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Fumihiko Maki - Maki And Associates 2015

Kajima Institute Publishing Co 2015 ISBN 9784306046269 Acqn 25727
Pb 19x26cm 296pp 330ills 250col 45
Maki and Associates, the office of Pritzker Prize winner Fumihiko Maki, celebrates its 50th
anniversary this year, and publishes this volume along with an eponymous exhibit to
commemorate it. As such, it is a record of the broader context of the offices half-century of
design 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 realised
projects, 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 rich
history of this seminal architect.

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An Atlas Of Imagination
Damdi 2015 ISBN 9788968010378 Acqn 25728
Pb 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 a
logical narrative plot, but juxtaposing single fragments, keeping their multiplicity and unlocking
new possible relationships for the imagination, itself an integral part of knowledge. The montages
collected in this book form a single body of work together with selected quotes from notable
architects, critics, and theorists. By cutting, splicing, duplicating, stacking, and superimposing
many of the worlds recognisable buildings, Galofaro creates an alternative history and vision of
architecture.

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Traditional Bhutanese Houses IV

ADP 2016 ISBN 9784903348452 Acqn 25780
Pb 30x21cm 228pp 225ills 150col 21
This publication is the outcome of an initiative taken by a research group from the Architecture
and Civil Engineering Department of the Chiba Institute of Technology, in partnership with the
Bhutan Ministry of Public Works and Human Settlement. The idea of field surveys and
observations on traditional houses across the region was first raised in 2009; in 2013, the
projects fourth survey was completed. Replete with data, drawings, diagrams, maps, and
photographs, plus interviews with locals on their ways of living and land management, the volume
presents a comprehensive report on domestic architecture and village typologies in Bhutan.

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Traditional Bhutanese Houses II

ADP 2016 ISBN 9784903348278 Acqn 25994
Pb 31x21cm 194pp 215ills 80col 21
This publication is the outcome of an initiative taken by a research group from the Architecture
and Civil Engineering Department of the Chiba Institute of Technology, in partnership with the
Bhutan Ministry of Public Works and Human Settlement. The idea of field surveys and
observations on traditional houses across the region was first raised in 2009; in 2013, the
projects fourth survey was completed. Replete with data, drawings, diagrams, maps, and
photographs, plus interviews with locals on their ways of living and land management, the volume
presents a comprehensive report on domestic architecture and village typologies in Bhutan.

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Taipei Tech Architecture 2013-2014 Thesis Review

Garden City Publishing 2015 ISBN 9789860414981 Acqn 25481
Pb 12x17cm 416pp 400ills 300col 13.50
This small volume presents graduate thesis projects from the architecture department of the
National Taipei University of Technology. Twelve teams present their work, densely illustrated
through countless drawings, renderings, models, and other conceptualisations that together detail
the essential character of their respective projects. The theses topics, which were limited in scope
to the regional area of Taipei, range from reusing deserted space, the exploration and application
of natural systems, and implementing strategies of dispersion and networks, to simply discovering
ones own originality as a resource for the future.

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Suep. Book 2 Design Theory

Garden City Publishing 2015 ISBN 9789866204913 Acqn 25482
Hb 19x19cm 192pp 100ills 75col 21
Part of the new generation of Japanese architects, Hirokazu Suemitsu and Yoko Suemitsu seek
to 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 their
design methodology. The husband and wife team seeks possibilities for the incorporation of manmade objects such as architecture with the natural world through harmony, ecology, and
universal 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 Here

Flick Studio 2015 ISBN 9784904894217 Acqn 25663
Pb 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, an
interview, a chronological history of projects, photographs of selected works, and selected
competition entries. Thoughtfully and purposefully, Iida recounts his experiences of various
assignments from throughout his career, recreated here in an objective collection of different
perspectives. The diverse selection of illustrated completed works includes Kawakami Forest
Club, Nagoya University campus, Yokosuka Kamoi public housing, Okinawa Nursing Training
Center, and more.

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Aldo Van Eyck - Seventeen Playgrounds

Lecturis 2016 ISBN 9789462261570 Acqn 26036
Pb 11x16cm 96pp 22ills 15.75
With his distinctive playground designs, Dutch architect Aldo van Eyck has left his mark on
generations 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 and
curiosity. Today, only a handful of these are still intact, the others having been removed or
transformed to share space with brightly coloured slides and swings. This special publication
revisits the seventeen remaining playgrounds in Amsterdams centre created by Van Eyck,
including that of the Rijksmuseum.

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Herman Zeinstra
Architectura & Natura Press 2015 ISBN 9789461400475 Acqn 25646
Hb 22x28cm 320pp 300ills 200col 43.95
Architect Herman Zeinstras work cannot easily be described by a single style. This results
primarily from the fundamental questions he poses in each assignment and his refusal to settle
for routine solutions. Brickwork is used in a practical manner, as a supporting tool, and the
material enables Zeinstra to find alternative paths in architecture and construction, and to
articulate a design that suits the contemporary situation. This impressive monograph of Zeinstras
practice offers an honest and in-depth look at his methods and body of work. Besides an essay
by Christoph Grafe and an interview, it features many built works in Amsterdam and other Dutch
cities.

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Building Upon Building

nai010 publishers 2016 ISBN 9789462082847 Acqn 25951
Pb 15x21cm 206pp 170ills 18
45 contemporary European architects were given the task to design a fictional building expansion
in line with the principles of the existing building. A relevant question in an era when architecture
increasingly seems to occur without the context being taken into account.The result is a collection
of dialogues between contemporary architects and the past. With contributions by Stephen Bates,
Monadnock, Humbl Martens, OFFICE Kersten Geers en David van Severen, Nu
Architectuuratelier, Office Winhov, and many more.

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Morphosis
Equal Books 2015 ISBN 9788997603381 Acqn 26057
Hb 20x26cm 472pp 400ills 300col 94.50
Morphosis is headed by Thom Mayne, 2005 winner of the Pritzker Prize. The eighteen projects
presented in this volume were all conceived within the past seven years, and have been selected
to illustrate the continuation of Maynes interest in an architecture of complexity one that
promotes difference, the pursuit of ambiguity, inclusion, the coexistence of apparent
contradictions, imperfection, and more. Through diverse programmes, the chosen works reveal
the scope of the practices research and design activity. Included are the Perot Museum, Cornell
Universitys Bill & Melinda Gates Hall, Chinas National Art Museum, Quay Quarter Sydney, and
ENI Headquarters in Italy.

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Hacking Habitat - Art Of Control

nai010 publishers 2016 ISBN 9789462082687 Acqn 26090
Pb 23x28cm 232pp 250col ills 26.50
'Hacking Habitat' presents a pressing, topical theme that appeals to a wide audience: the way we
are controlled by technological systems and the way counterforces are organized. Innovation
goes 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 are
waking up to the fact that they need to regain control of their lives and reclaim their living
environment (habitat). In a collection of essays, this book makes us aware of the high-tech
systems that have control over our society, and provides tools to use to escape the regulation
and control.

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Post-War Reconstruction the Netherlands 1945-1965

nai010 publishers 2016 ISBN 9789462082793 Acqn 26099
Pb 23x28cm 240pp 300col ills 36
Europe was hurt badly during the Second WorldWar. The Netherlands, despite the dimensions of
the 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 and
landscape 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. This
publication gives an overview of the buildings in the re-emerging Netherlands and examines the
significance of this heritage of the reconstruction for current tasks of transformation and rezoning.

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Vital Architecture - Tools for Durability

nai010 publishers 2016 ISBN 9789462082830 Acqn 26100
Pb 17x24cm 176pp 130col ills 26.50
From the Pantheon in Rome to the Zollverein in Essen: vital architecture consists of buildings with
a future value, with their architecture determining their lifespan. The spatial quality of such
buildings 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 20
buildings that are described, interpreted and documented using plans, sections, diagrams and
photographs.

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Writingplace - Investigations in Architecture and Literature

nai010 publishers 2016 ISBN 9789462082816 Acqn 26101
Pb 17x24cm 288pp 60col ills 33
The book 'Writingplace: Investigations in Architecture and Literature' marks a step forward in an
emerging debate on literary means in architecture. It offers a series of reflections on written
language as a crucial element of architecture culture, and on the potential of using literary
methods in architectural and urban research, education and design.

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Markus Miessen - Crossbenching Toward a Proactive Mode of Participation as a Critical

Spatial Practice
Sternberg Press 2016 ISBN 9783956792205 Acqn 26095
Pb 12x19cm 108pp 11.75
With a preface by Armen Avanessian, an introduction by Hannes Grassegger and Markus
MIessen, and a postscript by Patricia Reed
At the heart of this book is a simple and profound proposition: to do' architecture is to immerse
oneself in a conflictual process of material productionparticipation is not a productive encounter
of multiple practitioners and stakeholders, but a set of conflicts, negotiations, manoeuvres, and
swindles between and within a multiplicity of agents, human and nonhuman alikeequally
including architects, clients, financiers, and builders, say, but also silicon, plastic, concrete, each
with its conflicting aims and different material means to achieve them. Every building is thus the
materialization of such encounter. So, despite the hubris of the field, none of the parties to such
an encounter can ultimately control that the resultarchitecture (unlike real estate), according to
Miessen, belongs to no one but affects and is affected by everyoneand this proposition asks
that we reframe questions of ethics and politics. They can no longer be the property of an
individual but a collective set of interrelationsit is through such profound departure from the
terms of architecture that Miessens new book demands nothing less than to re-imagine how we
might 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 Collections

Maxxi 2015 ISBN 9788874627806 Acqn 25813
Pb 24x28cm 302pp 220ills 185col 33.95
Organised in the form of an art collection catalogue, this substantial volume documents the
collections of architecture acquired by the MAXXI over the years. In keeping with the MAXXIs
cultural mission, its Museum of Architecture addresses the field in all its forms, meanings, and
directions, also in response to its intersections with other forms of contemporary creativity and, by
extension, to culture and society. Still undergoing fine-tuning, the architecture collections are
presented here in a first methodical and richly illustrated compilation that touches upon areas of
research, documentation, conservation, production, and exhibition. A definitive source for
architecture.

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El Croquis 183 - Jean Nouvel 2007-2016 Contemporary Reflections

El Croquis 2016 ISBN 9788488386885 Acqn 26082
Pb 25x34cm 288pp 350ills 250col 45.50
In this special edition on recent work by Jean Nouvel, the period since just prior to his winning the
Pritzker Prize (2008) until the present moment is reviewed in rich detail. Nineteen projects are
featured, reflecting the variety of scales and typologies in the architects oeuvre. Among them are
works in the Middle East, such as the Louvre Abu Dhabi and the National Museum of Qatar, but
also the Danish Radio Concert House in Copenhagen, City Hall in Montpellier, housing in
Chelsea, Bordeaux, Barcelona, and Sydney, and the recently completed Philharmonie de Paris.
Through an exceptional collection of photographs and drawings, each speaks of Nouvels
versatility and rigour.

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Villages And Towns - #1 Aegean Sea

A.D.A.Edita Tokyo Co. Ltd. 2016 ISBN 9784871404549 Acqn 26108
Pb 23x30cm 144pp col ills 32
These 10 volumes of Villages and Towns series are the result of 10 years of preparation by Yukio
Futagawa. White washed houses and streets of villages on Aegean Islands; baroque decorations
on 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 and
towns introduced in this series have been forgotten for centuries, being kept undisturbed by
modern progress. They are rare and precious architectural specimens. Spaces and forms which
make 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 todays architecture although some of
them have disappeared in these 40 years.

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