ARCHITECTURE

Archiprix 2012 - The Best Dutch Graduation Projects 010 Publishers 2012 ISBN 9789064507847 Acqn 21134 Pb 24x30cm 96pp 120ills 60col 26 Each year the Dutch institutions teaching architecture, urban design and landscape architecture select their best final-year projects. The crop is unfailingly rich and varied and reflects the ambition of a new generation of designers ready to take on every imaginable design task that comes their way. The book Archiprix 2012 introduces the latest wave of fledgling design talent. Archiprix is well-known at home and abroad as a platform for promising architects, urban designers and landscape architects. Not just clients, employers and schools but also the organizers of competitions and workshops are becoming increasingly adept at locating gifted designers in the making as presented by Archiprix.

orders@artdata.co.uk

ARCHITECTURE

architecture.ehv 10-11 - Annual Eindhoven University of Technology (2 Vols.) 010 Publishers 2012 ISBN 9789064507830 Acqn 21135 Pb 23x23cm 184pp 130ills 100col 26 Architecture.ehv is a yearly publication in which the Department of Architecture, Building and Planning at Eindhoven University of Technology reports on the educational state of play there. It showcases the best graduation projects of the past year in architecture, building physics, building technology, structural design, design systems, urban design, construction engineering and technology and real estate management. To these the yearbook adds a pull-out section of essays by teachers and students that attest to the departments intellectual climate. Essays by Bernard Colenbrander, Ralph Brodruck, Andr Cools and Martijn Schlatmann are joined in this edition by two long articles by Kees Doevendans that assess the place that the disciplines Architecture and Urban Design have come to occupy during the facultys first 50 years.

orders@artdata.co.uk

ARCHITECTURE

Oase 87 - Alan Colquhoun. Architect, Historian, Critic NAi Publishers 2012 ISBN 9789056628550 Acqn 21140 Pb 17x24cm 128pp 50ills 23.50 OASE 87 is dedicated to the thinking and the position of British architect Alan Colquhoun, situated within todays debate on architecture criticism. The issue presents not only the different themes that Colquhoun has addressed in his work, but also the various positions that he has taken in his career: scholar, critic and practitioner. Alan Colquhoun (b. 1921) has managed for decades to link his practical experiences with a particular way of thinking about architecture history and theory. Colquhoun has been making his mark since the 1950s, with constructive contributions to the discourse and the theorization of architecture. He has written such trend-setting books as The Oxford History of Modern Architecture, Essays in Architectural Criticism and Modernity and the Classical Tradition. Colquhouns work illustrates that architecture even today needs its own theory and cultural position.

orders@artdata.co.uk

ARCHITECTURE

Subjective Atlas of Mexico + DVD LAST 2011 ISBN 9786077818403 Acqn 21337 Pb 16x22cm 192pp 250ills 200col 31 Carried out by designers Moniek Driesse and Annelys de Vet, along with Anala Solomonoff, the 'Subjective Atlas of Mexico' is part of a series of previous subjective atlases where a varied group of artists, designers and photographers who choose personal topics as a starting point to map their cultural identity. Each were asked: what makes a Mexican? what are our likenesses and what differences do we share? Through its pages the scope of Mexico as a country limited by its borders and its latitudes suddenly vanishes and everyday practices take on new meaning. We can find Mexico reflected in the world, and the world reflected in Mexico. A DVD is included.

orders@artdata.co.uk

ARCHITECTURE

Cycle Space - Architectural And Urban Design In The Age Of The Bicycle nai010 publishers 2012 ISBN 9789462080041 Acqn 21539 Pb 17x24cm 160pp 150col ills 18 How the bicycle can save the city From New York to Singapore, from Copenhagen to Sydney, from Chicago to Amsterdam, and from So Paolo to Budapest, there is a groundswell of cyclists taking to the streets of major cities. Whether death-defying bike messengers, hipsters with a taste for cycle chic, or commuters simply cycling to work, cycling is viewed as more than just an alternative. Its practical. Its cool. Its green. With portraits of major cities and their cycling cultures, Cycle Space is the first book to view the city through the lens of the bicycle, and offer a new ways of designing better cities. Cycle space is where architecture and urban design can begin to optimise conditions for cycling, and take inspiration from the aesthetics and ethics of cycling as well. It is where cities can begin reducing emissions, commute times, ill-health and sprawl. In Cycle Space, architecture professor and cycling nut Steven Fleming argues that understanding why people are choosing bikes is key for discovering the full potential of the bicycle as a transformative force in the design of our cities.

orders@artdata.co.uk

ARCHITECTURE

orders@artdata.co.uk

ARCHITECTURE

City Shock - Planning the Unexpected - The Why Factory. NAi Publishers 2012 ISBN 9789462080072 Acqn 21540 Pb 15x21cm 318pp 200col ills 27.95 Using fear as a guide for spatial planning In a world where forecasting seems futile, where predictions are unreliable, and where even the most absurd scenarios are plausible, many urban planning decisions seem to be governed not by vision but by fear. Fear of disaster, fear of change, fear of the unknown. Can we learn from fear? Can we even use it as a guide for spatial planning? City Shock explores ten innocent what ifs. What kinds of radical trend breaks can we expect, and with what effects? Guided by fantasy rather than science, this book imagines how each of these scenarios could play out in the Dutch landscape between 2018 and 2047. In a narrative composed of (im)possible headlines, a chain of fictitious newspaper spreads reports these events, exposes their possible causes and depicts their potential consequences for Dutch spatial planning and lifestyle. City Shock is the sixth book in the Why Factorys Future Cities series.

orders@artdata.co.uk

ARCHITECTURE

Dutch Architecture In 250 Highlights Preserved By The Netherlands Architecture Institute NAi Publishers 2012 ISBN 9789462080096 Acqn 21544 Hb 24x29cm 322pp 450ills 350col 45.50 Few countries can boast as rich and varied an architecture history as the Netherlands. Drawing from the collection of the Netherlands Architecture Institute, which spans almost two centuries of architecture history, this book presents a portrait of the Netherlands. The book brings together the designs, buildings and ideas that have defined the image of Dutch architecture. Architecture historians from the NAI guide you through over 250 outstanding buildings and designs. From Cuypers, Berlage, Kromhout, Van Eesteren, Stam and Wijdeveld to Weeber, Coenen and Koolhaas. Along with the permanent exhibition in the Treasury of the NAI, the book marks the NAI collections centenary. The book is broad in scope. The thematic-chronological chapters present unique and beautiful items from the collection that attest to the immense imaginative power upon which our built environment is grounded. For each theme, the most noteworthy designs are presented and illustrated with plans, sketches, maquettes and photographs.

orders@artdata.co.uk

ARCHITECTURE

OASE 88 - Exhibitions Showing And Producing Architecture NAi Publishers 2012 ISBN 9789462080140 Acqn 21553 Pb 17x24cm 128pp 100ills 18.50 OASE 88 examines the role of the architecture exhibition as a site of production. Bridging theory and practice, and relating historical examples to contemporary concerns, this issue considers the exhibition as a medium for experimentation, providing an alternative to the built project as a bearer of the practice of architecture. Throughout modernity, exhibitions have played an essential part in the formation and differentiation of the culture of architecture. Apart from their historiographical role, they have been a means to identify commonalities in the present, stage discourse and instigate new forms of practice. But exhibitions are also built spatial manifestations in themselves and spaces in which unrealized proposals can be made public. As such, they offer various occasions for the elaboration of experimental design practices.

orders@artdata.co.uk

ARCHITECTURE

Compendium For The Civic Economy TrancityxValiz 2012 ISBN 9789078088004 Acqn 21624 Pb 17x23cm 196pp 200ills 100col 19.95 Against the backdrop of rapid economic, social and environmental change, a collective reflection is taking place on how to build more sustainable routes to share prosperity. Meanwhile, an increasing number and wide range of change-makers have already found ways to imagine and nurture a different economy by using new organising tactics, ways of connecting with people, and approaches to collaborative investment. The 25 case studies examined here show how the civic economy actively contributes to community resilience, everyday innovation and shared wealth. These trailblazers demonstrate why we need to improve the understanding and recognition of the role of civic entrepreneurship, enabling it to turn ideas into action and impact.

orders@artdata.co.uk

ARCHITECTURE

orders@artdata.co.uk

ARCHITECTURE

El Croquis 162 - RCR Arquitectes 2007-2012. Poetic Abstraction El Croquis 2012 ISBN 9788488386724 Acqn 21670 Pb 25x34cm 280pp 250ills 200col 70 The focus of this edition of El Croquis is the Spanish office RCR Arquitectes. Presenting an extensive overview of their work during the past five years, the magazine also includes an essay by Josep Mara Montaner and an interview with the architects by William Curtis. Explore a variety of projects by RCR such as the La Lira Theatre public space, the La Cuisine Art Centre, a school in Font Romeu, the meeting point in La Fosca, the New Sants station complex and many others.

orders@artdata.co.uk

ARCHITECTURE

Steven Holl - Vol 2 1999-2012 GA Architect 23 A.D.A.Edita Tokyo 2012 ISBN 9784871404310 Acqn 21683 Pb 30x30cm 336pp 300ills 250col 94 The second in a two-part monograph on Steven Holl Architects, this substantial volume begins with an essay by Shlomi Almagor and includes many revealing texts by Steven Holl regarding specific works. It includes recent projects, such as the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art Bloch Building, Cite de l'Ocean et du Surf, the Daeyang Gallery and House, Linked Hybrid and Sliced Porosity Block, as well as several new projects, such as the Glasgow School of Art, the New Art Building at the University of Iowa, and Queens Library. Presented with full-page photographs and many plans, sections, drawings and concepts, each is thoroughly described and chronicled.

orders@artdata.co.uk

ARCHITECTURE

C3 336 - New Hospital(ity), Public Safety, Steven Holl Architects C3 2012 no ISBN Acqn 21775 Pb 23x30cm 224pp 250ills 200col 21.95

orders@artdata.co.uk

ARCHITECTURE

a+u 504 - La Luz Magica a+u Publishing 2012 no ISBN Acqn 21777 Pb 22x29cm 152pp 125ills 100col 34.95 Issue 504 of a+u features La Luz Magica photographed by Hisao Suzuki.

orders@artdata.co.uk

ARCHITECTURE

C3 337 - Introvert Potential. Introvert Potential. Sueng, H-Sang C3 2012 no ISBN Acqn 21784 Pb 23x30cm 206pp 200ills 150col 21.95

orders@artdata.co.uk

ARCHITECTURE

Club Donny # 9 Post Editions 2012 no ISBN Acqn 21789 Pb 21x30cm 32pp17ills 12col 8 Club Donny is a strictly unedited journal on the personal experience of nature in the urban environment, published bi-annually as a tiny-scale English language magazine. Club Donny # 9 includes contributions by Annick Kleizen, Ben Cohen, Bert de Jong, David Leda, Elias Tieleman, Jan van Adrichem, Maarten Feenstra, Marcel van der Meijs, Petrovsky and Ramone, Stephan van Vliet, Talina van der Hoeven, Welkin Ji, Wilfried Nijhof, Wouter Sibum, Yasuyuki Takagi and Yeb Wiersma.

orders@artdata.co.uk

ARCHITECTURE

AV 156 - Europe, Living Together Arquitectura Viva SL 2012 no ISBN Acqn 21821 Pb 24x30cm 110pp 130ills 90col 29.95 Facing economic, cultural and political crisis, Europe must seek sustainable urban solutions. Living together in collective housing, compact cities and well-integrated countries on a shared continent is the best course for future survival. Thus the importance of building types and urban models for better energy use is tantamount. Editor Luis Fernndez-Galiano contributes two essays on the topic Living Together and In Praise of the Compact City and illustrates these with twenty works in ten countries, from Norway to Portugal and the United Kingdom to Germany. Featured architects include Dominique Perrault, Hild und K Architekten and AH Asociados, among others.

orders@artdata.co.uk

ARCHITECTURE

AV Proyectos 050 Lorca Arquitectura Viva SL 2012 no ISBN Acqn 21822 Pb 24x30cm 150ills 100col 12.50 Beginning with a close look at the strategy for the rebuilding of Lorca after a devastating earthquake in 2011, this instalment goes on to highlight this year's Serpentine Pavilion by Herzog & de Meuron and Ai Weiwei, OMA's concept for Garage Gorky Park, Moscow, and Dominique Perrault's design for the New Longchamp Racecourse, plus competitions for the Yenikapi Transfer Point, Istanbul, and the Bnder Kunstmuseum, Chur. It also includes an extensive feature on Izaskun Chinchilla's rehabilitation of Castillo de Garcimuoz in Cuenca and the photography of Bas Princen, which contrasts the duality between natural and artificial, understanding the landscape as a place that will be transformed and later colonized.

orders@artdata.co.uk

ARCHITECTURE

AV Proyectos 051 - Urban Size Arquitectura Viva SL 2012 no ISBN Acqn 21823 Pb 24x30cm 96pp 140ills 90col 12.50 Featuring BIG, MVRDV, Holl, Herzog & de Meuron and Nigel Peake.

orders@artdata.co.uk

ARCHITECTURE

Architectural Strategies - Marketing, Icon, Politics, Masses, Developer, The No. 1 Ediciones Peninsula 2012 ISBN 9788499421957 Acqn 21828 Pb 15x23cm 208pp 19ills 13col 19.95 This book studies the strategies used by architects to secure commissions, sell projects, and erect buildings. Although their modus operandi might seem to be mere marketing techniques, the economic conditions in each stage of a project that determine the final result cannot be overlooked. Selling strategies are not taught in school, since it has traditionally been considered that architects cannot market themselves. Nor are they discussed among practicing professionals, since no one is willing to reveal recipes for success. Therefore, there is no specific bibliography in this area, although architects have always been excellent salesmen for ideas. Today, there is no work for architects who build, but instead there are many opportunities for architects who can develop business. Architects must redefine their objectives and design strategies instead of buildings. Born in Barcelona in 1974, Eduard Sancho Pou was awarded graduate degrees in architecture and construction engineering, and earned his PhD (cum laude) from the Polytechnic University of Barcelona in 2010. He has written a thesis on the different marketing and sales strategies architects use, comparing the evolution they have undergone since their inception in the 1950s until now. Sancho Pou is currently the head of an architecture studio where he combines his work as an architect with his strategic consultancy activities. In the past, he was the director of Galera BCA (Barcelona Centre Arquitectura), where he organized architecture exhibitions, colloquia, and conferences attended by international architects, institutions, and individuals in the field of culture, in general. He has also been an architectural consultant with the Swiss multinational Holcim, for the announcement of the Holcim Architectural Awards.

orders@artdata.co.uk

ARCHITECTURE

BIG Bjarke Engels Group - Recent Project A.D.A.Edita Tokyo 2012 ISBN 9784871406789 Acqn 21847 Pb 26x30cm 208pp 300ills 100col 49.95 An impressive volume of recent and in-progress work by this highly sought-after young Danish office, which takes the evolution of social infrastructure as its primary aim. According to Bjarke Ingels Group, by proactively cross-breeding the public infrastructure with social programs we can inject new urban life forms into the heart of our cities. Through detailed plans, renderings, fullcolour photographs and other drawings, the book illuminates BIGs ideology through its innovative and sometimes mind-boggling concepts. Superkilen, West 57th Street, St. Petersburg Pier, 8 House, and the Stockholm Sphere are just a few of the many highlighted works.

orders@artdata.co.uk

ARCHITECTURE

GA Document 122 A.D.A.Edita Tokyo 2012 ISBN 9784871402828 Acqn 21848 Pb 26x30cm 144pp 150ills 100col 42 GA Document 22 features Coop Himmelblau, Tod Williams Billie Tsien, Renzo Piano, Steven Holl, Frank O. Gehry, Delugan Meissel, Associated Architects, Herzog & de Meuron + Ai Weiwei, Morphosis and Kengo Kuma.

orders@artdata.co.uk

ARCHITECTURE

Volume 33 Interiors Archis Foundation 2012 ISBN 9789077966334 Acqn 21879 Pb 20x27cm 160pp 21 This issue of 'Volume' inquires: Can a radical return to the interior provide new insights for architecture? The building crisis creates the need for the refurbishment and re-use of the existing building mass. To breathe new life back into structures, we start with their insides shuffling, cutting dividing, rearranging space and the contents therein. Consequently, we are seeing interior architecture departments pop up everywhere, asserting themselves like landscape architects did twenty years ago. Like landscape architecture, which has added a rich body of theory to our understanding of the world, explorations in interior architecture might yield surprising and enlightening discoveries.

orders@artdata.co.uk