ARCHITECTURE

Louis De Belle - Glasraum Ganko

Caryatide 2024 ISBN 9782493283160 Acqn 35943
Pb 24x32cm 34pp col ills £29.25

Ganko is the Milan-based practice led by Nicola Munaretto and Guido Tesio. The work of the
office spans different realms and scales-from urban planning to architecture up to interior design
and scenography for exhibitions and events. Ganko understands architecture as the creative
negotiation between desires and possibilities, subject and context, form and content. Favouring a
certain classicism in the strand of the modernist tradition it most identifies with, the office is
interested in the unpredictable consequences embedded in a (apparently) utilitarian, rational
approach. Ganko understands design as the definition of precise conditions of indeterminacy; and
architecture as the formal infrastructure allowing for multiple, often unexpected, appropriations.
Unapologetically modern, Ganko is after an architecture that is as precise in its presence as it is
open in its experience.

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a+t 60 - Frugality Series. Abstraction and Responsibility

a+t Ediciones 2024 ISBN 9788409620234 Acqn 36007
Pb 24x32cm 120pp col ills £31

Frugality means less material, energy, and expense, but also greater respect for the environment,
constructive sincerity, and social honesty. Rather than being imposed by social or cultural
movements, or even by political shifts, frugality is the pure awareness of the moment of restriction
and deprivation that conditions the manner in which action is taken. It is the dismantling of the
iconic and symbolic character of architecture, imbuing it with standardised technology,
programmatic flexibility, and basic rationality. The first issue of this new series is titled after the
essential features of this frugal architecture, the sole aim of which is to become a structure-
shelter of life.

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Arquitectura Viva 264 - Fernanda Canales

Avisa 2024 no ISBN Acqn 36008
Pb 24x30cm 80pp col ills £24.75

As she does with her academic work, Fernanda Canales roots her practice in a thorough
knowledge of the environment, its resources, and its people, thanks to which she has made it
possible for projects conceived in the spirit of mending inequality in her native Mexico to be
veritable agents of change and sources of pride for their users. Arquitectura Viva features five of
them in a journey from the the capital to two cities in Sonora, close to the United States border.
The issue's dossier further presents two libraries recently completed in Asia by international firms:
the National Library of Israel in Jerusalem by Herzog & de Meuron, and the Beijing City Library by
Snohetta.

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AV Proyectos 122 - Escasez Material

Avisa 2024 no ISBN Acqn 36009
Pb 21x30cm 80pp col ills £14.75

At a time marked by the climate crisis and violent conflicts, an increasing number of architects are
turning to impermanence and adaptability to show an alternate path to tackle the fragility and
scarcity affecting our planet. Counter to the neoliberal appetite for abundance and the delirium of
indefinite growth, this issue explores the relationship between nature and economy. It examines
the social construction of scarcity, finding in certain communities signs of resilience and
adaptative intelligence. Case studies in Thailand, India, Iran, Rwanda, Niger, Colombia, and
Ecuador serve to illuminate this new path. Also in this issue, an interview with Mexican architect
Fernanda Canales.

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Oase 117 - Project Village

nai010 publishers 2024 ISBN 9789462088399 Acqn 36013
Pb 17x24cm 144pp col ills £26.50

The village has recently received more attention in architectural and urban discourse, in part due
to a growing demand for spatial densification, climate change, and the pursuit of biodiversity. A
need for a qualitative approach to village densification exists in the Netherlands and Belgium, in
addition to an increasing interest in preserving and restoring the identity of villages and their
surrounding landscapes. This edition of 'OASE' contributes to the discussion, examining villages
not as the antithesis of modernity but as its complex product. Eight essays analyse images,
inventories, idealisations, and makeovers of villages in light of currently shifting socio-political
contexts.

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Discursive Architecture. Tactics for critical intervention in the work of BAVO

nai010 publishers 2024 ISBN 9789462088993 Acqn 36017
Pb 15x23cm 270pp col ills £44

Criticism is largely an unprofessional affair, more often than not a friendly service, at best a civil
service for the good cause of architecture culture. In any case, it is poorly paid and not meant to
be taken seriously. Therefore architect-philosopher Gideon Boie proposes to rethink criticism on
the basis of overidentification: a counter-strategy in which artists identify with the current trends in
such an excessive way that it becomes rather difficult to digest. In 'Discursive Architecture', Boie
reflects on the practice of BAVO: the collective he co-founded with Matthias Pauwels in the early
2000s. Boie sketches how the strategy of overidentification and its wider psychoanalytical
framework allows us to explore new critical tactics. The interventions of BAVO tackled various
urgent social issues, ranging from regional development, city marketing and art in the public
space, to spatial management, humane detention and mental healthcare.

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Dutch Waterworks Worldwide

nai010 publishers 2024 ISBN 9789462088467 Acqn 36018
Hb 28x31cm 256pp col ills £54.50

'Dutch Waterworks Worldwide' chronicles architecture and landscape photographer Luuk

Kramer's journey around the world to find waterworks built by Dutch engineers between the 16th
century and today. From Polish polders to dikes and dams in Japan, from canals in Brazil to a
small lock in Suriname, the Dutch brought knowledge gleaned from centuries of experience with
living in a delta, land reclamation, and catastrophic floods. Arriving with colonising forces or
invited by local governments, the Dutch left varied legacies and perspectives on their
contributions and roles. In interviews and essays by local experts, the book presents a collection
of shared global water heritage.

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Hybrid Worklife
Danish Architectural Press 2024 ISBN 9788774077800 Acqn 36019
Pb 15x21cm 320pp col ills £56

How do you get people back to the office? What's the role of leadership in times of transition?
What does the new people-centric, forward-thinking workplace look like? How can the actual
state offer socially relevant and people-centric spaces? These are some of the questions that the
new book Hybrid Worklife explores. Written by Gitte Andersen, founder and former CEO of
SIGNAL Architects and Global Head of Workplace Management and Design at SIGNAL/ISS, the
book offers insights into strategies that align top management's success criteria with effective and
people-centric workplaces.

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Before the Future - Catalog of the Ukrainian Pavilion at the 18th Biennale Architettura in
Venice
Ist Publishing 2024 ISBN 9786177948321 Acqn 36020
Pb 17x24cm 400pp col ills £44

'Before the Future' marks the return of the Pavilion of Ukraine to the Biennale Architettura after a
nine-year absence. In the exhibition and its accompanying program, the grass-covered defensive
earthworks in the Giardini and the dark, enclosed shelter in the Arsenale are spaces for Ukrainian
architects and practitioners from various fields to raise questions-questions about telling stories
during wartime, about the value of collective action in the face of threat, about the multitude of
topics that unite architects in Ukraine today, about questions that must be asked today, before the
future. Over a period of four months during the Biennale, five temporary collectives create a
program of changing exhibitions in both locations of the Pavilion.

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