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Gianni Pettena - Tutto Absolutely Everything... or Almost
Quodlibet 2023 ISBN 9788822908087 Acqn 33122
Hb 17x24cm 528pp col ills £44
Gianni Pettena was a founding member of the Radical architecture movement in the late 1960s,
which included names like Archizoom, Remo Buti, 9999, UFO, Superstudio, and Zziggurat.
Besides critiquing modernist functionalism, the self-proclaimed "anarchitect" became noted for a
purposeful reluctance to actually design. The uniqueness of Pettena's prolific career is informed
by his rejection of discipline-based roles or methodologies, creating temporary works while
constantly seeking alliances with radical design in other countries, as well as conceptual art, Land
Art, and experimental music. This book covers almost all of his works, supported by an extensive
anthology of his writings.
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Acid Clouds - Mapping Data Centre
nai010 publishers 2023 ISBN 9789462087217 Acqn 33148
Hb 18x26cm 480pp col ills £54
'Acid Clouds' is an atlas and anthology of datacentres that maps the material traces of virtual data
in the Dutch landscape. It scrutinizes the massively resource-intensive and earthbound properties
of digital storage, and questions the perception of largescale data repositories as clean,
sterileand environmentally-friendly domains. The book brings together data of more than 100
datacentres across the Netherlands with essays on ecological, architectural, economic, political
and digital rights aspects of their operation. These perspectives are accompanied by colourful
night-time photographs that unveil data centres as infrastructures of power.
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Datapolis
nai010 publishers 2023 ISBN 9789462087194 Acqn 33149
Pb 17x24cm 256pp col ills £44
Data has become a critical component in our lives. When was the last time you spent 24 hours
offline? In a way we take for granted the idea that we are and will be connected. Yet, we hardly
comprehend its mechanisms: connected objects, self-driving vehicles, satellites, global internet
cable networks, data centres, and humanoid robots are the tangible evidence of a complex and
connected world. 'Datapolis' contributes to a theoretical debate on data and its effects on space,
architecture and environments including ecological, economic, political and societal dimensions.
By means of academic papers, short essays, a historical timeline and a catalogue of gizmos,
maps and diagrams, this book intends to be speculative on the ways in which architecture can get
engaged with data, its infrastructural space and its scale.
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Port City Atlas - Mapping European Port City Territories
nai010 publishers 2023 ISBN 9789462087422 Acqn 33150
Hb 17x22cm 480pp col ills £38
A multitude of port cities dots Europe's coastline, all serving to facilitate maritime transportation.
Over millennia, public and private leaders have built harbours, urban spaces and infrastructures
in diverse territories to serve hinterlands, including landlocked capital cities and metropolitan
areas. As nodes on the edge of water and land, port city territories embody knowledge on
maritime flows and water conditions. At a time of climate change, they can be paradigms and
stewards of sustainable development. Taking a comprehensive, mapping based approach, 'Port
City Atlas' visualises 100 port city territories located on four seas and connected through shared
waters.
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Rotterdam Ripresa
nai010 publishers 2023 ISBN 9789461400734 Acqn 33151
Pb 25x19cm 150pp col ills £61
Waking up to the idea of a post-growth society, 'Rotterdam Ripresa' presents a city that aims to
amend instead of renew, accepting not just the pleasant past, but also the impudent present. To
find the new in the old may well be the most sustainable thing of all. Can a city change while
remaining the same? 'Rotterdam Ripresa' adopts an alternative method towards the production of
striking visions for the city. An urbanism of fragmentary intervention as a grand cadavre exquis
where authorship is deluded rahter than distilled. A collection of future fragments for the Neo
Liberal City found ensembles that never were, but always, could have been.
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Repository - 49 Methods and Assignments for Writing Urban Places
nai010 publishers 2023 ISBN 9789462087798 Acqn 33152
Pb 14x21cm 224pp col ills £27
'Repository' offers a set of methods and assignments intended to stimulate new approaches in
architecture, urban studies, and other fields of spatial development and to invite creative, often
embodies, and sometimes playful engagements with the material and immaterial dimensions of
urban places. The publication collects 49 methods, defined here as systematic procedures,
techniques, and ways of acting, to explore, examine, and discover urban places.
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LB 05 Andre Campos - Joana Mendes - Centro Coordenador de Transportes
A.Mag 2022 ISBN 9789895333066 Acqn 33161
Pb 23x29cm 208pp col ills £35
This issue of 'AMAG Long Book' proposes a new transport coordination centre in Chaves,
Portugal, as a significant example of autonomous architecture. Designed by Porto-based
architects Joana Mendes and Andre Campos, the anonymous building and simple metallic
structure show an order and rigour based on the autonomy of the discipline. They explore the
meaning and scale between the existing fragments of the stadium, other existing buildings, the
structure of the transport centre, and the new green space that would also serve the inhabitants
of the city. With images by Alexander Bogorodskiy, and essays by Joao Pedro Serodio and the
authors.
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LB 06 Andre Campos, Joana Mendes and Pedro Guedes de Oliveira - Fabrica em Barcelos
A.Mag 2022 ISBN 9789895333073 Acqn 33162
Pb 22x29cm 68pp col ills £35
The 6th issue of 'AMAG Long Book' features the Fabrica em Barcelos, a family manufacturing
textile facility in Northern Portugal designed by Porto-based architects Joana Mendes and Andre
Campos. Showcasing a repetitive module of a window detail for the reception entrance, as well
as a careful choice of interior beams to accommodate a special staircase, the sober architecture
retains traits and materials that are shared by the existing structures and the neighbouring
industrial buildings. With images by Alexander Bogorodskiy, and texts by Andre Campos, Joana
Mendes, Pedro Guedes de Oliveira, and Jose Paulo dos Santos.
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a+u 628 2023:01 Becoming Frank Gehry
Shinkenchiku-Sha Co. Ltd. 2023 ISBN 9784900212862 Acqn 33163
Pb 22x29cm 180pp col ills £27
Canadian-born American architect Frank Gehry is considered one of the most important and
influential architects in contemporary architecture. This issue of 'a+u' features drawings by Frank
Gehry that span three decades, from his early works in the 1960s to the "exploding" box in Los
Angeles, through to the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao in the late 1990s. While the projects
showcased vary greatly, they document the emergence of Gehry's radical style, which he would
pursue in the following decades. With texts by Jean-Louis Cohen and Megan Meulemans, as well
as drawings, sketches, and photographs.
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Oase 113 – Authorship
nai010 publishers 2022 ISBN 9789462087330 Acqn 33188
Pb 17x24cm 128pp col ills £25.50
What does the author's 'owning' of a project mean? And does this sense of ownership still prevail
in contemporary architecture culture? Is the concept of individual authorship not a cul-de-sac,
preventing the processes of invention and innovative thinking often necessary for addressing a
practice that is more collaborative than ever? What, then, might be the essential argument for
retaining the concept of authorship in architecture today? Perhaps the most resounding argument
is this: authorship is not only an act that implies originality, it is also a deeply felt commitment to a
work that until its realisation belonged only to the author, but to which he or she is also completely
devoted.
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Arquitectura Viva 249 - Tunon y Albornoz
Avisa 2022 no ISBN Acqn 33200
Pb 34x30cm 180pp col ills £22
Shifting towards works of a smaller scale in the decade since Luis Moreno Mansilla passed away,
this issue of 'Arqitectura Viva' features six trademark works by Emilio Tunon and Carlos Martinez
Albornoz: the refurbishment of the Paredes-Saavedra House; the Helga de Alvear Museum; a
Stone House in Caceres; a Stone and Tile Cabin in the Sierra of Soria Province; a Brick House;
and the new Arquia Bank headquarters in Madrid. Also included are the four stadiums in Qatar
built to host the 2022 FIFA World Cup, and texts by Estrella de Diego on Pablo Picasso, Justo
Isasi on the graphic work of Herge, and Francis Fukuyama on the moderation that should take
hold of liberalism.
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Francis Kere
Avisa 2022 ISBN 9788412604450 Acqn 33201
Hb 25x31cm 184pp col ills £74
Pritzker Prize laureate of 2022, Francis Kere has become a symbol of social and sustainable
construction. Born in the Burkinabe village of Gando in 1965, Kere studied in Germany and set up
his office in Berlin, from which he returns time and again to his country to help transform his
community. The success of the school he designed while still a student took him to build a large
complex in his home village, and this determination to do 'more with less' has extended, beyond
the frontiers of Burkina Faso, to several African countries - Mali, Kenya, Mozambique, Uganda,
Sudan, Niger, Senegal, and Benin. Since being selected to build the Serpentine Gallery of 2017
in London, his works have also reached different countries in Europe and the United States.
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Arquitectura Viva 250 - Useful Utopias
Avisa 2023 no ISBN Acqn 33202
Pb 24x30cm 88pp col ills £22
From the Ideal City to the Domestic Dream. Arquitectura Viva celebrates its 250th issue with a
special edition that presents utopias as an optimistic alternative to the dim panorama marked by
economic decline, epidemic threats, and the devastation of war, all this in the context of a climate
emergency. Luis Fernandez-Galiano makes a revision of different notions of the ideal city without
forgetting about the dangers looming over them; the collective Dogma reflects on urban villas as
feasible housing proposals grounded on 'commoning'; and James Bradford DeLong presents his
thesis on a long 20th century during which humanity has pursued its utopias of freedom and
prosperity.
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AV Monographs 248 - E2A
Avisa 2023 ISBN 9788412604467 Acqn 33203
Pb 24x30cm 128pp col ills £43
Strong and ironic, material and program-based, contained and purposeful are some of the
adjectives that could be used to sum up the sound and lucid oeuvre of Piet and Wim Eckert (born
in 1968 and in 1969, respectively). After graduating at the ETH Zurich and a period working at the
studio of Rem Koolhaas in Rotterdam and living in cities like Los Angeles or Seoul, they set up
their own office, E2A, in 2001. Two decades later, AV Monographs gathers a selection of twenty
works that reflect the intellectual maturity and constructive precision of the Zurich-based studio.
Despite the scarce geographic variety (only two of the buildings featured are outside of
Switzerland), the projects published on these pages address a wide range of programs, from
schools to sport centers and headquarters for newspapers, foundations or factories via single-
family houses, apartment buildings, mixed-use blocks and even a police station.
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AV Proyectos 114 - Lina Ghotmeh
Avisa 2023 no ISBN Acqn 33204
Pb 21x30cm 180pp col ills £14.50
AV Proyectos 114 dedicates its dossier to the latest projects by the French-Lebanese architect
Lina Ghotmeh - selected to design the Serpentine Gallery summer pavilion of this year in London,
which show that tradition and ecological innovation can go hand in hand in making a unique
architecture. The chapter that follows features the proposal by Europarc, winner of the
competition to revitalize the current headquarters of the European Parliament in Brussels. The
issue also includes four works built in mares stone in Mallorca, offering examples of how this
multipurpose material is used in residental projects of different scales.
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VTN architects
Avisa 2023 ISBN 9788412520293 Acqn 33205
Hb 25x31cm 160pp col ills £49
Just like the rest of the countries in Southeast Asia, Vietnam has experienced a deep
transformation over the last three decades, from a rural and agricultural economy to an urban and
industrial one. This fast metamorphosis has brought along huge economic growth but also
devastating ecological consequences such as the loss of greenery in urban environments and the
increase of pollution in cities. In this context, Vo Trong Nghia decided to return to his home
country, with offices today in Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh City. Since then, VTN Architects has worked
to achieve a new balance between the built and the natural, defending form as the main path
towards efficiency, and asserting the importance of local knowledge, the social and ecological
value of vegetation, and a modern reinterpretation of accessible and affordable materials like
bamboo.
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Building Around Architecture - Francesco Venezia Outside The Mainstream
A.Mag 2022 ISBN 9789895390557 Acqn 33208
Pb 12x22cm 104pp col ills £22.50
The Pocket Books are a series of small publications which compile theoretical texts by various
architects or institutions in different collections. These writings reflect various areas of interest
and performance in architectural discourse. For this edition, Annette Condello, educator in
architectural theory and urban design at Curtin University, Australia, delves into themes in Italian
architect Francesco Venezia's writings and works which expand on the evolution of fragmentary
design strategies and their pre-Christian foundations. The analysis goes on to critically question
the foundations and conditions for productive reuse in Italy, relevant in terms of the circular
economy.
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Automated Landscapes
Het Nieuwe Instituut 2023 ISBN 9789083301105 Acqn 33212
Pb 17x24cm 190pp col ills £31.50
'Automated Landscapes' examines a series of work environments at the forefront of automation -
from dairy farms and greenhouses to factories and data centers in the Netherlands and China's
Pearl River Delta. Furthering contemporary debate, the book debunks the myth that automation
replaces people with machines, revealing that human bodies remain present in assembly and
supply lines, albeit performing different tasks and governed by the rhythms of automation. The
publication presents the results of the Nieuwe Instituut's research project 'Automated
Landscapes', developed in collaboration with the Faculty of Architecture and the Built
Environment of TU Delft, Aformal Academy Shenzhen, and the Royal College of Art London.
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Construction Briefing
Icop 2023 ISBN 9789082347937 Acqn 33218
Pb 15x23cm 272pp col ills £42
Every building project should start with a brief. A good brief clearly explains what the client wants
while providing the design team with the information and inspiration they need to create a
successful building. Beyond that, the brief functions as a framework for quality management
during the project. To this end, experts Juriaan van Meel and Kjersti Bjorkeng Stordal assembled
this practical guide for developing high-performance briefs. Using clear language, the book
succinctly explains the briefing process, different kinds of briefing techniques, and the topics that
the brief should address. It also offers examples, checklists, and recommendations to apply
directly in practice.
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Episodes - Powerhouse Company
Maas Lawrence 2022 ISBN 9789083286006 Acqn 33219
Hb 24x32cm 344pp col ills £92
With 18 projects ranging from a chair to high-rise buildings, this book offers a cross section of the
recent work of Powerhouse Company, which is based in Rotterdam, Munich, and Oslo.These
projects are episodes in the success story of an architectural office that only completed its first
building, a villa, in 2007. In three essays, Mimi Zeiger, Hans Ibelings, and Gay Gassmann share
their insights on the work and the motivations of Powerhouse Company. Episodes traces how
Powerhouse Company's architecture has evolved while retaining what sets it apart: its attention
to craftsmanship and innovation, its generosity, its comfort, and its resolute beauty.
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a+u 629 23:02 HARQUITECTES
Shinkenchiku-Sha Co. Ltd. 2023 ISBN 9784900212879 Acqn 33220
Pb 22x29cm 168pp col ills £27
Founded in 2000 by four classmates from Barcelona's Valles School of Architecture,
HARQUITECTES exudes a clear ambition toward universal relevance while being rooted in
Catalonia. Which is why their architecture still holds a particularly Mediterranean feel, blurring the
threshold between inside and outside. Simply put, their buildings are passive thermal machines
that harmonise the built and natural surroundings to achieve comfort. Of the eighteen projects
featured here, half are public buildings while the rest are private residences. Needless to say,
their detailed and holistic approach has garnered much-deserved acclaim in the 21st-century
architecture world.
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Scape 19
Blauwdruk Publishers 2023 ISBN 9789492474605 Acqn 33221
Pb 17x24cm 192pp col ills £26.50
The theme "across" appears here, again and again. A whole dossier is even devoted to it:
crossing borders between north and south, academics and practice, students and professionals,
residents and researchers, rich and poor, tradition and experiment. Living labs are an important
tool in this sense, according to scientists from Argentina and Sweden who expand on the theme.
Featured also is landscape architect Adriaan Geuze, who agrees that one cannot go far enough
when thinking "across". Further topics include a reportage by the French firm Pareto Paysages on
indigenous landscapes in Tunisia and the Andes and a photo essay on agricultural landscapes.
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Yearbook Landscape Architecture and Urban Design in the Netherlands 2022
Blauwdruk Publishers 2023 ISBN 9789492474599 Acqn 33222
Pb 23x30cm 184pp col ills £36
The keywords these days are circular, symbiotic, and nature-inclusive. We have entered the age
of biology - urban planning and landscape architecture are increasingly guided by natural
processes. The yearbook presents nineteen projects featuring outstanding work from both
landscape and urban designers, including Buro Lubbers, Powerhouse Company, Studio
Libeskind, LOLA Landscape Architects, Piet Oudolf, and many more. Each project is
accompanied by a short explanatory essay. In addition, the yearbook includes a photo reportage
on the "walking trees" of Leeuwarden and an interview with the Dutch minister of Housing and
Spatial Planning, Hugo de Jonge.
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