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Actar PublishersCatalogNew ReleasesFall 2013

2 Architecture / Architects

In Herreros Arquitectos every commission is treated as a project, being a text or an exhibition installation, a book or a building: only its format is changing

100 projects, in 2000 days, are the works of Herreros Arquitectos compiled in this monograph book. Though project means, in this office that works in collaborative regime under Juan Herreros’s direction, any practical action, but always in a critical matter. In each project they only change the format in which their critical practice is delivered. The book therefore is structured according to its own way of operating, following the three principal activities of the office: the professional (based on the Reality), the research (that operates from the Utopia), and the teaching (taking the experience accumulated as Learning base). So, the contents are arranged following

these three methods —of work, investigation and education—, both the discourse and the presentation of the most significant of Herreros Arquitectos’ projects.

Contributions: Juan Herreros, Mark Wigley, Hrvoje Njiric, Lluís Ortega, Antonio Muntadas, Stefan Devoldere.

English 978-1-940291-04-8336 pages16,5 × 23,5 cmFlexibound coverColor images Price € 34,75 / $ 44.95 / £ 29.75

FormatsFormats100 Projects and 2000 days of Herreros Arquitectos Critical PracticeJuan Herreros, Jens Richter Ricardo Devesa (ed.)

February 2014

Related title: Recycling Madrid; 1999; 978-8495273437

3Architecture / ArchitectsFebruary 2014

This book shapes a thick network of experiences and crossed interests opened throughout last twenty-five years in the office NO.MAD and its founder Eduardo Arroyo. In its pages there are mixed reflections, anecdotes and creations that shape an exciting cocktail between living, thinking and creating

In some time of our physiological life something inside each one gets lost and the mind fills with doubts. In spite of the inertia of the long crossed distance, to stop and to look behind with exploratory smell can help us to enter with courage in the unknown days. This book shapes a thick network of crossed interests opened throughout last twenty-five years of the office NO.MAD and its founder Eduardo Arroyo. Topics like the origin and the memory, the soul and the precision, the random and the instability, the empathy, the instants and the choice, the hybridization and the blurry systems, the cloning, the invisible

orders and the essential complexity or the combination of matter and energy turn out to be here interlaced. They shape a kaleidoscopic optics that though has guided always by an invincible illusion has never been exempt from the risk of diving in the unknown thing. The trip across these invisible paths demonstrates a critical vision of the world and the voluntary obligation to try to transform it from the creative independence, the determination and the valor that they are the transparent message of this book

English 978-1-940291-05-513 × 18 cm350 pagesFlexibound coverColor imagesPrice € 34,75 / $ 44.95 / £ 29.75

NO.MAD / Eduardo Arroyo living, thinking and creatingEduardo ArroyoAmadeu Santacana (ed.)

Create!!!!!!!Create!!!!!!!

4 October 2013Architecture / Analysis

The Petropolis of Tomorrow examines the role of resource extraction infrastructure in the production of new forms of urbanism

In recent years, Brazil has discovered vast quantities of petroleum deep within its territorial waters, inciting the construction of a series of cities along its coast and in the ocean. We could term these developments as Petropolises, or cities formed from resource extraction. The Petropolis of Tomorrow is a design and research project, originally undertaken at Rice University that examines the relationship between resource extraction and urban development in order to extract new templates for sustainable urbanism. Organized into three sections: Archipelago Urbanism, Harvesting Urbanism, and Logistical Urbanism, which consist of theoretical, technical, and photo articles as well as design proposals, The Petropolis of Tomorrow elucidates not only a vision for water-based urbanism of the floating frontier city, it also speculates on new

methodologies for integrating infrastructure, landscape, urbanism and architecture within the larger spheres of economics, politics, and culture that implicate these disciplines.

Articles by: Neeraj Bhatia, Luis Callejas, Mary Casper, Brian Davis, Farès el-Dahdah, Rania Ghosn, Carola Hein, Bárbara Loureiro, Clare Lyster, Geoff Manaugh, Alida C. Metcalf, Juliana Moura, Koen Olthuis, Albert Pope, Maya Przybylski, Rafico Ruiz, Mason White, Sarah Whiting. Photo Essays by: Garth Lenz, Peter Mettler, Alex Webb. Research/ Design Team: Alex Gregor, Joshua Herzstein, Libo Li, Joanna Luo, Bomin Park, Weijia Song, Peter Stone, Laura Williams, Alex Yuen.

Published with Rice School of Architecture

English 978-0-9893317-8-415,2 × 22,7 cm576 pagesHardcoverColor and b/w illustrationsPrice € 29,50 / $ 34.95 / £ 23.10

The Petropolis of TomorrowThe Petropolis of TomorrowNeeraj Bhatia & Mary Casper (edts.)

5January 2014

Bracket 3 [at extremes] includes critical articles and unpublished design projects that investigate architecture, infrastructure and technology as they operate in conditions of imbalance, negotiate tipping points and test limit states

We are conditioned, as designers of the built environment, towards the organization of people, programs and movement. Indeed the history of modern urbanism, architecture and building science has been predicated on an anti-entropic notion of programmatic and social order. But are there scenarios in which a state of extremity or imbalance is productive?Bracket [at extremes] seeks to understand what new spatial orders emerge in this liminal space. How might it be leveraged as an opportunity for invention? What are the limits of wilderness and control, of the natural and artificial, the real and the virtual? What new landscapes, networks, and urban models might emerge in the wake of destabilized economic, social and environmental conditions?

With projects by: Lindsay Bremner, Caty Newell, Casey Mack, Fabrizio Gallanti, Elija Huge, Martin Hogue, Bart Overly and BethBlostein, Jonathan Scelsa, Mathias Kempton, Brett Milligan.Contributions: Alessandra Ponte, Keller Easterling, Michael Hensel, Julien De Smedt, Lola Sheppard, Maya Przybylski, and others.

English 978-0-9893317-6-020,3 × 26,7 cm270 pagesSoftcoverColor and duotonePrice € 34.00 / $ 39.95 / £ 32.00

Architecture / Bracket series

Related title: Bracket 2 [goes soft]; 2012;978-84-15391-02-9

Bracket 3Bracket 3[at extremes]Lola Sheppard, Maya Przybylski (edts.)

6 Architecture / Architects

Undertaken at the occasion of LAN’s 10th anniversary, Traces recalls the journey of Umberto Napolitano and Benoit Jallon through their projects and their travel impressions

The city is the point of departure and arrival for the “architectural experience”. It is, therefore, a palpable, external fact as well as a product of the mind, an abstraction. This book attempts to recreate this trajectory and to describe this exchange between the mind and the world through the traces it has produced. Two separate moments lie at the heart of this book’s very structure and shape: one when the city is the site of an experience and of reflection and the other, when architects modify this site through a new project.

English 978-1-940291-02-4608 pages16,5 × 23,5 cmHardcoverColor imagesPrice € 35 / $ 44.95 / £ 31.50

TracesTracesLAN (Local Architecture Network)Umberto Napolitano, Benoit Jallon

November 2013

7Architecture / BuildingsNovember 2013

The newly built Mas d’Enric penitentiary sparks a series of reflections on architecture’s role in the problematic subject of prison design

The prison is an uncomfortable institution and its architecture is often subjugated to technocratic criteria. This servility forces the prison out of the socio-cultural realm where it belongs, thus erasing it from public discourse. “Mas d’Enric” is a new penitentiary that overturns preconceptions and posits architecture as a medium to critically rethink contemporary prison buildings.The discussion is enriched by contributions from a number of influential architects and architectural theorists, and is complemented by original work in film, photography, literature, sculpture and visual arts.

Contributions: Keller Easterling, Adrià Carbonell, Lluís Ortega, Juan Azulay, Juan Elvira, Ramon Faura, Èoghann MacColl, Josep M. Camí, Angela Kay Bunning, Jordi Bernadó, José Hevia, Paula Arroyo.

English 978-0-9893317-7-716.5 × 21 cm208 pagesSoftcoverColor and b/w illustrationsPrice € 28.80 / $ 34.95 / £ 28.00

Critical Prison DesignMas d’Enric Penitentiary by AiB arquitectes + Estudi PSP ArquitecturaRoger PaezRicardo Devesa (ed.)

Critical Prison Design

Related title: Architecture and Violence; 2011;978-84-92861-73-6

Networked Self Sufficient City

The Barcelona Architect in Chief peels the axes in which the cities must be sustained to adapt them to the new information age, and to generate its own resources

Internet has changed our lives but it has not yet changed our cities. Any technological revolution takes paired radical transformations in the life styles. If the age of the car and the oil shaped the cities of the 20th century, the society of the information will form those of the 21st century. It is an unstoppable evolution that, nevertheless, it is necessary to be able to lead with criterion. It is a question of taking advantage of the urban experiences

accumulated for centuries by the human beings and having present that the growth cannot be unlimited and the energetic resources that our planet offers have expiry date. Vicente Guallart exposes this fascinating process in a book loaded with ideas, information and proposals.

English 978-1-9402910-3-112 × 16 cm256 pagesSoftcoverDuotone imagesPrice € 19,25 / $ 24.95 / £ 16.50

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Inhabiting at the Information SocietyVicente Guallart

Networked Self Sufficient City

December 2013

Acupuncture strategies to renovate infrastructure, landscape elements and public space of a city

As the financial crisis deepens in many European countries and the construction sector remains in a slump, many plans for urban regeneration have been shelved. Cities are cutting their spending on large public works, so the time is ripe for low-cost

strategies that have a positive impact on the urban habitat. One such strategy is Public Space Acupuncture, in which independent, but coordinated small interventions help regenerate urban public space and city life. It is based on Zygmunt Bauman’s characterization of the current era as Liquid Modernity.

With works on Switzerland, The Netherlands, Austria, China, Germany, Spain, Albania, Denmark, Hungary, Slovakia, Latvia and Korea.Contributions: Oriol Bohigas, Arnold Reijdorp and Casanova+Hernandez

English 978-0-9893317-0-824 × 19 cm 350 pagesSoftcoverColor and b/wPrice € 35 / $ 44.95 / £ 31.50

Architecture / Urban Design / Public Space

Public Space AcupuncturePublic Space AcupunctureHelena Casanova, Jesús Hernández (edts.)

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Related title: Globalization of Urbanity; 2012;978-84-92862-81-1;

10 Architecture / Academy November 2013

A year of research through studio work, theses, lectures, exhibitions and events

GSD has always recognized the indispensable importance and values of architecture, landscape architecture, urban planning, and urban design, yet has transcended their individual aspirations through intellectual cross-fertilization and collaboration. The material presented in this publication forms a small part of the incredible range and diversity of proposals and visions that our students and faculty have produced during the past academic year. This work is indicative of the School’s commitment, as a global leader in the field, to exploring and articulating transformative ideas through the power of design. It is as important for us to share and communicate the outcome of our research and design investigations as it is to show the fertile circumstances and conditions for the making of these projects.

“GSD Platform 5 represents years of research, exhibitions, and lectures based on events from the Harvard Graduate School of Design, and packs in insights on the expanded GSD and the works produced by the school during 2011-2012. Material represents only a small selection of the overall projects and includes discussions of the School’s continuing commitment to architecture, landscape architecture, and urban planning and design. Links between the design school’s changing structure and evolving global trends make this a particularly important college-level analysis suitable for design and architectural studies alike.” --California Bookwatch

Published with Harvard Graduate School of Design

English 978-1-940291-06-215,5 × 23 cm368 pagesHardcoverColor illustrationsPrice € 30 / $ 34.95 / £ 26.00

GSD Platform 6Melissa Vaughn, Carolyn Deuschle, Rosetta Elkin (edts.)

GSD Platform 6

Related title: GSD Platform 4; 2012; 978-84-15391-0-05 —GSD Platform 5; 2013; 978-84-15391-28-9

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11Architecture / Academy

An interdisciplinary monograph, this volume examines the work of multiple disciplines, many peoples and a multitude of approaches, all operating under the umbrella of one institution

This volume examines one year of research and pedagogy at the University of Virginia School of Architecture, engaged in the conditions of the built environment, relative to 3 states of Flux, Stasis and Crisis.

The questions we ask are: What is the impact of design on the forces that shape our contemporary reality? To what extent do contingencies of time and place impact our practice, and in return how effective is our response in re-shaping the same contingencies?

Contributions: Ghazal Abbasy-Asbagh, Iñaki Alday, Robin Dripps, Rebecca Hora, Ryan Metcalf, Matthew Pinyan

Published with University of Virginia School of Architecture

English 978-1-940291-00-0256 pages14,5 × 21 cmHardcoverColor images Price € 28 / $ 36.95 / £ 24.50

CatalystCatalystConditionsGhazal Abbasy-Asbagh (ed.)

October 2013

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European Union Prize for Contemporary Architecture Mies van der Rohe Award 25th Anniversary, a reflection about the past, present and future of European Architecture

As a part of the activities that will celebrate the 25th anniversary of the European Union Prize for Contemporary Architecture - Mies van der Rohe Award, this catalogue explains the value of the Prize as a platform for discovery and debate about two main topics: the historical value of the Prize as a demonstration of the significance of European architecture, and the Award’s role as a mechanism for bringing up topics of concern in today’s European architecture, and as a process that contributes to building an architectural and urban discourse, both in Europe and throughout the world. The works of the last 25 years are essential tools for defining the future in the upcoming years.

English 978-84-936901-6-816,7 × 24 cm308 pagesHardcoverDuotone imagesPrice € 35 / $ 49.95 / £ 32.95

August 2013

Constructing EuropeArchitecture / Buildings

Constructing Europe25 Years of ArchitectureDiane Gray (ed.)

13ArtistContemporary Art

Venezia, Venezia is an immersive installation by Jaar at the 2013 Venice Biennale

The Alfredo Jaar’s cataloge, who represents Chile at the 2013 Venice Biennale, includes more than fifteen essays by prominent thinkers—critics, writers, theorists—from all over the world who consider Jaar’s contextual installation within the historical trajectory of the Venice Biennale and amidst volatile contemporary global, geographic, political, and cultural transformations. The passage begins with a confrontation of a photographic image of the Argentine-born Italian artist Lucio Fontana, following his return to Milan in 1946, unsteadily poised amidst the catastrophic evidence of the Second World War. Beyond this image of a pandemonium of dust and destruction, steps lead to the physical embodiment of a historic utopia and a conceptual opportunity for reconstruction.

English 978-0-989331-73-9296 pages17 × 24 cmHardcoverColor imagesPrice € 35.00 / $ 39.95 / £ 31.50

Venezia VeneziaVenezia VeneziaAlfredo Jaar

August 2013

Casa Asia presents the contents of the first exhibition by Chiharu Shiota (Osaka, 1972) in Barcelona, showing installations integrated in a unique project at its headquarters

Shiota’s installations produce their own spaces, where hundreds of invisible threads that bond us to things can be seen. In these domestic scenarios she proposes, threads become bridges between a bride’s dress and the absent subject, a piano, suitcases and a mirror. In her work, these threads are veins with tears, fear for abyss, life and death; threads that are plots of particular and universal stories, interweaving like the inverted roots of a tree, just like a rhizome through multiple branches that hold up the relationship between she and the world.

Published with Casa Asia

English 978-1-940291-07-917 × 24 cm320 pagesSoftcoverColor illustrationsPrice € 35.00 / $ 44.95 / £ 31.50

Chiharu ShiotaChiharuShiota

October 2013

14 December 2013Architectural theory

Ecological research applied to current architectural practice

The past two decades have witnessed a resurgence of ecological ideas and ecological thinking in discussions of urbanism, society, culture, and design. The field of ecology has moved from classical determinism and a reductionist Newtonian concern with stability, certainty, and order in favor of more contemporary understandings of dynamic systemic change and the related phenomena of adaptability, resilience, and flexibility. But ecology is not simply a project of the natural sciences. Researchers, theorists, social commentators, and designers have all used ecology as a broader idea or metaphor for a set of conditions and relationships with political, economic, and social implications.Projective Ecologies takes stock of the diversity of contemporary ecological research and theory—embracing Felix Guattari’s broader definition of ecology as at once environmental, social, and existential—and speculates on

potential paths forward for design practices. Where are ecological thinking and theory now? What do current trajectories of research suggest for future practice? How can advances in ecological research and modeling, in social theory, and in digital visualization inform, with greater rigor, more robust design thinking and practice?

New original essays by Peter Del Tredici, Erle Ellis, Christopher Hight, Sanford Kwinter, Sean Lally, Nina-Marie Lister, Chris Reed, Jane WolffReprinted/excerpted essays by Robert Cook,David Fletcher, Richard T.T. Forman, C.S. Holling.

With drawings by, Gross.MAX, James Corner Field Operations, Sean Lally, Anuradha Mathur and Dilip DaCunha, OMA, Stoss Landscape Urbanism, West 8.

Published with Harvard Graduate School of Design

English 978-1-940291-12-317 × 22 cm288 pages, Soft covercolor illustrationsPrice € 32 / $ 34.95 / £ 29.90

Projective EcologiesProjective EcologiesChris Reed and Nina-Marie Lister (eds.)

15Architecture / Verb series

A plural discussion by academics and professionals on the present state of sustainability.

Urban Dilemmas, tries to reveal the significant economic, cultural and political issues that prevent sustainability from operating as a planning and construction prerequisite, and questions the recipes for a socially and environmentally responsible practice. In order to do this, Verb has organized the content in four dilemmas: city & territory; power & economy; lifestyle & politics; energy & risk. Three main blocks organise the content: 1. The observation on Masdar City (Abu Dhabi, UAE) by Boris Brorman, and the interviews with Tobias Wallisser (LAVA), Matthias Schuler (Transsolar) and Nawal Al-Hosany (Masdar); 2. The discussions with the Underdome Project presented at Studio-X New York (a Lab extension of Columbia University’s GSAPP) that maps contending models of energy efficiency to explore their impact on public life; 3. The reflection with series of interviews connected to the Shades of Green lecture sessions held at the Princeton University’s SOA, that re-assesses the discursive, performative, and formal richness

of green. Urban Dilemmas will sheds light on new design perspectives in our post-bublle economy and global crisis.

Contributions:Boris Brorman Jensen, Matthias Schuler (Transsolar), Tobias Wallisser (Lava), Dan Wood & Amale Andraos (Work AC), Gianni Pettena, James Wines (SITE), Stefano Boeri, Winy Maas (MVRDV), Bjarke Ingels (BIG), Minsuk Cho (Mass Studies), Erik Carver & Janette Kim (Underdome project).

English 978-1-940291-13-0204 pages17 × 24 cmFlexibound coverColor images Price € 34 / $ 39.95 / £ 32.00

Urban DilemmasUrban DilemmasQuestioning the Urban Next from sustainable theories and practices, plus an observation of Masdar City as study case

February 2014

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The Arsenal of Exclusion / Inclusion101 Things that open and close the cityInterboro Partners

Architecture February 2014

50 leading experts provide tools for analysing how the Open City is made and unmade

The Arsenal of Exclusion / Inclusion is a book about 101 “weapons” that architects, planners, policy-makers, developers, real estate brokers, community activists and other urban agents use to restrict or promote access to the space of the city. The Arsenal includes minor, seemingly benign things like “No loitering” signs and Bouncers, but also big, headline-grabbing entities like Gated Communities and Eminent Domain. It includes policies like Inclusionary Zoning and Rent Control, but also physical things like Bombs and those Armrests that they put on park benches to make sure homeless people don’t get too comfortable. Some of the entries in the Arsenal-like Halloween and Famous Peoples’ Houses—are probably things you didn’t know had anything to do with cities at all, let alone this war for what Henri Lefebvre

called the “right to the city.” With contributions from Charles Connerly, Beryl Satter, Nathan Connolly, Gerald Frug, Bradford Hunt, Wendy Plotkin, Naa Oyo Kwate, David Freund, Raymond Mohl, Andrew Kahrl, Katherine Gilespie, Setha Low, Ellen Pader, Bill Bishop, Susanna Schaller, Gabriella Modan, Meredith Tenhoor, Gabrielle Esperdy, Joseph Heathcott, Lisa Selin Davis, Margaret Crawford, Vincent James & Jennifer Yoos, Susan M. Schweik, Theresa Schwarz, Michael Kubo, Albert Pope, Bureau EAST, Urban Studio, Jeff Goldenson, Sean Vance, Matthew Lassiter, , Michael Piper, Damon Rich, Kaja Kuhl, Julie Behrens, Jerold Kayden, Stephen Walker, James Rojas, Robert Beauregard, LA Urban Rangers, Tom Vanderbilt, Marshall Brown, Chester Hartman, Elizabeth Evitts, among others

English 978-84-92861-80-416.5 × 23.5 cm288 pagesSoftcoverColor imagesPrice € 34 / $ 39.95 / £ 32

The Arsenal of Exclusion / Inclusion

17Housing

Total Singular HousingTotal Singular HousingGlobal Domesticity, resource-enhanced, docile indoors and colonized outdoorsRicardo Devesa (ed.)

November 2013

Selection of houses from the 21st century. New houses in response to new needs

The single-family house, the jewel of the crown of architecture since 19th century, constitutes a fine and subtle transmissor and detector of changes—by adopting the formal, technical and theorical advances in architecture, but also by being responsive to the social and cultural changes of the times.The house incorporates and reacts to the mutations imposed by the globalization, the spread of the new technologies and the environmental, social and financial crisis from the 21st century.In contraposition to the globalization, a new approach arises to recover the traditional and ancient building knowledge. In contraposition to the single-family house for the highest social classes, comes that from lower classes, with

tight budgets, who do not want to give up their domestic dreams. Seemingly, in contraposition to an interior-oriented habitat, the house opens itself to the exterior and to the landscape. And lastly, in contraposition to the environmental carelessness, the house seeks and demands a low environmental footprint. The postmodern house, exuberant, full of useless devices, becomes obsolete; a more sustainable, inexpensive home (but at the same time vibrant, intrepid and evolved) is preferred today.

Projects by: MVRDV, Sou Fujimoto, OFFICE KGDVS, Tato Architects, CLOUD 9, Andres Jaque, Adjaye, Lacaton&Vassal, Pezo Von Ellrichshausen, Rural Studio, LOHA, Amunt Architects among others.

English 978-1-940291-10-917 × 24 cm396 pagesSoftcoverColor illustrationsPrice € 39 / $ 49.95 / £ 34.95

The Arsenal of Exclusion / Inclusion

Related title: Total Housing; 2010; 978-84-96540-88-0

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Vertical Urban FactoryHousing

Vertical Urban FactoryNina Rappaport

March 2014

Vertical Urban Factory focuses on the spaces of production in cities that both comprise factories that are significant in their design and contribute to a vital urban environment. This book reexamines the historic modernist and contemporary factories through the lens of an urbanist while provoking the future of urban manufacturing. It shows that now factories are cleaner and greener they can be reintegrated in city life creating a new paradigm for sustainable urban industry that is also more self-sufficient. Illustrated with historic and contemporary photographs, manufacturing process diagrams, and infographics by MGMT Design.

Published with Yale School of Architecture

English 978-84-15391-32-6350 pages19 × 25,5 cmHardcover300 IllustrationsPrice € 39 / $ 49.95 / £ 36

19Product and Interior Design

Fuksas DesignFuksas DesignSeptember 2013

Objects, pieces of furniture, scenographies, interior design... another dimension in the work of Fuksas architects

This companion book to Fuksas Buildings features the works by the studio focused on product design, interior design, scenogra-phies, furniture and jewelery. Perhaps the less known aspect of Fuksas work, their product design emphasizes a natural condition in changing scales, materials and uses. Research is also very present behind every piece. Richly illustrated projects such as the Armani stores, the Alessi collection and the furniture for Haworth Castelli, among many others.

“I would like to start by observing how the design made in the Fuksas office takes its character from combining and contrasting two distinct types of poetic expression: abstract and narrative in Doriana Mandrelli’s approach, and intuitive and textural in Massimiliano’s. Brought into contact, these two all-encompassing means of seduction produce a world of objects that are autonomous and original, when

compared to the standard procedure ingrained in the logic of Italian design.Mandrelli and Fuksas’s design originates in the collision and encounter between two forces that have entered the design profession from experiences far removed from design, and it is precisely this procedural unconventionality that lends the objects their character.”Alessandro Mendini (text from the book)

English 978-1-940291-11-6360 pages21 × 30 cmSoftcoverColor images Price € 35 / $ 49.95 / £ 32.00

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SluminsiderArchitecture September 2013

Sluminsider

Sluminsider is a choral narrative that attempts to reveal the complexity of the slum of Mathare, one of the biggest shantytowns in Nairobi. The project of expansion of a street school, the Why Not Junior Academy, and the process of environmental improvement of the surrounding area, where a community agriculture initiative has been set up to replace an unauthorized dump, is the starting point from which to combine experiences and identities from very different disciplines, including architecture,design, agriculture, photography and video.

This project is one of the case studies used for comparison and dialogue with the city of São Paulo. São Paulo Calling is a research project sponsored by the Segreteria de Habitaçao and coordinated by Stefano Boeri, which from January to June 2012 prompted designers, photographers, NGOs and international research groups to examine the informal settlements of Rome, Nairobi, Medellin, Mumbai, Moscow and Baghdad. For six months, an exhibition analyzed the characteristics, differences and causes of informal settlements, developing six workshops in the field in different favelas of São Paulo

and organizing size encounters that made São Paulo the world capital of the debate on transformation of contemporary cities.

Contributors: Liveinslums, Luca Astorri, Gaetano Berni, Elisabetta Bianchessi, Stefano Boeri, Fabio Campana, Francesco Careri, Eliene Corrêa Rodrigues Coelho, Maria Luisa Daglia, Francesco Faccin, Francesco Giusti, Helena Nosek, Silvia Orazi, Filippo Romano, Marianella Sclavi.

English 978-1-940291-08-688 pages27 × 21 cmSoftcoverColor imagesPrice € 25 / $ 29.95 / £ 23.00

21Distributed titles // ArchitectureAvailable

The Cornell Journal of Architecture is a critical journal of architecture and urbanism produced by editors in the Department of Architecture at the College of Architecture, Art, and Planning, Cornell University.

While mathematics in architecture has historically referenced notions of order, proportion, and ideal form, the discipline of mathematics itself has shifted to encompass Uncertainty, Incompleteness, Relativity, and Chaos, moving towards a situation in which truth itself is elusive. This adjustment emerged in part from an engagement with real phenomena, in which natural systems were shown to behave non-linearly and unpredictably.

Meanwhile, the consequences of uncertainty have pervaded our culture to its core. Recovering from the initial high of fractal and random geometrical proficiency, architecture

is just beginning to (re)embrace the underlying issues embedded within this contemporary mathematics: uncertainty, unpredictability, chance, recursion, and informality.

With contributions from: Val Warke, James Siena, Jenny E. Sabin, Francois Roche, Caroline O’Donnell, Archie B. MacKenzie, Mark Morris, Maria Hurtado de Mendoza, Tom Fecht, Dana Čupková + Kevin Pratt, Gang Chen, Mario Carpo, Bernard Cache, Gisela Baurmann + Daina Taimina, Joseph Choma, Michael Young, and interviews with: Jerry Wells + Arthur Ovaska, Anthony Vidler, Shohei Shigematsu

Published by Cornell AAP Publications

English 978-0-9785061-2-422,5 × 18 cm196 pagesSoft coverColor illustrationsPrice € 15.95 / $ 20.00 / £ 14.95

The Cornell Journal of ArchitectureThe Cornell Journal of Architecture09: Mathematics

22 Architecture // Distributed titles

150 new skyscrapers submitted to the eVolo Skyscraper Competition are categorized and examined

This publication is the follow-up to the highly acclaimed book eVolo Skyscrapers. 150 new skyscrapers submitted to the eVolo Skyscraper Competition are categorized and examined. These super-tall structures take into consideration the advances in technology, the exploration of sustainable systems, and the establishment of new urban and architectural methods to solve economic, social, and cultural problems of the contemporary city; including the scarcity of natural resources and infrastructure and the exponential increase of inhabitants, pollution, economic division, and unplanned urban sprawl.

English 978-1-938740-05-3650 pages24 × 28 cmHardcoverColor imagesPrice € 100 / $ 75 / £ 75.00Published by eVolo

Carlo Aiello graduated from the Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation (GSAPP) at Columbia University in New York City in 2004. After collaborating with Asymptote Architecture and Skidmore, Owings and Merrill he established Evolo Press in 2006 for which he is Editor-in-Chief and Creative Director. Carlo has been Juror at the World Architecture Festival, AIA Miami, AIA Los Angeles, and the Krob Competition. Since 2010 he is Faculty at the School of Architecture at the University of Southern California (USC) where he teaches architectural design to undergraduate and graduate students.

eVolo Skyscrapers 2eVolo Skyscrapers 2150 New Projects Redefine Building HighCarlo Aiello (ed.)

November 2013

Related title: eVolo Skycrapers; 978-0-9816658-4-9; $120.00; 9/1/12

23Distributed titles // Architecture / Urban DesignFebruary 2014

This book traces another course to uncover Los Angeles’ primal sources of creation - land and opportunity

Often portrayed as a confluence of cars and movies, this book traces another course to uncover Los Angeles’ primal sources of creation - land and opportunity. Within the endless sprawl there reside flurries of uncodified spatial configurations that no high-definition map or satellite image can accurately capture nor present. (IN)formal LA explores a range of unique spatial practices and pedagogies through the lens of politics in Los Angeles. While this book articulates growing skepticism in current design discourse and education, it also provides a spatial awareness that is culturally rooted, socially responsive

and vitally connected to the city. Composed of essays, photos, projects and interviews, (IN)formal LA embraces the quirky, celebrates the wide and embellishes the close range to expose the complex social organizations within this contemporary urban network.

English 978-1-938740-04-614 × 24 cm110 pagesSoftcoverColor illustrationsPrice € 23.04 / $ 29.95 / £ 20.95Published by eVolo

Victor Jones is an Assistant Professor of Architecture at the University of Southern California, a principal of Los Angeles based (Fièvre + Jones), cultural activist, and writer. His research lies at the intersection of architecture, urban design and community building within cities. Recent design projects include the Platform for Watts House Project (2011) and a skate park for New Orleans’ City Park (2009). His design work has been supported by numerous grants, including the Graham Foundation, Artplaces, and the Nathan Cummings foundation. Forthcoming books include The Basento Aqueduct: Another side of Infrastructure (2014). Jones has been published in AMC/le Moniteur, the New Orleans Times Picayune, ARTVOICES and the Journal of Architectural Education. He lives with his partner in Silver Lake.

The Space of PoliticsVictor Jones (ed.)

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Xenoculture is a term coined by Iranian writer and philosopher Reza Negarestani that describes the need for embracing and exploring the unexpected, the alien. In this issue we borrow the idea and explore the realm of Architecture Xenoculture -- the work of architects and designers who detach from everything that architecture is supposed to be and look like, including preconceived forms and aesthetics, to look into new architectural and design possibilities. An architectural form that emerges from mathematical processes and new material explorations and propose something never before seen -- an aesthetic yet to be determined.

Some of the work showcased has been produced by leading architecture practitioners and academics worldwide including: Hernan Diaz Alonso, Servo, Francois Roche, Marc Fornes, Kokkugia, Zaha Hadid, Volkan Alkanoglu, and Rafael Lozano among others.

English 978-1-938740-03-9300 pages22,8 × 29 cmSoftcoverColor images Price € 20 / $ 24.95 / £ 16.00Published by eVolo

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eVolo 01: Housing for the 21st Century

English 978098166581822,8 × 29 cmSoftcoverColor imagesPrice € 20 / $ 24.95 / £ 16.00Published by eVolo

eVolo 03: Cities of Tomorrow


eVolo 02: Skyscrapers of the Future


eVolo 04: Re-Imaging the Contemporary Museum


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The Car in 2035: Mobility Planning for the Near Future is an artful and refreshingly multifaceted view of the future of mobility, focusing on the car, the street, and public policy in Southern California

These essays and images present the car as both a challenge and benefit to our neighborhoods, cities, and suburbs. A lively mix of auto industry experts, planners, designers, artists, researchers, and architects contemplates how we will adapt our cars and their context so we can continue to enjoy the freedom and benefits of individual mobility in the future. The book features photos by acclaimed Los Angeles-based artist Monica Nouwens and design by Colleen Corcoran. Authors include John Thackara; Michael Webb of Archigram; John Chris Jones, author of Design Methods; and Jeremy Gilbert-Rolfe, chair of Graduate studies in Art at the Art Center College of Design in Pasadena,

and Geoffrey Wardle, leader of Graduate Transportation Design at the Art Center College of Design.

Published by Civic Projects Foundation

English 978-84-15391-26-5288 pages9.9 × 6.9 in.SoftcoverColor images Price € 29.00 / $ 34.95 / £ 27.00

Car in 2035Car in 2035Mobility Planning for the Near FutureKati Rubinyi (ed.)Winner of The Inland Empire Section of the American Planning Association Media Award —The American Planning Association

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A Generous MediumA Generous MediumPhotography at Wellesley 1972-2012Lisa Fischman (ed.)

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A Generous Medium honors the extraordinary legacy of collecting and pedagogical leadership in photography at Wellesley College

Mined from the photographic holdings of the Davis Museum, the catalogue of the exhibition features works selected for interpretation by sixty-five participants-Davis directors and curators, Wellesley faculty, alumnae in the field, and major patrons-all who have had an instrumental role in the shape and pedagogical use of the collection over the last forty years. The selections are organized unconventionally, by date of acquisition, to allow for serendipitous and revealing juxtapositions, surprising connections, and startling revelations. The catalogue presents an eloquent range of pictures, from unattributed early photographs to works by modern masters and renowned contemporary

artists. This diversity reflects the impassioned engagement of many contributors over time, and the aspirational ambitions and exuberant inventiveness of the photographic project at Wellesley writ large.

Published by Davis Museum

English 978-0-985824-90-79.4 × 12.8 in.HardcoverColor imagesPrice € 50.00 / $ 65 / £ 45.00

28 Yale School of Architecture

This is the fifth book documenting the Louis I. Kahn Visiting Assistant Professorship featuring the work of young architect-practitioners teaching in the advanced studios at Yale

The studios each explore new typologies and include the themes, “Once Upon A House,” taught by Hernan Diaz Alonzo of the L.A. based architectural practice Xefirotarch, which examined the relationship of types versus species, where type is viewed as “categories of standardization, then species are malleable entities in constant metamorphosis.” The brief called for a house to occupy a site in three acts by employing a cellular spatial logic. In subverting the typology of the house, the studio presents radical possibilities of inhabitation. In the “Expanded Mosque,” taught by Makram El Kadi and Ziad Jamaleddine of the New York and Beirut-based

architectural practice L.E.F.T. the students critiqued architecturally both an imported Modernism that is dissociated from contextual consideration and a reconstruction of the present in the image of an idealized past. The program of the mosque does not only serve a purely liturgical function, but is also an important community gathering place. The studio examined how the physical space of the mosque and social space of Islam can have a dialogue with other programs, religious or secular. The studio questioned the stagnating typology of the mosque in an attempt to project new possibilities for the future for a site of a World’s Fair designed by Oscar Niemeyer in Tripoli. In the advanced studio, “Re-Storing Public Possessions,” Geoff Shearcroft, Vincent Lacovara, Tom Coward, and Daisy Froud of the London-based architectural practice AOC investigated the increasing emphasis on material artifacts and demand for ‘hard’ storage in this digital world. The studio examined the established public repositories of London—the V&A Museum, the Tate Gallery, the British Museum, the British Library, and the Royal Armouries—and how they might evolve in response to the changing demands of the contemporary public to create a participative and productive architecture. The book features interviews with the professors.

English 978-0-9893317-5-3160 pages8 × 12 in.SoftcoverColor images Price € 27.00 / $ 35 / £ 24.50

Renewing Architectural TypologiesRenewing Architectural Typologies

Hernan Diaz Alonzo, Makram El Kadi and AOC Architecture: Tom Coward, Daisy Froud, Vincent Lacovara, Geoff Shearcroft

May 2014

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Volume one, Layered Urbanisms, presents the work and the advanced studios of Gregg Pasquarelli in “Versioning 6.0,” Galia Solomonoff in “Brooklyn Civic Space,” and Mario Gooden in “Global Typologies.”

English 978-0-3937325-0-4160 pages8 × 12 in.SoftcoverColor imagesPrice € 23.00 / $ 30 / £ 20.50

This second volume, features the advanced studios of Jeanne Gang in “Assembly as Medium,” Sunil Bald in “Institution Dissolution,” and Marc Tsurumaki in “Amphibious Tactics.”


This third volume follows the research and design work of three studios of Ali Rahim of Contemporary Architecture Practice, Christopher Sharples, and William Sharples of SHoP Architects. The three studios are united by a focus on the future of mile-high design.


Architecture InsertedArchitecture InsertedNina Rappaport, Francisco Waltersdorfer, David Yang (edts.)

ArchitectureAvailable

The fourth book documenting the Louis I. Kahn Visiting Assistant Professorship at Yale School of Architecture

Architecture Inserted features the advanced studios of Chris Perry, Eric Bunge and Mimi Hoang, and Liza Fior with Katherine Clarke the Louis I. Kahn Visiting Assistant Professors at Yale. The research and projects grapple with the issues of how to insert new pieces of architecture both as infrastructural and individual cultural buildings, into sites where existing physical and social issues are at conflict. The design solutions in each case Cern headquarters in Geneva, the

Périphérique of Paris, and the London 2012 Olympic site unify the urban design and piece together the sites as bits of urban acupuncture creating new amenities and resources for the future. The book includes interviews with the architects, essays about their themes, and the work of the students in the advanced studios at Yale.


Louis I. Kahn Visiting Assistant Professorship Series:

TurbulenceLayered UrbanismsLayered Urbanisms

TurbulenceNegotiated TerrainsNegotiated Terrains

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Rethinking Chongqing: Mixed-Use and Super-Dense presents the work of a Edward P. Bass Distinguished Visiting Architecture Fellowship at the Yale School of Architecture, co-taught by real estate developer Vincent Lo, founder and chairman of Shui-On Land, the Yale Bass Fellow, and Paul Katz, James von Klemperer, and Forth Bagley, managing principal, design principal, and senior associate, respectively, of the international architecture firm Kohn Pedersen Fox Associates. Chongqing, one of China’s four directly-controlled municipalities, is a rapidly growing economic hub of western China with a rich urban history. As it seeks to expand its urbanized boundaries and redirect economic growth towards the high-tech manufacturing and service industries, it is also investing enormous resources in new transit infrastructure, parks, cultural facilities, and other public amenities. The site of the studio project is the soon to be redeveloped site of the central rail terminal, a critical nexus of infrastructure located near the riverside

that offers rich possibilities for re-thinking the relationship between transit, public space, and mixed-use program in the city. The studio investigated a diverse range of proposals for new scales, typologies, and program mixes. The book includes a comprehensive analysis of mixed-use projects in Shanghai, Hong Kong, and Japan, interviews with the architects and developers, and insightful essays by Wu Jiang and Daan Roggeveen, Rethinking Chongqing demonstrates the role architects and developers might play in shaping new paradigms for the development of western China’s emerging mega-cities.


Rethinking Chongqing:Mixed-Use and Super-DenseRethinking Chongqing: Mixed-Use and Super-DenseThe Edward P. Bass Distinguished Visiting Architecture Fellowship at the Yale School of ArchitectureNina Rappaport, Andrei Harwell, Emmett Zeifman (edts.)

March 2014

Edward P. Bass Distinguished Visiting Architecture Fellowship Series:

COMPOSITES, SURFACES, AND SOFTWAREHigh Performance Architecture

By showcasing the intersection between technology, aesthetics, and function, this book offers a multidisciplinary approach to cutting-edge performative technology.

English 978-0-393-73333-4158 Pages7 × 10 in.Price € 34.60 / $ 45 / £ 31.50

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Urban Intersections 06Urban Intersections 06Nina Rappaport, Noah Biklen, Eliza Higgins (edts.)

ArchitectureAvailable

Urban Intersections: São Paulo documents the collaboration of Edward P. Bass Fellow Katherine Farley, senior managing director of the international real estate developer Tishman-Speyer and Yale adjunct professor Deborah Berke, assisted by Noah Biklen, at the Yale School of Architecture. The book features ways to examine the process of urban design and development in São Paulo, Brazil, a rapidly growing global mega-city, with all its attendant vitality and contradictions. The work engages both the development issues of schedule, phasing, risk, sustainability, value,

and density along with the architectural issues of scale, formal clarity, envelope articulation, use of color and texture, and the relationship of building to landscape. An essay by Victoria Grossman analyzes and critiques development in São Paulo.

English and Portuguese 978-0-3937335-2-5160 pages7 × 11 in.SoftcoverColor imagesPrice € 27.00 / $ 35 / £ 24.50

Edward P. Bass Distinguished Visiting Architecture Fellowship Series:

Poetry, Property, and Place, 01Poetry, Property, and Place, 01

Future Proofing 02Future Proofing 02

The HumanCity 03The Human City 03

Urban Integration 04UrbanIntegration 04

Learning inLas Vegas 05Learning inLas Vegas 05

Backlist32 ArchitectureDesign

Popular Lies About Graphic DesignCraig Ward

An attempt to debunk various misconceptions, half truths and, in some cases, outright lies which permeate the industry of design.

Multi award-winning designer and typographer, Craig Ward, presents his first self-authored book, Popular Lies About Graphic Design. Written both passionately and irreverently, Ward pulls from his ten years of experience to tackle lighter subjects such as design fetishists, Helvetica’s neutrality and urgent briefs, alongside discussions on more worthy topics such as the validity of design education, the supposed death of print, client relationships and pitch planning. In addition, the book features contributions from more than a dozen established practitioners such as Milton Glaser, Stefan Sagmeister, Christoph Niemann and David Carson.

English 978-84-15391-35-7160 pages14 x 18 cmSoft coverb/w imagesPrice € 14 / $ 16.95 / £ 13.00

Ma YansongFrom (Global) Modernityto (Local) Tradition

Complete monograph on Ma Yansong’s work, China’s most internationally recognized architect. All of MAD’s projects - from residential complexes or offices to cultural centres - desire to protect a sense of community and orientation toward nature, offering people the freedom to develop their own experience. Founded in 2004 by Ma Yansong, the office first earned worldwide attention in 2006 by winning an international competition to design a residential tower near Toronto.MAD have been awarded the Young Architecture Award from the New York Institute of Architects in 2006 and the 2011 RIBA international fellowship.

English-Spanish 978-84-15391-36-4384 pages16.5 x 24 cmFlexiboundColor and b/w images Price € 38 / $ 39.95 / £ 36.00

Published with Casa Asia and Fundación ICO

Barcelona Modern Architecture Guide1860-2013. New edition.Manuel Gausa, Marta Cervelló, Maurici Pla, Ricardo Devesa

This guide brings together the most important and interesting examples of modern and contemporary architecture in Barcelona. It covers the emergence of Modernisme and Noucentisme, creative periods for which Barcelona is known the world over. Each entry has a brief description that includes planning and completion dates, a summary description, and subsequent restoration and alterations. This updated edition features the most recent architectural production (up until 2013), including landmarks such as Jean Nouvel’s Agbar tower, the 2004 Forum building by Herzog & de Meuron, the Media-ICT building by Enric Ruiz-Geli and many more.

English 978-84-96954-18-2Spanish 978-84-96954-17-5Catalan 978-84-98504-53-8600 pages // 14.5 x 17 cmSoft cover // b&w imagesPrice € 26.92 / $ 34.95 / £ 26.00

Published with Ajuntament de Barcelona

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Landscape FuturesInstruments, Devices and Architectural Inventions.Geoff Manaugh (ed.)

A speculative look into the future of our built environment

Landscape Futures explores how landscapes, and our perceptions of them, can be utterly transformed by technology and design. It travels the shifting terrains of architectural invention, where new spatial devices on a variety of scales—from the handheld to the inhabitable—reveal previously overlooked dimensions of the built and natural environments. From philosophical toys and ironic provocations to a room-sized kinetic mechanism that models future climates, these devices are not merely diagnostic but creative, deploying fiction as a means of exploring alternative futures: landscape futures, terrestrial scenarios for which we have no other guide.

English 978-84-15391-14-2232 pages // 15.5 x 22 cmSoft cover Color and b/w images Price € 30 / $ 34.95 / £ 28.00

Published with Nevada Museum of Art

Interdisciplinary DesignNew Lessons from Architecture and Engineering.Hanif Kara, Andreas Georgoulias (eds.)

Architecture and engineering are changing. But what about the relationship between architects and engineers?

The subject of this experimental course held at Harvard GSD, with the students of Harvard and MIT, is to see the potential of interaction between the two disciplines from these two schools. Hanif Kara of AKT, engineering designer who has long experience in constructing innovative buildings in terms of architecture and engineering, through the close collaboration with distinguished architects, leads the class, insisting on the importance of each professional field but trying to erode the borders and boundaries between them.

English 978-84-15391-08-117 x 22 cm // 288 pagesHard cover // Color illustrationsPrice € 32 / $ 34.95 / £ 29.90

Published with Harvard University Graduate School of Design

Experiments with Life ItselfRadical domestic architectures of the 1940s and 1950s.Francisco González de Canales

Five experiments made by prestigious architects on their own homes during the dark days of the Second World War.Architects and artists voluntarily or forcibly driven to the margins of social importance began to react to a culturally unsustainable situation of which we know very little even today. Francisco González de Canales studies a series of unrelated cases from the late 1930s to the late 1950s that he refers to as domestic self-experimentation: Germán Rodríguez Arias, Ralph Erskine, Charles and Ray Eames, Juan O’Gorman and Alison & Peter Smithson.

English 978-84-92861-65-1, Spanish 978-84-92861-66-8176 pages14.5 x 20.5 cmSoft coverColor and b/w imagesPrice € 25 / $ 34.95 / £ 22.00

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City Sense 4th Advanced Architecture Contest. Shaping our environ-ment with real-time data.

This publication compiles the winning and the finalist entries of the City Sense competition, organized by the Institute of Ad-vanced Architecture. The com-petition was open to architects, engineers, planners, designers and artists who wanted to con-tribute to progress in making the world more habitable by developing proposals capable of responding to emerging challenges in areas such as ecology, information technol-ogy, architecture, and urban planning, with the purpose of balancing the possible impact of real-time data collection on sensor-driven cities. The book presents a selection of the best projects on Smart Cities, Eco Neighbourhoods, Self-Sufficient Buildings, Intelligent Homes and other proposals which examine the phenomena of sensor-driven cities and intelligent behavioural systems.

English 978-84-15391-29-6368 pages // 12 x 16 cmSoft cover // 600 color imagesPrice € 25 / $ 34.95 / £ 22.00

Published with IAAC

Bracket 2Goes soft.Neeraj Bhatia, Lola Sheppard (eds.)

An in-depth study of soft systems in design Bracket 2 examines physical and virtual soft systems, as they pertain to infrastructure, ecologies, landscapes, environments, and networks. In an era of declared crises—economic, ecological and climatic, amongst others—the no-tion of soft systems has gained increasing traction as a counter-point to permanent, static and hard systems. Acknowledging fluid and indeterminate situations with complex feedback loops that allow for reaction and adap-tion, the possibility of soft sys-tems has re-entered the domain of design. Bracket 2 critically positions and defines soft sys-tems through 27 projects and 12 articles. The editorial board and jury for Bracket 2 includes Ben-jamin Bratton, Julia Czerniak, Jeffrey Inaba, Geoff Manaugh, Philippe Rahm, Charles Renfro, as well as co-editors Neeraj Bhatia and Lola Sheppard.

English 978-84-15391-02-920 x 26.5 cm // 284 pagesSoft cover // Color and duotonePrice € 34 / $ 39.95 / £ 32.00

The Sniper’s LogArchitectural Chronicles of Generation X.Alejandro Zaera-Polo

An insight into the theoretical discourse that shapes and ex-pands the architect’s practiceThis compilation of texts written since 1986 reveals a parallel ac-tivity to Alejandro Zaera-Polo’s professional life. The book is like a sniper’s log, a register of events for the purpose of ac-cumulating experience for future missions, be it academic or pro-fessional, trying to identify ten-dencies and to assess perfor-mances, rather than to establish truth. Written for different media and formats (professional maga-zines, speaking engagements, academic presentations…), the texts are thread together as part of a biographical experi-ence determined by temporal and geographical factors. A graphic texture of nearly 500 images captures the temporal framework of these writings and provide a background to trigger associations.

English 978-84-92861-22-415.5 x 22.5 cm // 592 pagesSoft coverBlack & white illustrationsPrice € 34 / $ 39.95 / £ 32.00


Globalization of UrbanityJosep Acebillo, Jacques Lévy, Christian Schmid (eds.)

The process of urbanisation has changed fundamentally in recent years

A study of the contemporary city and urban space which adopts a systemic perspective for approaching the urban complexity and the nature of urban / public space in the era of globalization. A new language and new theoretical approaches must be developed in order to understand present-day urbanisation processes.

English 978-84-92861-81-1176 pages // 16 x 19 cm Soft cover // b/w imagesPrice € 26 / $ 29.95 / £ 23.50

Published with Università della Svizzera Italiana

New Urban MetabolismJosep Acebillo

The growing urbanization of the planet, visible in the fact that by the middle of this century some 70% percent of the population will live in cities, situates the urban question as a key issue for global sustainability. Many of the causes generating the huge environmental crises, have their rationale in the metabolic inefficiency of our cities. Greater metabolic efficiency contributes to the energy rationalization of urban system and also contributes to greater urban competitiveness. Urban metabolic analysis demonstrates efficiency that small and medium-sized cities can have in the new neo-tertiary context, and could be used as a test to previously evaluate the functional and ecological consequences of future urban transformations.

English 978-84-92861-47-7176 pages // 16 x 19 cm Soft cover // b/w images Price € 26 / $ 29.95 / £ 23.50

Published with Università della Svizzera Italiana

GSD Platform 5A year of research through studio work, theses, lectures, exhibitions and events.Mariana Ibañez (ed.)

GSD has always recognized the indispensable importance and values of architecture, landscape architecture, urban planning, and urban design, yet has tran-scended their individual aspira-tions through intellectual cross-fertilization and collaboration. The material presented in this publication forms an incredible range and diversity of proposals and visions that the students and faculty have produced dur-ing the past academic year. This work is indicative of the School’s commitment, as a global leader in the field, to exploring and articulating transformative ideas through the power of design. It is as important to share and communicate the outcome of the research and design investiga-tions as it is to show the fertile circumstances for the making of these projects.

English 978-84-15391-28-9 368 pages // 15.5 x 23 cm Hard cover // Color images Price € 30 / $ 34.95 / £ 26.00



Candide 4Journal for Architectural Knowledge.Axel Sowa, Susanne Schindler (eds.)

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GSD Platform 4A year of research through studio work, theses, lectures, exhibitions and events.Eric Howeler (ed.)

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OAB, Office of Architecture in Barcelona Carlos Ferrater & Partners

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Candide 5Journal for Architectural Knowledge.Axel Sowa, Susanne Schindler (eds.)

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Published with Aachen University

RequiemFor the city at the end of the millenium.Sanford Kwinter

English 978-84-92861-20-0 122 pages 12 x 17 cm Soft coverColor imagesPrice € 12 / $ 14.95 / £ 10.95

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Farm from EquilibriumEssays on Technology and Design Culture.Sanford Kwinter

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Color in MassConcrete and Pigments on the new City of Justice of Barcelona. By B720, Lanxess and David Chipperfield

English 978-84-15391-20-3Spanish 978-84-15391-21-0144 pages // 16.5 x 24 cm Soft cover // color images Price € 27.88 / $ 39.95 / £ 25.00

Kazuyo Sejima in Gifu Metropolitan Housing Studies

English 978-84-89698-92-5Spanish 978-84-89698-99-6224 pages 17 x 16 cmHard coverColor imagesPrice € 15 / $ 18.95 / £ 13.50

Self-Sufficient CityEnvisioning the habitat of the future.Vicente Guallart (ed.)

English 978-84-92861-33-0416 pages 12 x 16 cmSoft cover400 color imagesPrice € 25 / $ 34.95 / £ 20

Self-Fab House2nd Advanced Architecture ContestVicente Guallart (ed.)

English 978-84-96954-74-8384 pages 12 x 16.5 cmSoft coverColor imagesPrice € 25 / $ 34.95 / £ 20

Self-Sufficient Housing1st Advanced Architecture ContestVicente Guallart (ed.)

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SANAA HousesKazuyo Sejima, Ryue Nishizawa

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Agenda. JDS ArchitectsCan We Sustain our Ability to Crisis?Jesse Seegers, Benedict Clouette, Julien de Smedt, Ryan Neiheiser (eds.)

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A Peripheral MomentExperiments in architectural agency. Croatia 1990-2010.Ivan Rupnik (ed.)

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Architecture and ViolenceBechir Kenzari (ed.)

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Architecture with the people, by the people, for the peopleYona Friedman

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Pro DomoYona Friedman

English 978-84-96540-51-4390 pages 14.8 x 21 cmHard coverColor and b/w imagesPrice € 29 / $ 38 / £ 23.95

The Metapolis Dictionary of Advanced ArchitectureEnglish 978-84-95951-22-9Spanish 978-84-95273-93-2624 pages // 16 x 23 cmHard coverColor imagesPrice € 48 / $ 64.95 / £ 38.95


Mies Van der Rohe Award 2011 European Union Prize for Contemporary Architecture

English 978-84-92861-76-7280 pages17 x 24 cmSoft coverColor imagesPrice € 35 / $ 44.95 / £ 29.90

Fuksas BuildingNew and extended edition of Massimiliano and Doriana Fuksas’ work

English 978-84-92861-78-1520 pages22 x 33 cmHard coverColor imagesPrice € 45 / $ 59.95 / £ 40.00

OpenArquitectura, vivienda y ciudad contemporánea. Teoría e historia de un cambio.Manuel Gausa

Spanish 978-84-96954-86-1992 pages 16 x 24 cm Hard coverColor and b/w imagesPrice € 42 / $ 54.9 / £ 39.9

JourneysHow travelling fruit, ideas and buildings rearrange our environment.Giovanna Borasi (ed.)

English 978-84-92861-54-5French 978-84-92861-55-2320 pages // 17 x 24 cmSoft cover // Color imagesPrice € 30 / $ 36.00 / £ 27.00

iGuzziniBarcelona Corporate Building

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In Favour of Public SpaceTen Years of the European Prize for Urban Public Space.Magda Anglès (ved.)

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Verb Processing

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Verb Matters

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Desert AmericaRem Koolhaas, Stefano Boeri, Sanford Kwinter, Daniela Fabricius, Hans Ulrich Obrist, Nadia Tazi

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Verb Connection

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Seattle Public LibraryOMA/LMN

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Sendai MediathequeToyo Ito

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SociopolisProject for a City of the FutureVicente Guallart (ed.)

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Verb Conditioning

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Verb Natures

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Verb Crisis

English 978-84-96540-97-2288 pages 17 x 24 cmFlexibound cover250 color imagesPrice € 32 / $ 39.95 / £ 25.45

From Control to DesignParametric / Algorithmic Architecture

English 978-84-96540-79-8280 pages 17 x 24 cmFlexibound coverColor imagesPrice € 30 / $ 39.95 / £ 24

Design EngineeringAdams Kara Taylor

English 978-84-96540-66-8288 pages 16.5 x 24 cmHard coverColor imagesPrice € 35 / $ 44.95 / £ 28


Function of OrnamentFarshid Moussavi, Michael Kubo (eds.)

English 978-84-96540-50-7German 978-84-96954-32-8 Spanish 978-84-96954-31-1192 pages // 17 x 22 cmFlexibound cover // b/w imagesPrice € 23 / $ 29.95 / £ 18.95

Buy Me a Mercedes-BenzThe Book of the MuseumUN Studio

English 978-84-96540-37-8German 978-84-96540-36-1 576 pages // 17 x 24 cmHard coverColor imagesPrice € 42 / $ 55 / £ 33.95

Function of FormFarshid Moussavi, Daniel Lopez, Garrick Ambrose, Ben Fortunato, Ryan Ludwig, Ahmadreza Schricker

English 978-84-96954-73-1520 pages // 17 x 22 cmPlastic coverDuotonePrice € 35 / $ 39.95 / £ 29.95

Clip, Stamp, FoldThe Radical Architecture of Little Magazines 196X–197XBeatriz Colomina (ed.)

English 978-84-96954-52-6672 pages 19 x 25.5 cmHard coverColor and duotone imagesPrice € 45 / $ 54.95 / £ 40

Domesticity at WarBeatriz Colomina

English 978-84-96540-11-8Spanish 978-84-96540-10-1320 pages 15 x 30 cmHard coverColor and duotone imagesPrice € 22 / Not distributed in the USA / £ 19

PhylogenesisFOA’s ArkForeign Office Architects

English 978-84-95951-47-2Spanish 978-84-95951-46-5656 pages12 x 16.5 cmHard coverColor imagesPrice € 36 / $ 49.95 / £ 28.95


Total HousingAlternatives to urban sprawl

English 978-84-96540-88-0 396 pages 17 x 24 cmSoft coverColor imagesPrice € 39 / $ 49.95 / £ 34.95

MAD DinnerThe First Book from MAD, China’s Hungriest Architects.Ma Yansong, Yosuke Hayano, Dang Qun

English-Chinese 978-84-96954-21-2520 pages // 21.3 x 24.6 cmFlexibound cover Color and b/w imagesPrice € 35 / $49.95 / £ 27.95

Space FighterThe Evolutionary City (Game:)MVRDV, Delft School of DesignWiny Maas (ed.)

English 978-84-96540-73-6300 pages // 15 x 21 cmSoft coverColor and duotone imagesPrice € 16 / $ 19.95 / £ 14

KM3 Excursions on CapacitiesMVRDV

English 978-84-95951-85-41408 pages15 x 20 cmHard coverColor imagesPrice € 65 / $ 80 / £ 52

GeoLogicsGeography, Information and ArchitectureVicente Guallart

English 978-84-95951-61-8Spanish 978-84-96954-13-7384 pages 12.5 x 19 cm Hard coverColor and b/w imagesPrice € 36 / $ 47 / £ 28.95

Ant FarmLiving Archive 7Felicity Scott

English 978-84-96954-24-3320 pages 16,5 x 21 cmSoft coverColor and b/w imagesPrice € 39 / $ 54.95 / £ 31.95


Photography

BerlinRamon Prat , Jordi Bernadó

English-Spanish-Catalan-German 978-84-604-8113-3 128 pages 25 x 31 cm Hard coverDuotone images Price € 29 / $ 35.00 / £ 21.95

Looking for MiesRicardo Daza

English 978-84-96954-37-3Spanish 978-84-96954-36-6200 pages 16.5 x 15.7 cmSoft coverDuotonePrice € 22 / $ 29.95 / £ 17.95

Global Housing Projects25 buildings since 1980Josep Lluís Mateo (ed.)

English 978-84-96954-47-2258 pages 16,5 x 22 cmHard coverb/w imagesPrice € 28 / $ 35 / £ 22.95

Deconstructing OsamaThe truth about the case of Manbaa Mokfhi.Joan Fontcuberta

English-Catalan-Spanish-French 978-84-96540-90-3124 pages // 21 x 29.7 cmLeather cover120 color imagesPrice € 38 / $ 54.95 / £ 31

Jane AlexanderSurveys from the Cape of Good HopePep Subirós (ed.)

English 978-84-92861-72-9192 pages 24 x 22 cmSoft cover Color imagesPrice € 32 / $ 45 / £ 29.90

Art

Backlist 45Design

Super Holland Design

English 978-84-96954-19-9416 pages 16.5 x 24 cmHard coverColor imagesPrice € 28 / $ 34.95 / £ 24.5

Twenty-Two Tips on TypographyEnric Jardí

English 978-84-96540-92-7104 pages 14 x 18 cmSoft coverColor and b/w imagesPrice € 13.5 / $ 19.95 / £ 10.95

RGBReviewing Graphics in Britain.Marc Valli, Richard Brereton (eds.)

English 978-84-96954-78-6288 pages 25 x 30 cmSoft coverColor imagesPrice € 28 / $ 34.95 / £ 24.95

JPG 2Japan Graphics

English 978-84-96540-14-9420 pages 16.5 x 24 cmSoft cover200 color imagesPrice € 28 / $ 34.95 / £ 24.5

Next NatureNature changes along with us.Koert van Mensvoort,Hendrik-Jan Grievink (eds.)

English 978-84-92861-53-8472 pages 17 x 24 cmSoft cover Color images. Price € 35 / $ 44.95 / £ 31.50

NeulandThe future of German graphic designTwoPoints.net (eds.)

English 978-84-96954-56-4German 978-84-96954-07-6496 pages 16.5 x 24 cmSoft coverColor imagesPrice € 34 / $ 39.95 / £ 29.95

BacklistBacklist46

visualkultur.catart/design/booksDaniel Giralt-Miracle, Vicenç Altaió (eds.)

German 978-84-96540-96-5 352 pages // 17 x 24 cm Soft coverColor imagesPrice € 35

Patente LösungenNew Architecture Made in Catalonia

German 978-84-96954-12-0 240 pages 16,5 x 24 cm Soft coverColor imagesPrice € 28

Global MultitudeHou Hanru

German 978-84-93584-45-0148 pages 21,6 x 28 cmSoft cover Color imagesPrice € 30.00

DysfashionalLuca Marchetti, Emanuele Quinz (eds.)

German 978-84-93584-41-2French 978-84-93584-40-5148 pages 21.5 x 28 cmSoft cover Color imagesPrice € 30.00

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