ARCHITECTURE

AV Monographs 230 - Ensamble Studio. Structures And Experiences

Avisa 2021 ISBN 9788409274093 Acqn 31401
Pb 24x30cm 112pp col ills £38

Led by Anton Garcia-Abril and Debora Mesa, Ensamble Studio works across several disciplines
to arrive at the most innovative approaches, focusing - as they themselves explain - on processes
rather than on results, and always from an experimental perspective. Balancing imagination and
reality, art and science, their work tests new types, technologies, and methods to address issues
as diverse as the shaping of landscape with structures or the systems of prefabrication for
buildings. The selection of twenty of their most representative works includes the SGAE
Headquarters in Santiago de Compostela, the Cyclopean House in Brookline, and Desert Rocks
in Saudi Arabia.

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Av Monographs 231 - OMA 2015-2021

Avisa 2021 ISBN 9788409280421 Acqn 31402
Pb 24x30cm 120pp col ills £38

'AV Monographs 231: OMA' presents a selection of eighteen works - from the Qatar National
Library to the Axel Springer Campus, via the Timmerhuis, the BLOX / DAC, Rijnstraat 8, or
MEETT, among others - designed and built by OMA during the period between the financial crisis
of 2008 and the coronavirus pandemic outbreak in 2020. Projects that address the political,
economic, and social transformations shaping the contemporary city. These were times of
change at the office itself, after establishing an organizational model based on a more collective
and diverse notion of the architectural profession.

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Arquitectura Viva 231 - Rafael Moneo

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Pb 24x30cm 80pp col ills £20

If the work of Rafael Moneo had to be tied to a single word, it would be 'context.' In both senses:
attention to context as material capacity to intervene, with sensitivity, in different places and
landscapes; and attention to context as spiritual capacity to echo the culture of every location.
This is demonstrated in the two projects presented in the new issue of 'Arquitectura Viva', each
one linked to the concept of 'cultural landscape' and commented on, with his usual pedagogy, by
the author himself: the Descendientes de J. Palacios winery in Corullon and the building at
Schinkelplatz in Berlin.

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Arquitectura Viva 232 - Steven Holl

Avisa 2021 no ISBN Acqn 31405
Pb 24x30cm 80pp col ills £20

The first thoughts of Steven Holl are always captured in thick paper notebooks with thick
brushstrokes in watercolour; deft essays on forms and spaces in which colour and light are never
merely incidental concerns. In this liquid manner Holl has created a global oeuvre centered on
buildings of civic importance, where a determination to pay close attention to how buildings are
perceived comes to the fore, as in the three works featured in this issue, all of them in the United
States: a library in New York, the additions to the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C., and the
Museum of Fine Arts in Houston.

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Nicholas Burns - Chapel And Meditation Room

A.Mag 2021 ISBN 9789895493852 Acqn 31465
Pb 23x29cm 64pp col ills £30.50

The second book in the 'A.MAG Long Collection' reveals a very special project in a highly
sensitive way. Australian architect Nicholas Burns designed a chapel and meditation room for a
private client that stands on a hillside of an estate in northern Portugal, overlooking denser
urbanisation and green hills. The snaking granite path leading to the chapel awakens all of the
senses - of time, the seasons, and place. The building's sinuous, naked concrete form sits
between giant boulders and trees; a gilded wooden altar is dramatically illuminated within.
According to Burns, these are the elemental things that are important in order for people to feel
naturally deeper within themselves.

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The Meaning Of A Place - National Monument Kamp Amersfoort

nai010 publishers 2021 ISBN 9789462085954 Acqn 31419
Hb 24x27cm 144pp col ills £33.75

During World War II, around 45,000 prisoners were interned at Camp Amersfoort in the
Netherlands. A new museum will open its doors on the former site of this transit and penal camp,
75 years after liberation. The new building will provide insights into the camp's history, helping to
keep the memory of the place and the reality of what happened there alive. By examining the
relationship between its history and the traces it has left in the landscape, the story of the camp
can be revealed. In this book, the architect, landscape architect, and experience designers offer
an inside look at their multidisciplinary approach and reflect on commemoration as a design
theme.

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Robin Boyd - Late Works

Uro Publications 2021 ISBN 9780648435594 Acqn 31421
Pb 22x30cm 108pp col ills £33.75

One of Australia's most iconic mid-century architects, Robin Boyd (1919-1971) rose to
prominence with 'The Australian Ugliness' (1960), a biting attack on what he saw as the debased
quality of its cities and design culture. 'Late Works' unveils the urban public architectural projects
designed by Boyd, which were significant in the betterment of Australia's built environment but
have been largely forgotten. This work includes building and planning designs that seem counter
to his reputation as an architect of polite modernist private homes. Considered alongside Boyd's
exhibition work, multimedia designs, and writing, it is an insightful window into his ambitions and
struggles.

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a+u 607 - 21:04 – Mecanoo

Shinkenchiku-Sha Co. Ltd. 2021 ISBN 9784900212626 Acqn 31428
Pb 22x29cm 184pp col ills £32

This publication provides a comprehensive review of Mecanoo works over three decades, divided
into two distinct sections. The first is a foundation of projects in their native Netherlands, tracing
their Dutch roots back to early housing projects that reveal a strong social agenda, as "they forge
a trail through people, place, and purpose to that poetry" through their designs, described in an
essay by founding partner Francine Houben. The second section features works that define their
influence outside of the Netherlands. In this first monograph devoted to Mecanoo, a+u reveals
modern libraries, theaters, and campuses that can be found all over the world.

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Yoyogi National Gymnasium And Kenzo Tange

Toto 2021 ISBN 9784887063891 Acqn 31474
Pb 13x19cm 160pp col ills £21.95

Designed by Kenzo Tange (1913-2005), the Yoyogi National Gymnasium was completed in 1964.
It is situated in an open area in Tokyo and was built for the Olympic Games held that year. The
iconic structure, with its elegantly curved roofs suspended from twin masts, is an architectural
marvel. Inspired by the Coliseum in Rome, as well as by the architecture of Le Corbusier and
Eero Saarinen, Tange adapted Western ideas to meet Japanese aesthetics. In this book, five
viewpoints for evaluating the facility are examined in detail. Through the lens of Japanese
modernism, it reveals how the structure was made, and how the gymnasium and swimming pool
have been used and managed since.

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AV Proyectos 102 - David Chipperfield Architects

Avisa 2021 no ISBN Acqn 31477
Pb 24x30cm 80pp col ills £12.95

'AV Proyectos 102' devotes its dossier to David Chipperfield Architects, a firm that from its four
offices - London, Berlin, Milan, and Shanghai - develops very diverse projects, from the
refurbishment of abandonded complexes to new buildings in different European cities. The issue
features two recent competitions for the city of Madrid; the first with the winning proposals for the
new Metropolitan Forest, the new green ring of the city; and the second with the renewal of
AZCA, presenting the winning project by Diller Scofidio + Renfro with b720 to reactivate this run-
down financial area, along with four finalist projects.

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El Croquis Studio Mumbai Hb (157+200)

El Croquis 2021 ISBN 9788412333107 Acqn 31493
Hb 25x34cm 536pp col ills £120

This hardback reprint combines two El Croquis issues dedicated to the Indian architecture firm
founded by Bijoy Jain. It takes stock of Studio Mumbai's most recognised works spanning 2003-
2019. The monograph features the Studio Mumbai Work-Place in Nagaon, the Casa Tara in
Kashid, the Leti 360 Resort in Leti, and the Palmyra House in Nandgaon. It then revisits more
recent works such as Copper House II, the Ahmedabad Residence, and the Ganga Maki Textile
Studio in the Himalayan foothills. Jain and his team of architects, engineers, carpenters, and
masons excel in blending Indian and Western cultures, as seen in the thatched MPavilion 2016 in
Melbourne.

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Arquitectura Viva 233 - Lederer Ragnarsdottir Oei

Avisa 2021 no ISBN Acqn 31478
Pb 24x30cm 80pp col ills £21

The architecture of the trio formed by Arno Lederer, Jorunn Ragnarsdottir, and Marc Oei does not
wish to dissolve the boundary between interior and exterior, but turns back to the tradition of solid
walls and clearly marked enclosures; without falling into the trap of historicism, it seeks to enrich
the spatial experience by means of a tactile sensuality. Arquitectura Viva, takes stock of the work
of the practice based in Baden-Wurttemberg through four public buildings located in western
Germany: a bank branch in Ulm, an ecclesiastical center in Stuttgart, a museum in Frankfurt, and
a school complex in Cologne.

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Arquitectura Viva 234 - David Chipperfield Architects

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Pb 24x30cm 80pp col ills £20.95

Be they coherent additions in dialogue with the preexisting, silient interventions on historic
buildings, or constructions raised ex novo, the works conceived by David Chipperfield Architects
to harbour museum institutions are luminous supports for art and culture that demonstrate a
rigorous respect for context, an exquisite way with materials, and a strong civic commitment.
Arquitectura Viva has for this issue selected three recent realisations, each of them crafted in a
different office of the four-branch firm: the Kunsthaus in Zurich, the Royal Academy of Arts in
London, and the West Bund Museum in Shanghai.

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AV Monographs 232 - Office - Kersten Geers David Van Severen

Avisa 2021 ISBN 9788409287000 Acqn 31485
Pb 24x30cm 120pp col ills £37.50

This edition of AV Monographs showcases OFFICE, a Brussels-based architectural firm

renowned for its idiosyncratic architecture, in which realisations and theoretical projects stand
side by side. The projects are direct, spatial, and firmly rooted in architectural theory. The firm
reduces architecture to a limited set of basic geometric rules, within which life unfolds, in all its
complexity. Amongst the 24 total projects featured, OFFICE's warm minimalism takes the form of
a ring-shaped home in Spain, a crematorium in Ostend dotted with geometrical shapes, and a
state-of-the-art olive oil mill constructed on the estate of the first Medici villa outside Florence.

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a+u 608 - 21:05 S-Mao Sancho-Madridejos Architecture Office

Shinkenchiku-Sha Co. Ltd. 2021 ISBN 9784900212633 Acqn 31490
Pb 22x29cm 176pp col ills £31

This issue of a+u magazine features the work of Sancho-Madridejos Architecture Office (S-MAO).
An ensemble of 20 projects, framed according to two investigative themes, are featured in this
monograph, supported by axonometric diagrams and concept models. An essay by the founders'
close friends, Anton Garcia-Abril and Debora Mesa, reveals the deeper origins to S-MAO's
approach and describes how their trials and investigations have yielded "new processes in
engineering, new construction systems, and a new language". Based in Madrid and established
in 1982, the office has developed a nuanced and committed practice, rooted in investigations in
plastic arts and aesthetic theory.

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Le Corbusier - Travels, Objects And Collections

Corraini Editore 2021 ISBN 9788875708559 Acqn 31491
Hb 24x20cm 160pp col ills £50.50

This book accompanies an exhibition that traces the life of the great French-Swiss architect
through documents, photographs, and many personal objects rediscovered following a restoration
of Le Corbusier's apartment on Rue Nungesser et Coli, Paris. Le Corbusier collected all kinds of
everyday objects he called objets a reaction poetique: shells, pieces of wood, glass or bone,
stones, enamelled ceramics, bricks, and common objects. Photographs and sketches of cars
demonstrate Le Corbusier's passion for vehicles and means of transport, and the tickets, tourist
brochures, and postcards of monuments that the architect collected show his sentimentality for
the journeys he took internationally.

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