Recent titles
We offer books on architecture and related fields from publishers worldwide. Here is a small selection of some recent arrivals in the store.
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Questions on Dwelling, Discourse 01: What it takes to make a home
The documentary film "What It Takes to Make A Home" (2020, conceived by Giovanna Borasi of the CCA and directed by Daniel Schwartz) follows a conversation between two architects whose work addresses homelessness. Michael Maltzan in Los Angeles and Alexander...
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Mies van der Rohe: An architect in his time
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Mies van der Rohe: An architect in his time
Ludwig Mies van der Rohe was a German-born American architect and designer whose work in Europe and North America has had an enduring influence on modern and contemporary architecture worldwide. During his sixty-year career, he fundamentally rethought architectural types that...
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LaToya Ruby Frazier: The notion of family
LaToya Ruby Frazier’s award-winning first book, The Notion of Family, offers an incisive exploration of the legacy of racism and economic decline in America’s small towns, as embodied by her hometown of Braddock, Pennsylvania. The work also considers the impact...
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The Architecture of Urbanity: Designing for nature, culture, and joy
The world is facing unprecedented challenges, from climate change and population growth, to political division and technological dislocation, to declining mental health and fraying cultural fabric. With most of the planet’s population now living in urban environments, cities are the...
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Paul Graham: Verdigis / Ambergris
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Paul Graham: Verdigis / Ambergris
Verdigris / Ambergris completes a twelve-year suite of works by Paul Graham focused on life’s transience and our mortality. This pair of sibling books is centered on people scanning the infinite horizon as they look out over land (Verdigris) and...
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Jessica Backhaus: Plein soleil
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Jessica Backhaus: Plein soleil
Following her series from A Trilogy (2017), Jessica Backhaus embarked on a transformative exploration, shedding the constraints of traditional photography for the depths of abstraction. Cut Outs (2021) marked a breakthrough into a new creative phase with its innovative abstraction....
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Ecstatic Worlds: Media, utopies, ecologies
Postwar artists and architects have used photography, film, and other media to imagine and record the world as a wonder of collaborative entanglement—to translate the world for the world. In this book, Janine Marchessault examines a series of utopian media...
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Exhibiting the moving image
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Exhibiting the moving image
Since the 1990s, a "cinematographic turn" has taken place in contemporary art, paralleled by the emergence of a "cinema of exhibition." This collection of new essays investigates the relationships between the "white cube" and the "black box," focusing mainly on...
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e-flux Index #2
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e-flux Index #2
e-flux Index is a new print journal surveying the breadth of contemporary culture through e-flux’s publishing on art, theory, architecture, film, criticism, activism, and art education. Published bimonthly, it interweaves long-form essays from e-flux Journal and Architecture, exhibition and book...
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Tricks of the light: Essays on art and spectacle
Tricks of the Light brings together essays by critic and art historian Jonathan Crary, internationally known for his groundbreaking and widely admired studies of modern Western visual culture. This collection features a compelling selection of Crary’s responses to modern and contemporary...
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Suburban alternatives: Survey of low-rise high-density housing projects in the US
The expression “low-rise high-density” refers to the ensembles of grouped housing units that maintain characteristics of the individual home, but whose compactness facilitates collective services and amenities, thereby reducing land consumption. These hybrid projects also generate a variety of housing...
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Histoire de sports
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Histoire de sports
Des athlètes mis en scène par l'atelier Nadar à Clint Eastwood photographié avec un ballon de football par Xavier Lambours, les rapprochements entre les sportifs et les photographes prennent des chemins de traverse dans la collection de la Médiathèque du...
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Pensées décoloniales : Une introduction aux théories critiques d'Amérique latine
La théorie décoloniale constitue l'un des discours phares de notre temps. Loin des imprécisions dont elle fait souvent l'objet, cet ouvrage, première synthèse en français sur son origine latino-américaine, offre une généalogie et une cartographie d'un continent de pensée méconnu...
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Natures urbaines : Une histoire technique et sociale 1600-2030
Depuis plus de trois siècles, se pose la question de la place de la nature dans l'aménagement des villes. Des premiers jardins ouverts au public à la fin du XVIe siècle, comme les Tuileries à Paris ou Hyde Park à...
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Strange design
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Strange design
Une histoire du design critique, spéculatif et réflexif, en quatre moments, du design radical italien des années 1960 et 1970 à la scène contemporaine, en passant par le design. Depuis quelques années, des objets étranges ont fait leur apparition...
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Adriano Olivetti : Écrits et discours
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Adriano Olivetti : Écrits et discours
Ce recueil vise à faire découvrir la figure d'Adriano Olivetti, un entrepreneur-intellectuel qui, à travers son usine de machines à écrire, a œuvré pour un renouveau de la société et de la culture italiennes après la Seconde Guerre mondiale. L'architecture...
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Archipelagic effects
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Archipelagic effects
Archipelagic Affects explores how art residencies nurture effective spaces to study the tangible and intangible cultural, historical, and geopolitical connections between different island countries. Conceived by Yornel J. Martínez Elías, researcher Emily Shin-Jie Lee, and in collaboration with Taiwanese novelist...
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Building BAST
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Building BAST
Building BAST dresse le portrait de BAST, Bureau Architectures Sans Titre, à travers 20 questions identiques posées à 20 personnes parmi les client.es, prestataires, ou collaborateur.rices de l’agence toulousaine. Au fil des réponses, émerge l’approche singulière d’une pratique architecturale attentive à son...
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The Social dimension of social housing
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The Social dimension of social housing
Housing has become a key concern in most parts of today’s world, putting social housing again at the centre of public debate. However, it is not clear what the “social” in social housing actually means. This book sets out to...
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Thomas Locke Hobbs: L.A. Vedute
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Thomas Locke Hobbs: L.A. Vedute
The lines that divide us are the spaces we share. Driveways, paths, entrances and walls. These are the boundaries that separate our homes, but also the in between areas we use and cross over. L.A. Vedute by Thomas Locke...
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Dreams and disillusions
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Dreams and disillusions
Dreams + Disillusions explores the plethora of ideas and ideologies that have shaped and reshaped cities in profound ways. However, unlike a conventional title on the history of urbanism and architecture, its research fluctuates between the world of concrete reality...
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Holzer-isms. Artists edition
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Holzer-isms. Artists edition
Holzer-isms: Artist’s Edition presents a selection of artist Jenny Holzer’s Truisms (1977–79)—subtly subversive declarations such as ABUSE OF POWER COMES AS NO SURPRISE—on six foldout posters designed by the artist. Important and influential works of word-art, Truisms are single-sentence...
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Unsettling educational modernism: Simon Fraser University
The iconic architecture of the brutalist modernist megastructure of Simon Fraser University in Vancouver, Canada built by architect Arthur Erickson in the 1960s is the site of the artistic research project into the history of this “radical campus” and its...
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PIN-UP 36: Under Construction
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PIN-UP 36: Under Construction
Few things are more mind-bending than the process of building. During those messy stages of construction, every wall, column, and floor is anticipated as a step toward completion. But what if the job is never finished? In a world where...
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Museums at the ecological turn
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Museums at the ecological turn
A reflection on the relation between art, museum institutions and climate activism.In recent years, the intersection between ecological thought and contemporary art has sparked a generative reflection encompassing sustainability, conservation, and survivability. Confronted with the climate catastrophe, ecology questions the...
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Le jardin biopolitique : Espaces, vies et transitions
Le jardin biopolitique est un lieu mental et un ensemble d’espaces concrets à partir desquels réfléchir à la condition contemporaine de transition sociale et écologique. Architecture et urbanisme sont intimement liées avec la vie, mais la fréquence de leur usage...
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Territoires
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Territoires
Incontournables dans le paysage contemporain de la pensée urbaine, les écrits théoriques d'Igniasi de Solà-Morales n'avaient jusqu'ici jamais été traduits en français. Ce recueil de dix textes recèle pourtant une richesse de vues propres à nourrir toute réflexion sur le...
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Arranging things: A rhetoric of object placement
‘Most arrangements are little noticed, yet some stop you in your tracks.’ Originally published in 2003, Leonard Koren’s highly sought-after Arranging Things: A Rhetoric of Object Placement utilises the language of rhetoric to portray visual arrangement as a ‘communicational act:...
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El Croquis 225: Macias Peredo
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El Croquis 225: Macias Peredo
The architects of Studio Macías Peredo, based in Guadalajara and led by Salvador Macías Corona, Magui Peredo Arenas, and Diego Quirarte Contreras, believe that the act of designing is inseparable from the act of remembering. Architecture is a living testimony...
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El Croquis 224: Cristian Kerez
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El Croquis 224: Cristian Kerez
This monographic issue examines a decade of recent work by acclaimed Swiss architect Christian Kerez. Presented are eighteen projects distributed around the globe, including the China Academy of Arts, Office Building Lyon Confluence, Textile Museum St. Gallen, high-rises in the...
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Le Corbusier: Album Punjab, 1951
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Le Corbusier: Album Punjab, 1951
This facsimile edition of the notebook kept by Le Corbusier (1887–1965) from his two-week stay in the area that would become Chandigarh, the new capital city of the Indian state of Punjab, presents his written or sketched memos and personal...
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Pascal Greco: Kwai Shing West estate
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Pascal Greco: Kwai Shing West estate
Kwai Shing West Estate is a residential complex in Hong Kong that is home to 18,000 people. It attracted the attention of filmmaker and photographer Pascal Greco because of its architecture and its atypical hillside construction. This book presents Greco’s...
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Urban wild ecology
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Urban wild ecology
Following the calamitous events of 2011 in Japan, Fuminori Nousaku and Mio Tsuneyama began to look at the link between materials and energy related to daily life, such as household goods, homes, food, and waste. They sought ways to reinvent...
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Paris 2024 : Une ville face à la violence olympique
Les organisateurs des Jeux olympiques et paralympiques de Paris 2024 ont obtenu carte blanche pour fabriquer en Seine-Saint-Denis la ville rêvée des promoteurs et investisseurs : moderne, innovante, lucrative. Sans pauvre, sans cité à la dérive, sans caillassage de voiture de...
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forA on the urban, Issue #1: Eleven frictions from an urbanized world
The first issue of the interdisciplinary periodical forA on the Urban explores the open, multilayered, interconnected, complex, and unbridled nature of urban design. Through eleven contributions from eighteen international experts on architecture, art, social criticism, and activism, this issue illuminates specific realities...
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Agonistic assemblies: On the spatial politics of horizontality
A call for a revised form of spatial politics. This anthology presents work on cultures of assembly. It stresses the relevance of small-scale and decentralized spatial formats of local knowledge production to community building and embedded political decision-making in the context...
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Décoloniser l'architecture
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Décoloniser l'architecture
L’avènement d’une société écologique ne peut passer que par une refonte majeure de nos manières de concevoir et de bâtir. Cependant, les logiques de mise en ordre du monde dont l’architecture a hérité la rendent difficilement conciliable avec une véritable...
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Kaki Lima Stories: Life in the five-foot ways of Downtown Kuala Lumpur
Five-foot ways, or 'kaki-lima,' are a prominent feature of historical urban centers in tropical Southeast Asian cities. In the hot and humid urban center, these colonnades along the rows of commercial shophouses provide comfortable pedestrian walkways. It is frequently considered...
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5468796 Architecture: Platform. MIDDLE
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5468796 Architecture: Platform. MIDDLE
Research on multifamily housing and its impact on the daily lives of ordinary people, from a leading Canadian architectural firm These four slipcased volumes build on 5468796 Architecture’s housing manifesto “Add via Edit: A Decade in Housing”, the symposium...
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Archithese reader: Critical positions in search of postmodernity 1971-1976
This publication presents a selection of ground-breaking contributions, grouped thematically in a new way, which originally appeared in the journal archithese, accompanied by critical essays by contemporary authors. Located in its specific context – the heterogeneous and turbulent landscape...
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Plan L**** 207 : Étonner la catastrophe
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Plan L**** 207 : Étonner la catastrophe
« Tenter, braver, persister, persévérer, être fidèle à soi-même, prendre corps à corps le destin, étonner la catastrophe par le peu de peur qu’elle nous fait, tantôt affronter la puissance injuste, tantôt insulter la victoire ivre, tenir bon, tenir tête...
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Errant Journal #6 : Debt
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Errant Journal #6 : Debt
Errant Journal No. 6 takes up the topic of debt in order to challenge the idea that it is something rational, natural or inevitable. The contributions in the issue address the ways in which debt and its language hold power...
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Apartamento 33
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Apartamento 33
Spring / Summer 2024 Featuring: Hari Nef, Franz Erhard Walther, Madelon Vriesendorp, Lloyd Kahn, Eric N. Mack, John Wurdeman, Antonia Marsh, Enrique Olvera, Ron Arad, Motoyuki Daifu, Jimmy Wright, Najla El Zein, Hans-Walter Müller, and Rachel Roddy. Plus: The interiors...
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African water cities
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African water cities
A multipronged study of Africa’s innovative approaches to communal living in the face of climate change and urbanization. This volume presents essays, stories, research and photographs showing how African cities by waterfronts deal with two of the most significant trends of...
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Everything XI-XV. Everything without content 232
This book chronicles the third academic year of the studio led by Kersten Geers, Jelena Pancevac, Guido Tesio and Fabrizio Ballabio at the Academy of Architecture USI in Mendrisio. Stemming from the idea of ‘large form’ and the built environment...
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Petra Blaisse: Art applied. Inside, Outside
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Petra Blaisse: Art applied. Inside, Outside
This retrospective of the oeuvre of Petra Blaisse and her acclaimed studio Inside Outside presents a kaleidoscopic view of their work across interior, exhibition, and landscape design over the course of more than three decades. Rather than working solely on...
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Small Practices: In conversation with Malaysian & Japanese Architects
Small Practices : In Conversation with Malaysian and Japanese Architects provides an intimate look into how small practices find their niche and pursue their passion in a field that is often perceived as aggressive and vigorous. Noorul Fadzlee Khamis, a...
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Anna Püschel: Encyclopedia of the uncertain. A meditation on doubt
When do you know something? And at which point can you be sure that what you know is true? Knowledge of facts is distinct from opinion or speculative assumption. We rely on various sources to determine the validity of information...
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Histories of ecological design: an unfinished cyclopedia
There have been many accounts on the history of ecology and others on the migration of ecological thought to design and architecture practice. Yet, the work of a focused and expanded history of ecological design is much needed. This book...
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L’art de greffer en architecture : Utilité et désir à l'ère de la sobriété
L'architecte Jeanne Gang explore comment la pratique horticole de la greffe peut inspirer un nouveau paradigme pour la conception durable. Jeanne Gang propose d'appliquer la technique de culture végétale de la greffe à l'architecture et à l'urbanisme afin de repenser...
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