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POISSY

Balance In Design

GALORE AWP + HHF

A GRID AND A CONVERSATION MORRIS ADJMI ARCHITECTS

POISSY GALORE AWP + HHF

BFDO ARCHITECTS ASSEMBLIES

WALLS AND BOXES GUARD TILLMAN POLLOCK

GRADE NEW YORK BALANCE IN DESIGN

STEPHEN B JACOBS GROUP ANDI PEPPER INTERIOR DESIGN

CAZA+SURBA

OUTCOMES

BRACKET DS SHERVIN HOSSEINI

When Urbanization Comes to Ground

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B U I L D I N G S OF NEW YORK

BUILDINGS OF NEW YORK

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The First 75 Years

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SCHØNHERR

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STANDARD ARCHITECTURE DESIGN

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SPACES AND PLACES

ROGER FITZGERALD

INSIDE[OUTCOMES BRACKET DESIGN STUDIO

BUILDINGS OF NEW YORK

SIMON CONDER SMALL WORKS

WHEN URBANIZATION COMES TO GROUND CAZA + SURBA

STRUCTURE AND SPACE

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NIC GOLDSMITH FTL DESIGN ENGINEERING STUDIO

MASS TO MEMBRANE FTL DESIGN ENGINEERING STUDIO

SCHØNHERR SPACES TO PLACES

SLCE 75 YEARS OF ARCHITECTURE

STANDARD ARCHITECTURE DESIGN

The Condition of Chinese Architecture Pier Alessio Rizzardi Zhang Hankun

ORDINARY AND EXTRAORDINARY The Condition of Chinese Architecture

Pier Alessio Rizzardi Zhang Hankun

MASSTOMEMBRANE

BROOKS + SCARPA

STUDIO 804 The work of GILES & PIKE ARCHITECTS

STRUCTURE AND SPACE GILES & PIKE ARCHITECTS

An Architectural Experience

STUDIO 804 AN ARCHITECTURAL EXPERIENCE

THE CONDITION OF CHINESE ARCHITECTURE TCA THINK TANK

ORDINARY AND EXTRAORDINARY BROOKS + SCARPA

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CURRENT TITLES

SELECTED BACKLIST 38

Eldred Evans

LIVING AND COMMUNITY

AFTER METROPOLIS THE ARCHITECTURE AND DESIGN OF POWELL TUCK ASSOCIATES

46 TRANSPORT AND NEIGHBOURHOODS

David Shalev

ALAN COLQUHOUN COLLECTED ESSAYS IN ARCHITECTURAL CRITICISM

ARCHITECTURE

RHYTHM IN ARCHITECTURE RENEW MOREYSMITH

WORK AND THE CITY THE SHAPE OF SOUND ERIC PARRY ARCHITECTS 1

AN OPEN MIND THE WORK OF HUDSON ARCHITECTS

ERIC PARRY ARCHITECTS 1+2 SLIPCASE

ATLAS GEOGRAPHY, ARCHITECTURE AND CHANGE IN A INDEPENDENT WORLD THE ALCHEMY OF GALVANIZING ART, ARCHITECTURE AND ENGINEERING

ARCHITECTURE ELDRED EVANS, DAVID SHALEV

WORKING DEBORAH BERKE ARCHITECTS

THE ARCHITECTURAL DRAWING BOOK A SURVEY OF DRAWING FROM PREHISTORY TO PRESENT

SHOULDN’T WE ALL BE DEVELOPERS ERIC PARRY ARCHITECTS 3 43

SMALL CARL TURNER ARCHITECTS

EDUCATION ARCHITECTURE URBANISM THREE UNIVERSITY PROJECTS

THE STRANGE DEATH OF ARCHITECTURAL CRITICISM MARTIN PAWLEY COLLECTED WRITINGS

LEARNING FROM SCHOOLS FEILDEN CLEGG BRADLEY STUDIOS

BERTHOLD LUBETKIN ARCHITECTURE AND THE TRADITION OF PROGRESS

SHAPING CHANGE 25 YEARS OF URBAN REGENERATION: THE ARCHITECTURE AND URBANISM OF STOCKWOOL

ERIC PARRY ARCHITECTS 2

A GUIDE TO THE DIRTY SOUTH—ATLANTA

EARTH PERFECT? NATURE, UTOPIA AND THE GARDEN

A FEW YEARS OF WRITING INTERSPERSED WITH SOME FACTS OF LIFE

THE GOOD GARDENER? NATURE, HUMANITY AND THE GARDEN

ANCIENT WISDOM AND MODERN KNOWHOW LEARNING TO LIVE WITH UNCERTAINTY

FIVE INSIGHTS BENNETTS ASSOCIATES

MICHAEL WILFORD WITH MICHAEL WILFORD AND PARTNERS, WILFORD SCHUPP ARCHITEKTEN AND OTHERS SELECTED BUILDINGS AND PROJECTS 1992–2012 SAW SWEE HOCK THE REALISATION OF THE LONDON SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS STUDENT CENTRE

FOUR COMMENTARIES BENNETTS ASSOCIATES

THE TIME OF MY LIFE IN ARCHITECTURE

SWEDISH MODERNISM ARCHITECTURE CONSUMPTION AND THE WELFARE STATE

THE FRAGILE MONUMENT ON CONSERVATION AND MODERNITY

ARCHITECTURE AND BEYOND PROCTER-RIHL 44 BRIDGING CENTURIES PEMBROKE COLLEGE OXFORD

STIRLING+WILFORD AMERICAN BUILDINGS

HOT MODERNISM QUEENSLAND ARCHITECTURE 1945–1975

STIFF + TREVILLION PRACTISING ARCHITECTURE

THE ITALIAN TOWNSCAPE CUSTOM AND INNOVATION JOHN MILLER + PARTNERS 40

52 THE LETTERS OF COLIN ROWE

CIVILIA THE END OF SUB URBAN MAN

THE FOUNDING MYTHS OF ARCHITECTURE

BUILDING STORIES DESIGN ENGINE ARCHITECTS

MODERNITY AND REINVENTION THE ARCHITECTURE OF JAMES GOWAN MIMESIS LYNCH ARCHITECTS

CARME PINÓS ARCHITECTURES

Ioanna Theocharopoulou

Speculative citieS: vancouver, panama city, and dubai

RZLBD HOP SCOTCH

contemporary art and architecture and the urban development of three port cities

SEEKING A TERRITORY FOR A VISION

Foreword by Kenneth Frampton

CRAFT MATERIAL DETAIL KNOXBHAVAN

54 SPECULATIVE CITIES

RZLBD HOPSCOTCH SEEKING A TERRITORY FOR A VISION

CODESIGNING SPACE TILT

PLANETVEIEN 12 THE KORSMO HOUSE—A SCANDINAVIAN ICON

COLONIAL MODERN AESTHETICS OF THE PAST, REBELLIONS FOR THE FUTURE

PLUS JESTICO + WHILES

EDUCATION AND CREATIVITY

BERNARD TSCHUMI NOTATIONS DIAGRAMS & SEQUENCES

PEOPLE PLACE PURPOSE THE WORLD ACCORDING TO MECANOO PATTERN PLACE PURPOSE PROCTOR AND MATTHEWS ARCHITECTS

DETERRITORIALISATIONS REVISIONING LANDSCAPES AND POLITICS

BUILDERS, HOUSEWIVES AND THE CONSTRUCTION OF MODERN ATHENS

TOPICAL BUILDINGS HUGH CULLUM ARCHITECTS

PASSION, PLANTS AND PATRONAGE 300 YEARS OF THE BUTE FAMILY LANDSCAPES 45

VOLUME STANTON WILLIAMS WORKING IN ARCHITECTURE JAMIE FOBERT ARCHITECTS 49

RECONNECTING CULTURES THE ARCHITECTURE OF ROCCO DESIGN

WRITINGS ON ARCHITECTURE AND THE CITY X AGENDAS FOR ARCHITECTURE

PRACTICE & PROJECTS CHRIS DYSON ARCHITECTS PURE HARDCORE ICONS A MANIFESTO ON PURE FORM IN ARCHITECTURE

THE SAINSBURY LABORATORY SCIENCE, ARCHITECTURE, ART TSCHUMI PARK DE LA VILLLETTE

OF ITS TIME AND OF ITS PLACE THE WORK OF RICHARD MURPHY ARCHITECTS

COOL CONTEMPORARY CLASSICS ARCHER HUMPHRYES ARCHITECTS

DAVID LEA AN ARCHITECT OF PRINCIPLE

Glen Lowry, Shelly Rosenblum, Sadira Rodrigues, Keith Wallace

BUILDINGS OF LONDON

53 THE MODERN HOUSE

CIVIC GROUND RHYTHMIC SPATIALITY AND THE COMMUNICATIVE MOVEMENT BETWEEN ARCHITECTURE. SCULPTURE AND SITE

Builders, Housewives and the Construction of Modern Athens

TREVOR DANNATT WORKS AND WORDS

LONDON BUILDINGS DAVID WALKER ARCHITECTS

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A GRID AND A CONVERSATION MORRIS ADJMI ARCHITECTS CONTRIBUTORS: DIANE GHIRARDO, BILL HIGGINS, JIMMY STAMP, ET AL

Grid and a Conversation presents a survey of work by the New York City-based firm Morris Adjmi Architects, well known for the Samsung building along the High Line and the Wythe Hotel in Williamsburg, Brooklyn. Morris Adjmi Architects interpret the complex forces that shape our cities to create buildings that are contextual but unmistakably contemporary. Deeply embedded in the firm’s practice is a belief in the Renaissance tradition of architecture, wherein buildings are inextricable from their cultural situation and intellectual function. With a rapidly rising profile and projects under construction in major cities across America, Morris Adjmi Architects are building on their previous ten-year partnership with the Italian architect, designer and scholar Aldo Rossi, with an understanding that the built environment is constantly evolving as it both absorbs and reacts to greater historical narratives. Within the post-industrial areas and landmarked districts where the office often practises, this rich inheritance unfolds through a distinctive formal language and creative use of materials inspired by its urban milieu. From unexpected twists on classic building types like the all-glass interpretation of a cast-iron façade or the ghostly metallic duplicate of a brick warehouse, to the literally twisting steel tower that embodies the collision of Manhattan’s two primary street grids, this text traces the development and distillation of MA’s unique practice through key projects completed during its first 20 years.

UK August 2017 US/CAN September 2017 Hardback • ISBN 978 1 908967 95 4 RRP £34.95 / $44.95 28 x 23 cm / 9 x 11 in 280 colour and b/w ills 240 pages

A Grid and a Conversation is interlaced with reflections from writers, scholars and collaborators including Diane Ghirardo, Bill Higgins and Jimmy Stamp. These essays and conversations offer an insight into the array of influences that shape the work of Morris Adjmi Architects. These include the inspiration of visual artists like Donald Judd or Rachel Whiteread, the importance of embracing civic issues like historic preservation, and how the firm synthesises tradition and innovation to design buildings that are imbued with a sense of place and purpose.

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POISSY GALORE AWP + HHF

POISSY

AUTHOR: ALESSANDRA CIANCHETTA, SIMON FROMMENWILER

ot far from Le Corbusier’s famed Villa Savoye lies Poissy Galore: a visionary project that brings together architecture, education and leisure within a phenomenal arena of natural beauty along the Seine in Carrières-sous-Poissy. Collaboratively conceived by the interdisciplinary architecture and design studios AWP Architects (Marc Armengaud, Matthias Armengaud and Alessandra Cianchetta) and HHF Architects (Tilo Herlach, Simon Hartmann, Simon Frommenwiler) this inspiring cluster of pavilions, public infrastructures, exhibition spaces and event halls fans out across 113 acres of green space, offering Parisians a restorative retreat away from the city and a green haven for locals.

This elegant booklet publication celebrates the grand debut of Poissy Galore in the autumn of 2016. With stunning landscapes captured by Julien Lanoo and acclaimed architectural photographer Iwan Baar, the sublime aura of Poissy’s natural beauty is artfully explored throughout this 80-page publication. Interviews with the principals of AWP and HHF expound upon the design concept, which features a hybridisation of natural and built landscapes that characterise the site of the project.

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UK August 2017 US/CAN October 2017 Paperback • ISBN 978 1 908967 98 5 RRP £24.95 / $29.95 23 x 15 cm / 9 x 6 in 91 colour and b/w ills 80 pages

Critical essays by leading voices in contemporary art and culture provide an interdisciplinary context for Poissy Galore that underscores the project’s rich contribution to topics of ecology, environmentalism and the Anthropocene. In addition to public infrastructure such as the museum, which houses insects both living and conserved, the project features non-public areas including sites purposed for cultivating different kind of insects, so as to develop a self-sustaining exhibition of local ecologies. The built landscape offers an exciting spectrum of material engagement, including an observatory made of steel and a modular wood system from which spring the ‘follies’—both low-cost and organic. The variety of scale and design delights the eye as well as enabling the integration of local builders and suppliers.

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BFDO ASSEMBLIES AUTHOR: ALEXANDRA BARKER

his publication charts the multidisciplinary practice of Brooklyn-based architecture and design firm BFDO Architects. Founded in 2007 and led by its principal Alexandra Barker, BFDO Architects works across sectors to probe the division between public and private space. At the heart of the practice is a long-term investigation into how materials, structures and systems inform, reshape and blur this distinction. By delving into a cross-section of projects—from acclaimed single and multifamily residencies in Brooklyn, to institutional and retail projects like the Maple Street School and the Body Factory Midtown, to propositions like Chromatic Energy Landscape that fuse engineered technologies with ecological processes like photosynthesis and algae production—this eponymous publication highlights the diversity and ingenuity of BDFO Architects’ practice. Flowing through a thematic structure that is porous and intersectional, BFDO Architects is not intended as a round-up of independent projects but instead presents itself as a selected outcome from a larger cluster of ongoing material and spatial research. This publication situates BFDO Architects’ work in the context of topical discussions including ecology and the landscape, multigenerational architecture and design, and the role of fabrication technologies in producing new relationships to space and place.

UK August 2017 US/CAN October 2017 Paperback • ISBN 978 1 908967 99 2 RRP £24.95 / $29.95 28 x 23 cm / 8.5 x 11 in 164 colour and b/w ills 160 pages

Emblematic of a new generation of architects and designers that work across typologies and scales to answer the stakes of architecture and design within the twenty-first century, BFDO Architects navigate topics of public space and circulation, technology, sustainability and materiality. The result is a seamless web of built work and propositions that escape easy categorisation, and are as much a lesson in practice as they are in theory. BFDO Architects’ principal Alexandra Barker is currently an associate professor and the coordinator of the MArch programme at the Graduate Architecture and Urban Design Department (GAUD) in the School of Architecture at Pratt Institute, New York, where she has taught since 2001.

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nside[Outcomes is the story of the award-winning Bracket Design Studio, a Tehran-based full-service design firm. Founded by Shervin Hosseini in 2006, Bracket Design Studio is a leading voice within a constellation of young Iranian architects and designers just beginning to emerge on contemporary architecture’s global frontier. This publication frames Bracket Design Studio in the context of both recent developments within Iranian architecture as well as its deeprooted history and tradition. It considers the socio-political shifts within Iranian society beginning in the early 2000s that characterise the emergence of what is largely seen as a new wave of built culture. Fearlessly integrating marble, concrete and wood, recent projects like the Jannat House, Siavash House and Villa 131 weave together sacred geometries and contemporary facades, fusing inherited materials and techniques with unprecedented design that is revolutionary not just in Tehran but on a global scale.

OUTCOMES

AUTHOR: NASRINE SERAJI

BRACKET DS SHERVIN HOSSEINI

INSIDE

INSIDE[OUTCOMES BRACKET DESIGN STUDIO

UK September 2017 US/CAN November 2017 Paperback • ISBN 978 1 908967 94 7 RRP £19.95 / $29.95 23 x 28 cm / 9 x 11 in 83 colour and b/w ills 96 pages

An in-depth look at a cross-section of Bracket Design Studio’s projects, both built and unrealised, unfolds alongside exploratory essays on the practice, written by some of Iran’s premiere architects and cultural historians. These reflections offer key insights into the group’s unique studio culture as well as the collaborative and cross-disciplinary approach to design that defines each project. At the heart of the practice are the unique needs of each client coupled with an overarching dedication to the possibilities of the site and what it demands from the structure, particularly in Tehran where urban life is hot, crowded and dust-filled. This publication unpacks the first ten years of Bracket Design Studio’s work in Iran, and illuminates future projects alongside its growing international profile.

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ARCHITECT/ARTIST: ROGER FITZGERALD

uildings of New York is the second monograph by artist and architect Roger FitzGerald, which follows on from Buildings of London, 2016. Turning his attention to the landscape of New York, FitzGerald brings his unique painting style to the continually evolving cityscape. Included within the book are entirely unique portrayals of some of the city’s most iconic architectural landmarks. Individual structures, such as Grand Central Station, the Solomon R Guggenheim Museum and the many bridges, all sit alongside gentle and considered paintings of brownstone townhouses, views of the surrounding boroughs, as well as dramatic views of Central Park. Each image is accompanied by short, personal comments by the artist and this is what makes this book an inspiring guide to New York as well as an ideally priced gift buy.

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FitzGerald’s painting style combines colour, texture and collage to capture the essence of places. He frequently portrays buildings as an architectural ‘stage-set’: a permanent, calm and static backdrop to the vibrancy of everyday life. This contrast is exploited, with cool architectural colours being offset by vivid warm tones and elements of collage which represent the life and bustle generated by moving people and vehicles. Tickets, menus, maps, books, newspapers and a host of other paraphernalia are incorporated into the images, adding additional meaning and complexity.

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UK August 2017 US/CAN October 2017 Paperback • ISBN 978 1 908967 96 1 RRP £12.95 / $19.95 22 x 22 cm / 8 x 8 in 37 colour ills 112 pages

Roger FitzGerald was born in Cambridge, trained in Manchester and moved to London in 1983 to start his career as an architect. He joined ADP from university and now chairs the practice, which is one of the top 20 firms in the UK. Throughout his career as an architect he has enjoyed drawing—whether as a design concept for a new building, or to explore, understand, and capture the essence of existing architecture.

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WHEN URBANIZATION COMES TO GROUND CAZA + SURBA AUTHORS/EDITORS: CARLOS ARNAIZ AND PETER ROWE

HEN URBANIZATION COMES TO GROUND is a collaborative research project between the Brooklyn-based architecture studio CAZA, and think tank SURBA, an urban research collective spearheaded by Carlos Arnaiz and Peter G Rowe. Drawing upon case studies including projects in China, Colombia and the Philippines, this book works across place, time, and culture to offer an allegorical journey into urbanisation at large. WHEN URBANIZATION COMES TO GROUND is a loosely congregated collection of essays that reflect an aggregation of encounters with urban circumstances, both physical and immaterial, structural and affective. From “Robots, Utilidors, and a Brave New World”, to “A Third Way Towards Metropolitanism” and “Tagging Thingness and Scale”, this publication questions the role of architecture and its related disciplines in the wake of the masterplan. It searches for a field guide to everyday urban life by offering palpable views into the network of relations that characterise this evolving social ecosystem. Through their collective global research projects, CAZA and SURBA frame, abstract, poeticise and render the city as a historical process, a future destination, a production cycle and a layered landscape of overlapping phenomena.

CAZA+SURBA When Urbanization Comes to Ground

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UK September 2017 US/CAN November 2017 Paperback • ISBN 978 1 911339 01 4 RRP £24.95 / $29.95 28 x 23 cm / 8.5 x 11 in 158 colour and b/w ills 160 pages

WHEN URBANIZATION COMES TO GROUND does not attempt to cast the city in any one particular ideology, nor does it aim to essentialise or distill urban experience. Instead, this book oscillates from one rendering of urbanisation to another, alternating scales and media in order to present the topic of the city and its encapsulated processes through the same phenomena that inform it.

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SIMON CONDER SMALL WORKS ARCHITECT: SIMON CONDER

mall Works is the chronological, pictorial story of Simon Conder’s architecture between 1993–2016. Conder trained in London at both the Architectural Association School of Architecture and the Industrial Design Department of the Royal College of Art. Prior to that, he designed and made furniture, and has worked closely with skilled craftspeople to create buildings, generally at a small scale, ever since. Before working in the public sector in England for six years on large housing and community projects, Simon worked in small studios in London and Copenhagen. Here he particularly identified with the friendliness and commitment of a small team, the variety and fast pace of the work and the importance of detail. In 1984 he won four out of six competitions and was able to start his own studio with offices in London and Suffolk. Since then, he has won some large competitions with none of these schemes having been built: partly because of the cyclical nature of the construction industry, partly because of his inability to delegate design decisions and partly because of his antipathy to the business community.

UK June 2017 US/CAN September 2017 Hardback • ISBN 978 1 908967 93 0 RRP £34.95 / $44.95 30 x 23 cm / 9 x 12 in 208 colour and b/w ills 208 pages

His work is about many things, but paramount is the desire to make things well, and to respond genuinely to the particular requirements of the client, the site and the budget. Many of his best projects have been created on very low budgets. Although always a very small studio, averaging three to four people, Simon Conder Associates have already won 40 Architecture and Design Awards, including two RIBA Stephen Lawrence Awards for the best building costing less than one million pounds in Britain and twice being shortlisted for the biennial Mies van der Rohe Award for the best building in Europe. When he was at school, Simon had the rather pretentious ambition to be an ‘intellectual’, but a devastatingly bad entrance interview for Cambridge University taught him that words were never going to be his best way of communicating ideas, hence this word-free book where he hopes every picture will tell the story.

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EDITOR: ORIGINAL COPY

n Mass to Membrane, Nic Goldsmith—principal of FTL Design Engineering Studio—presents the continuing evolution of building materials, from heavy stone structures to luminous, lightweight, flexible and environmentally responsible structures. Through nine narrative chapters, which sample from Goldsmith’s own extensive portfolio of lightweight tensile structures, the book explores how we can use less material and be more sustainable through the employment of new composite materials, computation analysis and digital patterning. In Western culture, from an early age we are ingrained with the notion that weight in building construction equals strength. The classic tale “The Three Little Pigs” features anthropomorphic pigs that build three houses of different materials. A big bad wolf is able to blow down the first two pigs’ houses, made of straw and wood, but is unable to destroy the third pig’s house, made of bricks. This idea of the relative strength of mass pervades our culture as a fundamental truth, but heavy materials are not intrinsically stronger than lighter ones.

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While time will be needed to remove the biases that we carry in our cultural DNA, our perception of strength has begun to shift. If we look at the historical evolution of architecture—from the massive pyramids of Egypt to the framed structures of Greek and Roman construction, to the lighter Gothic vaulting and eventually Modern architecture of the twentieth century—we see a continuous, almost linear progression from solid mass construction to diaphanous skins of glass and steel. This is our historic journey from mass to membrane. At a time when we are at the cusp of developing even lighter building technologies that will become more prevalent over the next generation, Mass to Membrane weaves together a forward-looking story of an everchanging built environment, paving the way to a better understanding of the possibilities inherent in new building technologies.

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STRUCTURE AND SPACE GILES & PIKE ARCHITECTS

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AUTHORS/EDITORS: TOM PIKE AND MATT GILES CONTRIBUTOR: DOMINIC BRADBURY

tructure and Space traces the 35-year history of London-based practice Giles & Pike Architects, whose diverse body of work has consistently evolved around the ‘form follows function’ logic of Louis Sullivan. This publication showcases a curated selection of the practice’s most celebrated projects including the Amerland Road House, the Weybridge House and Thurleigh Road House, and contains essays about the practice penned by acclaimed architectural historians and critics such as Dominic Bradbury and Paul Finch. Furthermore, Structure and Space shines a light on the unique story of Matt Giles and Tom Pike’s partnership, allowing the modernist principles informing their work to be discovered through generous full-spread photographs and plans as well as exclusive in-studio interviews.

The work of GILES & PIKE ARCHITECTS

UK September 2017 US/CAN November 2017 Paperback • ISBN 978 1 911339 00 7 RRP £24.95 / $29.95 28 x 23 cm / 9 x 11 in 147 colour and b/w ills 160 pages

Beginning in the mid-1980s and stemming from Tom Pike’s initial involvement in designing architectural interiors for clients such as advertising agencies, film companies and fashion houses, the practice began making waves with its residential work in the 1990s and launched headlong into this sector following Matt Giles joining the practice in 2000. Since the millennium, Giles & Pike Architects has established an unassailable reputation for its expertise in producing clean-cut modernist schemes in the residential sector, building largely in London and occasionally outside the capital. Despite a 22-year age difference, both principals adopt a design aesthetic that stems from a shared Bauhaus-based education and a deep-seated investment in the modern movement and aesthetic. The work of Giles & Pike Architects follows a fundamental belief that good ideas for buildings are generated from a firm understanding of the brief and the programme for the building, rather than simply ‘designing for design’s sake’.

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WALLS AND BOXES GUARD TILLMAN POLLOCK ARCHITECTS: GUARD TILLMAN POLLOCK

panning 25 projects in as many years, Walls and Boxes charts the remarkable commitment to Modernist design principles that characterises the practice of Guard Tillman Pollock Architects.

Mark Guard, Steven Pollock and Keith Tillman present a body of residential work that combines contemporary technology with the ethos of the heroic period of Modern architecture. The practice builds contemporary homes that are full of space and light without compromising their function or form. This book chronicles the results, a transformable architecture of exceptional practicality and great beauty, with many bespoke details developed by the firm over the years. Through a rich combination of photography, before-and-after plans, and axonometrics, Walls and Boxes illustrates 25 projects built between 1990 and 2015. Each demonstrates the application of the practice’s rigorous design attitude to different building types, ranging from modest apartments to new-build houses.

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At a time when specialisation is being met with a general scepticism, Walls and Boxes presents a studio whose devotion to a particular aesthetic and sense of space shows an insight and building expertise that borders on the philosophical. The office’s wealth of experience fuses British, North American and European training to bring about elegant residential projects on an international scale that are as functional as they are stylish. As much a nuanced exploration of Guard Tillman Pollock’s practice as it is a powerful manifesto on the timeless principles of form, space and light, Walls and Boxes can be utilised as a guidebook into producing transformative residential spaces that resist the constraints and limitations so often imposed by twenty-first-century urban life.

Walls and Boxes is about design for modern times, a book for anyone interested in both the creative process of architecture and in looking for new ways of improving the spaces we inhabit.

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GRADE NEW YORK BALANCE IN DESIGN ARCHITECTS: GRADE NEW YORK

A former project architect for Robert AM Stern, Hickey’s mastery of Modernist principles combines with Yedid’s multi-sensory approach to interior design, resulting in an international array of projects that span luxury residencies, eateries and boutique commercial outlets, precisely tailored to the vision of each client. Often taking inspiration from a choice artwork featured within the property, GRADE’s coveted interiors use colour, texture, materiality and composition to create a seamless expression of place in the line of Le Corbusier’s Modernism, which is brought up to date with a distinctively contemporary flair.

Balance In Design

RADE: Balance in Design is the first in a series of book projects concerning the work and story of interdisciplinary architecture and design studio GRADE New York. Founded in 2001 by Thomas Hickey with Edward Yedid, GRADE’s full-service practice and holistic approach extends across cultures and continents in order to craft rich experiences of place that are at once sophisticated and striking, yet welcoming and personable, and always leave a strong impression.

Balance In Design

UK August 2017 US/CAN October 2017 Hardback • ISBN 978 1 911339 08 3 RRP £19.95 / $29.95 23 x 28 cm / 9 x 11 in 167 colour and b/w ills 192 pages

Featuring exclusive interviews with GRADE’s principals, alongside a curated selection of projects that unfold over generous full-page imagery and attention to detail, this publication offers a powerful insight into the philosophy and creative vision behind one of New York’s most distinguished design practices. As a true work of craft, GRADE: Balance in Design embodies the firm’s overarching commitment to curating expressive and inspiring spaces to live and work.

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STEPHEN B JACOBS GROUP ANDI PEPPER INTERIOR DESIGN AUTHOR: STEPHEN B JACOBS

he first publication to cumulatively address the extent of Stephen B Jacobs Group’s robust 50-year practice and 20 year partnership with Andi Pepper Interior Design, Stephen B Jacobs Group Andi Pepper Interior Design offers a largely first-person window into the history and influence of one of New York City’s most influential firms. Moving from early residential commissions to later large-scale developments, the book highlights such mould-breaking projects as Gansevoort Park, The Edge, and the Printing House, which pioneered the now-signature adaptive reuse of rooftop space for leisure within hotel and residential developments in New York City, as well as affordable housing, public and commercial projects, interior design and preservation. From its founding, the practice has been deeply concerned with the preservation of vernacular buildings and the integration of their surrounding historic context. Early work reveals Jacobs’ tactical use of generous ceiling heights, so as to introduce additional living areas, such as mezzanines and additional floors. Later projects showcase his innovative reuse of existing historical detailing found in both the brownstones and larger commercial buildings the firm redeveloped throughout the 1960s and 70s.

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At the same time, Stephen B Jacobs’ training in the Bauhaus tradition manifests within the practice’s rigorous approach to planning, construction and detailing, as seen within their most recent awardwinning luxury hotel and residential complexes, such as Edge II, Hawthorn Park and the masterful 2013 conversion of the famed Cast Iron District building, 200 Lafayette Street. Peppered with exclusive interviews as well as anecdotes and stories offered by Jacobs himself, this book recounts the full spectrum of Stephen B Jacobs Group Andi Pepper Interior Design’s work to offer a comprehensive yet highly personal insight into one of North America’s most influential practices, both with respect to the immediate context of the New York City metropolitan area and the wider progress of architecture from the 1960s to the present.

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ARCHITECT: SCHØNHERR A/S

anish Landscape practice Schønherr meditates upon architecture’s connection to beauty and its ability to enrich everyday life while strengthening our relationship to history, context, and place within From Spaces to Places, the practice’s first full-length publication. Unraveling around the Danish concept of ‘skønhed’ –– roughly translated to the ‘beautiful life’ –– this book is a powerful yet stoic observation on the role of aesthetics within Danish culture, both built and impressionistic, urban and rural. Schønherr takes readers through inner-city installation projects such as the PIECE bench in Copenhagen to the practice’s extensive work in Aarhus, which includes The Forest (2010), The City Park (2012), The Plaza (2014), and Bishops Square (2016).

SK NHED

SCHØNHERR SKØNHED

SCHØNHERR SPACES AND PLACES

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Developed on the occasion of the annual Aarhus Festival – the largest cultural festival Denmark – these projects temporarily transform the streets and parks into extraordinary public spaces, changing the natural topography of the city to attract citizens and bring them together. In addition to these more performative projects, Schønherr has contributed to the timeless re-integration and democratization of religious and infrastructural sites including the Ribe Cathedral and Aarhus train station, using pattern, colour, and material to merge the historical with the sensational, maintaining a minimal yet distinct tactic of intervention that reflects on the practice’s commitment to pursuing truth through architecture. From Spaces to Places invokes the language of aesthetics that Schønherr has developed over the course of its 20-year practice in order to seamlessly re-instate history and cultural memory with contemporary life; crisis management with environmental efficiency; and the spectacular with the everyday. This book celebrates Schønherr’s ability to harmonize infrastructural, systematic, and regulatory design with a timeless Danish aesthetic that reflects the ideology of the social-democratic culture in which these places have come into being. From Spaces to Places is as much about the social fabric of cities at large as it is about a unique practice’s experience shaping the cultural landscape of Copenhagen and beyond.

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SLCE ARCHITECTS, LLP 75 YEARS OF ARCHITECTURE

The First 75 Years

ARCHITECTS: SLCE ARCHITECTS, LLP

ounded in 1941, SLCE has continued to set new standards for producing buildings that inform and enhance urban environments worldwide. This book delves into the story of this progression across 75 years, highlighting SLCE’s outstanding contribution to the New York and tri-state area in architectural design and property development as well as the logistics surrounding construction. With demonstrated mastery across residential, mixed-use and commercial developments, as well as healthcare facilities, restoration and affordable housing, SLCE understands the full spectrum of urban life and consistently delivers buildings that answer to the city’s complex needs. While seeing each project through to successful, timely completion, the firm has also pioneered more efficient, user-friendly amendments to New York planning law, zoning issues and air rights.

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In a comprehensive essay following an introduction by the practice leaders, curator and writer Thomas Mellins contextualises SLCE’s pivotal role in developing some of New York’s most distinguished buildings in collaboration with internationally renowned practices, including the Blue Tower with Bernard Tschumi, the Bloomberg Tower with César Pelli, VIA 57 West with BIG, 520 Park Avenue with Robert AM Stern and the University Center at The New School with Skidmore, Owings & Merrill, as well as full-service projects including the German Mission to the United Nations, Gotham West, the POD Hotel and ELEMENT. SLCE’s complete story unfolds elegantly across three sections. The book begins with an in-depth look at a curated selection of SLCE’s main projects, followed by a shortlist of single-page features, and ends with a comprehensive longlist of the practice’s projects. While SLCE’s prolific contribution to New York’s built identity and culture cannot be overstated, this is the first book to fully cover the extent of this 75-year practice.

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STANDARD ARCHITECTURE

STANDARD ARCHITECTURE DESIGN

ARCHITECTS: JEFFREY ALLSBROOK AND SILVIA KUHLE

hrough an in-depth exploration of 9 projects ranging from retail to residential design, Standard highlights the practice of Los Angeles-based interdisciplinary studio Standard while it deconstructs traditional conceptions of interior and exterior space.

By honing in on the malleability of the storefront and its transformative role across varying sectors of architecture and design, Standard presents an alternative understanding of the façade. The public/private divide becomes permeable, and cultural narratives can be written from the inside out – flowing from fundamental elements like space and light to the contextual meaning of place. In Standard’s world, transitional spaces such as doors, windows, and openings come to define and bring meaning to our collective experience of place.

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From nooks like Hidden House and Kayne Griffin Corcoran that escape their immediate surroundings to the hybrid retail-gallery venues such as the Helmut Lang Concept Store and Maxfield Gallery in West Hollywood, Standard unveils the studio’s unique philosophy in action. Across all of Standard’s work is the feeling of osmosis through space and time: where old sites bleed into new structures, and apparently contrasting elements of urban life are artfully exposed to one other, re-producing themselves in the process. The result is a sophisticated rendering of place that is at once as intimate as it is accessible, and as nuanced as it is organic. Standard is the partnership of Jeffrey Allsbrook and Silvia Kuhle, two Los Angeles-based architects whose combined practice stems from a research-based and collaborative approach to architecture, interiors, and design. Standard fuses classical teachings with contemporary applications to arrive at new forms of living and working.

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STUDIO 804 AN ARCHITECTURAL EXPERIENCE AUTHOR/EDITOR: DAN ROCKHILL

ounded in 1995 by Dan Rockhill, Studio 804 is a non-profit organisation and a full-year design studio for graduates that finds its momentum at the intersection of contemporary architecture’s most topical concerns: sustainability, affordability and education. Based out of the Department of Architecture at the University of Kansas, Studio 804 operates in annual bursts of collective effort. With an everchanging roster of final-year graduate students, the studio has produced 21 projects to date, including nine LEED Platinum level houses and three Passive House certified projects. These projects have gone on to become homes and schools: spaces for both private and communal use and engagement; spaces for leisure and for learning. In addition to addressing mounting concerns of sustainability and innovative design in the era of the Anthropocene, Studio 804 addresses a separate but parallel crisis in architecture: the paucity of material engagement in architectural education. Studio 804 dismantles the boundaries of the ivory tower by allowing students to experience first-hand and collaboratively the various bureaucratic, institutional and community bodies that coalesce to form the architecture that frames our everyday lives.

STUDIO 804

An Architectural Experience

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Studio 804 recounts the mission of Studio 804: to offer students of architecture a comprehensive and sincere engagement with building that is both communal and physical, institutional and everyday. From the early days of first sketches to the immersive education of material making, this book offers an engaging first-person account of the history and legacy of Studio 804, as told by Dan Rockhill. Project by project, Rockhill describes the way Studio 804 came to be managed and details the achievements to date of its experiential programme, the first of its kind worldwide. In the end, this is not just a book about an innovative educational model, but a manifesto for the importance of communal and sustainable architecture.

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RESEARCH, EDITING AND WRITING: AND ZHANG HANKUN WITH CONTRIBUTIONS BY: HARRY DEN HARTOG, RORY STOTT, CHARLIE XUE, LI XIANGNING

Translated for the first time into English, The Condition of Chinese Architecture is the result of a five-year immersive investigation by TCA Think Tank into this paradigm. The research presented in this publication provides an insider’s perspective to decode what is occurring in the midst of Asia’s most recent construction boom, the extent of its global impact and the circumstances in which its actors must operate. This book rejects the standard approaches to studying this condition, in which sweeping conclusions are cast from big data and a fetishisation of statistics including the growth, size and quantity of projects; the speed of their production and demolition; and the relationship between a project and its context (or, in many cases, its non-context). Instead, Pier Alessio Rizzardi and Zhang Hankun trace a line from the significance of building culture in Chinese history and identity, dissecting how the longstanding influence of Western movements from Baroque to Soviet architecture, megastructural modernism and the latest generation of avant-garde and post-critical ‘global’ movements meld together to form this current state.

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The Condition of Chinese Architecture Pier Alessio Rizzardi Zhang Hankun

The Condition of Chinese Architecture

hina accounts for only 1% of the world’s total architects, but produces 10% of the world’s buildings and uses 33% of the world’s reinforced concrete. How does this condition affect architecture?

Pier Alessio Rizzardi Zhang Hankun

THE CONDITION OF CHINESE ARCHITECTURE Adi odit endic tem santis eum, volorum

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In addition to interviewing key voices of contemporary Chinese architecture—including such icons as Chang Yong Ho, Liu Jiakun, Ma Yansong, Liu Xiaodu, LU Wenyu, Zhang Ke, Li Xiaodong, Li Hu, Chen Yifeng, Zhu Pei, Zhang Lei, Qi Xin, Rocco Yim, Zhang Bin, Liu Yuyang and Xu Tiantian—the authors weave together the entire spectrum of individuals involved in this condition, from construction workers to developers, curators, critics and artists. The result is a groundbreaking, cumulative reckoning of the history and future of Chinese architecture that is teased out through layers of personal accounts and cross-disciplinary research drawing on architectural history, design and aesthetics, technology, philosophy, politics and society.

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ORDINARY AND EXTRAORDINARY BROOKS + SCARPA ARCHITECTS: BROOKS + SCARPA CONTRIBUTOR: TIBBY ROTHMAN

rdinary and Extraordinary tells the story of the celebrated Los Angeles-based architecture and design practice Brooks + Scarpa, recipients of the Cooper-Hewitt National Design Award. Working across disciplines including landscape architecture, planning and environmental design, as well as furniture, graphic and interior design, Brooks + Scarpa employs a rigorous research process and technological prowess to produce iconic buildings that surprise and delight in their ability to enrich the cultural fabric of our cities.

Equally dynamic and accessible is Ordinary and Extraordinary, which charts Brooks + Scarpa’s history to-date, methodology and working philosophy through a selection of highlighted projects that come to life through a narrative concerning the practice, penned by ex-journalist and Wallpaper* contributor Tibby Rothman. Ordinary and Extraordinary takes its readers on a journey from Brooks + Scarpa’s origins in 1991 as Pugh + Scarpa to its current leadership under Angela Brooks and Lawrence Scarpa, who together steer the 25-person team from one successful project to the next, emphasising a collaborative and client-led approach that is further lauded for its sustainability-savvy design approach.

ORDINARY AND EXTRAORDINARY BROOKS + SCARPA

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Their work ranges from high-density housing in Chengdu, China, to Downtown Los Angeles boutiques like Aesop’s cardboard-coated interiors; it spans the iconic, Corten-clad facades of the Aronson Fine Arts Center at Laumeier Sculpture Park near St Louis, Missouri, and the futuristic canopy roof of the Contemporary Art Museum in Raleigh, North Carolina. Ordinary and Extraordinary meditates upon the artistry defining Brooks + Scarpa’s unique practice in a format equally engaging as an object and book.

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Eldred Evans

David Shalev

ARCHITECTURE

ARCHITECTURE ELDRED EVANS, DAVID SHALEV CONTRIBUTORS: JOSEPH RYKWERT, ELDRED EVANS, DAVID SHALEV, ET AL

rchitecture is the first monograph on the work of Evans and Shalev, one of the most significant architecture offices practicing in the UK over the last 50 years. Evans and Shalev have produced a notable body of work, including award-winning civic projects such as the Truro Crown Court, 1988, and Tate St Ives, 1993.

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Founded by Eldred Evans and David Shalev, the practice has been long noted for a commitment to place-making and for the care, skill and intelligence with which each project is realised. The serene and powerful buildings that the practice has designed over the years have a complexity often only revealed through their use. This is not architecture designed for the easy ‘money’ shot unlike so much contemporary architecture.

Architecture includes Evans and Shalev’s key early projects which demonstrate their use of raw concrete and a considered articulation of both plan and section, such as in their seminal work: Newport High School, 1969–1972 (since demolished), and their Home for the Younger Physically Handicapped in Alexandra Road, London, 1972–1976, while later projects such as the Quincentenary Library at Jesus College, Cambridge, 1995, with its use of brick and engagement with adjacent buildings, show the more contextual development of their work through the 1980s and 90s.

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WORKING DEBORAH BERKE AUTHOR: DEBORAH BERKE

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he first comprehensive overview of the firm since Deborah Berke (Yale University Press) was published in 2008, WORKING focuses on the most recent work of the practice, as manifest in buildings and spaces for work, art, music, and creative endeavours more generally. WORKING also touches on past projects, such as the Yale School of Art and the Marianne Boesky Gallery. Using as one point of reference Deborah Berke’s book with Steven Harris, Architecture of the Everyday, WORKING goes into detail on Berke’s concerns for the ‘ordinary’ as well as her unique embrace of and take on Modernism and Minimalism. With a particular interest in interstitial building and the renovation and restoration of nineteenth- and twentiethcentury American architecture, the work of the practice occupies a remarkable position given architecture today—Berke’s approach to context, to detail, and to vernacular and industrial buildings all being clear evidence of this. Along with writing by Deborah Berke herself, the book is also comprised of the insightful photography of Victoria Sambunaris, a longstanding collaborator of Berke’s, and chronicler of the practice’s work. Berke was recently appointed Dean of the School of Architecture at Yale University.

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THE ARCHITECTURAL DRAWING BOOK A SURVEY OF DRAWING FROM PREHISTORY TO PRESENT EDITOR: DUNCAN MCCORQUODALE

“He draws like a dream… apparently effortlessly.” – Peter Cook on Ron Herron.

he Architectural Drawing Book: A Survey of Drawing from Prehistory to the Present comprises an overview of drawing and architecture-related imagery, as well as key texts in the field throughout history, and touches on subjects such as developments in technology and their impact on both the methods and manifestations of drawing. The book considers various forms of architectural representations and projections such as plans, sections, perspectives and exploded axonometrics. It also explores the impact of the computer on drawing and current debates, taking place between practitioners of analogic and electronically assisted methods of drawing.

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The extensive breadth of figures touched upon include Vitruvius, Alberti, da Vinci, Serlio and Piranesi, through to Choisy, John Soane, El Lissitzky, Wright, Le Corbusier, Peter Eisenman, Constant, James Gowan and Ted Cullinan, to name but a few. The Architectural Drawing Book also covers sources of drawing that are not directly a part of architectural discourse but that can be seen as related or indebted to it, such as engineering, fashion and art. In the latter context the publication looks at the work of Mary Miss, Gordon Matta Clark, Dan Graham, Rachel Whiteread and Paul Noble, amongst many others.

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THE LETTERS OF COLIN ROWE FIVES DECADES OF CORRESPONDENCE

CIVILIA THE END OF SUB URBAN MAN

EDITOR: DANIEL NAEGELE

AUTHOR: IVOR DE WOLFE PREFACE: IAN NAIRN INTRODUCTION: ALAN POWERS

egendary architect, historian and critic, Colin Rowe taught Architecture and Urban Design at Liverpool University, the University of Texas at Austin, Cambridge University and for another 30 years at Cornell. From the late 1940s through to the early 1960s he wrote a uniquely perceptive series of articles on architecture that remains seminal to the discipline today. His books include The Mathematics of the Ideal Villa and Other Essays, The Architecture of Good Intentions, the volume As I Was Saying, and most notably, the 1978 Collage City, written with Fred Koetter. The recipient of the profession’s highest honours, he was awarded the Topaz Medallion for Excellence in Architectural Education in 1985; and the Gold Medal of the Royal Institute of British Architects in 1995. Hardback • ISBN 978 1 908967 53 4 RRP £29.95 / $49.95 25 x 18 cm / 7 x 10 in 10 b/w ills 560 pages

Rowe was an inveterate letter writer. From his student days at Liverpool in the early 1940s until his death in Washington in 1999, he wrote innumerable letters to his parents, renowned architects and scholars, friends, colleagues and former students on both sides of the Atlantic; and most consistently and intimately to his brother, David, and sister–in–law, Dorothy, in England. Informal and elegant ruminations, they illuminate moments in Rowe’s migratory life, addressing a wide range of subjects from books, furniture, landscapes, politics, history, and education, to architecture and the urban condition and a host of other engaging topics. Rich with wit and an astonishing array of scholarship, each is written in the incomparable style for which Rowe has long been famous, making evident his love affair with words and revealing a man of great humour, warmth and charm.

ivilia: The End of Sub Urban Man is a facsimile reproduction of the title by the same name originally published in 1971 by The Architectural Press. Written by Ivor de Wolfe, the author of Artifice books on architecture’s The Italian Townscape and notorious publisher behind The Architectural Review and The Architectural Press.

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Civilia: The End of Sub Urban Man, addresses ‘urban living’ in the mid to late twentieth century with reference to the impact of technology, new town planning, the death of the automobile, and a tongue-incheek attitude towards the then contemporary issues informing the development of urbanism in both the academic and public imagination. At times bitingly critical, and at others erudite—if not wholly ‘politically correct’—Civilia: The End of Sub Urban Man is a refreshing look back at ‘cutting edge’ developments in architecture and urbanism from the 1970s, and is surprisingly relevant given our current predicament regarding the city, housing, and architectural representation.

THE MODERN HOUSE AUTHOR: JONATHAN BELL

he Modern House reflects upon the complex relationship architecture has with the terms “Modernist”, “Modernism” and “Modern”, specifically in relation to the concepts of home and everyday life. These special examples of British Modernism include such progressive experiments on communal urban living as Wells Coate’s Isokon Building (1934) and Berthold Lubetkin’s Highpoint, regarded today as an iconic example of the early International Style. Compared with these London enormities are private homes such as Trevor Dannatt’s Laslett House in Cambridge (1958) or John Winter’s own residency, the Winter House (1967). The Modern House opens with an introductory essay by acclaimed architectural journalist Jonathan Bell, former architecture editor for Wallpaper* and contributing editor at Blueprint, and includes projects by renowned British architects including Carl Turner, Marcel Breuer, 6a Architects, John Pawson, Richard and Su Rogers, and Adjaye Associates, among others.

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With images of yet to be seen interiors and restorations, The Modern House illuminates the convergent characteristics of functionalism, truth to materials, flowing space and natural light within the Modern home as a space for living. 50

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Builders, Housewives and the Construction of Modern Athens Ioanna Theocharopoulou Foreword by Kenneth Frampton

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BUILDERS, HOUSEWIVES AND THE CONSTRUCTION OF MODERN ATHENS

RZLBD HOPSCOTCH SEEKING A TERRITORY FOR A VISION

AUTHOR: IOANNA THEOCHAROPOULOU

AUTHOR: REZA ALIABADI

prawling beneath the Acropolis, modern Athens is commonly viewed in negative terms: congested, ugly and monotonous. A Mediterranean version of ‘informal’ urbanism prevalent throughout the so-called developing world, Builders, Housewives and the Construction of Modern Athens reassesses the explosive growth of postwar Athens through its most distinctive building type, the polykatoikia, a small-scale multi-storey apartment block (from poly meaning ‘multiple’ and oikos meaning ‘house’). Theocharopoulou re-evaluates the polykatoikia as a low-tech, easily constructible innovation that stimulated the post-war urban economy, triggering the city’s social midtwentieth century transformation, enabling the migrants who poured into Athens to become urban citizens, aspiring to a modern life. The interiors of the polykatoikia apartments reflect a desire for modernity as marketed to housewives through film and magazines. Regular builders became unlikely allies in designing these polykatoikia interiors, enabling inhabitants to exert agency over their daily lives and the shape of the post-war city. Theocharopoulou’s reading draws on popular media as well as urban and regional planning theory, cultural studies and anthropology to examine the evolution of this phenomenon and, in light of Greece’s recent financial crisis, considers the role polykatoikia might play in building an equitable and sustainable twenty-first-century city.

ZLBD HOPSCOTCH, the first monograph on rzlbd’s work, focuses on its built projects over the last five years, while including a selection of past works and polemical writings that set the foundation for the practice. With a particular interest in the house as an archetypal model of the world, whilst implementing the guiding idea that design belongs to everyone and that ‘modern has to be affordable’, the work of rzlbd occupies a unique position in its exploration of new ideas for contemporary infill dwellings. Along with architectural projects and writings, the book is also a record of Aliabadi’s search for a design language and his unique perspective coming out of his three major solo expeditions—to the North Pole, around the world in 49 days and the ‘Trans-Canada’, which crosses the country from the Atlantic to the Pacific.

RZLBD HOP SCOTCH SEEKING A TERRITORY FOR A VISION

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Reza Aliabadi is the founder of atelier rzlbd in Toronto. He splits his time between designing buildings and objects, curating installations and exhibitions and publishing a zine called rzlbdPOST.

SPECULATIVE CITIES CONTRIBUTORS: GLEN LOWRY, SHELLY ROSENBLUM, KEITH WALLACE, ET AL

peculative Cities expands current discourse on the stakes and conditions of the ‘global’ city by focusing on the port and gateway cities of Dubai, Panama City, and Vancouver that have reinvented themselves over the past 40 years. These “new world cities” have continued to develop through strategies markedly divergent from traditional patterns of economic, civic, and cultural growth towards other processes of exchange. Radically contemporary at times controversial in their lightning-fast expansion, they signify a global transition in the way cities materialize. Bringing together architects, urban planners, artists, curators, and scholars from such ‘speculative cities’, the book offers a network of research at the cross-rails of urban studies, contemporary art, and public engagement. In helping to understand the conditions spurning these three cities, Speculative Cities provides timely new knowledge on global urbanisation, diasporic mobilities, indigeneity and the after-effects of late twentieth-century nationalisms.

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Speculative citieS: vancouver, panama city, and dubai contemporary art and architecture and the urban development of three port cities

Glen Lowry, Shelly Rosenblum, Sadira Rodrigues, Keith Wallace

Paperback • ISBN 978 1 908967 90 9 RRP £19.95 / $29.95 28 x 23 cm / 9 x 11 in 140 colour and b/w ills 160 pages

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