The Modern Architecture Pop-Up Book
Anton Radevsky, David Sokol, Contribution by I.M. PEI, Santiago Calatrava and Richard Meier
The Modern Architecture Pop-Up Book showcases three-dimensional replications of some of the most innovative modern and contemporary architecture from around the world. Accompanied by illustrations, photographs, and elaborate pop-ups, the talent and imagination of architects and builders of the modern era is brought to life. Ranging from the nineteenth century to the present day, the pages follow the development of modern architecture: the creation of new buildings and innovations that led to such feats as the Brooklyn Bridge; the birth of the skyscraper and the modern city; mid-century modernism, and the cutting-edge architecture of today. Modern Architecture Pop-Up features the following structures: London’s Crystal Palace; the Brooklyn Bridge; the Eiffel Tower; New York’s Flatiron Building; Frank Lloyd Wright’s Robie House, Chicago; Reitveld’s Schroeder House; Le Corbusier’s Villa Savoye; Saarinen’s TWA terminal; Frank Gehry’s Guggenheim Bilbao; Calatrava’s Milwaukee Art Museum; and Foster’s London "Gherkin" building, to name only a few. Innovative, informative, and elegant, Modern Architecture Pop-Up is an elegant visual tour of the world’s dynamic, inventive, and original architecture.

Hardcover / text English / October 2008

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My Architect / A Son's Journey
Nathaniel Kahn, Susan Rose Behr
The mystery of Louis Kahn's life was as compelling as his buildings. Thirty years after his death, his filmmaker son goes in search of the true Lou with the documentary My Architect.
Louis Kahn created some of the most important buildings of the twentieth century: the Kimbell Art Museum in Fort Worth; the Salk Institute in La Jolla, California; the National Assembly Building of Bangladesh, in Dhaka. His buildings were monumental, deeply rooted in materials, and full of mystery. And yet the deepest mystery surrounding Kahn remained secret throughout his life. When he died of a heart attack, in a men's room in Penn Station in 1974, obituaries said he was survived by his wife, Esther, and a daughter, Sue Ann. But it turned out that Kahn had lived a life split four ways: work, his traditional family, and two women and the children they bore him. Nathaniel Kahn--son of Harriet Pattison, a landscape architect who worked in the Kahn office--was eleven when his father died. Now 39, the writer and director has recently completed a documentary entitled My Architect, a deeply affecting look at a complicated man. For the film Nathaniel interviewed dozens of architectural luminaries--Vincent Scully, I. M. Pei, Frank Gehry, Robert A. M. Stern--and others, including his half-siblings. Metropolis executive editor Martin C. Pedersen talked to Kahn about the film prior to its screening at the New Directors/New Films Festival in New York.

DVD / 116 minutes in colour / English / 2003

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Rem Koolhaas / A kind of Architect
Markus Heidingsfelder, Min Tesch
After studies in journalism and architecture, Rem Koolhaas (b. 1944) founded the OMA (Office for Metropolitan Architecture) in 1975. Before designing buildings, however, he caused a furor in 1978 with a theoretical work that soon became famous: Delirious New York: A Retroactive Manifesto for Manhattan. The architect of Euralille has gravitated toward all types of architectural design, from the private villa to the office building, from the embassy (Netherlands Embassy in Berlin) to the museum (Guggenheim Heritage Museum in Las Vegas). The author of S, M, L, XL reveals his sensibilities in a provocative aesthetic that combines porn, pop and political activism. This portrait of a man who is difficult to pin down is reinforced with comments from his friends and colleagues, including American architects Joshua Ramus and Richard Meier, and a lively discussion between Koolhaas and German sociologist Dirk Baecker, a specialist in communication and systems theory.
Extra's: interview met Rem Koolhaas (52 min.), Helicoptervlucht over die Casa da música in Porto (10 min.), blik in de Nederlandse Ambassade in Berlijn (10 min.), presentatie Astor Place (60 min.) / 32 pag. booklet

DVD / 97 min. + 132 min. extras / text Dutch, German, English / 2005

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Play Architecture
I.Laitinen, M. Metsahonkala, M. Veijovuori, J. Viherkoski
Play Architecture game cards contain the top names of 20th century architecture from celebrated designers to world-famous projects. Pre-Modernism, Modernism, Post-Modernism and De-Structuralism are the four strong suits included in the pack. The aces are in a class of their own, not to speak of the two surprice jokers! All the cards feature a stylish picture and text in English.

Box containing playcards / English / 2000

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Visual Power Memory Game
Arnoud van den Heuvel
This well-known family game is useful for training ones power of memory and popular with children (because beating them is not always easy).
Those who find the game a bit too silly should buy Visual Power Memory instead. The photos on the playing cards are picture montages sampled from images imprinted on our visual memory as icons of the mass culture in which we live. Every card selects a subject from the encyclopaedic image bank that we carry in our heads and manipulates it in an amusing way. This surprising and contemporary version of the memory game is great fun to play, good for children's visual education and training ones power of memory. It guarantees hours of amusement around the kitchen table.

Box containing 2 x 30 cards / 2004

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Papermodel Kit Sonneveld House Rotterdam
Build your own Sonneveld House.
The Sonneveld House stands adjacent to the NAI on the corner of Jongkindstraat and Rochussenstraat in Rotterdam. Built in the early nineteen thirties, it is one of the best-preserved houses in the Nieuwe Bouwen style, the Dutch branch of the International School of Modernism. It was designed by the architecture firm of Brinkman & Van der Vlugt, also known for the Van Nelle Factory and Feyenoord Stadium.

Boxed / scale 1:100 / instructions Dutch and English / 2007
Also available in this series: Papermodel Kit Chabot museum

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Jean Nouvel Architecture Postcards
Striking images of contemporary architecture -- now available as attractive postcard sets. Each set is devoted to the oeuvre of one architect or architectural office and contains several postcards featuring some of their most memorable creations, each beautifully photographed.
Also included is a separate text booklet which provides descriptions of the buildings, technical details and a short biography of the architects. These sets are an ideal introduction to the work of today's architects, and are a practical gift for architecture fans.
French architect, Jean Nouvel, excels in creating buildings which are defined by their shimmering transparency, their enigmatic use of light and color and their poetic use of modern technology. Here his most impressive works are included: Commercial centre Euralille, Lille; Foundation Cartier, Paris; furniture design; Galeries Lafayette, Berlin; Culture and conference centre, Lucerne.

Set of 12 cards from € 11.95 for € 5.95
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Also available:

OMA Rem Koolhaas Architecture Postcards
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Herzog & De Meuron Architecture Postcards
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