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Fort Hoofddorp - Strategic Interventions - Serge Schoemaker Architects

The Architecture Observer 2021 ISBN 9789492058126 Acqn 31736
Pb 20x27cm 96pp col ills £28.50

By making public what was previously inaccessible for defensive reasons, Serge Schoemaker
has brought Fort Hoofddorp, located just south-west of Amsterdam, out of its isolation. The
architect's design method can be best described as architectural editing, keeping the tone and
tenor of the fort, completed in 1904, intact and strengthening its character wherever possible. As
such, Schoemaker elucidates its "story" while simultaneously expressing the essence of its
architecture. His interventions and alterations, whether additions or removals, optimise the
existing structures and landscape, freeing them from the original military purpose and imparting a
universal significance.

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Maria Bottero - Forays Beyond The Modern: The Architecture Of Umberto Riva
Cosa Mentale 2021 ISBN 9782491039011 Acqn 31746
Pb 22x23cm 352pp col ills £78.75

Italian architect Umberto Riva (1928-2021) was also an accomplished designer and painter. A
student of Carlo Scarpa, he inherited an artistic and artisanal attitude, a taste for open forms, and
a sensitivity for an operational scale that extends from the material detail to the landscape. His
work ranges from designing objects and lamps to urban housing projects and exhibition
installations. This book is conceived as an anthology with an elucidating series of critical essays
taken from out-of-print books. A collaboration with the architect's personal archive and with the
Canadian Centre for Architecture in Montreal allowed the retrieval and presentation of his
sketches and drawings.

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Manual Of Urban Ecology

Les Presses Du Reel 2021 ISBN 9782378962432 Acqn 31747
Pb 13x20cm 120pp col ills £21.95

Audrey Muratet and Francois Chiron present the current state of knowledge on how nature
functions in an urban environment: its ecology. Cities are complex structures with many disparate
living conditions. These can both generate and destroy pools of biodiversity. Cities are also
organisms that develop, mutate, and die. In analysing these phenomena, this book affirms
principles to overcome the ecological blindness of city dwellers and avert collisions with urban
ecosystems. Ecologist and botanist Muratet explores the composition and dynamics of urban
biodiversity. Chiron, a specialist in birds and mammals, studies those landscapes most
transformed by humans.

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Doing, Seeing; Seeing, Doing

Uro Publications 2021 ISBN 9781922601001 Acqn 31749
Pb 17x24cm 176pp col ills £36.75

For architect and educator Leon van Schaik, the way we understand our world is not an abstract
consideration, but deeply rooted in physical experience. Our spatial intelligence is inflected by
homes and places of work, gardens and the landscapes we have travelled through. In this book,
Van Schaik unearths a lineage of landscape and garden ideas that have influenced his thinking. It
unfolds as a series of journeys with friends and colleagues through their shared histories in
architecture and landscape. The partly autobiographical process explores how every line drawn in
our world brings with it a system, demonstrating why an awareness of our own spatial histories is
crucial.

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Genkyo - Yokoo Tadanori II Works

Kokushokankokai 2021 ISBN 9784336071019 Acqn 31750
Hb 24x31cm 460pp col ills £86.75

Tadanori Yokoo held his first solo exhibition of paintings in 1966 in Tokyo. His revolutionary work,
which oscillates between conceptual art and pure design, rapidly gained attention in the
international art world. With a signature style of colourful psychedelia and pastiche, he engages a
wide spectrum of modern visual and cultural phenomena from Japan and elsewhere. The subject
matter often clashes with what seems a nonsensical collage of images. 'Genkyo' is an exuberant,
far-reaching anthology of Yokoo's work throughout the years, with a special focus on how the
artist constantly revisits and remakes the same images and themes in a mind-blowing variety of
styles and artworks.

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Atmosphere And Building Culture

Architectural Publisher B 2021 ISBN 9788792700346 Acqn 31751
Pb 23x29cm 150pp col ills £37.25

With this study, architect and educator Anders Gammelgaard Nielsen aims to shed light on the
relationship between the way we build and the atmosphere in our spaces. He selected nine
spaces, different in both character and underlying building culture, where each offers its own
contained universe. Examining them chronologically, it becomes apparent that variation
decreases as building culture transitions from artisan-based to industrial processes. This is also
marked by decisive changes in their atmospheres. Gammelgaard Nielsen's research uncovers a
cultural shift where, in the space of a few generations, we have moved from warm emanations to
cold rationality.

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.bak Gordon
A+A Books 2021 ISBN 9789895440153 Acqn 31752
Hb 17x21cm 296pp col ills £52.50

Based in Lisbon, Bak Gordon Arquitectos was established in 2002 by Ricardo Bak Gordon. The
studio has since built a reputation for its residential houses and educational and public buildings,
projects that are rooted in place, with a strong sense and sensibility for the local features and
contexts. Bak Gordon's architecture is characterised by its pragmatism and intelligence. This
book introduces the practice through a number of projects from over the past two decades along
with recent work, including the Roman Theatre and National Coach Museum, both in Lisbon, as
well as residences in Portugal, schools in Switzerland, and a mixed-use waterfront development
in Mozambique.

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a+u 611 2021:08 Nenia Project - Smiljan Radic

Shinkenchiku-Sha Co. Ltd. 2021 ISBN 9784900212664 Acqn 31754
Pb 22x29cm 190pp col ills £30.95

This issue features the work of Chilean architect Smiljan Radic. It opens with Nenia Project,
which reveals the visions of the past and future that drive his architectural approach. The project
is a sort of memoir by Radic, a collection of metaphorical manifestos and artefacts that have
equipped him with "subversive artistic strategies" and "scores for object-based works". Ranging
from sculptures to buildings, 25 key works are presented along with Radic's own conceptual
drawings and paintings. All were produced between 2010 and 2021. Adding depth to the
collective sense of temporal progression of the works are two essays by Ryue Nishizawa and
Fredi Fischli and Niels Olsen.

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Arquitectura Viva 236 - Kengo Kuma

Avisa 2021 no ISBN Acqn 31755
Pb Pb 30x34cm 80pp col ills £20.95

When the eyes of the world see the Olympic flame in the cauldron of the Japan National Stadium,
many will look at the sophisticated branches of its timber trusses and the soothing foliage of its
galleries, and recognize the material discipline and love for nature of its author. Kengo Kuma
(Yokohama, 1954) embodies that Japanese spirit where the craft of the artisan fuses with the
sensitivity of ukiyo-e prints, and this issue of Arquitectura Viva presents this mastery through six
works encompassing a range of scales, from large buildings in Tokyo to a modest interior design
in another city that bears an Olympic stamp, Barcelona.

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AV Proyectos 104 - Tatiana Bilbao Estudio

Avisa 2021 no ISBN Acqn 31759
Pb 24x30cm 80pp col ills £13.50

'AV Proyectos 104: Tatiana Bilbao Estudio' devotes its dossier to the Mexico City-based office
Tatiana Bilbao ESTUDIO, founded in 2004. The firm's projects are characterized by their flexibility
and capacity to address the needs of the communities where they are developed. The issue
continues with the competition to extend the MACBA in Barcelona, with the winning proposal by
Harquitectes and Christ & Gantenbein as well as the four shortlisted entries. The following section
includes four projects in which small stone buildings in rural areas are refurbished and converted
into domestic spaces.

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AV Proyectos 105: NP2F

Avisa 2021 no ISBN Acqn 31755
Pb 24x30cm 80pp col ills £12.95

Featured are a spotlight on the French studio NP2F, which uses drawing to grasp the logic that
comes with a location and foresee its potential future, focusing on the essential and on an
economy of gestures. In addition, the magazine presents five projects from the international
competition "Shenzhen Ten Cultural Facilities of New Era", submitted by Jean Nouvel, Dominique
Perrault, Sou Fujimoto, EMBT, and SANAA. Other features include the varied uses of ceramic
materials as seen through five buildings in Catalonia by local studios and Gregory Crewdson's
dystopian urban landscapes, photographs closer to the world of dreams and the imagination than
to the reality we know.

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AV Monographs 235 - Masters' Memoirs

Avisa 2021 ISBN 9788409309702 Acqn 31757
Pb 24x30cm 120pp col ills £38.95

The voice of memory rings loud and clear on the pages of the new issue of 'AV Monographs', a
compilation of conversations that Luis Fernandez-Galiano has had over the years with ten
masters recounting their respective lives and professional trajectories. Arranged by age of the
speakers - from Frank Gehry, the most veteran of all, to Bjarke Ingels - and transcribed in the
form of monologues, the interviews trace the biographical journey of each architect, from family
origins, upbringing, and educational training to latest projects at the time of the dialogue, and are
illustrated with the most characteristic works and projects of their career.

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AV Monographs 236 - Alberto Campo Baeza: Lyrical Longing

Avisa 2021 no ISBN Acqn 31758
Pb 24x30cm 120pp col ills £38.95

Creator of some of the most emblematic houses in Spanish architecture, Alberto Campo Baeza
has also designed prominent works like the Museum of Memory and Caja Granada
Headquarters, both in Granada, and the Offices for the Junta de Castilla y Leon in Zamora.
These and more are featured among a total of 20 essential buildings by Campo Baeza. An
introductory essay by his collaborator, Alejandro Cervilla, talks about the poetic vocation
underlying the conception of his houses, while Kenneth Frampton reflects on the main themes in
Campo Baeza's career, which shape an architecture built with geometry and light, at once tactile
and visual, massive and immaterial.

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New Standards - Timber Houses Ltd 1940 – 1945

Garret Publications 2021 ISBN 9789527222133 Acqn 31772
Hb 17x24cm 294pp col ills £47.50

'New Standards' examines the conditions that affect standard, industrial, and manufactured
buildings by revisiting a forgotten chapter of wood construction in post-war Finland. Puutalo Oy
(Timber Houses Ltd.) was established in 1940 as part of Finland's response to the war refugee
crisis. The company quickly became one of the largest manufacturers of prefabricated wooden
buildings - tens of thousands were shipped from Finland to every inhabited continent,
constructing a largely overlooked legacy of housing and urbanisation. A new perspective on this
legacy is given through careful analysis of these buildings and projects as they emerged from a
rapidly changing political landscape.

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