Architecture April 2013

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Archiprix 2013nai010 publishers 2013 ISBN 9789462080416 Acqn 22236

Pb 24x30cm 104pp 300col ills 25.95

Each year the Dutch institutions teaching architecture, urban design, and landscape architectureselect their best final-year projects. The crop is unfailingly rich and varied and reflects theambition of a new generation of designers ready to take on every imaginable design task thatcomes their way.


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Spaces, Poetics And VoidsArchitectura & Natura Press 2013 ISBN 9789461400260 Acqn 22346Pb 17x23cm 160pp 100ills 26

According to its introduction, this new series from TU Delft aims to become and influentialplatform for a new generation of architects through its presentation and critical examination ofinnovative ideas regarding the conception and elaboration of the architectural project. This debutedition presents Spaces, Poetics and Voids, an award-winning project for a London prison byarchitect Simone Pizzagalli. The project received top honours from Archiprix International 2011,and is fully detailed here texts, photos, sketches and models. The complex urban issues it entailsare further investigated and expanded upon by contributors Nicol Privileggio and MarcSchoonderbeek.


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Tokyo - Portraits And FictionsLe Gac Press 2011 ISBN 9782364090125 Acqn 22351Pb 15x21cm 368pp 30ills 28.95

An exemplary textual guide to Tokyo, presented by French architect and writer Manuel Tardits, along-time resident of the Japanese capital, this book is useful to both the amateur or theprofessional architect or planner. It offers insight by way of academic curiosity, historicalanecdotes, cultural multiplicities and incomprehensibilities, anthropological distractions, andconfrontations with the sheer density of urban data for which the metropolis is infamous.

Illustrated by both architect Stphane Lagr and artist Nobumasa Takahashi, it lends afascinating new look at Japanese and urban culture through the context of this sometimesbewildering and mystical city.


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New Attitudes - Designing In Times Of TransformationArchitectura & Natura Press 2013 ISBN 9789461400291 Acqn 22343Hb 17x22cm 128pp 100col ills 26

According to the foreword by Aart Oxenaar, director Amsterdam Academy of Architecture,architects must now adopt a sober-minded, enterprising, inventive and self-critical attitude inredefining [their positions] within the design field and within a social and physical realityundergoing transformation. In a clear, cleanly designed format, this book presents a series ofreflections to give various perspectives on this reorientation and change of attitude which hasoccurred within the profession in recent years. Contributors include Mark Hendriks, MachielSpaan, Ruurd Roorda, Jeroen Kooijmans, Jan Jongert, Arjan Klok and Jan van Grunsven, amongothers.


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Architecture 2.0Garden City Publishing 2012 ISBN 9789866204500 Acqn 22358Pb 15x19cm 276pp 270ills 70col 15.75

An irrational world of mixed functions and unorganised planning determines the physicalappearance of Taiwans economic development. So-called guerrilla architecture the currentsituation of the citys urban development is the focus here, with particular emphasis on thenon-professional, non-uniform, local and fragmentary subjects especially on the small-scalefree operation between the gaps. The book seeks to inspire professional architects in thecreation of space taking place within urban patterns and, by extension, offers insight into thesocial environment. Numerous examples are mapped and contextualised along with insightfultexts.


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Weak Architecture 2 - Dao De Jing And Contemporary Taiwanese ArchitectureGarden City Publishing 2012 ISBN 9789866204517 Acqn 22359Pb 17x21cm 256pp 235ills 200col 15.75

Centred on an essay by Roan Ching-Yueh that offers a history of major events in modernTaiwanese architecture, this insightful investigation illustrates the connections between Dao DeJing, the Chinese classic text fundamental to both philosophical and religious Taoism as wellas a continuing source of inspiration for artists and others today and topical issues forcontemporary building in Taiwan. Social and ecological environments are found to be crucialpoints for action. Fifteen architects are profiled, each with a distinct style and presented in various

thematic contexts through mostly small-scale projects that are free and unrestrained.


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Phase - The Architecture Of Jacob + McFarlaneAADCU 2012 ISBN 9787214088055 Acqn 22322Hb 22x27cm 320pp 300ills 250col 47.95

Based in Paris, the office of Jakob+MacFarlane is recognised for its investigation of digitaltechnology, both as a conceptual consideration and as a means of fabrication, using newmaterials to create a more flexible and responsive environment. This comprehensive monographdivides the offices work into four broad categories topological growth, reversible envelopes,critical hybrids, dynamic involutions elaborated in detail with fifteen notable projects. Highlightsinclude Restaurant Georges at the Centre Pompidou, Herold Apartments, FRAC Centre, TheOrange Cube and Taipei Performing Arts Centre. Includes insightful texts by Anna Yudina andFrdric Migayrou.


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Cebra - From Drawing To BuildingAADCU 2012 ISBN 9787214088079 Acqn 22323Hb 19x27cm 320pp 350ills 300col 47.95

This extensive monograph on the up-and-coming Danish office founded in 2001 and recentlyattracting a great deal of international attention focuses on the crucial element of drawing andthe complex role it plays in the firms ideology and work. Critical to the design process, drawingenables CEBRA to mutate and adapt according to the changing circumstances within eachunique project. Numerous concepts and realised projects are detailed, including IsbjergetHousing, Sgaard Skole, Villa UpDown and Cinemaxx Aarhus. With critical texts by Silvio Carta,Samantha Heringuez, Michiel Riedijk, Federica Pau, Martin Sberg, Pablo Nez and JeppeUtzon.


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a+u 510 - 30 Architects In Istanbula+u Publishing Co. Ltd. 2013 no ISBN Acqn 22334Pb 22x29cm 136pp 100ills 80col 28

This edition delves into the architectural scene in a diverse and energetic metropolis at theperiphery of Europe: Istanbul. The area surrounding the old city is currently the site of numerousrenovations, conversions and interventions. Further towards the outskirts, new residential districtsand office complexes are appearing. Presented here are works by 30 Istanbul-based practicesthat offer crucial insight and a variety of perspectives on architecture and the city in anenvironment mixing new and old. Featuring Emre Arolat, Teget, Superpool, Omer Unal,Tabanlioglu Architects and others, with texts by Selva Gurdogan, Gregers Tang Thomsen,Zeynep Kuban and Idil Erkol.


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JA 89 - Wood Architecture In The Expanded FieldShinkenchiku-Sha Co. Ltd. 2013 ISBN 9784786902444 Acqn 22333Pb 23x30cm 128pp 115ills 95col 28

Wood architecture is the theme of this edition, wherein David Adjaye espouses the versatility oftimber and the challenge of building with wood is addressed in an essay by Pekka Heikkinen,professor of wood construction at Aalto University. Other contributors include Kengo Kuma,writing about interlocking wood joinery, and Shigeru Ban, who expresses views on how theJapanese can learn form Europes timber construction technology. A number of fascinatingprojects and concepts are detailed throughout, with notable works by Kengo Kuma, Shigeru Ban,

Atelier Bow-Wow, Sou Fujimoto, NKS architects, Jun Igarashi, Mount Fuji Architects Studio, andseveral others.


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Arquitectura Viva 149 - Francia Al FrenteArquitectura Viva SL 2013 no ISBN Acqn 22332Pb 24x30cm 96pp 120ills 100col 18Text in English and Spanish

Issue 149 of Architectura Viva features Francia al Frente, Bellini/ Ricciotti, Lacaton Vassal,Tschumi, SANAA, Modern Ruins, Spains Real Esate Bubble, Cap de Creus, a LandscapeRestored, Life-Cycle Analysis, Nanoaerogels, Abalos,+ Sentkiewicz and the Solar Tower inSociopolis.


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C3 342 - Podia, Plinths And Flying HousesC3 2013 no ISBN Acqn 22335Pb 23x30cm 208pp 230ills 200col 21.95

In this edition of C3, the disappearance of the classical base in architecture takes centre stagein Podia, Plinths and Flying House, wherein the vertical progression of contemporary buildings isinvestigated and redefined in an essay by Silvio Carta. Highlighted are a series of flying houses,such as Algarrobos House, BF House and Wind-dyed House. The issues second theme, WallGraft, opens with an analysis by Nelson Mota, delving into issues surrounding the preservation,renewal and use of derelict structures. Featured are the Thalia Theatre, Corten Apartments andCasa Potxonea. Finally, a special section on Hctor Fernndez Elorza rounds out the issue.

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