2009

university of chicago press : the invisible dragon made a lot of noise for a little book when it was originally published in 1993 it was championed by artists for its forceful call for a reconsideration of beauty—

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2009

taschen: born in baghdad, iraq and educated in london, where her practice is based, hadid has been shaking up the foundations of architecture for over 30 years and is now the subject of a massive taschen monograph. covering her complete works to date, and all of her exciting new work from dubai to guangzhou, this xl tome clearly demonstrates the progression of hadid s career including not only buildings but also furniture and interior designs with in-depth texts, spectacular photos, and her own drawings. also included is a special section with translucent vellum paper allowing multiple layers of designs to be viewed at once or separately.

2008

Focusing on the creative and inventive significance of drawing for architecture, Drawing highlights the work of key contemporary figures who have, through their drawn work, affected the course of architectural thinking. Bringing this together is a chapter-by-chapter series of essays that broadly charts the forward movement and expansion of drawing iconography, techniques and methodologies. . . .

2009

aacdu : emergent s impressive command of variable structures, envelopes and forms according to peter zellner in his introduction offers up a genuine route away from the shimmering imagery of the computer screen and points towards an authoritative demonstration of an architecture grounded in new building techniques. this ambitious claim is supported throughout this publication with survey of 21 works and projects, reproduced here in full colour and accompanied by plans, details, computer models and texts. among the designs featured here, many unrealised, are the cheonga city tower in incheon, korea; the freshwater and emerald plazas, uae; sundsvall arts theater, sweden; the mersey observation deck, liverpool; their dragonfly design for sci-arc, los angeles; the czech national library, prague and the urban beach for moma/p.s.1, new york.

2008

phaidon press: a spectacular visual biography of the life and work of the father of modern architecture. weighing in at 20 pounds, this massive book is packed with 2,000 images and documents, many rare or previously unpublished. drawing on an array of archival materials, this sumptuous volume depicts not only the vast and varied output of le corbusier, but also the major events, people, and forces that shaped the life of a man who continues to fascinate those in and outside the architectural world.

2008

huazhong university of science and technology press: creating projects that look a whole lot less like conventional architecture than something out of the ridley scott’s film alien’ or the creative output of h.r.giger, hda’s architecture has stolen the imagination of a younger generation of architects around the world. twenty two mostly unrealised works often in the form of competition entries or research projects are examined here, including; maison seroussi, paris; art hotel, playa grande; u2 tower, dublin, and ps1 moma. all are extensively documented with full-colour computer models, sections and details, and accompanied by several exploratory essays.

2009

rizzoli: one of the few truly visionary architects of large-scale commissions working today, thom mayne’s influential firm morphosis, founded in the early 1970s, has maintained an avant-garde presence among contemporary architecture firms, even as it has garnered high-profile, big-budget commissions from around the world.

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2008

AD: this third ad by the guest-editors of the highly successful emergence and techniques and technologies in morphogenetic design titles shifts the morpho-ecological design project into the realm of performance.

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2008

routledge: designers are becoming more directly involved in the fabrication process from the earliest stages of design. this book showcases the design and research work by some of the leading designers, makers and thinkers today. this highly illustrated text brings together a wealth of information and numerous examples from practice which will appeal to both students and practitioners.

2008

actar: sanford KWINTER ponders the complex encounters between technology, culture, and architecture. critical essays offer an extended meditation on infrastructure, war, computation, mechanical and material intelligence, and other multivariate facets of modernity. far-reaching in scope, far from equilibrium amounts to a performance in writing of what kwinter describes as radical anamnesis: the imagination’s escape from the sterile logic of what is. compiling over a decade of architectural and critical writings, many published here for the first time, far from equilibrium is essential reading for anyone interested in the state of architecture and criticism today. a primer for (re)thinking design in the 21st century.