Architecture April 2016

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Fumihiko Maki - Maki And Associates 2015Kajima Institute Publishing Co 2015 ISBN 9784306046269 Acqn 25727Pb 19x26cm 296pp 330ills 250col £45

Maki and Associates, the office of Pritzker Prize winner Fumihiko Maki, celebrates its 50thanniversary this year, and publishes this volume along with an eponymous exhibit tocommemorate it. As such, it is a record of the broader context of the office’s half-century ofdesign activity, its priorities and interests, and the social character that its works have

subsequently achieved. Reproduced here are a wealth of images, including photos of realisedprojects, architectural images from early stages in the design process, and drawings, sketches,and diagrams. Together with essays and personal insights from Maki himself, it presents a richhistory of this seminal architect.


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An Atlas Of ImaginationDamdi 2015 ISBN 9788968010378 Acqn 25728Pb 15x23cm 360pp 300ills 150col £27.95

Designer and theorist Luca Galofaro often relies on montage in formulating the concepts and

manifestations of his work. This assembling of images does not mean assimilating them into alogical narrative plot, but juxtaposing single fragments, keeping their multiplicity and unlockingnew possible relationships for the imagination, itself an integral part of knowledge. The montagescollected in this book form a single body of work together with selected quotes from notablearchitects, critics, and theorists. By cutting, splicing, duplicating, stacking, and superimposingmany of the world’s recognisable buildings, Galofaro creates an alternative history and vision ofarchitecture.


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Traditional Bhutanese Houses IV ADP 2016 ISBN 9784903348452 Acqn 25780Pb 30x21cm 228pp 225ills 150col £21

This publication is the outcome of an initiative taken by a research group from the Architectureand Civil Engineering Department of the Chiba Institute of Technology, in partnership with theBhutan Ministry of Public Works and Human Settlement. The idea of field surveys andobservations on traditional houses across the region was first raised in 2009; in 2013, theproject’s fourth survey was completed. Replete with data, drawings, diagrams, maps, andphotographs, plus interviews with locals on their ways of living and land management, the volumepresents a comprehensive report on domestic architecture and village typologies in Bhutan.


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Traditional Bhutanese Houses II ADP 2016 ISBN 9784903348278 Acqn 25994Pb 31x21cm 194pp 215ills 80col £21

This publication is the outcome of an initiative taken by a research group from the Architectureand Civil Engineering Department of the Chiba Institute of Technology, in partnership with theBhutan Ministry of Public Works and Human Settlement. The idea of field surveys andobservations on traditional houses across the region was first raised in 2009; in 2013, theproject’s fourth survey was completed. Replete with data, drawings, diagrams, maps, andphotographs, plus interviews with locals on their ways of living and land management, the volumepresents a comprehensive report on domestic architecture and village typologies in Bhutan.


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Taipei Tech Architecture 2013-2014 Thesis ReviewGarden City Publishing 2015 ISBN 9789860414981 Acqn 25481Pb 12x17cm 416pp 400ills 300col £13.50

This small volume presents graduate thesis projects from the architecture department of theNational Taipei University of Technology. Twelve teams present their work, densely illustratedthrough countless drawings, renderings, models, and other conceptualisations that together detail

the essential character of their respective projects. The theses topics, which were limited in scopeto the regional area of Taipei, range from reusing deserted space, the exploration and applicationof natural systems, and implementing strategies of dispersion and networks, to simply discoveringone’s own originality as a resource for the future.


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Suep. Book 2 Design TheoryGarden City Publishing 2015 ISBN 9789866204913 Acqn 25482Hb 19x19cm 192pp 100ills 75col £21

Part of the new generation of Japanese architects, Hirokazu Suemitsu and Yoko Suemitsu seekto establish a new type of industrial/agricultural architecture that intimately interacts with nature.In the first volume, they published their works, while this second volume addresses their theories.Together, the two books describe the essential concepts and comprehensive discourse of theirdesign methodology. The husband and wife team seeks possibilities for the incorporation of man-made objects such as architecture with the natural world through harmony, ecology, anduniversal ethics, and assert that people should interact with the environment in an open system.


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Yoshihiko Iida - Thinking Of Architecture For Nowhere But HereFlick Studio 2015 ISBN 9784904894217 Acqn 25663Pb 30x21cm 292pp 250ills 200col £51

Japanese architect Yoshihiko Iida presents a monograph of his work to date in four volumes:Dialogue, Timeline, Projects, and Presentation. Among these are texts written by the architect, aninterview, a chronological history of projects, photographs of selected works, and selected

competition entries. Thoughtfully and purposefully, Iida recounts his experiences of variousassignments from throughout his career, recreated here in an objective collection of differentperspectives. The diverse selection of illustrated completed works includes Kawakami ForestClub, Nagoya University campus, Yokosuka Kamoi public housing, Okinawa Nursing TrainingCenter, and more.


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Aldo Van Eyck - Seventeen PlaygroundsLecturis 2016 ISBN 9789462261570 Acqn 26036Pb 11x16cm 96pp 22ills £15.75

With his distinctive playground designs, Dutch architect Aldo van Eyck has left his mark ongenerations of children in Amsterdam. Over the years, he created a network of more than 700

playgrounds throughout the city, their minimalistic design intended to stimulate imagination andcuriosity. Today, only a handful of these are still intact, the others having been removed ortransformed to share space with brightly coloured slides and swings. This special publicationrevisits the seventeen remaining playgrounds in Amsterdam’s centre created by Van Eyck,including that of the Rijksmuseum.


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Herman Zeinstra Architectura & Natura Press 2015 ISBN 9789461400475 Acqn 25646Hb 22x28cm 320pp 300ills 200col £43.95

Architect Herman Zeinstra’s work cannot easily be described by a single style. This resultsprimarily from the fundamental questions he poses in each assignment and his refusal to settlefor routine solutions. Brickwork is used in a practical manner, as a supporting tool, and thematerial enables Zeinstra to find alternative paths in architecture and construction, and toarticulate a design that suits the contemporary situation. This impressive monograph of Zeinstra’spractice offers an honest and in-depth look at his methods and body of work. Besides an essayby Christoph Grafe and an interview, it features many built works in Amsterdam and other Dutch

cities.


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Building Upon Buildingnai010 publishers 2016 ISBN 9789462082847 Acqn 25951Pb 15x21cm 206pp 170ills £18

45 contemporary European architects were given the task to design a fictional building expansionin line with the principles of the existing building. A relevant question in an era when architectureincreasingly seems to occur without the context being taken into account.The result is a collectionof dialogues between contemporary architects and the past. With contributions by Stephen Bates,Monadnock, Humblé Martens, OFFICE Kersten Geers en David van Severen, Nu

Architectuuratelier, Office Winhov, and many more.


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MorphosisEqual Books 2015 ISBN 9788997603381 Acqn 26057Hb 20x26cm 472pp 400ills 300col £94.50

Morphosis is headed by Thom Mayne, 2005 winner of the Pritzker Prize. The eighteen projectspresented in this volume were all conceived within the past seven years, and have been selected

to illustrate the continuation of Mayne’s interest in an architecture of complexity – one thatpromotes difference, the pursuit of ambiguity, inclusion, the coexistence of apparentcontradictions, imperfection, and more. Through diverse programmes, the chosen works revealthe scope of the practice’s research and design activity. Included are the Perot Museum, CornellUniversity’s Bill & Melinda Gates Hall, China’s National Art Museum, Quay Quarter Sydney, andENI Headquarters in Italy.


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Hacking Habitat - Art Of Controlnai010 publishers 2016 ISBN 9789462082687 Acqn 26090Pb 23x28cm 232pp 250col ills £26.50

'Hacking Habitat' presents a pressing, topical theme that appeals to a wide audience: the way weare controlled by technological systems and the way counterforces are organized. Innovationgoes hand in hand with control: surveillance cameras observe us and inimitable Google

algorithms manipulate our behaviour. We risk losing control over our lives. Worldwide, people arewaking up to the fact that they need to regain control of their lives and reclaim their livingenvironment (habitat). In a collection of essays, this book makes us aware of the high-techsystems that have control over our society, and provides tools to use to escape the regulationand control.


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Post-War Reconstruction the Netherlands 1945-1965nai010 publishers 2016 ISBN 9789462082793 Acqn 26099Pb 23x28cm 240pp 300col ills £36

Europe was hurt badly during the Second WorldWar. The Netherlands, despite the dimensions ofthe task ahead, the poverty and the significant war damage, took up reconstruction expeditiously.The sense of optimism led to a surprisingly wide diversity in architecture, urban planning andlandscape design. The application of new techniques and materials led to exceptional

experiments. The reconstruction of the Netherlands in the years 1945-1965 was a huge feat. Thispublication gives an overview of the buildings in the re-emerging Netherlands and examines thesignificance of this heritage of the reconstruction for current tasks of transformation and rezoning.


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Vital Architecture - Tools for Durabilitynai010 publishers 2016 ISBN 9789462082830 Acqn 26100Pb 17x24cm 176pp 130col ills £26.50

From the Pantheon in Rome to the Zollverein in Essen: vital architecture consists of buildings witha future value, with their architecture determining their lifespan. The spatial quality of suchbuildings is the core of their value and sustainability: also, or notably, when their use changes.'Vital Architecture' focuses on clients, users, architects and designers. The book portrays 20buildings that are described, interpreted and documented using plans, sections, diagrams andphotographs.


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Writingplace - Investigations in Architecture and Literaturenai010 publishers 2016 ISBN 9789462082816 Acqn 26101Pb 17x24cm 288pp 60col ills £33

The book 'Writingplace: Investigations in Architecture and Literature' marks a step forward in anemerging debate on literary means in architecture. It offers a series of reflections on writtenlanguage as a crucial element of architecture culture, and on the potential of using literarymethods in architectural and urban research, education and design.


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Markus Miessen - Crossbenching Toward a Proactive Mode of Participation as a CriticalSpatial PracticeSternberg Press 2016 ISBN 9783956792205 Acqn 26095

Pb 12x19cm 108pp £11.75

With a preface by Armen Avanessian, an introduction by Hannes Grassegger and MarkusMIessen, and a postscript by Patricia Reed

“At the heart of this book is a simple and profound proposition: to ‘do' architecture is to immerseoneself in a conflictual process of material production—participation is not a productive encounterof multiple practitioners and stakeholders, but a set of conflicts, negotiations, manoeuvres, andswindles between and within a multiplicity of agents, human and nonhuman alike—equallyincluding architects, clients, financiers, and builders, say, but also silicon, plastic, concrete, eachwith its conflicting aims and different material means to achieve them. Every building is thus thematerialization of such encounter. So, despite the hubris of the field, none of the parties to suchan encounter can ultimately control that the result—architecture (unlike real estate), according to

Miessen, belongs to no one but affects and is affected by everyone—and this proposition asksthat we reframe questions of ethics and politics. They can no longer be the property of anindividual but a collective set of interrelations—it is through such profound departure from theterms of architecture that Miessen’s new book demands nothing less than to re-imagine how wemight finally become citizens.”—Eyal Weizman, Professor of Spatial and Visual Cultures, Director of the Centre for Research

Architecture, Goldsmiths, University of London.


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Maxxi Architettura Catalogue Of CollectionsMaxxi 2015 ISBN 9788874627806 Acqn 25813Pb 24x28cm 302pp 220ills 185col £33.95

Organised in the form of an art collection catalogue, this substantial volume documents thecollections of architecture acquired by the MAXXI over the years. In keeping with the MAXXI’scultural mission, its Museum of Architecture addresses the field in all its forms, meanings, anddirections, also in response to its intersections with other forms of contemporary creativity and, byextension, to culture and society. Still undergoing fine-tuning, the architecture collections arepresented here in a first methodical and richly illustrated compilation that touches upon areas ofresearch, documentation, conservation, production, and exhibition. A definitive source for

architecture.


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El Croquis 183 - Jean Nouvel 2007-2016 Contemporary ReflectionsEl Croquis 2016 ISBN 9788488386885 Acqn 26082Pb 25x34cm 288pp 350ills 250col £45.50

In this special edition on recent work by Jean Nouvel, the period since just prior to his winning thePritzker Prize (2008) until the present moment is reviewed in rich detail. Nineteen projects arefeatured, reflecting the variety of scales and typologies in the architect’s oeuvre. Among them are

works in the Middle East, such as the Louvre Abu Dhabi and the National Museum of Qatar, butalso the Danish Radio Concert House in Copenhagen, City Hall in Montpellier, housing inChelsea, Bordeaux, Barcelona, and Sydney, and the recently completed Philharmonie de Paris.Through an exceptional collection of photographs and drawings, each speaks of Nouvel’sversatility and rigour.


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Villages And Towns - #1 Aegean Sea A.D.A.Edita Tokyo Co. Ltd. 2016 ISBN 9784871404549 Acqn 26108Pb 23x30cm 144pp col ills £32

These 10 volumes of Villages and Towns series are the result of 10 years of preparation by YukioFutagawa. White washed houses and streets of villages on Aegean Islands; baroque decorationson walls of farm houses amongst the Alps; Italian towns with beautiful squares; cave-dwellings of

Andalusian villages; Adriatic towns with their main orientation to the Sea. Many of villages andtowns introduced in this series have been forgotten for centuries, being kept undisturbed bymodern progress. They are rare and precious architectural specimens. Spaces and forms whichmake up these villages and towns are the result of ages of constant improvements by experience,

and they have many ideas to offer and warnings to give to today’s architecture although some ofthem have disappeared in these 40 years.

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