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This bookstore brings together our print and electronic publications—two components of our efforts to catalyze dialogue in contemporary debates about architecture—alongside selected titles from other publishers we are following.
AP205 Amancio Williams: Readings of the Archive by Studio Muoto, Claudia Shmidt, and Pezo von Ellrichshausen
AP205 Amancio Williams is dedicated to the work of Argentinian architect Amancio Williams (1913‒1989), one of the key figures of modern architecture in Latin America. The vast output of projects and proposals produced by his office from the 1940s‒1980s is...
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Alina, Barbara, Halina, Helena, Zofia
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Alina, Barbara, Halina, Helena, Zofia
Aglaia Konrad’s work often takes the form of a book, each conceived as an edited archive of the ways in which she uses photography to investigate urban landscapes. Two of her book projects were part of The Lives of Documents—Photography...
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ᐊᖏᕐᕋᒧᑦ / Ruovttu Guvlui / Towards Home: Inuit and Sámi Placemaking
ᐊᖏᕐᕋᒧᑦ (angirramut) in Inuktitut or ruovttu guvlui in North Sámi mean “towards home.” To move towards home is to reflect on where Sámi people and Inuit find home, on what their connections to their lands means, and on what these relationships could...
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Alina, Barbara, Halina, Helena, Zofia
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Alina, Barbara, Halina, Helena, Zofia
Aglaia Konrad’s work often takes the form of a book, each conceived as an edited archive of the ways in which she uses photography to investigate urban landscapes. Two of her book projects were part of The Lives of Documents—Photography...
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Toyo Ito with Koji Ichikawa and others – Meanwhile in Japan
In this new volume of the CCA Singles presenting the Meanwhile in Japan conversations, Toyo Ito sat with a group of young architects and academics to discuss how his early work of the 1970s and 1980s took a radical approach...
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Hiroshi Hara with Mikio Wakabayashi and others - Meanwhile in Japan
In the fifth volume of the CCA Singles series, Hiroshi Hara is in conversation with Mikio Wakabayashi. He revisits his publications from the late 1960s to the mid-1970s on architectural principles—“porous body” theory, “floating architecture,” and “homogeneous space”—and on the...
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Building a new New World: Amerikanizm in Russian Architecture
Idealized representations of America, as both an aspiration and a menace, played an important role in shaping Russian architecture and urban design from the American Revolution until the fall of the Soviet Union. In Building a new New World, Jean-Louis...
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Architecture in Uniform: Designing and Building for the Second World War
Architecture in Uniform: Designing and Building for the Second World War documents the extensive contribution of architecture to the Second World War, and considers how it questioned architectural methods and fundamental structures, and lead to the supremacy of modernism.This publication...
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Scenes of the World to Come: European Architecture and the American Challenge, 1893–1960
Tracing the origins of Americanism back to the late nineteenth century, Scenes of the World to Come focuses on the European discovery of the American city—with its grand hotels, skyscrapers, and massive industrial plants, its new-found sense of efficiency and...
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Architectural Botany: A Conversation with William Balée on Constructed Forests
Environmental Histories of Architecture presents the work of eight researchers who each analyze specific environmental relations, crises, and reforms and demonstrate how society and the environment have been co-constructed, represented, and lived in their respective geographies. While their essays are...
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Interspecies Encounters: Design (Hi)stories, Practices of Care, and Challenges
Environmental Histories of Architecture presents the work of eight researchers who each analyze specific environmental relations, crises, and reforms and demonstrate how society and the environment have been co-constructed, represented, and lived in their respective geographies. While their essays are...
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Circulating Asbestos: The International AC Review, 1956–1985
Environmental Histories of Architecture presents the work of eight researchers who each analyze specific environmental relations, crises, and reforms and demonstrate how society and the environment have been co-constructed, represented, and lived in their respective geographies. While their essays are...
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Crossed histories. Gae Aulenti, Ada Louise Huxtable, Phyllis Lambert on Architecture and the City
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Crossed histories. Gae Aulenti, Ada Louise Huxtable, Phyllis Lambert on Architecture and the City
Publié à l'occasion d'une exposition au Centre culturel canadien de Paris, Histoires croisées s'intéresse à l'impact des femmes sur la ville postmoderne. Pour ce faire, la publication met l'accent sur les trajectoires personnelles et professionnelles de trois protagonistes qui, chacune...
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Minnette de Silva: Intersections
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Minnette de Silva: Intersections
When Minnette De Silva founded the Studio of Modern Architecture in Kandy, Sri Lanka (then Ceylon), in 1947, she was one of the first women in the world to establish a professional architectural practice as sole principal. Today, she is...
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Féminisme et pédagogie au cœur des formations artistiques : 40 ans d'expérience
Féminisme et pédagogie au cœur des formations artistiques : 40 ans d'expérience réunit deux conférences tenues en 1985 et 2022 par Griselda Pollock. Dans sa conférence de 1985, Griselda Pollock formule une critique des politiques du genre présentes dans l'enseignement...
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Les abstractions concrètes d'Anni Albers (1899-1994) : Une histoire textile de la modernité
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Les abstractions concrètes d'Anni Albers (1899-1994) : Une histoire textile de la modernité
Née à Berlin en 1899, Anni Albers, artiste, designer et éducatrice, s'est rapidement heurtée aux préjugés de genre qui régnaient dans l'Allemagne des années 1920. Pourtant, elle sut tirer parti de toutes les contraintes pour en faire une force au...
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On women
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On women
On Women presents seven essays and exchanges, spanning a range of subjects: the challenges and humiliations women face as they age; the relationship between women’s liberation and class struggle; beauty, which Sontag calls “that over-rich brew of so many familiar...
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Living design: The writings of Clara Porset
Cuban-born and Mexico-based Clara Porset is renowned for her mid-century modern furniture and interior design and for her collaborations with architects such as Luis Barragán and Mario Pani. She was also an accomplished critic and writer. Living Design collects Porset’s essays, reviews, and lectures...
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Women architects at work
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Women architects at work
In the decades preceding World War II, professional architecture schools enrolled increasing numbers of women, but career success did not come easily. Women Architects at Work tells the stories of the resilient and resourceful women who surmounted barriers of sexism,...
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ARCH+ The business of architecture
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ARCH+ The business of architecture
This publication examines the economic conditions of architecture, which are all too often disregarded in the day-to-day life of people working in the profession. The focus is on contracts, jobs, and office structures, on profitability and phases in the construction...
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Architecture / Astrologie
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Architecture / Astrologie
Les chroniques écrites par Dan Graham pour la revue Domus en 2011-2012, dressant des portraits de ses architectes favoris sous l'angle de leur signe astral, traduites par Alexandra Midal, illustrées par des dessins de Mieko Meguro, compagne de l'artiste. « Je me suis souvent...
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Ruth van Beek: Dishes for dolls
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Ruth van Beek: Dishes for dolls
Dishes for Dolls is a sort of spin-off of The Oldest Thing. Based on this previous book, published in 2023 (now out of print), Ruth van Beek created a new selection of images from her archives, focusing on doll dishes....
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Le fantôme de l'architecte
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Le fantôme de l'architecte
L’histoire moderne de l’architecture, cette faiseuse de rêves, n’est pas seulement jalonnée d’icônes. Dans l’ombre des plus grands chefs‑d’œuvre, sont tapies de saillantes absences. Enquêtes documentaires au rendu sensible, histoires vraies aux touches romanesques, dix textes relatent ici les plus...
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Défendre le logement : Nos foyers, leurs profits
Contrairement à ce que l’on pourrait croire, la crise du logement n’est pas causée par le manque d’unités locatives, des taux d’intérêts élevés ou une conjoncture économique défavorable. C’est l’état normal du marché immobilier en régime capitaliste. Telle est l’idée...
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Falling in: Movement and becoming in curatorial research
Published within the context of the Frame Curatorial Research Fellowship, Falling In brings together curatorial essays addressing the field’s performative, activist and communal dimensions, and highlighting the substantial amount of research beyond traditional academic circles. The essays delve into...
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Living in Lisbon: An architectural view on housing challenges
Lisbon is being ravaged by an unprecedented housing crisis. The exponential increase of prices, the combined outcome of the financialisation of housing and the lack of continued investment of public policies, means that every Portuguese person is, or knows someone...
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Adaptive reuse in architecture: A typological iIndex
Liliane Wong's latest volume on adaptive reuse in architecture presents fifty conversions and reuse projects worldwide, including buildings such as the TWA Hotel at NewYork's John F. Kennedy Airport, the CaixaForum in Madrid, and the New Museum in Berlin. The...
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