| THE GIFT GUIDE New & Forthcoming Design BooksMies van der Rohe • Diller, Scofidio + Renfro • Wendell Castle • David Chipperfield • Esther McCoy • Phillip Smith & Douglas Thompson • Food for the City • How to Make a Japanese House • Bio Design
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| | Highlights from the Fall 2012 ListMetropolis Books Thanks for the View, Mr. MiesEdited and with text by Danielle Aubert, Lana Cavar, Natasha Chandani | Placement. Lafayette Park, an affordable middle-class residential area in downtown Detroit, is home to the largest collection of buildings designed by Ludwig Mies van der Rohe in the world. Today, it is one of Detroit’s most racially integrated and economically stable neighborhoods, although it is surrounded by evidence of a city in financial distress. Through interviews with and essays by residents; reproductions of archival material; and new photographs by Karin Jobst, Vasco Roma, and Corine Vermeulen, and previously unpublished photographs by documentary filmmaker Janine Debanné, Thanks for the View, Mr. Mies examines the way that Lafayette Park residents confront and interact with ... Pbk, 6.5 x 9.5 in. / 272 pgs / illustrated throughout.  FREE UPS GROUND SHIPPING IN THE US
$29.95 Damiani Diller, Scofidio + Renfro: Inside-Out, and still Lincoln Center The redesign of Lincoln Center is one of the most challenging and innovative civic projects in recent urban history. Over the past eight years, Diller Scofidio + Renfro (DS+R), in close collaboration with FxFowle, Beyer Blender Belle and Lincoln Center’s leadership, has transformed the 50-year-old modernist citadel into a porous and democratic campus. This visually rich document is the first comprehensive book to feature the extensive redevelopment in its entirety. Inside-Out, and still Lincoln Center details DS+R’s interpretation of the modernist project after several generations of social and political change. Through a combination of photographs, drawings, renderings, archival records and texts, ... Clth, 9.25 x 12.5 in. / 288 pgs / 60 gatefolds / illustrated throughout.  FREE UPS GROUND SHIPPING IN THE US
$85.00 East of Borneo Books Piecing Together Los Angeles: An Esther McCoy ReaderBy Esther McCoy. Edited and with text by Susan Morgan. Esther McCoy (1904–1989) is one of the twentieth century’s foremost architecture historians, and one of the greatest chroniclers of the architecture of midcentury southern California. Her 1960 book Five California Architects has long been acknowledged as an indispensable classic, and as Reyner Banham famously observed of her, no one can write about architecture in California without acknowledging her as the mother of us all.” Piecing Together Los Angeles: An Esther McCoy Reader is the first anthology of McCoy’s writing. It features a selection of some 70 pieces--ranging from her 1945 article Schindler, Space Architect” to Arts & Architecture: Case Study Houses,” ... Pbk, 6 x 8.25 in. / 392 pgs / 6 b&w.  FREE UPS GROUND SHIPPING IN THE US
$34.95 Walther König, Köln David Chipperfield ArchitectsEdited by Rik Nys. Intoduction by Fulvio Irace. Text by David Chipperfield, Rik Nys. The British architect David Chipperfield is an exemplary exponent of modernism and its ongoing relevance. The confident elegance of his buildings expresses a belief in the discreet craftsmanship and clarity of early-twentieth-century architecture: If you look at a building by Mies van der Rohe,” he observes, it might look very simple, but up close, the sheer quality of construction, materials and thought are inspirational.” David Chipperfield Architects is the most comprehensive monograph on Chipperfield to date, and the first in which he himself has developed both its conceptual outline and (with graphic artist John Morgan) its layout. The first section of ... Pbk, 10 x 12.75 in. / 352 pgs / 250 color.  FREE UPS GROUND SHIPPING IN THE US
$49.95 NAi Publishers Food for the CityText by Peter de Rooden, Adam Grubb, Han Wiskerke, Lola Sheppard, Mason White, Gaynor Paradza, et al. By the year 2050 there will be nine billion people living on Earth. Seventy-five percent of them will be living in cities. If the world population continues to grow at this rate, it will take several extra planets just to produce the food that will be needed to feed it. While putting food on the table today seems to entail no more than a visit to the market for the average city dweller, a worldwide network of food producers and supermarket chains lies hidden behind our meals. It is a network of convenience, but one that poses new problems in that ... Pbk, 6.75 x 9.5 in. / 256 pgs / 150 color.  FREE UPS GROUND SHIPPING IN THE US
$34.95 NAi Publishers How to Make a Japanese HouseText by Cathelijne Nuijsink. Nowhere in the world have architects built homes as small as in Japan, and nowhere have they done so with such ingenuity and success. How to Make a Japanese House presents 21 lessons in how to design a single-family home from three decades of architectural practice. From the Western perspective, in which more space is better space, small interiors may once have seemed undesirable, but Japanese architects have long excelled at overcoming the limitations of building in densely populated areas and creating brilliant effects of spaciousness with minimal square footage. As urban areas across the world grow only more dense in ... Pbk, 6.75 x 9.5 in. / 324 pgs / 146 color.  FREE UPS GROUND SHIPPING IN THE US
$55.00 Gregory R. Miller & Co./The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum Wendell Castle: Wandering FormsIntroduction by Evan Snyderman. Text by Alastair Gordon. American studio furniture icon Wendell Castle is one of the most important, influential and celebrated designers of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. For more than 50 years, he has consistently pioneered new territory in design and beyond. His visionary constructions and distinctive stacked-laminate woodworking process cross the boundaries between sculpture, design and craft. Published on the occasion of Castle’s retrospective exhibition at The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum, this publication is the first in 20 years devoted to the designer’s work. The book focuses on Castle’s exceptional early works in wood and fiberglass, which transformed the way we look at furniture and ... Hbk, 10 x 12 in. / 396 pgs / 200 color / 200 b&w.  FREE UPS GROUND SHIPPING IN THE US
$60.00 Hatje Cantz A Place in the ShadeBy Charles Correa. Charles Correa’s A Place in the Shade explores architectural and urban issues in India, from the house as a machine for dealing with the country’s often hostile climate to the metaphysical role of architecture as a model of the cosmos.” This provocative and eminently readable collection of essays argues that the country’s habitat must respond to the overriding parameters of climate, culture and financial resources, and that our physical environment should accommodate both diversity and synergy. Over the last few decades, urban real estate has become the primary source of financing for political parties and the politicians who run them, and ... Hbk, 7.25 x 8.5 in. / 246 pgs / 1 color / 200 b&w.  FREE UPS GROUND SHIPPING IN THE US
$55.00 Damiani/Gordon De Vries Studio Qualities of Duration: The Architecture of Phillip Smith & Douglas ThompsonText by Alastair Gordon. The branch of a sycamore grows through the opening of a wall in a Manhattan studio. A pool-house on Long Island becomes a sod-roofed teahouse. An eighteenth-century farmhouse in Pennsylvania expands to echo the path of a meandering stream. Such are the inventive and inspired designs of Phillip Smith and Douglas Thompson, whose work stands out as an oasis of calm in an age of hyperspeed and information smog. Since they met in 1966, Smith and Thompson have sought out a softer” alternative to the legacy of heroic modernism,” a quest for spatial quietude guided more by instinct and gradual accretion ... Hbk, 9 x 9 in. / 221 pgs / illustrated throughout.  FREE UPS GROUND SHIPPING IN THE US
$50.00 The Museum of Modern Art, New York Bio DesignEdited and text by William Myers. Foreword by Paola Antonelli. For centuries, designers and artists have looked to nature for inspiration and materials, but only recently have they developed the ability to alter and incorporate living organisms or tissues into their work. This startling development, at the intersection of biology and design has created new aesthetic possibilities and helps address a growing urgency to build and manufacture ecologically. Bio Design surveys recent design and art projects that harness living materials and processes, presenting bio-integrated approaches to achieving sustainability, innovations enabled by biotechnology, and provocative experiments that deliberately illustrate the dangers and opportunities in manipulating life for human ends. As the first ... Hbk, 8.25 x 10 in. / 288 pgs / 400 color.  FREE UPS GROUND SHIPPING IN THE US
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