Architecture

480 colour illustrations 25 x 25 cm 304pp HB ISBN 978 0 500 025406 Thames and Hudson Ltd March £50.00

Skylab

Edited by Benjamin Halpern With contributions from Jeff Kovel, Benjamin Halpern, Mimi Zeiger, John Hoke, Mauricio Villarreal and Randy Gragg

A major overview of Skylab’s built works, from show-stopping residences to high-profile cultural projects, presented via a covetable book design that takes its inspiration from an album or LP.

Skylab is the first major monograph of the eponymous architecture and design studio based in Portland, Oregon, and founded by Jeff Kovel in 1999. The monograph presents two decades of work, the story of Skylab is told by a number of influential people through reflective essays, interviews, conversations and anecdotes.

• Features a range of high-profile projects, from the homes of city creatives to striking cultural buildings, retail spaces and music and sports venues, including Nike’s Serena Williams Building. • A desirable design object in itself, based on the concept of an album or LP, with inside front- and back-cover gatefolds and nine foldout posters. • Produced in close collaboration with the architects.

Habitat

Vernacular Architecture for a Changing Climate

Sandra Piesik

Compact edition

Kazuo Shinohara: The Umbrella House Project

Christian Dehli and Andrea Grolimund • Created by an international multidisciplinary team comprising more than 100 academics, construction engineers, architectural historians, material scientists and climatologists. • Organized by climatic zones, this innovative new approach to the subject provides real-world insights into sustainable buildings in the midst of global climate change and stresses the importance of preserving disappearing craftsmanship and local knowledge. • The culmination of years of specialist research, this is a complete reference source.

1000 illustrations 28.8 x 22.4 cm 496pp HB ISBN 978 0 500 343760 Thames and Hudson Ltd March £50.00

The Umbrella House is the smallest residential home by Japanese architect and mathematician Kazuo Shinohara (1925–2006). This book tells the story of his unique masterpiece, which was first built in Tokyo in 1961.

The book traces the long journey of the Umbrella House from Tokyo to the Vitra Campus in Weil am Rhein (Germany) in lavish illustrations including impressions from 1960s Japan, architectural designs and plans, and photographs that document the journey and the house in its new location. Texts by Ryue Nishizawa (SANAA), Shin-ichi Okuyama, and David B. Stewart discuss the Umbrella House against the background of Japanese architectural discourse between 1960 and the present.

80 illustrations 25 x 18 cm 120pp HB ISBN 978 3 945 852552 Vitra Design Museum March £35.00