ARCHITECTURE

El Croquis 226 - OFFICE 2017-2024

El Croquis 2024 ISBN 9788412823417 Acqn 36080
Hb 25x34cm col ills £81

This monographic issue examines recent work by Belgian architects Kersten Geers and David
Van Severen and their Brussels-based firm, OFFICE, which was established in 2002 as a means
of exploring the prospect of architecture within the contemporary culture and urban environment.
Currently a team of about 40 architects, it has evolved a practical and pragmatic approach to
design in which architecture becomes nothing less than a civic obligation. An overview of 25
projects, including a crematorium, dental clinic, and art gallery, is introduced by a conversation
with Giovanna Borasi, director of the Canadian Centre for Architecture in Montreal, and the two
founding architects.

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Researching Otherwise - Pluriversal Methodologies for Landscape and Urban Studies

gta Verlag 2024 ISBN 9783856764678 Acqn 36092
Pb 16x22cm 270pp col ills £35.50

How can landscape and urban studies more effectively engage in transdisciplinary dialogue,
sensuousness and affect, and pluriversal worlds? 'Researching Otherwise' presents sensory,
collaborative, and restitutive methodological tools for crafting new spaces of knowledge
production. Through activities such as drawing, photographing, filmmaking, sounding, listening,
walking, and mapmaking, these researchers explore regenerative futures in new ways, from non-
human companions to visual ethnographic studies with refugees. With contributions by Nitin
Bathla, Denise Bertschi, Nancy Couling, Luke Harris, Metaxia Markaki, Bonnie Kate Walker, and
more.

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Living Places - Principles and Insights for a New Way of Thinking Buildings
Danish Architectural Press 2024 ISBN 9788774077787 Acqn 36082
Pb 19x25cm 200pp col ills £55.75

'Living Places' is an innovative approach to home construction that benefits both people and
planet, and a valuable model that thrives on collaboration. The concept's lessons demonstrate
how to construct healthy buildings using readily available materials and technologies. Its
scalability and feasibility aspire to influence the housing sector by assessing prototypes and
integrating valuable knowledge into the construction industry at large. This book offers a
comprehensive look at this approach through the voices of the project's main partners, its
shareable data, and a description of the process and method that can create change where it is
most needed - a manual of tools and insights.

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Earthly Cities
Danish Architectural Press 2024 ISBN 9788774070559 Acqn 36085
Pb 11x18cm 74pp col ills £22.50

The first volume in the publisher's pocket book series comprises two distinct sections. Firstly,
architectural educator Tom Nielsen introduces the concept of the earthly city as a close,
harmonious interweaving of people and nature in the history of urban development. From the
muscle city, powered by human and animal labour, through the machine cities of the
industrialised era, to the boundless cities of now, characterised by global communication and
blurred urban distinctions. Secondly, Nielsen grapples with the urgent need to rethink urbanism in
the face of the climate crisis by exploring the polarised responses to the climate crisis:
technological optimism versus hyperlocal sustainability.

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Circular Construction for Urban Development - A System

Danish Architectural Press 2024 ISBN 9788774076261 Acqn 36086
Pb 19x24cm 196pp col ills £45

This publication is the result of a collaborative research process between 20 co-authors and
multiple organisations, created with the aim of providing developers and other actors in the
building industry with knowledge and tools that support the application and practice of circular
construction principles in urban development. The book's production is therefore akin to the
industrial and organisational processes it promotes: modular elements of knowledge provided by
a cluster of experts and assembled as a package of relevant perspectives, divided across five
thematic chapters. It also includes several downloadable resources to help you in your pursuit of
applying the principles.

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Chacarita Moderna - The Brutalist Necropolis of Buenos Aires

Building Books 2024 ISBN 9782492680199 Acqn 35946
Pb 22x29cm 224pp col ills £42

In 1949 the construction of the Sexto Panteon, an underground necropolis containing 150,000
burial plots, was launched. This monumental brutalist-style cemetery is the first and largest
experimentation of modern architecture applied to the funerary field, and yet it remains relatively
unknown. Itala Fulvia Villa (1913-1991), the project's architect, was one of Argentina's first female
architects and urban planners, a pioneer of South American modernism who also contributed to
Le Corbusier's master plan for Buenos Aires. In this book, French architect Lea Namer
rediscovers the necropolis through an in-depth investigation and feminist re-reading of this unique
site and its creator.

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North Sea Rising - A Case for Water-Based Commons

Vi Per Gallery 2024 ISBN 9788090843356 Acqn 36087
Pb 12x18cm 116pp col ills £28.25

In North Sea Rising, Nabi Agzamov and Francesca Vanelli argue for a new perspective on
regional commons across the North Sea watershed. Through a series of essays, experts and
practitioners examine the historical evolution of this dynamic region and its legacy, climate
change challenges, and the potential approaches needed to imagine a vision of a resilient and
equitable future for the North Sea. Tom Holbrook's "A New Hansa?" explores the region's
historical and present-day significance of trade and urban networks, "Mapping the Human-Ocean
Nexus" by Di Fang critiques traditional cartography and advocates for biodiversity-focused "ocean
thinking", and Nashin Mahtani's "To Dream Like a River" highlights the importance of community-
led governance. The book concludes with "North Sea Manifesting", where Agzamov and Vanelli
propose a fluid, inclusive governance model that balances ecological and social dimensions. The
book challenges conventional notions of territory and governance, advocating for a vision of a
North Sea rooted in cooperation, resilience, and environmental equilibrium.

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Suburban Alternatives - Survey of Low-Rise High-Density Housing Projects in the United

States
Building Books 2024 ISBN 9782492680168 Acqn 36090
Pb 19x30cm 288pp col ills £45

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 typologies and forms of agglomeration, opening up more sustainable and
ecological alternatives. In this atlas of 50 projects from across the United States, Florian Camai
and Mathilde Luguet present their observations alongside essays by French and American
researchers specialised in suburban areas - an open reflection on the future of suburban living.

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Colour Trilogy in Landscape Design, an Asian Story

Altrim Publishers 2024 ISBN 9788412622256 Acqn 36091
Pb 21x21cm 212pp col ills £36.50

Through an introduction of landscape design methods, beginning from surveying, field

assessment, and combining senses, and with a focus on the South Asian region, this publication
examines the creative method and theory behind design concepts in landscape architecture. Its
contents cover three core components of landscape: green space, water surface, and
architectural elements. Aimed at students and others who are interested in pursuing landscape
architecture, planning, and urban design, the publication functions as a handbook for knowledge,
insight, and learning.

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Time to Play
Archipress Editons 2024 ISBN 9782491906429 Acqn 36083
Pb 21x28cm 170pp col ills £31

In the lead-up to the Paris 2024 Olympic Games, 'Time to Play' explores how play shapes our
cities and societies. This collection includes texts on topics like grieving in video games, play
therapy in psychiatric asylums, excessive sport (bigorexia), the unbalanced rules of international
trade, the overlap between sports and sacred rites, the symbolism of color in sports, casino
architecture and addiction, the dangers of online betting, gender equality in French sports, and
urban sports like parkour and skateboarding. Born from the desire to discuss play through play,
'Time to Play' employs a freeform approach inspired by the exquisite corpse game. Each author
contributes independently, creating a polyphonic ensemble of interviews, photo reports,
illustrations, analyses, essays, articles, and excerpts. This format allows readers the freedom to
navigate the content as they see fit.

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Archiving the Commons - Looking Through the Lens of bak.ma

DPR-BARCELONA 2024 ISBN 9788412494280 Acqn 36093
Pb 11x18cm 320pp col ills £20.25

This book is about stories of archives. By delving into bak.ma, a digital media archive born out of
the social movements in Turkey, we are guided through a journey in which archives become sites
of other kinds of stories: ones that involve solidarity, activism, and the commons. Author Ozge
Celikaslan uses the concept of archives of the commons to reimagine archives as spaces of
commoning in which creative, autonomous, platforms are generated collectively to perpetuate
knowledge and sociopolitical relations grounded in solidarity and an ethics of care - not in some
distant future, but in the here and now. With contributions by Thomas Keenan and Pelin Tan.

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a+u 645 24:06 20 Years of Mass Timber Constructions in Canada

Shinkenchiku-Sha Co. Ltd. 2024 no ISBN Acqm 36089
Pb 22x30cm 160pp col ills £23.75

At the turn of the 21st century, Canada adopted a constructive environmental approach for
sustainable forest management, timber use, and climate change mitigation. Canadian architects
have since demonstrated their ingenuity in this respect. In addition, careful use of timber
resources is also deeply intertwined with Indigenous cultures and land rights. Mass timber is
construction that uses large-volume wood laminated timber, which is highly relevant to today's
building methods: using local materials, recycling resources, and reducing carbon footprints.
Nineteen projects by six architectural firms are highlighted, illustrating the evolution and potential
of mass timber in the Canadian context.

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a+u 646 2024:07 Post-Digitality in Architecture

Shinkenchiku-Sha Co. Ltd. 2024 no ISBN Acqn 36088
Pb 22x29cm 168pp col ills £23.75

Recent years have seen significant changes in architectural practice, where digital technology is
widespread and commonplace - a condition referred to as "post-digital". Technological and
ecological disruptions are forcing architects to adapt and re-strategize. This issue features
research and education institutions where such explorations are being actively pursued: Southern
California Institute of Architecture in Los Angeles, Bartlett School of Architecture at University
College London, and the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich. It introduces pioneering
projects that push the boundaries in their respective fields, redefining architecture within the post-
digital context.

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AMAG 35 LCLA - Manthey Kula - Sanden+Hodnekvam Architects

A.Mag 2024 ISBN 9789893530474 Acqn 36081
Pb 24x32cm 208pp col ills £58.50

This issue turns its gaze towards Norway in a fresh exploration of Nordic design, featuring three
Oslo-based studios. LCLA Office is led by architects Luis Callejas and Charlotte Hansson since
2016. They combine architecture and landscape architecture in sophisticated site surveys to
create projects that pay equal attention to interior and exterior. Oslo native Beate Holmebakk and
Swedish architect Per Tamsen launched Manthey Kula in 2004, while Sanden+Hodnekvam
Arkitekter was founded by John Sanden and Ingvild Hodnekvam in 2014. Active in a range of
projects, the small studio's work balances between simplicity in form and richness in tectonics
and ambiance.

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AMAG PT 06 SIA Arquitectura

A.Mag 2024 ISBN 9789893561706 Acqn 36094
Pb 24x32cm 112pp col ills £29.25

Ana Cravinho, Ines Cordovil, and Sofia Pinto Basto have been working together since 2000. They
created SIA arquitectura in 2007. Current projects include single-family homes, residential
buildings, public buildings, small-scale interventions, and commercial and scenic spaces. Their
practice is based on rehabilitation and attention to the uniqueness of each circumstance, and they
believe that small interventions can amplify and transform reality. The work the studio produces
collaboratively with other architects with whom they have had a close relationship since their start
is representational of the studio's collective thinking. The project always emerges from this
collaboration.

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DOMa Issue 10
Doma Magazine 2024 no ISBN Acqn 36084
Pb 23x30cm col ills £28.25

In DOMa 10, AgwA share tools and strategies for reusing an office building, from structure to
materials, and transforming it into the school complex 'Karreveld'. Langarita Navarro document
the two lives, ephemeral and temporary, of their installation 'Red Bull Music Academy - Nave de
Musica' in the Matadero warehouse. Atelierdacosta provide a detailed overview of the production
of 'Casa Crespo', questioning both their work and the discipline of architecture itself. Kwong Von
Glinow reproduce the microcosm of 'Ardmore House' as a transformation of the typical wooden
frame house into a complex alternative in terms of space and programme. Co.Creation.Architects
present their community work that precedes their built projects, called the co-creation process,
focusing on the case of 'Urban River Spaces'.

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Accattone #08
Accattone 2024 ISBN 9782960253085 Acqn 36095
Pb 24x32cm 180pp col ills £29.25

Accattone #8 addresses matters of construction in relation to time, use, change and technical
knowledge against the backdrop of the "negative commons" inherited from the productivist
society of the past century - "zombie" habits, desires, products and processes that our
contemporary condition can no longer sustain, yet cannot help but reproduce. With contributions
by Clement Hebert, Elodie Degavre, all the 50+ participants to the High Tech Low Tech exhibition
at EPFL Lausanne, DSCTHK (Jerome Andre & Thibaut Blondiau), Oliver Burch, Kosmos,
Fuminori Nousaku & Mio Tsuneyama, Antoine Angeard & Lise Duchamp, Lars Lerup, Pierre
Leguillon.

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AHA In Practice - A Travelogue by Leeke Reinders - L'Ermitage, Jubel, Ulysse

MER B&L 2024 ISBN 9789464987379 Acqn 36134
Pb 17x24cm 288pp col ills £31.50

For the fifth book in the In Practice series, Aurelie Hachez and Leeke Reinders invite readers on
a road journey through three transformative projects: L'Ermitage in urban Brussels, suburban
Jubel, and rural Ulysse. This volume not only explores the design process and its subsequent
adoption by inhabitants but also delves into the theoretical implications of object agency in AHA's
work, the strategic day-to-day work ethic, and the creative portrayal of buildings as entities with
their own narratives

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In Plain Sight – Scenes from Aridly Abundant Landscapes

KAPH 2024 ISBN 9786148035586 Acqn 36151
Pb 15x21cm 398pp col ills £47

Official catalog of UAE's National Pavilion at Venise Biennale of Architecture, this book was
conceived as a collection of travels through aridity. Contributors were asked to think about the
relationship between travel, travel writing, and the built environment. What coalesced was a
diverse set of positions and attitudes towards travel writing that ranged from documenting
journeys through historical texts and images in search of lost relationships with aridity and the
practices it engenders, to authors who physically traveled to contemporary arid spaces in search
of nuance and abundance, and essays that explore the blurry and conceptual edges of aridity.
Alongside the travel-based contributions, the book presents a series of field notes, ostensibly
framed as research findings. In the field notes, curator Faysal Tabbarah attempts to narrate the
places, materials, and tactics that he encountered on numerous trips. Supporting these field
notes is a series of photographic catalogs that depict the range of tactics used in constructing Al
Hajar's built environment that Tabbarah have witnessed in his fieldwork. Traveling with me and at
times separately, Reem Falaknaz narrates her own experiences in Al Hajar Mountains through a
series of photographs that are also contained within the publication.

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