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 pagina's / tekst Engels / 2006

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YES IS MORE - An Archicomic on Architectural Evolution (reprint)
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.

Paperback / 400 pagina's / tekst Engels / november 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 pagina's / tekst Engels, Japans / 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 pagina's / tekst Engels / 2006

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Herzog & de Meuron / Natural History
Onder redactie van de CCA, Montreal en Philip Ursprung
Dit is de catalogus bij de gelijknamige tentoonstelling die in 2002 te zien was in het Canadees Centrum voor Architectuur in Montreal en later deels in het Nederlands Architectuurinstituut in Rotterdam. In dit boek gedragen de schrijvers zich als archeologen uit de toekomst die de archieven van Herzog & de Meuron hebben ontdekt. Zij gaan dus niet in op de bekende betekenis van de projecten, maar hebben ze op een nieuwe wijze gedocumenteerd en georganiseerd. De projecten worden vergeleken met kunst en overige collectoritems uit verschillende tijden en culturen en beschreven door architectuurcritici en kunstenaars.

Paperback / 480 pagina's / tekst Engels / 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 pagina's / tekst Engels / 2009
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Hans Kollhoff / Kollhoff & Timmermann architects
Jasper Cepl
This book is the first and only publication to include a complete selection of Kollhoff's work: 100 projects organized in chronological order, from his first theoretical project of 1976 to projects completed in 2003. No other book provides a comprehensive survey of the work of this firm, and each project is fully illustrated with plans, sections, drawings, and high-quality photographs.
The firm has designed high-rises, government buildings, multiuse complexes, master plans, urban plans, furniture and lighting fixtures for various German manufacturers, and door and window pulls for the product design firm FSB. In many ways their work can be compared to that of the American firm Skidmore, Owings & Merrill, albeit smaller and more European in context. In the introduction to this book, Kollhoff comments, 'The buildings aspire to be conventional, in the best sense of the term: along with similar constructions they set out to give form to a street, a city. Only when looked at more closely do they draw attention to themselves.'
The monograph includes a detailed critical essay that gives the reader excellent background on the architectural debates ongoing in the 1970s and 1980s, at the time that Kollhoff was forming his approach and his practice, as well as a summary of German urban planning of the postwar period.

Hardcover / 440 pagina's / tekst Engels / 2004

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Adolf Loos / Works and Projects
Ralf Bock
Adolf Loos (1870-1933) was a Viennese architect known for his radical building facades. Author Ralf Bock reveals the sensuality of Loos's interior designs, demonstrating that Loos was not an architect of the "white modern movement," but rather, he fought against it. A careful analysis of Loos's ideology and oeuvre, this book features 30 existing projects in 160 extraordinary full-color images by the celebrated French photographer Philippe Ruault, who has completely rephotographed Loos's works.

Hardcover / 302 pagina's / tekst Engels / 2007

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Oscar Niemeyer. Houses
Alan Hess, Alan Weintraub (fotografie)
Oscar Niemeyer is one of the greatest architects of our time. Hugely influential, his work has added a new dimension to modern architecture in the twentieth century. The designer of Brasilia showed that the rhythmic, sensuous lines of Brazilian Modernism were as legitimately modern as the rectilinear lines of the Bauhaus. Oscar Niemeyer Houses showcases the houses built by this seminal modern master in a lavish format that finally does justice to his extraordinary work. Viewed as a collection, these houses serve to demonstrate the wide range of Niemeyer's prodigious genius. The designs show a personal and eclectic facet to Niemeyer's creative imagination, a side of the master little known and under-appreciated. Often built for family members or major clients, they show a wealth of solutions that respond to a wide range of sites: the steep hillsides of Rio, the Atlantic beach shore, the rain forest, and the residential neighborhoods of Rio and Sao Paulo. This celebrated work stands as an enduring and notable tribute to one of the last of the international masters of Modernism.

Hardcover / 232 pagina's / tekst Engels / 2006
Tevens verschenen: Oscar Niemeyer. Buildings

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Jean Prouve / The Poetics of the Technical Object
Alexander Von Vegesack
With his exploration of technical thinking and the objects that arose from this pursuit, Jean Prouve is one of the major figures in architecture and design of the 20th century. This new publication is devoted to his technical and planning-oriented thinking. From the start - first as an ironmonger, then as an industrialist in the heyday of the ateliers, later with CIMT and as an engineering consultant - Jean Prouve dedicatedly pursued the project of construction 'by industry' - as he himself then put it in the title of his book Une architecture par industrie (Architecture by Industry).
The volume provides an overview of his technical ideas and concepts, his tools and the production structures he employed, his collaborative work with architects and engineers as well as characteristic projects: furniture, buildings and construction systems. Prouve's world is not only explored here by the forty-two authors of this volume but is also represented in his own texts and drawings given at his lectures at CNAM, the Conservatoire National des Arts et Metiers.

Hardcover / 392 pagina's / tekst Engels / 2006

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Sauerbruch Hutton / Archive
Matthias Sauerbruch, Louisa Hutton
This first comprehensive monograph of Sauerbruch Hutton presents the work of this innovative Swiss firm from the last seventeen years. This comprehensive book includes detailed descriptions of 60 works as well as 8 essays by the architects, and a complete index of all projects. While providing a panoramic overview the book also shows how each project was individually developed from its physical and social context, with its form emerging from functional, technical, spatial and sculptural considerations. It allows the reader to trace the development of their architectural thinking through the vehicle of built projects, their texts, and a considerable number of unrealized works.

Hardcover / 384 pagina's / tekst Engels, Duits / 2006

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Thinking Architecture / second, expended edition
Peter Zumthor
"In order to design buildings with a sensuous connection to life, one must think in a way that goes far beyond form and construction." So writes Peter Zumthor in Thinking Architecture, his seminal 1998 publication that quickly sold out and has been unavailable for years. This new edition includes three new essays: "Does Beauty Have a Form?," "The Magic of the Real," and "Light in the Landscape." Not only has the book been redesigned by noted typographer Hannele Grönlund, it has also been illustrated throughout with color photographs by Laura Padgett of Zumthor's new home and studio in Haldenstein, taken especially for this edition. In Thinking Architecture, Zumthor expresses his motivation in designing buildings that speak to our feelings and understanding in so many ways and that possess a powerful and unmistakable presence and personality.

Hardcover / 96 pagina's / tekst Engels / 2006

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Alison and Peter Smithson / From the House of the Future to a house of today
Max Risselada en Dirk van den Heuvel, vertaling 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 pagina's / tekst Engels / 2004

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