Jari Jetsonen and Sirkkaliisa Jetsonen
Here are 26 of Finnish architect Aalto’s innovative private residences, from small summer homes and postwar standardised housing to large complexes for industrial commissions, built between the 1920s and the 1960s. With 279 colour images. Princeton Architectural Press. ISBN 9781568989822. Hardback. $75.
Jane C. Loeffler
Revised and expanded paperback edition of this acclaimed history of America’s overseas embassy-building program. Jane Loeffler offers a clear and often charged story of how America presents itself abroad, trying to balance an open and welcoming political philosophy with concern for security in a world beset by terrorism. Princeton Architectural Press. ISBN 9781568989846. Paperback. $37.50.
Eberhard Havekost
Eberhard Havekost’s artistic practice constitutes a critical reflection on our image-saturated culture. He works with inkjet prints of photographs that serve as departure points for paintings that question the picture’s claim to reality and examine the visual rhetoric of media images. Distanz Verlag. ISBN 9783942405140. Flexi. $140.
A collection of current work that unites unrelated elements to create something new. Although most artists now use computers for montage, most of the collages featured here are made by hand and many include found objects. It is not only the addition of visual elements that is important to the work, but also their deliberate omission, deletion, and destruction. Die Gestalten Verlag. ISBN 9783899553383. Hardback. $97.50.
A comprehensive overview of the most original design hotels in the world, featuring 200 spectacular hotels, including 47 that are new to 2011. The book provides insights into the world’s best hospitality design, architecture and interior design. Die Gestalten Verlag. ISBN 9783899553406. Hardback. $105.
A comprehensive overview of the most original design hotels in the world, featuring 200 spectacular hotels, including 47 that are new to 2011. The book provides insights into the world’s best hospitality design, architecture and interior design. Special edition presented as two volumes in a carton set. Die Gestalten Verlag. ISBN 9783899553413. Hardback. $165.
Bjorn Dahlem
The Berlin artist Bjorn Dahlem produces sculptures and installations that transpose complex issues, primarily of astrophysics and philosophy, into art. Working with simple materials and often using illuminations, he seeks to shed light on the mysteries of being. Distanz Verlag. ISBN 9783942405133. Hardback. $97.50.
Doppelganger explores how pictorial and sculptural representations of people work in the digital media age, with hundreds of examples of the human outer shell styled, made-up, modelled and just plain photographed, leading us to ponder the effect depiction of the person has on our perceptions of our selves. Die Gestalten Verlag. ISBN 9783899553321. Hardback. $97.50.
Israeli artist and photographer Dor Guez explores cultural diversity and ethnic identity and challenges the boundaries and oppositions between Jews and Arabs, religion and secularism, Israeli and Palestinian. He uses images and text to tell the story of three generations of his Christian Arab family, who lived in Al-Lydd, occupied by the Jewish paramilitary organisation Haganah in 1948. Distanz Verlag. ISBN 9783942405164. Hardback. $73.50.
Float! proposes building on water instead of on land as an obvious solution to overcrowded cities. Most world cities are situated on the water and have too little space where it's most needed: in the city centre. Building on water allows inner-city areas to expand. It's up to the architects of the climate-change generation to respond to the world’s spatial needs with smart, sustainable proposals. Float! Will help them do just that. Frame. ISBN 9789077174296. Hardback. $110.
A survey of minimalist and brutalist typography in contemporary graphic design that features the work of 24 designers whose approach is aggressively minimalist. Features posters, books, signage and more by Daniel Eatock, Experimental Jetset, Spin, the Walker Art Center’s design studio and more. Princeton Architectural Press. ISBN 9781568989662. Paperback. $78.50.
Rilla Alexander is part of Brisbane design collective Rinzen, who brought us the felt toy remix project and book Neighbourhood in 2004. In Her Idea Alexander explores the nature of having ideas and putting off doing anything about them with whimsical, almost Suess-like illustrations and texts. For designers, illustrators and procrastinators everywhere… Victionary. ISBN 9789881732804. Hardback. $50.
Jeremiah Eck
Jeremiah Eck offers an alternative for those who want to build in a thoughtful manner. Twenty-two houses by some of today’s best-known residential architects illustrate nine site types. Each site, the problems and challenges it posed, the solutions the architects found, and the resulting house design are discussed and explained in detail, providing a wealth of siting information. Princeton Architectural Press. ISBN 9781568988238. Paperback. $60.
TwoPoints.Net
In this new Victionary series, Spanish graphic design duo TwoPoints.Net look at contemporary uses of classic typefaces. Avant Garde was designed by Herb Lubalin in the 1960s for a short-lived but influential graphics magazine of the same name, and is one of the most instantly recognisable sans serif faces. Victionary. ISBN 9789881732873. Paperback. $52.50.
TwoPoints.Net
In this new Victionary series, Spanish graphic design duo TwoPoints.Net look at contemporary uses of classic typefaces. Futura is Paul Renner's timeless 1927 sans serif face, designed on geomoetric pricipals, and which became emblematic of the Bauhaus. Victionary. ISBN 9789881732880. Paperback. $52.50.
Musician, writer and painter Masaya Nakahara is the man behind late-’80s band Violent Onsen Geisha and has collaborated with Mike Kelly and Paul McCarthy. The more than 100 paintings reproduced here are infused with a rock ’n’ roll graphic aesthetic – they are way past cute. Includes a CD with two half-hour tracks of Nakahara's experimental noise-music. BNN. ISBN 9784845910540. Hardback with CD. $65.
Michael Sailstorfer's installations and sculptures focus on the relationship between motion and stillness. His works go far beyond visual perception and speak through sound, vibrations, and even smells that address the viewer's other senses: he transforms street lamps into falling stars, makes popcorn in a cement mixer, turns a police car into a drum kit. Distanz Verlag. ISBN 9783942405249. Hardback. $97.50.
Robin Kinross
This reprinted new edition of Kinross’s critical history of typography is a must of for all involved with type. Updated, revised and in a new pocket edition it includes analysis of the most recent developments in typography as well as revised examples, freshly photographed and now in colour. With a full bibliography. Hyphen Press. ISBN 9780907259183. Paperback. $47.50.
MT is high-quality sticky tape printed with a world of cute and lovely colours and patterns, and the MT Wrapping Book is a hands-on guide to using the tape with everyday craft items to create original and beautiful present wrappings. BNN. ISBN 9784861007255. Paperback. $29.50.
The writer, filmmaker and photographer Shuji Terayama (1935-1983) produced a body of photographic work that is surreal, strange and staged. The 100-odd photos here feature a theatrical cast of mimes and models, the masked and the made-up, in images that have the air of stills from a Japanese-inflected Fellini-esque film. Beware: adult themes and nudity… BNN. ISBN 9784845908233. Hardback in slipcase. $59.50.
The 30 artists whose work is featured here were born in the late 1960s and 1970s and grew up during the collapse of the communist regimes in the 1980s. While irony may have been an essential aspect of art during those times, this collection proposes that irony has lost its edge and that 'new old' strategies inform contemporary Rheinland art practice. Distanz Verlag. ISBN 9783942405201. Paperback. $97.50.
Ulrich Dietz
The urge for the new has shaped the life of humans ever since primeval times. It is the driving force behind development and creativity, pushing on, revealing what was hitherto undiscovered, and engendering enthusiasm and longing. Here, pragmatic thought leaders who are also hands-on doers explain how the new emerges, in conversations with the entrepreneur Ulrich Dietz. Distanz Verlag. ISBN 9783942405096. Hardback. $120.
How does a simple artefact explain what you do? How well can you market yourself while being eco-friendly? These and other questions are answered in this visual volume featuring more than 100 creative talents and their great work in business card and visual identity design. Victionary. ISBN 9789881732781. Paperback. $69.95.
From an exhibition at the Kunsthalle Rostock which showed Berlin artists who have received increased public exposure during the past decade and whose work addresses the interface between painting and other media. Distanz Verlag. ISBN 9783942405256. Intergrated booklet. $59.50.
Clay builder Martin Rauch’s house at the town of Schlins in Vorarlberg is made entirely of clay excavated at the site – from the floors and arched ceilings to the plasterwork on ceiling and walls, the washstands, tiles, and stairs. The house is here documented in 100 photos, plans and diagrams. with text in English and German. Birkhäuser Verlag. ISBN 9783034601108. Paperback. $120.
A handbook on scenography edited by a pioneer of the discipline. The book is an introduction to the history, contents, methods, instruments and making processes of this young design discipline. It showcases more than 60 projects by Atelier Bruckner, including museum work, architecture, multimedia installations and media architecture. AVedition. ISBN 9783899861365. Paperback. $130.
The first artist monograph published by Big City Press (Hijacked 1 and 2) spans 10 years of photographer Tom Muller's visual practice. With essays and interviews by Pilar Arevalo, Braydon Harriss, Melissa Keys, Hannah Mathews and Ted Snell. Big City Press. ISBN 9780980787818. Hardback. $75.
Artist Rosemary Trockel collaborated with landscape architects Topotek1 to create a new park for Munich’s Theresienhohe, an elaborate and playful mix of gravel, pine trees, artificial turf, styrofoam and concrete. The park's design and construction process is documented here in essays and images. Birkhäuser Verlag. ISBN 9783034605915. Paperback. $82.
Conway Lloyd Morgan
The only annual of the trade-fair design industry presents a comprehensive review of state-of-the-art trade fair design, with a focus on this year’s Shanghai World's Fair. AVedition. ISBN 9783899861419. Hardback. $150.
On the 50th anniversary of Jean Tinguely’s self-destructive sculpture for the MoMA garden, Homage to New York, the Museum Tinguely in Basel and the Swiss Institute in New York will mount a group show entitled Under Destruction, examining the aesthetic potential of destruction. The show is documented here. Distanz Verlag. ISBN 9783942405171. Hardback. $85.
A hands-on how-to craft-oriented book about making decorative wall stickers with adhesive tape, sticky paper and more! With heaps of great examples and step-by-step instructions for crazy-lovely sticker makeovers. BNN. ISBN 9784861007316. Paperback. $29.50.
Magistrat der Stadt Wien
This exhibition and publication series was initiated by the Vienna City Administration to promote young Viennese architects. This third volume in the series presents the work of 12 young Vienna-based architecture firms. Springer Verlag. ISBN 9783709103340. Paperback. $65.
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