Wolf Prix ed
The renowned institute of architecture at the University of Applied Arts Vienna presents works by students of star architects Zaha Hadid, Greg Lynn and Wolf D. Prix. The competition offers students a wide range of possibilities to explore architectural parameters. Springer Verlag. ISBN 9783211991992. Paperback. $47.50.
A heavily illustrated exploration of the music video, from its film-based precursors to the present, with a DVD featuring clips by the likes of Björk, Blurred Vision, The Buggles, Cornelius, Marianne Faithfull, Fettes Brot, Lasse Gjertsen, Pet Shop Boys, Radiohead, Sensorama, Schneider TM, Nina Simone, Lyapsis Trubetskoy and many more. Distanz Verlag. ISBN 9783942405317. Flexicover with DVD. $83.50.
Bing Thom Architects
The Canadian firm Bing Thom specialises in complex building types such as performing arts centres, civic buildings, museums and urban master plans. Features highlights of their recent work including the stately Chan Centre for the Performing Arts at the University of British Columbia, their fluid plan for Tarrant County College in Fort Worth, Texas and the stunning Acadia Residence in Vancouver. Princeton Architectural Press. ISBN 9781568989594. Hardback. $97.50.
Marco Spies
A manual for designers working on the intersection of brand and interactivity. Following a typical design process from analysis to distribution, it introduces the tools and methodologies for interactive branding and design and illustrates them with best practice examples. The design chapter focuses on screen-based applications, but also introduces design patterns for gestural interfaces, devices and out-of-home media. Birkhäuser Verlag. ISBN 9783034607308. Hardback. $110.
The latest addition to the Charley Harper board books range is Colors, which helps young readers learn to recognise colours (and to read their names) with a series of fab and simple Charley Harper illustrations – birds, butterflies, leaves, even two girls swimming. Ammo Books. ISBN 9781934429549. Board book. $13.95.
Jeanne Tan
Colour plays a vital role in our visual experiences and affects senses such as feeling and taste, but it also shapes our actions subconsciously. Colour Hunting: How Colour Influences What We Buy, Make and Feel explores colour in great depth, examining it from three perspectives in separate sections on commerce, aesthetics and feeling. Frame. ISBN 9789077174272. Hardback. $110.
Astrid Zimmermann, ed.
An introduction to open space planning for architects and landscape designers, divided into two sections – Materials and Surfaces (an overview of the various building materials and their specific characteristics) and Building Construction and Building Elements, which explains the principles of statics, the connections of load-bearing elements, and the approaches to anchoring building components and supporting structures. Birkhäuser Verlag. ISBN 9783034607209. Paperback. $110.
María del Rosario González y Santeiro and Jorge Margolles Garrote
Presents 27 portfolios of remarkable, original and stimulating images, made by today’s most imaginative and inspired photographers. They come from a wide range of disciplines: digital, portrait, architectural, landscape and fashion. Pepin Press. ISBN 9789054961666. Paperback. $40.
Emily Hruby, Patrick Hruby
A chunky board book that’s a visual feast for young readers. Illustrator Patrick Hruby’s pictures of the garden are accompanied by Emily Hruby’s text that helps kids learn their numbers all the way up to 12. Ammo Books. ISBN 9781934429709. Board book. $22.
Moritz Houschild, Rudiger Karzel
From measurement to planning and production, architecture is the product of a closely co-ordinated digital process chain. What influence do digital design and production methods have on contemporary architecture? How are these methods changing architecture? And where does the potential of digital media for architecture lie? Here are answers to these and many other questions on the digital design and construction process. Birkhäuser Verlag. ISBN 9783034607254. Paperback. $85.
Katharina Grosse
German artist Katharina Grosse swaps the brush for the airbrush and compressor, and the canvas for floors, walls, ceilings and found or fabricated objects. Viewers find themselves within paintings that are more like painted installations. She has taken the technique back to the studio to produce a series of canvases, reproduced here for the first time. Distanz Verlag. ISBN 9783942405195. Hardback. $95.
Friederike Schneider, Oliver Heckmann
This housing construction design manual documents 130 residential structures from around the world from the past 50 years. Standardised floor plans of the 1960s, the more particular plans of the 1980s and the different housing types of more recent times are showcased. Every project is presented with typical floor plans on a 1:200 scale. This new edition contains 40 new projects and figure-ground diagrams that highlight salient features of the plans. Birkhäuser Verlag. ISBN 9783034607070. Hardback. $170.
Friederike Schneider, Oliver Heckmann
This housing construction design manual documents 130 residential structures from around the world from the past 50 years. Standardised floor plans of the 1960s, the more particular plans of the 1980s and the different housing types of more recent times are showcased. Every project is presented with typical floor plans on a 1:200 scale. This new edition contains 40 new projects and figure-ground diagrams that highlight salient features of the plans. Birkhäuser Verlag. ISBN 9783034607087. Paperback. $130.
Alain KET Mariduena
The work of graffiti writers turned tattooists is the focus of this, which features loads of colour pictures of great graffiti-style tattoos on real people – with wild-style, magic marker and heavily illustrational tattoos among the many examples. From Here to Fame. ISBN 9783937946627. Paperback. $22.
Ellen Lupton
Explores a variety of techniques for stimulating fresh thinking and solving design problems. Brainstorming techniques are grouped around the three main phases of the design process: defining problems, getting ideas, and creating form. Visual demonstrations and case studies show the design processes and solutions at work. Featuring Ellen Lupton’s hands-on, accessible approach to instructional writing. Princeton Architectural Press. ISBN 9781568989792. Paperback. $37.50.
Martha Cooper
Martha Cooper has the reputation of being the first and foremost photographer of emerging hip-hop culture in New York City. Hip Hop Files – Photographs 1979-1984, makes a significant part of her extensive archive accessible for the first time. Cooper photographed people who would one day become icons: Lee, Fab 5 Freddy, Rock Steady Crew, Dondi, Bobbito, Dez Aka Dj Kay Slay, Run Dmc, Seen, Afrika Bambaataa, Blade, Rammellzee, Futura 2000, Grandmaster Caz, Duro, Lady Pink and many others. From Here to Fame. ISBN 9783937946023. Hardback. $87.50.
O F Bollnow
English translation of one of the most comprehensive studies of space as we experience it. Since it was published in Germany in 1963, Bollnow’s text has become a key reading in architecture, anthropology and philosophy, and has been kept continuously in print. The book is serious academic research and something more – showing a great sensitivity to the near and the everyday. The text is enlivened and illustrated with many quotations, principally from German and English. Hyphen Press. ISBN 9780907259350. Paperback. $48.50.
Haile Falkenberg (ed)
A comprehensive introduction to the planning and construction of gardens inside buildings. Covers every aspect of the process from design fundamentals and concept development to materials and construction processes. Illustrated with numerous examples, with projects ranging from a green wall as a design element to gardens in Australia, New Zealand, Germany and the USA. Birkhäuser Verlag. ISBN 9783034606202. Hardback. $150.
Artist Ernst Logar examines petroleum and its importance to modern civilisation using the example of the Scottish petroleum city of Aberdeen. Logar gained access to non-public places in the North Sea-based petroleum industry. His photographs and his correspondence with the oil companies are documented, as well as numerous works developed and made of petroleum. These objects reflect our dependency on petroleum and lead to a haunting contemplation of its role in our lives. Springer Verlag. ISBN 9783709104606. Paperback. $53.50.
Logology 2 presents a wide variety of logos, symbols, icons, mascots, emblems and graphics that all manage to grab our attention and entering our neural networks. Not just satisfied with surveying today’s landscape, the book ambitiously sets out to predict the needs of tomorrow and the future of the logo, that most fundamental unit of communication design. Logology 2 is the sequel to the highly successful Logology (2007). Victionary. ISBN 9789881732897. Paperback. $67.50.
These 36 pairs of memory game cards feature iconic modernist works by artists including Andy Warhol, Edvard Munch, Stuart David, Henri Matisse, Pablo Picasso, Kurt Schwitters, Vincent van Gogh, Josef Albers, Wassily Kandinsky and many others. The game is suitable for all ages – just limit the number of pairs in play for younger gamesters. Ammo Books. ISBN 9781934429419. Cardboard box. $23.95.
Europe’s most notorious train crew, Monsters Of Art, celebrates 20 years of train havoc. Join us for this rare and privileged glimpse into the unruly world of MOAS. With over 200 pages that detail MOAS’s history and unique crew concept, along with classic tales from the train yard, including great escapes, writer beefs, legendary busts, extreme graffiti feats, trains, trains and more trains. From Here to Fame. ISBN 9783937946689. Paperback. $32.50.
Europe’s most notorious train crew, Monsters Of Art, celebrates 20 years of train havoc. Join us for this rare and privileged glimpse into the unruly world of MOAS. With over 200 pages that detail MOAS’s history and unique crew concept, along with classic tales from the train yard, including great escapes, writer beefs, legendary busts, extreme graffiti feats, trains, trains and more trains. From Here to Fame. ISBN 9783937946696. Hardback. $43.50.
New olds presents 60 exhibits that explore design between tradition and innovation. What are seen as successful idioms are copied and varied, but many of the motifs that are sold as “new” actually derive from a historical context and formal idiom, and are self-contained products of one country or culture, representing a new interpretation of traditional forms. AVedition. ISBN 9783899861518. Hardback. $65.
Branko Mitrovic
An engaging and easy-to-grasp introduction to philosophical questions of interest to students of architectural theory. Topics include Aristotle’s theories of “visual imagination” and their relevance to digital design, the problem of optical correction as explored by Plato, Hegel’s theory of zeitgeist, and Kant’s examinations of space and aesthetics, among others. Princeton Architectural Press. ISBN 9781568989945. Paperback. $37.50.
An easy to follow reference for designers that explains each stage in preparing files for prepress and print production. Clearly structured chapters on Paper, Printing Techniques, Typography, Trapping, Colour, Image Editing and PDFs and abundant descriptive graphics impart essential knowledge. In short, the book shows designers how to create the best-possible print product. Die Gestalten Verlag. ISBN 9783899553253. Hardback. $120.
Landscape Architecture Europe Foundation, ed.
Current issue of this international magazine of landscape architecture, city planning and urban design. Birkhäuser Verlag. ISBN 9783034607186. Paperback. $33.
María del Rosario González y Santeiro and Jorge Margolles Garrote
A wonderful collection of pieces of jewellery as communicative and meditative objects. They are works of art that reveal the miracle of the unusual, providing a completely fresh artistic perspective. Noovo is an aesthetic arbiter and a cultural mediator in the fields of fashion, photography and jewellery: a platform to show the highest level of creativity from around the world. Pepin Press. ISBN 9789054961659. Paperback. $40.
Robin Kinross
Robin Kinross’ collected writings on typography cover a 25-year period and illuminate both the process of design and its consequences. His topics include newspapers, telephone books, road signs, copy editing, paperbacks, and the question of what constitutes a typeface. A unique contribution to typography. Hyphen Press. ISBN 9780906259176. Paperback. $48.50.
Klaus-Dieter Weiss
Documents the past 10 years work of the large partnership RKW Architektur & Stadtebau, with reference to the development of this partnership founded in the 1950s. Presents 65 works by this firm, including a new research facility for Audi, the new science campus at RWTH Aachen University, and the corporate headquarters of Vodaphone. Birkhäuser Verlag. ISBN 9783034604819. Hardback. $130.
Uta Grosenick, Alexander Ochs
Yin Xiuzhen is one of the most prominent contemporary Chinese women artists. Her work, showcased here, deals with the political, social, historic, economic and human conditions that surround her by turning old clothes and used textiles into sculptures, such as Portable Cities, begun in 2003, a series of models of large cities fitted into suitcases. Popular landmarks are sewn from clothing once owned by people of the respective places. Distanz Verlag. ISBN 9783942405232. Hardback. $95.
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