ARCHITECTURE

Mies van der Rohe - Villa Tugendhat. Residential Masterpieces 24

A.D.A.Edita Tokyo Co. Ltd. 2016 ISBN 9784871406499 Acqn 26872
Pb 24x32cm 72pp 80ills 44col 32.50
Built on an expansive, sloping site situated in the northern part of Brno, Mies van der Rohes Villa
Tungendhat is a masterful example of 20th-century residential architecture. Since its seizure in
World War II, the house has endured a long period of decline and relative obscurity, a former
shade of itself. Painstakingly renovated over a number of years, its three levels and full-height
glass walls have now regained their former lustre, gorgeously framed by the camera of esteemed
Japanese photographer Yoshio Futagawa. As he writes in his accompanying text, clad in
luxury that is almost impossible to duplicate, the house is a crystallization of modern
architectural principles.

orders@artdata.co.uk
www.artdata.co.uk

ARCHITECTURE

Toyo Ito - 2002-2016 GA Architect Vol.2

A.D.A.Edita Tokyo Co. Ltd. 2016 ISBN 9784871404358 Acqn 26873
Pb 30x30cm 288pp 300ills 150col 67.50

orders@artdata.co.uk
www.artdata.co.uk

ARCHITECTURE

Modern Churches In Sweden

Bokforlaget Arena 2016 ISBN 9789178434961 Acqn 26810
Hb 20x28cm 240pp 175ills 125col 61.50
'Modern Churches in Sweden' features some thirty churches built between 1940 and 2014, a
period characterized by innovative thinking in both ecclesiastical architecture and liturgy. The
book focuses on the architecture from well-known buildings such as Sigurd Lewerentz' St.
Peter's in Klippan to contemporary works like the Tureberg Church in Sollentuna, whose
sustainable approach is expressed in an altar made of scrap lumber and chair fabric made from
plastic bottles.

orders@artdata.co.uk
www.artdata.co.uk

ARCHITECTURE

Obra Architects - Logic, Selected Projects 2003-2016

Arkitektur B 2016 ISBN 9788792700162 Acqn 26897
Hb 17x24cm 416pp 275ills 150col 54
Based in New York City, OBRA is led by Pablo Castro and Jennifer Lee. In this monograph,
which covers over a decade of work by the office, logic traces the trajectories of nine selected
international projects. Among the diverse assortment are Casa Osa (Costa Rica), Freedom Park
(Pretoria, South Africa), Beatfuse! (New York), Casa en la Finca (San Juan, Argentina),
Oxymoron Pavilion (Shenzhen), SanHe Kindergarten (Beijing), Ascoli Nuovissimo (Ascoli
Pisceno, Italy), and Urbia, the furniture system they developed for small apartments. The book
also includes critical essays by Jean Louis Cohen, Peter Lynch, Nader Tehrani, Zhou Yi, and
Pablo Castro.

orders@artdata.co.uk
www.artdata.co.uk

ARCHITECTURE

Recreating Amsterdam
Architectura & Natura Press 2016 ISBN 9789461400581 Acqn 26900
Pb 11x17cm 608pp col ills 37
Thanks to the activity of Stadsherstel Amsterdam, founded in 1956, the post-war wave of
renovation not only preserved the historic centre of Amsterdam, it became in the meantime a
current vibrant metropolis, in cultural and social sense. A city whose rich history still can be seen
and which is attractive in this way for living, working, studying, business, and cultural recreation.
Meanwhile Stadsherstel increased their working area and advises also abroad. The Stadsherstel
formula is successful and an example for many other heritage rescuers elsewhere in the world.
That was one of the reasons to create a book that combines graphic design and Amsterdam
architecture in detail.

orders@artdata.co.uk
www.artdata.co.uk

ARCHITECTURE

Monu 25 - Independent Urbanism

Board Publishers 2016 no ISBN Acqn 26869
Pb 20x27cm 128pp 140ills 60col 16.50
The various phenomena impacting cities of countries that have become newly independent is the
focus of this issue. It examines, for instance, the remodelling of Skopje, Macedonia, according to
an image of the city that never existed as such, as well as the major struggles cities face in
finding their new identity, as seen in Prishtina, Kosovo. In an interview with Bart Lootsma, Dijana
Vuini describes how preserving identity within cultures that desire to join the EU, such as
Montenegro, is one of their biggest challenges. A photo essay by Arnis Balcus expands on how
public monuments and spaces stoke controversial issues and collective traumas, and yet the
dreams of a more hopeful younger generation persist in the series by Julia Autz.

orders@artdata.co.uk
www.artdata.co.uk

ARCHITECTURE

Yona Friedman - Slide Shows (3 Vols.)

Power Station Of Art 2016 ISBN 9787553503745 Acqn 26949
Pb 16x24cm 658pp 1500ills 45
Since the mid-20th century, Hungarian-born French architect Yona Friedman has developed his
concept of mobile architecture, according to which housing and town planning should be
conceived by its users and integrate the unpredictability of their future behaviour. Slide Shows is
a three-volume box set containing over 1500 original drawings and texts by Friedman in which he
communicates his personal understanding of the multiple ways of thinking about architecture,
urbanism, the world, and more through a series of stick figures with dialogue balloons. Each
volume has its own theme: Architecture, Guidebook for Visitors from Outer Space, and About
the Universe.

orders@artdata.co.uk
www.artdata.co.uk

ARCHITECTURE

The World Of Architect Kazunari Sakamoto

Lixil 2016 ISBN 9784864800242 Acqn 26770
Hb 23x30cm 230pp 225ills 75col 82.50
This volume introduces the architecture of Kazunari Sakamoto through drawings, photographs,
and text, yet does this using a special mixture of variously sized images made by both
professionals and amateurs. Some were taken directly following a buildings completion, while
others were made decades later; some are in colour, others are black and white. Texts by the
editor are interspersed with fragments of the architects own words describing the architecture,
the criticisms of others, and analysis from the period when a particular project was built. In this
way the books format acts in concert with that of Sakamotos architecture, a coexistence and
diversity of relationships.

orders@artdata.co.uk
www.artdata.co.uk

ARCHITECTURE

Yo Shimada - Everyday Design Everyday

Lixil 2016 ISBN 9784864800211 Acqn 26771
Pb 15x21cm 160pp 250ills 200col 28.75
Although he did not receive formal architectural training, Japanese architect Yo Shimada has run
his own office, Tato Architects, since 1997, yet he still remains a bit of an outsider. His body of
work comprises a great number of residential projects, which are thoroughly explored in this
instalment of the series. Characterised by openness, dynamic spatial layouts, and integrated
furnishings and stairs, Shimadas designs are at once efficient and alluring, embracing the
everyday in an aesthetically pleasant and refined manner. For this book he has written twenty
diffuse and multifaceted texts that offer both personal reflections on completed projects and his
outlook moving forward.

orders@artdata.co.uk
www.artdata.co.uk

ARCHITECTURE

A.Mag 09 - Sergison Bates. Jonathan Woolf

A.Mag 2016 ISBN 9788460862659 Acqn 26787
Pb 24x32cm 270pp 200ills 100col 40
This instalment focuses on two British practices: Jonathan Woolf and Sergison Bates. Editor Ana
Leal uses the word serendipity to refer to their respective bodies of work, describing how the
reinterpretation of the site, to acknowledge the culture and tradition of the place through local
materials and techniques, is a clear example of an answer to contemporary needs dictated by
an extraordinary sensitivity. Along with the highlighted projects it includes a conversation with
Jonathan Sergison, Stephen Bates, and Tony Fretton. Featured are Woolfs Lion Rooms, Lost
Villa, and Brick Leaf House, as well as various urban and suburban housing projects by Sergison
Bates.

orders@artdata.co.uk
www.artdata.co.uk

ARCHITECTURE

Presentation For Architecture + CD

Damdi 2016 ISBN 9788968010491 Acqn 26811
Hb 28x23cm 736pp 600ills 300col 150
The ins and outs of creating an effective PowerPoint presentation are explored from the
perspectives of eighteen international architecture and design offices, among them Casanova +
Hernandez Architecten, modostudio, Diba Tensile Architecture, Ricardo Bofill Taller de
Arquitectura, Keiichi Hayashi, and b4 Architects. Comprising more than 1000 slides, plus a CD of
nine presentations, it offers a comprehensive and diverse look at the essence of what makes
such presentations successful. An architect is not only a professional with technical and artistic
knowledge, but also a storyteller who must execute a performance that inspires the audience to
dream along.

orders@artdata.co.uk
www.artdata.co.uk

ARCHITECTURE

Atelier Bow-wow - Commonalities Of Architecture

Tu Delft 2016 ISBN 9789461866769 Acqn 26898
Pb 21x21cm 36pp 41ills 37col 16.50
Each year the Wouter Mikmak Foundation invites a designer to lecture for the series Designers
of the Future. This publication presents that of the Tokyo-based office Atelier Bow-Wow, founded
in 1992 by Yoshiharu Tsukamoto and Momoyo Kaijima. Their vision calls for a shift in
architectural design from individuality based to commonality based, through the notion of
architectural behaviorology. Behaviour in this sense is an inclusive term that not only denotes
human practice, but also a buildings behaviour as material typology, as well as phenomena
produced by natural elements like light, air, heat, and water. An architecture based on
commonalities is key to their discussion.

orders@artdata.co.uk
www.artdata.co.uk

ARCHITECTURE

Belgium New Architecture 6

Prisme Editions 2016 ISBN 9782930451213 Acqn 27061
Pb 24x30cm 288pp 600ills 300col 53.50
The sixth volume in a series that focuses exclusively on recent projects in Belgium by a range of
European and international architects. An informal conversation between Pierre Loze and
architect Christian Kieckens about current architecture and its future sets the books tone, while
an essay by Steven Beckers, The Change of Paradigm Towards Urban Food Production,
considers one important aspect of new urbanism today. Victor Lvy then talks about the digital
revolution within architecture. Featuring detailed profiles of more than 60 new buildings across a
spectrum of typologies and functions, with notable works by Studio Libeskind, Zaha Hadid,
51N4E, and more.

orders@artdata.co.uk
www.artdata.co.uk