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Herzog & de Meuron Components and Systems Nano Architecture Constructing Landscape 1997 – 2001 see page 15 see page 11 see page 23 see page 3

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architecture Landscape Architecture Design

Architects/Buildings Grading for Landscape Architects and Adrian Frutiger - Typefaces 24 Frank Lloyd Wright 2 Architects 22 Project Vitra 25 Herzog & de Meuron 1997 – 2001 3 'scape 22 Universal Design 26 Bernard Tschumi 4 Constructing Landscape 23 Patterns 2. Design, Art Barragán: Space and Shadow, Walls and and Architecture 27 Colour 4 IF Yearbook Product 2008 28 Non-Fictional Narratives. Denton Corker Design Award of the Federal Republic of Marshall 5 Germany 2008 28 Christoph Mäckler 6 Designing Public 29 Wingårdh: Thirty Years of Architecture 7 étapes:international 30 Crucial Words 7 designFluX 30 91° 8 form – The Making of Design 31

Construction Components and Connections 9 ETFE 10 Nano Architecture 11 Portable Architecture 12 New Tectonics (working title) 12 Systems in Timber Engineering 13 Detail Practice: Insulating Materials 14 Components and Systems 15

Basics Basics Room Conditioning 16 Basics Architectural Photography 16 Basics Designing with Water 17 Basics Designing with Plants 17

Cities / Regions / Urbanism Architectural Guide Basel 18 Living by the Sea 18

Theory/History Simulation 19 Complexity 19

Types/Functions Sacred Buildings 20 New Living Proposals for Elder People 20 Illuminating 21 Content

SHIFT SANAA ARCHI TECTS AND THE NEW MUSEUM

Fashionable Patterns 2 Shift: The New 'New Graphic Design – The Technology see page 27 Museum' and Sanaa New Basics see page 45 see page 37 see page 60

lars müller Publishers Springer Wien New York Avedition

Integral Lars Müller 32 Architects ATARI Brandbook 48 Intégral Ruedi Baur 33 Urbanism – for sale. feld72Architecture, Thomas Manss & Company 48 Frédéric Dedelley: Design, Projects 40 Merck Serono, Geneva 49 Design Detective 34 Morphê 40 100 Years + The Image and the Region 34 Heinz-Mathoi-Streli 41 Wilkhahn. Design made in Germany 49 Photo Graphics 35 Building Types Desorientation 35 Albert WimmerStadien / Stadiums 42 SALES REPRESENTATIVES Waters In Between 36 Contemporary School Architecture 52 What You See 33 in Slovenia1991–2007 42 Shift: The New 'New Museum' Construction and Sanaa 37 Solar-Assisted Air-Conditioning Findings on Ice 38 in Buildings 43 Cold War Confrontation 39

Magazine/Design architektur.aktuell 44 Art, Fashion and Work for Hire 44 Fashionable Technology 45 Art Günter Brus –Kratzspuren / Scratchmarks 46 Emanzipation und Konfrontation / Emancipation and Confrontation 46 Marianne Maderna 47 The Love of Objects 47  | Architects/ Buildings

2nd Edition Frank Lloyd Wright 2nd Expanded Edition Daniel Treiber

approx. 192 pp., 120 color, 30 b/w ills 22.0 x 25.0 cm Hardcover $59.95 Trade Discount ISBN 978-3-7643-8697-9 English

Available June 2008

A comprehensive portrait of the great American architect

For architects and a broader audience

Highlights the relevance of Wright’s work from a contemporary perspective

Published for the first time in 1988, now with lavish illustrations and updated to reflect the latest research and scholarship

Frederick House, C. Robie, Chicago, Illinois, 1908–1910

Frank Lloyd Wright (1867–1959) exercised a The author, Daniel Treiber, has produced a shaping influence on architectural history well-researched and thorough presentation throughout the world as only very few other that highlights the fundamental aspects of architects beside him have done. His the American architect’s work that are structures – developed from landscape, relevant from a contemporary perspective. program, material, and construction – are He systematically investigates the forms, highly individual and independent of the types, and strategies of Wright’s oeuvre and stylistic developments of modern accompanies his outstanding texts with a architecture. His constant attempts to invent lavish offering of photographs and plans. new things gave rise to the idiosyncratic Thanks to his many years of experience forms and constructions that are typical of teaching design and architectural history at Dana House, Springfield, Illinois, 1900–1903 his work. the École d’architecture in Lille, France, and elsewhere, the author possesses a deep and comprehensive expert knowledge of his subject.

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Herzog & de Meuron 1997 – 2001 The Complete Works, Volume 4

Gerhard Mack

approx. 416 pp. 1500 color, 500 b/w ills. 24.0 x 33.0 cm Cloth bound $169.00 Professional Discount ISBN 978-3-7643-8640-5 English

Available September 2008

The long-awaited fourth volume of the Complete Works

Covers all designs and structures on which planning began between 1997 and 2001

With roughly two thousand color and black- and-white illustrations, plans, and sketches

The indispensable reference work for everyone seriously interested in Herzog & de Meuron

Schaulager in Münchenstein near Basel Hidden gems and world-famous icons: the refectory at a vineyard in France

The Tate Modern in London made by the architects themselves in which they Herzog & de Meuron famous all over the situate their projects. The structures world. The projects and structures they have presented include such icons of built since then are distinguished by the contemporary architecture as the Prada sensitive treatment of materials for which store in Tokyo Aoyama and the Allianz Arena the architects are renowned. In addition, in Munich, where the opening game of the these Pritzker Prize–winning architects have 2006 Soccer World Cup was played. developed a topographical conception of Pathbreaking museum structures such as architecture that not only locates their the Schaulager near Basel, the Walker Art designs in a larger context but also Center in Minneapolis, and the De Young Sell as well: frequently structures them as landscapes. In Museum in San Francisco continue the > Herzog & de Meuron 1978-1988, Vol. 1; 1997; order to represent them, the layout of volume conversation surrounding what constitutes a 978-3-7643-5616-3 4 of the Complete Works has been completely truly contemporary presentation of modern > Herzog & de Meuron 1989-1991, Vol. 2; 2005; redesigned. The publication contains essays art. 978-3-7643-7365-8 > Herzog & de Meuron 1992-1996, Vol. 3; 2005; 978-3-7643-7112-8 > Herzog & de Meuron: Natural History; 2005; 978-3-03778-049-7 9 7 8 3 7 6 4 3 8 6 4 0 5  | Architects/ Buildings

The built work of an influential theorist and teacher of architecture

Bernard Tschumi is a border crosser in the field of contemporary architecture. Equally Tschumi’s works show architecture at the present in Europe and the United States, he interface between theory and landscape laid the cornerstone for his influential body architecture of work two decades ago with a project that combines architecture and landscape Tschumi’s new Acropolis Museum is due to architecture, theory and practice: the Parc open in early 2008 de la Villette in Paris. A comprehensive depiction of Tschumi’s Dean of the Columbia Graduate School of architecture in thematically organized Architecture in New York for many years and chapters the author of numerous books on Bernard Tschumi architectural theory, Tschumi possesses a Gilles de Bure body of work that is presented here in overview for the first time. His current approx. 240 pp., 200 color, 100 b/w ills projects include a high-rise apartment 19.5 x 25.0 cm building in New York, the Zénith Concert Hall Hardcover $84.95 in Limoges, and the new Acropolis Museum Professional Discount in Athens. ISBN 978-3-7643-8622-1 English Gilles de Bure, the author of numerous Available July 2008 architectural publications on Jean Nouvel, Dominique Perrault, Christian de Portzamparc, and others, presents an in- depth analysis of Tschumi’s work.

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Now in Softcover Now in softcover: the sensual architecture of Barragán

Mexican architect Luis Barragán (1902-1988) is famous throughout the world for his An indispensable standard work now in an seductive treatment of colour and space. His inexpensive softcover edition unique persona and remarkable buildings have attracted growing interest for many Celebrates Barragan's mastery of colour years. In this monograph, Danièle Pauly and space provides an overview of his life and his architectural oeuvre, his Mexican roots, the Mediterranean influences, his Functionalist period, and finally the steps to maturity as a consummate architect. All Barragán's major Barragán: Space and Shadow, buildings are documented comprehensively Walls and Colour and analysed in the light of his life, enhanced with attractive illustrations that reveal his Danièle Pauly masterly, almost magical touch with space 232 pp., 161 color, 200 b/w ills and shadow, walls and colour - a celebration 24.0 x 33.0 cm of Barragán's undeniably significant Softcover contribution to world architecture. $59.95 Trade Discount ISBN 978-3-7643-8705-1 English ISBN 978-3-7643-8706-8 French Danièle Pauly is an art historian and professor at Paris Val de Seine School of Available May 2008 Architecture. She researched the material for this monograph in the course of numerous study trips to Mexico.

English French Sell as well: > Oscar Niemeyer, A Legend of Modernism; 2003; 978-3-7643-6992-7 9 7 8 3 7 6 4 3 8 7 0 5 1 9 7 8 3 7 6 4 3 8 7 0 6 8 Architects/Buildings | 

Non-Fictional Narratives. Denton Corker Marshall Leon Van Schaik

approx. 256 pp., 200 color, 60 b/w ills 28.0 x 24.0 cm Hardcover $84.95 Professional Discount ISBN 978-3-7643-7957-5 English

Available May 2008

The current projects of an extraordinary global player

Focus on the Far East: the book presents projects in Australia, China, Indonesia, and elsewhere

Shows architecture, city planning, and design from a single source

The book was designed by the renowned graphic artist Garry Emery

Sequel to Birkhäuser's out-of-print monograph Rule Playing and the Ratbag Element

Founded in Melbourne in 1972, the Australian Among the most important recent projects architectural firm Denton Corker Marshall is presented by the volume are the Civil Justice one of the most important actors in the Centre in Manchester, UK; Webb Bridge in Pacific region. DCM is represented in East Melbourne, Australia; and the Dongqianhu Asia as well as the Middle East and Europe International Educational Forum in Ningbo, with numerous structures and also has China. With the Chong Qing International New offices in Jakarta and London. In the last five Town the firm has taken on the planning of an years DCM has substantially increased its entire city for the first time. international presence with ambitious and widely noted building projects and Leon van Schaik is Innovation Professor at showcased its modern architectural the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology. language, which is marked by minimalism Additional essays are by well-known authors and as cool as it is unusual. such as Deyan Sudjic, Nikos Papastergiadis, Jianfei Zhu, and Suzie Attiwill.

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Christoph Mäckler The Rematerialisation of Modern Architecture

With contributions by Werner Oechslin and Heinrich Wefing

approx. 192 pp., 150 color, 100 b/w ills. 50 drawings 24.0 x 29.7 cm Cloth bound $79.95 Professional Discount ISBN 978-3-7643-6273-7 German/English

Available July 2008

The first monograph on this leading contemporary German architect

Christoph Mäckler’s architecture is With his outstanding structures, Christoph distinguished by its reconciliation of tradition Mäckler has set new architectural standards. Exemplary reconciliation of tradition and and modernity. Mäckler seeks to reconnect This book documents some twenty-two modernity architecture with its premodern roots. A buildings from 1990 to 2008, including the pivotal role in his efforts is played by the Alte Stadtbibliothek (Old City Library) and Special attention to facades and material restoration of surface and volume in the Kunsthalle Portikus (Portikus Art Gallery) in properties facade and the understanding of the Frankfurt am Main, the European Business building’s material properties. Christoph School in Oestrich-Winkel, the Lindencorso Mäckler won the Schinkelpreis (Schinkel office complex and shopping center in Berlin, Award) in 1979. In 1981 he established his the Arca office building in Frankfurt am Main, own firm for architecture and city planning in and the headquarters of KPMG Deutsche Frankfurt am Main. Treuhandgesellschaft (KPMG German Trust Corporation) in Berlin.

Sell as well: > Material Stone: Constructions and Technologies for Contemporary Architecture; 2004; 978-3-7643-7015-2 9 7 8 3 7 6 4 3 6 2 7 3 7 Architects / Buildings | 

Scandinavian architecture in top form

Gert Wingårdh (*1951) is Sweden’s leading architect. His clever and imaginative spatial The only up-to-date monograph on creations are remarkable in economic as well Sweden’s most important architect as ecological and sociological terms. The focus of his designs is always on the needs of With numerous unpublished pictorial the future users. documents

This monograph analyzes the principal Documents all the major works in aspects of his work in seminal essays by Wingårdh’s 30 year career renowned architecture critics and uses text and images to document all the important buildings of his thirty-year career. Editor Wingårdh: Thirty Years of Mikael Nanfeldt is curator of the Röhss Architecture Museum of Design and Applied Arts in Mikael Nanfeldt (Ed.) Göteborg, the opening venue for a large exhibition of Wingårdh’s work that then approx. 544 pp., 300 color, 150 b/w ills moves on to the Swedish Museum of 17.0 x 24.0 cm Architecture in Stockholm before going on to Softcover tour internationally. Wingårdh’s most $44.95 Professional Discount remarkable projects include prizewinning ISBN 978-3-7643-8646-7 English laboratory buildings in Sweden and the United States, the Swedish embassies in Available March 2008 Berlin and Washington, numerous villas, and the recently opened visitor center Waren in Swedish Embassy in Washington D.C. Germany. Sell as well: > Claesson Koivisto Rune; 2007; > 978-3-7643-7948-3 > Conditions: Snoehetta : Architecture, Interior, Landscape; 2007; 9 7 8 3 7 6 4 3 8 6 4 6 7 978-3-03778-118-0

Understanding contemporary architecture

The conditions in which present-day architecture is produced are partly local and A special reference work and reader to 50 singular and partly global and universal. key concepts in modern architecture Understanding contemporary architecture means understanding all of these aspects. With original articles by prominent What are the pivotal themes? protagonists, including Orhan Pamuk

Gert Wingårdh and Rasmus Wærn, Sweden’s With premium-quality illustrations most active architect and its best-known architecture critic, asked themselves this question and made a selection of Crucial Words approximately fifty terms and concepts, Conditions for Contemporary including Branding, Collaborators, Corporate, Architecture Desire, Future, Everyday, Ornament, and Wheelchair. The result is a very special Gert Wingårdh, Rasmus Waern (Eds.) dictionary with humorous illustrations and original articles by interesting protagonists approx. 208 pp., 25 color ills 17.0 x 24.0 cm such as Denise Scott Brown, Massimiliano Softcover Fuksas, Hans Ibelings, Peter Blundell Jones, $39.95 Vittorio Magnago Lampugnani, Hans Ulrich Professional Discount Obrist, Juhani Pallasmaa, Joseph Rykwert, ISBN 978-3-7643-8645-0 English Jaime Salazar, Axel Sowa, and Wilfried Wang.

Available March 2008 A special highlight is the text by Nobel laureate Orhan Pamuk.

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91° More than Architecture

Eternit-Werke Ludwig Hatschek, Dansk Eternit Holding (Eds.)

Wojciech Czaja, Editor-in-chief

Gabriele Lenz, Graphic Design

approx. 152 pp., 200 ills 24.0 x 32.5 cm Softcover $34.95 Trade Discount ISBN 978-3-7643-8716-7 German/English

Already available

Published twice a year

Nothing but architecture in mind? A new crossover magazine takes a broader view

Architects are workaholics. Many of them viewfinder. Literature: What comes out when work ten hours a day, seven days a week, fifty writers think about architecture. Sports: Why A crossover magazine that seeks out weeks a year. The little time they have left many architects don bow and arrow in their architects in their free time over is sacred and must be respected as free time. Travel: Tenerife, far from such. In this spirit, 91° is a crossover leisure Ballermann, beach, and sangria. Europe: What A wide-ranging, cross-disciplinary magazine that specifically caters to causes architects to pack up and travel the magazine that goes outside the architects’ special interests. It is published world. Cars: What architects like to drive when architectural sandbox semiannually. they go racing through the countryside. At Home With: Hans Kollhoff. Construction Site: With many articles by artists, journalists Art: Why people pose nude for Spencer On working conditions in Shangri-la – working and women writers Tunick. Fashion: What building skins and in Dubai. And more. clothing have in common. Research: On site at the fiber cement lab in Denmark. Interview: A look inside the studio of the French architect Edouard François. Photography: The world through the

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Components and Connections Principles of Construction

Maarten Meijs, Ulrich Knaack

approx. 136 pp., 250 b/w ills 21.0 x 27.0 cm Softcover $44.95 Professional Discount ISBN 978-3-7643-8669-6 English

Available October 2008

A thorough, didactical introduction for advanced architecture students and practicing architects

Every building is composed of parts, or larger wholes. The individual elements, such components, that may be organized in as floor slabs, roofs, openings, and Basic principles of load-bearing systems various ways. For example, there are foundations, are described together with and connecting spaces different ways to configure walls so that they their functions and the various possibilities perform their primary functions – bearing, for connecting them. Illustrated with realized projects dividing, and sheltering – in an efficient way. The book goes beyond the wealth of possible detail to demonstrate the basic principles of Contains numerous drawings prepared This book presents the most common load- detailing. Numerous specially prepared especially for the book bearing systems, such as slab, massive, and drawings set forth the principles of skeleton construction, and describes their components and then illustrate them with impact on the structure as a whole. It built examples. explains how spaces can be vertically or horizontally connected and assembled into

Sogn Benedetg-Chapel, Somvix, Switzerland, Peter Zumthor

Sell as well: > Façades; 2007; 978-3-7643-7962-9 > Basics Loadbearing Systems; 2007; 9 7 8 3 7 6 4 3 8 6 6 9 6 978-3-7643-8107-3 10 | Construction

ETFE Design and Technology

Annette LeCuyer

approx. 160 pp., 150 color, 250 b/w ills 23.0 x 30.0 cm Hardcover $79.95 Professional Discount ISBN 978-3-7643-8563-7 English

Available June 2008

An in-depth guide to designing and building with ETFE foil

ETFE foil has recently become an important This book is conceived as an in-depth material for the cladding of technologically introduction to the characteristics of ETFE Practical presentation with numerous sophisticated and innovative buildings. This and its applications in construction. Project drawings material is very thin and lightweight and, examples explore in detail the specific when used in air-filled cushion assemblies, characteristics of ETFE building skins in the ETFE is a highly topical and innovative has enormous strength and a range of areas of structural behavior, light material adaptive environmental attributes. ETFE transmission, insulation, acoustics, fire cushion enclosures became known primarily engineering and environmental modification. Includes examples from renowned through Grimshaw Architects’ Eden Project architects such as Herzog & de Meuron, and Herzog + de Meuron’s Allianz Arena, and Foster and Partners, Wilkinson Eyre they are being used on the spectacular Architects, Richard Rogers, Nicholas swimming stadium for the 2008 Olympic Grimshaw, MVRDV, and others Games in Beijing, the largest ETFE building envelope in the world so far.

Kingsdale School, Dulwich, London, Great Britain, 2004, de Rijke Marsh Morgan Architects (dRMM) Pasadena Art Center, College of Design South Campus, California, USA, 2004, Daly Genik Architects

Sell as well: > Smart Materials; 2007; 978-3-7643-7327-6 > Transparent Plastics; 2007; 978-3-7643-7470-9 9 7 8 3 7 6 4 3 8 5 6 3 7 Construction | 11

Nano Architecture Applications of Nano Materials in Architecture and Design

Sylvia Leydecker

approx. 192 pp., 270 color, 50 b/w ills 17.0 x 24.0 cm Softcover $54.95 Professional Discount ISBN 978-3-7643-7995-7 English

Available April 2008

An application-oriented inside look at a key innovative technology

Presents a broad spectrum of functional uses, systematically and with case studies

Debossed cover conveys a high tactile standard of quality

Examines characteristics and applications of nano materials, their advantages and limitations

Nanotechnology is widely regarded as one of insulating materials open up new the twenty-first century’s key technologies, possibilities for ecologically oriented and its economic importance is sharply on architects. the rise. In architecture and the construction In this book, architects, interior designers, industry it has potentials that are already and designers will find an introduction to the usable today, especially the coating of scientific background specifically tailored to surfaces to lend them functional their needs, a critical discussion of the characteristics such as increased tensile advantages and limits of the technology, and strength, self-cleaning capacity, fire above all a comprehensive presentation of resistance, and others. Additives based on sixteen characteristics and functions of nanomaterials make common materials nanomaterials that are specially relevant for lighter, more permeable, and more resistant building and design, illustrated by numerous to wear. Nanomaterials are not only international project examples. extremely useful for roofs and facades; they also expand design possibilities for interior and exterior rooms and spaces. Nano– Sell as well: > Smart Materials; 2007; 978-3-7643-7327-6 > Construction Materials Manual; 2006; 978-3-7643-7570-6 > Nanoarchitecture; 2002; 978-1-56898-301-1 9 7 8 3 7 6 4 3 7 9 9 5 7 12 | Construction

Experimental and pragmatic – mobile structures of all descriptions

Since the earliest people lived as nomads, their buildings were portable, constructed in New updated and fully revised edition of a way that allowed them to be rebuilt as they the standard work Portable Architecture moved to new locations for better living conditions as the seasons changed. This Numerous spectacular international book discusses the forerunners, present examples context, and technology of portable architecture. It documents numerous Enhanced documentation of the basic international examples, organized by areas technical principles of application, and offers a broad array of suggestions for practical design. In the Arts and Culture section, Shigeru Ban’s Nomadic Portable Architecture Museum, made of shipping containers in the Design and Technology USA and Japan is examined, as is Mark

Robert Kronenburg Fisher’s event architecture for concert tours by the Rolling Stones and U2. Suggestions for approx. 160 pp., 100 color, 100 b/w ills. and 85 drawings flexible living include Richard Horden’s micro 23.0 x 30.0 cm compact home and the Container Home Kit Softcover with flaps from LOT/EK. The design of mobile structures $44.95 Professional Discount used in extreme situations, such as the ISBN 978-3-7643-8324-4 English Antarctic or in the aftermath of natural catastrophes, is explored. Exhibition and Halley VI British Antarctic Research Base, Available July 2008 entertainment facilities are other typical FaberMaunsell and Hugh Broughton, 2005–2010 areas of application for light, mobile structures. Demountable, temporary structures allow for exciting architectural experimentation which can then be Sell as well: prototyped for regular use. > Temporary Urban Spaces; 2006; 978-3-7643-7460-0 > Small Structures; 2004; 9 7 8 3 7 6 4 3 8 3 2 4 4 978-3-7643-6980-4

INCLUDES Latest award-winning developments in DVD digital architecture design

In 2007, a jury composed of Greg Lynn (Greg Lynn FORM), Marcos Novak, Jacob van Rijs A valuable source of inspiration for (MVRDV), Birger Sevaldson (Ocean North), everyone working in digital design and other celebrated architects will confer the Far Eastern International Digital Design Includes a DVD with high-resolution images Cover not yet available Award (or FEIDAD Award) for the seventh of the winning projects time. Once again this volume presents the prizewinning projects in detail and probes the innovative potential that digital media hold in store for designers. Documented with texts and color New Tectonics (working title) illustrations, the projects presented provide 7th Far Eastern International an outstanding overview of the international Digital Architectural Design state of the art in digital design. Award

Yu-Tung Liu (Ed.)

approx. 226 pp., 320 color, 80 b/w ills 24.0 x 24.0 cm Softcover $59.95 Professional Discount ISBN 978-3-7643-8691-7 English

Available July 2008

Sell as well: > Demonstrating Digital Architecture; 2005; 978-3-7643-7274-3 > Distinguishing Digital Architecture, 2006; 978-3-7643-8120-2 9 7 8 3 7 6 4 3 8 6 9 1 7 Construction | 13

Systems in Timber Engineering Loadbearing Structures and Component Layers

Josef Kolb

320 pp., 750 b/w, 55 color ills 23.0 x 29.0 cm Hardcover $99.00 Professional Discount ISBN 978-3-7643-8689-4 English

Available May 2008

An indispensable standard work for everyone involved in building with wood

Now in English: The bestseller from Switzerland, a leading country in timber construction

Covers all structures from single-family house to multistory, from the design stage to construction

With hundreds of attractive drawings prepared specially for this work

Entrance Hall, Wil High School, Switzerland

Timber construction has become completely It is a comprehensive, analytical, and visually modernized. It has gained considerably in organized treatment, from the simple single- market share with respect to competing family house to the large-scale multistore building materials and is dominated by structure. It includes the building envelope, systems such as panel, frame, and solid which is so important for saving energy, and timber construction. systems for ceilings and interior dividing walls, which are so essential from the Every timber construction is determined by vantage point of construction. its structure. Hence it is essential to know the connections and relationships from the This work uses plans, schematic drawings, design stage right through to the construc- and pictures to show the current and Sell as well: tion phase. Systems in Timber Engineering forward-looking state of the technology, > Developments in Timber Engineering - takes a whole new approach to this subject. taking Switzerland as its example, a leading The Swiss Contribution; 2006; country in the field of innovative timber 978-3-7643-7163-0 construction. > Timber Construction Manual; 2004; 978-3-7643-7025-1 > Timber Construction for Trade, Industry, Administration; 2004; 978-3-7643-7008-4 9 7 8 3 7 6 4 3 8 6 8 9 4 14 | Construction

Detail Practice: Insulating Materials Principles, Materials, Applications

Margit Pfundstein, Alexander Rudolphi, Martin Spitzner, Roland Gellert

In cooperation with DETAIL

approx. 112 pp., 70 color, 110 b/w ills 21.0 x 29.7 cm Softcover $49.95 Trade Discount ISBN 978-3-7643-8654-2 English

Available June 2008

A guide to the best insulating materials and their use

Includes a clearly organized catalogue of insulating materials

Pictographs illustrate the use profiles of individual insulating materials

Provides up-to-date data on the environmental performance of insulating materials as well as information on health and environmental safety

Thermal bridge insulation: using vacuum isolation Cell structure of IR-modified EPS (expanded panels to insulate a concrete support in a double polystyrene) exterior wall

Insulating materials remain as important as values and indications regarding health and ever. The range of available kinds is environmental safety enable the reader to constantly increasing. Thanks to their heat- compare different insulating materials. insulating properties, they help save heating An overview of European regulations and and cooling energy and reduce CO2 norms pertaining to insulating materials, emissions. with notes on product labeling and certification, helps with the process of Detail Practice: Insulating Materials offers a planning and publishing invitations to tender. comprehensive catalogue of insulating Criteria are presented for selecting the materials for use in construction. Notes on appropriate insulating material for the job. In the individual types of insulating materials addition, a nuanced description of the Basement ceiling connection with thermal provide information on the raw materials environmental effects of insulating materials insulation composite system, perimeter insulation they contain as well as their typical opens up an enormous optimization potential attributes, areas of application, and delivery for using them sustainably. forms. Tables with physical characteristic

Sell as well: > Detail Practice: Energy-Efficiency Upgrades; 2007; 978-3-7643-8121-9 9 7 8 3 7 6 4 3 8 6 5 4 2 Construction | 15

Components and Systems Modular Building: Design, Construction, New Technologies

Gerald Staib

In cooperation with DETAIL

approx. 240 pp., 320 color, 460 b/w ills 23.0 x 29.7 cm Hardcover with dust jacket $99.00 Professional Discount ISBN 978-3-7643-8656-6 English

Available July 2008

Building efficiently and economically with systems

Construction systems reduced to the increasingly important role in architecture in smallest possible number of identical the future. Detailed descriptions of all important elements have long been used by architects construction systems, from semifinished to build structures as well as dismantle and The volume Components and Systems offers products to open and closed construction change them as quickly, efficiently, and an in-depth and clearly organized systems and combining different modules economically as possible. Think of the presentation of the various types of precast architecture of the nomads, the Crystal building components – from semifinished Presents digital planning and production Palace designed by the architect John products to building with components, open methods and describes their future Paxton for the London World’s Fair of 1851, or and closed systems, and skeleton and panel development the modern construction systems of the construction all the way to spatial cell nineteenth and twentieth centuries in steel, constructions. The systems are accompanied Examples show how modules can be used concrete, and wood. by detailed drawings and color photographs. to build economically Coupled with modern digital planning and Discussions of transporting and assembling production methods, modular precast the various systems round off the topic and construction systems that are adaptable for make this book an indispensable practical many combinations and capable of being companion. combined with one other will play an

Axonometric drawing, Shigeru Ban, Tokio

Timber panel construction, Shigeru Ban, Tokio Sell as well: > In Detail: Cost-Effective Building; 2007; 978-3-7643-8393-0 > Prefab Prototypes; 2006; 978-1-56898-560-2 9 7 8 3 7 6 4 3 8 6 5 6 6 16 | Basics

A new subject area: building services

The comfort of interior rooms depends on temperature, humidity, and an adequate Conveys principles and connections rather supply of fresh air. Depending on use and than methods of calculation climatic conditions, technical systems of varying complexity are required to achieve it. Situates building services in the overall Basics Room Conditioning provides a basic context of the house understanding of these relationships and uses diagrams to explain the different Basic practical knowledge for every possible levels of space conditioning – from student simple principles of housing construction to totally air-conditioned systems that are fully Basics Room Conditioning independent of outside air. Oliver Klein, Jörg Schlenger Topics:

approx. 80 pp., 50 b/w ills • Requirements for ambient air 15.5 x 22.0 cm Softcover • Room comfort $16.50 • Heating, ventilating, cooling Trade Discount • Finding the appropriate technical ISBN 978-3-7643-8664-1 English solution • From simple to complex systems Available June 2008

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For students as well, an important medium for representing architecture: photography

For students, architectural photography is an important tool for engaging with built Presents the special characteristics of architecture as well as for documenting their architectural photography own work, e.g. with working models and models for presentation. With tips from an experienced professional Basics Architectural Photography explains photographer the key principles of photography, shows how to overcome photographic obstacles, and offers tips and advice on doing work of one’s own.

Basics Architectural Topics: Photography • Photographic concepts (focal length, image circle, angle of view, depth of approx. 80 pp., 20 color, 80 b/w ills 15.5 x 22.0 cm focus, exposure time, contrast range, Softcover etc.) $16.50 • Equipment (camera, lens, tripod, light Trade Discount meter, etc.) ISBN 978-3-7643-8666-5 English • Photographing architecture (perspectives,

Available June 2008 architectural models, etc.) • Stylistic devices in architectural Sell as well: photography > Basics Technical Drawing; 2006; 78-3-7643-7644-4 • Exterior shots > Basics Modelbuilding; 2006; • Interior shots 978-3-7643-7649-9 • Image editing, scanning, image > Basics CAD; 2007; correction 978-3-7643-8109-7 > Architectural Photography The Digital Way; 2007; 978-1-56898-697-5 > Photoshop® for Architectural Rendering; 2008; 978-3-211-71591-8 9 7 8 3 7 6 4 3 8 6 6 6 5 Basics | 17

Introducing Basics in landscape architecture, beginning with water

Water is a special design element in open space planning and one that lends a decidedly Conveys important principles for realizable distinguished touch. But it is not enough designs merely to insert water basins and fountains at the appropriate spots in architectural Planning aid and source of inspiration drawings. As early as the design stage the planner must begin to think about where the water is going to come from, where it is going to drain, and how it is going to be cleaned.

Topics:

Basics Designing with Water • Typology (moving water, standing water, Axel Lohrer “natural” water – pond, lake, ocean – planned water – basin, fountain, approx. 80 pp., 80 b/w ills channel, etc.) 15.5 x 22.0 cm Softcover • Design parameters (site, function, $16.50 impact) Trade Discount • Basic information on design conception, ISBN 978-3-7643-8662-7 English size, perceptibility, and accessibility Available June 2008 • Overview of technical and constructional

ISBN 978-3-7643-8661-0 French framework conditions (source, enclosure, Available July 2008 planting, water quality, etc.) • Tips on planning • Economic aspects

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Plants as a living building material: design parameters and planning criteria

Unlike concrete or masonry, plants are a living building material that changes in the A systematic overview of design principles course of the seasons and the years. Their for the use of plants and their application in growth and varying appearance are factors the design process that must be considered when designing and planning. Basic information on technical execution In addition, plants can also be employed to create different design levels. They can be used as sheathing (green facades, ground cover, lawns) and to generate spaces of various heights (hedges, shrubs, trees). Basics Designing with Plants Topics: Hans-Jörg Wöhrle

approx. 80 pp., 80 b/w ills • Basics of using plants 15.5 x 22.0 cm • Plant typologies Softcover • Function and impact of spaces $16.50 • Site-specificity Trade Discount • Design principles ISBN 978-3-7643-8659-7 English Available April 2008 • Planting plan and representation • Execution ISBN 978-3-7643-8658-0 French Available August 2008

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3rd Edition The handy, expert companion for an architectural expedition through Basel

There is no other place of comparable size where one can experience local and global More than ten thousand copies sold building cultures side by side the way one can in Basel with its trinational urban space in Third, expanded edition – now includes the Switzerland, Germany, and France. The local most important buildings of recent years stars Herzog & de Meuron and Diener & Diener have long been active internationally. Thirteen clearly laid out maps make it easy And building sponsors like Vitra, Novartis, to find one’s way around the city and plan and Beyeler have commissioned – and an individual architectural expedition continue to commission – buildings by Frank Gehry, Zaha Hadid, Tadao Ando, Sanaa All addresses and tram connections have been fully updated Architectural Guide Basel (Kazuyo Sejima/Ryue Nishizawa), Alvaro Siza, Renzo Piano, and others. 3rd Expanded Edition

Lutz Windhöfel In its third, expanded edition – with 21 new projects (for a total of 117) – the Architectural approx. 288 pp., 430 b/w ills Guide Basel highlights the immediate 12.0 x 17.0 cm present. But it also attempts to trace the Softcover $39.95 development that this vital architecture Trade Discount scene has experienced since 1980. An entire ISBN 978-3-7643-8559-0 English double page is devoted to each project. The classification of the buildings by Available June 2008 neighborhood and zone, organized in thirteen chapters and presented in thirteen clearly Sell as well: laid out maps, is designed to facilitate > Architecture by Herzog & de Meuron – Wall Painting exploration. All tram connections and by Rémy Zaugg – A Work for Roche in Basel; addresses have been updated in the course 978-3-7643-6622-3; 2001 of preparing this new edition. > Hybrid Zones: Art and Architecture in Basel and Zurich; 2003; 978-3-7643-0088-3 9 7 8 3 7 6 4 3 8 5 5 9 0

A practical and technical guide to building by, and in the sea

Until now, the book market has primarily dealt with the popular topic of living by the Reliable and practical treatment of a sea with publications that illustrate the widespread construction task location’s aesthetic appeal. This book goes further to focus on the design, With technically sound and detailed constructional, and technical possibilities information that permit one to react to the special conditions of locations by the sea. Contains twenty-five examples from five In an introductory section, the author sets continents forth the principal aspects that fundamentally affect architectural design for Living by the Sea this construction task: the geography and geology of the site, climatic conditions, and 25 international examples durability of materials, but also such Christine Desmoulins aesthetic factors as light, landscape, and position, all of which play a special role in approx. 160 pp., 220 color, 130 b/w ills approaches to living by the sea. In keeping 24.0 x 28.0 cm with this, the following project section, with Hardcover $79.95 Trade Discount twenty-five international examples, is ISBN 978-3-7643-8695-5 English organized according to the type of relationship the houses have with the sea: Available June 2008 right by the sea, above the sea, or in the sea. The volume uses texts, detailed project Deca Architecture, House on Antiparos, Greece, 2004 information, drawings, and striking photographs to present exemplary design Sell as well: approaches taken by contemporary > Sustainable Living; 2006; architects, including Tadao Ando, Shigeru 978-3-7643-7467-9 > Wood Houses; 2004; Ban, David Chipperfield, and Steven Holl. 978-3-7643-7077-0 > Beach Houses; 2003; 978-1-56898-321-9 9 7 8 3 7 6 4 3 8 6 9 5 5 Theory/History | 19

Simulation Presentation Technique and Cognitive Method

Andrea Gleiniger, Georg Vrachliotis (Eds.)

ISBN 978-3-7643-8686-3 English

Complexity Design Strategy and World View

Andrea Gleiniger, Georg Vrachliotis (Eds.)

ISBN 978-3-7643-8688-7 English

each approx. 112 pp., 35 color and b/w ills 14.0 x 19.0 cm. Softcover $29.95 Professional Discount

Available July 2008

Context Architecture: The first two volumes on basic architectural concepts between art, science, and technology

Digitalization has transformed the discourse of architecture: that discourse is now defined When Vitruvius described the architect as a Pivotal concepts are newly defined and put by a wealth of new terms and concepts that uomo universale, he gave rise to the up for discussion previously either had no meaning, or had architect’s conception of him- or herself as a different meanings, in the context of generalist who shapes a complex reality. The All articles are specially written for this architectural theory and design. Its concepts architectural concept of complexity, publication and strategies are increasingly shaped by however, failed to keep pace with industrial influences emerging at the intersection with and social reality, becoming instead an Contains an annotated reading list scientific and cultural notions from modern increasingly formal and superficial notion information technology. The new series that could ultimately be applied to almost In cooperation with the Zurich University of Context Architecture seeks to take a critical anything. the Arts and the Chair of Computer-Aided selection of concepts that play a vital role in Against it, architectural modernism set the Architectural Design at the Swiss Federal the current discourse and put them up for watchword of simplification: less is more. Institute of Technology, Zurich (ETH) discussion. In this situation, Robert Venturi reintroduced In the context of discussions of the medial, the notion of complexity into architectural the notion of simulation plays a central role discourse: his goal was not just to restore the in architecture as illusion and imitation. In complexity of architectonic forms and their dialogue with information technology and history but also to explore the concrete computer science, however, that notion has reality of the existing built environment. now taken on a new quality in architectural Today it is complexity studies, with their discourse. Today when we speak of starting point in physics, that define the simulation we primarily think of computer current approach to the concept of simulation, the technical ability to simulate complexity. They have established a new processes. connection between the natural sciences Whereas simulation used to refer to a mode and information technology and have thus of presentation, it now connects architecture become a central premise of computer- Andrea Pozzo, ceiling fresco with the sciences and represents a strategic based approaches to design. St. Ignazio Rome, 1691–94 and methodological instrument, a tool of discovery. With the scientific principle of Dr. phil. Andrea Gleiniger is an art historian simulation the focus shifts to the idea of and professor for architecture at the Zürcher modeling a dynamic system (Norbert Wiener), Hochschule der Künste (Zurich University of not just presenting finished products but the Arts). going in search of solutions and developing Georg Vrachliotis is an architect and systems! professor for Computer-Aided Architectural Design at the ETH Zürich (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Zurich).

Forming and constructing optimization, with Simulation Complexity computer simulation, ETH Zurich, Chair of Computer-Aided Architectural Design

9 7 8 3 7 6 4 3 8 6 8 6 3 9 7 8 3 7 6 4 3 8 6 8 8 7 20 | Types/Functions

The dream of every architect: designing and planning religious buildings

The building of religious structures represents a rare opportunity for the architect to Systematic, comprehensive, and up-to- concentrate on the creation of volume, space, date presentation and form. Sacred architecture is far less determined than other building tasks by Conveys basic and indispensable functional requirements, norms, and knowledge of the building task standards. As a rule, it is free to unfold as pure architecture. Thus in design terms this Examples by internationally renowned building task offers enormous freedoms to architects including Tadao Ando, Steven the architect. At the same time, however, the Holl, mecanoo, Renzo Piano, Peter Zumthor, special atmospherics of sacred spaces call, and others on the part of the architect, for a highly Sacred Buildings sensitive treatment of religion and the A Design Manual relevant cultural and architectural traditions. Rudolf Stegers In a systematic section, this volume introduces the design, technical, and planning approx. 240 pp., 80 color, 500 b/w ills. fundamentals of building churches, 420 drawings and plans synagogues, and mosques. In its project 24.0 x 33.0 cm Hardcover section, it also presents about seventy $109.95 realized structures from the last three Professional Discount decades. Drawing upon his in-depth ISBN 978-3-7643-6683-4 English knowledge of the subject and his many years of publishing experience, the author offers a Available April 2008 valuable analysis of the conceptual and formal aspects that combine to create the religious impact of spaces (e.g., the ground plan, the shapes of the spaces, the incidence Sell as well: of light, and materiality). > Le Corbusier: The Chapel at Ronchamp; 2007; 978-3-7643-8232-2 > The Chapel of St. Ignatius; 1999; 978-1-56898-180-2 9 7 8 3 7 6 4 3 6 6 8 3 4

How will we dwell in our later years?

We are not only living longer than our grandparents – we are also working longer A comprehensive analysis of the most and remaining more active and enterprising important requirements for a carefree life than they did. Thus for many today the in one’s later years second half of life is marked by a broad and varied range of activities that call for Answers to the questions that must be freedom of action, whether one has a considered when planning houses and disability or other limitation or not. apartments for the second half of life What types of housing will make it possible to shape this ever longer and more important phase of our lives in accord with our wishes New Living Proposals for and needs? In addition to the desire of most older people to remain in their homes, we are Elder People also seeing the emergence of new and novel Andreas Huber communal types of housing, such as neighborhood and cohousing communities, In cooperation with the ETH Wohnforum – Centre for Cultural Studies in Architecture (CCSA) shared apartments, integrated residential Departement Architecture, ETH Zurich communities, assisted living, and group homes. approx. 208 pp., 80 color, 80 b/w ills Against this backdrop, noted authors 19.0 x 28.0 cm consider the various aspects of the second Softcover $44.95 phase of life. In addition, realized projects in Trade Discount Switzerland and Germany are presented and ISBN 978-3-7643-8635-1 English analyzed in terms of their practical feasibility. Available May 2008

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Illuminating Natural Light in Residential Architecture

Michelle Corrodi , Klaus Spechtenhauser (Eds.)

approx. 208 pp., 60 color, 240 b/w ills 19.0 x 28.0 cm Softcover $39.95 Trade Discount ISBN 978-3-7643-8636-8 English

Available June 2008

Daylight in architecture

The image of open working and living spaces including the connection between the flooded with light has, more than any other, provision of daylight and architectural The fundamental principles of using become fixed in our minds as a symbol of design, building orientation, the nature of the daylight in architecture modernity and the spirit of the times. While facade, the ground plan, comfort, and the the workplace has always been the focus of proportions and atmosphere of rooms. In the Analysis of current and historical examples ergonomic studies and optimization with process, general characteristics and respect to a good provision of daylight, large fundamental principles as well as subtle Suggestions for planning glass surfaces have now become the order of facets of an intelligent treatment of daylight the day for living spaces as well. But does are discussed and critically examined within this automatically make for better an expanded architecture- and culture- illumination? Taking this question as its historical context. starting point, the publication Illuminating thematizes central aspects of light planning,

Christian Matt, Single Family House, Bregenz, Vorarlberg, Austria, 2000–2003. Photo: Bruno Klomfar

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A textbook on grading in the planning and construction process

“The contour line is the only precise and accurate means for representing the free and Contains detailed information on digital natural formation of terrain in the plan; so grading, including GPS technology learn to use this instrument!” Professor Hans Loidl, Landscape Architect Suitable for class use, self-study, and on the job The two design elements of landscape architecture are plants and terrain. While the Contains exercises and solutions subject of vegetation is well documented by numerous publications, there is a lack of technical literature in the field of grading. This volume fills that gap: Grading for Landscape History, forms of terrain, basic principles, Architects and Architects digital modeling, slope reinforcement With a Foreword by Peter systems, construction site implementation, Walker and practical examples – all are treated in detail by the author. Short exercises, Peter Petschek systematically organized and arranged in increasing order of difficulty, enable the approx. 208 pp., 130 b/w ills 17.0 x 24.0 cm reader to apply what he or she has learned. Softcover The exercises are suitable for self-study. $44.95 Together with the large amount of practical Professional Discount information provided by the book, they also ISBN 978-3-7643-8502-6 English enable architects to become familiar with

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‘scape – The international magazine for landscape architecture and urbanism

‘scape is the new international magazine for landscape architecture, city planning, and Copious background material, urban design. Lively, with international explanations, and information voices and a critical eye, it presents selected news items, in-depth feature articles, ‘scape is produced by the editors of the concise essays, solidly based and Dutch professional journal Blauwe Kamer informative project critiques, portraits of and the experts from the book series outstanding personalities, and reviews of Fieldwork: Landscape Architecture Europe new literature. ‘scape puts planners under the microscope, probes deeply into topics of current interest, and discusses controversial topics – since the professional world needs a 'scape portrait ‘I wanted to be a car designer’

Last hope across the railway and main road to Amsterdam. eighteenth century live/work landscape. My own and adjust it until he feels at home with it. This Sjoerd Soeters graduated from rist. A long time after my studies, in forum for spirited debate. Our second stop is Zaanstad, just north of The housing areas and schools are on the other practice is building the new town hall, a sort of new functional input will make the plan richer, Eindhoven University of Technology in 1988, he published ‘The appearance of Amsterdam on the Zaan river, where for some side of that barrier. I see this railway line and the large Zaanstad house above a bus station. allow us to give it an extra flourish and give it 1975.‘Because of the housing short- the form: Four essays on the position years Soeters has been supervising the architec- road as a modern river, which needs a bridge ‘We have to cherish our town centres and different layers. If you don’t do this you get a age, the housing minister wanted to designing takes between people and tural realisation of his masterplan for the rede- just like the Zaan. So I reinterpreted the history provide mixed-use environments. Shops, local dead plan, an anachronism that’s no good to train people with a knowledge of things’, on this theme. He wrote velopment of the central and station areas. We of Zaanstad. We’re demolishing a lot. All those government and courts all belong there. And we anyone.' structural engineering who could about forms as archetypes, like the parked at the edge of an enormous piece of ugly post-war boxes in front of the station are must build by-passes and do everything we can to design efficient homes. That’s how North American canoe which is The International Magazine of cleared land, where just a couple of lift shafts going and the water will be brought back in and keep these centres accessible – for the car as Dream environment Eindhoven University of Technology continually being improved. In the await the demolition hammer. ‘The former become part of the life of the town again. I want well. Towns and cities are our last hope; they are Soeters’ designs resonate with a sound that got its Architecture Department. At second year, Wim Quist came to mayor, Ruud Vreeman, got this project off the the central area development to reflect local places where people can meet the cultural and has persisted in Dutch architecture for more the time I didn’t know for certain if I teach. Quist could design industrial ground. He wanted to make the town more history and complement the town’s landmark, commercial worlds. Even large department than a century, despite the dominance of wanted to be an architect or not. functions superbly. The Berenplaat urban, which meant literally building a bridge the Zaanse Schans, an unspoilt seventeenth and stores should be there – better in the town modernism. It is known by various names: Tradi- Actually, I really wanted to be a car water treatment plant in the Bies- centre than in a hypermarket. That is why we tionalism, Delft School, Bossche School – archi- designer. That is such an exciting bosch is wonderful, an elegant form organise lots of design workshops with all those tectural movements which many of Soeters’ profession; the designs are drawn of brutalism. Dick Apon came in the involved. And then we get started. Just like a generation considered, and still consider, to be from very powerful traditions and third year. Apon was vitally important private house, this involves lots of design rounds, questionable or even subversive. strategies. Mercedes have a sort of for me. I set my own pace and studied ‘scape is aimed at landscape architects, city just as long as it takes to find a solution, the The source of this corrective good-and-bad DNA, as it were, which makes them at Eindhoven for nine years. I read a Landscape Architecture and beginnings of a design. If the hotelier in thinking was the architecture course at Delft instantly recognisable. From that DNA lot, but slowly. For example, I took six Zaanstad does not like the plan, we will adapt it University of Technology, where the ideas of they can make cars that are much months to read a book by architect Granpré Molière, professor from 1924 to 1953, longer than they were before and yet and writer Christian Norberg-Schulz, were in the decades following his retirement remain powerful and retain a certain Intentions in Architecture (1966). used as a warning to the modern architect. Eind- elegance. In a way, they form a sort of When I happened to meet Norbert- Water again visible in the Zaanstad’s centre. hoven, where Soeters studied, was free of this Darwinian line which is capable of Schultz I told him that. His answer planners, architects, artists, ecologists, ideological battle and Soeters was given the rejuvenating itself under new condi- was:“You’ve been rather quick young space to find his own sources of inspiration. tions. That’s what we try to do in our man, it took me three years to write Besides the post-modernist Robert Venturi, urban design projects. We also design it.” The time and space to quietly read Urbanism Soeters discovered the architect Morris Lapidus. in a Darwinian sort of way. a book like that; Apon gave you that. ‘He was a rebel: he was thrown out of the Ameri- If Apon had not been there, I would

Bron: Amsterdam RoVorm can Association of Architects and branded the ‘John Habraken was my professor never have left that school.’ worst architect in the world after Speer. That at Eindhoven. Besides being chairman geographers, project developers, and rebellious side of his appeals to me. I don’t want of Stichting Architecten Research, in Villa Luyt in Bergen. to dutifully follow the modernist crowd. I don’t which he thought up measurement feel the need to recreate the world. I think the systems for flexible housing plans, he components that make up the old world are very was also an astute architectural theo- valuable. It is crime to throw away whole pieces Stichting Lijn in Landschap (Ed.) of the old world, of the old references, of the continuity of our history, simply because we

Illustraties: F3DM always have to be eagerly in search of something everyone in the public and private sectors new. It’s lazy, superficial and arrogant. Originally Lapidus was a decorator and filled his hotels in Miami with ornaments he bought at French junk markets. They were dream environments for holiday-makers; he was one of the first to do that. ‘I love Italy and France, and the romance of who wishes to participate in the debates the English landscape style. I’m also wild about the wonderfully refined differences in elevation approx. 80 pp., 100 color ills in the Dutch landscape, such as the terps [dwelling mounds] in Friesland, and driving along the old Wieringen island in Noord- Holland. But the most important subconscious surrounding architecture and city planning. reference for my urban design work is, I think, 24.0 x 30.0 cm Bus station under new townhall.

48 ’SCAPE 1 / 2 0 0 7 Softcover 1 / 2007 ’SCAPE 49 $19.95 Sections: Trade Discount - News ISBN 978-3-7643-8676-4 English - Columns Available June 2008 - Dossier, with feature articles Sell as well: - Essay > Lexicon of Garden and Landscape Architecture; Available as a standing order - Portrait 2006; 978-3-7643-7525-6 > Fieldwork; 2006; - Project critique 978-3-7643-7508-9 - Plan critique > Insight Out; 2007; - Reviews 978-3-7643-7958-2 9 7 8 3 7 6 4 3 8 6 7 6 4 Landscape Architecture | 23

Constructing Landscape Materials, Techniques, Building Elements

Astrid Zimmermann (Ed.)

approx. 400 pp., 300 color, 200 b/w ills. 650 drawings and plans 23.0 x 29.7 cm

Hardcover $109.00 Professional Discount ISBN 978-3-7643-8599-6 English

Softcover $69.95 Professional Discount

ISBN 978-3-7643-8600-9 English

Available August 2008

After Constructing Architecture, now the new groundbreaking textbook of landscape architecture

Constructing Landscape is a systematic explains the qualities of surfaces and the introduction to technical and constructional different approaches to treating them. The An unrivaled handbook to all aspects of open space planning, with all the relevant second section begins with an introductory landscape architecture, from materials to topics, from the most common materials and chapter explaining the principles of statics, construction techniques surfaces to the construction of open space the connections of load-bearing elements, elements and the use of plants. and the various approaches to anchoring Guideline for professional palnning and For landscape architects and architects it is building compo-nents and supporting execution an indispensable guide to correct and structures. professional execution planning as well as to The subsequent chapters use drawings and Over 1200 illustrations, plans, and detail preparing solid and well-thought-out text to present the constructional principles drawings requests for proposal. and techniques associated with the various Constructing Landscape is divided into two building elements. Each chapter concludes Contains a detailed subject index sections, Materials and Surfaces and Building with a collection of sample projects, Construction and Building Elements. The first illustrated with photographs and technical section provides an overview of the various drawings. building materials of landscape architecture and their specific characteristics. It also

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Adrian Frutiger - Typefaces The Complete Works

Swiss Foundation Type and Typography, Heidrun Osterer, Phillip Stamm (Eds.)

approx. 480 pp., 430 color, 620 b/w ills 24.5 x 31.0 cm Cloth bound $149.00 Professional Discount ISBN 978-3-7643-8581-1 English ISBN 978-3-7643-8582-8 French

Available June 2008

A universe of insights from the world of typeface design

Schriftname Arbeitgeber Gestalter Entwurf | Herausgabe Satztechnik Hersteller Schnitte Méridien Deberny & Peignot Adrian Frutiger 1954 | 1957 Fotosatz Lumitype – Deberny & Peignot 4 Latine• Fotosatz Photon – Photon Inc.• 4 The indispensable overview and reference Meridien•• Handsatz – Deberny & Peignot 3 | 4 Latin 725••• Digitalsatz CRT und Laser – D. Stempel AG | Linotype•• 6 Digitalsatz PostScript – Adobe | Linotype•• 6 Bitstream••• 6 work on Frutiger’s output

MÉRIDIEN With unpublished images and new, hitherto unavailable information

Published to coincide with Frutiger’s

Der Anstoss zur Méridien kam 1953 von Rémy, dem Sohn von Charles Peignot. Nachdem wir Allgemeines zur Méridien Der Name Méridien wird mit der Président eine moderne Latine-Schrift für den Akzidenzbereich neu im Programm von Rémy Peignot gewählt, welcher die Schrift mit dem eightieth birthday: May 24, 2008 Süden in Verbindung bringt. ‹Méridien› oder deutsch hatten, sollte nun auch eine Latine-Textschrift für kürzeren Mengensatz entworfen werden. ‹Meridian› ist die Mittagslinie oder der Äquator; in der Rémy sagte, es sei doch schade, mit meinen Fähigkeiten Fantasieschriften zu gestalten, man Geografie sind Meridiane die Pole verbindende, den solle mein Talent doch besser für klassische Schriften verwenden. Einer der Beweggründe, eine Erdäquator rechtwinklig schneidende Linien.2 Entspre­ solche Schrift ins Programm zu nehmen, war vielleicht auch, dass der Konkurrent in Marseille, chend gestaltet Rémy Peignot Ende der 1950er Jahre die wunderschönen Prospekte zur Bekanntmachung der die Fonderie Olive, 1951 die Vendôme /02/ von François Ganeau herausbrachte – eine moderne, Méridien mit einer aufgeklappten Weltkugel, welche gute, kräftige und auch erfolgreiche Textschrift mit einigen Latine-Anklängen. Sie wirkt mit durch die Zeichnung der Längengrade definiert wird, ihren geraden Strichen aber eher hart, das Elegante der Latine-Schriften kommt bei ihr nicht die sich über die Erdbegrenzung hinaus bis zum Rand des Formates ziehen /39/. zum Ausdruck. Die Méridien ist demgegenüber viel eleganter und feiner. Die ersten Entwurfszeichnungen /03–08/ dürfen nicht Diese schöne klassische Schrift zu zeichnen war eine wunderbare Aufgabe. Das erste Jahr ausschliesslich in Zusammenhang mit der Méridien ge­ bei Deberny&Peignot war ja die Zeit des Kennenlernens, des Abtastens. Charles Peignot, ein sehen werden – in ihnen sind entscheidende Schritte für Mann mit Weitblick, hatte mich 1952 eingestellt, weil er damals bereits vor hatte, die Lumitype- Frutigers Schriftschaffen ablesbar. Sehr deutlich ist in den Minuskeln /03/ der Einfluss der humanistischen Anti­ Produktion für Europa zu übernehmen. Also brauchte er jemanden, der für diese neuartige qua zu sehen. Ober­ und Unterlängen sind ausgeprägt. Fotosatzmaschine die Schriftgestaltung übernahm. Aus diesem Grund holte er mich nach Die kleinen Innenräume beim a und e sowie der Duktus Paris – was er mir jedoch nicht sagte. Bis es so weit war, wurde ich mit allerlei ‹Lückenfül- und die Proportionen sind eindeutige Merkmale. Auch der unbetonte Beginn des Bogens beim a findet seinen lern› beschäftigt – dem Zeichnen der Kartenschrift, der Fantasieschriften und der Arbeit an /01/ Ursprung in der humanistischen Antiqua. Beim Minuskel­ Satzmuster Méridien demi-gras im der Bleisatz-Méridien. a zeigt sich neben diesem Einfluss auch jener von Walter Handsatz (vergrössert): durch die Käch, sichtbar am runden Übergang des Bauches in den Zuerst habe ich den normalen, sogenannt mageren Schnitt entwickelt, in der Zeit zwischen niedrige Versalhöhe integrieren Stamm. Doch beim Entwerfen der Méridien überwindet Januar und Mai 1954 1. Ich hatte mit Rémy viel über den Schriftcharakter diskutiert, wir stu- sich die Versalien ins Schriftbild. Frutiger diesen Einfluss und folgt auch hier dem Beispiel dierten auch gemeinsam alte Druckschriften, so dass ich die Schrift schon fertig im Kopf der humanistischen Minuskel /10/. Insgesamt aber findet hatte, als ich zu skizzieren anfing, wie immer etwa 24 Punkt gross, auf Transparentpapier mit er seine eigene Form für das a, indem er den Bauch grös­ einem sehr harten Bleistift für die Kontur und einem weicheren Stift für die Fläche. Die ersten ser zeichnet und damit die beiden Punzen einander an­ gleicht. Dieses a wird zum Charakteristikum für alle Werk­ Buchstaben waren ein paar Gemeine, ‹mondegvr›, und die Versalien H und O. Für die Korrek- satzschriften Frutigers. turen benutzte ich ein scharfes Messer; ich habe nie radiert, sondern immer gekratzt, geschabt. Interessant ist auch die Formsuche bei den Serifen, wel­ Für die Reinzeichnung mit einer x-Höhe von 8cm hatte ich einen Trick. Anstatt zigmal diesel- che, einseitig ausgerichtet, im Entwurf ‹novipa› /08/ an ben Abstriche zu zeichnen, habe ich einen einzigen perfekten Abstrich gemacht, ein Klischee die Phoebus erinnern. Dieser Entwurf mit den verkürz­ ten Unterlängen und dem eckigen Einlauf des a­Bogens fertigen und davon in der Abziehpresse etwa hundert Abzüge auf Kunstdruckpapier drucken in den Stamm kann bereits als Vorstufe zur Méridien lassen. Anschliessend habe ich nach Bedarf ausgeschnitten und zusammengeklebt und dann betrachtet werden. mit schwarzer Farbe auf Karton sauber die Bogen angesetzt. 1954 wird mit der Handsatz­Méridien begonnen; erst 1959 sind die drei aufrechten Schnitte fertig, die Kursive Nach dem normalen Schnitt der Méridien begann gleich das Umzeichnen der klassischen sogar erst 1966. Im Fotosatz Lumitype dagegen sind die /02/ Handsatzschriften wie Bodoni und Garamont für die Fotosatzmaschine Lumitype. Den halb- vier Schnitte bereits 1957 realisiert. Nach Auflösung von Handsatz-Schriftmusterbuch fetten und den fetten Schnitt der Méridien vollständig zu übernehmen, hatte ich somit keine Deberny & Peignot 3 wird die Méridien bei D. Stempel ‹compo dp› von Deberny & Zeit. Gemeinsam mit dem Leiter der Gravurabteilung Marcel Mouchel bestimmte ich die Grund- AG für den Fotosatz von Linotype auf sechs Schnitte er­ Peignot,1961: Titel in Méridien; weitert. Sie ist heute digital als PostScript­,TrueType­ und Musterseiten der Vendôme, buchstaben und die Fetten; dann hat er den gesamten Zeichensatz fertiggestellt. Eine Kursive OpenType­Font erhältlich. Bei Bitstream erscheint sie als der konkurrierenden Fonderie wurde zu Beginn nur für die Lumitype realisiert, im Bleisatz kam sie erst später dazu. Plagiat unter dem Namen Latin 725. Olive, Marseille.

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The international creation of typefaces after Based on conversations with Frutiger himself 1950 was decisively influenced by the Swiss and extensive research in France, England, type designer Adrian Frutiger. His Univers Germany, and Switzerland, this publication typeface and the machine-readable font provides a highly detailed and accurate OCR-B, which was adopted as an ISO account of the type designer’s career. For the standard, are milestones, as is his type for first time, all of his types – from the design the Paris airports, which set new standards phase to the marketing stage – are for signage types and evolved into the illustrated and analyzed with reference to Frutiger typeface. With his corporate types, the technology and related types. Hitherto he helped to define the public profiles of unpublished types that were never realized companies such as the Japanese Shiseido and more than one hundred logos complete line of cosmetics. In all he created some fifty the picture. types, including Ondine, Méridien, Avenir, and Vectora. Heidrun Osterer is the managing director of feinherb, Visuelle Gestaltung, Basel.

Philipp Stamm is an assistant professor of typography and type design at the English French Hochschule für Gestaltung und Kunst (HGK) Sell as well: Basel (University of Art and Design Basel). > Helvetica Forever; 2008; 978-3-03778-121-0 9 7 8 3 7 6 4 3 8 5 8 1 1 9 7 8 3 7 6 4 3 8 5 8 2 8 Design | 25

Project Vitra Sites, Products, Authors, Museum, Collection, Signs

Rolf Fehlbaum, Cornel Windlin (Eds.)

approx. 398 pp., 795 ills, 550 in color 17.0 x 24.0 cm Hardcover with dust jacket $49.95 Trade Discount ISBN 978-3-7643-8593-4 English

Already available

Not only for design and architecture fans: the first book about Vitra, a design firm with more to offer than just chairs

Project Vitra began in 1957 in Birsfelden Eames, George Nelson, Alexander Girard, near Basel with the production of the Tibor Kalman, Frank Gehry, Tadao Ando, Extensive unpublished material from the furniture of Charles and Ray Eames and SANAA, Jasper Morrison, Zaha Hadid, Hella Vitra archives George Nelson. Today Vitra is active and Jongerius, Maarten Van Severen, Ronan & known throughout the world for its products Erwan Bouroullec, Jean Prouvé, Mario Tells the stories behind the furniture icons and cultural initiatives, which are evidenced Bellini, Antonio Citterio, Alberto Meda, by the Vitra Design Museum, its collections, Verner Panton, Herzog & de Meuron, and The Vitra Campus attracts more than and the architecture of the firm’s own many others. The copiously illustrated 80,000 international visitors every year, corporate campus. Vitra sees itself first and chapters with contributions by Alex Coles, not counting the many more who visit foremost as a project driven by the desire Rolf Fehlbaum, Luis Fernández-Galiano, Vitra exhibitions world-wide and determination to design the world. Deyan Sudjic, and Alexander von Vegesack tell stories about the places, people, and Demonstrates the firm’s balancing act This ambition is also the driving force products connected with Vitra. between cultural ambitions and behind Project Vitra, which offers an inside This overview is rounded off by a history of commercial success look at the firm’s collaboration with the the firm and a comprehensive glossary. world’s most creative architects and designers, including Charles and Ray

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Universal Design Solutions for a Barrier-Free Living

Oliver Herwig (Ed.)

approx. 208 pp., 130 color, 20 b/w ills 22.0 x 28.0 cm Hardcover $69.95 Professional Discount ISBN 978-3-7643-8718-1 English

Available May 2008

Attuned to the fifty-and-over generation from tip to toe

The future is looking old. We are currently at firms who wish to respond to the demands of the threshold of the largest demographic this diverse and discriminating target group. Provides designers and architects with the transformation of modern times, the advent It investigates the various aspects of senior information they need to design products of the age of the senior citizen. What awaits citizens’ lives from tip to toe and offers and living spaces for senior citizens us – what kinds of products, what kinds of technical articles as well as authentic case houses? studies and reports. Presents the latest senior-friendly The fifty-and-over generation represents an products and houses enormous potential: in Germany alone, Attractively laid out, fully illustrated, and twenty million seniors have hundreds of with pointedly written texts, it is also aimed Aimed at senior citizens as well as billions of euros, but they hardly spend them at the silver agers themselves, especially architects and designers for lack of suitable products. those who would like to find out what This book provides answers from a architecture and design can do to make their sociological and design perspective for lives as pleasant and independent as architects, designers, decision-makers, and possible.

Kitchen design concept for the fifty-and-over generation, Diana Kraus

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Patterns 2 Design, Art and Architecture Barbara Glasner, Petra Schmidt, Ursula Schöndeling (Eds.)

approx. 332 pp., 315 color ills 24.0 x 30.0 cm Hardcover $84.95 Trade Discount ISBN 978-3-7643-8644-3 English

Available June 2008

Megatrend: patterns – the follow-up volume to the bestselling Patterns

Brings together new works by leading designers, artists, and architects

Expanded focus now includes fashion and © Lene Toni Kjeld, Wallpaper the sciences

Patterns 2 provides designers with a broad range of inspiration for their work

Oriental carpet, 2006 © Ilmari Kalkinen, Vanité 2b, 2003

With more than ten thousand copies sold of Patterns 2 provides the necessary Patterns in Design, Art and Architecture, now inspiration. It describes current trends, comes Patterns 2, the new volume of the presents contemporary experiments, and successful pattern book. Once again, the situates the development within the cultural- publication presents extraordinary works by historical context. leading firms, artists, designers, and architects such as Michael Lin, Rem For this follow-up volume the editors have Koolhaas, and Marimekko. broadened the focus. In addition to architecture, design, and art, Patterns 2 now Since the first volume was published, the contains patterns from fashion and the subject of patterns has continued to evolve: sciences. These include graphic © Luna Maurer colorful patterned wallpapers have returned representations of whale songs and genetic to private homes; patterns have become a codes and the latest creations of fashion determining factor in graphic design and designers like Paul Smith and Eley Kishimoto. architecture; and designers are asked to design an ever-increasing variety of new ornaments and pattern repeats.

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Documentation of one of the most important international design awards

The iF yearbook product 2008 profiles the winners of the iF product design award 2008, The iF product design award is one of the one of the world’s most important design most important design awards in the world awards. The book presents all of the prizewinning products from the categories of For fifty years it has stood for exceptional audio and video, telecommunications, quality – it enjoys worldwide recognition, computers, lighting, home textiles and with more than two thousand international furnishings, house and home, leisure and submissions every year lifestyle, industry and buildings, medicine and health care, office and business, public Source of inspiration and reference work and interior design, and transportation, as well as the advanced studies category for as IF Yearbook Product 2008 yet unrealized products and studies. In IF International Forum Design (Ed.) addition, the packaging category highlights the relevance of packing and branding. The approx. 950 pp., 930 color ills publication also provides an interesting look 24.0 x 24.0 cm Hardcover at the expert jury’s judgments and contains a $79.95 comprehensive directory of designers and Professional Discount manufacturers. ISBN 978-3-7643-8625-2 English The iF yearbook product 2008 is a source of Available April 2008 ideas and reliable compendium not only for manufacturers, designers, and opinion makers from the media, economy, and politics, but also for the broader audience interested in design.

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The Federal Republic of Germany's highest official design award

It is widely regarded as the design award of all design awards: the Design Award of the A unique cross-section of contemporary Federal Republic of Germany. Germany’s German and European design highest distinction in the field of design is presented by the Federal Minister of The catalogue is a must for every designer Economics and Technology and organized on his behalf by the Rat für Formgebung With an address section listing all (German Design Council). This year the newly participants appointed jury, which brings together representatives from industry, commerce, media, and design, singled out twenty-five Design Award of the Federal especially outstanding products from a total of more than a thousand submissions to Republic of Germany 2008 receive the five gold and twenty silver Rat für Formgebung (Ed.) awards. The catalogue offers detailed presentations of the prizewinners as well as approx. 494 pp., 287 color ills accounts of some two hundred other 23.0 x 28.0 cm nominated products. The publication opens Hardcover with dust jacket $59.95 with a greeting from the Federal Minister of Professional Discount Economics. ISBN 978-3-7643-8618-4 English

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Designing Public Perspectives

Köln International School of Design, Michael Erlhoff, Phi- lipp Heidkamp, Iris Utikal (Eds.)

approx. 256 pp., 105 color ills 17.0 x 24.0 cm Softcover $34.95 Trade Discount ISBN 978-3-7643-8667-2 German/English

Available April 2008

How can design do a better and more confident job of fashioning our public space?

Everything that stands still or moves in the Situated right in the midst of this tumult are A highly topical survey and appraisal of our public space is more or less well designed: the essays by the authors of this book, which urban spaces wastepaper baskets no less than traffic were collected by the Cologne International signs and park benches, information items School of Design (KISD). Their projects, With refreshing and provocative essays and signposts, even the trees, and naturally observations, descriptions, and that highlight new prospects for also the clothing people wear. Yet even so – commentaries explore the possibilities and development or precisely for this reason – the public space opportunities, the necessity as well as the is always chaotic as well. Empirical and incapacity of design in the pulsating, designed things get tangled up and end in a vibrating world of our everyday lives. state of confusion. Just as exciting, however, is the constant changing of the public realm, since the boundaries that separate public and private space have long since ceased to be clear and recognizable.

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étapes:international – International trends in graphic design

The quarterly magazine étapes: international caters to all those involved in visual creation Analyses the latest news and innovations in and communication. Étapes:international is the field of graphic design published by the French design publishing specialists Pyramyd and features articles on A graphic design benchmark for a wide range of topics from typography to professionals and students graphic design. It is an essential reading instrument for getting a better view of international trends in graphic design.

étapes:international Michel Chanaud; Patrick Morin (Ed.)

In cooperation Pyramyd

approx. 144 pp. 20.7 x 26.5 cm. Softcover English $32.95 Trade Discount No. 12: 978-2-35017-108-1 June 2008 No. 13: 978-2-35017-109-8 October 2008

Also available as a standing order

No. 12 No. 13

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designFLuX: the only DVD-magazine dedicated to graphic motion design

The DVD-magazine designFLUX offers a panorama of current events in graphic An international DVD-magazine for graphic motion design on a three-monthly basis: motion design interviews with designers, themed reports, and an array of background information. In Covers visual communication, an important recent years a new, extremely dynamic up-to-date topic in the business world discipline has come to prominence: graphic motion design. The growing importance of Covers visual communication, an important moving images in communications has up-to-date topic in the business world steadily driven the fun of discovering and continuous development of this new sphere designFluX of graphic exploration. Graphic motion design is deployed with equal success in film, video Michel Chanaud (Ed.) and on websites – and by nightclub and In cooperation withPyramyd concert VJs. Companies are increasingly using this type of graphic design in their approx. 1.5 h material. communication strategies. The animated 13.5 x 19.0 cm. DVD image offers the possibility of interaction English/French $29.95 with multiple sonic, light and visual elements Professional Discount in a practically infinite field of applications. DVD No. 11: 978-2-35017-118-0 May 2008 designFLUX is an original and independent DVD No. 12: 978-2-35017-119-7 July 2008 creation, paper-free and with its eye firmly on what’s new in graphic motion design. Also available as a standing order

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form – The Making of Design Gerrit Terstiege (Ed.)

approx. 110 pp. 23.0 x 29.7 cm Softcover $19.95 Professional Discount German/English

form 219: ISBN 978-3-7643-8615 -3 March 2008 form 220: ISBN 978-3-7643-8616-0 May 2008

Available bimonthly Available as a standing order

form: The Leading European Design Magazine

If you want to find out about current design finish of the prints and the articles Clear, contemporary layout trends you read the international design themselves turn form into a quite special magazine form. Why, for example, in 2008 will experience. As a specialist magazine it In-depth and practice-oriented Turin be the first city ever to call itself the provides valuable information about new World Capital of Design? What make design so materials and production techniques as well Informative and inspiring: the latest in sought after at art fairs and auctions? And as tips for everyday working life. form product and graphic design how are designers responding to the dangers appears every other month in German and of climate change? The design process is the English. focal point of every edition: extensive features provide an insight into how extraordinary projects and graphic projects come into being. Renowned designers and specialist authors write for form, while the

form 219 form 220

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Integral Lars Müller Building books

Lars Müller

approx. 480 pp., 200 color ills 16.5 x 24.0 cm Hardcover $69.95 Trade Discount ISBN 978-3-907078-96-9 English

Already announced Available August 2008

The publications by Ruedi Baur and Lars Müller are the first in a series of publications on the partner offices of Integral Concept, an international connection for transdisciplinary competence, represented in Zurich, Paris, Mailand, and Montréal. Lars Müller on the world of the book

Building Books gives insight into the process correspondence to the statement of its Lars Müller takes stock on the twenty-fifth of creating a book. In seven thematic fields content. Like a building, it is designed to last anniversary of his publishing house the author lays out the premises of his and to bear witness to its era. activity as a designer and publisher: vision, The author describes in words and images The background behind the quality of Lars context, process, protest, object, duration, the principles of his activity, settles Müller’s books effect. accounts, takes stock after twenty-five years The reference to the process of building and of Lars Müller Publishers, looks into the Books as a design brief and their meaning in the parallels to architecture is in keeping future, and speculates about the book’s the world of media with Lars Müller’s conviction that a book chances in competition with rapid digital design emerges from an understanding of its media. The catalog gives an overview of the content. The book finds its form in close publications of Lars Müller Publishers, which are admired and have won awards worldwide.

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Intégral Ruedi Baur Ruedi Baur

approx. 480 pp., 200 color ills 16.5 x 24.0 cm Hardcover $69.95 Trade Discount ISBN 978-3-03778-134-0 German/English/French

Available July 2008

Ruedi Baur discusses his own work in terms of seven concepts

Ruedi Baur discusses his work with representatives of other disciplines

Book designed by the author, Ruedi Baur

Visual identity of the Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Exhibition Design, Corporate Design of Museum and Beaux-Atrs de Paris, 2006-2007 Park Kalkriese, Germany, 1999-2002

Ruedi Baur has chosen seven concepts to adequate, colorless, and transparent. describe his conceptual approach: Previously unpublished new projects are anticipate, question, identify, contextualize, integrated thematically into the evolution of perplex, inscribe, and translate. They serve Baur’s oeuvre. The book thus reveals a as the structure of his book and the basis for conceptual and design constant, or even Identification and orientation system for mediacampus seven dialogues between him and fascination, in the work of Ruedi Baur. Five in Zurich, 2002-2003 conversation partners from various years after the success of Ruedi Baur, disciplines. The practical implementation of Integral et associés, the author takes stock these concepts is presented using projects and manifests the principles of his design from his Integral studio in Zurich und Paris, work and attitude. arranged in turn according to the concepts

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A source of inspiration and a handbook for designers and architects by Frédéric Dedelley

The designer Frédéric Dedelley illustrates with ten themes and exemplary projects the The experienced designer Frédéric Dedelley path from discovering an image in everyday gives insight into his work life, archiving it, and reworking it until it is transformed into a new object. The book Clear presentation of the process of demonstrates in an entertaining way the developing a design from the idea to its heart of design: seeing and perceiving. It realization teaches how to see other images than those shown in the media and encourages readers to set up their own libraries of images to serve as starting material for their projects. Frédéric Dedelley: The book serves as a source of inspiration and guideline for designers and provides Design Detective insight into the practices of an experienced Frédéric Dedelley designer. An essay by the journalist and Ariana Pradal (Ed.) curator Ariana Pradal and a comprehensive catalogue raisonné of Dedelley’s work approx. 256 pp., 200 color ills provides information on the famous designer. 17.0 x 22.0 cm Softcover Curch Sankt Theresia, Zurich, liturgical furniture, 2002 $39.95 Trade Discount ISBN 978-3-03778-137-1 German/English/French

Available April 2008

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Making Mega-Cities regions visible!

Mega-city regions are currently a frequent topic of discussion. Researchers are Discusses the lack of visualization of exploring the fundamentals for mega-city regions understanding the role of mega-city regions and their social, economic, and cultural For planners and decision makers in developments on a national and European politics, business, and research basis. The responsible decision makers in politics and business are calling for new measures for greater urban areas. But that is just the start of the problem: Europe seems to lack The Image and the Region an awareness for mega-city regions. For the Making Mega-City Regions majority of politicians, planners, institutions, Visible! and residents the features of mega-city regions remain invisible. They are scarcely Alain Thierstein, Agnes Förster (Ed.) charted; there are no concepts for representing them or any direct sensory approx. 288 pp., 270 color ills 17.0 x 24.0 cm understanding of them in everyday life. Softcover The book is based on the understanding that $44.95 the visual depiction of mega-city regions is Trade Discount fundamental to identifying, acting, and ISBN 978-3-03778-131-9 English developing within existing concentrations of

Available March 2008 urban populations. Through essays from various disciplines the book approaches the phenomenon and discusses the necessity to visualize mega-city regions. Sell as well: > Brakin; 2006; 978-3-03778-076-3 > Switzerland - an Urban Portrait; 2005; 978-3-7643-7284-2 > City of Collision; 2006; 978-3-7643-7482-2 9 7 8 3 0 3 7 7 8 1 3 1 9 Lars müller Publishers | 35

Photography in the art of the poster

The effective interplay of photography, graphic arts, and typography marks the Attractive collection of posters presented beginning of modern graphic design. in an ambitious design Illuminated here are eight selected approaches that both engage with tradition The use of photography in posters is and consciously distinguish themselves from expertly analyzed it in order to achieve fruitful reinterpretations. In the work of certain designers a clear grid and the use of black- and-white photography still refer to Constructivist precursors; however, they are Photo Graphics given a new sensuality and poetry. In more recent works, by contrast, photography is Museum für Gestaltung Zurich (Ed.) employed in innovative, inventive ways as a means of visual design. Unusual details and approx. 96 pp., 120 color ills 16.5 x 24.0 cm striking colors resist the ordering eye, as Softcover does playful or deliberately ungainly $29.95 typography. Tension-filled mixtures of Trade Discount images and text express contemporary ISBN 978-3-03778-128-9 German/English trends. Available May 2008 Michal Batory, Medea, 2003 © M. Batory

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The phenomena of disorientation is considered from an interdisciplinary perspective

Designers, graphic artists, architects, and urban planners are now confronted with the Ruedi Baur and Design2context discuss and tasks of signage, route management, and illustrate a current topic in design information and orientation systems. With this book they can profit from a broad view of Visual and textual sources of inspiration for phenomena related to disorientation – everyone who works in design disorientation in scientific disciplines, in our environments, and in expressive presentations. On the one hand, this should make it possible for designers to benefit from attitudes to the topic derived from Desorientation experience and to move from confusion to Ruedi Baur, Design2Context (Ed.) visual reflection. On the other, it will enable scholarly disciplines to explore the formation approx. 224 pp., 300 color ills of categories that can move things forward. 16.5 x 24.0 cm This visual study is accompanied by Softcover heterogeneous brief texts. Images and texts $44.95 Trade Discount are thus placed in a relationship of mutual ISBN 978-3-03778-133-3 German/English reflections rather than confronted with one another in a commentary or illustration. Available June 2008 The labyrinth in the cathedrale of Chartes

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A fascinating photo portrait of a great landscape

The photographer Lukas Felzmann was fascinated by the very thing that some The photographer manages to provide an driving past would find boring, flat, and unexpected view of the everyday life of a disconsolate: the vast Sacramento Valley, landscape located just a hundred miles from San Francisco. Felzmann discovers with his An illustrated book with an ambitious camera the hidden charms of that seeming design nonplace. For him, exploring a place means both walking around and lingering quietly, until the valley opens up like a book, with stories that cry out to be read and Waters In Between discovered. With his camera he traces how time, determined here by the growth of the Lukas Felzmann plants, slows on the plane, and how the

approx. 320 pp., 82 color, 79 b/w ills horizontality of the surface becomes a 19.0 x 27.0 cm reassuring balance to the hectic city of Hardcover millions nearby. The photographs show the $74.95 diversity of the plane: the original landscape Trade Discount in its natural state, the large swaths put to ISBN 978-3-03778-138-8 English agricultural use, the modern provincial Available June 2008 towns, and the transitional areas in between. Photographs of water in all its facets run through the book, just as water runs through and forms the valley.

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A rich fund of anonymous photography

Anonymous snapshots are the ideal projection screen: they inspire the The photographer Luciano Rigolini compiles imagination to invent stories. The anonymous photographs to create an photographer and artist Luciano Rigolini astonishing visual experience demonstrates, however, that these images, freed from their context, can also convey a A stimulating collection of astounding visual experience. Rigolini pieces together shots by hobby photographers his findings from flea markets, archives, or the Internet to create a new, independent An ambitious volume of photographs work–a grammar of seeing and perception. complied by the famous photographer Consciously or unconsciously, we become Luciano Rigolini What You See primarily aware of form and structure in the Luciano Rigolini compiled snapshots, and the specific content of the images becomes inessential. Fotostiftung Schweiz (Ed.) This results in a fascinating aesthetic play approx. 192 pp., 120 color and b/w ills that radically questions our habits of seeing. 12.0 x 16.0 cm In this cleverly arranged sequence the Hardcover photographs can no longer be read as simply $34.95 likenesses of reality. They turn out to be Trade Discount ISBN 978-3-03778-139-5 German/English/French artifacts that construct reality. What You See presents a multiplicity of surprising, Available October 2008 confusing, and surreal photographs from a rich fund of anonymous photography.

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Shift: The New 'New Museum' and SANAA Kazuyo Sejima, Ryue Nishizawa (Eds.)

approx. 160 pp., 200 color ills 24.0 x 30.0 cm Softcover approx. $39.95 Trade Discount ISBN 978-3-03778-140-1 English

Available April 2008

Publication on the new building for the New Museum of Contemporary Art in New York by SANAA

The new building for the New Museum of time testifies to an important moment in the A comprehensive depiction of the long- Contemporary Art, which will open in history, art, and life of the city. anticipated new building for the New December 2007, will house the first museum The photographs by Dean Kaufmann Museum of Contemporary Art in New York to be developed from the ground up in Lower emphasize the dynamics of the life of the Manhattan. The seven-story building, with a building, whose unpredictability and disorder Extensive publication produced in close total floor area of 60,000 square feet, seem to be in conflict with minimalist form cooperation with the famous architectural designed by the renowned architectural duo and order. This richly illustrated book, edited office SANAA SANAA– Kazuyo Sejima and Ryue Nishizawa. by Joseph Grima, Director of the Storefront This book presents the design and building of for Art and Architecture, and Lisa Phillips, the new museum in a series of interwoven Director of the New Museum, will provide stories, documents, and dialogues. insight into SANAA’s process. The building expands the museum and its distinct role within the city and at the same

The New Museum, New York, Rendering, SANAA

Exhibition room in the New Museum, New York, Rendering, SANAA

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Findings on Ice Pars Foundation (Ed.)

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A visual and textual introduction into the topic ice

The Pars Foundation was founded from the greenhouse effect, the rise in sea level, or a conviction that art and science are both dancer’s muscles before making his first The topic of ice discussed from a wide essentially creative processes. Artists begin move. Ice absorbs sounds, reflects heat, and variety of perspectives with an idea that is ultimately expressed in cools drinks. the form of music, images, or words. Exhilarating blend of text and images Scientists begin with a hypothesis, sketch an Pars Findings demonstrates a variety of idea, and then test and describe it. Every different perspectives and ideas by artists year Pars invites artists and scientists to and scientists. The book Pars Findings on Ice make a contribution to creative thinking. functions as a visual and textual introduction to the ideas and visions of the artist and The current topic, Ice, is situated in a wide scientists who have a strong influence on our variety of contexts: in connection with perception of today’s world.

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Cold War Confrontation US exhibitions and their role in the cultural cold war, 1950-1980

Convay Lloyd Morgan, Jack Masey

approx. 320 pp., 100 color ills 16,5 x 24,0 cm Hardcover $49.95 Trade Discount ISBN 978-3-03778-123-4 English

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Architecture and design during the Cold War

World's Fairs and International Exhibitions Buckminster Fuller, Charles and Ray Eames, have always had a political as well as a George Nelson, Peter Blake, Ivan Chermayeff American World’s Fairs and their role during commercial and cultural context. This was and Thomas Geismar to design the US the Cold War particularly true during the Cold War when presence at major world Expos including America and the Soviet Union, while laying Expo '67 in Montreal and Expo '70 in Osaka. Extensive new illustrative material with claim to the same cultural values, used This important new book draws on Masey's texts and original documents compiled by architecture and design to represent their recollections, recently declassified insiders opposing political ideologies at expos and documents, unpublished memoirs and exhibitions in hopes of influencing photographs, interviews with surviving international fairgoers. members of U.S. design teams, and others, to Jack Masey served with the United States detail the significant role played by Information Agency from 1951 to 1979, for architects and designers in shaping many years as Director of Design. He America's image during the cultural Cold War. commissioned numerous American architects and designers including R.

American exhibition in Moscow, 1959, architecture American exhibition in Moscow, 1959, interior R. Buckminster Fuller Charles and Ray Eames

Nikita Chruschtschow and Richard Nixon at the american exhibition in Moscow, 1959

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This new catalog on the Austrian biennial project is the first to include the work of feld72

The work of feld72, which were recently acclaimed for their “Winecenter Kaltern” 7th International Architecture Biennial in project in South Tyrol, explores the inter- Sao Paulo Nov. 7th – Dec. 16th, 2007 section between architecture, applied urbanism and art. feld72 has focussed on a First collection of projects by the young series of “Urban Strategies” projects which architects of feld72 examine the issues surrounding the use and perception of public space ever since they started their office in 2002.

The Austrian contribution to the 7th Urbanism – for sale. feld72 International Architecture Biennial in Sao Paulo curated by Lilli Hollein is an exhibition Architecture, Design, Projects of 20 architectural projects and art projects Austrian Contribution to the created by feld72 and an installation made 7th International Biennial especially for the Biennal that continues the for Architecture in Sao Paulo office’s work in the field of “urban strategies”.

Lilli Hollein (Ed.)

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MRGD explores the experimental potential of the newest 3D and animation software

Digital technologies influence architecture, art and design. These new technologies are New volume in the RIEA Concepts Series generally used for preliminary design work and presentations, which hardly tap their Experimental visualization with experimental potential. Advanced 3D and 3D and animation software animation software was originally developed for PC games and the film industry and offers strong algorithms. These algorithms make it possible to simulate reality as we know it, but the challenge lies in creating new realities with them. Morphê MRGD The new volume in the RIEA Concepts Series introduces the “UrbanLobby” project by Melike Altinisik; Samer Chamoun; Daniel Widrig MRGD, the young London architecture office approx. 70 pp. started by Melike Altinisik, Samer Chamoun 80 ills and Daniel Widrig. The office recently won 18,0 x 21,0 cm the SwissArtsAward 2007 for its work and Softcover their projects have been shown in a number $39.95 Professional Discount of AA Gallery exhibitions. ISBN 978-3-211-75789-5 English RIEAeuropa Concepts Series

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Heinz-Mathoi-Streli Architekten Bauten und Projekte Buildings and Projects

Bettina Schlorhaufer (Ed.)

approx. 305 pp. numerous color ills. 22,5 x 29,0 cm Hardcover approx. $59.95 Trade Discount ISBN 978-3-211-75791-8 German / English

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The first monograph on the multi-faceted work of the Heinz-Mathoi-Streli architecture cooperative and their solo projects

The architects Karl Heinz, Dieter Mathoi and Innsbruck Frauen-Kopf Clinic, the most Jörg Streli have cooperated for 33 years. recent Heinz-Mathoi-Streli project (comple- The first monograph on What makes this cooperation special is that tion 2008). The project documentation also Heinz-Mathoi-Streli they have realized projects as a team and includes a selection of projects they have individually since they started their partner- realized under their individual names. Various construction projects in a ship. Their joint work incudes prominent Friedrich Achleitner and Otto Kapfinger rural-urban context projects such as the hospital care school in discuss the significance of the work of Feldkirch, the wood workshops for the Heinz-Mathoi-Streli in their contributions Contributions by Otto Kapfinger and Mödling Polytechnic School and a number of and explore the influence this architecture Friedrich Achleitner buildings for the M_Preis foodstore chain. cooperative has had on the architecture The book also includes the expansion of the scene in Tyrol and Austria.

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An exciting mix of architecture, information and sports

The work of Albert Wimmer is characterized by his incessant drive to find ideal answers to Masterful architecture for life’s most the constantly changing demands on important pastime architecture. His projects set international standards, also in stadium architecture. His Extraordinary photos, sketches, winning entry for the construction of the new ground plans and texts by respected Tivoli Stadium in Innsbruck was the founda- authors add up to an exciting picture tion for his work in stadium construction. The stadiums in Salzburg, Klagenfurt and Nicosia followed. Albert Wimmer is therefore responsible for three of the four Austrian Albert Wimmer stadiums for the EURO 2008 tournament. Striking architectural design elements Stadien / Stadiums characterize the impressive appearance of Marktplätze der Zukunft his stadiums. The underlying functional, Marketplaces of the Future economical and social framework conditions pose a new challenge for architecture: Albert Wimmer; Doris Rothauer (Eds.) the connection between functionalism and approx. 160 pp. experience. numerous color ills Contributions written by internationally 22,5 x 29,7 cm respected social and cultural scientists and Softcover by architecture theoreticians discuss the approx. $39.95 Professional Discount social, economical and cultural development ISBN 978-3-211-75830-4 German / English of football today. Wörthersee stadium

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School architecture in Slovenia – documentation of a selection of recently realized projects

Ever since Slovenia joined the European Union in 2004, Slovenian architecture has Essay on the history of school architecture attracted considerable interest worldwide. in Slovenia The internationally recognized projects of recent years are distinguished in particular Approximately 30 examples of recently by their innovativeness and self-assured realized projects originality. School construction, which has been a priority in Slovenia for decades, has Comparison with examples from Italy, acquired special significance as a result of Croatia and Austria the country’s economic upswing.

Contemporary School The school buildings presented in the pub- Architecture in Slovenia lication “Contemporary School Architecture 1991–2007 in Slovenia” were all constructed after 1991, following the establishment of the Republic Maja Ivanic; Spela Kuhar of Slovenia. In addition to the introduction by the two authors Maja Ivanic and Spela Kuhar, approx. 180 pp. 250 color ills. the book includes interviews on the subject 24,0 x 31,0 cm with five architects. The historical perspective Hardcover is conveyed in an essay, and the documen- $59.95 ted projects (approximately 30) are presented Professional Discount in pictures, diagrams and textual descriptions. ISBN 978-3-211-76844-0 English

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2nd Edition Solar-Assisted Air- Conditioning in Buildings A Handbook for Planners

Hans M. Henning (Ed.)

2nd revised edition XIV, 150 pp. 126 ills. 21,0 x 29,7 cm Hardcover $59.95 Professional Discount ISBN 978-3-211-73095-9 English

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New edition of a hugely important work

Air conditioning contributes significantly to However, until today only a few systems have the energy consumption of buildings in many been installed world-wide and design and Handbook for the design of solar assisted countries. A promising possibility for energy operation experiences are fairly poor. air-conditioning systems reduction is the use of solar thermal energy The goal of this handbook – meanwhile avail- in solar-assisted air conditioning systems. able in the 2nd edition – is to address this 2nd revised edition The main advantage of this technology is that lack and to support the planner in the design cooling loads and solar gains occur at the of solar assisted air-conditioning systems, same time, at least on a seasonal level. which use solar collectors as heat source.

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In ten issues each year architecture critics State-of-the-Art Photography provide information about the most impor- tant new buildings in Austria and throughout Essays and Interviews the world. State-of-the-art photography as well as plans and data offer an extensive Exhibitions and Product Information documentation of built projects. Essays by well-known authors on specific focal themes architektur.aktuell interpret architecture as a cultural task.

approx. 170 pp. Additionally architektur.aktuell offers a numerous ills. panorama of new products from the field of Din A4 design and building. Interviews, discussions Softcover $19.95 of current exhibitions as well as reviews of Professional Discount books and new media provide accentuated orientation in the current discourse. An arak 334 | 335: ISBN 978-3-211-75166-4 March 2008 events calendar and biographies of the arak 336: ISBN 978-3-211-75168-8 April 2008 architects whose work is presented ensure a arak 337: ISBN 978-3-211-75188-6 May 2008 arak 338: ISBN 978-3-211-75190-9 June 2008 comprehensive supply of information. arak 339: ISBN 978-3-211-75192-3 July 2008

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Photography, fashion and graphic design

Thomas Demand is known for his large-format photographic work. As the head designer of New volume in the successful Dior Homme, Hedi Slimane revolutionized “Art and Architecture in Discussion” Series men’s fashion. He is also known for his work as an artist. Peter Saville wrote design Photography, fashion and graphic design history with his album covers for British as artistic motives bands such as Joy Division, New Order and Pulp, and with his work for fashion designers. A discourse on the crossroads between Demand, Slimane, and Saville have all gone production and art beyond the limitations of a single type of media to realize their ideas and visions. Art, Fashion and Work for Hire Thomas Demand, Peter Saville, They discuss their work and motivation in a conversation in Berlin with the curator Hans Hedi Slimane, Hans Ulrich Ulrich Obrist and the editor Cristina Bechtler, Obrist and Cristina Bechtler in and also share their views on new forms of Conversation creativity, cross-border endeavors, fashion, architecture, photography, political art and T. Demand; P. Saville; H. Slimane; H. U. Obrist many more subjects.

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Fashionable Technology The Intersection of Design, Fashion, Science and Technology

Sabine Seymour

approx. 250 pp. numerous color ills. 17.0 x 24.0 cm Hardcover approx. $59.95 Professional Discount ISBN 978-3-211-74498-7 English

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Electronic textiles and wearable technology – a survey of the new generation of wearables

The interplay of electronic textiles and XS Labs, New York University, Hussein Chalayan, wearable technology, wearables for short, Cute Circuit or International Fashion Highly topical, unpublished projects of well- and fashion, design and science is a highly Machines are introduces by means of their known designers, companies and researchers promising and topical subject. Offered here latest, often still unpublished, project, and a is a compact survey of the theory involved survey of their work to date. A compact introduction to the theory and an explanation of the role technology The capital “Materials” present all the and application of electronic textiles and plays in a fabric or article of clothing. materials used in the filed of fashionable wearable technology The practical application is explained in technology. Given for the first time is a list of detail and numerous illustrations serve as all the relevant information on research A unique list of all the pertinent information clarification. Over 40 well-known designers, institutes, material companies, publications on a world-wide basis research institutes, companies and artists, etc. A must for all those wishing to know among them Philips, Burton, MIT Media Lab, everything about fashionable technology.

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Günter Brus – the first comprehensive publication on his printed graphical work

Günter Brus, who wrote art history as an action painter and picture poet and is best Günter Brus is one of the major figures in know for his action art, drawings, picture Austrian art after 1945, both as an action poems and writings, also created an exciting artist and as an illustrator and writer body of work with his graphical work. This work was in the background for a long time in Full-page illustrations of his etchings and view of the breadth of Brus’s oeuvre, but it lithographs from 1971 to 2007 has been increasing attention over the last years, and rightly so.

Printed graphics complement Günter Brus’s Günter Brus – way of thinking. The aggressive act of injuring metal with etchings is an extension of the Kratzspuren / Scratchmarks action art he is known for, more so than Etchings and Lithographs drawings. It isn’t about technical innovations 1971–2007 for him. It is solely about the, “intensity of a given metal”, says Günter Brus. Dietmar Haubenhofer (Ed.), in collaboration with Heike Curtze; Gerhard Sommer The etchings and lithographs he created from approx. 175 pp. 1971 to 2007 are presented in large-format numerous col. ills. illustrations in the first comprehensive publi- 21.0 x 29.7 cm cation dedicated to his work. These pieces Hardcover $39.95 and his printed graphical work are discussed Professional Discount in greater depth by the art and literary histo- ISBN 978-3-211-75903-5 German / English rian Johanna Schwanberg, the art printer Kurt Zein and the gallery owner Heike Curtze. Available April 2008

Art, Architecture and Art in Public Space since 1945

“Emancipation and Confrontation” documents both the emergence of a new, A survey of painting, sculpture, postwar generation of artists, and the way photography, video art, architecture and art has developed between then and now. In art in public space in Carinthia addition to painting, sculpture, photography, video art and installtions have also gained in “Emancipation and Confrontation”, an importance, and have been presented exhibition from June 27 to October 27, 2008 accordingly. Many of the artists native to in Klagenfurt, Nötsch and Ossiach, Austria Carinthia such as Maria Lassnig, Kiki Kogelnik, Bruno Gironcoli, Cornelius Kolig, Kurt Kocherscheidt or Heimo Zobernig have made Emanzipation und their mark on the history of art beyond the Konfrontation / Emancipation confines of Carinthia. and Confrontation Described here within a cultural-historical Art from Carinthia 1945 until context are the significant artistic Today. Architecture from developments that have taken place, and the protagonists introduced with important Carinthia since 1945 and Art in examples of their work. Carinthia’s contri- Public Space Today bution to modern architecture and art in Silvie Aigner (Ed.) public space is paid tribute to here for the first time. Projects are exemplarily presented approx. 560 pp., numerous col. ills. and the typically Carinthian prerequisites 24.0 x 30.0 cm. 3 volumes, not available separately. critically analyzed. A publication that offers a Hardcover profound insight into all spheres of artistic approx. $59.95; Professional Discount ISBN 978-3-211-75622-5 German / English / Slovenian production.

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Art as a means of feminist debate

Power, helplessness, the search for a “peaceful principle” as a human regulative Conclusive and comprehensive review of and constructive force, and for new know- the artist’s multi-faceted work ledge; failing, brooding and discovering – all themes that have preoccupied Marianne Essays by Elisabeth von Samsonow, Maderna in her sculptures, (space) Anja Fischer, Agnes Neumayr, installations, drawings, videostills and Hemma Schmutz and Helga Isak et al. performances and which she has woven into a philosophical tapestry of human life.

Women scientists from various disciplined, Marianne Maderna such as Elisabeth von Samsonow, Anja Historysteria Fischer, Agnes Neumayr, Hemma Schmutz and Helga Isak take up these different Marianne Maderna (Ed.) elements, piecing them together in their essays to form a multi-disciplinary network of approx. 300 Seiten contemporary, feminist-formulated questions numerous partly col. ills. 21,0 x 27,9 cm and explorations, but also of new perceptions, Hardcover answers and solutions. approx. $49.95 Professional Discount ISBN 978-3-211-75582-2 German / English

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A representative coverage of contemporary Austrian sculpture

Classical sculpture is deliberately left aside here; the book devoting itself to artistic Light-, sound- and video-sculpture, approaches that can be seen as representing assemblages, light installations and a wider understanding of sculpture. The kinetic art produced by Austrian artists focus is on light-, sound- and video- from 1980 to the present day sculpture, assemblages, light installations and kinetic art that have been produced since 1980 by such artists as Brigitte Kowanz, Bernhard Leitner, Vadim Kosmatschof, Marianne Maderna, Franz West, Gelitin, and Josef Trattner. Texts on their reception and The Love of Objects ones by the artists themselves on how they Aspects of Contemporary see their art accompany the large-scale Sculpture illustrations. The development of a broader approach to sculpture is illustrated in an Alexandra Schantl (Ed.) exemplary fashion by the work of Erwin Wurm.

256 pp. Numerous color ills Essays by Elisabeth von Samsonow, Patricia 21.0 x 25.4 cm Grzonka and Alexandra Schantl analyse Hardcover today’s understanding of sculpture and $54.95 compare it to the many-faceted positions of Professional Discount the past. Biographies of the approximately 50 ISBN 978-3-211-73219-9 German / English artists round off the work. Available March 2008

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The reknown brand ATARi is illuminated from all sides

The worldwide leader in development, publishing and distribution of interactive History, competence, values and mission of entertainment software for all existing a global brand platforms and the international advertising agency DDB have developed a brand First publication about this cult company foundation to analyse and define the brand ATARI. That was the rational basis of this very A must for fans and insiders emotional brandbook.

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Not so much designers as story-tellers, mythmakers, fabulators and tellers of tales, First publication about one of UK’s leading Thomas Manss & Company, based in London design agencies and Berlin, combine wit, visual subtlety and a narrative approach to create identities, A celebration of new initiatives, new literature, websites and environmental approaches, new solutions graphics for a range of clients including architects Foster + Partners, loudspeaker manufacturer Bowers & Wilkins, the International Design Center in Berlin, and others in Britain and Germany as well as Thomas Manss & Company elsewhere in Europe, in Russia and the USA. Conway Lloyd Morgan

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A new project by Helmut Jahn and Werner Sobek: research and administration centre for Merck Serono

In the year 2002 the planning team Murphy/ Jahn Architects (Chicago), Werner Sobek Innovative architecture, engineering and Ingenieure (Stuttgart) and Transsolar climate technology (Stuttgart) won an international competition announced by the Pharmaceutical Concern First publication about this outstanding Serono for the new development of a building research and administration centre in Geneva. The brief included a communicative Lavish layout and impressing large format atmosphere, architectonic-constructive photos elegance and innovative solutions in facade and climate technology. In addition, several Merck Serono, Geneva buildings of historical value were to be integrated into the design. A spectacular Helmut Jahn, Werner Sobek, Matthias Schuler feature is the large curved atrium glass roof

approx. 176 pp., 120 plans. color and b/w ills which opens up by a distance of almost 5 28.0 x 28.0 cm meters in good weather. Clothbound with dust jacket $65.00 The book offers a description of the project Professional Discount and its development both from a corporate ISBN 978-3-89986-095-5 English culture aspect and from the perspective of Available February 2008 the architect, the civil engineer, the climate experts and the critics.

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Milestones in product design – a voyage into a world that is moved by “design made in Germany”

Like virtually no other company in the industry, Wilkhahn shapes the international Famous furniture and product design image of “design made in Germany”. Inspired by the Deutscher Werkbund, Bauhaus and 100th anniversary of a worldwide renowned the Hochschule für Gestaltung (Academy of brand Design) in Ulm, a product culture has developed over the course of decades that has become a model of excellence. Milestones such as dynamic sitting or dynamic furnishing of conference interiors have set new standards throughout the 100 Years + world. Wilkhahn. Design made in Germany On the occasion of its 100th anniversary, Wilkhahn looks back on the past and offers 256 pp., 774 color and b/w ills insight into the present international 21.0 x 29.0 cm situation. And the images of today are an Clothbound with dust jacket indicator of the future. Quite incidentally, $55.00 changes within the furniture industry, Professional Discount ISBN 978-3-89986-094-8 English/German specific design history and globalization may be seen as opportunities for medium-sized Already available companies.

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