Architecture . Design Art . Culture Spring 2014
New Titles
2014. 522 pages, 1.000 illus. 21 x 29.7 cm. Hardcover ISBN 978-3-99043-559-5 English € 87.99 (A) Available Modern Construction Series
Andrew Watts
Modern Construction Envelopes 2nd ed.
Modern Construction Principles of the buildings’ skin Combining walls and roofs – material, construction, environmental issues 2nd updated edition with many new illustrations, photos and in new layout
The second edition of Modern Construction Envelopes was originally based on the two books by Andrew Watts, Modern Construction Roofs and Modern Construction Facades. Both volumes were gathered into one single volume and consolidated in terms of content, which permits the consideration of facades and roofs as envelopes. This is of particular interest as to design and its creative freedom. Using current examples by renowned architects, Andrew Watts presents the constructive and material-related details. This presentation is based on an easy-to-understand text, photos, and standardized detail drawings, as well as 3D representations of the components. This approach allows for the easy understanding of the complexity of modern envelopes and offers know-how for one’s own needs. The new edition has 3D views that are easier to understand than the first edition, with sharper images and more key explanations.
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Dear readers, dear colleagues, It’s with pleasure that we submit you our recent books’ preview of spring 2014. May our book program give you great pleasure! PPAG, this stands for Anna Popelka and Georg Poduschka, the architects who designed, for instance, the popular piece of seating furniture named “Enzi” at Vienna’s MuseumsQuartier. “Enzi” enjoys such great popularity that 215,000 Viennese gave their votes as to the annual coloring on the Internet. We look forward to a refreshing book on unconventional solution approaches and original ideas! Keeping in contact is very easy now: readers of our newsletter are always the first ones to be informed about news, events, and publisher’s tips. Like us on Facebook, too, where we present our new books with small photograph albums and announce short-term appointments, and use our new website where you’ll find all available books, events, and our previews in PDF for download. We, the AMBRA staff, wish you much success with our spring program and great pleasure while browsing!
Kind regards David Marold Senior Editor david.marold@ambra-verlag.at
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On research an education in architecture and Information Technology
Ludger Hovestadt, Vera Bühlmann (Eds.)
EigenArchitecture PAGES 128 ILLS. 150 FORMAT 28.4 × 21.5 cm BINDING Softcover PRICE
€ 26.95 (A)
ISBN 978-3-99043-626-4
English
On resaerch and education in architecture and information technology Re-reading of George Boole, Richard Dedekind, Hermann Grassmann and Bernhard Riemann Arguing for a literacy of the digital
English
Available
This book shifts the frame of reference for today’s network- and structure oriented discussions from the applied computational tools of the 20th century back to the abstractness of 19th century mathematics. It re-reads George Boole, Richard Dedekind, Hermann Grassmann and Bernhard Riemann in a surprising manner. EigenArchitecture argues for a literacy of the digital, displacing the role of geometrical craftsmanship. Thus, architecture can be liberated from today’s economical, technocratic and bureaucratic straight jackets: from physicalistic optimization, sociological balancing, and ideological naturalizations. The book comprises a programmatic text on the role of technology in architecture, a philosophical text on the generic and on algebraic articulation, and six exemplary projects by postgraduate students in 2012 at the Chair for Computer Aided Architectural Design at ETH Zurich, Switzerland.
Excellent Design from Austria: Staatspreis 2013
designaustria, Bundesministerium für Wirtschaft, Familie und Jugend, Austria Wirtschaftsservice GmbH (Ed.)
Staatspreis Design 2013 Winning Projects in the Austrian National Design Prize & Design Concepts Award PAGES 96 ILLS. 186 FORMAT 24.0 × 23.5 cm BINDING Hardcover PRICE
€ 24.95 (A)
ISBN 978-3-99043-601-1
English / German
English / German
Available
The Staatspreis Design – Austrian National Design Award – is awarded in recognition of the best, most creative and innovative solutions for consumer goods, investment goods and spatial design that Austrian companies and/or designers have participated in. An additional category, the special DesignConcepts award for innovative design ideas was created for concepts that have particular market relevance and offer a high potential for realization. Entries included products in serial production and those available on the market as well as spatial design concepts that have already been realized. The independent panel of experts selected the four national award winners and recognition award winners from among 166 top-flight submissions. This volume compiles the results of the competition and offers the reader brief descriptions of the products as well as complete contact information of the clients and designers.
Documentation of the competition with brief introductions of each product Contact information of the clients and designers
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Anna Popelka, Georg Poduschka (Eds.)
Speaking Architecture PPAG: Phenomenology / Phänomenologie PAGES approx. 538 ILLS. approx. 600 FORMAT 28.5 x 23.5 cm BINDING Softcover PRICE
approx. € 49.99 (A)
ISBN 978-3-99043-637-0
English / German Available April 2014
Monograph on one of Austria’s most innovative architecture offices “Things can always be done even better,” is the motto of Anna Popelka and Georg Poduschka. Based on a selection of around 30 completed projects of varying sizes and types, discussed in an impressive collection of contributions, this book offers its readers an inside view of the maximized worlds PPAG architects creates.
English / German
PPAG enjoy their work and it shows: Their Enzi furniture modules and have become one of Vienna’s signature attractions, as the 215,000 participants in the yearly online color selection votings prove. The construction of the Favoriten educational campus in Vienna’s 10th district is currently underway.
It is considered a reinvention of institutional construction that meets the requirements of modern school facilities. PPAG Architects is also working on a number of specialized large-scale residential projects, a gourmet restaurant and a hotel-office-restaurant hybrid. Architecture isn’t about a stringent, recognizable style for PPAG. Instead they pursue innovation, the unknown and variety while striving to achieve more.
Monograph on the architects of the Wien Favoriten educational campus, the ENZI urban furniture of Vienna’s MuseumsQuartier, the Europan6 Wohnberg residential project and many others The projects are discussed in three interconnected sections: Projects – Compendium – Plans The volume was published as a luxury edition
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Sensuality in digital design
Technische Universität Graz
GAM 10: Intuition & the Machine [Graz Architecture Magazine] PAGES approx. 264 ILLS. numerours in color FORMAT 27.4 × 22.6 cm BINDING Softcover PRICE
approx. € 19.99 (A)
ISBN 978-3-99043-620-2
English / German
The sensual dimension of digital construction, simulation and design methods Intuition in the dialogue between people and digital design devices The 10th issue of GAM, the architecture magazin of the TU Graz
English / German
Available April 2014
Digital media have enriched architectural production in many ways. They have created their own separate array of simulation, design and planning instruments, new fabrication and construction processes and generate new spatial experiences. This expansion of our sensual perception and its effects on our physicality and intuitively steered processes are the matter of extensive discussion in architecture when it comes to designing the surroundings of our lives in the future. In this context it becomes clear that human intuition is once again gaining importance as the counterpart to rational processes. What should we think of this tendency? Does it create the potential for a more sensual and intuitive handling of complexity in architectural design? Or is it this endorsement of intuition a flight from media technology as it continues its advance into more and more aspects of our lives? The authors of GAM.10 focus on the new forms of interaction between digital and architectural worlds of knowledge and experiences.
The best buildings in Styria 2013
Nathalie de Vries, Eva Guttmann, Haus der Architektur Graz
Architektur. Landschaft / Architecture. Landscape Architekturjahrbuch Graz Steiermark 2013 / Architecture Yearbook Graz Styria 2013 PAGES 148 ILLS. 130 FORMAT 22.5 × 28.0 cm BINDING Softcover PRICE
€ 34.95 (A)
ISBN 978-3-99043-633-2
English / German
English/ German
Available
This is the sixteenth time the Styrian Architecture Award is awarded For the third time, the winner was selected by a curator, who is also responsible for the design of the corresponding publication, instead of a jury. Nathalie de Vries, of the MVRDV architecture office in The Netherlands was chosen to be the curator of this year’s award. Her choice includes six projects of varying typologies and sizes. What these buildings in different regions of Styria have in common is their great awareness for the individual urban and suburban contexts as well the intensive, discursive process that characterized their planning and completion. This publication describes the projects and features commentaries by the architects, users and clients that accompany the expressive images both in context and detail.
Curated and conceived by Nathalie de Vries / MVRDV Includes an essay by Werner Schandor and photographs by Michael Goldgruber Edition designed by Margit Steidl
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Bernhard Leitner
Saving the Wittgenstein House Vienna from Demolition A Documentation 06/1969 – 21/06/1971 PAGES 140 ILLS. 91 FORMAT 30.5 × 23.0 cm BINDING Softcover PRICE
€ 34.99 (A)
ISBN 978-3-99043-617-2
English / German Available
Ludwig Wittgenstein’s Architecture – A Building as a Manifesto
English/ German
“Did you know, Logical Positivists, that the late Ludwig Wittgenstein, the Austrian philosopher who’s very in with art worldings these days, was also a one-shot architect? And that now there’s is one-man movement afoot to save the single house he designed and built in Vienna? The movement is Bernhard Leitner, a young Austrian architect, over here on a stint with the city’s Office of Midtown Planning and Development.” The New York Times, February 22, 1970.
In June 1971, the demolition of the Wittgenstein House was resolved by the City of Vienna with the authorisation of the Landmarks Preservation Office. This demolition was stopped at the last minute. It was the improbable end of a two-year rescue campaign operated from New York. Bernhard Leitner collected unique photographs as well as facsimiles of documents that illustrate the incredible odyssey that ended in the rescue of this architectural jewel.
Bernhard Leitner is considered the savior of the Wittgenstein House Letters, photos and reports document his efforts to save the building First time available as book
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New approaches to arts education
Stephan Hilge, Roman Pfeffer, Nita Tandon (Eds.)
TransArts [Edition Angewandte – Book Series of the University of Applied Arts Vienna] PAGES 176 ILLS. 160 in color FORMAT 20.0 × 15.0 cm BINDING Hardcover PRICE
€ 24.95 (A)
ISBN 978-3-99043-577-9
English
TransArts is a novel approach in the art Innovative Study Program education system, a course whose content and forms are adapted to the dynamics of Innovative Design Concept art today: the separation of the theory and practice of art – while maintaining all the Contributions by well known authors differences – is seen as arbitrary and even obsolete. TransArts teaches the common and distinctive features of theory and practice and takes account of the fact that different artistic disciplines are mutually dependent and reinforcing but are also in competition with one another. Art is taught and studied not only through traditional forms of teaching but in particular through communication, inventiveness, reflection and the exchange of ideas between teachers and students. This publication documents the activities of TransArts from 2010 to 2013. (Gerald Bast)
English
Available
Introduction into the concept “Thought Machines”
Jan Svenungsson (Ed.)
Thought Machines The manual to an international exhibition [Edition Angewandte – Book Series of the University of Applied Arts Vienna] PAGES 76 ILLS. 53 in color FORMAT 23.0 × 17.0 cm BINDING Softcover PRICE
€ 19.95 (A)
ISBN 978-3-99043-623-3
English
English
Available
Organized by the department for Graphics & Printmaking at the University of Applied Arts Vienna, the exhibition “Thought Machines” includes student work from Vienna as well as from the Hungarian University of Fine Arts, Budapest; the Academy of Fine Arts and Design, Bratislava; the Academy of Visual Arts, Leipzig and the Royal College of Art, London. All participants in the exhibition share a platform in being students of printmaking. From this point of departure they develop projects which inhabit the whole range of contemporary art-making possibilities. What binds these projects together is that they all address the concept of “Thought Machines” which is discussed by Jan Svenungsson in an introductory text.
An investigation into the potentiality of printmaking as a point of departure for radical contemporary art making An opportunity for comparison and exchange between top of the line art education institutions
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Georg Glaeser
Nature and Numbers A Mathematical Photo Shooting [Edition Angewandte – Book Series of the University of Applied Arts Vienna] PAGES 376 ILLS. 757 in color FORMAT 22.5 × 19.0 cm BINDING Softcover PRICE
€ 27.45 (A)
ISBN 978-3-99043-615-8
English Available
Easy to read and comprehend
English
Mathematicians with special interest in biology, physics, geography, astronomy, architecture, design, etc., and being prepared to take pictures at any time, might try to answer unusual questions like the followings: What do a zebra, a tiger shark, and a hard coral have in common? How is this with drying mud, wings of dragon flies, and the structures of leaves? What is the “snail king” and is there also a “worm king”? Which curves stay of the same type after being photographed? Do fishes see like we do if we look through a fisheye lens? Which geometric properties of an object have physical consequences? Which kinds of geometric patterns appear when waves are interfering? In this book you
can find 180 double pages with at least as many questions of this kind. The principle to attack a problem is often similar: It starts with a photo that is for some reasons remarkable. In a short description an explanation is offered, including relevant Internet links. Additionally one can frequently find computer simulations in order to illustrate and confirm.
Interdisciplinary: Combines various fields like biology, physics, the Arts, etc. with Mathematics Supports and improves mathematical understanding even for non-mathematicians “Double-page principle”: Most themes require only one or two double pages. Thus, one can resume reading at any double page
10 | ART
Franz Schuh (Ed.)
Nita Tandon Dimensions of the Surface / Dimensionen der Oberfläche [Edition Angewandte – Book Series of the University of Applied Arts Vienna] PAGES approx. 144 ILLS. approx. 300 in color FORMAT 25.0 × 23.0 cm BINDING Hardcover PRICE
approx. € 24.95 (A)
ISBN 78-3-99043-614-1
English / German Available April 2014
A Comprehensive overview of the rich, multi-layered, cross-media oeuvre
English
“Dimensions of the Surface / Dimensionen der Oberfläche” is a comprehensive documentation of the work of the Indian-born artist Nita Tandon, who lives in Vienna. Paintings, drawings, objects and documentations of temporary installations and performances with German and English written commentaries give readers an overview of the formal breadth of the artist’s work. Nita Tandon’s themes cover the problems of identity and space in the digital age. The many layers of her work and her cross-media approach reach beyond the limits of one-dimensional
interpretation attempts. The works documented in this publication have been shown in Austria and abroad. This range of projects is both a complete spectrum of the artist's work, while also offering glimpses of cyles that have yet to be completed.
The constructed, virtual space. Identity and its erasing Linear and non-linear structure Painting between two dimensions and three dimensions Visualization of language and space
BACKLIST | HIGHLIGHTS | 11
Gunda Achleitner, Berthold Ecker, Elisabeth Voggeneder (Eds.)
Claus Mayrhofer Barabbas Gegenwelten eines Grenz gängers. The Transcultural Worlds of an Out-There Artist ff The
artist’s oeuvre during the 60s and 70s in Vienna, Bali and Australia ff Sheds light on the musical side of Claus Mayrhofer Barabbas, who was one of the founders of the Viennese free jazz movement ff Includes a fold-out of “The Big Bang,” the monumental painting completed by Barabbas in 1975
Dominique Boudet (Ed.)
IBOS VITART Architecture And The City ff One
of the most interesting, emerging architectural offices in France ff Sustainable architectural and urban design ff Beautifully designed book by Ruedi Baur 2013. 344 p., 230 illus. Hardcover € 54.99 (A) 978-3-99043-569-4 English / French
2013. 184 p., 141 illus. Softcover € 24.95 (A) 978-3-99043-556-4 English / German
Die Walverwandtschaften Zürich München Boston, Cordula Rau, Eberhard Tröger, Ole W. Fischer (Hrsg./Eds.)
Sehnsucht – The Book of Architectural Longings German Contribution to the 12th international Architecture Exhibition – La Biennale di Venezia 2010 ff Texts,
drawings, photographs by international architects and creative artists on the topic “longing and architecture” ff Autonomous, bibliophilic book publication 2010. 256 p., 200 illus. Hardcover € 54,95 (A) 978-3-99043-378-2 English / German
Berthold Ecker, Johannes Karel (Eds.)
Stephan Ettl (Ed.)
Lukas Feireiss (Ed.)
Die siebziger Jahre / The 1970s Expansion der Wiener Kunst / Expansion of Viennese Art
OSWALD OBERHUBER HOCH3. Werke / Works 1945–2012. Skulpturen Plastiken Objekte Verformungen Assemblagen Möbel Mode Raumkonzepte / Sculptures Plastics Objects Re-Shapings Assemblages Furniture Fashion Spatial Concepts
Space Matters Exploring Spatial Theory and Practice Today
ff Comprehensive
catalog with almost 1000 color illustrations ff Detailed illustrations section with 300 large format color illustrations ff Third volume in the multi-part catalog series on the contemporary art collection of the City of Vienna 2013. 560 p., 970 illus. Hardcover € 39.95 (A) 978-3-99043-560-1 English / German
ff Over ff The
1000 objects by Oswald Oberhuber entire ouevre of the artist
2013. 552 p., 1500 illus. Hardcover € 79.95 (A) 978-3-99043-515-1 English / German
ff Interdisciplinary
contributions on the timeless architectural theme of “space” ff With contributions by Elsa Prochazka, Hubert Klumpner, Alfredo Brillembourg, Markus Miessen, Michael Obrist, Lilli Hollein and many others ff Written for cultural researchers and those in creative professions, such as architects, artists and curators 2013. 192 p., 50 illus. Softcover € 27.49 (A) 978-3-99043-563-2 English
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Andrea Bocco Guarneri
H.-M. Henning, Mario Motta, Daniel Mugnier (Eds.)
Renate Kordon
WERNER SCHMIDT architekt Ecology Craft Invention / Ökologie Handwerk Erfindung
Solar Cooling Handbook A Guide to Solar Assisted Cooling and Dehumidification Processes
Lebenslinien – Lifelines
ff Using
straw-balls for sustainable archtiecture ff High ecological consideration coupled with convincing architectural results ff Synthesis of best energy performance, living value and eye catching architectural design 2013. 288 p., 616 illus. Hardcover € 76.99 (A) 978-3-99043-505-2 English / German
ff Handbook
for the design of solar assisted air-conditioning systems ff Handbook for practitioner ff Specifics and detailed specification 2013. 368 p., 226 illus. Hardcover € 65.99 (A) 978-3-99043-438-3 English
ff This
is the first comprehensive monograph on the artistic work of Renate Kordon ff It includes texts on her work by Werner Fenz, Michael Freund, Otto Kapfinger, Susanne Neuburger, Brigitte Servatius and Diane Shooman ff A number of mainly large format illustrations offer the reader a visual presentation of her richly varied oeuvre 2013. 248 p., 330 illus. Hardcover € 36.95 (A) 978-3-99043-544-1 English / German Edition Angewandte
Norbert Mayr, Tom Lechner (Eds.)
Bernadette Reinhold, Patrick Werkner (Eds.)
Andrew Watts
LP architektur Bauten und Projekte / Buildings and Projects 2008–2014
Oskar Kokoschka – ein Künstlerleben in Lichtbildern / Oskar Kokoschka – An Artist’s Life in Photographs From the Oskar KokoschkaZentrum of the University of Applied Arts Vienna
Modern Construction Handbook, 3rd. ed.
ff Monograph
on a young Austrian architecture office from Salzburg ff 24 realized buildings ffOffice structures, remodelling of existing historical buildings, single-family housing … 2013. 288 p., 230 illus. Hardover € 49.99 (A) 978-3-99043-562-5 English / German
ff Unusual
insights into the creative oeuvre and life of an extraordinary artist ff An annotated documentation of the 5,000 photographs in the artist’s estate ff Contains portraits by major photographers (including: A. Madame d’Ora, René Burri, Erich Lessing) 2013. 208 p., numerous illus. Softcover € 39.99 (A) 978-3-99043-565-6 English / German Edition Angewandte
ff Updated
“future” chapter with more emerging construction techniques ff More technical data in the “materials” chapter 2013. 504 p., 1000 illus. Hardcover € 87.99 (A) 978-3-99043-454-3 English Modern Construction Series
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Wo Kunst entsteht. Art Starts Here. Werk(stätt)en in Niederöster reich / Work (Spaces) in Lower Austria Abteilung Kunst und Kultur Amt der NÖ Landesregierung (Hrsg./Ed.)
Bau[t]en für die Künste Building[s] for the Arts Zeitgenössische Architektur in Niederösterreich Contemporary Architecture in Lower Austria Amt der NÖ Landesregierung (Hrsg./Ed.)
Land schaf[f]t Wissen / Research[in]g the Region Leben und Forschen in Niederösterreich / Life and Science in Lower Austria Amt der NÖ Landesregierung (Hrsg./Ed.)
2012. 335 p. Hardcover € 49.95 (A) 978-3-99043-467-3 English / German
2010. 288 p. Hardcover € 34.95 (A) 978-3-99043-297-6 English / German
2013. 340 p., 482 illus. Hardcover € 49.95 (A) 978-3-99043-491-8 English / German
Orientation & Identity Portraits of Way Finding Systems / Porträts inter nationaler Leitsysteme Erwin K. Bauer, Dieter Mayer (Hrsg./Eds.)
Soshana Leben und Werk Life and Work Angelica Bäumer, Amos Schueller (Hrsg./Eds.)
2009. 480 p., 550 illus, Hardcover € 89.95 (A) 978-3-99043-214-3 English / German
Bembé Dellinger Architects Bilder und Pläne / pictures and plans 1999–2009 Felix Bembé, Sebastian Dellinger 2010. 736 p., 680 illus. Softcover € 51.35 (A) 978-3-99043-333-1 English / German
Architekturkarte Wien / Architectural Map of Vienna 30 aktuelle Bauwerke / 30 recent Buildings architektur.aktuell (Hrsg./Ed.) 2011. 2 p., 31 illus. Leporello € 9.94 (A) 978-3-99043-403-1 English / German
On the Beyond A Conversation between Mike Kelley, Jim Shaw, and John C. Welchman Cristina Bechtler (Ed.); Mike 2010. 320 p., 1092 illus. Hardcover Kelley, Jim Shaw, John C. € 59.95 (A) Welchman 978-3-99043-362-1 English / German 2011. 132 p., 45 illus. Softcover € 27.49 (A) 978-3-99043-357-7 English
An Open System Meets an Open System Sarah Morris and Hans Ulrich Obrist in Coversation Cristina Bechtler (Ed.); Sarah Morris
Harald Szeemann – with by through because towards despite Catalogue of all Exhibitions 1957–2005 Tobias Bezzola, Roman Kurzmeyer (Eds.)
Öffentliche Kunst, Kunst im öffentlichen Raum Niederösterreich, Band 10 / Public Art Lower Austria, Volume 10 Katharina Blaas-Pratscher (Hrsg./Ed.)
Architecture in Linz 1900–2011 Andrea Bina, Lorenz Potocnik (Eds.) 2012. 321 p. Softcover € 32.95 (A) 978-3-99043-433-8 English
2007. 759 p., 962 illus. Hardcover € 98.95 (A) 978-3-99043-252-5 English
Architecture in Vienna 1850 to 1930 Historicism – Jugendstil – New Realism Bertha Blaschke, Luise Lipschitz
Paul Ott Photography about Architecture / Fotografie über Architektur Matthias Boeckl (Hrsg./Ed.)
2003. 247 p. Softcover € 28.00 (A) 978-3-99043-256-3 English
2012. 224 p., 271 illus. Hardcover € 59.95 (A) 978-3-99043-428-4 English / German
2013. 131 p. Softcover € 27.49 (A) 978-3-99043-462-8 English
2011. 259 p., 160 illus. Hardcover € 39.95 (A) 978-3-99043-419-2 English / German
Unbuildable Tatlin?! Klaus Bollinger, Florian Medicus 2013. 141 p., 95 illus. Hardcover € 24.95 (A) 978-3-99043-307-2 English / German
vie metamorphosis Die Veränderungen des Flughafen Wien / The Extension and Transformation of Vienna Airport. 2004–2012 Roman Bönsch (Hrsg./Ed.) 2013. 288 p., 280 illus. Hardcover € 39.95 (A) 978-3-99043-522-9 English / German
Wiener Kinetismus. Eine bewegte Moderne / Viennese Kineticism. Modernism in Motion Gerald Bast, Agnes Husslein-Arco, Herbert Krejci, Patrick Werkner (Hrsg./Eds.) 2011. 256 p., 230 illus. Hardcover € 49.95 (A) 978-3-99043-295-2 English / German
Architecture as City Saemangeum Island City Florian Beigel, Philip Christou (Eds.) 2010. 152 p., 150 illus. Hardcover € 54.95 (A) 978-3-99043-387-4 English
Sonderband – Öffentliche Kunst. Kunst im öffentlichen Raum Niederösterreich / public art Lower Austria Katharina Blaas-Pratscher (Hrsg./Ed.) 2012. 200 p., 190 illus. Hardcover € 29.95 (A) 978-3-99043-506-9 English / German
Drawing as Universal Language. Graphic Works of SoutheastAsia and Melanesia. Doris Byer, Christian Reder (Hrsg./Eds.) 2011. 360 p., 171 illus. Hardcover € 54.95 (A) 978-3-99043-421-5 English / German
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Wohnen in Wien 20 residential buildings by Albert Wimmer Wojciech Czaja
smog studio: LOFT P Tracing the Architecture of the Loft Per-Johan Dahl, Caroline Dahl
2012. 206 p. Hardcover € 39.95 (A) 978-3-99043-465-9 English / German
2012. 78 p. Softcover € 21.99 (A) 978-3-99043-497-0 English
Dense Atmosphere About building density and its conditions in the Central European city Dietmar Eberle, Eberhard Tröger (Eds.)
Die fünfziger Jahre / The 1950s Kunst und Kunstverständnis in Wien / Art and Art Appreciation in Vienna Berthold Ecker, Wolfgang Hilger (Hrsg./Eds.)
2014. approx. 480 p., 550 illus. Hardcover approx. € 59.99 (A) 978-3-99043-567-0 English, available March 2014
2010. 432 p., 725 illus. Hardcover € 39.95 (A) 978-3-99043-329-4 English / German
Kunst im öffentlichen Raum Steiermark / Art in Public Space Styria Projekte / Projects 2007–2008 Werner Fenz, Birgit Kulterer, Evelyn Kraus (Hrsg./Eds.)
Kunst im öffentlichen Raum Steiermark / Art in Public Space Styria Projekte / Projects 2009 Werner Fenz, Birgit Kulterer, Evelyn Kraus (Hrsg./Eds.)
Kunst im öffentlichen Raum Steiermark / Art in Public Space Styria Projekte / Projects 2010 Werner Fenz, Birgit Kulterer, Evelyn Kraus (Hrsg./Eds.)
Kunst im öffentlichen Raum Steiermark / Art in Public Space Styria Projekte / Projects 2011 Werner Fenz, Birgit Kulterer, Evelyn Kraus (Hrsg./Eds.)
2010. 344 p., 379 illus. Softcover € 39.95 (A) 978-3-99043-340-9 English / German
2011. 296 p., 435 illus. Softcover € 39.95 (A) 978-3-99043-360-7 English / German
2012. 288 p., 418 illus. Softcover € 39.95 (A) 978-3-99043-427-7 English / German
2013. 296 p., 700 illus. Softcover € 39.99 (A) 978-3-99043-568-7 English / German
Eckhard Schulze-Fielitz Metasprache des Raums / Metalanguage of Space Wolfgang Fiel (Hrsg./Ed.)
Form Follows Nature A History of Nature as Model for Design in Engineering, Architecture and Art. Rudolf Finsterwalder (Hrsg./Ed.)
Álvaro Siza Von der Linie zum Raum / From Line to Space Rudolf Finsterwalder, Wilfried Wang (Hrsg./Eds.)
Blanc de Titre / Blank of Title The Art of Susanna Fritscher Susanna Fritscher (Hrsg./Ed.)
2012. 512 p., 450 illus. Hardcover € 69.95 (A) 978-3-99043-446-8 English / German
2011. 120 p., 150 illus. Softcover € 24.95 (A) 978-3-99043-445-1 English / German
Roman Pfeffer. Umordnung. Rearrangement. Jacques Carrio (Hrsg./Ed.) 2012. 152 p., 176 illus. Hardcover € 29.95 (A) 978-3-99043-524-3 English / German
APOPliving … apartments, houses, cities Georg Driendl (Ed.); Gregor Lehrl 2010. 336 p., 350 illus. Softcover € 49.94 (A) 978-3-99043-339-3 English
2010. 440 p. Hardcover € 59.95 (A) 978-3-99043-304-1 English / German
Porsche Museum Delugan Meissl Associated Architects HG Merz Delugan Meissl Associated Architects, HG Merz (Ed.)
What Architects Desire Die Walverwandtschaften Zürich München Boston, Cordula Rau, Eberhard Tröger, Ole W. Fischer (Eds.)
2010. 364 p. Softcover € 65.95 (A) 978-3-99043-318-8 English
2010. 369 p. Softcover € 29.95 (A) 978-3-99043-379-9 English
Die sechziger Jahre: Eine phantastische Moderne / The 1960s: A Fantastic Modernism Berthold Ecker, Wolfgang Hilger (Hrsg./Eds.)
GAM 09 Walls: Spatial Sequences Architectural innovations and new perspectives on space and wall Fakultät für Architektur, TU Graz (Hrsg./Ed.)
2011. 559 p., 800 illus. Hardcover € 39.95 (A) 978-3-99043-416-1 English / German
2012. 394 p. Softcover € 54.95 (A) 978-3-99043-475-8 English / French / German
2013. 264 p., 200 illus. Softcover € 19.98 (A) 978-3-99043-542-7 English / German
Lucius Burckhardt Writings. Rethinking Man-made Environments Politics, Landscape & Design Jesko Fezer, Martin Schmitz (Eds.) 2012. 288 p. Softcover € 43.95 (A) 978-3-99043-495-6 English
House Is A House Is A House Is A House Architectures and Collabo rations of Johnston Marklee Reto Geiser (Ed.) 2014. approx. 256 p., 250 illus. Hardcover approx. € 39.60 (A) 978-3-99043-489-5 English Available June 2014
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Geometry and its Applications in Arts, Nature and Technology Georg Glaeser 2012. 520 p., 900 illus. Hardcover € 43.95 (A) 978-3-99043-528-1 English
Raimund Abraham [UN]BUILT Brigitte Groihofer (Ed.) 2011. 348 p., 340 illus. Hardcover € 76.95 (A) 978-3-99043-392-8 English
Biomimetics in Architecture Architecture of Life and Buildings Petra Gruber
The Tugendhat House. Ludwig Mies van der Rohe Daniela Hammer-Tugendhat, Ivo Hammer, Wolfgang Tegethoff
2011. 280 p., 466 illus. Softcover € 65.95 (A) 978-3-99043-380-5 English
2014. approx. 256 p., 200 illus. Hardcover approx. € 59.95 (A) 978-3-99043-509-0 Available April 2014
SHEAVES When Things are Whatever Can be the Case, Applied Virtuality Book Series vol. 5 Ludger Hovestadt, Vera Bühlmann
Domesticating Symbols Metalithikum II, Applied Virtuality Book Series, vol. 2 Ludger Hovestadt, Vera Bühlmann (Eds.)
Printed Physics Metalithikum I, Applied Virtuality Book Series, vol. 1 Ludger Hovestadt, Vera Bühlmann (Eds.)
Eastmodern Architecture and Design of the 1960s and 1970s in Slovakia Hertha Hurnaus, Benjamin Konrad, Maik Novotny
2013. 544 p., 275 illus. Softcover € 65.99 (A) 978-3-99043-557-1 English
2014. approx. 232 p. Softcover approx. € 36.29 (A) 978-3-99043-558-8 English Available March 2014
2013. 232 p. Softcover € 32.99 (A) 978-3-99043-570-0 English
2007. 238 p., 200 illus. Softcover € 43.95 (A) 978-3-99043-137-5 English
What is the architect doing in the jungle? Biornametics. Barbara Imhof (Ed.)
Housing Density Inst. of Arch. and Design HB2 Dpt. f. Building Constr. and Design (Ed.)
Hermann Kaufmann WOOD WORKS ökorationale Baukunst architecture durable Otto Kapfinger (Hrsg./Ed.)
Dynamics & De-realisation Margot Krasojevic
2013. 98 p. Softcover € 32.99 (A) 978-3-99043-545-8 English
A Question of Culture The contribution of Bene to the development of architecture and design awareness in Austria and beyond Kunstbank Ferrum – Kulturwerk stätte, NÖLB (Hrsg./Eds.) 2011. 120 p., 100 illus. Softcover € 19.95 (A) 978-3-99043-447-5 English / German
2012. 182 p. Softcover € 38.45 (A) 978-3-99043-385-0 English
Lower Austria – The Architec tural Landscape – Waldviertel Region Kunstbank Ferrum – Kulturwerk stätte, ORTE Architekturnetzwerk Niederösterreich (Hrsg./Eds.) 2012. 264 p., 182 illus. Softcover € 27.95 (A) 978-3-99043-418-5 English / German
2009. 256 p. Hardcover € 59.95 (A) 978-3-99043-210-5 English / German / French
Handbook of Detailing The Graphic Anatomy of Construction Ralph W. Liebing 2009. 424 p., 300 illus. Hardcover € 65.95 (A) 978-3-99043-293-8 English
2011. 103 p. Softcover € 21.95 (A) 978-3-99043-425-3 English
The Other Architecture Tasks of Practice Beyond Design Ralph W. Liebing 2011. 428 p., 120 illus. Hardcover € 65.95 (A) 978-3-99043-358-4 English
Advances in Architectural Geometry 2012 Lars Hesselgren, Shrikant Sharma, Johannes Wallner, Niccolo Baldassini, Philippe Bompas, Jacques Raynoud (Eds.) 2013. 343 p. Hardcover € 55.00 (A) 978-3-99043-493-2 English
Passivhaus-Bauteilkatalog / Details for Passive Houses A Catalogue of Ecologically Rated Constructions IBO – Österreichisches Institut für Baubiologie und -ökologie, Donau-Universität (Hrsg./Ed.) 2009. 357 p. Hardcover € 99.95 (A) 978-3-99043-317-1 English / German
Mediatecture The Design of Medially Augmented Spaces Christoph Kronhagel (Ed.) 2010. 448 p., 1000 illus. Hardcover € 69.95 (A) 978-3-99043-367-6 English
Ernst Logar – Invisible Oil Ernst Logar (Hrsg./Ed.) 2011. 96 p., 58 illus. Hardcover € 24.95 (A) 978-3-99043-391-1 English / German
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Housing Moves On Architects and their Views LWW Stiftungslehrstuhl für Wohnungsbau und Wohnungswirtschaft, Peter Ebner, Frauke Gerstenberg, Roman Höllbacher (Hrsg./Eds.)
Marte.Marte Architects Stefan Marte, Bernhard Marte (Eds.)
Space Affairs? Raumaffären? Affaires d’espace Marc Mer (Hrsg./Ed.)
2008. 415 p., 250 illus. Hardcover € 60.45 (A) 978-3-99043-221-1 English
2012. 192 p. Softcover € 24.95 (A) 978-3-99043-513-7 English / German
Baumschlager – Eberle 2002–2007 Architektur | Menschen und Ressourcen | Architecture | People and Resources Winfried Nerdinger (Hrsg./Ed.)
Accountability Technologies Tools for Asking Hard Questions Dietmar Offenhuber, Katja Schechtner (Eds.)
2009. 196 p. Softcover € 44.95 (A) 978-3-99043-209-9 English / German
Remix Theory: The Aesthetics of Sampling Eduardo Navas 2012. 191 p. Softcover € 29.70 (A) 978-3-99043-499-4 English
Studio Prix University of Applied Arts 1990–2011 Wolf D. Prix (Ed.) 2014. approx. 250 p., 100 illus. Softcover approx. € 32.94 (A) 978-3-99043-440-6 English Available April 2014
Reinberg. Ökologische Architektur / Ecological Architecture Entwurf, Planung, Ausführung / Design, Planning, Realization Georg W. Reinberg, Matthias Boeckl (Hrsg./Eds.) 2008. 348 p. Hardcover € 49.95 (A) 978-3-99043-078-1 English / German
2008. 232 p. Hardcover € 49.95 (A) 978-3-99043-133-7 English / German
Massive Attack IoA Sliver Lecture Series – Selected Friends and Enemies Wolf D. Prix, Kristy Balliet, Alexandra Graupner (Eds.) 2014. approx. 200 p., 220 illus. Hardcover approx. € 32.94 (A) 978-3-99043-458-1 English Available April 2014
PARKitectOUR From Urban Free Flow to Architecture RIEA.ch (Ed.) 2009. 84 p. Softcover € 27.45 (A) 978-3-99043-301-0 English
2013. 112 p., 50 illus. Softcover € 21.99 (A) 978-3-99043-539-7 English
Why Do Architects Wear Black? Cordula Rau (Ed.) 2009. 228 p., 111 illus. Softcover € 21.95 (A) 978-3-99043-215-0 English
hands have no tears to flow … reports from / without architec ture. With Contributions by Christina Jauernik, Gisela Steinlechner, Wolfgang Tschapeller Arno Ritter (Ed.) 2012. 156 p., 92 illus. Softcover € 38.50 (A) 978-3-99043-512-0 English
Christa Sommerer & Laurent Mignonneau Interactive Art Research Gerfried Stocker, Christa Sommerer, Laurent Mignonneau (Eds.)
Max Weiler 1910–2001. Vier Wände / Four Walls 1973–1977 MUMOK, Museum Moderner Kunst, Stiftung Ludwig Wien (Hrsg./Ed.)
2009. 232 p. Hardcover € 43.95 (A) 978-3-99043-291-4 English
2008. 111 p. Hardcover € 29.95 (A) 978-3-99043-113-9 English / German
Urban Strategies Postgraduate Program IOA, Wolf D. Prix (Eds.)
IOA Studios. Hadid Lynn Prix Selected Student Works 2009 Wolf D. Prix (Ed.)
2014. approx. 200 p., 200 illus. Softcover approx. € 21.94 (A) 978-3-99043-456-7 English Available June 2014
2011. 160 p., 150 illus. Softcover € 21.95 (A) 978-3-99043-305-8 English
Alois Neuhold. Rückblenden 1980–2012. Flashbacks from 1980 to 2012 You Must Tear Out Your Eyes and Lay Your Hands on the Ear Stairs Johannes Rauchenberger (Ed.)
Art in the Age of Technoscience Genetic Engineering, Robotics, and Artificial Life in Contemporary Art Ingeborg Reichle
2012. 542 p. Hardcover € 49.95 (A) 978-3-99043-520-5 English / German
2009. 452 p., 456 illus. Softcover € 43.99 (A) 978-3-99043-187-0 English
Caramel. Forget Architecture, Architecture Vienna 700 Buildings Schätzchen Andreas Russ-Bovelino (Hrsg./Ed.) August Sarnitz 2012. 432 p. Hardcover € 49.95 (A) 978-3-99043-404-8 English / German
2008. 592 p. Softcover € 34.95 (A) 978-3-99043-143-6 English
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Architekturlandschaft Weinviertel / Lower Austria – The Architectural Landscape – Weinviertel Region Heidrun Schlögl, Gerhard Junker (Hrsg./Eds.)
Walter Dietl – Arnold Gapp – Werner Tscholl Portraits of Three Val Venosta Architects Bettina Schlorhaufer, Südtiroler Künstlerbund (Hrsg./Eds.)
2013. 264 p., 182 illus. Softcover € 27.95 (A) 978-3-99043-514-4 English / German
2008. 312 p. Hardcover € 58.54 (A) 978-3-99043-077-4 English / German / Italian
Architectural Scale Models in the Digital Age design, representation and manufacturing Milena Stavric, Predrag Šidanin, Bojan Tepavcevic (Eds.)
The Politics of Knowledge Work in the Post-Industrial Culture Understanding the Dissemination of Knowledge of the Sciences, Humanities, and the Arts René Stettler
2013. 260 p., 203 illus. Hardcover € 54.99 (A) 978-3-99043-526-7 English
2014. 196 p., 63 illus. Softcover € 39.95 (A) 978-3-99043-546-5 English Available February 2014
Basics Architecture and Dynamics Franziska Ullmann
Edvard Ravnikar Architect and Teacher Ales Vodopivec, Rok Znidarsic (Eds.)
2011. 208 p., 600 illus. Softcover € 43.95 (A) 978-3-99043-376-8 English
Wonderland Travelogue 2004–2006 99 European examples and answers regarding a changing architectural practice Wonderland (Ed.) 2006. 295 p. Softcover € 29.81 (A) 978-3-99043-090-3 English
2010. 348 p., 475 illus. Hardcover € 65.95 (A) 978-3-99043-309-6 English
Maciunas’ Learning Machines From Art History to a Chronology of Fluxus Astrit Schmidt-Burkhardt 2011. 216 p., 224 illus. Softcover € 51.69 (A) 978-3-99043-396-6 English
Total Fluidity Studio Zaha Hadid, Projects 2000–2010 University of Applied Arts Vienna Studio Zaha Hadid Institute of Architecture, Patrik Schumacher, Zaha M. Hadid (Eds.)
Synthesis and Nullification Works 1991– 2011 Stefan Sonvilla-Weiss 2012. 203 p. Softcover € 38.45 (A) 978-3-99043-460-4 English
Food Design XL Sonja Stummerer, Martin Hablesreiter 2010. 350 p., 150 illus. Hardcover € 39.95 (A) 978-3-99043-314-0 English / German
2011. 248 p., 955 illus. Softcover € 38.45 (A) 978-3-99043-397-3 English
Unter der Oberfläche / Under the Surface Mit Beiträgen von/With contri butions by Christoph Ransmayr and Wolf D. Prix Manfred Wakolbinger (Hrsg./Ed.) 2012. 179 p., 250 illus. Softcover € 39.95 (A) 978-3-99043-477-2 English / German
Wonderland Manual for Emerging Architects Wonderland, Silvia Forlati, Anne Isopp (Eds.)
Geometry of Light The Architecture of Arkan Zeytinoglu Arkan Zeytinoglu (Ed.)
2012. 352 p., 100 illus. Hardcover € 38.45 (A) 978-3-99043-430-7 English
2011. 335 p. Hardcover € 49.95 (A) 978-3-99043-409-3 English
Mashup Cultures Stefan Sonvilla-Weiss (Ed.) 2010. 256 p., 41 illus. Softcover € 38.49 (A) 978-3-99043-335-5 English
2006–2012 Neue Architektur in Südtirol / Architetture recenti in Alto Adige / New Architecture in South Tyrol Südtiroler Künstlerbund, Kunst Meran – Merano Arte (Hrsg./Eds.) 2012. 336 p., 450 illus. Softcover € 49.95 (A) 978-3-99043-479-6 English / German / Italian
Baumschlager Eberle Annäherungen | Approaches Gert Walden (Hrsg./Ed.)
Modern Construction Envelopes, 2nd ed. Andrew Watts
2010. 148 p., 30 illus. Hardcover € 29.95 (A) 978-3-99043-199-3 English / German
2014. 522 p., 1000 illus. Hardcover € 87.99 (A) 978-3-99043-559-5 English
Kontextueller Solitär / Free-Standing In Context Chamber of Commerce of Lower Austria Rüdiger Lainer + Partner Architekten Walter Zschokke
Dietrich | Untertrifaller Bauten und Projekte seit 2000 / Buildings and Projects since 2000 Walter Zschokke (Hrsg./Ed.)
2008. 142 p., 120 illus. Hardcover € 27.71 (A) 978-3-99043-115-3 English / German
2008. 308 p. Softcover € 58.54 (A) 978-3-99043-136-8 English / German
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