Kirsten Alda et al
40 Rooms showcases a cross-section of Berlin's architectural and interior design gems. Divided into private, commercial and public spaces, the selection includes lofts, shops, showrooms, clubs, restaurants and museums all photographed by renowned photographers from Berlin. An intimate portrait of Berlin.
AVedition. ISBN 3899860632. Paperback. $66.5.
Edition form eds
Since 1998 the bilingual Designer Profile has been the definitive work on the design scene in Germany, Austria and Switzerland. Every two years it enables designers from the fields of industrial, exhibition, graphic and multimedia design to present their ideas, concepts and successes.
Edition Form. ISBN 3936560323. Hardback. $210.
Edition Form eds
Since 1998 the bilingual Designer Profile has been the definitive work on the design scene in Germany, Austria and Switzerland. Every two years it enables designers from the fields of industrial, exhibition, graphic and multimedia design to present their ideas, concepts and successes.
Edition Form. ISBN 3936560307. Hardback. $125.
Edition Form eds
Since 1998 the bilingual Designer Profile has been the definitive work on the design scene in Germany, Austria and Switzerland. Every two years it enables designers from the fields of industrial, exhibition, graphic and multimedia design to present their ideas, concepts and successes.
Edition Form. ISBN 3936560315. Hardback. $125.
Ellen Lupton
The latest instalment in the popular Design Brief series (Geometry of Design, Elements of Design, Grid Systmes, Thinking with Type), DIY provides everyone with the tools to design for themselves: from T-shirts and newsletters to websites and press kits, CDs, posters, business cards and much more.
Princeton Architectural Press. ISBN 1568985525. Paperback. $39.5.
Rudy Vanderlans ed
Last ever issue of Emigre after more than two decades of debate and involvement with the graphics community. More than 25 contributors and colleagues (including Lorraine Wild, William Drenttel, Michael Bierut, Steve Heller, Ellen Lupton, Armin Vit and Peter Bilak) weigh in and bid the legendary magazine farewell.
Princeton Architectural Press. ISBN 1568985924. Paperback. $24.
Friederike Schneider (ed)
This popular reference guide is now available in a new updated and revised paperback version for a limited time as part of Birkhauser's 150th birthday celebrations. An exceptional offer for a limited time. Hardback will be simultaneously available (376436985X) RRP $190.
Birkhauser Verlag. ISBN 3764370351. Paperback. $105.
Petra Schmidt ed
Relaunched design journal form places special emphasis on design processes, explaining them in thorough and practical terms. Each issue features a cover story devoted to contemporary trends in European product and graphic design. This issue includes articles on Constantin Boym, Ikea and Sagmeister.
Birkhauser Verlag. ISBN 3936560293. Paperback. $36.5.
Richard Plunz
Larderello is virtually unkown to Tuscan residents but is one of the world's centres of geothermal power research. Alternative uses for this industrial town, which was planned in the '50s, are discussed within the context of sustainability, economics, programming and environment.
Princeton Architectural Press. ISBN 1568985347. Paperback. $39.5.
kees Christiaanse
Dutch architect and urban planner Kees Christiaanse and his office, KCAP, has realised pioneering work on former docklands and industrial sites along rivers as well as large-scale urban and landscape planning projects, complex inner-city transformations, building designs and interior projects. This is the first in-depth survey of his work.
Birkhauser Verlag. ISBN 3764374926. Paperback. $105.
Klaus Spechtenhauser et al eds
Looks at important developments and revolutionary kitchen concepts of the last decades including standardised kitchens and open kitchen-living spaces. Also covers design basics, current trends, the changing demands posed by patchwork families and single person households. An architectural and cultural tour of the kitchen.
Birkhauser Verlag. ISBN 3764372818. Paperback. $68.5.
Klaus Merkel
As in his previous book 'The Reading of Time in the Text of Nature' photographer and artist Klaus Merkel records in striking black and white images structures in nature and architecture that exhibit overlapping patterns and configurations, significant deviations and parallels and resonate in juxtaposition.
Lars Muller Publishers. ISBN 3037780584. Hardback. $96.5.
Benjamin Aranda & Chris Leach
The latest in the Pamphlet Architecture series shows how technologically progressive firm Aranda/Lasch uses advanced computational methods and algorithmic codes to foster architectural design. Tooling explores patterns generated by computer codes that in turn create an organisational template for assembling projects.
Princeton Architectural Press. ISBN 1568985479. Paperback. $29.5.
Barbara Levine and Stephanie Snyder
An exploration of the creative outpouring in early American photo albums. Hundreds of thousands of Brownie cameras were produced at this time and small collections of photographs were assembled in an astonishing assortment of albums with photographs as the raw material for collages, constructions and text experiments.
Princeton Architectural Press. ISBN 1568985576. Paperback. $79.5.
David Neuman et al eds
This revised edition to the Stanford University Guide inludes new works by Hoover Associates/The SWA Group, Foster and Partners/Peter Walker and Partners and Esherik Homsey Dodge and Davis. Includes sixteen new pages with these additions and many updated entries with new photographs.
Princeton Architectural Press. ISBN 156898538x. Paperback. $49.5.
Peter Hutchinson
Peter Hutchinson has been working in land art since the 1960s but is still relatively unkown. His delicate and fleeting works are produced in the open, where they are subject to the whims of nature. Much is the product of 'thrown rope': planting along the lines determined by a piece of thrown rope, both across land and underwater.
Princeton Architectural Press. ISBN 1568985614. Paperback. $59.5.
Blaine Erickson Brownell
A handy and affordable reference to the most interesting and useful new materials now available. The author, known to thousands of web users for his 'product of the week' email, has included over 200 materials, organised by category, described, pictured and annotated with technical and sourcing information.
Princeton Architectural Press. ISBN 1568985630. Paperback. $49.5.
Liesbeth Waechter-Boehm
One of Austria's most prominent architects and teachers of the 20th century, Holzbauer derives much of his appraoch to architecture from modernism but also from the great architectural developments of past centuries. This complete and up-to-date review inlcudes an introductory essay placing Holzbauer's work in a wider context.
Springer Verlag. ISBN 3211239383. Hardback. $165.
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