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  The Museum of Modern Art, New York Foreclosed: Rehousing the American Dream Foreclosed: Rehousing the American Dream is an exploration of new architectural possibilities for American cities and suburbs in the aftermath of the recent foreclosure crisis in the United States. During the summer of 2011, five interdisciplinary teams of architects, urban planners, ecologists, engineers and landscape designers were enlisted by The Museum of Modern Art, New York, and MoMA PS1 to envision new housing infrastructures that could catalyze urban transformation, particularly in the country’s suburbs. Drawing on ideas proposed in The Buell Hypothesis, a research publication prepared by the Temple Hoyne Buell Center for the Study of American Architecture at Columbia University, each team focused on a specific location within a megaregion” to come up with inventive solutions for the future of housing and cities. This publication presents each of these proposals (exhibited at MoMA in Spring 2012) in detail, through photographs, drawings and renderings as well as interviews with the team . . . . [see book details]

  Edited and with text by Barry Bergdoll, Reinhold Martin. Pbk, 8 x 10 in. / 188 pgs / 170 color. Publication Date: 6/30/2012 List Price: US $35.00

  NAi Publishers The Vertical Village Individual, Informal, Intense Addressing East Asia’s rapid urban transformation, The Vertical Village looks at radical alternatives to the familiar standardized block architecture that has eradicated low-rise, lighter” varieties of architecture, such as the Hutong in Beijing, Tokyo’s wooden house and the villages of Singapore. These urban villages” have fostered a connected community living instead of isolating citizens in tower blocks. This volume, the latest publication from The Why Factory, attempts to reconcile the two models, proposing a contemporary vertical village” that restores neighborhood life to East Asian--and perhaps western--civic centers. It features innovative designs for high-rise structures, detailed case studies for Tokyo, Beijing, Shanghai, Taipei, Djakarta, Seoul and Bangkok, plus interviews with Winy Maas, Alfredo Brillemburg, Hubert Klumpner, Lieven De Cauter, Peter Trummer and families living in Taipei (where the originating Why Factory exhibition was held). . . . . [see book details]

  Edited and with text by Winny Mass. Interviews with Alfredo Brillemburg, Hubert Klumpner, Lieven De Cauter, Peter Trummer Pbk, 6 x 8.5 in. / 528 pgs / 300 color. Publication Date: 2/29/2012 List Price: US $45.00

  NAi Publishers Testify! The Consequences of Architecture A skateboarding school in Kabul; a children’s community center in southwest Chicago; project row houses in Houston; an open-air library in Salbke-Magdeburg, Germany; colorful murals in the favelas of Rio de Janeiro: what difference do civic architectural projects like these make to the daily lives of the people who use them? In Testify! The Consequences of Architecture, editor Lukas Feireiss gathers 30 examples of community-centered architectural projects from all five continents, to demonstrate how architecture can transform the quality of our lives. This is architecture that reveals unexpected possibilities for growing food in urban environments, for creating healthy and sustainable environments, nourishing social networks and establishing real estate value based on new revenue models. Each project is presented with full-color illustrations; texts that concisely analyze the project in terms of context, mission and realization; and an interview with a community member who makes regular use of, or occupies, the relevant building. . . . . [see book details]

  Edited by Lukas Feireiss. Introduction by Ole Bouman. Pbk, 8 x 9.75 in. / 240 pgs / 264 color. Publication Date: 10/31/2011 List Price: US $39.95

  Hatje Cantz Architecture in India Since 1990 Pluralism, fusion and hybridity are the dominant traits of cultural change in twenty-first-century India. The resultant architecture reflects this fabric of one of the world’s largest and most populous nation states. Architect, educator and author Rahul Mehrotra has been at the forefront of the Indian contemporary architecture scene for more than two decades, and Architecture in India is his unique take on the topic across four themed chapters: Global Practice: Expression of (Impatient) Capital”; Regional Modernism”; Alternative Practice: Towards Sustainability”; and Counter Modernism: Resurfacing of the Ancient.” Each chapter introduces exponents of these distinct genres of architectural expression, examining the work of more than 60 contemporary architects in more than 500 photographs. Architects, students, academics, architecture buffs and admirers of India’s famed heritage of architectural pioneering will find this volume a rich trove of design ideas. . . . . [see book details]

  Text by Rahul Mehrotra. Hbk, 9.75 x 11.5 in. / 312 pgs / 570 color. Publication Date: 11/30/2011 List Price: US $75.00

  Hatje Cantz Hans Hollein The only Austrian winner of the Pritzker Prize (1985) and president of the architecture biennale in Venice, the Viennese architect Hans Hollein (born 1934) has been a leading exponent of postmodernism in architecture. Yet his global stature as an architect has overshadowed his design work of the 1970s and 1980s and his artistic work of the 1960s and 1970s, despite past exhibitions at The Museum of Modern Art, New York and the Centre Pompidou in Paris. This richly illustrated, comprehensive catalogue, and the exhibition it accompanies at the Neue Galerie in Graz, is the first retrospective of Hollein as a truly universal artist and a renaissance man for the digital age. It is also the first to present Hollein’s oeuvre as a whole: his work as artist, designer and architect, but also as theoretician, curator, teacher and collaborator with such artists as Christo and Claes Oldenburg. . . . . [see book details]

  Edited Peter Weibel. Text by Hans Hollein, Peter Weibel. Hbk, 11.5 x 14.5 in. / 420 pgs / 521 color / 217 b&w. Publication Date: 4/30/2012 List Price: US $120.00

  Hatje Cantz Highrise Idea and Reality Did you know that around half of the world’s extant highrise structures were erected only within the past ten years? Highrise: Idea and Reality offers a comprehensive examination of the highrise phenomenon and its surprisingly recent international ubiquity. A wide range of contemporary highrises are explored in their broadest cultural and civic contexts--contexts which can vary greatly from continent to continent, and from culture to culture--illuminating not only the effects of these imposing buildings upon their immediate landscapes, but also the everyday lives of their inhabitants. Alongside a wealth of photographic documentation, essays by architectural scholars and journalists Karin Gimmi, Andres Janser, Andres Lepik, Clifford A. Pearson, Eric Schuldenfrei, Martino Stierli and Marisa Yiu offer theoretical elaborations on the function of the highrise and its symbolic power as the signature structure of the modern city. . . . . [see book details]

  Edited by Andres Janser. Texts by Karin Gimmi, Andres Janser, Andres Lepik, Clifford A. Pearson, Eric Schuldenfrei, Martino Stierli, Marisa Yiu. Pbk, 7.75 x 10.25 in. / 168 pgs / 200 color. Publication Date: 1/31/2012 List Price: US $60.00

  Galerie Patrick Seguin Jean Prouvé & Jean Nouvel: Ferembal House Jean Prouvé’s Ferembal House was built in Nancy, France, in 1948, as the office for a can factory. Composed of five axial frames clad with wooden panels, set on a tall masonry base and occupying less than 600 square feet in a single raised story, this prefabricated structure was a classic example of Prouvé’s advocacy of mobile architecture. Thirty years later, however, the company went out of business and the factory was demolished. Fortunately a Nancy resident had the wherewithal to dismantle and preserve Prouvé’s innovative building, putting it into storage. In 1991, the well-known Parisian design gallerist Patrick Seguin traveled to Nancy to locate the Ferembal House. Seguin spent the next ten years raising the funds to renovate it, working in tandem with Prouvé experts, and in 2007 invited his longstanding friend, the architect Jean Nouvel, to undertake a creative adaptation of the House. Drawing on contemporary technical resources, Nouvel . . . . [see book details]

  Text by Jean Nouvel, Catherine Coley et al. Interview by Françoise-Claire Prodhon, Caroline Djuric. Hbk, 10 x 11.5 in. / 336 pgs / 240 color / 150 b&w. Publication Date: 10/31/2011 List Price: US $125.00

  Moderne Kunst Nürnberg Sympathetic Seeing: Esther McCoy and the Heart of American Modernist Architecture and Design Reyner Banham once said of the great architecture historian Esther McCoy (1904–1989) that no-one can write about architecture in California without acknowledging her as the mother of us all.” Esther McCoy first moved to Los Angeles in 1932, commencing what would be a lifelong infatuation with the city’s architecture and a vocation as the pre-eminent historian of west coast modernist architecture. Initially employed as a draftswoman in the studio of R.M. Schindler, McCoy became intimately involved in the preservationist politics of Los Angeles, contributing significant coverage of controversial slum clearances and spending nearly a decade campaigning to save Dodge House in West Hollywood from demolition. By 1960, McCoy had published Five California Architects, her seminal study of the work of Irving Gill, Charles and Henry Greene, Bernard Maybeck and Rudolf Schindler. Through this pioneering volume and subsequent books, essays and lectures, McCoy established the terms by which we understand the history . . . . [see book details]

  Edited and text by Kimberli Meyer, Susan Morgan. Interview by Makoto Watanabe. Pbk, 8 x 10 in. / 144 pgs / illustrated throughout. Publication Date: 2/29/2012 List Price: US $40.00

  RM Luis Barragán: His House Luis Barragán: His House presents the crowning achievement of the architect who was awarded the Pritzker Prize in 1980: his own house, considered one of the ten most important houses of the twentieth century. Originally built in 1947 and continually renovated by the architect, it would come to be considered Barragán's masterpiece, the laboratory in which he developed his new architectural language. Today the house ranks as one of the most important examples of modern architecture in Mexico, and was named a World Heritage Site by UNESCO in 2004. Luis Barragán: His House offers a complete visual tour of the house and studio, as well as the superb garden that surrounds it. Hitherto unpublished documents and images in the possession of the Fundación de Arquitectura Tapatía and other collectors place the work in the context of Barragán's career. The entire house has been specially photographed for this volume, with meticulous attention . . . . [see book details]

  Text by Juan Palomar, Daniel Garza Usabiaga, Alfonso Alfaro. Hbk, 9.25 x 11.75 in. / 211 pgs / 224 color. Publication Date: 12/31/2011 List Price: US $65.00

  Ediciones Poligrafa Daniel Libeskind: Jewish Museum Berlin Museum Building Guides The Jewish Museum in Berlin tells the story of German-Jewish history from the fourth century to the present. It consists of two buildings: the first, a former courthouse, was built in the eighteenth century, and the second, a massive extension that opened to the public in 2001, was designed by the world-renowned architect Daniel Libeskind (born 1946). Libeskind's building is comprised of a zinc façade and a set of three underground allegorical roads. The first leads to the main stairs, and by implication to the continuation of Berlin's history in the Museum; the second leads outdoors into the E.T.A. Hoffmann Garden, representing the exile and emigration of the Jews from Germany; and the third road leads to a dead end, representing the Holocaust void.” This road cuts through the ensemble as a whole, and evokes, in the architect's words, that which can never be exhibited when it comes to Jewish Berlin . . . . [see book details]

  Preface by Cilly Kugelmann. Photo-essay by Jan Bitter. Pbk, 5.5 x 8.5 in. / 80 pgs / 43 color. Publication Date: 9/30/2011 List Price: US $25.00

  Ediciones Poligrafa Diller, Scofidio & Renfro: Institute of Contemporary Art Boston Museum Building Guides The Institute of Contemporary Art, designed by Diller + Scofidio (now Diller Scofidio + Renfro), was the first new art museum to be built in Boston in a century. Opened in December 2006, the ICA is located on a small parcel of land on Boston Harbor and this is the 25th location for the museum in its 75 year history and its first, permanent, free-standing home. The ICA's decision to hire Diller + Scofidio reflected our belief in the firm's vision that architecture can shape as well as reflect contemporary experience,” stated Jill Medvedow, director of ICA. The architects balanced use of cool and transparent glass with the warmth of wood and the energy of light, as well as their design of spare, flexible spaces for presenting contemporary art, was a revelation for a city and an architectural community. ''Their brilliant and beautiful design of the ICA was a harbinger of . . . . [see book details]

  Preface by Jill Medvedow. Photo-essay by Iwan Baan. Pbk, 5.5 x 8.5 in. / 80 pgs / 44 color. Publication Date: 9/30/2011 List Price: US $25.00

  Ediciones Poligrafa Álvaro Siza: Museu Serralves Porto Museum Building Guides Portuguese architect lvaro Siza (born 1933) is one of the most influential architects of the past half-century. His most famous work is perhaps the Serralves Museum in his hometown of Porto, his second museum building, following the Galician Center for Contemporary Art, erected in 1997. Low built and horizontal in axis, its white stucco walls are perforated with occasional openings that yield unexpected views of a surrounding garden. As with most of Siza's buildings, the furniture and fittings were also designed by the architect, including lighting fixtures, handrails, doorknobs and all signage. Building materials include hardwood floors and painted walls in gesso with marble skirting in the exhibition halls and marble floors in the foyers. This volume, published in Poligrafa's innovative Museum Building series, reviews the Serralves Museum, a disarmingly intimate space in pronounced contradistinction to much recent museum architecture. . . . . [see book details]

  Preface by João Fernandes. Photo-essay by Duccio Malagamba. Pbk, 5.5 x 8.5 in. / 80 pgs / 42 color. Publication Date: 9/30/2011 List Price: US $25.00

  Hatje Cantz Mies van der Rohe: Neue Nationalgalerie The Neue Nationalgalerie (New National Gallery) in Berlin is not only a museum but also an architectural milestone. The last building of the great German architect Ludwig Mies van der Rohe (1886-1969), it is widely considered one of the most perfect statements of his aesthetic, with its monumental steel columns and cantilevered roof with glass enclosure. The Neue Nationalgalerie is especially famous for its 50 x 50-meter hall; with this unique pavilion structure Mies van der Rohe put a final virtuoso touch to this final masterpiece. There is no other van der Rohe structure in which the boundary between inside and outside is as porous as in this famous hall. This publication presents the building from today's perspectives, but also features historical photographs taken during the construction period, the building's opening in 1968 and the spectacular early exhibitions that took place there. . . . . [see book details]

  Text by Joachim Jäger. Hbk, 8.5 x 8.5 in. / 108 pgs / 100 color. Publication Date: 12/31/2011 List Price: US $30.00

  Walther König, Köln Oswald Mathias Ungers: Morphologie City Metaphors First published in 1982, German architect Oswald Mathias Ungers' City Metaphors juxtaposes more than 100 various city maps throughout history with images of flora and fauna and other images from science and nature. Ungers assigns each a title--a single descriptive word printed in both English and German. In Ungers' vision, the divisions of Venice are transformed into a handshake and the 1809 plan of St Gallen becomes a womb. Ungers writes in his foreword: Without a comprehensive vision reality will appear as a mass of unrelated phenomenon and meaningless facts, in other words, totally chaotic. In such a world it would be like living in a vacuum; everything would be of equal importance; nothing could attract our attention; and there would be no possibility to utilize the mind.” A classic of creative cartography and visual thinking, City Metaphors is also an experiment in conscious vision-building. . . . . [see book details]

  Pbk, 5.75 x 8.25 in. / 116 pgs / 115 b&w. Publication Date: 6/30/2011 List Price: US $29.95

  Jovis Architecture: A Woman’s Profession In the western world, the number of women studying architecture now roughly equals that of men. As women increasingly come to the fore as practicing professionals, the question of how this shift will affect the profession and the teaching of the discipline is of greater and greater interest. In this volume, well-known female architects from the United States and Europe discuss their academic and professional experiences, as well as their visions for the future. Inspiring, optimistic, controversial and at times subversive, Architecture: A Woman's Profession unites pioneers in the field with up-and-comers: Barbara Bestor, Caroline Bos, Alison Brooks, Elke Delugan-Meissl, Jeanne Gang, Lisa Iwamoto, Sheila Kennedy, Regine Leibinger, Farshid Moussavi, Fuensanta Nieto, Monica Ponce de Leon, Mary-Ann Ray, Dagmar Richter, Denise Scott-Brown, Nasrine Seraji, Ingalill Wahlroos-Ritter and Jennifer Wolch. Photo essays and designs illustrate the contributors' discussions. . . . . [see book details]

  Edited by Tanja Kullack. Pbk, 6.75 x 9.5 in. / 191 pgs / 100 color / 20 b&w. Publication Date: 11/30/2011 List Price: US $35.00

  Ediciones Poligrafa Alison & Peter Smithson: A Critical Anthology Adapting the modernist ideals of prewar architecture to the needs of postwar reconstruction in Britain, Alison and Peter Smithson were among the most influential and controversial architects of the latter half of the twentieth century. As younger members of CIAM (Congrès Internationaux d'Architecture Moderne) and as founding members of Team 10, they were at the heart of the debate on the future course of modern architecture; the uncompromising clarity of their Hunstanton Secondary Modern School (1949-1954), which stripped down the language of Mies van der Rohe to a rough simplicity, heralded the Smithsons' role as the leading exponents of the New Brutalism (a term they coined). As members of the Independent Group alongside Richard Hamilton, Eduardo Paolozzi, Reyner Banham and others, they participated in the 1956 landmark show This Is Tomorrow, affiliating themselves with the burgeoning Pop art movement in Britain. This beautifully produced and fully illustrated volume collects the most . . . . [see book details]

  Edited by Max Risselada. Text by Reyner Banham, Philip Johnson, Kenneth Frampton, Peter Cook, Peter Eisenman, Christine Boyer, Beatriz Colomina, Louisa Hutton, et al. Hbk, 6.75 x 9.5 in. / 368 pgs / 202 color / 64 b&w. Publication Date: 12/31/2011 List Price: US $45.00

  Metropolis Books Beyond Shelter Architecture and Human Dignity Across Africa, Asia, Latin America and the United States, groundbreaking work is being done by small teams of outstanding professionals who are helping communities to recover from disaster and rebuild, bridging the gap that separates short-term emergency needs from long-term sustainable recovery. Questions about the role and responsibility of architects in disaster recovery have been circulating since the Indian Ocean tsunami killed more than 200,000 people in 2004. In the last decade, 200 million people have been affected by natural disasters and hazards. Ninety-eight percent of these victims are in the developing world, where billions of dollars in aid are absorbed annually by climatic and geologic crises. Those in the developed world are not immune, as extreme temperatures, intense heat waves, increased flooding and droughts expose vast numbers of people to the experience of the eco-refugee. Beyond Shelter is a call to action. It features 20 generously illustrated reports from the . . . . [see book details]

  Edited by Marie J. Aquilino. Text by Sheikh Ahsan Ahmed, Zahid Amin, Marie J. Aquilino, Jennifer E. Duyne Barestein, Alfredo Brillembourg, Guillaume Chantry, Patrick Coulombel, Robin Cross, Teddy Cruz, James Dart, Rajedra and Rupal Desai, Sandra D'Urzo, Guy Fimmers, Andrea Fitrianto, Francesca Galeazzi, Deborah Gans, Mehran Gharaati, Victoria L. Harris, Rohit Jigyasu, Jenny Kivett, Hubert Klumpner, Arlene Lusterio, Andrea Nield, John Norton, Kimon Onuma, Sergio Palleroni, Raul Pantaleo, Dan Rockhill, Brittany Smith, Maggie Stephenson, Anita Van Breda, Thiruppugazh Venkatachalam, Naomi Handa Williams. Pbk, 8 x 8 in. / 304 pgs / 300 color. Publication Date: 7/31/2011 List Price: US $35.00

  Metropolis Books Architects' Sketchbooks Drawing by hand is making a big comeback. Tired of ubiquitous slick computer renderings that look the same the world over, architects are rediscovering the importance of this very basic, immediate medium: seeing the world and recasting it through their imagination and visual and manual skill. The resurgence of drawing is not merely a retrograde trend, but an affirmation of the continued importance of sketching as part of the design process. Architects' Sketchbooks is the first survey to present pages from the private sketchbooks of a wide international spectrum of architects, who use drawing to express their spatial ideas while revealing their unique thought processes. Sketches from some 85 architects and studios are featured, including Will Alsop, Architects Atelier Ryo Abe, Shigeru Ban, Elemental, Thom Faulders, Norman Foster, Carlos Jiménez, Alessandro Mendini and Office dA. Their works range from simple line drawings and clear perspectives to more abstract, artistic compositions, from . . . . [see book details]

  Text by Will Jones. Foreword by Narinder Sagoo. Hbk, 11.75 x 8.75 in. / 352 pgs / 500 color. Publication Date: 1/31/2011 List Price: US $49.95

  NAi Publishers Towards a New Kind of Building A Designers Guide for Non-Standard Architecture Today's buildings are designed with digital tools and produced by digitally controlled methods. This construction technology now requires us to reevaluate our conception of the realization and the look of architecture, since these means enable a degree of bespoke design that was previously impossible. Alongside the issue of the paradigm shift entailed by this evolution, a simple aesthetic question arises: will formal variation and uniqueness become the preferred mode as the economic rationale for repetition becomes obsolete? In this guidebook for "non-standard architecture," Kas Oosterhuis considers his own practice in the context of recent developments in the field of design and communication technologies. He focuses on two particular paradigm shifts: the movement from architecture based on mass production to architecture based on industrially produced made-to-measure components; and the related transition from a static architecture to a dynamic and interactive architecture. . . . . [see book details]

  By Kas Oosterhuis. Pbk, 6.75 x 9.5 in. / 240 pgs / 200 color / 100 b&w. Publication Date: 5/31/2011 List Price: US $37.50

  The Museum of Modern Art, New York Rising Currents Projects for New York's Waterfront In the fall of 2009, The Museum of Modern Art and MoMA PS1 selected five interdisciplinary teams of architects, engineers and landscape designers to propose solutions to the effects of climate change on New York's waterfront. The resulting proposals, exhibited at MoMA in 2010 in the exhibition Rising Currents: Projects for New York's Waterfront, emphasize "soft" infrastructure interventions that would make New York City and its surrounding areas more ecologically sound and more resilient in responding to rising sea levels and storm surges. These innovative projects include the creation of salt- and freshwater wetlands, a Venice-like aqueous landscape, habitable piers and man-made islands, and a protective reef of living oysters. Published to document the exhibition, Rising Currents: Projects for New York's Waterfront presents these five projects in detail through essays that summarize the innovative workshop and exhibition, the dialogues they engendered with outside experts and political figures involved in regional planning, . . . . [see book details]

  Edited by Barry Bergdoll. Foreword by Judith Rodin. Text by Barry Bergdoll, Michael Oppenheimer, Guy Nordenson. Pbk, 8 x 10 in. / 112 pgs / 106 color. Publication Date: 12/31/2011 List Price: US $24.95

  Marquand Books Max Gordon: Architect for Art Whether creating enormous exhibition spaces or designing living quarters for collectors and homes and studio facilities for artists, the acclaimed architect Max Gordon (1931-1990) shaped the physical settings of art in the world's major metropolises during his influential career. Following several decades of work with leading architectural firms in New York and London (during which he designed the headquarters of New Scotland Yard), in the early 1980s Gordon designed the first Saatchi Gallery in London, and went on to become celebrated and sought after as the art world's architect of choice, designing spaces for artists Elizabeth Murray, Jennifer Bartlett, Richard Serra and Joel Shapiro, and gallerists Paula Cooper, Brooke Alexander, Maeght-Lelong and Lorence-Monk in New York and Anthony d'Offay and Annely Juda in London. This first monograph offers a detailed overview of Gordon's projects for the art world, from the 100,000-square-foot exhibition space he designed for the Museo Nacional Centro de . . . . [see book details]

  Text by Nicholas Serota, David Gordon, Jonathan Marvel, Kenneth Frampton. Hbk, 10 x 11 in. / 134 pgs / 80 color / 12 b&w. Publication Date: 4/30/2011 List Price: US $40.00

  Ivorypress Norman Foster: Drawings 1958-2008 From his student days to the present, star architect Norman Foster (born 1935) has used drawing as an analytical and pedagogical tool, as a conduit for dialogue between eye and mind. Foster's earliest drawings for projects such as Creek Vean and Waterfront Housing are almost picturesque in their integration of building and landscape; in the 1970s, he uses drawing to devise and then explain such typological subversions as the Hong Kong and Shanghai Bank headquarters. In the 1980s, Foster's sketches for Stanstead airport make plain his revolutionary effect on airport architecture, paving the way for a new generation of aerated terminals with luminous roofs; plans for the Carré d'Art in Nimes exemplify his reinvention of how we envision and construct heritage sites today. From buildings of the past two decades, highlights include a fantastic sequence of drawings for the Collserola Tower, glorious sketches of the Reichstag dome, the Millenium bridge, the . . . . [see book details]

  Edited by Elena Ochoa Foster. Text by Norman Foster, Luis Fernández-Galiano, Deyan Sudjic, Not Vital. Slip, Clth, 2 vols, 9.75 x 11.75 in. / 232 pgs / 217 color. Publication Date: 2/28/2011 List Price: US $150.00

  Ediciones Poligrafa Richard Meier: Museu d’Art Contemporani de Barcelona, MACBA Museum Building Guides Published in Poligrafa's new series on museum architecture, this volume is devoted to the Museu d'Art Contemporani de Barcelona--widely known by its acronym "MACBA"--designed by American architect Richard Meier (born 1934). Located in the Raval neighborhood of Barcelona, MACBA forges a dialogue with the historic urban quarter. The neighborhood's labyrinthine streets are reflected in the building's organization, most notably in the main entry, as well as a parallel pedestrian walkway that connects the museum's rear garden to a recently created plaza in front of the museum. As befits an institution devoted to modern and contemporary art, the museum synthesizes the striking innovation of its rationalist architecture and the accrued history of its context. Offering detailed information on every aspect of the project, this publication features a full-page photographic essay by renowned Spanish photographer Aleix Bagué, as well as an in-depth interview with Meier. . . . . [see book details]

  Photographs by Aleix Bagué. Pbk, 5.5 x 8.25 in. / 80 pgs / 44 color. Publication Date: 3/31/2011 List Price: US $25.00

  Silvana Editoriale Pier Luigi Nervi: Architecture as Challenge The Italian engineer, architect and builder Pier Luigi Nervi (1891-1979) is responsible for some of the world's architectural masterpieces including St. Mary Cathedral in San Francisco, George Washington Bus Terminal in New York and Victoria Square Tower in Montreal. Pier Luigi Nervi: Architecture as a Challenge provides a complete overview of this prolific and versatile master of twentieth-century architecture, examining his career from its outset in the early 1920s up to the 1970s. In addition to a range of Nervi's buildings and public projects, the publication presents his pioneering research into technologies and construction materials. For example, during the 1940s, Nervi developed uses for a reinforced concrete, which aided in the rebuilding of many buildings and factories throughout Western Europe following World War II. The catalogue features a range of specific case studies, plus a comprehensive biography and bibliography. . . . . [see book details]

  Edited by Cristiana Chiorino, Carlo Olmo. Text by Christoph Pourtois, Marcelle Rabinowicz, Elisabetta Margiotta Nervi. Pbk, 9 x 11 in. / 240 pgs / 120 color. Publication Date: 3/31/2011 List Price: US $45.00

  Jovis Chandigarh: Living with Le Corbusier In the early 1950s, many in the architectural profession turned their gaze towards India, where an ideal modern city seemed to be becoming a reality. When star architect Le Corbusier and his team started work in February 1951 in Chandigarh, American planner Albert Mayer and his young principal architect Matthew Nowicki had already completed a land development plan for the site. The challenge Le Corbusier then faced was to demonstrate how a city designed from the drawing board could feel humane, functional and viable once built. Once the home of public officials, Chandigarh has become a vibrant garden city and a magnet for the booming Indian software industry. Attracted to the idea of a possible dialogue and contradiction between European architecture and Indian lifestyle, German ethnographer Bärbel Högner began photographing the city. Chandigarh: Living with Le Corbusier surveys Le Courbusier's contribution to India's first planned city, while simultaneously revealing Högner's passionate . . . . [see book details]

  Text by Clemens Kroll, Arno Lederer, Arthur Rüegg. Photographs by Bärbel Högner. Hbk, 8.5 x 11.25 in. / 144 pgs / 150 color. Publication Date: 4/30/2011 List Price: US $45.00

  GSAPP Books Architects' Journeys Expanding the Field Architects' Journeys brings together a cross section of contemporary architects, historians and theorists to reconsider the role that travel has played in architectural practice from the early twentieth century to the present. Looking beyond the model of enlightened tourism based on the legacy of the Grand Tour, the book's contributors investigate travel as a form of displacement, prefiguring the emergence of the figure of the global architect in the late twentieth century. Designed by the award-winning design studio Project Projects, the book features writings by an international group of innovative thinkers in the field including Rubén A. Alcolea, Beatriz Colomina, Kenneth Frampton, Héctor García-Diego, Carlos Labarta, José Angel Medina, Juan Miguel Otxotorena, Spyros Papapetros, José Manuel Pozo, Galia Solomonoff, Jorge Tárrago and Mark Wigley. . . . . [see book details]

  Text by Rubén A. Alcolea, Beatriz Colomina, Kenneth Frampton, Héctor García-Diego, Karin Jaschke, Carlos Labarta, José Angel Medina, Juan Miguel Otxotorena, Spyros Papapetros, José Manuel Pozo, Galia Solomonoff, Jorge Tárrago, Mark Wigley. Pbk, 6 x 9 in. / 255 pgs / illustrated throughout. Publication Date: 10/31/2011 List Price: US $29.95

  Jovis A Utopia of Modernity: Zlín Revisiting Bata's Functional City Located in the Czech Republic, the city of Zlín is a curious example of civic planning in which domestic living, education and recreation were all geared towards a single goal: the profitability of the Bata shoe company, one of the first footwear manufacturers to operate globally. In spring 2009, a symposium initiated by Zipp/German-Czech Cultural Projects, in cooperation with The Brno House of Arts, the Regional Gallery of Fine Arts in Zlín and the National Gallery in Prague, and attended by internationally renowned scholars and local experts, addressed the example of Zlín as a potential model for the future of urban planning and architecture. This anthology presents articles by architects, sociologists and urban theorists on the phenomenon that is Zlín. Plans, photographs, and film stills highlight the unique aesthetic qualities of this model city that complies with no architectural paradigm of the past century. . . . . [see book details]

  Edited by Katrin Klingan, Kerstin Gust. Pbk, 6.75 x 9.5 in. / 304 pgs / illust. throughout. Publication Date: 10/31/2010 List Price: US $39.95

  Hatje Cantz Álvaro Siza: Modern Redux The work of the Portuguese architect lvaro 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 lvaro Siza's admirable capacity for reinvention and demonstrates that the heroic spirit of Modernist architecture is alive and well. . . . . [see book details]

  Edited by Jorge Figueira. Text by Alexandre Alves Costa, Hans Ibelings. Hbk, 9.5 x 11.25 in. / 208 pgs / 104 color / 56 b&w. Publication Date: 3/1/2009 List Price: US $60.00

  Peter Blum Edition, New York Architectures of Herzog & de Meuron Portraits by Thomas Ruff Originally published in 1994, this monograph provides an introduction to Herzog & de Meuron with reproductions of built works, drawings and plans, commentary on the duo from various admirers and color photographs by Thomas Ruff. . . . . [see book details]

  Introduction by Terence Riley.Texts by Steven Holl, Hans Kollhof, Rem Koolhaas, Eduardo Souto de Moura, Theodora Vischer. Hbk, 9.5 x 13 in. / 200 pgs / 18 color / 82 b&w. Publication Date: 5/31/2010 List Price: US $165.00

  Hatje Cantz Arium: Weather & Architecture Today, economic and ecological forces have finally collided and forced humankind to reassess its relationship to each. For architecture, this means facing its nemesis: the weather, with its attendant forces of instability and unpredictability. The role of architecture has always been to demarcate an area away from these forces, in which humankind can regulate its own needs. Now, the worldwide sustainability movement calls for an architecture that does not resist but incorporates or accommodates atmospheric turbulence. Arium examines the curious relationship between weather and architecture, addressing instances where architecture has both brilliantly collaborated with and foolishly failed to anticipate weather patterns such as wind tunnels and heat exposure, and demonstrating that this relationship need not always be antagonistic. Begun as a research project under the direction of architect Jürgen Mayer H. from Berlin and urban designer Neeraj Bhatia from Toronto, Arium offers a revelatory in-depth look at this urgent topic through . . . . [see book details]

  Edited by Neeraj Bhatia, Jürgen Mayer H. Text by George Baird, Chad Dembski, Robert Levit, Henry Urbach, Mason White, Rodolphe el-Khoury. Contributions by Eric Bury. Hbk, 6.25 x 9.25 in. / 320 pgs / 37 color / 170 b&w. Publication Date: 3/31/2010 List Price: US $55.00

  Ediciones Polígrafa Bernard Tschumi: New Acropolis Museum Museum Building Guides The New Acropolis Museum in Athens is a boldly designed landmark of contemporary architecture, that boasts brilliant natural light, glass floors that afford views onto the archaeological excavation sites below and a top level that is rotated several degrees in relation to the building's lower floors in order to orient the famous ancient Parthenon Frieze, displayed on the top story, in exactly the same direction that it was in ancient times. Opened to the public in 2009, this museum is the work of Bernard Tschumi, who won a design competition in 2001 with an entry that outlined, the architect said, a "simple and precise museum with the mathematical and conceptual clarity of ancient Greece." Located in Athens' historic area of Makryianni, the museum stands less than 1,000 feet southeast of the Parthenon, at the entrance of a network of pedestrian walkways that provide access to the Acropolis. Professor Dimitrios Pandermalis, President . . . . [see book details]

  Introduction by Dimitrios Pandermalis. Photographs by Peter Mauss. Pbk, 5.75 x 8.5 in. / 80 pgs / 64 color. Publication Date: 10/31/2010 List Price: US $25.00

  Gregory R. Miller & Co. Brad Cloepfil / Allied Works Architecture Architect Brad Cloepfil and his innovative firm Allied Works Architecture have received significant and deserved attention over the past ten years, having designed a number of major and influential public, institutional, commercial and residential buildings. This comprehensive monograph covers all of Allied Works' important commissions--including the Seattle Art Museum, the Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis, and the recently awarded major commission to design the National Music Centre of Canada--and contains an extensive selection of images documenting each project. These include models, sketches, plans and site photos, as well as Victoria Sambunaris' context photography. The texts include useful essays by Sandy Isenstadt and Kenneth Frampton alongside writings by Cloepfil himself about his practice and individual projects. The book also features conversations between Cloepfil and a wide variety of individuals from different backgrounds, including artists Doug Aitken and Ann Hamilton, theologian Mark Taylor, botanist Eric Sanderson, information designer Ben Rubin, landscape architect Doug . . . . [see book details]

  Text by Brad Cloepfil, Sandy Isenstadt, Kenneth Frampton. Photographs by Victoria Sambunaris. Slip, Clth, 10 x 12 in. / 440 pgs / illustrated throughout. Publication Date: 4/30/2011 List Price: US $85.00

  Stichting Kunstboek Büro Kiefer: Landscape Design Founded in Berlin in 1989, Buro Kiefer is one of today's most important, innovative and respected international landscape design firms. Combining both a mathematic and aesthetic logic, Buro Kiefer's work responds to the ever-expanding responsibilities of landscape design: interaction with the fields of architecture, urban and regional development, and even the cultural tradition of garden art. Presented in this book are many of the firm's important projects, each of which shows a seamless blending of town and landscape, and a contemporary understanding of urban space. . . . . [see book details]

  Essay by Thies Schràder. Paperback, 9.5 x 11.5 in. / 160 pgs / 120 color. Publication Date: 3/15/2005 List Price: US $65.00

  Metropolis Books Design Like You Give A Damn: Architectural Responses To Humanitarian Crises The greatest humanitarian challenge we face today is that of providing shelter. Currently, one in seven people lives in a slum or refugee camp, and more than 3,000,000,000 people--nearly half the world's population--do not have access to clean water or adequate sanitation. The physical design of our homes, neighborhoods and communities shapes every aspect of our lives. Yet too often architects are desperately needed in the places where they can least be afforded. Edited by Architecture for Humanity and now on its fifth printing, Design Like You Give a Damn is a compendium of innovative projects from around the world that demonstrate the power of design to improve lives. The first book to bring the best of humanitarian architecture and design to the printed page, Design Like You Give a Damn offers a history of the movement toward socially conscious design, and showcases more than 80 contemporary solutions to such urgent needs . . . . [see book details]

  Edited by Cameron Sinclair and Kate Stohr. Paperback, 8 x 8 in. / 336 pgs / 350 color. Publication Date: 1/15/2006 List Price: US $35.00

  Metropolis Books Expanding Architecture: Design as Activism Expanding Architecture presents a new generation of creative design carried out in the service of the greater public and the greater good. Questioning how design can improve daily lives, editors Bryan Bell and Katie Wakeford map an emerging geography of architectural activism--or "public-interest architecture"--that might function akin to public-interest law or medicine by expanding architecture's all too often elite client base. With 30 essays by practicing architects and designers, urban and community planners, historians, landscape architects, environmental designers and members of other fields, this volume presents recent work from around the world that illustrates the ways in which design can address issues of social justice, allow individuals and communities to plan and improve their own lives and serve a much larger percentage of the population than it has in the past. This new inclusionary practice must define new services and new processes, and these are illuminated in the generously illustrated texts . . . . [see book details]

  Edited by Bryan Bell and Katie Wakeford. Foreword by Thomas Fisher. Texts by Steve Badanes, Roberta M. Feldman, Sergio Palleroni, John Peterson, Katie Swenson, et al. Paperback, 6.5 x 9 in. / 288 pgs / 120 color / 30 b&w. Publication Date: 10/1/2008 List Price: US $34.95

  The Museum of Modern Art, New York Frank Lloyd Wright: Architect From the turn of the century until his death in 1959, Frank Lloyd Wright produced an almost uninterrupted stream of projects that redefined the American architectural vision. The most comprehensive summary and appraisal of Wright's achievement ever assembled, with nearly 500 illustrations, including 190 in color, this volume presents an impressive array of works: single family houses that provided images and models for generations of suburban buildings across the United States, community solutions to housing for Depression America, and an astonishing progression of landmark commercial and institutional structures. In these pages appear Wright's most spectacular commissions--among them Fallingwater, the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, and Tokyo's Imperial Hotel--but also a retrospective selection of other projects from all periods of his enormously productive career. Photographs of actual buildings and of models, plans, and sketches, as well as reproductions of the architect's masterful drawings, many previously unpublished, are all included. . . . . [see book details]

  Edited by Terence Riley with Peter Reed. Essays by William Cronon, Anthony Alofsin, Kenneth Frampton and Gwendolyn Wright. Hardcover, 9.5 x 12 in. / 344 pgs / 183 color / 301 b&w. Publication Date: 7/2/2002 List Price: US $65.00

  Louisiana Museum of Modern Art Frank O. Gehry: The Architect's Studio Frank O. Gehry is the first architect to be featured in The Architect's Studio, a series devoted to the influential architects of the past decade and pace-setters for the next century. This book presents recent building projects including the Walt Disney Concert Hall in Los Angeles, the DG Bank Headquarters in Berlin and the Experience Music Project in Seattle. Through sketches, models, computer graphics and video stills, an extensive body of material shown for the first time outside his drawing office, we see his work in progress, from conception to completion. This book is a rare opportunity to follow Gehry's multi-faceted creative process at close quarters. . . . . [see book details]

  Contributions by Kjeld Kjeldsen, Steen Estvad Petersen, Nicolai Ouroussoff, Frank Gehry. Paperback, 7 x 5.5 in. / 128 pgs / 66 color / 26 b&w. Publication Date: 2/2/2000 List Price: US $21.00

  Hatje Cantz J. Mayer H. The members of J. Mayer H. Architects, founded in Berlin in 1996 by Jürgen Mayer, have already won a number of awards for their extraordinary work--for example, their very first building won the Mies van der Rohe Emerging Architect Prize in 2003. Their structures bulge and pop inorganically in a style that aims to go, as Mayer puts it, "beyond the blob." In recent years the firm has created a furor with attention-getting buildings such as the new commons for the Universität Karlsruhe, the ADA 1 offices in Hamburg and the Metropol Parasol, a gigantic structure for the marketplace in the heart of old Seville. Edited by Henry Urbach, this is the first book to present J. Mayer H. Architects' entire oeuvre, tracking the firm's constructions from the research stage through design to project development and culminating in the actual building itself. . . . . [see book details]

  Edited by Henry Urbach, Cristina Steingräber. Text by Henry Urbach, Andreas Ruby, Ilka Ruby, Andres Lepik, John Ricco, Rolf Fehlbaum. Hbk, 9 x 11 in. / 240 pgs / 258 color / 133 b&w. Publication Date: 2/1/2009 List Price: US $75.00

  Louisiana Museum of Modern Art Jørn Utzon: The Architect's Universe Jørn Utzon is a Danish architect, yet he has become indelibly identified with Sydney, Australia, because of his landmark design for the Sydney Opera House. This catalogue for the first major retrospective of his work shows the scope of a career that has stretched almost 50 years, from his own Hellebaek house (1952) to Can Feliz on Majorca (1994). The essence of Utzon's architecture is a fusion of form and structure--or to put it differently, the structure is the architecture. The sources of his inspiration come mainly from nature and from the visual universes of other cultures like that of the Mayas, which in Utzon's reworking are transformed into an integrated formal idiom that privileges harmony between detail and totality. An interview and numerous essays illuminate the career of the international master, awarded the Pritzker Prize for 2003. . . . . [see book details]

  Edited by Michael Holm, Kjeld Kjeldsen and Mette Marcus. Text by Poul Tøjner, Kenneth Frampton, Merte Ahnfeldt-Mollerup, Richard Weston, Joseph Skrzynski, Philip Nobis, Michael Asgaard Andersen, Hans Munk Hansen, Françoise Fromonot, Rafael Moneo. Hardback, 8.5 x 10.25 in. / 96 pgs / 89 color / 49 b&w. Publication Date: 11/1/2008 List Price: US $35.00

  Hatje Cantz Josef Paul Kleihues Works 1966-1980 Josef Paul Kleihues (1933–2004) was one of the most prolific architects of postwar Germany, famous both as the Director of the International Building Exhibition Berlin in 1987 and for his design for the Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago. He was also known for his sensitive interventions into older buildings, an instance of which is the former Hamburger Bahnhof--now the Museum für Gegenwart--in Berlin, where Kleihues intermixed glass walls and light installations by the American Minimalist Dan Flavin with the building’s original nineteenth-century Neoclassical design. (His reconstruction was widely deemed to rival or even surpass Gae Aulenti's overhaul of the interior of the Musée d'Orsay in Paris.) This first volume of a three-part monograph presents projects up to 1980, including the highly acclaimed Berlin Sanitation Department and the Neukölln Hospital. Even in these early works, Kleihues’ practical, problem-solving approach is already evident, indicating his readiness to reflect on the traditional approaches . . . . [see book details]

  Edited by Thorsten Scheer. Text by Andrea Mesecke, Thorsten Scheer, Josef Paul Kleihues. Hardback, 11.25 x 12 in. / 288 pgs / 455 color. Publication Date: 3/1/2008 List Price: US $100.00

  Ediciones Polígrafa Josep Lluís Sert: Joan Miró Foundation Museum Buliding Guides The Joan Miró Foundation opened in 1975, becoming Barcelona's first public institution to focus entirely on contemporary art. The architect Josep Lluís Sert designed the Foundation's building with clean, airy white shapes of curves and corners and multiple skylights, creating a decidedly Mediterranean-flavored complex arranged around a central patio, with expansive roof terraces above. (Two subsequent expansions to the building were designed by Jaume Freixa, a pupil and longtime colleague of Sert's.) After the first major retrospective of Miró's work occurred in Barcelona in 1968, the artist decided to set up a building to make his work and the work of other contemporary artists permanently accessible to the public. To design the foundation's home, he tapped his old friend Sert, a pioneer in the introduction of modern architecture in Catalonia, who had first met Miró in 1932 and worked with him on the Spanish (Republican) Pavilion at the Paris World Fair . . . . [see book details]

  Introduction by Bruno Zevi. Interview with Jaume Freixa. Photographs by Joan Morejón. Pbk, 5.75 x 8.5 in. / 80 pgs / 64 color. Publication Date: 10/31/2010 List Price: US $25.00

  Poligrafa Josep Puig I Cadafalch Perhaps no other figure exerted a greater influence on the urban transformation of Barcelona during the first third of the twentieth century than Josep Puig I Cadafalch. If as an architect he exemplified the tension between Modernism and Noucentisme, as a historian and archeologist he exemplified the recuperation of Catalonia's historical and patrimonial memory. Nevertheless, it was his awareness of town planning issues that contributed to the great metropolitan transformation of Barcelona, from the opening of Via Laietana to the development of the Placa de Catalunya. This volume includes both a biography and a chronology of works and projects. . . . . [see book details]

  Essay by Lluis Permanyer. Photographs by Lluis Casals. Hardcover, 10 x 11.5 in. / 160 pgs / 104 color / 41 b&w. Publication Date: 7/2/2002 List Price: US $45.00

  Wasmuth Jsk Architects: Vision And Function This latest edition about the German mega-firm J.S.K. Architects gives a status account of the manifold activities of the leading, internationally-engaged engineering and architectural company. Vision and Function focuses on the broad-based firm's designs for high-rise buildings, train stations and hotels. In addition, this book also features documentation of many projects that were still in the planning stages in previous editions and which now stand as finished buildings. These include the recently completed Frankfurter Welle and Stilwerk Design Center in Düsseldorf, each of which maintains the firm's principle of balancing innovation and practical realization. . . . . [see book details]

  Essays by Helmut Joos, Eckart John von Freyend, and Enrico Santifaller. Preface by Ingeborg Flagge. Hardcover, 9.5 x 11.75 in. / 220 pgs / 400 color / 130 b&w. Publication Date: 9/2/2004 List Price: US $65.00

  Jovis Kisho Kurokawa: Metabolism And Symbiosis Kisho Kurokawa's international projects have grown in size along with his reputation. Nearly five decades of geometrically elegant buildings, from celebrated recent ones like the Kuala Lumpur International Airport and an addition to the Van Gogh Museum, have established him as one of the field's foremost practitioners and thinkers. A co-founder in the 1960s of the influential Metabolism movement in Japan, which promoted adaptable structures, Kurokawa has recently articulated his theory of Symbiosis, in which he examines the contemporary shift from machine-age values to more organic environments. This retrospective book spans his still-vibrant career, illuminating the continuity, originality and humanity of his work. (His Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art left a gap in the central circular pavilion facing the direction of the bomb's detonation.) Covered here are less-familiar early designs and current undertakings of astounding proportions, like Zhengdong New District in China, a planned city of 15,000 people. . . . . [see book details]

  Edited by Ingeborg Flagge, Jochen Visscher and Peter Cachola Schmal. Hardcover, 8.5 x 11 in. / 160 pgs / 120 color / 60 b&w. Publication Date: 8/15/2005 List Price: US $35.00

  NAi Publishers Landscapes of the Imagination Designing the European Tradition of Garden and Landscape Architecture 1600-2000 A garden is not an object but a process, as the artist and gardener Ian Hamilton Finlay once observed, and one particular fascination of landscape architecture is its very real negotiation of that rocky terrain between conception and cultivation. The labors of the former, however, are not often seen by the public that experiences its material outcome. Published on the occasion of the 2008 Landscape Architecture Triennial for the exhibition at Paleis Het Loo, Apeldoorn, Landscapes of the Imagination presents landscape architecture as a design discipline, recognizing it as a dialogue with an especially unruly and impermanent form. A selection of 40 original designs and sketches from the rich European heritage of garden and landscape architecture forms the core of this book. Spanning from 1600-2000, these include designs by such familiar luminaries as Le Nôtre, Humphrey Repton, Peter Joseph Lenné, Ernst Cramer, Gunnar Asplund and Bernard Tschumi, as well as less . . . . [see book details]

  Text by Erik de Jong, Christian Bertram, Michel Lafaille. Paperback, 10.25 x 7.75 in. / 144 pgs / 150 color. Publication Date: 9/1/2008 List Price: US $50.00

  University of Michigan, Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning Lindy Roy: Architecture Of Risk One of Lindy Roy's innovative projects may find you immersed in a floating pool surrounded by lingering crocodiles safely staged behind bars in an inland African river-delta. Or, in another, you might find yourself flying in by helicopter and dropped off at a summit to start a three-hour stimulating snowboarding descent in an Alaskan mountain range. Welcome to the architecture of Roy and her architecture of Risk. Another kind of risk apparent in the architecture of Roy is demonstrated in the research project that Lindy Roy conducted in collaboration with photographer Richard Misrach. In mapping political and socioeconomic structures along the Mississippi River in Louisiana, Roy found that the health-risks caused by pollutants from the pharmaceutical and oil companies along the river make up a site multiple layers of risk. Roy's architecture deals with risk. From pristine nature sites to polluted sites of danger, Roy's work engages us three-fold. Firstly, her . . . . [see book details]

  Essays by Kristine Synnes and Lindy Roy. Paperback, 6.5 x 9 in. / 96 pgs / 40 color / 10b&w. Publication Date: 7/2/2004 List Price: US $17.95

  The Museum of Modern Art, New York On Site: New Architecture in Spain New Architecture in Spain This publication and the exhibition it accompanies feature 36 current architectural projects throughout Spain, a country that in recent years has become known as a center for design innovation and excellence well beyond Bilbao. The projects are seen in relation to 16 other major architectural accomplishments recently completed in Spain. They reflect diversity in the geography of their sites; in scale, from private houses to a new international airport; and in the architects who have conceived them, from relative newcomers to established practitioners, both Spanish and from other countries in Europe, Asia, and the United States. On Site: New Architecture in Spain includes an introductory essay by Terence Riley, the Philip Johnson Chief Curator of the Department of Architecture and Design at The Museum of Modern Art. His recent publications include Yoshio Taniguchi: Nine Museums and Tall Buildings. . . . . [see book details]

  Edited and with essay by Terence Riley. Paperback, 9 x 10.5 in. / 280 pgs / 295 color / 165 b&w. Publication Date: 2/1/2006 List Price: US $45.00

  NAi Publishers P.J.H. Cuypers 1827-1921 The Complete Works Rarely has a Dutch architect so characterized an era as Pierre Cuypers (1827-1921), not only for such landmark buildings as the Rijksmuseum and the Central Station in Amsterdam, but also for his numerous neo-Gothic Catholic churches, which are now intimately associated with the popular conception of Dutch cities and villages. Cuypers' controversial views on restoration, his plea for a revaluation of Gothic architecture and his influence on H.P. Berlage and Michiel de Klerk make him the most important Dutch architect of his time. Not only did he leave a quantitative mark on the built environment of the Netherlands, he elevated the quality of Dutch architecture generally, and established a precedent for the modern architecture firm. This beautifully designed publication unlocks Cuypers' complete oeuvre for the first time. A selection of essays sheds light on the scope and significance of his work, and hundreds of photos, designs and maps make this book . . . . [see book details]

  Edited by Hetty Berens. Text by Jan Bank, Gonda Buursma, Loes van Harrevelt, Ida Jager, Loes Harrevelt. Hardcover, 9.75 x 12 in. / 397 pgs / 250 color. Publication Date: 12/1/2007 List Price: US $75.00

  NAi Publishers Robert van ‘t Hoff: Architect of a New Society A principal member of the De Stijl group, the Dutch architect and theorist Robert van 't Hoff (1887-1979) designed buildings, composed essays and provided financial support for the movement, making him an animating presence in the Dutch avant garde. Van 't Hoff's view of the architect's role exemplified the movement's utopian ideals, and his hands-on approach meant that during the construction of his renowned Villa Henny, for example, the architect was often to be seen on the scaffolding alongside the manual workers (an unusual sight at the time). Villa Henny was one of the earliest houses to be built out of reinforced concrete, and one of the first buildings in Europe to utilize the influence of Frank Lloyd Wright; today it is an icon of modernist architecture and a forerunner of the Nieuwe Bouwen movement. This first monograph on van 't Hoff gathers his critical writings alongside unpublished materials and descriptions . . . . [see book details]

  Text by Dolf Broekhuizen, Herman van Bergeijk, Evert van Straaten. Clth, 8.5 x 9.5 in. / 156 pgs / 113 color. Publication Date: 8/30/2010 List Price: US $45.00

  Jovis Roger Anger: Research on Beauty Architecture 1953-2008 This book is the first comprehensive monograph to focus on the visionary French architect Roger Anger, recipient of the 1967 Belgian Premier Prix International d'Architecture. A sculptural plasticity and a highly individual take on the Modernist vernacular infuse all of his work; but Anger, who died in 2008, will be remembered for his ambitious master plan for the utopian Indian city of Auroville, based on the idea of a proliferating, open-ended galaxy, designed to be self-sufficient and promoted as the "dream of a new city for the future" and a haven from sectarianism and nationialism. A graduate of Paris's cole des Beaux-Arts, Anger arrived in India in 1956; within the space of a decade, he had risen to become Auroville's chief architect, and the essence of his work as an architect, painter and sculptor is reflected in that unique construction. The volume documents Anger's prolific and innovative projects of the 1950s . . . . [see book details]

  Text by Anapuma Kundoo. Hbk, 8.5 x 11 in. / 192 pgs / 60 color / 230 b&w. Publication Date: 12/31/2009 List Price: US $45.00

  NAi Publishers Rooftop Architecture Building On An Elevated Surface For Westerners, there is a distinct cachet attached to building on a rooftop. Maybe its attraction lies in the openness of the space, or in being just that much higher than most, or in the feeling of standing in an open oasis, sometimes unencumbered by walls, but frequently with an enviable view. Conversely, in many large Eastern cities, building on the rooftop is simply a way to capitalize on a building's limited footprint, or dealing with the lack of affordable real estate. In fact, one of the leading options for the future of these cities is the use of the flat roofs of residential buildings and office blocks as a building site. Rooftop buildings can intensify the existing city, inject it with new vitality, and break through the monotony of building prototypes. So far the exploitation of rooftop space has been limited. Analyzed and described here are the opportunities for realizing . . . . [see book details]

  Edited by Eric Vreedenburgh. Paperback, 6.5 x 9.5 in. / 208 pgs / 200 color. Publication Date: 3/15/2005 List Price: US $45.00

  Wasmuth Rudolf Fränkel and Neues Bauen Work in Germany, Romania and the United Kingdom German-Jewish architect Rudolf Fränkel was among the leaders of the pre-war avant garde in Berlin. He later emigrated to Bucharest, London and the United States, where he taught at Miami University, Ohio. This is the first comprehensive monograph devoted to Fränkel's work. . . . . [see book details]

  Text by Gerardo Brown-Manrique. Pbk, 7.75 x 10.25 in. / 148 pgs / 10 color / 200 b&w. Publication Date: 8/31/2009 List Price: US $50.00

  Ediciones Polígrafa SANAA: New Museum Museum Building Guides When the New Museum, long a champion of downtown New York culture and unconventional art, announced that it would build itself a new home on the Bowery--a mostly bleak strip of flophouses and restaurant-supply storefronts--the art world wondered what this move would mean for the museum, and, just as important, how the museum would look. Tokyo-based architects Kazuyo Sejima and Ryue Nishizawa of SANAA (winners of the 2010 Pritzker Prize) received the commission in 2002; their new New Museum, which opened in December 2007, looks like a dramatic tower of seven rectangular boxes, stacked irregularly atop one another with edges protruding to the sides and front, and clad in a seamless anodized-aluminum mesh that dresses the whole of the building in a delicate, filmy, softly shimmering skin. With windows just visible behind this porous scrimlike surface, the building appears as a single, coherent and even heroic form that is nevertheless mutable, . . . . [see book details]

  Text by Lisa Phillips. Interview with Kazuyo Sejima, Ryue Nishizawa. Photographs by Iwan Baan. Pbk, 5.5 x 8.25 in. / 80 pgs / 64 color. Publication Date: 3/31/2011 List Price: US $25.00

  Jovis Sergei Tchoban: Architectural Worlds Draftsman and Collector Russian-German architect Sergei Tchoban (born 1962) is well-known for his virtuoso skills as a draftsman; for over 30 years he has also been a passionate collector of architectural drawings. This publication unites Tchoban's own drawings--which range from perspectival-illusionist representations of his hometown of St. Petersburg to travel impressions, fantasies and visionary architectural studies--with highlights from his collection of works by European architects and painters dating from the seventeenth century, including Ferdinando Galli Bibiena (1656-1743), Filippo Juvara (1678-1736) and Jacques-Louis David (1748-1825). Focusing on motifs of ancient, classicist and Baroque architecture, these works establish a fruitful dialogue with Tchoban's correspondingly broad production. Through these extraordinary examples of paper architecture--a fascinating but somewhat neglected critical genre--this book underscores the endless possibilities for expression in the medium and promises to delight any reader interested in architecture or the graphic arts. . . . . [see book details]

  Edited by Eva-Maria Barkhofen. Hbk, 8.75 x 10.5 in. / 128 pgs / 90 color. Publication Date: 10/31/2010 List Price: US $45.00

  The Museum of Modern Art, New York Small Scale, Big Change New Architectures of Social Engagement The role of the global architect in society is changing. Instead of waiting for commissions to come their way, architects are initiating and developing practical solutions in response to dramatically changing living conditions in many parts of the world today. Small Scale, Big Change focuses on a central chapter of this shift, presenting recently built or under-construction works in underserved communities around the globe by these 11 architects and firms: Elemental (Chilean); Anna Heringer (Austrian); Diébédo Francis Kéré (Burkinabé); Hashim Sarkis A.L.U.D. (Lebanese); Jorge Mario Jáuregui (Brazilian); Frédéric Druot, Anne Lacaton & Jean Philippe Vassal (French); Michael Maltzan Architecture (American); Noero Wolff Architects (South African); Rural Studio (American); Estudio Teddy Cruz (American, born Guatemala); and Urban Think Tank (American/Austrian/Venezuelan). Without sacrificing concern for aesthetics, these architects have developed projects that reveal a post-utopian specificity of place; their architectural solutions emerge from close collaboration with future users and sustained research into local . . . . [see book details]

  Introduction by Barry Bergdoll. Text by Andres Lepik. Pbk, 8 x 10 in. / 140 pgs / 170 color. Publication Date: 10/31/2010 List Price: US $37.50

  Hatje Cantz Steven Holl: Heart Herning Museum of Contemporary Art The Herning Museum of Contemporary Art (HEART) in Herning, Denmark, inhabits a new building designed by renowned American architect Steven Holl, who was drawn to the project by the institution's collection of works by the Italian Conceptual artist Piero Manzoni. In 1960, shirt-factory owner Aage Damgaard invited Manzoni to Herning, and the industrialist's passion for contemporary art gave rise to a visionary model for cooperation between businesses and artists that ultimately led to the establishment of a new museum. As detailed in this richly illustrated book, Holl's complex museum is surrounded by a landscape of hills and ponds that meshes with his structures; the single-story building itself, with its natural light and innovative roof construction, refers to the formal vocabulary of the 1960s factory opposite. In reference to its origins, an overhead view of the museum recalls outstretched shirtsleeves while the façade resembles wrinkled fabric. . . . . [see book details]

  Text by Juhani Pallasmaa, Holger Reenberg. Hbk, 8.5 x 10.5 in. / 96 pgs / 52 color. Publication Date: 3/31/2010 List Price: US $45.00

  The Museum of Modern Art, New York Tall Buildings Since the first skyscraper was erected a century ago, tall buildings have intrigued people everywhere. Today they are so commonplace that it is hard to imagine the modern landscape without them. But skyscrapers are more than relics of the twentieth century; they have evolved, along with out technological, spatial and aesthetic needs, as the new urban landscape. Tall Buildings explores how the genre is being redefined for the twenty-first century, presenting a critical review of the current state of tall buildings, discussing structural inventions, programmatic innovations, and social and urbanistic implications. 26 skyscrapers and highrise structures designed in the last decade around the world exemplify these concepts. Each project, fully illustrated, is accompanied by an explanatory text. Included are Santiago Calatrava's Turning Torso in Malmo; Norman Foster and Ove Arup and Partners' Swiss Re Headquarters in London; Steven Holl and Robert Silman's 5th Avenue and 42nd Street Tower; Hans Hollein and . . . . [see book details]

  Essays by Guy Nordenson and Terence Riley. Paperback, 9 x 12 in. / 192 pgs / 200 color / illustrated throughout. Publication Date: 11/2/2003 List Price: US $29.95

  Jovis Textile Architecture An enormous, electronically operated umbrella stretches across a courtyard, flexible panels replace solid walls, an air-filled bubble is turned into a performance hall: this volume presents promising projects that envision a future when textiles are widely and innovatively employed as architectural elements. Though they are frequently reduced to a decorative afterthought in contemporary interior design, textiles are extremely versatile, with a range of tactile qualities and surprising strength, which gives them tremendous architectural potential, ranging from simple solutions to high-tech applications. Presenting projects by prominent architects such as Rem Koolhaas, Herzog & de Meuron, Kengo Kuma and Graft Architects, this richly illustrated edition--which serves as a resource book as well as a source of inspiration--provides an overview of the wide ranging possibilities for the application of textiles in building design. . . . . [see book details]

  Edited by Sylvie Krüger. Hbk, 8 x 10.75 in. / 208 pgs / 200 color / 150 b&w. Publication Date: 12/31/2009 List Price: US $65.00

  NAi Publishers The Architecture of Hospitals What makes the difference between sickness and health? What factors spark recovery and discourage deterioration? The idea that the architecture of a hospital contributes to a patient's well-being dates back to the eighteenth century, and has influenced health care facility design ever since. Recent French and German examples suggest that good architecture can contribute to an agreeable, orderly, and well-maintained environment. American evidence-based design recently compared the effects of various spatial factors and provided, for the first time, indisputable evidence of architecture's positive influence. The Architecture of Hospitals considers both that kind of influence and the position of the hospital as a public, representative building with special societal functions--an ideal vehicle for progressive design. This richly illustrated book includes, along with essays and in-depth historical studies, a selection of groundbreaking new designs. . . . . [see book details]

  Edited by Cor Wagenaar. Essays by Abram de Swaan, Stephen Verderber, Charles Jencks and Aaron Betsky. Paperback, 7 x 9.5 in. / 512 pgs / 300 color / 100 b&w. Publication Date: 3/1/2006 List Price: US $75.00

  Guggenheim Museum The Guggenheim: Frank Lloyd Wright and the Making of the Modern Museum Published on the occasion of the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum's fiftieth anniversary, and in association with the Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation, this fascinating, beautifully designed volume is the first to fully explore the process behind one of the greatest, most iconic Modern buildings in America-and the world. The Guggenheim: Frank Lloyd Wright and the Making of the Modern Museum examines the history, design and construction of Wright's masterwork with preliminary drawings, models and photographs, as well as three major essays that consider the building in three important contexts. Hillary Ballon discusses the obstacles Wright faced in getting the Guggenheim built, and how his complex relationship with New York City was reflected in his design; Neil Levine explores why Wright's Guggenheim had much greater impact on museum architecture than museums designed by Le Corbusier and Ludwig Mies van der Rohe; and Joseph Siry writes about the museum's novel construction and how it . . . . [see book details]

  Text by Hilary Ballon, Luis Carranza, Pat Kirkham, Neil Levine, Scott Perkins, Nancy Spector, Angela Starita. Hbk, 8.5 x 12.25 in. / 228 pgs / illustrated throughout. Publication Date: 7/31/2009 List Price: US $65.00

  NAi Publishers The Mosque Political, Architectural and Social Transformations The Netherlands' approximately 800,000 Muslims have access to almost 500 mosques. While mosques were once quietly accommodated in old school buildings, factories or churches, today the construction of new mosques is up--one of the factors literally increasing the visibility of Islam in Dutch society. The current debate about the religious, social, political and cultural position of the mosque is integral to society--not only in the Netherlands but internationally. The Mosque: Political, Architectural and Social Transformations embraces a vision that extends beyond the Euro-Islamic equation. The first part of this volume introduces an architectural analysis of the mosque. The second part of the book contextualizes the mosque in a larger sociopolitical debate. Adopting an interdisciplinary approach, the book includes insights from a politician, a theologian, a sociologist, a philosopher, an anthropologist and an architecture historian. . . . . [see book details]

  Edited by Ergün Erkoçu, Cihan Bugdací. Hbk, 8.75 x 8.75 in. / 192 pgs / 120 color. Publication Date: 10/31/2009 List Price: US $45.00

  NAi Publishers The Past in the Present: Architecture in Indonesia The concepts of "Indonesian architecture" and "architecture in Indonesia" are both quite difficult to pin down. For the architecture of this small country incorporates influences from many important cultures--from India, China and the Middle East to countries in the West--and is therefore extremely multifaceted. In fact, one might reasonably ask whether a "real" Indonesian architecture actually exists, even with reference to the country's vernacular work, which is highly diverse from an ethnic perspective in and of itself. The quest for an authentic Indonesian architecture has in fact been the subject of debate among architects there for many years, especially in regards to the work has been exported to other countries--in particular, its former colonizer, the Netherlands. (In fact, there is even a name for the hybrid style that originated during that era: Indische).This very nicely designed collection of illustrated essays, which features a special section of pictures and drawings of colonial . . . . [see book details]

  Edited by Peter J.M. Nas, Martien de Vletter. Text by Amanda Acmadi, Maaike Boersma, Kees van Dijk. Hardcover, 8.25 x 10.75 in. / 288 pgs / 20 color/ 288 b&w. Publication Date: 7/1/2007 List Price: US $59.95

  Hatje Cantz The Pavilion Pleasure & Polemics in Architecture The Pavilion examines both the history and the contemporary state of pavilion architecture, something of a niche genre in the field, but with a long history of masterpieces. It consists of two parts: first, the examination of a group of twentieth-century pavilions, and second, a collection of essays that survey historical and more recent examples. This outstanding analysis was produced by students of architecture at Frankfurt's Städelschule. In the theoretical section, well-known authors discuss the materials used in pavilions, starting with influences from the Orient, India and Asia, and moving on to significant twentieth-century pavilions and recent temporary buildings that seem to occupy a space between art and architecture. In addition, the book documents the research and development of a summer pavilion for the garden at the Deutsches Architekturmuseum in Frankfurt produced by the offices of Barkow Leibinger and Werner Sobek. . . . . [see book details]

  Edited by Peter Cachola Schmal, Ben van Berkel. Text by Barry Bergdoll, Johan Bettum, Kerstin Bußmann. Pbk, 6.75 x 9.5 in. / 192 pgs / 137 color / 80 b&w. Publication Date: 1/31/2010 List Price: US $40.00

  Metropolis Books The Power of Pro Bono 40 Stories About Design for the Public Good by Architects and Their Clients A first-of-its-kind book, equally representing the voices of architects and their clients, The Power of Pro Bono presents 40 pro bono design projects across the country. The clients include grassroots community organizations like the Homeless Prenatal Program of San Francisco, as well as national and international nonprofits, among them Goodwill, Habitat for Humanity, KIPP Schools and Planned Parenthood. These public-interest projects were designed by a range of award-winning practices, from SHoP Architects in New York and Studio Gang in Chicago, to young studios including Stephen Dalton Architects in Southern California and Hathorne Architects in Detroit, to some of the largest firms in the country, such as Gensler, HOK and Perkins + Will. Scores of private donors, local community foundations and companies, and material and service donations made these projects possible. So have some of the most progressive funders in the country, ranging from Brad Pitt's Make It Right Foundation in New . . . . [see book details]

  edited by John Cary and Public Architecture. Foreword by Majora Carter. Preface by John Peterson. Hbk, 8 x 10 in. / 288 pgs / 250 color. Publication Date: 11/30/2010 List Price: US $40.00

  NAi Publishers Van Herk & De Kleijn: Tools and Architecture This monograph gives a comprehensive overview of the designs and built work of Arne van Herk and Sabien de Kleijn, from 1973 until the present day. Besides architecture, urban design, interiors and furniture, the book dwells at length on the informal and conceptual projects--films, clothing, everyday objects--developed by van Herk & de Kleijn throughout their career. Their joint oeuvre is explored in a continuous narrative that makes no distinction between the ingenious rooflights of their own houseboat and a major housing project like Haarlemmerhouttuinen in Amsterdam, and focuses just as easily on their ultra-light half-meter-high platform shoes as on one of their interiors. If the significance of their work lies in their liberal concern for everyday things, this volume emphasizes their approach as one that eschews image in favor of imagination, of giving shape to the things with which we surround ourselves. The visual narrative, with explanatory texts by Arne van . . . . [see book details]

  Essays by Hans Ibelings. Paperback, 360 pgs / 250 color /10 b&w. Publication Date: 12/2/2003 List Price: US $55.00

  Jovis Werner Ruhnau Space, Play and the Arts German architect Werner Ruhnau’s work presages the kind of interdisciplinary and collaborative practice popular among contemporary artists and designers. Architect of the groundbreaking Gelsenkirchen Musical Theatre (1959), which he designed in tandem with artists Yves Klein, Jean Tinguely, Robert Adams, Paul Dierkes and Norbert Kricke, Ruhnau was also an active theater director. This engagingly designed volume, published on the occasion of Ruhnau’s eighty-fifth birthday, delivers the very first comprehensive compendium of his work. The concepts introduced here are tied together in an interview with Ruhnau that examines the arc and process of his fascinating 50-year career--from the 1950s Bauhütte” (shed) concept, which stresses the importance of community in architectural planning, to more recent projects, some of which have never been published. German theorist and artist Bazon Brock, who is himself known for working in a variety of fields and media, contributes an essay. Published in association with Stadt Gelsenkirchen/M:AI. . . . . [see book details]

  Text and interview by Dorothee Lehmann-Kopp. Text by Bazon Brock. Paperback, 9 x 12 in. / 260 pgs / 100 color / 60 b&w. Publication Date: 3/1/2008 List Price: US $55.00

  Jovis Wingårdhs Already regarded as the most successful Swedish architect of all time, Gert Wingårdh is nevertheless not a pure product” of Swedish architecture—the solutions he devises for his various projects are too multifarious and cosmopolitan. Eschewing both dogma and predefined individual style, with each new building Wingårdh surprises his clients and admirers. This monograph reveals his blend of function, sustainability and aesthetics. . . . . [see book details]

  Edited by Falk Jaeger. Flexi, 8.5 x 10.75 in. / 144 pgs / 160 color. Publication Date: 4/30/2010 List Price: US $39.95

  NAi Publishers Wood Works Onix Architecture in Wood Huts, nests, branches, tree trunks and crates—all wooden structures are potential inspiration for the work of the Dutch architecture firm Onix. This volume offers the firm's insights on what they call thoughtful architecture.” Detailed drawings and photographs of the construction process for more than 20 structures showcase Onix's quest for novel timber applications. . . . . [see book details]

  Text by Haiko Meijer, Alex van de Beld, Hilde de Haan. Hbk, 6.75 x 9.5 in. / 320 pgs / 240 color / 40 b&w. Publication Date: 3/31/2010 List Price: US $60.00

  The Museum of Modern Art, New York Yoshio Taniguchi: Nine Museums The Museum of Modern Art is now in the midst of the largest building project in its history. Designed by Yoshio Taniguchi, the new Museum will reopen in midtown Manhattan in winter 2004-05 to coincide with its 75th anniversary. The 630,000-square-foot Museum will be nearly twice the size of the former facility, offering dramatically expanded and redesigned spaces for exhibitions, public programming, educational outreach, and scholarly research. But The Museum of Modern Art is not Taniguchi's first museum, though it is his first museum in the United States. The architect has been designing museums in his native Japan since 1978. In celebration of the opening of the new MoMA building, the Museum is publishing this book about Taniguchi's museums--nine in all. They include the Tokyo National Museum, Marugami Museum of Contemporary Art, Nagano Art Museum, Ken Domon Museum of Photography, and Shiseido Art Museum. For the Higashiyama Kaii Gallery in Nagano, . . . . [see book details]

  Essay by Terence Riley. Hardcover, 10 x 10 in. / 204 pgs / 141 color / 64 b&w. Publication Date: 11/2/2004 List Price: US $49.95

  Guggenheim Museum Zaha Hadid The first woman to be awarded the distinguished Pritzker Architecture Prize, in 2004, Zaha Hadid is internationally known for projects that have literally "shifted the geometry of buildings." The Iraqi-born, London-based architect has collaborated with the Guggenheim on several projects leading up to this comprehensive retrospective, including the design for the museum's exhibition The Great Utopia in 1992. Each of Hadid's dynamic and innovative works builds on over 30 years of experimentation and research in the interrelated fields of urbanism, architecture and design. True to Hadid's interdisciplinary approach to architecture, all mediums will be covered here. . . . . [see book details]

  Essays by Joseph Giovannini, Detlef Mertins and Patrik Schumacher. Introduction by Germano Celant. Interviews by Alvin Boyarsky. Paperback, 9.5 x 9.5 in. / 316 pgs / 259 color. Publication Date: 8/15/2006 List Price: US $50.00

  NAi Publishers Zonnestraal Sanatorium The History and Restoration of a Modern Monument Designed by architects Jan Duiker and Bernard Bijvoet in 1925, the former Zonnestraal Sanatorium is an icon of the Nieuwe Bouwen style, the Dutch branch of the International Style of modernism: as one of the genuine highlights of twentieth-century architecture, it has been considered for the UNESCO World Heritage List. The complex, whose name means "ray of sunshine," was originally created as a treatment center for tuberculosis patients. By the early 1960s, the buildings, which had been constructed for limited use in concrete, steel and glass, were in ruin. After four decades of research and planning, its restoration is nearing completion under the supervision of the architects Hubert-Jan Henket and Wessel de Jonge. This publication traces the former sanatorium's past, emphasizing the battle for recognition of the Zonnestraal site's importance, its complex restoration process and providing a critical dossier on the general management of modern monuments. . . . . [see book details]

  Edited by Paul Meurs, Marie-Thérèse van Thoor. Hbk, 9.5 x 11 in. / 278 pgs / 120 color / 240 b&w. Publication Date: 5/31/2011 List Price: US $70.00