Architecture June 2013

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OASE 89 - Images of the Mid-Size City NAi Publishers 2013 ISBN 9789462080157 Acqn 21570 Pb 17x24cm 128pp 64ills 21 OASE 89 is dedicated to the image of the mid-size city. Not just the way this is interpreted, but also how it is produced by urban designers and architects. The urbanism discourse has long focused on phenomena such as the generic city. OASE 89, on the other hand, also devotes attention to the typically European condition characterized by its vast number of small and midsize cities. In contrast with the (Asian) generic city, typified by its massive scale and loss of (historical) identity and public domain, there is the European mid-size city: a city with historical and geographical identity. This makes the model of this European generic city a resilient model, one with staying power in light of todays urban challenges.
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Farming The City - Food as a tool for today's urbanization TrancityxValiz 2013 ISBN 9789078088639 Acqn 21625 Pb 17x23cm 240pp 150col ills 23.50 'Farming the City' investigates the increasingly important phenomenon of urban farming. Not only does it examine food in the city, but also the potential and possibilities for the bottom-up developments occurring in neighbourhoods. Twenty short essays cover a variety of topics, including social advantages, creating wealth locally, small- and large-scale planning, new and sustainable technologies, and policy issues. Also highlighted are 30 project examples, from the transformation of empty spaces in Boston to roof terraces in New York, and from the People's Supermarket in London to cultivation in shipping containers in Rotterdam. It is an essential resource for education, profitability and sustainable innovation.
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Hajime Ishikawa - The Landscale Book - A Look at the Ground Lixil 2013 ISBN 9784864800013 Acqn 21982 Pb 15x21cm 144pp 95ills 85col 28.50 The twelfth instalment of the Contemporary Architects Concept Series focuses on cartographer and landscape architect Hajime Ishikawa, who structures his ideas around the keyword scale. The topics in each chapter are therefore ordered from a wide to a local scale. Variations of the perception of scale allow for a more flexible conception of, for example, what defines a garden, or what can be made visible through both a wider context and closer examination. Using these methods, the chapters investigate topography, maps, time, boundaries and gardens.
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The Dutch Metropolis - Designing Quality Interaction Environments Thoth Uitgeverij 2013 ISBN 9789068685992 Acqn 22037 Hb 24x27cm 208pp 160ills 150col 36.95 What makes a large city a metropolis? One of the principle traits of a metropolis is that it attracts hosts of visitors, whether they be business, tourist, refugee, ex-pat, or local. Over the last decade, logistical aspects of urban areas have received the majority of investments, yet financing facilities for human interaction places where people can encounter one another is at least equally important. This book collects recent research and theoretical developments regarding the shaping of a metropolis, analysing ongoing projects in and around the largest Dutch cities and comparing them with other urban examples from around the globe to discover new perspectives.
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S AM 10 - Building Images Christoph Merian Verlag 2013 ISBN 9783856165826 Acqn 22300 Pb 23x30cm 130pp 160col ills 27 Building Images offers a panorama of the past 25 years of Swiss architecture. Here the iconic buildings that have contributed to the global success of Swiss architecture are presented solely in stunning photographs. Meanwhile, the analytical section highlights the mediatisation of architecture. What role do images play in architectural design? Which architects prefer which photographers? How is architecture translated into images? It is an exciting examination of how we perceive and document architecture. Featured photographers include Iwan Baan, Hlne Binet, Heinrich Helfenstein, Walter Mair, Hiroshi Sugimoto and Jeff Wall, among others. Interviews with both architects Peter Zumthor, Herzog & de Meuron, and others and photographers add a further dimension of insight.
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C3 344 - Cultural Facility: Three Approaches C3 2013 no ISBN Acqn 22421 Pb 23x30cm 208pp 220ills 170col 21.95 This instalment takes cultural facilities as its primary focus, analysing several recent projects in terms of three approaches: roofs, added volumes and excavated volumes. Examples include the Platform of Arts and Creativity by Pitgoras Arquitectos, Tiroler Festival Hall by Delugan Meissl, Busan Cinema Centre by Coop Himmelb(l)au and Gehua Youth and Cultural Centre by Open Architecture. A second theme, Wood and Architecture, is explored through small-scale, innovative projects such as the Endesa Pavilion by IAAC and the Times Eureka Pavilion by NEX Architecture. Other features include a tribute to Pritzker winner Toyo Ito and the Tianjin Ecocity Museums by Steven Holl.
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AV Proyectos 055 - Dosier Junya Ishigami. Minimalism And Nature: Six Works Arquitectura Viva SL 2013 no ISBN Acqn 22450 Pb 24x30cm 80pp 200ills 100col 10.95 Published six times per year, AV Proyectos provides a succinct survey of cutting-edge, contemporary architectural projects many of which are yet to be realised. Printed in full-colour on glossy paper and accompanied by technical drawings along with explanatory notes, the magazine additionally devotes pages to recent notable competitions and exhibitions while also providing a detailed look at one selected feature project per issue. With projects by Junya Ishigami, Snhetta, and Jean Nouvel.
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Log 27 Anyone Corporation 2013 ISBN 9780983649151 Acqn 22451 Pb 17x24cm 142pp 100ills 15 In this issue, diverse observations on architecture and the contemporary city are made by an assortment of contributors. Among them, Julie Rose reviews Cities Without Ground: A Hong Kong Guidebook, Franois Roche contrasts Paris and Bangkok, and Hajime Yatsuka experiments with the concept of megalopolis in Tokyo; Tom Kovac speculates on the 100-year city using Maribors recent initiatives as his focus, while Tom Daniell plunges into the outrageous urban phenomenon of Macau; Peter Trammer ponders the city as object, Emmanuel Petit projects the post-ironic city, and Mechtild Widrich writes about the spatial implications of the Monument to Freedom in Leipzig.
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Monu 18 - Communal Urbanism Board Publishers 2013 no ISBN Acqn 22452 Pb 20x27cm 128pp 100ills 40col 15.75 How should we live together? is the central question of this edition of MONU, which focuses on contemporary communal living in cities. Themes of cooperative residential concepts are addressed through a number of different examples and perspectives. Included is an interview with Rainer Langhans, one of the early members of Berlins Kommune 1, plus a piece by Martin Abbott on Hausprojekt Walde, also in Berlin. Jason Reblando investigates New Deal Utopias in 1930s America, Maier Yagod writes about communal living as a flexible platform for collaborative possibilities, Adam Holland points to goodwill and participation as necessary for success, and much more.
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GA Houses 130 - Project 2013 A.D.A.Edita Tokyo Co. Ltd. 2013 ISBN 9784871400787 Acqn 22454 Pb 23x30cm 192pp 300ills 150col 29.95 GA Houses documents outstanding new residential architecture from all over the world. Included in each issue also are retrospective looks at residential works of the past which are now considered epoch-making. With projects by Tadao Ando, Sou Fujimoto, Akihisa Hirata, Kengo Kuma, Alphaville, Selgascano, and many more.
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Stedelijk Architecture nai010 publishers 2013 ISBN 9789462080355 Acqn 22465 Pb 23x30cm 104pp 80ills 30col 21 In September 2012, grand celebrations marked the opening of the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam after a renovation that took eight years. The new white addition designed by Benthem Crouwel Architekten popularly known as 'the bathtub' is the subject of this publication. It features photographs by Iwan Baan as well as floorplans, cross sections and details of the new structure.
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Portal 9 Issue 1 - The Imagined Solidere 2012 no ISBN Acqn 22474 Pb 20x27cm 184pp 100ills 50col 29.50 The Imagined, the theme of the debut issue of Beirut-based magazine Portal 9, undertakes an exploration of the metaphysical and probable realities occurring in the city through time in short, its living character. The publication is an imaginary opening into the city, an intensive exploration of the urban condition from architecture and planning to metropolitan mores and cultural pursuits a gateway to endless possibilities. Within its pages different stories, subjects and critical writings involving diverse cities and places Gaza, Cairo, Port-au-Prince, Baghdad, China, South Sudan and Turkey, to name a few come from a variety of contributors.
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Yasutaka Yoshimura - Behaviours And Protocols Lixil 2012 ISBN 9784864800020 Acqn 22480 Pb 15x21cm 144pp 140ills 100col 28 According to Japanese architect Yasutaka Yoshimura, his body of work is iridescent, varying in both scope and function. Here he aims to guide readers to view his works from a particular angle through texts that take a different approach than those he has published in the past. His position at the confluence of architecture and society is one which he uses to make ripples in a quest to be equally involved in both spheres, as well as to find common subtleties and structures among them. He therefore explores diverse topics, such as architecture and the creative commons, building Japanese houses overseas, container architecture and cities without infrastructure.
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Habitat - Big Builds The City nai010 publishers 2013 ISBN 9789462080553 Acqn 22486 Pb 20x30cm 144pp 160ills 150col 31 The architects of the Rotterdam architecture practice biq stadsontwerp realize that the human habitat is no pristine idyll. Hans van der Heijden and Rick Wessels consider the habitat to be the architect's field of work and the gauge of the design. The design's effectiveness is the product of traditions and societal conventions, of the dreams, desires, and fictions of its inhabitants, but also of the possibilities and limitations of the construction industry. biq stadsontwerp links architectonic forms to the negotiations inherent in working in the modern city. 'Habitat' examines this realism through five of the practice's designs.
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Cidade De Deus - City Of God: Working With Informalized Mass Housing In Brazil Ruby Press 2013 ISBN 9783944074023 Acqn 21980 Pb 20x27cm 360pp ills 29.95 Rio de Janeiro serves as the inspiration and case study for this publication, a widely relevant study of the appropriation and customization of standardized mass housing over time. The citys once notorious favelas, which grew out of a government housing programme, are today safe and vibrant neighbourhoods, not to mention a viable counter-model to gated condominiums. This research-based design study from the ETH Zurich unpacks the implications of the hybrid environment of Cidade de Deus as it exists today. What results is a model for improving mass housing programmes using the ingenuity of informal practices a model that is also globally applicable.
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Ministry Of Highways - A Guide To The Performative Architecture Of Tbilisi. Venice Biennale 2013 Sternberg Press 2013 ISBN 9783943365726 Acqn 22490 Pb 14x21cm 218pp 211ills 127col 12.95 With contributions by Ei Arakawa, Ruben Arevshatyan, Levan Asabashvili, Bouillon Group, George Chakhava, Thea Djordjadze, Didier Faustino, Yona Friedman, Nana Kipiani, Nikoloz Lutidze, Marion von Osten, Nini Palavandishvili, Gela Patashuri, Lali Pertenava, Marjetica Potr, Richard Reynolds, Slavs and Tatars, Gio Sumbadze, Sophia Tabatadze, ric Troussicot, Jan Verwoert, Aleksandra Wasilkowska, et al. Once described as Italy gone Marxist, Georgia, located in both an advantageous and vulnerable geopolitical position between the Black Sea, Russia, Central Asia, and the Middle East, enjoys a Mediterranean climate and viniculture in combination with a community-oriented and selfdetermined spirit. Its informal, vernacular, and palimpsestic architecturereflected in the stunning former Ministry of Highways erected in 1975reveals the uncanny anticipatory and progressive potential of a place where the past is neither monumentalized nor destroyed, but built upon. Taking the exhibition Frozen Moments: Architecture Speaks Back (2010) as its starting point, this guidebook maps the social, urban, and art discourses of the countrys post-Soviet years as seen from its hilly capital of Tbilisi. The publication accompanies the exhibition of the Georgian Pavilion at the 55th International Art Exhibition la Biennale di Venezia titled Kamikaze Loggia, curated by Joanna Warsza.

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