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ARCHITECTURE LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE DESIGN BIRKHÄUSER VERLAG LARS MÜLLER PUBLISHERS AVEDITION PRINCETON ARCHITECTURAL PRESS AUTUMN 2006 NEW TITLES CONTENT Smart Materials In Detail: Building Skins Light for Cities Basics Axel Ritter Christian Schittich (Ed.) Ulrike Brandi, et al. see page 14 see page 2 see page 8 see page 10 BIRKHÄUSER VERLAG ARCHITECTURE LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE DESIGN Construction Sensations 20 Jan Tschichold 24 Smart Materials 2 Sculptures Parks: Art and helmut schmid: Transparent Plastics 3 Nature in Europe 21 gestaltung ist haltung/design is attitude 24 Failed Stone 4 Inside Outside – Petra Blaisse 22 Entry Paradise 25 Detail Practice: Building with Concrete 4 ’scape 22 ENTRY 2006 – Fibre Cement 5 West 8 23 Design, Visions and Perspectives 25 Engineering for a Finite Planet 6 Günter Kupetz – Industrial Design 26 Construction Materials Manual 7 Michael Erlhoff & Friends TXT & IMG 26 Types / Functions Colour – Communication in Space 27 In Detail: Building Skins 8 Frame: The Back Issue 28 En Detail: Habitat collectif 8 Dress Code 29 En Detail: Construire dans l’existant 9 Swiss Federal Design Grants 2006 30 En Detail: Maison individuelles 9 Gute Gestaltung 2006 / Good Design 2006 30 iF communication design award 2006 31 Cities / Urbanism form 32 Light for Cities 10 designFlux 33 5 Codes 11 étapes:international 33 Le tao de la ville 12 Town Spaces 12 Austrian Architecture in the 20th and 21st Century 13 Basics Basic Display Box 14 Design and Housing 15 Modelbuilding 15 Masonry Construction 15 Materiality 15 Technical Drawing 15 Roof Construction 15 Architects and Buildings Swiss Modern 18 Architekten Profile 2007/2008 18 Exploring Boundaries 19 Kiessler + Partner Architekten 19 CONTENT Sensations Dress Code Sauerbruch Hutton Archive Hidden Details in Nadine Olonetzky Frame (Ed.) Matthias Sauerbuch, et al. Contemporary Architecture see page 20 see page 29 see page 37 Christine Killory (Hrsg.), et al. see page 49 PRINCETON ARCHITECTURAL LARS MÜLLER PUBLISHERS AVEDITION PRESS René Burri – Pour Le Corbusier 34 Best Designed Affordable Hotels 40 Architecture Pierre Mendell. Posters for the Opera 34 Best Designed Honeymoon Hotels 40 Architectural Regionalism 48 Olafur Eliasson 35 Best Designed Ecological Hotels 41 Crafting A Modern World 48 Typo China 36 Best Designed Beach Hotels 42 Details in Contemporary Architecture 49 Zurich–Milano 36 Best Designed Wellness Hotels 42 Austin Val Verde 50 Sauerbruch Hutton Archive 37 Licht Kunst Licht 2 43 VJAA 50 BRAKIN 38 40 Rooms Berlin 43 In Jefferson’s Shadow 51 Jean-Bénoît Levy – HandBook 38 Trade Fair Design Annual 2006/2007 44 Norwegian Wood 51 Eisenmanual 39 D’Art Design 44 O’Donnell + Tuomey 52 UN Studio – Mercedes-Benz-Museum 45 Tom Kundig: Houses 52 Focus Energy 45 Bunker Archaeology 53 Caravaning Design Award 2006 / 2007 46 Zaha Hadid: BMW Central Building 53 Design Diary 2007 46 Ian MacHarg Dwelling in Nature: red dot award: International Yearbook Conversations with Students 54 Communication Design 2006 / 2007 47 Tools of the Imagination 54 Who’s Who in Design 3 47 Design Visual Grammar 54 Mysteries of the Rectangle 55 Strips, Toons, and Bluesies 55 The Book as Art 55 Photography By Hand 56 Ghostly Ruins 56 Forget Me Not 56 Popular Culture Life on the Lower East Side 57 Above Paris 57 Designing Paradise 57 Surreal Eden 58 Ilf and Petrov’s American Road Trip 58 Hotel as Home 58 In Katrina’s Wake 59 Blackstock’s Collection 59 BACKLIST 60–69 2 | CONSTRUCTION Smart Materials Types, Products, Architecture Axel Ritter approx. 200 pages 200 color, 50 b/w ills, 50 drawings 28,0 x 24,0 cm Hardcover approx. EUR 69,90 / GBP 54,90 ISBN 3-7643-7327-X English Available October 2006 SMART MATERIALS: GROUNDBREAKING INNOVATIONS IN ARCHITECTURE, DESIGN, AND ART Examples of highly innovative materials in actual use Provides a systematic overview for users Get out ahead with the latest technical knowledge Photoluminescent materials installation “flora non grata: Creeping Buttercup” 2004, Ruth Handschin, Switzerland The use of smart materials in architecture is One of the most fascinating developments is a dynamic and innovative area merging the advent of Phase Change Materials. Smart Black light elements of the work “Lost Embryo”, since research, development, and use. Smart materi- materials make it possible, for example, to 1999, EunSook Lee, South Korea als, with their reversible characteristics, develop self-acting, kinetic facades and wall- respond to stimuli such as light, temperature, paper that changes its color and pattern based and electrical field by changing their form, on temperature and light. their color, their viscosity, etc. The book presents the development of these materials and also describes their use in the contexts of architecture, design, and art. It offers a systematic overview with a detailed discussion of properties, technologies, products, and projects based on some twenty families of Sell as well: materials. › Liquid Stone ISBN 3-7643-7483-7; EUR 49,90 / GBP 39,90 › Material World 2 ISBN 3-7643-7279-6; EUR 51,40 / GBP 39,50 CONSTRUCTION | 3 Transparent Plastics Technology and Design Simone Jeska approx. 160 pages 120 color, 60 b/w ills, 70 drawings 23,0 x 30,0 cm Hardcover approx. EUR 59,90 / GBP 44,90 ISBN 3-7643-7470-5 English Available October 2006 A FASCINATING GUIDE TO BUILDING WITH TRANSPARENT PLASTICS Recent years have seen the construction of seems ephemeral and thus captures the spirit buildings made of plastic, structures that are of the times. Its various qualities between Brimming with useful tips for design and as attractive as they are unusual. After initial transparent and translucent make it possible to building practice experiments in the 1970s, plastic is currently achieve fascinating effects with light and color. experiencing a tremendous boom. Originally Stimulating examples of plastic in actual used for temporary structures like the BMW Projects presented include the Allianz Arena in use Pavilion in Frankfurt, it is now employed in Munich by Herzog & de Meuron, the Rocket many permanent buildings as well, including Tower in Leicester by Grimshaw & Partners, the Detailed documentation of technical the recent Catholic church in Radebeul by Paper Art Museum by Shigeru Ban in Shizuoka, principles Staib/Behnisch. Prominent international avant- Japan, and the public housing development garde architects such as Shigeru Ban and Her- Cité Manifeste in Mulhouse by Lacaton Vassal. zog & de Meuron frequently use transparent plastic for their structures. Transparent plastic Gerontec Centre, Diethard Siegert, Bad Tölz, Germany Sell as well: Art Museum, Shigeru Ban Architects, Shizuoka, Japan › Office Buildings – A Design Manual ISBN 3-7643-6650-8; EUR 85,00 / GBP 65,50 › Facade Construction Manual ISBN 3-7643-7109-9; EUR 110,00 / GBP 84,50 › Detail Praxis: Translucent Materials ISBN 3-7643-7033-5; EUR 34,50 / GBP 26,50 4 | CONSTRUCTION A PRACTICAL DIAGNOSIS AND ANALYSIS OF STRUCTURAL DAMAGE Concrete and stone seem made to last forever. But the fact is they develop problems. It is not Useful guideline for practioners always as dramatic as the collapse of a section of the roof of the Paris Charles de Gaulle air- Basic information on common types of port in 2004. Gradual changes also occur that structural damage may compromise the appearance and struc- tural soundness of buildings constructed with Tips for avoiding damage these materials. These changes can be created by efflorescence, thermal stress, weathering, leakage and corrosion. Failed Stone This book explains how to avoid typical kinds Problems and Solutions with Concrete and Masonry of failure. With this in mind, it systematically Patrick Loughran analyzes cases of damage in contemporary international architecture. It also offers strate- approx. 152 pages gies for minimizing the risk of damage. Exam- 40 color, 130 b/w ills, 80 drawings ples include such high-visibility structures as 22,0 x 28,0 cm Finlandia Hall in Helsinki, Parco della Musica Softcover in Rome and Vontz Center for Molecular Studies approx. EUR 59,90 / GBP 44,90 in Cincinnatti. In eight chapters, typical kinds ISBN 3-7643-7329-6 English of damage are explained and illustrated with examples. Finlandia Hall, Helsinki Available October 2006 Patrick Loughran is an architect and façade designer in Chicago. Sell as well: › Loughran, Falling Glass. Problems and Solutions in Contemporary Architecture ISBN 3-7643-6712-1; EUR 58,00 / GBP 15,90 › The Art of Precast Concrete. Colour Texture Expres- sion; ISBN 3-7643-7150-1; EUR 59,90 / GBP 46,00 CONCRETE – DESIGNING AND BUILDING WITH THE CONSTRUCTION MATERIAL OF THE FUTURE With its virtually infinite plasticity, its con- structional versatility, and its simple and Sound planning advice, with detail straightforward building technology, concrete is drawings and field reports by practicing the building material of the present. In addition architects to careful design and constructional planning, the invitation of bids and the building contract Guide to tendering, the building contract, are the keys to a successful implementation. and construction management Building with Concrete provides the basic infor- mation needed to work with the material, with Current developments in concrete con- special attention to the architect’s role in plan- struction, including translucent concrete, ning and construction management. It describes lightweight wood concrete, and textile Detail Practice: Building with Concrete current trends in concrete technology and concrete the development of innovative new types of con- Martin Peck (Ed.) In cooperation with DETAIL crete, with firsthand reports by architects in the field. It also describes the new version of approx. 112 pages the DBV/BDZ data sheet “Exposed Concrete.” 130 color, 10 b/w ills, 100 drawings 21,0 x 29,7 cm Softcover approx. EUR 34,90 / GBP 26,90 ISBN 3-7643-7631-7 English Available September 2006 Sell as well: › Concrete Construction Manual ISBN 3-7643-6724-5; EUR 110,00 / GBP 84,50 › Precast Concrete ISBN 3-7643-7150-1; EUR 59,90 / GBP 46,00 › Exposed Concrete ISBN 3-7643-7269-9; EUR 69,90 / GBP 54,90 CONSTRUCTION | 5 Fibre Cement Technology and Design Jan R.