Vincent Canizaro ed
This comprehensive reader illustrates the range of ideas embodied by the term regionalism. Text by authors such as Kenneth Frampton, Lewis Mumford, Sigfried Giedion and Alan Colquhoun are organised around themes that include regionalism and rapid modernisation, modernism, historicism, regional planning, bioregionalism and critical regionalism.
Princeton Architectural Press. ISBN 1568986165. Paperback. $79.50.
Reinhard Jammers and Tonis Kao
The town of Solingen invited nine leading European Industrial Design Schools to develop concepts and models for companies from the region with particular emphasis on the topics: Food and Food Preparation, Communication and Safety in Motor Vehicles, Mobility and Communication in a Public Context and the Workplace of the Future.
AVedition. ISBN 9783899860818. Hardback. $47.50.
Bob Martens and Herbert Peter
ArchiCAD has firmly established itself among the available CAD software packages. This new edition guide to ArchiCAD includes a chapter on what's new in Version 10 and provides comprehensive information on its many tools, functions and processes and their many practical, research and educational uses. Springer Verlag. ISBN 3211327894. Hardback. $105.
Wolf Prix ed
This sequel volume to the Biennale Exhibition Magazine provides the theory behind the examples shown in the exhibition. The terms form, space and net express reference is works by Austrian architects who have been capable of achieving a concise visualisation of their era’s contemporary architectural discussion and its spectrum of possibilities.
Springer Verlag. ISBN 3211343636. Paperback. $69.50.
Wolf Prix ed
The Austrian pavilion for the Architecture Biennale di Venezia. Wolf Prix presents three essential concepts of the city, each aspect represented by the groundbreaking work of an Austrian architect: ‘Form’ is displayed by Hans Hollein’s Aircraft carrier, ‘Space’ is represented by Friedrich Kiesler’s Raumstadt and ‘Net’ by Gregor Eichinger’s Trialto project.
Springer Verlag. ISBN 9783211394984. Paperback. $46.50.
Weidu Ma
The decoration and design of doors and windows was a fixture in classical Chinese architecture. With its precisely printed illustrations and concise texts in English and Chinese, this large format, elegantly finished book gives the reader an opportunity to study the major creations in classical Chinese architecture. Springer Verlag. ISBN 3211321918. Hardback. $340.
Peter Zec
A practical diary with comprehensive information on renowned design offices and manufacturers in Germany and neighbouring countries, with addresses of the most important design institutions in Germany, selected national and international specialist magazines as well as design trade fairs and design events. AVedition. ISBN 3899390806. Hardback. $65.
Michel Chanaud and Patrick Morin eds
This issue includes articles on 13 design studios (including Karlssonwilker, Limbo and Kazunari Hattori), the world of badges, UK studio Universal Everything, and event-listing magazine New York, who give a different graphic designer the job of illustrating their listings page each week. Birkhäuser Verlag. ISBN 23501700969. Paperback. $56.50.
Form eds
This issue of Form looks at the impact packaging design has on the success of a product. Renowned packaging designers such as Hubert Jocham and Andreas Unger analyse the role of packaging. Includes a profile by Annette Tietenberg on Iranian poster designer Reza Abedini and much more. Birkhäuser Verlag. ISBN 3936560382. Paperback. $35.
Lynn Margulis et al, eds
One of the legendary figures in 20th-century landscape design, Ian McHarg transformed the fields of landscape architecture and planning. In this new entry in the Conversations with Students series, McHarg’s never-before-in-print lecture “Collaboration with Nature” is now available for the first time. Princeton Architectural Press. ISBN 1568986203. Paperback. $39.50.
Peter Zec, ed
The annual prize for Communication Design awarded by the Design Zentrum, one of the most significant design awards in Europe. This year the award winners will be presented in nine new categories: Corporate Design, Information Design/Public Space, Advertising, Packaging Design, Editorial, Poster, Interactive Media, TV & Cinema and Sound Design.
AVedition. ISBN 3899390814. Hardback. $172.
Uwe Kiessler ed
Uwe Kiessler and his partners have set new standards with their firm’s outstanding structures. This first monograph includes examples of their buildings including the science park in Gelsenkirchen, a milestone of ecological building technology, the Bavarian State Chancellery, the ERCO Light Factory and the Düsseldorf Kunstsammlung im Ständehaus.
Birkhäuser Verlag. ISBN 3764376279.
Friedrich Muller and Uwe Bruckner
This book is a portrait of a series of Kodak exhibition stands at the Photokina in Cologne. All the stands show the hand of their designer, Atelier Brückner in Stuttgart. The richly illustrated path through the design process uses photos and sketches to demonstrate the potential of corporate design in a three-dimensional space. AVedition. ISBN 3899860624. Paperback. $73.50.
Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Contemporary ed
In 2006 Kutlug Ataman’s award-winning film installation Küba travelled up the Danube River through Romania, Bulgaria, Serbia and Montenegro, Croatia, Hungary and Slovakia to Austria. At each stop a new art work was presented in dialogue with the installation: an artistic response to the complex challenges presented by recent developments In Europe.
Springer Verlag. ISBN 9783211365137. Paperback. $69.50.
Gunther Vogt
Thirty projects by Vogt Landscape Architects, organised by the typologies of landscape, park, square, garden, cemetery, courtyard, promenade and interior. Essays by friends – Olafur Eliasson, Roman Signer, Christian Vogt – express Vogt’s conception of landscape architecture as a heterogeneous field combining the natural sciences, the arts and design.
Lars Müller Publishers. ISBN 303778069x. Hardback. $115.
Peter Greenaway
Greenaway’s latest film proposes, for the 400th anniversary of the birth of Rembrandt, a re-reading of his celebrated painting, The Nightwatch. Greenaway carries out an investigation through listening to the soundtrack of the painting, discovering in it the evidence of a murder.
Dis Voir. ISBN 291456323X.
Colin St John Wilson
This revised edition of an essential work examines the underlying themes of Modern European architecture. Rather than positioning Modernism as a historical moment, Wilson argues for a continuing tradition sustained against a rigidifying orthodoxy by a “resistance movement” exemplified by the work of Aalto, Scharoun, Lloyd Wright and Lewerentz.
Black Dog Publishing. ISBN 1904772625. Paperback. $55.
Smout Allen et al
Augmented Landscapes features a landscape architecture practice for the first time in Pamphlet history. London’s Smout Allen presents five projects that respond to the way in which man has enlarged the landscape through architecture and infrastructure, manipulating and blurring perceptions of what is natural and what is artificial. Princeton Architectural Press. ISBN 1568986254. Paperback. $33.50.
Pedro E Guerrero
Guerrero spent his entire career photographing houses of some of the most illustrious American architects and artists of the 20th century, including Lloyd Wright, Alexander Calder, Louise Nevelson, Marcel Breuer, John Huston, Philip Johnson, Julia Child, Edward Stone and Alexi Brodovitch. A fascinating memoir illustrated with over 190 of the author’s own photographs.
Princeton Architectural Press. ISBN 1568985908. Hardback. $109.50.
Claude Lichtenstein
A selection of Swiss architecture, graphic design and design from 1950 to 2006 demonstrates that playful humour and clarity are by no means opposites, but an unusual duo of qualities that mingle and interpenetrate. Published to accompany an exhibition at the Kornhausforum in Bern, which then goes on to additional locations throughout the world.
Lars Müller Publishers. ISBN 3037780908. Hardback. $105.
Peter Zec, ed
The Design Zentrum has embarked on the search for successful design ideas. The results are included in this exhibition of sustainable materials and technologies, using design as an impetus for economic growth but also making the connection that ideas always need to take form in order that they can change our everyday culture and be economically successful.
AVedition. ISBN 9783899390865. Paperback. $37.50.
Jerilou Hammett et al, eds
While New Yorkers are renowned for their trendsetting, this book argues that New York City itself has become a follower rather than a leader. Fourteen timely, provocative articles that explore the radical transformation unfolding in New York City and raise serious questions about the future of any metropolis struggling to maintain its unique identity. Princeton Architectural Press. ISBN 1568986785. Paperback. $49.50.
Susan Piedmont-Palladino
Covering 250 years of design tools and technologies, this is a revealing look at how architects have produced the drawings, models, renderings, and, now, animations that show us the promise of what might be built. The book includes a wide array of these tools as well as drawings, renderings, and sketches from well-known architects. Princeton Architectural Press. ISBN 1568985991. Hardback. $59.50.
Bernd Vlay et al eds
An overview of young architectural strategies on contemporary urban development from the competition Europan 7 & 8 in Austria and Slovenia. Texts by writers, critics, theorists, architects and artists examine the effects of political, economic and social forces on urban environments. Springer Verlag. ISBN 9783211476055. Paperback. $63.50.
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