$78.95
(available in store)
Summary:
October 2017 marks the centenary of the admission of the first female students to the Architectural Association. Published to coincide with a symposium, exhibition and series of talks all celebrating this event, "AA Women in architecture" puts forward the stories of women who have entered the architectural profession and their contributions to architectural practice and education.
Breaking the mould: AA women in architecture
Actions:
Price:
$78.95
(available in store)
Summary:
October 2017 marks the centenary of the admission of the first female students to the Architectural Association. Published to coincide with a symposium, exhibition and series of talks all celebrating this event, "AA Women in architecture" puts forward the stories of women who have entered the architectural profession and their contributions to architectural practice and education.
Architectural Theory
$44.90
(available to order)
Summary:
Robots build! At their Program in Architecture and Digital Production at the Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule (ETH) Zürich (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich), the architects Gramazio and Kohler have installed a research facility that is unique in the world. It is based on a computer-controlled industrial robot that produces construction elements(...)
Digital Architecture
September 2008, Baden
Digital materiality in architecture: Gramazio & Kohler
Actions:
Price:
$44.90
(available to order)
Summary:
Robots build! At their Program in Architecture and Digital Production at the Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule (ETH) Zürich (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich), the architects Gramazio and Kohler have installed a research facility that is unique in the world. It is based on a computer-controlled industrial robot that produces construction elements directly from design data. The robot works flexibly with a tremendous range of tools and materials.
Digital Architecture
$52.00
(available to order)
Summary:
Known for their in-depth research and innovative, inventive, and meticulously constructed architecture, KieranTimberlake Assoicates put its ideas about streamlining the making of architecture to the test. The results took the form of a fully modular and award-winning house, featuring an active and adjustable double-skin facade so advanced that no client would consider it.(...)
Architecture Monographs
June 2008, New York
Loblolly House: elements of a new architecture
Actions:
Price:
$52.00
(available to order)
Summary:
Known for their in-depth research and innovative, inventive, and meticulously constructed architecture, KieranTimberlake Assoicates put its ideas about streamlining the making of architecture to the test. The results took the form of a fully modular and award-winning house, featuring an active and adjustable double-skin facade so advanced that no client would consider it. KieranTimberlake Assoicates boldly took the project upon themselves, using partner Stephen Kieran's own summer house as a laboratory. Situated on idyllic Taylors Island, off the coast of Maryland's Chesapeake Bay, Loblolly House inaugurates a truly new, more efficient way of building. Through the use of state-of-the-art building information modeling (BIM), the architects were able to streamline the design-build process. Thousands of parts were collapsed and integrated into a few dozen panels and blocks that slid into an aluminum frame set on wooden pylons. Consisting of 70 percent prefabricated components, the kit-of-parts house was assembled (mostly with a wrench) and lifted into place on-site in less than six weeks. Unlike most houses, even those built with sustainability in mind, Loblolly disassembles as easily as it assembles, making it an ecologically sound structure with a manageable environmental footprint. Focusing on a single built project and illustrated with extensive photographic documentation and numerous detailed drawings, Loblolly House is the manual for componentized prefab. The book includes a DVD of the film "A House in the Trees" by producers Rick Deppe and Kathleen Blake, a real-time documentary of the design, fabrication, and assembly of Loblolly House.
Architecture Monographs
$80.00
(available to order)
Summary:
Beyond Architecture is the first publication of its kind to document the creative exploration of architecture and urban propositions in the contemporary arts. The projects collected in this book demonstrate how not only architects and designers but also artists are taking architecture as a starting point for experimentation. They range from performance, installation art(...)
Experimentale architecture
January 2009, Berlin
Beyond architecture imaginative buildings and fictional cities
Actions:
Price:
$80.00
(available to order)
Summary:
Beyond Architecture is the first publication of its kind to document the creative exploration of architecture and urban propositions in the contemporary arts. The projects collected in this book demonstrate how not only architects and designers but also artists are taking architecture as a starting point for experimentation. They range from performance, installation art and crafted sculptures to architectural models, alternative ideas for living spaces and furniture, as well as illustration, painting, collage and photography. Through stunning photography, visuals and complementary texts, these visionary concepts reveal the hidden creative potential for architecture and urban environments in inventive ways.
Experimentale architecture
books
$157.00
(available to order)
Summary:
Volume 1: Canada and the United States
Architecture in Canada
November 1999, New York
World architecture : a critical mosaic 1900-2000
Actions:
Price:
$157.00
(available to order)
Summary:
Volume 1: Canada and the United States
books
November 1999, New York
Architecture in Canada
$52.50
(available to order)
Summary:
A refugee from Nazi Germany, Nikolaus Pevsner became a central player in the intellectual and cultural life of his adopted country. Almost impossibly energetic, efficient and effective, his contribution both to scholarship and to the public appreciation of art and architecture was immense. In addition to the famous Buildings of England series - known commonly as(...)
Architectural Theory
January 2003, London
Pevsner on art and architecture : the radio talks
Actions:
Price:
$52.50
(available to order)
Summary:
A refugee from Nazi Germany, Nikolaus Pevsner became a central player in the intellectual and cultural life of his adopted country. Almost impossibly energetic, efficient and effective, his contribution both to scholarship and to the public appreciation of art and architecture was immense. In addition to the famous Buildings of England series - known commonly as "Pevsner" - he wrote standard textbooks, held professorships, delivered the Reith lectures, promoted with equal fervour Victorian and Bauhaus architecture; and for over twenty-five years from the end of the war was a regular broadcaster for the BBC. Here his talks ranged from a discussion of Breughel's art to the buildings of Gaudi; from a series on Englishmen's castles to meditations on modern town planning; from Elizabethan mannerism to contemporary American architecture - and of course to his ground-breaking series of Reith Lectures on "The Englishness of English Art".
Architectural Theory
Transmettre en architecture : de l'héritage de Le Corbusier à l'enseignement de Henri Ciriani
$58.95
(available to order)
Summary:
Autour du cas d’école que représente la chaîne allant de Le Corbusier à Ciriani et de Ciriani à ses anciens élèves, les entretiens réunis dans cet ouvrage permettent d’analyser la façon dont s’opère la transmission du savoir architectural et des valeurs qui le fondent. Issu du film Je ne suis pas un homme pressé, réalisé par les mêmes auteurs en 2001, le livre utilise(...)
Transmettre en architecture : de l'héritage de Le Corbusier à l'enseignement de Henri Ciriani
Actions:
Price:
$58.95
(available to order)
Summary:
Autour du cas d’école que représente la chaîne allant de Le Corbusier à Ciriani et de Ciriani à ses anciens élèves, les entretiens réunis dans cet ouvrage permettent d’analyser la façon dont s’opère la transmission du savoir architectural et des valeurs qui le fondent. Issu du film Je ne suis pas un homme pressé, réalisé par les mêmes auteurs en 2001, le livre utilise l’abondant matériel qui servit pour le documentaire, 43 heures d’entretiens avec des architectes (dont les membres du groupe Uno, exprimant ici pour la première fois les convictions qui les unissent), mais aussi avec un historien et un sociologue. Il retrace ainsi l’ensemble des propos tenus sur l’héritage de Le Corbusier et du Mouvement moderne, le rôle social de l’architecte et sa construction identitaire et, enfin, sur la figure de Ciriani enseignant, qui apparaît ici en véritable passeur, comme celui « qui donne envie de changer le monde ».
Architectural Theory
$55.95
(available in store)
Summary:
Interdisciplinary authors, architectural theorists and historians, critics and professors reflect on the process of architectural writing Since 2016, "Writingplace" has served as a platform for discussing the relationship between literature and architecture. The third issue focuses on reading and reviewing works in progress.
Writingplace Journal for Architecture and Literature 3
Actions:
Price:
$55.95
(available in store)
Summary:
Interdisciplinary authors, architectural theorists and historians, critics and professors reflect on the process of architectural writing Since 2016, "Writingplace" has served as a platform for discussing the relationship between literature and architecture. The third issue focuses on reading and reviewing works in progress.
Architectural Theory
$62.00
(available to order)
Summary:
"Mute icons" challenges fixed aesthetic notions of beauty in architecture as both, disciplinary discourse and a spatial practice within the public realm, by intersecting historic antecedents and present instances within contemporary projects wherein indeterminacy, monolithicity and defamiliarization play a speculative role in constructing withdrawn, irritant and yet(...)
Mute icons: pressing dichotomy in contemporary architecture
Actions:
Price:
$62.00
(available to order)
Summary:
"Mute icons" challenges fixed aesthetic notions of beauty in architecture as both, disciplinary discourse and a spatial practice within the public realm, by intersecting historic antecedents and present instances within contemporary projects wherein indeterminacy, monolithicity and defamiliarization play a speculative role in constructing withdrawn, irritant and yet engaging architectural images. No longer concerned with narrative excesses or with the "shock and awe" of sensation making; the mute icon becomes intriguing in its deceptive indifference towards context, perplexing in its unmitigated apathy towards the body. Object and building, absolute and unstable, anticipated and strange, manifest and withdrawn, such is the dichotomy of mute icons. Dwelling in the paradox between silence and sign and aiming to debunk a false dichotomy between critical discourse, a pursue of formal novelty and the attainment of social ethics, "Mute icons" reaffirms the cultural need and socio-political relevance of the architectural image, suggesting a much-needed resolution to the present but incorrect antagonism between formal innovation, social responsibility and economic austerity. Intersecting relevant historical antecedents and polemic theoretical speculations with original design concepts and provocative representations of P-A-T-T-E-R-N-S recent work, the book aspires to stimulate authentic speculations on the real.
Architectural Theory
The Metropolitan Tower
$59.95
(available in store)
Summary:
"The Metropolitan Tower" is the first English-language edition of a French standard reference on the topic of the urban high-rise, published in 2012. It summarizes, interprets, and explains the research of French architect and teacher Michel Kagan (1953–2009). Featuring some six hundred photographs, sketches, and plans, along with Kagan’s writings and contributions by(...)
The Metropolitan Tower
Actions:
Price:
$59.95
(available in store)
Summary:
"The Metropolitan Tower" is the first English-language edition of a French standard reference on the topic of the urban high-rise, published in 2012. It summarizes, interprets, and explains the research of French architect and teacher Michel Kagan (1953–2009). Featuring some six hundred photographs, sketches, and plans, along with Kagan’s writings and contributions by twenty-six distinguished international authors who respond to his ideas with key elements of their own research, the volume comprehensively explores the typology of the metropolitan high-rise since the birth of early modernism. For this new English edition, the book’s content has been revised, updated, and expanded in the light of new research conducted by the faculty of the École Nationale Supérieure d’Architecture (ENSA) Paris-Val de Seine under the direction of Nathalie Régnier-Kagan. It offers a fascinating and multilayered overview informing students, architects, and critics alike on vertical architecture.
Architecture Monographs