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As the world’s population swells and the need for sustainable ways of living grows ever more urgent and obvious, prefabricated architecture has taken center stage. Even before our current predicaments, the mass-produced, factory-made home had a distinguished history, having served as a vital precept in the development of Modern architecture. Today, with the digital revolution reorganizing the relationship between drafting board and factory, it continues to spur innovative manufacturing and design, and its potential has clearly not yet come to fruition. Home Delivery traces the history of prefabrication in architecture, from its early roots in colonial cottages though the work of such figures as Jean Prouvé and Buckminster Fuller, and mass-produced variants such as the Lustron house, to a group of full-scale contemporary houses commissioned specifically for the MoMA exhibition that this book accompanies. In addition to an introductory essay by Barry Bergdoll, Chief Curator in the Museum’s Department of Architecture and Design, this volume contains essays on prefabricated housing in Japan and in Nordic countries by Ken Tadashi Oshima and Rasmus Waern, respectively. It also includes focused texts on approximately 40 historical projects and five commissions, as well as a bibliography.  > more

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Álvaro Siza: Modern Redux

The work of the Portuguese architect Álvaro Siza tells the story of architecture from Modernity through to the twenty-first century. The architectural legacy of the European avant-garde of the 20s and 30s is as alive in Siza's work as the transformations that legacy has undergone since the 60s, and few among his contemporaries can boast his track record of openness and adventurousness. Modern Redux assembles 14 of Siza's most representative projects from the past 10 years. Maintaining the premises which have always characterized his work--the delicacy of the contours, a specificity to the location, the subtle treatment of space and a certain serene quality--it celebrates Álvaro Siza's admirable capacity for reinvention and demonstrates that the heroic spirit of Modernist architecture is alive and well.  > more

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Citámbulos Mexico City

Mexico City, one of the most populous and dense conurbations in the world, faces some of our most daunting contemporary architectural challenges. This unique, incisive volume invites readers on a journey through the everyday life of the city. Not only are its citizens called upon to demonstrate both spontaneity and creativity in order to deal with the city's innumerable problems in this time of growth and globalization, but architects and town planners must also respond, with innovative and unusual strategies, to the challenges of the hyperconcentrated city. Citámbulos--which enumerates urban phenomena that are not characteristic of Mexico City alone, while at the same time raising questions about the future of megacities all over the world--compiles the expertise of artists, urban planners and architects, including Alberto Millán, Carlos Ranc, Rodrigo Remolina and Gabriela Sánchez.  > more

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TABLE OF CONTENTS | ARCHITECTURE

Architecture Monographs Buildings and Projects Urban Studies and Theory Landscape and Gardens Surveys, Competitions, and Periodicals Guides to Cities & Countries Architectural Photography Architecture & Urbanism Journals Sustainability & Green Design

CURATED LIBRARIES | FEATURED SELECTIONS A Sustainable Design Bookshelf Essential Architecture Books An Urban Studies Bookshelf A Bauhaus Library Jovis Verlag NAi Publishers Metropolis Books Taubman College, University of Michigan Poligrafa Objects and Furniture Design MoMA Design Series

FEATURED TITLES THIS SEASON Small Scale, Big Change The Power of Pro Bono Sustainism Is the New Modernism Josep Lluís Sert: Joan Miró Foundation SANAA: New Museum Brad Cloepfil / Allied Works Architecture Richard Rogers + Architects: From the House to the City A Utopia of Modernity: Zlín Zonnestraal Sanatorium Robert van ‘t Hoff: Architect of a New Society Healthcare Architecture in the Netherlands Ecological Living Green Dream The Politics of the Impure Who is Architecture: The 2009 Domus China Interviews

BESTSELLERS | CORE ARCHITECTURE TITLES Design Like You Give A Damn: Architectural Responses To Humanitarian Crises Expanding Architecture: Design as Activism Home Delivery Happy Groundswell Tall Buildings Everyday Urbanism New Urbanism Light Construction Psycho Buildings: Artists Take On Architecture Networked Cultures Shrinking Cities: Volume 1 Shrinking Cities: Volume 2 Perfect Acts Of Architecture The Mosque The Architecture of Hospitals Carlo Mollino: Casa del Sole Diller & Scofidio: The Eyebeam Museum Of New Media The Guggenheim: Frank Lloyd Wright and the Making of the Modern Museum Frank O. Gehry: The Architect's Studio Gaudí Unseen Herzog & De Meuron: Prada Aoyama Tokyo Mies and Modern Living Rafael Moneo: The Freedom Of the Architect What Is Oma: Considering Rem Koolhaas And The Office For Metropolitan Architecture Rem Koolhaas & Hans Ulrich Obrist: The Conversation Series Rem Koolhaas: Unveiling The Prada Foundation Robert Venturi: Complexity And Contradiction In Architecture Zaha Hadid Hans Ulrich Obrist & Zaha Hadid: The Conversation Series