A Weekly Dose of Architecture Books

Thought by Hand: The Architecture of Flores & Prats Texts by Ricardo Flores, Eva Prats, Miquel Adrià, Manuel Arguijo, Toni Casares, Adrià Goula, Juan José Lahuerta, Manuel de Solà-Morales, Soraya Smithson Arquine , March 2021 (Third Edition; first published in 2014) Paperback | 8-1/4 x 11-3/4 inches | 448 pages | 610 illustrations | English | ISBN: 9786077784753 | $35.00 PUBLISHER'S DESCRIPTION : Argentinian architect Ricardo Flores (born 1965) and Spanish architect Eva Prats (born 1965) began their artistic partnership with the foundation of their studio in Barcelona in 1998. Since its conception, Flores & Prats has operated according to a design ethos that fuses craft with academia, approaching research and scholarship as a living practice that must result in the responsibility to make and to build. The studio has taken on a variety of projects with diverse functions in social housing, public spaces and university workshops. This volume compiles photography and analys...

Flores & Prats: Sala Beckett: International Drama Centre Ricardo Flores, Eva Prats Arquine , May 2020 Paperback | 8-1/4 x 11-3/4 inches | 304 pages | 295 illustrations | English | ISBN: 978-6079489564 | $35.00 PUBLISHER'S DESCRIPTION : The Workers Cooperative Pau i Justícia in Poblenou, very active for much of the twentieth century, closed its doors in the late 1990s and left the building abandoned and in an advanced state of ruin. The Sala Beckett, one of the driving forces of Catalan theatre since its foundation in the late 1980s as the headquarters of the company El Teatro Fronterizo of José Sanchis Sinisterra, and directed by Toni Casares since 1997, was left without its headquarters in the neighbourhood of Gràcia, in the mid-2000s. Following a public competition in 2011, the Sala Beckett team and Flores & Prats studio undertook a process of rehabilitation of this former Workers Cooperative to convert it into the new Sala Beckett / International Drama Centre. The ...

Memory Houses Robert Hutchison Architecture Arquine , March 2020 Hardcover | 7 x 9-1/2 inches | 152 pages | 90 illustrations | English/Spanish | ISBN: 978-6079489526 | $32.00 PUBLISHER'S DESCRIPTION : Seattle-based architect Robert Hutchison’s Memory Houses is a project that investigates mortality and memory through the lens of architecture. Speculatively situated along the banks of the Wye River on the Eastern Shore of Maryland where the architect grew up, architectural typologies such as dwelling, chapel, lighthouse and memorial weave together a spatial narrative about loss and recollection. Distant as well as more recent architectural memories make cameo appearances in the memory houses: the stave churches of Norway and the Great Mosque of Córdoba that Hutchison experienced as a child; the lighthouses of the Chesapeake Bay; the timber grain elevators of the Palouse; the Colosseum and the Santo Stefano Rotondo in Rome. This publication, with a hot-stamped cover and end she...

Torre Reforma L. Benjamín Romano, with texts by Felipe Leal, Ali Malkawi and Francisco Serrano, and photographs by Iwan Baan Arquine , April 2019 Hardcover | 8 x 12 inches | 240 pages | 70 illustrations | English | ISBN: 978-6079489434 | $50.00 Publisher's Description : LBR&Arquitectos, a firm founded in 1976 by Mexican architect Benjamín Romano, designs and builds architecture projects based on four defining principles: sustainability, structure, high technology and artistic integration. The firm is responsible for one of Mexico City’s tallest skyscrapers, the Reforma Tower (2016), built on the corner of Paseo de la Reforma and Río Elba. At 57 stories and 807 feet high, the tower’s delicate silhouette made a striking addition to the city’s skyline. This book explores the process involved in designing and building the Reforma Tower, narrating how the architects navigated urban regulation in the center of a dense city and considerations of height, circulation, sunlig...

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...

Mexico City Architecture Guide Miquel Adrià, Andrea Griborio, Alejandro Gálvez, Juan José Kochen Arquine , August 2018 Paperback | 4-1/2 x 8 inches | 232 pages | 210 color illustrations | English | ISBN: 978-6077784869 | $28.00 Publisher Description : Mexico City Architecture Guide is a compilation of more than 150 works of architecture dating from the early 20th century up to the present day. To help orient readers, the guide is divided into five areas and includes seven maps to create a comprehensive panorama of the Mexican megalopolis. Each project includes details about the relevant architects, location and year of construction, as well as public transport information. The texts, photographs and maps created for this guide give fresh shape to the city. Now available in an English-language edition for the first time, Mexico City Architecture Guide is an invaluable guide for international visitors as well as locals, displaying a strong commitment to Mexico’s c...