architecture 2011 autumn/winter rights guide

ARCHITECTURE & CONSTRUCTIONRIGHTS GUIDE

Autumn/Winter 2011

To request review copies of any title in this guide, please email Julie Attrill: [email protected]

Architecture Rights Guide: Autumn / Winter 2011 The Story of Post-Modernism: Five Decades of Architecture/Jencks ............................................ 2 Radical Post-Modernism/Jencks ........................................................................................................ 2 Narrative Architecture/Coates ............................................................................................................ 3 Experimental Green Strategies: Ecological research as a design tool/Peters ............................... 3 Material Computation - Higher Integration in Morphogenetic Design/Menges .............................. 4 Computational Design Thinking: Computation Design Thinking/Menges ..................................... 4 Manufacturing the Bespoke: Making and Prototyping Architecture/Sheil ..................................... 5 The Autopoiesis of Architecture, Volume II: A New Agenda for Architecture/Schumacher .......... 5 London (Re)generation/Littlefield ....................................................................................................... 6 Al Bahr Towers: A Landmark Building for the Abu Dhabi Investment Council/Heathcote ........... 6

Spring /Summer 2011 ......................................................... 7 The Embodied Image: Imagination and Imagery in Architecture/Pallasmaa .................................. 7 Mathematics in Space/Legendre ........................................................................................................ 8 Ecoarchitecture: The Work of Ken Yeang/Hart ................................................................................. 8 Latin America at the Crossroads: Architectural Design/Leguía ...................................................... 9 Scripting Cultures: Architectural Design and Programming/Burry ................................................. 9 Protocell Architecture/Spiller ............................................................................................................ 10 The Urban Towers Handbook/Firley ................................................................................................ 10 Typological Urbanism: Projective Cities/Jacoby ............................................................................ 11 The Life of the British Home: An Architectural History/Denilson .................................................. 11 Cross Country: English Buildings and Landscape From Countryside to Coast/Ashley ............. 12 An Introduction to Architectural Theory: 1968 to the Present/Mallgrave ...................................... 12

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The Story of Post-Modernism: Five Decades of Architecture Charles Jencks 978-0-470-68896-0 / 0-470-68896-3 272 pp. Pub: 09/09/11 £70.00 Cloth Architecture The first up-to-date narrative of Post-Modern Architecture.

In The Story of Post-Modernism, Jencks, the authority on Post-Modern architecture and culture, provides the defining account of Post-Modern architecture from its earliest roots in the early 60’s to the present day. By breaking the narrative into seven distinct chapters, which are both chronological and overlapping, Jencks charts the ebb and flow of the movement, the peaks and troughs of different ideas and themes.

The book is highly visual with over 350 images. As well as providing a chronological account of the movement, each chapter also has a special feature on the major works of a given period.

• The first up-to-date narrative of post-modern architecture — other major books on the subject were written 20 years ago.

• An accessible narrative that will appeal to students who are new to the subject, as well as those who can remember its heyday in the 70’s and 80’s.

• Features the work of premier architects: Foreign Office, Frank Gehry, Herzog & de Meuron, Rem Koolhaas, Aldo Rossi and James Sterling.

Charles Jencks is an American architectural theorist, author and landscape architect. He has written widely on post-modern and modern architecture. His bestselling book The Language of Post-Modern Architecture (1977) popularised post-modernism in architecture and made him the leading author on the subject in the 70’s and 80’s. He is the founder of the Maggie Centres with his late wife Maggie Keswick, a charity that has become influential for its enlightened provision of uplifting environments for cancer care, designed by some of the world's most renowned architects. Jencks writes and lectures internationally on architecture and landscape design. Critical Modernism 5e - Licensed: Simplified Chinese Theories and Manifestoes of Contemporary Architecture 2e - Licensed: Polish

Radical Post-Modernism Charles Jencks, Sean Griffiths, Charles Holland, Sam Jacob Architectural Design (AD) series 978-0-470-66988-4 / 0-470-66988-8 144 pp. Pub: 09/09/11 £24.99 Paper Special Topics Controversially puts Post-Modernism back on the map for contemporary architecture.

In this latest issue of AD the guest editors are drawn, like the content, from contrasting tastes and generations. Jencks, the definer of Post-Modernism for thirty years, discusses some issues that have re-emerged today, while the young group of British architects, FAT, argues for a particular version of RPM. An interview between Rem Koohaas and Charles Jencks discusses the influence of Post-Modernism while investigations of street art, graffiti and the 1980 Venice Biennale show that communication is at the heart of this radical strain of architecture.

• Features work by: ARM, Atelier Bow Wow, Edouard Francois, FOA, Rem Koolhaas, John and Valerio Olgiati.

• Includes more than 250 colour images.

Charles Jencks is an American architectural theorist, author and landscape architect. He has written widely on Post-Modern and Modern architecture. His bestselling book The Language of Post-Modern Architecture (1977) popularised Post-Modernism in architecture and made him the international authority on the subject in the 70’s and 80’s. In the last ten years, he has become an influential landscape architect. Jencks continues to lecture on architecture in cultural institutions across the world. FAT is a London-based practice run by Sean Griffiths, Charles Holland and Sam Jacob. Established in 1995, FAT has developed a broad approach to architecture. Early work included a series of seminal interior and art projects. The Blue House, London, has been described as ‘the most memorable new house in London' since the 1980’s. Islington Square, a development of social housing in Manchester, completed in 2006, was widely praised by residents and press alike. Awards include: the Architecure Foundation New Generation Award 2006, FX Best Public Building Award 2006 and a RIBA European Award. Critical Modernism 5e - Licensed: Simplified Chinese Theories and Manifestoes of Contemporary Architecture 2e - Licensed: Polish

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Narrative Architecture Nigel Coates AD Primer series 978-0-470-05745-2 / 0-470-05745-9 168 pp. Pub: 13/12/11 £70.00 Cloth Architecture The first book to look architectural narrative in the eye.

To architects the enduring attraction of narrative is that it offers a way of engaging with the way a city feels and works. Rather than reducing architecture to mere style or an overt emphasis on technology, it foregrounds the experiential dimension of architecture. In practice it is just as easy to be minimalist as maximalist in its execution. Nigel Coates' Narrative Architecture is the first publication to look the subject in the eye. It deals with its background, analysis and practice as well as its future development.

• A prominent figure in the design world, Coates has made a significant contribution to furniture and interior design, as well as architecture.

• Features the work of Will Alsop, Diller Scofidio + Renfo, Herzog & de Meuron, Rem Koolhaas, Bernard Tschumi, FAT, Enric Miralles and NL architects.

• One of the first books to look at narrative in a contemporary context.

• Features over 120 colour images.

Nigel Coates is an architect, designer and educator. Along with eight of his ex-students, he founded the NATO group in 1983. With Doug Branson he began Branson Coates Architecture in 1985, and together they built extensively in Japan and the UK. He is a prolific product and furniture designer, and has designed for Hitch Mylius, Alessi, Fornasetti and Slamp. His drawings and furniture are in the collection of the V&A. He is the author of several books including Guide to Ecstacity (2003). For over 15 years, Coates was Professor of Architectural Design at the Royal College of Art, London.

Experimental Green Strategies: Ecological research as a design tool

Terri Peters Architectural Design (AD) series 978-0-470-68979-0 / 0-470-68979-X 136 pp. Pub: 04/11/11 £22.99 Paper Special Topics

An insider's guide into the most current ecological research in leading international practices.

Sustainable design and ecological building are the most significant global challenges for the design profession.

To meet new building regulations and national targets for carbon emissions all future buildings will be judged on their ‘green’ merits. For architects to maintain a competitive edge in a global market, innovation is now key; the design of new processes, technologies and materials that combat carbon emissions and improve the sustainable performance of buildings are paramount. Contemporary practices have responded by setting up multi-disciplinary internal research and development teams, with offices such as Foster + Partners. KPF and Aedas, setting the bar for ground-breaking research and development.

The aim of internal groups is often to adapt and create new technologies and materials and to borrow ways of working from other disciplines to focus on innovation rather than incrementally increasing performance or efficiency.

• Affords readers an insider's view into research and development groups at top practices, such as Aedas, Foster + Partners, HOK and Nikken Sekkei Architects.

• Features a wide range of offices globally, including those in the UK, Sweden, Norway, Germany, Denmark, USA, Switzerland and Japan.

Terri Peters trained as an architect in Canada and the UK and has worked in London at both large and small architecture offices. Since 2009 she has been a freelance writer dividing her time between Copenhagen and London. She began writing as a regular contributor to the Architects Journal, and has since written for more than 20 international publications.


Material Computation - Higher Integration in Morphogenetic Design Achim Menges

Architectural Design (AD) series 978-0-470-97330-1 / 0-470-97330-7 136 pp. Pub: 02/03/12 £24.99 Paper Special Topics Advances the application of the biological paradigm in architecture to a higher-level of integration in computer-aided design and manufacture.

In order to effectively introduce and outline the enabling power of computational design in relation to a biological paradigm, this publication looks in turn at formation and materialisation in nature; integrative computational design; and engineering and manufacturing integration.

Menges' introduction to the issue is augmented by an article by the prominent architectural thinker and Harvard Professor, Sanford Kwinter, who situates the featured research and design projects in contemporary architectural discourse. An important scientific perspective is provided by the writings of Philip Ball and Scott Turner, who explain the latest findings in research on natural morphogenesis. Cutting-edge computational design approaches are outlined by avant-garde architects, such as Neri Oxman and Marc Fornes, as well as established leaders, like Patrick Schumacher with the Computational Design Group at Zaha Hadid Architects.

The profound consequences of the synthesis of architectural design, construction and manufacturing is contextualised by the work of Buro Happold's Generative Geometry Group and Foster & Partners Specialist Modelling Group. There is also an article dedicated to the application of advanced robotic manufacturing and construction-scale rapid prototyping in the building sector.

Achim Menges is an Architect, Professor and the Director of the Institute for Computational Design at Stuttgart University. He is also Visiting Professor in Architecture at Harvard University's Graduate School of Design and Visiting Professor for the Emergent Technologies and Design Graduate Programme at the Architectural Association in London. His projects have been published and exhibited worldwide and received international awards. Menges has lectured widely and published more than 60 papers and articles on his research over the last eight years.

Computational Design Thinking: Computation Design Thinking Achim Menges, Sean Ahlquist 978-0-470-66570-1 / 0-470-66570-X 232 pp. Pub: 16/09/11 £70.00 Cloth Architecture Provides an effective framework for computational thinking in design.

This book will provide a unique collection of seminal texts on computational design thinking. An important aspect of the book will be the way that it connects adjacent fields and historical texts, introducing the original thinking that has been influential in the formation of today's computational design discourse.

• A title in the AD Reader series that compiles key classic and new texts for architectural students and professionals.

• The first reader to provide an effective framework for computational thinking in design.

• An essential book for undergraduate and graduate students grappling with the foundations of current computational architectural practice.

• Features classic texts that underscore current thinking ranging from Goethe and D'Arcy Thompson, to Gordan Pask, William Mitchell and Manuel DeLanda, as well as newly commissioned articles by Mark Burry and Peter Trummer.

Professor Achim Menges is director of the Institute for Computational Design at Stuttgart University. Currently he is also Visiting Professor in Architecture at Harvard University's Graduate School of Design and Visiting Professor for the Emergent Technologies and Design Graduate Program at the Architectural Association in London. Sean Ahlquist holds a Master of Architecture degree from the Emergent Technologies and Design Programme at the Architectural Association in London. Prior to attending the AA, Sean founded the firm, Proces2, in San Francisco, while also teaching in the graduate and undergraduate Architecture departments of the University of California Berkeley and California College of the Arts.


Manufacturing the Bespoke: Making and Prototyping Architecture Bob Sheil

AD Reader 978-0-470-66583-1 / 0-470-66583-1 240 pp. Pub: 16/12/11 £80.00 Cloth Special Topics An essential and original reader on the highly topical subject of fabrication in architecture for practitioners and producers alike.

This AD Reader will become a definitive choice on the reading lists of every ambitious student, designer, critic, historian or engineer looking to fathom the multitude of strands that influence the manufacture of man's most prolific occupation in the 21st Century. Readership will extend from students to researchers, academics to practitioners, industrialists to suppliers and beyond.

Manufacturing the Bespoke provides an original and informative reader on the subject of translating architectural ideas from conceptual proposition to physical manifestation. At a time when roles, methods and capabilities within disciplines of building production are in unprecedented flux. It features new essays from pioneering architects, engineers, academics and designers from around the world on previously published and built works, new and unbuilt work. Contributing contemporary architects include: Charles Walker at Zaha Hadid Architects; Mark Burry on the completion of the Sagrada Familia in Barcelona; and Philip Beesley. The book will also encompass a number of extended articles by internationally renowned critics, theorists, educators and designers, such as Mathias Kohler, Nevi Oxman and Michael Stacey.

Bob Sheil is the Director of the Graduate Diploma in Architecture at the Bartlett School of Architecture, University College London. He is a founding partner in sixteen*(makers), a workshop-based architectural practice, whose work has been widely published and exhibited internationally. He guest-edited AD Design through Making (July/August 2005) and AD Protoarchitecture (May/June 2008).

The Autopoiesis of Architecture, Volume II: A New Agenda for Architecture Patrik S. Schumacher 978-0-470-66615-9 / 0-470-66615-3 760 pp. Pub: 17/02/12 £90.00 Cloth Architecture A major theoretical work by one of the world's leading architects that revolutionises the application of current thinking on design.

This second volume addresses the specific, contemporary challenges that architecture faces. It formulates these tasks, looking specifically at how architecture is seeking to organise and articulate the complexity of post-fordist network society through its language and structure. Explicitly addressing how current architecture can upgrade its design methodology in the face of an increasingly demanding task environment, characterised by both complexity and novelty. Architecture's specific role within contemporary society is explained and its relationship to politics is clarified. Finally, the emerging new style of Parametricism is introduced and theoretically grounded.

• Patrik Schumacher is one of the leading international figures in contemporary architecture today, who is as influential in academia as he is in practice.

• This second part of a major theoretical work that challenges how we analyse and perceive architecture.

• It reinforces the conceptual framework for architecture set out for students and architects in the first volume, outlining its overall agenda and how it might be applied to architectural methodology.

Patrik Schumacher is partner at Zaha Hadid Architects. He joined Zaha Hadid in 1988. In 1996 he founded the ‘Design Research Laboratory' with Brett Steele at the Architectural Association School of Architecture in London, and continues to serve as its co-director. His contribution to the discourse of contemporary architecture is evident in his writings (Digital Hadid, London 2004) as well as in his work as a curator (Latent Utopias, Graz 2002). Since 2004 Patrik Schumacher has been Professor at the Institute for Experimental Architecture at Innsbruck University.


London (Re)generation David Littlefield

Architectural Design (AD) series 978-1-119-99378-0 / 1-119-99378-4 136 pp. Pub: 06/01/12 £24.99 Paper Special Topics A lively and stimulating critique of the contemporary regeneration of London.

Plans to regenerate East London and transform the capital are integral to the vision of the London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games. This title brings into focus notions of regeneration within the specific context of London: what does the term actually mean, how has it been applied and is it being applied? Historical overviews of large-scale interventions from the past are combined with case studies of new and planned schemes, and explorations of how change and rejuvenation can retain or enhance the city's unique sense of place and identity.

Looking beyond the Games, the title will look at the direction in which regeneration is going in a post-recession economy. How can a long-established, highly protected and even cherished, city like London continue to renew and expand? Unlike Chinese or Middle Eastern cities, London is constrained by a wide range of factors from heritage protection and geography to finance and democratic accountability; yet the city continues to grow, change and develop, either incrementally or through big, dramatic leaps like the Olympic Park and King's Cross. In this way, London provides a fascinating case study of how a developed, Western city can negotiate and greet the pressures for change.

David Littlefield is a senior lecturer in the Department of Planning and Architecture at the University of the West of England, Bristol (UWE). He studied design to Masters level at Chelsea College of Art & Design, and has contributed to a wide range of architectural and design journals including Architectural Design, Building Design, Frame and Blueprint. He has written, co-written or edited a number of books on architecture, including Liverpool One: Remaking a City Centre and Architectural Voice: Listening to Old Buildings, both published by Wiley. David curated the exhibition ‘Unseen Hands; 100 years of structural engineering' at the V&A in 2008. David leads the 2nd year Architecture & Planning design studio module at UWE, contributes to the advanced cultural studies module in the university's post-graduate architecture programme, and is external examiner for interior architecture at Leeds Metropolitan University. Architectural Voices - Licensed: Korean, Simplified Chinese

Al Bahr Towers: A Landmark Building for the Abu Dhabi Investment Council Edwin Heathcote, Aedas ISBN: TBC 174 pp. Pub: 05/12 £49.99 Paper Special Topics Provides fascinating insights into the design and construction of this groundbreaking building.

With 300 colour images and specially commissioned photography of the building, captions and leader lines, this book will speak to several audiences, such as the local business community in Abu Dhabi; consultants and contractors directly involved in the project; and architects and architectural students. The book includes: • An engaging and accessible narrative for all audiences,

highlighting the background behind the building; the client, the circumstances behind the commission and a summary of the way that it recognises traditional Middle Eastern vernacular solutions through its highly innovative and sustainable form.

• A chapter on traditional architecture in the Middle East and how it developed low-energy, climatically responsive solutions through screens, layering and orientation etc by a specialist in Islamic architecture.

• A chapter outlining in detail the innovative solutions behind the Towers. This will illustrate the sources of inspiration, such as the screens that were used in the research for the design, and drawings and details of the final building.

• A further chapter on the procurement process behind the towers with input from the architects and contractors.

Edwin Heathcote is an architect, designer and writer and has been Architecture and Design critic for the Financial Times since 1999. He has written several books and is on the editorial board of Architectural Design (AD). Aedas is an international practice with 39 offices across the world. The group is supported by a research and development group that has been recognised for its pioneering work in sustainability, computational design and advanced modelling. The practice was named ‘International Practice of the Year’ by The Architect’s Journal in May 2010. Its key projects include: The National September 11 Memorial Museum in New York and Farringdon Station in London. In 2009, Aedas completed the first phase of the Dubai metro. Church Builders - Licensed: Simplified Chinese Cinema Builders - Licensed: Simplified Chinese Monument Builders - Licensed: Simplified Chinese


Iran: Past, Present and Future Michael Hensel, Mehran Gharleghi

Architectural Design (AD) series ISBN: TBC 136 pp. Pub:13/04/12 £24.99 Paper Special Topics Highlights the rich contemporary and historical architecture of Iran.

The publication is broadly divided into three parts dealing with Iran’s past, present and future. The historic part will provide contemporary analysis of thermodynamics, poche walls and multi-variant envelopes in significant historic buildings, such as the Khaju Bridge and Music Chamber Ali Qapu Palace in Isfahan. Articles on gardens and landscapes and the urban fabric look at these subjects from both a historic and contemporary perspective. Insights are provided into the postwar period in Iran and there is a retrospective of the work of Hadi Mirmiran. There is also an exploration into the work of architect Bahram Shirdel.

Young practices in Iran, such as Reza Daneshmir, Ars, Kourosh Rafiie (Asar) and Pouya Khazaeli are featured, as well as the work of the diaspora of Iranian architects working in the West. These include: Farshid Moussavi of FOA; Nader Tehrani of office da; Hariri & Hariri; and Hadi Tehrani.

The volume closes with a contribution by Mohsen Mostafavi, the Dean of the Harvard Graduate School of Design, on the future of Iranian architecture.

Michael Hensel is an architect, researcher and writer. He is Professor for ‘Research by Design’ at AHO (the Oslo School of Architecture and Design), where he is currently developing an architecture research centre. He co-developed the curriculum of the Emergent Technologies and Design Program and co-directed it from 2001 to 2009. Hensel has taught, lectured and held visiting professorships and fellowships in Europe, the Americas, Asia and Australia. He is the author and editor of numerous publications. Mehran Gharleghi received his Master of Architecture from the Emergent Technologies and Design Master Programme at the Architectural Association. He is an architect and researcher. He has been collaborating with prominent architects in Iran since 2004 and works currently with Plasma Studio in London.

Spring / Summer 2011 The Embodied Image: Imagination and Imagery in Architecture Juhani Pallasmaa

AD Primer series 978-0-470-71191-0 / 0-470-71191-4 192 pp. Pub: 04/03/11

A highly pertinent new title from the distinguished writer and architect Juhani Pallasmaa, author of the architecture classic The Eyes of the Skin.

Addresses the topical subject of the place of the mental image in architectural culture at a time that mobile technologies have made the image and the moving image ever more pervasive and accessible.

• Applies some of the latest neurological research on imagery and sensory perception to art and architecture.

• Moves forward the debate around poetics and the image that was established as an important sphere of discussion and seminar subject by Bachelard's Poetics of Space.

Juhani Pallasmaa is one of Finland's most distinguished architects and architectural thinkers. His previous positions include: Rector of the Institute of Industrial Arts, Helsinki; Director of the Museum of Finnish Architecture, Helsinki; and Professor and Dean of the Faculty of Architecture, Helsinki University of Technology. He has also held visiting professorships in several universities internationally. Pallasmaa is the author/editor of 24 books, including The Eyes of the Skin: Architecture and the Senses (Academy, 1995 and John Wiley & Sons, 2005) and The Thinking Hand: Existential and Embodied Wisdom in Architecture (Wiley, 2009). Licensed: Portuguese The Eyes of the Skin - Licensed: Czech, French, German, Italian, Korean, Portuguese, Simplified Chinese, Slovenian, Spanish, Turkish The Thinking Hand - Licensed in: Czech, French, Portuguese, Simplified Chinese, Slovenian, Spanish


Mathematics in Space George Legendre

Architectural Design (AD) series 978-0-470-68980-6 / 0-470-68980-3 448 pp. Pub:

08/07/11

A new title in the Architectural Design series that explores the potential of computational mathematics in cutting-edge design.

Mathematics has always been a vital tool in the architect's trade, but the last fifteen years have seen a sharp rise in the power of computers and has led to computational abilities far beyond anything previously available. Modern design software and computing power have changed the traditional role of geometry in architecture and opened up new possibilities enabled by topology, non-Euclidean geometry, and other areas of mathematics.

With insight from a top-notch list of contributors, including such notables as Mark Burry, Bernard Cache, Philippe Morel and Fabien Scheurer, Mathematics in Space discusses how the advent of computation and information technology has affected the work of contemporary architects.

• This new title in the Architectural Design series updates architectural mathematics since the digital revolution

• With world-class contributors, this is an essential resource for anyone interested in the ways computation has transformed the discipline

• The book explores fascinating issues in modern design, most importantly the impact of mathematics on contemporary design creativity

George L Legendre is a London-based architect and educator. He graduated from Harvard Graduate School of Design (GSD) in 1994 and served as lecturer and Assistant Professor of Architecture at the GSD from 1995 to 2000. Prior to founding the London-based office IJP Corporation (IJP), he was visiting Professor at the ETH Zurich (2001), Princeton University (2003-05), and the Architectural Association in London, where he served as Unit Master of Diploma Unit 5 (2002-2008). His practice has just completed Henderson Waves, a 1000-foot long bridge located in Singapore. In 2007, the influential UK weekly Building Design elected the 3-year-old office as one of the top 5 practices in Britain led by principals under the age of 40.

Ecoarchitecture: The Work of Ken Yeang Sara Hart with David Littlefield 978-0-470-72140-7 / 0-470-72140-5 272 pp. Pub: 04/03/11

The guide to Ecological Masterplanning

Ken Yeang is internationally recognised as the leading proponent of ecological design in architecture. He has built over 200 buildings globally and published numerous books advocating an environmentally responsive approach to design. He is probably best known as the inventor of the green skyscraper; it was his innovative idea to develop bioclimatic features in a high-density building type. It is for this and his ecological urban design that he is most influential within architecture.

• The first truly comprehensive book on Ken Yeang.

• Covers Yeang's entire career: from his earliest work on environmental design as a Phd student at Cambridge to his most recent projects with Llewelyn Davies Yeang.

• Provides a critical approach to the development of Yeang's work. It is written by contributing editor of Architectural Record, Sara Hart, and includes essays by further contributors.

• Features 22 of Ken Yeang's most significant projects.

• Features a preface by Lord Foster and an essay by Professor John Frazer.

Sara Hart received a Master of Architecture degree from Columbia University in New York City. After many years in practice in New York, she turned to design journalism, specialising in building technology and innovation. She has written extensively about new materials, technologies and sustainable practices. She is a New York-based writer and contributing editor at Architectural Record. David Littlefield is a senior lecturer at the University of the West of England. He has written and edited a number of books, including Architectural Voices: Listening to Old Buildings (2007) and Liverpool One: Remaking a City Centre (2009), both published by John Wiley & Sons Ltd. Architectural Voices - Licensed: Korean, Simplified Chinese


Latin America at the Crossroads: Architectural Design Mariana Leguía

Architectural Design (AD) series 978-0-470-66492-6 / 0-470-66492-4 136 pp. Pub:

08/04/11

A title in the prestigious Architectural Design (AD) series that explores enlightened urban strategies in Latin America, as the South American continent stands on the precipice of major change.

• A highly pertinent topic with the international spotlight on Rio de Janeiro as it prepares to become the first South American city to host the Olympics in 2016.

• Latin America at the Crossroads focuses on Curitiba in Brazil and Bogota and Medellin in Colombia that have become renowned international exemplars for urban revitalisation and sustainability.

• It features work by Latin American architectural practices, such as the Caracas think tank, Alejandro Aravena, Teddy Cruz and Alejandro Echeverri.

• The publication includes well-known contributors in the field, such as architect Ricardo Porro, the economist Hernando De Soto, sociologist Saskia Sassen, the urbanist Ricky Burdett, the architect Teddy Cruz and Alejandro Aravena of Elemental.

Mariana Leguía is a Peruvian-British architect and urban designer. She studied architecture and urbanism at Ricardo Palma University in Peru and at SCIARC in California. She has an MSc from the Cities programme at the London School of Economics, where she was awarded a full scholarship. She has taught and lectured in universities in Peru and the UK. Currently, with the support of Australian funding, she is working on the reconstruction of the neighbourhood of Pisco devastated by the 2007 Peru earthquake. Her work has been published and exhibited in Latin American biennales and architectural magazines. She has worked as an urban designer on projects in Latin America, London, Russia and the Middle East.

Scripting Cultures: Architectural Design and Programming

Mark Burry AD Primer series 978-0-470-74642-4 / 0-470-74642-4 208 pp. Pub: 25/03/11 This book looks at computer programming (scripting) incorporated as part of the design process. Scripting refers to the capabilities within many design software packages that allow the user to customise the software around their own predilections and modes of working. It also automates routine aspects and repetitive activities within design such as making multiple versions but each copy being different in some unique way, freeing-up the designer to spend more time on design thinking.

Customisation affords the designer opportunities to not only escape the strictures inherent in any software but also to experiment. Software modified by the designer through scripting offers a range of speculations that are simply not possible using the software only as the manufacturers intended it to be used. The advantage of automating routines and coupling them with emerging digital fabrication technologies, significant cost reductions can be achieved by saving time at the front-end and taking advantage of the new file-to-factory protocols.

Because scripting is effectively a computing program overlay the tool user (designer) becomes the new toolmaker (software engineer).

• A book on scripting by one of the world’s specialists on architectural programming and the parametric.

• A very timely topic - scripting is now becoming a pre-requisite skill for architects.

• Combines cultural and technical insights.

Mark Burry is Professor of Innovation (Spatial Information Architecture) at RMIT in Melbourne, Australia, where he is also Director of the Spatial Information Architecture Laboratory and Director of the Design Research Institute. He is Member of the Advisory Board of Gehry Technologies in Los Angeles, USA. Burry is probably best known for his work on Antoni Gaudi's Sagrada Familia in Barcelona, where he is Executive Architect and Researcher, and has been working for twenty years on the realisation of the completion of Gaudi's vision through computer-aided techniques.


Protocell Architecture Architectural Design (AD) series Neill Spiller, Rachel Armstrong 978-0-470-74828-2 / 0-470-74828-1 128 pp. Pub: 04/03/11 Throughout the ages architects have attempted to capture the essence of living systems as design inspiration. However, practitioners of the built environment have had to deal with a fundamental split between the artificial urban landscape and nature, owing to a technological ‘gap’ that means architects have been unable to make effective use of biological systems in urban environments. Protocell Architecture is an edition of AD that shows for the first time that contemporary architects can create and construct architectures that are bottom up, synthetically biological, green and have no recourse to shallow bio-mimicry. Synthetic Biology will have as much impact on architecture as cyberspace has had—probably more. The key to these amazing architectural innovations is the Protocell.

• Contributors include: Rachel Armstrong, Martin Hanczyc, Lee Cronin and Mark Morris.

• Architects include Neil Spiller, Nic Clear, Iwamoto Scott, Paul Preissner, Omar Khan, Dan Slavinsky, Philip Beesley and Neri Oxman.

• Topics include: new smart biological materials, surrealism, ruins, alchemy, emergence, carbon capture, urbanism and sustainability, architectural ecologies, ethics and politics.

Neil Spiller is Director of The AVATAR Research Group, Professor of Architecture and Digital Theory and Vice Dean of the Bartlett School of Architecture at University College, London. He is on the Editorial Boards of Architectural Design and Technoetic Arts magazines. He lectures around the world and his work has been exhibited and published worldwide. He is a visionary architect and has an international reputation as an innovative architect, critic, theorist, teacher and author.

Rachel Armstrong is a medical doctor, author, AVATAR Researcher and Teaching Fellow at the Bartlett School of Architecture.

The Urban Towers Handbook Eric Firley and Julie Gimbal 978-0-470-68474-0 / 0-470-68474-7 272 pp. Pub: 03/06/11 For well over a century, the modern skyscraper has provided an ingenious solution to high-density living and working – accommodating the greatest number of people in a building with a minimal footprint. In the contemporary context of drastic urban growth, its role can only gain in importance. The question is how to avoid past mistakes and how to conceive the tower as a positive component of an existing or newly created urban fabric. In a thoroughly analytical and comparative way The Urban Towers Handbook provides answers to these questions and serves as a reference book and design tool for architects, planners and developers alike. Its comprehensive graphic documentation includes not only aerials and to-scale plans and sections, but also purpose-made photography, drawings and diagrams.

• Provides a comprehensive comparative analysis of high-rise towers in their urban context.

• Includes newly commissioned drawings, drawn to scale: urban plans, floor plans, sections and elevations.

• Features newly commissioned photography.

• Presents 21 in-depth case studies of iconic towers, such as the Eiffel Tower, Chrysler Building and Rockefeller Tower.

• It illustrates some 50 contemporary and future towers and provides additional sections on building regulations in 7 cities worldwide and the relationship between high-rise towers and sustainability.

Eric Firley is the author of The Urban Housing Handbook, (Wiley 2009). An architect and urban designer, he is currently based in Paris. Since studying in Lausanne, Weimar and London, he has worked in several practices and design consultancies in France and the UK. Julie Gimbal is a French art historian with a special interest in high-rise architecture. She holds a doctorate from the University of Rennes on the subject of high-rise architecture in France and is responsible for the second section of the book on high-rise regulations. She also helped to inform the choice of case studies in the first section of the book. Licensed: French The Urban Housing Handbook - Licensed: Simplified Chinese

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Typological Urbanism: Projective Cities

Sam Jacoby, Christopher Lee

Architectural Design (AD) series 978-0-470-74720-9 / 0-470-74720-X 136 pp. Pub: 07/01/11 How can architecture today be simultaneously relevant to its urban context and at the very forefront of design? For a decade or so, iconic architecture has been fuelled by the market economy and consumers’ insatiable appetite for the novel and the different. The relentless speed and scale of urbanisation, with its ruptured, decentralised and fast-changing context, though, demands a rethink of the role of the designer and the function of architecture.

This title pursues and develops the strategies of typological reasoning in order to re-engage architecture with the city in both a critical and speculative manner. Architecture and urbanism are no longer seen as separate domains, or subservient to each other, but as synthesising disciplines and processes that allow an integrating and controlling effect on both the city and its built environment.

• Includes significant contributions from architects and thinkers: Lawrence Barth, Peter Carl, Michael Hensel, Marina Lathouri, Martino Tattara and Pier Vittorio Aureli.

• Featured architects include: Ben van Berkel & Caroline Bos of UNStudio, DOGMA, Toyo Ito & Associates, l'AUC, OMA, SANAA and Serie Architects.

Christopher CM Lee has been the Unit Master of AA Diploma Unit 6 since 2002 where he researches the topic of type and the city. He is the principal of Serie Architects and was awarded ICON's 20 Essential Young Architects 2008 and Architecture Record's Design Vanguard 2005. Sam Jacoby graduated from the AA and is an architect in private practice in London. He has taught at the AA since 2002 and at Nottingham University since 2007.

The Life of the British Home: An Architectural History Edward Denison 978-0-470-68333-0 / 0-470-68333-3 288 pp. Pub: 07/10/11 Unlocking the life of the British home, this book reveals how houses have had to respond over time to the very different ways that they have been lived in by their occupants. Whether it is the medieval manor house built around a vast hall to accommodate a large communal household; a wattle and daub cottage that would have sheltered stock and family alike; a Tudor merchant’s house that was above the shop; the magnificent seat of an 18th-century landowner that incorporated grand state apartments with adjoining rooms on a dramatic axis, culminating in the Lord’s bed chamber; the Victorian villa with its profusion of back stairs and passages that was organised almost wholly around the social desire to separate master from servant; or the English terrace house, whose layout was determined as much by the economic division of land and prevalent ideas of public sanitation as by the needs of their working inhabitants.

• An engaging introduction to architectural history.

• A book as much about social history as buildings.

• Features new photography of buildings.

• Includes newly commissioned drawings that vividly illustrate the previous life of the home.

Edward Denison is an author, photographer and heritage consultant, focusing on architecture and the built environment. He is the author of Modernism in China (Wiley 2008); Building Shanghai (Wiley 2006); and Asmara – Africa’s Secret Modernist City (Merrell, 2003&6). Modernism in China - Licensed: Simplified Chinese

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Cross Country: English Buildings and Landscape From Countryside to Coast Peter Ashley 978-0-470-68611-9 / 0-470-68611-1 240 pp. Pub: 08/04/11

A warm and intriguing view of England's rich rural patchwork of towns and villages.

In Cross Country, photographer and author Peter Ashley unleashes his passion for blighty. He takes us on an enlightening jaunt that encompasses England's most loved regions. This spans the Pennines, the Lake District, the Sussex Coast and many other picturesque locations around England. The author and photographer travels deep into the country he cares about. His observations and photos illustrate local topography with a fresh pair of eyes, focusing in on many different highlights from country houses, local railway stations, teashops to classic inns.

• A stunning visual evocation of the England we all love.

• Features classic British pubs, teashops, old-fashioned shops, seaside resorts and country villages and town.

• Encompasses England's most beloved regions from the Lake District to The Cotswolds and the Sussex Coast.

• Accompanied by a text that it is as insightful as it is warm and anecdotal.

• By the author and photographer of the successful Unmitigated England.

Peter Ashley is the author and photographer of Unmitigated England and More from Unmitigated England. He edited Railway Rhymes for the Everyman's Library Pocket Poets Series and collaborated with Philip Wilkinson on books accompanying the BBC Restoration programmes and The English Buildings Book, the ultimate guide to building types. In June 2009, he published his first book with John Wiley & Sons, Built for Britain: From Bridges to Beach Huts.

An Introduction to Architectural Theory: 1968 to the Present Harry Francis Mallgrave, David Goodman 978-1-4051-8063-4 288 pp. Pub: 25/03/11

A sharp and lively text that covers issues in depth but not to the point that they become inaccessible to beginning students, An Introduction to Architectural Theory is the first narrative history of this period, charting the veritable revolution in architectural thinking that has taken place, as well as the implications of this intellectual upheaval.

• The first comprehensive and critical history of architectural theory over the last forty years.

• Surveys the intellectual history of architecture since 1968, including criticisms of high modernism, the rise of postmodern and poststructural theory, critical regionalism and tectonics.

• Offers a comprehensive overview of the significant changes that architectural thinking has undergone in the past fifteen years.

• Includes an analysis of where architecture stands and where it will likely move in the coming years.

Harry Francis Mallgrave is Professor of Architecture at Illinois Institute of Technology, and has enjoyed a distinguished career as an award-winning scholar, translator, and architect. His most recent publications include The Architect's Brain (Wiley-Blackwell 2010), Modern Architectural Theory: A Historical Survey, 1673-1968, Architectural Theory Volume I: An Anthology from Vitruvius to 1870 (Wiley-Blackwell 2005) and, with co-editor Christina Contandriopoulos, Architectural Theory Volume II: An Anthology from 1871 to 2005 (Wiley-Blackwell 2008). David Goodman is Studio Assistant Professor of Architecture at Illinois Institute of Technology and is co-principal of R+D Studio. He has also taught architecture at Harvard University's Graduate School of Design, and Boston Architectural College. His work has appeared in the journal Log, in the anthology Chicago Architecture: Histories, Revisions, Alternatives, and in the Northwestern University Press publication Walter Netsch: A Critical Appreciation and Sourcebook.

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