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Architecture
With over 550 illustrations 24 x 21cm 256pp Hardback ISBN 978 0 500 343715 Thames & Hudson Ltd August £25.00
Houses That Can Save the World
Courtenay Smith and Sean Topham Nothing short of a design revolution is underway as we confront climate change, polluting plastics, global migration, rapidly expanding cities and an ageing population. Part handbook, part manifesto, this book shows how architects, designers, engineers, self-builders, artists and others are embracing the new challenges the human race is facing.
• With strategies and houses that span the globe, including developing regions in Asia, Africa and South America. • For people who want to play their part in generating broader environmental and social changes, the book explains how best to tackle the key design challenges on a personal scale. • Each strategy features carefully selected projects that put ideas into practice, o ering real-world solutions regardless of location or size.
Adjaye
Edited by Peter Allison Contributions from Ila Berman
Between 2007 and 2015, Adjaye became interested in developing an architecture that was more expansive, taking him outside Europe to work on major projects such as the Museum of Contemporary Art in Denver and the Moscow School of Management Skolkovo. Designing buildings around the globe, Adjaye carefully tailored his approach to each place, sensitive to the important role architecture plays in a rming a sense of community and identity.
• Design, layouts and cover developed in close collaboration with the architect. • A companion to Adjaye – Works: Houses, Pavilions, Installations, Buildings, 1995-2007, which Wallpaper* described as a “must read”.
512 illustrations 25.8 x 25.8cm 300pp Hardback ISBN 978 0 500 343807 Thames & Hudson Ltd August £60.00
Courtyard Living
Contemporary Houses of the Asia-Pacific
Charmaine Chan
New in paperback Courtyards have long played an important function in residential design, regulating light, shade and the use of space.
This lavish survey of 25 residences across the Asia-Paci c region features homes from Australia, Taiwan, Malaysia, Indonesia, Thailand, the Philippines, Singapore, India, Vietnam and Sri Lanka. Structured by courtyard function, the book consists of ve chapters – on privacy; multigenerational living; sightlines; light and ventilation; and living with nature.
• Richly illustrated with photography, architectural illustrations and oor plans. • Features the work of leading architects and emerging talents, including Thisara Thanapathy in Sri Lanka, SPASM Design Architects in India and Chang Architects in Singapore.
With over 270 illustrations 29 x 23cm 272pp Paperback ISBN 978 0 500 296790 Thames & Hudson Ltd August £25.00
Santiago Calatrava: In the Glyptothek (Bilingual edition)
Beyond Hellas
Edited by Florian S. Knauß and Cristina Carrillo de Albornoz
In English and German Santiago Calatrava’s (*1951) encounter with the sculpture collection at the Glyptothek in Munich more than twenty years ago prompted him to create an extensive series of sculptures with the title Die Aegineten (The Aeginetans).
This volume focuses attention for the rst time on the sculptures and paintings of the famous architect and shows how he was in uenced by Antiquity.The book includes a selection of 30 drawings, watercolours and studies showing Calatrava’s interest in the human body and nature.
80 colour illustrations 30 x 24cm 144pp Hardback ISBN 978 3 777 440057 Hirmer Verlag October £34.00
Building Berlin, Vol. 11
The latest architecture in and out of the capital
Architektenkammer Berlin Whether it is building something new, additions, or restructuring – construction never stops in Berlin. This annual publication presents examples of current local and international projects, conceived and designed by Berlin’s architects, urban planners, interior designers and landscape architects, with the main focus on sustainable preservation.
Renowned authors contribute essays highlighting the value of the constructed environment we already have. They demonstrate how even buildings earmarked for demolition can become exciting homes, how clever ideas can breathe new life into apparently outdated old buildings, and how transport and open spaces can be integrated into increasingly constricted urban settings.
330 illustrations 27 x 21cm 180pp Paperback ISBN 978 3 037 682784 Braun October £24.95
2G / #85 Leopold Banchini
Edited by Moises Puente
Leopold Banchini Architects is an architectural studio based in Geneva, Switzerland, founded in 2017 by Leopold Banchini, after being part of Bureau A for three years. The o ce is a multidisciplinary research team exploring the frontiers of space shaping. Deeply rooted in architectural history, it is interested as well in contemporary popular cultures as in vernacular traditions and crafts. His work has been built in countries as Switzerland, Belgium, Portugal, Bahrain, and Australia.
120 illustrations 30 x 23cm 160pp Paperback ISBN 978 3 753 300023 Walther & Franz König October £38.00
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