architecture,design, agriculture, photography and video. This project is one of the case studies used for comparison and dialogue with the city of São Paulo. São Paulo Calling is a research project sponsored by the Segreteria de Habitaçao and coordinated by Stefano Boeri, which from January to June 2012 prompted designers, photographers, NGOs and international research groups to examine the informal settlements of Rome, Nairobi, Medellin, Mumbai, Moscow and Baghdad. For six months, an exhibition analyzed the characteristics, differences and causes of informal settlements, developing six workshops in the field in different favelas of São Paulo
Contributors: Liveinslums, Luca Astorri, Gaetano Berni, Elisabetta Bianchessi, Stefano Boeri, Fabio Campana, Francesco Careri, Eliene Corrêa Rodrigues Coelho, Maria Luisa Daglia, Francesco Faccin, Francesco Giusti, Helena Nosek, Silvia Orazi, Filippo Romano, Marianella Sclavi. English 978-1-940291-08-6 88 pages 27 × 21 cm Softcover Color images Price € 25 / $ 29.95 / £ 23.00
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The Cornell Journal of Architecture 09: Mathematics is just beginning to (re)embrace the underlying issues embedded within this contemporary mathematics: uncertainty, unpredictability, chance, recursion, and informality. With contributions from: Val Warke, James Siena, Jenny E. Sabin, Francois Roche, Caroline O’Donnell, Archie B. MacKenzie, Mark Morris, Maria Hurtado de Mendoza, Tom Fecht, Dana Čupková + Kevin Pratt, Gang Chen, Mario Carpo, Bernard Cache, Gisela Baurmann + Daina Taimina, Joseph Choma, Michael Young, and interviews with: Jerry Wells + Arthur Ovaska, Anthony Vidler, Shohei Shigematsu Published by Cornell AAP Publications
The Cornell Journal of Architecture is a critical journal of architecture and urbanism produced by editors in the Department of Architecture at the College of Architecture, Art, and Planning, Cornell University. While mathematics in architecture has historically referenced notions of order, proportion, and ideal form, the discipline of mathematics itself has shifted to encompass Uncertainty, Incompleteness, Relativity, and Chaos, moving towards a situation in which truth itself is elusive. This adjustment emerged in part from an engagement with real phenomena, in which natural systems were shown to behave non-linearly and unpredictably. Meanwhile, the consequences of uncertainty have pervaded our culture to its core. Recovering from the initial high of fractal and random geometrical proficiency, architecture
English 978-0-9785061-2-4 22,5 × 18 cm 196 pages Soft cover Color illustrations Price € 15.95 / $ 20.00 / £ 14.95
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November 2013
Architecture // Distributed titles
eVolo Skyscrapers 2 150 New Projects Redefine Building High Carlo Aiello (ed.)
English 978-1-938740-05-3 650 pages 24 × 28 cm Hardcover Color images Price € 100 / $ 75 / £ 75.00 Published by eVolo Related title: eVolo Skycrapers; 978-0-9816658-4-9; $120.00; 9/1/12
150 new skyscrapers submitted to the eVolo Skyscraper Competition are categorized and examined This publication is the follow-up to the highly acclaimed book eVolo Skyscrapers. 150 new skyscrapers submitted to the eVolo Skyscraper Competition are categorized and examined. These super-tall structures take into consideration the advances in technology, the exploration of sustainable systems, and the establishment of new urban and architectural methods to solve economic, social, and cultural problems of the contemporary city; including the scarcity of natural resources and infrastructure and the exponential increase of inhabitants, pollution, economic division, and unplanned urban sprawl.
Carlo Aiello graduated from the Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation (GSAPP) at Columbia University in New York City in 2004. After collaborating with Asymptote Architecture and Skidmore, Owings and Merrill he established Evolo Press in 2006 for which he is Editor-inChief and Creative Director. Carlo has been Juror at the World Architecture Festival, AIA Miami, AIA Los Angeles, and the Krob Competition. Since 2010 he is Faculty at the School of Architecture at the University of Southern California (USC) where he teaches architectural design to undergraduate and graduate students.
February 2014
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(IN)formal LA The Space of Politics Victor Jones (ed.)
and vitally connected to the city. Composed of essays, photos, projects and interviews, (IN)formal LA embraces the quirky, celebrates the wide and embellishes the close range to expose the complex social organizations within this contemporary urban network. English 978-1-938740-04-6 14 × 24 cm 110 pages Softcover Color illustrations Price € 23.04 / $ 29.95 / £ 20.95 Published by eVolo
This book traces another course to uncover Los Angeles’ primal sources of creation - land and opportunity Often portrayed as a confluence of cars and movies, this book traces another course to uncover Los Angeles’ primal sources of creation - land and opportunity. Within the endless sprawl there reside flurries of uncodified spatial configurations that no highdefinition map or satellite image can accurately capture nor present. (IN)formal LA explores a range of unique spatial practices and pedagogies through the lens of politics in Los Angeles. While this book articulates growing skepticism in current design discourse and education, it also provides a spatial awareness that is culturally rooted, socially responsive
Victor Jones is an Assistant Professor of Architecture at the University of Southern California, a principal of Los Angeles based (Fièvre + Jones), cultural activist, and writer. His research lies at the intersection of architecture, urban design and community building within cities. Recent design projects include the Platform for Watts House Project (2011) and a skate park for New Orleans’ City Park (2009). His design work has been supported by numerous grants, including the Graham Foundation, Artplaces, and the Nathan Cummings foundation. Forthcoming books include The Basento Aqueduct: Another side of Infrastructure (2014). Jones has been published in AMC/le Moniteur, the New Orleans Times Picayune, ARTVOICES and the Journal of Architectural Education. He lives with his partner in Silver Lake.
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eVolo 05 Architecture Xenoculture
English 978-1-938740-03-9 300 pages 22,8 Ă— 29 cm Softcover Color images Price â‚Ź 20 / $ 24.95 / ÂŁ 16.00 Published by eVolo
Xenoculture is a term coined by Iranian writer and philosopher Reza Negarestani that describes the need for embracing and exploring the unexpected, the alien. In this issue we borrow the idea and explore the realm of Architecture Xenoculture -- the work of architects and designers who detach from everything that architecture is supposed to be and look like, including preconceived forms and aesthetics, to look into new architectural and design possibilities. An architectural form that emerges from mathematical processes and new material explorations and propose something never before seen -- an aesthetic yet to be determined. Some of the work showcased has been produced by leading architecture practitioners and academics worldwide including: Hernan Diaz Alonso, Servo, Francois Roche, Marc Fornes, Kokkugia, Zaha Hadid, Volkan Alkanoglu, and Rafael Lozano among others.
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eVolo back issues
eVolo 01: Housing for the 21st Century
eVolo 02: Skyscrapers of the Future
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eVolo 03: Cities of Tomorrow
eVolo 04: Re-Imaging the Contemporary Museum
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Car in 2035 Mobility Planning for the Near Future Kati Rubinyi (ed.) Winner of The Inland Empire Section of the American Planning Association Media Award —The American Planning Association and Geoffrey Wardle, leader of Graduate Transportation Design at the Art Center College of Design. Published by Civic Projects Foundation
English 978-84-15391-26-5 288 pages 9.9 × 6.9 in. Softcover Color images Price € 29.00 / $ 34.95 / £ 27.00
The Car in 2035: Mobility Planning for the Near Future is an artful and refreshingly multifaceted view of the future of mobility, focusing on the car, the street, and public policy in Southern California These essays and images present the car as both a challenge and benefit to our neighborhoods, cities, and suburbs. A lively mix of auto industry experts, planners, designers, artists, researchers, and architects contemplates how we will adapt our cars and their context so we can continue to enjoy the freedom and benefits of individual mobility in the future. The book features photos by acclaimed Los Angeles-based artist Monica Nouwens and design by Colleen Corcoran. Authors include John Thackara; Michael Webb of Archigram; John Chris Jones, author of Design Methods; and Jeremy GilbertRolfe, chair of Graduate studies in Art at the Art Center College of Design in Pasadena,
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A Generous Medium Photography at Wellesley 1972-2012 Lisa Fischman (ed.)
artists. This diversity reflects the impassioned engagement of many contributors over time, and the aspirational ambitions and exuberant inventiveness of the photographic project at Wellesley writ large. Published by Davis Museum
English 978-0-985824-90-7 9.4 × 12.8 in. Hardcover Color images Price € 50.00 / $ 65 / £ 45.00
A Generous Medium honors the extraordinary legacy of collecting and pedagogical leadership in photography at Wellesley College Mined from the photographic holdings of the Davis Museum, the catalogue of the exhibition features works selected for interpretation by sixty-five participants-Davis directors and curators, Wellesley faculty, alumnae in the field, and major patrons-all who have had an instrumental role in the shape and pedagogical use of the collection over the last forty years. The selections are organized unconventionally, by date of acquisition, to allow for serendipitous and revealing juxtapositions, surprising connections, and startling revelations. The catalogue presents an eloquent range of pictures, from unattributed early photographs to works by modern masters and renowned contemporary
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Yale School of Architecture
Louis I. Kahn Visiting Assistant Professorship Series:
Renewing Architectural Typologies Mosque, House, Library Hernan Diaz Alonzo, Makram El Kadi and AOC Architecture: Tom Coward, Daisy Froud, Vincent Lacovara, Geoff Shearcroft
This is the fifth book documenting the Louis I. Kahn Visiting Assistant Professorship featuring the work of young architect-practitioners teaching in the advanced studios at Yale The studios each explore new typologies and include the themes, “Once Upon A House,” taught by Hernan Diaz Alonzo of the L.A. based architectural practice Xefirotarch, which examined the relationship of types versus species, where type is viewed as “categories of standardization, then species are malleable entities in constant metamorphosis.” The brief called for a house to occupy a site in three acts by employing a cellular spatial logic. In subverting the typology of the house, the studio presents radical possibilities of inhabitation. In the “Expanded Mosque,” taught by Makram El Kadi and Ziad Jamaleddine of the New York and Beirut-based
architectural practice L.E.F.T. the students critiqued architecturally both an imported Modernism that is dissociated from contextual consideration and a reconstruction of the present in the image of an idealized past. The program of the mosque does not only serve a purely liturgical function, but is also an important community gathering place. The studio examined how the physical space of the mosque and social space of Islam can have a dialogue with other programs, religious or secular. The studio questioned the stagnating typology of the mosque in an attempt to project new possibilities for the future for a site of a World’s Fair designed by Oscar Niemeyer in Tripoli. In the advanced studio, “Re-Storing Public Possessions,” Geoff Shearcroft, Vincent Lacovara, Tom Coward, and Daisy Froud of the London-based architectural practice AOC investigated the increasing emphasis on material artifacts and demand for ‘hard’ storage in this digital world. The studio examined the established public repositories of London—the V&A Museum, the Tate Gallery, the British Museum, the British Library, and the Royal Armouries—and how they might evolve in response to the changing demands of the contemporary public to create a participative and productive architecture. The book features interviews with the professors. English 978-0-9893317-5-3 160 pages 8 × 12 in. Softcover Color images Price € 27.00 / $ 35 / £ 24.50
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Louis I. Kahn Visiting Assistant Professorship Series:
Architecture Inserted Nina Rappaport, Francisco Waltersdorfer, David Yang (edts.) The fourth book documenting the Louis I. Kahn Visiting Assistant Professorship at Yale School of Architecture Architecture Inserted features the advanced studios of Chris Perry, Eric Bunge and Mimi Hoang, and Liza Fior with Katherine Clarke the Louis I. Kahn Visiting Assistant Professors at Yale. The research and projects grapple with the issues of how to insert new pieces of architecture both as infrastructural and individual cultural buildings, into sites where existing physical and social issues are at conflict. The design solutions in each case Cern headquarters in Geneva, the
Périphérique of Paris, and the London 2012 Olympic site unify the urban design and piece together the sites as bits of urban acupuncture creating new amenities and resources for the future. The book includes interviews with the architects, essays about their themes, and the work of the students in the advanced studios at Yale. English 978-0-3937335-1-8 160 pages 8 × 12 in. Softcover Color images Price € 27.00 / $ 35 / £ 24.50
Layered Urbanisms
Negotiated Terrains
Turbulence
Volume one, Layered Urbanisms, presents the work and the advanced studios of Gregg Pasquarelli in “Versioning 6.0,” Galia Solomonoff in “Brooklyn Civic Space,” and Mario Gooden in “Global Typologies.”
This second volume, features the advanced studios of Jeanne Gang in “Assembly as Medium,” Sunil Bald in “Institution Dissolution,” and Marc Tsurumaki in “Amphibious Tactics.”
This third volume follows the research and design work of three studios of Ali Rahim of Contemporary Architecture Practice, Christopher Sharples, and William Sharples of SHoP Architects. The three studios are united by a focus on the future of mile-high design.
English 978-0-3937325-0-4 160 pages 8 × 12 in. Softcover Color images Price € 23.00 / $ 30 / £ 20.50
English 978-0-3937332-3-5 144 pages 8 × 12 in. Softcover Color images Price € 27.00 / $ 35 / £ 24.50
English 978-0-3937335-0-1 184 pages 8 × 12 in. Softcover Color images Price € 27.00 / $ 35 / £ 24.50
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Yale School of Architecture
Edward P. Bass Distinguished Visiting Architecture Fellowship Series:
Rethinking Chongqing: Mixed-Use and Super-Dense The Edward P. Bass Distinguished Visiting Architecture Fellowship at the Yale School of Architecture Nina Rappaport, Andrei Harwell, Emmett Zeifman (edts.)
Rethinking Chongqing: Mixed-Use and SuperDense presents the work of a Edward P. Bass Distinguished Visiting Architecture Fellowship at the Yale School of Architecture, co-taught by real estate developer Vincent Lo, founder and chairman of Shui-On Land, the Yale Bass Fellow, and Paul Katz, James von Klemperer, and Forth Bagley, managing principal, design principal, and senior associate, respectively, of the international architecture firm Kohn Pedersen Fox Associates. Chongqing, one of China’s four directly-controlled municipalities, is a rapidly growing economic hub of western China with a rich urban history. As it seeks to expand its urbanized boundaries and redirect economic growth towards the hightech manufacturing and service industries, it is also investing enormous resources in new transit infrastructure, parks, cultural facilities, and other public amenities. The site of the studio project is the soon to be redeveloped site of the central rail terminal, a critical nexus of infrastructure located near the riverside
that offers rich possibilities for re-thinking the relationship between transit, public space, and mixed-use program in the city. The studio investigated a diverse range of proposals for new scales, typologies, and program mixes. The book includes a comprehensive analysis of mixed-use projects in Shanghai, Hong Kong, and Japan, interviews with the architects and developers, and insightful essays by Wu Jiang and Daan Roggeveen, Rethinking Chongqing demonstrates the role architects and developers might play in shaping new paradigms for the development of western China’s emerging mega-cities. English 978-0-9893317-4-6 192 pages 7 × 11 in. Softcover Color images Price € 27.00 / $ 35 / £ 24.50 COMPOSITES, SURFACES, AND SOFTWARE High Performance Architecture By showcasing the intersection between technology, aesthetics, and function, this book offers a multidisciplinary approach to cutting-edge performative technology. English 978-0-393-73333-4 158 Pages 7 × 10 in. Price € 34.60 / $ 45 / £ 31.50
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Edward P. Bass Distinguished Visiting Architecture Fellowship Series:
Urban Intersections 06 Nina Rappaport, Noah Biklen, Eliza Higgins (edts.)
Urban Intersections: São Paulo documents the collaboration of Edward P. Bass Fellow Katherine Farley, senior managing director of the international real estate developer Tishman-Speyer and Yale adjunct professor Deborah Berke, assisted by Noah Biklen, at the Yale School of Architecture. The book features ways to examine the process of urban design and development in São Paulo, Brazil, a rapidly growing global mega-city, with all its attendant vitality and contradictions. The work engages both the development issues of schedule, phasing, risk, sustainability, value,
and density along with the architectural issues of scale, formal clarity, envelope articulation, use of color and texture, and the relationship of building to landscape. An essay by Victoria Grossman analyzes and critiques development in São Paulo. English and Portuguese 978-0-3937335-2-5 160 pages 7 × 11 in. Softcover Color images Price € 27.00 / $ 35 / £ 24.50
Poetry, Property, Future Proofing 02 and Place, 01 English 978-0-3937322-0-7 192 pages 7 × 11 in. Softcover Color images Price € 23.00 / $ 30 / £ 20.50
English 978-0-3937323-7-5 192 pages 7 × 11 in. Softcover Color images Price € 23.00 / $ 30 / £ 20.50
The Human City 03
Urban Integration 04
Learning in Las Vegas 05
English 978-0-3937324-7-4 192 pages 7 × 11 in. Softcover Color images Price € 23.00 / $ 30 / £ 20.50
English 978-0-3937332-2-8 192 pages 7 × 11 in. Softcover Color images Price € 27.00 / $ 35 / £ 24.50
English 978-0-3937333-4-1 192 pages 7 × 11 in. Softcover Color images Price € 27.00 / $ 35 / £ 24.50
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Popular Lies About Graphic Design Craig Ward An attempt to debunk various misconceptions, half truths and, in some cases, outright lies which permeate the industry of design. Multi award-winning designer and typographer, Craig Ward, presents his first self-authored book, Popular Lies About Graphic Design. Written both passionately and irreverently, Ward pulls from his ten years of experience to tackle lighter subjects such as design fetishists, Helvetica’s neutrality and urgent briefs, alongside discussions on more worthy topics such as the validity of design education, the supposed death of print, client relationships and pitch planning. In addition, the book features contributions from more than a dozen established practitioners such as Milton Glaser, Stefan Sagmeister, Christoph Niemann and David Carson. English 978-84-15391-35-7 160 pages 14 x 18 cm Soft cover b/w images Price € 14 / $ 16.95 / £ 13.00
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Ma Yansong From (Global) Modernity to (Local) Tradition Complete monograph on Ma Yansong’s work, China’s most internationally recognized architect. All of MAD’s projects - from residential complexes or offices to cultural centres - desire to protect a sense of community and orientation toward nature, offering people the freedom to develop their own experience. Founded in 2004 by Ma Yansong, the office first earned worldwide attention in 2006 by winning an international competition to design a residential tower near Toronto. MAD have been awarded the Young Architecture Award from the New York Institute of Architects in 2006 and the 2011 RIBA international fellowship. English-Spanish 978-84-15391-36-4 384 pages 16.5 x 24 cm Flexibound Color and b/w images Price € 38 / $ 39.95 / £ 36.00 Published with Casa Asia and Fundación ICO
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Barcelona Modern Architecture Guide 1860-2013. New edition. Manuel Gausa, Marta Cervelló, Maurici Pla, Ricardo Devesa This guide brings together the most important and interesting examples of modern and contemporary architecture in Barcelona. It covers the emergence of Modernisme and Noucentisme, creative periods for which Barcelona is known the world over. Each entry has a brief description that includes planning and completion dates, a summary description, and subsequent restoration and alterations. This updated edition features the most recent architectural production (up until 2013), including landmarks such as Jean Nouvel’s Agbar tower, the 2004 Forum building by Herzog & de Meuron, the MediaICT building by Enric Ruiz-Geli and many more. English 978-84-96954-18-2 Spanish 978-84-96954-17-5 Catalan 978-84-98504-53-8 600 pages // 14.5 x 17 cm Soft cover // b&w images Price € 26.92 / $ 34.95 / £ 26.00 Published with Ajuntament de Barcelona
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Landscape Futures Instruments, Devices and Architectural Inventions. Geoff Manaugh (ed.) A speculative look into the future of our built environment Landscape Futures explores how landscapes, and our perceptions of them, can be utterly transformed by technology and design. It travels the shifting terrains of architectural invention, where new spatial devices on a variety of scales—from the handheld to the inhabitable— reveal previously overlooked dimensions of the built and natural environments. From philosophical toys and ironic provocations to a room-sized kinetic mechanism that models future climates, these devices are not merely diagnostic but creative, deploying fiction as a means of exploring alternative futures: landscape futures, terrestrial scenarios for which we have no other guide. English 978-84-15391-14-2 232 pages // 15.5 x 22 cm Soft cover Color and b/w images Price € 30 / $ 34.95 / £ 28.00 Published with Nevada Museum of Art
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Experiments with Life Itself
Interdisciplinary Design
Radical domestic architectures of the 1940s and 1950s. Francisco González de Canales
New Lessons from Architecture and Engineering.
Five experiments made by prestigious architects on their own homes during the dark days of the Second World War. Architects and artists voluntarily or forcibly driven to the margins of social importance began to react to a culturally unsustainable situation of which we know very little even today. Francisco González de Canales studies a series of unrelated cases from the late 1930s to the late 1950s that he refers to as domestic self-experimentation: Germán Rodríguez Arias, Ralph Erskine, Charles and Ray Eames, Juan O’Gorman and Alison & Peter Smithson. English 978-84-92861-65-1, Spanish 978-84-92861-66-8 176 pages 14.5 x 20.5 cm Soft cover Color and b/w images Price € 25 / $ 34.95 / £ 22.00
Hanif Kara, Andreas Georgoulias (eds.) Architecture and engineering are changing. But what about the relationship between architects and engineers? The subject of this experimental course held at Harvard GSD, with the students of Harvard and MIT, is to see the potential of interaction between the two disciplines from these two schools. Hanif Kara of AKT, engineering designer who has long experience in constructing innovative buildings in terms of architecture and engineering, through the close collaboration with distinguished architects, leads the class, insisting on the importance of each professional field but trying to erode the borders and boundaries between them. English 978-84-15391-08-1 17 x 22 cm // 288 pages Hard cover // Color illustrations Price € 32 / $ 34.95 / £ 29.90 Published with Harvard University Graduate School of Design
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Bracket 2
The Sniper’s Log
City Sense
Goes soft.
Architectural Chronicles of Generation X. Alejandro Zaera-Polo
4th Advanced Architecture Contest. Shaping our environment with real-time data.
An in-depth study of soft systems in design Bracket 2 examines physical and virtual soft systems, as they pertain to infrastructure, ecologies, landscapes, environments, and networks. In an era of declared crises—economic, ecological and climatic, amongst others—the notion of soft systems has gained increasing traction as a counterpoint to permanent, static and hard systems. Acknowledging fluid and indeterminate situations with complex feedback loops that allow for reaction and adaption, the possibility of soft systems has re-entered the domain of design. Bracket 2 critically positions and defines soft systems through 27 projects and 12 articles. The editorial board and jury for Bracket 2 includes Benjamin Bratton, Julia Czerniak, Jeffrey Inaba, Geoff Manaugh, Philippe Rahm, Charles Renfro, as well as co-editors Neeraj Bhatia and Lola Sheppard.
An insight into the theoretical discourse that shapes and expands the architect’s practice This compilation of texts written since 1986 reveals a parallel activity to Alejandro Zaera-Polo’s professional life. The book is like a sniper’s log, a register of events for the purpose of accumulating experience for future missions, be it academic or professional, trying to identify tendencies and to assess performances, rather than to establish truth. Written for different media and formats (professional magazines, speaking engagements, academic presentations…), the texts are thread together as part of a biographical experience determined by temporal and geographical factors. A graphic texture of nearly 500 images captures the temporal framework of these writings and provide a background to trigger associations.
This publication compiles the winning and the finalist entries of the City Sense competition, organized by the Institute of Advanced Architecture. The competition was open to architects, engineers, planners, designers and artists who wanted to contribute to progress in making the world more habitable by developing proposals capable of responding to emerging challenges in areas such as ecology, information technology, architecture, and urban planning, with the purpose of balancing the possible impact of real-time data collection on sensor-driven cities. The book presents a selection of the best projects on Smart Cities, Eco Neighbourhoods, Self-Sufficient Buildings, Intelligent Homes and other proposals which examine the phenomena of sensor-driven cities and intelligent behavioural systems.
English 978-84-15391-02-9 20 x 26.5 cm // 284 pages Soft cover // Color and duotone Price € 34 / $ 39.95 / £ 32.00
English 978-84-92861-22-4 15.5 x 22.5 cm // 592 pages Soft cover Black & white illustrations Price € 34 / $ 39.95 / £ 32.00
Neeraj Bhatia, Lola Sheppard (eds.)
English 978-84-15391-29-6 368 pages // 12 x 16 cm Soft cover // 600 color images Price € 25 / $ 34.95 / £ 22.00 Published with IAAC
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Architecture
Globalization of Urbanity
New Urban Metabolism
Josep Acebillo, Jacques Lévy, Christian Schmid (eds.)
Josep Acebillo
The process of urbanisation has changed fundamentally in recent years A study of the contemporary city and urban space which adopts a systemic perspective for approaching the urban complexity and the nature of urban / public space in the era of globalization. A new language and new theoretical approaches must be developed in order to understand present-day urbanisation processes. English 978-84-92861-81-1 176 pages // 16 x 19 cm Soft cover // b/w images Price € 26 / $ 29.95 / £ 23.50 Published with Università della Svizzera Italiana
The growing urbanization of the planet, visible in the fact that by the middle of this century some 70% percent of the population will live in cities, situates the urban question as a key issue for global sustainability. Many of the causes generating the huge environmental crises, have their rationale in the metabolic inefficiency of our cities. Greater metabolic efficiency contributes to the energy rationalization of urban system and also contributes to greater urban competitiveness. Urban metabolic analysis demonstrates efficiency that small and medium-sized cities can have in the new neo-tertiary context, and could be used as a test to previously evaluate the functional and ecological consequences of future urban transformations. English 978-84-92861-47-7 176 pages // 16 x 19 cm Soft cover // b/w images Price € 26 / $ 29.95 / £ 23.50 Published with Università della Svizzera Italiana
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GSD Platform 5 A year of research through studio work, theses, lectures, exhibitions and events. Mariana Ibañez (ed.) GSD has always recognized the indispensable importance and values of architecture, landscape architecture, urban planning, and urban design, yet has transcended their individual aspirations through intellectual crossfertilization and collaboration. The material presented in this publication forms an incredible range and diversity of proposals and visions that the students and faculty have produced during the past academic year. This work is indicative of the School’s commitment, as a global leader in the field, to exploring and articulating transformative ideas through the power of design. It is as important to share and communicate the outcome of the research and design investigations as it is to show the fertile circumstances for the making of these projects. English 978-84-15391-28-9 368 pages // 15.5 x 23 cm Hard cover // Color images Price € 30 / $ 34.95 / £ 26.00 Published with Harvard University Graduate School of Design
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GSD Platform 4
Candide 4
Candide 5
A year of research through studio work, theses, lectures, exhibitions and events.
Journal for Architectural Knowledge.
Journal for Architectural Knowledge.
Axel Sowa, Susanne Schindler (eds.)
Axel Sowa, Susanne Schindler (eds.)
English-German 978-84-92861-83-5 144 pages // 17 x 24 cm Soft cover // b/w and color imgs Price € 17 / $ 24.95 / £ 15.00
English-German 978-84-15391-05-0 144 pages // 17 x 24 cm Soft cover // b/w and color images Price € 17 / $ 24.95 / £ 15.00
Eric Howeler (ed.) English 978-84-15391-00-5 368 pages // 15.5 x 23 cm Hard cover // color images Price € 28 / $ 34.95 / £ 26.00 Published with Harvard University Graduate School of Design
Published with Aachen University
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Requiem For the city at the end of the millenium. Sanford Kwinter English 978-84-92861-20-0 122 pages 12 x 17 cm Soft cover Color images Price € 12 / $ 14.95 / £ 10.95
Farm from Equilibrium Essays on Technology and Design Culture. Sanford Kwinter English 978-84-96540-64-4 196 pages // 15 x 22 cm Flexibound cover Color and b/w images Price € 26 / $ 33 / £ 20.95
OAB, Office of Architecture in Barcelona Carlos Ferrater & Partners English 978-84-92861-23-1 Spanish 978-84-96954-54-0 350 pages // 24 x 30 cm Hard cover Color images Price € 45 / $ 59.95 / £ 40
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Kazuyo Sejima in Gifu Metropolitan Housing Studies
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SANAA Houses
Color in Mass
Kazuyo Sejima, Ryue Nishizawa
Concrete and Pigments on the new City of Justice of Barcelona. By B720, Lanxess and David Chipperfield
English 978-84-89698-92-5 Spanish 978-84-89698-99-6 224 pages 17 x 16 cm Hard cover Color images Price € 15 / $ 18.95 / £ 13.50
English 978-84-96540-70-5 192 pages 20 x 26.5 cm Flexibound cover Color images Price € 32 / $ 49.95 / £ 26
Self-Sufficient Housing
Self-Fab House
Self-Sufficient City
2nd Advanced Architecture Contest
Envisioning the habitat of the future.
Vicente Guallart (ed.)
Vicente Guallart (ed.)
English 978-84-96954-74-8 384 pages 12 x 16.5 cm Soft cover Color images Price € 25 / $ 34.95 / £ 20
English 978-84-92861-33-0 416 pages 12 x 16 cm Soft cover 400 color images Price € 25 / $ 34.95 / £ 20
1st Advanced Architecture Contest Vicente Guallart (ed.) English 978-84-96540-43-9 384 pages // 12 x 16.5 cm Soft cover 300 color images Price € 25 / $ 34.95 / £ 20
English 978-84-15391-20-3 Spanish 978-84-15391-21-0 144 pages // 16.5 x 24 cm Soft cover // color images Price € 27.88 / $ 39.95 / £ 25.00
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Pro Domo Yona Friedman English 978-84-96540-51-4 390 pages 14.8 x 21 cm Hard cover Color and b/w images Price € 29 / $ 38 / £ 23.95
Agenda. JDS Architects Can We Sustain our Ability to Crisis? Jesse Seegers, Benedict Clouette, Julien de Smedt, Ryan Neiheiser (eds.) English 978-84-92861-62-0 544 pages // 21 x 27 cm Soft cover // Color images Price € 35 / $ 42 / £ 32
Architecture with the people, by the people, for the people Yona Friedman
A Peripheral Moment Experiments in architectural agency. Croatia 1990-2010. Ivan Rupnik (ed.)
English-Spanish 978-84-92861-94-1 160 pages // 20 x 27 cm Soft cover // color and b/w imgs Price € 29 / $ 39.95 / £ 26.00
English 978-84-92861-57-6 320 pages // 16.5 x 24 cm Plastic cover Color images Price € 30 / $ 36 / £ 27
The Metapolis Dictionary of Advanced Architecture
Architecture and Violence
English 978-84-95951-22-9 Spanish 978-84-95273-93-2 624 pages // 16 x 23 cm Hard cover Color images Price € 48 / $ 64.95 / £ 38.95
Bechir Kenzari (ed.) English 978-84-92861-73-6 320 pages 13.5 x 20 cm Soft cover Color and b/w images Price € 19.50 / $ 29.95 / £ 18.00
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Mies Van der Rohe Award 2011
Architecture
Fuksas Building
iGuzzini
European Union Prize for Contemporary Architecture
New and extended edition of Massimiliano and Doriana Fuksas’ work
Barcelona Corporate Building
English 978-84-92861-76-7 280 pages 17 x 24 cm Soft cover Color images Price € 35 / $ 44.95 / £ 29.90
English 978-84-92861-78-1 520 pages 22 x 33 cm Hard cover Color images Price € 45 / $ 59.95 / £ 40.00
Journeys
In Favour of Public Space
How travelling fruit, ideas and buildings rearrange our environment. Giovanna Borasi (ed.) English 978-84-92861-54-5 French 978-84-92861-55-2 320 pages // 17 x 24 cm Soft cover // Color images Price € 30 / $ 36.00 / £ 27.00
Ten Years of the European Prize for Urban Public Space. Magda Anglès (ved.) English 978-84-92861-38-5 208 pages // 17 x 24 cm Flexibound cover // Color images Price € 33 / $ 39.95 / £ 29.9
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English 978-84-15391-12-8 336 pages 17 x 24 cm Hard cover Color images Price € 39 / $ 49.95 / £ 35.00
Open Arquitectura, vivienda y ciudad contemporánea. Teoría e historia de un cambio. Manuel Gausa Spanish 978-84-96954-86-1 992 pages 16 x 24 cm Hard cover Color and b/w images Price € 42 / $ 54.9 / £ 39.9
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Verb Processing
Verb Matters
Verb Connection
English 978-84-95273-55-0 288 pages 17,5 x 24,5 cm Flexibound cover Color images Price € 19 / $ 24.95 / £ 16.5
Spanish 978-84-95951-20-5 French 978-84-95951-21-2 280 pages 17 x 24 cm Flexibound cover Color images Price € 32 / $ 39.95 / £ 25.95
English 978-84-95951-06-9 Spanish 978-84-95951-78-6 260 pages 17 x 24 cm Flexibound cover Color images Price € 19 / $ 24.95 / £ 16.5
Sendai Mediatheque
Seattle Public Library
Desert America
Toyo Ito
OMA/LMN
English 978-84-95951-03-8 240 pages 17 x 24 cm Flexibound cover Color images Price € 19 / $ 24.95 / £ 16.5
English 978-84-95951-63-2 320 pages 17 x 24 cm Color images Flexibound cover Price € 19 / $ 24.95 / £ 16.5
Rem Koolhaas, Stefano Boeri, Sanford Kwinter, Daniela Fabricius, Hans Ulrich Obrist, Nadia Tazi English 978-84-96540-09-5 320 pages // 24 x 16.5 cm Hard cover 280 color and b/w images Price € 19 / $ 24.95 / £ 16.5
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Verb Conditioning
Verb Natures
Verb Crisis
English 978-84-95951-86-1 Spanish 978-84-96540-04-0 280 pages 17 x 24 cm Flexibound cover Color images Price € 19 / $ 24.95 / £ 16.5
English 978-84-96540-21-7 280 pages 17 x 24 cm Flexibound cover Color and b/w images Price € 32 / $ 39.95 / £ 25.95
English 978-84-96540-97-2 288 pages 17 x 24 cm Flexibound cover 250 color images Price € 32 / $ 39.95 / £ 25.45
From Control to Design
Design Engineering
Sociopolis
Adams Kara Taylor
Project for a City of the Future Vicente Guallart (ed.)
Parametric / Algorithmic Architecture English 978-84-96540-79-8 280 pages 17 x 24 cm Flexibound cover Color images Price € 30 / $ 39.95 / £ 24
English 978-84-96540-66-8 288 pages 16.5 x 24 cm Hard cover Color images Price € 35 / $ 44.95 / £ 28
English 978-84-95951-83-0 250 pages 15 x 21 cm Soft cover Color images Price € 32 / $ 45 / £ 25.95
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Buy Me a Mercedes-Benz The Book of the Museum UN Studio English 978-84-96540-37-8 German 978-84-96540-36-1 576 pages // 17 x 24 cm Hard cover Color images Price € 42 / $ 55 / £ 33.95
Function of Form Farshid Moussavi, Daniel Lopez, Garrick Ambrose, Ben Fortunato, Ryan Ludwig, Ahmadreza Schricker English 978-84-96954-73-1 520 pages // 17 x 22 cm Plastic cover Duotone Price € 35 / $ 39.95 / £ 29.95
Domesticity at War
Clip, Stamp, Fold
Beatriz Colomina
The Radical Architecture of Little Magazines 196X–197X Beatriz Colomina (ed.)
English 978-84-96540-11-8 Spanish 978-84-96540-10-1 320 pages 15 x 30 cm Hard cover Color and duotone images Price € 22 / Not distributed in the USA / £ 19
Function of Ornament Farshid Moussavi, Michael Kubo (eds.) English 978-84-96540-50-7 German 978-84-96954-32-8 Spanish 978-84-96954-31-1 192 pages // 17 x 22 cm Flexibound cover // b/w images Price € 23 / $ 29.95 / £ 18.95
English 978-84-96954-52-6 672 pages 19 x 25.5 cm Hard cover Color and duotone images Price € 45 / $ 54.95 / £ 40
Phylogenesis FOA’s Ark Foreign Office Architects English 978-84-95951-47-2 Spanish 978-84-95951-46-5 656 pages 12 x 16.5 cm Hard cover Color images Price € 36 / $ 49.95 / £ 28.95
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Ant Farm
Space Fighter
Living Archive 7
The Evolutionary City (Game:) MVRDV, Delft School of Design Winy Maas (ed.)
Felicity Scott English 978-84-96954-24-3 320 pages 16,5 x 21 cm Soft cover Color and b/w images Price € 39 / $ 54.95 / £ 31.95
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