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Samia Henni - Colonial Toxicity Rehearsing French Radioactive Architecture and

Landscape in the Sahara
Framer Framed 2024 ISBN 9789492139245 Acqn 34186
Pb 17x24cm 592pp col ills £32

In the 1960s the French colonial regime detonated four atmospheric atomic bombs, thirteen
underground nuclear bombs, and conducted other nuclear experiments in the Algerian Sahara.
This secret, still-classified programme occurred during and after the Algerian War (1954-1962).
Meticulously culled together from numerous sources by architectural historian Samia Henni, this
publication's wealth of materials documenting the violent history of France's activities in the
Algerian desert offers a rich repository for all those concerned with histories of nuclear weapons
and engaged at the intersections of spatial, social, and environmental justice, as well as
anticolonial archival practices.

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Attitudes – MVRDV
Maas Lawrence 2024 ISBN 9789083286013 Acqn 34194
Pb 22x29cm 344pp col ills £80

Co-edited by MVRDV founding partner Jacob van Rijs and MVRDV partner Jan Knikker, this
book presents twenty-five recently completed projects in Europe, North America, and Asia.
Among them are several that show the potentials of reuse and transformation, such as 'High
Profile', a lamp made from leftover metal profiles, or 'Seoullo 7017', the transformation of an
elevated highway in Seoul into an urban park. Many of the projects also have a distinct public
dimension, welcoming people in, around, and sometimes also on top of buildings, as in the case
of the depot of Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen in Rotterdam, or the Idea Factory in Shenzhen.
With essays by Tim Abrahams, Hans Ibelings, and Joann Plockova.

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Modern Architectures in Central America

The Architecture Observer 2024 ISBN 9789492058188 Acqn 34195
Pb 17x24cm 158pp col ills £27

The Architecture Observer offers an overview of different forms of modern architecture in Central
America since the outset of the 20th century. Although modern architectures constituted only a
small percentage of the total building production in Guatemala, Honduras, El Salvador,
Nicaragua, Costa Rica, and Panama, they hold in these countries an evident symbolic
significance. Such buildings functioned as models for the desired societal, economic, and cultural
changes, or as aspirational placeholders for a future state of modernity. With contributions by
Mauricio Quiros Pacheco, Andres Fernandez, Hans Ibelings, Gloria Grimaldi, Sandra Gutierrez,
Martin Majewsky, and others.

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GreytoGreen
Deutscher Architektur Verlag 2023 ISBN 9783946154778 Acqn 34198
Hb 22x28cm 308pp col ills £54.50

At a time when climate change and resource scarcity are forcing a radical rethink of architecture
and urban planning, this book provides in-depth insights into the future of sustainable building.
The renowned architecture and engineering firm SSP, a pioneer of innovative and responsible
architecture since its establishment in 1977, presents its groundbreaking approaches and
strategies under the "GreytoGreen…" label, which stands for sustainable design and construction
with an ecological focus. The book features 53 projects that are leading the way, not only in terms
of planning, but also in the implementation of forward-looking ecological designs. From increasing
climate resilience to promoting biodiversity, this book provides a comprehensive insight into the
realisation of SSP`s environmental sustainability goals.

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meier + associes architects

Deutscher Architektur Verlag 2023 ISBN 9783946154754 Acqn 34199
Pb 22x28cm 152pp col ills £60

The international reputation of contemporary Swiss Architecture is often linked to its German- and
Italian-speaking regions. In 1998, theorist and critic Martin Steinmann turned his attention to the
rich production of the French-speaking region, as well as its elegance - "that mutable idea that in
its classic interpretation combines simplicity, serenity, and a certain sensuality". Prefaced by
architectural historian Jacques Gubler, this volume offers an overview of more than a dozen
architectural works designed by the Geneva-based agency meier + associes architectes over the
last 25 years, spread across the country's francophone region.

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Architectures of Transition - emerging practices in south asia

Altrim 2023 ISBN 9788412622232 Acqn 34202
Hb 17x23cm 252pp col ills £42

In the nations of South Asia - India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Afghanistan, Sri Lanka, Nepal,
Bhutan, and the Maldives - tradition and modernity, prosperity and poverty, communality and
communalism, medieval society and silicon- chip technology, cohere to create a landscape of
incredible plurality. It is in this South Asia, that architecture has and continues to play a poignant
role. 'Architectures of Transition' is a document of essential conversations around architecture in
South Asia and the emergent models of practice. It will ask collectively, across the region, the
fundamental question: Does architecture matter in these states of transition?

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Between the Building and the Street - A Phenomenology of the Façade

Quodlibet 2024 ISBN 9788822921260 Acqn 34203
Pb 17x24cm 496pp col ills £40

This volume explores the subject of facades, from both an architectural and an urban point of
view. Each building has two facades: one is private, hidden, free, the other is public and belongs
to the people who look at it. A facade tells of the cultural climate in which the building was born,
the lives of the people who have resided or worked there, though it often conceals the activities
that take place behind it. Facades that constitute the visible side of the city have generally
employed a sort of triple coding, exhibiting the nature - and thus the character - of the building,
the connection, more or less direct, with the plan and the section, and the relationship with the
context. Between the Building and the Street, the result of many years of study and research, it is
a work that deals in a complete way with the theme of the facade through interpretative paths,
evolutionary readings, compositional itineraries. One of its strengths is the study of the etymology
of the word "facade" through the centuries, in dictionaries, encyclopedias, and in all the means
that have helped to spread knowledge, from the Accademia della Crusca to the present time.

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Theodor Cron - Stanze Italiane / Italian Rooms

Quodlibet 2024 ISBN 9788822921697 Acqn 34204
Hb 14x22cm 80pp ills £21

"There was something else about these rooms that I had never considered before and which I
now want to explain." Recently discovered in the archives of the architect Theodor Cron, Italian
Rooms is a highly original text on the conception of architectural space and its continuous
redefinition. Written in 1947, it is the result of a trip to Southern Italy in which the author observed
anonymous Saracen rooms and compared their architectural qualities with the canons of
architecture practiced in Northern Europe. "Here, one dwells on the floor, while we live between
four walls:" this is the paradigmatic statement that allows Cron to continue with a series of original
observations, according to a conception of space genuinely different from the spatial paradigms
of the Modern Movement. The essay, even more than its historical character, is therefore
characterized by a theoretical contribution which, in this sense, has a timeless value and makes
the text a sort of revelation in the contemporary panorama.

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OverHolland 22
Koninklijke Nederlandse Oudhei 2023 ISBN 9789090378121 Acqn 34178
Pb 23x22cm 200pp col ills £24.25

In the 1950s and '60s, both in the Netherlands and beyond, university campuses were the
predominant site of important experiments in modern architecture and urban planning. The often
long-term involvement of leading designers in their development makes these campuses a
subject of particular interest. This examination of the architecture and urban planning of post-war
university campuses builds on 'OverHolland' 18/19, which featured TU Delft and TU Eindhoven.
This is now expanded to include Twente University and comparisons with campuses built
elsewhere, reflecting the significance of a worldwide trend, including expansion proposals and
heritage management.

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Volume 64 - World Tour 2023

Archis Foundation 2024 ISBN 9789077966747 Acqn 34209
Pb 20x27cm col ills £24.25

With this second collaborative issue between Archis Foundation and Nieuwe Instituut, the
magazine is now a cross-pollinator between its editorial content and the programmes of the
Nieuwe Instituut itself. "World Tour 2023" is about appreciating "the naive" and using it as a tool
for enrichment. Readers embark on an itinerary through 22 contributions, covering a range of
developments in design and architecture around the globe. From loss and transformation to
parables and politics, it touches on pop culture in Japan, Indonesian post-colonialism in Jakarta,
Mexican airports, Australian ugliness, Indian urban and cultural development, the next generation
of American cars, and much more.

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a+u 639 12:23 Edelaar Mosayebi Inderbitzin Architekt*innen

Shinkenchiku-Sha Co. Ltd. 2024 ISBN 9784900212985 Acqn 34212
Pb 22x29cm 168pp col ills £24.25

This issue features the Swiss architecture firm known as EMI, established in 2005 by architects
Ron Edelaar, Elli Mosayebi, and Christian Inderbitzin. Their works span exhibitions,
refurbishments, new buildings, and urban planning, but housing remains their primary interest as
they examine and reinterpret the small-scale components that contribute to human agency and
enjoyment within a dwelling. The 21 projects featured here range from gardens and landscapes
to villas and high-rises. In all of them, EMI embeds rational design choices with notions of poetry,
as evidenced in the Bruggliacker Housing Complex in Zurich, Stockmattstrasse Townhouses in
Baden, and others.

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Mission Neighbourhood - (Re)forming Communities

Danish Architectural Press 2024 ISBN 9788774070047 Acqn 34237
Pb 16x22cm 420pp col ills £56.50

Neighbourhoods are a fundamental framework for our everyday lives and local communities. Yet,
the intricate mix of physical and social relations that together makes up a neighbourhood is rarely
given the attention it deserves in policy making or urban planning. With more than 30
contributions from acclaimed architects, academics, activists, developers and public servants
from the Nordics and beyond, Mission Neighbourhood - (Re)forming Communities offers new
insight into how to form more sustainable, generous and joyful neighbourhoods. The book
explores some of the urgent issues of our time - from social infrastructure, nature, and
biodiversity, to mobility and urban governance - in a neighbourhood perspective. Intent on
inspiring action, the book offers a rich variety of best practice projects, perspectives and hands-on
advice.

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AV Monographs 259 - Four Cities

Avisa 2024 ISBN 9788412796810 Acqn 34239
Pb 24x30cm col ills £47.50

In March 2019, Luis Fernandez-Galiano gave a series of lectures at the Fundacion March that
intended to condense the culture of the 20th century in four episodes with four cities as
protagonists: a series that gathered large audiences and since continues having a remarkable
number of viewings online. In an effort to capture them on paper without losing the oral freshness
or the graphic profusion of slides, the new issue of AV revisits golden Vienna, interwar Paris, Cold
War New York, and the Los Angeles of Hollywood and Disney to take stock of the flourishing of
cities that attracted the best talent of their time.

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AV Monographs 260 - Portfolio 2023

Avisa 2024 ISBN 9788412796827 Acqn 34238
Pb 24x30cm col ills £47.50

After 30 volumes of the Spanish Yearbook, this special 2023 edition adds an international
portfolio featuring the most noteworthy buildings completed outside Spain's borders. The
selection of twelve buildings includes iconic works by Renzo Piano in Turkey, Herzog & de
Meuron in Israel, and MVRDV in Albania, plus more modest projects completed by Diana Kellogg
in India, JEJU.studio in Tanzania, and Productora in Mexico. Also shown are major museums in
China and the United States by Neri & Hu, Zaha Hadid, and Studio Gang, as well as exceptional
civic complexes by Lina Ghotmeh in France, Niall McLaughlin in Ireland, and Behet Bondzio Lin
in Taiwan.

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Simple Architecture - The Villa Baizeau in Carthage By Le Corbusier and Jeanneret

Accattone 2024 ISBN 9782960253078 Acqn 34240
Pb 22x29cm 456pp col ills £65

The social, economic, constructional, environmental and climatic issues that, at the start of the
twenty-first century, have called into question the foundations of the architectural project make up
the theoretical background to the book devoted to the villa that Le Corbusier and Pierre Jeanneret
built in Carthage for Lucien Baizeau, Blanche Thieblin and their family.The book is organized
around two complementary analytical perspectives. The first is devoted to the history of Villa
Baizeau, providing a full understanding of its reasons and meanings, its genesis, its theoretical
importance, the role of the client and the joy provided by the house to the family, with the aim also
of gathering the knowledge necessary for its restoration as a fundamental architecture of the
twentieth century. The second is open to some of the greatest protagonists of architecture today
and is in line with the cultural strategy of Le Corbusier, who was always able to reconsider his
works in the light of contemporary phenomena, even through graphic manipulations, inverted
plans and reversed photographs, in order to discover their unexpected potential.

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100 Copenhagen Typologies

Danish Architectural Press 2024 ISBN 9788774076308 Acqn 34241
Pb 16x21cm 230pp col ills £45

'100 Copenhagen Typologies' presents 100 examples of re-use, adaptation and mixed-use
architecture. In this book, Martin Marker and his students from The Royal Danish Academy -
Architecture, Design, Conservation at the Institute of Architecture, Urbanism and Landscape - BA
Programme investigate Copenhagen as a Wunderkammer of architectural typologies. Leaving the
focus on materiality and visual aesthetics aside, the book explores how programmatic
complexities and existing structures can form foundations for future urbanism in a rapidly
changing world with a growing population, climate changes, and limited resources. This book
extends a welcoming invitation to explore and examine our urban structures, sparking a vital
conversation that encourage a fresh perspective on our existing typologies, ensuring their
continued relevance for the people who inhabit them.

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Arquitectura Viva 260 - On Visual Thinking

Avisa 2024 no ISBN Acqn 34242
Pb 24x30cm col ills £24.75

The AV/Arquitectura Viva project celebrates in 2024 its fortieth year, and the magazine has
wanted to mark the occasion with a special issue that reproduces the last lesson Luis Fernandez-
Galiano gave at the Madrid School of Architecture before his retirement. Reviewing a life
trajectory essentially devoted to communicating architecture, the director of the magazines shows
the back side of the publications to explain their history, and unravels how images, as much as
words, have been his tools to understand the world; an approximation to visual thinking that is
completed with a thematic section of books that reviews different editions focussed on the gaze.

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AV Proyectos 120 - Alberto Campo Baeza

Avisa 2024 no ISBN Acqn 34243
Pb 21x30cm £14.75

'AV Proyectos' dedicates its last dossier of the year to the most recent projects by Alberto Campo
Baeza, examples of an architecture that surrenders to the naturality of logic, and lets gravity and
light order the space. Tthe issue also presents the complete set of projects shortlisted in the
competition to design the Spanish Pavilion at Expo 2025 in Osaka and six examples of
ephemeral interventions, from pavilions for architecture or music festivals to experimental housing
modules. The construction section presents an in-depth feature on the new Aviva Studios cultural
space in Manchester, the first public building by OMA in the United Kingdom.

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Bruther / Saint Blaise

Bruther 2024 ISBN 9782954817910 Acqn 34244
Pb 39x56cm 38pp ills £15

The Saint-Blaise cultural and sports center (Centre Paris Anim' Wangari Maathai) is not only one
of the first projects built by Bruther, but it is also the one that is geographically closest to their
offices. It is located in one of the most dense and popular districts of the capital, marked by a
somewhat defaced urbanism of the 1980s (concrete blocks and pedestrianized streets). The
architects have always thought of it as an open and appropriable structure, which can be
understood from the very permeable ground floor. Today the building has, in a way, become
independent of the project's intentions. It has become a new pole of attraction. The building is
nothing more than a tool to respond to the demands of users who arrive, each with their own
stories, their own desires. But things don't just happen inside. The small square in front of the
building often becomes an agora for organized or spontaneous events. The center is a
neighborhood facility, which will evolve over time, and which allows architecture to radiate
towards societal concerns.

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Arquitectura Viva 259 - Tras el terror

Avisa 2024 no ISBN Acqn 34266
Pb 24x30cm 80pp col ills £24.75

In the wake of 7 October 2023, the history of Israel and Palestine was forever altered. The
geopolitical segregation also spills over into architecture, as Arab and Israeli architects and critics
remain reluctant to contribute to a joint coverage of the entire region. Here, a single example from
each side is examined: the Edmond and Lily Safra Centre for Brain Sciences by Norman Foster
in Jerusalem, and the Palestinian National Museum by Heneghan Peng in the West Bank town of
Birzeit. With an eye to the future and respect for the past, each embodies mutual and
indispensable values, showing how both sides can communicate in the common language of
architecture.

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