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ARCHITECTURE LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE DESIGN neW titles spring 2010 Birkhäuser avedition CONTENT 128 Colors Material Design see page 10 see page 13 BIRKHÄUSER ARCHITECTURE LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE DESIGN Construction/Materials 19 Urban Green 22 Thomas Feichtner – Edge to Edge 4 Plastics 20 ’scape 23 1D – The First Dimension 5 The Articulate Surface 20 Field Studies 24 Typo Lyrics 6 Façades 21 Under the Open Sky 26 Creating Desired Futures 7 SCALE – Enclose | Build 27 iF product design award 8 Detail Practice: Photovoltaics yearbook 2010 9 Interiors Construction Manual 27 form – The Making of Design Architectural Design 10 128 Colors 12 Digital Culture in Architecture 13 Material Design Types/Functions 14 Building with Water 15 In Detail: Small Structures Architects/Buildings 16 Dado – Built and Inhabited by Rudolf Olgiati and Valerio Olgiati 17 Ideas Exchange 17 Michele Arnaboldi Architect Cities/Regions/Urbanism 18 Drawing the Ground – Landscape Urbanism Today CONTENT Urban Green Typo Lyrics see page 19 see page 24/25 AVEDITION ALREADY ANNOUNCED 28 Formguide 31 Basics Set 28 Design Manuals 29 New Exhibition Design 02 30 Universal Design – Best Practice Volume 1 PROMOTION 30 red dot design concept yearbook 2009 / 2010 32 BACKLIST 34 Topseller Birkhäuser 36 Birkhäuser 42 Basics 43 avedition 4 | CONSTRUCTION | MATERIALS New Stephan Engelsmann, Valerie Spalding, Stefan Peters Series Plastics in Architecture and Construction PAGES approx. 168 ILLS. approx. 140 in color, 40 b/w, 100 drawings FORMAT 22.0 x 28.0 cm BINDING Hardcover PRICE approx. EUR 49.90 / GBP 45.00 ISBN 978-3-0346-0322-5 English Available April 2010 Plastics in architecture: a comprehensive introduction Plastics are high-performance materials of tecture. This book fills that gap by providing wide use in the built environment. Their versa- an introduction to the structural and design Finally, a systematic treatment of the use tile technical properties are particularly fas- possibilities of plastic. It introduces the mate- of plastics in architecture cinating. A broad range of form-giving and fin- rial and its specific characteristics, describes ishing processes makes plastic especially various types of plastic in terms of their rele- A technically authoritative and detailed interesting for complex geometries in combi- vance for building, explains processing tech- presentation of plastic materials, their nation with digital planning processes. Fol- nologies and presents typical products and technical properties and design lowing the pioneering plastic structures of components. A concise presentation of twen- possibilities the 1970s, a number of spectacular buildings ty-five international built projects – organized have in recent years highlighted the outstand- by the type of application and the plastic in- ing technical and aesthetic potential of the volved – documents the broad range of plastic material. in architecture. Finally, a look ahead at the Until now, however, there has been no system- future describes the current state of the art in atic treatment of the use of plastic in archi- materials research. Polymer Engineering Centre, Melbourne, 2001 Chanel Mobile Art Pavilion, 2008 Cox Architects & Planners Zaha Hadid Related Titles: Transparent Plastics; 2007; 978-3-7643-7470-9; EUR 59.90 / GBP 54.00 Construction Materials Manual; 2006; 978-3-7643-7570-6; EUR 120.00 / GBP 108.00 CONSTRUCTION | MATERIALS | 5 Ben Pell The Articulate Surface Ornament and Technology in Contemporary Architecture PAGES approx. 192 ILLS. approx. 175 in color, 25 b/w, 50 drawings FORMAT 26.5 x 24.0 cm BINDING Hardcover PRICE approx. EUR 79.90 / GBP 72.00 ISBN 978-3-0346-0221-1 English Available May 2010 The new role of ornament in architecture Ornament is currently acquiring a new status the resulting types of ornament, along with Systematic account using numerous in architecture. Parametric design and digital the finishing methods and strategies of appli- international examples production of building components are radi- cation. Decorating and patterning, perforating cally altering its role. The free forms of orna- and cutting, layering and coating, forming and New technologies, ornament types, ment are no longer antithetical to the con- pouring, stacking and covering are presented finishing methods and applications structive geometry of a building; rather, both using forty built examples of international are designed and produced according contemporary architecture. The author’s Relevant for designers of all disciplines to the same logic and using the same tools. highly qualified inspection and classification The old opposition between structure and or- of the new technological possibilities are sup- nament has been eliminated. This opens plemented by reports on the experiences of up a wealth of new possibilities of interaction architects with particular expertise in the between function and decoration, volume area of advanced ornament: Sam Jacob of and surface, load-bearing structure and Fashion Architecture Taste (FAT), London; building skin. Andreas Hild of Hild und K Architekten, This book gives a systematically structured Munich; and Alejandro Zaera-Polo of Foreign account of the technologies employed and Office Architects, London. Related Titles: Patterns 2. Design, Art and Architecture; 2008; 978-3-7643-8644-3; EUR 59.90 / GBP 54.00 Patterns in Design, Art and Architecture; 2007; 978-3-7643-7750-2; EUR 39.90 / GBP 36.00 6 | CONSTRUCTION | MATERIALS Dirk U. Hindrichs, Winfried Heusler (Eds.) New 3rd ed. Façades Building Envelopes for the 21st Century PAGES approx. 630 ILLS. approx. 1000 in color FORMAT 25.0 x 33.0 cm BINDING Hardcover PRICE approx. EUR 65.33 / GBP 63.00 ISBN 978-3-7643-9959-7 German / English Available February 2010 Intelligent surfaces and building skins – outstanding facades for the 21st century The third edition of this highly successful book building typology – yield an overview of the has been graphically redesigned as well as technical possibilities of modern building en- Documentation of remarkable facade completely revised and expanded, with 220 velopes: selected buildings by Albert Speer & ideas and concepts new articles. It brings together facade solu- Partner, WS Atkins & Partners, Toyo Ito, tions and ideas that are remarkable from Murphy/Jahn, Riepel + Riepel, Richard Meier Built examples by internationally various perspectives – city planning, architec- & Partners, Daniel Libeskind, Ingenhoven renowned architects ture, technology, functionality. These qualities Overdiek, Gehry Partners, Yaser Darwish, BRT are attested by countless international struc- Architekten, Foster and Partners, Pysall_Ruge, Graphically redesigned as well as tures and innovative plans by celebrated ar- Zaha Hadid, Ricardo Bofill, KSP Engel und completely revised and expanded, chitects, which – organized on the basis of Zimmermann, and FX Fowle. with 220 new articles Related Titles: Facades. Principles of Construction; 2007; 978-3-7643-7962-6; EUR 29.90 / 27.00 In Detail: Building Skins; 2006; 978-3-7643-7640-6; EUR 69.90 / GBP 63.00 Facade Construction Manual; 2004; 978-3-7643-7109-8; EUR 120.00 / GBP 108.00 CONSTRUCTION | MATERIALS | 7 Martin Krammer, Jörg Sturm, Susanne Wartzeck Enclose | Build The Building Envelope – Facade, Wall, Roof PAGES approx. 160 ILLS. approx. 150 in color, 25 b/w, 200 drawings FORMAT 22.0 x 28.0 cm BINDING Softcover PRICE approx. EUR 44.90 / GBP 40.00 ISBN 978-3-0346-0207-5 English Available June 2010 The building shell – functional, efficient and aesthetic The building shell is the interface with the out- The book shows the conditions under which The second volume in the SCALE series side world: it offers protection and at the same certain constructions can be employed and time represents its owners or occupants. But why; what criteria such as construction costs, A guide through the complex world of what are the criteria for choosing a specific issues of sustainability, of energy efficiency, of building shells and all they can do shell? Why is a particular material used on a assembly or of insulation or protection against particular undercoat? The second volume of moisture can also influence the choice of a This comprehensive, detailed presentation the SCALE series, Enclose | Build, is not about system. In addition to classical constructions, sheds light on constructive solutions and the curtain, the dressing of the facade that Enclose | Build offers a look at future develop- how to develop them surrounds a building, but rather on a causal ments. How will the facade evolve as an inter- level about the exterior termination of a build- face for information? What do viable concepts ing, the wall, the facade, which can be made for environmentally active, energy-efficient of various materials, surfaces and achieves building shells look like? This book is an indis- different design effects. pensable tool for every architect and planner. Related Titles: Scale Open | Close; 2009; 978-3-7643-9961-0; EUR 44.90 / GBP 40.00 Constructing Architecture; 2008; 978-3-7643-8631-3; EUR 49.90 / GBP 45.00 8 | CONSTRUCTION | MATERIALS Bernhard Weller, Claudia Hemmerle, Sven Jakubetz, Stefan Unnewehr Detail Practice: Photovoltaics Technology, Design, Construction PAGES approx. 112 ILLS. approx. 240 in color, 130 drawings FORMAT 21.0 x 29.7 cm BINDING Softcover PRICE approx. EUR 39.90 / GBP 36.00 ISBN 978-3-0346-0369-0 English Available March 2010 A planning guide for building-integrated photovoltaics As a critical component in the mix of regener- and products. The