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The Riddle Of The Real City Or The Dark Knowledge Of Urbanism, Genealogy, Prophecy
And Epistmology
Duizend & Een 2017 ISBN 9789071346460 Acqn 27256
Pb 20x30cm 412pp 155ills 35col 42.75

Is the basis for our knowledge about city and urban planning solid? How can we theorise about
urban design and architecture in our current age? Designed as a triptych of three books in one,
this publication intends to enrich our theoretical understanding of urban interventions. Urban
design theorist and historian Wim Nijenhuis engages various philosophers and a spectrum of
disciplines, such as urbanism, architecture, history, media science, and art, in each section: a
treatise on urban history, essays about the condition of the city in our media age, and meditations
about epistemological problems that in turn question the practice of critical writing and propose a
shift in worldview.

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Infrastructure Space
Ruby Press 2017 ISBN 9783944074184 Acqn 27302
Hb 18x24cm 422pp col ills 55.75

Infrastructural systems facilitate the flow of anything from people and goods to resources and
information. While engineered to perform specific tasks, such networks also determine the
structure of buildings, cities, metropolitan regions, and beyond. Taking this into consideration, this
book seeks the expansion and renegotiation of the roles of infrastructure as not only a technical,
but also a political, economic, social, and even aesthetic matter of concern for all. It entails both
the means for achieving more resilient forms of development and a right to a sustainable way of
life. With 25 essays by Keller Easterling, Michael Dear, Salmaan Craig, and Nancy Couling,
among others.

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Philippe Meyer - Villa Qdc 175

A.Mag 2017 ISBN 9788461744824 Acqn 27303
Hb 27x23cm 80pp 40ills 30col 34.95

This monograph presents architect Phillippe Meyers Villa QDC 175, a lake house completed in
2016 and located in Geneva, Switzerland. With clear references to Mies van der Rohes
Farnsworth House and Villa Tugendhat, as well as Louis Kahns distinction of created and served
spaces, the house acts as a metaphor within its context. The architectures lines draw implicit
parallels with the lake. Open and light, with a continuous glass facade wrapping the volume, the
building is situated on a gentle slope a short distance from the waters edge and set on a base of
travertine stone, blurring the boundary between interior and exterior through its reflection of the
water.

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Arqitectura Viva 192 - Spaces Of The Spirit

Avisa 2017 no ISBN Acqn 27306
Pb 24x30cm 96pp 90ills 45col 20

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The Lyman House and the Work of Frederic P. Lyman

Crestwood Hills Press 2017 ISBN 9780997546002 Acqn 26967
Pb 26x26cm 192pp 111ills 99col 27.50

The Lyman House and the Work of Frederic P. Lyman is an account of an inventive and skilled
architect practicing in 1960s and 70s Los Angeles. Four years after receiving his masters degree
in architecture from Yale University, Frederic Lyman (19272005) purchased a lot in Malibu
where he was to build his iconic Lyman House. In addition to his own house, he took on several
other Los Angeles commissions and accompanied each project with a perspective drawing
carefully rendered in coloured pencil. Lymans colours are abstract and expressive rather than
naturalistic, allowing the viewer to feel the grain of wood and the weight of rocks in his
compositions. While few examples exist of Lymans built architecture, his work lives on in the
exquisite renderings he prepared for every project that entered his office, lovingly documented in
this volume.

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Celestial Gardens - Kyoto Imperial Palace And Gardens

A.D.A.Edita Tokyo Co. Ltd. 2017 ISBN 9784871404969 Acqn 27283
Hb 26x36cm 280pp 285ills 275col 230

Yukio Futagawas pursuit of documenting spaces and shapes of Japanese architecture since the
1950s has been taken over today in the form of the creation of a comprehensive beauty that
embraces the seasonal aspects of nature. 60 years in gestation, this compilation is a culmination
of his last efforts coupled with enthusiastic applications of new visual technologies. Captured here
are spaces of Imperial gardens and architectures like no one has ever seen that approach the
spirit of modernity in Japanese architecture.

Limited Deluxe Edition

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Arquitectura Viva 193 - Soundscapes. New Buildings For Music In Europe

Avisa 2017 no ISBN Acqn 27340
Pb 24x30cm 80pp col ills 20

More than providing large spaces for music, opera houses and concert halls are expressions of
the cultural and economic energy of the cities that build them, and ultimately crystallize the idea
of common ground in difficult, liquid times. Ignacio G. Pedrosa, expert on the matter, explains
the evolution of the modern auditorium through examples like the Royal Festival Hall in London,
the Kresge Auditorium, Massachusetts, and the Berliner Philharmonie, and this historical account,
coming with a catalog of typological diagrams, is followed by four new European works: the
Elbphilharmonie of Hamburg, the Philharmonie de Paris, the Greek National Opera in Athens,
and the concert hall of the Jordanki Center in Torun.

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AV Monograph 193-194 - Spain Yearbook 2017

Avisa 2017 ISBN 9788461785254 Acqn 27341
Pb 24x30cm 240pp 250ills 200col 63.50

Like every year, the yearbook offers a selection of the best buildings completed in Spain, taking
stock of the high-quality of Spanish projects in spite of the political and economic uncertainty that
has marked the period. The list this year includes public works, like the auditoriums by Paredes
Pedrosa in Lugo and by lvaro Siza in Llinars del Valls; refurbishment projects, like Casal
Balaguer in Palma, by Flores & Prats, or of the old Fire Station of Barcelona, by Roldn &
Berengu; environmental interventions, like the Norvento Headquarters in Lugo, by Francisco
Mangado. Furthermore, the volume features the twelve most noteworthy buildings completed
around the world in the year.

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El Croquis 188 - Tham & Videgard. Dualities And Singularities

El Croquis 2017 ISBN 9788488386946 Acqn 27300
Pb 25x34cm 256pp 300ills 150col 54.50

Swedish architecture studio Tham & Videgrd is the focus of this issue, which includes a
conversation with the architects and Michael Meredith, plus an essay by Juhani Pallasmaa,
Dualities and Singularities. It features more than twenty projects, among them many of the
intelligently designed houses for which Bolle Tham and Martin Videgrd have become widely
recognised, and the firms versatility is expressed through additional works, such as the popular
Mirrorcube (Tree Hotel in Harads), the School of Architecture in Stockholm, hlns Department
Store, new buildings for the University of Gothenburg, Vstra Kajen Housing, and the Moderna
Museet Malm.

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Andrew Herscher - Displacements: Architecture and Refugee. Critical Spatial Practice 9

Sternberg Press 2017 ISBN 9783956793141 Acqn 27374
Pb 11x15cm 156pp 31ills 5col 12.95

Edited by Nikolaus Hirsch, Markus Miessen

Featuring artwork by Omer Fast

In architectural history, just as in global politics, refugees have tended to exist as mere human
surplus; histories of architecture, then, have usually reproduced the nation-states exclusion of
refugees as people out of place. Andrew Herschers Displacements: Architecture and Refugee,
the ninth book in the Critical Spatial Practice series, examines some of the usually disavowed but
arguably decisive intersections of mass-population displacement and architecturean art and
technology of population placementthrough the twentieth century and into the present. Posing
the refugee as the pre-eminent collective political subject of our time, Displacements attempts to
open up an architectural history of the refugee that could refract on the history of architecture and
the history of the refugee alike.

Andrew Herscher is an Associate Professor at the University of Michigan with appointments in the
Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning, Department of Slavic Languages and
Literatures, and Department of Art History.

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Giraffes, Telegraphs And Hero Of Alexandria - Urban Design By Narration

Ruby Press 2017 ISBN 9783944074139 Acqn 27151
Pb 17x23cm 430pp 400ills 100col 43.95

Architects Sabine Mller and Andreas Quednau of SMAQ approach design through the use of
narrative, telling stories about their projects contexts in order to accommodate the diverse and
conflicting scales of contemporary urbanity. This monograph presents a selection of SMAQs
projects in a way that brings this narrative quality to the fore. Interweaving short stories, project
drawings, and photographs shed light on how design solutions gradually evolved out of the
process, while three linked essays explain the guiding principles behind the firms work,
intriguingly named Giraffe, Telegraph, and Hero of Alexandria.

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Finn Juhl - At The U. N.

Strandberg Publishing 2017 ISBN 9788792894205 Acqn 27307
Hb 23x28cm 112pp 80ills 60col 25

This vibrant book delves into the history of the Trusteeship Council Chamber at the United
Nations Headquarters, a true Gesamtkunstwerk designed by Danish architect and interior and
industrial designer Finn Juhl. Inaugurated in 1952, it has since been named a part of Denmarks
cultural heritage, carefully restored and revitalised with modern furniture designed by Salto &
Sigsgaard. The book is filled with illustrations, including historical photographs, sketches, and
other material, plus new photographs by Ole Madsen. With a foreword by Michael Sheridan, a
leading authority on Scandinavian architecture and design, and an essay by Danish architecture
critic Karsten R.S. Ifversen.

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