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Iconic product designers Moleskine present a new architecture series, Inspiration and Process, which compiles individual monographs approaching the design process of international architects. Bolles & Wilson are renowned for the Suzuki House, Tokyo and the European Library in Japan. The series is presented in a completely new format combining an 18th century clothbound(...)
Moleskine : Bolles + Wilson, inspiration and process in architecture
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Iconic product designers Moleskine present a new architecture series, Inspiration and Process, which compiles individual monographs approaching the design process of international architects. Bolles & Wilson are renowned for the Suzuki House, Tokyo and the European Library in Japan. The series is presented in a completely new format combining an 18th century clothbound style with a front and back cover in raw grey cardboard. The books also incorporate classic Moleskine features.
Architecture Monographs
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The overarching concept established by Kazuhiro Kojima and Kazuko Akamatsu – known as Coelacanth and Associates, based in Tokyo and Nagoya – is that many different elements in architecture may be regarded as its essence. Through this selection of projects and works, among them the Oslo National Museum, Yamoto Town Hall, and Shibuya South Block Project, they explore themes(...)
Kazuhiro Kojima + Kazuko Akamatsu / C + A essence behind
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The overarching concept established by Kazuhiro Kojima and Kazuko Akamatsu – known as Coelacanth and Associates, based in Tokyo and Nagoya – is that many different elements in architecture may be regarded as its essence. Through this selection of projects and works, among them the Oslo National Museum, Yamoto Town Hall, and Shibuya South Block Project, they explore themes like gravity and floating, materials, reflection and absorption, experience of space, distance, and magic of space.
Architecture Monographs
journals and magazines
Hunch no 1 1999
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Hunch 1 documents the comparative analysis of Los Angeles, Tokyo, and the Netherlands carried out during the 1998/99 academic year under the guidance of Stan Allen, Stefano Boeri, and Ben van Berkel. It also features the work of Kazuyo Sejima, and Bart Lootsma's investigation of Rem Koolhaas's work in journalism and film in the 1960s. In addition, ‘Bad Architecture(...)
Hunch no 1 1999
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Hunch 1 documents the comparative analysis of Los Angeles, Tokyo, and the Netherlands carried out during the 1998/99 academic year under the guidance of Stan Allen, Stefano Boeri, and Ben van Berkel. It also features the work of Kazuyo Sejima, and Bart Lootsma's investigation of Rem Koolhaas's work in journalism and film in the 1960s. In addition, ‘Bad Architecture Stories’, the diary of Berlage participant Shiuan-Wen Chu, will be continued over several issues.
journals and magazines
December 1999, Amsterdam
Magazines
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The author of this book was left to his own devices in the underground cities of Cappadocia, the opulent subways of St. Petersburg, the ochre mountains of Lesotho, the overgrown temples of Angkor, and the capsule hotels of Tokyo. This is not exactly the story of what happened to him. It is something more thoughtful, more unpredictable, and more unforgettably strange.(...)
My own devices / mes propres appareils
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The author of this book was left to his own devices in the underground cities of Cappadocia, the opulent subways of St. Petersburg, the ochre mountains of Lesotho, the overgrown temples of Angkor, and the capsule hotels of Tokyo. This is not exactly the story of what happened to him. It is something more thoughtful, more unpredictable, and more unforgettably strange. Corey Frost is a Canadian who lives, studies, teaches, writes, and performs in New York City.
Architecture in Canada
Desired Landscapes, Issue 1
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'Desired landscapes' exist in our fantasies. They are postcards depicting distant vistas – unvisited or perhaps unforgettable. Projections of possible homes, of streets yet to be discovered and of urban clichés to be demystified. This magazine is all about that. It explores the sense of a place. It is a collection of person-to-place bonds, urban observations and poetic(...)
Magazines
May 2021
Desired Landscapes, Issue 1
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'Desired landscapes' exist in our fantasies. They are postcards depicting distant vistas – unvisited or perhaps unforgettable. Projections of possible homes, of streets yet to be discovered and of urban clichés to be demystified. This magazine is all about that. It explores the sense of a place. It is a collection of person-to-place bonds, urban observations and poetic snapshots. Issue 1 takes you to ATHENS – TOKYO – MUNICH – ISTANBUL – LOS ANGELES – BEIRUT – LONDON – KUWAIT – BERLIN – MOSCOW – PARIS
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Quelle place demain pour Paris dans la compétition des villes mondes: une destination touristique comme Venise et Prague ou un leadership partagé avec New York, Londres et Tokyo, sans crainte des dizaines de mégapoles émergentes en Asie? La création du Grand Paris est une chance historique pour la métropole et pour un modèle de développement européen attentif aux(...)
Le grand Paris : l'accélération du monde
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Quelle place demain pour Paris dans la compétition des villes mondes: une destination touristique comme Venise et Prague ou un leadership partagé avec New York, Londres et Tokyo, sans crainte des dizaines de mégapoles émergentes en Asie? La création du Grand Paris est une chance historique pour la métropole et pour un modèle de développement européen attentif aux fractures environnementales, culturelles et territoriales. Saurons-nous la saisir et éviter d’en faire un simple échelon administratif de plus?
Urban Theory
Nendo works 2010-2011
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The word ‘Nendo’ means 'children's clay’ in Japanese. Nendo’s motto is to be free-formed flexible and adaptable in the design scene. Their brand analysis and overall strategy are based on communication. This fifth volume of 'Nendo Works' covers the years 2010-2011 and features the next generation of wooden book cases and chord chairs. It also highlights the interior(...)
Nendo works 2010-2011
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The word ‘Nendo’ means 'children's clay’ in Japanese. Nendo’s motto is to be free-formed flexible and adaptable in the design scene. Their brand analysis and overall strategy are based on communication. This fifth volume of 'Nendo Works' covers the years 2010-2011 and features the next generation of wooden book cases and chord chairs. It also highlights the interior design of two shops: the 24 Issey Miyake shop, and the new Puma House in Tokyo.
Industrial Design
Remarkable ballparks
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This volume looks at the range of amazing places that host baseball games, from the historic Wrigley Field rooftop grandstands, together with the home of the Green Monster—Fenway Park—to the megastructures of the modern ballparks with retractable roofs to protect against weather (Toronto’s Rogers Centre and Seattle’s T-Mobile Park for rain, and Miami’s Marlins Park for(...)
Remarkable ballparks
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This volume looks at the range of amazing places that host baseball games, from the historic Wrigley Field rooftop grandstands, together with the home of the Green Monster—Fenway Park—to the megastructures of the modern ballparks with retractable roofs to protect against weather (Toronto’s Rogers Centre and Seattle’s T-Mobile Park for rain, and Miami’s Marlins Park for heat). Venturing abroad, the book also provides a look at ballparks in Tokyo, Berlin, and the Caribbean, among others.
Commercial interiors, Building types
Kengo Kuma : complete works
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The quintessential Japanese architect of today, Kengo Kuma has forged a modern design language that artfully combines the country’s traditional building crafts with sophisticated technologies and materials. Kenneth Frampton frames Kuma’s work in the context of post-war Japan’s flourishing architecture scene. From his iconic Water/Glass (1995) to the Nezu Museum in Tokyo(...)
Kengo Kuma : complete works
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The quintessential Japanese architect of today, Kengo Kuma has forged a modern design language that artfully combines the country’s traditional building crafts with sophisticated technologies and materials. Kenneth Frampton frames Kuma’s work in the context of post-war Japan’s flourishing architecture scene. From his iconic Water/Glass (1995) to the Nezu Museum in Tokyo (2009), each building is presented through descriptive text, newly commissioned photographs, and detailed drawings that reveal the refined architectonic vocabulary that characterizes Kuma’s buildings.
Architecture Monographs
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In this book, a transdisciplinary international research team presents an expanded vocabulary of urbanisation processes through a comparison of Tokyo, Hong Kong – Shenzhen – Dongguan, Kolkata, Istanbul, Lagos, Paris, Mexico City and Los Angeles. Based on a novel cartography and on detailed ethnographic and historical explorations, this book systematically analyses the(...)
Vocabularies for an urbanising planet: theory building through comparison
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In this book, a transdisciplinary international research team presents an expanded vocabulary of urbanisation processes through a comparison of Tokyo, Hong Kong – Shenzhen – Dongguan, Kolkata, Istanbul, Lagos, Paris, Mexico City and Los Angeles. Based on a novel cartography and on detailed ethnographic and historical explorations, this book systematically analyses the diversity of responses to urgent contemporary urban challenges. It proposes a series of new concepts that allow us to assess the practical consequences of different urban strategies in everyday life.
Urban Theory