A Weekly Dose of Architecture Books

Handbook of Tyranny Theo Deutinger Lars Müller Publishers , February 2018 Flexicover | 8-1/4 x 11-3/4 inches | 164 pages | 987 illustrations | English | ISBN: 978-3037785348 | $30.00 Publisher Description : Handbook of Tyranny portrays the routine cruelties of the twenty-first century through a series of detailed non-fictional graphic illustrations. None of these cruelties represent extraordinary violence—they reflect day-to-day implementation of laws and regulations around the globe. Every page of the book questions our current world of walls and fences, police tactics and prison cells, crowd control and refugee camps. The dry and factual style of storytelling through technical drawings is the graphic equivalent to bureaucratic rigidity born of laws and regulations. The level of detail depicted in the illustrations of the book mirror the repressive efforts taken by authorities around the globe. The twenty-first century shows a general striving for an ever more regulated...

The Central Park: Original Designs for New York's Greatest Treasure Cynthia S. Brenwall Harry N. Abrams , March 2019 Hardcover | 11-1/2 x 9-3/4 inches | 230 pages | 250 illustrations | English | ISBN: 978-1419732324 | $50.00 Publisher Description : Drawing on the unparalleled collection of original designs for Central Park in the New York City Municipal Archives, Cynthia S. Brenwall tells the story of the creation of New York’s great public park, from its conception to its completion. This treasure trove of material ranges from the original winning competition entry; to meticulously detailed maps; to plans and elevations of buildings, some built, some unbuilt; to elegant designs for all kinds of fixtures needed in a world of gaslight and horses; to intricate engineering drawings of infrastructure elements. Much of it has never been published before. A virtual time machine that takes the reader on a journey through the park as it was originally envisioned, The Central Park ...

Codex New York: Typologies of the City Stanley Greenberg The Monacelli Press , May 2019 Hardcover | 11-1/4 x 8 inches | 280 pages | English | ISBN: 978-1580935227 | $50.00 Publisher Description : As a native New Yorker with a lifelong curiosity about urban infrastructure, photographer Stanley Greenberg—author of the bestselling Invisible New York — observes characteristics of the city that most people miss. And the more he explores the city, the more he understands it as a huge catalog of features that repeat, vary, morph, and multiply—block by block, neighborhood by neighborhood. He embarked on an extraordinary journey, walking every block of Manhattan from the Battery (where there is today much more land than when the Dutch first arrived) to Inwood (which retains more of its original topography than any part of the city) to photograph striking and subtle urban typologies along the way. Alleys, skybridges, parking sheds, architectural relics, tiny streets, water infrastructu...

A Matter of Art: Contemporary Architecture in Switzerland Jacques Lucan (Editor) with Colette Raffaele, Guy Nicollier and Philippe Mivelaz, advised by Martin Steinmann Birkhäuser , May 2001 Paperback | 8-1/4 x 10-3/4 inches | 208 pages | French/English | ISBN: 978-3764364458 Publisher Description : Contemporary Swiss Architecture has gained considerable international reputation with stars such as Mario Botta, Herzog & de Meuron and Peter Zumthor being celebrated throughout the world. This book reviews the current architectural scene in Switzerland, analysing it from three contrasting perspectives. Examined are 18 individual buildings that are considered representative of the high quality of contemporary Swiss architecture. Subsequently, six chapters focus on specific features which are characteristic of this architecture. Concluding the volume are five essays by Joseph Abram, Jacques Lucan, Bruno Marchand, Stanislaus von Moos and Martin Steinmann, each providing illuminat...

Zumthor in Mexico: Swiss Architects in Mexico Arquine , July 2019 Paperback | 5-1/2 x 8 inches | 112 pages | 20 illustrations | Spanish/English | ISBN: 978-6079489311 | $20.00 Publisher Description : In 2017, as part of the MEXTRÓPOLI Festival, Pritzker Prize–winning architect Peter Zumthor (born 1943) was invited to Mexico City to participate in a series of public discussions about architecture and the city. Zumthor in Mexico , the first publication in Arquine’s new Swiss Architects in Mexico series, collects the architect’s Mexico City conversations in a handsome volume, featuring edited transcriptions of Zumthor’s talks with journalist Nicolás Alvarado, artist Pedro Reyes and architects Tatiana Bilbao, Gloria Cabral and Rozana Montiel, among others. In these lively interviews, Zumthor explains his personal approach to architecture as it applies to a wide range of subjects, such as: where design ideas come from, how ideas move from conceptualization to materialization, th...

Fantastic Architecture Wolf Vostell, Dick Higgins Primary Information, August 2015 Hardcover | 5 x 8 inches | 200 pages | 120 illustrations | English | ISBN: 978-0990689607 | $28.00 Publisher Description : Primary Information is reprinting the seminal book, Fantastic Architecture , making the book widely available for the first time since it was originally published: first in 1969 by Droste Verlag in German (with the title Pop Architektur ) and later in 1970 by Something Else Press as Fantastic Architecture . Edited by Dick Higgins and Wolf Vostell, this artist’s book/anthology explores the boundaries between pop art and architecture through writings and projects by key artists and thinkers of the 1960s and earlier—from John Cage and Buckminster Fuller to Kurt Schwitters and Joseph Beuys. It will retain the book’s unique design, specifically its Mylar inserts, which add unique depth and elaborate the publication’s content. Contributors to this publication are Ay-O, Joseph ...