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Tadao Ando 3. Inside Japan
Jodidio, Philip
 Third and final volume in the series examining selected works designed by Tadao Ando over his 40 year long career as an architect. Inside attention is paid to Ando’s public building projects realised in Japan, including art galleries, museums, religious buildings, commercial buildings, schools libraries and railway stations. Questioning the meaning of public facilities and challenging preconceived ideas, Ando has pioneered a new mode of public architecture in Japan. Buildings are extensively illustrated with full colour photographs and accompanied by technical drawings, models and several essays.
Hardcover / 482 pagina's / tekst Engels, Japans / 2009
Eerder verschenen Tadao Ando 1. Houses and housing en Tadao Ando 2. Outside Japan
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Ove Arup / Masterbuilder of the Twentieth Century
Peter Jones
 In 1946 Ove Arup, a leading engineer of the twentieth century, founded a firm of consulting engineers that brought to fruition such iconic structures as the Sydney Opera House, the Olympic Village in Beijing, London's Millennium Bridge, the Beaubourg Centre in Paris, the Channel Tunnel Rail Link, and Kansai Airport in Japan among many others. Devoted to a 'commonsense' reform of engineering and architectural practice, Arup (1895-1988) pioneered the way for modern architects and engineers to collaborate successfully and responsibly on large projects. This is the first biography of the great and versatile engineer, complete with some 80 historic photographs that have never been published before.
Peter Jones, the first researcher to have full access to the vast private Arup archives, tells the complete story of Ove Arup's extraordinary life, his social, aesthetic, and environmental concerns, and his practical contributions during a period of political and technological upheaval. Jones also offers a revelatory new account of the Sydney Opera House and the character of those involved in its complex construction.
Hardcover / 366 pages / text English / 2006
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YES IS MORE - An Archicomic on Architectural Evolution
BIG - Bjarke Ingels Group
 The YES IS MORE catalogue illustrates for the first time BIG’s budding architectural oeuvre currently being exhibited at the Danish Architecture Center. As opposed to the classical architectural monograph, the catalogue is a manifesto of pop-culture proportions. The publication details an approach that ensures that all methods, processes, and tools to develop an architectural concept are just as wild, no holds barred and results oriented as the environment they are designed for and which BIG embraces with a boundless YES.
Bjarke Ingels, Founding Partner of BIG
The ambition of the catalogue is to capture the experience of the personal visit to the studio, the construction site or the building – and to transmit the energy of a face to face encounter. A comic book is all about communicating action, movement — development or even evolution — replacing composition and scale instead of time. A large detailed image inspires the reader to contemplate — study — explore — and a sequence of small diagrams makes your eyes roll over them faster. Thus was born YES IS MORE – the catalogue.
Already in its 2nd edition the catalogue covers 35 projects through 400 pages accompanied by an afterword by Harvard educator and Volume editor Jeffrey Inaba.
Paperback / 400 pages / text English / March 2009
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Bow-Wow from POST BUBBLE CITY
Atelier Bow-wow
 Following on from the cult success of the 'Pet Architecture Guide Book', Atelier Bow-Wow presents a comprehensive survey of some 70 small scale house designs and projects of their own making that deal predominantly with the complexities of dense urban environments. Conversations on twelve different urban and architectural issues relevant to their practice are threaded throughout this book which comes exhaustively illustrated with photographs, models, plans, sketches and elevations.
Hardcover / 320 pages / text English, Japanese / 2006
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Yona Friedman / Pro Domo
Yona Friedman
 In 1958, Yona Friedman published his first manifesto on "mobile architecture" and founded GEAM (Groupe d'Etude d'Architecture Mobile), which proposed different strategies and actions geared towards the adaptation of architectural creation to modern user requirements concerning social and physical mobility. In this initial manifesto, Friedman points out that architectural knowledge cannot be the exclusive property of professionals and specialists, and suggests writing guides ("manuals"), which explain topics related to architecture and urban planning in clear and simple terms. Following some recent publications that have reasserted the importance of Friedman's work, 'Pro Domo' is "a collection of fragments of scattered topics," a set of "milestones" selected by the author himself. In his words, these highlights are not meant as a testament, nor do they 'form a coherent whole'. Instead, they form a personal selection chosen 'according to their sentimental value' and span fifty-year period of production dating from the foundation of GEAM. The book includes building structure studies, urban design theories, observations on regional development, as well as design manuals for self-construction and competition projects.
Hardcover / 390 pages / text English / 2006
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Herzog & de Meuron / Natural History
Edited by the CCA, Montreal and Philip Ursprung
 Echoing an encyclopaedia rather as an exhibition mimics a museum, "Herzog & de Meuron: a natural history" includes six portfolios presenting images of models and projects by Herzog & de Meuron and related works, introduced by interviews with the architects. More than twenty scholars, architects, and artists from various fields have contributed essays to the catalogue, including the book's editor Philip Ursprung, Carrie Asman, Kurt W. Forster, Georges Didi-Huberman, Peggy Phelan, Thomas Ruff, Rebecca Schneider, Adolf Max Vogt, and Jeff Wall.
Paperback / 480 pages / text English / 2002
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Louis I Kahn
Robert McCarter
 Born in Estonia in 1901, Louis Isidore Kahn was to become one of the United States' most important architects of the post-war period, alongside the Modern masters Mies van der Rohe, Walter Gropius and Le Corbusier. Although renowned for a number of seminal modern works, he came to question many of the precepts of the Modern Movement. In particular, he questioned the ability of the International Style of Modernism to house the social spaces required by the latter half of the century.
In 1947 Kahn was appointed Professor at Yale University. He was to continue teaching throughout his architectural career, influencing a younger generation of architects along the way. His teaching enabled him to further develop his own concepts and to inform his ever-evolving definition of design. He was drawn to investigate monumentality in architecture, creating buildings out of heavy, solid materials and forms and incorporating vivid plays of light, in complete contrast to the lightweight glass and steel structures being created elsewhere by his peers. This monumentality was also imbued with his concern for the ritual of human experience. His career, although extending to just over twenty years, was a rich and varied one, where he continually readdressed the issues of light, mass, structure, monumentality, geometry and materials.
Paperback / 560 pages / text English / 2009
In 2005 published as hardcover edition
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