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Jo Coenen. From Urban Design to Architectural Detail
Hilde de Haan

Dutch architect Jo Coenen is a man of many talents – architect, urban planner, teacher, governmental policy advisor, and a gifted drawer.
In six interviews with Jo Coenen and extensive documentation of his multi-faceted oeuvre – including the new NAi building (Rotterdam), the Oosterdok Public Library (Amsterdam), and his masterplans for Vaillantlaan (The Hague) and the KNSM-island in Amsterdam – this monograph presents his ideas on the fundamental importance of architecture for the creation of coherent urban and public spaces and a high quality of life.

Hardcover / 448 pages / text English / 2003
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P.J.H. Cuypers (1827-1921). The Complete Works
Jan Bank, Hetty Berens, Auke van der Woud, Mariet Willinge, Ida Jager

Rarely has a Dutch architect been such a defining factor for the impression of an era than the Roermond-born architect Pierre Cuypers (1827–1921). It is not only the famous edifices such as the Rijksmuseum and the Central Station in Amsterdam that have been fixed in the national consciousness; his many Catholic churches with their neo-Gothic towers are also inseparably associated with the image of Dutch cities and villages.
Cuypers’ views on restoration, the international context in which he developed his ideas, his plea for a revaluation of Gothic architecture, his many followers and his influence on H.P. Berlage and Michiel de Klerk make him the most important Dutch architect of his time. The work of Cuypers made the Industrial Revolution manifest in the Netherlands and gave a major impulse to the professionalization of architectural practice. All this proceeded in parallel with the burgeoning of the Dutch economy and socio-cultural life in the second half of the 19th century. With his hundreds of buildings, Cuypers not only left a quantitative mark on the built environment in the Netherlands, but he also raised the quality of Dutch architecture and established a model for the modern architecture firm.
This beautifully designed publication unlocks Cuypers’ complete oeuvre for the first time. A selection of essays sheds light on Cuypers’ position and the significance of his work. Many hundreds of photos, designs and maps make this standard work complete.

Hardcover / 400 pages / text English / 2007
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Your Private Sky: R. Buckminster Fuller
R. Buckminster Fuller, Claude Lichtenstein, Claude Lichtenstein

Buckminster Fuller was one of the most revolutionary technological visionaries of this century. As an architect, engineer, entrepreneur, and poet, he was the quintessential American self-made man. But he was also an outsider, a technical expert with a poet's imagination who by the 1930s had already developed theories on environmental issues and anticipated the rapid globalization of our planet. This visual reader documents and examines Fullers theories, ideas, designs, and projects. It also takes an analytical look at his ideology of technology as panacea. It contains numerous illustrations, many published here for the first time, as well as texts by Fuller and the editors.

Hardcover / 528 pages / text English / 1999

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Le Corbusier: Moments in the Life of a Great Architect
Arthur Rüegg

Between the years 1955-1965 Magnum photographer Rene Burri spent much time with Le Corbusier, photographing him in the most diverse situations.Always chasing that special moment when everything is just right, Burri has captured moments in Le Corbusier´s private and professional life which provide fascinating insight into the man behind the public figure. These beautiful photographs are an outstanding document of value for art and architectural history and will provide many a surprise for those who browse through this volume. At a special reduced price, the book is immediately accessible to a wide audience of Le Corbusier fans, eager to catch a more personal glimpse of this renowned architect.

Hardcover / 176 pages / text English / 1999

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W.M. Dudok
Herman van Bergeijk

Willem Marinus Dudok (1884-1974) is regarded internationally as one of the most important Dutch architects. As director of Public Works and City Architect to Hilversum, Dudok realized in that municipality not only his world-famous City Hall but also a welter of smaller projects including public baths, a library, housing, schools, a sports park and a cemetery. It was in this period that Dudok developed his own idiom, marked by compositions of cubic volumes. Besides his Hilversum buildings, others he built in Rotterdam, Paris and Velsen have been the subject of great interest. They are regarded as exemplifying an architecture that appeals not only to the professional world but also to the public at large. This compact though lavishly illustrated volume gives a complete overview of the major works by this architect who succeeded in striking a unique balance between modernism and tradition.

Paperback / 160 pages / text English / 2001

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Zaha Hadid - Car Park and Terminus Strasbourg
Zaha Hadid, Udo Weilacher

The blurry interface of exurbia and suburbia represents strange and alien territory for architects, because the context is usually vague and the space haphazardly organised. The intermodal transportations by Zaha Hadid in Strasbourg capazalizes on the haphazardness of its suburban setting. To reconocile the car and the dense historic fabric of Strasbourg, a city near France's border with Germany, Zaha Hadid responded to the site with elegant but deceptive simplicity. She folded a place of concrete up from the ground to form a canopy that stretches diagonally across the bus and tram lanes toward the parking lot and Strasbourg beyond, as though pulled in that direction. The lots demonstrate Hadid's assumption that the buses and trams are a permanently impermanent part of the station's overall organization and cpmposition. Hadid treats the cars that park here almost as natural phenomena with their own diurnal rythms.

Paperback / 100 pages / text English / 2004

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FARMAX. Excursions on Density
MVRDV, Winy Maas, Jacob van Rijs, Richard Koek

Vast areas of the Netherlands and other states seem to be filling up with a suburban ’matter’ of low cost housing, low rent offices, warehouses and other low density elements.
How are we to cope with this matter that is turning our environments into one ’sea of mediocrity’, one vast ’greyness’, an equation of difference and individualism? Is it possible to reconsider this situation by carrying density to extremes and ruffling the texture with inserts or polarities?
This book examines the possibilities of these extremes. It sets out to discover the prospects and limitations, the world of the extreme Floor Area Ratio, FARMAX. Conceived and edited by Winy Maas and Jacob van Rijs with Richard Koek and produced by MVRDV, FARMAX reads as an architectural narrative composed of studies and designs made by MVRDV and students from Delft University of Technology, the Berlage Institute and the Rotterdam Academy of Architecture and Urban Planning, along with contributions by other authors.

Paperback / 736 pages / text English / 2006

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Charlotte Perriand - Livre de Bord 1928-1933
Arthur Rueggl

The acclaimed French designer Charlotte Perriand (1903-1999) worked in the studio of Le Corbusier in the late 1920s together with Le Corbusier and Pierre Jeanneret. The famous Corbusier furniture pieces are the result of this unique collaboration. A facsimile reproduction of Charlotte Perriand's 140 page Livre de Bord, her sketchbook during the years 1927-1933, is the centrepiece of this publication. Arthur Rüegg's introductory essay brings to life in text and image those pioneering years. His precise and detailed commentaries inspire an appreciation and understanding of the richness of each drawing. A 16 page dossier of illustrations recreates the famous 1929 Salon d'Automne and the original furnishings of Villa Church. Arthur Rüegg, Professor for Architecture and Construction at the ETH in Zurich, is the leading expert on Le Corbusier's interior design, furniture and colour theory.

Hardcover / 272 pages / text English / 2004

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Kazuyo Sejima in Gifu. Metropolitan Housing Studies
Albert Ferré , Tomoko Sakamoto

Located in Gifu, sits a building that constitutes the first material expression of Kazuyo Sejima's studies on metropolitan housing. This investigation proceeded from the conclusion that not all subsidized housing needs to be the same. Starting from a generic public housing program, Sejima's housing block in Gifu departs from convention and occupies the conceptual and physical space created between oppositional design concerns: where a strictly modulated structure confronts a random arrangement of different spaces; between the length of the building and the reduction of its built depth; between inhabitable space and the surrounding landscape; between the individual and the family unit.

Hardcover / 224 pages / text English / 2005

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Alison and Peter Smithson / From the House of the Future to a house of today
Max Risselada and Dirk van den Heuvel, translation D'Laine Camp

Striving to adapt the progressive ideas of the pre-war modern movement to the specific human needs of post-war reconstruction, Alison and Peter Smithson were among the most influential and controversial architects of the latter half of the 20th century. As younger members of CIAM (Congrès Internationaux d'Architecture Moderne) and as founding members of Team 10 they were at the heart of the debate on the future course of Modern Architecture. The uncompromising modernity of their Hunstanton Secondary Modern School (1949-1954) heralded the Smithsons' role as the leading exponents of the New Brutalism.
This book examines the evolution of their approach to the everyday 'art of inhabitation'. It does so by extensively documenting most of their housing designs, especially their optimistic House of the Future of 1956 and the series of renovations of and additions to the fairy-tale like 'Hexenhaus' in Germany from the late 1980s onward. Also included are essays by Beatriz Colomina, Dirk van den Heuvel and Max Risselada, plus a selection of texts by Alison and Peter Smithson.

Hardcover / 232 pages / text English / 2004

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A Hundred Years of Dutch Architecture 1901 - 2000. Trends Highlights
Umberto S. Barbieri; Leen van Duin
A Hundred years of Dutch Architecture reconstructs the frames of reference that informed the practice of architecture in the Netherlands during the last century. The book provides a detailed documentation of twenty key architectural works, based on the original plans. Each of these works embodies a specific response to an architectural problem and represents a crystallization point of one of the various approaches that can be distinguished within the gamut of design strategies, namely a traditionalist, an expressionist, a functionalist, a rrationalist and a post-modernist approach.
These five approaches to architecture are reconstructed by analysing the interconnection between a building's form, construction and function. Their architectural and social significance is examained in five separete essays that precede the documentation.

Hardcover / 370 pages / text English

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Living in the Lowlands. The Dutch Domestic Scene 1850-2004
Aaron Betsky, Hans Ibelings, Jean-Paul Baeten en JaapJan Berg

Living in the Lowlands offers a kaleidoscopic overview of one of the most important themes in Dutch architecural history: living and the home environment.
Specific periods are addressed on the basis of selected projects, among wich: Amsterdam's Vondelstraat by P.J.H. Cuijpers, Plan Zuid by Berlage, Rotterdam's Pendrecht and Alexanderpolder neighbourhoods, Almere and Ypenburg. Utopian designs by the architects H.T. Wijdeveld, Cornelis van Eesteren and OMA are also included.
Fifteen 'domestic scenes' illustrate important points in the history of housing construction in the Netherlands since 1850.
Each 'domestic landscape'is described by a different author in a brief and sometimes highly personal text, illustrated with visual documentation from the collection of the Netherlands Architecture Institute.

Paperback / 240 pages / text English / 2004

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Back from Utopia. The Challenge of the Modern Movement
Hubert-Jan Henket and Hilde Heynen

The Modern Movement in architecture advocated an approach that would keep pace with technological developments, do justice to the needs of the rising masses and convey an image of universality, freedom and openness. Pioneers like Le Corbusier, Gropius and Mies van der Rohe created a sober architecture free of ornament whose aesthetic appeal relied upon the play of interpenetrating volumes and effects of transparency. This architecture was bound up with a utopian impulse, in that its promoters firmly believed that the creation of a better architecture would automatically lead to a better world. Decades later we are witnessing both the positive and the negative results of this endeavour. After the all too rapid condemnation of the Modern Movement by its post-modernist critics, it is now time for a more balanced reassessment. This book brings together 42 contributions by leading voices from the world of architecture and architectural history. Authors critically discuss the values of the Modern Movement, its multiple manifestations, its connections with colonialism, the promises it did not keep and the paradoxes it gave rise to. In a variety of ways, ranging from cartoons, collages and poems to essays and scholarly texts, they comment upon the significance of the Modern Movement today.

Paperback / text English / 2002

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Urban Flotsam / Stirring the City
Chora , Raoul Bunschoten, Takuro Hoshino, Hélène Binet

The manner in which global trends affect cities and increase instability is like letting a rising river loose on a house. Global trends create urban flotsam that forms a second skin of the earth. How is this visible and how can it be useful in urban planning? This book answers questions through examples. It contains a manifesto for a general debate of issues, a poetic setting of the theme of the second skin and case studies undertaken in urban situations. With splendid photographs and magnificent conceptual maps and diagrams, the book balances between urban theory, urban pedagogy and urban poetry.

Hardcover / 448 pages / text English / 2001

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RE:CP
Cedric Price, Arata Isozaki, Patrick Keiller, Hans Ulrich Obrist, Rem Koolhaas
Cedric Price claimed that cooking is a good metaphor for architecture - a spontaneous and creative process in which design ideas can be developed, constructed and submitted to the user / consumer for approval in a single sitting. This is a collection of (the now deceased) CP's finest architectural recipes. One of Britain's most influential architectural thinkers, Price inspired generations of architects with his radical conceptual approach. He argued against the production of confining, functional spaces and sought to analyse the motivations that might give rise to a structure in the first place. "Technology is the answer," he said, "but has the right question been asked?" Re:CP contains a selection of Price's inimitable writings and drawings, as well as contributions from Arata Isozaki, Patrick Keiller and Hans Ulrich Obrist.

Paperback / 192 pages / text English / 2003

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5 Codes. Architecture, Paranoia and the Risk in Times of Terror
Gerd De Bruyn, Stephan Truby, Daniel Hundsdorfer

When the World Trade Center's Twin Towers collapsed into a heap of rubble and ash, the United States government created the Department of Homeland Security. Its primary task is to keep the terrorist threat in permanent view. To do this, it developed a five-stage warning system based on the colors green, blue, yellow, orange, and red: 5 codes. The hypnotic character of this system prompted the editors of this book to conceive a history of architecture based on these 5 codes. For the fifth anniversary of September 11, the book gazes spellbound into the abyss of the indissoluble entanglements and connections between culture and fear, which determine our lives more than ever today. Urban and regional planning, urbanism, and architecture are more and more powerfully marked by this culture of fear throughout the world. With a fascinating collection of texts by noted authors and spectacular architectural projects, "5 Codes" presents a vivid and informative account of the light and shadow sides of our collective paranoia.

Paperback / 299 pages / text English / 2006

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Beat Streuli Gabriele Basilico
René Boomkens, Hropsimé Visser

The photographers Beat Streuli (b. 1957) and Gabriele Basilico (b. 1944) represent two radically different visions of the modern city. Streuli captures the urban atmosphere in life-size colour photographs of anonymous passers-by in big cities. Basilico takes black-and-white pictures of post-industrial cities in which he concentrates on structure and the architectural play of forms. Their work stimulates the viewer to ponder the identity and representation of the modern metropolis.

Paperback / 192 pages / text English / 2002

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P. Struycken
Carel Blotkamp, Daniel Dekkers, Jonneke Jobse, Ruud Schenk

Since the 1960s, Peter Struycken (b. 1939) has been one of the foremost artists in the Netherlands. His artistic work is amply represented in the collections of almost every important museum of modern art. He has also realized hundreds of commissions, including major projects in public space, colour palettes for a diversity of applications and the standard Dutch postage stamp with the portrait of Queen Beatrix, which he designed for the Post Office as far back as 1980. His most renowned large-scale works include the arcade lighting (1993) for the Netherlands Architecture Institute in Rotterdam, a building designed by architect Jo Coenen, and the tiling and colour scheme for 'De Struyck' student flats (1993) in The Hague, a building designed by Carel Weeber.
This publication offers a comprehensive overview of all Struycken's work from 1955 to the present. There are illustrations of more than 80 of Struycken's most significant monumental projects and autonomous works, each accompanied by an entry with relevant information. Various authors explain Struycken's methodology as well as the underlying theories and concepts regarding colour that underlie these projects.
A DVD is included with the book, so that readers can experience a number of Struycken's key monumental works in 360-degree panorama photos, shot in spectacular fashion by Carel Struycken.

Hardcover (incl. DVD) / 272 pages / text English / 2007
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Vinex Atlas
Jelte Boeijenga, Jeroen Mensink
It was in the early 1990s that the Dutch Ministry of Housing, Spatial Planning and the Environment published the supplement to the fourth report on spatial planning. This policy document achieved fame and notoriety under its Dutch acronym, Vinex. In its wake, hundreds of thousands of dwellings were erected throughout the Netherlands in what became known as Vinex districts. Sometimes eulogized, often vilified, they have always been a source of debate. The Vinex Atlas gives the first in-depth account of the entire Vinex stock, describing 52 districts aided by aerial views from the mid-nineties, plans, site data and recent on-site photographs. Add to these an exhaustive essay on the genesis and implementation of the Vinex programme and you have the definitive reference work on this unique spatial planning operation in the Netherlands.

Hardcover / 304 pages / text English, Dutch / 2008

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Metropolitan World Atlas
Arjen van Susteren
DWith its wealth of facts and clean, abstract design, the Metropolitan World Atlas is a must-buy.
Despite the burgeoning interest in metropolitan growth and globalization there has been no way of directly comparing metropolises - until now, that is. This atlas offers a unique survey of global trade networks and their impact on metropolitan space. It documents a total of 101 metropolises, analysing them in easy-to-read ground plans. It also includes index numbers and tables regarding such aspects as population, density, pollution, travel time, data traffic, air and water travel and the size of Central Business Districts. Its unexpected combination of ground plans and statistics makes this atlas a unique work of reference where for the first time metropolitan areas like Beijing, Lagos, London, Los Angeles, Rio de Janeiro and Tokyo can be compared with one another and in terms of their position in the global urban network.

Hardcover / 312 pages / text English / 2007

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Lexicon of Garden and Landscape Architecture
Meto J. Vroom

Abstraction and hedge, interaction and landmark, labyrinth and synthesis, pond and utopia — the reader is confronted with a tremendous variety of terms, from the description of the various elements of a garden all the way to theoretical, historical, symbolic, and iconographic aspects of landscape design. Meto J. Vroom, a former professor of landscape architecture at Universiteit Wageningen, defines and analyzes more than 250 terms, concepts, and objects. While the definitions convey the universally recognized meaning of the headwords, each essay briefly outlines a subject with a critical commentary and numerous commendations for further reading.
Thus the lexicon serves to clarify important terms and expressions that designers use on a daily basis. More than that, however, it also constitutes a general introduction to the major themes of landscape design.

Hardcover / 352 pages / text English / 2006

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Sensations. A Time Travel through Garden History
Nadine Olonetzky

The history of European landscape design has its beginnings in the early cultures of the Mediterranean. Today, the park is still a site of design activity where human beings use living material to create an artificial landscape, a paradise. Sensations conjures up the history of the garden before the reader's eyes, from the Garden of Eden to the invention of the lawnmower. This beautiful survey of the development of landscape design from 4000 B.C. to the present contains thoughtfully written texts and an abundance of historical and contemporary images.

Hardcover / 128 pages / text English / 2006

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Floor Plan Manual: Housing
Friederike Schneider
The updated and extended edition of the classic Floor Plan Atlas: Housing.
The Housing Floor Plan Atlas, for 10 years the bestseller among reference works, has lost none of its actuality. ground floor planning and living space requirements have changed little over the past decade, but the selected case-studies and their graphic presentation have been updated to satisfy the demands of today's audience.
This new edition features some 35 new examples by: Ben van Berkel; Caruso St. John; Kazujo Sejima; MVRDV and other prominent modern architects, as well as adding classic case-studies by for example Mies van der Rohe; Louis I. Kahn; Adolf Loos; Richard Neutra e.a.

Hardcover / 320 pages / text English, german / 2004

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Living Plans. New Concepts for Advanced Housing
Klaus-Peter Gast
Over the past two decades international housing has undergone a radical transformation from standardised systems and well-defined styles to unconventional, individual solutions in which the floor plan and spatial concept have assumed a key defining role and influence on the archtectonic design.
In Living Plans Klaus-Peter Gast introduces, classifies and analyses concepts, functions, strategies and solutions for a variety of types from classical single-family housing through luxury villas to high-density terraced or town houses and cost-optimised elementary apartment housing, addressing the issues of space economy and counteracting urban sprawl. 100 ground-breaking built examples, documented in numerous floor plans and drawings produced exclusively for this book, make Living Plans an indispensable reference work on modern housing.

Hardcover / 240 pagina's / tekst Engels / 2005

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Smart Materials in Architecture, Interior Architecture and Design
Axel Ritter
Smart materials are architectural innovations that merge research, development, and function. With their reversible characteristics and amazing ability to respond to stimuli such as light and temperature, they have become a popular resource for architects. One of the most fascinating developments is the advent of Phase Change Materials. These materials make it possible, for example, to develop self-acting, kinetic facades and wallpaper that changes its color and pattern based on temperature, light, or touch. Smart Materials presents the development of these materials and describes their use in the contexts of architecture, design, and art. It offers a systematic overview with a detailed discussion of properties, technologies, products, and projects.

Hardcover / 192 pages / text English / 2006

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Roof Construction Manual
Eberhard Schunck, Hans Jochen Oster, Rainer Barthel, Kurt Kießl, Hans Jochen Oster, Kurt Kiebl
The "Roof Construction Manual" with over 1800 plans and 220 photographs is a vital reference work on the construction of pitched roofs. It offers extensive and fundamental information on all common types of roofing, and provides practical details for their construction. The volume is divided according to the type of roof elements and the jointing techniques. thirteen kinds of roofs and the relevant materials including thatch, wood, slate, tile, concrete, fibrous cement, bitumen, glass, metal, membranes, and synthetic materials are documented. Also described in detail are essential topics such as ventilation, the vapour and wind seals, insulation and water drainage, and the topics of renovation and energy conservation are examined. As with all the Construction Manuals, built examples illustrate the theoretical details. Some 38 examples which include 11 classic buildings and 27 buildings from the last 5 years show the construction of roofs paying particular attention to important features such as the ridge, hip, eaves, roof valley, verge, and penetration. A compact presentation of the load-bearing structures and the physics necessary for roof construction in addition to the current norms and standards make this volume as indispensable standard work for all architects and engineers.

Hardcover / 448 pages / text English / 2003

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Wood Houses: Spaces for Contemporary Living and Working
Dominique Gauzin-Müller
The renaissance of wood in architecture began already in the early 1990s following the Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro. A lively interest in sustainable materials made wood particularly attractive and it became an important feature in the developing global ecology. Wood as a building material stands for a healthy interior environment, free of harmful toxic substances, with naturally balanced humidity and comfortable regulated temperatures. This volume documents in full technical detail 25 timber buildings in three main areas: residential buildings, holiday homes, and living and working. The individual projects cover a large spectrum of sizes, budgets, and types of construction, and they also show wood in combination with such materials as stone, concrete, and steel. The examples documented are from Germany, Austria, Switzerland, France, Belgium, Finland, Ireland, USA, Canada, China, Australia, and Brazil, and the architects include such renowned names as Mario Botta, Kengo Kuma and Baumschlager + Eberle.

Hardcover / 160 pages / text English / 2004

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Developments in Timber Engineering
Anton Steurer
The early twentieth century witnessed a transition from wood to timber construction, from log houses to dimensioned post and beams dressed for frame building. The subsequent development of laminated timber and new joinery techniques made wood a viable alternative to steel and concrete, and led to anumber of awe-inspiring structures that captured, and continue to capture, the public imagination. One center of imaginative and daring timber construction has been Switzerland, whose engineers, architects, and carpenters have provided fundamental knowledge and inspiration for builders in wood around the world. Developments in Timber Construction focuses not only on the best timber structures in Switzerland, but also on numerous international projects built by Swiss architects and engineers.

Hardcover / 336 pages / text Engels / 2006

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Building with Straw. Design and Technology of a Sustainable Architecture
Minke Gernot

Building with straw bales is a technique pioneered a century ago in the state of Nebraska. In recent years there has been a renaissance in the use of straw as a building material largely in the American Southwest, but also in Canada, Australia, France, Holland, Germany, Austria and China. Straw is a renewable resource with excellent insulating properties. It is a cheap and easy-to-use option for self-builders, and even large-scale structures can be erected using timber framework filled with straw.
This book is a practical, hands-on guide to building with straw. Fire safety, protection against moisture, damp, pests and parasites are treated in detail. Numerous on-site photos document the process of assembly and construction step by step.
30 exemplary international projects illustrate the wide spectrum of design possibilities with straw.

Paperback / 152 pages / text English / 2005

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Exposed Concrete. Technology and Design
Günter Pfeifer

Exposed concrete is one of the most fascinating and demanding building materials. To work with it calls for technical precision of the highest order, especially where the architecture’s character is determined by the material’s special qualities. Architects such as Tadao Ando, Frank Gehry, Daniel Libeskind, Gigon-Guyer, and Diener & Diener have defined the highest standard for the use of exposed concrete with their buildings.
In its first part, this book presents groundbreaking examples of exposed concrete architecture by ten international architects and analyzes their treatment of the material. In its second part, it describes the key aspects of exposed concrete (surface, color, sheeting, framework, seams, composition.

Hardcover / 216 pages / text English / 2005

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Glass Structures. Design and Construction of Self-supporting Skins
Jan Wurm

Flat glass opens up more possibilities for the planner than virtually any other material. Because of the technological complexity of using it, however, no specific structural forms have been developed for glass supporting frameworks as they have been for wood, concrete, and steel. This book is thus the first to present a coherent guide to the planning and design of glass supporting frameworks. The focus is on the pressure-resistant, flat supporting element as a basic building block for broad supporting structures. The spatial and constructive forms of multifunctional, self-supporting glass envelopes are vividly illustrated and systematically explained. The constructions presented exhibit new aesthetic qualities, based not on the dictum of "dematerialization” but on the poetry of gleaming and transparent planes. They ring in a new chapter in the history of glass architecture.

Hardcover / 255 pages / text English / 2007

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The Presence of the Case Study Houses
Ethel Buisson, Thomas Billard

Japan - Culture of Wood: Buildings, Objects, Techniques

Minimalism, the inspiration of art and wide spaces, lightness and an effective show-casing - these are just a few of the elements that link the Case Study Houses of architects Charles Eames, Eero Saarinen, Richard Neutra, Craig Ellwood et al. to the present day and contribute to their ongoing fascination and influence on housing concepts. Numerous previously unpublished ex- and interior illustrations are supplemented by detailed research carried out locally into current forms of occupation and life-style, alterations and conversions, as well as the significance of the Case Study Houses for today's understanding of building for residential requirements.

Hardcover / 315 pages / text English / 2004

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Your House Now Part 2: 36 Propositions for a Home
Périphériques Architects

In 1998 Périphériques edited the book "36 propositions for a home". The projects resulted from an international competition to design lowpriced single-family houses. The publication was a great success and has been out of print for some time. In the meantime, some of the competition entries have been built and in this new book, the realization of these and similar houses which were designed in the same spirit, has been documented. Low in cost and commissioned by ordinary people, these buildings are nevertheless striking examples of contemporary residential forms, where creative use is made of prefabricated materials, buildings and surroundings are integrated in a highly individual way, and the feeling of spaciousness is emphasized in the designs. Examples from Abalos y Herreros, Atelier Bow-wow, Gallart, Lacaton-Vassal, Lacoste-Stevenson, Marin-Trottin, MVRDV, 2M2N, Paillard-Jumeau, Ricciotti, Tezuka-Tezuka are included and text contributions analyse the basic principles of lowcost building.

Paperback / 352 pages / text English / 2002

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Curtain Walls. Recent Developments by Cesar Pelli and Associates
Michael J. Crosbie

The curtain wall—a non-bearing wall attached to a building's structural frame like a curtain made of metal or, more likely glass—is an omnipresent feature of contemporary architecture. Variations of pattern and color, transparency and opacity offer the architect almost limitless design possibilities, a tremendous palette for "skinning" the structural frame of buildings from museums to skyscrapers.There are few practitioners of curtain wall design as accomplished as Cesar Pelli & Associates, and this book presents twenty of their most exemplary projects. Arranged by material—glass, metal, stone—the conception and development of each individual facade is revealed and construction details comprehensively documented through numerous drawings. Any practicing architect interested in state-of-the-art curtain wall design will need to own this indispensable and inspiring book.

Hardcover / 184 pages / text English / 2005

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Industrial Buildings: A Design Manual
Jürgen Adam, Katharina Hausmann, Frank Jüttner

Building structures to house the logistical and manufacturing processes of industry is one of the largest and most widespread architectural assignments. The complex functional requirements are often fulfilled by typifies or modular solutions. The organization of industrial processes together with the wide range of designs and building methods are clearly and practically treated in this design atlas. A systematic section presents the typology, the technical and logistical elements of industrial building. In the subsequent section, some 70 designs are described and analysed. Special emphasis is placed on those functions and procedures that inform the design such as production, montage, storage and distribution. Jürgen Adam is Director of the Institute for Design and Construction at the University of Stuttgart. As an architect and teacher he has followed closely developments in international industrial building, as have the contributing authors, among others Gunther Henn, Klaus Daniels and Fritz Haller.

Hardcover / 246 pages / text English / 2004

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The other office. Creative Workplace Design
Matthew Stewart

Natuurlijk bouwen met hout. 33 boomsoorten die zich thuisvoelen in Nederland en België

The world of work refuses to stand still: new technologies have a huge impact on office design and now that a great many employees have the freedom to do their work anywhere - on the road, at home, with clients - the general role of the office has altered significantly. The projects that make up The Other Office identify those offices that keep abreast of the rapid pace of change and, more importantly, set the pace. They achieve their goals in unique and creative ways. Their common denominator is that special quality with which they transcend the mundane requirements of planners' programs, a creative synthesis of the intuitive and the analytical, bringing a new sensibility to the workplace.

Hardcover / 240 pagina's / tekst Engels / 2004

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