Architecture April 2013

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Archiprix 2013 nai010 publishers 2013 ISBN 9789462080416 Acqn 22236 Pb 24x30cm 104pp 300col ills 25.95 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.
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Spaces, Poetics And Voids Architectura & Natura Press 2013 ISBN 9789461400260 Acqn 22346 Pb 17x23cm 160pp 100ills 26 According to its introduction, this new series from TU Delft aims to become and influential platform for a new generation of architects through its presentation and critical examination of innovative ideas regarding the conception and elaboration of the architectural project. This debut edition presents Spaces, Poetics and Voids, an award-winning project for a London prison by architect Simone Pizzagalli. The project received top honours from Archiprix International 2011, and is fully detailed here texts, photos, sketches and models. The complex urban issues it entails are further investigated and expanded upon by contributors Nicol Privileggio and Marc Schoonderbeek.
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Tokyo - Portraits And Fictions Le Gac Press 2011 ISBN 9782364090125 Acqn 22351 Pb 15x21cm 368pp 30ills 28.95 An exemplary textual guide to Tokyo, presented by French architect and writer Manuel Tardits, a long-time resident of the Japanese capital, this book is useful to both the amateur or the professional architect or planner. It offers insight by way of academic curiosity, historical anecdotes, cultural multiplicities and incomprehensibilities, anthropological distractions, and confrontations with the sheer density of urban data for which the metropolis is infamous. Illustrated by both architect Stphane Lagr and artist Nobumasa Takahashi, it lends a fascinating new look at Japanese and urban culture through the context of this sometimes bewildering and mystical city.
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New Attitudes - Designing In Times Of Transformation Architectura & Natura Press 2013 ISBN 9789461400291 Acqn 22343 Hb 17x22cm 128pp 100col ills 26 According to the foreword by Aart Oxenaar, director Amsterdam Academy of Architecture, architects must now adopt a sober-minded, enterprising, inventive and self-critical attitude in redefining [their positions] within the design field and within a social and physical reality undergoing transformation. In a clear, cleanly designed format, this book presents a series of reflections to give various perspectives on this reorientation and change of attitude which has occurred within the profession in recent years. Contributors include Mark Hendriks, Machiel Spaan, Ruurd Roorda, Jeroen Kooijmans, Jan Jongert, Arjan Klok and Jan van Grunsven, among others.
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Architecture 2.0 Garden City Publishing 2012 ISBN 9789866204500 Acqn 22358 Pb 15x19cm 276pp 270ills 70col 15.75 An irrational world of mixed functions and unorganised planning determines the physical appearance of Taiwans economic development. So-called guerrilla architecture the current situation of the citys urban development is the focus here, with particular emphasis on the non-professional, non-uniform, local and fragmentary subjects especially on the small-scale free operation between the gaps. The book seeks to inspire professional architects in the creation of space taking place within urban patterns and, by extension, offers insight into the social environment. Numerous examples are mapped and contextualised along with insightful texts.
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Weak Architecture 2 - Dao De Jing And Contemporary Taiwanese Architecture Garden City Publishing 2012 ISBN 9789866204517 Acqn 22359 Pb 17x21cm 256pp 235ills 200col 15.75 Centred on an essay by Roan Ching-Yueh that offers a history of major events in modern Taiwanese architecture, this insightful investigation illustrates the connections between Dao De Jing, the Chinese classic text fundamental to both philosophical and religious Taoism as well as a continuing source of inspiration for artists and others today and topical issues for contemporary building in Taiwan. Social and ecological environments are found to be crucial points for action. Fifteen architects are profiled, each with a distinct style and presented in various thematic contexts through mostly small-scale projects that are free and unrestrained.
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Phase - The Architecture Of Jacob + McFarlane AADCU 2012 ISBN 9787214088055 Acqn 22322 Hb 22x27cm 320pp 300ills 250col 47.95 Based in Paris, the office of Jakob+MacFarlane is recognised for its investigation of digital technology, both as a conceptual consideration and as a means of fabrication, using new materials to create a more flexible and responsive environment. This comprehensive monograph divides the offices work into four broad categories topological growth, reversible envelopes, critical hybrids, dynamic involutions elaborated in detail with fifteen notable projects. Highlights include Restaurant Georges at the Centre Pompidou, Herold Apartments, FRAC Centre, The Orange Cube and Taipei Performing Arts Centre. Includes insightful texts by Anna Yudina and Frdric Migayrou.
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Cebra - From Drawing To Building AADCU 2012 ISBN 9787214088079 Acqn 22323 Hb 19x27cm 320pp 350ills 300col 47.95 This extensive monograph on the up-and-coming Danish office founded in 2001 and recently attracting a great deal of international attention focuses on the crucial element of drawing and the complex role it plays in the firms ideology and work. Critical to the design process, drawing enables CEBRA to mutate and adapt according to the changing circumstances within each unique project. Numerous concepts and realised projects are detailed, including Isbjerget Housing, Sgaard Skole, Villa UpDown and Cinemaxx Aarhus. With critical texts by Silvio Carta, Samantha Heringuez, Michiel Riedijk, Federica Pau, Martin Sberg, Pablo Nez and Jeppe Utzon.
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a+u 510 - 30 Architects In Istanbul a+u Publishing Co. Ltd. 2013 no ISBN Acqn 22334 Pb 22x29cm 136pp 100ills 80col 28 This edition delves into the architectural scene in a diverse and energetic metropolis at the periphery of Europe: Istanbul. The area surrounding the old city is currently the site of numerous renovations, conversions and interventions. Further towards the outskirts, new residential districts and office complexes are appearing. Presented here are works by 30 Istanbul-based practices that offer crucial insight and a variety of perspectives on architecture and the city in an environment mixing new and old. Featuring Emre Arolat, Teget, Superpool, Omer Unal, Tabanlioglu Architects and others, with texts by Selva Gurdogan, Gregers Tang Thomsen, Zeynep Kuban and Idil Erkol.
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JA 89 - Wood Architecture In The Expanded Field Shinkenchiku-Sha Co. Ltd. 2013 ISBN 9784786902444 Acqn 22333 Pb 23x30cm 128pp 115ills 95col 28 Wood architecture is the theme of this edition, wherein David Adjaye espouses the versatility of timber and the challenge of building with wood is addressed in an essay by Pekka Heikkinen, professor of wood construction at Aalto University. Other contributors include Kengo Kuma, writing about interlocking wood joinery, and Shigeru Ban, who expresses views on how the Japanese can learn form Europes timber construction technology. A number of fascinating projects and concepts are detailed throughout, with notable works by Kengo Kuma, Shigeru Ban, Atelier Bow-Wow, Sou Fujimoto, NKS architects, Jun Igarashi, Mount Fuji Architects Studio, and several others.
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Arquitectura Viva 149 - Francia Al Frente Arquitectura Viva SL 2013 no ISBN Acqn 22332 Pb 24x30cm 96pp 120ills 100col 18 Text in English and Spanish Issue 149 of Architectura Viva features Francia al Frente, Bellini/ Ricciotti, Lacaton Vassal, Tschumi, SANAA, Modern Ruins, Spains Real Esate Bubble, Cap de Creus, a Landscape Restored, Life-Cycle Analysis, Nanoaerogels, Abalos,+ Sentkiewicz and the Solar Tower in Sociopolis.
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C3 342 - Podia, Plinths And Flying Houses C3 2013 no ISBN Acqn 22335 Pb 23x30cm 208pp 230ills 200col 21.95 In this edition of C3, the disappearance of the classical base in architecture takes centre stage in Podia, Plinths and Flying House, wherein the vertical progression of contemporary buildings is investigated and redefined in an essay by Silvio Carta. Highlighted are a series of flying houses, such as Algarrobos House, BF House and Wind-dyed House. The issues second theme, Wall Graft, opens with an analysis by Nelson Mota, delving into issues surrounding the preservation, renewal and use of derelict structures. Featured are the Thalia Theatre, Corten Apartments and Casa Potxonea. Finally, a special section on Hctor Fernndez Elorza rounds out the issue.

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