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Architecture in the Netherlands - Yearbook 2013/14
nai010 publishers 2014 ISBN 9789462081154 Acqn 23351
Pb 24x32cm 176pp 225ills 150col 41.95

For the yearbook of Dutch architecture the editors select the 30 most noteworthy projects
completed in the past year and describe the most significant developments and trends influencing
the production and design of Dutch architecture.
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Rotterdam Centraal - Building Above and Below the Ground
nai010 publishers 2014 ISBN 9789462081208 Acqn 23354
Hb 24x30cm 192pp 150col ills 31

Rotterdam has a new central station for public transport: Rotterdam Centraal. It took many years
to to design and build, and will be officially opened in March 2014. This book takes the reader on
a trip through the world of the above and below ground constructions of the complex
infrastructure of Rotterdam Centraal.
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Biomimetic Micro-Ecosystem
Garden City Publishing 2014 ISBN 9789868982307 Acqn 23527
Pb 17x20cm 96pp 125ills 75col 25

Directed by Jeong-Der Ho, the biomimetic micro-ecosystem project at Yuan Ze University in
Taiwan explores artificial life through biomimetics, applying this growing field of study to todays
urgent environmental issues. Through experiments using the arduino microcontroller system, the
project seeks to redefine the relationship between nature and man-made creations in order to
achieve dynamic equilibrium. Drawing comparisons between natural and artificial processes, the
book compares a history of technological revolution with the latest evolutionary sciences, showing
in detailed steps and diagrams how biological observation can lead to the crafting of biomimetic
prototypes.
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Les Fleurs De L'Architecture - Diary Of Taipei Ta-tong District Architecture
Garden City Publishing 2014 ISBN 9789574304134 Acqn 23580
Pb 13x18cm 244pp 250col ills 11.25

The Ta-Tong District in Taipei has a rich cultural past, and is most notable for its Japanese
colonial-era and Qing dynasty architecture. Some buildings are well preserved, yet many have
fallen into a state of decay, while still others survive, covered in unsightly air-conditioning units
and neon signs. This lovingly collected series of images of the districts many historic buildings
serves as both tour guide and archive of these cultural treasures, opening possibilities for
exploration, documentation and perhaps even preservation. The numerous photographs it
features range from entire edifices and street views to architectural details of doors, bricks,
facades and windows.
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JA 93- Kazuo Shinohara. Complete Works In Original Publications
Japan Architect Co Ltd 2014 ISBN 9784786902512 Acqn 23716
Pb 23x30cm 144pp col ills 24.95

Renowned post-war Japanese architect Kazuo Shinohara always placed great emphasis on the
presentation of his works in magazines, enabling his efforts through various methods of
expression: photography, commentary and analysis, and detailed diagrams. This special issue is
dedicated to his works, wherein previously published materials are featured almost identically to
the form in which they were initially presented in both JA and Shinkenchiku magazines.
Including more than 50 works and projects, from private houses to public buildings and urban
visions, plus an essay by architect Shin-ichi Okuyama, it is an authoritative and complete
overview of his career.
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C3 356 - Seung, H-Sang. Awakening Kispace. After Universal Space
C3 2014 no ISBN Acqn 23724
Pb 22x30cm 252pp 179ille 150col 21.95

Two central themes play out in this issue: After Universal Space and Awakening Kidspace.
The first investigates how, in a period of pluralism in global architecture, the spatial promises of
modernity are now being adapted as more free-form and eclectic tectonic investigations. Included
are examples by Pereda Prez, A4 estudio, noname29 and TAO. The second theme shows the
growing awareness that spaces designed for children are true educational mechanisms through
projects by JKMM, Donaldson+Win, Abalo Alonso and more. The magazine also includes a
special feature on Seung, H-Sang, profiling the Korean architect with an interview and three
recent works.
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Point - Counterpoint - Trajectories Of Ten Korean Architects
B Architectural Publications 2014 ISBN 9788792700087 Acqn 23567
Pb 19x27cm 240pp 345ills 250col 37

The projects by ten Korean architects highlighted in this exhibition catalogue satisfied briefs that
mostly called for modest and human buildings, in opposition to the large housing sectors
currently being built in Seoul and many other Asian cities. Particular attentiveness to the
surroundings is seen in a number of the projects, especially when inserted into a mixed urban
context of old and new. The high quality of traditional workmanship is readily apparent, along with
close attention to detail and specific cultural qualities. In addition to an essay by Inha Jung on
correlative architecture and new urban realities, the book includes detailed project data, images
and drawings.
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Minha Casa - Nossa Cidade! Innovating Mass Housing For Social Change In Brazil
Ruby Press 2014 ISBN 9783944074092 Acqn 23754
Pb 20x27cm 496pp 400ills 50col 30

In 2009, Brazil launched a low-cost housing programme to fill a deficit of seven million homes.
This publication, produced by the MAS Urban Design Programme, examines the project at a
critical time and presents ways to improve it. Three chapters review its history and
implementation, the ingenuity of Brazilian architecture, and present proposals for housing based
not on private ownership but on the greater vision for the city as a common project.
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Building as Ornament
nai010 publishers 2013 ISBN 9789462080447 Acqn 23026
Pb 12x20cm 240pp 240ills 230col 24.50

The ornament is back in architecture, but now on the scale of the building as a whole. One letter
out of the alphabet, a pile of pebbles or a national emblem the diversity of forms the new
architecture can take seems infinite. In Building as Ornament, Michiel van Raaij, in ten interviews,
investigates how this new architecture emerged in the late 1990s and how it developed at the
start of the twenty-first century.
A new generation of architects sees the design of the upscaled ornament as an inextricable
element of their practice. What are their motivations? How do they place their ideas in the
tradition of their age-old profession? Michiel van Raaij argues that the design of the ornament, the
iconography of the building, is bound by certain rules.
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Dark Arkitekter
Arvinius + Orfeus Publishing 2014 ISBN 9789187543111 Acqn 23337
Pb 230pp 220ills 190col 41

Dark is one of Norways largest planning, architecture and interior design practices. Their work
includes master planning, urban design, building design, landscape architecture and interior
architecture, as well as furniture design, graphic design and visualization. Darks vision is to
create the most vigorous and cutting-edge house of design, architecture and visualization within
the Nordic countries, and this book will present their history and major projects from the past 25
years.


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Museum In The Dock - Bjarke Ingels Group Architects
Arvinius + Orfeus Publishing 2014 ISBN 9789198075649 Acqn 23339
Hb 22x24cm 208pp 220ills 150col 39.50

How does one breathe new life into an abandoned dry dock? BIG architects have designed an
extraordinary museum to revive Denmarks proud maritime history. The Danish Maritime Museum
will fit into a unique historical and spatial context between one of Denmarks most important
buildings the world-famous Kronborg Castle and a new, ambitious cultural centre. In order to
preserve the dock as an open, outdoor space, BIG has placed the museum underground, just
outside the wall of a dry dock in a formerly abandoned shipyard. In this subterranean position, the
museum appears as part of the cultural environment, while at the same time standing as an
independent institution. Through this extraordinary museum, BIG once again confirms its position
as one of the worlds leading architectural offices.


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Et In Suburbia Ego - Jose Oubrerie's Miller House
Wexner Center For The Arts 2014 ISBN 9781881390527 Acqn 23390
Pb 15x24cm 288pp 268ills 250col 21.50

Completed in 1992 in Lexington, Kentucky, the Miller House stands as architect Jos Oubreries
most notable accomplishment in the United States. Among the last members of Le Corbusiers
Paris atelier, Oubrerie is best known for his collaborations with Le Corbusier on projects including
the Venice Hospital and the church of St. Pierre de Firminy-Vert. The Miller House, with its deft
synthesis of modernist elements with American vernacular construction and an array of historical
sources, marks a highly original swerve from modernist orthodoxy and a landmark achievement
in American architecture. Et in Suburbia Ego: Jos Oubreries Miller House gathers new
commentary and interpretation by leading voices in contemporary architecture including Jeffrey
Kipnis, Kenneth Frampton and Douglas Graf alongside newly commissioned photographs and
previously unpublished drawings and models from Oubreries archive, documenting the house at
a level of detail rarely seen in architectural monographs.

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Palmar Kristmundsson Arkitekt
Arvinius + Orfeus Publishing 2014 ISBN 9789198075663 Acqn 23596
Pb 22x24cm 240pp 320ills 120col 41

PK Arkitektar is an Iceland-based architecture and design studio established in 1986 by the
architect Plmar Kristmundsson. The practice has enjoyed significant success in competitions,
and its work has been widely published and exhibited. Born and raised in the Westfjords a
harsh yet stunning part of northwestern Iceland Plmar Kristmundsson received his
architectural education in Aarhus, Denmark, and was granted a long scholarship in Japan.
Through the many ravishing pictures featured in this book, one can trace this cultural and
geographical heritage in the graphic volumes signifying PKs architecture in Iceland and
elsewhere.
The book follows Kristmundssons journey from his first encounters with vernacular Japanese
architecture in the small fishing village of ingeyri, to his rise to one of the most prominent figures
in Icelandic architecture today. He is an architect whose eye is as observant to the contour of the
landscape as to the details of a door handle or, as Gert Wingrdh describes him in the book's
introduction, a "master of extremes".
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Jean Prouve - Maison Demontable 6x6 Demountable House
Gallery Patrick Seguin 2014 ISBN 9782909187037 Acqn 23598
Hb 20x24cm 80pp 114ills 56col 28.50

Though lacking any formal education in architecture, Jean Prouv (1901-1984) became one of
the most influential architects of the twentieth century, boldly experimenting with new building
designs, materials and methods. Prouv was raised in an environment of artistic, socially
motivated innovation: his father belonged to "l'cole de Nancy," a collective that sought to unite
art, industry and social awareness. He continued this practice throughout his adulthood, opening
the Ateliers Jean Prouv to manufacture standardized, economical goods on a mass scale--
which, during World War II, included creating portable and demountable barracks. After the war,
the French government commissioned Prouv to design inexpensive, effective housing for the
newly homeless, prompting him to perfect his patented axial portal frame to build easily
constructed demountable houses. Despite their advantages, though, few of these architectural
triumphs were built, and even fewer survive. In order to preserve Prouv's architectural and
engineering legacy, the Galerie Patrick Seguin has worked tirelessly to promote Prouv's
"constructional philosophy," exhibiting his designs and showcasing his ecologically responsible
methodologies. Jean Prouv: Maison Dmontable 6x6 Demountable House, the first of nine
monographs published by the Galerie Patrick Seguin on Prouv's housing modules, highlights the
simplest of these modules. Introduced by Catherine Coley, renowned art and architectural
historian, it contains Prouv's sketches, black-and-white photographs of the designer at work and
detailed examples of the building process.
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Jean Prouve - Maison Demontable 8x8 Demountable House
Gallery Patrick Seguin 2014 ISBN 9782909187068 Acqn 23599
Hb 20x24cm 80pp 89ills 32col 28.50

Though lacking any formal education in architecture, Jean Prouv (1901-1984) became one of
the most influential architects of the twentieth century, boldly experimenting with new building
designs, materials and methods. Prouv was raised in an environment of artistic, socially
motivated innovation: his father belonged to "l'cole de Nancy," a collective that sought to unite
art, industry and social awareness. He continued this practice throughout his adulthood, opening
the Ateliers Jean Prouv to manufacture standardized, economical goods on a mass scale--
which, during World War II, included creating portable and demountable barracks. After the war,
the French government commissioned Prouv to design inexpensive, effective housing for the
newly homeless, prompting him to perfect his patented axial portal frame to build easily
constructed demountable houses. Despite their advantages, though, few of these architectural
triumphs were built, and even fewer survive. In order to preserve Prouv's architectural and
engineering legacy, the Galerie Patrick Seguin has worked tirelessly to promote Prouv's
"constructional philosophy," exhibiting his designs and showcasing his ecologically responsible
methodologies. Jean Prouv: Maison Dmontable 8x8 Demountable House, the second of nine
monographs published by the Galerie Patrick Seguin on Prouv's housing modules, highlights the
second of these modules. Introduced by Catherine Coley, renowned art and architectural
historian, it contains Prouv's sketches, black-and-white photographs of the designer at work and
detailed examples of the building process.
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Archescape - On The Tracks Of Piranesi
Duizend & Een 2014 ISBN 9789071346002 Acqn 23768
Pb 23x31cm 240pp 170ills 20col 37

What might Gianbattista Piranesi (1720-1778) contribute to todays architectural debate? Could
his vision of a pensile city inspire the city of tomorrow? Archescape is a new concept based on a
reading of Piranesis Campo Marzio, his sublime reconstruction of ancient Rome. Archescape, a
fusion of the words architecture and escape into a new scape, addresses two issues: the city
flight that tends towards the destruction of what it looks for, and the sprawling urban footprint that
is unsustainable and blocks escape. It also conceives a way out: the creation of flight lines inside
a dense city.
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Le Corbusier - Shodhan House. Ahmedabad 1951-1956. Residential Masterpieces 16
A.D.A.Edita Tokyo Co. Ltd. 2014 ISBN 9784871406413 Acqn 23783
Pb 26x36cm 72pp 68ills 43col 22.95

In this large-format book, photographer Yukio Futagawa recounts his pilgrimage to Le Corbusiers
modernist villa in Ahmedabad, India, built between 1951-56. A symbol of the famed architects
domestic architecture, the private residence integrates traditional features of local design, such as
the double-height living room on the ground level, with key aspects like sun, wind and
landscaping. The raw concrete form frames the open character of its interior spaces and the
overall plan, a five-level cube divided by beams and slabs. In a lovingly photographed and
recounted experience, Futagawa makes a tribute to the house like none other.
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C3 357 - Community And The City
C3 2014 no ISBN Acqn 23801
Pb 23x30cm 208pp 230ills 170col 21.95

In investigating the rebirth of the idea of community through its relationship with architecture, this
issue offers a range of perspectives on the social aspects of the city, from gathering spaces and
individual bodies to the scene that builds a community. Sixteen projects from around the world
are profiled, showing the perception of buildings at the scale of communities, and how users and
inhabitants interact with their surroundings. Among these are Barcelonas New Encants Market
by b720 Arquitectos, Brasil Arquiteturas Square of Arts in So Paulo, Lons-le-Saunier
Mediatheque by du Besset-Lyon Architectes and the Elena Garro Cultural Centre in Mexico City.