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Birkhäuser Verlag Lars Müller Publishers Springer Wien New York avedition Princeton Architectural Press

ARCHITECTURE LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE DESIGN

New Titles Spring 2009 CONTENT

Scale: Open | Close Tadao Ando Art and Architecture On site see page 4 see page 17 see page 19 see page 23

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Construction/Materials 22 The Venetian City Garden 24 Limited Edition 4 Scale: Open | Close 22 Recent Waterscapes 26 Pattern 6 Detail Practice: Acoustics and Sound 23 On site 27 Hidden Forms Insulation 28 Pierre Charpin 7 Refurbishment Construction Manual 28 iF yearbook product 2009 8 Prefabricated Systems 29 Design Award of the Federal 9 Smart Surfaces – and their Republic of Germany 2009 Application in Architecture and 29 form - The Making of Design Design 10 Building Integrated Photovoltaics 11 Building with Earth

Types/Functions 12 Living for the Elderly 13 New Forms of Collective Housing in Europe 14 In Detail: Exhibitions and displays

Basics 15 Basics Urban Analysis 15 Basics Barrier-free Planning 15 Basics Facade Layers

Architects/Buildings 16 The Rhetoric of Modernism - Le Corbusier as a Lecturer 17 Tadao Ando 18 Gatermann + Schossig 18 91°

Theory/History 19 Art and Architecture

Cities/Regions/Urbanism 20 Quartier Ecoparc / Ecoparc Quarter 20 ’scape 21 Small Town Sustainability CONTENT

Limited Edition Allied Works Fashionable The Wayfinding see page 24 Architectue Technology Handbook see page 34 see page 39 see page 45

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30 Dis-/Orientation 2 Architects Design/Photography 30 You Are the City 38 99+ 44 Graphic Design Theory 31 The Cover Art of ECM 38 VIC-M 44 There’s Nothing Funny About Design 32 Corporate Diversity Vienna International Centre 45 The Way nding Handbook 32 The Dolder Grand Conference Building M 46 Fresh Dialogue 9 33 Dynamic Identites 38 architektur.aktuell 46 Sites of Impact 34 Allied Works Architectue 47 The Handy Book of Artistic Printing 35 Metahaven Design 36 Findings on Elasticity 39 Fashionable Technology Architecture 36 I Wish I Had a Big Studio in the 39 Fashion in Context 48 Digital Fabrications Center of the City 49 Le Corbusier and the Maisons Jaoul 37 A landscape, so intimate and Art 49 Paul Rudolph: The Florida Houses aloof – Chaviolas 40 Slideshow 50 The Miller Hull Partnership 37 Felice Varini 40 Josip Kaiser 50 Peter Rose 40 Stark bewölkt / Clouds up High 51 Think/Make 41 Art and Cultural Policy 51 Young Architects 10 in China 41 Oberhuber Architecture Theory 52 Architecture Oriented Otherwise AVEDITION 52 Donogoo–Tonka or the Miracles of Science 42 NEW TALENTS 52 Biopolitics and the Emergence of 42 Caravaning Design Award 2008/2009 Modern Architecture 43 Media facades Landscape Architecture 53 Andrea Cochran: Landscapes 53 Bamboo Fences

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Jan-Hendrik Hafke, Anette Hochberg, Joachim Raab Open | Close

PAGES approx. 160 ILLS. approx. 150 in color, 100 b/w FORMAT 22.0 x 28.0 cm BINDING Softcover PRICE approx. EUR 39.90 / GBP 31.90 ISBN 978-3-7643-9961-0 English

Available June 2009

Scale: Construction Design

The new Scale series provides practical tools textbooks which can be used independently for architects and students of architecture. of each other, but also supplement and build Follows the development of constructional Each volume analyses the construction on each other to constitute a reference work solutions from the first idea to the call for process from the fi rst design idea to the call on construction design. bids for bids, covering the fundamental design principles and concrete details. Designing and Constructing Openings Provides the necessary information for The series title, Scale, signifi es that the design, construction, and realization perfect detail is the result of a process The fi rst volume of the SCALE series – through various levels of conception and Open | Close – examines a simple but effective Drawings of details show constructional design, from the abstract to the particular. building element, the Opening, illuminating solutions for realized design ideas Although the focus is on communicating the path from idea to realization in its various hands-on constructional know-how, Scale’s facets. Intelligible organization facilitates quick, innovative presentation does not just simply targeted consultation show solutions, but demonstrates how to The concept of Open | Close includes not only develop them. elements such as windows, doors, gates, Each volume presents essential information loggias and skylights, which communicate for design and implementation, from the fi rst between exterior and interior space, but also sketches to details of connectors in a scale of the structure of the building itself. Because 1:10. Consistency in the plans and drawings, Openings defi ne and determine the clear hierarchies in the headings and relationship of the building to public space, structure, and a clear, easily readable layout they also determine the character of the site. with helpful captions simplify the search for The analysis of conception, form and specifi c information, and make Scale volumes construction of opening elements is ideal for quick, targeted consultation. supplemented and illustrated by international Scale is conceived as a series of practical examples of best applications.

Related Titles: Basics Facade Apertures; 2007; 978-3-7643-8466-1; EUR 12.90 / GBP 9.90

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Eckard Mommertz Detail Practice: Acoustics and Sound Insulation Principles, Planning, Examples PAGES approx. 112 ILLS. approx. 240 in color, 130 b/w FORMAT 21.0 x 29.7 cm BINDING Softcover PRICE approx. EUR 34.90 / GBP 26.90 ISBN 978-3-7643-9953-5 English

Available March 2009

A handbook on planning the acoustics of spaces

Acoustics and protection against noise do not This practice-oriented volume provides expert perhaps number among the primary planners and architects but also interested Presents typologically specific acoustic parameters that normally infl uence the developers with practical knowledge on the and soundproofing measures in detail design of a building. Nevertheless, at the very subject of acoustics in high-rise architecture, latest when the lecturer in the seminar room beginning with standards on methods of Communicates practical knowledge about cannot be heard, when the noise level in an planning and prognosis and moving on to the the acoustics of architecture and of rooms open-plan offi ce reaches unbearable levels, areas of acoustics of rooms and architecture and protecting against noise in urban or when a neighbor’s noise deprives you of and noise protection in urban planning. planning as well as methods for planning sleep, it becomes clear just how essential Typologically organized chapters comment on and prognosis acoustic can be to everyday well-being. It is proper approaches to the subject with not just concert halls or the amphitheaters of examples of different types of building such With extensive examples of built projects antiquity that call for acoustic quality; rather, as residential and offi ce buildings, schools, every building, indeed every room, has an kindergartens, lecture halls, event spaces, acoustic dimension that changes according to and so on, because appropriate acoustic the nature of its particular requirements. conditions make an essential contribution to the success of a project. CONSTRUCTION | MATERIALS | 7

Georg Giebeler et al. Refurbishment Manual Maintenance, Conversions, Extensions PAGES approx. 272 ILLS. approx. 400 in color, 1100 b/w FORMAT 23.0 x 29.7 cm

BINDING Softcover PRICE approx. EUR 69.90 / GBP 54.90 ISBN 978-3-7643-9947-4 English

BINDING Hardcover with Dustjacket PRICE approx. EUR 110.00 / GBP 84.90 ISBN 978-3-7643-9946-7 English

Available June 2009

An indispensable planning tool for building tasks involving existing structures

A practical planning aid with constructional solutions for various refurbishment tasks

Categorizes typical weak points of buildings

With a specially developed timeline for evaluating concrete building tasks

Planning tasks involving existing structures aid on the subject of refurbishment, providing are currently among the most common types a basic introduction to the relevant aspects of of contract, and almost every structure makes building physics, fi re protection, sustainability different demands and raises individual and energy, hazardous materials, construction problems. Refl ecting this state of affairs, materials for interior and façade, historic there are a dizzying number of publications preservation, and technical building on the market, most of which are quite equipment. It offers concrete tips on planning specialized. The Refurbishment Manual cuts steps, methods of building analysis, and cost through this jungle of publications. It defi nes benchmarks, as well as clear constructional terms and concepts, combines the narrowly solutions with built projects as examples. A focused perspectives of the specialists, and unique feature of the volume is the specially offers concrete approaches to this wide- developed timeline, which allows the planner ranging topic. to quickly grasp, categorize, and evaluate a The Refurbishment Manual closes the gap concrete building task and thus obtain an between basic constructional literature and effi cient planning overview. one-sided, highly specialized technical literature. It constitutes a practical planning Related Titles: In Detail: Building in Existing Fabric; 2003; 978-3-7643-1120-9; EUR 44.90 / GBP 34.90

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Ulrich Knaack, Sharon Chung-Klatte, Reinhard Hasselbach Prefabricated Systems Principles of Construction PAGES approx. 136 ILLS. approx. 125 b/w, 125 drawings FORMAT 21.0 x 27.0 cm BINDING Softcover. PRICE approx. EUR 29.90 / GBP 22.90 ISBN 978-3-7643-8747-1 English

Available May 2009

Introduction to designing and building with prefabricated systems

For a number of years, modular construction different systems and their possible uses, – the use of prefabricated elements in particularly in the areas of housing, ofﬁ ce, For advanced architecture students and architecture – has once again become a and industrial buildings. It explains the practicing architects subject of lively discussion and debate. Long processes and components of modular written off as monotonous, today’s building construction and the behavior of the various An authoritative survey components are actually highly differentiated materials when this construction approach is and capable of supporting and enhancing the used. The authors offer strategies for planning With numerous drawings prepared architect’s creativity. Numerous structures and designing with prefabricated systems so especially for the book work with prefabricated components; for that the architect can use them productively. single-family homes the ﬁ gure is ninety-eight Numerous drawings explain the principles of percent, and modular systems are available modular construction, while built examples that meet high aesthetic standards. forge a link between those principles and the This book provides an overview of the various practical activity of building.

Oskar Leo Kaufmann, Johannes Kaufmann, system 01

Single family home, Haller system Visualization of office building system

Related Titles: Components and Connections; 2009; 978-3-7643-8669-6; EUR 29.90 / GBP 22.90 Components and Systems; 2008; 978-3-7643-8656-6; EUR 79.90 / GBP 62.90 Best Designed Modular Houses; 2005; 978-3-89986-055-9; EUR 29.90 / GBP 24.90 CONSTRUCTION | MATERIALS | 9

Thorsten Klooster (ed.) Smart Surfaces

PAGES approx. 144 ILLS. approx. 120 in color, 100 b/w FORMAT 21.0 x 28.0 cm BINDING Softcover PRICE approx. EUR 39.90 / GBP 31.90 ISBN 978-3-7643-8812-6 English

Available June 2009

The handbook for the use of innovative surfaces in architecture and design

Whether luminous wallpaper, curtains that Smart Surfaces brings these design fi elds into produce electricity, or self-cleaning window- the creative focus of planners and designers, Offers planning fundamentals for practical panes, more than ever before innovations in and emphasizes concrete possibilities for utilization surface technologies are infl uencing and will applications. Planning fundamentals, continue to revolutionize the use of materials including cost-benefi t analyses, and Production, function, properties and in architecture, interior design, and design. questions related to building, including applications of innovative materials The new smart surfaces expand considerably details of constructions, are presented in a design possibilities for architects and clear and intelligible way. The various Potential of new materials for architects designers. Their use leads to new typologies materials are introduced and their potentials and designers and concepts that can also do justice to assessed. Smart Surfaces not only offers a changes in expectations for buildings and good overview of the themes but also provides With numerous inspiring examples of the design. inspiration for making use of these new application of smart surfaces The impression we have of a building or an surfaces. object is increasingly determined by its surface qualities. Designers are thus A book for everyone who wishes to be inspired confronted anew with the question of by the possibilities for innovative surface “appropriate materials” when dealing with technologies. smart surfaces.

Related Titles: Nano Materials in Architecture, Interior Architecture and Design; 2008; 978-3-7643-7995-7; EUR 39.90 / GBP 29.90 In Detail: Materials for Interiors; 2008; 978-3-7643-8810-2; EUR 65.00 / GBP 49.90 10 | CONSTRUCTION | MATERIALS

Simon Roberts, Nicolò Guariento Building Integrated Photovoltaics A Handbook PAGES approx. 128 ILLS. approx. 100 in color, 50 b/w FORMAT 21.0 x 29.7 cm BINDING Softcover PRICE approx. EUR 39.90 / GBP 29.90 ISBN 978-3-7643-9948-1 English

Available May 2009

A handbook on how to integrate photovoltaics into building skins

Includes the most recent products and systems

Explains the installation of various facade systems

Contains clear construction details

Information on maintenance and replacement

Photovoltaics is one of the most promising as solar rooﬁ ng tiles and solar membranes technologies for global energy production in are available for particular applications. the context of the energy crisis and climate This book explains the technology, presents change. the available products, and communicates Photovoltaic modules are now available in clearly how they are used in buildings, with a such a wide range of forms that nearly all of particular focus on large-scale buildings. the usual ﬂ at parts of buildings can be It provides architects with all of the necessary provided with photovoltaic capabilities. In know-how to provide a new or existing addition to producing energy, these modules building with a photovoltaic system, covering offer a number of synergistic effects, since both planning and implementation. increasingly they are integrated as glazing Last but not least, it is a valuable practical elements and can perform such other instrument to prepare for communicating functions as weather protection, solar control, with the relevant manufacturers and clients. and providing privacy. Special modules such

Related Titles: Energy Manual; 2008; 978-3-7643-8764-8; EUR 110.00 / GBP 84.90 Energy-Efficient Architecture; 2006; 978-3-7643-7253-8; EUR 79.90 / GBP 59.90

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This award-winning lighting design studio provides unique insight into the process of lighting design

More than any building material, light infl uences our well being, effects Packed with informative project architectural qualities and stages documentations with images, illustrations architectural designs and surfaces. The New and technical drawings York-based Offi ce for Visual Interaction (OVI) goes beyond simply illuminating buildings – A process oriented handbook for the fi rm sees lighting as a way to actively architects, designers and students shape space, complement architecture, integrate technology, and save energy.

The inventive lighting solutions are distinguished by a highly developed sensitivity Enrique Peiniger, Jean M. Sudin (Eds.) to place and by a built-in engineering Lighting Design smartness rather than by a fi xed style. The Offi ce for Visual Interaction fi rst monograph on this award-winning PAGES approx. 144 lighting design studio, explores OVI’s work ILLS. approx. 225 in color, 125 b/w through descriptive texts, lush photographs, FORMAT 22.0 x23.0 cm detailed drawings, and working sketches, BINDING Softcover with dustjacket providing unique insight into the process of PRICE approx. EUR 49.90 / GBP 39.90 ISBN 978-3-7643-9957-3 English lighting design from concept to realization. Featured projects include illumination for Available May 2009 contemporary landmarks such as Renzo Piano’s New York Times skyscraper, Zaha Hadid’s Rosenthal Center for Contemporary Art, a prototype LED streetlight for New York City, and the lighting design for Enric Miralles’ Scottish Parliament complex. Related Titles: Detail Practice: Lighting Design; 2006; 978-3-7643-7493-8; EUR 34.50 / GBP 27.99

2nd rev. Now in a second and revised edition: the technology and ed. design of building with earth

For a number of years, the healthy and environment-friendly building material earth, Documentation of 30 international in common use for thousands of years, has earth buildings been enjoying increasing popularity, including in industrialized nations. In hot dry and The characteristics of the building temperate climate zones, earth offers material earth and its applications in numerous advantages over other materials. modern architecture Its particular texture and composition also holds great aesthetic appeal.

The second and revised edition of this handbook offers a practical systematic Gernot Minke 2nd revised edition overview of the many uses of earth and techniques for processing it. Its properties Building with Earth and physical characteristics are described in Design and Technology of a informed and knowledgeable detail. Sustainable Architecture PAGES 208 The author’s presentation reﬂ ects the rich ILLS. 90 in color, 236 b/w, 260 drawings and varied experiences gained over thirty FORMAT 22.0 x 28.0 cm years of building earth structures all over the BINDING Softcover world. Numerous photographs of construction PRICE approx. EUR 44.90 / GBP 35.99 sites and drawings show the concrete ISBN 978-3-7643-8992-5 English execution of earth architecture. Available February 2009

Related Titles: Building with Straw; 2005; 978-3-7643-7171-5; EUR 39.50 / GBP 31.99 12 | TYPES/FUNCTIONS

Eckhard Feddersen, Insa Lüdtke Living for the Elderly A Design Manual PAGES approx. 240 ILLS. approx. 200 in color, 200 b/w, 400 drawings FORMAT 24.0 x 33.0 cm BINDING Hardcover PRICE approx. EUR 89.90 / GBP 69.90 ISBN 978-3-7643-8871-3 English

Available May 2009

A comprehensive guide to designing quality housing for older people

Substantial contributions by experts and a typology of exemplary international projects

Comprehensive presentation of the subject as it concerns architecture, building, open spaces, and urban planning

Presents forward-looking, integrated concepts and designs

First volume in revised and optimized Design Manual series

Quality living in old age is one of the important This volume in the series Design Manuals topics of our time. Architects and builders can optimizes the concept, content, and contribute innovative types of housing, presentation of the series to improve its use intelligent concepts for barrier-free buildings, by the customer. A third of the volume and advanced systems of care for people who provides detailed expert information from are fragile or suffering from dementia. around ﬁ fteen contributors, including general Intelligent design solutions can push back the questions of energy management and limits on housing and care, on residential sustainability, open space, and product architecture and care facilities, on individual, design. A section of examples ordered by type collective, and assisted forms of housing, and presents approximately forty international even on the various phases of life in favor of a buildings in analyses of up to eight pages comprehensive trend toward integrated forms that offer exemplary solutions for multi- of housing. generational buildings, assisted living, housing for dementia sufferers and other Related Titles: target groups, old persons’ homes, nursing In Detail: Housing for People of All Ages; 2007; homes, and integrated projects. 978-3-7643-8119-6; EUR 65.00/ GBP 49.90 New Approaches to Housing for the Second Half of Life; 2008;978-3-7643-8635-1; EUR 29.90/ GBP 22.90 Universal Design; 2008; 978-3-7643-8718-1; EUR 49.90 / GBP 39.90

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arc en rêve centre d’architecture (ed.) New Forms of Collective Housing in Europe

PAGES approx. 296 ILLS. approx. 64 in color, 204 b/w FORMAT 24.0 × 32.0 cm BINDING Hardcover PRICE approx. EUR 69.90 / GBP 54.90 ISBN 978-3-7643-8946-8 English

Available February 2009

New concepts and perspectives on collective housing

A fascinating collection of innovative solutions

With highly topical photo documentation, some of which is previously unpublished

A reference work and workbook for architects and planners

Living individually while feeling comfortable typological criteria. This has resulted in a within the framework of a collective building: fascinating picture of a wide variety of this lifestyle trend is becoming increasingly solutions that differ according to country and evident. This inventory of new forms of sociopolitical and cultural context. collective housing in Europe documents forty- With contributions from Nick Barley, Bruce ﬁ ve built projects that can serve as models. Bégout, Stefano Boeri, Albert Ferré, Francine Selected by leading international Fort, Caroline Goossens, Andrej Hrausky, Hans architectural critics, all of the buildings—by Ibelings, Anna Agata Kantarek, Bart Lootsma, young, little-known architects as well as by Michel Lussault, Rafaël Magrou, Ilka & such renowned names as Foreign Ofﬁ ce, Andreas Ruby, Marcus Steinweg, Maria Manuelle Gautrand, MVRDV, and Miller & Topolcanska, Katrien Vandermarliere, Jean- Maranta—are presented in texts and images Didier Vincent, and Chris Younès. and analyzed according to the same

Related Titles: In Detail: High-Density Housing; 2004; 978-3-7643-7113-5; EUR 65.00 / GBP 51.99 14 | TYPES/FUNCTIONS

Christian Schittich (ed.) In Detail: Exhibitions and displays Museum design concepts, brand presentation, trade-fair design PAGES approx. 176 ILLS. approx. 150 in color, 270 b/w FORMAT 23.0 x 29.7 cm BINDING Dustjacket PRICE EUR 65.00 / GBP 50.00 ISBN 978-3-7643-9955-9 English

Available June 2009

Practical knowledge from briefing to implementation

From trade fair stands to museum concepts, brands, the phenomenon has come full circle. the successful transfer of information to a Not infrequently, planners today must not Presents extensively documented project wide public audience relies on effective only accomplish the demanding task of examples staging and appropriate architectural design. designing an exhibition; they must also meet While museum exhibitions focus on the art of full service demands, from brieﬁ ngs and With production photographs from the communicating content, with commercial CI design to realization. How to do this construction site aspects tending to play a more subordinate successfully is the subject of short articles role, the goal of trade fair stands and by authors from the relevant ﬁ elds. With Includes the most important planning showrooms is to convey a brand image. And at extensively documented project examples aspects and production methods least since large companies like BMW and organized by presentation or exhibition type, Mercedes began introducing commercialized these valuable technical articles offer a museum concepts designed to stage their detailed roadmap to practical success.

Related Titles: Happening; 2007; 978-3-7643-7976-6; EUR 59.90 / GBP 46.90 New Exhibition Design 01; 2008; 978-3-89986-028-3; EUR 49.90 / GBP 31.90

Advertising in: BASICS | 15 Analyzing and understanding urban structures

Basics Urban Analysis is a new addition to the module on city planning. Building on the An important foundation for all city elements of cities as described in the volume planning efforts Basics Urban Building Blocks, it provides techniques for analyzing cities. As a basis for A clear and accessible methodology for city planning and architectural design work, a analyzing cities Gerrit Schwalbach solid understanding of the existing and Basics Urban Analysis surrounding urban structures is Concise and practical knowledge for PAGES approx. 80 indispensable. This volume not only explains working in cities ILLS. approx. 60 in b/w the possible approaches; it also describes in FORMAT 15.5 × 22.0 cm BINDING Softcover practical terms how to implement those PRICE approx. EUR 12.90 / GBP 9.90 approaches in the areas analyzed and how to ISBN 978-3-7643-8938-3 English evaluate the data one has collected.

Available May 2009

Related Titles: Basics Urban Building Blocks; 2007; 978-3-7643-8460-9; EUR 12.90 / GBP 9.90

Open to everyone: designing and planning barrier-free buildings

Buildings are not conceived solely with average people in mind; they offer a protective Explains what “barrier-free” means in shell for everyone. Basics Barrier-free practice Planning improves our understanding of the needs of people with disabilities such as Perceiving a building and the requirements for its use Isabella Skiba, Rahel Züger limited mobility or imparied vision, children, and the elderly, all of whom have special Basics Barrier-free Planning requirements when using a building. The book Integration into the design (spaces to PAGES approx. 80 presents possibilities for designing buildings move, orientation, etc.) ILLS. approx. 80 in b/w FORMAT 15.5 x 22.0 cm and their spaces so they can be used by Designing the details (doors, thresholds, BINDING Softcover everyone. PRICE approx. EUR 12.90 / GBP 9.90 signage, etc.) ISBN 978-3-7643-8959-8 English

Available May 2009 Related Titles: Basics Design and Living; 2006; 978-3-7643-7647-5; EUR 12.90 / GBP 9.90 Universal Design; 2008; 978-3-7643-8718-1; EUR 49.90 / GBP 39.90

Weather protection, safety, load transfer, and design

Basics Facade Layers expands upon the volume Basics Facade Apertures by considering the A step-by-step introduction to the requirements for external building envelopes constructional principles of facades and the constructional approaches to meeting them. It provides an illustrated, practical Complex requirements simply and introduction to the broad and varied array of straightforwardly explained Michael Pelken, Markus Hermann such requirements, from the protection of the Basics Facade Layers interior to building physics and design PAGES approx. 80 aesthetics all the way to energy production. ILLS. approx. 60 in b/w FORMAT 15.5 x 22.0 cm BINDING Softcover PRICE approx. EUR 12.90 / GBP 9.90 ISBN 978-3-7643-8929-1 English

Available May 2009

Related Titles: Façades; 2007; 978-3-7643-7962-9; EUR 29.90 / GBP 24.90 16 | ARCHITECTS/BUILDINGS

Tim Benton The Rhetoric of Modernism - Le Corbusier as a Lecturer

PAGES approx. 240 ILLS. approx. 100 in color, 65 b/w FORMAT 20.0 x 27.0 cm BINDING Hardcover PRICE EUR 59.90 / GBP 46.90 ISBN 978-3-7643-8944-4 English

Available March 2009

Le Corbusier’s lectures – a key to the architect’s work and the staging of architectural modernism

Beginning in the “heroic” period of the 1920s, architectural conception that every advanced Le Corbusier presented his work to the world architectural position and practice must still An essential component of Le Corbusier’s in his lectures: in Paris and Rome, Geneva and come to terms with today. work Zurich, Barcelona and Brussels, Prague and After presenting the lectures in detail in a Moscow, Buenos Aires and Rio de Janeiro, as series of thematic chapters, the ﬁ nal third of Beautifully illustrated with the drawings well as at Columbia University in New York. the book reproduces ﬁ ve pivotal lectures from for the lectures In this volume, the numerous excerpts, the 1920s and 1950s. preliminary notes, accompanying drawings, Presented by a world famous expert on Le and photographs that Le Corbusier produced The contemporary relevance of Le Corbusier’s Corbusier in connection with his lectures are presented work is also underscored by the comprehensive and contextualized by one of the leading exhibition Le Corbusier – The Art of Architecture. experts on the great architect. In them we see Organized by the Vitra Design Museum in modernism at work. Always a great rhetorician cooperation with the Netherlands Architecture and a master at staging his own persona, Institute and the Royal Institute of British Le Corbusier takes the arguments and Architects, it is scheduled to open in 2009 at strategies, seminal ideas and most convincing the Barbican Art Gallery in London. highlights and fuses them into an

Related Titles: The Modulor and Modulor 2; 2000; 978-3-7643-6188-4; EUR 36.92 / GBP 29.99 Le Corbusier Talks with Students; 1999; 978-1-56898-196-3; EUR 11.90 / GBP 10.99 ARCHITECTS/BUILDINGS | 17

Yann Nussaume Tadao Ando

PAGES approx. 192 ILLS. approx. 130 in color, 30 drawings FORMAT 21.5 x 24.0 cm BINDING Hardcover PRICE approx. EUR 39.90 / GBP 31.90 ISBN 978-3-0346-0005-7 English

Available May 2009

The work of the Pritzker Prize–winning architect in a systematic and substantial survey

Conveys knowledgeably Ando’s distinctive way of thinking and intentions

Written for architects as well as for a broad audience

Chapel of the Light, Ibaraki, Japan, 1989 Komyo-ji Temple, Saijo, Japan, 2000; interior view

The minimalist concrete architecture of Tadao principles and constants to which Ando’s Ando has roots both in Japanese traditions and buildings can be traced back, and at the same in Western architecture. This book begins with time he places them in the appropriate context both contexts: it explores how Ando unites within the architect’s characteristic ideas and Japanese tradition with a contemporary intentions. Western architectural idiom. By analyzing systematically and chronologically Yann Nussaume teaches at the Ecole the roots and sources that have inﬂ uenced the Nationale Supérieure d’Architecture in Paris thinking of the Pritzker Prize–winning and is the author of numerous publications on architect, the author communicates the Japanese and Chinese architecture. Komyo-ji Temple, Saijo, Japan, 2000 18 | ARCHITECTS/BUILDINGS

“Beautiful order – rigorous beauty”: the architecture of a leading German practice

Dörte Gatermann and Elmar Schossig are among the leading architects of their Detailed presentations of projects generation in Germany. In the nearly twenty- and structures fi ve years since they founded their fi rm, they have realized a remarkably broad range of Highlights special artistic, spatial, building tasks, from single-family houses to and technical concepts administration buildings and complex structures for industry and technology. Their works combine high standards of climate, material, and energy effi ciency and functional processes, construction, and aesthetics with a highly developed empathy Klaus-Dieter Weiss for users’ needs. Lighting, surfaces, textures, Gatermann + Schossig smell, temperature, acoustics, and colors are Space Art Technology the artistic and space-defi ning elements of PAGES approx. 240 their practice. ILLS. approx. 220 in color, 200 b/w, 100 drawings The volume is organized by building task – FORMAT 26.5 x 28.0 cm housing construction, commercial BINDING Hardcover construction, administration, and culture. PRICE approx. EUR 69.90 / GBP 52.90 ISBN 978-3-7643-9944-3 English/German The essays are closely linked to the projects presented and offer an authoritative overview Available Februrary 2009 of the spatial, artistic, and technical aspects of the architects’ work.

Museum of Romans, Xanten, Germany

The crossover magazine for architects. A new issue dedicated to speed

91° is a crossover magazine for the limited leisure time that architects spend away from The crossover magazine that seeks out ofﬁ ce and construction site. More than an architects in their free time architecture magazine, it chooses a single thematic focus for each issue and takes up a A wide-ranging, cross-disciplinary wide variety of different aspects within it. Its magazine that plays outside the articles deal with literature, art, and travel; architectural sandbox technology, photography, and research; as well as house and home, fashion, and sports. With many articles by writers, artists, and As its subtitle rightly suggests, 91° offers its journalists readers “more than architecture.” This third issue of 91° is devoted to the Eternit-Werke Ludwig Hatschek, Cembrit Holding AS (Eds.) subject of “speed.” It’s hard to resist the Andrea Nussbaum, Editor-in-chief temptation to accelerate, especially when a 91° fast-paced life is regarded as a virtue. Even architecture can no longer avoid the pursuit of More than Architecture speed. In an essay, David Staretz faces off PAGES approx. 152 with the phenomenon of time pressure. Also, ILLS. approx. 200 in color 91° rides through Bregenzerwald on an RC8 FORMAT 24.0 x 32.0 cm BINDING Softcover Superbike with Carlo Baumschlager, and PRICE approx. EUR 24.30 / GBP 20.00 readers learn the meaning of the word ISBN 978-3-7643-9962-7 German/English “speed.” Laurids Ortner opens the door to his Vienna loft and reveals a timeless dwelling. Available December 2008 Also available as a standing order The story “Elsewhere” focuses on Sicily and the issue of new architecture on this Mediterranean island rich in tradition. The pace is less hectic in Oslo: the Norwegians Jensen & Skodvin teach all admirers of spectacular form that what ultimately counts is not time but the construction site. THEORY/HISTORY | 19

Christian Bjone Art and Architecture Strategies in Collaboration PAGES approx. 192 ILLS. approx. 180 in color, 150 b/w, 20 drawings FORMAT 24.0 x 30.0 cm BINDING Hardcover PRICE approx. EUR 59.90 / GBP 46.90 ISBN 978-3-7643-9943-6 English

Available May 2009

The two great disciplines art and architecture: an anxious alliance

Since the beginning of the 20th century, artists into their designs. Great works of art/ and architects have often been in architecture have resulted from these Illustrates the unique realtionship collaboration. This relationship was not cooperations and this book explores them in between art and architecture necessarily without conﬂ ict – on the contrary, a nine chapters from 1914 up to the present, productive tension and friction can often be highlighting the most striking examples of Attractive international survey with some found at the basis of their common endeavors. these interdisciplinary activities such as the 100 works of art However, wherever art and architecture LACMA scheme by Renzo Piano/Jeff Koons in establish a common territory in the public Los Angeles, the Chichu Art Museum by Tadao Documentation of the important players in arena, highly integrated schemes may result Ando with its installation by Walter de Maria, the global art and architecture scene from that are of particular appeal and quality. In the British Pavilion at the Venice Biennale by 1914 to the present day recent years, the barriers between art and David Adjaye with artist Chris Oﬁ li or the work architecture have come down even further; by Keith Sonnier in the Munich Re Building by while many artists are attracted to the spatial Baumschlager Eberle. presence of architecture and its language and . scale, contemporary architects also seek the inspiration of art and include artistic concepts

Sculpture by Walter de Maria in Chichu Art Museum, Cast aluminium gate for apartment house 40 Bond Light installation by Dan Flavin, Menil Collection, Tadao Ando, Naoshima, Japan Street, New York, Herzog & de Meuron Houston

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Innovative, radical, and sustainable neighborhood development

In Neuchâtel, the capital of the Swiss canton of the same name, efforts have been Shows the skillful combination of underway since 1990 to develop a ﬁ fty economic, ecological, and social factors thousand square meter industrial wasteland with high architectural quality on sustainable principles according to a master plan devised by the architectural ﬁ rm Includes many unpublished documents bauart (Bern, Neuchâtel, Zurich). The second and photographs by Ruedi Walti phase of the project is due to conclude in May 2009 with the opening of the distinctive structure that will house the conservatory and school of administration. Quartier Ecoparc creates a radical and innovative modern city- Bruno Marchand planning connection between the area Quartier Ecoparc / Ecoparc surrounding the railroad station and the Quarter historic and organic older city. The Bauart # 2 development stands out for its exemplary density; its skillful integration of economic, PAGES approx. 112 ILLS. approx. 60 in color, 20 b/w ecological, and social factors; and the high FORMAT 23.0 x 28.0 cm architectural caliber of the two new university BINDING Softcover structures and the large residential PRICE approx. EUR 39.90 / GBP 29.90 development. Marchand documents and ISBN 978-3-7643-9945-0 English/French analyzes all aspects of this model

Available May 2009 neighborhood development, which merits comparison with the best international examples, including the neighborhoods Vauban in Freiburg/Breisgau and BedZED in London.

’scape – The international magazine for landscape architecture and urbanism

’scape is the international magazine for landscape architecture, city planning, and Features an unusual combination of urban design. Lively, with international voices landscape architecture and urban and a critical eye, it presents selected news planning items, in-depth feature articles, concise essays, solidly based and informative project Contains copious background material, critiques, portraits of outstanding explanations, and information personalities, and reviews of new literature. Compiled in cooperation with ’scape puts planners under the microscope, internationally active specialized probes deeply into topics of current interest, journalists, landscape architects, and and discusses controversial topics – since the urban planners Stichting Lijn in Landschap (Ed.) professional world needs a forum for spirited ’scape debate. The international magazine of landscape architecture and ’scape is aimed at landscape architects, city planners, architects, artists, ecologists, urbanism geographers, project developers, and PAGES approx. 80 everyone in the public and private sectors who ILLS. approx. 100 in color wishes to participate in the debates FORMAT 24.0 x 30.0 cm BINDING Softcover surrounding architecture and city planning. PRICE approx. EUR 15.00 / GBP 11.50 ISBN 978-3-7643-9987-0 English

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Paul L. Knox, Heike Mayer Small Town Sustainability Economic, Social, and Environmental Innovation PAGES approx. 192 ILLS. approx. 200 in color, 27 b/w FORMAT 17.0 x 24.0 cm BINDING Softcover PRICE approx. EUR 34.90 / GBP 28.90 ISBN 978-3-7643-8580-4 English

Available February 2009

Successful strategies for small towns in a globalized world

With international examples from England, Italy, Switzerland, Germany, the United States, and other countries

Case studies showing citizens, city planners, architects, and political decision makers working together

Presents innovative approaches

Procida, Italy: The social construction of space

In an era in which the individuality and vitality Small towns often play critical roles in regional of small towns are under threat from economic systems. When small towns focus on globalization, and city planning discussions their speciﬁ c characteristics and take tend to center on topics like metropolitan advantage of their opportunities, they can regions, megaregions, and global cities, the become stable niches within regional, national, authors of this volume see a need to reﬂ ect and global economies and take on an critically on the potential of small towns. important role in shaping a sustainable future. They show how small towns can meet the challenge of a fast-paced, globalized world, and they use case studies to introduce movements, programs, and strategies capable of effectively promoting local cultures, traditions, identities, and sustainability.

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One of the world’s most fascinating urban landscapes – a laboratory for pivotal topics in landscape architecture today

No city has played a more seminal role in the development of “landscape” as a concept than The city garden in a densely built, has Venice. In a city where the land and historical environment – a type of garden gardens are reclaimed from a lagoon presented through one of its paradigmatic environment whose ecology is in jeopardy examples today, they are the very basis of life, dwelling, and culture. This book develops a typology of Analyzes history, typology, and gardens distinguished by their predominantly topography as essential elements of small scale, all of which work with essential landscape design dimensions of landscape architecture: private and public space, usefulness and beauty, and By one of the world’s leading experts on John Dixon Hunt open space in a densely built environment garden history and landscape design The Venetian City Garden that is permeated with history. Place, Typology, and From nearly one hundred city gardens, Perception squares, and courtyards, public parks and temporary gardens, this book distills PAGES approx. 224 ILLS. approx. 100 in color, 150 drawings elements of landscape design that involve FORMAT 23.0 x 29.0 cm both material factors – spatial and design- BINDING Hardcover related features – as well as the social PRICE approx. EUR 59.90 / GBP 46.90 circumstances of their use. ISBN 978-3-7643-8943-7 English The areas presented include the Arsenale,

Available March 2009 where the Paradise Garden was created for the 2008 Biennale by Gustafson Porter, and the giardini and public gardens that – since their creation two hundred years ago – have served the city as a workshop for an urban development trajectory that is both modern Related Titles: and close to nature. Composing Landscapes ; 2008; 978-3-7643-8782-2; EUR 49.90 / GBP 39.90

3rd Third revised and expanded new edition of the rev. Waterscapes ed. bestselling

After decades of being banished from residential areas, water is now becoming an Systematic presentation of attractive increasingly signiﬁ cant feature in urban international projects with, by and in water design. Whether it is the integration of natural water courses into the built environment, Great public interest in urban water rainwater management, the incorporation of features water elements in urban areas for climatic purposes or the creation of oases of Water is an important element in tranquility or drama such as pools or sustainable design fountains – all these aspects are not only encountering renewed interest among architects and urban planners, but they are Herbert Dreiseitl, Dieter Grau 3rd, revised and expanded edition also greeted with appreciation by the general public. Recent Waterscapes This book reveals the wide variety of Planning, Building and possibilities for using water as a creative Designing with Water element in the city, in art, in the landscape PAGES approx. 176 and architecture. The works are organized in ILLS. approx. 400 in color, 80 drawings seven categories and encompass large-scale FORMAT 24.0 x 28.0 cm masterplans, urban plazas and parks, river BINDING Hardcover restaurations but also interior design PRICE approx. EUR 59.90 / GBP 46.90 schemes and art objects. Amongst the works ISBN 978-3-7643-8984-0 English documented are the landscape design for Available May 2009 Dubai Business Park, a river restauration in Landscaping for a new town in Tianjin, China Bishan Park in Singapore, landscaping for a new town in Tianjin, China, the schemes for Telecom Park, Taipei and Vuores Central Park in Tampere, Finland, and the design for Civic Square Seattle. Related Titles: Riverscapes; 2008; 978-3-7643-8829-4; EUR 49.90 / GBP 39.90 LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE | 23

Landscape Architecture Europe Foundation (Ed.) On site Landscape Architecture Europe PAGES approx. 260 ILLS. approx. 270 in color, 230 b/w FORMAT 24.0 x 32.5 cm BINDING Hardcover PRICE approx. EUR 59.90 / GBP 46.90 ISBN 978-3-7643-8950-5 English

Available May 2009

Pioneering projects and strategies in European landscape architecture

Presents current projects, personalities, and points of view to a specialist audience

Persuasive selection of projects and professional editing

Recommended by the European Foundation for Landscape Architecture (EFLA)

The second volume in the series Landscape Architecture in Europe, following the success of Fieldwork

Urban garden at Norresundby, Denmark, by SLA

Europeans no longer develop their towns on Norway to Evora in Portugal. The projects are unspoiled terrain but rather on former supplemented by essays on European agricultural land. European landscape cartography, the cultural landscape, the architectures’ response to the question how to history of ideas in landscape architecture, the address progressive urbanization of the role of ideal landscapes, urban policies, and landscape is thus: working not only on site but the pioneers from Portugal such as Francisco also with the geographic and historical Caldeira Cabral and Gonçalo Ribeiro Telles. characteristics of the site. The projects and texts have been selected by The European landscape is a narrowly an independent jury of practicing landscape enclosed, diverse, densely built, and architects from various European countries domesticated space that is rich in brilliant and edited by a team of experienced European landscape architecture. professionals, lavishly illustrated, and On site presents pioneering projects and skillfully designed by the makers of the strategies in landscape architecture from successful book Fieldwork: Landscape Berlin to Bordeaux, from Akkarvikoden in Architecture Europe. Masterplan “Recreated Nature” for the Scheldt Delta at Antwerp, by Catherine Vilquin

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Sophie Lovell Limited Edition Prototypes, One-Offs and Design Art Furniture PAGES approx. 256 ILLS. approx. 400 in color FORMAT 24.0 x 30.0 cm BINDING Hardcover PRICE approx. EUR 49.90 / GBP 39.90 ISBN 978-3-7643-8895-9 English

Available February 2009

Where furniture design and art meet

Limited Edition is the new buzzword in dissolve the boundary between art and design furniture design. The demand for unique as objects that are both furniture and A multifaceted look at the latest trends in pieces is steadily increasing. With prototypes, sculptures and have thus given risen to a new furniture design one-of-a-kind items, and limited product elite among design gallery owners. lines, designers are celebrating a cult of Presents the most innovative designers individuality for all price classes. Furniture Limited Edition pursues this new trend in prototypes have always been an element of furniture design and uncovers its background Well-informed and authoritative the industrial design process, but now they in meticulous investigative essays based on investigative essays are being hauled from the workshops and the author’s ongoing interchange with presented to the public as embodiments of designers, gallery owners, and manufacturers. the very latest trend. In the global village with With magniﬁ cent illustrations and an its standardized commodities, exclusive one- attractive layout, it presents the best and offs with an artisanal ﬂ avor are turning into most breathtaking pieces by the leading coveted objects. Limited furniture series designers. satisfy the collector’s thirst for objects that

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Andrea Gleiniger, Georg Vrachliotis (Ed.) Context Architecture Pattern Ornament, Structure and Behavior PAGES approx. 112 ILLS. approx. 20 in color, 10 b/w FORMAT 14.0 x 19.0 cm BINDING Softcover PRICE approx. EUR 17.90 / GBP 13.90 ISBN 978-3-7643-8954-3 English

Available Juni 2009

Pattern – a concept between abstraction and perception

As models and paradigms, patterns have been pattern formation to take on new meanings, helping to orient architects since the Middle that are also central for architecture. Patterns: a parameter of cultural and Ages. But patterns are also the basis of the artistic identity and identification history of ornament, an aesthetic pheno- Today the use of generative computerized menon that links all times and cultures at a methods is opening up new ways of talking Patterns in history of art, architecture, fundamental level. Ornament – and hence about an idea that is becoming increasingly cognition science, music, computer pattern as well – was abolished by the avant- abstract and dynamic. Pattern explores the sciences, and neurosciences garde in the ﬁ rst half of the twentieth century, question: what are the notions of pattern that but the notion of pattern has taken on new must be discussed in the context of contem- Patterns and notions of pattern in meaning and importance since the 1960s. porary architecture? architectural discourse today Complexity research has ultimately shown that even highly complex, dynamic patterns may be based on simple behavioral rules, and that has allowed the notions of pattern and

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Owen Jones, Ornamentstudie, in: Futoropolis: designtoproduction/ETH Zurich, CAAD. Grammar of Ornament, 1856 Architect: Daniel Libeskind Related Titles: Simulation; 2008; 978-3-7643-8686-3; EUR 17.90 / GBP 13.90 Complexity; 2008; 978-3-7643-8688-7; EUR 17.90 / GBP 13.90 DESIGN | 27

Franco Clivio, Hans Hansen, Pierre Mendell In cooperation with Zurich University of the Arts Hidden Forms Seeing and Understanding Things PAGES approx. 240 ILLS. approx. 150 in color, 50 b/w FORMAT 22.0 x 24.0 cm BINDING Hardcover with dust jacket PRICE approx. EUR 34.90 / GBP 26.90 ISBN 978-3-7643-8966-6 English

Available January 2009

Discovering the secret of good design in everyday objects

The book Hidden Forms uses examples from solution to a problem that is often simple but Franco Clivio’s collection of objects to reveal always fundamental; fundamental in the A lesson in seeing that is intended not only clearly and yet poetically the hidden qualities sense of a design that places less emphasis for designers that require a practiced gaze. Working with on good form than on perfect function. ordinary, everyday, practical, seemingly A fruitful collaboration between Franco Clivio, With original images taken by the design(er)less objects has been Franco the photographer Hans Hansen, and the renowned photographer Hans Hansen in Clivio’s obsession both as a university lecturer graphic designer Pierre Mendell has produced the classic design by Pierre Mendell and as a practicing designer. Each object in a work that uses photographs, drawings, and the collection stands for an unconventional, texts to reveal the hidden qualities of objects With texts by Tomás Maldonado, unconstrained, and sometimes unique for everyday use. Gerrit Terstiege, and Peter von Kornatzki

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Subtle, unfussy, sensuous

The focus of the design process for Pierre Charpin is on color, volume, lines, and Drawing as a creative process of making intended use – nothing is left to chance. and translating Charpin’s language is restrained and colorful, th subtle and quiet; it is intended to inspire and Exhibition at mudac, Lausanne, March 4 st stimulate the imagination, to communicate to May 31 2009 sensitive messages. Humor and playfulness also have their place. Awarded the Créateur de l’Année prize at the Salon du Meuble in Paris in 2005 Research projects are an important part of Charpin’s work. For example, he was invited by the Centre international de la recherche sur le mudac (Ed.) With a foreword by Chantal Prod´Hom verre (CIRVA) to develop a series of and a contribution by Anniina Koivu experimental glass objects and has examined Pierre Charpin the question of ornament on ceramics at the request of the Centre de recherche sur les arts du feu et de la terre (CRAFT). PAGES approx. 160 ILLS. approx. 70 in color, 80 b/w This fi rst monograph is a refl ection of Pierre FORMAT 22.0 x 28.0 cm Charpin’s work: simple, unfussy, fl uid. It BINDING Softcover PRICE approx. EUR 27.94 / GBP 24.90 foregrounds drawing as a creative process of ISBN 978-3-7643-9956-6 English/French making and translating.

Available February 2009 Glass objects from the research project by order of CIRVA (Centre international de la recherche sur le verre)

Documentation of one of the most important international design awards

A design award is only as good as its winners, and in the case of the iF product design award An informative reference work for anyone 2009, they are once again a cut above the rest! with an interest in design The iF yearbook product 2009 brings together the winners honored with the famous iF label The results of one of the world’s most in the sixteen categories of Transportation important design competitions at a glance Design, Leisure / Lifestyle, Audio / Video, Telecommunications, Computers, Ofﬁ ce / It has stood for extraordinary quality for Business, Lighting, Furniture / Home Textiles, more than fifty years and enjoys worldwide Kitchen / Household, Bathroom / Wellness, recognition with more than two thousand Buildings, Public Design / Interior Design, international submissions each year Medicine / Health+Care, Industry / Skilled iF International Forum Design (Ed.) Trades, Special Vehicles / Construction / iF yearbook product 2009 Agriculture, and Advanced Studies. The publication offers exciting insights into the

PAGES approx. 1000 topic of design and presents a portrait of each ILLS. approx. 950 in color award winner in words and pictures. A FORMAT 24.0 x 24.0 cm detailed manufacturer and designer index BINDING Hardcover (in 2 volumes) makes the book easy to navigate and helps PRICE approx. EUR 64.90 / GBP 48.90 ISBN 978-3-7643-8981-9 English/German the reader search for particular products. As in previous years, the experts on the jury Available March 2009 also make themselves heard, offering insights into their work and their decisions. The iF yearbook product 2009 is an easy-to- use and clearly organized reference work for anyone with an interest in design. It is also an informative archive for manufacturers, designers, and opinion makers from the worlds of media, politics, and economy. DESIGN | 29

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 fi eld 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 (German With an address section listing all Design Council). This year, the newly participants appointed jury, which brings together representatives from industry, commerce, media, and design, singled out twenty-fi ve especially outstanding products from a total Rat für Formgebung (Ed.) of more than a thousand submissions to Design Award of the Federal receive the fi ve gold and twenty silver awards. Republic of Germany 2009 The catalogue offers detailed presentations of PAGES approx. 620 the prizewinners as well as accounts of some ILLS. approx. 400 in color two hundred other nominated products. The FORMAT 23.0 x 28.0 cm publication opens with a greeting from the BINDING Hardcover Federal Minister of Economics. PRICE approx. EUR 44.90 / GBP 32.90 ISBN 978-3-7643-8983-3 English/German

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form: The Leading European Design Magazine

Anyone wanting to ﬁ nd out about the current design trends needs and reads form, the Clear, contemporary layout international design magazine. Why do so many new furniture models have a "graphic" In-depth and practice-oriented look? What are the current trends in photography? And what are the best colleges Informative and inspiring: the latest in for studying design? The form cover stories product and graphic design provide the answers. Each issue focuses on the design process proper: Wide-ranging features offer insights into how extraordinary products and graphic projects have unfolded.

Gerrit Terstiege (Ed.) In form, renowned designers and specialist form - The Making of Design authors comment, while the reﬁ ned printing PAGES approx. 110 graphics and contributions by visual FORMAT 23.0 x 29.7 cm designers ensure form is a special experience. BINDING Softcover PRICE EUR 15.42 / GBP 12.00 As a trade journal, it provides in valuable German/English information on new materials and production ISBN form 224: 978-3-7643-8822-5 technologies, as well as tips for everyday life form 225: 978-3-7643-9925-2 as a designer. form appears every two months form 226: 978-3-7643-9926-9 in English and German. form 227: 978-3-7643-9927-6 . Available as a standing order Available bimonthly

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The academic textual anthology and companion volume to Dis-/Orientation 1

In the design of graphic products, instructions, city planning, and other creative disciplines, complex tasks related to Authorititative academic discussions of orientation and disorientation are on the rise. fundamental design categories

Dis-/Orientation 2 is an academic Interdisciplinary analysis of the thematic investigation into phenomena, complex orientation/disorientation representations, and stagings of these two concepts. The design research institute The latest publication of the prominent Design2context, under the direction of Ruedi design institute Design2context, directed Baur, invited academics from various fi elds to by Ruedi Baur discuss the categories of orientation and Design2contect (Ed.) disorientation. While the fi rst volume offered Dis-/Orientation 2 a predominantly pictorial treatment of the topic, this one addresses the phenomenon PAGES approx. 320 through the medium of text. The thematically ILLS. approx. 50 organized anthology highlights the areas in FORMAT 16.5 x 24.0 cm which the concepts of orientation and BINDING Softcover PRICE approx. EUR 29.90 / GBP 24.90 disorientation are applied and sets in motion ISBN 978-3-03778-158-6 English/German/French a critical discussion of those areas in various fi elds. Available April 2009

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Mapping the flexible city

The current appearance of our cities is that of a hybrid entity whose structures are based on Book and game are combined in a single multilayered and sometimes contradictory edition organizing principles. As complex networks of geographic, economic, political, and cultural Offers a visual and creative way to segments, they are caught up in a constant approach the topic of complex and flexible process of differentiation. urban spaces How can such dynamic processes be understood – especially the complex connections between individuals, whose movements and interactions leave traces in the urban landscape? Petra Kempf

You Are the City This mapping game based on the observation, Observation, organization, and organization, and transformation of urban transformation of spaces; as such it creates a framework for understanding the continually changing urban settings space of the city. With transparent slides, the PAGES approx. 16 game offers players the opportunity to ILLS. 26 in color superimpose realities like layers in order to FORMAT 21.0 x 29.7 cm BINDING Brochure and Transparencies create new urban connections and invites PRICE approx. EUR 29.90 / GBP 24.90 them to immerse themselves in the ISBN 978-3-03778-159-3 English complexity of our cities.

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ECM - Edition of Contemporary Music (Ed.) The Cover Art of ECM

PAGES approx. 448 ILLS. approx. 250 in color FORMAT 16.5 x 24.0 cm BINDING Softcover PRICE approx. EUR 44.90 / GBP 34.90 ISBN 978-3-03778-157-9 English

Available June 2009

A music label seen through images

Following the success of “Sleeves of Desire”, a Over the years, the collaboration between second publication is now being devoted to Manfred Eicher, the label’s founder and Successor publication to the successful the cover art of the label ECM, Edition of producer, and designers including Barbara but now out-of-print volume Sleeves of Contemporary Music, focusing above all on Wojirsch, Dieter Rehm and Sascha Kleis has Desire sleeve design from 1996 to the present. Since produced an aesthetic of the cover that its founding in 1969, ECM has been dedicated initiates a dialogue between the photographic High value to collectors with its complete, primarily to jazz and contemporary classical image and the music. The search for a cover illustrated catalog of all ECM’s music and is a leading international label in motif from a storehouse of possible images is productions both these ﬁ elds. ECM has also received presented in a few examples that shed light acclaimed for its unique cover designs, which on how these visual worlds are created and have always been an integral part of its trace their signiﬁ cance for the music. An :K_V 7Y^SKX ,KXN 0J[MNW XO .MNW .,6 productions. illustrated catalog of all of ECM’s releases completes this publication.

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An early classic example of corporate design for Geigy pharmaceutical company

The design studio of J. R. Geigy AG was the launching pad for one of the great periods of The works of famous Swiss graphic Swiss graphic design, in the 1950s and 1960s. designers documented in one book The open-minded corporate culture of the chemical company in Basel combined product First survey and assessment of Geigy’s and company advertising in an exemplary way. internationally renowned design The resulting works reveal a modernist formal idiom without being indebted to a specifi c, Publication accompanying the extensive formulaic look. There was room in it for visual exhibition at the Museum für Gestaltung symbolism as well as the acquisition of Zürich nonrepresentational art, with which some of the graphic designers involved were connected. Museum für Gestaltung Zürich, Andres Janser, Barbara Junod (Ed.) Under the leadership of Max Schmid for many years, the studio employed Roland Corporate Diversity Aeschlimann, Karl Gerstner, Jörg Hamburger, Swiss Graphic Design and Steff Geissbühler, Andreas His, Toshihiro Advertising by Geigy, 1940-1970 Katayama, and Nelly Rudin, among others. PAGES approx. 192 Freelance designers such as Michael ILLS. approx. 360 in color Engelmann, Gottfried Honegger, Armin FORMAT 19.0 x 26.0 cm Hofmann, Herbert Leupin, Warja Lavater, Numa BINDING Hardcover Rick, and Niklaus Stoecklin were also used. In PRICE approx. EUR 39.90 / GBP 29.90 the 1960s, the Basel offi ce, most especially ISBN 978-3-03778-160-9 English George Giusti and Fred Troller, was involved in Available February 2009 developing the studios of the subsidiaries in the United States and the United Kingdom, placing more emphasis on advertising. This is the fi rst comprehensive presentation of Geigy design, an important Swiss contribution to the international history of design, in all its determination and independence.

The Dolder Grand, a luxury hotel in Zurich, with a new look by Norman Foster

This ﬁ ve-star hotel, which reopened in 2008, is one of the Leading Hotels of the World. Star Extensive documentation of the architect Sir Norman Foster and his team renovation by Norman Foster and Partners have remodeled the Dolder, a grand hotel in Zurich with a long tradition. The historical On schedule for the reopening facade of the Curhaus, which dates from 1899, was returned to its original state; two High-quality presentation wings of glass, steel, and sandstone were added. The interior design was the work of With an essay by the renowned writer Cees London-based United Designers; the concept Nooteboom for the spa was developed by the American designer Sylvia Sepielli. TDG / Dolder Hotel AG (Ed.)

The Dolder Grand This metamorphosis of the luxury hotel is the focus of this publication. In addition to

PAGES approx. 480 extensive photo documentation, an essay by ILLS. approx. 200 in color the writer Cees Nooteboom invites readers to FORMAT 24.0 x 27.0 cm immerse themselves in the world of this grand BINDING Hardcover hotel. PRICE approx. EUR 119.00 / GBP 92.90 ISBN 978-3-03778-166-1 English

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Ulrike Felsing Dynamic Identites in cultural and public context PAGES approx. 256 ILLS. approx. 200 in color FORMAT 22.0 x 23.5 cm BINDING Softcover PRICE approx. EUR 34.90 / GBP 28.90 ISBN 978-3-03778-163-0 English

Available February 2009

Flexibles Corporate Design

his publication studies methods for creating philosophy of the institution, the program) fl exible looks for public and cultural and the specifi c (e.g., changing exhibitions A sound study of a new focus in design institutions. The conventional logos and events). The author describes the effect traditionally used by companies are the result and potential of looks and offers general Successful examples of flexible looks as of a unique process of compression and criteria that distinguish fully developed, inspiration for designers and clients abstraction. By contrast, fl exible looks do not dynamic looks. The subject is also presented conceal their diverse components in their logo in the form of artistic projects and with but instead from a complex family of symbols reference examples from the natural sciences from them. In the combination of a basic logo and the humanities. Case studies of famous and a family of symbols, the look is in a designers such as Karl Gerstner and Ruedi position to represent the general (the Baur enhance the analysis.

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Brad Cloepfil Allied Works Architecture

PAGES approx. 240 ILLS. approx. 200 in color FORMAT 20.0 x 28.0 cm BINDING Hardcover PRICE approx. EUR 49.90 / GBP 39.90 ISBN 978-3-03778-167-8 English

Available May 2009

The first monograph on the renowned American architect Brad Cloepfil and his office

The American architect Brad Cloepfi l founded Design, New York (2008), and the Clyfford Still the offi ce Allied Works Architecture in 1994, Museum, Denver, Colorado, which is still in the Comprehensive documentation of one of which now employs forty architects and has planning stages. This book offers a the most renowned architectural offices in offi ces in Portland, Oregon, and New York City. comprehensive survey of the offi ce’s projects. the United States presented in an Allied Works has attracted attention above all A series of conversations with artists and appealing design for its designs of museum buildings: the scholars provides insight into Cloepfi l’s ideas Contemporary Art Museum in Saint Louis and principles, which form the basis of his Conversations between the architect and (2003), the extension to the Seattle Art work as an architect. noted figures from architectural theory Museum (2007), the Museum of Arts and and practice provide an intense look at the philosophy of Allied Works Architecture LARS MÜLLER PUBLISHERS | 35

Jan van Eyck Academie (Ed.) Metahaven Uncorporate Identity PAGES approx. 400 ILLS. approx. 200 in color FORMAT 17.0 x 23.0 cm BINDING Hardcover PRICE approx. EUR 44.90 / GBP 34.90 ISBN 978-3-03778-169-2 English

Available March 2009

The political potential of visual design

Design research in cooperation with the Jan van Eyck Academie, Maastricht

The theoretical discussion is illustrated with visual examples

Metahaven: Bucharest Grid, 2006 Metahaven: Empire (sealand model), 2004

Metahaven: Design Research is a think tank North Sea. The platform, which was occupied that focuses on design as well as on visual by the Briton Roy Bates and his wife in 1967 and political identity. Its aim is to use design and is not internationally recognized as a research to reﬂ ect on the political potential of sovereign state, has its own currency, design and to set in motion a visual and passports, and postage stamps. In addition to theoretical discussion that gives rise to this project, the book presents other case hypothetical projects, proposals, and direct studies, including an investigation into the actions. Metahaven: Sealand Identity Project architecture of the Cold War and the ways it is is an example of this research. In 2003, Meta currently being used that takes the House of Haven began to develop a national visual the People in Bucharest as an example. identity for the micronation of Sealand, which Essays by the designers provide detailed lies on a former British naval fortress in the insight into the group’s conception and philosophy.

Metahaven: State of Exception (Sealand advertisment), 2004 36 | LARS MÜLLER PUBLISHERS

The Elastic World: elasticity in art and science

The second issue in the exciting and experimental cross-disciplinary series Findings A topical and interdisciplinary subject on… by Astrid van Baalen and Hester Aardse brought vividly to life from the Pars Foundation is centred on ELASTICITY in the broadest sense of the word. A fruitful and unusual combination of What happens when one gives a simple rubber science and art as a source of inspiration band to an architect, historian, choreographer, chemist, artist, mathematician, physicist, Findings on Ice, the first book in the series, economist, anthropologist, and geologist and was first published in October 2007 asks each of them for a statement on elasticity? The economist studies the elasticity of supply and demand of market forces. The Pars Foundation (Ed.) architect calculates the elasticity of the steel Findings on Elasticity structure of a building during an earthquake. The anthropologist studies the ow of people

PAGES approx. 190 returning to their homes in the wake of a ILLS. approx. 100 in color, 30 b/w natural disaster. The Pars Foundation draws FORMAT 20.0 x 27.0 cm researchers out of their specialized niches in BINDING Softcover order to publish their brilliant, crazy, important, PRICE approx. EUR 29.90 / GBP 24.90 or bewildering results and assembles them in ISBN 978-3-03778-148-7 English this interdisciplinary volume. Findings on Available June 2009 Elasticity is the second part of a publication series that together will constitute an atlas of creative thinking. There are no guidelines for the form their contributions must take. It may be images, poems, essays, sketches on coasters, formulas or a piece of sculpture; the editors only ask that a contribution re ect the Related Titles: respondent’s own eld as well as his or her Findings on Ice; 2007; passion for the topic. 978-3-03778-125-8; EUR 29.90 / GBP 24.90

The artist as building sponsor

The German artist Katharina Grosse has realized her dream of a tailor-made studio, a The book will be presented at the place that has enough space for her room- symposium accompanying the exhibition’s lling works and combines industrial opening atmosphere with soft light and neutral wall surfaces. In close cooperation with the artist, Qualified authors discuss the topic the rm Augustin und Frank Architekten “The Artist as Building Sponsor” planned the studio in Berlin’s Mitte neighborhood and realized it in 2007.

The result is a compact reinforced concrete cube containing workrooms, storerooms, an Katharina Grosse (Ed.) archive, and of ce and living space. The I Wish I Had a Big Studio in publication focuses on the dialogue between the Center of the City the artist and the architects. Extensive graphic material documents both the naked architecture as well as the artist’s PAGES approx. 160 ILLS. approx. 120 in color appropriation of the space. Also included is an FORMAT 16.5 x 24.0 cm essay section in which prominent authors BINDING Hardcover discuss the topic of “The Artist as Building PRICE approx. EUR 29.90 / GBP 24.90 Sponsor,” which will take center stage at the ISBN 978-3-03778-170-8 English symposium due to accompany the opening of Available April 2009 Katharina Grosse’s exhibition at the Temporäre Kunsthalle Berlin (Temporary Art Gallery, Berlin) on April 3, 2009.

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A portrait of the unknown Engadine

Over a period of twenty years, the artist Barbara Heé has photographed Lake Silser Portrait of the landscape around Lake and Chaviolas Island again and again. Silser in the Upper Engadine The resulting panoramas present a subtle portrait of this mountainous landscape in the High-quality photographs in an exquisitely Upper Engadine. The depth and composition designed book of these black-and-white photographs are captivating. The doubling caused by reﬂ ection in the lake and the ever changing lighting create spaces of magical presence. Precise observation of similar motifs opens up a world of sculptural forms that goes beyond the mere Barbara Heé likeness. This volume of photographs A landscape, so intimate and presents a series of about 160 photographs aloof – Chaviolas taken between 1987 and 2007, which beneﬁ t PAGES approx. 240 from twenty years of Heé’s work in sculpture, ILLS. approx. 160 in b/w painting, and drawing. With an essay by FORMAT 24.0 x 16.0 cm Claudia Jolles. BINDING Hardcover PRICE approx. EUR 49.90 / GBP 39.90 ISBN 978-3-03778-165-4 English

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This artist’s work is a matter of perspective

The artist Felice Varini works right in the middle of the city. He distributes two- The new and expanded edition of the dimensional geometric fi gures in the three- successful first volume dimensional urban landscape, fi gures that only come together into a complete picture The book mirrors Felice Varini’s art in its when they are seen from a particular vantage physical design point. The fi gures create new connections between widely separated buildings, squares, A high-quality book on an international and portions of the natural landscape. Space artist seems to tip over into two-dimensionality and offers the observer a novel experience of space. Varini paints on architecture and Lars Müller (Ed.) Text by Fabiola Lopez-Duran landscape as if on a canvas. This book is a new edition of the successful but now out-of- Felice Varini print Point of View, with sixty-four additional Points of View pages on new installations by the artist. PAGES approx. 320 ILLS. approx. 400 in color FORMAT 16.0 x 24.0 cm BINDING Hardcover PRICE approx. EUR 44.90 / GBP 34.90 ISBN 978-3-03778-172-2 English 978-3-03778-173-9 French

Available March 2009

Châteu des Adhémar, Montélimar, Photo: André Morin

English French 38 | SPRINGER WIEN NEW YORK | ARCHITECTS Studio Hadid, Studio Lynn and Studio Prix – Student projects of the highest quality

This publication celebrates the third anniversary of School of Architecture at the Work by the students of the star architects Vienna University of Applied Arts. Zaha Hadid, Greg Lynn and Wolf D. Prix

99+ is a collection of selected projects by Exciting projects at the highest level students in the classes of Zaha Hadid, Greg Wolf D. Prix (Ed.) Lynn and Wolf D. Prix. Perfect presentation with fascinating 99+ The exciting projects reﬂ ect the extremely high architecture graphics and illustrations Selected Student Work level of work these star architects are known for. The work in this volume is self-assured and

PAGES approx. 130 innovative, and its presentation is professional ILLS. numerous, partly in color and appealing. FORMAT 17.0 x 21.0 cm BINDING Softcover PRICE approx. EUR 19.95 / GBP 15.99 ISBN 978-3-211-89798-0 English Edition Angewandte Related Titles: Available February 2009 Prinz Eisenbeton 6: Rock over Barock; 2006 978-3-211-31028-1; EUR 17.76 / GBP 13.99

Atelier Albert Wimmer - VIC-M Conference Building in Vienna

The New VIC-M Conference Building designed by Albert Wimmer, which was completed in Comprehensive look at the conference 2008, is a new unique Danube City landmark. and environmental technology, The compact conference core and the fl owing, and conference operations transparent enclosure zones defi ne the perception of the building from the outside. Documentation of the construction, Internationale Amtssitz- u. Konferenzzentrum Wien-AG (Ed.) But the truly eye-catching elements are on the technical, economical and ecological VIC-M inside: the ramps, stairs and foyers as well as dimensions of the building Vienna International Centre the translucent visual axes emphasize the With texts and interviews as well as Conference Building M functional access to the facility’s center-piece: the conference rooms. The access areas numerous sketches, plans and photos become an architectural landscape with the PAGES approx. 100 help of the building’s subtle stepping. ILLS. numerous in color The reader is given an insight into the FORMAT 22.5 x 29.7 cm extraordinary architecture design, as well as BINDING Hardcover Related Titles: PRICE approx. EUR 18.64 / GBP 14.99 conference operations and the impressive Stadiums. Albert Wimmer; 2008 ISBN 978-3-211-89379-1 German / English conference technology with its demanding, 978-3-211-75830-4; EUR 27.99 / GBP 21.99 specifi c requirements. Free-Standing In Context; 2008 Available January 2009 978-3-211-49278-9; EUR 23.32 / GBP 17.99

architektur.aktuell – the art of building

architektur.aktuell is Austria’s best-known architecture magazine. It is bilingual, the texts Contemporary buildings from appear in both German and English. Austria and world-wide In ten issues each year architecture critics provide information about the most important State-of-the-Art photography new buildings in Austria and throughout the architektur.aktuell world. State-of-the-art photography as well as Essays and interviews plans and data offer an extensive Exhibitions and product information PAGES approx. 170 documentation of built projects. BIBL. DIN A4. Softcover. German / English PRICE approx. EUR 13.27 / GBP 10.99 Issue: ISBN arak 346 | 347: 978-3-211-89801-7 346 | 347: Shopping arak 348: 978-3-211-89803-1 arak 349: 978-3-211-89805-5 348: Splendid Isolation # 3: Einfamilienhäuser arak 350: 978-3-211-89807-9 349: Engineering: Technik und Symbol arak 351: 978-3-211-89809-3 350: The Social Agenda Standing order available. Published monthly 351: Industry arak 346 | 347 arak 348 arak 349 arak 350 arak 351 DESIGN | SPRINGER WIEN NEW YORK | 39

Now in Softcover Electronic textiles and wearable technology – A survey of the new generation of wearables

The interplay of electronic textiles and wearable technology, wearables for short, and Highly topical, unpublished projects fashion, design and science is a highly of well-known designers, companies and promising and topical subject. researchers

Offered here is a compact survey of the theory A compact introduction to the theory involved and an explanation of the role and application of electronic textiles and technology plays in a fabric or article of wearable technology clothing. The practical application is explained in detail and numerous illustrations serve as A unique list of all the pertinent clariﬁ cation. Over 50 well-known designers, information on a world-wide basis research institutes, companies and artists, Sabine Seymour among them Philips, Burton, MIT Media Lab, XS Fashionable Technology Labs, New York University, Hussein Chalayan, The Intersection of Cute Circuit or International Fashion Machines Design, Fashion, Science are introduced by means of their latest, often still unpublished, project, and a survey of their and Technology work to date.

PAGES approx. 250 Given for the ﬁ rst time is a list of all the ILLS. numerous color ills. relevant information on research institutes, FORMAT 17.0 x 24.0 cm materials, publications etc. A must for all BINDING Softcover those wishing to know everything about PRICE approx. EUR 24.95 / GBP 19.00 ISBN 978-3-211-79591-0 English fashionable technology.

Available January 2009

Related Titles: The Death of Fashion; 2007 978-3-211-49854-5; EUR 36.32 / GBP 28.99

First cross-disciplinary presentation of the fashion phenomenon

Fashion is a social phenomenon that can only be deﬁ ned and understood using a trans- Acclaimed international experts discuss disciplinary approach. fashion in context

A number of questions arise: which special With contributions by Dorothea Beisser, perceptive abilities does a creator of fashion Arno Böhler, Mariusz Jan Demner, have to have? To which extent are smart Alexander Gedat, Susanne Granzer, Ursula clothes integrated in everyday fashion? How Hudson, Monika Jacobs, Gudrun Kampl, does architecture react to the requirements of Karin Macfelda, Stefano Marzano, fashion? Can a costume designer design Gabriele Orsech and Elisabeth von clothes successfully and vice versa? Samsonov

Gerda Buxbaum (Ed.) These and many other questions are A fascinating collection of ideas Fashion in Context addressed as well as the problems involved fashion design training or fashion designers’

PAGES approx. 340 responsibilities in terms of sustainability. ILLS. numerous color ills. This publication is based on the discourse FORMAT 21.0 x 28.0 cm that has been under way at the Vienna School of BINDING Softcover Vienna on fashion as a cultural design PRICE approx. EUR 34.95 / GBP 25.99 ISBN 978-3-211-78924-7 English phenomenon between international representatives from the ﬁ elds of art, fashion, Available March 2009 architecture, science and business. The fashion phenomenon is followed from different perspectives and with thematic contributions.

Related Titles: The Death of Fashion; 2007 978-3-211-49854-5; EUR 36.32 / GBP 28.99 Fashionable Technology; 2008 978-3-211-74498-7; EUR 39.95 / GBP 31.99 40 | SPRINGER WIEN NEW YORK | ART Hubert Blanz – Fascinating artificial image worlds

With DVD and woven images

Highways that meander across the image surface. Accumulations of runways, circuit The first comprehensive documentation of boards organized like cities or recently this broad range of artistic work rediscovered slot-car racing tracks – these are the motifs Hubert Blanz assembles in his DVD with excerpts of the audio and video woven images. Their density is an expression installations Hubert Blanz (Ed.) of our exuberant times: These images are also Slideshow exaggerated premonitions of the future that suggest the apogee of utopia hasn’t been

PAGES approx. 150 reached yet. The larger part of the images ILLS. numerous in color comes from the Internet, the second world we FORMAT 29.0 x 23.0 cm can click through seamlessly thanks to BINDING Softcover, with DVD incredibly accurate satellite images. PRICE approx. EUR 27.99 / GBP 20.50 ISBN 978-3-211-85781-6 German / English The world is at our feet in this digital world. The Available March 2009 new view is the view from above.

Definitive, comprehensive examination of the artist’s vast oeuvre

Segments is a comprehensive retrospective of Josip Kaiser’s richly varied work as a sculptor, First comprehensive monograph drawer, painter and designer from 1972 to on Josip Kaiser 2009. His artistic work is presented in numerous The volume also gives the reader and insight illustrations Gerald Bast (Ed.) into the creative process behind his work: Josip Kaiser It showcases his experiments with shapes and Essays by Manfred Wagner, Christa Segmente / Segments art forms. Sculptures of marble, granite, lime Leitner and Karlheinz Pichler PAGES approx. 225 stone, artiﬁ cial stone and bronzes as well as ILLS. numerous, mostly in color sketches and paintings are shown along with a FORMAT 20.8 x 26.8 cm broad selection of commissioned work and BINDING Softcover PRICE approx. EUR 30.79 / GBP 23.99 experimental designs. ISBN 978-3-211-85751-9 German / English Edition Angewandte This overview of Josip Kaiser’s work is complemented with essays by Manfred Available April 2009 Wagner, Christa Leitner and Karlheinz Pichler. Related Titles: With Their Own Eyes; 2008 978-3-211-77840-1; EUR 27.99/ GBP 21.99

“Clouds” in paintings, drawings, photography and sculpture

As a motif and metaphor in art and photography, clouds represent many different facets How do contemporary artists perceive of various phenomena. clouds as a phenomenon? Nature, the sky, landscapes as well as the coincidental, the undeﬁ ned, things that are „Stark Bewölkt“ (Heavily Overcast) transient, and others that are fantastic. Exhibition, February 2009, MUSA, B. Ecker, T. Starl, J. Karel (Eds.) The compositions in this volume allow for „Museum auf Abruf“ (Museum On Call), Stark bewölkt / Clouds up various interpretations ranging from abstract Vienna High structures to seemingly real ﬁ gurations. Fleeting Figures in the Sky PAGES approx. 200 The book presents 50 works by Austrian artists ILLS. 70 in color including H. Gappmayr, E. Schlegel, A. FORMAT 20.0 x 21.5 cm Lehmden, W. Trinkl, M. Walde and R. Zeppel- BINDING Softcover Sperl on clouds in paintings, drawings, PRICE approx. EUR 23.32 / GBP 17.99 ISBN 978-3-211-89113-1 German / English sculptures and photos. B. Ecker, T. Starl, J. Karel and B. Frischmuth shed light on the Available February 2009 transient images of the sky from an art historical, photo historical, mythological and literary perspective in their essays. ART | SPRINGER WIEN NEW YORK | 41

Art and architecture transfer in China

China is booming. Culture is also in movement in China too. It is also being transformed and in Discussion of the background, and continuous exchange with the global art world the rapidly changing conditions for artistic Chinese artists are acknowledged abroad and creativity and production in China international architects are build-ing in China. Galleries, art fairs and biennials are being Well known participants: founded in Beijing and Shanghai. Ai Weiwei, Yung Ho Chang and Uli Sigg

The artist Ai Weiwei and the architect Yung Ho New volume in the Art and Architecture Chang embody a new generation of creative Conversations series minds in China whose work is rooted abroad and in China. Both pursue their professions at A. Weiwei, Y. H. Chang, U. Sigg, P. Pakesch an international level and are also perceived at Art and Cultural Policy that level. in China A Conversation between They discuss the background and effects of this quick change and the relationship Ai Weiwei, Uli Sigg and between art, architecture and politics. They Yung Ho Chang, moderated by also examine the media and the Chinese and Peter Pakesch international public in their conversations with the collector Uli Sigg (an expert on Chinese art) PAGES approx. 110 ILLS. numerous ills and Peter Pakesch (the head of the FORMAT 17.0 x 21.0 cm Landesmuseum Joanneum, Graz). BINDING Softcover PRICE approx. EUR 23.32 / GBP 17.99 ISBN 978-3-211-89240-4 German / English Art and Architecture in Discussion

Available April 2009 Related Titles: Art, Fashion and Work for Hire; 2006 978-3-211-75787-1; EUR 23.32 / GBP 17.99

First complete overview about Oswald Oberhuber’s posters

Poster art is a separate fi eld between applied art and ‘fi ne art’. The fact that it can be Oswald Oberhuber is one of Austria’s most reproduced is less signifi cant than its use in important artists of the 20th century advertising and for propaganda in the broadest sense. Catalogue with an in-depth biography and exhibition index Oswald Oberhuber, the most productive Austrian poster artist of the 20th century, extended and opened poster art’s basic range of functions by using posters to depict himself. He made use of the many possibilities open to him as the president of Stephan Ettl (Ed.) the Vienna University of Applied Arts and the Oberhuber head of the Galerie naechst St. Stephan at Posters Posters Posters both a cultural-political and an artistic PAGES approx. 450 propagandistic level. FORMAT 23.0 x 28.0 cm BINDING Hardcover Over 600 of Oberhuber’s posters clearly show PRICE approx. EUR 46.68 / GBP 34.00 the characteristics of advertising in public ISBN 978-3-211-89111-7 German / English space and are a refl ection of his Available March 2009 unmistakable artistic stance.

Related Titles: Kurt Kocherscheidt. Catalogue Raisonné; 2006 978-3-211-24489-0; EUR 119,63 / GBP 92.00 42 | AVEDITION

Young talented designers and the future of industrial design

Against a background of growing mediocrity in worldwide industrial production and the trend With over 30 projects by Jurgen Bey, to endless product variations and BLESS, Constantin Boym, Matali Crasset, adaptations, outstanding young designers are Dunne + Raby, Marti Guixé, developing cross-border ideas that focus less Kram + Weisshaar, Jerszy Seymour on formal quality but rather emphasize the fundamental questions about added cultural With articles by Volker Albus and value, innovation, otherness and authenticity. Max Borka and Hansjerg Maier-Aichen

NEW TALENTS portrays these seekers of a In cooperation with the Rat für new design, their cooperation with scientists, Formgebung (German Design Council) and their anthropological and ecological Messe Frankfurt Hansjerg Maier-Aichen (Ed.) reﬂ ections, their concern with art and with NEW TALENTS their own radical positions, in richly illustrated State of the Arts articles. PAGES approx. 176 ILLS. approx. 100 in color FORMAT 20.0 X 25.0 cm BINDING Softcover with flaps PRICE approx. EUR 24.90 / GBP 19.90 ISBN 978-3-89986-110-5 English/German

Available February 2009

Wood Work 2008 by Karen Ryan

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New trends in caravaning and mobile homes

Increasing mobility and growing expectations in sophisticated functional solutions and A documentation of the world’s unique features create constantly new demands on caravaning design award for the caravaning industry. The response to these challenges, the innovations and An overview over the most up-to-date emerging trends and visions are presented in trends in the mobile home industry this publication. It showcases the winners of the Caravaning Design Award 2008/2009, the international quality label for high innovation and design achievements in the industry. The award-winning products, which were selected from the entries of over 560 Peter Zec (Ed.) exhibitors at the CARAVAN SALON Caravaning Design Award DÜSSELDORF and have already attracted 2008/2009: great interest at the worldwide largest trade Innovations for new mobility fair for mobile recreation, give interested readers as well as designers and engineers a PAGES approx. 80 ILLS. approx. 100 in color compact overview of the most recent FORMAT 21.5 x 30.0 cm developments in the mobile home sector. BINDING Hardcover PRICE approx. EUR 28.00 / GBP 21.90 ISBN 978-3-89939-104-6 English/German

Available March 2009

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M. Hank Häusler Media facades History, technology and content PAGES approx. 250 ILLS. approx. 280 in color FORMAT 22.0 x 24.0 cm BINDING Hardcover PRICE approx. EUR 49.90 / GBP 36.90 ISBN 978-3-89986-107-5 English

Available April 2009

An overview of media facades today and their future development

This book presents state-of-the-art media display facades, illuminated facades, facades, and shows the historical mechanical facades and voxel facades. Fundamental introduction to a topic of development through precedents for Each category is defi ned by an introduction to burning interest embedding media in architecture. In doing so the relevant technology and built examples. it also introduces a canon of media For each built example project data is Shows how these facades have been architectural terminology. supplemented by a brief description about realized and what development can be the project and the specifi c technology used. expected in the future More than 40 stunning contemporary international projects are classifi ed in 8 An analysis of the representational More than 40 up-to-date examples from all different technical categories: projection characteristics and functions of media over the world facades, rear projection facades, window facades and a survey of potential forms of raster animation, passive media facades, media content completes the book. Breathtaking media facades by AG4, Jean Nouvel, Realities United, UN Studio, Urbanscreen, among others

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Groundbreaking, primary texts from the most important historical and contemporary design thinkers

Graphic Design Theory presents An essential first of its kind collection for groundbreaking, primary texts from the most anyone interested in historical and important historical and contemporary design contemporary voices of graphic design thinkers. From Aleksandr Rodchenko’s “Who theory We Are: Manifesto of the Constructivist Group” to Kenya Hara’s “Computer Technology and Authored by the must-have critics of Design,” this essential volume provides the graphic design necessary foundation for contemporary critical vocabulary and thought. The editor introduces each essay with Graphic Design Theory is organized in three important information concerning the sections: “Creating the Field” traces the personality, history, and political point of Helen Armstrong (Ed.) evolution of graphic design over the course of view of each author Graphic Design Theory the early 1900s, including inﬂ uential avant- Readings from the Field garde ideas of futurism, constructivism, and Includes copious samples of graphic the Bauhaus; “Building on Success” covers the design derived from the theories proposed mid- to late twentieth century and considers PAGES approx. 152 ILLS. approx. 41 in color, 32 b/w the International Style, modernism, and FORMAT 18.0 x 22.0 cm postmodernism; and “Mapping the Future” BINDING Softcover opens at the end of the last century and PRICE approx. EUR 16.50 includes current discussions on legibility, ISBN 978-1-56898-772-9 English social responsibility, and new media. Striking Available April 2009 color images illustrate each of the movements discussed and demonstrate the ongoing Not available in UK relationship between theory and practice. A brief commentary prefaces each text, Related Titles: Design Studies; 2006; 978-1-56898-586-2 providing a cultural and historical framework Graphic Design: The New Basics; through which the work can be evaluated. 2008; 978-1-56898-702-6 Seventy-Nine Short Essays on Design; 2007; 978-1-56898-699-9

A humorous new voice in graphic design writing

By winning the 2008 Winterhouse Award for Design Writing, David Barringer ﬁ rmly Unique look at contemporary design established himself as the freshest and most culture and the personal relationships that interesting writer on the subject. His articles, individuals have with graphic design which have appeared in publications from Print to Emigre, are notable for his strong Personal essays about the intersection of personal point of view, literary style, and even design thinking and life experience humor, not always attributes associated with writing about design. In this collection of Similar in tone to Princeton’s best-selling essays, Barringer’s ﬁ rst, he wonders why drug Seventy-Nine Short Essays on Design names have so many X’s in them, ponders the rise of gory DVD covers, and ruminates on his Up-and-coming name in design writing David Barringer father’s business card collection, pythons, who writes for popular design publications There’s Nothing Funny About and the human skull – proving again and Design again that design is everywhere you look for it, (but may not have seen) without the powerful magnifying lens of this talented and exciting PAGES approx. 264 ILLS. approx. 160 in b/w observer and writer. FORMAT 15.0 x 23.0 cm BINDING Softcover “. . . no one has ever written about graphic PRICE approx. EUR 16.50 design in quite this way. . . .” ISBN 978-1-56898-828-3 English

Available June 2009 – From Rick Poynor’s I.D. Magazine review of “American Mutt Barks in the Yard” (Emigre; 68) Not available in UK

Related Titles: Seventy-Nine Short Essays on Design; 2007; 978-1-56898-699-9 DESIGN | PRINCETON ARCHITECTURAL PRESS | 45

David Gibson The Wayﬁ nding Handbook Information Design for Public Places PAGES approx. 152 ILLS. approx. 265 in color, 5 b/w FORMAT 18.0 x 22.0 cm BINDING Softcover PRICE approx. EUR 16.50 ISBN 978-1-56898-769-9 English

Available March 2009

Not available in UK

A guide to creating the information graphics necessary to navigate our world

Where am I? What can I do here? Where can I The Wayfi nding Handbook is an exciting new go from here? How do I get out of here? volume in our acclaimed Design Briefs series. A short, handy guide to an emerging design Consciously or not, we ask such questions Professional wayfi nding designer David discipline every day as we navigate the places and Gibson draws on more than thirty years of spaces of our lives. Whether we fi nd ourselves experience collaborating with architects, A how-to book that’s also designed to in a museum, hospital, airport, mall, or street planners, developers, managers, and civic inspire designers in an unfamiliar city, we depend on systems of leaders to offer an insider’s view of this visual, audible, and tactile cues not only to rapidly evolving discipline. Using real-life A new addition to Princeton’s highly lead the way, but also to keep us safe. examples, Gibson illustrates the way type, successful Design Briefs series They are the fundamental questions of color, mapmaking, dimensional forms, wayfi nding – a process that encompasses material selection, and new media are used to both the experience of choosing a path within create effective wayfi nding systems. a built environment and the set of design elements that aid in such a decision. A decade The Wayfi nding Handbook is a complete guide ago, the professional practice of wayfi nding to the discipline, from planning and design to design simply involved devising sign systems. practical considerations, such as setting up Today, the fi eld is much broader and continues teams and managing projects. “Other Voices” to expand to address technological sidebars, presented throughout the book, developments – kinetic media, GPS systems, reveal the opinions of experts who plan, web connectivity, smart materials – as well as manage, and shape wayfi nding projects. A cultural changes in areas such as branding comprehensive bibliography and gallery of and environmental awareness. Similarly, a resources round out what is likely to become cross-disciplinary familiarity with graphic, the go-to resource for students, professionals, architectural, landscape, interior, industrial, or anyone charged with designing people- and information design has become an friendly, universally accessible environments. essential requirement of twenty-fi rst-century wayfi nding design.

Related Titles: Signage Design Manual ; 2007; 978-3-03778-096-1 Des/Orientierung 1; 2008; 978-3-03778-133-3 46 | PRINCETON ARCHITECTURAL PRESS | DESIGN | PHOTOGRAPHY

How do designers translate complicated data into visual ideas?

Each year, the New York chapter of the AIGA invites a group of emerging designers to An innovative approach to infographics participate in the Fresh Dialogue forum. In/Visible: Graphic Data Revealed brings Showcases works of young, up and coming together a diverse group of information designers graphics designers for a lively discussion about the challenges they face visualizing Moderated by renowned designer John information. Steve Duenes manages the New Maeda York Times print and online graphics department; Andrew Kuo attempts to Three different viewpoints through the categorize unmeasurable human emotions three participants: an artist, a journalist, through meticulous charts and diagrams; and a scientist/designer AIGA New York Chapter Fernanda Viégas of IBM’s Visual Fresh Dialogue 9 Communication Lab is the cocreator of the In/Visible: Graphic Many Eyes social website that encourages Data Revealed members to upload, interpret, and revisualize one another’s data. Their discussion, PAGES approx. 112 ILLS. approx. 130 in color moderated by Rhode Island School of Design FORMAT 17.0 x 23.0 cm president John Maeda, covers a range of BINDING Softcover current and anticipated trends in visual PRICE approx. EUR 10.90 journalism, including issues such as data ISBN 978-1-56898-816-0 English integrity and visual ethics, judicious simplicity Available May 2009 versus seductive complexity, and the ever- increasing demand for dynamic information. Not available in UK Related Titles: Fresh Dialogue 8: Designing Audiences; 2008; 978-1-56898-751-4 Fresh Dialogue 7: Making Magazines; 2007; 978-1-56898-698-2 Fresh Dialogue 6: Friendly Fire; 2006; 978-1-56898-582-4

Dramatic photographs of the most awesome points of contact between the Earth and the universe beyond

The best-preserved impact sites are often diffi cult to access – buried under ice, Beautifully printed, varnished obscured by foliage, or baking in desert photographs communicate the mystery of climes. These desolate landscapes are these unusual sites connected to another place outside of our world, and for photographer Stan Gaz they are A tool for scientific inquiry and for sites of pilgrimage – steps in a journey begun philosophical meditation alike as a curious young boy accompanying his father on geological expeditions, and The first monograph on the work of this culminating in a six-year journey traveling the rising star in the photography world globe in search of these sites, much of that time spent leaning his medium format camera Substantive essays contextualize the work Stan Gaz out of an open-sided helicopter. The eighty- in the realms of science and art Sites of Impact fi ve astounding black-and-white photographs Meteorite Craters Around collected in Sites of Impact transcend the the World purely documentary and intersect the sublime. In addition to photographs of the PAGES approx. 144 ILLS. approx. 85 in b/w craters and their surrounding landscapes, FORMAT 26.0 x 33.0 cm Gaz includes photographs of actual BINDING Hardcover meteorites and of his own carefully crafted PRICE approx. EUR 38.50 sculptures that recreate their often dynamic ISBN 978-1-56898-815-3 English form and mimic their specifi c mineral content. Available May 2009 Anecdotal passages about the artist’s experiences photographing each crater are Not available in UK interspersed with scientifi c data regarding the crater’s location, age, structure, and condition. DESIGN | PRINCETON ARCHITECTURAL PRESS | 47

Doug Clouse, Angela Voulangas The Handy Book of Artistic Printing A Collection of Letterpress Examples, with Specimens of Type, Ornament, Corners, Borders, Twisters, Wrinklers, Printers Devils, and Other Freaks of Fancy PAGES approx. 224 ILLS. approx. 185 in color, 12 b/w FORMAT 20.0 x 25.0 cm BINDING Softcover PRICE approx. EUR 26.00 ISBN 978-1-56898-705-7 English

Available May 2009

Not available in UK

A celebration of an important yet largely forgotten episode of design history

During the late nineteenth century, letterpress Voulangas explore the style’s origins in the printers, engravers, and lithographers boldly British Aesthetic Movement and analyze its A unique collection of colorful and highly challenged the rational sobriety of traditional distinctive features: idiosyncratic color decorative ephemera, most held in design by introducing intricate borders, corner harmonies, eclectic choice of type and archives of nineteenth-century ephemera embellishments, quirky typefaces, and exotic ornament, compartmentalized compositional and never before reproduced imagery. The style was known as “artistic” and strategies. They also present a landmark was quickly taken up by letterpress printers portfolio of letterpress printing samples, Discusses the technological and cultural as the design idiom of choice for drawn from some of the most important context of artistic printing advertisements, packaging,and all of the public and private print archives. More than other ephemera occasioned by the rapid 150 examples of period ephemera, printers’ Provides formal analysis of specimens in expansion of America’s economy. For a while, own tour de force promotional pieces, and portfolio section as this commercial style represented the best in specimens of type and ornament are popular taste. But just as quickly as this reproduced, many for the very fi rst time since exuberant style was embraced, it fell abruptly their initial circulation more than a century out of favor. By century’s end, the ornate bits ago. The Handy Book of Artistic Printing of artistic printing were tossed into the gutter, celebrates a previously berated and today and the style itself relegated to the dustbin of largely forgotten episode of design history – history. The rise and fall of this highly one of increasing interest in light of the recent embellished idiom, which culminated in its embrace of ornament by some leading denouncement as aesthetically and morally contemporary designers. This book will be of suspect – “a freak of fancy” – are traced in value to graphic designers, but also to fi ne this, the fi rst comprehensive study devoted to artists, visual merchandisers, and collectors the history of American artistic printing. of ephemera everywhere. Authors Douglas Clouse and Angela

Related Titles: Fraktur mon Amour; 2008; 978-1-56898-801-6 48 | PRINCETON ARCHITECTURAL PRESS | ARCHITECTURE

Lisa Iwamoto Digital Fabrications Architectural and Material Techniques PAGES approx. 144 ILLS. approx. 175 in color FORMAT 18.0 x 22.0 cm BINDING Softcover PRICE approx. EUR 16.50 ISBN 978-1-56898-790-3 English

Available June 2009

Not available in UK

A celebration of the design ingenuity made possible by digital fabrication techniques

Architectural pioneers such as Frank Gehry The book is organized according to fi ve types and Greg Lynn introduced the world to the of digital fabrication techniques: tessellating, New Architecture Brief on a hot topic by extreme forms made possible by digital sectioning, folding, contouring, and forming. one of its hottest practitioners fabrication. It is now possible to transfer Projects are shown both in their fi nished designs made on a computer to computer- forms and in working drawings, templates, Tons of hot images to excite architects controlled machinery that creates actual and prototypes, allowing the reader to watch building components. This “fi le to factory” the process of each fantastic construction Along with finished projects, the book process not only enables architects to realize unfold. Digital Fabrications presents projects includes valuable tricks of the trade projects featuring complex or double-curved designed and built by emerging practices that geometries, but also liberates architects from pioneer techniques and experiment with a dependence on off-the-shelf building fabrication processes on a small scale with a components, enabling projects of previously do-it-yourself attitude. Featured architects unimaginable complexity. include Ammar Eloueini/DIGIT-AL Studio, Elena Manferdini, Brennan Buck, Michael Digital Fabrications, the second volume in our Meredith/MOS, Offi ce dA, Mafoomby, URBAN new Architecture Briefs series, celebrates the A+O, SYSTEM Architects, Andrew Kudless, design ingenuity made possible by digital IwamotoScott, Howeler Yoon, Hitoshi Abe, fabrication techniques. Author Lisa Iwamoto Chris Bosse, Tom Wiscombe/ Emergent, explores the methods architects use to Jeremy Ficca, SPAN, Urban A&O, Gnuform, calibrate digital designs with physical forms. Heather Roberge, Patterns, and Servo.

Related Titles: Digital Materiality in Architecture ; 2008; 978-3-03778-122-7 ARCHITECTURE | PRINCETON ARCHITECTURAL PRESS | 49

The first book-length, detailed examination of two architecturally significant Le Corbusier houses

In 1955, just as the world was pigeonholing him as the high priest of modernism, Le The only monograph on these unique Corbusier shocked the architecture world with examples of LeCorbusier’s architecture – of all things – weekend houses. Built of brick, concrete, stone, and timber, the Provides an intimate look at one of Le Maisons Jaoul are the antithesis of everything Corbusier’s most unique projects commonly referred to as “Corbusian.” Their surprising scale gives them a Over 80 beautiful renderings, sketches, magnifi cent sculptural presence and the plans, and drawings uncharacteristically raw materiality of their exteriors – oozing mortar, rough brick – gives Includes Le Corbusier’s lesser known them a deliberately crude, almost craftlike, paintings and letters in his own hand Caroline Maniaque Benton appearance. Le Corbusier and the Maisons Le Corbusier and Jaoul is the fi rst book-length, detailed the Maisons Jaoul examination of these lesser-known, yet architecturally signifi cant houses. Built for André Jaoul and his son – and their wives – PAGES approx. 176 ILLS. approx. 122 in color, 100 b/w the Maisons Jaoul encompassed four years of FORMAT 19.0 X 25.0 cm intense design activity. Using previously BINDING Hardcover unpublished sources, author Caroline PRICE approx. EUR 26.00 Maniaque Benton thoroughly captures Le ISBN 978-1-56898-800-9 English Corbusier’s extraordinary journey of discovery. Available June 2009 Valuable insights are gleaned from conversations between clients, draughtsmen, Not available in UK and craftsmen; fi rsthand documents; and letters in Le Corbusier’s own hand.

Related Titles: The Le Corbusier Guide ; 2006; 978-1-56898-539-8 The Villas of Le Corbusier; 2007; 978-3-7643-8406-7

Now in Best-selling Paul Rudolph The Florida Houses now in Softcover softcover

Paul Rudolph, one of the twentieth century’s most iconoclastic architects, is best known – Over 60 projects built between 1941 and and most maligned–for his large “brutalist” 1962 are cataloged, most of which, until buildings, like Yale’s Art and Architecture this book, have not been known or studied Building. So it will surprise many to learn that early in his career he developed a series of houses that represent the unrivaled possibilities of a modest American modernism. With their distinctive natural landscapes, local architectural precedents, and exploitation of innovative construction materials, the Florida houses, some eighty Christopher Domin, Joseph King, Photographs by Ezra Stoller projects built between 1946 and 1961, brought modern architectural form into a Paul Rudolph: gracious subtropical world of natural The Florida Houses abundance developed to a high pitch of stylistic reﬁ nement.

PAGES approx. 248 ILLS. approx. 150 in b/w Paul Rudolph: The Florida Houses reveals all FORMAT 25.0 x 20.0 cm of Rudolph’s early residential work. With BINDING Softcover Rudolph’s personal essays and renderings, PRICE approx. EUR 26.00 duotone photographs by Ezra Stoller and ISBN 978-1-56898-551-0 English Joseph Molitor, and insightful text by Joseph Available June 2009 King and Christopher Domin, this compelling new book conveys the lightness, Not available in UK timelessness, strength, materiality, and transcendency of Rudolph’s work.

Related Titles: Paul Rudolph: Late Work; 2003; 978-1-56898-401-8 50 | PRINCETON ARCHITECTURAL PRESS | ARCHITECTURE

Award-winning, socially responsible, and humane public architecture

The popular 2001 monograph Miller/Hull: Architects of the Pacifi c Northwest introduced Follow up to the popular 2001 monograph the world to the work of architects David Miller/Hull: Architects of the Pacific Miller and Robert Hull. Their energy- Northwest conscious designs, love of local materials, and structural expressiveness helped defi ne the Features quality work that is traditionally essence of a new and an exciting type of marginalized by the architecture contemporary regionalism in American profession architecture – the Pacifi c Northwest style. For these two Peace Corps veterans, that includes Miller | Hull has received over one hundred a serious commitment to a socially seventy design awards responsible and humane public architecture. The Miller Hull Partnership, LLP The award-winning work featured in The The Miller | Hull Partnership Miller|Hull Partnership: Public Works Public Works challenges the notion that public buildings PAGES approx. 272 must be mundane in appearance or ILLS. approx. 200 in color, 25 b/w functionality. The book features photographs, FORMAT 22.0 x 28.0 cm renderings, and project plans representing BINDING Hardcover diverse building typologies – schools, nature PRICE approx. EUR 32.50 ISBN 978-1-56898-754-5 English centers, community centers, mixed-use buildings, laboratories, corporate offi ces, and Available February 2009 high-rise residences. These projects are the best demonstration of how the Miller/Hull Not available in UK Partnership brings life, personality, and warmth to public architecture.

An artisan’s love of solid building materials, craftsmanship, and old-fashioned building methods

Peter Rose has built on every scale during the fi rst three decades of his practice. High- The first monograph on critically profi le projects, such as his master plan for acclaimed architect Peter Rose the Montreal waterfront and his award- winning Canadian Centre for Architecture in Lush photography and beautiful houses Montreal have brought him both public will attract a style audience recognition and the respect of his peers. Besides being known for his artisan’s love of Includes a foreword by Pritzker Prize solid building materials, craftsmanship, and winner Rafael Moneo old-fashioned building methods, it is perhaps no surprise that his residential projects Five elegant homes range from a Martha’s function as laboratories for new ideas. Peter Vineyard cottage to a New York City Peter Rose Rose: Houses presents fi ve such houses in townhouse Peter Rose complete detail from client collaboration and Houses site evaluation to construction. Rose draws PAGES approx. 176 inspiration from the outward simplicity and ILLS. approx. 200 in color, 50 b/w order of houses of the past but recognizes FORMAT 20.0 x 25.0 cm that their quiet strength depends on a BINDING Hardcover complexity that comes only from thoughtful PRICE approx. EUR 26.00 ISBN 978-1-56898-821-4 English consideration of site, plan, exterior, and details. These residences and second homes Available June 2009 – on Martha’s Vineyard, in New York City, Vermont, and Connecticut – are masterful Not available in UK combinations of light, texture, and weight. They are an exquisite fusion of the natural and the manmade, of craft and architecture. ARCHITECTURE | PRINCETON ARCHITECTURAL PRESS | 51

The thoughtful, structurally innovative architecture of Della Valle Bernheimer

Architecture, the saying goes, is a verb. It’s an ongoing process of creating. For Brooklyn- This is the first monograph on a very based architects Jared Della Valle and Andrew promising young firm Bernheimer it is, more accurately, two verbs: think and make. Two words that, when fused This book will release at the same time in the work of Della Valle Bernheimer, energize that two of their high-profile projects in and transform each other – architectural New York complete process as a feedback loop. Think/Make documents twelve of the ﬁ rm’s most Young architects look up to these two innovative projects, ranging from residences professionals – they are living proof that to public commissions such as Federal Plaza you can succeed at starting your own firm in San Francisco; affordable housing units in Andrew Bernheimer, Jared Della Valle the Bronx, New York; a public swimming Think/Make center in Aalborg, Denmark; and a proposal Della Valle Bernheimer for the reuse of New York City’s Hudson Yards. PAGES approx. 192 Each project in Think/Make covers both ILLS. approx. 245 in color aspects of their creative process, often FORMAT 19.0 X 25.0 cm demonstrating that they think both with their BINDING Softcover minds and their hands; the process is cerebral PRICE approx. EUR 26.00 ISBN 978-1-56898-781-1 English as well as physical. Thinking about the larger contexts of site and program, as well as about Available May 2009 historical precedents, linguistics, and correlations to natural forms and phenomena, Not available in UK Della Valle Bernheimer creates thoughtful, structurally innovative architecture.

The best young practicing architects as selected by the Architectural League of New York

Resonance is the tenth in an annual series of publications that features the best young Showcases current work that is practicing architects as selected by the meaningful to current issues and crosses Architectural League of New York in their disciplines (an increasingly important and annual Young Architects competition. Young popular method of practice) architects practicing today are working with diversiﬁ ed tools as a result of technological Cutting edge art employs technically advances in building methodologies, sophisticated rendering techniques as expanded communication networks, and well as imaginative solutions to real cross-fertilization from other disciplines and architectural dilemmas industries. Competition entrants were asked to consider whether this increased the The Architectural League of New York potential for architectural ideas to resonate Young Architects 10 with issues and concerns outside of their Resonance discipline. The competition winners Gage/ PAGES approx. 176 Clemenceau Architects, PellOverton ILLS. approx. 350 in color, 20 b/w Architecture R + D, Easton + Combs, Xu FORMAT 13.0 x 18.0 cm Tiantian, Project Open, and RVTR – each BINDING Softcover incorporated variations of the “resonance” to PRICE approx. EUR 16.50 ISBN 978-1-56898-809-2 English frame their portfolios and demonstrate the necessity for architecture to look outside its Available June 2009 disciplinary boundaries for solutions to the global challenges facing the world today. Not available in UK

Related Titles: Young Architects Series 52 | PRINCETON ARCHITECTURAL PRESS | ARCHITECTURE THEORY Groundbreaking argument for a more profound yet simpler way of thinking about architecture

Drawing on an encyclopedia reading of contemporary philosophy, as well as from the Unique examination of the relationships work of architects whose work he admires, between construction technology and the including Peter Zumthor, Renzo Piano, Le building’s location Corbusier, and Frank Lloyd Wright, Leatherbarrow challenges us to Fresh take on how the buildings evolves David Leatherbarrow fundamentally reconsider the way we think through design, construction, and use Architecture Oriented about buildings and ask architects to think Otherwise about their buildings in a vastly wider context, PAGES approx. 224 opening up the possibility of creating works ILLS approx. 80 b/w that are richer in meaning, quality, and life. In FORMAT 17.0 x 23.0 cm asking for and presenting a sea change in the BINDING Hardcover way of thinking about buildings and their PRICE approx. EUR 22.50 ISBN 978-1-56898-811-5 English design, Architecture Oriented Otherwise is required reading for anybody who makes or Available January 2009 cares about architecture. Not available in UK

First ever English translation of a work by acclaimed French novelist Jules Romains

Donogoo-Tonka or The Miracles of Science: A Cinematographic Tale is a mock fi lm scenario Part of the FORuM Projects publication written by the French novelist Jules Romains. series It was fi rst published in book form in 1920, and has never been translated into English. Accessible and humorous, pleasantly The satirical plot concerns a famous absurd, and illustrated with images from Jules Romains geographer whose academic career is about theatrical productions Donogoo–Tonka or the to be derailed by the revelation that he has Miracles of Science invented a city in South America. Through a The translator, Brian Evenson, is the author of celbrated novels, including The A Cinematographic Tale hilarious sequence of events, a suicidal young man fi nds a new mission in life by Open Curtain: The Wavering life PAGES approx. 80 ILLS approx. 20 in color, 20 b/w undertaking to build the fi ctional city, thereby FORMAT 14.0 x 22.0 cm redeeming the error and reputation of the BINDING Hardcover absentminded professor. PRICE approx. EUR 16.50 ISBN 978-1-56898-780-4 English

Available March 2009 Not available in UK Related Titles: Surreal Eden; 2006; 978-1-56898-612-8

The emergence of a new logic of architecture

This volume investigate the dissolution of the classical paradigm of architecture as imitative An original suite of images traces the form in the context of the French under-examined historical development of Enlightenment, and analyzes the emergence of Hospital Architecture from Paris’ Hotel a new logic of architecture based on a Dieu to the present biopolitical process of subject formation. Sven-Olov Wallenstein Wallenstein draws especially on the late work of First book to explicitly relate biopolitics to Biopolitics and the Michel Foucault for his argument and architecture Emergence of Modern distinguishes Foucault’s theory of biopolitics Architecture from that of Giorgio Agamben. Published shortly after the release of the fi rst English translation PAGES approx. 80 ILLS approx. 20 in color, 60 b/w of Foucault’s The Birth of Biopolitics, this is the FORMAT 14.0 x 22.0 cm fi rst volume that specifi cally relates the BINDING Hardcover biopolitical concept to architecture. The book PRICE approx. EUR 16.50 concludes with a pictorial essay on the ISBN 978-1-56898-785-9 English development over the last two centuries of the Available March 2009 modern hospital, a building type that epitomizes Not available in UK the unfolding of this new architectural logic. LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE | PRINCETON ARCHITECTURAL PRESS | 53

Twenty-five years of acclaimed modernist landscape architecture

“Studies in repetition and order, orchestrations of movement in the landscape, A source of inspiration for practicing and elements placed in geometric landscape architects and students alike conversation,” is how author Mary Myers describes the twenty-ﬁ ve-year career of San Includes a detailed list of species selected Francisco–based landscape architect Andrea by Cochran for their hardiness and beauty Cochran. Poetic language suits these functional and often lyrical works of art. Contains stunning photography that is They are sensuous, captivating oases that captivating in and of itself absorb the eye in a totality of spatial composition. Andrea Cochran: Landscapes presents eleven Mary Myers residential, commercial, and institutional Andrea Cochran: Landscapes landscape projects in detail, including Walden Studios in Alexander Valley, California; the

PAGES approx. 192 sculpture garden for the Portland Art Museum ILLS. approx. 175 in color in Portland, Oregon; and the award-winning FORMAT 25.0 x 22.0 cm Children’s Garden in San Francisco. BINDING Hardcover Drawing on an encyclopedic knowledge of PRICE approx. EUR 32.50 ISBN 978-1-56898-812-2 English plant species, Cochran uses vegetation to blur edges, and porous and permeable materials Available May 2009 to create grade changes that enlighten and disappear. Materials such as COR-TEN steel Not available in UK allow her to draw boundaries on the land with ultrathin edges while also reﬂ ecting the earthy tones of the soil beneath.

A detailed look at the complex art of bamboo fence design

Bamboo Fences provides a detailed look at the complex art of bamboo fence design and Presents a great variety of fence designs presents these unique structures in more that are unique to Japan than 250 photographs and line drawings. Author Isao Yoshikawa gives a brief overview Content and photographs will appeal to a of the history of bamboo fence building in wide variety of readers Japan and classiﬁ es the different designs by type. A glossary provides an explanation of The beauty of the fences themselves and Japanese fence names and structural terms. some of the accompanying structures are Yoshikawa explains how the wide range of reminiscent of the art shown in "Natural fence designs had its origin partly in the full Landscape," which was a big success for us development of the tea ceremony during the Isao Yoshikawa, Photographs by Osamu Suzuki sixteenth century. Bamboo partitions were Bamboo Fences used in Zen temples, and from there spread to ordinary homes. From the widely used “four-

PAGES approx. 160 eyed fence” (yotsume-gaki) and the ﬁ ne ILLS. approx. 250 in color “raincoat fence” (mino-gaki) to the expensive FORMAT 20.0 x 23.0 cm “spicebush fence” (kuromojigaki), the natural BINDING Hardcover color and texture of these exquisite bamboo PRICE approx. EUR 26.00 ISBN 978-1-56898-834-4 English fences could complement any landscape. Whether you plan to use bamboo to bring Available May 2009 privacy to your yard, Zen to your garden, or are just seeking an environmentally friendly Not available in UK alternative to chain-link or wood; the simple beauty of these Japanese bamboo fences is sure to inspire.

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Counterpoint: Daniel Libeskind is the fi rst comprehensive portrait of the work of Studio Author Paul Goldberger is of international Daniel Libeskind. Drawn from a series of renown interviews with celebrated architecture critic Paul Goldberger, Counterpoint exemplifi es Documents all of Libeskind‘s high-profile Libeskind‘s multidisciplinary approach, which projects such as the Jewish Museum in Paul Goldberger refl ects a profound interest in philosophy, art, Berlin and the Royal Ontario Museum in Counterpoint: music, literature, theater, and fi lm. Featured Toronto Daniel Libeskind projects include the Jewish Museum Berlin, the Felix-Nussbaum-Haus in Osnabrück, the Highly attractive object with exclusive recently completed Royal Ontario Museum in graphic design PAGES approx. 392 ILLS. approx. 350 in color, 90 b/w Toronto, the extension to the Denver Art FORMAT 18.4 x 26.0 cm Museum, the MGM Mirage CityCenter in Las BINDING Hardcover Vegas, a multi-building complex in Busan, PRICE approx. EUR 39.90 / GBP 31.90 South Korea, and the Danish Jewish Museum ISBN 978-3-7643-8945-1 English in Copenhagen. Available November 2008

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The great architect as visual artist

From the summer of 1958, when she ﬁ rst met Le Corbusier in Cap Martin, until today, Heidi The pioneering life’s work of an eminent Weber has worked tirelessly to popularize his collector work. Unique pictorial documentation of the late This volume documents these ﬁ fty years of Le Corbusier Heidi Weber activity with illustrations of more than one Heidi Weber hundred of Le Corbusier’s works from Heidi 50 Years Ambassador for Weber’s collection, including paintings, Le Corbusier 1958 - 2008 drawings, collages, sculptures, tapestries, furniture, plans, and models. It not only tells the story of a woman of tireless commitment PAGES 208 and vision; it offers a fascinating synthesis of ILLS. 127 in color, 71 b/w Le Corbusier’s work as a visual artist in all its FORMAT 30.0 x 24.0 cm myriad facets. BINDING Hardcover Related Titles: PRICE EUR 69.90 / GBP 54.90 Le Corbusier - The Graphic Work; 2004; ISBN 978-3-7643-8963-5 English 978-3-7643-7218-7; EUR 45.79/ GBP 35.00 Le Corbusier - Polychromie architecturale; 2006; Available February 2009 978-3-7643-7475-4; EUR 279.44/ GBP 215.00

Biennale On the potentials of contemporary architectural Contribution research and pedagogy

The job description of the architect has fundamentally changed with the emergence of A clear and understandable introduction a globalized society, and it will continue to do to the topic so in the future. Already today, the demands of the job no longer correspond to the proﬁ le on A topic of burning interest that will which classical architectural training is based. continue to gain importance Reto Geiser, Schweizer Bundesamt für Kultur (Eds.) internationally thanks to the Bologna Explorations in Architecture This is where Explorations comes in: Process at universities Teaching, Design, Research internationally celebrated authors, all of whom Symposia and other events in Switzerland, PAGES 216 are professors as well and hence directly Italy, and the United States ILLS. 145 in color, 106 b/w involved in the processes they describe, FORMAT 24.0 x 32.0 cm address the principal topics of contemporary BINDING Softcover architectural research. PRICE EUR 29.90 / GBP 24.90 ISBN 978-3-7643-8921-5 English

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Ring up the curtain as twenty famous architects take readers inside their “design laboratories”

How and where is architecture created today? Where do architects fi nd their inspiration? Presents tools and sources of inspiration What design tools do they use? This book with which design strategies are offers a behind-the-scenes look at twenty developed high-profi le international architecture fi rms and provides authentic glimpses of the Illustrates the hands-on process of Elke Krasny “doing architecture” Architekturzentrum Wien (Ed.) architects’ individual creative worlds. Rather than a collection of glossy portraits, the The Force Is in the Mind volume offers a step-by-step account of the Provides an overview of the tools of the The Making of Architecture design process, made vivid and three- architectural profession, from the pencil to computational design PAGES 188 dimensional by “snapshots” of the studios and ILLS. 225 in color, 50 b/w texts with quotations from conversations with FORMAT 19.5 x 24.0 cm the architects. Each fi rm is depicted with a BINDING Softcover PRICE EUR 34.90 / GBP 28.90 characteristic tool; the result is an overview of ISBN 978-3-7643-8980-2 English the tools used by successive generations of Related Titles: professional architects as they change over Tools for Ideas; 2007; Already available time, a phenomenon that has never been fully 978-3-7643-7577-5; EUR 29.90/ GBP 24.90 documented until now. Deviations – Designing Architecture; 2008 978-3-7643-8832-4; EUR 39.90/ GBP 29.90

Professionals present their most interesting projects: a „must“ for every client!

The Architekten Profi le 2009/2010 presents 150 selected architects from Germany, Cutting-edge and completely up-to-date Austria, and Switzerland together with their current works and trailblazing projects in 150 architect portraits at a glance architecture, landscape architecture, and interior design. Birkhäuser Verlag AG In cooperation with Baunetz With extensive information and a wealth of Architekten Profi le color illustrations, the book provides a clear 2009/2010 and vivid picture of the contemporary PAGES approx. 400 architecture scene. ILLS. approx. 800 in color FORMAT 24.0 x 30.0 cm Architekten Profi le 2009/2010 is the BINDING Hardcover PRICE approx. EUR 46.64 / GBP 36.90 indispensable reference work for clients, ISBN 978-3-7643-8445-6 German/English consultants, and architects who seek quick and targeted access to information on Available November 2008 relevant providers. Related Titles: Designer Profile 2008/2009 Set; 2008; 978-3-7643-8380-0; EUR 93.36 / GBP 74.90

Momentous events and extraordinary characters in design

The new exhibition and book project of the Design Center Stuttgart and the Deutsche Book to accompany the exhibition in Werkbund Baden-Württemberg presents Germany successful companies that boast special design achievements which have not only Companies that made design history buoyed their economic success. Andrea Scholtz, Design Center Stuttgart, Deutscher Werkbund Baden-Württemberg (Eds.) They are also exemplary or even trailblazing for the industry, for entrepreneurial action, Models for the attitude towards society and the Designculture in Germany employees: design as an expression of an PAGES 80 individual corporate culture. ILLS. 110 in color FORMAT 16.5 x 24.0 cm The companies presented are: BINDING Hardcover PRICE approx. EUR 19.90 / GBP 15.90 Bosch, Daimler, Duravit, Festo, Hansgrohe, ISBN 978-3-89986-106-8 English/German Interstuhl, Walter Knoll, Burkhardt Leitner constructiv, Steuler Fliesen, Stihl, Already available Wilde+Spieth. 56 | ALREADY ANNOUNCED Catalog for the exhibition at the Austrian Pavilion Biennale curated by Bettina Götz Contribution Bettina Götz, the commissioner of the Austrian exhibit at the 11th architecture at Three positions: Josef Lackner, PAUHOF, the Biennale di Venezia, discusses the Before Residential Construction Architecture theme of the exhibition with three key case studies. Two-volume catalog of the Austrian exhibit Volume 1: Josef Lackner (1931–2000), whose Bettina Götz (Ed.) uncompromising approach to architecture is Before Architecture examined in fi ve of his buildings. PAUHOF, 11th International Architecture whose conceptual work methods link utopias Exhibition – La Biennale with reality creating added social value. In volume 2, the German architecture di Venezia 2008 theorist and sociologist Werner Sewing PAGES 211. 2 volumes in case explores the issue of residential construction ILLS. numerous, mostly in color as a neglected fi eld of work in terms of FORMAT 21.0 x 25.0 cm BINDING Softcover perception and theory. His exploration of this PRICE EUR (D) 32.66 / GBP 25.99 subject in discussion with seven Austrian ISBN 978-3-211-09425-9 German / English architecture offi ces also researches common practices in this fi eld. Already available

On the exciting interplay between art and politics

Can art be used as an effective means for change or resistance against hegemonic Art as a means of articulation for power? What shape should such art assume? social and political concerns And in which context can it be used effectively to develop political Contributions by international authors relevance? on the relationship between art and politics Hedwig Saxenhuber (Ed.) in Chile, Russia and Turkey, as well as Kunst + Politik / Art + Politics This volume casts light on the interplay other countries between artistic creativity and political

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