architecture jan 2013
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Design and Politics #5 - Regions in Transition. Designing for Adaptivity 010 Publishers 2012 ISBN 9789064507892 Acqn 21133 Hb 17x24cm 224pp 80ills 70col £21 Dutch spatial planning is being shaken up by shifting roles among governments and a troubled market. More and more tasks are being tackled at a regional scale. This means that regions will have to shape their own perspectives on how they are to develop spatially. They must create distinguishing narratives that pick up on global trends and local initiatives. This volume provides guidelines for developing regional planning narratives. Contributors address the issue of how regions can give shape to their own spatial development in a way that is of value for the Netherlands as a whole.
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Graduation Projects Amsterdam Academy Of Architecture 2010-2011 Architectura & Natura Press 2012 ISBN 9789461400222 Acqn 21998 Hb 17x22cm 144pp 160ills 150col £21 According to director Aart Oxenaar, “only by continually conducting research, by critically examining what is presented as truth or reality, can the artist or designer make sensible pronouncements about how we should deal with reality.” This generation of students seems to naturally engage the reality of the everyday, and their designs can be taken as starting points for sensible interventions. The work of 25 graduates in architecture, urbanism and landscape architecture is presented in this volume, covering a wide variety of projects and solutions. A foreword by Oxenaar and text by visiting critic Rob Hootsmans lend insight to the students’ hard work and perspectives.
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SIAL: Liberec Association Of Engineers And Architects, 1958-1990 Arbor Vitae 2012 ISBN 9788087164877 Acqn 21462 Pb 23x24cm 304pp 470ills 100col £47.95 This monograph documents, for the first time, the work of the Liberec Association of Engineers and Architects--known as SIAL--founded in 1968 by the Czech architects Karel Hubacek, Miroslav Masák and Otakar Binar. Joined by other prominent modernist architects in Prague, the group was active into the 1980s. Despite difficult political circumstances, SIAL gained recognition both at home and among Western architects. This book looks at the work of the Liberec collective in its full scope. The first three chapters, presenting SIAL’s production from the 60s, 70s and 80s, are followed by an analysis of 25 of their most important projects and buildings, as well as profiles of the most prominent SIAL architects, with a supplement comprising almost 500 reproductions.
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Arquitectura Viva 143 Arquitectura Viva SL 2012 no ISBN Acqn 21597 Pb 24x30cm 112pp 120ills 100col £22.50 Text in Spanish Featuring: OMA, Rothschild Bank Norman Foster, The Walbrook Jean Nouvel, One New Change Richard Rogers, One Hyde Park Renzo Piano, Central St. Giles John McAslan, King´s Cross Station Populous, Olympic Stadium Hopkins Architects, Velodrome Zaha Hadid Architects, Aquatics Center Magma architecture, Olympic Shooting Venues Make, Handball Pavilion Wilkinson Eyre Architects, Basketball Pavilion
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In Praise of Mud - Guide to The Earth Walls of Kyoto Gakugei Shuppansha 2012 ISBN 9784761513030 Acqn 21607 Pb 15x21cm 144pp 140col ills £32 “The culture of earth wall construction in Kyoto is often said to be unique in the world, drawing its particular aesthetic sense from Japanese tea culture.” With materials that are both primitive and universal, the processes involved in earthen construction have been replicated for millennia in many cultures the world over. This book highlights a distinctively Japanese understanding of the material’s basic nature. Beautifully designed, with overlapping texts and images, it includes detailed information on specific structures, plus numerous photos that highlight many typical earth walls located throughout Kyoto.
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A Photographic Portrait of a Landscape - New Dimensions in Landscape Philosophy Jap Sam 2012 ISBN 9789490322373 Acqn 21617 Pb 16x22cm 270pp 200ills 100col £21 A Photographic Portrait of a Landscape is a micro study that explores cultural centres and land ownership. The expansion of the European Union has been accompanied by a growing interest in national identity, which uses landscape as a projection screen for envisaged expectations. The theories of Ton Lemaire (Filosofie van het landschap,1970) and the post-colonial approach to culture of Homi K. Bhabha (The Location of Culture, 1994) are our guides on a journey through a landscape in the north of the Netherlands. Pietsie Feenstra's (Sorbonne Nouvelle, Paris III) essay on cultural history takes us on a filmic journey through a terp landscape in the Dutch province of Friesland, interpreting and uncovering its secrets by sifting through photographic images and delving into archives. She was inspired by an album of photos from 1978 that show the Frisian village of Wjelsryp. The visual essay by Wapke Feenstra (myvillages.org) is a collation of recent landscape photos, photos taken by local residents, poetry, information about the land, and a grass herbarium. The landscape is presented from the perspective of the local dweller.
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Luc Deleu - T.O.P. office: Orban Space Valiz 2012 ISBN 9789078088608 Acqn 21628 Pb 17x24cm 430pp 450ills 50col £21.95 An unconventional, dazzling and multilayered book on one of the most idiosyncratic architects/artists of the past forty years. Since founding T.O.P. (‘Turn On Planning’) office in the 1970s, Belgian architect and artist Luc Deleu has been working on a critical, sociological and ecological approach to urbanism that he has named ‘orbanism’: an eco-centric global urbanism that has anticipated such contemporary concerns as environmental pollution, overpopulation, food production and the conflict between the individual and the community. Orban Space traces Deleu’s work and practice through a conceptual topography defined by seven terms: architecture, imitation, depiction, sculpture, scale, mobility and manifesto. Each term will be dealt with in a critical text and visual essay by seven authors and seven artists: John Macarthur, Maarten Delbeke, Stefaan Vervoort, Felicity D. Scott, Wouter Davidts, Teresa Stoppani, Guy Châtel, Marjolijn Dijkman, UP (Koenraad Dedobbeleer & Kris Kimpe), Manfred Pernice, Luc Deleu, Kersten Geers, Metahaven, Aglaia Konrad.
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Public Space - The Familiar Into The Strange B Architectural Publications 2012 ISBN 9788792700032 Acqn 21891 Pb 17x24cm 160pp 120ills 90col £23.95 This book gathers together the work, thoughts and analyses of eleven theorists whose ideas can be applied to the apprehension of urban spaces, their processes and contexts. It presents a socio-spatial relationship that emerges from various perspectives, including an urban analytic return to the most important lessons learned from 20th century urban development. Through a European context – examining cities such as Amsterdam, Barcelona, Hamburg, Berlin, Krakow, Dublin and Malmø – it demonstrates that work is being accomplished via many strategies and tools for developing urban spatial quality, and features texts by such notable writers as Jane Jacobs, Richard Sennett, Umberto Eco and Henri Lefebvre.
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Petra Blaisse - Inside Outside. Movements 25% + DVD 1:01:46 Architectura & Natura Press 2012 ISBN 9789461400246 Acqn 21894 Pb 11x15cm 224pp 200ills 150col £52 Dutch designer Petra Blaisse works in a multitude of creative areas, including textile, landscape and exhibition design. Over the years her office Inside Outside has collaborated with various architects and designers. This publication, designed by Irma Boom, presents her work and is accompanied by a DVD.
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a+t 39-40 - Reclaim. Remediate Reuse Recycle a+t Ediciones 2012 ISBN 9788461560202 Acqn 21960 Pb 24x32cm 312pp col ills £55 With this first instalment of the 'Reclaim' series, a+t interprets the works analysed and organises its discourse on the basis of “Re-actions”, using these actions to create a body of knowledge applicable to any project. The actions are classified into three “Re-processes”: Remediate (acting on the territory), Reuse (acting on the building) and Recycle (acting on the material). 'Reclaim' has the environmental sense to reclaim the territory, objects, infrastructures and materials, yet it is also a call to reclaim dignity and citizens' rights. In short, it is a wake-up call to morally reclaim society, using the “Re-processes” as atonement.
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C3 339 - Architecten De Vylder Vink Taillieu C3 2012 no ISBN Acqn 21972 Pb 23x30cm 204pp 200ills 150col £21.95 Recently, the so-called “green question” has influenced many aspects of architecture and design, likewise bringing with it implications about the reconsideration of nature and our relationship to it. This instalment of ‘C3’ focuses on green concepts and their varied interpretations in design today. Twelve projects are highlighted, including Singapore’s School of the Arts by WOHA, Surazo Hotel by WMR Arquitectos, S.A. Residence in Dhaka by Shatotto Architecture, and Fasano las Piedras Hotel by Isay Weinfeld. Also in this issue, a feature on Belgian practice architecten de vylder vinck taillieu and ‘On Showing Architecture’, by Diego Terna, on the 13th Venice Biennale.
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HHF Architects Archilife 2012 ISBN 9788996450832 Acqn 21983 Pb 25x29cm 336pp 400ills 250col £63 This striking monograph on the Swiss office founded by Tilo Herlach, Simon Hartmann and Simon Frommenwiler details more than twenty projects and collaborations from the period 2003-2012, both built and as yet unrealized. Texts written by notable guest authors, fellow architects and architecture critics – Jurgen Mayer H., Kersten Geers, Cecilia Puga, and Philip Schaerer, to name a few – accompany each featured work. Bart Lootsma contributes the book’s opening essay, while Laurent Stalder provides an interview with the practice. Numerous full-colour photos and images, plus technical drawings and diagrams, fill the pages and bring the work of HHF to life.
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Iranian Caravanserais Nazar Research & Cultural Institute 2012 ISBN 9789649547411 Acqn 22000 Hb 23x23cm 264pp 250ills 230col £51 Taking up photography after his university studies in historical restoration, Anousheh Pirbadian spent approximately three years travelling through his native Iran making pictures of the diverse ruins of caravanserais. At these roadside complexes travellers and trade convoys could find shelter, rest and safety, equivalent to modern-day inns. They are frequently found along the Persian Empire's Royal Road, part of the larger ancient network of trade routes supporting the flow of commerce, information, and people across Asia, North Africa, and south-eastern Europe. The structures are magnificently photographed, accompanied by short descriptions and location coordinates.
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Souto De Moura - Novartis Camus Physic Garden 3 Christoph Merian Verlag 2012 ISBN 9783856165758 Acqn 22001 Hb 25x32cm 80pp 63ills 51col £44.50 The latest volume in this series on the Novartis Campus in Basel is devoted to the laboratory building by Portuguese architect Eduardo Souto de Moura. For him, the wall is the pivotal supporting element in a building, and therefore stone is the most important building material. Yet the design for the seven-storey laboratory envisaged an almost transparent structure with three brick stele in the entrance foyer by artist Pedro Cabrita Reis. This monographic publication explores this apparent contradiction with an essay on the building by architect Akos Moravanszky, plus a text about the artwork by art historian Jacqueline Burchkardt and photographs by Paolo Rosselli.
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Best Of Architectural Design 2011-2012 - Selection Of The Best Student Projects Archizoom 2012 ISBN 9782839911016 Acqn 22002 Pb 21x30cm 154pp 300ills 150col £26 More than 70 projects were voluntarily submitted by students of the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne to be considered for this publication of ‘BestOf’, of which eighteen were rewarded and published in this book. Central to the submissions, and especially to their presentation and explanation, is the concept of the architectural studio as hybrid research space, one open to collaboration, cross-disciplinary investigation, and analysis and development of techniques. This encourages, for instance, questioning the relationship between engineering sciences and architectural design, between applied and artistic practice. Detailed, forward-looking, and inspiring.
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Charles Jencks - Can Architecture Affect Your Health ArtEZ Press 2012 ISBN 9789491444012 Acqn 22019 Pb 11x18cm 64pp 27ills 13col £12.95 The first in a series by the Sikkens Foundation, this pocket-sized publication of the Mondrian Lecture given by Charles Jencks reprints his talk in full, along with various images. Jencks discusses the possibility that architecture and well-being can have a direct correlation, exploring how architecture can influence society, business productivity, profits and hospitals. He elaborates with examples of architectural determinism from both ancient and modern history, with a special focus on his experience with the Maggie’s Centres – cancer care centres set up throughout Britain by Jencks and designed by famous architects – whose purpose is to experiment with these ideas.
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Jacqueline Schoemaker - The Undivided City Onomatopee 2012 ISBN 9789078454861 Acqn 22020 Pb 15x21cm 130pp 6ills £12.95 Jacqueline Schoemaker’s research into the boundaries of urban environments results in texts, maps, interventions and performances dealing with the concept of community. ‘The Undivided City’ presents a kind of horizontal archaeology, an observation of the effects of a policy instrument in which population groups are distributed through the city; an adverse effect being that human behaviour is normalised, resulting in uniformity. It focuses on the shifting borders between individual users of the urban space and the planned environment. Schoemaker walks straight lines through the city, thereby creating layers in which various urban facets are determined and analysed.
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Triggering Reality The Architecture Observer 2012 ISBN 9789081920728 Acqn 22024 Pb 15x20cm 120pp 80col ills £19 Atelier Van Lieshout, Boundary Umlimited, DUS Architects, Haas & Hahn, Nicoline van Harskamp, Anne Holtrop and Bas Princen, Wouter Klein Velderman, Krijn de Koning, NIO Architects and Onix: the artists and architects in this catalogue of the eponymous exhibition in the Centro per l’arte contemporanea Luigi Pecci in Prato seek a direct relationship with reality, investigating and reproducing it, representing and criticizing it. Their approach is increasingly trans-disciplinary: architects utilize media and supports typical of the arts, while artists investigate urban realities in three-dimensional architectural installations.