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An Anatomy Of Influence - 12 Japanese Architects

Architectural Association 2018 ISBN 9781907896965 Acqn 29952
Hb 23x30cm 292pp col ills £45
Written by Thomas Daniell, with a foreword by Thomas Weaver and an afterword by Peter Cook,
An Anatomy of Influence contains a wealth of texts and images that together elucidate the theory
and practice of 12 leading Japanese architects. Rather than the usual array of exquisite yet
autonomous buildings, this book focuses on the hitherto unexplored lives of their architects, and
the febrile intellectual, social and political environment in which they worked. The period covered
spans from the postwar decades up to the present day, but the emphasis is on the radical
transformation of Japan's architectural culture that occurred in the 1960s and 1970s: from
envisioning rigorously systematised urban plans to creating introverted private houses, from the
imitation of western modernism to the study of non-western vernaculars, from the ruthless
demolition of historical buildings to the documentation of forgotten objects, from rigid authorial
control to flexible user participation, from industrialised prefabrication to self-build
experimentation, from a seemingly homogenous society to an enthusiastic celebration of personal
differences. The cumulative result is not only a fascinating perspective on modern Japanese
architecture, but a profound recasting of our understanding of the modern Japanese architect.
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AA Women In Architecture 1917-2017

Edited by Lynne Walker and Elizabeth Darling
October 2017 marks the centenary of the admission of the first female students to the
Architectural Association. Published to coincide with a symposium, exhibition and series of talks
all celebrating this event, AA Women in Architecture puts forward the stories of women who have
entered the architectural profession and their contributions to architectural practice and
education.
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Scavengers And Other Creatures In Promised Lands

Pb 24x30cm 152pp col ills £25
By Ricardo de Ostos and Nannette Jackowski.
Is the idea of environment in architecture only ever reducible to 'environmental architecture'? For
AA unit masters Ricardo de Ostos and Nannette Jackowski the answer is a resolute no. Instead
they offer an alternative reading of 'environment', in which the brutal and lyrical are juxtaposed
through visually compelling narratives of architecture. Illustrating their approach, this book
presents ten years of student projects, all prompted by the unit's visits to extreme geographic
contexts - from the rainforests of Brazil to the quarries of northern India. With additional
photographic documentation and conversations with Lebbeus Woods, Geoff Manaugh and Peter
Cook, Scavengers & Other Creatures in Promised Lands explores the gripping power of myth and
fiction as radical narratives for imagining the near future of cities and forests.
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Rituals And Walls - The Architecture Of Sacred Spaces

Pb 24x31cm 240pp ills £30
In recent years the idea of sacred space has not been considered a relevant topic in
contemporary architecture, a neglect that is even more pronounced in terms of debates about the
city. The texts and projects collected together in this book aim to redress this oversight, and re-
open a contemporary understanding and discussion of the architecture of sacred space. The
book itself is the result of a year-long investigation on the nature of sacred space and its
manifestation developed in the AA's Diploma Unit 14. It consists of design proposals that range
from a multi-faith school in Strasbourg to the reconstruction of a festival hall in the city of Xian,
China; from a Jesuit monastery in Detroit to a women's Islamic centre in Paris. Each proposal is
introduced by critical texts that analyse the political and ideological meaning of religious
architecture. The book is complemented by essays by Pier Vittorio Aureli, Maria Sheherazade
Giudici and Hamed Khosravi that focus on the relationship between forms of worship and
architecture, and argue that within sacred space form must follow function - in other words,
architectural space must adhere to the rituals through which the sacred is enacted, and that the
meaning of sacred space goes far beyond the stereotypes of contemplation and spirituality, and
instead aligns with the political and social ethos of the city.
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Memo For Nemo

Memo for Nemo is an account of the human inhabitation of the undersea, in fact and fiction. It
takes as its starting point Jules Verne's novel Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea, with the
Nautilus submarine and its captain Nemo - inventor, explorer, oceanologist, gastronome,
musician and terrorist. The undersea is examined as a zone created both by exploration and
invention, from the earliest attempts to photograph and descend into the depths with deep-sea
devices, through the 1960s experiments and actual inhabitation, such as the US Sealab and
Cousteau's Conshelf, to contemporary surveillance of the rapidly changing oceans. This history is
paralleled and subverted by a fictitious history of films such as The Abyss, The Life Aquatic, Das
Boot, Bioshock, Fantastic Voyage and other hallucinogenic delights.
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Cedric Price - Works 1952-2003. A Forward Minded Retrospective

Published in conjunction with the Canadian Centre for Architecture (CCA), this anthology will
bring together for the first time all the projects, articles and talks by British architect Cedric Price
(1934-2003). A chronological arrangement places Price in post-war England, illuminating how
cultural, social and political factors conditioned his work from the outset and then shaped its
development as his practice changed from the 1960s-1990s. Full project descriptions are set
alongside illustrations, many previously unpublished. Content material is drawn from the original
work, now largely held in the Cedric Price Fonds at the CCA to present the munificence of Price:
thinker, philosopher, artist and unparalleled raconteur - a thoroughly modern traditionalist.
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Some Reasons For Travelling To Italy

Italian cities have been points of reference for much of architect Peter Wilson's professional life
and the many reasons for visiting the country have long presented themselves as not just the
easy list - holidays, food, architecture and culture. The grand tour is the most obvious of tropes
for framing these things, but it can also serve as a useful vehicle for a more ingrained
understanding into Italy's wider architectural habitat and cultural mythology. This book, which
accompanies an exhibition of the same title at the AA School in 2016, appears in the form of a
latter-day Baedeker. But rather than a pragmatic itinerary, its content here offers an eclectic and
idiosyncratic list of assorted reasons to head south, richly illustrated by Wilson's own drawings
and watercolours.
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In Progress: The IID Summer Sessions

Edited by Irene Sunwoo. Contributions by Brett Steele, Nicholas Boyarsky, Grahame Shane and
Dennis Crompton.
This book is the first to document the remarkable history of the International Institute of Design
(IID), an independent school of architecture founded and directed by Alvin Boyarsky from 1970 -
72, and highlights a pivotal episode in the career of Boyarsky, best known for his subsequent role
as chairman of the Architectural Association (1971 - 90). Launched in the wake of the institutional
upheavals that had swept schools of architecture during the late 1960s, the IID introduced an
alternative model of architectural instruction: one that brought together a range of teaching
methods, design strategies, theories and projects alongside an international assortment of
protagonists. In Progress details this short-lived experiment through a trove of previously
unpublished material, and reveals how three informal architectural gatherings, held over three
successive summers, can be seen to have established not only a network of architects and
discourses, but a new model for architectural education.
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Mark Campbell - Paradise Lost

This book explores the notion of architectural obsolescence through a study of the contemporary
United States. While the US was the world's greatest economic, scientific and cultural force
during the twentieth century, it now appears to be obsessed with its own decline. In this
obsession the changing patterns of consumption and demand often result in an architectural
redundancy where buildings exist as a form of by-product or residue. While our stereotypical
image of the US reflects the heroic potential of production, this book examines the opposite - of
that which isn't work. Or, more pointedly, those abandoned pleasures and lost paradises that
remain when there is no longer any work left to define them.
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Kengo Kuma - Small Architecture Natural Architecture (2 vols)

By Kengo Kuma, Translated by Alfred Birnbaum with an introduction by Thomas Daniell.
This two-volume set of essays by the Japanese architect Kengo Kuma offers an overview of his
key built works and gives insight into his ideas about architecture. Until now available only in
Japanese, this edition comprises a lucid theoretical manifesto for humble, sustainable
architecture that is sensitive to materials and to place. Written in the wake of the 2011 tsunami
which devastated parts of northern Japan, the essays take on a particular poignancy. Each book
features a signature of original drawings produced by Kengo Kuma especially for this English-
language release.
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Ludwig Leo – Ausschnitt

Edited by Antje Buchholz, Jack Burnett-Stuart, Gregor Harbusch, Michael von Matuschka and
Jurgen Patzak-Poor.
This book examines five projects by the Berlin architect Ludwig Leo (1924-2012), including the
famous DLRG boathouse (1967-73) and the extraordinary pink and blue Umlauftank (1967-74).
Appearing in conjunction with an Architectural Association / Wustenrot Stiftung exhibition of the
same name, the book is the first to be published in English about the work of this enigmatic
architect. Illustrated with numerous drawings from the Ludwig Leo archive, texts and
conversations about Leo's work and legacy, and with a foreword by Peter Cook.
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Didier Fiuza Faustino – Misarchitectures

Didier Fiuza Faustino: Misarchitectures brings together for the first time the entire work of Didier
Faustino and his office Bureau des Mesarchitectures. Through drawings, diagrams, photographs
and essays this part-monograph part-manifesto explores the ideas that drive Faustino's
architectural and artistic works: the political and ethical conditions for constructing sites and
spaces within the socio-cultural layout of the city, and in particular how to critically approach the
problem of the body in both private and public space. At the same time, the book revisits
Faustino's projects - from sculptures and installations, to public art, architectures and books - up
to his most recent work, offering new insight into the architect's perspective.
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Gustav Metzger - Auto-Destructive Art - Metzger at AA

Facsimile edition of a lecture transcript given by German-born artist Gustav Metzger at the
Architectural Association in February 1965. This new edition is published 50 years on since its
original printing in June 1965 by the AA's Action Communications Centre (A.C.C), reigniting
Metzger's urgent and ever-relevant arguments which confront society's obsession with
destruction and the detrimental effects of machinery on human life.'
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Colquhounery - Alan Colquhoun, from Bricolage to Myth

Colquhounery is a commemorative volume celebrating the life and work of the architect and
architectural historian Alan Colquhoun, who died in December 2012. Testimonials from friends,
colleagues and students are gathered together alongside original photographs, sketches, letter
transcripts, biographical and archival data tracing Colquhoun's career as an architect, writer and
educator on both sides of the Atlantic. This anthology represents a collective effort to remember
the work and the man responsible for some of the most penetrating and clear sighted
architectural criticism of the last 60 years.
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Practice Of Place
Contributions by Can Altay, Dennis Atkinson, Ricardo Basbaum, Janna Graham, Lawrence Abu
Hamdan, Annette Krauss, Maria Lind, Ute Meta Bauer, Christian Nyampeta, Emily Pethick, Filipa
Ramos, Louise Shelley, Eva Wisniewska and others
Practice of Place explores the role of social and participatory art practices to consider the
contribution of artist and gallery. Proposing present-tense practices including collaboration,
commitment, imagination, play, forgiveness, reflexivity and trust, the book looks at the potential
for tactics over strategy as a mode of being in place. Texts ask how we might consider this theory
in relation to the gallery as a bordered space, both physical and imagined.
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Panel - Pedro Ignacio Alonso and Hugo Palmarola

Although largely marginal within official accounts of modern architecture, during the second half
of the twentieth century the development of large concrete panel systems was central to debates
about architecture's modernisation and industrialisation. Through this development, not only was
construction transferred from the building site to the factory floor, and manual labour succeeded
by automated mass production, but political, aesthetic and ideological debates began to inscribe
themselves onto the panel itself, a symbol for a whole new set of architectural values. Distributed
and adapted to many different cultural, geographical and political contexts, these systems went
beyond national borders in producing more than 170 million apartments worldwide. This book
focuses
on a particular aspect of this history, namely those systems exported from Soviet Russia into
Cuba and then on to Chile in the 1960s and 1970s. Written from the point of view of the worker as
much as the architect, and containing an incredible visual panoply of archival photographs, stills,
cartoons, sketches and drawings, as well as oral histories from its surviving protagonists, the
book offers a fascinating portrait of an architectural and political history whose symbolic and
physical register all along is a concrete panel.
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ARCHITECTURE

An Anatomy Of Influence - 12 Japanese Architects

AA Women In Architecture 1917-2017

Edited by Lynne Walker and Elizabeth Darling

Scavengers And Other Creatures In Promised Lands

By Ricardo de Ostos and Nannette Jackowski.

Rituals And Walls - The Architecture Of Sacred Spaces

Memo For Nemo

Cedric Price - Works 1952-2003. A Forward Minded Retrospective

Some Reasons For Travelling To Italy

In Progress: The IID Summer Sessions

Mark Campbell - Paradise Lost

Kengo Kuma - Small Architecture Natural Architecture (2 vols)

By Kengo Kuma, Translated by Alfred Birnbaum with an introduction by Thomas Daniell.

Ludwig Leo – Ausschnitt

Didier Fiuza Faustino – Misarchitectures

Gustav Metzger - Auto-Destructive Art - Metzger at AA

Colquhounery - Alan Colquhoun, from Bricolage to Myth

Panel - Pedro Ignacio Alonso and Hugo Palmarola

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