American City: St. Louis Architecture / Robert Sharoff + William Zbaren
When architectural journalist Robert Sharoff and photographer William Zbaren created the series American City, the intention was to celebrate some of the States’ most architecturally impressive cities. For their St. Louis publication, the team has produced a beautiful large format book highlighting 50 projects scattered across the city. Organized with incredible photographs and insightful text, the book is the first of its kind, since the 1920s, to document the architecture of St. Louis.
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PRAXIS 11+12
For their latest PRAXIS, Eleven Architects/Twelve Conversations, the editors moved away from organizing the issue around a single theme to, instead, focusing on a variety of architectural aspects. The result is a rather cohesive reading, as the different ideas are fused into a continuous conversation. The issue still highlights great projects from the featured architects, yet the projects take more of a supporting role, as the real focus is the conversation that jumps from sustainability to design influences and materials to even the broader implications of design on the built environment.
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Success by Design / Jenn Kennedy
For Jenn Kennedy’s recent publication, Success by Design, the author/photographer has chosen to explore how architectural firms survive the trials and tribulations of the fluctuating market. It is a focused work outlining the history of 25 architectural firms scattered across California. The book offers great insight for starting a firm, provides inspiration to persevere during difficult times, and truly allows the personalities of the architects to shine through.
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Mark Magazine #29
We received the latest issue of Mark Magazine, a red edition with Zaha Hadid’s new Guangzhou Opera on the cover.
This issue includes projects by BIG (8 House), 3XN (Middelfart Bank), LOT-EK, Tham & Videgård (Tree Hotel), brazilian architects MMBB and as usual a long etc.
There are also interesting articles, such as “The Architect’s Playlist” by Katya Tylevich, exploring music as frozen architecture.
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Evolo #03: Cities Of Tomorrow
Published by Evolo, LLC Editor-in-chief: Carlo Alello Editors: Paul Aldridge, Noemie Deville, Anna Solt, Jung Su Lee
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Jim Stirling And The Red Trilogy: Three Radical Buildings
“The University of Leicester Engineering Building, the History Faculty and Library at Cambridge, and the residential Florey Building at Queen’s College are much praised by architects, yet hated by the members of the universities that use them. Here Alan Berman has drawn together essays that put the buildings in their historical context while exploring both their radical features and their technical failings. In addition, 22 of today’s most famous architects — including Will Alsop, Norman Foster, Richard MacCormac, and Richard Rogers — explain and partly seek to defend the importance of these radical and controversial buildings. With top contributors and newly commissioned photography, as well as stunning drawings taken from the Jim Stirling archives, this book attempts a serious reengagement with the continuing debate between modern architects and the public.”
Expanding Architecture Design As Activism
Edited: Bryan Bell, Katie Wakeford
First Edition: 2008
Language: English
ISBN: 1933045787
“This is the Barack Obama of books. It tells a story about the change we need in the fields of architecture and urban design, professions that have lost their way, easily seduced by wealthy clients. And much like the presidential Democrat, this book of slightly radical ideas is attractively packaged in a way that can’t be easily dismissed. Editors Bryan Bell and Katie Wakeford have compiled 30 essays by leading architects and designers across the U.S. – all accompanied by gorgeous photography. Each focuses on issues of social justice and design, and most succeed in making a compelling case for architects, urban planners and landscape designers to stop whatever they’re doing and begin working for the greater public good…The authors’ earnest and passionate voices come through in almost every paragraph, making this book a heartfelt journey as much as an educational one.”
- Matthew Blackett, AZURE Magazine –AZURE Magazine November/December 2008
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PRAXIS 10
We shared PRAXIS’ ninth issue with you a few days ago, and we are excited to feature their tenth issue today. Entitled Urban Matters, this issue focuses on the challenges hyper-metropolises present – specifically, as editors Amanda Reeser Lawrence and Ashley Schafer comment in their introduction, how “to mediate between expansion and liveability” to define and shape the ever changing, and ever growing, urban condition. Architecture and the urban are encouraged to be in constant dialogue; an interconnected network which balances the macro “environmental, topographic, social/political, and technological” to form, and potentially, uplift the micro urban quality of our metropolises. (more…)
Weiss Manfredi Surface Sub Surface
For nearly two decades the architecture firm Weiss/Manfredi has practiced outside the traditional boundaries of architecture. Their work with complex sites and programs benefits from an interdisciplinary approach and a dynamic integration of architecture, art, infrastructure, and landscape design. Surface/Subsurface presents nine major projects that have been completed since their first monograph Site Specific
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The Architecture Of Patterns
Interesting book on patterns in architecture written by Paul Andersen and David Salomon.
We first heard from Paul, founder of !ndie Architecture, when he was on the short list for the 2009 P.S.1 YAP competition with his entry Lawn Life, a surburban-inspired synthetic turf lawn related to Paul’s studies on suburbia.
The book analyzes projects from several firms (Atelier Manferdini, BIG, Ciro Najle, EMERGENT/Thomas Wiscombe, Foreign Office Architects, Jason Payne and Heather Roberge, Herzog & de Meuron, J. Mayer H. Architects, Reiser+Umemoto, Responsive Systems Group, and !ndie architecture) to discover the relation of patterns in architecture at several scales.
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PRAXIS 9
We featured a review of PRAXIS’ eighth issue, and within the next few weeks, we’d like to bring you up to speed with their most recent publications. Today, we’ll take a look at their ninth issue which focuses on the surface. The issue is particularly interesting as we cannot deny that the term “surface” has been tossed around in many projects, and yet the meaning behind the word can become so general and all-encompassing that it soon becomes meaningless. The editors’ note expresses the division of architects based on the concept of surface; those who designed formally expressive buildings with materially mute surfaces versus those where the materiality was fully developed on a formally mute surface. The issue seeks to highlight projects of our era that reach a compromise. The projects presented illustrate formal projects with articulated surfaces, and materially intensive projects manifested on a developed form.
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Bracket [on farming]
“[I]t is the territory that becomes the privileged protagonist of the post-industrial economy, acting as a place for working out the weak and diffuse energies of a powder-fine productivity.”
- Andrea Branzi, “Architecture and Agriculture”
Weak and Diffuse Modernity
An almanac, in its simplest form, is a book containing a calendar that includes notations for holidays and holy days, as well as astronomical information such as the rising and setting of the sun and moon, the phases of the moon and high and low tides, as we can read at Almanacs. Inspired by the Old Farmer’s Almanac, the editors of the first issue of Bracket had released a sort of almanac in the sense of those publications used during 19th century. With a series of contents that seeks to interrogate the fertile territory where architecture, environment, and digital culture collide, Bracket [On Farming] presents complete overview of what is architecture in the current times. As Mason White and Maya Przybylski pointed on the introduction On Farming: “Architecture is not only a byproduct of predictions, but Architecture itself is a prediction machine.”
Light Perspectives: Between Culture and Technology
Authors: Aksel Karcher, Martin Krautter, David Kuntzsch, Thomas Schielke, Christoph Steinke, Mariko Takagi
Publishers: Tim Henrik Maack, Kay Pawlik
First Edition: 2009
ISBN: 978-3-9813216-1-6
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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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