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Theodore Spyropoulos - Adaptive Ecologies

Architectural Association 2013 ISBN 9781907896132 Acqn 30346
Hb 18x24cm 336pp col ills £30
Edited by Theodore Spyropoulos, with essays by Patrick Schumacher, Mark Burry, Brett Steele,
John Frazer, John Henry Holland, Makoto Sei Watanabe, and David Ruy.
Recent architecture has found itself having to cope with new social and cultural complexities that
demand networked systems that are time- based, reconfigurable and evolutionary, and a
corresponding model of urbanism defined as an adaptive ecology.
It is against this backdrop that the AA's graduate Design Research Lab (DRL) has pursued its
recent studio agenda through project-based research focusing on alternative models of housing.
Integral to this research is a notion of architecture that looks towards designing systems that seek
higher ordered goals emerging through an intimate correlation of material and computational
interaction. This book presents the results of this research and with it constructs a generative
view of space and structure and the exploration of behaviour based models of living through
patterns found in nature.
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Cine Arch 3 - Fact and Fiction

Pb 18x18cm 80pp ills £10
Fact and Fiction is the last volume of a trilogy of books seeking to document the work, events and
spirit of AA Diploma Unit 3, run by Pascal Schoning from 1993 to 2008 and its experimental
project Cinematic Architcture.
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Any Part, Any Form

Pb 16x22cm 64pp col ills £10
Any Part, Any Form is a follow-up to London-based graphic designer Radim Pesko's Informal
Meetings (2010), a collection of photographs made during travels and wanderings to different
places. This volume brings back found compositions and situations where seemingly
unremarkable encounters between space, architecture and water suggest their own stories.
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Barkow Leibinger - Bricoleur Bricolage

From the outset the role of the atlas has extended beyond the geographic to the historical. It has
been used as a means of comprehensively describing history as well as, of course, a tool for the
teaching of history.
Barkow Leibinger's Bricoleur Bricolage atlas is a historical tool of an altogether different sort from
the sixteenth-century European projects and their many descendants interested in the mapping of
all history. Yet this atlas shares with its early modern origins a belief in comprehensiveness,
orderliness and chronology - in this case, of the projects, research and ideas that the Berlin office
of Barkow Leibinger have undertaken during the past few years, or to be more precise, since
such activities were catalogued last, in Barkow Leibinger: An Atlas of Fabrication, published by
the Architectural Association in 2009.
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Four Conversations On The Architecture Of Discourse

Pb 11x18cm 192pp £7.50
Follow-up to Architecture on Display: On the History of the Venice Biennale Architecture,

published by the Architectural Association in 2010. This volume contains discussions with writers,
architects and academics in Chicago, Venice, London and New York on theme on display.
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0-14 PROJECTION & RECEPTION

Essays by Jesse Reiser, Jeffrey Kipnis, Sanford Kwinter, Sylvia Lavin and Brett Steele.
O-14: Projection and Reception explores the groundbreaking exo-skeleton office tower in Dubai
by New York-based architects, Reiser+Umemoto.
This monograph will not only provide exhaustive documentation of O-14's design and
construction but delves further into the complex interrelationships this architectural model weaves
between technology, expression and politics in the context of the 'nowhere place' of the global
city. The book is both an account of a design's realisation and a manifesto, and contains Jesse
Reiser's explanatory and theoretical texts on the tower as well as a number of critical essays.
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Stefan Sebok 1901-1941 - In Search of a Forgotten Architect

Lilly Dubowitz, with essays by Eva Forgacs and Richard Anderson
Stefan Sebok was a Hungarian-born architect who worked with Walter Gropius in Dessau and
Berlin in the late 1920s. The book is the result of the research of Sebok's niece, Lilly Dubowitz,
who has meticulously pieced together clues and details of her uncle's life.
He went on to work with fellow Hungarian emigre Laszlo Moholy-Nagy on his famous Light Prop,
and later still moved to the Soviet Union to work with the constructivist architects Ginzburg, the
Vesnin brothers and El Lissitzky. In between he carried out numerous projects of his own and
found himself central to a key generation of emerging modern architects in Dresden, Berlin and
Moscow.
The book gives a compelling account of the gradual elucidation of a once forgotten architect. The
text is accompanied not only by numerous illustrations of Sebok's design work, but by essays on
the Hungarian and Soviet context by historians Eva Forgacs and Richard Anderson.
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Venice Take Away - Ideas to Change British Architecture

Texts by Patrik Schumacher, Vicky Richardson, Brett Steele and Vanessa Norwood. Edited by
Alastair Donald and Sarah Handelman.
Venice Takeaway: Ideas to Change British Architecture brings together the research of ten
architectural teams exhibiting in the British Pavilion at the 13th Venice Architecture Biennale.
Charting a course that takes in Argentina, Brazil, China, Germany, Japan, the Netherlands,
Nigeria, Russia, Thailand and the USA, the catalogue presents images and essays by the teams
who travelled the world to seek imaginative responses to universal issues and explore the
common ground of architecture. In addition, the book features texts by Patrik Schumacher, the
show's curators Vanessa Norwood and Vicky Richardson and a foreword by Brett Steele.
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Sharp Words - Selected Essays of Dennis Sharp

To commemorate the life and work of Dennis Sharp (1933-2010), Sharp Words collates together
a variety of essays that touch upon each of his architectural fascinations - among them, glass
architecture, picture palaces, masters of concrete and English modernism.
Punctuating these texts are a number of editorials from his days as editor of AAQ, which
graphically as much as intellectually offer emblems of his time at the AA.
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AA DRL Documents 2 - DRL Ten: A Design Research Compendium

Hb 20x27cm 388pp ills £30
Prologues by Yusuke Obuchi, Patrik Schumacher, Theodore Spyropoulos and Tom Verebes;
essays by Mark Burry, Christopher Hight, Jesse Reiser and Brett Steele; conversations with
Andrew Benjamin, Mark Cousins, Zaha Hadid and Jeffrey Kipnis.
DRL TEN evaluates the first decade of the AA's acclaimed post-professional masters programme
in architecture and urbanism, the Design Research Lab. Since 1997 the programme has
championed a project-based and research-driven approach to design, continually reinventing
itself across successive design research agendas. The book reflects upon the DRL;s
collaborative teaching and learning methods, which have contributed to the wholesale re-
formulation of contemporary architectural practice during a decade in which digital
communication, information, design and production technologies have gone from being nascent
and emerging to being embedded in new forms of networked architectural education and
practice. Understanding this (r)evolution is fundamental to the DRL's pursuit of innovation and the
role design research plays in contemporary design culture. The structure of this book elaborates
on how the programme has evolved the terms of design as a form of research over the last
decade, with chapters focusing on the DRL's research agendas, topics, curricula, documents,
media, methods and tools as well as a selection of work by its 350+ graduates.
The book contains prologues by the four current DRL directors: Yusuke Obuchi, Patrik
Schumacher, Theodore Spyropoulos and Tom Verebes; essays by Mark Burry, Christopher
Hight, Jesse Reiser and Brett Steele; and conversations with Andrew Benjamin, Mark Cousins,
Zaha Hadid and Jeff Kipnis.
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Projects Review 2012

Projects Review offers an overview of the AA's 2011/12 academic year. Accompanying the
school's end-of-year show, the book features hundreds of drawings, models, installations,
photographs and other materials documenting the world's most international and experimental
school of architecture.
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Public Occasion Agency 1-22

POA 1-22 is part of the ongoing archive of activities conducted by the independent event bureau
Public Occasion Agency (POA), founded by Jan Nauta and Scrap Marshall at the Architectural
Association in 2009. The book is a collection of fragmented documents: previews, photographs,
ephemera, reviews, reflections and opinions collated from the first twenty-two POA events.
Critical and inquisitive, personal and probing contributions from a variety of authors from across
fields and disciplines and with differing agendas here propose a withdrawal from idle commentary
and encourage more productive forms of participation. Including essays by Pier Vittorio Aureli,
Shumon Basar, Mark Campbell, Barbara-Ann Campbell-Lange, Henderson Downing, David
Greene, Samantha Hardingham, Ingrid Schroder, Nicholas Simcik Arese, Silvana Taher, Tom
Vandeputte and Carlos Villanueva Brandt.
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God and Co - Francois Dallegre - Beyond the Bubble

God & Co is published to accompany the exhibition of the work of the French Montreal-based
artist and architect Francois Dallegret (1937-) .Dallegret's own life and work denies anything so
predictable as a neat synopsis, but in essence his work, beginning in Paris in the late 1950s and
early 60s, and later taking in New York and Montreal, absorbs everything from intricate line
drawings for a series of astrological vehicles and designs for a number of machines (from those
that assist in cooking a meal to others that generate literature) to the 'A Home Is Not a House'
collaboration with the critic Reyner Banham; a drugstore/gallery in Montreal; proposals for a new
Montreal Palais Metro; designs for chairs, more cars and yet more machines; a film collaborative
set up to shoot a western; contributions to the Montreal 67 Expo; engraved bars of soap;
subversive credit cards; 'ironique' villas and light installations. The book will illustrate a great
many of these works and contains essays on Dallegret's life and legacy by the historians
Alessandra Ponte and Laurent Stalder.
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L.A.W.U.N Project #19 - Informal Itinerant Battery Powered Terrains

Edited by Samantha Hardingham & David Greene. Essays by Samantha Hardingham, Sand
Helsel, Sam Jacob and Robin Middleton
This title accompanied a 40-year retrospective exhibition in April and May at the Architectural
Association, curated and edited by Samantha Hardingham, with David Greene.
David Greene's disreputable projects - evidence of his 'increasing disinterest in form and wilful
drift towards invisibility' - are documented in a publication and 40-year retrospective exhibition in
April and May, curated and edited by First Year tutor and writer Samantha Hardingham, with
David Greene. In collaboration with a number of designers Greene revisits signature works such
as the Logplug and The Bottery and review them in relation to current techniques.
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One Million Acres & No Zoning

Routinely dismissed as 'mere sprawl', the suburban city is the black hole of recent urbanism,
absorbing human energy and resources but seldom revealing the principles of its operation.
For the past 20 years Lars Lerup has explored Houston as its prototype. In this book he broadly
approaches this complex conurbation so as to develop a vocabulary to interpret its urban forms.
Loved by its inhabitants, defined by huge potential and difficult problems, Lerup's Houston is a
test-case for twenty-first-century urbanism and our understanding of unregulated cities
everywhere.
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51N4E - Double or Nothing

51N4E is a Brussels-based architectural practice led by Johan Anrys, Freek Persyn and Peter
Swinnen. Founded in 1998, it has drawn increasing attention and renown through projects for the
C-mine cultural centre in Genk, the Groeningemuseum and the TID Tower and Skanderbeg
Square both in Tirana, Albania. This book, accompanying an exhibition on the practice at the
Architectural Association, features these and 17 other projects alongside essays by Lars Lerup,
Dominique Boudet and Stefan Devoldere.
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Before, After Image Koshirakura Landscape 1996-2006

Each summer for the past ten years the AA's Shin Egashira has organised a workshop in the
remote village of Koshirakura, in a mountainous region north of Tokyo...
During the period of the workshop, the 81 mainly elderly inhabitants of the village are joined by a
youthful horde of outsiders who become part of their lives for three weeks, occupying the empty
schoolhouse, visiting their homes, contributing to annual rituals such as the Grass-Cutting Day
and Maple Tree Festival, and building a structure intended to improve in some way the lives of
the inhabitants. The past ten years have seen a gradual accumulation of extraordinary and
strangely beautiful structures. Their names hint at their singularity: Watermelon Platform, Bus
Shelter, Roof for 200, Festival Vehicles, Azumaya, Stargazing Platform... Some structures were
destroyed by the 2004 Mid-Niigata earthquake, but all are preserved here through photographs,
drawings and words that document their making. Texts by Shin Egashira are paired with diary
extracts - some poetic, some humorous - written by the students and villagers.
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Beyond Entropy
This book marks the conclusion of the AA School's Beyond Entropy research cluster, and is
produced in tandem with an exhibition on show at the AA in May 2011.The theme of the book
derives from the urgency with which the idea of energy has been raised in recent years in
political, economic and scientific debates. The book charts the efforts of architects to
reappropriate this theme and to address the debate in a wider cultural sphere.
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Morphogenesis Of Flux Structure

Texts by Toyo Ito, Arata Isozaki, Mutsuro Sasaki,
This publication describes the morphogenesis of the concept of flux structure through four
projects - Island City Central Park and Kakamigahara Crematorium (with Toyo Ito) and Qatar
Education City Convention Centre and Florence New Station (with Arata Isozaki).
'At the beginning of the competition for the Sendai Mediatheque, I received an impressive sketch
which expressed an architectural vision from the architect, Mr Toyo Ito. It seemed unrealistic, with
irregular tubes supporting several thin plates swaying like seaweed. However the picture was full
of poetry and exerted a strong power that stirred my imagination.' Mutsuro Sasaki
'It's clear to me that my own architectural thinking was instantly altered by engaging you to work
on Sendai.' Toyo Ito to Mutsuro Sasaki
These two quotes indicate both the exceptional nature of Mutsuro Sasaki's work and his influence
on architects. What Sasaki is proposing is nothing less than an engineering revolution - an
overturning of traditional empirical methods in favour of new kinds of shape analysis that use the
principles of evolution and self-organisation of living creatures, adapted from an engineering
standpoint, to generate rational structural shapes with a computer. The resulting architecture
flows and melts in structural terms - it is 'flux structure'.
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Mathematical Form - John Pickering and the Architecture of The Inversion Principle
John Pickering is a British artist who uses mathematics to produce small, finely wrought scultures
brimming with architectonic qualities. From the large body of algebra available to the lover of
visual maths, he borrows one equation only.
His chosen equation describes a two-dimensional transformation called inversion, which involves
a wholesale reflection of figures about a circle. Pickering methodically applies the rules of
inversion to various primitives (such as spheres, cones, cylinders and cross-caps) and explores
the striking manifestations of their transformation in space. The aesthetic worth of his sculpture is
intrinsically bound up with the process of applying the rules - untypically for an artist, he
communicates in detail the steps he has taken to get to the final result. This book explores both
process and result - a body of work of sheer beauty and material sophistication.
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Translated By
Pb 10x17cm 144pp £10
Translated By is published to coincide with an exhibition at the AA, which gathers eleven literary
writers and eleven literary places and subjects them to an act of immaterial translation - via the
voice.
The stories run through Ramallah, recollect turn-of-the-century Sofia, remember the spaceship-
looking-Sheraton Hotel in Doha, wander through the 'Metaverse' and end at the end of the world
in West Vancouver. Each of the authors invent or interpret place. Mundane, marginal, infamous,
impossible. Together, the texts create a strange and beautiful territory that traverses distance and
time.
Writers include Douglas Coupland, Rana Dasgupta, Hu Fang, Julien Gracq, Jonathan Letham,
Tom McCarthy, Guy Mannes Abbott, Sophia Al Maria, Hisham Matar, Adania Shibli, and Neal
Stephenson, with essays by Charles Arsene-Henry and Shumon Basar.
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The World of Madelon Vriesendorp - Paintings/Postcards/Objects/Games

Edited by Shumon Basar and Stefan Truby, with texts by Beatriz Colomina, Douglas Coupland,
Hubert Damisch, Teri Wehn-Damisch, Zaha Hadid, Charles Jencks, Charlotte Koolhaas, Hans
Ulrich Obrist, Brett Steele and Fenna Haakma Wagenaar.
This book from AA Publications accompanied the exhibition curated by AACP director Shumon
Basar and architect/theorist Stephan Truby, and designed by Kasia Korczak.
The World of Madelon Vriesendorp reveals for the first time a significant, and nearly secret,
corpus of work notable for its wild diversity. Though Vriesendorp is best known for her seminal
cycle of anthropomorphic architectural paintings, her extensive 'art of generosity' embraces bad
taste, pop, 'playground surrealism' and the touching beauty of culture's failed objects. Here,
enlightenment emerges from distraction while seriousness must surrender to the non-serious.
It includes an introduction by critic and collaborator Charles Jencks, conversations between

Vriesendorp and historian Beatriz Colomina and cult novelist Douglas Coupland, a rumination by
Hubert Damisch on Freud's London house and Vriesendorp's studio close by, Fenna Haakma
Wagenaar on the 'productivity of distraction', a photo-essay by Charlie Koolhaas on her mother's
house/studio, and Rem Koolhaas in a frank interview on origins, ambition and privacy, along with
other texts on 'Bad Paintings', 'Smallness' and the compulsion to 'collect people'. Other
contributors include Zaha Hadid, Brett Steele, Hans Ulrich Obris, Stephan Truby and Zoe
Zenghelis.
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Manifest Destiny - Jason Griffiths

On 18 October 2002 Jason Griffiths and Alex Gino set out to explore the American suburbs. Over
178 days they drove 22,383 miles, made 134 suburban house calls and took 2,593 photographs.
In Manifest Destiny, Griffiths reveals the results of this exploration. Structured through 58 short
chapters, the anthology offers an architectural pattern book of suburban conditions all focused not
on the unique or specific but the placeless. These chapters are complemented by an introduction
by Griffiths and an afterword by Swiss architectural historian Martino Stierli.
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20/20 EDITORIAL TAKES ON...

20/20: Editorial Takes on Architectural Discourse brings together editors from 20 leading
contemporary architectural magazines to discuss collectively the role editors play in shaping
architectural discourse.
Each of the contributors has responded to a set of 20 questions on the multiple conditions under
which particular ideas and words enter architectural discourse through publication. The resulting
critical positions and observations are as diverse as the magazines from which they originate,
and range from the oldest student-edited journal (Perspecta) to a research collective that at the
time of writing was on the cusp of being launched ([bracket]). Also included are contributions from
the editors of 306090, AA Files, Actar, An Architektur, Footprint, Grey Room, Harvard Design
Magazine, Hunch, Interstices, Log, Manifold, Mark, New Geographies, OASE, Praxis, Scapes,
UME and Volume. 20/20 is a timely publication that provides today's architectural reader with
concise viewpoints from the editors behind the magazines behind architectural culture.
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Noted Without Comment 1

Pb 14x21cm 16pp ills £3.50
AA, Noted Without Comment is a mosaic of fragments collected from the Architectural Assocation
Print Studio with contributions by Madelon Vriesendorp, Ryan Gander, Ghost Dance Times, Brett
Steele, Street Farmer, Cristiano Toraldo di Francia, Rem Koolhaas & Rene Daalder, A.R.C., Jan
Turnovsky and David Greene. Originally published within The National Grid #5.
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Noted Without Comment 2 - The Future Private

Pb 15x21cm 16pp ills £3.50
The second edition of AA Noted Without Comment, originally published within Book, Eastside
Projects, 2010.This edition presents an assemblage of material that draws upon local exhibition
and publication practices, gathered from the AA Archives and more recently from the activities of
Bedford Press. Contributors include Don Gray, Sara MacKillop, Samantha Hardingham, Joseph
Grigely, Jesko Fezer and Radim Pesko.
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Working In Series - Christopher C.M. Lee and Kapil Gupta. Serie Architects
This book was published to accompany an exhibition of the work of Serie Architects (Christopher
C. M. Lee and Kapil Gupta), recently voted as BD Young Architect of the Year 2010. The
exhibition is to be held at the Architectural Association from 20 November to 15 December.
The construction of a mental habit that systematically confronts the complexities and the
contradiction of the architectural profession is what characterises the work of Serie. Serie
searches for a level of coherence that goes beyond iconic recognition. Its method is an attempt to
coincide and negotiate the two extremes of architecture: the commitment to the city and its
project, and the definition of an architectural method discernible in its own disciplinary terms.
Serie works in the direction of reconciling the disputatio between city and design, and the
framework of this reconciliation is the idea of type. According to Serie, type is in itself a form of
conflict between the idea of the project, its 'why do' and the praxis of the project, its 'how to'. In
the intentions of Serie, this modus operandi aims not only for a coherent production, but also for a
conceptual intelligibility of the method itself towards the production of generic design knowledge. -
Pier Vittorio Aureli
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Space as Membrane
This book includes the full 1926 text by Ebeling, supplemented by critical essays by Walter
Scheiffele and Spyros Papapetros with original drawings by Ebeling, as well as a brief biography
of the German architect.
What if architecture was no longer 3D or 2D, mass or surface, object or space? And what if the
architectural environment was envisioned not as an abstract continuum, but as a material
envelope that grows organically from the human body, uniting its skin with the periphery of a city,
a region or a continent, and even the entire earthly atmosphere? Such a sprawling hypothesis
informs the theoretical premise of the 1926 essay 'Space as Membrane', written by former
Bauhaus student, architect and cosmological theorist Siegfried Ebeling. Read and praised by
Mies van der Rohe, denounced by Walter Gropius and presaging some of the technological
innovations introduced across the Atlantic by Buckminster Fuller, Ebeling's treatise has been the
subject of a number of recent commentaries, yet the text itself remains unread, due mainly to the
scarcity of the original publication. This is the first English translation of Ebeling's original treatise,
as well as the first contemporary edition of the text in any language.
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Enabling - The Work of Minimaforms

Architectural Association 2010 ISBN 30405
Pb 20x24cm 208pp ills £22.50
This book highlights the work of the design and architecture practice Minimaforms, founded in
2002 by brothers Stephen and Theodore Spyropoulos.
The practice has developed a diverse body of work that explores new forms of communication
through correlated systems of interaction. Beyond style, the work moves away from the object
towards behavioural models stimulated through participation and interaction.
Using installations as a primary mode of research, the studio creates public performance-based
interventions that engage material and social interaction. The book features recent work
developed in collaboration with Krzysztof Wodiczko (a vehicle for veterans), a pavilion produced
with the performance artist Stelarc, a video piece with Warp recording artist Mira Calix and
Minimaforms critically acclaimed light installation in Trafalgar Square, Memory Cloud.
Accompanying the projects will be texts by Archigram's David Greene, Stelarc and Krzysztof
Wodiczko.
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Marseille Mix
Pb 14x22cm 248pp £18
Marseille Mix describes the city of Marseille, its culture, buildings, gastronomy, cinematic images,
history, planning, language, music, detective stories, criminology. These aspects of the city
interrelate and overlap, to create a complex ever shifting image.
Marseille lies on the edge of Europe, separated from the rest of France by a circle of high
mountains. It looks outwards to the Mediterranean, relating more to the exterior world than back
to the rest of France. It is one of the oldest cities of western Europe, with traces of prehistoric
inhabitation, a trading city founded by the Greeks, a flourishing medieval culture. Once one of the
busiest ports in the world, its harbour is now in now largely empty. With its sea-trade almost
abandoned, Marseille has lost its traditional purpose. It is like a sea creature marooned on the
land, uncertain as to whether to settle or move on.
In seven chapters (in reference to the seven hills surrounding Marseille and the seven seas to the
south) the book uses various forms of writing - essay, narrative, description, list, recipe, glossary,
conversation - to examine the city and investigate its defining mix.
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311 Methods
311 Methods is a catalogue accompanying an exhibition of the work of Atelier d'Architecture

Pierre Hebbelinck to be held at the AA from 1 May.
Exercising a recurring, almost obsessional process, Hebbelinck creates a personal universe of

ephemera populated by a mass of different taxonomies - photographs of shadows and tables
after a meal, chalk drawings, notebooks with sketches, texts and collages. Similar methodologies
accompany the production of the studio's architectural work, illustrated through eight architectural
projects, each examined through a specific lens - a collaboration with a photographer or an artist,
for example, an unexpected construction detail or the exploration of an original sketch. The
presentation of this material in the exhibition, highly systemised and catalogued, is reflected in the
book, so that its structure offers a mirror to the works on display.
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Cities From Zero

At the start of the 21st century there has been a marked shift - both economic and political - from
the West to the East. Dubai vies with other Gulf cities to create the ultimate Middle Eastern hub
for business, culture and leisure. Chinas feverish construction industry is operating at an
unprecedented scale, as it builds higher and faster than anyone else...
At the heart of these turbo-fuelled visions is a renewed commitment to the idea of the future city.
What distinguishes these kinds of cities from the vast majority of those we already live in? One
simple fact: most arise from a 'degree-zero' condition in the urban equivalent of seconds instead
of decades. Cities from Zero focuses on Dubai and the Far East, and asks: are we in the
presence of new, proto-typical urban conditions? Are these cities subject to and the product of
particular political regimes? Do they merely further the cliches of globalisation by collaging the
bad bits.
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AA DRL Documents 1 - Corporate Fields - New Office Environments by the AA DRL

Edited by Brett Steele, with essays by Andrew Benjamin, Mark Cousins, Christopher Hight,
Mohsen Mostafavi, Patrik Schumacher, Brett Steele, Tom Verebes
Corporate Fields imagines and gives form to the future of office life, bringing together more than
2,000 diagrams, models, renderings and other images from 26 architectural projects completed
during the first three years of the ground-breaking AA DRL programme.
The projects are based on extensive field research undertaken in some of London's most creative
corporate environments, and they have been developed from a close analysis of the remarkable
ways in which today's leading companies challenge both traditional corporate practice and
conventional office planning assumptions. The proposals resulting from this design research
include masterplans and buildings as well as interiors and furnishings.
The book's editor, Brett Steele, is Director of the AA and was formerly head of the AA DRL. The
other authors have all contributed to the teaching in the programme.
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Diamond Vaults Innovation and Geometry in Medieval Architecture

The impact on Japanese cities of social and technological change is the focus of this collection of
essays by Akira Suzuki, editor of Telescope magazine and Professor of Design at Kobe
University. Entertaining, but equally thought-provoking, the essays describe urban rituals and
catastrophes, and suggest lessons that might be learnt from them. Progressing in scale from the
minimal dwelling space for the single urbanite to the dispersed urban infrastructure, they put
forward a new conception of urbanism that takes account of the changes in information
technology that have begun to render national boundaries meaningless.
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A Right to Difference - The Architecture of Jean Renaudie

In France no less than in Britain, the late 1960s saw a rebellion against the relentless anonymity
of modernist planning. In the search for alternatives, Jean Renaudie showed an originality and a
daring unrivalled up to this day. Conceived along structuralist principles, informed by research in
molecular biology, his urban projects overturned the logic of the vast housing estates that were
being steamrolled across France by the State. In the place of uniform tower blocks, he designed
developments in which every dwelling was unique. Diversity - the spanner in the works of mass
production - was for him a moral obligation. No concession was made in the name of type, be it
human or architectural.
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Le Corbusier & The Architecture of Reinvention

Essays by Charles Jencks, Stanislaus von Moos, Hilde Heynen, Tim Benton, Peter Carl, Daniel
Naegele, Fernando Perez Oyarzun.
'How, in a turbulent century, was Le Corbusier able to reinvent himself at least five times? How
was he able to become the Picasso (or Duchamp) of architecture? How was he able to produce
work in a regional Art Nouveau mode, then become a leader of the Modern Movement and
International Style, then switch to primitive materials and Brutalism before pre-empting Post-
Modernism through Ronchamp and Chandigarh, and pre-empting High-Tech and Complexity
Architecture through the Centre Le Corbusier and the Philips Pavilion? How?'
These transformations were helped along by Le Corbusier's ability to transpose ideas from one
medium to another. A work of architecture could be considered as a written text, a drawing, a
model, a photograph, a sculpture, a painting or a detailed set of plans. Each medium challenged,
clarified and refined the idea from different viewpoints. Each medium made use of different
neurons, of different parts of his mind. The result? Continuous creation from different
perspectives, a continual reinvention of architecture.
This book brings together leading scholars to explore Le Corbusier's tactics of self-reinvention,
his relationship to the artistic avant-garde and his work as a multimedia practitioner. It also
contains an English-language edition of Le Corbusier's 'Poeme de l'Angle Droit', complete with
beautiful colour lithographs.
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Glass Ramps/Glass Wall - Deviations from the Normative

Tschumi's Alfred Lerner Hall is a turbulent mixture of the conventional and the innovative. Its
opaque, masonry-clad wings respond to the traditional materials and massing of the Columbia
University campus, while its transparently clad middle develo
Designed in collaboration with a team of engineers, including Hugh Dutton, the glass ramps and
the glass wall are intersupporting. Together they form a central hub of circulation, an event space
that registers the dilation and contraction of structural and social flows. In the words of Jesse
Reiser, Alfred Lerner Hall 'signals a crucial turning point in Tschumi's oeuvre. While a legacy of
built and unbuilt works beginning with the Manhattan Transcripts prioritised the programmatic as
an irreducible condition to architecture, Lerner Hall inverts this logic, foregrounding physicality
instead.'
Glass Ramps/Glass Wall documents in full the making of this complex building, from early
concept sketches to structural diagrams and final construction photos.
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Do Android Crows Fly Over the Skies of an Electronic Tokyo?

The impact on Japanese cities of social and technological change is the focus of this collection of
essays by Akira Suzuki, editor of Telescope magazine and Professor of Design at Kobe
University. Entertaining, but equally thought-provoking, the essays describe urban rituals and
catastrophes, and suggest lessons that might be learnt from them. Progressing in scale from the
minimal dwelling space for the single urbanite to the dispersed urban infrastructure, they put
forward a new conception of urbanism that takes account of the changes in information
technology that have begun to render national boundaries meaningless.
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Victor Burgin – Shadowed

Victor Burgin has made remarkable contributions as an artist and cultural theorist for more than
three decades.
Burgin's writings on general issues such as photographic, psychoanalytic and cultural theory are
noted for their lucidity, compactness and reason. By contrast, the photographs and videos that
Burgin creates as an image-maker are richly paradoxical and constitute an enquiry into the
structure of meaning in contemporary society.
Shadowed continues Burgin's preoccupation, in writings and video installations, with the
intrication of physical and psychical space - and in particular the haunting of the built environment
by history, memory and fantasy. The book contains texts by Burgin and Anthony Vidler as well as
colour reproductions of seven of Burgin's recent video works.
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Reconstructing Space - Architecture in Recent German Photography

Edited by Michael Mack, with contributions from Gerda Breuer, Neil Leach, Rolf Sachsse,
Hubertus von Amelunxen.
German photography has led the world in the reassessment of our relationship to the urban and
man-made environment. Themes such as the way we move through space, and our alienation
from the world around us, are explored by artists including Bernd & Hilla Becher, Gosbert Adler,
Laurenz Berges, Mona Breede, Johannes Bruns, Susanne Brugger, Michael Danner, Thomas
Demand, Christine Erhard, Andreas Gursky, Matthias Hoch, Candida Hofer, Thomas Ruff, Heiner
Schilling, Matthias Schmidt, Michael Schmidt, Heidi Specker, Petra Wunderlich and Ulrich Wust.
The artists' portfolios are supported by a series of essays that set the work in a theoretical and
historical context.
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Berlin Free University - Exemplary Projects 3

Candilis, Josic, Woods, Schiedhelm, Gabriel Feld, Mohsen Mostafavi, Peter Smithson, Manfred
Schiedhelm, Alexander Tzonis & Liane Lefaivre, George Wagner Photography: Charles Tashima
This publication on the Berlin Free University contains specially commissioned photographs,
archive material, construction details and plans. The visual survey is completed by essays that
describe the building's conception and system of construction, and analyse the reasons for its
enduring importance.
Transgressing the distinct boundaries of architecture and urbanism, Berlin Free University is a
unique imagination of what a building might be - a building designed to function as a piece of the
city, adapting to the needs of its users while generating opportunities for social interaction. The
university offers a window into the politicised and optimistic discourse of the 1960s and 1970s,
but it also illuminates contemporary debates around large projects of infrastructure and public
space. It is, in the words of Peter Smithson, 'one of the two critical building-events of the second
half of this century'.
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Ruins of Modernity - Erich Mendelsohn's Hat Factory in Luckenwalde

Essays by Frank Barkow, Kathleen James, John McAslan, Rowan Moore, Ken Powell, Francesca
Rogier. Photography by Charles Tashima.
This book maps the genesis and decline of a building thought by many to represent a radical
break in Mendelsohn's thinking - his first step towards a rational form of expression.
The re-evaluation of the building also provides an opportunity for a debate on the larger issue of
the conservation of modern structures. What are we to make of buildings that no longer perform
their intended function? Is there a way to carry out a programme of conservation that is not a
literal attempt to turn back the clock, to preserve a 'dead' monument? Through texts and
speculative projects, Ruins of Modernity explores possible approaches to this increasingly acute
problem. The endpiece - a presentation of John McAslan's work on Mendelsohn and
Chermayev's Bexhill Pavilion - documents one actual solution.
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Beyond the Minimal

Essays by Peter Allison, Andrew Benjamin, Ernst Hubeli, Michael Hofstatter, Otto Kapfinger,
Mohsen Mostafavi, Brett Steele.
Beyond the Minimal presents four of the most interesting practices in Austria today: Artec, Adolf
Krischanitz, PauHof and Riegler-Riewe...
Certain qualities of formal reduction are evident in the work of all four architects, but none of them
equates minimalism with negation or absence, in the sense that the term has often been used in
writings on architecture. They have been brought together because of the affinities in their
approach - their common interest in materials, structure and the contribution of the building to the
larger environment.
Each practice is represented by a survey of around a dozen projects, including houses, schools,
offices and exhibition pavilions. The survey is complemented by texts that link the work to broader
developments in European (particularly Swiss) architecture.
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Artefacts and Instruments

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Alejandron de la Sota
Essays by Alejandro de la Sota, Inaki Abalos, William Curtis, Mohsen Mostafavi, Jose Manuel
Lopez-Pelaez Photography: Etienne Clement
This publication traces Alejandro de la Sota's influence on Spain's contemporary culture of

architecture through essays and a visual presentation of his most significant projects, including
the Maravillas Gymnasium in Madrid and the Civil Government building in Tarragona.
Alejandro de la Sota was born in 1913, and so belongs to the same generation as Jorn Utzon,
Denys Lasdun, Aldo van Eyck and Jose Maria Coderch. But it is only in recent years that his work
has become known outside Spain. It is an oeuvre of impressive consistency, combining a naked
abstraction with a rigorous interest in the character of materials. While Sota clearly drew many
lessons from the modern masters - from Mies in particular - he also defined a language with an
internal momentum of its own.
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Alison Smithson - Imprint Of India

In the manner of intrepid Victorian women traveller-diarists, Imprint of India is an elaborate

collage of fiction and images drawn from memories of hot, dusty travels in India.
Depicting an ancient culture and landscape only recently over written by a familiar imperial crust,
it effectively restates the concerns of its companion volume, observing patterns and ways of
inhabitation and the relationship between climate and the making of buildings.
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People in Architecture
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Discourse of Events
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