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publications + distribution fall/winter 2014 FALL/WINTER 2014 Frontlist 3 New Publisher Backlist 58 Backlist 61 Index 127 Order & Trade Information 134 rampub.com Architecture Architecture FORENSIS The Architecture of Public Truth Forensis (Latin for “pertaining to the forum”) engages the testimony of material objects—such as bones, ruins, toxic substances—as a method of central importance in interpreting how subjects are policed and governed by their states. Developed through the Forensic Architecture Project by theorist Eyal Weizman at Goldsmiths College, University of London, Forensis seeks to expand the scope of contemporary forensics to include a broader historical, theoretical, political and aesthetic context. At the heart of the book is a methodological experiment in which participating architects, artists, filmmakers, lawyers, and theorists employed new technologies and spatial research methods to investigate contemporary issues such as border regimes, urban warfare, and climate change. Investigations were undertaken in Pakistan, Palestine, the Amazon basin, Guatemala, Chile, Bangladesh, Yemen, the United States and the former Yugoslavia among others places. Evidence of state or corporate violence was unearthed for use by prosecution teams, civil society organizations, activist networks, human rights groups, and the United Nations. Innovative investigations aimed at producing new kinds of evidence in this rich collection of essays and research reports suggest many new ways that international prosecutorial teams, political organizations, the UN, and NGOs can engage the material world to open up forums for civic dispute and articulate new claims for justice. Contributors include Lawrence Abu Hamdan, Nabil Ahmed, Maayan Amir, Hisham Ashkar & Emily Dische- Becker, Ryan Bishop, Jacob Burns, Howard Caygill, Gabriel Cuéllar, Eitan Diamond, DAAR (Decolonizing Architecture Art Residency), Anselm Franke, Grupa Spomenik, Ayesha Hameed, Charles Heller, Helene Kazan, Thomas Keenan, Working Group Four Faces of Omarska, Alessandro Petti, Lorenzo Pezzani, SITU Research, Caroline Sturdy Colls and Eyal Weizman. July 2014, Exhibition catalog Softcover, 6 ¾ x 9 ½ inches, 764 pp, 825 b&w and color ISBN: 978-3-95679-011-9 Retail price: $40.00 STERNBERG PRESS, BERLIN FORENSIC ARCHITECTURE, LONDON Frontlist 3 JORGE AMBROSI Gabriela Etchegaray (Ed.) In the world of computer-designed architectural projects, young Mexican architect Jorge Ambrosi still works by hand, embracing drawing as a way of Architecture thinking and building. This first-time monograph illustrates a career that is already comprised of three different architectural firms (most recently LIGA, founded 2008), each practice investigating new conceptual and sustainabilty issues through commercial and residential projects. Sensitivity to the tectonics, materials, and the forms endemic to each landscape is the premise of his practice. Awards and international competitions include Ambrosi’s collaboration with Mauricio Rocha on the Pavilion for the recent Shanghai World Expo. Nine diverse projects are narrated through images, drawings and plans and accompanied by texts from contemporaries Miquel Adrià, Xavier Monteys and Diego Ricalde. July 2014, English & Spanish Softcover, 7 x 9 ½ inches, 104 pp, 7 b&w and 44 color ISBN: 978-607-7784-60-9 Retail price: $28.00 ARQUINE, MEXICO ARCHITECTURE AFTER REVOLUTION Alessandro Petti, Sandi Hilal & Eyal Weizman The stories and theoretical essays collected here argue that architecture is one of our most valuable instruments for achieving political change in real time. Located on the edge of the desert in the town of Beit Sahour in Palestine, the architectural collective Decolonizing Architecture Art Residency (DAAR) has since 2007 combined discourse, spatial interventions, collective learning, public meetings and legal and public policy challenges in an attempt to transform the physical structures of domination. Across five chapters, the authors lay out their ideological framework for action. Drawing heavily from the writings of political philosopher, Giorgio Agamben, and the Marxist “right to return,” the authors invite us to rethink political subjectivity from the point of view of the displaced. New building complexes and repurposed colonial remnants are presented through evocative architectural renderings, drawings, and collages alongside photographic and historical research. The result is a proposal for “the morning-after revolution.” July 2014, Softcover 5 ¾ x 8 ½ inches, 206 pp, 150 b&w and color ISBN: 978-3-943365-79-5 Retail price: $37.00 STERNBERG PRESS, BERLIN THE BAUHAUS BUILDING IN DESSAU Bauhaus paperback N° 5 Christin Irrgang & Ingolf Kern With its factory-like façade and rounded, vertical lettering spelling “B-A-U-H-A-U-S” – the Bauhaus Dessau building, designed and built by Walter Gropius in 1926, is the built manifestation of a revolution in design and education. In 2012, Germany publisher Spector Books began an extraordinary collaboration with the current Foundation Bauhaus Dessau to produce several new guide books on the rich history of the school. Designed by Berlin-based graphic designer Eike Konig, and available in English, volume 5 documents the history of the design and influence of the Bauhaus buildings. The pocket guides are printed in period black-and-white on a satisfying pulpy paper stock and accompanyies an exhibition on the same topic at the Foundation center. A must-have for all Bauhaus aficionados. July 2014, Softcover 4 ¼ x 5 ¾ inches, 176 pp, 35 b&w and 22 color plus floor plans ISBN: 978-3-944669-26-7 Retail price: $19.95 SPECTOR BOOKS, LEIPZIG BAUHAUS DESSAU FOUNDATION, GERMANY 4 CRITICAL SPATIAL PRACTICE 4 Architecture Subtraction: Keller Easterling Nikolaus Hirsch & Markus Miessen (Eds.) In the fourth volume of Critical Spatial Practice, architectural theorist Keller Easterling explores the impact of economic reversals on the urban built environment. Easterling, who teaches at the Yale School of Architecture, is the leading authority on network theory, and architectural infrastructure. The premise of this book is the concept of subtraction. All over the world, sprawl and overdevelopment have resulted in distended or failed markets; however, in failure, buildings could be designed to create their own alternative markets of durable spatial variables that can be managed and traded by citizens and cities rather than the global financial industry. Often treated as failure or loss, subtraction—when accepted as part of an exchange—can equal growth. Artworks by Metahaven, imagery ranging from Miley Cyrus to artwork by H. R. Giger are also featured. The Critical Spatial Practice series introduces new ideas in contemporary architecture. July 2014, Softcover 4 x 6 inches, 88 pp, 6 b&w and 9 color ISBN: 978-3-95679-046-1 Retail price: $22.00 STERNBERG PRESS, BERLIN DARK ARKITEKTER Julie Cirelli (Ed.) As Dark Arkitekter turns 25, this monograph examines the office’s influence on Norwegian architecture, design, planning, and landscape architecture. Dark’s consistently creative oeuvre and holistic, interdisciplinary approach includes projects like the much-celebrated Barcode plan—a redevelopment of the industrial port district of Oslo co-developed with Dutch superstars MVRDV in response to an international competition. Today, Dark Arkitekter is one of Norway’s most forward-thinking architectural offices, consistently delivering creative solutions with a high degree of functionality. This volume tells the story of the Dark’s rise to success and presents a wide range of their production over the last two and a half decades, and is accompanied by writings from critic Hans Ibelings, journalist Hugo Lauritz Jenssen and Julie Cirelli. July 2014, Softcover 8 ¾ x 9 ½ inches, 232 pp, 69 b&w and 144 color ISBN: 978-91-87543-11-1 Retail price: $68.00 ARVINIUS + ORFEUS PUBLISHING, SWEDEN DORTMUND LECTURES ON CIVIC ART New Civic Art Christoph Mäckler & Wolfgang Sonne Formed to enliven the debate on contemporary urban development, the German Institute for Civic Art examines urban development history from architectural, planning, economic and sociological perspectives. This volume, with full English translation, documents the fourth Dortmund Lectures on Urban Design (2011), featuring British and American experts who presented recent findings and new concepts from universities and planning institutions in the field of urban construction. Norman Garrick (US) addresses the New Urbanism movement in a German context; Harald Bodenschatz (GR) considers transportation and place-making in postmodern communities; Ben Bolgar (UK) asks what can be borrowed from the development patterns of historic Britain for contemporary sustainability; Sergio Porta (UK) considers excessively bureaucratic developments in planning codes; Matthew Carmona (UK) takes a delightfully eccentric approach to the intersection of climate science; and Michael Hebbert (UK) looks at plot sizes as a scaled approach to development. July 2014, Softcover 8 ¼ x 9 ¾ inches, 112 pp, 122 b&w illustrations and plans ISBN: 978-3-7212-0847-4 Retail price: $42.00 VERLAG NIGGLI, SWITZERLAND Frontlist 5 FRANKFURT 1950–1959 Architekturführer (Architectural Guide) Petra Schwerdtner & Wilhelm E. Opatz (Eds.) Architecture Frankfurt 1950–1959 is the first in an exciting new series dedicated to the city’s post-WWII architectural history. Taking a decade-by-decade approach, the series presents ten examples of iconic buildings, some of which are no longer extant. Volume I includes Golden Hall,