Architecture Feb 2013

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Supermodel. The Making Of The World's Tallest TV Tower 010 Publishers 2013 ISBN 9789064507380 Acqn 19006 Pb 15x24cm 256pp 200ills 100col 27.00 At 610 metres, the TV Tower in Guangzhou is one of the world's tallest buildings. The tower's form, weight and numerous facilities, plus its need to withstand earthquakes and typhoons, made its construction unusually complex. Existing legislation and working methods could not cope with the demands of such a building. 'Supermodel' reports at length on the project's history, design and construction, offering a new example of how megascale projects can be developed and realised on-site. The book also considers current architectural practice in China, now a major incubator for experimental designs.
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Metropolis-architecture And Selected Essays GSAPP Books 2012 ISBN 9781883584757 Acqn 21463 Pb 12x18cm 200pp 90ills 14.95 In the 1920s, the urban theory of Ludwig Hilberseimer (18851967) redefined architectures relationship to the city. His proposal for a high-rise city, where leisure, labor and circulation would be vertically integrated, both frightened his contemporaries and offered a trenchant critique of the dynamics of the capitalist metropolis. Hilberseimers Groszstadt-architektur (Metropolisarchitecture) is presented here for the first time in English translation. Two additional essays frame this international cross-section of metropolitan architecture: Der Wille zur Architektur (The Will to Architecture) and Vorschlag zur City-Bebauung (Proposal for CityBuilding). The propositions assembled here encourage us to reconsider mobility, concentration and the scale of architectural intervention in our own era of urban expansion. This is the second title in the GSAPP Sourcebooks series, devoted to recovering and translating overlooked texts on architecture and the city.
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Refract House California College for Arts 2012 ISBN 9780982503324 Acqn 21464 Hb 15x21cm 142pp 130ills 100col 14.50 Refract House explores the evolution of California College of the Arts solar-powered house that competed in the 2009 U.S. Department of Energy Solar Decathlon. The competition brief was to design, build and operate a maximally energy-efficient, attractive and comfortable solar-powered house. Every detail was considered by the CCA faculty and student team, from the landscaping, water recycling system and solar collection arrays to the furniture and plateware. CCAs house was awarded first place in architecture and communications, second in engineering, and third overall. This book reframes the teams efforts within contemporary architectural practice. It is divided into four parts, addressing: the conceptual trajectories underlying the project, the different design strategies that were explored, the integration of technological systems and the question of carbon-neutral design, and the issues surrounding material prefabrication. It also discusses the implications of the project in terms of architectural education today.
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Steven Holl - 1975-2012 A.D.A.Edita Tokyo Co. Ltd. 2012 ISBN 9784871404327 Acqn 21846 Hb 31x31cm 600pp 1000ills 750col 220 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.
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Volume 34 - City in a Box Archis Foundation 2013 ISBN 9789077966341 Acqn 22047 Pb 20x27cm 144pp 105ills 75col 21 Volume presents the latest in New Town development: the city as enterprise. With the exponential growth of urban populations, thousands of new towns and city extensions will be needed in the near future. While governments are seemingly in retreat, the private sector has stepped in to fill the gap. Private-sector development is nothing new, but scale and ambition are on the rise. Single companies now vie to build entire cities, and package their services so that their product can be replicated elsewhere. Meet here the people driving and managing these multibillion dollar projects.
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Minka 1955 - Japanese Traditional Houses A.D.A.Edita Tokyo Co. Ltd. 2012 ISBN 9784871404921 Acqn 22048 Pb 26x37cm 144pp 88ills 44.50 Born from his fascination with ancient architecture and a personal rediscovery of its beauty through materials such as wood, stone, earth and thatch, the aspiring architecture student Yukio Futagawa set out in the mid-1950s to photograph minka, the traditional rural houses of Japan. This experience would be instrumental in shifting his lifes work toward photographing rather than creating architecture. This large-format compendium of Futagawas images of villages and homes captures not only the sequence of history but also the essence of Japanese culture at a time when much of the country remained agrarian, not yet subjected to more recent, rapid modernisation.
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C3 340 - Breaking The Stereotype. Ground Folds. Architecture And Recipro-City C3 2012 no ISBN Acqn 22049 Pb 23x30cm 206pp 250ills 200col 21.95 This instalment of C3 focuses on three themes: Breaking the Stereotype, Ground Folds and Architecture and Recipro-City. The first features an essay by Silvio Carta, plus projects like the Toda House by Kimihiko Okada and Atelier-Bisque Doll by UID Architects, and examines a reformulation of living spaces. The second looks at topological geometry in architecture, such as the Monteagudo Museum by Amann-Cnovas-Maruri and the Brooklyn Botanic Garden Visitor Center by Weiss/Manfredi. The third, led by Nelson Motas essay on decoding vernacular architecture, includes Apartments Buso by dmvA Architecten and the Quingpu Youth Center by Atelier Deshaus.
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Atlas Of Amstelland Thoth Uitgeverij 2012 ISBN 9789068686067 Acqn 22171 Hb 25x35cm 144pp 130ills 120col 36.95 This large-format book presents the history of Amstelland the area along the river Amstel in southern North Holland through a series of maps, illustrating the landscapes transformation from desolate marsh to green oasis on the edge of Amsterdams bustling urban habitat. Based on recent research, it follows the history from the 11th century onwards, especially focusing on the rise of Amsterdam in the Dutch Golden Age, and how the citys proximity to Amstelland brought about major changes in the region. Nowadays, the relation between city and countryside has become so thoroughly intertwined that each can only be properly understood by studying them together.
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Apolonija Sustersic - Selected Projects 1995-2012 Sternberg Press 2013 ISBN 9783943365542 Acqn 22173 Pb 20x27cm 152pp 161col ills 24.95 Published on the occasion of her project at MUSAC Museo de Arte Contemporneo in Len (JanuaryJune 2013), this publication offers the first comprehensive survey on the work of Slovenian artist/architect Apolonija uteri. Through a selection of projects spanning from 1995 to 2012, this monograph shows the methodologies and strategies of an artist whose practice touches on different aesthetical and political tendencies such as Conceptual art, Contextualism, institutional critique, and relational aesthetics. As an architect and artist, her work engages processes from both fields as well as applied design and other social sciences. uteris project can be described as putting into practice a politics in space. A transdisciplinary, collaborative approach as such, it is absolutely indispensable when analyzing contexts as variegated as urban life, art museums, and other institutions and social spaces. Apolonija uteris artistic research combines theory and practice to pursue a method of reflection in which a momentary situation of critique leads to activate constructive alternatives and spaces for hope. Edited by Peio Aguirre. With texts by Peio Aguirre, Jane Rendell, Apolonija uteri, and a contribution by Dan Graham. orders@artdata.co.uk www.artdata.co.uk
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a+u 507 - Valerio Olgiati a+u Publishing Co. Ltd 2013 no ISBN Acqn 22178 Pb 22x29cm 132pp 130ills 85col 30 This monographic issue of 'a+u' features Swiss architect Valerio Olgiati, whose confident and stark conception of architectural forms has made him internationally renowned. Included is an interview by Markus Breitschmid, plus a selection of Olgiati's projects, each one accompanied by an explanation from the architect. Among the detailed project profiles are the residential building Zug Schleife, Visiting Center Swiss National Park, Bardill Studio, entrance to the Grisons Parliament Building and the Plantahof Auditorium. The issue also includes a critical essay by Kenjiro Hosaka and slides from a lecture by Olgiati entitled 'Fascination for Japan', given in October 2012.
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GA Houses 129 A.D.A.Edita Tokyo Co. Ltd. 2013 ISBN 9784871407991 Acqn 22179 Pb 21x30cm 168pp 250ills 150col 33 Featuring an interview with Issey Miyake: Making of IN-EI ISSEY MIYAKE and profile of Reiko Sudo, director of the textile shop NUNO.
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GA Document 123 - Morphosis, Sanaa, Tod Williams Billie Tsien, Nouvel, Hadid A.D.A.Edita Tokyo Co. Ltd. 2013 ISBN 9784871402835 Acqn 22180 Pb 30x30cm 144pp 190ills 120col 37 Featuring: Morphosis - Perot Museum of Nature and Science, Museum of Fine Arts Houston, National Art Museum of China. Sanaa - Louvre-Lens. Tod Williams & Billie Tsien - Reva and David Logan Center for the Arts, University of Chicago. Jean Nouvel - Theater of Archipelago, Perpignan. Steven Holl - Raffles City Chengdu - Sliced Porosity Block. Zaha Hadid - Galaxy SOHO, Beijing, Pierres-Vives, Eli & Edythe Broad Art Museum.
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Architecture: The Common Arquitectura Viva SL 2013 ISBN 9788461617388 Acqn 22184 Pb 24x30cm 120pp 105ills 90col 18.95 The international congress Architecture: the Common was held in Pamplona from 20 to 22 June 2012. Organized by the Fundacin Arquitectura y Sociedad, it appealed to civic solidarity as an instrument of architecture in facing the urgent economic and environmental challenges of today. This book leaves a record of the event through interviews that four prominent critics conducted with the participating speakers, covering a broad spectrum of contemporary sensibilities. It is published in a bilingual edition, Spanish and English. Presented by Norman Foster and featuring Peter Buchanan, Anna Heringer, Solano Bentez, Franois Chaslin, Roger Diener, Antonio Cruz, Juli Capella, Vasa Perovic, Manuel Aires Mateus, Kosme de Baraano, Eduardo Souto de Moura and Rafael Moneo.
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AV 157-158 - Herzog & De Meuron Arquitectura Viva SL 2013 ISBN 9788461623402 Acqn 22185 Pb 24x30cm 294pp 300ills 200col 78 Taking as its cue the 2012 opening of their Serpentine Gallery Pavilion, this special double-issue features recent work by Swiss architects Herzog & de Meuron. This, the third monograph published by AV on the studio, includes a selection of 35 works, both completed and still in progress, illustrating the last ten years of production. Among the featured projects are CaixaForum in Madrid, the Birds Nest stadium in Beijing, Elbphilharmonie in Hamburg, VitraHaus in Weil am Rhein, Kolkata Museum of Modern Art and Cultural Complex Luz in So Paolo. A critical essay by Luis Fernndez-Galiano presents their ideals as seen in the stage design for Attila and Tristan.
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C3 341 - Variation And Transition C3 2013 no ISBN Acqn 22186 Pb 23x30cm 208pp 250ills 200col 21.95 With the first issue of 2013 we ask ourselves what is the extent of architectures for the city today. How much does the operative sphere of a building range in extents? Some building presents characteristics that relate it to its immediate front, other with its surroundings. As the physical relationship (visual, spatial and material) expands, so the nature of the relationship becomes increasingly sparse and undefined. For certain projects it is difficult to indicate whether their scale of influence is the front street, their neighborhood or eventually the city. In this issue we present several projects which represent different approaches to their surroundings, showing how the invisible area of influence of a building may operate in the urban context. The projects of Scenario for Urban Daily Life Experience chapter are inserted in a dense urban context, which triggers a larger level of affectance for the city: they relate to a modest 360 area. Paula Melneo describes how certain buildings can be regarded as the reflections of the citys cultures diversity.

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