INTERNATIONAL NEW TITLES AUTUMN 2021 CONTENT 4/5 agps, Manuel Scholl, Marc Angélil, Sarah Graham Out of the Box 13 Spatial Configurations 6/7 Robert Jan van Pelt, Mark Podwal, Manuel Herz How Beautiful Are Your Dwelling Places, Jacob 8/9 An Atlas of Jewish Space, and a Synagogue for Babyn Yar Eric Höweler, J. Meejin Yoon Verify in Field Projects and Conversations Höweler + Yoon 10/11 Nicole McIntosh, Jonathan Louie (eds) Swissness Applied 12/13 Learning from New Glarus Matthew Wells Survey Architecture Iconographies 14/15 Andreas Lechner Thinking Design 16/17 Blueprint for an Architecture of Typology Susannah C. 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Architects on Dwelling 30/31 Dawn Finley, Mark Wamble System of Novelties 32/33 Dawn Finley and Mark Wamble, Interloop—Architecture Rachel Gottesman, Tamar Novick, Iddo Ginat, Dan Hasson, Yonatan Cohen Land. Milk. Honey. Animal Stories in Imagined Landscapes 34/35 Rui Jorge Garcia Ramos, Virgílio Borges Pereira, Marta Rocha Moreira, Sérgio Dias Silva (eds) 36 Hidden in Plain Sight New Titles Spring 2021 Politics and Design in State-Subsidized Not yet published Residential Architecture 37–39 Recent Releases and Key Titles 1 2/3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 A truly unique perspective on their own work: Swiss-Ameri- can architectural studio agps, with offices in Zurich and Los Angeles, has delved deep into their archive and woven a visual thread of some 160 illustrations that guides readers through this new book. Literally out of the box, from archival box and model crates, models, model photos, small hand-drawn studies, visu- A unique visual tour through alizations, but also photographs of realized buildings have re- emerged, covering agps’ entire work of decades of practice. the work of Zurich and Los Angeles-based firm agps, The images are organized according to 13 keywords: spatial configurations that characterize agps’ core design concepts and organized by 13 keywords: summarize central elements of their ideas. At the same time, - Object in Space they are terms that define the formal presence of their designs. - Framing The result is a multifaceted and inspiring insight into the work - Buffer of an international firm that proves just how important spatial - Conglomerate constellations are for the formulation of good architecture. Es- says by Sabine von Fischer as well as by Marc Angélil and Cary - Linear Siress, along with an index of all featured buildings and projects, - Under the Roof round off this unique volume. - Going Around - Hidden - Hovering - Blurred - Sequential - Void - Sculpted Manuel Scholl is a partner at agps in Zurich Marc Angélil is a founding partner at agps in and was Professor of Urban Design at Leibniz Zurich and taught as professor of architecture University in Hanover 2009–2014. and design at ETH Zurich 1994–2019. He has also taught as visiting professor at University Sarah Graham is a founding partner at agps in of Southern California in Los Angeles and is Los Angeles. She has taught as adjunct profes- currently Kenzo Tange Visiting Professor at sor at University of Southern California in Los Harvard Graduate School of Design. Angeles and as visiting professor at Rhode Is- land School of Design, Harvard Graduate School of Design, University of California Berkeley, and Nanjing University in China. She is also a Fellow of the American Institute of Architects (AIA). ISBN 978-3-03860-264-4 9 783038 602644 The first new book in a decade on renowned Swiss-American architecture studio agps A highly original visual exploration of three decades of agps’ design and building activities Presents the work of agps through largely never before published model photos, sketches, visualizations, and photographs of realized buildings from their archive agps, Manuel Scholl, Marc Angélil, Sarah Graham Out of the Box 13 Spatial Configurations Texts by Sabine von Fischer, Marc Angélil, and Cary Siress Book Design by Lina von Waldkirch and Jörg Schönenberger Hardback approx. 336 pages, 135 color and 24 b/w photographs and plans 17 × 24 cm 978-3-03860-264-4 English / German sFr. 49.00 | € 48.00 | £ 42.00 | $ 50.00 October 2021 (Europe) | February 2022 (US) 1 2 3 4/5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 On September 29 and 30, 1941, more than 33,000 Jewish men, women, and children were murdered in Babyn Yar, a ravine in Kiev. This event constituted the largest single massacre perpe- trated by German troops against Jews during World War II. In commemoration, a synagogue designed in the shape of a book will be inaugurated on the same site in 2021. When opened, the book building’s inner space and its furnishings unfold. This impressive movable structure was designed by Manuel Herz, whose studio runs offices in Basel and Cologne. This book for the first time shows the Babyn Yar synagogue captured in pho- tographs by celebrated architectural photographer Iwan Baan, A history of the Jewish concept of space: as well as through plans and model photos. - territorial: home, real as well as mythical Yet the core part of the book tells the story of the Jewish peo- - architectural: temple, synagogue, residence ple and of Judaism through the medium of space: the Jewish concept of space from biblical times to the present. Space as a - psychological leitmotif is understood in broad terms here: territorially, archi- - theological: the space of Talmudic debate tecturally, psychologically, theologically, intellectually, as well as - intellectual pertaining to the persecution of the Jewish people. Rather than - the space of the ghetto, displacement, in an abstract treatise, this story is told through 135 brief and the holocaust engaging texts by Robert Jan van Pelt, a leading Holocaust re- searcher and professor of architecture. Each of these reflections is illustrated with drawings and watercolors by New York-based artist Mark Podwal, who is known for his illustration of Elie Wi- esel’s works. Robert Jan van Pelt is renowned internationally Manuel Herz runs his own design and urban for his research on the Holocaust and the ar- planning studio in Basel and Cologne and chitecture of Auschwitz-Birkenau in particular, has gained renown for his design of the New as well as on the architecture of the Jewish Synagogue in Mainz. He teaches as an assistant diaspora. He is a professor of architecture at professor at University of Basel and is the editor University of Waterloo, Canada, and the author of the widely acclaimed book African Modernism of numerous books. (Park Books, 2014). Mark Podwal is a New York-based artist and the illustrator of many of Elie Wiesel’s books. He has also published several books of his own, and his work is represented in important public collections, such as New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art. ISBN 978-3-03860-267-5 9 783038 602675 A history of space and the concept of space in Jewish culture Offers insightful brief texts on 135 aspects of the Jewish concept of space from the Old Testament to the present, illustrated with drawings and watercolors, many especially made for this volume First book on the new synagogue of Babyn Yar near Kiev, offering plans and model photos Features previously unpublished images of the Babyn Yar synagogue by celebrated archi- tectural photographer Ivan Baan Robert Jan van Pelt, Mark Podwal, Manuel Herz How Beautiful Are Your Dwelling Places, Jacob An Atlas of Jewish Space, and a Synagogue for Babyn Yar Photographs by Iwan Baan Book design by Bruno Margreth In collaboration with the Babyn Yar Holocaust Memorial Center, Kiev Hardback approx. 352 pages, 186 color and b/w drawings and watercolors, photographs, and plans 16.5 × 24 cm 978-3-03860-267-5 English sFr. 39.00 | € 38.00 | £ 32.00 | $ 40.00 October 2021 (Europe) | February 2022 (US) 1 2 3 4 5 6/7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 Höweler + Yoon, founded in 2001 and based in Boston, gained early praise for ephemeral and interactive public projects and today is recognized for striking works that combine conceptual imagination and technological sophistication. The firm’s impres- sive body of work has expanded the scope of design beyond tra- ditional disciplinary boundaries and has won them numerous national and international awards. Verify in Field is Höweler + Yoon’s second book. Its title derives from a notational conven- tion on architectural drawings to indicate that the information is subject to unknown conditions in the field. The book highlights verification as an integral part of the design process and demon- strates it as a productive tool to test ideas and act on the world.