ARCHITECTURE

The Future is a Journey to the Past. Ten Stories About Architecture

Quodlibet 2022 ISBN 9788822908247 Acqn 32312
Pb 12x18cm 128pp ills £15.75

After decades spent sensitizing his own field of work to themes concerning people's respect for
nature, Mario Cucinella has collected his memories of ten journeys to cities and other places.
Each one of them provided him with food for thought that was neither exotic nor "stylistic," but
rather pragmatically environmental, and helped him to reflect on the rational exploitation of
available energy resources - a common practice in the vernacular traditions of every culture, from
Iran to China, and from Maghreb to Ireland. These ten stories about architecture project us
forward.

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There, Is The City... And, Here Are My Hands

Galerie Vi Per 2022 ISBN 9788090843318 Acqn 32249
Pb 12x18cm 100pp col ills £20.25

This collection can be seen as a fugitive practice in which a group of seven people came together
and told stories in order to put into words what they referred to as "Afro-geographies in European
enclaves". It is a storytelling exercise that serves to illuminate their African peoplehood against a
backdrop of cities that did not want them and in countries that did not love them back. These are
stories of the migrant, the diasporic, the displaced and their carved-out places, spoken aloud to
makes sense of their own spatiality and shake the Eurocentric epistemic grounds on which they
have been forced to stand. The book is edited, curated, and annotated by Menna Agha and Ola
Hassanain.

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Wiel Arets - Nature Is Nature

C3 2021 ISBN 9788997775101 Acqn 32258
Hb 24x34cm 1172pp col ills £115

A monograph on the architecture and design studio of Wiel Arets, 'Nature is Nature'
encompasses drawings, images, diagrams, texts, theories, sketches, and more. In his work and
philosophy, Arets engages with the relations between humans and nature, interior and exterior,
and the experience of the body moving through space within a series of prescribed
cinematographic sequences. It is this circulation and routing in his oeuvre, and the ergonomics of
interaction with his industrial designs, which is the key feature that defines the studio. The
publication gathers signature projects by Arets alongside thoughtful essays, together allowing
unique insight into his design approach.

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AV Proyectos 108 - Dossier Flores & Prats

Avisa 2021 no ISBN 32236
Pb 24x30cm 80pp col ills £11.95

After cutting their teeth at the office of Enic Miralles, Ricardo Flores and Eva Prats started their
own practice in Barcelona in 1998. Their systematic, disciplined manner of thinking and analysis
is inseparable from their work as architects, which is in turn represented by the selection of
projects here. Featured are the New Arnau Theatre, La Favorita Refurbishment, and Cal Maiol
School, all in Barcelona; new projects in London, Belgium, and Sweden; and Liquid Light, for the
Biennale in Venice. Also in this edition, an overview of playgrounds as colourful landscapes, with
examples by SLAS architects, Tomas Ghisellini, Crossboundaries, De Villar Chacon Arquitectos,
and more.

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Kerb 29 – Wild
Uro Publications 2021 ISBN 9781922601025 Acqn 32260
Pb 21x30cm 128pp col ills £28.75

An expanding array of human-made disturbances confronts our world: climate crises, global
pandemic, species extinctions, land degradation. Yet the full extent of our impact on the planet
remains uncertain. The systems we have established to civilise and control our environment have
distanced us from our landscapes, their non-human inhabitants, and each other. Looking through
the lens of the "wild", this issue considers notions such as the human/wild binary, empty
wilderness, "othering" and "abandonment", as well as emergent practices in designing with
wilderness and digital tools. With contributions by Dermot Foley, Charles Massy, Carol
Moukheiber, Martin Hogue, and more.

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Regional Bureaucracy
Perimeter Editions 2021 ISBN 9781922545060 Acqn 32281
Pb 20x30cm 224pp col ills £43.50

Over a period of three decades, from 1958 to 1988, the New South Wales Government
Architect's Office (GAO) in Australia realised nearly a thousand buildings across the state. This
enormous production was the direct result of an ideological choice, one that involved a brutal
commitment to building architecture that was merely adequate. In terms of scale and ambition,
the GAO's operation resembles the laying out of the Roman Empire. It built the infrastructure that
holds the territory together, and in doing so literally constructed the state while obliterating the
pre-existing country. Through numerous examples, this volume meticulously documents the
phenomenon.

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a+u November 2021 - Special Issue Infraordinary Tokyo: The Right To The City
Shinkenchiku-Sha Co. Ltd. 2021 ISBN 9784900212718 Acqn 32284
Pb 18x26cm 176pp col ills £33.75

This special issue empowers and encourages the reader to choose paths, as if walking through
the city, an intellectual derive. Rather than presenting a book of pictures, its strategy provides a
basic, research-driven bibliography to assist the further exploration of ideas. Opening with an
introduction by Darko Radovic, it goes on to closely examine the multifaceted Tokyo metropolis
from an array of perspectives and themes. These include shared housing, public bathhouses,
pseudo-public space, urban spectacle, infills and alleyways, graffiti and street art, stacking
historical times, hidden poverty, and more. Radovic, Kengo Kuma, and Hidenobu Jinnai discuss
the city's urban DNA.

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a+u 617 22:02 Bernardo Bader

Shinkenchiku-Sha Co. Ltd. 2022 ISBN 9784900212749 Acqn 32253
Pb 22x29cm 200pp col ills £28.75

The Austrian practice of Bernardo Bader comes into focus in this edition, illuminated in essays by
Arno Ritter and Florian Sauter. Featured are projects for sporting events and activities, such as
Reichshof Stadium, Ski Lodge Wolf, and the Alpine Sports Centre, as well as profiles of
renovations and new works, encompassing several houses, the Susi Weigel Kindergarten,
Salgenreute Chapel, Klostergasse Studio, and an Islamic cemetery. Also in this issue, the
winning entries of the Central Glass International Architectural Design Competition 2021 are
presented and the awarded British architect Richard Rogers (1933-2021) is remembered.

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Subjective Atlas of Kaunas

Subjective Editions 2022 ISBN 9789464448009 Acqn 32288
Pb 17x22cm 192pp col ills £26.50

Between 1919 and 1940, Kaunas served as Lithuania's temporary capital, triggering a massive
boom in construction that greatly increased its urban area. For this instalment of the Subjective
Atlas series, a group of almost 40 creative residents mapped the contemporary identity of Kaunas
through their personal interests, experiences, and domesticity, visualising the heritage and history
of Lithuania's second-largest city. The book highlights a surprising collection of urban, natural,
and everyday spaces and artefacts, inviting readers to reflect on how this material and immaterial
modernist heritage is perceived or observed, appreciated or disliked, ignored or associated with.

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50U, 50 Years United Arab Emirates

Archis Foundation 2022 ISBN 9789077966921 Acqn 32298
Pb 17x24cm 352pp col ills £36

Published on the occasion of the 50th anniversary of the confederation of the United Arab
Emirates, '50U' tells the story of the seven Gulf states in 50 portraits of people, plants, and
places. Designed by Irma Boom, the book paints an intimate picture of life in the Emirates
through the memories, hopes, and ambitions of its inhabitants. Over a period of just half a
century, they have witnessed the transformation of a partly nomadic, partly urbanised community
into a metropolitan and globally active society, from open desert to high-rise buildings. Numerous
interviews with people from all walks of life give a first-hand impression of what it has been like to
grow up or settle in the region.

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Lost Tablets
Uro Publications 2022 ISBN 9781922601186 Acqn 32304
Pb 15x21cm 108pp col ills £23.75

The 'Lost Tablets' are a series of works by Jan van Schaik that explore the geometric language of
architecture through the medium of children's toy building blocks. Constructed by Van Schaik
from found blocks, with a mute face on one side and a dynamic, distinctly architectural side on
the other, each tablet flickers with strange resonances that point to a shared but deeply subjective
symbolism of building. From the buttresses of Gothic cathedrals and the blue ceilings of the Shah
Mosque of Isfahan, to the inhabited machines and weightless engineering of the Space Age, the
genetic lineage of the 'Lost Tablets' is impossible to unpick, even while the potential connections
are hard to ignore.

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Better Together - (33) Documents Of Contemporary Australian Architecture

Uro Publications 2022 ISBN 9781922601155 Acqn 32305
Pb 17x24cm 110pp col ills £34.95

Architectural production today encompasses myriad documents that defy the traditional
conventions of the profession. This book examines 33 artefacts involved in the design and
construction of contemporary architecture. Its definition of architectural documents is expansive -
not just working drawings, but correspondence, contracts, mock-ups and models, journalism,
photos, and other formats that address the unique processes of modern architectural production.
With a cross-section of work by Australian architects, including Andrew Power, Studio Bright,
Sibling Architecture, Richard Stampton, and others, presented in a short story format to unravel
the artefacts' inner lives.

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