publications + distribution spring 2014 spring 2014 Architecture 5 Art + Culture 9 Design + Graphics 20 Photography 24 Theory + Writings 29 Previously Announced 35 RAM OrdER + TradE INFormatioN 38 rampub.com Architecture Highlights ARCHITECTURE IN MEXICO 1900–2010 The Construction of Modernity: Works, Design, Art, and Thought Fernanda Canales & Cándida Fernández (Eds.) From the iconic modernism of Luis Barragán to the brightly colored postmodern forms of Ricardo Legoretta, this important historical document deals with the plurality of architectural styles and voices in Mexico during the 20th and early 21st centuries. Referencing French philosopher Michel Foucault’s idea of effective history in which knowledge does not encompass absolute truths delivered in traditional historical texts but rather fragments, shortening its vision to the things nearest it, Architecture in Mexico offers a new reading of the diverse interests at stake in historical Mexican architecture—its production and its subsequent reception. The volume pursues comprehension beyond built forms and closer to January 2014, Hardcover 10 ¼ x 13 inches, 600 pp the ideas (and ideologies) that gave rise to them. 1,393 b&w and 1,357 color ISBN: 978-607-7612-79-7 ARQUINE, MEXICO Retail price: TBA FOMENTO CULTURAL BANAMEX, MEXICO Guía CANDELA Candela Guide Juan Ignacio del Cueto The latest volume in this much-enjoyed series of pocket-sized guide books on pivotal 20th-century Mexican architects features the work of Félix Candela (1910–1997). The Spanish-born and German-educated Candela was forced to leave his homeland after fighting against Franco. He later fled to Mexico, where he cultivated his architectural career. Candela is noted for his stunning use of concrete construction for thin-shell hyperbolic paraboloids and domed structures. From more than 500 completed projects, 45 noted works are highlighted along with detailed maps of the featured cities, 109 photographs and 31 beautiful January 2014, Spanish only architectural drawings. Juan O’Gorman and Luis Barragán are a part of the same Hardcover, 4 ¾ x 7 inches series of books designed not only for historians of architecture but also any 192 pp, 48 b&w and 61 color interested traveler. ISBN: 978-607-7784-48-7 Retail price: $25.00 ARQUINE, MEXICO UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL AUTÓNOMA DE MÉXICO, MEXICO UNIVERSIDAD AUTÓNOMA DEL ESTADO DE MORELOS, MEXICO MORELOS SECRETARY OF CULTURE, MEXICO Editors Maura Lucking, Theresa Luisotti MANIFESTO ARCHITECTURE: CRITICAL SPATIAL PRACTICE 3 and Paul Schumacher Beatriz Colomina Design Nikolaus Hirsch & Markus Miessen (Eds.) Michael Savona The third title in the celebrated Critical Spatial Practice series, Manifesto Production Architecture argues that the history of the avant-garde (in architecture and Maura Lucking, Theresa Luisotti other disciplines) can’t be separated from the history of its engagement with and Paul Schumacher media. It is not just that the avant-garde used media to publicize its work; the work did not exist before its publication. In her succinct text, architectural Copy Editors historian Beatriz Colomina, director of the Media and Modernity program at Pamela Johnson and Maura Lucking Princeton University, traces the history of the modern architecture manifesto, from Le Corbusier’s Towards a New Architecture to Robert Venturi’s Complexity Printer Marina Graphics Center and Contradiction. With a particular focus on Mies van der Rohe and the play Hawthorne, California May 2014, Softcover, 4 x 6 inches between his written and built work, this essay propels the manifesto form into 89 pp, 79 b&w and 36 color the future, suggesting that we are now in the age of the “soft manifesto.” ©2014 RAM publications + distribution, inc. ISBN: 978-3-95679-000-3 Printed in the U.S.A. Retail price: $22.00 STERNBERG PRESS, BERLIN 5 Architecture Highlights Architecture Highlights MEXICAN ARCHITECTURES MAX SCHLUP The Best of the 21st Century: Vol. 5 2011–2012 Architekt Alejandra Gámez (Ed.) Architekturforum Biel (Ed.) Seventy of Mexico’s best architectural projects completed between 2011 and Mid-century modern architecture is beloved for its ability to combine International 2012 are compiled in this lavishly illustrated softcover, the fifth volume in the Style forms with a human touch. Architect Max Schlup (1917–2013) situated the series. A panel of top architects and specialists gathered to argue through the open living concept and technological positivism of figures such as Neutra and year’s favorites, drawn from previous features in Arquine magazine. Volume 5 Saarinen with the picturesque landscape of northwest Switzerland. As part of offers a broad and cutting-edge perspective on the country’s contemporary the so-called Solothurner Schule (together with Alfons Berth, Hans Zaugg, Franz architectural community. It includes small-scale projects and major commercial Füeg and Fritz Holler), Schlup was an important contributor to Swiss postwar construction, moving from the urban to the rural; interventions in historical and architecture. The Biel Congress Center is his best-known project—a symbol of modern buildings as well as spaces for art; public projects resulting from open the modern Swiss city, with its high-rise tower, sloping roofline, broad plaza and competitions and direct commissions; and projects by architects with long and indoor pool. Despite his esteem in architectural circles for his large-scale civic acclaimed careers along with others by young talent, with the aim to reveal projects, there has been no comprehensive monograph of his more than 40-year January 2014, English & Spanish trends and overall conditions of the current Mexican scene. career until now. Though in German, the book features extensive plans and Softcover, 8 ½ x 11 ¹⁄³ inches January 2014, German only photographs, making it an important (and beautiful) reference. 260 pp, 270 color and 164 b&w ARQUINE, MEXICO Hardcover, 8 ²⁄³ x 11 ¾ inches 356 pp, 300+ b&w and color architectural drawings VERLAG NIGGLI, SWITZERLAND ISBN: 978-607-7784-53-1 ISBN: 978-3-7212-0786-6 Retail price: $35.00 Retail price: $130.00 MUSEUM IN THE DOCK RIKEN YAMAMOTO Bruce Peter How to Make a City Architekturgalerie Luzern (Ed.) How does one breathe new life into an abandoned dry dock? BIG architects has designed an extraordinary museum to revive Denmark’s proud maritime The work of Riken Yamamoto, one of Japan’s leading architects, is of outstanding history. The Danish Maritime Museum will fit into a unique historical and spatial importance in urban design; his work seeks to integrate society and be a context between one of Denmark’s most important buildings—the world-famous cohesive force for contemporary living. Riken Yamamoto: How to Make a City Kronborg Castle—and a new, ambitious cultural center. In order to preserve focuses on Yamamoto’s long-standing engagement with the concept of “city” the dock as an open, outdoor space, BIG has placed the museum underground, and the modern demands of urban life, given increasing population. Published to just outside the wall of a dry dock in a formerly abandoned shipyard. In this accompany the exhibition at the Architecture Gallery Lucerne, this is a selection subterranean position, the museum appears as part of the cultural environment, of recent projects such as The Circle at Zurich Airport, a project originating from while at the same time standing as an independent institution. Through this a competition Yamamoto won in 2009. The multifunctional building complex, May 2014, Hardcover extraordinary document of the museum, BIG once again confirms its position as where internal construction adapts medieval city structures into a modern 8 ²⁄³ x 9 ½ inches, 208 pp 160 b&w and color one of the world’s leading architectural offices. As Rowan Moore writes in his January 2014, English & German form, is based on his research focusing on the diverse needs of urban communal ISBN: 978-91-980756-4-9 Guardian review, the museum “offers underneath a work of infinite jest and most Exhibition catalog, Softcover living space. Yamamoto’s architecture is cutting edge, exploring exciting and Retail price: $68.00 excellent fancy.” 8 ¾ x 10 ¾ inches, 32 pp intriguing possibilities for aesthetic and sustainable urban design for the 21st 27 b&w and color century. Featuring an interview by Hubertus Adam with Kees Christiaanse, Hiromi ARVINIUS + ORFEUS PUBLISHING, SWEDEN ISBN: 978-3-7212-0888-7 Hosoya and Riken Yamamoto. Retail price: $40.00 VERLAG NIGGLI, SWITZERLAND NOSSO LAR, BRASÍLIA Architecture Spiritism, Modernism, Architecture Jonah Staal How does the ideology of modernism relate to other mystical paradigms? Dutch ARCHITECTURE BDE ARCHITEKTEN artist Jonas Staal’s newest book explores the relationship between Spiritism— DOES (NOT) MATTER Archhöfe Winterthur a popular 19th-century religious doctrine involving séances and assorted para- Lisboa 7 by AT103 Hubertus Adam (Ed.) normal phenomena—and modernism in Brazilian architecture. Central to this Alejandro Hernández book is a systematic comparison between the fictive Spiritist city of Nosso Lar, Gálvez (Ed.) January 2014, German only as described by well-known medium Chico Xavier, and the country’s real-life Hardcover, 9 ²⁄³ x 11 ¼ inches capital Brasília, designed by Lúcio Costa and Oscar Niemeyer in 1956. Brazilian January 2014, Softcover 112 pp, 160 color plus plans ISBN: 978-3-7212-0891-7 psychic Xavier receives his messages from the other side in the form of best-selling 7 ¹⁄³ x 9 ½ inches, 192 pp Retail price: $88.00 novels, one of which describes the