Architecture in the Netherlands. Yearbook 2009/10
Samir Bantal, JaapJan Berg, Kees van der Hoeven, Anne Luijteni
This year’s edition of the highly successful yearbook Architecture in the Netherlands contains once more the most remarkable examples of architecture realized in the Netherlands over the previous year. The 30 selected projects offer a wide-ranging overview of diverse trends, design strategies and topical themes that moulded the architecture of 2009. The editorial team explores the entire breadth of production, from housing and offices to schools and a holiday home, in new construction as well as remarkable transformations of existing buildings. As an annual overview the volume also includes a calendar, shedding light on each month’s most signifi cant news item.
Projects by: 2012 Architecten, Wiel Arets, BK City Five, Bo.2/vH, Claus en Kaan, Doepel Strijkers Lex-Architecten, Döll, Erick van Egeraat, Dick van Gameren, Grosfeld van der Velde/DHV, Güller Güller/Christian Müller, Hans van Heeswijk, Van den Heuvel, Jelle de Jong, KCAP, Kempe Thill, Jonkman Klinkhamer, Ira Koers, Kühne & Co, Mecanoo, NL Architects, OAK, Rocha Tombal, SeARCH, Snelder Architecten, TWA, Koen van Velsen, VMX, René van Zuuk.

Paperback / 184 pages / text Dutch, English / April 2010

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Next. Collective Housing in progress
This new volume by a+t publishers is part of the Density series on collective housing. ‘Next’ focuses mainly on infills of the consolidated urban fabric. All projects have won first or second prizes in international competitions and fill in the existing city or regenerated urban voids with different former uses. 30 European and American projects by 29 different young architectural practices are analyzed; amongst these are BIG + Topotek1, atelier Kempe Thill, Maccreanor Lavington, and babled nouvet Reynaud.

Paperback / 320 pages / text English, Spanish / May 2010

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European Housing Concepts 1990-2010
Luisella Gelsomino, Ottorino Marinoni
This book is a sweeping critical repertory of the design orientations of residential architecture in Europe. With approximately 200 examples from 18 countries, richly illustrated with photographs and drawings, it offers a significant overview of built works and emerging trends spanning the period of 1990-2010. It presents the best expressions of an urban architecture that embraces the demand for quality, in the name of effective integration between "housing" and "territory", and between the private level - the home - and the public one represented by urban space. The housing project is thus also part of the issues of environmental sustainability, urban green space and the built landscape.

Paperback / 438 pages / text English / February 2010

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Grand Urban Rules
Alex Lehnerer
Grand Urban Rules is a tribute to the city’s will to form, manifest in its vast number of steering regimes. The book contains a total of 115 significant ingredients for the Grand Projet of our contemporary metropolis. Not always positive but always powerful, these rules are the inverted, abstracted and extracted image of a city’s actual situation. Setting standards is first and foremost a cultural act. We read cities by their rules! Rules link the physical with the social city, connecting quality with quantity and latent characteristics to manifest ones. Thereby and almost unnoticed, they have become design instruments. In fact, regarding rules as tools offers a valuable (urban) design attitude – departing from an approach that wants to control everything, and moving towards a non–fatalistic form of control between freedom and coercion.

Hardcover / 272 pages / text English / November 2009

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SeARCH
Bjarne Mastenbroek
The work of SeARCH (Urban Planning & Architecture), established in 2002 by Bjarne Mastenbroek and partnered by Uda Visser, is marked by a continuous research into the most intimate meaning of the sites. This book brings together a number of their recent projects. Included are the Dutch Embassy in Addis Ababa, the Villa KBWW in Utrecht, a residential development on an artificial island near Hoofddorp (the Netherlands), the “Wolzak” farmhouse in Zutphen (the Netherlands), the Museum at the Site of Fireworks Explosion in the Roombeek area in Enschede, and a tree-top observation platform near Putten (the Netherlands). Introductory essay by Silvio Carta.

Paperback / 272 pages / text English, Korean / 2010

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The Polder Atlas of the Netherlands
Clemens Steenbergen, Wouter Reh, Steffen Nijhuis, Michiel Pouderoijen
An impressive and authoritative investigation, the Polderatlas advances research in the polder landscape of the Netherlands and has been produced in co-operation with the Technical University in Delft. With some 300 maps, drawings and aerial photographs, the atlas systematically documents the richness and diversity of the 4,000 polders throughout the country. Through the use of examples the atlas traces the different typological aspects of their different designs in depth, while a digitalised map provides the locations of all polders..

Hardcover / 512 pages / text Dutch / December 2009
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Atlas of the New Dutch Water Defence Line
Rita Brons, Bernard Colenbrander
This atlas addresses the New Dutch Water Defence Line (Nieuwe Hollandse Waterlinie) on a themed basis. Its position in the landscape, the forts, the inundation system, the geomorphology, the strategic system and recent developments can be read off in maps rendered so as to give an understanding of all aspects of the defence line landscape. The defence line reveals itself as a many-tentacled military defensive system of forts, group shelters and polders which can be flooded at the threat of war. The maps show the cohesion of the defence line as a landscape-strategic structure as well as the topographic composition of this structure in layers and components. The more detailed maps of the forts display the wealth of historic places, insertions in the landscape and defining elements. The atlas offers administrators something to lean on and designers a sense of freedom - a solid stepping-off point for getting this unique national landscape literally back on the map. Essays place the New Dutch Water Defence Line in a historical perspective. The atlas was commissioned by The Netherlands Architecture Fund and the Nieuwe Hollandse Waterlinie Project Office.

Hardcover / 208 pages / text Dutch / December 2009
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Tangible Traces. Dutch Architecture and Design in the making
Linda Vlassenrood, Mirjam van der Linden, Louise Schouwenberg, Joost Grootens, Roemer van Toorn
How do architecture and design take on meaning in a world that has become uniform as a result of globalisation, standardisation and commercialisation? By embracing unmodern notions such as craftsmanship, tradition and context. These notions are the links between the work of spatial designer Frank Havermans, industrial designer Hella Jongerius, textile designer Claudy Jongstra, the architecture office Onix and fashion designer Alexander van Slobbe.
For years they have been working on an oeuvre which shows a new attention to detail, context and the local, the rediscovery of forgotten handicraft techniques, and a fascination with ordinary materials and archetypes.
Although an air of nostalgia clings to the projects, through the incorporation of state of the art technologies and an unmistakable Dutch conceptual approach they are clearly projects of today. The result: buildings, installations, fabrics, clothing, and pieces of furniture that stimulate all the senses.

Paperback / 248 pages / text English / Augustus 2009

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Wiel Arets. Works and Projects
Massimo Faiferri, Geert Bekaert
Wiel Arets (1955) is one of Holland's leading architects and has won an international following for his spare industrial forms and his theoretical writings. Trained at the Technical University of Eindhoven, Arets often works with translucent glass, concrete, and wood to integrate compositional strategies with his interest in transparency and reducing essential space to a bare minimum. His work has been compared to the rigorous vocabulary of Dom Hans van der Laan, the monumental lyricism of Tadao Ando, and the expansive transparency of Pierre Chareau.
This book surveys the Dutch architect's work by presenting 31 of his most significant buildings and projects completed since the late 1980s, including the Academy for Arts and Architecture in Maastricht (1993), the AZL Pension Fund in Heerlen (1995), highrise apartment blocks in Amsterdam and Rotterdam, and police stations in Vaals, Boxtel, and Cuijk.

Hardcover / 266 pages / text English / 2004

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Thinking Architecture (3rd revised edition)
Peter Zumthor
To create a sensuous architecture connected to life calls for a way of thinking that goes far beyond the conventional precepts of form and construction. In these inspirational essays Peter Zumthor, winner of the 2009 Pritzker Prize for architecture, articulates what moves and motivates him to design buildings that possess a compelling and unmistakable presence and which speak to the visitor's heart and mind on so many levels.
With over 30,000 copies already sold, and now in its third edition, Thinking Architecture has been expanded to include two new essays: "Architecture and Landscape" deals with the relationship between the structure and its surroundings, and the secret of the successful placement and topographical integration of architecture; in "The Leis Houses" Peter Zumthor examines the challenge of integrating contemporary architecture into a traditional context, describing the genesis of two wooden houses in the town of Leis in the Swiss canton of Graubünden.
Thinking Architecture also includes 4 new atmospheric photos of Zumthor's home and studio, taken especially for this edition.

Hardcover / 112 pages / text English / June 2010

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Provisional. Emerging modes of architectural practice USA
Elite Kedan, Jon Dreyfous, Craig Mutter
Provisional. Emerging modes of architectural practice USAProvisional profiles nine of the United States' most exciting architectural practices. They all share a pragmatic, 'roll-up-your-sleeves' approach that seeks opportunities to redefine the role of craft in architectural practice. Enlightening interviews together with a selection of drawings, diagrams, models, renderings, and building process photographs reveal a shared commitment to experimentation and learning-by-doing. Projects by SHoP Architects, Front Studio, Gehry Technologies, Lewis.Tsurumaki. Lewis, H weler + Yoon Architecture, nARCHITECTS, servo, GYA Architects, and Chris Hoxie Design are included as well as the following projects: Beijing National Stadium, China Central Television (CCTV) Station and Headquarters (Beijing), Dee and Charles Wyly Theater (Dallas); FutureGen Power Plant (Illinois); Highline HL23 (New York City); and the Olympic Sculpture Park (Seattle).

Paperback / 288 pages / text English / February 2010

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Architectural Guide to the Netherlands (1980-Present)
Paul Groenendijk, Piet Vollaard
This Architectural Guide to the Netherlands (1980-Present) charts developments in Dutch architecture since the mid-1980s. With over 500 entries, it is an up-to-date companion to the Architectural Guide to the Netherlands 1900-2000. Its pages contain a representative selection of recent work by de Architekten Cie., Benthem Crouwel, Claus & Kaan, Erick van Egeraat, Atelier Kempe Thill, KCAP, Mecanoo, Meyer & Van Schooten, MVRDV, Neutelings Riedijk, OMA, Onix, UN Studio and Soeters Van Eldonk as well as by the many foreign architects working in the Netherlands. Its compact shape, practical layout and extensive indexes make this guide as indispensable as its predecessors, whether as a source of inspiration or as a reference work on the practice of Dutch architecture today.

Paperback / 352 pages / text Dutch, English / April 2009

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Volume 24 Counterculture
The Counterculture issue of Volume goes beyond the boundaries of architecture to tap into a monad of history – the US in the 1960s – and how it has influenced our beliefs today. With the aid of countercultural leaders, historians and architects, Volume identifies three strands of counterculture – technology, environment and community – and looks at its legacy in relation to contemporary practice.
The issue combines key essays and interviews from leading figures of the period (including Todd Gitlin, Steward Brand, Chip Lord and Fred Turner) to reappraise sustained countercultural values: participation, sharing, hacking, opposition and exclusion. This is accompanied by a visual documentation of the era, with vivid graphics and psychedelic spaces.
The Counterculture issue of Volume is a key text for those wishing to question authority today, by understanding the culture that created it.

Paperback / 160 pages / text English / July 2010

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Monu 12 Real Urbanism
Just like the "Ideal Woman" on the cover of this issue on Real Urbanism - a sculpture by the Brooklyn based artist Tony Matelli - most of our cities are shaped by a particular set of values that does not necessarily lead to high quality urban spaces, but instead to scary, ethically unacceptable and distorted forms. As the "Ideal Woman", so "Ideal Cities" can easily end up only fulfilling the wishes and dreams of a powerful minority, but neglect the needs of most of the other people. Jason Lee, one of the contributors to this issue, that deals more with "Real Estate" Urbanism rather than with Actual or Factual Urbanism, uses this sculpture in his article "Luxury Space" to display the consequences that can occur when a financially powerful elite develops real estate projects in the city of Shanghai merely to accommodate their consumerist desires.
Magriet Smit, a Rotterdam based real estate developer, explains in the interview "Life without Architects" that she actually tries more and more to avoid working with planners and rather collaborates directly with construction companies as they share a greater understanding of their profession. But to prevent our cities from turning into monstrous "Ideal Cities", as perverted as the "Ideal Woman", all the parties involved that are shaping the cities - the developers, the municipalities and the planners - have to accept their interdependencies, and have to try to understand the different interests of each party and have to dare to navigate into unknown territory as Bjarke Ingels concludes in an interview with us entitled "Real Big".

Paperback / 144 pages / text English / March 2010

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Radical Games. Popping the Bubble of 1960s Architecture
Lara Schrijver
Radical Games offers a new understanding of the 1960s in architecture. It helps to reveal some of the pitfalls in con¬ temporary architectural thinking and questions a number of preconceptions that are held as a result of the 1960s discourse.
In architecture of the 1960s revolutionary ideals were paramount and dreams became drawings. The book explores three radical critiques of modernist architecture through the work of the Situationist International, Venturi and Scott Brown, and Archigram. Situated on the cusp of an era of post-modernity and global capitalism, these critical reactions to their forebears demonstrate a perceptively critical understanding of modernism while also anticipating contemporary conditions such as an increasingly image-oriented society. At the same time, however, their dreams were so entwined with the modern project that they drove the architectural debate of the 1960s into an impasse, which the contemporary debate has not yet been able to escape. The ensuing disillusionment as well as a contemporary revival of this period are contained within their very premises.
Radical Games offers an illuminating overview of the problems that the 1960s discourse continues to pose for today.

Paperback / 240 pages / text English / August 2009

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First Works. Emerging Architectural Experimentation of the 1960s & 1970s
Brett Steele Francisco Gonzalez de Canales
During a tumultuous period in the 1960s and 70s, a new generation of architects began their careers amidst a period of profound social change, new conditions for architecture and the city and lasting changes to popular and critical forms of cultural production. First Works tells the story of this period and reassesses the conditions of architecture and the beginnings of architectural careers through a selection of projects undertaken during the 60s and 70s.
The book, accompanying a major travelling exhibition, presents a single key early project, in the form of models, sketches, photographs and drawings, by 20 young architectural practices: Archigram, Archizoom, Aldo Rossi, Alvaro Siza, Cedric Price, Robert Venturi, Norman Foster and Richard Rogers, Paul Virilio and Claude Parent, Rafael Moneo, Renzo Piano, Peter Eisenman, Coop Himmelb(l)au, Toyo Ito, Rem Koolhaas, Daniel Libeskind, Tom Mayne and Michael Rotondi, Morphosis, Bernard Tschumi, Herzog & de Meuron and Zaha Hadid. Alongside these ‘first works’, 20 invited critics, including Kenneth Frampton, Sylvia Lavin and Pier Vittorio Aureli, offer contemporary commentaries on these projects and their place within the architects’ subsequent careers.

Hardcover / 284 pages / text in English / November 2009

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