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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Architectural works by OFFICE for the 21st Century: The incomplete rationalism of OFFICE Geers van Severen
This book presents OFFICE projects through a critical analysis based on archive documents. It also reconstructs the influence of OFFICE’s creative principles among the new generations of architects. The OFFICE projects appeared in the early 2000s and gained prominence as...
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Dot Architects: Politics of living
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Dot Architects: Politics of living
Based in Osaka, dot architects is an interdisciplinary practice with a portfolio that spans architecture, research, art, and more. This volume features five of the studio’s completed projects. Images which portray the projects in their current state are complemented by...
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Moving mountains
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Moving mountains
The Moving Mountains book is a selection of material enquiries of the Swedish landscape, narrated through a series of texts, recipes and visual materials that ask how we can reconfigure and inform our understanding of the land that surrounds us....
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Fala Atelier: Butterflies / Farfalle
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Fala Atelier: Butterflies / Farfalle
Architectural drawings are laden with responsibility. They have legal and contractual status, an instructional function, order the act of construction, and direct the labor involved in the building's construction: drawings have a purpose in the world that exceeds their own...
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Cohousing in Barcelona: Designing, building and living for cooperative models
Barcelona offers a prime example of the co-housing model as an asset prized for its use value as opposed to investment. This book is a compilation of cooperative housing projects in Barcelona, both complete and under construction. It explains how...
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Habiter en beauté : Ces lieux qui nous font du bien
La pandémie a changé notre rapport aux lieux, pour longtemps ou pour toujours. Le télétravail nous force à repenser la maison, mais le repli sanitaire a ses limites. Pour continuer d’avancer, et aussi pour s’adapter aux défis environnementaux, il faudra...
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ARN vol.4 : Atlas des Régions Naturelles
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ARN vol.4 : Atlas des Régions Naturelles
Avec ce quatrième volet de l’Atlas des Régions Naturelles, Eric Tabuchi et Nelly Monnier poursuivent leur projet au long cours engagé en 2017 : la documentation globale des 450 régions naturelles – ou « pays » – qui composent le...
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Karel Martens: Small prints
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Karel Martens: Small prints
This artist’s publication contains a sequence of unique letterpress monoprints, made by Dutch graphic designer Karel Martens between 2014 and 2022. The prints, which are both highly geometric and brightly coloured, are reproduced in the book at their actual size....
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El Croquis 222: David Chipperfield (2015–2023) Selected Works
The magazine presents an overview of eight years in the evolution of David Chipperfield’s practice, leading up to his receiving the Pritzker Prize in 2023. It features a diverse range of exemplary projects from this period, including Kunsthaus Zürich, the...
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Geostories: Another architecture for the environment
How do we make sense of the Earth at a moment in which it is presented in crisis? Geostories is a manifesto on the environmental imagination that renders sensible the issues of climate change and through geographic fiction invites readers...
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How to not demolish a building
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How to not demolish a building
Part of the Chapters series developed by the Belgian architects 51N4E, this third instalment tells the story of two office towers from the 1970s that have been transformed according to the principles of reduce/reuse/recycle. In collaboration with Jaspers-Eyers Architects, the former...
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Dyvik Kahlen: Dyvik Kahlen in practice, Villa Ruba
The In Practice series explores the multiple ways in which architects can engage their professional architecture practice in academic research and reciprocally. The series seeks to open a space for architecture practices in research through the development of methodologies, conferences, publications...
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Fièvre
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Fièvre
Depuis toujours Ronan Bouroullec dessine quotidiennement. Une pratique artistique pure qu'il juge autonome du métier pour lequel il est internationalement reconnu. Mais s'il existe une porosité entre ces deux faces de son activité qui se nourrissent l'une l'autre, Ronan Bouroullec...
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Too Much 09: The Sacred
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Too Much 09: The Sacred
TOO MUCH is a magazine about romantic geography. Its purpose is to document our collective experience of cities and look at the ways people and landscapes make and remake one another. This volume of TOO MUCH Magazine asks: Who is to...
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Valerio Olgiati: Built
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Valerio Olgiati: Built
Valerio Olgiati’s latest book is about the beauty of the very varied buildings he has realized to date. This exquisite small volume features them all in seventy-nine striking color photographs, each of them supplemented by a floor plan or section...
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Geoffrey Bawa: Drawing from the archives
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Geoffrey Bawa: Drawing from the archives
Sri Lankan architect Geoffrey Bawa fused sensitivity for local context with the technological discoveries and design principles of modernism. Accordingly, Bawa often incorporated materials (local stone and timber) and layouts (high roofs, cross-ventilation, vast overhangs) specific to Sri Lanka’s monsoon...
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Guido Guidi: Di sguincio, 1969–81
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Guido Guidi: Di sguincio, 1969–81
Di sguincio – meaning aslant, asquint, or seen from the corner of an eye – brings together more than a hundred black-and-white photographs made by Guido Guidi with small-format cameras between 1969 and 1981. These images record experimental early dialogues...
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The Colour Journal: The blue issue, Vol. 1
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The Colour Journal: The blue issue, Vol. 1
The Colour Journal is not simply another publication about the meaning of colour. Colours have not been approached in a literal way but as a starting point, a pretext to tell bigger stories, a means of revealing the story within...
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Tutto, tutto, tutto...o quasi
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Tutto, tutto, tutto...o quasi
Gianni Pettena was a founding member of the Radical architecture movement in the late 1960s, which included names like Archizoom, Remo Buti, 9999, UFO, Superstudio, and Zziggurat. Besides critiquing modernist functionalism, the self-proclaimed “anarchitect” became noted for a purposeful reluctance...
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Le Cèdre : Jean tschumi 1951-1956
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Le Cèdre : Jean tschumi 1951-1956
Achevé en 1956, le siège de la Mutuelle Vaudoise à Lausanne devient rapidement le modèle de l’architecture administrative en Suisse. L’intention du maître de l’ouvrage est clairement démonstrative : on veut un bâtiment en mesure d’exprimer, par sa modernité architecturale,...
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Modern architecture: A planetary warming history
Modern architecture is inseparably linked with the Industrial Revolution. Industrially manufactured materials such as iron, steel, reinforced concrete, glass, asbestos, and later also plastics, have helped to make architecture modern. The Industrial Revolution also set planetary warming in motion. Thus,...
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John Hejduk: Building characters
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John Hejduk: Building characters
John Hejduk is known to critics as a theoretician, teacher, poet and draftsman of extraordinary architecture, but he was above all an architect and builder in the deepest way. His built architectures have been rarely investigated but they manifest that...
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Arctic/Amazon: Networks of global indigeneity
Arctic/Amazon: Networks of Global Indigeneity offers a conversation between Indigenous Peoples of two regions in this time of political and environmental upheaval. Both regions are environmentally sensitive areas that have become hot spots in the debates circling around climate change...
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Socializing architecture: Top-down/bottom-up
Situated at the intersection of architecture, art, public culture, and political theory, Socializing Architecture urges architects and urbanists to intervene in the contested space between public and private interests, to design political and civic processes that mediate top-down and bottom-up...
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Portals: The visionary architecture of Paul Goesch
Paul Goesch produced one of the most inventive, peculiar, and poignant bodies of work to emerge from Weimar Germany. An artist and architect, he made both fanciful figurative drawings and visionary architectural designs. The latter, from the holdings of the...
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Make do with now: New directions in Japanese architecture
Make Do With Now presents a new perspective on Japanese architecture by introducing a young generation of architects and designers. Influenced by the Tohoku earthquake and Fukushima nuclear disaster of 2011, they share the desire for a sincere engagement with...
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The past exists
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The past exists
The past exists is a collection of works presented at Kenta Cobayashi’s solo exhibition at Mitsukoshi Contemporary Gallery in June 2022. In this exhibition, he selected portraits from Everything series of photographs. Cobayashi describes the past as a kind of frame...
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Umberto Riva, designer
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Umberto Riva, designer
Umberto Riva developed a personal approach to design, understood as a fundamental part of a broader research that connects painting and architecture, interiors and objects. Lamps, furniture, carpets and graphic design resonate with paintings, installations, buildings, public spaces and domestic...
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Pathways of art: How objects get to the museum
Non-European artworks in European and American museums have become the subject of controversial debate. How exactly these collections of art from Africa, North and South America, Asia, and Oceania have been amassed in the global North over centuries, and how...
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Futures of the architectural exhibition: Five conversations on the display of space
Architecture and design exhibitions have long been important public sites of broadcasting, experimentation, position-taking, and the interrogation of fundamental aspects of the designed environment. Just as individual exhibitions have constituted key benchmarks within the disciplinary history of architecture, the representation...
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Richard Mosse: Broken spectre
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Richard Mosse: Broken spectre
Devastation in the Amazon rainforest and the climate change it triggers tend to unfold in ways that are too vast to comprehend, too minute to perceive, and too normalised to see. In an attempt to render the scale and urgency...
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Voyages en Sardaigne : Nelle miniere di Iglesias / Into the Mines of Iglesias
Voyages en Sardaigne is a collection of unconventional thematic guides on the island in the middle of the Mediterranean. Nelle miniere di Iglesias / Into the Mines of Iglesias is the first part of an exploration that focuses on soil, excavations, incisions, mutations,...
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Nueva Vivienda: New housing paradigms in Mexico
In the period following World War II, eminent Mexican architects such as Juan O'Gorman and Luis Barragán pioneered the adaptation of an international narrative in housing design to their own cultural environment. Seven decades on, Mexican architecture, and housing design...
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Solar Futures: How to design a post-fossil world with the sun
This publication by solar designer Marjan van Aubel explores the future of solar energy. Solar energy needs a new narrative - one that says goodbye to old perspectives and only talks about the efficiency and the payback time of blue solar...
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Graphic design is (…) not innocent
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Graphic design is (…) not innocent
This volume questions ingrained approaches, values and assumptions of graphic design in globalized societies. It aims to initiate a dialogue between designers, scholars, critics and commissioners, who investigate responsibilities, potentials, politics, limits and risks of designing visual communication. How innocent...
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Album Architectures, Abidjan
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Album Architectures, Abidjan
This is not an architecture book but a photography book on an architecture that expresses itself through diversity. It is a book that intends to offer a photographic view of buildings in Abidjan that bear the imprint of a certain...
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Catalog design progress: Advancing standards in visual communication
A meticulously created facsimile edition of a classic work on design by the progenitor of today's information design. Long before the internet and its vast stores of information in digital form, information in analog form needed to be organized so...
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Le Jardin aux habitant·es
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Le Jardin aux habitant·es
Créé en 2002, à l'ouverture du Palais de Tokyo, le Jardin aux habitant·es est une oeuvre de l'artiste Robert Milin réalisée en collaboration avec des jardinier·es amateur·rices. Depuis vingt ans, ce processus au long cours de transaformations mutuelles est l'une...
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Peter Cook on paper
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Peter Cook on paper
English architect and writer Sir Peter Cook, renowned for his free-thinking spirit translated into architectural lines and shapes, is perhaps most well-known as the co-founder of the avant-garde architectural group Archigram in the 1960s. A selection of his drawings is...
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The curatorial condition
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The curatorial condition
In spite of the heightened interest in the curatorial since the late twentieth century, the structural conditions and potentials underpinning its special sociocultural status have yet to be defined. Taking this as a starting point, in this book, Beatrice von...
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Crash métropolis : Design écosocial et critique de la métropolisation des territoires
Le risque majeur de notre époque est celui d'un crash territorial total. La métropolisation à marche forcée provoque la marchandisation des territoires et la dégradation des milieux qui les rendent habitables. Ce volume tente d'y répondre en réunissant chercheurs, concepteurs...
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Unannounced voices: Curatorial practice and changing institutions
Alternative forms of curatorial and institutional work suitable to our novel conditions, when the relationship between physical and online work must be revised. In our current era of global pandemic and violent political upheaval, the question must be asked:...
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Vers un art anthropocène : L'art écologique américain pour prototype
Comment un mouvement artistique entièrement consacré à l'écologie et apparu aux États-Unis au cours des années 1960 a-t-il pu passer pratiquement inaperçu jusqu'à aujourd'hui ? Telle est la question au cœur de cet ouvrage qui retrace les conditions d'émergence et...
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Architettura Attenuata
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Architettura Attenuata
Douze dessins architecturaux réalisés par Ettore Sottsass au début des années 2000 et provenant d'une exposition à Milan en 2003. Né en Autriche et installé à Milan, Sottsass a étudié l'architecture au Politecnico di Torino de Turin. Après avoir passé la majeure...
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The City, The Island
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The City, The Island
Alice Pedroletti has been investigating several thematics parts of her practice and long ongoing research: islands, boats, archives, cartography, architecture, writing. This publication is a collection of contents and hints, from graphic design to sculpture, from editorial projects to database...
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Bauhaus : L'idée qui a changé le monde
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Bauhaus : L'idée qui a changé le monde
La première décennie du XXe siècle a été marquée dans toute l'Europe par une forte volonté de changement portée par les jeunes, avec la force et la joie. Dans ce contexte, l'idée du renouvellement prônée par Bauhaus passait par la...
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Avec le dessin
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Avec le dessin
Premier ouvrage consacré au travail de dessin du designer Pierre Charpin, ce livre réunit une sélection de près de 120 œuvres tirées de différentes séries réalisées entre 2005 et 2022. Si le dessin est une discipline artistique, il constitue également...
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Sur la projettation : Pour une pragmatique architecturale
Par un travail de lecture et d'étymologie attentive des traités d'architecture, de Vitruve à Vittone, Bruno Queysanne nous révèle un aspect peu connu de ces textes « classiques », dans lesquels les architectes laissent de côté leur rhétorique savante et...
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Aires Mateus: Architectural terrains, Five investigations
Of the around 20 biennials and triennials worldwide devoted to architecture, the Venice Architecture Biennale is the most prominent, considered as the world''s leading biannual architecture festival. The participating architects selected every second year come from around the world to...
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La grève humaine : Et l'art de créer la liberté
La pratique de l'écriture constitue une partie intégrante de sa recherche, aussi bien visuelle que conceptuelle, autour des questions de la valeur, la liberté, l'économie et le féminisme. Les textes ici réunis ont des registres différents qui vont du théorique...
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