Architekten Profile 2010/2011 presents 110 selected architects from Germany, Austria and Switzerland together with their current works and trailblazing projects in architecture, landscape architecture and interior design. Birkhäuser Verlag. ISBN 9783034606127. Hardback. $105.
Jill Scott (ed)
Nine writers, 12 artists and 12 science researchers reflect on sharing information between the arts and the sciences and on how immersive learning can expand the sciences and demand more robust dialogue from the humanities and the arts. Includes a DVD documenting the project from 2007-2009. Springer Verlag. ISBN 9783709103203. Paperback. $85.
Sabine B Vogel (ed)
Through portraits of 22 art biennials, including Sao Paulo, Havana, Istanbul, Sydney and New Delhi, the book explores the history of biennials and looks at their role in a globalised world, as well as providing a compact overview of the history of this phenomenon. Springer Verlag. ISBN 9783709102503. Paperback. $73.50.
Kathryn Dean
Dean/Wolf’s projects are distinguished by a thought-provoking manipulation of light and space. The firm’s award-winning loft interiors are small-scale wonders crafted from concrete, steel, wood and glass. Here are 24 projects presented in detail with photos, drawings, renderings and an introduction by architect Robert McCarter. Princeton Architectural Press. ISBN 9781568988290. Paperback. $65.
Klaus Sedlbauer, Rainer Barthel et al
In addition to providing the planner with basic rules of construction and design, this handy manual supplies an overview of the uses, construction types and standard assemblies for flat roofs. Together with the most important standards and bodies of regulations, construction drawings of the principal connection points round out the volume. Birkhäuser Verlag. ISBN 9783034606585. Hardback. $225.
Traces the career of furniture and lighting designer Dino Gavina (Gavina Spa, Flos), touching on the iconic objects inspired and produced by Gavina and tracing his work through the Ultrarazionale (1968), Ultramobile (1971) and Metamobile (1974) projects. Edizioni Corraini. ISBN 9788875702717. Paperback. $44.95.
Lukas Ingold, Fabio Tammaro
Highways and roads are aids to super-mobility but barriers to many other forms of social interaction. Highwaying documents a speculative research project on the uses of the residual spaces of urban highway hubs with texts, collages, renderings and models. Springer Verlag. ISBN 9783709102275. Paperback. $73.50.
Gabriele Basilico
Presents Gabriele Basilico’s previously unpublished photographs of Istanbul from 2005, and photos from 2010 when he returned to these scenes, showing a city growing vertically and spreading horizontally. The inhabitants and builders of this city are, curiously, absent from Basilico’s depopulated views of one of the world’s most densely populated cities… Edizioni Corraini. ISBN 9788875702595. Paperback. $39.95.
M. Christine Boyer
On his French ID card, Le Corbusier listed his profession as “man of letters”, and this is the first in-depth study of Le Corbusier the writer, examining his writing projects from 1907 to 1947 and featuring more than 200 archival images from his life and work. Princeton Architectural Press. ISBN 9781568989730. Hardback. $115.
M. Christine Boyer
On his French ID card, Le Corbusier listed his profession as “man of letters”, and this is the first in-depth study of Le Corbusier the writer, examining his writing projects from 1907 to 1947 and featuring more than 200 archival images from his life and work. Princeton Architectural Press. ISBN 9781568989808. Paperback. $72.50.
InfraNet Lab / Lateral Office
Six daring projects for an infrastructure ideas competition: a high-speed rail system across the Bering Strait that collects fresh water from the ice shelf; a decommissioned airport transformed into a geothermal data and food farm; thickening on/off ramps around ‘big box’ stores into circular parking lots; a call to include landfills in the list of preserved open spaces; and a saline terminal lake turned into a water farm. Princeton Architectural Press. ISBN 9781568989853. Paperback. $29.50.
With news, in-depth feature articles, concise essays, solidly based and informative project critiques, portraits of outstanding personalities, and reviews of new literature in the field of landscape design and urbanism. Birkhäuser Verlag. ISBN 9783034606172. Paperback. $34.50.
Gabriele Koller, Edek Bartz, Gerald Bast (eds)
Many visual artists’ work is nourished by an extensive knowledge of music – and interesting collections of music. In this volume, contemporary artists and architects including Helmut Federle, Cameron Jamie, Greg Lynn, Wolf Prix and Matthew Higgs engage in a dialogue about the influence of music on their work. Springer Verlag. ISBN 9783709100752. Paperback. $68.50.
Emanuele De Donno, Giorgio Maffei
This volume collects Sol LeWitt’s artist's books from 1967 to 2002 accompanied by the artist’s texts and critical essays. LeWitt’s books have a poetic affinity with his exhibitions and give fascinating insight into his work, which has been linked to conceptual art and minimalism. Edizioni Corraini. ISBN 9788875702731. Paperback. $50.
Federal Office of Culture (ed)
Documents all the winners of 2010’s Swiss Federal Design Awards, with their prizewinning projects in text and images. On display are works from a broad range of fields, including fashion, graphic design and jewellery. Birkhäuser Verlag. ISBN 9783034606028. Paperback. $27.50.
Die Walverwandtschaften, C Rau, E Trüger, O W Fischer (eds)
The German contribution to the 12th Architecture Biennial in Venice was a series of drawings by more than 200 architects in response to the idea of ‘desire’, all presented here in facsimile. Springer Verlag. ISBN 9783709103289. Paperback. $65.
Alessandro Sanna
A homage to the designer Dino Gavina’s ‘ultramobili’ – items of furniture that were also works of art – presented here among Alessandro Sanna’s sinous pen and ink drawings of people, inviting you to ink in your own ‘ultramobili’… Edizioni Corraini. ISBN 9788875702694. Paperback. $24.95.
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