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JA 114 - Hiroshi Nakamura & NAP

Shinkenchiku-Sha Co. Ltd. 2019 ISBN 9784786903076 Acqn 29701
Pb 23x30cm 160pp col ills £29.95

This issue brings together almost two decades of projects undertaken since Hiroshi Nakamura &
NAP was established in 2002. Organised chronologically, these buildings demonstrate a diversity
of structures, materials, styles, and atmospheres, tracing a trajectory that shows how Nakamura
explores and approaches optimal architecture for the environment and regionality of each place.
The world is becoming increasingly homogenised, and the uniqueness of place and regionality
continue to diminish, which is why Nakamura wishes to contribute to a movement that seeks to
recover real relationships and locality. Features more than 30 aesthetically intelligent and
sensitive projects.

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Mad X - 10 Projects By Mad Architects

HYX 2019 ISBN 9782373820164 Acqn 29702
Pb 25x35cm 160pp col ills £36

Established by Ma Yansong in 2004, MAD Architects designs and builds organic and dreamlike
architectures that invoke our spiritual and emotional connection with nature. It is an architecture
of fiction, or perhaps even anticipation, where nature and architecture merge. This book,
conceived and designed by the architect, takes readers on a "journey" along the office's most
significant projects, through photomontages, drawings, models, and images. Among these are
the Absolute Towers outside Toronto, Harbin Opera House and Chaoyang Park Plaza in China,
Clover House kindergarten in Japan, the Lucas Museum of Narrative Art in Los Angeles, and
UNIC in Paris.

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Inui Architects
Lixil 2019 ISBN 9784864800396 Acqn 29704
Pb 20x27cm 316pp col ills £75

Kumiko Inui has worked as an independent architect for almost 20 years. Early on, she conceived
striking commercial designs for Louis Vuitton and Dior, among others. She has also since worked
on projects that confront challenging real-life situations and represent a diverse array of
typologies and scales, including small private houses, renovations of traditional townhouses in
Kyoto, buildings for public services, a school reconstruction, and the redevelopment of a local
station area in Kyushu. The book, designed by Atsuki Kikuchi, features an unparalleled number of
Inui's works, and many of the photographs directly portray how her buildings are experienced by
people.

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Takeshi Yamagishi Tohoku - Lost, Left, Found

Lixil 2019 ISBN 9784864800402 Acqn 29705
Pb 19x30cm 462pp col ills £78

Architecture photographer Takeshi Yamagishi's first monographic collection presents his

recordings of virtually every aspect of the collisions between architecture as the edge of
artificiality and various forces of nature. The extensive series covers a period from the immediate
aftermath of the Great East Japan Earthquake in 2011 to the ongoing restoration efforts today,
including measures against future catastrophes. It contains roughly 200 ultra-high-resolution
images captured using 4 x 5 film, rather than digitally, and forms an impressive homage to the
resilience and tenacity of the Japanese people, expressed through the built environment and
augmented landscapes.

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Breeze Block
Uro Publications 2019 ISBN 9780994396693 Acqn 29712
Hb 30x30cm 184pp col ills £55.50

The recent resurgence of interest in the breeze block seems to be more than a nostalgic yearning
for modernism. Designers today are rediscovering the forgotten qualities that made it such an
appealing material for mid-century architects, which also means finding new ways to enhance
and exploit them. By deploying the techniques of 21st-century design, from digital tools to robotic
fabrication, complex new forms and patterns are now possible. Not just visually appealing, these
also temper internal and external environments in increasingly sensitive and climate-responsive
ways. With editorial direction from architect Sam Marshall, the volume is both a survey and a
celebration.

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Terroir – Instruments
Uro Publications 2019 ISBN 9780994396679 Acqn 29714
Pb 18x25cm 160pp col ills £51.75

Instruments is an exploration of how architecture can work to connect people with place, both
physically (through choreography) and psycho-spatially (through wonder). The book turns its
focus away from architecture's conventional obsession with the material qualities of the object
(and type as the underpinning logic of the architectural object), to the many other, equally vital
ways in which relationships are formed and reformed between us and the places we occupy. It is
the first in a series of publications on the architectural practice TERROIR, where each book is
dedicated to examining the importance of a single design strategy in the work of TERROIR and
others. The book includes essays by Slavoj Zizek, Slovenian philosopher and sociologist, as well
as David A Garcia, founding director of MAP Architects in Copenhagen. Also included is an
interview between the philosopher and architectural writer Andrew Benjamin and TERROIR's
founding director Gerard Reinmuth.

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Terroir - Third Spaces

Uro Publications 2019 ISBN 9780648435532 Acqn 29713
Pb 18x25cm 176pp col ills £51.75

Third Spaces' is the second book of a series on the architectural practice TERROIR, established
in 1998 by Richard Blythe, Gerard Reinmuth, and Scott Balmforth. The book begins with a
conceptual framework around which a variety of projects, both recent and past, come into focus.
Large projects often have a significant impact, intended or otherwise, on the public domain. This
has led TERROIR to develop a strategy for third spaces that are usually not in the brief, and at
times actually resist the functional logic of a project, yet are designed in the interests of greater
urban openness, engagement, and generosity. The book features essays by John Hong and
Andrew Benjamin.

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Gram 01 - Fala Atelier, Norell/rodhe, Razzle Dazzle, Kosmos, Bast, Maio

Qndmc Editions 2019 no ISBN 29718
Pb 17x24cm 122pp col ills £22.50

'GRAM' is a multiple research tool that combines graphic investigations with architectural
explorations, where the publication is just a pretence and only the process matters. Each step is
considered a potential research topic. The six architectural offices featured here - Fala Atelier,
Norell/Rodhe, Razze Dazzle, Kosmos, Bast, and Maio - are all less than ten years old and consist
of less than ten people. The profiles are based on a framework of dialogue that leads to
theoretical or practical outcomes, in turn opening up the thought processes behind the production
of space. 'GRAM' is a re-transcription of these conversations with additional annotations and
translations.

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A+u 585 19:06 - Diller Scofidio + Renfro

Shinkenchiku-Sha Co. Ltd. 2019 ISBN 9784900212381 Acqn 29722
Pb 22x29cm 176pp col ills £32.50

Based in New York, Diller Scofidio + Renfro is an interdisciplinary design studio whose practice
spans the fields of architecture, urban design, digital media, installation art, and multimedia
performance. Partners Elizabeth Diller, Ricardo Scofidio, Charles Renfro, and Benjamin Gilmartin
focus on cultural and civic projects and address the changing role of institutions and the future of
cities. This issue features an interview with the four partners and takes stock of their work since
2000, focusing on major projects such as the High Line and The Shed in New York, Zaryadye
Park in Moscow, the Museum of Image and Sound in Rio de Janeiro, London Centre for Music,
and more.

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Av Monographs 213-214 - Spain Yearbook 2019

Avisa 2019 ISBN 9788409108626 Acqn 29776
Pb 24x30cm 232pp col ills £63.50

This selection of 24 buildings offers a sample of the architectural panorama of Spain. It includes
not only built works within Spain but also projects situated in other countries by Spanish
architects. The issue is organised across several themes: Civic Gathering, Urban Sutures,
Selective Memory, Educational Exercises, Functional Facades, and Efficient Housing. It
considers how a year marked by economic recovery but also political tension, with corruption
scandals and the crisis in Catalonia, has formed the backdrop for Spanish architecture. Notable
projects include an exhibition hall in Leon by Dominique Perrault Architecture and a civic centre in
Barcelona by Harquitectes.

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Av Monographs 215 - Baumschlager Eberle

Avisa 2019 ISBN 9788409118335 Acqn 29777
Pb 24x30cm 112pp col ills £38

Austrian architects Baumschlager Eberle are the focus of this instalment. The practice, founded in
1985 by Carlo Baumschlager and Dietmar Eberle, has evolved into a global firm comprising
eleven offices in countries throughout Europe and Asia. Today it is run by Eberle together with
several partners. Academic research and practical experience come together in the architecture
of Baumschlager Eberle, which primarily concerns itself with the relationship between density and
the atmosphere of cities, as well as the possibility of designing zero-energy buildings. The issue
includes a theoretical essay by Eberle, along with extensive profiles of sixteen projects completed
since 2000.

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Arquitectura Viva 214 - Dossier Jean Nouvel

Avisa 2019 no ISBN Acqn 29778
Pb 24x30cm 80pp col ills £20.25

Prodigal son of architecture during the 1980s, Jean Nouvel (Fumel, 1945) knew to make the leap
to international fame to join the list of 'star architects.' It was a leap linked to the creation of
Ateliers Jean Nouvel, a firm of 150 employees working from offices in Paris, Barcelona, Geneva,
and Rome, thanks to which the French architect's language, always sophisticated, has found a
place everywhere in the geographies of globalization, as demonstrated by the works featured in
this issue: the National Museum of Qatar in Doha, the European Patent Office in The Hague, and
the Alda Fendi Foundation in Rome.

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Av Proyectos 092 - Dossier Ecosistema Urbano

Avisa 2019 no ISBN Acqn 29779
Pb 24x30cm 80pp col ills £12.95

AV Proyectos 92 devotes its dossier to Ecosistema Urbano, the multidisciplinary studio directed
by Belinda Tato and Jose Luis Vallejo, gathering a selection of the 'social urban design' projects
the Madrid team is working on in Europe, America, and Asia. The issue also presents the three
proposals by Spanish teams shortlisted in the International Competition for Alternative Layout
Design in Standard Housing celebrated in Russia. The construction chapter features five
examples of metallic enclosures, showing the qualities and uses of materials like aluminum, steel,
and lead.

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Hideyuki Nakayama, And Then - 5 Films Of 5 Architectures

Toto 2019 ISBN 9784887063815 Acqn 29784
Pb 18x26cm 170pp col ills £49.50

Architect Hideyuki Nakayama started out working for Toyo Ito & Associates before establishing
his own firm in 2007. This collection of Nakayama's work is presented in the form of brochures for
five films, each featuring one of his architectural works. With its novel design by Idea Oshima and
in as much detail as possible, the volume records the production processes for the films, which
focused on the status of the five works after Nakayama had completed them and moved on.
Additionally, it offers a closer look at his design concepts for architecture, and in particular the
elements he tries to incorporate in them. Both recent and as yet unreleased projects are among
the featured works.

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