ongoing

el croquis is a beautiful large format publication with each issue dedicated to an architect. one of the best sources for detailed documentation of contemporary projects. each issue filled with crisp line drawings and vivid photographs of built work and working models. recent issues include sanaa, herzog + demeuron, zaha hadid.

2003-ongoing

each book focuses on one architect and includes drawings, sketches, photographs as well as brief biography, project descriptions, introductory essays, and project map. These affordable books are compact samplers of some of the twentieth century’s greatest architetcs. Volumes of notice include albert frey, marcel breur, antonio gaudi, walter gropius, adolf loos, richard neutra, jean prouve, and r.m. schindler.

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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2006

rizzoli: perhaps more than any other architect practicing today, peter eisenman has made a career out of devising a dialectic of oppositions in architecture. with references to societal alienation and existing architectural forms, his work derives much from friedrich nietzsche, noam chomsky, and jacques derrida. he led the loosely knit group of architects known as “the new york five” (which included john hejduk, michael graves, charles gwathmey, and richard meier), who made an effort to introduce a theory and artistry of modernist architecture as rigorous as that of the european avant-garde. this is the first comprehensive single-volume overview ever published on eisenman’s buildings and projects, from his first work, house i (1960), to his most recent projects, currently under construction in spain and germany. the book includes all the projects eisenman has created, with essays from international architects and critics, including greg lynn, sanford kwinter, and stan allen.

2006

catalytic formations documents ali RAHIM’S work and thoughts through 2003. beautiful line drawings and stark white renderings fill the pages. interspersed are essays by rahim on technique, technology, affects, and feedback loops. work by greg lynn, zaha hadid, kol/mac, nox, and cecil balmond is used throughout to illustrate the ideas found in the texts.

2006

rizzoli: fluidity and flexibility are hallmarks of UN STUDIO projects, and many of these projects have literally reinvented a number of standard building types, such as power stations, museums, bridges, transportation hubs, and live-work residences. un studio projects fuse a sophisticated understanding of digital design with a formal and material exploration that has ensured that their work reaches far beyond the “supermodernism” associated with other dutch firms. this book presents the firm’s complete body of work.

2005

princeton architectural press: we all know that today’s architectural design has moved from the sketchpad to the screen-the era of the mayline and the drafting board now seems downright paleolithic-but techniques for using the computer not just as a tool for rendering but as a generative instrument remain woefully unexplored. in tooling, the latest installment in our renowned pamphlet architecture series, the technologically progressive young firm ARANDA/LASCH illustrates how advanced computational methods and algorithmic codes can be used to foster architectural design. tooling explores patterns generated by computer codes that in turn create an organizational template assembling projects. by openly sharing these codes, the authors seek to foster further investigation into their methods, allowing other architects to model and evolve more critical and insightful geometries and patterns.

2004

the book documents the work of the austrian born sculptor, erwin hauer, who developed patterned screens made from concrete casts. Full of beautiful illustrations and photographs this volume explores all of his walls and modular structures.

2004

thames & hudson: written and compiled largely by the architect, the book reveals the inspirations, insights, and techniques that allow him to conceive—and build—such experimental work. there is a complete documentation of NOX’S oeuvre, including built and unbuilt work—some twenty-three projects in total; essays by leading critics manual de landa, detlef mertins, andrew benjamin, brian massumi, and arjen mulder; and explanatory texts by spuybroek that link the projects together. many of the illustrations in the book have been specially created, making accessible for the first time the complex strategies employed by spuybroek. this in turn will make the publication an invaluable resource for both students and practicing designers. over 800 illustrations, 400 in color.

2004

actar: phylogenesis is structured as a reflection on the work that foreign office architects (FOA) has produced during its first 10 years of practice…[CONT]

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