Bohlin Cywinski Jackson: The Nature of Circumstance
We recently received this large format monograph on the work of Bohlin Cywinsky Jackson, one of the most renowned US firms. Their works include the Grand Teton Discovery and Visitor Center in Wyoming, several Apple Stores around the world, Pixar Studios, and a long list of award winning public and residential projects.
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Towards Zero Energy Architecture
Author: Mary Guzowski
Design: Godfrey Design
ISBN: 978-1-8569-678-4
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Abitare 506
“From the criticism of ideology it is necessary to pass on to the analysis of the techniques of programing and of the ways in which these techniques actually affect the vital relationships of production.”
Manfredo Tarfuri
It’s difficult to find new architecture magazines that balance architecture criticism with projects, interviews and interesting graphic work in the same issue. Abitare is one of these magazines and with its #506 issue is demonstrating that it is possible.
Starting with the Experts’ comments, this time in response to Stefano Boeri’s Manifesto The eye of the needle of local space [Manifesto for a new idea of Localism], architects such as Emre Arolat, Odile Decq, Yoshiharu Tsukamoto and Srdjan Novanovic Weiss among others go deeper into Boeri’s ideas and give us a critic overview on planetary architecture and the role of the local and global into the realm of architecture. And as Gary Chang said, “Globalization and Locality might not necessarily be two opposite poles that come into conflict with each other in a world of growing complexity.”
Urban Europe
Project: Marco Zanta
Photographs: Marco Zanta
Texts: Gabriel Bauret, Giovanna Calvenzi
Edited: Massimiliano Bugno, Roberto Koch
Graphic design: Stefano Martignago/ms-smart
Translations: Contrasto, Roma – Just! s.n.c., Treviso
Printed: Graficart, Resana
ISBN: 978-88-6965-106-9
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Featuring Steel
Authors: Andrea Bruno, Klaus Bollinger, J. Michael Davies, Markus Feldmann, Manfred Feldmann, Federico M. Mazzolani
ISBN: 978-3-920034-32-4
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Interior Surfaces and Materials
Edition Detail
Editor-in-chief: Christian Schittich
ISBN: 978-3-7643-8810-2
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Energy Manual: Sustainable Architects
Authors: Manfred Hegger, Matthias Fuchs, Thomas Stark, Martin Zeumer
ISBN: 978-3-7643-8764-8
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Photovoltaics: Technology Architecture Installation
We just received one of Detail´s latest: Photovoltaics: Technology, Architecture, Installation
Bernhard Weller
Claudia Hemmerle
Sven Jakubetz
Stefan Unnewehr
Edition Detail
ISBN: 978-3-0346-0369-0
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Optimistic Architecture Yearbook
We received a copy of the 3rd edition of the Optimistic Architecture Yearbook, a fine selection of fresh works from french architects. The book includes firms previously featured at ArchDaily, such as Atelier du Pont, Agence Beckmann N’Thepe, BP Architectures, Chartier-Corbasson, KOZ, Plan 01, Atelier Phileas, Colboc Franzen & Associes, Tetrarc, and more.
The book presents 54 projects in a large format with high quality photos, and drawings. More info after the break:
DETAIL Magazine 6/2010
We received Detail Magazine‘s 6th issue of this year. Check the review after the break. (more…)
DETAIL Magazine: Interiors and lighting
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MacMag 35
In honor of Mackintosh’s Glasgow School of Art’s centennial, student editors Gareth Hanly, Rachel Houghton, Cathryn Lavery, Kieran Sheehan and Katy Holbrook, have designed, produced and published MacMag 35 to document the entire celebration year. Compiled in over 300 pages of crisp graphics and imagery, this year’s magazine provides a true insight into not only the design philosophies of the school, but also gives us a taste of what it is like to experience the famous building.
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Mark Magazine #27
We received the latest issue of one of our favorite magazines: Mark Magazine #27.
In the cover we find a new house by Miuchael Maltzan, analyzed in depth at the Long Section. As usual, the Notice Board section showcases 30+ recent projects (look out for the Cameldrome!).
Interesting interviews with Preston Scott Cohen (see his works at AD), Michael Sorkin, and technical articles on Rex’s Vakko Headquarters and BCHO’s Hanil Visitor Center.
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Above the Pavement – the Farm! : Architecture & Agriculture at Public Farm 1
WORK ac was one of the first practices we interviewed here at ArchDaily. When we visited their office they were working in P.F.1 (Public Farm 1), their awarded entry for the 2008 P.S.1 summer installation – one of the best installations I’ve seen so far.
An interesting part of the conversation was on how they worked with a mixed group of experts for this project, bringing more into the discussion and finally into the installation. This becomes the central part of the book, with over 150 pages dedicated to a series of interviews with the parties involved, from structural engineers to growing soil experts, telling the story of the process behind P.F.1. This section is structured as a story, but you can still read it picking from any random page. Interesting interview format with no questions, just “answers” that become the narrative of the project.
On the appendix we found a series of recipes for the vegetables that grew on the urban farm, and also a foreword with an interview by Winy Maas with Dan Wood and Amale Andraos.
WORK ac has also edited 49 Cities, a highly recommended guide to unrealized urbanism.
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Rolex Learning Center / SANAA / EPFL Press
When we received a copy of EPFL’s Rolex Learning Center, we could not wait to flip through the sleek white book. Similar to SANAA’s building, the book’s crisp design and elegant composition is a beautiful compilation outlining the entire process of creating the Center, from the competition through construction. (more…)
DETAIL Green
While DETAIL Magazine brings us the insights of buildings in terms of highly detailed drawings, DETAIL Green focuses on sustainability in architecture trough data & analysis.
The issues moves between concepts -such as lessons learned from the proposed zero-carbon Masdar City- to case studies, on which several experts analyze a series of case studies in terms of lighting, materials, energy, etc.
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Arium: Weather + Architecture / Jürgen Mayer H. and Neeraj Bhatia
I am very interested on the relation between architecture and weather. That’s why On Weathering: The Life of Buildings in Time
That’s why enjoyed Arium so much.
Arium is the result of a studio led by Jürgen Mayer with Neeraj Bhatia at the John H. Daniels Faculty of Architecture, Landscape and Design at the University of Toronto. The book moves between a series of analytical articles on the relationship between weather and architecture, ranging from tourism to shopping. These concepts are then tested by the studio over the Victory Soya Mills Silos, a massive concrete structure sitting silent along Toronto’s waterfront, the perfect lab for a weatherized intervention: the Ariums (Algarium, Fogarium, Thermarium, etc).
The balance between weather analysis and the studio projects make this book a good reference on the subject, and not just a mere compilation of student’s work.
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In DETAIL: Exhibitions and Displays
DETAIL Magazine is a very good reference to understand the details of contemporary buildings, grouped by materiality/program.
In DETAIL offers a compilation of works grouped under a given theme, in book format. In this case, Exhibitions and Displays covers a wide selection of projects (with highly detailed drawings, as usual in DETAIL) ranging from museums to a supermarket, along with articles on branding, sustainability on temporary projects, and more.
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DETAIL Magazine 2/2010
DETAIL is one of my favorite periodic publications in terms of construction inspiration. The reason? It’s packed with highly detailed drawings of contemporary projects.
Each volume features a specific building system (concrete in this case), presented in the form of articles, short reports, new technologies, products, and the most attractive section, recent projects with the mentioned detailed drawings.
For example, in this issue we find an interesting article by Hubertus Adam on the current state of concrete in Switzerland illustrated with photos of Valerio Olgiati projects; and projects such as the Children’s Playhouse by LAN Architecture, the Bus Operation Center by ECDM, or the MAXXI Museum by Zaha Hadid with detailed sections of walls, roofs and more.
This magazine is a good reference material, and even if the projects presented on each issue are very recent, the technical information is timeless.
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