JULY LIST

Facades

Author: Oda Pälmke

Jovis 2014

The façade is the visible face of a building, determining its character. Oda Pälmke's collection of pictures shows that the most expressive sides of houses are not always those that were originally designed as façades. Seemingly unspectacular walls can have a strong appeal and temporary modifications can also manifest qualities that could not have been designed better. The sculptural compositions of freestanding fire walls or of secondary sides of buildings entice the viewer to contemplate the selected pairs of pictures. Viewing what is marginal or unfinished as an asset opens up a wealth of possibilities in every respect.

With a foreword by Wim Wenders

Carl Andre

Sculpture as Place, 1958-2010

  Yasmil Raymond and Philippe Vergne; Edited by Michelle Piranio and Jeremy Sigler

Carl Andre (b. 1935) redefined the parameters of abstract sculpture in the 1960s and 1970s. He was a highly influential voice in the American minimalist movement, recognized for his ordered linear and grid formats. In the early 1960s, Andre's creative focus shifted to writing poetry when he took a job as a freight brakeman and conductor for the Pennsylvania Railroad. His poems echoed and extended the themes in his sculptural work, and his experience with the railroad significantly influenced his choice of materials in later years.__In this stunning catalogue, which accompanies the first retrospective of Andre's work since 1970, the artist's legacy is examined in eleven essays by international scholars. The book presents a broad range of sculpture made over the past fifty years, including Andre's emblematic floor and corner pieces, highlighting his radical use of standardized units of industrial material such as timber planks, concrete blocks, and metal plates. A vast selection of Andre's previously unpublished concrete poems, together with letters, postcards, ephemera, and documentation of important installations, further complements our understanding of an essential figure in the history of contemporary art.

Concrete Architektur und Fotografie
Scheidegger & Spiess | 2014

Architecture has always been a magnificent and much debated platform to express the spirit of the times, worldviews, everyday life, and aesthetics. It is a daring materialization of private and public visions, of applied art and the avant-garde alike. Concrete - Photography and Architecture presents images of iconic urban architectures and townscapes that refelct the close and complex union between photography and architecture, between architect and photographer. Starting from the 19th century, when photography was invented, the book picks up positions, juxtapositions, and thematic fields that bring together the concrete, fundamental, and the historic. Besides of everyday architecture and glamorous buildings, it looks also at structural horizontal and vertical axes; houses and homes; utopias, plans and reality; the captivating transience of architecture against the test of time; and destruction both natural and intentional.

The book is published to coincide with the exhibition Concrete - Photography and Architecture at Fotomuseum Winterthur (2 March to 20 May 2013).

Typewriter Art: A Modern Anthology

By Barrie Tullett
Laurence King 2014

The first typewriter artist to find fame was Flora F. F. Stacey, with her butterfly drawing of 1898; but since the very beginning of the typewriter's existence, artists, designers, poets and writers have used this rigorous medium to produce an astounding range of creative work.__This beautiful book brings together some of the best examples by typewriter artists around the world. As well as key historical work from the Bauhaus, H. N. Werkman and the concrete poets, there is art by contemporary practitioners, both typewriter artists who use the keyboard as a 'palette' to create artworks, and artists/typographers using the form as a compositional device. The book will appeal to graphic designers, typographers, artists and illustrators, and anyone fascinated by predigital technology.

Hildner, Claudia

Future Living

Collective Housing in Japan
Birkhauser 2014

Single-family houses are becoming increasingly outdated. They offer no response to demographic change or to the fact that there are fewer and fewer life-long relationships. They are often too inflexible for new family models or ways of cohabitation._This publication presents projects in recent years in Japan, which respond to the need for new forms of housing. The architects are developing solutions that allow residents to live together but still maintain enough distance and privacy. The presented apartment types and their layout allow for a variety of life models. Particularly interesting here is the use of spaces that provide a gradual transition from public to private space-an approach to building that, according to experts, could revolutionize western residential architecture._The publication portrays these new forms of building and living based on prominent Japanese examples that include Shigerun Ban, Sou Foujimoto, and SANAA.

 

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Clog 11

New York 2014

CLOG is about architecture, we encourage individuals from any field or background to contribute. We are interested in all forms of critique and commentary, including, but not limited to, images, graphics, diagrams, and/or text. Ultimately, the form of each contribution should be determined by whatever most effectively communicates the idea.

CONTRIBUTORS:

Michael Abrahamson, Stan Allen, Joseph Altshuler, Serafina Amoroso, Haik Avanian, Cecil Balmond, Dorin Baul, Aaron Betsky, Petra Blaisse, Jim Bogle, Ole Bouman, Mat Bower, Eric de Broche des Combes, Brian Bruegge, Galo Canizares, Stephen Cassell, Archie Lee Coates IV, Rene Daalder, Ozge Diler, Ryan Drummond, Keefer Dunn, A. A. Dutto, Erez Ella, Valeria Federighi, Kim Förster, Jeffrey Franklin, Joseph Godlewski, Adam Himes, Matthias Hollwich, Julia van den Hout, Frances Hsu, Bernard Hulsman, Hans Ibelings, Klaus, Charlie Koolhaas, Tomas Koolhaas, Andrew Kovacs, Jimenez Lai, Stephanie Lee, Thomas Lozada, Winy Maas and Jacob van Rijs, Brandon Martinez, Isaac Mathew, Kyle May, Philipp Oswalt, Roberto Otero, Steven K. Peterson, Wim Pijbes, Jacob Reidel, Michael Rock, Joanna Rodriguez-Noyola, Fernando Romero, Alejandro Sanchez, Mika Savela, Jonathan A. Scelsa, Kyle Schumann, Brian Slocum, Galia Solomonoff, Frederieke Taylor, Will Thomson, Madelon Vriesendrop, Luke Yosuke Willis, Human Wu, Albena Yaneva, Alejandro Zaera-Polo and Zoe Zenghelis,

 Antonio Scarponi

Eliooo

2013

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By following the instructions in this book, you will become the manufacturer of an idea. This book is an instruction manual for a product that only exists if you build it. here are the instructions. i have designed this device so that you can produce your own food, using some inexpensive ikea boxes and the directions in this book. This system uses hydroponics, a farming technique that can be used to grow plants in water instead of soil. the reason for using hydroponics is very simple: hydroponics allows you to save up to the 90% of the water used in traditional agriculture systems, requires much less space, and provides you with full control of the nutrients required by the plants at each stage of their growth. another great thing about hydroponics is that you don’t have to worry about watering the plants. The system i have designed combines different hydroponics techniques. these are adapted to make them easy to use at home. this means that you become a farmer, perhaps an urban farmer. however, this book is not a book on urban farming, nor is it a general book about hydroponics. this book is a manual that will show you how to build and run a simple hydroponic system with some inexpensive ikea boxes. i call this system eliooo.

Perduti nel Paesaggio

Mart Rovereto 2014

 La mostra, a cura di Gerardo Mosquera, affronta il tema attraverso le opere di oltre 60 artisti provenienti da tutto il mondo, molti dei quali mai presentati in Italia. Oltre 170 fotografie, 84 opere pittoriche, 10 video, 4 video-installazioni, 4 installazioni, 4 interventi context specific (Gonzalo Diaz, Takahiro Iwasaki, Glexis Novoa e Cristina Lucas), 1 progetto web specific (Simon Faithfull), 1 libro d’artista (Ed Ruscha).

Robert Harding Pittman

ANONYMIZATION - The global proliferation of urban sprawl
Kehrer Verlag  2014

All across the world a uniform, homogeneous model of development, inspired by Los Angeles style urban sprawl – consisting of massive freeways, parking lots, shopping malls and large-scale masterplanned communities with golf courses – is being stamped onto the earth’s topography. With this anonymous type of development comes the destruction of the environment, and also a loss of culture and roots, as well as alienation. This globalized model of architecture does not respect or adapt itself to the natural or cultural environment onto which it is implanted. As we have seen in recent history, fervent overdevelopment has led to crises, not only financial, but also environmental and social, and some even say psychological. 

German-American photographer Robert Harding Pittman began working on this project called "Anonymization – The global proliferation of urban sprawl" in Los Angeles ten years ago. Since then he has been traveling around the world photographing the spread of »L.A. style development« in Las Vegas, Spain, France, Germany, Greece, Dubai and South Korea. The world was in the midst of a construction boom when the project began. In the meantime most cranes have come to a screeching halt.

"These images – many of them haunting in an arid way – remind us by contrast of how much we long for real places, real texture, real homes, real communi- ties. In many cases they’re the face of the housing bust – but also some much deeper bust, in the way we’ve been thinking (or not) about the world."

Bill McKibben, author of "Eaarth"

Authors: Alison Nordström, Anette Baldauf, Bill McKibben, Galina Tachieva

Artists: Robert Harding Pittman

Martino Gamper

Design is a State of Mind

Koenig books 2014

In the exhibition design is a state of mind Gamper presents a landscape of shelving systems, telling the story of design objects and their impact on our lives. The pieces of furniture, arranged around the outer walls of the Serpentine Sackler Gallery, date from the 1930s to the present day and range from historic design classics and one-off pieces, to industrial, utilitarian, contemporary and newly commissioned work. Renowned designers such as Ettore Sottsass, Charlotte Perriand and Giò Ponti are placed in close proximity to IKEA and Dexion industrial shelves that together represent an eclectic history of the way that we display, archive and organise our most precious possessions. The function of each piece is underlined by the collections of objects arranged on them, which have been chosen by Gamper from the personal archives of his friends and colleagues. From the beauty of the mundane to the wonder of the relic, these collections give an insight into the inspirations and obsessions of designers.

http://www.derive.at

dérive - A very Interesting Austrian magazine, for the content that amplify theoretical issues through a historical and political analysis of urban practices.

dérive - Zeitschrift für Stadtforschung erscheint seit Sommer 2000 vierteljährlich in Wien und versteht sich als interdisziplinäre Plattform zum Thema Stadtforschung. Die behandelten Felder reichen von Architektur, Stadt- und Landschaftsplanung, Raumordnung und Bildender Kunst bis zu Geographie, Soziologie, Politik- und Medienwissenschaften und Philosophie. Thematisiert werden globale Problemstellungen, die im lokalen Rahmen behandelt werden und Aufschlüsse über die gegenwärtige Stadtentwicklung geben sollen. 

Beatriz Colomina
Manifesto Architecture: The Ghost of Mies
Edited by Nikolaus Hirsch, Markus Miessen
Featuring artwork by Dan Graham 
Sternberg-press 2014

The history of the avant-garde (in art, architecture, literature) can’t be separated from the history of its engagement with mass media. It is not just that the avant-garde used media to publicize its work; the work did not exist before its publication.
In architecture, Adolf Loos, Le Corbusier, and Mies van der Rohe came to be known through their influential writings and manifestos published in newspapers, journals, and little magazines. Entire groups, from Dada and Surrealism to De Stijl, became an effect of their manifestos. The manifesto was the site of self invention, innovation, and debate. Even buildings themselves could be manifestos. The most extreme and radical designs in the history of modern architecture were realized as pavilions in temporary exhibition.
In the third book in the Critical Spatial Practice series, Beatriz Colomina traces the history of the modern architecture manifesto, with particular focus on Mies van der Rohe, and the play between the written and built work. This essay propels the manifesto form into the future, into an age where electronic media are the primary sites of debate, suggesting that new forms of manifesto are surely emerging along with new kinds of authorship, statement, exhibition, and debate.

Alessandro Petti, Sandi Hilal, Eyal Weizman
Architecture after Revolution

Stenberg press 2013

The work presented in this book is an invitation to undertake an urgent architectural and political thought experiment: to rethink today’s struggles for justice and equality not only from the historical perspective of revolution, but also from that of a continued struggle for decolonization; consequently, to rethink the problem of political subjectivity not from the point of view of a Western conception of a liberal citizen but rather from that of the displaced and extraterritorial refugee. You will not find here descriptions of popular uprising, armed resistance, or political negotiations, despite these of course forming an integral and necessary part of any radical political transformation. Instead, the authors present a series of provocative projects that try to imagine “the morning after revolution.” Located on the edge of the desert in the town of Beit Sahour in Palestine, the architectural collective Decolonizing Architecture Art Residency (DAAR) has since 2007 combined discourse, spatial intervention, collective learning, public meetings, and legal challenges to open an arena for speculating about the seemingly impossible: the actual transformation of Israel’s physical structures of domination. Against an architectural history of decolonization that sought to reuse colonial architecture for the same purpose for which it was originally built, DAAR sees opportunities in a set of playful propositions for the subversion, reuse, profanation, and recycling of these structures of domination and the legal infrastructures that sustain them.

 Reconstructing Space: Architecture in Recent German Photography Paperback
by Mack; Breuer; Leach

AA Publications 2004

It is as though human beings -- in an age increasingly dominated by photography -- have taken on the attributes of the camera...We now see the world in terms of the "snapshot", and according to the mechanism of the camera itself. Neil Leach
German photography has led the world in the reassessment of our relationship to the urban and man-made environment. Themes such as the way we move through space, and our alienation from the world around us, are explored by artists including Bernd & Hilla Becher, Gosbert Adler, Laurenz Berges, Mona Breede, Johannes Bruns, Susanne Br gger, Michael Danner, Thomas Demand, Christine Erhard, Andreas Gursky, Matthias Hoch, Candida Hofer, Thomas Ruff, Heiner Schilling, Matthias Schmidt, Michael Schmidt, Heidi Specker, Petra Wunderlich and Ulrich W st. The artists' portfolios are supported by a series of essays that set the work in a theoretical and historical context.

WA: The Essence of Japanese Design

Explore the beauty, essence, and enduring impact of Japanese design
Rossella Menegazzo, Stefania Piotti and Kenya Hara

Phaidon 2014

Through some 250 objects this book explores contemporary Japanese design: from everyday objects and packaging to interior design and lighting elements. Ultimately the book aims to explore the way in which Japanese design manages to harness its materials – whether natural or synthetic – and at the same time combines respect for tradition with forward-thinking and experimentation.
The objects featured were chosen because of their strong Japanese character and the influence this 'Japaneseness' has had on Western culture. Rather than following a chronological order or concentrating on the designers, this book focuses on the objects and is categorized by material, highlighting the strong link between design and material in Japan.