A Weekly Dose of Architecture Books

Imagining the Evident by Álvaro Siza monade , 2021 Hardcover | 5-1/2 x 8-1/4 inches | 156 pages | 67 illustrations | English | ISBN: 9789899948594 | 28.00€ PUBLISHER'S DESCRIPTION : The referential book by Álvaro Siza on his own work, in its first English edition. Describing some of his projects, his expectations and struggles, references and decisions, this book is a fundamental contribution to the understanding of Álvaro Siza’s architectural thinking. The text is accompanied by an extensive set of drawings from his notebooks, an obstinate presence in Siza’s particular way of working, some of which never published before. A personal and fundamental testimony of one of the most celebrated living architects, covering the full range of design – from architecture to city planning, furniture and objects – in a must-read book for all interested in Art and Architecture. dDAB COMMENTARY : Imagining the Evident  is the English translation of a book, Immaginare l'Evidenza , first ...

Designed Future: Or Selected Writings by Paulo Mendes da Rocha Daniela Sá, Guilherme Wisnik, João Carmo Simões (Editors) monade , January 2019 Hardcover | 6 x 8-1/2 inches | 248 pages | 41 illustrations | English (translated from Portuguese by Mick Greer) | ISBN: 978-9899948563 | €33.00 PUBLISHER'S DESCRIPTION : Designed Future is a journey through the modern era: our life in cities, the Americas, new territories and the old continent, of vision and design as essential tools for building the future. As the most complete collection of essays, interviews and lectures, this book is an in-depth view of the journey and particular thinking of one of the most relevant living architects, the Brazilian modern master, Paulo Mendes da Rocha (b. 1928). For the first time translated in English, it disclosures a must-read intense and provocative thinker in contemporary times. REFERRAL LINKS :         dDAB COMMENTARY : In 2006 Brazilian architect Paulo Mendes da Rocha won ...

CIVITAS / São Paulo João Carmo Simões monade , November 2018 Hardcover | 8-1/2 x 11-3/4 inches | 354 pages | 400 illustrations | English/Portuguese | ISBN: 978-9899948532 | €58.00 PUBLISHER'S DESCRIPTION : This richly illustrated monograph explores the city-building aspirations of the Brazilian modern masters through their buildings in São Paulo. Works by Vilanova Artigas, Lina Bo Bardi, Salvador Candia, Rino Levi, Oscar Niemeyer and Paulo Mendes da Rocha were designed in response to the chaotic growth of one of the world’s largest metropolises.  CIVITAS brings together for the first time a unique collection of nineteen buildings, proposing a fresh take on them through new photographs especially taken for the book and graphic elements re-drawn by the author. Some of the works are today references in the urban public space, underlining the contemporary relevance of this architecture. João Carmo Simões  received the National Architecture Prize Secil Universities (201...