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City Science

Ramon Gras, Jeremy Burke

This book illuminates the relationship between a city’s spatial design and quality of life it affords for the general population.

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Valletta – Accra

David Kojo Derban, Ann Dingli, Guillaume Dreyfuss, Erica Giusta

Four essays survey two port cities in parallel – Valletta, Malta and Accra, Ghana.

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Urbanismo regenerativo (SP ED.)

Landlab, Paisaje Transversal

Regenerative urbanism is a methodology for transforming cities and territories, adapting them to the ecological, economic, and social challenges ahead.

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Barceloneta Market

Mias Architects

This book collects the work of the MIAS studio over twenty years.

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Cities & Rivers (ENG ED.)

Iñaki Alday, Margarita Jover, Jesús Arcos, Francisco Mesonero

Public spaces, architecture and urban studies that incorporate natural dynamics as the floods with some normality in the urban context.

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Leaf Plan

Mosè Ricci and Sara Favargiotti

This book presents comprehensive design approaches to address climate change, urban regeneration, cohabitation through new modes of urban design based on criteria of flexibility and adaptability.

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Tectonic for Non-Extractive Architecture

Tectonics for Non-Extractive Architecture

Josep Ferrando, Jordi Mansilla, Ricardo Devesa, Francisco Cifuentes, Marta Bugés (eds.)

This publication presents the results of the seminar organised by the Architectural Logics Emergent Contexts (ALEC), a research line developed at La Salle Campus Barcelona.

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Fusionando Ciudad y Naturaleza (SP ED.)

Batlleiroig

Committed to the environment and involved in searching for solutions to solve our planet's climate emergency, at Batlleiroig we have been talking about Landscape and Nature since our foundation.

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Merging City and Nature (ENG ED.)

Batlleiroig

Committed to the environment and involved in searching for solutions to solve our planet's climate emergency, at Batlleiroig we have been talking about Landscape and Nature since our foundation.

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Urban Mix (ENG ED.)

Stéphane Lemoine / AP5

Essay on the devices and attitudes observable in urban crossroads of 8 major world cities. The exploration focuses on the movements of all mobiles and the resulting choreographies.

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Inventory

Sebastian Adamo & Marcelo Faiden

This book compiles Adamo-Faiden's inventory along with the inventions this body of work distills.

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Foundations of Urban Design

Marcel Smets

The book is structured into twenty-nine essays, each dedicated to a pair of urbanistic concepts.

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The Mannerist Mind

Francisco González de Canales

Departing from a discussion on what it would be a mannerist attitude in the architecture of today, and theorizing around it, this book analyzes some works of contemporary European practices.

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Geospaces

Alper Derinboğaz

Geospaces is an extended visual essay of ideas, images, drawings and projects that follows the work of Alper Derinboğaz over the past decade.

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A House Deconstructed

Mark Jarzombek, Vikramaditya Prakash

This book ‘deconstructs’ a single recently constructed house located in Seattle, WA, in an attempt to recover its backstory.

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Spatial Infrastructure

José Aragüez

This book recasts architectural thinking as a form of knowledge by addressing a number of fundamental questions relevant to the reading of works across styles, time-periods, and geographic boundaries.

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Plug-ins

Ezio Manzini, Albert Fuster, Roger Paez

This book’s central argument is that plug-ins, situated design outcomes that aim to enrich the complex system of the city and expand its potentialities.

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Design for Biocities

Vicente Guallart, Laia Pifarré (eds.)

A global reflection to rethink human settlements at a time when our natural environments and the human habitats are more clearly intertwined

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UNIDENTIFIED FLYING OBJECT FOR CONTEMPORARY ARCHITECTURE (ENG ED.)

Beatrice Lampariello, Andrea Anselmo, Boris Hamzeian (eds.)

"UNIDENTIFIED FLYING OBJECT for contemporary architecture" is the first monographic publication focused on the Florentine UFO group (1968-1978)

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UNIDENTIFIED FLYING OBJECT PER L'ARCHITETTURA CONTEMPORANEA (IT ED.)

Beatrice Lampariello, Andrea Anselmo, Boris Hamzeian (eds.)

"UNIDENTIFIED FLYING OBJECT for contemporary architecture" is the first monographic publication focused on the Florentine UFO group (1968-1978)

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Blue

Malkit Shoshan

Focusing on two missions and four cities in Liberia and Mali, BLUE: Architecture of UN Peacekeeping Missions charts and uncovers spatial realities produced by the UN in mission areas.

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Climax Change!

Pedro Gadanho

Climax Change! represents the much-needed overview of how climate change and the current environmental emergency will affect the practice of architecture.

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Supertight

Graham Crist & John Doyle

Supertight is an exploration of high-density urban life and reducing the footprint of cities through adaptations in design and behaviour.

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Post DomestiCity

Diego García-Setién, Enrique Espinosa, Begoña de Abajo, Almudena Ribot / CoLaboratorio

PostDomestiCity explores and speculates from contemporaneity about the post-industrial city obsolescence.

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Out of the Ordinary

John Ronan

This publication on the work of John Ronan Architects explores the firm’s spatial-material approach to architecture and the underlying themes of its typologically diverse output.

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Monsoon as Method

Lindsay Bremner, Beth Cullen, Christina Leigh Geros, Harshavardhan Bhat, Anthony Powis, John Cook, Tom Benson

Edited volume by Monsoon Assemblages, a European Research Council funded research project. It combines critical texts with cartography, photography and ethnography to present the project’s methodology

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Ambiguous Territory

Cathryn Dwyre, Chris Perry, David Salomon, Kathy Velikov (eds.)

Ambiguous Territory brings together the work of over forty architects, landscape architects, artists, and historians engaged in an exploration of art and design

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Inventing Greenland

Bert De Jonghe

Inventing Greenland reveals and anticipates transitional moments in the region’s highly intertwined urbanized, militarized, and touristic landscapes.

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Domesticidad a la Intemperie (SP ED.)

Ricardo Devesa

The relationships of contiguity between houses and trees have existed since ancient times. However, at the end of the 19th century those links became explicit in the design process.

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Logic of Evolution for the Contemporary Contexts

Logics of Evolution for the Contemporary Contexts

Ricardo Devesa, Marta Bugés (eds.)

A collection of instalments compiling the works of the students of the Master in Integrated Architectural Design during the academic year 2020/21.

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Outdoor Domesticity (ENG ED.)

Ricardo Devesa

The relationships of contiguity between houses and trees have existed since ancient times. However, at the end of the 19th century those links became explicit in the design process.

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Systems Upgrade

Leire Asensio Villoria & David Mah

A deep study of legacy material artifacts, through the lens of contemporary digital design can constitute a valuable bridge between design history and contemporary creative practice.

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Green Obsession

Stefano Boeri Architetti

Green Obsession traces the long path that architect Stefano Boeri and his studio - Stefano Boeri Architetti - have followed in the last fifteen years of practice.

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Designing Resilience in Asia

Oscar Carracedo García-Villalba

The Designing Resilience in Asia two volume book makes an important and timely contribution towards urban resilient responses in the era of rapid urbanization and climate change

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Vacant Spaces NY

Michael Meredith, Hilary Sample, MOS

Vacant Spaces NY documents vacant spaces in New York City. Organized from large to small, general to specific, vacancy in the United States to case studies of specific vacancies in Manhattan.

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Carlos Ferrater

First and complete monograph on the career of Carlos Ferrater. His early buildings showed how the expression of modern architecture.

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Behavioral Formation.

Roland Snooks

Emergent processes of formation create intensive, volatile, intricate, complex phenomena.

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Golconde

Pankaj Vir Gupta, Christine Mueller, Cyrus Samii

Golconde is an astonishing architectural accomplishment. Here exists an undiluted view of a wholly triumphant tropical Modernism, built during the tumultuous years of the second world war.

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Strange Objects, New Solids and Massive Things

Winka Dubbeldam, Archi-Tectonics

The object as solid, having three dimensions, is not just a different formal trend, but a paradigm shift; a reconceiving of how the architectural object is produced and experienced.

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Lewerentz Fragments

Jonathan Foote, Hansjörg Göritz, Matthew Hall, Nathan Matteson

The publication Lewerentz Fragments introduces new scholarship on the architect’s motivations and compiles new essays from all the major scholars on his work.

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X!? 2010-2020 DEZ ANOS OODA (PT ED.)

João Rapagão

More than presenting and dissecting the work of the practice, this book is an adventure in technical and artistic exchanges

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X!? 2010-2020 TEN YEARS OODA (ENG ED.)

João Rapagão

More than presenting and dissecting the work of the practice, this book is an adventure in technical and artistic exchanges

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Residentialism

Lina Malfona

This book tells the story of the making of a community, which occurred hand-in-hand with the building of an archipelago of residences in the countryside north of Rome.

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Resili(g)ence- Intelligent Cities/ Resilient Landscapes

Resili(g)ence (vol. 1)

Manuel Gausa

The Resili(g)ence publication is part of the outputs produced within the European project KAAU, Knowledge Alliance for Advanced Urbanism (www.ka-au.net), Erasmus + program, and consists of two volumes

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Resili(g)ence (vol. 2)

Nicola Canessa

The Resili(g)ence publication is part of the outputs produced within the European project KAAU, Knowledge Alliance for Advanced Urbanism (www.ka-au.net), Erasmus + program, and consists of two volumes

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Ideología Construída

Fernando Grasa

Within the Mediterranean construction tradition, sacred architecture has always played a very prominent role.

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Portals

Amy Catania Kulper, Kevin Crouse, Jennifer Liese (eds.)

Considers the pandemic and the remote pedagogy it occasioned globally in schools of architecture, as a critical threshold to future architectural pedagogy.

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States of Entanglement

ANNEX / Sven Anderson, Alan Butler, David Capener, Donal Lally, Clare Lyster, Fiona McDermott

Investigates how data production and consumption territorialize the physical landscape filtered through Ireland’s role in global communications

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Pan-Arab Modernism 1968-2018

Dalal Musaed Alsayer, Ricardo Camacho, Sara Saragoça Soares

this book comes to fill two voids in the literature on Middle Eastern architecture: one is in practice and the other is in history.

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Another Kind

David Leventhal, Lee Polisano, PLP Architecture

PLP Architecture presents ten projects as case studies to examine the emergence of a new typological fluidity. These projects serve as anchors to survey the cultural landscape of the past ten years

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Responsive Environments

Allen Sayegh, Stefano Andreani

The entanglement of physical contexts with digital environments is constantly changing our relationship with the surrounding space and creating new hybrid experiences.

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Design for Living

Vicente Guallart

The IAAC calls its 8th Advanced Architecture Contest titled “Design for Living,” an opportunity for a global reflection to rethink human habitats

MIAS Architects at Centre Pompidou

Josep Miàs

As a kid who wanted to be an architect you could either make clay shapes, drag pieces of driftwood into vague boxes - or put together Meccano cages.

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Geometric Taxonomy (ENG ED.)

Ignacio Paricio

Geometric Taxonomy gets closer to the geometries of Carlos Ferrater that are present in timeless architecture, the elemental forms that inspired modernity a hundred years ago

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Taxonomía Geométrica (SP ED.)

Ignacio Paricio

Geometric Taxonomy gets closer to the geometries of Carlos Ferrater that are present in timeless architecture, the elemental forms that inspired modernity a hundred years ago

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InnovatiON-Architecture

Eduardo Gutiérrez, Jordi Fernández, Ricardo Devesa, ON-A Laboratorio de Arquitectura.

This book exposes and collects the innovations developed through 15 years of work at ON-A, through lengthy conversations with its founders and directors

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RCR at Centre Pompidou

Rafael Aranda, Carme Pigem, Ramon Vilalta

Seven projects by RCR arquitectes, 2017 Pritzker Prize winner, which are seven folded posters inside a folder with a textbook.

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Mute Icons

Marcelo Spina, Georgina Huljich/ P-A-T-T-E-R-N-S

Interrogating historical, contemporary, and speculative images, the book aims to construct a viable alternative to the icon’s cliché.

Unnatural

Nicola Valentino Canessa

The book uses the materials produced during the experience of 2 years of work with the students of the University of Genoa between courses and thesis

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The Ecologies of the Building Envelope

Alejandro Zaera-Polo, Jeffrey S. Anderson

we investigate the historical lineages of the performances, components, assembly types, and material entanglements that constitute the contemporary building envelope.

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Mobile Theater (ENG ED.)

Fernando Quesada

this book traces the architectural counterculture of that time and the relations with the alternative performing arts

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Teatro Móvil (SP ED.)

Fernando Quesada

This book traces the architectural counterculture of that time and the relations with the alternative performing arts.

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The Arsenal of Exclusion & Inclusion

Tobias Armborst, Daniel D'Oca, Georgeen Theodore / Interboro

A book about accessibility in the built environment in the United State

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Terra-Sorta-Firma

Fadi Masoud

Terra-Sorta-Firma documents the global extent of reclaimed coastal lands, and provides a framework for comparison across varying geographies, cultures, and histories.

The Threefold Logic of Advanced Architecture

Manuel Gausa, Jordi Vivaldi

This work proposes a threefold cultural narrative whose interactive and informational logic differs from that of modernity and postmodernity.

Unless

Kiel Moe

This book presents a terrestrial description of the Seagram Building. It aims to describe how humans and nature interact with the thin crust of the planet.

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Projective Ecologies

Chris Reed & Nina-Marie Lister

The past two decades have witnessed a resurgence of ecological ideas and ecological thinking in discussions of urbanism, society, culture, and design

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China Lab Guide to Megablock Urbanism

Jeffrey Johnson, Cressica Brazier, Tat Lam

the Columbia GSAPP China Lab aims to document a wider conversation on the policies and collective experiences of large-scale development and advances of China’s urban future.

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Houston Genetic City

Peter Zweig, Matthew Johnson, Jason Logan

Houston represents an evolving city type. No longer formal, axial, or planned, it is instead based on heuristics, on trial-and-error, on ad hoc strategies.

Casas SANAA (SP ED.)

Sam Chermayeff, Agustín Perez Rubio

SANAA’s architecture embraces complexities within deceptively simple appearances

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Pure Space (ENG ED.)

Elisa Silva

The publication is not intended to serve only as a catalogue, guide, or manual on how to produce public space in spontaneous settlements. Rather, it goes beyond the aims of an index of best practices.

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Puro Espacio (SP ED.)

Elisa Silva

The publication is not intended to serve only as a catalogue, guide, or manual on how to produce public space in spontaneous settlements. Rather, it goes beyond the aims of an index of best practices.

Design with Life

Mitchell Joachim, Maria Aiolova / Terreform ONE

In the challenging context of accelerating climate dynamics, the core discipline of architectural design is evolving and embracing new forms of action

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Self-Sufficient Habitat

The Institute for Advanced Architecture of Catalonia(IAAC)

5th Advanced Architecture Contest

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Empire, State & Building

Kiel Moe

This book considers the material basis of building as a key impetus of both urbanization and the energetics of urban life.

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Operative Mapping

Roger Paez

The book’s fundamental aim is to offer a methodological contribution to the design disciplines, both in conceptual and instrumental terms.

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Landscape as Territory

Clara Olóriz Sanjuan

addresses the agency of architects understanding the notion of ‘territory’ as a field of design praxis through.

Blueprint for a Hack

Vikram Bhatt, David Harlander, Susane Havelka

Over five days, some 60 residents of a northern village teamed with designers from southern Quebec to conceive and build an outdoor community pavilion that activates a central recreational area.

WWW Drawing

Janet Abrams, Mehrdad Hadighi, Daniel Cardoso Llach , Andrew Heumann, Jürg Lehni et al.

WWW Drawing explores architectural drawing in relation to technique and technology. What is the role of drawing for architecture, in a digital age?

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Collective Housing: A Manual

Jose María de Lapuerta

The book is divided according to professor and features professional work from the master architects, during the Collective Housing Master Course of 2006

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Open City

Almudena Ribot, Enrique Espinosa, Diego García-Setién, Begoña de Abajo, Gaizka Altuna / CoLaboratorio

Open City explores and speculates from contemporaneity about the future of the post-industrial city

100 Rooms

RZLBD (Reza Aliabadi)

After his book The Empty Room, RZLBD (Reza Aliabadi) elaborates the same theme with one hundred iterations of a square room, each of which tells a different story of the emptiness between the walls

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The Empty Room

Reza Aliabadi / RZLBD

Part aphorism and part manifesto, this book by Canadian architect Reza Aliabadi (RZLBD) references his ideas and thoughts about space

Floppy Logic

Leanne Zilka

An exploration into fashion and textiles, and how the concepts, aesthetics, techniques and construction of this architecture might be used to design and fabricate objects and space differently

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Architecture and Waste

Hanif Kara, Leire Asensio-Villoria & Andreas Georgoulias

This book presents a refreshed, design-led approach to waste-to-energy (WTE) plants, reflecting work done at Harvard’s Graduate School of Design over a period of three years.

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The Generic Sublime

Ciro Najle

The Generic Sublime investigates how the modern concept of the generic holds the potential to become the singular, the irreducible, and the extraordinary

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Interdisciplinary Design

Hanif Kara

Architecture and engineering are changing. But what about the relationship between architects and engineers?

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Conversations and Allusions: Enric Miralles

Catherine Spellman

The significance of Miralles architectural design lies in his seamless integration of site and building and his use of space to serve the everyday conditions of life

Álvaro Siza Vieira: A Pool in the Sea

Kenneth Frampton, Vincent Mentzel

This book documents a unique experience of a journey by Alvaro Siza Vieira, Vincent Mentzel and Kenneth Frampton to the early work of Siza in Porto

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Imminent Commons: Urban Questions for the Next Future

Imminent Commons: Urban Questions for the Near Future

Alejandro Zaera-Polo, Hyungmin Pai, Maider Llaguno, Nerea Calvillo, Hyewon Lee and others

A framework where set basic commons —an evolving network of agencies, resources and technologies— as the critical issue in the move towards a sustainable and just urbanism.

Imminent Commons: The Expanded City

Alejandro Zaera-Polo, Jeffrey S. Anderson

Presents contemporary urbanism thoughts on nine imminent commons, which engage collective ecological and technological resources relevant to all cities and even extra-urban territories

Imminent Commons: Commoning Cities

Hyungmin Pai, Helen Hejung Choi

The third book from the Seoul Biennale 2017 explores the value and meaning of cities as commons, which is embedded and operate in various governance mechanisms of cities in the world.

Buildings and Almost Buildings

Eric Bunge, Mimi Hoang / nARCHITECTS

Buildings and Almost Buildings explores the work of nARCHITECTS as a single project – an anti-monograph with a subtle manifesto about the open-ended, incomplete, and ambiguous in architecture.

By Practice, by Invitation

Leon Van Schaik, Anna Johnson

Design Practice Research at RMIT University is a longstanding program of research into what venturous designers actually do when they design.

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The Social Imperative

H. Koon Wee

This book contains multiple short critiques, reflections and manifestos, affording each contributing architect and intellectual the time and space to imagine new social paradigms in China

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[UN]Precedented Pyongyang

Dongwoo Yim

How Pyongyang was reconstructed from the Korean War based and how those socialist urban spaces will transform when it adopts the market-economy system.

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America Recovered

Chad Ress, Jordan H. Carver, Miriam Paeslack

America Recovered reveals the point where abstract political processes manifest themselves in the physical world, thus providing an alternate means of experiencing the contemporary American landscape.

Architecture and Dystopia

Dario Donetti, Marco De Michelis, Oliver Elser, Dominique Rouillard and others

As a response to the profound crisis of Western culture the emerged in the 1960s, radical artists from Italy, Austria, England and Japan called into question the foundations of modernist utopias

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Un-Conscious-City

Wiel Arets

No one demands that people move to cities; people tend to do so, on their own. People choose to move to cities for opportunity

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Gran Mediterraneo

David Tajchman

David Tajchman’s first book about a self-initiated architectural research for a White City-specific High-Rise: the Gran Mediterraneo

Geographies of Trash

DESIGN EARTH / Rania Ghosn & El Hadi Jazairy

In the Age of Environment, the scale waste management is geographic all while often relegating such undesired matter to invisibility as matter out of place

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The Self-Sufficient City

Vicente Guallart

The Barcelona Architect in Chief peals the axes in which the cities must be sustained to adapt them to the new information age, and to generate its own resources.

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General Theory of Urbanization 1867

Vicente Guallart

First translation into English on the occasion of the 150th anniversary of the publication of the General Theory of Urbanization by Ildefons Cerdà, an essential work on urban development.

Barcelona Guia de Arquitectura Moderna (SP ED.)

Manuel Gausa

This guide brings together the most important and interesting examples of modern and contemporary architecture in Barcelona.

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Natured - IROJE, Seung H-Sang

Seung H-Sang

The best architectural IROJE’s works employing the magnificence of black and white pictures, creative sketches, and elementary plans and drawings to illustrate the values of Seung H-Sang

Layered Landscapes Lofoten

Magdalena Haggärde & Gisle Løkken / 70°N arkitektur

Approaches towards landscapes under pressure and transformation, and the importance of unprejudiced and experimental investigations to reveal its natural and cultural complexity.

Scarcity in Excess

Arna Mathiesen & Thomas Forget

A guiding model that seeks to address the relationship between the economic meltdown and the built environment in Iceland using ecological approaches

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Many Norths

Lola Sheppard & Mason White / Lateral Office

Many Norths: Spatial Practice in a Polar Territory charts the unique spatial realities of Canada’s Arctic region, an immense territory populated with small, dispersed communities

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Yamuna River Project

Iñaki Alday & Pankaj Vir Gupta

Presents the results of focused research initiatives and designs from The University of Virginia School of Architecture towards the revitalization of New Delhi

Echos

Mara Marcu

Work done at the University of Cincinnati School of Architecture and Interior Design while showcasing student work, faculty research, co-op stories, and study abroad programs

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Superhumanity

Chin Jungkown, Common Accounts (Igor Bragado & Miles Gertler) and others

Focused on post-labor, psychopathology, and plasticity of human mind and body, this book introduces insight, critiques, and propositions in the area of self-design

LA Forum Reader

Rob Berry, Victor Jones, Michael Sweeney, Mimi Zeiger, Chava Danielson, Joe Day, Thurman Grant, Duane McLemore

From the Archives of the Los Angeles Forum for Architecture and Urban Design

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Clip, Stamp, Fold

Beatriz Colomina, Craig Buckley

The Radical Architecture of Little Magazines 196X to 197X

Iaac Bits 10: Learning cities

Areti Markopoulou, Manuel Gausa, Jordi Vivaldi et alt.

Learning Cities explores the “intelligence” applied in the processes and outcomes of designing our urban environments

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Verb Crisis ( ENG ED. )

Mario Ballesteros

Verb Crisis examines architectural solutions to the extraordinary conditions of an increasingly dense and interdependent world

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KERB 23

Georgia Aldous, Sophia Horomidis, Rebecca Pike & Robert Williamson

The journal now boasts a diverse selection of contributors, focusing on contemporary landscape architecture themes.

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Unfinished

Iñaqui Carnicero, Carlos Quintáns, Santiago de Molina, Jacobo García-Germán, Alfonso Batalla, Amale Andraos and others

Ideas, Images, and Projects from the Spanish Pavilion at the 15th Venice Architecture Biennale

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MCM–Milan Capital of the Modern (ENG ED.)

Lorenzo Degli Esposti

Modern architecture articulated itself in specific centers of propulsion, revision and critique during the 20th century.

Public Catalyst

Manuel Bailo

This work proposes the urban catalysts as agents capable of activating a place that was previously indifferent.

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Public Space Acupuncture

Helena Casanova, Jesús Hernández

Acupuncture strategies to renovate infrastructure, landscape elements and public space in cities.

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Crown Hall Dean’s Dialogues 2012-2017

Kazuyo Sejima, William Baker, Wiel Arets, Junya Ishigami, Stefano Boeri and others

This title collects the voices of 18 esteemed architects, designers, educators and theorists in dialogue with students from the Illinois Institute of Technology, College of Architecture

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Time for Play

AZC – Atelier Zündel Cristea / Grégoire Zündel & Irina Cristea

This book, Time for Play, presents exhibition pavilions, temporary installations, and ideas competitions – a mix of built and un-built projects.

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Territories of Disobedience (ENG ED.)

Linna Choi, Tarik Oualalou

This compendium of essays and projects presents a confrontation of radically dissimilar projects which underscores the exploration of architectural empowerment at the core of the office’s work

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Traces

Umberto Napolitano,Benoit Jallon

Undertaken at the occasion of LAN’s 10th anniversary, Traces recalls the journey of Umberto Napolitano and Benoit Jallon through their projects and their travel impressions.

Ellen Kooi Above Rotterdam

Ellen Kooi, Wiel Arets, Katrien Van den Brande

One Glass Tower by Wiel Arets & Nine Situations by Katrien Van den Brande

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Calme Bloc

Avenir Cornejo, Chartier Dalix

Architects, authors, and photographers’ different viewpoints on a dense and complex building in Paris’s 20th arrondissement.

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Good Vibrations

Gausa Raveau actarchitecture, Avenier-Cornejo Architectes

The Clichy-Batignolles stands as a new urban landscape liaison element, an essential urban portal along the peripheric territorial arc, just by the historic city.

Critical Prison Design (ENG ED.)

Roger Paez

The newly built Mas d’Enric penitentiary sparks a series of reflections on architecture’s role in the problematic subject of prison design.

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Díaz Llanos, Saavedra

Juan Antonio González Pérez

The architects Saavedra and Díaz -Llanos have produced a fantastic adaptation of architecture and environment’ style without committing to its essence.

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Tiny Taxonomy

Rosetta S. Elkin

A visually engaging collection of images and texts drawn from a series of contemporary garden installations, which highlight the role of individual plants in landscape architecture.

Water Index

Seth McDowell

A book that highlights critical design projects from around the world those radically engage the fragile issues of drought, flooding, and contamination

XXL-XS

Mitchell Joachim, Mike Silver

XXL-XS represents the emerging discipline of ecological design by assembling a wide range of innovators with diverse interests

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Landscape Tunings (ENG ED.)

Silvia Benedito & Alexander Häusler / OFICINAA

Landscape Tunings maintains that landscape is more than ecology and technical performance; it is also an environment of paramount importance to one’s dispositions and wellbeing

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Making it Modern

Aaron Betsky

This book traces the astonishing opening up of a brave new world of open empty space, the arrival of the beauty and terror of the machine into daily life

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Suprarural (SP ED.)

Ciro Najle & Lluís Ortega

Architectural Atlas of Rural Protocols of the American Midwest and the Argentine Pampas

Suprarural (ENG ED.)

Ciro Najle & Lluís Ortega

The Atlas of rural protocols in the American Midwest and the Argentine Pampas is structured along eight systems of organization: transport and infrastructure

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Total Latin American Architecture

Ana de Brea

This book is not about a folk or typical Latin American architecture. Latin America is not some faraway, isolated region, rather a huge and universal laboratory

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Ábalos + Sentkiewicz ( ENG ED. )

Iñaki Ábalos, Renata Sentkiewicz

A compendium of essays and projects, that creates a projective document able to set up new scenarios for the architecture of the next decade.

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MCHAP The Americas 1

Fabrizio Gallanti

MCHAP: The Americas brings together leading architects and academics in a dialogue exploring the current state of architecture throughout the Americas

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Bracket 1: On Farming

Mason White, Maya Przybylski

Bracket is a new book series that highlights emerging critical issues at the juncture of architecture, environment, and digital culture. It is a collaboration between InfraNet Lab and Archinect

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Bracket 2: Goes Soft

Neeraj Bhatia, Lola Sheppard

This publication critically positions and defines soft systems through 27 projects and 12 articles

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Bracket 3: At Extremes

Lola Sheppard & Maya Przbylski

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The Sniper’s Log

Alejandro Zaera-Polo

An insight into the theoretical discourse that shapes and expands the architect’s practice.

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Beyond Environment

Emanuele Piccardo, Amit Wolf

Presents the interchange between architecture, Land Art and Performance Art through Gianni Pettena’s with American artists Allan Kaprow and Robert Smithson

Beyond Patronage

Joyce Hwang, Martha Bohm, Gabrielle Printz

This book explores contemporary architectural practices and design agendas that are being shaped or enabled by news forms of “patronage”

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[Re] Stitch Tampa

Shannon Basset

(Re)stitch Tampa, an international design ideas competition, challenged designers to consider innovative design ideas and strategies

Oxymoron & Pleonasm

Monika Mitášová

12 interviews focusing on the problem of critical and projective approach to architectural thinking and design discussed by current American theorists, historians and practitioners.

Iconoclastia

Josep Lluís Mateo, ETH

The tradition of the Icon includes its antagonist; the Iconoclastic movement, which destroyed all representations of divinity by arguing that they destroyed its essence.

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Re-Living the City

Aaron Betsky, Alfredo Brillembourg, Hubert Klumpner, Doreen Heng Liu

This richly illustrated book presents the exhibits and curatorial visions of the 2015 Shenzhen Biennale of Architecture and Urbanism (UABB), organized around the theme, Re-Living the City

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Shanghai Transforming

Iker Gil

In the past few years, architects and firms from around the world have found in China the perfect location to develop their architecture, thanks to major changes taking place throughout the country.

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The Petropolis of Tomorrow

Neeraj Bhatia, Mary Casper

The Petropolis of Tomorrow examines the role of resource extraction infrastructure in the production of new forms of urbanism.

Uncharted

Juan Elvira, David Goodman, Pablo Oriol, Roger Paez, Fernando Rodríguez, Lina Toro

The book has a two-fold objective: to explore new avenues of thought in design teaching, and to do so through research that deals with new architectural landscapes that are linked to tourism.

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Experiments With Life Itself (ENG ED.)

Francisco González de Canales

Five experiments made by prestigious architects on their own homes during the dark days of the Second World War.

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Phylogenesis (ENG ED.)

Foreign Office Architects

FOA’s first monograph is structured to reflect the development of their specific attitude and as a compendium of the technical arsenal that they use to within their practice

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MA YANSONG

Casa Asia, Fundación ICO

MAD works in forward-looking environments developing futuristic architecture based on a contemporary interpretation of the eastern spirit of nature

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Fundamental Particles

Francesco Soppelsa, Octavi Mestre

This book is centered on the design and construction of the most important building – in both architectural and representational terms – built at CERN in recent years.

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Las bóvedas de Guastavino (SP ED.)

John Ochsendorf

Cada año, millones de personas pasan bajo las bóvedas tabicadas de Guastavino en espacios históricos de todos los Estados Unidos

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Create! (ENG ED.)

Eduardo Arroyo

This book shapes a thick network of experiences and crossed interests opened throughout last twenty-five years in the office NO.MAD and its founder Eduardo Arroyo

Trans Structures

Matyas Gutai

The book introduces water as a building material to build unique, responsive-able structures and define a new paradigm for architecture and sustainable design.

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Ant Farm

Felicity D Scott

Felicity D. Scott revisits the architectural, art, video, and intermedia practices of the experimental collective Ant Farm, self-described ¨super-radical activist environmentalists.

Space Fighter

Winy Maas

An exploration of the Evolutionary City by simulating the challenges of urban growth, decline, and vitality.

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Agenda: JDS Architects

Julien De Smedt, Jesse Seegers

AGENDA is a catalog of 365 days, like a diary or journal: a collective narrative, personal and subjective.

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Yona Friedman / Pro Domo ( ENG ED. )

Yona Friedman

Pro Domo is “a collection of fragments of scattered topics,” a set of “milestones” selected by the author himself,

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Total Housing (ENG ED.)

Albert Ferré

Total Housing was designed to be a demonstration of the virtues of high and medium density multi-family homes, and an antidote to urban sprawl.

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From Control to Design

Michael Meredith, AGU, Mutsuro Sasaki, P .ART, Designtoproduction, Aranda/Lash

Parametric and algorithmic design are two of the fastest emerging, most radical technologies reshaping architecture today

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Architecture & Violence

Bechir Kenzari

This is a compelling compilation of essays by international architectural theorists on the relationship of violence to space.

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Buy Me a Mercedes-Benz

UN Studio

Buy Me A Mercedes-Benz shows how various forms of expert knowledge have been combined and interwoven to finally generate an unconventional, breakthrough museum design

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Fuksas Object

Massimiliano & Doriana Fuksas

Objects, pieces of furniture, scenographies, interior design… another dimension in the work of Fuksas architects.

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iGuzzini: Barcelona Corporate Building

Josep Miàs

Light and architecture lie at the base of the iGuzzini Illuminazione strategy. During the day, a “natural” organic form creates high-quality and highly-ergonomic workplaces

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Global Housing Projects

Josep Lluís Mateo

The world is merging into one global system of goods, people and information. This book explores the social, cultural, and economic phenomena of globalization through housing

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Chiharu Shiota (SP ED.)

Menene Gras

Casa Asia presents the contents of the first exhibition by Chiharu Shiota (Osaka, 1972) in Barcelona, showing installations integrated in a unique project at its headquarters.

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Soupergreen!

Doug Jackson

SOUPERgreen! features projects and essays that offer a long overdue critique of the current approach to “green” architecture

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Popular Lies* About Graphic Design

Craig Ward

An attempt to debunk various misconceptions, half truths and, in some cases, outright lies which permeate the industry of design.

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Open Enclosed: Donald Judd

Gillermo Zuaznábar

In this brilliant essay, Gillermo Zuaznabar sets out to describe Donald Judd as if he were an unknown figure, a great pioneer.

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Treacherous Transparencies (ENG ED.)

Jacques Herzog & Pierre de Meuron

analyzes transparency as expressed in architecture and art in an attempt to understand the intentions and objectives that underlie its use by pertinent architects and artists.

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Requiem

Sanford Kwinter

Sanford Kwinter addresses the sometimes subtle, sometimes brutal transformations that characterized the modernization processes set into motion at the turn of the millennium

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Made Up

Julian Bleecker, Benjamin H. Bratton, Anne Burdick, Emmet Byrne and others

At a time when “fake news” is part of our daily cultural lexicon, Made Up: Design’s Fictions explores lies, fantasies, and other un-real scenarios as tools of design.

Third Coast Atlas

Daniel Ibañez, Clare Lyster, Charles Waldheim, Mason White

It assembles a multi-layered, empirical description of urbanization processes within the drainage basins of the five Great Lakes and the Saint Lawrence River

Naïve Intention

Pezo von Ellrichshausen

This title is a resulting work of the Mies Crown Hall Americas Prize (MCHAP) emerge, given to the firm Pezo von Ellrichshausen for their Poli House.

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Thermodynamic Interactions

Javier García-Germán

Energy and sustainability is a complex topic that needs to address simultaneously core disciplinary values and ideas that come from other fields of knowledge.

Landscape Futures

Geoff Manaugh

A speculative look into the future of our built environment.

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