Architecture - August 2021
Architecture - August 2021
What role does storytelling play in urban imaginaries? How do these imaginaries converge or
diverge from reality? Can we use stories to test ideas for future architecture? This volume brings
together commissioned writing in fiction and non-fiction, graphic stories, illustrations, and
interviews, narrating buildings, housing estates, and cities, between utopias and dystopias,
through imagination, dreaming, magic, games and concrete realities, across past and present,
and into the future. Contributors include acclaimed international writers: Ben Okri, Sophie
Mackintosh, Adania Shibli, and Alia Trabucco Zeran.
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This issue brings forward the work of six architectural practices, each of which provides a
statement on the meaning of life, place, and form. Guest editor Go Hasegawa belongs to the
same generation as these offices, who all share a similar attitude towards the house and its
relationship to the world beyond. In her essay, Giovanna Borasi discusses the evolving concept
of lifecycle and work, new models of co-living, and a perceived misalignment between new
societal needs and the architecture that accommodates them. The featured practices are: 6a
architects (London), Vector Architects (Beijing), MOS (New York), adamo-faiden (Buenos Aires),
and HARQUITECTES (Barcelona).
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Offering an extensive analysis of the work of Ricardo Carvalho, this volume introduces the
thinking and methods of the critically acclaimed Portuguese architect. It focuses on a number of
his past projects, among them Lisbon's Design and Fashion Museum (MUDE), a hotel in Douro
Vineyards, Ribeira 11 apartment building, Sebastiao da Gama School, Lima de Freitas School,
exhibition designs, and several houses and apartments, as well as examples of interior design.
The monograph features a number of texts authored by Carvalho, together with pieces by Manuel
Aires Mateus, Joao Belo Rodeia, and Chilean architect Mauricio Pezo.
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'Participate! Portraits of Cities and Citizens in Action' offers an introduction to the complex world
of urban development, identity, and participation. It explains how the self-understanding of cities
is mirrored in their approach to urban development. The basis of the book is formed by portraits
of six European cities: Berlin, Hamburg, Paris, Lyon, Amsterdam, and Groningen.
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'Of Sand and Stones' is a journey into the construction of a building in Paris by two firms also
based in the city, TVK and Tolila+Gilliland. It offers an alternate vision of architecture and time,
spanning landscape and earth, geometry, and craft and construction in a format that recounts the
material and cultural stories entangled in the project, through drawing, photography, and
literature. Deepening the story the book proposes, it contains excepts from more than fifteen
authors distributed across a broad range of interests and backgrounds, such as Reyner Banham,
Marie Richeux, Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari, Italo Calvino, Robert Smithson, and Marguerite
Duras.
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Second issue of the critical magazine Dixit in which the words of the architect Yony Santos from
the swiss architecture practice TYPICALOFFICE and of Marina Otero Verzier, director of
research at Het Nieuwe Instituut (HNI), confront each other around the theme of "A Matter of
Data".
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Accattone 07
Accattone 2021 ISBN 9782960253030 Acqn 31669
Pb 23x32cm 196pp col ills £30.50
Accattone #7 deals with open-air domesticity and the diplomatic hospitality of land. It presents
intellectual and architectural projects, both contemporary and historical, for alternative modes of
living. With Costantino Nivola, SNCDA et al. at the Venice Architecture Biennale, Aglaia Konrad,
Alice Paris on De Smet Vermeulen, Osamu Ishiyama and Kenji Kawai, TEN, Wim Cuyvers,
moilesautresart, DSCTHK, Piovenefabi, Emmanuelle Chiappone Piriou on Superstudio, Carlo
Goncalves on Smiljan Radic, The Museum of Mistakes on Arakawa & Gins, and Zuber panoramic
wallpapers.
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This reprint of 'El Croquis' celebrates Paris-based architects Lacaton & Vassal, after founders
Anne Lacaton and Jean-Philippe Vassal became Pritzker Architecture Prize Laureates in 2021. It
gives special consideration not only to the evolution of their methodology and ideals, through
critical analysis by Arnoldo Rivkin and Juan Hereros and an interview with the architects, but also
to an extensive selection of exemplary projects. Among the featured works are the Nantes School
of Architecture, FRAC Nord-Pas de Calais, Guangzhou Museum, Le Grand Sud Polyvalent
Theater in Lille, housing projects in Paris, Saint Nazaire, Mulhouse, and Bordeaux, plus their
newest projects since winning the Pritzker Prize.
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Having worked together at Junya Ishigami + Associates in 2004 and 2005, Kentaro Kurihara and
Miho Iwatsuki decided to establish Studio Velocity in 2006. Since then, they have pursued an
innovative vision of small-scale residential architecture and dwellings which soften the boundaries
between interior and exterior, allowing the proximity of natural elements to enhance and benefit
everyday urban living spaces and attitudes. In their practice, they investigate the possibility of
urban space and new architecture by expanding the range that is considered the environment.
This large monographic volume allows a detailed look at the studio's numerous projects
throughout Japan.
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This publication traces Waro Kishi's architectural trajectories through time, from thinking to
practice to education, as his architecture ultimately serves as a frame and stage for the dynamic
worlds of nature and human experience, ever-changing as past, present, and future continually
intersect. Its chapters are distributed among the broad topics which Kishi addresses in his work -
place, time, living, landscape - while featuring standout projects such as KIT House, Katsura
Library at Kyoto University, KIM House, Yunoka Bridge, Kyoto-Kagaku Research Institute, and
more. A thoughtful essay by Ken Tadashi Oshima examines the arc of Kishi's architectural
practice over time.
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Naoyuki Nagata presents a multi-layered overview of his architectural firm, ICU Architects Office.
Floor plans, section drawings, and site plans are gathered together but not arranged per single
project. In this way, the reader is encouraged to move freely back and forth between the profiles
of finished works and the initial concepts, in order to gain a better understanding of the vision
behind each as well as of how all of the office's work is interconnected.
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This second monograph covers projects between 2006 and 2020 by Apollo Architects &
Associates, which Satoshi Kurosaki established at the turn of the 21st century. Since that time,
Apollo has completed around 200 projects and is currently growing and broadening its design
areas to include residential projects as well as hotel design. The firm's simplistic architecture
represents the human effort to pursue timeless beauty at its essence while seeking constant
change - buildings that are admired but are also able to satisfy functional purposes and safety
needs. These are creative spaces that meet and exceed the expectations of clients and society,
aesthetically and logically.
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For its 50th issue, 'Log' looks at models in an expanded sense, examining their values,
behaviours, and the behaviours they elicit. From the economic to the political, from public health
to climate, models seem to run the world. In architecture, the model is no longer just a physical
tool for conceptualising or representing a vision, but must also encompass digital or 3D-printed
models, data and artificial intelligence models, business models, educational models, and even
engage the discipline's own history in establishing role models. Ranging from familiar
architectural thinkers to up-and-coming practitioners, 39 contributors offer perspectives on the
role of the model in architecture today.
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What kind of profile should the future architect have? What would an institution charged with
educating such an architect look like? This volume addresses such questions and more, and is
the manifestation in print form of an eponymous exhibition held at the Museum of Architecture
and Design in Ljubljana in 2020/2021, in collaboration with the Faculty of Architecture at the
moment of its centennial. The exhibition's information and spatial atmosphere are transposed
here in 2D form, in graphics, photographs, and text. As a new artefact, the publication broadly
addresses practices in architectural education that have affected or should affect change in
contemporary society.
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Established in 1990, the studio led by Adam Caruso and Peter St John has a diverse portfolio
including commercial, residential, and cultural buildings, and much experience working in historic
locations. Here the studio is profiled through proposals from eight recent competitions, each
marked by the architects’ devotion to exploring materials and approaches. Among these are the
conversion of a military barracks in Zurich, a corporate campus in Prague, Swiss residential
blocks, and a research complex in Dresden. In addition, the magazine publishes five recent
competition projects awarded to Spanish architects and several new cabin hotels ensconced in
natural surroundings.
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In this issue, the magazine examines the work of the Norwegian studio Reiulf Ramstad Arkitekter.
With a style often referred to as revitalised Nordic and characterised by its contemporary use of
natural materials, the studio's Scandinavian sensibility is a living reality that is far from becoming
any kind of trademark. The four projects highlighted here, two in Norway and the others in
Denmark and France, present daring forms that nevertheless draw inspiration from the context
and local material culture. A second feature in this issue looks at new architecture in France, such
as the Centre for Circus Arts by NP2F and a stacked tower of unobstructed spaces in Caen by
Bruther.
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Featuring more than 50 new buildings and projects, ranging in scale from 50 to more than 500
square metres and designed by architectural studios from Asia, Europe, and the Americas, this
extensive anthology covers a lot of ground. A neighbourhood facility can be anything, from small
shops, restaurants, and commercial premises, to apartments, community facilities, company
offices, galleries, and more, as long as it is situated comfortably in its closely built urban context.
This broad typology is explored throughout its many facets, with works by Richue Architects,
MMKM associates, Hitzig Militello architects, space matter, PHENOMENA arquitetura, and more.
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Featuring more than 50 new buildings and projects, ranging in scale from 50 to more than 500
square metres and designed by architectural studios from Asia, Europe, and the Americas, this
extensive anthology covers a lot of ground. A neighbourhood facility can be anything, from small
shops, restaurants, and commercial premises, to apartments, community facilities, company
offices, galleries, and more, as long as it is situated comfortably in its closely built urban context.
This broad typology is explored throughout its many facets, with works by ROOM+ Design &
Build, Yong Ju Architecture, Declerck-Daels, Calujac Architecture, Affleck de la Riva Architects,
and more.
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Kiyokazu Arai began his professional career in 1982 when, as a student at the Southern
California Institute of Architecture, he joined Morphosis, the office founded ten years earlier by
Thom Mayne. As Mayne writes in his introduction to this monograph, "Though we didn't speak the
same verbal language it was clear from the first weeks that we spoke from a remarkably
copacetic and familiar visual one". The two would work together for ten years, until Arai returned
to Japan and founded his own firm, Arai Architects. The publication traces his evolution as an
architect from the very beginning until the present day, detailing shifts in thinking and notable
projects each step of the way.
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The Pocket Books series is an assemblage of small publications which compile theoretical texts
by various architects or institutions in different collections. These writings reflect different areas of
interest and performance in the architectural discourse. For its second edition, written and
compiled by Federico Bucci, the series reflects on the multidisciplinary work of Luigi Moretti
(1906-1973). He was the embodiment of the intellectual architect, capable of interweaving art and
architecture, and his works are considered among the most original examples of Italian
modernism. This book reveals the complex aspects of his theory on form and structure, space
and time.
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Compact Courtyard Housing. Handbook For A New Building Type For Sustainable High-
density Urban Dev.
Triest Verlag 2021 ISBN 9783038630524 Acqn 31696
Pb 25x18cm 178pp col ills £52.50
Thousands of years old, the courtyard house building type was reinterpreted as a building block
for urban quarters of high density and heterogeneity. The resultant "compact courtyard house",
with its low height and up to four living units, has a very small footprint and can replace detached
houses and other conventional dwelling types. Outside space is integrated into the buildings as a
private courtyard space, thus merging interiors and exteriors into a spatial continuum with high
residential value. The book describes this comprehensive typology in eight basic concepts from
which space-saving compact courtyard houses can be derived, or even combined to form urban
ensembles.
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Focusing on the London-based practice founded in 2006 by Kevin Carmody and Andy Groarke,
this issue features a selection of around 20 works, including projects published here for the first
time. Carmody Groarke has developed an international reputation for its wide range of arts,
cultural, heritage, and residential projects. The ingredients which define them are innovation, use
of classical forms, and a profound coherence, all boldly manifested in the multifaceted identity of
their work. This can be seen in projects such as the 7 July Memorial, Studio East Dining, Hill Box
House, and Highgate House.
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Covering almost two decades of work by Roger Boltshauser, this issue takes a fresh look at the
Zurich-based architect's uniquely contemporary manner of expression. With profiles of more than
20 projects conceived since the turn of the century, it outlines Boltshauser's approach to
materials and the methods he uses to reveal their intrinsic constructive and structural possibilities.
Among the highlights are the rammed earth Rauch House, a clay observation tower at the
Brickworks Museum in Cham, Oerlikon Sports and Swimming Centre, Ozeanium at Basel Zoo,
and more. The issue also features a conversation with the architect and Jonathan Sergison, plus
an essay by Jesus Vassallo.
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Doma Issue 04: Nuno Brandao Costa, Area, Diller Scofidio + Renfro, Neiheiser Argyros,
Fala, Piovenaf
Doma Magazine 2021 no ISBN Acqn 31703
Pb 23x30cm 128pp col ills £28
'DOMa' revisits the architectural process in an informed and elaborate manner to highlight the
story of each project, not the moment of its completion. In issue four, Nuno Brandao Costa
revisits the layout, architecture, and public space of Sao Joao de Deus social housing complex;
AREA reveals the interplay between design variations and the context of a vacation house on
Salamis; Fala presents images, drawings of Suspended House; Piovenefabi retrace the Metro
Series, from the Milan project's appropriation to the building and exhibition of individual pieces;
and Diller Scofidio + Renfro and Neiheiser Argyros document the construction of the structural
supports of The Tide.
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Roger Boltshauser
Triest Verlag 2021 ISBN 9783038630579 Acqn 31704
Hb 22x30cm 538pp col ills £110
The act of building and its material reality play a defining role in the work of Swiss architect Roger
Boltshauser. His architectural language thus develops in the context of the examination of
materials and their intrinsic constructive and structural possibilities. Edited by architect and
lecturer Martin Tschanz, this monograph examines how Boltshauser's architecture is neither an
implementation of a pictorial idea nor a display of a certain principle. Rather, it is integrative and
open to complexity, particularly that of the act of building itself. Contrary to the abstractness of
modernism and neo-modernism and the arbitrariness of free forms, his is a unique, contemporary
expression.
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